A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.

A Vietnam vet breaks out of a mental institution to go after drug-dealing gangsters who are selling contaminated product that is killing people.

An architect goes to bed with a seductive stranger only to awaken beside the corpse of his boss.

Joe Goodies has just entered an advertising agency after recovering from the death of his girlfriend in a car accident. Ruined by the compensation he has to pay for the accident, he decides, with his new girlfriend, to kidnap the son of the president of the agency and ask for a bailout.

An odd cab driver learns that a research scientist is in dire need of funding and reveals himself to be an eccentric philanthropist in disguise. Happiness ensues.