It's a case of mistaken identity when criminals kidnap Pepper, thinking she's the wife of an accountant who uncovered payoffs from a criminal syndicate.
Pepper is working undercover on a syndicate case and becomes romantically involved with a tennis pro, what she doesn't realize is he is an undercover cop as well.
An influential banker informs the police that he is being blackmailed by Madame Hilary La Salle, operator of a very classy brothel. Apparently she has been keeping a little black book - her 'trick book' - containing details of all''her clients.
When an old lady is killed for her possessions, Sgt Pepper and the crew find that a group is using "the oldest trick in the book" to foil grannies out of their money.
Suspicion for the murder of two factory employees falls on two co-workers: a compulsive gambler who had a fight with one of the victims, and an enigmatic college student who disappeared on the night of the crime.
A group of con artists who prey on auto-accident victims choose the wrong patsy: Pepper, who awakens in the hospital after being knocked unconscious by a speeding car.
A drug pusher's sale of particularly potent speed causes several overdose deaths, and creates an emotional crisis for the criminal's guilt-ridden girlfriend.
Pepper is strangely fascinated by a ruggedly individualistic ex-cop who works as a bodyguard and is antagonizing both the police and the gangster who's after his client.
An escalating martial battle between Pepper's paranoid neighbor and his terrified wife increasingly interferes with her undercover assignment as a waitress in a cafe used by truck hijackers.
Three gangland killings signal that someone is taking over established vice activities. A gambling operator is feeling the heat and Pepper is there to help.
After Larue Collins, a police informer's cover is blown, she is a picture of desperation. Fleeing killers, she can find no one to help her and no place to hide.
Police search for a connection between a mechanic, a bookkeeper and a college professor, who are all killed by the same gun and in the same gangland style. Former UCLA quarterback Mark Harmon has a cameo role as a wounded witness to the assassin's most recent attack.
The deaths of a prominent politician and a nightclub dancer in a car explosion send Pepper to work as a go-go dancer for the club's owner, a one-time poor boy with a powerful yen for the finer things in life.
In this episode two rapes are investigated. The first victim is a woman who is raped the day before her daughter is supposed to get married. The second victim is an alcoholic who was raped and murdered and her body dumped in a vacant lot. It is later revealed that the first victim made up the story in order to stop the wedding. The second rape is solved when a teenager who was teased by the victim admits to killing her.moreless
Pepper and Bill go undercover to catch a rapist/killer who is targeting the wives of patients at a hospital. The first suspect is the amorous parking attendant. However, Pepper is later abducted by the real killer, the nephew of a pair of nurses at the hospital, who kills as a way of getting back at his mother who abandoned him as a child.moreless