A man murders his wife and has a friend cover up the act with a burglary, only to have the friend blackmail him into doing the same favor in return.
Commodore Otis Swanson, an expert yachtsman, is presumed drowned in a boating accident. But Lt. Columbo tenaciously investigates the case, suspecting homicide. When Columbo finds key clues that point to Swanson’s money hungry son-in-law, Charles Clay, as the prime suspect, Clay himself becomes a victim of homicide.
Hawkeye and company escape to Rosie's bar and declare it a new nation.
Hawkeye and Charles deal with a South Korean officer who has come to take a wounded North Korean woman as his prisoner.
B.J. and Charles have a falling out over a medical paper and Margaret and her boyfriend have a disagreement over his attitude.
