
McNeil's mistress, Toni, announces that she is going to tell his wife about his ongoing infidelity. Meanwhile the department rallies around Frank, who is hospitalized with chest pains, and Eli Wallach guest stars as an elderly man who may have killed his own wife.
McNeil and Pip are assigned to take the District Attorney's twelve-year-old daughter on a ride-along for her school paper. McNeil is less than thrilled about their assignment, especially when they lose her in the city. Meanwhile, Frank disguises himself as a priest to draw a confession out of a parishioner, and an unconventional "nun" strips down to more than her habit at the precinct.
When McNeil, Pip and Jan are assigned to find a missing ballerina, they discover that the mystery of her whereabouts may be linked to Frank's favorite new soup. Meanwhile, Ruben is touched by a self-proclaimed mystical Indian chief who's disrupting Central Park.