Dr. Jessie Hayden, a psychiatrist, begins a new job with the police department. She finds herself on a murderer's hit list when she realizes that he has been lying during an interview about a crime of which he is suspected.
Jessie jeopardizes her job to help a battered woman, while Ascoli pursues The Streak, a box-office bandit-turned-killer.
Jessie wants Kit Parnell, an undercover policewoman who is a former centerfold model, pulled off a case when she sees signs of extreme stress. Ascoli refuses to do it.
A bomb blast at the health club used by Jessie's mother triggers a search by Jessie and Ascoli for a group of '60s radicals from the college that Jessie attended.
After being badly burned while on the job, a cop (Brauner) comes to terms with his predicament with the help of Dr. Hayden (Wagner).
King is a good veteran policeman, but his efforts to live up to his perfect image drive him over the edge despite Jessie's offers of help.
Cantwell, an innocent man, is framed by police officer Ben Grant who uses him as a tool to get a departmental promotion, The wronged man manages to get out on parole to seek revenge on Ben and his partner.
When Captain Harding suggests using a psychic to help solve a series of murders, Ascoli reluctantly agrees.
Jessie becomes concerned about the high number of women dropouts from the police academy, and she and Ascoli train four of the remaining women cadets in self-defense.
Jessie protects April, a teenage prostitute, who has witnessed a murder, but the woman won't reveal the killer's name - and he's out to silence her.
After losing her policeman-husband, a woman turns to Lt. Ascoli for comfort, and Jessie learns a frightening secret withheld for many years by the dead man's former partner.