Synopsis
Original Airdate: December 22,1983, 8:00pm

Walter, Jack, Roxanne, and Captain Boyd are sent out to meet with an informant who wants to sell information on the mob's buying into a casino in Las Vegas with the help of certain political figures. When Curtis meets her, two cars of thugs appear, grab the girl, and kidnap her. Calling up Auto on a payphone, he and Walter pursue the kidnappers in the Autocar. After running one car off the road, Auto changes the Autocar into the Autochopper and follows them from the air, where they see the limousine with the informant enter the grounds of a large estate. After Auto leaves because of lack of energy, Walter calls in a SWAT team to descend on the estate, only to find that it belongs to Judge Farnesworth - the Police Commissioner's best friend and the police department's biggest backer.

Unable to find the girl or the limo at the estate, Walter is ridiculed for making a foolish mistake, but he continues to pursue the case and teams that the judge is scheduled to rule over a case involving Leonard Martin, an organized crime figure. Receiving a call from the judge's distraught secretary, Ellen Fowler, Auto flies to Las Vegas to meet her, and is soon followed by Walter after being informed by Cursor of his trip. Meeting with Miss Fowler, she gives them a bank account book belonging to the judge, which shows him receiving payoffs and having overseas accounts. Soon after, Martin orders Jason to kill the girl, who is actually working for Martin to set up the judge for criminal charges. When her body is found, the judge is arrested for murdering the girl because she revealed his illegal payoffs.

Jack and Roxanne join Walter in Las Vegas to close up the case, but Walter and Automan begin to suspect that the judge has been set up, and their suspicions are confirmed through Auto's checking the casino's computers. In the meantime, they receive worse news - Roxanne has been kidnapped by the mobsters, who threaten to kill her if the police don't release to the news media the information they have about the judge's payoffs.

Guest cast:
Mary Crosby as Ellen Fowler/Miss Simmons
William Windom as Judge Alexander Farnesworth
Don Gordon as Leonard Martin
Robert Lyons as Jason

Written by: Glen A. Larson
Directed by: Winrich Kolbe.

(Synopsis courtesy of Epi-Log #1 Summer 1990)