Ed Nelson guest stars with Laurie Prange. — We learn tonight that Mayor Alcala (Anthony Quinn) plays the saxophone and gets his relaxation and enjoyment playing with the school orchestra. As a result, the mayor and the school's principal develop a close friendship. Mayor Alcala's school for gifted young artists is threatened when a harpist accuses the principal of causing her pregnancy. The future of the Thomas J. Alcala School of Music and Art, founded by Mayor Alcala, is jeopardized when principal Philip Eastman is accused by young harpist Janet Fields of causing her pregnancy. Mayor Alcala, who enjoys playing saxophone with the school's youth orchestra, believes in Eastman's innocence and realizes that a scandal could cut off funds for the school for gifted youngsters. While Janet's father, Alfred Fields, orders Alcala to get rid of Eastman, the mayor begins an investigation.

Mayor Alcala believes in his appointee for temporary police chief, even when the man overreacts under pressure and is determined to make his job permanent by solving a cop killing.

Anthony Quinn as Mayor Tom Alcala tries to find out from a contractor, played by Broderick Crawford, what really happened when a bridge under construction collapsed, killing a worker. An overpass collapses, killing a worker after Mayor Alcala insists that the city accept the low bid on a construction project.