A CPR instructor is brought in after creating a disturbance while working at a nearby department store. Barney tries to get around some technicalities of a tontine for a pair of aging cousins. Levitt brings in a trio of witnesses to make statements about what they saw when he saved a boy on the construction site the previous month.

Harris and Barney are on the hunt for a mugger who has been targeting var street performers. Harris then goes on a call to a nearby hotel where an out of town politician hosts a rowdy stag party for several police officers, hoping to lure them to come and work for him in New Mexico. Wojo and Dietrich bring in a trio of inmates who were secretly released from jail to alleviate overcrowding conditions from Riker's Island. Levitt considers resigning from the force after learning that his nomination for a medal of valor is turned down.