Tragedy strikes the Ironside team when policewoman Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson) is seriously injured in a shooting. As Eve hovers between life and death, Ironside (Raymond Burr) flashes back to his first meeting with the socialite-turned-cop, a time when he was unconvinced that she was cut out for police work (and incidentally, when he was still able to move around without a wheelchair). Meanwhile, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) is poised to take the law in his own hands and kill Eve's attacker unless Ironside and Mark (Don Mitchell) can talk him out of it. Featured in the cast of this "retrospective" episode Quinn Redeker, who later shared an Oscar for his screenplay contributions to the 1978 theatrical feature The Deer Hunter. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi