El Capitán del Precinto Furillo intenta calmar una situación de rehenes a pesar de los consejos de su líder del Equipo de Acción de Emergencia y del temperamento de un líder de pandilla ensimismado; la defensora pública Joyce Davenport intenta encontrar un cliente que se ha perdido en el laberinto burocrático; El detective LaRue toma una taza de café; Sargento. Esterhaus le cuenta a Fay sobre su novia adolescente; Los oficiales Hill y Renko reciben un disparo en el cumplimiento del deber.

Hill y Renko se reencuentran por primera vez desde el tiroteo; Esterhaus intenta evitar a Grace Gardner, la nueva decoradora de la policía; dos agentes de transferencia se meten en problemas; Belker persigue a violadores en el parque; y Furillo debe lidiar con las demandas de Fay de más dinero y una inminente visita presidencial.

Hill y Renko deciden separarse como equipo; Un traficante de drogas que resulta ser policía le ofrece a LaRue un soborno; Furillo intenta negociar con las pandillas para asegurar una gira presidencial pacífica; Belker acepta una cita a ciegas; y Fay es arrestada en un jacuzzi.

Furillo respalda a LaRue en el caso de soborno presentado por Macafee; Hill y Renko arrestan a un ladrón de autos que es un genio de la mecánica; y Esterhaus ve a Grace bajo una nueva luz cuando comparten una crisis en la comisaría cuando se cancela la visita presidencial y se teme la venganza de las pandillas.

Neal continúa investigando la vida de Macafee como una forma de limpiar a LaRue; Belker y varios otros van encubiertos vestidos de mujeres para atrapar a un violador; Esterhaus cavila sobre sus dos mujeres; y Goldblume cuestiona su habilidad luego de perder un tiro en salto.

Furillo recibe órdenes para negociar con una asociación de comerciantes del barrio; Esterhaus sale al encuentro de un criminal al que ayudó a encerrar; Harris y Santini se meten en problemas con la furgoneta negra mortal; y los resultados del detector de mentiras de Hoban no son concluyentes.

La Asociación de Comerciantes de Dekker Avenue continúa ayudando a la policía; Eddie Hoban se encuentra sumido en el frío; Hill, Renko y Belker tienen problemas personales; Furillo intenta ayudar a un Santini confundido a decidir qué hacer; y LaRue le pide a Cynthia Chase que lo acompañe en una vigilancia aburrida que de repente se calienta.

Furillo y Neal hacen todo lo posible para ayudar a despejar a un detective de narcóticos racista y desagradable acusado de disparar contra un hombre negro desarmado; La forma de beber de LaRue se sale de control; y Hill y Renko intentan ayudar a una joven negra acusada de descuidar a sus hijos.

Furillo y Neal hacen todo lo posible para ayudar a despejar a un detective de narcóticos racista y desagradable acusado de disparar contra un hombre negro desarmado; La forma de beber de LaRue se sale de control; y Hill y Renko intentan ayudar a una joven negra acusada de descuidar a sus hijos.

Neal continúa investigando el tiroteo de Weeks, a pesar de la presión del Jefe para que lo retire debido a la mala publicidad; LaRue va de una estafa sospechosa a otra mientras intenta recaudar dinero; La operación de la cerca falsa de Belker es una sorpresa; Shirrett Anders vuelve a dejar a sus hijos; Furillo advierte a LaRue que busque ayuda para su problema con la bebida después de que arruina una redada de drogas; y Joe Coffey, el nuevo socio de Lucy, recibe un disparo.

Neal continúa investigando el tiroteo de Weeks, a pesar de la presión del Jefe para que lo retire debido a la mala publicidad; LaRue va de una estafa sospechosa a otra mientras trata de recaudar dinero; La operación de la cerca falsa de Belker es una sorpresa; Shirrett Anders vuelve a dejar a sus hijos; Furillo advierte a LaRue que busque ayuda para su problema con la bebida después de que arruina una redada de drogas; y Joe Coffey, el nuevo socio de Lucy, recibe un disparo.

A prostitute accuses a detective of blackmailing her for sex; Goldblume searches for a missing child; a former gang leader returns to the Hill as crusading social reformer; Belker busts a purse snatching orangutan and keeps in touch with an undercover rookie planted inside a volatile street gang; and Furillo and Esterhaus question their current romantic involvements.

Goldblume meets a lonely woman while driving a cab undercover; LaRue and Washington use a desperate snitch to solve a prostitute murder; Virgil reports on Hudson's takeover of the Black Arrow gang; and Furillo and Joyce meet socially after splitting up.

Hill and Renko handle a domestic call involving an old man threatening his neighbors with a shotgun; Hudson looks for the informer in his gang; and Joyce asks Furillo for advice about the Downey case.

Bates loses a junkie prostitute through an error in judgement; Hudson beats up his lawyer after his release on bail; Furillo and Joyce reconsider their separation; and Esterhaus ends his friendship with Mac.

Hunter uses pedigreed hounds to track wild city dogs; the scam saloon begins producing results, despite Captain Freedom's help; Fay fixates on cemetery plots; Frank becomes incresingly disgusted with his lawyer and Chief Daniels over the actions of the Sullivan Commission; and a suspicious Calletano learns the truth about a gorgeous new khaki officer.

Bates plays in the interdepartmental poker finals; Fuchs refuses to help out one of his own men caught forging prescriptions; Henry goes undercover on a smash-and-grab purse snatching detail; Delgado admits he's afraid of testifying before the commission; Joyce chides Furillo for being naive about his supposed innocence protecting him against the commission; the scam saloon closes down after a gun battle; and a furious Furillo testifies before the commission and offers his resignation to Chief Daniels.

Joyce's fellow PD Pam Gilliam is gunned down; Hill's position as VP for the Black Officers' Coalition puts a strain on both him and Renko; Goldblume tries to deal with an abusive landlord; Fay threatens to bring WAD to the Hill; LaRue and Washington trade up from a cocaine dealer to a PCP lab.

Goldblume is bitter over losing a promotion; Joyce walks out of court while defending a repeat offender; Renko learns his father is dying; a stakeout to find a con team shaking down johns proves dangerous; and Esterhaus' prize car is taken by a team of car thieves.

Belker and Washington go undercover at a porno theater; Hill and Renko answer a domestic call concerning a suicidal man holding his wife and child hostage; a pickup basketball game between the cops and the gangs calls for full-scale negotiations.

Belker tries to renew his expired driver's license; Renko tries to take his father home from the hospital; LaRue rehabilitates himself with Furillo; and everyone follows the trail of the gun used to kill two officers during a burglary.

Renko's father takes a final trip around the city; Belker goes undercover to find out who has been knifing winos; and Joyce finds her faith restored as she defends a nice young man accused of rape whose alibi is reluctant to testify.

The governor's dog is stolen; Renko and Theresa quarrel at a party; six rookies face hazing; LaRue and Washington try to chase down an autopsy report; and Eddie Gregg becomes Belker's snitch.

Washington's guilt over shooting a bystander resurfaces; Hill's vagabond father pays a visit; Belker goes undercover as Santa Claus; and Bates spends the holiday in the hospital.

Furillo calls Goldblume off the murder investigation of his wife's rapist; Bates has problems with an insolent rookie; Mayo and Garibaldi bust a bogus cable TV installer; Belker goes undercover in a chicken suit and is plagued by a mime; and Hunter insults a female khaki officer, who barricades herself in the john.

Jablonski deals with a woman who has lost her cat; Renko suffers after a TV newswoman exposes his fondness for doughnuts; LaRue looks very bad to IAD after shooting Caroline Reynolds' former lover; Goldblume pushes to tie Buttman to the hooker killing; Washington fumes over the firing of Garfield; everyone tries a new Bengali restaurant.

An assassination attempt against Mayor Cleveland during the rededication of the Monarch Theater opens up a nest of corruption in Daniels' office; several officers catch the ""blue flu"" and head for Las Vegas with Belker, who wins $5000 on a free spin; Vera Horvath continues to hound Stan; and Hill and Renko try to settle a dispute involving a stolen lottery ticket.