Uncle Joe, a member of the CIA (Criminal Investigators' Alliance), accuses Sam of running a lax and inefficient post office for not posting photos of wanted criminals, who Joe believes he could have captured and for which he could have gotten the reward money, despite the fact that there is no crime to speak of in Hooterville... until now. Sam receives word from the state police that two of the toughest criminals around, Barney Dawson and Max James, escaped from the state penitentiary and were last seen headed to Hooterville Valley. Despite there being no reward money for their capture, Uncle Joe believes he still has the skills to keep Kate and the girls safe at the hotel, which has had no guests in five weeks and none scheduled to arrive, purely because he's a member of the Alliance. When Barney and Max show up at the hotel, the mettle of the Uncle Joe and the CIA are tested.
—Huggo