1. Blood Ties, Part 1
Air date: 1997-10-17 · 60 min
A prominent businessman's housekeeper is found murdered at a banquet in his honor.
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Air date: 1997-10-17 · 60 min
A prominent businessman's housekeeper is found murdered at a banquet in his honor.
Open episode 1 ↗Air date: 1997-10-24 · 60 min
Felix Wilson makes a shocking confession about his relationship with his deceased housekeeper.
Open episode 2 ↗Air date: 1997-10-31 · 60 min
Pembleton and Giardello reluctantly get search warrants to collect blood samples from Felix Wilson and his son.
Open episode 3 ↗Air date: 1997-11-07 · 60 min
Lewis and Falsone, joined by Stivers, get the case of a woman almost beaten to death and left in an alley. Georgia Rae Mahoney tells Kellerman she has video of Luther's shooting. Frank anxiously awaits the birth of his child, but Mary is unruffled.
Open episode 4 ↗Air date: 1997-11-14 · 60 min
Falsone and Munch team up with Briscoe and Curtis to investigate the murder of a 14-year-old girl. They trace the suspect from New York back to Baltimore.
Open episode 5 ↗Air date: 1997-11-21 · 60 min
An armed robbery at a family Vietnamese restaurant leaves five dead, sparing only two teenagers in the kitchen who implicate an off-duty Baltimore cop. Falsone confronts Kellerman and accuses him of executing Luther Mahoney.
Open episode 6 ↗Air date: 1997-12-05 · 60 min
John Lange (Vincent D'Onofrio) becomes pinned between a subway train and the station platform. The Baltimore homicide department is called to investigate whether a crime has been committed or whether the circumstances Mr. Lange finds himself in is the result of a terrible accident.
Open episode 7 ↗Air date: 1997-12-12 · 60 min
Gharty and Ballard suspect that a woman murdered her ex-boyfriend for infecting her with AIDS.
Open episode 8 ↗Air date: 1998-01-02 · 60 min
Bayliss and Pembleton are forced to deal with their own prejudices as they search for a hustler suspected of killing rich gay men.
Open episode 9 ↗Air date: 1998-01-09 · 60 min
Lewis and Falsone attempt to solve the whipping and hanging of a wealthy advertising executive.
Open episode 10 ↗Air date: 1998-01-16 · 60 min
A couple give the police information about a murder-suicide, while Ballard and Gharty go after a pair of suspects outside their jurisdiction.
Open episode 11 ↗Air date: 1998-01-30 · 60 min
The stabbing death of a priest in his own rectory becomes a red ball, with Ballard and Gharty in charge. Allegations of sexual abuse complicate the case, and the unit searches for two Guatemalan refugees who were living at the rectory. The detectives find the pair and take them into custody as material witnesses, sparking an outcry from the city's Catholics, and Barnfather overrides Gee and releases them. A potential lead on a suspect dries up, and Pembleton and Stivers - who has rotated into homicide from sex crimes - are called to the scene of a second priest's murder as the refugees go missing again.
Open episode 12 ↗Air date: 1998-01-30 · 60 min
Another priest is murdered after the two Guatemalan political refugees suspected of killing the first one are set free.
Open episode 13 ↗Air date: 1998-03-06 · 60 min
An angry driver cuts off a state-owned truck, is rammed from behind and rearends a parked semi. Result? Two deaths and a paralyzed passenger, a lawsuit against the state, and pressure on the ME to alter blood alcohol results.
Open episode 14 ↗Air date: 1998-03-13 · 60 min
Pembleton and Falsone investigate the mauling of an elderly man, in his own house, by three dogs belonging to his grandson. At the Waterfront, Bayliss, Munch, Gharty, and Ballard share stories of "goofy cases, senseless killings, senseless suspects."
Open episode 15 ↗Air date: 1998-03-20 · 60 min
Pembleton and Bayliss investigate the death of a cancer patient when a relative insists the hospice doctor killed him in a "mercy killing." Stivers and Falsone investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl outside a pizza shop on her way to school.
Open episode 16 ↗Air date: 1998-03-27 · 60 min
When a 4-year-old boy disappears from a carousel, Falsone and Stivers catch the case and are joined by the entire homicide unit, plus Jeff Andrews, the host of "This Week's Wanted" TV show.
Open episode 17 ↗Air date: 1998-04-03 · 60 min
Munch and Gharty investigate a high-school basketball player's murder.
Open episode 18 ↗Air date: 1998-04-10 · 60 min
Ballard and Gharty probe the case of single women who are strangled after they're picked up at fancy bars and subdued with a stun gun.
Open episode 19 ↗Air date: 1998-04-17 · 60 min
Two business executives who belonged to the same country club kill themselves when they're given incriminating photos of themselves.
Open episode 20 ↗Air date: 1998-04-24 · 60 min
Bayliss is still having nightmares about the Adena Watson case, so Gee is reluctant to assign the case of another girl, murdered in 1932, to him. Therefore, Falsone is assigned the "oldest unsolved slaying still officially on the books."
Open episode 21 ↗Air date: 1998-05-01 · 60 min
Bayliss and Pembleton are handed "the mother of all red-balls," the stabbing of a judge on the sidewalk in broad daylight. It doesn't take them long to connect Georgia Rae Mahoney's feckless nephew to the murder. But unlike their previous contacts with him, he doesn't go easily this time.
Open episode 22 ↗Air date: 1998-05-08 · 60 min
The Homicide Unit takes down the remaining Mahoney organization, but not without collateral damage. Stivers tells Gee that Luther Mahoney's shooting is the reason for all the carnage in the past 24 hours.
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