 A woman meets a man on a lonely stretch of highway while Rockford is filming the exchange from a hillside. Jim is working for the woman. Her name is Deborah Ryder and she is being blackmailed by Carl Brego. He has information of her sordid past and ties to organized crime that she doesn t want revealed. Jim is confident he can get Brego off her back but things go sour for him when Brego is killed and the police think Jim did it.