Season 4, Episode 19: Nutcracker Suite

Drama • TV-14 • Directed by: Hill Street Blues • 49 minutes

The disgruntled blues try to sort things out in the wake of furillo's departure, while the harried captain is tempted to take his first drink in seven years. Meanwhile, calletano resorts to a daring strategy to restore furillo to the hill. Goldblume quietly improvises a team of detectives to dog william mullins, hoping to provoke the junkie who threatened to slay davenport into making one false step. Upset over his girlfriend daryl ann's pregnancy and the possibility of unheralded matrimony, renko makes an unlikely ally of gang leader jesus martinez, who presses charges against his pregnant girlfriend for "Shooting up my place of business." also, an edgy davenport tries to occupy her mind with the bizarre case of a man who struck out in anger when he suffered damage to a sensitive area.