Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 Episode 3
Smaller Than Life

Thomass attempt to impress a new girlfriend by taking hang-gliding lessons lands him in the hospital with a broken shoulder; Rick bails out his childhood friend Waldo Norris on a breaking and entering charge, but Waldo insists that hes an insurance claims investigator trying to prove that a valuable figurine that was reported as stolen is still in the possession of its owners; after they get shot at by a man ransacking Waldos hotel room, Rick does a little digging and discovers that his friend has been lying to him, and has also stolen one of Higginss sketches by conning him into thinking that hes a representative of the Smithsonian; Waldo then confesses that hes really a CIA operative and the figurine contains sensitive information; after some further checking, Rick is able to verify his story, and Higgins and T.C. agree to help Waldo and Rick -- that is, until Thomas does even more checking and discovers that Waldo was fired from the CIA years before; Waldo then claims that he