An ambitious drug lord directs a street gang to deal high grade heroin in Hooker's beat, meanwhile setting up a hearing impaired teenage gang member to take a murder rap, but Hooker suspects the boy is innocent and vows to help him.

Hooker and Romano will stop at nothing to squash a PCP operation after a schoolgirl hallucinating on angel dust tries to fly from atop her high school and a rookie cop friend of Romano's is almost killed when acting as an undercover narc.