Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 8, 1994
Manhattan police detectives J.C. Williams and Eddie Torres are assigned to a case dealing with a 17 year old girl who accuses a high school football player of rape. Eddie has problems going to see his mother, who is in the hospital, after six years of non-communication with each other.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1994
Kids working for an auto-theft ring steal the car of a mobster's mother; J.C.'s ex-girlfriend wants to send their son to a private school.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1994
Torres and Williams investigate an ice cream vendors murder who's drug dealings ends up in G's school.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1994
The detectives look for clues in a collegian's murder; J.C.'s ex-wife is involved with a musician in Nancy Wilson's band.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1994
Torres and Williams go undercover to investigate a sanitation worker's murder. Sandra is embarrassed J.C. is a police officer.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1994
A real-estate developer is suspected of fueling gang tensions to lower property values; Eddie tries to repair his relationship with his dad.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1994
When a baby dies, Torres and Williams discover there's more to the story then people say. Torres's sister askes him to investigate their friends missing son.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1994
Detectives Williams and Torres investigate an incident involving the abduction of a young boy who happens to be the son of a politician running for office. JC and Sandy come to terms with their relationship.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1994
Detectives JC and Eddie investigate a number of street drug related overdoses all in the same neighborhood.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1994
The detectives investigate the disappearance of a young woman involved in the adult film industry after another woman has been found murdered. The case hits close to home.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1994
Williams protects an eyewitness, while Torres looks for the people who want to kill her.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1994
The detectives investigate a string of related murders involving members of the NY Drag community.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1994
A violent Puerto Rican gang supporting the cause of their people causes trouble in the community. JC is concerned as Eddie goes undercover to investigate their criminal activity.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1995
The detectives investigate the murder of man who played a major role during the Black Panther Movement. A suspect in the case is from JC's past.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1995
A reverend is targeted and threatened as he fights to ban the sale of cigarettes in his community. Eddie is visited by an old love in need of help.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1995
Detectives JC and Torres investigate a drug on streets that took the life of a promising boxer.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1995
J.C. and Eddie enter a world of drugs, gangsters and deception in search of clues to a rap artist's murder.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1995
J.C.'s son, G, becomes a target after he witnesses a mob killing.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1995
Working under cover, Eddie uses his chemistry knowledge in an attempt to bust a drug lord's operation of manufacturing a dangerous new drug.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Mar 16, 1995
The partners pose as black-market weapons buyers to nab a family of gun thieves; Eddie's dad blows his chance to play saxophone for James Brown.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1995
A difficult situation arises when Eddie and J.C. discover the middleman for a drug operation is a friend of Eddie's father.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1995
Eddie goes under cover to investigate a murder linked to a bizarre Caribbean religion and winds up seeing visions of his own death.
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1995
The partners investigate a sharp-shooter's vendetta against his former accomplices in a financial scam; J.C. learns Sandy is pregnant.
Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1995
G must decide if he is "man enough" to protect a friend, a 10-year-old boy involved in a gang-related shooting.
Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: May 4, 1995
The investigation of a high-powered female attorney's death leads Eddie and J.C. to a prominent law firm's money-laundering scheme.
Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: May 11, 1995
A murder case hits J.C. and Eddie close to home when a drug lord takes vengeance to a personal level.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Aug 31, 1995
Now physically recovered, Williams is awaiting approval to return to active duty. Torres and his new partner pose as bikers to solve the double homicide of an informant and her little girl.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 7, 1995
Williams and Torres investigate the case of a Wall Street bond salesman who claims to have shot two graffiti artists in self-defense.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 14, 1995
A man gets killed by a pit bull which causes Williams and Torres to go into the world of dog betting.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1995
Williams poses as a freshman to investigate a racially motivated killing on a college campus.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1995
Lt. Cooper's daughter ends up missing because of a pedophile she met through email.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1995
A string of robberies leads to an ex-con and his girlfriend. Torres tries to settle a dispute between his father and a mobster.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1995
Williams and Torres pose as a substitute history teacher and a janitor at the high school where a crime was committed.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1995
Moreno poses as a nurse. to solve a newborn's abduction.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1995
Williams poses as a model to investigate the face-slashing of a teen cover girl.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1995
A serial bomber threatens Williams and Torres.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1995
Danny Cort returns with an agenda for Williams to lose his job and his best friend and to "smoke [the officer's] little kid."
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1995
Williams is investigated by the internal affairs division for Danny Cort's death (or murder?).
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1995
Moreno poses as a prostitute to track down a serial killer; J.C. wants G to come live with him.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1996
After being freed, a policeman's murderer is killed and the cop's partner is under investigation. Meanwhile, the murderer's girlfriend plots revenge on the gang leader who ordered the officer's death.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1996
Williams and Torres investigate the murder of a free-lance writer. Moreno gets a visit by her missing husband.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1996
Moreno poses as a firefighter in order to find out who's responsible for a female firefighter's death.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1996
Three youths, who were brought from Rwanda to act as mob hit men, are befriended by Father Torres. Moreno gets an inheritance; Williams disagrees with the methods of his son's hockey coach.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1996
When three youths are charged with shooting a couple, one of them insists that, while they robbed the couple, someone else fired the gun.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1996
A hit man's widow wants to become a soldier in the mob and poses as a police officer to kill a fellow crook in Williams's and Torres's precinct.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1996
Lt. Cooper sends two patrol officers to infiltrate a group of corrupt cops when neighborhood dealers start disappearing.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1996
Williams poses as a member of a militant religious group engaged in an ongoing conflict with a religious sect. Torres's father receives devastating news.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1996
Williams investigate the murder of his son's tutor.
Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1996
A fight promoter's death leads to a case involving blackmail, murder, and an ex-con whom Williams has helped.
Episode: 2x24 | Airdate: Apr 25, 1996
Torres believes the the man who confesses to a killing is taking the blame for his younger brother, who's just received a basketball scholarship to college.
Episode: 2x25 | Airdate: May 2, 1996
Torres tries to gain the confidence of a gun ring's leader. Williams pretends to be a Jamaican who's prepared to place a substantial firearms order.
Episode: 2x26 | Airdate: May 9, 1996
A gun-ring leader seeks revenge on Torres.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Aug 29, 1996
Harlem churches are targets of bombings. Eddie tries to help Nina recover from her shot wound. Williams has issues with newcomer Det. McNamara. G's friendship with a white person is being questioned.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 5, 1996
Williams discover that Rev. Harris may be part of the bombings. Nina moves in with Eddie.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 12, 1996
Williams befriends a woman whose boyfriend is a leader of a gang that robs apartments. Eddie asks Nina not to go back to work.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1996
A recently released child molester is a suspect in the rape of an eleven year old girl. G is in trouble at school.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1996
Nina and McNamara work together on a case where two robbers are murdered. Nina freezes in battle and decides to turn in her gun. G hangs out with young thieves.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1996
A war happens between east coast and west coast rappers when a California rapper is shot.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1996
Torres' father dies of a drug overdose and Torres believes that it was suicide. Williams tries to get custody of G.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1996
Nina's new undercover case questions her future as a cop.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1996
Torres goes undercover at an AIDS clinic to solve a murder case of a bisexual man. Cooper and Captain O'Byrne start to become closer.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1996
Williams goes undercover as a security guard. McNamara's discovers more of his father's case. Captain O'Byrne confesses his love for Cooper.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1996
Torres and Nina become involved with two feuding Latino gangs.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1997
Lt. Cooper is taken hostage in her office by a man threatening to blow up the precinct if his son is not reprieved from a death-row sentence. Nina learns that the daughter she gave up for adoption 11 years ago wants to meet her.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1997
A thirteen-year-old boy has a videotape of a murder. Torres and Williams try to protect him; The boy's mother turns out to be Williams's old high-school girlfriend, whom he betrayed by sleeping with her best friend, Chantal.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1997
Feds may be part of a drug case and McNamara might lose it all to prove it. Cooper and her husband tell their kids about their separation.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1997
Moreno joins in the investigation when her daughter's adoptive mother tells her that the girl has been kidnapped.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1997
The detectives have to prove that a Gulf War veteran has stolen missiles. Williams meets with G's French teacher about G's crush on her.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1997
Williams discovers evidence relating to Martin Luther King Jr's murder.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1997
Nina and McNamara go undercover to find out who tried to kill an executive. Williams and Natasha get close.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1997
A female bounty hunter uses Williams to help find a fugitive in protective custody. Nina and McNamara suspect the wife of a recently deceased cop. Natasha visits the precinct.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Apr 17, 1997
The detectives suspect a mother of being involved in a carjacking involving her two children. Nina deals with her custody battle for Melissa.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1997
McNamara goes undercover involving a Chinese Mafia that has a link with his father's death. Torres asks his sister for money to buy an engagement ring for Nina.
Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: May 1, 1997
Williams investigates a case where a girl fell down an elevator shaft in her building. Torres goes shopping for Nina's engagement ring.
Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: May 8, 1997
Williams goes undercover at a prison to find evidence that will catch a drug lord. William's new friend in prison becomes involved in a murder. Torres proposes to Nina.
Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: May 15, 1997
The detectives go after a bank robbery ring. Torres and Nina get married.
Season 4
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1998
JC and Nina are called into the office of the chief of detectives after 6 months of being off to deal with the deaths of McNamara and Torres. They are assigned to the Special Investigations Division. Along with new detectives Alec Stone, Nell Delaney, and Lt. Malcolm Barker they go after armored car robbers. During the investigation JC and Nina find out they have been recruited to go after Nadine Jordan, the women who killed McNamara and Torres.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1998
After a model's drug overdose, Williams and Barker pose as publishers of a new magazine.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1998
The unit goes after a Ukrainian kingpin who is using this "pipeline" to distribute cocaine, and causing massive deaths. But when the unit bust him, they find out that he is under diplomatic immunity and can't be prosecuted by the laws of the US. Under direct orders they are told that the case in closed. In secrecy under the order of the Chief of Detectives the unit goes undercover to shut down the "pipeline" once and for all. During the investigation, Nina considers giving up her badge if that means she can be with her daughter.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1998
Missing teenagers prompt the unit to investigate a private hospital's organ-donor program.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1998
Detective Stone becomes torn between work and family while trying to reveal a stock-manipulation scam being conducted by a brokerage firm.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1998
Delaney is torn between family ties and duty when her brother becomes the suspect in an arson case when the unit probes mysterious fires in the garment district.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1998
The detectives discover that the CIA is involved in a money-laundering scheme involving the killer of Moreno's husband at a bank in a Cuban neighborhood.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1998
In order to uncover the detectives responsible for a series of killings, Williams and Delaney pose as uniformed cops.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: May 28, 1998
Following the shooting of a nanny and a baby, Stone, Delaney, Williams and Barker go undercover to try to capture the weapons-suppliers. Meanwhile, Nina and J.C. grow close to each other.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Jun 4, 1998
The Special Investigations Division tries to track a serious serial killer who targets young men on the rave scene by giving them tainted drugs. During this G catches Nina and his dad together in bed.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Jun 11, 1998
The unit goes after the leader of a criminal empire who is extorting money from several businesses in Manhattan. This case turns personal for Barker when he is reunited with an old flame and is treated like family by the target. Meanwhile JC and Nina try to find where their relationship is at after sleeping together.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1998
When a woman becomes a fugitive, Nina uses her only resource to help find her, her daughter. Stone's life becomes threatened. Delaney poses as a bartender, in order to learn why three Irish terrorists were killed and why they were in America.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1999
Nadine Jordan, the accused killer of Torres and McNamara has been convicted of their murders. She receives a life sentence with no parole which upsets Moreno. Meanwhile The District Attorney who prosecutes a radical terrorist by the name of Eve Flemming finds that his daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom until Flemming is released from prison. He receives a videotape of her tied up and crying for help. Barker devises a plan where they are going to play along to see where Flemming's people lead them to. One part of the plan includes Moreno going undercover as a fugitive to get close to Flemming. While undercover in the prison, Moreno finally gets the chance to settle the score with her husband and partner killer.