Tony is threatened with criminal negligence after the son of a prominent lawyer hangs himself in his cell.
The commissioner sets out to trap a serial rapist in a Santa Claus mask who's been terrorizing the city.
Rachel refuses to believe Tony when he tells her that her school teacher colleague is a child molester.
After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony puts his family under police surveillance without telling them.
Tony initiates a sweep to find a pair of missing cops; devises an ingenious way of keeping an habitually drunk driver off the road; and deftly handles an "extraterrestrial," all the while being scrutinized by a committee searching for a new police commissioner for New York City. (Although shown as Episode 5, this is the actual pilot episode of the series.)
Two missing cops have been found under water, there a jail hunger strike going on and Tony's up for the NYPD commissioner job. (Conclusion of the pilot episode.)
While Stan fixes traffic tickets, Tony is pursued by a woman he suspects is filing false complaints.
Tony butts heads with both a tough cop who is overzealous in his handling of criminals, and a hard-nosed management consultant hired by the city in a cost-cutting effort.
Tony is doubly stymied when identical twins both initially confess to the same murder, then, in a surprise about-face, accuse each other of the crime. Also, Arnie finds romance with a kindred soul, a phone-sex operator named Gloria.
A serial killer has been mutilating the bodies of Eastbridge transients and homeless people -- and Tony begins to suspect the perpetrator's identity.
During the holiday season, Tony investigates the murder of an elderly woman allegedly killed in her home during a Christmas burglary; matches wits with a mugger, and defends a homeless woman who's been sleeping in the manger of a Holy Family creche.
After Tony's friend and colleague is struck down during a bloody encounter with hijackers, Tony becomes obsessed with finding the assailant.
Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.
A mugging triggers a woman's repressed memory of her brother's murder, which she witnessed as a child. The suspect, free for the past 35 years, is tracked to the unlikeliest of hiding places.
A boy who see's his mother's murder becomes emotionally withdrawn prompting Tony to step up his efforts to catch the murderer.
Several officers are implicated in a murder involving white supremacists.
A businesswoman seeks officers for a calendar. After he shoots a woman in a drunken domestic squabble, an officer becomes the victim of a terrorization campaign.
An arson case contains an apparent murder.
A judge with a secret jails Tony and an officer takes a boy on his beat to give him perspective.
Tony tries to protect an informant from a mysterious hit man.
A publicity seeker with a video camera makes Tony's life difficult and a professor is accused of beating a student.
Tony's friend, a high-school hockey star and recovering addict, becomes a drug-ring suspect.
Tony finds his life on the line after he infiltrates a New York pornographic teenage film ring
Tony escapes from kidnappers with the help of a porno movie producer.
David is the only witness to a shooting involving his best friend and a bullying classmate. Tony pursues the case unaware of David's knowledge of the shooting. The victims father skeptical of police justice, plans to mete out his own. Tony arrives in time to stop a crime of vengeance.
Tony is astonished to discover a wealthy socialite is the proprietor of a prostitution ring. The socialite is murdered, but not before Tony's name is discovered in her rolodex of clients.
The town is in shock when a heart is cut from a corpse at a funeral home. Meanwhile the town believes a recluse is tainting Halloween candy.
An old friend of Tony's who is having marital trouble may be causing deadly incidents.
Rachel redecorates as one of Tony's friends, who harbors a secret, is under target from a escaped convict.
Rachel is in labor and about to give birth while Tony is literally out on a ledge trying to stop a troubled, older cop, from jumping.
Rachel becomes a target for a killer after she witnesses a murder while she was grocery shopping.
While Tony suffers from lost of sleep over being a new father, he puzzles over a rapist suspect who has diplomatic immunity.
A notorious mobster retires to Eastbridge.
Things are not going so well for Tony. First, his new car was stolen, right in front of him. Next, he is informed that a patient from psychiatric hospital has just escaped, and that he is some kind of egotistical, maniacal genius, who wants to, among other things, fly an airplane, perform a medical procedure, and join the police department.
While Stan is having problems protecting Carmela from a curse, Tony thinks that a video dating client is a homicidal thief.
Tony and his team of officers are in a desperate search for a very sick infant who has been kidnapped.
A group of prep school boys commit a robbery. When one is caught, the remaining members of the group take steps to prevent him from snitching.
The Eastbridge crime rate rises when a retired mobster and his son come to town.
Following the death of his gangster son in a police shootout, a mobster vows to kill Tony.
While surrounded by conspirators, Tony thinks himself to be like Julius Caesar. Meanwhile, a man takes his ex-wife hostage.
When the majority of Tony's officers stage a sick-out in the wake of a wage dispute, Eastbridge becomes an open city for crime.
A new reality police show comes to town. Meanwhile, a former movie star is implicated in her ex lover's murder.
A young blind women is in trouble as a rapist preys on her. Meanwhile, Rachel makes an investment in art.
When a mysterious caller advises Tony that he is going to be his "partner" and do the things Tony would like to do but can't, a number of Eastbridge drug dealers suddenly turn up dead. Meanwhiel Rachel gets a good job offer in Buffalo.
A juvenile center is in trouble when the head of the center is linked by Tony to a young runaway's suicide. Meanwhile, Rachel takes the job in Buffalo.
The Scali Family tries to adjust to living in two separate homes, in two separate cities to accommodate Rachel's new job. Circumstantial evidence keeps piling up against the shelter manager in the case of the missing girl.
Rachel decides to not take the job in Buffalo, but not until after Tony quits his job so he can move with her. Since his old commissioner job has already been filled, Tony takes a job as a private investigator.
A drug dealer who was responsible for a girl's death is release by Tony.
Rachel is being framed for murder after Tony's probe of a criminal network goes wrong.
Tony's city-council pal won't vote for a Japanese businessman's purchase of prime Eastbridge real estate.
The Scalis babysitter is raped by the local football hero and then harassed and threatened by his fans.
After she dumps her boyfriend, Cyd starts receiving creepy, threatening packages. Stan links two elderly ladies to a notorious bank robber.
Stan's fiance, Monica is implicated in assisting in a robbery. Tony discovers Monica was previously in trouble with the law before with her old boyfriend. Meanwhile, Rachel puts Tony on a health plan.
The wife of a local multi-millionaire, is found dead at her mansion. When the autopsy is performed, the coroner advises Tony that the death does not look like an accident.
When a donor heart meant for a sick little girl is stolen, Tony heads up a team of detectives bent on finding the heart before anything can happen to it or the little girl. The thief makes themself known when he contacts her desperate parents and demands a $75,000 ransom for the missing heart.
Rachel's cousin Benny is a used car salesman, and Tony doesn't know what to believe when a case involving the murder of a young woman leads him right back to Benny's used car lots. When Tony realises that Benny is involved in drug smuggling, he gives Benny one last chance to explain himself.
A series of violent attacks outside a gay bar has the squad scrambling for any clue.
The body of a young woman is found. She appears to have died from an overdose of angel dust. But, the only witness is a young man who has Down Syndrome.
When a young Puerto Rican is found next to the corpse of his former girlfriend, he is arrested and charged with her murder.
Tony and Rachel have a fight, and Tony begins throwing himself into his job. When Rachel is taken hostage in a bank robbery and also forced to go on the road, Tony tries his best to get her back, but the FBI soon assumes jurisdiction over the case, leaving Tony out of the loop.
David and his girlfriend find a dead body, whom everyone recognizes as a man with a gambling problem.
Although Tony promises round-the-clock protection to a homeowner after a devastating break-in, they can't trust the police, and decide to get a security system of their own.
When Joe Thompson's wife is killed by a drunk driver leaving him with an eight-year-old daughter, the investigation leads to prominent surgeon Harris Clark, who has a history of drunken driving. Clark gets off on a technicality, and when he is found dead, suspicion turns to Thompson.
Rachel is surprised when Abby Davenport is violently opposed to her daughter Linda being featured in a picture spread, and soon after that, the two disappear. When Tony catches up with them, Abby reveals that her real name is Marcia Daniels, and that she and Linda are on the run from Linda's father, who sexually molested her, but who, thanks to influential connections, has legal custody.
More than anything Stan wants to become a sergeant, but the sergeant's test isn't the only obstacle in his way. He also needs to prove that he can follow a case from start to finish. Tony assigns him to the case of a drug dealer.
The force must rally themselves after Stan's death in a car explosion. Tony feels particularly bad, because he can't forget that he was the one who assigned Stan to work on the Ross case in the first place. After promising Stan's parents that he will find the man who killed their son, Tony launches a full-scale war on Terry Ross, not realising that Ross has hired someone to take care of the Scali family once and for all.
After being struck with a bullet, Tony is hospitalized and it looks like he is going to be permanently paralyzed. But his family refuses to give up on him, and enlists the help of physiotherapist Dan Boylan to help him walk again. With Tony out of commission, Cyd is put in charge of the murder investigation of officer Joe Ratowski.
Tony's attempts at physical therapy are proving unsuccessful, and despite the love and support of his family he is beginning to lose hope that he will ever walk again, and is preparing to spend the rest of his life in the wheelchair. Cyd has the chance to take a job out of Eastbridge, but doesn't want to leave Tony in a noose. While she considers her decision, she continues to work on the Joe Ratowski murder case, which is looking more and more like an 'inside job'.
While investigating an armed robbery, Tony goes undercover and hires an escort to get some important information. He is shocked to see his friend Ralph's daughter, who is barely 18, show up, preparing to spend the night with him. Tony convinces her to get out of drugs and prostition and promises not to tell her father, but when tragedy strikes, Tony has no choice.
Isaac and Grace Caldwell are illegal immigrants who own and operate a small electrical shop. After they witness a murder, Tony has to convince the two to testify, which he does by promising them citizenship. They agree, happy that the child Grace is carrying can be born in America, but joy turns to tragedy when Isaac is shot.
Tony believes an officer posing as a corrupt cop to expose a crime ring may actually be the genuine article.
While working on an embezzlement and a kinapping case Paulie starts to becomes to emotionally involved.
A corrupt ex-officer that Tony imprisoned seeks revenge upon his release.
Tony sets out to prove a mental patient isn't guilty of murder.
After a tennis pro at a fancy club is drowned, Rachel concludes that the killer is an ex-student's evil stepmother.
Tony was forced to suspend a cop when the cop was found guility for the unprovoked killing of a thief. Things gets stranger when Tony sees the thief alive.
An old friend of Tony gets his life back on track with help from a retirement home resident.
Tony works to reunite a father with his estranged family who are in witness protection.
David is caught shoplifting. Meanwhile Tony finds out that an accident victim was in debt to a loan shark.
A gangster who Tony's mother was dating is found killed. The main suspect is Tony's father.
Tony is accused of sexual harassment by a computer technician.
Tony must protect an aggressive defense lawyer whose methods he doesn't like.
While trying to solve a major gold robbery, Tony must answer a cry for help from a con man.
A murder of a fellow cop make Tony and Paulie travel to Brooklyn to help investigate the case.
Tony and Rachel are in emotional turmoil awaiting results of Rachel's breast cancer test results.
A hopeless teenager gets help from Tony and Paulie.
While investigating the murder of his friend's daughter, Tony gets help from a New York police officer.
Tony and Connie Muldoon close in on the serial killer, Connie's daughter might be the next victim.
Tony faces the biggest challenge of his career when a murder case from his past resurfaces.
A woman with multiple personality disorder kills three older men, starting at the mayor's fundraiser.
Terry plants a fake murder weapon in Emily's kitchen to speed up the case, but Tony refuses to take shortcuts.
A clothing manufacturer's sweatshop is burned down. The Jewish Temple is vandalized. An Asian storeowner is harassed.