Washington, D.C., Police Chief Jack Mannion, runs a modern-day "Untouchables" team to patrol the most crime-ridden, drug-infested streets in his city.

A teacher takes a board of education hostage after her inquiries into school health problems go unanswered.

Putin (guest star Michael Ironside) resurfaces and raises the stakes by kidnapping Mannion's daughter -- possibly to trade for his own offspring.

Mannion turns to restaurateur Teddy Reed (Joanna Cassidy) for eyewitness testimony regarding the killing of a congressman, but her flawed story leads him to suspect she is lying.

While investigating a museum heist, Debreno and Cahill find the suspect in the museum but not the stolen Picasso painting.