The commissioner sets out to trap a serial rapist in a Santa Claus mask who's been terrorizing the city.

Tony initiates a sweep to find a pair of missing cops; devises an ingenious way of keeping an habitually drunk driver off the road; and deftly handles an "extraterrestrial," all the while being scrutinized by a committee searching for a new police commissioner for New York City.

Two missing cops have been found under water, there a jail hunger strike going on and tony's up for the nypd commissioner job.

Things are not going well for Tony; he's carjacked of his gift of a new car for Rachel, a patient from psychiatric hospital escapes, things are further complicated because the escapee is a master of disguise, Tony suffers with kidney stones, which means that he has to go to hospital leaving Cyd in charge. While he's in hospital he befriends a seriously ill young boy and helps him achieve his dream of becoming a police officer.