Jim returns from vacation to discover someone's been using his identity, his trailer and totaled his car. And that's just the beginning of his problems...
Rockford ends up regretting allowing an eccentric hippie woman to use his address temporarily, when her ex-boss sends a pair of thugs to retrieve money he put in her care.
Jim is hired by some small-town businessmen to help them buy a fire engine; they really want him to assassinate someone who could bring the IRS down on them.
Beth's old college friend is in trouble when her company that is developing a submersible robot explorer becomes the target of some shady businessmen. Jimmy Joe Meeker comes to her rescue.
Mistaken identity by federal agents has Jim being sent to South America to help them contact a heiress, who has been isolated by her possessive husband.