Furillo (Daniel J. Travanti) is convalescing at home but is eager to get back to the precinct in Larry of Arabia. Written by Jeffrey Lewis, David Milch, Jacob Epstein, and John William See from a story by Lewis, Milch and Jerry Patrick Brown. It first aired on 27 February, 1986.

Bobby Hill (Michael Warren) has shaved off his moustache and he and Renko (Charles Haid) are given a new unit to test out on the street.

Buntz (Dennis Franz) is recording a tv court show appearance, but he’s not going over as well as he thought he would because of the way he talks and his blunt delivery of the facts, not to mention his colourful language and descriptions.

Lucy (Betty Thomas) is having some problems with Fabian’s (Zero Hubbard) mother who keeps trying to fleece her for more money. She’s been borrowing money from all over the precinct to meet the demand, but she’s only going to take so much.

LaRue (Kiel Martin) and Washington (Taurean Blacque) find themselves screwing up a federal gun investigation when they pose as couriers after Hill and Renko discover a dead courier in a john. All four of them find themselves screwing up the whole thing, until they are able to prove the Feds didn’t do their due diligence on their end of the investigation and were about to get conned.

Belker (Bruce Weitz) is working undercover in another pawn shop, and as Lucy and Coffey (Ed Marinaro) are picking up some things for poker night, tragedy strikes again as Coffey is shot down during a robbery…

Iced Coffey was written by Lewis, Milch and Duncan Smith from a story by Dick Wolf, Robert Ward, Robert Schlitt, and Duncan Smith. It was first broadcast on 6 March, 1986.

The entire precinct is shaken up over the death of Coffey, and frustration is high when Lucy is unsure about being able to identify his killer. Buntz is placed in charge of the investigation, and it seems almost everyone is doing their part.

Buntz may have nabbed the wrong guy to start and is walking a fine line in his pursuit of the suspect as notified by Furillo and Davenport (Veronica Hamel).

A series of incidents through the course of the episode leads Renko and Hill to capture the right killer, and hopefully, the case will be prosecuted properly. Lucy is ready to try to identify the suspect again, and it looks like everything will work out.

Belker is working undercover in a supermarket, but there’s a young security officer who is a little too eager and causes a lot of problems for Belker, the managers and the customers.

The episode ends with some of the officers sitting around a bar sharing stories and remembering Coffey and some of his antics, and how much they’ll miss him.

It’s a solid episode, both entries this week are, and I rather enjoyed how they handled it, even as we continue to see that Buntz’s behaviour is going to cause some serious issues. We also check in with Hunter (James Sikking) who has to deal with one of his squad members losing control and finally breaking over the way Hunter treats his team.

Until then, let’s be careful out there.