Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) make a memorable foray into the San Francisco artists' colony after a painter falls from his studio window to his death. Determining that the victim was murdered, the detectives zero in on the most likely suspect: urban poet and notorious jailbird Yale Courtland Darcy (Roscoe Lee Browne). Convinced that his daughter Jenna (Brenda Sykes) is the guilty party, Darcy takes the rap for the girl--who is equally convinced that her dad did it, and equally determined to cover up his "crime"! Without giving away the ending, it can be noted that the title of this episode is a quote from Henry David Thoreau, referring to the unreliability of "The Obvious". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi