Skolnick and Kowalski return to base beaten up from an altercation at The Pits, a club in the new punk rock scene. They return there with the men and get into another altercation with the same punk, Slash (Dick DeCoit) over the same girl, Melissa (Sylvia Anderson). Sharkey walks in to break things up and talks with Melissa, who instantly gravitates to Sharkey and follows him to base. He decides to help rejoin her with her worried mother, Mrs. Stanley (Charlotte Rae). When the 17-year-old begins falling in love with Sharkey, things turn nasty with Mrs. Stanley.