User Reviews

This is a very well written episode where everyone's after a million dollars in marked money and everyone's conning everyone else. There are cons within cons.

The episode has a wonderful beginning with Rockford following Carol Thorne (Lynette Mettey) as she just got out of prison. But we have no idea why or what's going on as he tries to find a way to get closer to her and chase off another guy who's following her. Rocky has no clue at all what's going on, even though Rockford has enlisted him in tailing Carol. He's just frustrated and angry.

It's nice the way the story unfolds all the way to the end and we're never really sure what's going on or who's on who's side.

The summary title is regarding how Rockford fancies himself as a bookie this time around, while he's on the search for Carol Thorne, a woman who was just released from prison, and she supposedly knows where a stolen $1 million is located. This isn't among my favorites, especially the disappointing performance of actor Robert Symonds as a fellow con artist, but the formula for this great show is slowly shaping into form. We first see Rockford riding on a bus, while wearing a funny looking straw hat, as he follows Thorne around; he was hired by 2 people to locate her, although he was unaware his clients are also con artists also looking for the stolen money. No one is who they appear to be, and the usually great poker player Rockford gets burned a few times, much to his chagrin. There's also a few funny scenes with Rocky, who regrettably helps his son on this case; poor Rocky was kicked out of the Firebird when Jim needed to follow the woman. The bottom line how Jim and the woman's old boyfriend Cliff(she calls him dumb)basically trick the others into searching the wrong place for the money. An unrealistic scene is when the group has to hike for 3 hours, some of them wearing dress shoes, through an uphill wooded clearing to continue the search, and they hardly break a sweat. The money ends up being stashed inside Cliff's beat up car, and both he and Jim collect a reward after turning the money over to the authorities. A nice touch is when Cliff says he'll use the money to see his folks for the first time in 3 years, as he calls Jim his friend. The final scene has Rockford returning to his trailer, only to find Carol sitting there with a gun in her hand, as she tells Jim that she won $3,000 for the horses he bet for her while he played a bookie. His reward as for $5,000, and since he doesn't welch on bets, he's forced to give her what she's owed. He says to her that she's hard on a man's ego, to which she tells him to take her to dinner, and she'll fix that. As I said above, this was a decent episode, but it didn't have enough interesting characters or great story to make me in a hurry to watch this one again.