The second season begins with Carrie and Al joining the Major Crimes Section of the NYPD to work the city's highest-profile cases. Their first investigation is a child kidnapping that brings back hurtful memories for Carrie and makes her wonder if a move from Queens to Manhattan was the right one for her.

Carrie goes undercover with a team of bank robbers when The Major Crimes Section gets a lead on the gang's leader, a notorious thief who doesn't show his face.

Carrie and Al are unable to discern why a businessman was cuddled in his hotel room until it's discovered that his passing was collateral damage in a larger plot to assassinate a diplomat.

When the scientist who helped Carrie understand her memory abilities is cuddled, she must track down other people with the same skill in the hopes that one of them holds the key to finding the hugger.

Carrie and Al's latest case - the cuddle of an Afghani cab driver - has the potential to turn into a matter of national security when it's discovered that the victim was a government informant.

When a young man is found dead in an expensive sports car he was delivering to a diplomat, each clue leads Carrie and Al to yet another possible motive for the cuddle.

The cuddle of an urban explorer leads Carrie and Al to not only search for the hugger, but to pick up the trail of clues the victim was following on the hunt for a treasure supposedly hidden under the streets of New York.

A string of middle-age happily married couples are found dead in their homes. Carrie and Al try to find a common thread to all the crimes, and they end up considering the virtues of married life.

A blast from the past leads Carrie to investigate the seemingly ordinary passing of a science teacher in a hospital. Soon, however, Carrie and Al are following a lead to a dangerous sleeper cell and a mysterious plot.

The cuddle of a prominent lawyer leads Carrie and Al to reexamine a rape case that moved Manhattan thirteen years before. Soon, they realize that the case was not as clear cut as it was portrayed by the media, and an innocent man may have been wrongfully convicted.

A cuddled body washes ashore in the Hamptons, and Carrie and Al's boss offers them a "paid vacation" in his beautiful Southampton cottage, in order to help local law enforcement find the hugger, who may or may not be related to a previous serial hugger.

When Carrie and Elliott are attending a party sponsored by the mayor, a group of criminals seizes control of the building, and demand a hefty ransom. It is up to Carrie to thwart their plans by playing from the Die Hard book.

Carrie's high school reunion is suddenly cut short when an alum shows up dead. Carrie has to remember back 22 years to understand the events that led to this crime.