Season 2 (1982-3)
INTERNAL AFFAIRS
The Internal Affairs Department suspects there is a leak in the 14th Precinct; Cagney and Lacey have been assigned to find out who it is. The suspicion causes stress on the whole department and places Isbecki in danger while he is on an undercover hijacking assignment.

ONE OF OUR OWN
An officer is shot in a restaurant and it turns out to be a “wrong shoot.” The hired gun was supposed to kill the accountant, who was doing books for a crook who is now under investigation by the FBI. The accountant had no idea he was working for crooks.
He hides out, but the assassin kidnaps his wife. She leads him to her husband, and Cagney and Lacey arrive in time to prevent a killing and arrest the gun-man.

BEAUTY BURGLARS
Some guys posing as uniformed police invade very posh beauty shops, lock the doors, and rob the patrons. They are finally caught because one of the stolen items shows up at a jewelers and is purchased by the husband of the woman from whom it was stolen.

MR. LONELYHEARTS
Cagney and Lacey investigate a marriage scam. A man poses as a preacher and marries his wife off to lonely men they find in the personal columns of magazines.
The wife then says she’s got a serious illness, and the husband sends money to keep her in the hospital and pay her bills while she’s in New York getting treatments. One husband comes to New York to find her and that’s how the truth comes out.

HIGH STEEL
When Cagney and Lacey investigate an apparent accident on a construction site, they uncover the builder’s scheme to use defective material.

WITNESS TO AN INCIDENT
Teleplay by Paul L. Erhmann and April Smith and Robert Crais & Jeffrey Lane and Frank Abatemarco
A Neighborhood Watch guy gets killed chasing a perp who robbed a neighborhood pharmacy. Did the cop (who was also chasing) kill him with a “throw—down” or was there another gun on the scene?
The Cop is suspended pending investigation, because he claimed he shot in self-defense. Cagney saw the gun and confirms the uniformed cops story; Lacey didn’t see the gun and cannot confirm the rush to an “official version.”
They can’t agree on a story. Turns out the guy did have a gun, which was against the Neighborhood Watch rules. His partner on the watch had secreted it before the cop got to the body.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
A woman is found burned in an abandoned building. Turns out she was murdered so the killer could steal her baby and sell it to another woman.

OPEN AND SHUT CASE
Lt. Samuels hands Cagney and Lacey are handed a seemingly “open and shut” case: a matter of a man being murdered in front of dozens of witnesses. But the more they probe, they realize that because of the long-standing feud between Turks and Armenians, their suspect is being railroaded.

JANE DOE #37
A bag lady is murdered and everyone assumes that the murder has no significance. But Cagney is determined to find out who killed the woman and, more importantly, who the woman is. She doesn’t think anyone should be buried with a number instead of a name.

BURN OUT
Lacey is having a very difficult time juggling all her duties: mother, cop, wife. She knows she can hold it all together for just two more days until her much needed vacation, but when Samuels takes her vacation away to put her on yet another case, she falls apart.
She walks away from everything … job and family … as she rides the train to the end of the line, all but disappearing for a couple of days, and ultimately sort out her feelinqs at a not so lonely beach.

CHOP SHOP
Isbecki is working undercover on a stolen cars-for-parts operation. A tactical error on Cagney’s part puts him in danger of being killed. Trying to find him, Petrie is involved in a shooting of a youth. As the squad works overtime to find Isbecki, Petrie also tries to sort out his confused feelings about the shooting, and about his attitude in general toward the people who live in the ghetto.

Season 3 (Spring 1984)
A KILLER’S DOZEN
Cagney and Lacey don their police uniforms when the Patrolman’s Association goes on strike. While “walking a beat,” they attempt to solve the murder of twelve women. The solution hinges on using Cagney as bait. Subplot: Petrie’s refusal to cross the picket line jeopardizes his job, while Cagney augments her income in a precinct poker game.

PARTNERS
Cagney lands in the hospital after being shot by a fleeing liquor store hold-up suspect. Lacey must try to find him with the help of her new partner,-- a man who’d rather be dining at fine restaurants than chasing crazed killers in deserted alleyways.

THE BABY BROKER
When Cagney and Lacey investigate a case of child abandonment; Lacey decides to offer temporary housing for the abandoned child. She finds herself unable to pursue the case without emotional attachment, however, as the baby becomes more and more a part of her life.

MATINÉE
Three bored suburban housewives have found a way to put some excitement into their country club lives: They go into the city for matinees -— and not just the kind that take place on stage. The sexual liaisons continue— until one of them is murdered; Cagney and Lacey arrest her lover, a male stripper, using the name The Marquis de Sade, but can’t make the charges stick. Re-examining the evidence, in a Columbo-like finish, Cagney and Lacey set a trap for the victim’s husband, who confesses to the murder of his wife.

THE BOUNTY HUNTER
On the trail of an armed robber, Cagney and Lacey encounter a bounty hunter named MacGruder. He’s rude, crude, macho, and charming in his own way. Always one step ahead of Cagney and Lacey, he especially gets under Cagney’s skin. MacGruder gets to the perp just as he’s about to board a bus to Atlantic City. Cagney chases them both through a bus terminal. As they’re about to get away, Lacey accosts them. MacGruder tries to bribe her with a percentage of his bounty money, but she refuses. The perp is arrested, and MacGruder heads home, to Cagney’s delight and regret.

Season 4 (1984-5)
CHILD WITNESS
Cagney and Lacey are called by a school principal who has reason to believe that a six-year-old girl has been sexually abused. The child accuses her twenty—two—year old babysitter, who denies the allegation. Later, the girl tells Cagney and Lacey (after coaching from her father) that she lied; they don’t believe her.
When Cagney and Lacey confront the father, a noted defense attorney, and ask why he encouraged his daughter to lie, he declares he doesn’t want his daughter to go through the trauma of testifying. Cagney and Lacey convince him that if the molester remains free, other children will become victims just like his daughter. He allows his daughter to decide for herself. She will testify.

HEAT
While Cagney and Lacey investigate vandalism at a railroad yard, Lacey is abducted by a young armed thug who keeps her locked in a railroad car in order to get away from the authorities. Heat from the summer sun broils the pair in the boxcar. They move to a shack and eventually, with the help of helicopters, most of the 14th, and the Swat teams for cover, Cagney leads the assault on the shack that saves her partner.

INSUBORDINATION
When Cagney and Lacey are assigned to a cocaine dealing case they discover that their commanding officer is Dory McKenna, once Cagney’s boyfriend and a one-time cocaine addict. Cagney must deal with her ambivalent feelings toward Dory’s re—entry into her life.

OLD DEBTS
Cagney and Lacey are assigned to guard a cop killer on parole, at a hotel until he can get new identity and be moved out of the area. Not for long, Cagney & Lacey’s charge is killed by a bomb concealed in a telephone that explodes while they have him under guard.
Although they are besieged with congratulations from the entire department (except for Internal Affairs) Cagney and Lacey are determined to find the killer.

FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS
Cagney and Lacey investigate an apparent suicide. While questioning the victim’s wife, she confesses to murder, without a motive. The daughter, Jane, also confesses to the murder, without motive. Cagney and Lacey confront Jane in the hopes that she will retract her confession.
Instead, they find out she has been sexually abused by her father and that he was going to leave his wife. Now they have two confessions and two motives. Finally, Cagney and Lacey track down the family maid, who had disappeared the night of the murder.
With her statement, we finally learn the truth: Jane had confronted her father about the years of abuse and its effect on her life; Her mother had overheard and, after Jane left, had killed her husband. Jane had confessed only to protect her mother and expurgate her feelings of guilt.

OUT OF CONTROL
A man is shot to death during an attempted cat burglary. Upon further investigation Cagney and Lacey learn he was accidentally shot with the gun which he and his wife had purchased illegally in order to protect themselves from intruders.
Cagney has an inauspicious first meeting with Dory’s children. When one of them becomes ill, Cagney meets his ex-wife at the hospital and realizes that she is a good mother and decent woman.

AMERICAN DREAM
The owner of a trucking company is trying to take over the delivery business for the whole garment industry. Cagney and Lacey suspect him of arson after a series of garment businesses are destroyed. They put him under surveillance and, with the aid of his latest victim, catch his accomplice in the act of fire-bombing yet another warehouse.
It means they can’t afford the house but, although Mary Beth is broken hearted, she insists they couldn’t really afford the house in the first place. Harvey gives her the engagement ring she always wanted and they could never afford.
Coleman makes book on who will pass the Sergeant’s exam.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER
A stray bullet leads Cagney and Lacey to the solution of 32,000 petty thefts committed by a computer whiz, an accountant for a department store, who has pilfered pennies from thousands of customer accounts in order to afford expensive gifts for his rich girlfriend.
Isbecki and Petrie try to figure out Sergeant Coleman’s first name -— from Reginald to Rumpelstiltskin till Lacey, fondly remembering the movie, A Tale of Two Cities, hits on it:... Ronald Coleman.

RULES OF THE GAME
Cagney and Lacey are assigned to a special task force investigating the murder of a Hungarian diplomat. Captain Hennessey (Edward Winter) the attractive officer in command, retains Cagney as his investigative partner while relegating Lacey to desk duty.
Hennessey’s interest in Cagney becomes obviously more personal than professional, and when she refuses to trade sexual favors for professional ones, he threatens her with a poor job evaluation.
Lacey breaks the case; she and Cagney solve the murder while Cagney agonizes over the consequences of bringing a sexual harassment suit against a fellow officer. With Lacey’s encouragement, she decides to press charges.

STRESS
Cagney witnesses a stabbing and successfully apprehends the vicious perp, who then threatens her life. He has a long list of arrests but no convictions because he intimidates witnesses. Eight witnesses “saw nothing”. Only Cagney and the victim will testify.
When the victim is found murdered and the perp begins to stalk Cagney, she maintains a brave posture until she begins to crack under the pressure.

Season 5 (1985-6)
ON THE STREET 

Cagney and Lacey investigate the beating of a teenage hooker and learn that her pimp had been suspected previously of the bludgeon killing of another young prostitute. When the detectives try to question the young girl she is totally uncooperative.
After a change of mind (more to spite her parents than anything else),she accuses her pimp of beating her and states that she saw him kill the other hooker. That’s enough for Cagney and Lacey until their star witness runs away allowing the pimp to get out on bail. Now Cagney and Lacey have to find the girl before he does and that is made easier for the duo when the girl is promptly picked up for hustling.
The parents, giving up on the girl, decide to have her put away in an institution. Cagney, unwilling to give up on the girl, works out a legal way to keep her out of the institution and out of the custody of her parents. All she has to do is get the girl not to give up on herself.

ORDINARY HERO
Cagney and Lacey, working a sting on the street, witness Eduardo Carrera heroically bring down a mugger who’s just robbed an old lady. At Lacey’s urging, Eduardo is awarded a medal for bravery by the Mayor, but is spotted by the Immigration Department as being an illegal alien and picked up for deportation to Chile.
Cagney and Lacey persuade the I.N.S. to let Eddie stay in the U.S. long enough to testify in the mugger’s trial while they try to find a way for him to permanently stay in the U.S. Carrera is so effective as a witness that the case is wrapped up almost immediately and long before Cagney and Lacey can do anything about his status as an illegal alien.
He escapes while being taken back into the custody of the I.N.S., and he and his family disappear from an illegal refugee safe house. Cagney and Lacey go along with the I.N.S. and F.B.I. to check out an address where the Carrera family might be hidden. While checking out the attic, Cagney spots Eddie and his family crouched in an attic crawl—space. After a tense moment, Cagney yells to the F.B.I. “nothing here” and moves on, sparing the Carrera family for at least another day.

THE PSYCHIC
Cagney and Lacey are investigating a woman’s disappearance while the woman’s husband and mother, not willing to rely on the police, have hired a well—known psychic, to find her. All clues point to Nora being a runaway wife, but then the case becomes a homicide when the woman’s body is found, seemingly from causes predicted by the psychic.
The psychic’s reading, combined with their own detective work, lead Cagney and Lacey to the murderer, the woman’s husband, who had tried to throw suspicion off himself by making the psychic’s prediction come true.

THE LOTTERY
Almost a year after a lottery drawing, one two million dollar prize remains unclaimed. Then two people suddenly show up with winning tickets. Cagney and Lacey are assigned to investigate and, after some dispute over another suspect (a disreputable bartender once arrested as a con man) they finally discover that one of the tickets had been forged by a retired master engraver for the Post Office.
Case is closed, right? Wrong. Yet another winning ticket is brought in. Although the computer data on the lottery had been “accidentally” dumped, one of the original tickets was verified, but the other “winner” happens to own a cocker spaniel not unlike one owned by the arrested engraver.
This guy “happens” to be a computer expert. After a chase through the Dog Show at Madison Square Garden, Cagney and Lacey bring in the culprit behind it all.

ENTRAPMENT
Having earned kudos for the undercover arrest of an illegal drug pusher, Cagney and Lacey go after the pusher’s supplier, Bruce Mansfield, a slippery big-time dealer. During the set-up, Cagney, out of sight of the surveillance equipment, illegally entraps Mansfield.
The dealer is arrested, and the Narcotics Lieutenant in charge of the bust urges Cagney and Lacey to “get their story straight over the weekend.” Lacey is reluctant to lie and Cagney issues her an ultimatum: either back her up -— thus committing perjury or the partnership is over.
Lacey agonizes over the moral dilemma, then finally agrees to back up her partner. When Lacey is unexpectedly called upon to corroborate Cagney’s testimony in the hearing, Cagney herself admits the attempted perjury. Mansfield is free but Cagney and Lacey plan to go after him again, and do it right the next time.

PLAY IT AGAIN, SANTA
With Lacey at home, Cagney and Newman investigate the flake case of the month; the disappearance of some street—corner musicians. They uncover the kidnapper, an old—time jazz great. The musicians had recognized him while he was setting up his revenge on the man who built a recording empire on songs he stole from the jazz great, then married the woman he loved as well.

THE RAPIST 

With Lacey out on maternity leave, Sara Jones, a charming, bright, eager uniform cop, persuades Cagney that she’s just the person to help with Cagney’s mountain of paperwork. Once the papers are out of the way, they start tracking down a brutal repeat rapist.
Sara, with brilliance, intuition, and hard work comes up with the name of the rapist, but no real proof. She starts to spend her evenings following her suspect and harassing him. Cagney begins to worry about Sara, as she is over—stepping the bounds of reason and law in her pursuit of this man.
Checking Sara’s file, Cagney learns she was raped, which explains her determination to get at least one rapist off the streets, even if it costs her career. When she’s ordered off the case, Sara sets herself up as bait for the rapist, and kills him. 


ACT OF CONSCIENCE (aka THE FINK)
The entire 14th Squad is furious when Patrick Lowell, a Serpico—type character who blew the whistle on some crooked cops, is assigned to the Precinct. Cagney is the most displeased, as with Lacey home on maternity leave, he becomes her temporarily partner.
They investigate a series of teller machine muggings, identifying the driver of the getaway car. Cagney tries to persuade the kid to turn in his buddies in crime, but Lowell hinders the process as he points out that-- if Billy turns informer, it should be his own choice, with full knowledge of the possible consequences and not as a result of outside influences (Cagney included).
Cagney, with a nudge from Lacey, is forced to change her opinion of Lowell and come to terms with the similarities in motivation between Lowell’s actions and her own charges of sexual harassment against Captain Hennessey (from RULES OF THE GAME and CON GAMES).
One man’s righteous indignation is another man’s tattletale. Eventually, when the youth’s wife is attacked, he turns, and the other muggers are rounded up. 


DWI (DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED)
The son of one of Lacey’s neighbors is badly hurt by a drunk driver, and Lacey, on maternity leave, refuses to let the case rest. She pursuades Cagney (who is on night duty) and Harvey (temporarily out of work) to investigate for her. They locate a witness who could prove the driver’s guilt, and it is Lacey who finally persuades the witness to testify.

THE GIMP
While investigating a mugger who preys on the handicapped, Cagney finds herself romantically attracted to Ted Peters, who is assisting the police. He’s charming, magnetic, intelligent and in a wheelchair.

EXTRADITION 

Cagney and Lacey travel to Los Angeles to extradite a perp in an old case of Lacey’s. Unfortunately, the perp is released prematurely by computer error, and promptly goes into hiding. Cagney and Lacey track him down. In the airport, he escapes again, and gives himself up when Lacey appeals to his fatherly instincts.
It is clear their perp is not a typical criminal. He has rehabilitated himself, and now has a wife, a child and a good job. What would a term in prison serve? When Lacey learns that the complainant has died, she arranges for her charge’s release.

A SAFE PLACE
Cagney and Lacey investigate a plutonium theft: two yuppie thieves steal a car containing a small vial of the metal. When the FBI agent assigned to the investigation pulls jurisdiction on Cagney and Lacey and takes the case away from them, concerns are raised about nuclear responsibility and the government’s handling of the problem.

MODEL CITIZEN 

When an exemplary labor leader is killed execution style, Cagney and Lacey search for a connection with the mob. The connection turns out to be that he was mistakenly killed in his drug-dealing son’s place.

PARTING SHOTS
The 14th Precinct is shattered when Newman is shot outside the court house. While the murder investigation becomes top priority, each detective deals with the death in his or her own way. It turns out the shooter had no reason for killing Newman. He just wanted to see if he could commit a murder and get away with it.
Cagney, who is masking her grief with humor, is shattered by the revelation that the killing was random. At last, she tries to deal with her true sadness about Newman’s untimely death.

THE ZEALOT
Cagney and Lacey are working closely with a charismatic D.A. on a big kiddie porn case. Cagney feels a special bond with him because they both share a passion for their work.
When he is murdered after a dinner date with Cagney, she and Lacey enter the gray world with which he was obsessed in order to find his killer. Cagney has a hard time coming to grips with the fact that he may have become too deeply enmeshed in this world especially after they learn that he had been seeing a prostitute on a regular basis.
Eventually they find the murderer, the prostitute’s ex-pimp, and discuss how difficult but necessary it is to leave your work at the office and not take it home. Cagney has a tougher time with this and struggles at the end with whether or not she should bring her work home.

REVENGE
Petrie recognizes a crucifix around the neck of a perp as one his sister used to wear before she was raped and murdered fourteen years earlier. He is convinced he is the one who was her killer and begins harassing him to get a confession.
When the perp turns up dead, Petrie becomes a suspect, leaving Cagney and Lacey to try and prove his innocence. Eventually he is cleared and everyone breathes a sigh of relief.

MARATHON 
Assigned to protect a white South African marathon runner, Cagney and Lacey are confronted by the woman’s obsession to remain apolitical despite her becoming the focal point of the struggle against apartheid during a corporate sponsored marathon.
Cagney and Lacey have differing opinions on the matter. Cagney believes not everything, especially sporting events, has to be political, while Lacey, a la Harvey, believes that not only action, but lack of action is a political statement.

RITES OF PASSAGE
Cagney and Lacey investigate the apparent suicide of a college girl discovering the real cause to be sorority hazing. Between Cagney and Lacey this brings up issues of ambition and the urge to “belong” at any cost.

FAVORS
The Fourteenth Squad puts together a major sting operation to catch a loan shark and lands a judge up for reelection in the process.  A major problem develops for Cagney when it comes to light that this same judge-on-the-take is an old pal of her father.  Their dispute about all of this pulls Charlie off the wagon and puts an inordinate amount of pressure on her partnership with Lacey.  None of this is at a good time, as David Keeler keeps trying to get back in touch and Cagney - as the senior officer under Lt Samuels - is given the assignment of putting together the annual performance evaluations for the entire Squad.