Plot

The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. The story of Michael Longstreet, an insurance investigator recovering from an explosion that killed his wife and took his sight. He decides to remain an investigator and find those responsible for his wife's death and his blindness.—Amy <emgeac@muohio.edu>

Mike Longstreet is a New Orleans based insurance investigator, sent on cases around the country and occasionally around the world, largely by Great Pacific Casualty, his contact there being Duke Paige. Mike is known within the industry as the best in the business. As such, he has probably made a few enemies of the criminals he's helped catch through his work. It is one of those enemies who he believes is the one who ordered the bomb set outside his house, the explosion which renders him permanently blind, and kills his wife, Ingrid. Although it is not foremost on his mind, Mike first has to learn how to live with his new disability. Housed at an institute for the blind called Oakhurst, Mike is assisted in this task by compassionate Dr. Dan Stockton, who teaches Mike that he has to use his other senses to their fullest by experiencing them with his entire being. Dan also tries to get Mike to overcome his own stereotypical views of what it means to be blind, and how blind people should be treated and what they should look like. Foremost on Mike's mind is to find Ingrid's killers and bring them to justice. But after a conversation with Duke and Lt. Kirk Gantry of the NOPD about another case, Mike believes that the bomb may not be connected to someone he's helped catch in the past, but rather someone who is about to carry out a series of heists that would only be investigated jointly by an insurance company. Duke is working on the case of a series of jewel heists that seem to been occurring around the country, one that happened in New Orleans the day of the bomb in which Kirk is the lead police investigator. The M.O. in all the heists have been the same: three masked men carrying out the heists, the heists being conducted on an establishment in an upper floor of a building, and the three perpetrators being able to get away without a trace at street level. While Mike works on the case, he begins to believe that he may be able to continue with this insurance investigation work, despite his new disability.—Huggo