Mike grew up with a moody boxer who, now a big time professional, is more vulnerable than it seems, and he needs Mike's help.

Kovac takes a crowd shot at a fire scene, inadvertently recording the daughter of an aged mobster, hiding out in a tough neighborhood. The old man is being protected by a gang of young hoods, or so he thinks.

Mike takes an assignment doing a story on a U.S. Air Force jet pilot. When the pilot doesn't return on schedule from a test flight, his fiancé is convinced he's died, and that it's her fault, so attempts suicide.

Mike travels to Lisbon in Europe to investigate the murder of an old war buddy photographer.

During a heat wave, a mob forms to go after a local hoodlum when a girl claims that a man attacked her. But Mike, who was in the vicinity just before it happened, saw the girl go into the alley with a woman, not a man.

The overprotected daughter of a European millionaire feels stifled by her chaperones and asks Mike for help in eluding them so she can see the town.

Mike is invited out to a retired doctor's farm, but when he gets there he discovers that the doctor is missing, and the only person who knows anything about it is the doctor's deaf-mute ward.