The team searches for a serial killer who kidnaps and hangs his victims.
When Jerry is booked to appear on "The Tonight Show,"' he takes George with him to Los Angeles to search for Kramer, who vanished in a huff months earlier.
Sipowicz works as a guard for an eccentric woman; Sipowicz believes a new detective is unqualified; purebred puppies are stolen from a pet store; a man accused of child molestation is found murdered.
Detective Rita Ortiz gets word that her husband is having an affair; Sipowicz and Clark face a young murder suspect whose mother won't allow her to testify.
A massage parlor murder probe causes a clash between John Clark Sr. and Sipowicz and John Clark Jr.; "good samaritans" kill a man for robbing the elderly.