Reporters cover crime, the Pentagon and a slumlord for their Washington daily's editor
A man is threatening to blow himself up and Anne and Redmond are sent to investigate the reason.
Edison assigns Cassy to investigate the possibility of a link between a fraudulent financier and a corrupt senator. Miles decides to work on the case in his own inimitable way.
Dunne is blasted for his tactics in reporting an informant’s murder; Doreen Duncan is stricken with writer’s block; a TV anchorwoman eyes Gibson.
Clay assigns Redmond to investigate whether a colleague has distorted the facts in a story. Anne McKenna risks revealing her source: a rival reporter is watching Cassy Swann: Todd Lunden decides not to bargain for a pay raise with his journalism prize.
Conrad witnesses the mob killing of a drug dealer; Cassy gets the cold shoulder from Edison; Doreen begins a dangerous assignment.