After learning that the parole officer who hired him is actually a private detective, Rockford works to even the score in this case about a basketball franchise and the would-be owner who refuses to play by the rules.
Jim's shackled to his former parole officer, Marcus Hayes (Louis Gossett Jr.), who's now a PI himself, when competition for a new NBA franchise ensnares both men. Jim can't figure which jock/sucker, the motor mouth Marc is working for, but whoever it is, they're causing Jim a lot of pain - the physical kind.—David Stevens