This episode was pretty good...and I rated it as such. I liked the plot of Magnum's volleyball friend getting murdered, and of course he had to figure out who did it. "Magnum, p.i." many times had Magnum's cases being more personal than the usual, as Higgins would say, tawdry divorce case...and this one was no exception. It somehow made it more realistic and you feel you can relate to the characters, and that Magnum truly cared for others.
However, the one downfall to this episode was the annoying as heck, irritating Annie Potts as 'Tracy'!!

I've never been a huge Annie Potts fan...as her voice (in my opinion) is as annoying as The Nanny's (Fran Drescher's)!
I can only handle "stupid" or "dorky" so much...then it isn't funny to me...it's just stupid! To me, this is how I viewed the character of Tracy Spenser. She took too much away from the real plot of the episode! It was like they wrote the episode...then they went
back in and added this Tracy, and her bumbling, slap-stick ways for comic relief.

It wasn't that funny, and it seemed really out of place, and/or it just didn't flow with the episode very smoothly. Unfortunately she returned again a few seasons later...but at least she was only in the two episodes.
"It was more ironic than a Robin Masters novel--she thought he was dead, he thought she was dead...and only the chauffeur knew the truth! He should have been the butler!" "Lest We Forget"