After his brush with violent crime, Dylan becomes obsessed with self defense. He purchases an illegal gun and makes several trips to the shooting range.
Matlock risks being disbarred when he accuses the deputy district attorney of misconduct in her case against his client.
Detectives Bickford (Ron Johnson) and Simms (James Acheson) hire a biker to impersonate Reno (Lorenzo Lamas), hoping to lure the real fugitive out of hiding so they can kill him and keep secret the existence of Lt. Dixon's (Stephen J. Cannell) illegal "death squad."
When the husband of a policewoman is murdered, evidence of wife abuse makes Hunter and McCall suspect the woman's patrol partner who knew about the beatings.
Hunter and McCall track a pair of killers through a Los Angeles suburb where a crime wave and backlash vigilantism threaten to tear the community apart.