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- Chris poses as a nun as part of an investigation into missing drugs from a hospital. Meanwhile, Mary Beth vanishes after a last-minute vacation cancellation.
- Christine's date-rape case against Brad Potter goes to trial. Meanwhile, Harvey Lacey, Jr. disappears from his Marine training.
- 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.
- Mary Beth awaits a possible promotion, while Cagney turns to booze after her father's death.
- Cagney is date-raped and has to deal with the trauma of that while simultaneously trying to prove that it actually happened.
- 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.
- With Christine busy looking for a missing child and getting ready for the sergeant's exam, Mary Beth prepares for her breast surgery.
- Mary Beth is taken hostage by a very dangerous man.
- In the fifth-season opener, Cagney, Lacey and Lieutenant Samuels are forced to investigate one of their own. It starts when a junkie's broad-daylight burglary makes him easy prey for Cagney and Lacey, who happen to be across the street at the time. What isn't easy to take is the tip the addict offers in a bid for leniency; he says he saw a cop pocket some heroin from a crime scene--a detective from their own 14th squad. Bypassing Internal Affairs, Chris and Mary Beth go to Lieutenant Samuels, who orders them to have the junkie ID the alleged felon--and it's a real shocker. Even more shocking is their suspect's behavior when they set a trap for him, a trap that could very well ensnare them all. (TV Guide)
- Mary Beth saves a baby from a burning car before it explodes, becomes a hero. Meanwhile, Cagney finds her father lying dead at his home.
- Mary Beth ignores a lump in her breast, while Chris and Harvey beg her to get the care she needs. Meanwhile, the mother of a missing child feels she'd get more attention if her son were white.
- After a girl accuses her father of molesting her younger sister, Cagney and Lacey are forced to take action to keep the girls safe.
- 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.
- Getting shot doesn't stop Chris from assisting on a case while in recovery, while Mary Beth's temporary replacement partner leaves a lot to be desired.
- Chris and Mary Beth are delighted when they catch a major case, and get to work for an attractive captain, but Chris takes issue with the captain's advances towards her.
- 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.
- As Cagney contends with her estranged father, she and Lacey are recruited by Internal Affairs to spy on their fellow police officers.
- After witnessing a stabbing, Chris becomes the target of the prepetrator, who has a history of making witnesses disappear. Meanwhile, the NYPD brass demand stress reduction classes for the 14th Precinct.
- The investigation into the stolen $100 million wraps up. Cagney and Lacey get a great surprise at the end.
- After Lacey is shot, but saved by a bulletproof vest, her and Cagney deal with the stress by seeing the police psychiatrist.
- While Mary Beth recovers from breast surgery, and mulls retirement, Chris has her prized Corvette stolen, but it may provide her a leg up on the sergeant's exam. Meanwhile, an informant is murdered, leaving Chris to find out the who and why.
- The detectives question if a deaf girl could have committed the murder of which she's accused. David Keeler wants Christine to forgive him for representing Mansfield.
- As the 14th Precinct eagerly awaits the results of their shared lottery ticket, Cagney and Lacey risk their careers by helping a suspended officer crack an illegal gun ring.
- While running the night shift, a case of DWI begins to make Chris confront her own demons with the bottle.
- A date rape investigation divides Chris, who feels the victim brought it on herself, and Mary Beth, who doesn't believe that philosophy. Chris feels honored for the girls to be let in on the male officers' practical jokes.
- Lacey's husband assists the pair in cracking down on a crooked construction firm that is responsible for the death of a worker.
- Cagney and Lacey try to uncover the connection between 3 strangled women and an adult telephone line.
- 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.
- 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.
- A con man has to be let go because he had nothing on him when arrested, so Cagney and Lacey have to find a way to get him with the goods. Meanwhile, a fellow police academy graduate of Mary Beth's is a wife-beater.
- The girlfriend of a murdered federal witness asks for help finding his killer. Meanwhile, one of Alice Lacey's classmates has AIDS.
- After the key witness in the upcoming trial of a shady landlord dies, Cagney and Lacey must re-canvas his building in search of new witnesses before he gets set free. Meanwhile, Chris has a pregnancy scare.
- Mary Beth swindles the swindlers in a case with the bunco unit. Meanwhile, Chris' sexual harassment charges against Captain Hennesey go to trial.
- When a Jane Doe homeless lady is murdered, Chris vows to find out who she is. Meanwhile, Chris and Mary Beth shoot a recruiting commercial for the NYPD while Mary Beth is fighting a nasty cold.
- Cagney and Lacey's guarding of a mentally ill witness is complicated by his refusal to take his medication.
- Cagney becomes involved with a fellow detective who uses cocaine and must make a difficult decision whether to let it go or turn him in.
- With the 14th Precinct's detectives driving taxi cabs to solve a rash of hack murders, Mary Beth's son becomes frightened the ruse will cost his mother her life.
- Cagney and Lacey get placed in charge of planning a banquet to award Lt. Samuels with the Distinguished Service Award.
- A teenager is raped when he's accidentally sent to a violent prison over a petty crime, resulting in both a lawsuit from his parents and a case for Cagney and Lacey to solve.
- Cagney and Lacey travel upstate in search of a missing bank president, and stolen funds that equal $100 million.
- In a case of friendly fire, an officer is accidentally shot by Thornton.
- When a series of arsons all seem to benefit the same company, Cagney and Lacey uncover an extortion operation.
- Cagney and Lacey assist Sgt. McKenna, newly returned from drug rehab. A captain who used to work under Lt. Samuels envisions changes at the precinct.
- Mary Beth is the star witness in a trial that turns out not to be the slam dunk the prosecutors thought it was. Meanwhile, Chris and Mary Beth try to convince a rape witness to not back out of testifying.
- 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.
- When a captured burglar swears he never uses a gun, it sends Cagney and Lacey to figure out how a shooting also occurred at the scene of the crime. Dory finally feels it's time for Christine to meet his children.
- The 14th Precinct is abuzz over a visit from the star of a female TV detective show who wants to tag along with Chris and Mary Beth to see real female cops in action.
- A weekend spent clearing up lousy precinct paperwork leads Chris and Mary Beth to race to serve a warrant before the statute of limitations expires. Meanwhile Det. Petrie finds his weekend used up painting his apartment.
- When Det. Corassa's gun is linked to the slaying of a black youth in a white section of town, the African-American community suspects a cover-up.
- 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.
- Albert Grand, the jewel thief whom Chris failed to apprehend, has returned. And she is determined not to let him get away.
- Cagney and Lacey come into conflict when they remember the events of the shooting of a civilian differently.
- When the 14th precinct is assigned another female detective, Mary Beth and Chris don't agree on whether she's qualified to be there or not.
- An abandoned baby sets Cagney and Lacey on the trail of a baby broker, and though deaf, Mary Beth considers adopting her. Meanwhile, Chris' new playwright boyfriend doesn't like her being a detective.
- Isbecki becomes a hostage after Cagney and Lacey fail to back him up properly. Meanwhile, when Petrie accidentally shoots a black child, the department thinks the uproar will go away if the public sees Petrie is black, too.
- When drug dealer Mansfield goes on trial, he surprises everyone by hiring David Keeler to represent him, especially upsetting Chris.
- 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.
- Chris and Mary Beth investigate a judge who's friends with Chris' father. Mary Beth is surprised at the results of her performance review from Chris.
- Fred Grandy plays a wealthy businessman whose wife was strangled in a motel room where she had recently trysted with her lover. The solution to the crime gives Det. La Guardia (Sidney Clute) a totally unexpected chance to shine when he notices that a blackmailer photographing the couple in flagrante also photographed the hotel room's TV set, running a soap opera La Guardia secretly and faithfully watches - and featuring a character which was supposedly off the show at the time the photo was taken.
- Cagney and Lacey work to track down a murderer who managed to kill a newly-paroled cop-killer who was under their protection.
- When hazing is suspected to have caused a girl to fall off a roof while rushing a sorority, the sisters close ranks, impeding the investigation.
- 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.
- An over-protective father hinders prosecution of a babysitter who may have molested his daughter. Petrie gets beaten by some white NYPD officers who don't know he's a detective.
- A mans apparent suicide is just the tip of the iceberg. When his wife and daughter confess to his murder in order to protect each other, Cagney and Lacey must determine the guilty one in order to prosecute.
- David Keeler defends Mary Beth after the community demands a Civilian Review Board investigate her role in a neighborhood dispute. Det. Petrie is promoted to Sergeant.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cagney and Lacey become involved in an investigation of child abuse and possible murder when they rescue a child from a window ledge.
- The gang from the 14th precinct are robbed at a celebration for Petrie's promotion, and set out to bring the perpetrators to justice before they become the laughingstock of the NYPD.
- Cagney and Lacey head a task force to track down a pair of burglars posing as police officers.
- Cagney and Lacey must ignore their feminist sentiments when they are assigned to protect the life of a female ERA critic.
- Years of drinking finally put Chris' father into the hospital. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's pregancy forces her to make changes to her work routine.
- Dory proposes to Christine, who has a few questions of her own she needs an answer to before she gives him one. Meanwhile, a long string of tiny thefts leads to big profit for an ingenious credit department employee.
- A cop accidentally gets in the line of fire of a hit man's bullet and everyone at the 14th comes together to bring him in.
- When the goddaughter of a mobster is murdered, the mobster (José Quintero) offers to have his gang investigate the crime and come up with a suspect. But anything the Mob does as a favor carries a price, and though this particular price is never stated, Mary Beth Lacey is adamant about refusing the offer and pursuing the killer through the regular legal channels. When Cagney and Lacey do find the killer through standard procedures, the mobster drives up to them, thanks them through his car window - and drives away.
- Chris and Mary Beth have very different attitudes at a mandatory refresher for their precinct at the police academy.
- While looking for a criminal, Cagney and Lacey encounter a bounty hunter who is also looking for the same person. Samuels tells him that after they're done with him they'll send him back to where he jumped bail from. But the man says it's not good enough because his bail will end in a few days. So they have to find him and contend with the bounty hunter as well.
- Cagney and Lacey have a high school drug case blow up in their faces when it turns out their teenage informant is a drug pusher himself.
- A uniformed officers' strike forces the detectives back into their blues and onto the streets, as Cagney and Lacey try to bring an end to the "Don Juan Strangler."
- Cagney and Lacey uncover a deadly smuggling ring when searching for a missing child.
- A rash of AA meeting robberies sends the detectives to pose as alcoholics. At a co-dependents' meeting, Chris is surprised to see Donna, her father's girlfriend.
- David Keeler proposes marriage to Christine.
- Christmas Eve at the 14th finds everyone eager to get home for the holidays until an escaped criminal dressed as Santa complicates matters.
- 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.
- A couple are missing and Harvey, Jr. stuns his parents on his 18th birthday by announcing he's enlisting with the Marines.
- 1981–19881hTV-PG7.6 (66)TV EpisodeCagney becomes obsessed with busting a gentlemanly and famous jewel thief from years back.
- Cagney doubts the abilities of a psychic who's been hired to locate a missing woman by her family.
- The press paints Christine's self-defense shooting of a Hispanic drug-dealer as being racially motivated.
- After the star of a pornographic film dies during production, Cagney and Lacey must convince his reluctant co-star to be a witness.
- Cagney and Lacey are two female New York policewomen doing their job as best they can in a male-dominated police department. The weekly program was variously a "cop show", a relationship drama, and an "issues vehicle".
- Cagney and Lacey try to bring down a scam artist who promises to get messages to the departed by giving them to the terminally ill, but face difficulty in that nobody seems to feel victimized.
- When Sgt. McKenna's drug rehab sponsor is caught with cocaine, his defending of him gives Christine doubts over whether he was ever really drug-free himself.
- When a woman Mary Beth saved from suicide winds up murdered shortly thereafter, the investigation uncovers massive gambling debts, and sends Cagney and Lacey after a loan shark who may be involved.
- An elderly man asks the pair to find his young wife who has disappeared mysteriously, but when Cagney and Lacey start digging they find the wife is not who she said she was.
- The theft of a valuable painting sends the detectives to upscale galleries, hoping to find out where it went. Christine realizes Nick is the opposite of David.
- Chris finally gets to work on the Major Task Force, and immediately is faced with finding out who the turncoat is in their midst.
- A sweltering day leads to an elevator failure, with Mary Beth and a claustrophobic Victor trapped inside.
- Pornographers come under suspicion when an A.D.A. who championed against child exploitation is murdered.
- An environmental champion begs Chris and Mary Beth to investigate a toy company for the dumping of toxic waste. Meanwhile, Chris dates a younger man.
- Cagney and Lacey go undercover as prostitutes.
- An eccentric, older woman who claims she's a witch is getting in the way of a lucrative real estate deal.
- A Chinatown robbery brings Cagney's retired father back on the beat.
- Petrie falls under suspicion when someone he was squabbling with is murdered. Chris finds out a reporter she's dating isn't just interested in her romantically.
- Chris is disappointed when she's passed over to fill in during Lt. Samuels' vacation. Harvey assists in a case involving kickbacks at a construction site.
- Cagney and Lacey race against time to catch a thief, whose latest haul included plutonium, before his radiation sickness becomes terminal.
- 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.
- Chris and Mary Beth go to California to bring back a defendant who skipped on his bail.
- When a refugee from El Salvador is slain, different people give wildly different opinions of the life he led to Chris and Mary Beth during their investigation. Meanwhile, Chris meets a friendly, handsome plumber at AA.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cagney and Lacey go undercover on street corners to investigate a rash of middle-aged prostitute murders. Isbecki is thrilled to discover his new partner is a woman.
- The detectives do their best to recover a stolen bike stolen from a handicapped girl, meanwhile Harvey hires a cleaning lady for Lacey.
- Cagney and Lacey are charged with protecting a white South African runner in town for the New York City Marathon.
- Cagney and Newman work a case involving music rights issues.
- An undercover operation at a computer manufacturer is jeopardized when Chris fails the company's random drug test.
- Mary Beth is arrested at a nuclear weapons protest, finding herself in the custody of Queens' Det. Dupnick.
- Cagney and Lacey are accused of racial prejudice when they investigate a gangland beating
- 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.
- Cagney and Lacey try to find a way to arrest the son of a immunized diplomat who's using his nation's embassy to avoid justice after hitting a poor man with his car.
- A Wall Street success with friends high on the police command chain is robbed, creating additional pressure to solve the case quickly. Meanwhile, Harvey Jr. visits home.
- When Sara Jones, one of Mary Beth's maternity replacements, goes to trial for her act of vigilante justice against a rapist, Chris refuses to lie to save her.
- Chris and Mary Beth go undercover as quiz show contestants to investigate a rigging accusation.
- A missing music video may be linked to drugs. Chris' niece visits, with aspirations of becoming an actress in New York.
- When an girl who wants to break away from her traditionally Islamic upbringing is murdered, Chris and Mary Beth must confront her family. Chris lusts for a possible assignment to a potentially career-making task force.
- Mary Beth has egg on her face when the Laceys' home is robbed, and it's revealed she doesn't follow the same home safeguarding tips she gives to civilians. Meanwhile, a high school athlete's death is investigated.