Fri, Jan 31, 1975
Baretta meets a parole officer friend (John Shockley) returning from Mexico. Just after telling Baretta that he had seen a former parolee alive and well (in spite of being declared a suicide by drowning a few months earlier), Shockley is the victim of a deliberate hit-and-run. Baretta encounters official resistance to reopening the case, a befuddled grieving mother and a violent gangland attempt to find the "dead" woman and her accomplice.
Fri, Feb 7, 1975
Thugs hijack a drug shipment in Mexico, killing a guard and loading it onto trucks en route to Los Angeles. Baretta realizes that the drugs are destined for an old mobster and puts him under constant -- and obvious -- surveillance. It's so obvious that the mobster gets to know Baretta and even to create a semblance of friendship with him. By the end of Act Four, the mobster has served up his nephew (who was the driving force behind the robbery) to Baretta for arrest. Baretta is grateful, but in the tag he and the mobster sit on the mobster's front porch -- jointly waiting as the trucks roar up Interstate 5, getting ever closer to the mobster's imminent doom.
Fri, Feb 14, 1975
Baretta's current lady is a messed-up photographer. After a bust of counterfeit money being sold for a half million dollars, the real money is nowhere to be found--except by the lady photog. Baretta is suspected of the grab, pursued by the criminals, and hassled by his bosses. When his girl suddenly packs up to go, Baretta finally gets it, but he is almost too late!