The partners, working under cover as prostitutes, become bait to trap a psychopathic killer who has already claimed three victims.

Cagney's father Charlie gets involved in a Chinatown case as he happens to work in the area.

An illegal immigrant is murdered, and the trail leads Cagney and Lacey to a large modern-day slave trade racket.

A Hispanic gang member is killed.

A little girl is killed by her parents. However, there is no body, the crime is not recent and the parents deny the child ever existed.

Cagney and Lacey are assigned to protect a feminist who confounds their expectations.