The Syndicate holds a closed-door session in Hazzard until the Dukes decide to stop them.
Captain Furillo parlays with Jesse John Hudson, a powerful ex-gang leader whose dubious rhetoric of community involvement and self-help seems to mask more sinister intentions.
Detective Washington investigates the murder of a prostitute, and when a huge cache of weapons is stolen, Furillo suspects that Hudson is behind it.
A distraught Belker blames Furillo when an undercover cop is killed, while hostage negotiator Goldblume has his hands full with a man who has barricaded himself in his house after killing a neighborhood youth.
Dock workers refuse to cooperate in Kojak's investigation of the suspicious deaths of co-workers; guest Charles Siebert.