The police pull out all the stops when an off-duty police officer is killed trying to stop an armed robbery at a liquor store. The perpetrators cannot use their escape car because a delivery truck has boxed it in, so they hijack a cab and its driver, Mitchell Titus. The detectives manage to arrest one of the armed robbers, Henry Harp, and he offers to tell them where Titus is being held in return for a plea deal. ADA McCoy decides to go ahead with the deal after the police can't locate the kidnapped man. When the detectives find Titus dead, they suspect he was likely dead when Harp offered to make the deal. DA Schiff tells McCoy to throw out the deal and pursue murder charges, but it's not easy to convince a judge.
—garykmcd