The Big Mug
A strong-arm robber grows increasingly violent, prompting Friday and Smith to use a dangerous decoy operation to catch him and the people assisting him.
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A strong-arm robber grows increasingly violent, prompting Friday and Smith to use a dangerous decoy operation to catch him and the people assisting him.
Repeated vandalism at a school leads Friday to a troubled juvenile whose behavior escalates into serious violence.
Friday and Smith hunt an unpredictable gunman whose violent behavior is terrorizing downtown Los Angeles.
A forgery investigation targets an actor who impersonates a dead movie star so he can pass bad checks to unsuspecting landladies.
Friday and Smith hunt a serial burglar whose disturbing pattern includes killing pet birds in the homes he enters.
Friday and Smith investigate a confidence game built around an apparently valuable emerald ring and an unsuspecting victim.
A robbery involving a diamond merchant draws detectives into a case complicated by domestic violence and overlapping criminal motives.
The shooting death of a liquor-store owner draws Friday and Smith into conflicting accounts and a concealed injury that helps reveal what really happened.
Friday goes undercover inside a large narcotics organization responsible for flooding Los Angeles with heroin and marijuana.
A series of daytime burglaries committed while women are often still at home leads detectives to a repeat offender.
Friday and Smith pursue two robbers whose escalating crimes culminate in murder, intensifying the effort to capture the pair.
A watch salesman reports being robbed, but Friday and Smith discover that the story conceals a different crime and unexpected participants.
Detectives go undercover after learning that a prominent citizen is trying to hire someone to murder his wife.
Friday and Smith hunt a sawed-off-shotgun bandit responsible for a string of robberies in downtown hotels.
A series of burglaries involving stolen neckties gives Friday and Smith the pattern they need to trace an elusive thief, leading to an unexpected confrontation.
Friday and Smith uncover an organized auto-theft scheme that uses fraudulent ownership papers to sell stolen cars to buyers who do not realize they are receiving stolen property.
The unexplained death of a two-year-old girl leads detectives to evidence of severe neglect and a mother's responsibility for the tragedy.
Friday searches for a con man who used a fraudulent uranium-stock promotion and a charity front to swindle investors before disappearing.
A major fur-and-jewelry theft becomes a homicide investigation when an accomplice tied to the robbery is found murdered.
The stabbing of a teenage boy exposes rivalries among local youths and a pattern of family neglect surrounding the case.
Friday tracks a violent bank robber to a hostage standoff, where police must resolve the siege before anyone else is hurt.
An apartment burglary report unravels when the elderly victim's sister reveals a long family rivalry and evidence that the crime was fabricated.
A tip from a juvenile delinquent helps Friday and Smith identify and pursue two armed robbers.
Two similar robberies lead detectives to a young suspect who insists an accomplice manipulated him without revealing the true purpose of their actions.
Friday and Smith race to locate a six-year-old kidnapping victim and arrest the person holding her.
Friday and Smith work to identify and arrest a persistent forger passing fraudulent payroll checks.
Friday and Smith pursue two armed robbers whose repeated holdups have made them difficult and dangerous targets.
A series of small thefts leads detectives to an exceptionally intelligent but troubled young man secretly living on his own.
Friday and Smith investigate a swindler posing as a police sergeant who took money from a woman by promising to free her husband from prison.
A woman posing as a domestic cleaner gains access to homes and steals from them, leaving Friday and Smith to connect a series of household burglaries.
A burglary suspect's crimes escalate into an escape from a hospital and a dangerous armed standoff with police.
A frightened wife tells police that her parole-violating husband has bought a gun and may be preparing to return to robbery.
The stabbing death of an appliance-company employee exposes a hidden side of the victim's life and points detectives toward an unexpected suspect.
Friday and Smith work undercover to catch three confidence operators who cheated a businessman out of forty thousand dollars.
Friday and Smith pursue two brothers whose drug addiction is fueling a violent series of robberies.
Friday investigates a heroin supply reaching the city after narcotics are found on suspected pusher Sam Arthur Freed, but questions over an illegal search threaten the case against him.
A heroin investigation draws Friday and Smith into a family entangled in drug use and trafficking, forcing a young woman into a painful decision as arrests are made.
A man's death in a motel room leads Friday and Smith into a case involving infidelity, narcotics and murder.
Friday investigates the disappearance of a nine-year-old boy whose new .22-caliber rifle is also missing, raising fears that the case may involve foul play.
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