Episode One, Season One. The Rockford Files' solid regular season debut brings us an Only-in-Los Angeles phenomenon. Larry Kirkoff (James Woods) is a wealthy double Murder suspect who's rich and free even though everybody KNOWS he is Guilty- Even the man he hires to Find the "Real Killers" of his parents- the erstwhile P.I., in constant suffering under the opprobrium of Kirkoff, Jim Rockford.
The clock is ticking as the cops are waiting to make their case against Woods air-tight with a key piece of evidence so that the vile Kirkoff (Woods), for whom to know is to despise, doesn't walk off into the sunset with his parents' fortune.
A noirish thriller with the pocked-marked James Woods at his most intense. Woods comes off as combination of Leopold/Loeb and the Menendez Brothers as he tries to evade the wrath coming to him.
I see someone already gave away the surprise ending- too bad. But this episode is worth watching, if just for the skin-crawling performance by Woods.