Crime Story

Lt. Mike Torello, the head of Chicago's Major Crime Unit in the early '60s, takes a personal interest in a case involving the son of a close friend who gets mixed up with a mobster.

Lt. Mike Torello's pursuit of Ray Luca gets personal when the son of a close friend gets mixed up with the mobster.

A psychopathic killer becomes the Major Crime Unit's top priority; Torello learns of Luca's plans for a nationwide sports-betting operation; Julie wants to start a family.

Torello introduces himself as a "friendly" cop to one of Luca's burglary crew after the crew's new man kills a woman; and the Torellos get some good news.

To ensure his takeover of a sports-betting operation, Luca sends Holman to St. Louis, where a politically motivated sheriff is overly friendly to Holman's MCU tail.

Luca's superiors blame him for the debacle in St. Louis, prompting him to seek advice from Abrams; Torello leaves a gift for Luca after the MCU halts his truck hijackings; Julie enters the hospital.

A reporter helps Abrams in his defense of a tenant who assaulted a slumlord; Torello promises a despondent Julie a vacation.Lucca realises Bartoli knows Fosse has been skimming the casino's profits

The Torellos take what may be their last vacation; the FBI corners Holman in Toledo; Weisbord's expansion plans include Torello's war buddy.

A lawyer thinks Torello is involved with Kehoe and Luca, who moves to have an indictment against himself and Bartoli quashed.

Torello mourns his loss, then searches for Holman; Susan is attacked while doing a story on heroin; Luca declares himself the sole Chicago fence.

A small town honors the MCU after the bust of a jewelry-heist team connected to Luca; Krychek takes a special interest in one of the busted henchmen.

Mike Torello's obsessive pursuit of Ray Luca is recalled through flashbacks.

Torello has to split his men up when a woman is held hostage by a crazed gunman just as Holman is spotted in an Indiana diner.

The Feds buy Holman's claim that Torello is a dirty cop; Joey interrupts Luca's visitors; Luca learns Holman may still be a legal asset despite causing his impending indictment.

Torello is subpoenaed upon his return from the West; Luca can't coax Abrams to his side; Weisbord's future plans are challenged by others wanting profits now.

Abrams helps Torello with his testimony about Holman's charges; Weisbord calls a council to deal with dissenters; Luca says his goodbyes.

Torello asks a debtor being strong-armed to help him link slot-machine skimming and loan sharking in the casinos to Luca.

Luca tries to install his candidate for union president during a strike; a former employee crosses Luca's path; Torello thinks there's a traitor in his ranks.

Torello's relationship with the ex-wife of one of his men uncovers disturbing information about the man, who allows a slip in the force's security.

Luca sends Taglia and Holman to sabotage a neighboring casino; Torello's inside man witnesses actions that could bring Luca down.

The now aggressive strike force manufactures dissension within Luca's ranks and takes advantage of his excesses.

Torello anticipates a move by Luca to get to Taglia or the jury. Later, Torello heats things up between Luca and a hood who, with Weisbord's support, tries to move in on his turf.

Torello's strike force serves subpoenas at a meeting of crime bosses; a senator holds hearings on casino skimming; Nate catches a dangerous fever; and Torello romps with a star who shines not so brightly.

Julie's new husband is taken hostage in a Tucson bank robbery.

Joey becomes obsessed with "rescuing" a hooker who was his high-school sweetheart; and the Strike Force encourages a bandleader to help nail a marijuana importer linked to Senterro.

Torello investigates a Weisbord smuggling operation and a federal employee suspected of several brutal murders, but the attorney general's office refuses to help, claiming a need to maintain "plausible deniability."

A Federal order concerning a Government "asset" creates chaos for the Strike Force; Kordo and Goldman fear for their futures; Abrams decides to close the book on his career.

Torello's birthday celebration is halted when Danny is shot in a restaurant men's room, leaving only a one-word clue concerning the identity of the gunman.

A PI is killed before he can tell Torello the details of a murder, sending the Strike Force on a search for a possible witness, who is also wanted by Luca.

Luca becomes obsessed with a movie star who not only is attracted to power, but wields some of her own.

Torello learns that the defecting Soviet pilot he's assigned to guard will have only one night of freedom, so he decides to help him make it memorable. Meanwhile, Torello meets Luca's newest employee.

Reporter Susanne Terry is reunited with Abrams when she investigates the firebombing of a black-owned nightclub casino.

Torello sets out to prove that Iris's partners at the Moulin Rouge are laundering drug money through the casino.

A beautiful woman asks Torello to find her father, a gambler who owes money to a loan shark.

A Chicago hood on the run from his former boss is a potential federal witness, if Torello can find the man before Luca does.

While Torello spreads the word about Weisbord's imminent death, Luca resorts to extortion---and "science fiction"---to save his mentor.

In a dream, Taglia recounts the atomic blast and the subsequent interrogation by and escape from government agents.

Torello is careless in trying to recapture an escaped con from Arizona, whose state troopers want him too---dead or alive.

Torello and Nate lack jurisdiction over a crooked county government trying to run a Chicago acquaintance out of business.

A hard-drinking reporter intimates he's working on a big story while on a Las Vegas "pleasure" trip.

Flashbacks recall Luca's past dealings as his alleged connection with the government is probed at Senate hearings.

In a Latin American nation, Torello is frustrated by Luca's cozy relationship with the local government until he gets his own inside contact.

Mike makes a deal with one of Luca's rivals to get Danny out of prison.

Luca offers Mike a deal: Abrams' life in exchange for his heroin.