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.
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 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.
Shawn buys the building's newsstand and hires Marlon--with disastrous results.
Ben defends a organized-crime boss.
