Brad Calcaterra

As a contentious City Council vote on the future of the Arkham District approaches, politicians on both sides are in danger. Gordon and Bullock must race to protect the Council. Meanwhile, an old friend visits Gordon.

When a young girl is kidnapped and held for ransom, Danny and Jackie place her drug-addicted boyfriend at the top of their suspect list. Meanwhile, Erin and her boss, Charles Rossellini, take their flirtatious banter a step further.

When a Mob accountant is slain and his wife is severely wounded, Detectives Fontana (Dennis Farina) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) arrest a common street thug who is later found not guilty because of the victim's poor testimony. When the freed slayer is later killed by an ex-cop and close family friend of the victim's, A.D.A. McCoy (Sam Waterston) faces a political powderkeg when the corrupt officer seeks to avoid prosecution by threatening to expose tainted evidence from dozens of previous cases that would free convicted murderers. Annie Parisse, S. Epatha Merkerson and Fred Dalton Thompson also star.

While Sergeant Brown is away, Alvarez is in charge, and things aren't going well. A U.S. Marshall named Foster convinces Alvarez to release Bo Keebler, a man recently collared for trying to rob a Chinese restaurant, into his custody. But after a fake bomb threat is called in to the precinct, Casey, Alvarez and Walsh discover that Foster is not all that he seems. Meanwhile, Banks decides to stay in his apartment till he turns 43 years old to avoid getting killed on "The Unusuals."