Tony discovers one of Rachel's colleagues, a popular and much-honoured teacher, is a child molester. Stan tries to catch a robber who left his hat at the scene. Tony scrambles to get ballet tickets in time for Rachel's birthday while also learning about the molester's own childhood abuse and trying to convince the parents of one of the molester's victims to let their daughter tell her story in court.

Tony receives anonymous, artistic death threats, seemingly from a convict he'd helped to convict. Stan tries to prosecute a deer poacher with failed results until protests outside the department building give Tony an idea. Rachel's special-needs class gives a poetry reading. Tony learns the hard way it wasn't the convict sending him the death threats.

Two of Tony's officers are found dead. Tony is interviewing for a job as the New York City Police Commissioner. Tony and Rachel are trying to conceive a second child.