Sam persuades Terry Carew, a former football star turned pitiful junkie, to help him nail pusher Braden.

The body of the manager of singer Julie Brown washes up on the beach, and Sam and Jim take on ruthless record executive Ollie Olds, who is out to sign the young singer to a contract.

Jim's concern for Julie almost costs him his life, and he and Sam must prove that Olds is trying to control her through massive doses of LSD.

Sam doesn't believe that a beautiful model committed suicide. He suspects the creepy fashion designer T.J. Gaynor of murder.

Sam and Jim enter the world of underground filmmaking after a girl claims that her missing boyfriend, an actor, was killed for real during a death scene.