Cagney & Lacey

- Season 5

(1985)

Chris and Mary Beth try to convince a teenage runaway, who's shunned her family's wealth and privilege for a life on the streets, to help them convict her pimp.

Cagney and Lacey feel for the key witness in an upcoming trial, an illegal alien whose reward for his help will be deportation upon the trial's conclusion.

Cagney doubts the abilities of a psychic who's been hired to locate a missing woman by her family.

When a lottery jackpot has one more claimant than there should be, Cagney and Lacey try to find out who's got the counterfeit ticket. Meanwhile, the Laceys prepare for an IRS audit.

Mary Beth faces an ethical dilemma when she has to choose between supporting Chris' claims against a known drug dealer, or admitting she knows nothing about it.

When a firebomb at an abortion clinic kills a patient, it ignites a debate over whether the death of a fetus constitutes a second murder.

A mother's alibi for her son stands in the way of criminal charges, despite other compelling evidence. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's son gets on the wrong side of the law himself.

Years of drinking finally put Chris' father into the hospital. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's pregancy forces her to make changes to her work routine.

Chris is accused of being a coward when a robbery suspect eludes her in a chase. Meanwhile, her brother, Brian, comes from California to check on their father.

Chris gets to fill in for Lt. Samuels as watch commander, but dislikes that one of her first assignments is to force Mary Beth onto maternity leave.

Cagney and Newman work a case involving music rights issues.

Mary Beth's energetic replacement turns vigilante when she angers over the time it's taking to get to arrest a suspected rapist.

The new replacement for Mary Beth comes with a history the 14th Precinct doesn't like--he broke the blue wall of silence when other police were taking bribes, and the Desk Sergeant is taking bets on how long his stay with them will be.

While running the night shift, a case of DWI begins to make Chris confront her own demons with the bottle.

An advocate for the handicapped demands something be done about a rash of robberies against the disabled. Chris goes undercover in a wheelchair and finds herself smitten with the activist.

Chris races to get a laboring Mary Beth to the hospital before the baby comes out. Meanwhile, she has to deal with her father's new girlfriend.

Chris tries to help a West Point cadet who refuses to help himself avoid court martial due to his honor code. Mary Beth receives a visit from her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was little.

With Mary Beth back from maternity leave, she and Chris again go after drug dealer Mansfield, this time with the help of a young Hispanic informant.

The apparent suicide of a stage actress starts to look like murder when Cagney and Lacey discover everyone involved in the play seems to have a motive.

When a lawyer who has made a living helping his fellow Cambodians winds up murdered, Chris and Mary Beth learn he may have been profitting from misfortunes too much. In the meantime, Chris parts ways with her car.

Chris and Mary Beth go to California to bring back a defendant who skipped on his bail.

Cagney and Lacey race against time to catch a thief, whose latest haul included plutonium, before his radiation sickness becomes terminal.

To find the murderer of a labor leader, Cagney and Lacey must first find out why anyone would want the apparently squeaky-clean man dead. In the meantime, Cagney gets a visit from her niece.

The 14th Precinct suffers the loss of one of their own, as Cagney and Lacey work to find out who shot and killed Det. Newman.