Patrick Dollaghan

Lynette discovers that no good deed goes unpunished when she momentarily befriends mean Mrs. McCluskey (guest star Kathryn Joosten), and Susan, still reeling from her breakup with Mike, is mortified when her mom (guest star Lesley Ann Warren) – also now single – decides to jump start both their love lives.

When a known mob leader comes up for parole, two of the three witnesses who testified against him are found dead and Walker must protect the third.

North and South, Book II

Hammer's new receptionist, whilst Velda is in Italy, is Traci. In her spare time she is a comedienne and she asked Hammer to look for her manager. However, he is murdered just a Traci heads to LA . Hammer follows looking for the murderer but he is having trouble finding a motive. A run-in with the LA cops points Hammer in the direction of drugs. Kurtz had been running drugs across America, but why was he killed.