 A liquor-store stakeout for two robbers goes bad when one of the two cops is blown away by a shotgun before his partner can take down the two robbers. The crooks escape and wind up in Los Angeles, where the surviving cop joins Pepper s team. The cop goes right up the leader s shotgun barrel to knock him unconscious. While Pepper and Crowley wonder about the visiting cop s stability, they get word that a terrorist is planting bombs. This becomes an issue when they take the crooks to the airport and the crooks escape. Pepper and Crowley learn that one of the bombs is in the airport and might take out innocent people, so they have three people to catch. The visiting officer knows it too, and for undisclosed reasons he seems hell-bent reckless on taking down the bad guys if it s the last thing he does. Diana Muldaur literally phones in her part as the visiting officer s wife in a midwestern city.