Naked City: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Naked City Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Hold for Gloria Christmas
Sep 19, 1962
Poet Duncan Kleist breaks out of a hospital alcholic ward to retrieve some verses he traded for drinks. But Stanley, the bartender who now has the poems, tells Duncan he will have
Idylls of a Running Back
Sep 26, 1962
Pro football star shot by younger woman when he opens his hotel room door. The press assumes Elvin "Colossus of" Rhodes was cheating on his wife, but Rhodes insists he doesn't even
Daughter, Am I in My Father's House?
Oct 3, 1962
A teenage girl is teased and handled a little roughly by four prankish teenage boys at a movie theater. The girl's father downplays the incident when the NYPD investigates. The fat
And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...
Oct 10, 1962
A young man with a disfigured face lives in the shadows of the city committing petty crimes until a young woman and Detective Flint show him how his self-worth is tied to his actio
Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy
Oct 17, 1962
A recently-retired policewoman who is facing her own mortality discovers, with the help of Detective Arcaro, how she has missed so many opportunities for happiness.
Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring
Oct 24, 1962
Former contender Johnny Meigs, eking out a living after a brain injury, pleads to go back in the ring, to get money to send his unknowing wife Kathy to compete in a floral show in
Go Fight City Hall
Oct 31, 1962
A subway fare taker who tried to hide his drunken escapades by falsely reporting a crime, goes on a mini crime spree to try to make fools of the investigating detectives.
Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long
Nov 7, 1962
To remain straight, an ex-con informs on the would-be robbers of a bar where he works, instead of helping the stickup men, his former pals. But the hoods' connection to Link Toland
Make It Fifty Dollars and Add Love to Nona
Nov 14, 1962
An old, but vibrant, man is shuffled off to an "Elderly Citizen's" home by his wealthy son. Both to get his son's attention and amuse himself, the man begins to make threatening cr
A Horse Has a Big Head -- Let Him Worry!
Nov 21, 1962
An almost-blind young man roams the streets of New York after separating from his class, while his teacher (Diahann Carroll) attempts to convince his parents that the boy can learn
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
Nov 28, 1962
An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured student.
The Virtues of Madame Douvay
Dec 5, 1962
Dishwasher carved to death, while Adam & Libby slurp wine in a French bistro.
King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Table
Dec 12, 1962
Two longtime Polish friends in the meat business have some bad blood between them and fight to resolve their issues.
Spectre of the Rose Street Gang
Dec 19, 1962
Construction workers unearth the skeleton of a 14-year old boy, dead and buried for about 25 years. The only clue to his identity -- and fate -- is a cigarette lighter with the mon
Don't Knock It Till You've Tried It
Dec 26, 1962
Two Las Vegas showgirls travel to New York for the purpose of abducting a married psychiatrist with whom one of the women had an affair. The apparent motivation is to force the man
Her Life in Moving Pictures
Jan 2, 1963
The detectives try to build a case against a womanizing con man who manipulates lonely maids in order to gain their confidence and burglarize the homes of their wealthy employers.
Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out with Bow and Arrow
Jan 9, 1962
After a string of liquor store robberies and murders, a liquor store owner plans for retribution when his store is robbed and his friend, the clerk, is killed.
The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree
Jan 23, 1963
A group of rich young men burglarize apartments in their own building, and to cover their tracks, escalate to violence.
Beyond This Place There Be Dragons
Jan 30, 1963
An ex-con, hustling a living by being part fence, sports bettor and police informant among other things,has a contract out on his life. He scrambles to get enough money together to
A Man Without a Skin
Feb 6, 1963
A hot dog, newspaper headline-grabbing detective has himself assigned to the 65th Precinct to find the killer of his partner. Both Lt. Parker and Det. Flint soon find that this bra
Prime of Life
Feb 13, 1963
Flint is ordered to prison to witness the execution of a murderer he helped capture.
Bringing Far Places Together
Feb 20, 1963
An immigrant from Puerto Rico finds that things are not better and in many ways worse since moving to NYC. The inability to speak English has lead to confusion, not being able to f
The Highest of Prizes
Feb 27, 1963
A jury that seems hopelessly deadlocked debates the case of a man who murdered his wife in order to be with another woman, but there might not be enough physical evidence to sway a
Alive and Still a Second Lieutenant
Mar 6, 1963
A corporate man who accidentally killed a man in a fight over a parking space mentally and physically tortures himself while the detectives search for the killer.
Stop the Parade, a Baby Is Crying!
Mar 20, 1963
The reporting of a car theft by a good looking blonde seems odd for some reason to Detectives Flint and Arcaro. Later they and Lt. Parker are told she actually lent the car after a
On the Battlefront, Every Minute Is Important
Mar 27, 1963
A psychotic who leads a burglary ring has an unfortunate habit of bursting into a murderous rage when things go wrong. When Adam investigates the scene of of the bloody break-ins,
Howard Running Bear Is a Turtle
Apr 3, 1963
American Indians employed in NYC as "high floor construction workers" are a close knit group that follow tribal customs. A loveless arranged marriage that has not worked out eventu
No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!
Apr 17, 1963
An immature man is the landlord of a house who is given to act irrationally because of the memory of his overbearing, deceased father. When his fiancée is visiting from Italy, he p
Carrier
Apr 24, 1963
A young woman, a carrier of a deadly infectious disease, leaves a self-imposed exile of 14 years on Welfare Island (now called Roosevelt Island) for Manhattan and a "normal" life.
Color Schemes Like Never Before
May 1, 1963
A man with no "point of view" is strongly attracted to an opinionated woman. After he witnesses the accidental death of a "client" of his brother and his business associates he is
The S.S. American Dream
May 8, 1963
An emotional scrap dealer wants to purchase a ship bound for salvage, but he needs at least $3000. When his business partner refuses to help, the scrapper flies into a rage and mur
One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski
May 15, 1963
The tension between a stock worker and his boss in a cardboard packaging plant, over a co-worker they both are in love with, escalates into a major fight. The police are called, bu
Golden Lads and Girls
May 22, 1963
A pair of married couples from different social and economic backgrounds find they do have something in common. The couples both are involved in physically abusive relationships an
Barefoot on a Bed of Coals
May 29, 1963
A man who failed to qualify for the NYPD takes to impersonating a uniformed patrolman.His motives have to do with wanting to serve the public and also wanting to attract more desir