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Two Russian mobsters, ILYA and GYORGI, extort Boardwalk vendors for ""protection money,"" but the vendors are too intimidated to identify the mobsters to the Bike Patrol. When ED TARLOW, a paraplegic store owner, is attacked, he agrees to testify. Palermo assigns T.C. and Cory to provide protection, but T.C.'s disdain toward Ed's questionable drug background and cop-hating attitude almost blows the case. Chris suspects a trio of karate-trained teenage girls are responsible for several assaults on the beach. One of the girls, CARA, is uncomfortable with their vigilante attacks, but is hesitant to confide in Chris -- until Cara's friends question her loyalty. Victor's in a bad position when Jessie Palermo asks him about birth control and makes him promise not to tell her father. He takes it upon himself to check out her new boyfriend. When Palermo finds Victor's business card in Jessie's wallet -- along with a condom -- Victor's stuck with his oath to Jessie.

A pair of daredevils pull dangerous, ""extreme"" stunts around the Boardwalk, hoping to be winners in an on-line contest on the internet. Unknown to Palermo, his daughter, Jessie, is attracted to one of the guys and is videotaping their exploits for the competition. Two hijackers sell the goods from stolen trucks to various vendors on the Boardwalk. Chris gets closer to the case than she realizes when unscrupulous jewelry vendor MAHMOOD sells her a stolen watch. Victor's mother ROSA pays an unexpected visit, frustrating his efforts to get some ""quality time"" with Linda. When Rosa becomes overly curious --in Victor's opinion -- about Linda's plans for marriage and family, he gets angry. Much to his surprise, Linda then gets angry at him.

While fleeing two thugs, a man falls from his hotel room window and comes to with amnesia, ­ a condition which stifles Chris and Cory's investigation of the incident. As Cory tries to help the victim regain his memory ­ before the gunmen return ­ she finds herself attracted to this mysterious stranger. An attraction which is fully reciprocated. When T.C.'s girlfriend, SANDY, is accepted to a graduate school program in Georgia, she has to decide whether to pursue her dream of becoming a therapist or stay with the man she loves.

A deadly new form of heroin hits the streets of Santa Monica, sending the Bike Patrol into overtime as all hell breaks loose. During the investigation, T.C. falls under the seductive spell of an undercover DEA agent who's investigating one of the drug distributors but has become an addict herself. Victor is ordered to attend requalifying training on the bike, and much to his horror, his instructor is HANS REY, a former instructor who made his life miserable the first time around. The two engage in a one-upmanship contest, judged by Chris.

An Army veteran, ZACK TORRANCE, holds the beach hostage -- including Victor, Cory and several school children -- to insure that his information about a clandestine Army-sponsored drug operation reaches the public. As T.C. tries to negotiate with Zack, F.B.I. agent FRANKLIN QUILL takes over, and his orders result in Zack's death. Quill turns out to have a secret history with Zack, including a suspected affiliation with the C.I.A. Cory tries to fix up T.C. with her school teacher friend GINA, whose ex-boyfriend DEAN, a lifeguard, isn't ready to give her up. Gina is wounded in the beach shoot-out, and when Dean risks his life to come to her aid, Gina realizes her love for him.

When MAGGIE GARRITY, the attractive director of a local shelter, comes to the Firehouse to report a missing runaway girl, T.C.'s motivation to help is less than altruistic. During their search for the girl, who has fallen in with two thieves, T.C. gets up the nerve to ask Maggie out, only to find out that she's a nun. Victor borrows Palermo's brand-new, extremely expensive bike, but loses it to a street kid who then delights at eluding him.

The investigation of a string of ATM robberies brings T.C. and Chris together on a stakeout -- and closer together in their personal lives. When Palermo finds out that his two officers are romantically involved, T.C. and Chris have to decide whether to break up or transfer out of the Bike Patrol. Palermo's name turns up in Hollywood madam Laila Stine's ""little black book"", putting his career on the line. He and Cory discover that Laila padded her book with the names of people in law enforcement, hoping that then no one would come after her for fear of embarrassment.

Chris discovers that Rosey Evans, the friendly girl who serves her coffee every morning, is a runaway living with her boyfriend, who was also her high school teacher. When they bring Rosey into custody and call her father to pick her up, Chris is shocked to discover that Mr. Evans severely beat his daughter, part of the reason that she ran away. In exchange for a lighter sentence, a criminal gives Cory some important information: a powerful drug dealer has hired a hitman to kill her brother, Peter McNamara in retribution for strong-arming him when he was a dirty cop. Cory and Peter have to draw the hitman out of hiding and defeat him without alerting anyone on the police force

JIMMY GUERRERO, a friend of Victor's, is killed in connection with an underground fighting syndicate, leaving his angry younger brother BILLY seeking revenge. Victor defuses the brother's desire to take revenge himself, convincing Billy to introduce him into the ring as a street fighter so Victor can find his friend's killer. An uneasy truce between rival Santa Monica gangs -- a truce that Palermo helped put together -- is in danger of dissolving when SAMMY LUGO makes both leaders believe the other is breaking the peace in an effort to sell weapons to both sides. Elvis goes into hiding when he witnesses Jimmy's beating and the simultaneous gun exchange, but a bad case of claustrophobia makes him an unwelcome houseguest for T.C.

Victor's close childhood friend EMILIO LOPEZ, a troubled kid who grew up to be a troubled adult -- Victor's mother ROSA has always considered him to be a second son. Out on parole, Emilio has taken a job at the local high school, but little does Victor know that Emilio is the leader of a car theft ring that's already left one person dead. Victor has to chase down his own best friend, who is determined not to go back to jail no matter what. MAHMOOD, sentenced to community service for his illegal activities (detailed in the episode ""Outlaw Extreme""), is back at it when he and his ""business partner"" SARA FARMAN try to sell the Santa Monica Pier to a wise-guy wannabe LENNY STEINRUDER. But Sara takes off with the money, leaving Mahmood to deal with Lenny's anger -- and learning too late that Lenny has familial connections to a New York mafioso known as the ""Jewish Godfather."" Cory and Chris reluctantly agree to help him only long enough to arrest Lenny as a way of getting to his father-in-l

Timothy Stone, the F.B.I. agent who worked with the Bike Patrol on the bombing case in ""Lights Out"", returns to the Firehouse to get Cory and Chris' assistance in investigating a counterfeit ring operating in Santa Monica. Chris and Cory both find themselves attracted to Agent Stone, but when he and Cory begin a romance, Chris feels betrayed. The counterfeiter, Lazlo Parkes-- who the Treasury Department has nicknamed ""Rumplestiltskin"" -- has been passing off fake $100 bills at Santa Monica hotspots with the help of a trio of women: Bree, Sheila and Lana. Lazlo is plotting to exchange one million in fake bills for a supply of heroin from drug lord Alejandro Cruz-- a drug deal that Palermo has ordered T.C. and Victor to investigate. Little does Lazlo expect that Bree is plotting with boyfriend Nicky Mink to kill Lazlo and take off with the money... until the other two women discover the plan.

While off-duty, T.C. confronts a man carrying a gun in a parking lot. The man whirls and fires at T.C., T.C. returns fire, killing him, but the man turns out to be an undercover police officer with a spotless record. When an investigation reveals that T.C. didn't identify himself as a police officer when he approached the man, T.C.'s left with suspension and the possibility he's killed a completely innocent man. T.C.'s brother, TEDDY, has a gambling problem which comes to light when he's accused of masterminding the hold-up of a high-stakes poker game. Chris' building is going condo at the end of the month. She reluctantly accepts Cory's offer to be roommates, remembering that their first roommate experience almost ended in a double homicide... each other.

A reformed murderer, CONWAY HEINRIKSEN, struggles to rebuild his life after many years in a mental institution, but his past victims are bent on seeing that the killer will never have peace in his life. Cory's friend, BILLIE, finds compassion towards Conway, but her life is in danger when the psychological warfare by the victims takes its toll. Chris' biological father returns to her life after a thirty-year absence, and she struggles with her anger toward him as well as her parents, who told Chris he was dead. A thief steals Jeff Pierce's valuable pink jersey and T.C. and Victor take road racing lessons from the master to catch the thief.

Two young, overprivileged business school grads are holding raves at a Santa Monica warehouse where underage kids have access to drugs and alcohol. Firm in his belief that these kids are the product of irresponsible parents, Palermo questions his own parenting skills when he finds out his daughter JESSIE attends the raves with her best friend. Meanwhile, Victor gets in trouble trying to protect Jessie from getting found out; Chris is slipped a ""roofie"" by a rave organizer; and T.C.'s declared too ""uncool"" to work undercover.

Victor's girlfriend, LINDA, is witness to a murder by a notorious local drug lord who has been arrested several times, but manages to get rid of any witnesses before each trial. Realizing that he'll lose Linda if she goes into witness protection, Victor proposes marriage, even though it would mean saying good-bye to his career, friends and family forever. Ultimately, Victor goes after the drug lord, forcing a final confrontation. A star rapper is gunned down after a concert where T.C. and Chris are providing security. With the help of Detective BEN ""WISHBONE"" COLLINS, T.C. and Chris search for the shooter, who turns out to be a psychopath determined to kill one person for each violation of the Ten Commandments. During the investigation, Chris forms a tentative friendship with the rapper's cynical teenage daughter.

A trio of heavily-armed and heavily-armored bank robbers holds up a Santa Monica bank. In the resulting shootout, a security officer is killed and Victor is shot. Victor's injury isn't life-threatening, but it makes him the ""butt"" of jokes at the Firehouse as he confronts the idea of his own mortality. Chris is targeted for death by one of the robbers seeking vengeance for his gunshot wound. After the failed assassination attempt, Chris spends the night at T.C.'s house, rekindling their buried romance as they try to decide how to deal with those feelings. Palermo intervenes when he discovers his ex-wife, HELEN, is being physically abused by her current husband, a police officer. Palermo offers Helen the shelter of his home, but that night Jessie catches them making love. When she demands to know if her parents are getting back together, Palermo has to confess the truth -- he doesn't know.

T.C. is outraged when ""The Sandman"", a hitman responsible for the murders of a police informant and an innocent bystander, is released from prison.Against the orders of DEA agent INSPECTOR ENRIGHT (from the episode ""Black Pearl""), T.C. trails the Sandman on his own, hoping to catch him committing another crime. Enright finally arrests T.C. for obstruction of justice. Neither knows that Sandman plans to use T.C. in exacting revenge on the three drug runners who made him take the fall for the informant's murder, and in such a way that he -- the Sandman -- won't even have to pull the trigger...

The truth about Chris' navy career is revealed. Five years ago, Chris trained under a chauvinistic flight instructor CAPTAIN FRANK HAWKINS, whose intentional misinformation caused her to crash her jet. Chris accepted an honorable discharge on the condition that Hawkins never be a flight instructor again. However, Hawkins still is, and a female pilot has just had the same experience as Chris -- except, this time, her co-pilot died. The woman asks Chris to testify on her behalf, bringing up painful memories and fresh anger for Chris as she returns to the Navy base to bring closure to that period of her life. T.C. and Victor investigate a boardwalk robbery ring in which an attractive woman offers assistance to foreign tourists who are then robbed by the woman's partners. When the robberies turn into murders, T.C. and Palermo go undercover as wealthy -- and outrageously dressed -- foreigners to catch the suspects.

Following a violent robbery at a cafe, the Bike Squad discovers an abandoned baby. In searching for the mother, they find that the child was part of a black market baby-selling scheme. Cory goes undercover as a pregnant woman to find the baby seller, unprepared for the rush of maternal feelings the case will uncover for her. The cafe robber is arrested, but dies of a heart attack while in lockup. When it's learned that the robber was also a bike racer taking a powerful ""performance-enhancing"" drug, T.C. goes undercover to find the sellers, who operate out of a local bike shop, and befriends a guy hooked on the drug.

A drug dealer T.C. arrested years ago breaks out of jail and kidnaps T.C., dumping him in a trailer buried in the sand underneath a beach. The convict demands ransom from T.C.'s father (ETHAN) and brother (TEDDY), or else T.C. will die in twelve hours. As the Pacific Blue squad searches frantically for T.C.'s location, T.C. tries to find his own way out of his underground prison before time runs out.

The wild ass son of a Romanian ambassador commits crimes on the boardwalk, causing a huge headache for the Pacific Blue team because the father's diplomatic immunity extends to his son. The government refuses to help because the ambassador is taking part in a secret sting operation to uncover illegal arms trading. When the son's crimes become serious, Palermo risks defying the government handlers to keep his beach safe. Palermo befriends a young black guy on the basketball court whom he believes to be an honest, hard-working kid; but discovers his new friend is a former college basketball player who was illiterate, and involved with drugs and point-shaving. When a local college coach asks for Palermo's help in recruiting the guy, Palermo must decide whether the kid's efforts to ""turn over a new leaf"" and re-enter college with a new identity in order to get a real education are genuine.

All the victims of a recent series of murders had earlier placed personal ads in a local paper. Chris and Cory enter the dating pool undercover, and in the course of the investigation, each meets the ""perfect"" man. When Cory's dream man attacks her (and escapes), Chris assumes her date is safe to pursue a relationship with -- unaware that it is the same man Cory dated, but with a different disguise. T.C. goes undercover in a wheelchair with ED TARLOW (from ""Wheels of Fire""), hoping to catch a thief who is stealing expensive wheelchairs for resale. During his assignment, he discovers the difficulties of the disabled, and meets a ""wheelchair groupie"" -- a woman who likes T.C. because she thinks he's disabled. Victor prepares for an upcoming ""bachelor auction"", secretly concerned that T.C. might receive a higher bid. At the auction, his fears prove unfounded when a third man unexpectedly proves more popular than both of them... Tony Palermo!

Cory goes undercover to investigate a Hollywood madam's operation after one of her call girls -- who was blackmailing clients -- washes up on the beach. A Hollywood actress whose estranged sister is also a callgirl demands that Pacific Blue help tear her sister from the madam's clutches. T.C. and Victor wonder why three kids in succession would try to steal a very ugly brooch from a pawn shop, then discover that the boys are brothers. The father of the boys finally admits he mistakenly pawned his shrewish wife's brooch and sent his kids to steal it when he couldn't afford to buy it back. T.C. and Chris consummate their romance, but Chris has ""morning after"" regrets and pushes T.C. away, fearing she will lose her best friend. Eventually, both decide to take the risk and be in love, though secretly.

After a nightmare in which her dead mother shoots her in the course of arresting a suspect, Cory is injured in a car accident. As she works to rehabilitate her knee, Cory tries to decipher her mother's warning in the dream: ""Beware the simple things."" She decides it could be a message to quit the force and become a more well-rounded person. Two Korean twins use their flashy martial arts expertise to dispense vigilante justice along the boardwalk, attracting press attention and creating a headache for Pacific Blue. When the bike squad finally catches the twins, the duo reveals they were hoping to attract attention leading to a movie deal. Unfortunately, they've also attracted the attention of a criminal whose plan to distribute counterfeit money on the boardwalk has been scuttled as a result.