His concern for an elderly amnesiac interferes with Baretta's investigation of a schoolyard drug pusher who is responsible for several overdose deaths.

Baretta does a lot of soul-searching after wounding a boy while trying to stop a holdup. Then he himself is targeted for revenge by one of the robbers who escaped.

Baretta tries to help a 12-year-old girl who has run away from the orphanage find her recently paroled father before he takes part in a jewel robbery.