Mannix S5 Disc 1

Mannix tries to help a woman suspected of murder when she kills an intruder in self-defense, who may have been blackmailing her.

Mannix can't find the lady who he saw being attacked in her yard by 2 men, but he does find out that a woman was murdered there under the same scenario a year before.

Mannix investigates the death of a woman on a ski slope and finds she was murdered because she was the wrong target of a kidnapping attempt.

Joe Mannix once again returns to his hometown in California's Central Valley, this time to assist Armenian attorney Leo Kolligan in defending Juan Esparza, a farmworker accused of murder. Esparza is a labor organizer who organized picketing against Charlie Apellini, the owner of the vineyard where the victim worked. In between stints of working on the case, Joe finds time to reconnect with his father, Stefan -- who is much more accepting of Joe and his chosen profession than he was during Joe's visit two years before.