The life of the criminal is always filled with thing you can't count on. Take Paul Burke and his two accomplices in a bank robbery. They would have to pick a day when Raymond Burr and Don Mitchell are visiting the bank. The Chief senses a robbery and Mark Sanger calls in the alarm. One get away with the loot, one gets killed, and Paul Burke winds up in custody.
But Burke isn't finished with bad luck. He's got a daughter in foster care and when he's taking the perpetrator walk he's spotted on television by Kres Mersky who knows he has a daughter in foster care and her boyfriend Michael Bell decides to kidnap the girl not knowing of course that Burke does not have his hands on the stolen money.
The Ironside team is always good at multi-tasking and they've got a ticklish situation here. Find the loot, find the accomplice who got away, rescue the little girl and figure out the connection. Do I have to say they get it done. In a rather expeditious style in the end as the episode ends on a distinctly minor note.
Greed is one powerful vice and to the stupid it can make you more so.