This is the one and only episode in the two-year reign of chief censor Van Gordon Sauter where the good guy is allowed to kill a bad guy - by accident. While pursuing a thug into a parking garage, Barnaby fires a warning shot into the ceiling. The slug ricochets off a ceiling beam, caroms out the door and drops a witness (who is a spy for the villains) in his tracks. Much of the rest of the two hours finds Barnaby having to deal with his new role as a "rogue killer" private eye and having his gun confiscated, meaning he must use other methods to catch some pretty nasty criminals.