I'll try.  Our hero (the guy who played as Magnum PI) is a detective in homicide and his lover is a pretty little blond assistant DA.  She dumps him because her wealthy, balding boyfriend has asked her to marry him so she chooses money over passion.  While getting dressed after their fairwell romp, he gets a call to go to a murder scene.  Three people are murdered in a cafe called Paradise.  Two men are dead and the waitress was not only murdered but also sodomized after she was dead.

A homeless black man was arrested and charged because he had a locket on him that once contained photos of two children in it and because the homeless guy had a habit of hiding out in a business place before it closed in order to have an overnight shelter.   He's conviced due to the efforts of a prosecuter (played by a good actor I never saw before).  That prosecutor, in the process of gaining warrents etc. becomes facinated with a female judge with a drinking problem. 

Meanwhile, our hero interviews the sneaky prison warden (I don't recall the name of the actor but he has played many a bad guy and is very good at it) who goes back a ways with our hero in a not so good relationship.  Seems the warden once tried to become a policeman but failed to qualify.  Between the lines I think our hero had something to do with that failure.

Fast forward a few years.  The female judge was convicted of accepting bribes and kicked off the bench and is working as a cashier in a retail store (Sears?).  The prison warden is dying of lung cancer and was also convicted of some crime.  His residence is the prison hospital.  Our material blond in now the chief prosecutor or DA or something and our hero is still a detective.  The former prosecutor is now a defense attorney.  He gets a new trial for the death row homeless black guy.  In court, where all the characters are brought together again, the death bed former warden testifies that he killed the three people.  Our hero knows he's lying but wonders why.  The blond made her name due to the case and now the same case threatens to undo her career.  The questions about the sodomy surprises the confessing cancer patient, thus letting the viewer know he is probably making a false confession.  The defense attorney and the former judge are beginning to look longingly at each other.  The hero and the blond are doing the same.  “To be continued...“ appears on the screen.

The acting is good.  The writers did a great job and the directing is standard fare, easy to follow yet the director likes to surprise the audience now and then with a twist or two.