Howard Morton files murder charges with Det. Max Greevey and Det. Mike Logan against Dr. Eqbal Raza, a resident at Urban Medical Center, for the death of his daughter Suzanne. He had taken his daughter, who was suffering from bronchitis, to the emergency room to fill a prescription when she went into cardiac arrest. Greevey and Logan are initially wary of Morton's accusations until they are told three different stories by the doctors who treated Suzanne, and the detectives realize someone is not telling the truth...

Greevey and Logan investigate the shooting in a crowded subway of Darnell Chenault and Michael Jones, two young black men. The shooter is described as a young woman, who looks like a ballerina, and that the men threatened her with a screwdriver. Though she is glorified in the press as the "Avenging Angel," when one of the men dies, the D.A. becomes intent on prosecuting her to the full extent of the law as a means to discourage future vigilantism.

Bobby Holland is found dead in his apartment from a gunshot wound to the head. Bobby Holland was gay. The circumstances in the case, such as the bullet wound and the torn up apartment, remind Greevey of two previous killings in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Further investigation leads them to Jack Curry, a man who claims to help terminal AIDS victims end their lives while staging fake robberies to help save face for the victim's conservative families. Now it is up to Stone and Robinette to determine if, by targeting gay men with AIDS, Curry is acting out of mercy or hate.

Dets. Logan and Greevey investigate the brutal beating of Paige Bartlett, a beautiful young woman from an upper class family. They visit her ex-roommate and friend, Polly, who divulges that Paige had broken up with a long-time boyfriend, and recently started dating a man below her social register. After Polly dies in the hospital, the medical examiner reports that Paige had sexual intercourse with two different men the day she was attacked. One, her lower-class current boyfriend, the other her ex, Ned Loomis, who hails from an upper crust Manhattan family and makes for an unlikely murder suspect. Or does he?

A wealthy couple, Alan and Janet Ralston, return home after a party. As they enter the parking garage, a young black man, Willie Tivnan, slips in behind them. Outside on the street several people hear a shot then two more. Detectives Greevey and Logan soon appear and discover Alan Ralston dead, his wallet missing, Janet wounded, and her purse missing. The only witness to have seen Tivnan is a drunk. At the precinct, he identifies Tivnan's photo twice. It seems to be an open-shut case, but this is just the beginning...

Det. Sgt. Max Greevey and his partner Det. Mike Logan are called to the scene where Councilman Halsey was robbed and his throat was slashed. Halsey is barely alive and is rushed to the hospital. While checking through Halsey's impounded car, Logan and Greevey find a lynx coat in the trunk. They track the coat to Kornbluth Furs where Nat Swersky nervously tells them the coat was for Tony Scalisi, and Scalisi works for Masucci, the mob kingpin. Greevey and Logan then venture down a dangerous path, eventually linking the politician to the murky world of organized crime.