BAD MOON

As a pre-40th birthday surprise, FBI hotdogger Gibbons gifts partner Tozzi (Bad Business, etc.) with an introduction to luscious young Stacy, TV spokesperson for a trendy pump-iron health club. On the way out of the bar, however, Tozzi becomes a hit-man's target, is wounded and given a month's leave—which he spends trying to find out who wants him dead, finally narrowing the list to wily Sal Immordino, a wiseguy pretending to be crazy (he prefers a mental institution to a prison cell). But Sal has found ways to sneak out, and his plan is simple—to hit Mistretta, Juicy, and Bartolo (rival mobsters), and, of course, Tozzi, who testified against him. Meanwhile, Gibbons is assigned a temporary partner, agent Cummings, a female psychiatrist with no field experience but plenty of nagging advice. As the bodies pile up, Tozzi and Sal head for a collision—which nearly blows out Stacy's brains and necessitates Gibbons hiding in a casket at a mob funeral. Wryly amusing subplot (Tozzi greeting his 40th with impotence), plus the requisite tough-guy theatrics, makes for a lively fifth appearance of Tozzi and Gibbons.