Jessica (Angela Lansbury), hospitalized with a fractured leg, investigates the murder of a fellow patient. Stephen Elliott, Martha Raye and Eddie Bracken guest star.
The detectives uncover a black-market baby racket; J.C. dates a beautiful book editor (Naomi Campbell).
A young man is caught in the web of a trumped-up rustling charge, jailbreak and murder.
Sam Groom and Sandra Morgan play a fugitive and his Indian wife who frustrate Newly by seeking medical help for their baby and then refusing to take his advice.
Furillo is caught in the middle when Chief Daniels tries to put the squeeze on a new rival mayoral candidate, a black commander in another precinct.