Moonlighting 1.06

The Murder's in the Mail

Roy Hirsch, a CIA operative, returns to the US only to discover that the flight he was originally scheduled to take crashed, killing everyone aboard. He heads home but something one of his neighbors tells him in the lobby of his building leads him to suspect that someone is trying to kill him. Hirsch leaves without entering his apartment.

Maddie and David squabble over bills. He reveals that he has found some more work for them collecting bills for a collection agency. The second person they go to collect from turns out to be Roy Hirsch. He is home by then but he is murdered between the time he buzzes them in and the time they get up to his apartment. Maddie and David try to get the police involved but the killer has already covered his tracks and moved the body.

Moonlighting 1.05

Next Stop Murder

Ms. DiPesto wins a ride on J.B. Ballard's Murder Mystery Train. Maddie and David take Agnes to the train station. They escort Agnes on to the train but then they get stuck on the train and are unable to disembark before it takes off.

The planned murder mystery doesn't go exactly as planned. Ballard turns up dead. Agnes and Roy, one of Ballard's employees, get interested in one another. David and Maddie try to solve the mystery. More than one of the other passengers is suspected of killing J.B. until David solves the mystery.

There is a struggle when the killer tries to escape. David and Maddie chase the killer on to the roof of the train, while it is still moving.

Moonlighting 1.04

The Next Murder You Hear

A late night radio talk show host is murdered while broadcasting. David suggests that he and Maddie should try to solve the case even though no one has hired them to do it. Maddie is reluctant but eventually she comes around.

Maddie and David discover that the "murdered" talk show host faked his own death. He has been having an affair with Laura, whose husband owns the radio station. The plan was to convince her husband that he was dead and then they could go on with their affair. The plot thickens when Arthur, the owner of the radio station, turns up dead.

Moonlighting 1.03

Read the Mind -- See the Movie

David and Maddie have been hired by SRT, a company that is developing a weapon for the US military. They get fired after a test goes horribly wrong. David is ready to move on but Maddie, who found the work, insists that they figure out what went wrong.

She has dinner with the president of SRT's number one competitor. She asks him how he found out what SRT was developing. He tells them he found out from a psychic. Maddie and David visit the psychic. David steals the psychic's appointment book which reveals that Brian, the current head of SRT, has been visiting the psychic.

David and Maddie return that night and stake out the psychic's home. They learn that night that the psychic has been helping Brian to convince his aging father, who owns SRT, that Vivian, Brian's sister, is incapable of running SRT.

Maddie and David are spotted while surveilling the house. They flee by undressing and jumping into the pool. Later that night they get a call from Vivian. She asks them to meet her at SRT. She tries to kill them with a laser gun but ends up bringing down a piece of the ceiling on herself.

Moonlighting 1.02

Gunfight at the So-So Corral

Maddie comes in for her first day at the Blue Moon Detective Agency only to find that no one is doing anything that resembles work. She is ready to call the whole thing off when David tells her that there is a client arriving at their offices in 20 minutes. David rushes out, grabs Farley Wrye, who was sitting in the reception area of another business, and presents him as their new client.

Wrye explains that he is dying and that he is looking for his son, Michael. He offers to pay them $10,000 if they can find him before he dies. They take the case and go looking. The only clue they have is that the father thinks Michael maybe in a shady line of business.

David and Maddie go to a bar in a rough section of town. David asks the bartender if he has seen Michael Wrye. The bartender reacts violently when he hears the name. He pulls them into a back room and explains to them that Michael Wrye is a hitman.

Moonlighting 1.01

Pilot

Fashion model Madeleine Hayes (Cybil Shepard),  wakes up one morning only to discover that her accountant has stolen most of her money. One of the assets she still has is the City of Angels Detective Agency, which has lost money consistently for the past three years. She goes there to try and shut it down and meets, for the first time, David Addison (Bruce Willis) who runs the agency. 

David tries to talk her into keeping the agency up and running but Maddy is not interested. Maddy goes to dinner that night at a fancy restaurant with a plastic surgeon. David shows up and derails her dinner. The doctor leaves after being fooled into thinking that there is an emergency which calls for his attention.