Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.

Filmed in the Chilcotin by CBC Vancouver, this "Cariboo Country" special dealt with the trial of an Indigenous man for murder. Remade as Smith! starring Glenn Ford, and also novelized by Paul St Pierre.

A young couple on a forest holiday become unwitting targets for paid killers, and a forest fire helps them escape.