Season 1

Episodes

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   1. Hard Choices

   19 Sept 1996

   Moloney is torn between doctor-patient confidentiality and his duty to uphold the law when a cop tells him the real story behind a drug dealer's murder.

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   2. Pilot

   26 Sept 1996

   Moloney is called in when a botched jewelry-store robbery turns into a hostage situation after a clerk is accidentally shot.

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   3. Night of the Gardenia

   3 Oct 1996

   Moloney is on the trail of a serial killer who murders battered women - to free them from their pain - and leaves a paper gardenia as his signature.

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   4. Friendly Fire

   17 Oct 1996

   Moloney handles the case of a cop who accidentally killed his partner but is branded a crooked cop by an internal-affairs investigator.

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   5. Clueless

   24 Oct 1996

   Moloney recommends hypnotic therapy to trigger the repressed memory of a teenager who witnessed a murder, but the idea alienates the child's father.

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   6. All the King's Horses

   31 Oct 1996

   A cop lies in a coma following an attack by one of Moloney's patients, a homeless man who had failed to receive medication from a clinic-delivery service.

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   7. Sweet Sorrow

   7 Nov 1996

   Moloney tries to persuade a teenage boy to tell the real story behind the death of a young Latina with whom the boy had once been romantically involved.

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   8. A Matter of Principle

   14 Nov 1996

   Moloney helps solve a case involving a murdered woman who had a restraining order against her estranged husband.

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   9. Second Sight

   21 Nov 1996

   Moloney tries to persuade one of his patients, a latchkey teen with psychic abilities, to use to help find a girl who's been missing for five weeks.

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    10. Nothing But The Truth

    12 Dec 1996

    A man convicted of raping a married woman is released from jail - against Moloney's recommendation - and is later found shot to death.

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    11. I'm Ambivalent About L.A.

    9 Jan 1997

    A teenager joins a gang to try to protect herself and her younger sister---who is a classmate of Kate's---from the sexual advances of their uncle.

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    12. Clarity Begins At Home

    16 Jan 1997

    Moloney intercedes when one of Sarah's patients is threatened by her husband, a prominent member of a church that frowns on psychotherapy.

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    13. Damage Control

    30 Jan 1997

    Moloney tries to reason with a troubled man who slowly unravels while holding a doctor and a group of patients hostage in a psychiatric ward.

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    14. Herniated Nick

    6 Feb 1997

    Laid up after he throws out his back, Moloney leaves his bed - via stretcher - to talk to a troubled cop who's holding his girlfriend and his partner hostage after finding them together.

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    15. Misconduct

    13 Feb 1997

    Moloney is suspicious of a judge who has repeatedly issued orders to remove a child from the custody of his mother, a former drug user trying to straighten out her life.

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    16. Deep Cover

    20 Feb 1997

    Sarah's life is in danger after a delusional detective who's obsessed with Moloney - and convinced that she's having his baby - confronts her at home.

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    17. Loved and Lost

    27 Mar 1997

    Moloney's first love - a woman he hasn't seen in 33 years - comes to town and asks for his help in dealing with her son, a doorman at a hip club, whom she believes is in trouble. Meanwhile, Sarah drops a bombshell.

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    18. Ball and Chain

    3 Apr 1997

    Nick is unhappy that Sarah hasn't considered his and Kate's feelings about her pregnancy; Matty is attracted to a prisoner he's escorting to a budget hearing.

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    19. The Ripple Effect

    10 Apr 1997

    Moloney tries to help a cop deal with his feelings after he inadvertently shoots and kills a troubled teen in a mall.

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    20. Past Forgiveness

    17 Apr 1997

    Moloney's efforts to help former gang member Carmella Rubios hit a snag when the girl is hauled before a judge for violating her probation.

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    21. The Pleading

    22 May 1997

    A hostage situation ends when a preteen is murdered and the suspect - a convicted sex offender - is left in a coma following a struggle with police prior to his arrest.