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Stingray (1963)
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Ancient Eyes
Former "clients" of Ray put him in contact with their maid, whose son is missing. He turns up dead in a hospital, having apparently escaped from a migrant work camp. Ray calls in the favor of a former client and lover, Elena, to help him infiltrate the camp as husband & wife. It turns out that the camp is illegally harvesting marijuana, and killing off anyone who tries to flee. Ray manages to escape, and convinces the local law that he is a decorated Purple Heart veteran. The camp owners are arrested, and Ray disappears once more, just as the law finds out that the supposed Purple Heart veteran was a 55-year old black man who died years ago.
Ether
Ray is contacted by Dr. Forester to determine why there is a higher than average incidence of surgical fatalies, particularly among homeless patients. Ray discovers that the chief surgeon, Whitaker, is faking the patients' death and then using them for illegal research to find a cure for a rich patron, Daniel Coleman. With the aid of Dr. Cornell and former "client" Dr. Freeman, Ray manages to infiltrate the hospital and then convince Whitaker he is also an unethical researcher. Following Coleman and Whitaker after a set-up meeting, he breaks into the clinic. The harvested "cure" for Coleman is destroyed and Whitaker is shot by Coleman. The "harvest" patients are recovered and set right, and Ray disappears into the night.
Below the Line
A woman's husband disappears while working at an oceanic research lab, and she gets hold of Ray. He infiltrates the lab as a ex-Navy SEAL diver. He is betrayed by the same woman who betrayed the husband, and it is revealed that the head of the lab is siphoning off oil from a local rig. Ray manages to escape a pressurization chamber by slowing down his heartbeat and feigning death (luring in a guard to investigate) and defeats the bad guy just before he can blow up the rig to cover his tracks.
Sometimes You Gotta Sing the Blues
Ray is brought in by the police, only to find out that the Captain, Nelson Riskin, wants to "hire" him, favor for favor. Riskin is being framed for his wife's murder. Helped by Riskin's assistant Candace, Ray goes undercover in a variety of guises. He eventually finds out that Riskin had incriminating information on a former Police Chief, Donald Dixon, who is now running for governor. Dixon and his squad of policemen framed Riskin. ray escapes an execution squad, and reveals the evidence to Dixon's political backer. Dixon and his head goon try to escape, only to be stopped by Ray. At the end, Riskin is cleared but is unaware that Candace is romantically interested in him.
Abnormal Psych
Ray is contacted in the usual manner by a prospective client, only to have her try to kill him. She commits suicide rather then be captured by him. Investigating, Ray discovers that she attended a local college and attended an "Abnormal Psych" course along with several other student who have mysteriously disappeared. Ray infiltrates the class as a Army vet/student, and soon realizes that the professor is using some of his students who volunteer for tests as brainwashed assassins. The professor is backed by a mysterious spy master who knows much about Ray's past and used one of the "graduates" to try and kill him. Ray eventually puts an end to the professor's plans, but his nemesis escapes.
Orange Blossom
Ray's newest "client", supposedly a doctor, turns out to be a patient at an insane asylum. However, her claims that Soviet spies are flying patients out via helicopter turns out to be true, as Ray finds out when he infiltrates the clinic as a patient himself. They are using the asylum to house defectors until they can smuggle them back home. Ray brings the plot to an end.
Less Than the Eye Can See
While relaxing at one of his favor-ower's homes, Ray finds himself drawn into a plan by an insane doctor to let loose a highly virulent strain of anthrax when one victim literally pulls up in front of the house. Fighting against time and the possibility of his own contagious infection, Ray dodges corrupt government officials trying to cover up the incident as he tries to prevent the scientist from infecting the local water supply with the anthrax.
That Terrible Swift Sword
Ray is contacted by Sister Allison, a member of a revival crusade. She has discovered that a series of brutal prostitute murders have occurred in the cities where the crusade has played at the same time. Ray goes undercover as a minister, but ends up framed for the next murder. Escaping the police, he returns to the crusade and uncovers who among the ministry is the real killer.
The Greeter
Ray is contacted to look into the mysterious sale of chemicals at a pharmaceutical company. However, his client then "disappears" without a trace. Calling in a favor to get one of his female clients to pretend to be his wife, the couple move into the company "community". Ray discovers that the company is illegally conducting a black market operation to sell their contaminated drugs in Africa. With the aid of a troubled Vietnam vet who is the community "Greeter" (the guy who waves to people as they drive by), Ray infiltrates the top-security installation and stops the scheme.
Gemini
Women are mysteriously being murdered by a serial killer. Each of them advertised for help using an ad for a black Stingray Corvette, and the murderer drives around in a Stingray. One of Ray's former clients, a councilwoman, helps to bring him in. Ray pulls in a favor or two to get out of jail, and begins to investigate. He eventually finds out that an old friend from his mysterious past, Edward Benton, is trying to get revenge on him. During a mission in East Germany, Benton was left behind and imprisoned and tortured as a spy. Now he is seeking to even the score. Ray tracks him down and rather then let himself capture, Benton drives his car into a wall.
Playback
Ray is "hired" to investigate when an isolated biodome-type experiment goes awry. All of the original crew are dead except for one survivor, who is in bad mental shape. The man is suspected of killing his companions. Ray's employer has used his pull to recreate ("playback") the experiment, with a new crew following the same procedure. Ray is placed among the crew as a consultant, as is the survivor. Unfortunately, one of the scripted procedures causes the lining of a PVC pipe to give off fumes which induce homicidal mania and delusions. Ray starts to fall victim to the fumes, but the survivor of the first mission, recognizing the symptoms, manages to recover and supply Ray with an oxygen mask. The two of them manage to subdue the rest of the team.
Bring Me the Hand That Hit Me
A rather dimwitted garage worker and his criminal buddy steal $700,000 from a Mafioso who launders his money through the garage which he owns. The garage worker's sister is concerned that her brother is going to blow it: he doesn't seem to realize that quitting the day after you rob your boss and going crazy spending the money on coll stuff is a bad thing. She contacts Ray, who pretends to be another dimwitted crook and tries to get the two criminals out of trouble. The brother's buddy tries to double-cross them, and eventually despite Ray's best efforts to work things out, the sister is killed by the Mafioso Godfather. Her brother is left to mourn, as Ray warns him that he'll have to repay the favor his sister owed him.
Echoes
An artist, a former client of Ray's, is getting threatening calls from a stalker who Ray helped her out with, years before. In fact, the guy apparently died during his final encounter with Ray the last time around. The trail leads to a relative of the first stalker who is trying to get revenge.
The First Time is Forever
A TV reporter, whom Ray refuses to help because he thinks the man is only interested in a big story, is killed. His daughter contacts Ray, who takes the case out of guilt. As Ray investigates, he is plagued by nightmares of himself walking through a crowd of faceless men to kill someone on the steps of a capital building: apparently a flashback of some sorts to the first man he ever had to kill. Ray eventually cracks the case the reporter was investigating about the airline industry, and the nightmares go away...for now.
Autumn
A typical case turns bizarre as the client who hires him, an attractive woman, mysteriously disappears after contacting him. The series of clues he is investigating also mysteriously vanish. Eventually Ray finds out that his "client" and the various people in the case are all actors, hired by an aging mystery writer who hopes to use Ray's investigation as an inspiration to get past her writer's block. However, she is also plotting to poison her own sister who co-writes their books. Ray ends up reconciling the two sisters, although he ominously tells the writer that she still owes him a favor.
The Neniwa
Ray is called in to help resolve a dispute between an Indian land developer, and the local tribe who are attempting to prevent the razing of sacred ground for a building foundation. The tribe believes that the sacred ground is dedicated to the "Neniwa", a mysterious Indian trickster spirit of a thousand faces. A series of mysterious accidents surround the site, and tempers are flaring. Drawing upon his favors, Ray goes undercover as an archaeological professor. He eventually manages to uncover the hidden site and resolve matters between the land developer and the tribe by convincing the former to make the sacred ground part of the building without disturbing it. Ray leaves, with the tribe members (and perhaps the audience) left to wonder if he was some kind of incarnation of the Neniwa.
The Second Finest Man Who Ever Lived
Ray is contacted by a young retarded dock worker, Joshua, whose father died in a mysterious accident. The two become friends, and Ray finds out that the father, working overtime, stumbled upon the company's secret smuggling operation. Ray breaks the case and, at the end is forced to leave despite his friendship with Joshua, who understands.
Night Maneuvers
Ray is contacted by a rebellious student at a military academy who believes he witnessed his classmates murder a man. Going undercover as a military instructor, Ray investigates and finds out that one of the drill sergeants has created an elite cadre of special students who are willing to go out and use their training to kill drug dealers and other criminals. Ray and the student have to flee, and a cat & mouse chase ensues as the sergeant and his students chase them through the forest.
Cry Wolf
Ray gets drawn into a case of a drugged-up TV star, Ty Gardiner, who tries to hire him despite Ray's misgivings. Turns out Gardiner's name and celebrity were used by his unscrupulous partner to rip off both the Mafia and the Yakuza. Now that the partner has disappeared, Gardiner is left holding the bag with both sides trying to kill him, and the Feds looking for him as well. Ray's attempts to negotiate the matter aren't helped by Gardiner, who fancies himself the big dramatic hero that he plays on TV. Ray manages to set up both the Mafia and the Yakuza to shoot it out with each other, using Gardiner as bait so that he isn't wanted by the Feds. In the subsequent shootout Ray and Ty both end up in hospital beds, with Gardiner hatching another nutty scheme.
Blood Money
With the aid of former client Chief Riskin, Ray comes to the aid of a principal who is trying to keep the gangs, lead by former student and current criminal Floyd Wilson, from overrunning his school and corrupting three students that he has high hopes for. Ray uses his own version of "tough love", basically kidnapping the three boys and first having them thrown in jail and then locking them away from Wilson in a private home from one of his "favors". Eventually one of them goes to Wilson, who has killed the principal. Suspecting the other two, he gets his gang together to kill them, only for Ray to step in. Wilson is put away and the three boys go on the straight and narrow.
Anytime, Anywhere
Hired by a woman to help locate her father and other missing MIAs, Ray travels to Vietnam to recover a statue which holds a vital list. However, the local authorities are out to stop him. Ray just avoids dying in an explosion, but is blinded by the blast. Wandering the streets, he is taken in by a blind Vietnam vet who teaches him how to function despite his temporary blindness. Ray manages to find the cab where the statue was left, and escape with it just ahead of the government goons as his vision recovers.
Caper
In this parody of a Mission Impossible episode, Ray is contacted by the daughter of a Russian scientist who wants him to help her father defect. In the first few minutes of the episode, Ray precisely details how their plan to rescue the father from an ocean liner will go. Unfortunately, then the mission starts for real. The sneak thief he had planned for the caper can't get out of jail, and puts Ray in contact with his idiotic cell mate/robber. They can't convince the ship's captain that his papers are out of order, leaving their own disguised captain to wander haplessly around the ship. The guard whom Ray has a beautiful woman set up to seduce turns out to be gay. The plans to climb up the side of the ship go awry when a monsoon hits. And so on. Ultimately the mission succeeds anyway, thanks to a fake customs office that Ray set up in advance. As the rest of the team says they'd like to do this again, Ray winces in pain.
One Way Ticket to the End of the Line
Ray is hired by a woman who needs his help to find her father, a crop duster pilot who became involved in a territory war between two rival marijuana-growing gangs in the back-country. Despite a treacherous DEA agent, Ray manages to find the father, who is still alive, and break up both gangs.