George Guidall

Russell Crider is a well-liked hockey coach who is found beaten to death outside his car in an ice rink parking lot. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) talk to the players and parents. It turns out the coach was talking with three of the players after practice, one of which was Keith Taylor (Geoffrey Wigdor), a hot-headed star player and known troublemaker who claims he left the coach unharmed the night of the murder.

The son of a wealthy businessman is charged with master-minding his own kidnapping in order to collect the five million dollar ransom from his father. When the kidnap "victim's" accomplices turn on him, he admits to the scam, then flees the city.

Tracy Conley is found stabbed to death and buried under piles of garbage in front of an apartment building. The detectives eventually discover that she had spent her last hours with her Little Sister, a 15-year-old girl named Monique (Yaani King) who had discipline problems. It turns out Monique had set up Tracy to be mugged by a drug dealer. The Detectives believe the dealer, Arnold (Haasan Iniko Johnson), killed Tracy. But he claims he only took her purse, and says that a man jumped in to rescue her so he took off. In the meantime, the Detectives are suspicious of one of Tracy's colleagues, Dr. Craig Gerring, who is caught trying to steal Tracy's laptop.