While his partner is recuperating, Kelly is teamed up by the squad's Lieutenant, Arthur Fancy, with a young cop from Anti-Crime, James Martinez.

Kelly's personal life is no less complicated, as he is reluctantly going through a divorce from his wife, Laura, and is embarking on an affair with a uniformed cop, Janice Licalsi.

Detective John Kelly, Sipowicz's younger partner who is going through a divorce, decides to take on the mob himself while starting a relationship with Officer Janice Licalsi.

Kelly intervenes to save a judge being held at gunpoint by a man angered by the former giving his son's killer a favorable plea bargain.

Note Despite some lingering concerns, Fancy restores Sipowicz to full duty; he and Kelly resume their partnership by tackling a brutal robbery-homicide.

Millionaire financier Thomas Wagner arranges for Kelly to moonlight as a bodyguard for his wife Susan, exposing a terrible secret between them.

Disgusted with the DOJ cutting Giardella a deal for witness protection, Sipowicz decides to carry out one final act of revenge.

Notes Kelly is forced to arrest a close friend for fatally injuring a fellow basketball player; when the man then attacks a corrections officer, the two must come to terms with their strained relationship.

Notes While working on an emotionally charged case involving a missing boy and an alleged rapist, Sipowicz tries to reconnect with his own estranged son, Andy Jr., who is considering marriage.

Note An investigation into the brutal murders of a wealthy family forces Sipowicz to confront his personal bigotry when several black men are linked to the crime.

A gay screenwriter suffering from writer's block and gerascophobia reaches out to Sipowicz for help recovering his stolen Oscar.

Laura believes Kelly may have overlooked evidence in a homicide investigation and a detective obsessed with his physique is tested for substance abuse.

Note The detectives investigate the slaying of a young black teenager whose father takes matters in his own hands when a likely suspect escapes.

Notes After a material witness escapes, again, from protective custody, and is gunned down in the street, the detectives scramble to save their case against the two brothers he was to testify against -- who have also planned a hit on Laura.