During a hurricane, Wojo worries about civil evacuation procedures, while Harris deals with a delinquent.

The station is quarantined for smallpox when a suspect collapses in the squadroom.

The quarantined cops and civilian visitors get cabin fever, which results in some surprising admissions (especially from Harris). First appearance of Officer Carl Levitt.

While the victims of a bus holdup want vengeance on the robber, they don't want to get involved. Detective Arthur P. Dietrich is now regularly featured.

On Election Night, Yemena places bets on all races and a shoplifter wants an escort to the polls.

Stefan Kopechne turns himself into the station claiming to be a werewolf, and a couple visiting New York for the first time are robbed by their cab driver.

The station deals with two runaways - one trying to avoid jury duty and another predicting doom.

Wojo takes an uncooperative mugging witness into custody, a situation made worse by attorney Arnold Ripner.

When the cops haul him in, an assault-and-battery suspect claims someone else committed the crime: his other personality. Meanwhile, the precinct deals with a power outage covering the entire neighborhood.

Fish pursues a man who's been mugging department-store Santas. Nick falls for a prostitute who is also a robbery victim.

Wojo unknowingly brings hash-laced brownies into the precinct. Officer Carl Levitt is now regularly featured.

In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #77 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.^[5]

During a particularly bad smog alert, Fish has a respiratory collapse when he coaxes a jumper of a bridge.

Barney tries to help an evicted tenant and a blind shoplifter. Meanwhile, Wojo suffers from nervousness in court.

When an independent report causes the department to order third-grade detectives to do uniform duty for a week each month, Wojo (the squad's only third-grader) refuses to comply.

A couple make a suicide pact but neither can go through with it. Their hope looks to be realized when an arrested thief sets fire to the squadroom.

A girl's parents claim that she has been brainwashed by a cult and want Barney to rescue her.

A woman shoots her husband for seeing a sex therapist, while Harris investigates thefts by juvenile delinquents.

Harris's moonlighting as a building's Captain of Security interferes with his job at the precinct.

Wojo arrests a Soviet diplomat for assaulting a musician who wants to defect to the U.S.

An Army recruiting office reports a bomb threat, while Fish wears drag to catch a mugger at a time when Bernice comes to visit.

The men go on strike to get more pay and better working conditions, leaving only Barney, Levitt and Luger to man the squadroom.

Barney deals with the strike, a flirtatious robbery victim and his own feelings of abandonment.