Lane Binkley

Daphne Hitchens returns home with her two kids, and finds her husband shot to death. She doesn't know why he wasn't at work, but it turns out he lost his job nine months before, and had been living off a $400,000 mystery deposit. Hitchens got the money in a very circuitous fashion, working backwards, from cashier's checks to the sale of diamonds to money from the refinancing of a Harlem brownstone. The brownstone belonged to an elderly black man named Lonnie Jackson, but he defaulted on his payments. It takes Briscoe and Green awhile to find Lonnie and when they do, it's discovered he's a proud, hardworking man who has some senility issues. His prints were found in Hitchens' apartment and it also appears Hitchens had assumed Lonnie's identity.

The drifting Julie and Chuck learn a hard lesson on life from their "houseguests;" while Schneider continues his special effort to bring the runaways home, in the third of a four-part story. Schneider's persistence finally appears to have paid off and Ann, for the time being, is elated.

Baricza considers leaving CHP and helping his father, who is being threatened, with his crop dusting business. Jon and Ponch investigate crop vandalism.

Ann's new secretary would rather be known as a doper than admit the much darker and deeper truth -- that she's an epileptic.

Veronica and the other employees of the bar are out in the cold after they stage a wildcat strike to protest Archie's refusal to let them unionize. But while the employees picket in the snow, the temperature inside keeps rising as Archie and Murray try to run the entire operation themselves.

Mary brings home a pregnant friend, Matilda, whose attitudes towards marriage upset Tom. She learns the joys of parenthood, and paternal Tom helps deliver the baby.