Plot summary
Garwood Huddle ( Pat Hingle ), an old friend of Higgins, turns up at the estate after escaping from prison. Garwood was a notorious bank robber in the 1940s recruited by Higgins during World War II to steal Nazi intelligence from a bank in Mexico City. He has escaped from prison to rescue his kidnapped grandson. Magnum agrees to help recover the child, and a report on a local TV station showing discrepancies between statements by the toddler's mother, Frannie ( Belinda Montgomery ) and her fiancé Walt Brewster ( John Ratzenberger ) gives Magnum the clue he needs to solve the crime and find Garwood III.
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