Renegade detectives Rick Hunter and Dee Dee McCall team up to catch a sociopathic serial killer targeting blonde-haired, blue-eyed country music fans. The hurdle for the pair to clear is their by-the-book captain who despises them both.

Hunter & McCall make a pact of protectiveness and loyalty toward each other when she is nearly killed by her old partner after she tries to stop him from a killer-for-hire assignment.

When the wife of the commissioner is killed in car bomb that was planted in the commissioner's car, Hunter is assigned the case knowing well that he could get booted out. When Hunter arrives, he discovers a few anomalies like how his car was parked like he wanted his wife to move it and his attitude when they arrive. The chief intercedes on his behalf threatening to have Hunter booted if he keeps doing this. But Hunter nevertheless still perseveres and finds a secret the man wanted to keep quiet.

Hunter and McCall are transporting a prisoner back to L.A. when they have to stop at a small town. They place their prisoner in the custody of the Sheriff. Later that evening after the waitress from the local café brings the prisoner his dinner she's attacked and at the same time the prisoner's cell is opened. He runs out and everyone assumes he attacked her. However Hunter and McCall think the Sheriff had something to do with it. When they try to question him, they learn the Sheriff is the step-son of the town's wealthiest man.

Hunter and McCall investigate the killing of the patriarch of a mob family that Hunter knows personally.

Hunter and McCall try to help a young girl whose Uncle was killed. It seems the man races pigeons and they're missing. Later someone tries to grab the girl, Hunter and McCall try to find out why.

Hunter does not receive a warm welcome when he is imprisoned over false allegations.

Jimmie Joe Walker is a bounty hunter that has come to town looking for Chief David Blackfoot and Panhandle Pete.

Hunter and McCall apprehend Gavin, a murdering street punk. They later learn that he made a deal with the D.A. to implicate a mobster, Nate Demarest for four murders. Hunter knows if Gavin is back on the streets he will kill again. When Demarest tries to get Gavin, Hunter suggests limiting the number of people who knows his location and Gavin wants Hunter to be that person because he knows if anything happens to him Hunter will be under suspicion. It's while watching Gavin that McCall recalls she once investigated Demarest for killing a Fed but it went cold. Hunter asks her to reopen it cause it could give the D.A. Demarest without Gavin's testimony.

At the scene of a crime Hunter finds the cigarette, determines it has been "crushed" out by a foot, therefore eliminating the possibility of it being thrown out of a car window, and now believes the killer was riding a motorcycle.

When a parole officer is killed, the prime suspect is one of his charges. While Hunter and McCall try to find him, another parole officer is also trying to find and is going to extreme measures to find him. When Hunter finds the man, he tells Hunter that his parole suspected that another parole officer is killing other parolees so his parole officer asked him to help. So he altered his file to make it appear he's a violent criminal. Hunter thinks he knows who the killer is.

Hunter gets an anonymous tip involving a man who killed his wife. After investigating and arresting the man, he is tried but the key witness against him changes his testimony; suggesting that the defendant managed to indirectly sway the testimony of the witness. When Hunter gets proof, he arrests him but a bomb goes off killing the man and later someone runs over the witness. Hunter gets a call from someone claiming to be the one who sent him the tip, claiming to also have killed the two men. It seems obvious that this guy is fixated on Hunter, even idolizes him which is why he sent him the tip. While Hunter tries to find out who he is, the defense lawyer who defended the man comes onto him.

McCall's prime informant in the case against a drug merchant is a young cocaine supplier who's being extradited as a murder witness by a New York policeman who seems mysteriously intent on killing her.

Dee Dee's in danger as she moves closer to exposing a ruthless drug dealer, while Hunter fights to keep a rogue policeman from killing a material witness.

The Beach Boy arrives in Los Angeles from Hawaii, picks up his luggage and heads for his car. The next day, he arrives at Eddy Marks' house and promply machine guns him down in his kitchen. Eddy's girlfriend, relaxing in the jacuzzi, hides but sees the killer.

Some people are being killed and just before they are killed they get a phone call from someone who utters the word "guilty". Hunter and McCall investigate and learn that the people who were killed served on a jury wherein the defendant was found guilty. Hunter and McCall trace the man and bring him in but they are told he can't speak because he was stabbed in the throat while in prison. They think he can speak but is keeping it a secret,problem is how to prove it.

Hunter and McCall go after a contract killer who is making hits throughout the city in order to ingratiate himself with a criminal kingpin in order to kill him.

Hunter and McCall are brought in to help solve an arson/murder case. Someone has been setting fires to empty warehouses all over the city.

Hunter is looking for a sniper who is killing women who look similar. He thinks the man has military training so he goes to the base and butts heads with a sergeant. At the same an IRS man shows up at the station to talk to Hunter about a unusual deduction he made.