The rude Ed Kellner alienates everyone in Cheers with his anti-Red Sox rhetoric. When he jibes Sam about his past drinking problem, it's more than Carla can bear.
Ben and Charlene take the case of Mafia don Nicholas Baron accused of murdering business rival Don Kovacs; Charlene is attracted to Baron's son Paul.
Jessica (Angela Lansbury) encounters murder when car trouble strands her and a fellow writer (Mike Connors) at a run-down truck stop owned by a disillusioned woman (Elizabeth Ashley).
Ben defends a organized-crime boss.
Mild-mannered Howard (Ken Kimmins) goes wild on his first trip to Las Vegas with the guys. With Craig T. Nelson.