Hardin is a hired killer for Frank Loper, until Beaudreaux manages to stop him in his tracks. The D.A. tries to make a deal with Hardin in exchange for his testimony against Loper, and assigns Beaudreaux to protect him. Adam enlists the help of his friend Ted Willis to help him find Grady Jameson, a young boy who saved his life many years ago. He thinks he's finally on the right track when Hardin escapes.

Adam gets Grady a job at Malloy's, and soon learns that Grady tracked him down because he was looking for Hardin...Hardin told the VietCong that his parents were CIA agents, which is how they ended up dead. Grady then disappears, and not only are Adam and Teddy looking for him, so is Hardin. Adam shows up at Chan's dojo and patches things up with Grady just in time for Hardin to show up. Grady's hopes of getting vengeance are squashed when (after managing to live through an explosing car), Hardin is run down by another car.

Grady gets into a car accident with a member of the K Street Boys, and Luis Parades takes it upon himself to go after Beaudreaux' car, but Grady stops him with an impressive array of martial arts.

Grady's new girlfriend Jennifer begins to believe that the son she gave up for adoption years ago is being abused by his parents. Grady gets involved because of his own memories of being abused as a child, and the two save the child from an abusive parent...but not the one they thought it was.

When Victoria gets rapist Jack Walker off, he shows his gratitude by stalking her. She asks Grady and Adam for help, and Grady almost gets the police department sued when he takes matters into his own hands.

When Chase and then Traynor end up dead, the police put Adam in protective custody, believing the Shadow Dragons are behind it all. Teddy and Grady lead Adam to Old Kim, and Grady and Adam make it clear to Old Kim that if he doesn't leave Adam alone, his life of crime is over.

Grady rescues a beautiful young woman from the New Dutch Indies when he realises that her 'caretakers' are abusing her. When her caretakers charge her with stealing, Adam needs to find her and Grady to keep them safe.

When young Asian women are being murdered, Adam believes that it is the work of one of the newer members of the Vietnam Veterans group, and has to fight not only to find a killer, but also to keep his friendship with Teddy.

Malloy's friend Lisa is being abused by her husband, but is relucant to leave him. When Adam taunts Doug in a bar ('you don't have the guts to do this to a man', etc), Doug claims Adam assaulted him.

Malloy's brother comes to town looking forward to a birthday celebration, but is beaten to death by a group of young hoods just because he is gay.

Grady is upset when Adam takes custody of Miguel Mendez, considering Miguel tried to kill him. When Miguel's best friend Luis is shot and killed, Grady, Adam, and Willis all have to talk him out of taking the law into his own hands.

Miguel's mother comes to Adam seeking sanctuary for herself and her younger son, Fernando, prompting Miguel to seek sanctuary at Grady's, because his memories of his childhood aren't good. It turns out that a local criminal is after Carmen.

Adam falls in love with his new partner, Lynn, but learns that she isn't quite what she seems when she starts asking a lot of questions, not only about Adam, but about Dennis Malloy as well.

When two masked men rob Malloy's, Adam soon grows suspicious of former armed robber Emmett Wilson, who now runs the security firm everyone is rushing to hire.

Grady meets pop star Gabrielle in a shop and foils an attempted robbery. Gabrielle hires him to be one of her bodyguards. Adam tells Grady he doesn't trust her and not to get involved, but Grady doesn't listen. After Grady has left to tour with her, Adam is assigned to investigate her for money laundering.

Grady gets himself arrested to help his old friend, Gary, after he ends up in jail, having been arrested for armed robbery.

Teddy has been using Old Kim's help in sneaking Vietnamese immigrants into the country, not realising he was using them to smuggle in heroin until Old Kim frames him for drug trafficking.

When Malloy witnesses a mob killing, she is reluctant to testify, because she knows that if she does, her life as she knows it will never be the same.

Charlie is having a hard time of it, especially once his wife leaves him. Everyone is pressuring him to take stress leave, but it's not until after he loses his cool on the job that he is forced to take some time off...even though he insists on being kept informed of what's going on around him.

Adam's former partner shows up, now working as a skip tracer. She takes the case of a man trying to regain custody of his daughter, who just happens to live with friends of Adam's.

When a woman named Lan comes looking for Adam's help in finding her missing husband, Adam refuses at first, because she reminds him of a former love, Mei. Adam finally agrees to help her, and offers Old Kim a truce of sorts.