NYPD Blue
SERIES 10
The romance between 15th precinct detectives Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Connie McDowell (Charlotte Ross), tentatively inaugurated during season nine, experiences a number of rocky moments, many of them tied in with the vacillating feelings of Andy's son Theo (Austin Majors).
But their relationship is strengthened by a major crisis: Connie's determination to retain custody of her baby niece Michelle, whose mother, Connie's sister, was killed by her low-life husband, Frank Colohan (played by former X-Files menace Nicholas Lea).
Despite the efforts by Frank's manipulative parents to obtain custody of Michelle, the forces of good triumph, largely because Sipowicz enlists help from an old friend, Detective Diane Russell.
The other relationships of note involve:
- Andy's partner John Clark Jr (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) getting together with Detective Rita Ortiz (Jacqueline Obradors);
- the off-and-on relationship between Detective Baldwin Jones (Henry Simmons) and Assistant DA Valerie Haywood (Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon);
- the brief reunion between 15th precinct skipper Lt Tony Rodriguez (Esai Morales) and his drug-addicted former wife, Angela Lupo (Jessica Ferrarone).
Two of these three couples are broken up by the end of series 10, one of them under tragic circumstances, while John Clark Jr. begins a liaison with police doctor Jennifer Devlin (Chandra West).
The 15th Precinct is again targeted for persecution by Internal Affairs captain Pat Fraker (Casey Siemaszko), who is determined to get something damaging against his long-time enemy Sipowicz. The plot that develops results in the disgrace of a long-time NYPD Blue recurring character, the suicide of Clark Jr.'s alcoholic father (Joe Spano), and ultimately a bloody confrontation which, for the season-closing cliff-hanger, left Lt Rodriguez hovering between life and death.
(Taken from http://movies.msn.com/)
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