The Devlin Connection - Season 1 (1982)

Nick finds a dead body in the trunk of Brian's convertible. He must find a way to prove his father's innocence as well as investigate the murder.

While on a case, Nick runs into a mental patient who may be the long-lost heir to a vast fortune worth millions.

A French con artist/crook hides out from his "associates" in a Napa Valley monastery and deceives Brian with some "authetic" wine bottles.

A woman claims to be the daughter of a wealthy who passed away recently. She hires Nick to help her prove her claim. And the man's wife hires Brian to prove she's a fraud.

Brian and Nick investigate the origins of an ancient ring which brings out a series of bizarre characters looking to steal it, and someone wanting to kill for it.

While on a live television show, a killer begins poisoning the competing chefs at the Grand Prix de Cuisine. Brian snoops around to track down the killer while Nick decides to go undercover as one of the new chefs.

Nick investigates the whereabouts of an ingenious gang of thieves. Brian is also involved in the case working his own leads. Nick is glad to provide protection for a lady named Claudine who claims to have connections to the gang. But things go awry when the lady is in fact a female impersonator. Nick must face a dilemma: "Claudine" is a jewel thief who may help Nick catch the gang.

Nick is hired by Allison Odell, the secretary of a construction company commissioned to find a man by whom she is constantly threatened and bothered. Nick feels this man, a junkie who lives in a caravan settlement, is pressing Allison for some reason. Then Nick is attacked and pummeled down by two racketeers for no reason at all. Brian then takes over the case to investigate with a now personal grudge against all those involved in Nick's attack.

Brian receives a letter from Europe: two of his former CIA buddies were killed. Previously they have received a message that reads "Martha doesn't forget." Erica Jordan, the daughter of a German who died in the 1950s after a top-secret operation is resolved to avenge the death of Martha, her mother. She is the one who murdered the two former CIA agents. The third on the list is Brian Devlin. Erica, impersonating an attractive reporter, shows up in Devlin's office. Yet he has just gone away, and Nick gets interested. Before long Nick is in love with Erica. He does not ...

Nick and Brian are hired by a writer named Robert Hutton who claims that his wife, Jennifer's behavior changes every year on the first anniversary of her first husband's death.