The District - Episode Guide

Mannion issues a mandate to get illegal guns off the streets and uncovers the surprising motive behind the murder of a well-connected young man.

Mannion's strategy to clean up on the most crime-ridden block in the city upsets the mayor's friend. Community tensions rise when higher-ups accuse Temple of intentionally pushing a police suspect into oncoming traffic.

The safety of a foster child rests in Mannion's hands after the chief learns that the foster father is only in it for the money.

A respected Vietnamese colonel, who is now a successful local businessman, is suspected of running a sex-slave operation using kidnapped Asian girls, one of whom is murdered. Also, Ricky refuses to go to school, and he won't tell Ella why; and McGregor's reluctance to publicly acknowledge his relationship with Nancy leads to a confrontation.

An operation to catch a theft mob is set, and Temple goes undercover as a pawn shop salesman who also works selling stolen objects. After entering a scheme for stolen credit cards and laptops, the agents arrest the two brothers who were the heads of the gang. Meanwhile, McGregor investigates the origins of a stolen bracelet caught in Temple's pawn shop, which leads to a case of rape/murder from five years ago. McGregor is convinced the prime suspect is the murderer but can't make an arrest until he tries to fly outside the country. Nick is still trying to develop a good relationship with the neighborhood representative but can't because she won't date white men. Nick tries to make something to please her and stops a demolition in the name of Mannion, who isn't pleased to hear that and ends up giving Nick a warning about mixing personal life with work. And Queenie, the presidential dog, runs away, and a psychic helps find her.

Mannion decides to take every missing case as a homicide case after a rich woman is reported missing, which causes some problems in the African-American community. Debreno is introduced as Temple's new partner, who is still recovering from the deaths of his fiance and his ex-partner. Ella is back at work, still recovering from breast cancer. Nancy considers going back to the streets as she recovers from Danny's death. Mannion investigates the main suspect in Danny's murder and finds the suspect's apartment full of pictures of him, Sherry, and his children. Sherry leaves, and an anonymous call leads Jack to discover the suspect's body tied to his boat's anchor.

Mannion has to handle an international crisis after the son of the Colombian ambassador is discovered to be the primary dealer of the heaviest type of heroine yet. Threatened not to do anything about it, Mannion studies the international code for diplomatic immunity and plays around until he gets Eduardo kicked out of school and arrested. Meanwhile, Temple helps a heroin-addicted woman; Ella has problems with Ricky after he returns from summer camp; Jack Jr. goes to court for his drug problem; and Nancy finds Jack a new assistant.

Temple and Debreno are working on a carjacking followed by a murder case. Parras is suspicious when the victim's fiance cries, but no tears come from her eyes. The case is only solved with the help of a schizophrenic homeless man with multiple identities, who saw the suspect with another man just before the shooting. Temple and Debreno are not getting along, and Mannion has to interfere before Temple (who's much more religious since his fiancee's death, which annoys Debreno) tries to quit. Ella has to handle a strike/budget crisis. Parras is back on the streets, and her partner takes it hard when another black man insults him. A snake is left loose around the office.

After a woman is stabbed to death outside her apartment building, and no witnesses are willing to speak to the police, Mannion moves in, hoping to gain the residents' trust. The housing project has been a dangerous place to live for a long time, and the residents are wary of the police, who never seem to be there when they need them. Now, Mannion must convince them that this is not a media stunt - he honestly wants to make their lives safer - and that they need to speak up before the killer strikes again.

A construction worker finds the skeleton of a dead boy. He was Noland's last case before being promoted - a case that was never solved. Now Noland devotes all his efforts to putting an end to this crime. They finally arrest the boy's mother, who also killed another son of hers. Meanwhile, Mannion tries to change the child abuse scenario in the city. Nick negotiates a possible candidature of Mannion's for the upcoming mayor election. Ella has to fire an old employee but manages to keep him. Parras has trouble dealing with an abusive father that reminds her of her own father until proven that this father never touched his problematic 14-year-old son.

When a 7-year-old boy shoots two children, Mannion makes it his mission to find exactly how the boy got his hands on a gun. When Mannion questions the 7-year-old, he learns the youngster took the weapon from his 15-year-old brother, who reveals he got the gun from a "guy on the street" near his school. With the help of Temple and Debreno, Mannion sets up a sting and discovers that the weapon was a gun that the police had confiscated in a "buy-back" program. With the Public Safety Commission breathing down Mannion's neck, he must track down the culprits before any more guns hit the street or children get hurt.

After Nancy discovers a murdered homeless man, Mannion notices that the body has a distinct military tattoo. He identifies the man as a former Marine believed to have been held prisoner in a Vietnamese camp. They soon learn that the victim may have been one of many POWs returned to the United States in the 1980s after the government stated that there were no prisoners left in Vietnam. As Mannion delves further into the case, he must battle the demons that continue to haunt him from his time in Vietnam. 

When Mannion has Temple and Debreno investigate a woman's murder after she's thrown in front of a bus, he discovers that the criminals weren't going for the victim's cash or credit cards but for the expensive purse itself. In response, Mannion immediately dispatches detectives to patrol subway cars, angering the chief of the Transit Authority, who believes that Mannion is trying to muscle in on his territory. Then, when Debreno and Temple set up a sting operation, Debreno's life is put in danger, and Mannion's team must find a way to draw out the perpetrators of these crimes before they strike again. Also, Mannion's outrageous ex-fiancee comes back for a visit after hearing that Mannion and Sherry split up.

A woman driving home late at night is beaten and raped after being stopped by a police officer for a traffic violation. After talking to the woman, Mannion discovers this is the latest in a series of attacks allegedly perpetrated by a police officer. Now, after Mannion conducts an internal investigation of his officers and fingers start pointing at Cutter, Debreno is thrown for a loop when his estranged wife informs him that she was attacked in the same way. Meanwhile, Preston Kembridge, a mayoral candidate, tempts Nick with an offer to run his campaign.

When police officer Robert Turner woke up one Thursday morning, he thought it would be just a normal day on the force. However, when a car plunged off a bridge into a river, Turner lost his life rescuing the family inside. Now, Mannion and his team reflect on the life and death of one of their own.

Mannion confronts his No. 1 enemy, Dimitri Putin, and learns who killed Det. Danny McGregor in this pivotal episode. A Russian woman, Erin Vratalov, comes aboard Mannion's boat, claiming she needs protection from Putin. She tells Mannion that Putin ordered her husband, Yuri, to kill the chief. But when Danny died in the assassination attempt instead, Putin had Yuri murdered and is now after her. She also claims Yuri had a tape recording of Putin giving the order to murder Mannion, but she doesn't know where it's hidden. So begins Mannion's race to find the incriminating evidence, a search that leads ultimately to a volatile face-to-face encounter. Nancy seeks help in her ex-lover's murder investigation.

After the vandalization of a mosque, Mannion questions the mosque president, who reveals that the mosque has been receiving threats. Meanwhile, Temple and Debreno investigate two other hate crimes - both with similar scenarios - involving a rabbi and an African-American, respectively. Now, before racial and ethnic tensions escalate, Mannion and his team must get to the bottom of these crimes - unaware that the perpetrator is the last person they would suspect. 

Page and Debreno investigate the murder of a reporter discovered in an abandoned building. Evidence points them to a man who uses a wheelchair and claims the victim was already dead when he found her. Mannion goes to NY for his daughter's graduation from the police academy and has difficulty saying goodbye to Sherri. Ella goes to Ricky's school to check why he has problems with his new teacher and finds out she looks just like his late mother. Meanwhile, Parras meets a charming man in a cab and thinks he might be "the one," while Brander confesses his love for her.
 

A teacher, protesting the Board of Education's inattention to her cries, takes the board hostage at gunpoint, and Mannion must diffuse the situation. Frustrated by getting the run-around from the board and environmental agencies, she gives Mannion 12 hours to find answers to the teacher's and students' health problems before she opens fire. Mannion and his team must uncover a complex environmental cover-up while keeping the board and the teacher alive. Meanwhile, Ella asks Clive, the new man she is seeing and a lobbyist for the chemical industry, to look into the case from his end.

Mannion faces Putin once again, and the stakes are even higher when Putin resurfaces and kidnaps Mannion's daughter! Mannion's initial theory is that Putin wants to trade one daughter for another. But everything changes when the CIA informs Mannion that Putin's daughter, Erin, has disappeared from the Witness Protection Program. Mannion finally finds his dazed and confused daughter, Beth; however, things get more complex when the police find a dead woman, believed to be Erin, in Beth's car trunk. When Beth is arrested for murder, Mannion must prove that his daughter was framed. The only person who can help him is Putin. Also, Mannion and Parras remember Mcgregor one year after his death.

Mannion's friend and restaurateur Teddy Reed is the only witness to a Congressman's murder, and Mannion suspects she's lying about the whole situation. Meanwhile, the city erects a statue depicting a heroic act by three police officers, including Cutter. But many are infuriated when Cutter's figure is altered to represent someone of a different race.

When a man is murdered under suspicious circumstances and Mannion finds out his office is bugged, he starts his own investigation on the case. The last person to see the victim alive was Lisa Fabrizzi, a CIA agent. With the case connected to the Agency, Mannion faces CIA director Tom Gage for information but doesn't get anything except for a stonewall. Mannion finally gets to the real killer, Braxton, who works at a software company involved in CIA covert operations. Then, Braxton is killed. Meanwhile, Ella almost buys the house of her dreams, and Parras and Brander have to protect condo residents from a monkey.

Thirteen years ago, a man was convicted for murdering two people at a convenience store. Now Patrick Debreno, Kevin Debreno's brother who's a priest, has to help save him from the death penalty. Someone confessed to him the location of the murder weapon, and Chief Mannion and his team get the suspect and try to make him confess since Patrick can't accuse him. Unfortunately, Gilbert Isaacs is wrongfully killed for a crime he did not commit. The actual murderer, however, storms out of the interrogation room and shoots himself at home. 

Meanwhile, Ella receives a letter from Pablito, Ricky's father. He's asking to see his son, and after a lot of thinking, Ella meets with him and decides not to let Ricky see his father. She still has to convince Ricky that his father being in prison is not his fault.

When one of Debreno's first cases solved under Mannion goes to trial, the defense uses Debreno's troubled professional and personal past to discredit him, implying that he set up the defendant to impress Mannion. Now, as Mannion questions Debreno's motives, he must also decide whether or not Debreno has a future as a part of his team.

The gangster wars have crossed the limits, leaving a bloody trail and numerous victims. Mannion has Temple working undercovered, trying to reach the big boss on the drug dealing schemes. But it's not such an easy road, forcing Temple to try some crack to prove he's not a cop. That brings back ghosts from his druggie past, which Temple may not be strong enough to fight again. Meanwhile, Mannion himself interferes with the gangsters, interrogating young 12-year-old Junior about homicides. Later, Parras and Brander are victims of an ambush and kidnapped by the gangsters. Luckily the police force rescues them before anything happens. Mannion sees no way out but to turn to Richard Gray for help. With him, he gets the gang leaders to settle a non-aggression deal. When everything seems to be going back to its place, Temple looks for drug dealers to buy some crack. Ella turns down Clive's proposal to move to Seattle with him, and he decides to stay and marry her. And Mannion's life is threatened.

The third-season opener picks up where the sophomore year ended, with Mannion struggling for his life after being shot on his boat and falling overboard into the Potomac River. As he tries to pull himself ashore, his would-be assassin, the daughter of the Russian mobster Putin, flees the scene and is hit by a car. While the accident reveals that Mannion is missing, the chief keeps his survival a secret to figure out who's behind the shooting. Deputy Chief Noland receives immediate pressure from an aggressive U.S. attorney general to solve the case, while a new press secretary tries to keep matters from spinning out of control.

Mannion, who is presumed to be dead, pops up in Paris to follow the Government official he believes is behind the attempt on his life. Mannion discovers Undersecretary Adam Witton planned his murder, but top politicians lean on Mannion to drop the investigation. Back in Washington, D.C., Temple is stopped for speeding, and an officer finds cocaine in the car, but Temple claims the drugs are evidence he obtained at a crime scene and forgot to turn in.

Mannion goes head-to-head with the U.S. Attorney General and a tough civil-rights lawyer in an emotionally charged episode about child pornography. The investigation into the murder of an 11-year-old girl turns up the child's photo on a porn site, prompting Mannion to seek help from Attorney General Hatcher to toughen legislation against Internet child pornography. But Hatcher has an agenda of his own. In other cases, a congressman asks the chief to look into a case involving the alleged accidental death of his son, and a high-profile lawyer accuses an officer of using excessive force.

Temple and Debreno probe the death of an ex-con after he crashes a stolen BMW with $180,000 in its trunk. Afterward, Mannion and his men began an investigation to prevent the dead guy's old girlfriend from being killed. A contract killer that killed one of Mannion's friends in New York 25 years ago is the hired killer they're looking for, but the woman they are protecting is behind the plan to kill her current husband and keep the money. It's Jack's second and final chance to catch the hitman. Mannion hires a personal wedding dress designer for Ella, who has second thoughts about her marriage. Nancy is diagnosed with Huntington's disease after falling from a fire escape and suffering a concussion while chasing a criminal.

Deputy Chief Noland gets caught up in a crime when he stops at a convenience store to buy ice cream. During a struggle, Noland shoots a college student he believes is about to rob the convenience store with a gun. But the ensuing investigation doesn't turn up a weapon. Soon, Internal Affairs demands Noland's suspension, but Mannion refuses to take his badge. Also, the student's wealthy parents threaten to bring charges against Noland. Also, Temple and Debreno uncover a string of armed robberies at convenience stores.

A reporter accuses Mannion of committing a war crime in Vietnam 32 years ago by ordering 18 innocent civilians to be killed, and one of the chief's fellow soldiers confirms the story. Also, Temple and Debreno search for a 15-year-old boy they suspect is planning a murder for his gang initiation.

Former heavyweight champion and native son Atticus King returns to Washington, D.C., for a title bout. His wife is found murdered in their hotel penthouse. The first officer on the scene, Temple, comes under suspicion because of a past relationship with the victim, whom her husband habitually abused. Also, a custodial worker at the police department is discovered to have a false identity.

On Christmas Eve: Temple and Debreno hunt for three dwarfs disguised as elves who robbed a Salvation Army truck and were responsible for other thefts in the area. A billy goat who was part of a real-life nativity scene goes missing. Mannion is determined to fulfill "Santa's" promise to an 8-year-old boy to get his mom out of jail. Parras becomes attached to an abandoned newborn. Ella has a gift-giving mix-up.

Mannion tells Jenny McLure how Temple and Debreno arrested her brother while she was waiting for her final day. Jenny is dying from AIDS, and Mannion makes sure her last days pass with company and happiness. The cocaine found at Lester's apartment is missing, and Parras becomes the target of the investigation into who switched the coke with sugar. They can't put Lester away without the evidence, but his pistol matches numerous murder scenes. Finally, Chief Mannion finds the mole who swapped the coke for the sugar and sends Lester to jail. Unfortunately, Jenny doesn't live to see the following day: she passes away before Mannion's rally to raise people's awareness of the danger and prevention of AIDS and honor her legacy.

One of Vanessa Cavanaugh's students, Bill Wallace, commits what she taught to be a perfect murder. No evidence, no witnesses. After the murderer confesses his crime to Page and Debreno, he recants and starts to play with Mannion, who can't charge him since the confession wasn't recorded. Mannion is out to get him for the murder of the father of three children. Page and Debreno find evidence linking the suspect to the murder scene. Meanwhile, Parras works on a Jane Doe case and discovers the victim's estranged mother; and Kendall finds it difficult to end her relationship with a married man.

A doctor reporting a crime sees Brander bring in a foreign criminal with a very suspicious disease, which she thinks might be Ebola. Instantly Police headquarters is put in quarantine. Without being able to get out, Mannion has to count on Ella, who was at home preparing for her wedding, to keep the order while he breaks through Brander's isolation bubble to save his life. Meanwhile, Debreno drives in the snow to find a delirious Temple, who was exposed to the bacteria and might be contaminated with what was later discovered to be a harmless African flu. The next day they all attend Ella's wedding, where Ricky calls her "mom" for the first time.

While in L.A., Mannion unexpectedly meets up with Vanessa Cavanaugh and offers her a ride. Unfortunately, the pair find themselves stranded in a deserted part of town after their rental gets carjacked. Back in Washington, Deputy Mayor Lockhart asks Debreno to help her find a blackmailer who has a scandalous videotape that could destroy her career; Kendall is threatened by her ex-boyfriend; and the mayor offers Ella a job.

Debreno is assigned to protect a country singer, scheduled to sing at the Kennedy Center Honors, who's receiving death threats. Elsewhere, to lead by example, Mannion hits the streets as a uniformed cop to make quality-of-life arrests on charges such as disorderly conduct, gambling, and prostitution. But one of his arrests sparks a chain of events that leads to the reopening of a cold-case murder.

Mannion's uncle, a retired New York City cop, visits and immediately gets involved in a murder case/jewelry heist and pushes his nephew to pursue all possible leads. Meanwhile, Debreno and Nancy transport a woman who witnessed a fatal shooting to Chicago, where she will testify and go into witness protection. But, she persuades her escorts to let her first visit her estranged daughter.

After a shrinking budget forces Mannion to lay off officers, he takes on a powerful city commissioner in charge of city streets he believes is partly responsible for the cutbacks. But the move upsets the mayor, who then looks for an excuse to fire the chief. Also, a congressional witness in a corporate fraud trial claims key case documents were stolen from his hotel room, and Nancy and Brander are injured in an accident while pursuing a suspect.

After a black prostitute is murdered with the inscription "Respect the Order" attached to her body, Mannion and his team start a deep investigation that leads to a racial criminal who started serial killing African-Americans involved with white people. Meanwhile, Parras sees her father arrested for requesting the services of a prostitute and has to face her own family problems. Temple helps a friend detox from heroin, and Ella investigates a suspicious fire that could promote a heroic police officer but ends up being the reason for his arrest.
 

The mayor is more determined to remove Mannion from office after a man is arrested and dies while in custody, apparently due to an officer's failure to follow proper procedures. Police brutality is suspected. Things get even more intense between the two rivals when the mayor's mentally disturbed son goes missing after being taken to a hospital by two cops.

After a video of Brander arresting a drug addict is made public and turned into an abuse of power issue, the Mayor demands Mannion fire Brander, which he refuses to do since the man was found innocent. Instantly, a major riot breaks out in D.C., with the citizens protesting and attacking the police, demanding that Brander be fired for alleged police brutality. Several police cars are bombed and set on fire, and Nancy rescues an officer from an angry riot. He's badly injured and asks her out when he comes by to pick up his dog. Meanwhile, Temple witnesses his friend Reese die while trying to find the man who shot him. Mannion tries to save Brander, but he turns in his badge when he can no longer live with his guilt. Unfortunately, the mayor taped Mannion's conversation with Brander over the phone and fired him for obstruction of justice. Clive calls Mannion late at night, saying that Ella died unexpectedly.

After beloved Ella Farmer dies unexpectedly, all the members of the police department pay tribute to her, remembering all the hard work and effort she put into her job. They pray together and miss her, knowing she'll be forever in their hearts and no one can ever replace her as Mannion's right arm. Clive allows the donation of Ella's heart to a young man in need. Mannion attends Ella's funeral, where he decides to leave the capital for good. Temple and Debreno hunt for an elusive killer.

Without a job and his best friend Ella, Jack takes off for Arizona to play some golf, but even without his badge, he can't stop solving crimes. He gets involved in a scheme of dirty cops with Mexican dealers and crosses the border to catch the dealer, which he does. Meanwhile, back in D.C., Cavanaugh and Sherry team up to trace Jack, and Cavanaugh discovers something that might save Jack's job. Nancy investigates on her own and finds that the guy that died on Brander's watch was injured before their encounter, which could clear Brander. Temple and Debreno set up a scheme with Cashmere Brown to bust Lester Richards, who is shot to death by Temple.

Mannion returns to Washington, D.C., from his Arizona vacation and is determined to get his job back. He starts campaigning for being Chief of Police, even though it's not an elected position. While it might get his job back quicker, Mannion chooses to save the illegal wiretapping for future use. He moves into a building slated for demolition in a poor neighborhood. Meanwhile, Brander decides to go back to the force and teams up with Nancy to investigate Lester Richard's death, for which Temple got arrested. They discover that Maria "Cashmere Brown" Rodriguez was lying, which frees Temple but doesn't exactly prove he didn't kill Lester vindictively. Also, Mannion works outside the system to clear Temple.

The new Chief Strickland orders a drug raid and causes the death of an elderly woman due to inaccurate information on the location of a dangerous drug lord. Mannion sees a chance to get his job back and decides to catch the guy himself. He uses the help of his best men, who put their jobs at stake and work parallel to Strickland's orders. When Mannion finally catches the guy, Mayor Douglas won't give his job back, forcing Jack to reveal he knows the phone wiretap was illegal, ultimately forcing Douglas to give him his job back. Kids firebomb Mannion's apartment after he keeps stopping them from selling drugs. Meanwhile, Temple investigates two cops he thinks are abusing their authority and beating the people they arrest. At the same time, Debreno sleeps with Maria Rodriguez, which causes conflict in his friendship with Temple.

Mannion is determined to have the best people possible working for him and asks his ex-wife, Sherry, to become his Superintendent of Detectives. Meanwhile, when an ex-con is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, who was also a parolee, Mannion tries to put into action a parolee-rehabilitation program Ella had begun before she died. Also, Temple sets a trap for the officers he suspects of police brutality.

Chief Mannion and his men investigate the disappearance of teenage girls who all point to a virtual suspect: a guy named Icarus who uses internet chat rooms to lure his victims and eventually murder them. The case takes a personal turn when Noland's twelve-year-old niece becomes the next target. Icarus convinces her to run away from home with him, and Joe puts all his efforts into catching the guy. Meanwhile, Temple suffers from pranks and rash commentaries from his co-workers about the death of Lester Richards, while Sherry tries to adjust to her new job.

A community creates its own underground form of street justice after getting fed up with the judicial system; Mannion tracks down the person who received Ella's heart.

Mannion and the team reopen a 17-year-old cold case due to finding a young woman murdered in the streets of D.C. It is strikingly similar to those committed by the serial killer "Jupiter," who was never caught and may have re-emerged.

Mannion investigates the murder of a man during a Civil War reenactment. While Temple takes the matter personally when one of the suspects turns out to be a big-time racist, it's Noland who, trying to find a connection between him and a man in an old picture, discovers a rivalry between the prime suspect and the victim that dates back to the Civil War days. Meanwhile, Debreno and Regan are out testing a new bait car that almost causes the death of a car thief.

Ricky and a friend collapse at Ricky's birthday party and are taken to the hospital, where they are diagnosed with MDMA ingestion (a.k.a. ecstasy). Mannion and his men hit the streets to find the source of the drug distribution network, leading them to a man in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, Clive and Ella's sister fight over Ricky's custody, and Ricky chooses to go with his aunt to Florida. The ongoing Lester Richards case shakes up Debreno and Temple's friendship, with Temple punching Debreno. Brander and Cutter track down an ATM thief, a job usually done by the secret service agents who offer Cutter a position on their staff.

A vision of the Virgin Mary on the side of Mannion's building prompts a thief to distribute his loot to needy neighbors on the street. Mannion searches for the modern-day Robin Hood after he distributes money and stolen goods from the roof of his own building. Meanwhile, Temple continues to deal with the shooting of Lester Richards.

Mannion must determine if the 17-year-old boy who received Ella's heart is guilty of a gas station robbery that ended in the attendant's death. Temple's day turns very sour when the mayor decides not to pick up the court fees after the Lester Richards case. Meanwhile, Nancy and her mom are attacked by carjackers, or are they?

A lawyer and his wife are killed in their home; the only witness is their eight-year-old autistic daughter. Mannion calls on former F.B.I. hostage negotiator Tommy Morgan (now a horse whisperer) to try and get through to the girl and discover the killer's identity.

A car hits an officer during a traffic stop, and Mannion suspects his partner did not attempt mouth-to-mouth resuscitation because the downed officer is gay. The car in connection with the hit-and-run is traced to students performing lewd sexual acts without their victims' knowledge, then posting the videos on the internet.

Mannion probes the apparent suicide by hanging of a congressional lobbyist who was about to reveal the names of top officials involved in the exchange of sexual favors for votes. The reporter she was giving the news also has a history with Chief Mannion's family almost becoming Mannion's son-in-law five years ago. Also, a school teacher fights for health care reforms for students and families.

When a crime lord's henchman targets a former stripper (Markie Post), Mannion must protect her from the same fate as a murdered trial witness.

An old black man is murdered around midnight after visiting the Korean War Memorial. The investigation reveals that he may have been connected to a jazz singer's death in the 1950s, which also involves Ella's uncle. He is Ella's long-lost uncle. In the meantime, Mannion refuses to let Sherry move into Ella's old office.

Mannion's attractive fencing teacher says she killed her husband in self-defense at her studio. Mannion wants to believe her, but the evidence at the crime scene is inconclusive. Meanwhile, Debreno recognizes a suspect in a drug case as his childhood friend who convinced Debreno to go into the Police Academy.

Mannion, Regan and Debreno race to find a 6-year-old girl who was snatched from a playground while her father looked away for a moment. Jean Smart guest stars.

Mannion gets involved in a local murder investigation when he travels to a small town to fight a warrant for his arrest for a traffic violation. Meanwhile, Temple and Debreno look into the disappearance of an armored truck owned by the company the Temple works for part-time.

A woman shoots a doctor at point-blank range, claiming he quickened her mother's death after being named sole beneficiary in her will.

Mannion discovers a car theft operation while investigating the murder of a young illegal immigrant.

Mannion's determination to crack down on gangs puts Noland in the line of fire, where he's shot and critically wounded; Mendoza helps track down the gang member that shot Noland.

Manion struggles to ready himself for his daughter's wedding and get to the church on time. Debreno and Temple work on separate cases involving two murdered women, one of whom is Debreno's sometime girlfriend, Maria. Brander manages to provide the critical lead to solve the case. In appreciation, he is promoted to detective.