- Tony butts heads with both a tough cop who is overzealous in his handling of criminals, and a hard-nosed management consultant hired by the city in a cost-cutting effort.
- Although obviously beaten up after his arrest for robbery, Sonny Blake insists that his injuries are the result of an accident. However, when questioned by Tony about the arrest, Officer Peter Cody, an NYPD transferee like Tony, defends his treatment of Blake as necessary to get the job done. Meanwhile, while Tony's police department budget is being reviewed by a notorious management expert, William "The Hatchet" Rathbone, Arnie involves Tony and Rachel's son, David, in one of his business schemes.
Agreeing to ride a shift with Tony, Cody boosts his standing among his fellow cops when he takes on a gang of punks in order to save the commissioner from harm. Told by Tony to work together to find a new crack house before it destroys the Morgan Heights neighborhood, Stan Kelly chooses to use his investigative techniques, while Cody intimidates some of Morgan Heights' teenagers into telling him what they know about the new crack house. When David shows Arnie a news magazine he was reading whose cover story says police officers are no longer heroes, which causes him to question his father's integrity, Arnie defends Tony and his profession.
Meanwhile, Stan finds the crack house, but is surprised to find his police car has been mysteriously stolen and that Cody has already made the bust after claiming he was tipped off by Blake. However, when Tony learns that Blake was coerced into participating in the story and Cody stole the car as a joke, Tony dismisses the renegade cop from the force. Rathbone is given a taste of low-cost police work but when his life is threatened as part of a plan by Tony, he agrees to ease up on his budget cutting. Finally, touched by Arnie's defense of him, Tony arranges for Rathbone to anonymously buy Arnie's latest invention to boost David's confidence in his uncle.
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