Freebie and Bean are a pair of maverick detectives with the San Francisco Police Department Intelligence Squad. The volatile, gratuity-seeking Freebie is trying to get promoted to the vice#vice squad to garner perks for his retirement while the neurotic and fastidious Bean has ambitions to make lieutenant#Police rank. Against a backdrop of Super Bowl weekend in San Francisco, the partners are trying to conclude a 14-month investigation, digging through garbage to gather evidence against well-connected organized crime Red Meyers, when they discover that a hit man from Detroit is after Meyers as well. After rejecting their pretext arrest of Meyers to protect him, the district attorney orders them to keep him alive until Monday.
This series stars Hector Elizondo (Bean), a conservative family man, and Tom Mason (Freebie) (a “swinging bachelor”), as two street-wise San Francisco police sergeants whose differing life styles are a constant source of put-down humor between them, bantering that covers their genuine mutual affection and respect.