Episode
Vega$: Nightmare Come True
Overview
At the insistence of worried parents, Dan teams up with a beautiful psychic, Cynthia Jennnings (Cristina Ferrare) to find their kidnapped daughter (Karlene Crockett). Ransom is 2 million in diamonds. Binzer tries to help Bea go on a diet.
Details
- Series
- Vega$
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1981-06-03
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Nightmare Come True is Episode 23 in Season 3 of Vega$. It aired on 1981-06-03. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 20: Dead Ringer
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Episode 17: Set Up
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Episode 16: Out of Sight
Two men grab Dan out of his place and take him to the desert where they try to kill him but Dan tries to get away but is shot. When Dan is found and taken to the hospital. When he wakes up, he discovers he's blind. Dan thinks that the case he was currently working on, wherein an oilman suspects another oilman whom he is competition for some oil leases, is mobbed up, is why someone tried to kill him, because it looks like a mob hit. And later one of the doctors at the hospital tells Dan than his blindness was not caused by the gun shot. The doctor thinks it could be psychological which Dan doesn't believe.
Episode 15: Time Bomb
A couple of men who know Binzer are staying at the hotel and when they see they jump him, Dan tries to help but they get away. Binzer tells Dan he doesn't know them. Later they show up at Binzer's place and it seems that a few years ago Binzer helped them rob someone and they were caught and were sent to prison for three years and Binzer got away with the money. Binzer claims that he lost the money but they don't believe him. They tell Binzer to get the money or else they'll turn him in for being an accomplice in the robbery.
Episode 14: No Way to Treat a Victim
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Episode 12: Backlash
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