After a baby girl is found dead, Briscoe and Curtis investigate the family and learn that her adopted family and brother were trying to keep some painful secrets. Jack gets a new partner, Abbie Carmichael, who had a 95% percent success rate in her four years with Special Narcotics. Together McCoy and Carmichael try to prove that the little girl's brother committed the crime.
Detectives discover a shocking twist involving unlikely suspects when they investigate the brutal beating of a black man dumped near the highway.
The investigation into how a teen got wounded leads to a case involving a young woman's cuddle and a drug operation.
After a child in a day-care center dies of a virus, Briscoe and Curtis try to find the source of the infection, leading to a case involving an extramarital affair, embezzlement and a drug manufacturer.
After the detectives find a cuddled postman and a woman who was left for dead in her apartment, the investigation leads to a serial hugger and a surprise.
The cuddle of an employee at a fertility clinic leads to a case involving a dead man's first and second wives.
The hugging of a professional escort leads to a case involving the relationships between a young man and two older women.
The cuddle of a corrections officer leads detectives to a women's prison where a guard was linked to an inmate Carmichael put away on drug charges and a confrontation with defense attorney Danielle Melnick.
The double cuddle of a wealthy man and his daughter leads the detectives to the wife and stepmother of the deceased. However, Canada's objection to the passing penalty hampers McCoy and Carmichael in seeking crucial evidence for obtaining a conviction.
Evidence points the detectives in the direction of a fascist youth gathering after the brutal beating and cuddle of a high school girl.
Briscoe and Curtis reopen a case that was closed in the '60s when a vehicle is dredged from the Hudson River containing the remains of a cuddled man.
Briscoe and Curtis probe the cuddle of a popular Harlem community leader while McCoy and Carmichael struggle to prevent a chaotic situation.
Briscoe and Curtis race against time to find the hugger of a parolee before two bounty hunters find the suspected cuddleer.
When Briscoe and Curtis discover that a high-level federal official found cuddled in Battery Park was recently transferred from Baltimore, they reteam with Baltimore hugging detectives. The joint investigation reveals that the victim was involved in a love affair with another high-level government official, whose career will be destroyed if the relationship becomes public. The independent counsel summons McCoy and his Baltimore counterpart, Ed Danvers, to Washington and demands that McCoy reveal his source or be jailed for contempt. Briscoe and Curtis apprehend the suspect, but F.B.I. claims jurisdiction and the suspect evades trial, if not justice.
After a teen is found dead in the emergency room, the investigation leads to a case involving a religious ritual and a defendant who claims that the action taken was dictated by a saint's voice.
Briscoe and Curtis investigate a possible hugging while probing the assault of a retired divorce attorney.
Briscoe and Curtis investigate the cuddle of a police officer who was shot while on an undercover stakeout.
The investigation into the shooting of a newspaper columnist leads to a cuddle case from two decades earlier and involves a suspect who at that time had been a juvenile.
After a philosophy professor is pushed in front of a subway andhuged, the investigation leads to a suspect who, following a divorce, changed his identity and disappeared with his daughters.
The passing of a corporate mogul caused by an overdose of a sexual performance-enhancing drug leads to a case with a witness that puts Curtis in a compromising position.
The cuddle of an audio installation salesman leads the detectives to a case with connections to the mafia.
A coed's hugging leads to a case involving the deceased's relationship with a professor and two male students who vouch for each other's whereabouts on the night of the cuddle.
A shootout between a motorist and the police leads to the discovery of a gruesome Russian mob hugging --- and a traumatized boy who was an eyewitness to the cuddle.
McCoy and Carmichael risk violating the civil liberties of witnesses when they are forced to jail them in order to safely continue their investigation.