- After being shot while on a stakeout, Mac witnesses a murder in the hospital while partially under sedation while awaiting surgery. Everyone thinks Mac's story is a hallucination, but he's convinced one of the doctors murdered a patient.
- Mac and crew receive a cryptic note from undercover officer, Trigamundo, during an investigation into the state's largest drug ring. At a stakeout of the Embarcadero Hotel, where a large drug buy is supposed to take place, Shields shoots Mac; Shields is taken into custody. But, their real target the top man, a.k.a. The Possum, is "tipped off" not to appear for the buy so he eludes capture. At the hospital, a wounded Mac is lying on a guerney in a corridor, heavily sedated and awaiting surgery, when Mac hears cries coming from a nearby room. Mac staggers towards the cries and sees two masked orderlies smothering a man with a pillow. Mac tries to stop them, but he is groggy and has lost a lot of blood. When Mac awakens from surgery, there are no dead bodies which support his hazy memories. Hospital personnel try to convince him and Sally that he dreamt or hallucinated the entire incident. But did he? Mac stubbornly leaves the hospital and he and Enright continue investigating. A fresh look at Trigamundo's note puts a whole new light on the case... but only if Mac can stay alive long enough to solve it.—LA-Lawyer
- Mac, Enright and numerous San Francisco cops are on a stakeout outside a drug dealer's apartment building, waiting for the dealer's connection to arrive. When the contact doesn't show, Mac orders the arrest of the dealer anyway. The dealer makes a run for it through the cellar of an adjacent building, hoping to emerge through a third building without being spotted. Enright, tipped off by Mac, runs to the third building alone, with Mac chasing him for his own safety. The drug dealer fires on Enright -- and Mac takes the bullet. Mac is rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery. While he's outside the operating room under sedation, the duty nurse is called away and an orderly pushes a patient into a nearby room. Then someone walks out of the operating room and into the room with the patient. Mac hears cries for help, drags himself off the gurney and investigates. He finds the orderly and another person smothering the patient with a pillow. Mac collapses while wrestling the second person, and is dumped on the corridor floor. When Mac awakens two days later, he continues to claim he saw a murder, which is written off as a medication-induced hallucination. But the drug dealer, who's now in custody, tries to cut a deal by claiming he heard voices from a paging service while talking to his connection. Mac reads a message from his inside informant and translates the key phrase as "a ward for patients." What he witnessed was the murder of an undercover cop investigating a hard-drug ring by posing as a derelict. Mac and Sally go back to the hospital, and Sally's careful questioning uncovers a witness (a bum who feigns illness to get cozy treatment in a charity ward) who was acquainted with the murdered cop, but the witness can't identify the second killer. Meanwhile, the burly orderly (uncredited) knocks Mac unconscious again and takes him to a storage room to kill him. This time Enright saves Mac's neck, but the orderly is fatally shot. Mac declares: "He [the second killer]'s already made two mistakes, he's bound to make a third and that will be his downfall." When asked what were the mistakes, Mac snarls: "Not trying to kill me the first time and not succeeding the second!" So what is the killer's third mistake?—Peter Harris
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