A hard-nosed judge finds himself on the other side of the bench when he's accused of poisoning his son-in-law.

Perry assists Nhi Khanh in finding her presumed dead husband, Ben Porter, a war correspondent who vanished after their marriage in Vietnam. Drake, tailing a suspicious observer of Perry, traces him to Clinton Exeter's political headquarters, where he spots a man resembling Ben before he disappears. Perry learns Ben's true identity: Royce, a bigamist who deceived Nhi.

Mason defends the fiery and beautiful editor of women's lib magazine on a charge of murdering the publisher who gave her job to another woman.