Five bizarre and brutal decapitations bring together the Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Police Department, and the Highway Patrol as a special strike force. Headed by Captain Frank Murphy, the force begins their investigation -- their only clue is that each victim served on the jury of an embezzlement case.

The team is tipped off about a kidnapping by Frank's ex-partner, a souse who claims he also witnessed a murder.

The Force gambles that money will motivate a woman to set up her colleagues in crime.

Murphy plays on the emotional insecurity of a sadistic rapist who stalks his victims in supermarkets.

A dealer uses pot and pills to lure teenagers into pushing harder drugs to their friends.

Patients have been dying inexplicably at four hospitals -- including the one where Klein is taken following a heart attack.

Strobber shoots a teen-age robber whose racist partners swear revenge in a taped message -- left on the body of a slain black cop.

An international hit man plays cat and mouse with Frank, who has 48 hours to determine his target.

Clues in a string of jewelry-store robberis point to on-duty policemen -- and the captain of Internal Affairs, who try to pin the crimes on Gunzer.

The common element in a series of rape-murders is that the victims were last seen in singles bars.

A murderous cult is alerted to a police investigation by the mayor's premature press conference.

Muggings of the elderly go unchecked until a councilwoman is murdered trying to stop an attack.

A mobsters right-hand man uses Murphy's ex-wive to contact him about becoming a government-protected witness.

Conventioneers are being murdered by someone masquerading as a call girl.

Young muggers out on bail terrorize witnesses scheduled to testify against them.

Prison escapees hijack a military van, unaware of the contents -- refrigerated germ-warfare cultures.

A high-school girl left for dead by kidnappers provides the break in a series of abductions.

Gunzer and his girlfriend are wounded by hit men and the street talk is the girl was the target.

A policeman's widow is terrorized by phone calls from a man who claims to be her husband trying to avenge his ""death"".