A precinct-wide sleep-deprivation experiment withholds sweet slumber from Hooperman, but something in the sleeplessness makes DeMott seem suddenly seductive.
While moonlighting as a jazz saxophonist, Hooperman considers trading his life as a cop for a life of music. Also, DeMott is guilt-ridden after accidentally shooting Silardi.
Two renters in the building are at each other's throats after one puts down a deposit on an apartment that the other won't vacate. Also, a building inspector finds numerous violations and Mrs. Davis offers to buy the apartment building. Hooperman confronts a pregnant thief.
Hooperman sets up a love connection between a convicted computer criminal and the woman who spurned his advances, but used his crooked program for her own profit.
When a gunshot sends Hooperman falling down a flight of stairs and into unconsciousness, he wakes up to discover that he is chained to a wall in a tacky underworld whose only other inhabitant is a red-suited demon who takes devilish delight in playing Pat Boone's 'April Love' on an old phonograph.moreless
Stakeout experts Hooperman and Pritzger spend days ogling a robbery suspect's girlfriend who does aerobics in the buff, until she calls for help and pulls a gun on them.
Hooperman's informant is petrified of tattling on thugs and needs police protection. Elsewhere, a chef clubs his wife. Unfortunately, his weapon was edible and Bijoux was hungry.
Someone is stealing from corpses at the cemetery, Hooperman has to catch a ghoulish thief. Meanwhile, Susan has a novel that she's sure will be successful.
Hooperman makes friends with an inmate who has AIDS. Elsewhere, a shoplifter is arrested, who claims that she has an interesting boyfriend--Captain Stern's estranged husband.
An Arab sheik brings his spoiled daughter with him to the U.S., and Hooperman must watch over her. Meanwhile, DeMott and Silardi work to catch baby brokers that kidnap innocent children.
Bijoux is on trial for attacking a mailman. Hooperman claims Bijoux is a 'police sniffer' and has 24 hours to prove it. Hooperman also has problems with his new job as building owner, when the plumbing goes crazy.