Guest Stars

Lynne Moody As Lola Marshall	Dennis Burkley As Cletus
Laurence Haddon As Walter Burton	Edmund Stoiber As Simon

Co-Guest Stars

Harry Basch As Molina (Victor Molina)	Richard Dix (1) As Dutton
Stanley Brock As Guard (Chester Higgins)	Michael Ensign As Maitre D'
Tommy Reamon As Jim (Jim Blazedale, as Tom Reamon)	Lewis Arquette As Lieber
Wallace Earl As Robin (Robin Colby, as Amanda Harley)	Casey King As Officer
James O'Connell As Clerk (as Jim O'Connell)

Main Cast

Ben Vereen As E.L. "Tenspeed" Turner	Jeff Goldblum As Lionel "Brownshoe" Whitney

Recap

At the office, E.L. is posing as a reporter on the phone to scam his way out of being evicted from his housing project. Lionel comes in, types up a report, and notes that E.L. is jumping back forth from reality to fantasy too much, and that he should devote his energy to legitimate endeavors. E.L. notes that Lionel has some issues with reality himself, but Lionel insists that Matt Savage novels are based on reality. He gives E.L. some boring cases to handle and leaves. E.L. decides to read the most recent Mark Savage novel instead. A young singer, Lola Marshall, comes in to hire the agency to find her missing brother Norman, a computer programmer. She explains that she lost him a week ago, and then a few days later three men abducted her, took her to a room, and put Norman on the phone. Norman said she'd be okay as long as she did what she was told. Lola went to the police and gave them the phone number she heard, based on the dial tone. The police tracked the phone number to a general surety company, but nobody there claimed to know anything about Norman. E.L. immediately takes the case, explaining that he goes on his gut feelings...

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• Creator	Stephen J. Cannell
• Executive Producer	Stephen J. Cannell
• Co-Executive Producer	Juanita Bartlett
• Supervising Producer	Alex Beaton
• Producer	Chuck Bowman
• First Assistant Director	Leonard S. Smith Jr.
• Second Assistant Director	Robert A. Milford
• Music	Pete Carpenter (1)  |  Mike Post
• Music Editor	Steve Livingston
• Make-up	Robert Jerman
• Set Decorator	Ron Jeschke
• Director of Photography	William Gereghty (1)
• Stunt Coordinator	Dennis Madalone
• Production Supervisor	Edward K. Dodds
• Art Director	Stephen Myles Berger
• Sound Mixer	James LaRue
• Film Editor	David Rosenbloom
• Wardrobe	Ken Harvey  |  Jacques Bellini  |  Winnie Brown