Police Woman: 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 Woman 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
Do You Still Beat Your Wife?
Oct 25, 1977 · 60 min
Undercover cop Pepper Anderson and partner Bill Crowley aid a battered wife who refuses to press charges against her brutal husband.
Guns
Nov 1, 1977 · 60 min
Pepper sets herself up as a target by offering Congressional testimony against an international gun-running operation.
Means to an End
Nov 8, 1977 · 60 min
Pepper infiltrates a college drug ring to learn who is supplying cheap but lethal downers to students.
The Inside Connection
Nov 22, 1977 · 60 min
Pepper poses as a prisoner to find the killer of a rookie policewoman who was investigation a drug operation in the women's county jail.
The Buttercup Killer
Dec 13, 1977 · 60 min
A killer attired in a nun's habit is slaying members of a Greek family, leaving only a dried buttercup as a clue.
Merry Christmas, Waldo
Dec 14, 1977 · 60 min
An elderly Santa Claus robs banks using trickery, to assure his indigent friends a merry Christmas.
Death Game
Dec 21, 1977 · 60 min
Pepper is driven to the brink of a nervous collapse by an unidentified assailant threatening her life.
Ambition
Dec 28, 1977 · 60 min
An overzealous detective becomes implicated in an extortion scam.
Blind Terror
Jan 4, 1978 · 60 min
It is a case of mistaken identity when criminals kidnap Pepper, thinking she is the wife of an accountant who uncovered payoffs from a criminal syndicate.
Tigress
Jan 11, 1978 · 60 min
Pepper resents her assignment to protect an unscrupulous former classmate who is now a political candidate.
Sunset
Jan 18, 1978 · 60 min
In the midst of the investigation into the death of a race car driver, Crowley and his dying ex-wife seek reconciliation.
The Young and the Fair
Jan 25, 1978 · 60 min
A local professor may be involved with a white slavery racket, so Pepper goes undercover as a college student.
The Human Rights of Tiki Kim
Feb 1, 1978 · 60 min
A young girl from Korea is abducted and held to prevent her from talking about the murder she witnessed.
Sixth Sense
Feb 8, 1978 · 60 min
Crowley discovers a woman near death in a car trunk, but the driver — her assailant — is freed on a technicality.
Sons
Feb 15, 1978 · 60 min
A rookie cop is beaten and a man tells the police what he knows about it, only to have his son murdered.
Murder with Pretty People
Feb 22, 1978 · 60 min
A model agency owner, who was not a popular person to begin with, is murdered, sending Pepper undercover as a fashion model to find the killer.
Battered Teachers
Mar 1, 1978 · 60 min
Teachers are being terrorized at a high school by local area hoods, so Pepper goes back to school to go after them.
A Shadow on the Sea
Mar 8, 1978 · 60 min
Pepper, a waterfront cop and an old sea dog go after two boat hijackers who murdered a honeymooning couple and seem willing to steal and kill more to set up a smuggling operation.
Sweet Kathleen
Mar 15, 1978 · 60 min
A woman tells Crowley a story of how she knew the details about a robbery but was forced to keep those facts to herself or face the consequences.
Flip of a Coin
Mar 23, 1978 · 60 min
Styles's wife is facing surgery and he's having trouble concentrating on a kidnapping case.
Good Old Uncle Ben
Mar 30, 1978 · 60 min
An old friend of Pepper's gets drawn into a cattle stealing scheme.