Baretta risks his life going undercover as a prison inmate to discover why two suspects in a jewelry heist were killed.

Pursuing a gunrunner with spinal meningitis, Baretta becomes infected and has 48 hours to find the man and his cohorts before he has to go into quarantine.

A mentally challenged deli waitress who sees a narcotics cop commit murder allows herself to be persuaded that another man committed the crime.