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Sergeant A.M. Valnikov (Robert Foxworth) is of Russian descent, and so, perhaps, comes by his chronic melancholia naturally. A recent divorce and - it is gradually revealed - his investigations of a particularly ugly series of child murders have done nothing to lighten his mood. He is in fact drinking his way into early retirement. Sergeant Natalie Zimmerman (Paula Prentiss) is a brisk, no-nonsense sort of woman, very proud of the fact that she has finally got her life perfectly organized. She keeps protesting her assignment as Valnikov's partner, though everyone (except perhaps Valnikov) under stands that...
...champion schnauzer by a trainer (Harry Dean Stanton) with a bad gambling debt to pay off. The victim, besides the hound, is a poor little rich girl (Barbara Babcock), who regards the pooch as the only good thing in her life. The crime is just ludicrous enough to penetrate Valnikov's self-absorption. Besides, he is a pet lover himself (he has a parakeet and a gerbil). Galvanized, he begins to notice Natalie and then to woo her with Russian vodka and folk songs, notably one about nightingales singing in the raspberry bushes. Then he manages to rescue...
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