Cobra:
The Episode Guide:
Last updated: July 27, 1997.
The Cobra Players:
Robert "Scandal" Jackson -Michael Dudikoff
Danielle LaPoint -Allison J. Hossack
Dallas Cassel -James Tolkan
Scandal Jackson is shot in the face, and the surgery to rebuild his
face is paid for by a group named Cobra, dedicated to bringing justice
to those who can't get it from the police or the system. In return for
paying for his surgery Cobra, founded by Quentin Avery and led by
Dallas Cassel and his assistant Danielle LaPoint, wants Scandal to
help crack a case that may involve the person that murdered his
father. But in pursuing the case, Scandal soon runs across some
unpleasant facts surrounding his father's death.
Scandal and Dallas pose as efficiency experts at the water
distribution plant to find out how the mob is shipping their cocaine.
Meanwhile, Scandal seeks to find out the truth about the mysterious
Danielle.
Cobra is hired by the wife of a man who seems to have died in a car
accident under mysterious circumstances. The trail leads to a thrill
seeking club named "the Wild Cats." Scandal goes under cover to bring
the ringleader (William Sullivan) down as a burglar and murder, and to
save a pretty architect who's in over her head. But Danielle and
Dallas soon come to fear that Scandal has become too attracted to the
trills of danger to pull it off.
Scandal and Danielle, and Dallas and a client, pose as honeymooners
at a resort to determine what happened to two client's husbands who
disappeared there. Soon the evidence points to a handyman at the
resort. Meanwhile, Scandal and Danielle must get through their jitters
of sharing a room.
A man (Terance Knox) comes back form the seemingly dead to taunt
his wife, so she hires Cobra for protection. But what at first seems
to be a routine case of domestic abuse quickly turns into covert
operation to catch the husband who is also an arms dealer.
An old friend of Scandal's, Carlton Hauser, who broke and became a
psychopath during the Gulf War, escapes from a prison for the
criminally insane and begins hunting down his comrades. When he
discovers that Scandal is still alive, Scandal does everything he can
to keep Dallas and Danielle out of danger.
Scandal is kidnapped and drugged while being taken out to see a
ballet by Danielle on his birthday. When he manages to escape, he is
picked up for "drunk driving" by the police. No one, including
Dallas and Danielle, believes that he was kidnapped by an influential
businessman, who mistakenly believes Scandal is the "Mr. Chapman" who
is blackmailing him. So Scandal must set out to clear his name.
Danielle is kidnapped(?)
When Dallas mysteriously drops out of contact, Danielle and
Scandal reluctantly agree to see a lawyer's client who is
scheduled to be executed in two days for killing his pop musician
girlfriend. Scandal becomes convinced that the man is innocent, but
Dallas tries to put a stop to their investigation, because he was
the officer of record at the man's original arrest.
Scandal bets Danielle that he is better in the raw elements, so
they go camping. They run into a plane hijacker whom they take
captive, but they soon end up trying to avoid being captured by his
gang. Meanwhile, Dallas tries to locate them.
Cobra is hired to try and catch and arsonist whose been torching
the buildings of a wealthy industrialist. The problem: the suspect
seems to be an arsonist who died years before.
The producer of a hit call-in radio show hires Cobra to protect
the beautiful female star of the show, who may be in grave danger from
a regular caller who has alread killed one of the men she dated.
Scandal poses as the show's host's boyfriend to draw out the stalker.
Cobra is hired to check the security at a museum hosting some
valuable jewelry, so Scandal must keep breaking into the museum to
test the security. The jewelry gets stolen anyway, and the suspect
seems to be the daughter (Paula Trickey) of a famous jewel thief. But
it turns out that the burglar's father has been kidnapped and she is
being coerced into burglaring, so Scandal must help her out.
A computer expert's cyber-girlfriend is kidnapped, so Cobra is
hired to get her back. They soon find out that the girlfriend is a
computer security consultant, and her kidnapping seems to be related
to her skills at breaking into corporate computer systems.
Scandal's predecessor at Cobra returns to kidnap Dallas and hold
him hostage. Scandal wants to know more about his predecessor, but
Danielle becomes too agitated and too disturbed (and/or too secretive)
to answer his questions. So Scandal must find out Danielle's secret
and come to Dallas' rescue, mostly in the dark, with his predecessor
taunting him all the way.
Scandal poses as a marine biologist when Cobra is hired by marine
expert whose boyfriend died on an ocean dive. She works at an ocean
theme park plagued by problems. Things soon point to another diver, an
ex-Navy Seal.
Danielle goes on vacation, but on her way she accidentally hits a
woman being chased by a small town police force. Danielle is soon
accused of aiding a fugitive and is thrown in jail with the woman.
While Danielle tries to figure out what is going on, Scandal and
Dallas try to track her down.
Scandal poses as a Private, while Danielle poses as a Major, at a
boot camp when Cobra is hired to investigate a death at marine the
boot camp. They soon determine it's murder, and a tough marine Sgt.
looks to be the killer.
Cobra is hired when a man's family is terrorized. Scandal thinks
the wife is not telling all. He, Danielle and Dallas soon determine
that the woman's past is not what she claimed it was, and it all seems
to tie into a former Stasi agent, who is a trainer of hitmen and a
master of disguise.
Cobra is hired to keep a mob housekeeper alive long enough to
testify at the trial of the two ruthless sons of an old style mobster.
So Scandal is sent to drive her cross country to the location of the
court house in Bay City. But the sons kidnap their institutionalized
father to keep the housekeeper from testifying.
A stand up comic dies on stage, and Cobra is hired by the comic's
agent (Larry Manetti, formerly of Magnum, P.I.). When the agent turns
up dead, the most likely suspect seems to be the comic's mentally
unstable, former girlfriend, who is a ventriloquist with a wise
cracking dummy named Precious.
Cobra is hired by the father of a man murdered after a high stakes
poker game. The only witness was the man's girlfriend, Kelly Masterson
(Kristen Hocking-Dalton), who is a poker expert, and it all seems to
tie into the man's boss, a mobster who likes to play poker for big
money. So Scandal poses as a gambler to get the bottom of the matter.
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