Five bizarre and brutal decapitations bring together the Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Police Department, and the Highway Patrol as a special strike force. Headed by Captain Frank Murphy, the force begins their investigation -- their only clue is that each victim served on the jury of an embezzlement case.
The team is tipped off about a kidnapping by Frank's ex-partner, a souse who claims he also witnessed a murder.
The Force gambles that money will motivate a woman to set up her colleagues in crime.
Murphy plays on the emotional insecurity of a sadistic rapist who stalks his victims in supermarkets.
A dealer uses pot and pills to lure teenagers into pushing harder drugs to their friends.
Patients have been dying inexplicably at four hospitals -- including the one where Klein is taken following a heart attack.
A bomber sends Klein a photograpic clue to his next target -- and then pays him a visit.
Strobber shoots a teen-age robber whose racist partners swear revenge in a taped message -- left on the body of a slain black cop.
An international hit man plays cat and mouse with Frank, who has 48 hours to determine his target.
Clues in a string of jewelry-store robberis point to on-duty policemen -- and the captain of Internal Affairs, who try to pin the crimes on Gunzer.
The common element in a series of rape-murders is that the victims were last seen in singles bars.
A murderous cult is alerted to a police investigation by the mayor's premature press conference.
Muggings of the elderly go unchecked until a councilwoman is murdered trying to stop an attack.
A mobsters right-hand man uses Murphy's ex-wive to contact him about becoming a government-protected witness.
Conventioneers are being murdered by someone masquerading as a call girl.
Young muggers out on bail terrorize witnesses scheduled to testify against them.
Prison escapees hijack a military van, unaware of the contents -- refrigerated germ-warfare cultures.
A high-school girl left for dead by kidnappers provides the break in a series of abductions.
Gunzer and his girlfriend are wounded by hit men and the street talk is the girl was the target.
A policeman's widow is terrorized by phone calls from a man who claims to be her husband trying to avenge his ""death"".