A small time hood must decide between life and freedom when he refuses to allow the evidence, a bullet lodged near his spine, that prosecutor Dutton needs to convict him to be removed surgically; Gilland fights to save his niece from the influence of a pimp who would turn her into a prostitute

Doctors Bergstrom and Carson get far more than they bargained for when their attempt to track down a drug courier from Mexico, who has a highly contagious form of plague, leads them into the middle of a drug war.

Pellegrino fights to free a man who has served seven years for a crime he didn't commit; Dr. Carson considers a lucrative job in private practice; and Dutton tries to win the confidence of an angry youngster he sponsors in a Big Brother program.