Mike Power is an embittered detective demoted to the 87th Precinct shortly before his scheduled retirement. He then proceeds to drive the rest of the squad bonkers.
Detective Havilland befriends a young man named Ramon Morales unaware that the lad's father is involved in a plot to assassinate a visiting South American dignitary.
Veteran patrolman Otto Forman, who is due to retire in a few days, is out on the beat showing the ropes to his replacement, Eddie Haines, when a burglar alarm sends them running to a supermarket where Eddie is gunned down by a fleeing thief. The thief happens to be Forman's son.moreless
A ten year old boy might hold the key to the shooting of the new bride of police officer Bill Miller who thinks the shooter is an ex-con named Gantry who once threatened him.
A severed hand found in a dumpster leads the detectives to conclude that a murder has been committed and that the killer might be preparing to strike again.
About to be executed, former underworld czar Doug Quinn announces that when he goes the men who helped convict him will die too. This is bad news for Toots Brendan--he was the state's key witness against Quinn.
Used-car salesman Glenn Cornell takes one of the cars off the lot and drives out to see a prospective buyer named Barrow. Then the car is found with Cornell slumped over the wheel. Is it suicide or did a dissatisfied customer off the used car man?
Josie Thompson hopes to benefit financially by assuming the identity of her deceased friend. She's unaware that she's placing herself in deadly danger. It appears as though there's a hit man on the friend's trail.
When a slimy blackmailer is murdered, the detectives have to sort through an entire army of suspects including the dead man's mistress, a horse trainer, the wife of a wealthy man, a bottling plant owner, and an ex-convict mechanic.
Fearing for the health of his pregnant wife, an immigrant locksmith refuses to co-operate with the police in identifying two robbers who beat a man to death on orders of a crime boss.
A disgruntled former detective who quit the police force out of frustration begins committing robberies using the modus operandi of known thieves. The 87th Precinct detectives are completely baffled--at first.
Virginia Colt, whose late husband was sent to prison on Detective Carella's testimony, barges into the 87th precinct house carrying a gun and wanting to use it on the detective.