Cecelia Simon (Mary Carver) heads to Club Meade - a beautiful lakeside resort. After she gets upgraded to a two-room suite by mistake she invites her sons Rick (Gerald McCraney) and A.J. (Jameson Parker) to take advantage of the extra room.
Rick has something else planned (An orgy by the look of it). A.J. has just received the new James Michener novel in the mail and wants quiet so he can read it. He cedes his house to his brother and accepts his mom's invite driving up to the lake (Lake Meade?...Nah).
After he finishes the book A.J. goes site-seeing and witnesses a couple of local crackers dumping a body in the lake. He takes pictures and brings them to the sheriff (Guy Stockwell) who says he'll look into it but instead destroys the evidence. Whatever the murder was it appears to be a part of a conspiracy the entire small-town around the resort is in on.
Cecelia - a strong matriarch worries about her favourite son A.J. and uses the hold she has on her other son to get him help. One phone call and Rick heads over to help his brother. The sheriff tries to railroad them out of town. Local thugs also try to intimidate them. But they stay and when the body turns up and is ruled accidental drowning they are anxious to disprove the findings.
They bring in their quirky coroner buddy Jerry Reiner (Robert Ginty) for aid. He helps them steal the body (Doing something illegal is a hallmark of the Simon brothers in almost any given episode) and do an alternate autopsy which yields different findings. They have to make it come out right or they'll be the next mysterious deaths in town.
A.J. refers to it as a "case" even though he has no client. After multiple attempts to dissuade them Rick says "Let's get to work!". Neither has been deputized and if they had it would be out of their jurisdiction. But these self-appointed do-gooders don't need a financial incentive to proceed.
That was another continual aspect of the series i.e. the pro bono case. The heroes don't need an invite to do the right thing. But it does help when they an axe to grind with the baddie.
Rick has something else planned (An orgy by the look of it). A.J. has just received the new James Michener novel in the mail and wants quiet so he can read it. He cedes his house to his brother and accepts his mom's invite driving up to the lake (Lake Meade?...Nah).
After he finishes the book A.J. goes site-seeing and witnesses a couple of local crackers dumping a body in the lake. He takes pictures and brings them to the sheriff (Guy Stockwell) who says he'll look into it but instead destroys the evidence. Whatever the murder was it appears to be a part of a conspiracy the entire small-town around the resort is in on.
Cecelia - a strong matriarch worries about her favourite son A.J. and uses the hold she has on her other son to get him help. One phone call and Rick heads over to help his brother. The sheriff tries to railroad them out of town. Local thugs also try to intimidate them. But they stay and when the body turns up and is ruled accidental drowning they are anxious to disprove the findings.
They bring in their quirky coroner buddy Jerry Reiner (Robert Ginty) for aid. He helps them steal the body (Doing something illegal is a hallmark of the Simon brothers in almost any given episode) and do an alternate autopsy which yields different findings. They have to make it come out right or they'll be the next mysterious deaths in town.
A.J. refers to it as a "case" even though he has no client. After multiple attempts to dissuade them Rick says "Let's get to work!". Neither has been deputized and if they had it would be out of their jurisdiction. But these self-appointed do-gooders don't need a financial incentive to proceed.
That was another continual aspect of the series i.e. the pro bono case. The heroes don't need an invite to do the right thing. But it does help when they an axe to grind with the baddie.