Aaron Ironwood, a childhood friend of Jim's, comes to town with a business deal that is just too good to be true. Jim finally agrees to the deal as he thinks Aaron might be in some kind of trouble. He is - with both the FBI and the mob.
After witnessing a mob payoff that is part of a big-rig hijacking scheme, Rockford's father becomes the target of assassins. Working to protect his dad, Rockford learns that the man's life contains secrets that he never imagined.
In this exciting conclusion to this two-part episode, the mob boss continues to hunt for Rocky, while Rockford teams up with the police to solve the trucking case, which is speeding towards disaster.
After a late night phone call Beth hires Jim to look for a missing friend who eventually turns up dead. The dead woman worked for a fashion designer who is unknowingly in up to her neck with some very bad "fellas".
When his car breaks down in a small town Jim leaves $10,000 in a land company's safe. The next morning the money - and the man who locked the money up - are gone. When the man turns up dead the sheriff thinks Rockford did it.
Christine Dusseau, a female private eye, first blindsides Rockford, then joins him in tracking down the murderer in a case the police have dismissed as a suicide.
Angel asks Jim to help him collect some money from someone who supposedly welshed on a deal. Not surprisingly he hasn't told Jim the whole truth, which includes two very angry hoods who want money Angel owes them.
When an Army Colonel is murdered after contacting Rockford, Rockford is forced into the middle of a conflict involving Military Police, military thieves and the Colonel's daughter.
Rockford takes a dislike to the small town he's visiting when a bogus repair bill is followed by phony criminal charges. Aided by his father and attorney, Rockford takes on the hamlet's corrupt mayor, sheriff and prosecuting attorney.
Believing her stockbroker brother's been abducted by the mob, a bookkeeper hires Rockford. But once he's on the case, Rockford finds himself the object of another investigation, the feds'.
A fellow inmate (Isaac Hayes) from Jim's time in prison is released after serving twenty years, and needs help clearing himself from the crime he was put into prison for.
An egotistical minor league football player who thinks he's every woman's dream drags Jim into his troubles. It's not the women who are trouble, but some hoods who think he has evidence against them the Feds want.
Dave Delaroux, a smarmy client of Beth's, hires Jim to check on his company. Jim doesn't want to do it, partly because it's not his kind of job, and partly because Beth is attracted to him.
After learning that the parole officer who hired him is actually a private detective, Rockford works to even the score in this case about a basketball franchise and the would-be owner who refuses to play by the rules.
Rockford finds himself in the middle of a bad deal indeed when he agrees to help an old girlfriend and ends up with a suitcase full of counterfeit money and under arrest by the F.B.I.
