After Wojo brings in a prostitute and her john, a call comes in about a political activist kidnapping a department store magnate, resulting in Barney and his detectives to find the victim before his captors d something drastic.

Harris is less than thrilled at pulling mugging duty in the park and is reluctant to shave his mustache. Wojo and Yemana work on assisting a woman on a missing persons case involving her father. Dietrich brings in the host of television science show after going berserk when a teenaged assistant insulted him on air.