Episode list

Top fashion model Bobo pulls designer T.J. Gaynor away from his party for a private discussion. She tells him she's pregnant and that he's the father and that he'd better be ready to pay her a lot of money. Gaynor strikes her, causing her to fall and fatally strike her head. He drags the body to his balcony and throws her off, making it appear to be a suicide. Arriving on the scene, Sam immediately is skeptical that her death was a suicide. Gaynor immediately turns his attention to aspiring model Lynne, thinking her to be a possible witness. Can Sam and Jim save her from possibly being another casualty?

Four teenagers, three boys and a girl, break into a house under construction in order to get high. A bit of horseplay ensues, during which the girl falls through a plate glass door and is badly injured. One of the boys drops the girl off at a hospital emergency room and flees, and before she goes fully unconscious, she tells the attending nurse that 'Joe Jack' was the name of the boy who dropped her off. Sam recognizes Joe Jack as Johnny Taylor, the son of a friend of his, lawyer Royce Taylor. He goes to see them, but doesn't get much help from Johnny, as Royce has advised him not to talk. The girl dies from her injuries, making it a murder case. Sam and Jim manage to bring in the other two boys, but get two different stories of what happened. Dan suggests talking to Johnny again, certain that his version of events is probably closer to the truth. Sam, Jim and Royce head up to a fishing cabin where Johnny is staying, but the boy picks up a hunting rifle and fires on them.

Ellen Willis pays a frantic visit to the Squad, claiming that her boyfriend, Eddie Costa, was murdered for real in a death scene from an underground film by hippie producer Benjy Panozian. Sam and Jim drop in on the filmmaker, but all they get from Panozian is that Eddie is alive and doesn't want anything to do with the 'square' Ellen. They really can't do much of anything else, but when Eddie is found dead for certain from a stab wound, they visit Benjy again and get even more of a runaround.

Betty Joyce Foster is babysitting when she looks into the window of the neighbors and witnesses the man of the house in an argument with a much younger man. She sees the older man strike the younger man from behind, possibly killing him. Sam and Jim investigate the neighbors, Mr. and Mrs.AAnderson, after Betty Joyce calls them, but no evidence of foul play is found and the girl is found to have a very active imagination. Shortly thereafter, the body of another young girl is fished out of the ocean, and her boyfriend, who's wanted for questioning, is missing, followed by the disappearance of Betty Joyce. As it turns out, all three incidents are connected, and Sam and Jim arrive at the conclusion that the nice older couple, the Andersons, really aren't that nice after all.

Aggie Sloan, an heiress, seduces Art, a much older gas station owner, and brings him back to her family's mansion, where things start to get weird. Her brother Tony accuses Art via loudspeaker of seducing his sister, and the older man tries to escape the mansion but is unable to. Sam and Jim are assigned to investigate Art's disappearance. Meanwhile, Tony pulls the same thing with a waitress named Mary, and Aggie's menacing voice is heard over the loudspeaker. Now there are two mysterious disappearances connected to the bored rich kids. Jim sets himself up as a third victim to find out what happened to the other people.

As Sam and Jim begin their investigation into a fatal armed robbery, they welcome a new detective to the squad, a young black man named Cliff Sims. From the description of the killer, Cliff is able to identify him as Jesse Hawkins, a guy he knows from the neighborhood and whose brother happens to be a leading black militant. He manages to get Rex, Jesse's brother, to try and persuade him to turn himself in, but his efforts fail, leading Cliff to question whether or not he wants to continue being a cop, despite encouragement from his fellow officers.

Sam tries to persuade young black detective Cliff Sims to remain on the force, to no avail. The robbery and murder suspect he tried to help, Jesse Hawkins, is now threatening Cliff and his family, adding to his burden.

Two strangling deaths are connected to a computer dating service. Sam and Jim must race to prevent a third girl from being killed.

Dan was on his way to the station with a woman when suddenly they both collapse. They're brought to the hospital. Sam and Jim show up and learn that they were poisoned and that unless they know what they were poisoned with, they don't have much time. They learn that the woman went to the station and was saying that her life was being threatened and wouldn't say anything else. Dan brought her home and somehow convinced her to file a report. He was bringing her when they collapsed. Sam and Jim go to her apartment and see that they had coffee. So they take everything to be analyzed but there was no trace left. So they go to where she works and they learn that she spends time at a beach house. They go there and find a boy breaking in. They question him and he says that his father leased the house and that he and the woman are having a thing. They question the man and they learn he's a chemist and he could have access to the poison but he denies poisoning her. Sam comes up with a plan to make the perpetrator reveal the poison.

Jim escorts a woman who is testifying against a criminal he and Sam pursued. When in court the man's girlfriend gives him a gun and he then takes the woman testifying against him hostage and shoots Jim. He then takes the woman and runs. Sam arrives and while Jim is being treated, he tries to find the man. Sam is told the building's been sealed so he can't get out. But Sam knows the man didn't just decide to do this, he planned it so he must have some kind of escape plan. He figures out what it is and catches his accomplices but the man shows up and goes back into the building. He then calls Sam that unless he let's him go, he won't be responsible for what happens to the woman. Sam decides to do what he says but Sam thinks the man has something up his sleeve.

George 'Lucky' Collins escapes from prison, where he was serving a sentence for manslaughter. He picks up his adorable young daughter as she's walking home from school. Sam and Jim pursue them as they make their way to a boat, where Lucky plans to flee, following a trail of violence.

An accountant is fatally gunned down in a parking lot. Sam and Jim visit Reardon, the dead man's boss, and Jim discovers that his college sweetheart, Linda Jo Benson, also works for the same company. Evidence points to her either being the killer or covering for the killer. Either way, Jim has to arrest her.

Myra Delaney is killed when she's chased into the path of a truck. Sam and Jim visit the brokerage firm where she worked, and it's revealed that large sums of money have been embezzled, possibly by someone working for the firm. As it turns out, Myra and her co-worker Sherry Martin have been aiding criminal Jack Heath in the thefts. Sherry is hiding out at a luxury hotel waiting to hear from Heath. Herbie, a nerdy bellboy, falls for her and runs interference for her when the cops show up at the hotel lookingfor

The wife of powerful publisher Nicky Porter is killed in what appears to be a botched burglary, but.Sam isn't buying it.

Porter and his assistant Gwynn are willing to do anything possible to throw Sam off the case, including framing the cop for assault.

Blind Marine Sergeant Tim Craig and his wife are eating at a diner when they're harassed by two thugs, Dixie Ralt and Mark Common. Mrs. Craig is struck in the face, causing her to fall and strike her head. Samand Jim ininvestigate the assault, but she dies during surgery, making it a murder case. The members of Sgt. Craig's unit are willing to seek vengeance on his behalf, as does the Sergeant himself, meaning that Sam and Jim must find the killers first.

Sam and Jim arrive at an unusual crime scene-- an African national named Marcel Nburu has a fund-raising expert, Charlie Bannerman, hanging upside down from a tree. They initially arrest Nburu on an attempted murder charge, for.which noted defense attorney Clinton Judd arrives to defend him. Sam's position with regards to Nburu changes to one of sympathy after they investigate Bannerman and discover him to be a con artist who fleeced Nburu out of money entrusted to him by his country. Sam finds himself changing his position once again when they go to arrest Bannerman, but find him dead and Nburu standing over the body. A scuffle ensues where Sam causes Nburu to fall down a flight of stairs and become seriously injured (The episode concluded later that evening on Judd for the Defense).