****SPOILERS**** Non intentionally but still funny episode of the "Rockford File" about a case which ends up that by the time its over turning Jim Rockford's, James Garner, brains into scramble eggs. Private eye Jim Rockford gets this visit by a mysterious blond Karen Hall, Barbara Babcock, who claims that she knows about an art snuggling ring run by a gang of ex Nazis after world war two that the late Hollywood Hitler loving director Alva Korper- that she's writing a book about- was somehow involved with. To make things even more complicated this resulted in a string of murders over the last 30 years that had something to do with a painting that was stolen in France by the Nazis back then that the Nazis, hiding undercover, now are trying to find?
Rockford who at first takes all this seriously soon ends up looking up a number of people who knew Korper so that he can get information that Karen needs to write a biography about the guy! The episode goes from bad to hysterical as a totally confused Rockford after a number of his leads end up dead finds out that Karen Hall isn't really Karen Hall but really the daughter of one of Korper's pro Nazi associates back in Hollywood who in fact was a good friend of Nazi regimes second in command-after Adolph Hitler-Reich Marshall and head of the German Luftwaffe Herman Goering!
This whole wild and crazy story that seems to be going nowhere is finally explained by the only man who can explain it the mysterious and out of the cold, and into the California sunshine, Irving " Irving the explainer" Patrick, Byron Morrow. It's Irving who unexpectedly, like a rabbit out of a hat, pops up after being shot and dumped from a speeding car and with his last dying breath spills the beans or information about what's been going on that turns out to be even more confusing then what we the audience as well as Jim Rockford already know! So confusing that Jim just gives up listening and lets Irving, as he's explaining, go to his final reward!
Rockford who at first takes all this seriously soon ends up looking up a number of people who knew Korper so that he can get information that Karen needs to write a biography about the guy! The episode goes from bad to hysterical as a totally confused Rockford after a number of his leads end up dead finds out that Karen Hall isn't really Karen Hall but really the daughter of one of Korper's pro Nazi associates back in Hollywood who in fact was a good friend of Nazi regimes second in command-after Adolph Hitler-Reich Marshall and head of the German Luftwaffe Herman Goering!
This whole wild and crazy story that seems to be going nowhere is finally explained by the only man who can explain it the mysterious and out of the cold, and into the California sunshine, Irving " Irving the explainer" Patrick, Byron Morrow. It's Irving who unexpectedly, like a rabbit out of a hat, pops up after being shot and dumped from a speeding car and with his last dying breath spills the beans or information about what's been going on that turns out to be even more confusing then what we the audience as well as Jim Rockford already know! So confusing that Jim just gives up listening and lets Irving, as he's explaining, go to his final reward!