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T.C., now hooked on painkillers from being shot in the leg, leads Pacific Blue on the trail of a potential serial killer who preys on young runaways that he locates via the Internet. Cory and Monica convince a woman psychic, who used to help the police back East, into helping on the case.

A doctor running an underground clinic for plastic surgery causes the death of a young co-ed. The world of high school girls obsessed with plastic surgery is explored when Russ Granger and Monica Harper go undercover. Struck by the beautiful perfection of the students, Monica and Granger learn that their boyfriends have been financing plastic surgery by stealing cars.

After a sorority girl turns up dead, Monica and Chris go undercover at a very select sorority at Pacific University. Harper discovers that freshman pledges are being forced to strip at a local nightclub as part of their initiation, but then are being blackmailed to continue their activities or risk exposure to their parents and on the internet.

The squad investigates the ""Letterhead Beatings"" in which several people have been assaulted, tied to their beds, and the first letter of their last names is carved into their foreheads. Palermo is certain there is a message here, but his inability to solve it in time to prevent further victims compounds his burn-out. When the letters add up to spell A-L-E-R-M-O, the solution appears. Palermo realizes the attacks are personal. Chris and T.C. discover she's pregnant. T.C. proposes marriage, but Chris refuses to ""get married at the end of a shotgun."" Each fantasizes about impending parenthood, but just as they're settling into the idea, they learn that Chris is not pregnant after all. Palermo hosts the daughter of his high school sweetheart, a young aspiring actress. A night of dinner and wine lead to lovemaking... and serious morning-after regrets from Palermo, who is already suffering from a mid-life crisis. This and the Letterhead Beatings make him question his current path in life. A

Pacific Blue tries to figure out why two robbers are holding up a chain of upscale clothing stores since the shops don't carry much cash. In actuality, the store robberies are a cover for FRANK KOVAC, the bodyguard of a prominent businessman (RUDY RIGAS) who has ordered Frank to get back his soon-to-be-ex wife's diamond jewelry. Frank steals the necklace while the wife is shopping at the shop. But Rudy does not know that Frank and his wife plan to double-cross him so that they can run away together. When LINDA DOMINGUEZ, Victor's fiancee, is killed during one of the store robberies, Victor defies department orders and pursues the killers himself. Though the killers are arrested as a result, Victor is suspended and Internal Affairs considers taking away his badge.

Chris is plagued with guilt and self-doubt after failing to apprehend a trio of vicious drug-infested jewelry store robbers. She left what she assumed to be a secure crime scene to give T.C. backup as he pursued a fleeing suspect. But a third robber was hiding, and all three criminals escaped. After a store manager is killed in a subsequent hold-up, Chris wonders if her affair with T.C. is affecting her decision-making skills. In the end, Chris makes a snap decision to stay behind and provide back-up for Palermo when their fellow officers rush to a what they believe is a robbery-in-progress, but which is actually a decoy. The decision saves Palermo's life, renewing Chris' faith in her instincts.

Jamie goes undercover and befriends a fifteen-year-old snitch after he witnesses a murder. But a rogue Narc is controlling the kid, and is ultimately to blame for his death as well as two dealers. Monica Harper's sexual involvement with Commander McKinnon escalates. As their on-again, off-again relationship progresses, Bobby Cruz discovers his abusive nature and helps Monica trap McKinnon into backing off.

Russ Granger discovers that his best friend's little sister, Molly, is an underage porn star. After she resists being saved, Jamie goes undercover, hoping to nail the producer. Monica is offered ten thousand dollars to pose for Playpen Magazine, but only if she recruits the other three women from Pacific Blue. Thinking she has them all, Monica goes ahead and poses very provocatively before learning that the others have declined. Cory informs Doug of her impending pregnancy, but gets a less than enthusiastic response from the father of her child.

A drug dealer T.C. arrested years ago breaks out of jail and kidnaps T.C., dumping him in a trailer buried in the sand underneath a beach. The convict demands ransom from T.C.'s father (ETHAN) and brother (TEDDY), or else T.C. will die in twelve hours. As the Pacific Blue squad searches frantically for T.C.'s location, T.C. tries to find his own way out of his underground prison before time runs out.

When a pretty 15 year old girl is kidnapped from a shopping mall parking lot, Cory and the rest of the unit must band together to find her within 59 minutes. The officers must deal with the hysterical mother and false leads before their 59 minutes is up.

Jamie Strickland and Cory McNamara go undercover in a sex cult operation. The master is very seductive and has convinced women to prostitute themselves in the name of God. Meanwhile Russ Granger and Monica Harper are on rollerblades trying to catch criminals.

While working on a Haitian whom they suspect is smuggling in drugs Bobby sees a man whom he arrested a few years ago who is still in prison.

A pair of twins are killing people who rub them the wrong way. One of their victims is a Federal Witness, which brings an FBI agent, who thinks that one of the people he testified against lashed back. Chris finds herself fascinated with the case, which causes more friction between her and T.C. Chris suspects that they have a serial killer and the agent is impressed with her, that she requests that Chris help her, which makes T.C. unhappy. When a person who saw the twins in one of their moods tries to call Chris but is not around so T.C. takes the call. The twins kills him and when T.C. arrives they tell him that the one who called him went away. Bobby who thinks that something is wrong and who thinks that T.C. is letting his problems with Chris cloud his judgement, tells the FBI agent about the twins and the agent says that it's been theorized that the killer is nore than one person, and the twins could be it. One of the twins lures Chris into a trap but Chris escapes and when one of

After a young Mafia lawyer and his wife are murdered in their home, Cory catches up with the unharmed six year old boy who's on the run with his real mother, a stripper with whom the Mafia lawyer had a previous affair. Cory is reluctant to bring the pair to the authorities after she learns that the FBI agent working the case is actually the man that the boy identified as the killer who came to their home.

The woman who is responsible for the deaths of Bobby's parents while she was driving under the influence has returned to Venice Beach. Bobby is convinced she's involved in an illegal smuggling trade and sets out to seek revenge for his parents' deaths. L.A. pressures Jamie to spy on officers at Pacific Blue by holding over her head a dark secret from her past.

At Pacific University, a fraternity is holding their annual Thrill Week in a house on the Pacific Blue beach. After a series of incidents, Russ and T.C. are sent in undercover to stop abusive hazing which includes sexual harassment for Bobby's sister, Theresa and other women.

When JESSIE PALERMO is shot at school, Palermo pulls out all the stops to find out who's dealing the guns to the students. He consults with local gun manufacturer CAVANAUGH, who is mystified that guns without serial numbers could leave his factory. T.C. goes undercover as a substitute teacher at the high school while Chris and Victor go undercover for a sting operation. The squad traces the guns back to the supplier -- KYLE CAVANAUGH, the factory owner's son... and the boyfriend of Jessie's best friend ERICA. After the shooting, Jessie returns to school but continues to suffer emotional turmoil. Her best friend, Erica, doesn't understand and becomes more involved with her boyfriend. Jessie does some investigating into the shooting on her own, but doesn't expect her assailant to be school geek JOSH TIMMONS, who had purchased the gun to ward off bullies.

All the victims of a recent series of murders had earlier placed personal ads in a local paper. Chris and Cory enter the dating pool undercover, and in the course of the investigation, each meets the ""perfect"" man. When Cory's dream man attacks her (and escapes), Chris assumes her date is safe to pursue a relationship with -- unaware that it is the same man Cory dated, but with a different disguise. T.C. goes undercover in a wheelchair with ED TARLOW (from ""Wheels of Fire""), hoping to catch a thief who is stealing expensive wheelchairs for resale. During his assignment, he discovers the difficulties of the disabled, and meets a ""wheelchair groupie"" -- a woman who likes T.C. because she thinks he's disabled. Victor prepares for an upcoming ""bachelor auction"", secretly concerned that T.C. might receive a higher bid. At the auction, his fears prove unfounded when a third man unexpectedly proves more popular than both of them... Tony Palermo!

The wild ass son of a Romanian ambassador commits crimes on the boardwalk, causing a huge headache for the Pacific Blue team because the father's diplomatic immunity extends to his son. The government refuses to help because the ambassador is taking part in a secret sting operation to uncover illegal arms trading. When the son's crimes become serious, Palermo risks defying the government handlers to keep his beach safe. Palermo befriends a young black guy on the basketball court whom he believes to be an honest, hard-working kid; but discovers his new friend is a former college basketball player who was illiterate, and involved with drugs and point-shaving. When a local college coach asks for Palermo's help in recruiting the guy, Palermo must decide whether the kid's efforts to ""turn over a new leaf"" and re-enter college with a new identity in order to get a real education are genuine.

Following a violent robbery at a cafe, the Bike Squad discovers an abandoned baby. In searching for the mother, they find that the child was part of a black market baby-selling scheme. Cory goes undercover as a pregnant woman to find the baby seller, unprepared for the rush of maternal feelings the case will uncover for her. The cafe robber is arrested, but dies of a heart attack while in lockup. When it's learned that the robber was also a bike racer taking a powerful ""performance-enhancing"" drug, T.C. goes undercover to find the sellers, who operate out of a local bike shop, and befriends a guy hooked on the drug.

While off-duty, T.C. confronts a man carrying a gun in a parking lot. The man whirls and fires at T.C., T.C. returns fire, killing him, but the man turns out to be an undercover police officer with a spotless record. When an investigation reveals that T.C. didn't identify himself as a police officer when he approached the man, T.C.'s left with suspension and the possibility he's killed a completely innocent man. T.C.'s brother, TEDDY, has a gambling problem which comes to light when he's accused of masterminding the hold-up of a high-stakes poker game. Chris' building is going condo at the end of the month. She reluctantly accepts Cory's offer to be roommates, remembering that their first roommate experience almost ended in a double homicide... each other.

A trio of heavily-armed and heavily-armored bank robbers holds up a Santa Monica bank. In the resulting shootout, a security officer is killed and Victor is shot. Victor's injury isn't life-threatening, but it makes him the ""butt"" of jokes at the Firehouse as he confronts the idea of his own mortality. Chris is targeted for death by one of the robbers seeking vengeance for his gunshot wound. After the failed assassination attempt, Chris spends the night at T.C.'s house, rekindling their buried romance as they try to decide how to deal with those feelings. Palermo intervenes when he discovers his ex-wife, HELEN, is being physically abused by her current husband, a police officer. Palermo offers Helen the shelter of his home, but that night Jessie catches them making love. When she demands to know if her parents are getting back together, Palermo has to confess the truth -- he doesn't know.

A reformed murderer, CONWAY HEINRIKSEN, struggles to rebuild his life after many years in a mental institution, but his past victims are bent on seeing that the killer will never have peace in his life. Cory's friend, BILLIE, finds compassion towards Conway, but her life is in danger when the psychological warfare by the victims takes its toll. Chris' biological father returns to her life after a thirty-year absence, and she struggles with her anger toward him as well as her parents, who told Chris he was dead. A thief steals Jeff Pierce's valuable pink jersey and T.C. and Victor take road racing lessons from the master to catch the thief.

Jamie is attracted to a 20 year-old martial artist who saves her from a gang attack. After a series of homicides that Chris is working on, point to the martial artist as a suspect, he commits one last crime and is never heard from again. Russ and Bobby compete for the affections of a sexy French film star who's being stalked while in Santa Monica to promote her latest movie.

A man is shot point-blank through the heart on the beach. In questioning the man's wife, Pacific Blue learns she hired two women to investigate her husband's suspected infidelities. Believing that the wife ordered her husband killed, Cory and Victor go undercover as a married couple to investigate the private investigators, and find that the women in charge lure men into compromising situations which they then videotape for the wives. T.C. and his brother TEDDY are shocked when their parents, ETHAN and CATHERINE CALLAWAY, decide to separate after thirty-five years of marriage.

Two young, overprivileged business school grads are holding raves at a Santa Monica warehouse where underage kids have access to drugs and alcohol. Firm in his belief that these kids are the product of irresponsible parents, Palermo questions his own parenting skills when he finds out his daughter JESSIE attends the raves with her best friend. Meanwhile, Victor gets in trouble trying to protect Jessie from getting found out; Chris is slipped a ""roofie"" by a rave organizer; and T.C.'s declared too ""uncool"" to work undercover.

When Chris and Cory apprehend one of the F.B.I.'s Ten Most Wanted, his accomplices seize the Firehouse, taking Chris hostage along with her father BROLIN JORGENSON and civilians. Outside, Palermo, T.C. and Cory plot to free the hostages as Victor, trapped inside during the takedown, secretly works to catch the criminals.

JIMMY GUERRERO, a friend of Victor's, is killed in connection with an underground fighting syndicate, leaving his angry younger brother BILLY seeking revenge. Victor defuses the brother's desire to take revenge himself, convincing Billy to introduce him into the ring as a street fighter so Victor can find his friend's killer. An uneasy truce between rival Santa Monica gangs -- a truce that Palermo helped put together -- is in danger of dissolving when SAMMY LUGO makes both leaders believe the other is breaking the peace in an effort to sell weapons to both sides. Elvis goes into hiding when he witnesses Jimmy's beating and the simultaneous gun exchange, but a bad case of claustrophobia makes him an unwelcome houseguest for T.C.

T.C. is outraged when ""The Sandman"", a hitman responsible for the murders of a police informant and an innocent bystander, is released from prison.Against the orders of DEA agent INSPECTOR ENRIGHT (from the episode ""Black Pearl""), T.C. trails the Sandman on his own, hoping to catch him committing another crime. Enright finally arrests T.C. for obstruction of justice. Neither knows that Sandman plans to use T.C. in exacting revenge on the three drug runners who made him take the fall for the informant's murder, and in such a way that he -- the Sandman -- won't even have to pull the trigger...

The opening of the Scarlet Rose ballroom, scene of Santa Monica's most notorious murder of the late 40's, piques Bobby's interest when he runs across a young woman at the club who bears a striking resemblance to the Scarlet Rose herself. Amid the background of swing dancing, Bobby discovers this woman is the granddaughter of the slain actress. She's returned to solve the mystery, which involves a precious diamond that's been missing for more than forty years.

After a high profile Hispanic leader, JOHN PATRONE, who is trying to bring an end to warring gang factions in Santa Monica is slain by a snipers bullet, our young recruits finds the main suspect is a likeable motorcycle mechanic whose daughter committed suicide a year before. When it is learned she was pregnant by PATRONE, and that he was involved in drug dealing and gun running, it appears that this good citizen took the law into his own hands to bring the man down. By episode's end, Bobby Cruz is arrested for concealing evidence and the three other new Pacific Blue cops are under arrest as well. Cannon Boy, a teenager obsessed with firing himself from a cannon, is pursued on the beach.

Pacific Blue backs into a college call girl ring after the roommate of the girl Bobby is dating is found dead below a 6th story window. Chris is convinced the death is a homicide. The trail leads to a radical female college professor who preaches hooking as a release for women with abusive backgrounds. Cory McNamara miscarries as a result of stress.

After a series of murders in a female prison, Chris goes in undercover in chains while Bobby is placed inside as a prison guard. Monica uses the opportunity to tempt T.C., her next door neighbor, into a sexual situation.

The worlds of black and white magic collide after a young girl disappears from the boardwalk. Russ and Jamie enter the world of the occult and have sex after falling under the spell of the dark side.

While the Bike Patrol is being used as a CRASH Unit to fight gang activity in the beach area, Cory McNamara is forced to shoot a gangbanger fleeing a crime scene. When no weapon is found, the incident becomes potential ""bad shoot"". The situation is made worse by the fact that Cory is third generation in blue and the ""first shoot"" has to be a clean one (a police tradition and superstition). Cory must deal with a disapproving cop father, the gangbanger on the loose, the threat of a sleazy lawsuit against the department, and her potential for lack of nerve on the street. A brash trouble-making young star comes to the beach to shoot a portion of his feature film, and members of the bike patrol are assigned as liaisons. Once a sexy idol in the eyes of Chris Kelly, he soon proves his arrogant, wild-man reputation is well earned. Victor, no fan of the actor, is charmed into playing a small part in the film. A band of rollerskating pickpockets are working the boardwalk, their spot, dip, h

The Bike Patrol participates in the ""Eco-Relay"", an exhausting bike race through the Santa Monica Mountains. Palermo is left behind with the truck as support. While taking a treacherous short cut, Victor's bike is damaged and Chris goes for help alone. In the middle of the forest, she stumbles on a crystal met amphetamine lab and is taken hostage by the ""chemists"" running the place--including a woman insanely jealous of Chris' affect on ""her"" men. When Victor and the others attempt a rescue, Cory is shot and all are recaptured. This leaves only Palermo to save his crew and stop the meth shipment from making it to the streets...all without weapons or a working radio.

When a dead woman's body turns up on the beach with an origami angel on her chest, Palermo realizes that the serial killer who left him with a permanent leg injury has returned to the area. Obsessed with finding the killer, he stays his vacation and bends all the rules to bring down the Angel of Death before he kills again. There's been a string of cat burglaries at an upscale hotel that caters to couples having affairs. Unable to catch the thief by conventional means, T.C. and Chris have to pose as lovers the to catch the elusive bandit. Mariah, the bicyclist who rides faster than the wind, becomes a challenge to T.C. and Victor's egos as neither one of them can catch him after several high speed attempts.

While the unit is on the trail of a trio of heavily armed takedown robbers, T.C. finds himself face to face with one of the perps on the roof of a liquor store. After being ordered to shoot T.C., the young gunman has cold feet and flees. T.C., realizing his own mortality, becomes obsessed with the case as he spirals into self destructive behavior. In the final act, our officers get into a high tension situation as two of the heavies try to take a young girl hostage in yet another market. When T.C. finds himself again confronted by the same young gunman, he has to talk him out of killing a wounded Tony Palermo. Victor is shocked to discover that the skinny, awkward girl he took to the high school prom and later dumped, has just appeared as the centerfold in a Playboy-like magazine. He embarks on a personal (and funny) quest to relocate and connect with his old high school sweetheart. After a series of failed relationships, Chris finally meets a man who can deal with the fact that s

Gene Savage, the ""dirty"" cop Palermo testified against early in his career, is out of jail and back in business with an arcade on the boardwalk. Savage does everything he can -- including hiring Palermo's girlfriend as a bookkeeper -- to pull Palermo into an altercation, then hands the incriminating security tape over to Internal Affairs. Later, a man is found dead on the beach, and Palermo's back-up revolver, stolen during a robbery, is the murder weapon. A teenage bike thief that T.C. and Victor have been chasing is a witness to the murder, but refuses to cooperate. A member of a ""Good Samaritans"" group similar to the ""Red Berets"" sports a beret and a huge crush on Cory. Despite her warnings against vigilante behavior, he almost gets his partner killed chasing a drug dealer. Cory must find him before he seeks retribution.

Granger and Cruz are sent to Ventura County on a seemingly simple case to return a witness to a murder trial in Santa Monica. The wild young woman makes their life miserable, escaping numerous times, and causing them to miss their date with two gorgeous women headed for Catalina.

Jamie who was about to go on vacation encounters a singer whose songs gave inspiration and hope when she was incarcerated. After finding her passed out Jamie brings her home. When she comes to she grabs Jamie's gun and tells her to stay away and she then leaves. Jamie needing to find her and her gun tracks her down to her mother's house. She finds her and upon convincing her that she only wants to help her, the singer tells her that she is down and outr because of her record producer. It seems that he is crooked; he takes very large cuts and when someone wants to leave he threatens them, which is what he did to her. Jamie tries to convince Cory that her claims have to be investigated, but Cory saying that this is not a criminal matter declines so Jamie decides to do it on her own. With Monica's help and one of the singers unpublished songs they try to goad the producer into doing something. He then sends his man to get the singer but Jamie saves her. Later Jamie gets the singer a gig o

Cory learns she is pregnant, but is unsure whether the father is T.C. Callaway, a one night stand, or Will Blake, her District Attorney boyfriend. Before she can tell either one the story, she's kidnapped by two jewel thieves who offer to let her go in exchange for the release from jail of their ace safecracker.

While Russ, Bobby, Monica and Jamie are out tracking pot growers in the Santa Monica mountains, Chris Kelly returns to visit a wounded T.C. Callaway, who's fighting addiction to pain pills, as well as kidnap victim Cory McNamara.All hell breaks loose when Chris finds out T.C. slept with her best friend, Cory, and that Cory doesn't know if her pregnancy is the result of Will Blake or T.C. Callaway. The season-ending cliffhanger occurs when Cory opens the blood test results to find out which one is the father.

Ambitious police officer Chris Kelly is introduced to the Bike Patrol after she's transferred from the P.R. Department of the Santa Monica Police Department. T.C. Callaway, at a crossroads with his long term girlfriend, faces additional family pressure to quit the force and join the family business in Newport Beach. The entire unit is on the trail of a vicious car-jacker working the beach area.

A scorching heatwave has descended on the beach and is making everyone crazy. Palermo has three problems at once: K.C.B.H. radio is transmitting their summer afternoon show from a storefront on the crowded boardwalk we patrol. After striking up a friendship with the sexy sex-talk lady D.J., T.C. learns she's being stalked by a crazed listener bent on eliminating men he believes are part of the D.J.'s life. At odds with the city detective assigned to the case, T.C. ultimately uses himself as a lure (posing as a romantic interest in the D.J.'s life) to capture the bad guy. Cory and Victor are on the trail of the ""topless bandit"". Two young women enter banks and jewelry stores at the beach, begin dancing and stripping, while an accomplice commits armed robbery. No witnesses to the crime can give any description of the robber. Elvis is convinced that a strange series of holes that have appeared at the shore line are the result of aliens trying to make contact with Southern Californian

T.C. hooks up with an old flame after the boardwalk cafe where she's working is robbed by a till tapper on rollerblades.Shortly after rekindling their romance, she becomes a witness to a late-night shooting by a mysterious figure in the same cafe. After insisting that only T.C. could be assigned to protect her, the couple have to flee another attempt on her life. When too many loose ends don't add up, Chris becomes suspicious about the young woman's intentions and starts to follow her much to T.C.'s anger. She finally reveals to T.C. that the man trying to kill her is a boyfriend from back east, a criminal who recently committed a large diamond robbery with information he forced her to reveal from her old place of employment. In the end T.C. is shocked to discover that she is not the victim, but rather the co-conspirator in the crime and was using T.C. all along to kill her ex-partner and lover. After Tony Palermo is challenged by obnoxious lifeguard captain Mackie Smith he asks Victor

An arsonist believed to have perished years ago has reappeared in the Venice area. While working with T.C. on the case, Chris must confront her own childhood memories of terror at having been caught in a fiery situation. The two must also enlist the aid of an eccentric arsonist doing a long stretch in prison for details on how to catch the Phoenix. Cory has to continually chase the ""Snakeman"", the last unlicensed vendor on the Venice Boardwalk. At one point, she nearly traps him running through a wet t-shirt contest where she's thrown on stage, dumped on, and pronounced the winner. The precinct is menaced by a rat that's eaten its way into the evidence lock-up and made off with a large portion of speed, making the rodent nearly impossible to catch. Rat Man and Rat Boy, a father-son exterminating team, are brought in to catch the creature.

A pair of daredevils pull dangerous, ""extreme"" stunts around the Boardwalk, hoping to be winners in an on-line contest on the internet. Unknown to Palermo, his daughter, Jessie, is attracted to one of the guys and is videotaping their exploits for the competition. Two hijackers sell the goods from stolen trucks to various vendors on the Boardwalk. Chris gets closer to the case than she realizes when unscrupulous jewelry vendor MAHMOOD sells her a stolen watch. Victor's mother ROSA pays an unexpected visit, frustrating his efforts to get some ""quality time"" with Linda. When Rosa becomes overly curious --in Victor's opinion -- about Linda's plans for marriage and family, he gets angry. Much to his surprise, Linda then gets angry at him.

An Army veteran, ZACK TORRANCE, holds the beach hostage -- including Victor, Cory and several school children -- to insure that his information about a clandestine Army-sponsored drug operation reaches the public. As T.C. tries to negotiate with Zack, F.B.I. agent FRANKLIN QUILL takes over, and his orders result in Zack's death. Quill turns out to have a secret history with Zack, including a suspected affiliation with the C.I.A. Cory tries to fix up T.C. with her school teacher friend GINA, whose ex-boyfriend DEAN, a lifeguard, isn't ready to give her up. Gina is wounded in the beach shoot-out, and when Dean risks his life to come to her aid, Gina realizes her love for him.

T.C. and Cory find themselves pinned into a bank when a robbery goes wrong and turns into a hostage situation. Palermo, Victor and Chris arrive on the scene, then must search the beach for an eccentric computer genius who dropped out of this high-tech world and is living in a highly decorated rickshaw on the beach. Inside the bank, Cory, who is in no hurry to have children herself, must deliver a baby when the hostage takers refuse to release a woman nine months pregnant.

While struggling to save a young teenager, Ricky, from a life of gangbanging, Victor finds himself falling for the boy's spirited older sister, Linda. Just as Victor starts to get through to him, Ricky runs away, convinced Victor's only hanging out with him to get in good with Linda. Victor has to find him before he commits a serious crime which will wed him to the gangbanging life forever. At Cory's invitation, Chris agrees to stay at her apartment for a week while hers is being painted. The resulting ""Odd Couple"" situation almost breaks the friendship.

During a fight with an armed robbery suspect, T.C. is knocked out and his gun stolen. T.C. takes it hard, and things get worse when they find the thief...killed by a bullet from T.C.'s gun. The trail of the gun leads to several other crimes, and eventually falls into the hands of a sixteen year-old boy who's being extorted by a group of kids on the boardwalk. Fearing further physical assaults, he's refused to report his bullies to the Bike Patrol. This gun is a way to finally get rid of his tormentors...permanently. Victor and Chris are approached by an eight year-old boy reporting his dog has been stolen. They don't take the report very seriously, until a partial license plate number is traced to a kennel which supplies dogs to research labs. As a practical joke, Cory signs Chris up with a video-dating service. Initially upset, Chris comes to view it as an excellent way to screen thousands of potential boyfriends without the hassle and disappointment of a full-blown first date.

Victor's close childhood friend EMILIO LOPEZ, a troubled kid who grew up to be a troubled adult -- Victor's mother ROSA has always considered him to be a second son. Out on parole, Emilio has taken a job at the local high school, but little does Victor know that Emilio is the leader of a car theft ring that's already left one person dead. Victor has to chase down his own best friend, who is determined not to go back to jail no matter what. MAHMOOD, sentenced to community service for his illegal activities (detailed in the episode ""Outlaw Extreme""), is back at it when he and his ""business partner"" SARA FARMAN try to sell the Santa Monica Pier to a wise-guy wannabe LENNY STEINRUDER. But Sara takes off with the money, leaving Mahmood to deal with Lenny's anger -- and learning too late that Lenny has familial connections to a New York mafioso known as the ""Jewish Godfather."" Cory and Chris reluctantly agree to help him only long enough to arrest Lenny as a way of getting to his father-in-l

After hitting a deaf person on the boardwalk, Cory is forced into working with Monica, tracking down an illicit ring of deaf beggars, controlled by a ruthless ""King."" We discover Monica knows sign language because her mother was deaf. Bobby Cruz is swapped into the horse patrol and pursues a gang of kids terrorizing the boardwalk with a potato cannon.

Texas stick-up artist Jackie Earl Bates arrives in town with girlfriend Erlene Keene. Jackie's told her they've won the lottery, and she's excited to pursue her dream of becoming a centerfold model and television star. Once in Santa Monica, Jackie continues to rob stores, but the Bike Patrol's efforts to catch him are repeatedly thwarted by Tyrone Justice, a bounty hunter who's followed Jackie from Texas. When Cory and Victor discover a couple presumed lost at sea, the event makes the newscasts. MTV-style show ""Blast Off"" host Ginger Delvecchio sees the report and recruits Victor (and Cory) to provide security on her set against two frat boys trying to steal her bikini top. Later, Cory is disgusted to learn the rescued couple staged their disappearance to reap the monetary benefits of selling their story.

A deadly new form of heroin hits the streets of Santa Monica, sending the Bike Patrol into overtime as all hell breaks loose. During the investigation, T.C. falls under the seductive spell of an undercover DEA agent who's investigating one of the drug distributors but has become an addict herself. Victor is ordered to attend requalifying training on the bike, and much to his horror, his instructor is HANS REY, a former instructor who made his life miserable the first time around. The two engage in a one-upmanship contest, judged by Chris.

The truth about Chris' navy career is revealed. Five years ago, Chris trained under a chauvinistic flight instructor CAPTAIN FRANK HAWKINS, whose intentional misinformation caused her to crash her jet. Chris accepted an honorable discharge on the condition that Hawkins never be a flight instructor again. However, Hawkins still is, and a female pilot has just had the same experience as Chris -- except, this time, her co-pilot died. The woman asks Chris to testify on her behalf, bringing up painful memories and fresh anger for Chris as she returns to the Navy base to bring closure to that period of her life. T.C. and Victor investigate a boardwalk robbery ring in which an attractive woman offers assistance to foreign tourists who are then robbed by the woman's partners. When the robberies turn into murders, T.C. and Palermo go undercover as wealthy -- and outrageously dressed -- foreigners to catch the suspects.

The Bike Patrol has a new transferee, Scott Kramer, a ten year veteran and department bad apple who seems to take extreme risks without regard to personal safety. He's teamed with Chris to try and stop a pair of bikers on Harleys who are robbing merchants in the Venice area and fleeing on their choppers. After several near death experiences, we come to realize that the reason this cop is so reckless is that he knows he has less than six months to live and wants to spend that time taking down every last criminal he can. To complicate matters, Chris Kelly develops a crush on this wild loner. Elvis the bike mechanic gets everyone involved in his can't miss lotto scheme, pooling more and more money to the point where greed overcomes friendships among our regulars.