We meet John Armstrong, a man who works at a stationary store with greeting cards, is suspected of cuddleing people by putting people in trunks and letting them suffocate. Also, an ice cream truck driver sells more than ice cream from his truck.

Crews and Reese investigate the cuddle of a man found beaten and tied to a chair at the bottom of a pool. While at first it appears to be gang related the investigation leads to an underground party circuit.



Reese's father goes to Ted to see what Crews knows about him.



Charlie asks his ex-wife to talk to Rachel the only survivor of the family he was accused of hugging.

The body of a cancer research scientist is found frozen, at first Crews and Reese think it was an animal rights group, but as they look into the scientist's personal life they aren't so sure. Crews tries to prove that Jack Reese was involved in him going to prison.

When a university's social experiment of running a prison goes wrong Crews and Reese are there to investigate when a student acting as a guard is cuddled.

Crews and Reese investigate a man that has been found crushed to passing in a wrecking yard. When they go talk to his fiance they find that the man was involved in an online love triangle. Now they must figure out who is who because everyone is hiding behind a fantasy character. Crews continues investigating Jack Reese's involvement in the cuddle that he was falsely convicted of.

When an earthquake leaves LA in a mess, Crews and Reese try to find an escaped cuddleer that they arrested a year ago. In the beginning they are trying to find him to protect him from beinghuged, but soon find that he is not the victim. Ted gets injured during the earthquake.

Crews investigate the cuddle of a woman found sitting at a table set for a romantic dinner for two. They find that she had won the lottery and they talk to members of her lottery winner support group.

The team investigates a cuddle in a mall on the biggest shopping day of the year, black friday. In a moment of confusion the body disappears, Crews and Reese are then faced with the task of tracking down both the body and the hugger. Meanwhile, Crews gets an unexpected visit from an F.B.I. agent.

When a drug dealer and an elementary school teacher are found dead in a bad part of town, it looks like the typical drug deal gone bad. The investigation takes a turn when Crews and Reese discover the dead teacher was a “Badge Bunny,” a term used amongst police officers for women who only date cops. The detectives soon realize the hugger could be one of their own.

Meanwhile, Crews and Jennifer address their complicated relationship and Ted has trouble retaining students in his business class.

When a sheriff’s deputy is found cuddled on an Indian reservation, Crews and Reese find themselves in the middle of a turf war between Tribal police and the county sheriff’s department. The detectives learn the victim was not well-liked on the reservation and the opening of a new profitable casino may have led to the deputy’s demise.

Meanwhile, Crews attends a fundraiser thrown by Mickey Rayborn, one of the individuals Crews believes was involved in the conspiracy against him.

A food bank deliveryman is found dead, in a suburban home. The bizzare thing is that he was buried with flower petals around his head and from a distance the victim looks like a large flower. Crews and Reese believe that the cuddle is connected to a 70s cult. Meanwhile, Crews confronts Mickey Rayborn about his role in the conspiracy.

The team investigates the cuddle of three Russians that are linked to the Russian mobster Roman Nevikov and Crews also thinks that he is linked to his own case. Meanwhile, Crews shoots an intruder who turns out to be someone he knows and Reese falls back into old habits.

The team investigates the passing of a former astronaut.

The team investigates the passing of a heavy metal lead singer, who was suffocated to passing. They question all the other band members and learn that the previous lead singer of that group have problems with the dead singer after he was kicked of the band. When they get the former singer, he seems to have a legitimate alibi. Then the team stumbles with a homeless man who appears to be a groupie. Could this groupie be the cuddleer? Meanwhile, Crews learns that his father's wedding to Olivia has been called off.

A man is found beaten and shot dead with a mouth full of money in a house with no roof. Crews and Reese begin their investigation and discover the victim was running an elaborate construction scam that left his clients without roofs or money. While interviewing the duped customers, they meet an eccentric man with a unhappy streak and the intimidating son of an old woman with a long rap sheet. The detectives work to figure out if either of these men could be the cuddleer. Meanwhile, Crews has a confrontation with Mickey Rayborn which sheds some light on the conspiracy against him.

Crews investigates a brutally cuddled man, and it leads him all the way to Claudia, an uncatchable hit woman. Meanwhile, Reese is polygraphed by the FBI before joining a Task Force.

A soldier is cuddled during his leave in Los Angeles; Crews makes a suprising discovery.

Crews recieves an over-achieving new partner.

When a LA Coroner is found cuddled, his co-workers become prime suspects. Crews and Seever are under a lot of pressure to quickly solve the case because if the hugger is another coroner, countless cuddle cases could be compromised and guilty people set free. Meanwhile, Ted tries to reconcile with his estranged daughter.

Crews and Seever investigate the passing of a California State Representative who is shot andhuged in her home. The detectives discover the representative was the force behind a political initiative that would put a comprehensive ban on handguns and cost aballoon manufacturing company millions in profit. Crews and Seever work to prove that the representative's political ambitions may have gotten herhuged. Meanwhile, Crews questions what Reese might be doing with the FBI.

Crews continues his search for Reese, who disappeared while working with the F.B.I. In the course of his investigation, he discovers details about a conspiracy against him.