Hunter teams with two Metro officers, one of whom is a former adversary, to locate the missing profits of a murdered black-marketeer as Devane considers a post in Metro.
Joanne Molenski has been killed and serial murder expert Chris Novak agrees to further postpone her leave of absence in order to help Hunter track the killer, who appears to be tied to the murders of police officers in six other cities.
Novak is pleased when old friend and national newspaper reporter Amy Rivers comes to Los Angeles to do a story on police work, until Amy's enthusiasm impedes an armed robbery investigation.
Old passions and jealousies flare when Hunter is forced to work with Chris Novak's ex-husband to solve a series of airport robberies while Chris tries to find an escaped prisoner she once arrested.
When Chris Novak's estranged father returns to her life, it's not to rekindle their relationship but to find and kill the only man who can expose his involvement in a drug ring.
A series of cleaning store robberies exposes the chain's owner as the decoy for a money laundering conspiracy and causes suspicion from his very dangerous partners.