Kaz returns to the prison where he served time to act as a negotiator in a takeover by the inmates.

A youth becomes the center of the DA's campaign against gang crime. A rash of teenage gang crimes puts the DA under pressure to use adult punishment on teenage offenders. Kaz's young defendant may go to prison if he cannot be proven innocent. A rash of violent teenage gang crimes sparks the district attorney's office into taking drastic measures against perpetrators, and Kaz's young defendant is the first who may suffer under the counterattack.

A full-scale war between Kaz and Peter Colcourt develops when Kaz takes on a case of Molly, a retired actress charged with shoplifting, and promptly falls in love with Linda. When Peter Colcourt turns down his sister Linda's request to defend an accused 72-year-old shoplifter, Molly, Kaz steps in to take over the case. In the process, he also falls in love with Linda Colcourt and enrages the District Attorney.