A drug raid leads to the arrest of Tyrone Weeks and Patricia Spence. Patricia has an infant baby girl who is remanded to child welfare. Tyrone is set free on his own recognizance due to overcrowding of L.A. County's jails. Officer Vicki Hill takes pity on Patty Spence and convinces Captain Hollander to pull strings to have her released and to have the baby, Crystal, returned to her.

The suspicious death of Tyrone Weeks sparks outrage in the black community. Mayor Plank confronts Kendrick about LaRusso's history as a wild card, fueling his hatred of the mayor even further. Hollander feels it's time for Frank to get back out on the street and assigns Gaines as Frank's new partner. Gaines cannot stand the rookie, especially since Gaines likes to sing Motown hits in the patrol car.

Potts and Larusso are taken off the drug case, so Larusso gets down and dirty, using his mud-wrestling girlfriend to set up a bust. Mayor Plank goes under the surgeon's knife to improve her political profile.

LaRusso is charged with murder; Quinn and Campo pose as a married couple to nab the baby-sellers who bought Patti's daughter; Chief Kendrick takes the Mayor on a dinner date.

Patty Spence is working to get custody of her baby. An actress is being stalked, and she goes to the police for protection. Larusso continues his affair with his lawyer, but starts to show his possessive side towards her. The chief of police busts a city councilmen for drug use.