Sam Vance

Phil tricks Luke into taking a dance class, but the jokes on him when the white lie indirectly lands him in the slammer. Meanwhile, Jay and Gloria are throwing birthday parties for both Manny and Joe and are concerned Manny might be going for girls out of his league, and Mitch and Cam get a rude awakening in the cutthroat world of booking a wedding venue.

Ruxin hires a hot Au Pair for Baby Geoffrey, and is afraid Taco will sleep with her. Andre explores on-line dating, and Kevin cheats on Jenny with ESPN’s Matthew Berry.

A man who first contracted AIDS in 1983 asks Rush and Valens to reopen the unsolved strangulation death of his former life partner. When the detectives investigate the murder, they learn that the dead man was one of the activists in the fight against AIDS and a relentless advocate for education about the disease in the burgeoning gay community.

Andy has a run-in with a drug dealer's girl, which puts him at the top of the thug's hit list. John feels the heat from internal affairs; Jones and Medavoy come up with an unlikely suspect in a rash of violent home invasions.

Sipowicz and Clark investigate the stabbing death of a coffee-shop owner who was attracted to young girls; Ortiz tries to keep her cousin out of trouble; and Medavoy and Jones link a murder to a paralyzed police officer and his family.