Featured opening songs: LL Cool J - "Around the Way Girl", Lalah Hathaway - "Let Me Love You", Teddy Pendergrass - "Close the Door" Kids working for an auto-theft ring steal the car of a mobster's mother; J.C.'s ex-girlfriend wants to send G to a private school; guests Clarence Williams and Gladys Knight.
Featured opening song: Lost Boyz - "Straight From Da Ghetto" A tip from J.C.'s son leads the detectives to a father/son drug ring at the boy's private school; guests the O'Jays.
Featured opening song: Craig Mack - "Flava in Ya Ear" J.C. and Eddie pose as garbage men to probe an employee's death and wind up disposing of hazardous waste.
Featured opening song: Coolio - "Fantastic Voyage" A real-estate developer is suspected of fueling gang tensions to lower property values; Eddie tries to repair his relationship with his dad.
Featured opening song: Public Enemy - "911 Is a Joke" J.C. and Eddie search for suspects in an underworld of child molesters when the young son of a city council candidate is kidnapped in Central Park.
Featured opening song: Zhané - "Vibe" J.C. and Eddie investigate a local youth center when children start overdosing on a powerful type of heroin; G enrolls in a basketball clinic.
Featured opening song: Brand Nubian - "Word Is Bond" The detectives pose as a pair of pornographers to locate a missing girl before she falls victim to drugs and murder; guest Keith Sweat.
Featured opening song: Method Man - "Bring the Pain" J.C. and Eddie enter a world of drugs, gangsters and deception in search of clues to a rap artist's murder.
Guest Star: Ice T. Featured opening song: TLC - "Creep" The partners pose as black-market weapons buyers to nab a family of gun thieves; Eddie's dad blows his chance to play saxophone for James Brown.
Featured opening song: Chaka Demus & Pliers - "Murder She Wrote" The partners investigate a sharp-shooter's vendetta against his former accomplices in a financial scam; J.C. learns Sandy is pregnant.
Featured opening song: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - "The Message" The investigation of a high-powered female attorney's death leads Eddie and J.C. to a prominent law firm's money-laundering scheme.
Featured opening song: Marvin Gaye - "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" The detectives look for evidence necessary to book three wealthy students for the murder of G's tutor at Woodbridge academy.
Featured opening song: Public Enemy - "Fight the Power" Torres believes the man who confessed to the killing is taking the blame for his younger brother, who just received a basketball scholarship to college.
Featured opening song: Westside Connection - "Bow Down" Eddie hunts for a slick heroin dealer after his father commits suicide through an overdose; a drug dealer injects Eddie with heroin; a social worker scrutinizes J.C.'s custody of G. Featured opening song: Inner City - "Good Life" Nina tries to win the affections of a Chinese hit-man who is believed to been involved in a quadruple murder in an uptown restaurant.
Featured opening song: Da Brat - "Sittin' on Top of the World" Eddie and Nina infiltrate rival Latino gangs to investigate the shooting of a mother and a seemingly drug-motivated turf war.
Featured opening song: A+ - "All I See" A former soldier steals missiles to protest federal stance on Gulf War syndrome; J.C. meets G's French teacher (Tyra Banks).
Featured opening song: Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground" A female bounty hunter uses J.C. to help find a fugitive; Nina and McNamara probe the suspicious murder of a cop; Natasha visits the precinct.
Featured opening song: Maxwell - "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)" McNamara investigates possible links to the Chinese mob and his father's murder; Eddie asks his sister for a loan to buy an engagement ring for Nina.
Featured opening song: Faithless - "Reverence" J.C. tries to implicate a slumlord after a girl falls down his building's elevator shaft; Eddie gets cold feet while shopping for Nina's engagement ring.
Eddie Torres), Patti D'Arbanville-Quinn was dropped from the cast (resulting in the departure of Lt. Virginia Cooper), and Malik Yoba and Lauren Velez's characters were reassigned to a new unit, with new co-workers.