Mary B. Ward

A good Samaritan's body is found in a trash bin; Felton's wife throws him out; Munch and Lewis seek a third partner to buy a bar.

Howard, Felton and Bolander are shot in an ambush; Pembleton copes with the pressure of being primary investigator on the case.

Racial tensions reach a boiling point when a well-respected narcotics detective leads a raid into the wrong house, spilling the blood of an innocent black youth.

A blackout upsets plans for Claudia's sixteenth birthday party.

Jamie is given the option of writing a civics paper or running for a class office. She opts to run for student body president, so she can do away with school rules. Sarah asks Charles for advice on how to save the school from Jamie, and he suggests she should either run against Jamie or lower her scholastic goals. So Sarah decides to run for the presidency also. On election day, the competition begins to heat up, and Jamie enlists Buddy as her campaign manager.