Gene Troobnick

Six-year-old Didi Lowenstein is rushed to the hospital with dried blood on her head. Detectives Greevey and Logan are summoned to an Upper West Side elementary school. Their investigation into why Didi is comatose leads to charges against her mother Carla, a battered wife and cocaine addict and her father, Dr. Jacob Lowenstein, a psychiatric therapist. Neither mother nor father paints a clear picture of the nature of the abuse nor who is most responsible. Anxious to prosecute, both Prosecutors Stone and Robinette realize that "the truth will come out only if one of the parents turns against the other."

Bob inadvertently talks Carol's new and recently separated boyfriend into breaking up with Carol and going back to his wife.

Kojak and Crocker must protect a bookkeeper from madmen who will stop at nothing to keep her from testifying in court.