Riptide Detective Agency partners Cody Allen (Perry King), Nick Ryder (Joe Penny) and Murray Bozinski (Thom Bray) are approached by trouble-making conman Mack McPherson (William Russ) - a buddy of Nick and Cody's from their days in Vietnam. He hires them to take care of his beloved pet parrot.
Of course things are not as simple as that. Mack has incurred the wrath of a mafioso he used to work for. Having caused them no end of trouble over the years Nick and Cody aren't sure they care to help Mack this time even though he may have to pay the ultimate price. But prodded by an ambitious secretary for the FBI (Robin Riker) looking to earn promotion they do help and nearly get themselves killed.
A recurring aspect of the series was the way in which the Riptide boys doted on women. Even when the women weren't compelling in a romantic way they were gentlemanly in the extreme with them and did their utmost to take care of them. It didn't even seem to matter if they were paying clients. Plenty of women would be happy to have one guy treat them right once. On Riptide they saw three guys doing that usually with just one woman.
Here we see them going out of their way to treat Robin Riker's flighty but adorable character just right. Whilst other TV detective show characters loved 'em and left 'em or just had comically bad luck with women Boz, Cody and Nick seemed happy consistently giving more than they got back. It was a big part of why the show had a solid share of the female audience demographic placing it in the ratings top 20 in its second season.
Whilst I'm a huge fan of both William Russ and cutie comedienne Robin Riker I found a few things strange about this episode including a puzzling scene near the end in which characters are instructed to dress a certain way for a secret meeting but only one of them does. If the actors didn't want to do it and refused why did they leave it in the script? The episode didn't require it and it could easily have been edited out.
Of course things are not as simple as that. Mack has incurred the wrath of a mafioso he used to work for. Having caused them no end of trouble over the years Nick and Cody aren't sure they care to help Mack this time even though he may have to pay the ultimate price. But prodded by an ambitious secretary for the FBI (Robin Riker) looking to earn promotion they do help and nearly get themselves killed.
A recurring aspect of the series was the way in which the Riptide boys doted on women. Even when the women weren't compelling in a romantic way they were gentlemanly in the extreme with them and did their utmost to take care of them. It didn't even seem to matter if they were paying clients. Plenty of women would be happy to have one guy treat them right once. On Riptide they saw three guys doing that usually with just one woman.
Here we see them going out of their way to treat Robin Riker's flighty but adorable character just right. Whilst other TV detective show characters loved 'em and left 'em or just had comically bad luck with women Boz, Cody and Nick seemed happy consistently giving more than they got back. It was a big part of why the show had a solid share of the female audience demographic placing it in the ratings top 20 in its second season.
Whilst I'm a huge fan of both William Russ and cutie comedienne Robin Riker I found a few things strange about this episode including a puzzling scene near the end in which characters are instructed to dress a certain way for a secret meeting but only one of them does. If the actors didn't want to do it and refused why did they leave it in the script? The episode didn't require it and it could easily have been edited out.