Furillo (Daniel J. Travanti) conducts his corruption investigation and presents his findings to the committee, though Chief Daniels (Jon Cypher) is less than thrilled about the suggestion that he may be responsible for not curtailing some of the corruption that has permeated the force.

Somewhere Over the Rambo was written by Jacob Epstein, Walon Green and Dick Wolf and originally aired on 31 October, 1985.

Daniels is less than thrilled by how the investigation has preceded attempts to stain Hill Street by making an example of a night shift cop involved in a shooting. Meanwhile, Buntz (Dennis Franz) is investigating the hiring procedure that led to Maureen Dolan (Joan Sweeny) being put on the front desk. She was inexperienced, knew she was, but needed the job, and was manipulated into performing sexual favours to get the job.

Is Buntz tempted by the offer her employment agency makes him? Happily enough, the new candidate stands up for herself and puts him in his place. It’s getting incredibly difficult to like his character and his only been in the season for five episodes!

Hunter (James Sikking) almost falls victim to a Ponzi scheme involving Shar Pei dogs, and slightly unstable actor, Alan Bradford (Martin Ferrero) is back in the town, leaning into a performance based on Stallone from First Blood Part II. It shows that Bradford may actually be unbalanced, but he also knows how to play the system, but what happens should something actually happen?

Usually, the Bradford thread would be a little too melodramatic but it comes as a nice balance to the other heavier threads weaving through the story. And honestly, as a general rule, I quite like Ferrero.

Oh, You Kid was written by Robert Ward and debuted on 7 November, 1985.

Belker (Bruce Weitz) is undercover as a homeless vagrant to investigate a rash of homeless deaths that involve falling from incredible heights – is someone murdering them? As he stakes out an alley a pair of yuppies finally come along. It seems they’ve been getting vagrants fed, and drunk, and then convincing them to walk off the roof of highrises.

He eventually gets the better of them.

Buntz arrests a mugger who accuses him of police brutality, and even though the perp was very violent he seemed to have dealt out more than he got. Presenting to the judge, Davenport (Veronica Hamel) is able to get the criminal off, and Buntz is called in by Furillo to be reminded (something I think is going to happen on the regular) to make sure everything is by the book and above board. But when the perp commits another violent crime, Buntz is after him but is it a clean shoot or revenge?

Washington (Taurean Blacque) is critically injured during a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, when her son, Kenny (Ben Hoag) uses Washington’s service revolver to shoot him. America.

And Bates (Betty Thomas) and Coffey (Ed Marinaro) are dealing with some tension in their partnership as they take different sides on a new art installation that is causing an uproar in the neighborhood.