Hill Street Blues

A surprising sneak peak at the private lives of the blues ensues as Furillo tries to prevent the bombing of a self-proclaimed messiah out of his squalid tenement. Belker gets some bad news while undercover in a trash bin. Larue and Renko connive to beat each other for $100 in a wild car race.

Furillo is asked by a desperate Chief Daniels to head a police inquiry into departmental corruption while Calletano preps himself to take over as the new captain of the ferry precinct -- and his replacement is the rules bending, conniving Lt. Norman Buntz.

A courageous runner, suffering with cancer, continues his cross-country run despite the theft of his belongings.

Captain furillo's fact-Finding commission, investigating police corruption, inadvertently finds the man who killed detective garibaldi -- But can't touch him due to immunity. Also: Belker gets treated like excess baggage during a drug surveillance; Hill and renko keep a sharp eye on an excitable korean grocer who hires a former gang member; A sappy hunter takes a liking to the licking of a lovable shar-Pei puppy and hopes the dog will sire him a fortune; Jablonski casts about for more clerical help.

Furillo's star shines before the media when he discloses the findings of his police-corruption commission, angering a jealous Chief Daniels.

Washington tries to sort out his budding relationship with his anxious girlfriend and her adoring son. A brutal Buntz butts heads with a thief.

Reports of heavy bum infestation on the Hill prompt Renko and Hill to take pity on one poor soul who might provide some answers.

WOW_What_a_desOn the verge of an open drug war, Furillo is opposed by Davenport and the police brass when he persists in obtaining evidence on a major drug supplier.cription

An escapee from a mental institution hopes to make Buntz (who sent him away) break down and beg for his life.

Captain Furillo returns home for a brief holiday visit for the first time in five years (with Davenport in tow) and tries to bind old wounds with his conservative parents, who can't seem to forgive their son or accept their "new" daughter-in-law.

It's Belker's wedding day and Larue scrambles for gifts just as the services are ready to begin -- without the groom.

Captain Furillo lobbies to help a rookie cop during an internal affairs shooting investigation which is tilted in favor of a veteran who accuses him of placing a weapon in a dead suspect's hand.

A political kingmaker sweet-talks Furillo about a career advancement beyond the station house.

Lieutenant Buntz angers Goldblume when he bends the rules by setting up two dealers who are peddling highly toxic dope around town.

The Hill is alive with the sound of a music video production that has set up shop in the station; the director recruits a disapproving Jablonski and borrows Hunter's shar-pei puppy for atmosphere in the bizarre, fog-shrouded epic.

Furillo is shot, and it is revealed for the first time how he and Davenport began their rocky courtship -- Including her initial resistance to his advances. A shaken Davenport maintains her vigil and recalls how she met het husband seven years before.

Tragedy hits the Hill again as another cop goes down just as the Blues adjust to station life without Furillo.

An all-out search for the murderer of a beloved cop has Buntz pressing a harrassed Bates for a positive I.D. Of a suspect. Bates nurses doubts about her recollection of the officer's shooting and seeks succor from a priest.

Furillo tries to soothe the excitable ex-gang leader Jesus Martinez to get his cooperation in baiting a corrupt judge suspected of accepting payoffs.

Bates defends her new female partner who's accused of sexually harrassing an arrested female prostitute.

Buntz is on the hot seat again when internal affairs grills him regarding his fatal shooting of a fellow detective, prompting him to take matters into his own hands.

The media-hyped capture of a mass murderer known as "The Creeper" causes an uproar on the Hill as citizens who helped aprehend the suspect squabble over the reward money, and Davenport gets chills at the thought of representing the eerie man.