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As Magnum, P.I. swings into its second season, Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) is once again saddled with a contentious client. This time it's Texan Billy Joe Bob Little (James Whitmore Jr.), who hires Magnum to locate his sister Carol Ann (Marla Pennington)--who, to use the old Victorian literary phrase, has fallen among thieves. Unfortunately, the mercurial Billy Joe Bob tends to do his thinking with his fists, forcing Magnum into sustaining more physical abuse at the hands of his clients' victims than usual. The limit comes when Billy Joe Bob makes a final assault on the villains' lair by stealing the helicopter owned by Magnum's buddy T.C. (Roger E. Mosely!