Kristine DeBell

Jewel thieves in Marina Del Rey prove to be allusive for Ponch and Jon, who find the canals of Venice and roller-skater-ridden streets tough terrain for the chase. Not so tough, and very rewarding, is the time Ponch and Jon spend at Children's Hospital.

Barnaby grudgingly begins to suspect that an arson investigator that he has trusted for years is involved in setting fires and then ruling them as accidental in order to get a cut of the insurance money.

Pepper masquerades as a college student to trap a university professor (Rossano Brazzi) suspected of heading a white-slavery ring.