Police Story: 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 Police Story 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
Payment Deferred
Sep 21, 1976 · 60 min
Detective Joe Barley enlists Holly, his "retired" snitch and recovering addict, to help him find the man who shot his partner.
Bought and Paid For
Oct 5, 1976 · 60 min
Detectives Belmont and Melino want the three men involved when a patrolman, the son of a Lieutenant, is killed when he interrupts a bank robbery. The one they need is the psychopat
Two Frogs on a Mongoose
Oct 12, 1976 · 60 min
Manny and Deke are on the narcotics squad, investigating a double shooting at a dry cleaning shop, when they get a tip that the shop owner is in business dealing drugs with a man c
The Other Side of the Badge
Oct 26, 1976 · 60 min
Jack Mitchell is in control and keeps his cool when patrolling with his rookie partner, but his home life with his wife and her teenage daughter is not so tidy.
Three Days to Thirty
Nov 9, 1976 · 60 min
While working out his last three days before retirement, Frank Moran is assigned a hot case.
Trash Detail, Front and Center
Nov 16, 1976 · 60 min
Lew Randle, head of the Special Investigations Team, comes back after vacation and is immediately engulfed in the investigations of several armed robberies. He has to buck departme
Thanksgiving
Nov 23, 1976 · 60 min
K-Joe and Bunny investigate the sniper shooting of a young girl riding in a car on the freeway.
Monster Manor
Nov 30, 1976 · 60 min
Gene (Santos) has a falling out with his wife and moves into a temporary bachelor's apartment, which becomes a party hangout for his buddies and attracts a lot of unwanted attentio
Oxford Gray
Dec 7, 1976 · 60 min
Sgt. Kyles and Inv. McLiam try to break up the criminal activities of a local entrepreneur and philanthropist by bringing back his past as a violent revolutionary in Detroit and pl
The Jar (1)
Dec 14, 1976 · 60 min
Two detectives are called before the grand jury after a man is shot and killed when they attempt to arrest him.
The Jar (2)
Dec 21, 1976 · 60 min
Hagen and Triplett are reassigned to an out-of-the-way detail to keep them out of the public eye pending their manslaughter trial.
Trial Board
Jan 4, 1977 · 60 min
An undercover Vice detective is accused by one of his fellow Vice detectives of stealing cash during a drug bust.
Spitfire
Jan 11, 1977 · 60 min
Detectives try to track down the two remaining robbers who participated in a tire store holdup that resulted in the deaths of an employee and one of the robbers. Their investigatio
Nightmare on a Sunday Morning
Jan 18, 1977 · 60 min
Holly Green, a 19-year-old waitress is brutally beaten and raped by a pair of creeps, she then reluctantly helps bring her assailants to trial.
The Malflores
Jan 25, 1977 · 60 min
Officers Webber and Cheruco discover a violent new gang on the streets, the Malflores, comprised entirely of Latinas.
The Blue Fog
Feb 1, 1977 · 60 min
Veteran Detective Jack McGraw is given the unsavory task of investigating Vice detectives suspected of taking bribes from the Chinese crime family running an illegal gambling opera
Hard Rock Brown
Feb 15, 1977 · 60 min
LAPD Narcotics detectives work with a Mexican counterpart to try to break up the operation run by the Alvarez brothers, which is flooding the market with Mexican heroin known as "h
End of the Line
Feb 22, 1977 · 60 min
Detectives Gerard and Panelli try to catch a pair of armed robbers who hit a supermarket, and are joined by a one-armed former detective, who is now an investigator for the store's
One of Our Cops Is Crazy
Mar 1, 1977 · 60 min
Sgt. Paul Cazenovia uses highly unconventional, albeit successful, methods in his undercover narcotics unit, but his lieutenant thinks he is crazy. It doesn't help that Paul refuse
Ice Time
Mar 8, 1977 · 60 min
Vice Detective Dave Tackleberry takes on a second job (to pay for his teenage daughter's figure skating development) at the same time he and his partner Det. Wurster try to bust a
The Six Foot Stretch
Mar 22, 1977 · 60 min
Detectives DeHart and Ward go up against another team of officers Riggs and Salter in tracking down a criminal. A psychotic man is targeting elderly women and time is of the essenc
Prime Rib
Apr 5, 1977 · 60 min
Marty Lacayo and Glenn Talbot are street narcs, meaning they are given the task of busting nickel-and-dime users and hustlers. Shep, one of their users, gives them a tasty lead on