Police Sergeant TJ Hooker and his rookie recruits attempt to wrestle back control when a crime spree threatens to overpower the city.

Hooker and rookie partner Romano reluctantly escort a television newswoman chasing the story of a mugger who lays a Bible at his crime scenes.

A classmate of Hooker' daughter has killed herself. He doesn't buy it, convinced she was shot full of drugs and thrown off a roof, and he wants to know why.

Hooker and his partner have their work cut out pinning down a biker gang trading in illegal firearms.

Hooker needs a young woman to testify against a killer, but she is being intimidated by the murderer. Can he get her to court?

When a dancer is found dead, Hooker recognises the handiwork of `the Barber' - a killer who takes a lock of his victims' hair and who escaped him eight years earlier.