Joey finds Paul carrying a gun and questions him about it. Joe and Mary are having marital problems.

Joey risks everything to protect Paul. One hostage situation gets ugly when Mike is forced to kill a drug dealer while Joe ends another and no one is killed. Joe and Ginny get closer. Paul gets a job.

Joe wants to save his marriage, but he ends up kissing Ginny. Mike and his partner, Cliff, investigate a valet who gets copies of car keys. Joey sleeps with his union lawyer. Paul's long hours of school and work delivering pizzas catches up with him and he ends up sleeping a lot.