Sipowicz and a fully reinstated Sorenson work to help an officer's relative whose temper gets him in trouble, while the rest of the detectives investigate the stabbing attack on Captain Bass' wife. Meanwhile, romance blossoms, as Sipowicz spends more time with Cynthia and Baldwin Jones has a date.

Andy Sipowicz has an unusual response upon hearing the news that Lieutenant Fancy is leaving the 15th precinct. Meanwhile, Detectives Russell and McDowell have the onerous task of tracking down a very private severed body-part in hopes of reattaching it to its owner, and as Sipowicz and Sorenson investigate what seems to be a mob execution, their suspect drives a hard bargain that leads to a suspect from a long-unsolved drug murder.