Hard-Hearted Hannah

Steve Brown, a rookie detective assigned to a routine skip case at the reunion hotel, casually overhears two vets in the checkout line discussing Cole's death, apparently from natural causes the night before, and one week later is called with his boss, Lieutenant Hugh Adcock to the home of Nash, found dead with his wife in their home's elevator, where they had been trapped in a lightning-storm related power outage. He suspects foul play when he finds a group photo of the bomber crew showing both men, but can't convince his crusty Lieutenant the deaths were related. But when forensics reports the phone in the elevator had been tampered with, preventing Nash from calling for help, Adcock allows Brown to investigate further. He goes to the Mighty Eighth Museum outside Savannah to confer with the director and gets a list of the mission crew members. One of them, Terry King, lives in Atlanta. "That's out of our jurisdiction," says Adcock, but agrees to give the Atlanta police chief a heads up, only to learn that King has just been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. But someone got a make on the car, a Hertz airport rental to Karl Schmitt.

The chase is on! The climactic moment comes when Brown along with his girlfriend Jill Cameron duel on the highway with Schmitt ending in a fiery crash where Jill rescues the unconscious Brown from his blazing car. In the final scene, the ever-crusty Adcock tells Brown, in his hospital bed, heavily bandaged and in a cast that the Chief has decided not to dock him for the loss of the police car, but he isn't 100% sure Jill has forgiven him for causing her car to be towed at the police station.

Jill kisses Steve: "All is forgiven!" And Adcock presents him with Nash's engraved watch, taken from the wrist of the dead Schmitt, "for a job well done."