A leading heart surgeon with links to a pharmaceutical company has been executed in his car. Bill McCoy and Charlie Coustos investigate the murder. Maxine and Louise try and save a house full of poor residents who are turfed out of their rented home to make room for property developer Brian Cleary's grand vision of a clean new city. War breaks out between the residents and the police, which culminates in a shoot-up of Central Police Station, which is blamed on the residents.