Under Suspicion

Phil has her hands full running the station in Lt. Schwarz's absence, while the detectives investigate the mob-style murder of a police officer, encountering FBI interference along the way. Meanwhile, Vitelli visits with his father.

When Phil investigates a gruesome murder of a school teacher who seemed demure, she discovers some surprising information about the teacher's personal life.''

A television reporter, together with her cameraman, annoys Phil and jeopardizes a murder investigation. To top it off, the reporter and her cameraman then end up as hostages for the main suspect in the murder.

In a brutal homicide, very similar to an unpleasant case he dealt with twenty-five years ago, Lieutenant Schwarz takes the investigatory lead. In the previous case, the suspect was released on a technicality.

A priest who was convicted of manslaughter and has served his sentence, redeems himself by running a halfway house. Yet, he is one of the suspects in the homicide of a reporter for the newspaper.

When Phil and Beck investigate a Korean spa owner's homicide, racial tensions complicate the case, especially when they find out that the man had been buying up real estate in a mostly black neighborhood.

A female cop files a sexual harassment claim against a city official and Phil gets involved in the case. When Internal Affairs investigates and Phil is pulled off of the case, it starts trouble between Vitelli and Phil.

Shane Fusco develops a crush on Doc after visiting the station.

When a pregnant woman is shot in a drive-by shooting, the only witness Phil finds, is a man who just happens to have a photographic memory, a man with mental retardation.

A husband is seen abusing his wife in the restaurant where Beck and Phil are eating. Phil threatens to arrest the man. Later the wife ends up dead and Phil is determined to get the husband for the crime.

Shane's friend, Rita, is found, but she has been murdered. A new detective from the squad, Papadakis, helps Phil and Beck investigate the murder. These events have caused a change in Shane's personality--she acts withdrawn and distant, from the world and from Phil, as well.

When all the incriminating evidence appears to point to Judge Friedlander as the serial killer, Phil comes too close to fingering him, endangering both her career and her life.

With the death of LeBlanc and Fusco, and the arrest of a third police officer, the homicide division is understaffed. Phil is investigating the case of a possible serial killer who inscribes an odd symbol at his crime scenes.