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New York Undercover

Thu, Sep 8, 1994
  • Drama
  • Crime
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.

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Cast

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  • Malik Yoba
    Malik Yoba
    as James 'J.C.' Williams
  • Luna Lauren Vélez
    Luna Lauren Vélez
    as Nina Moreno
  • Josh Hopkins
    Josh Hopkins
    as Alec Stone
  • Thomas Mikal Ford
    Thomas Mikal Ford
    as Malcolm Barker
  • Marisa Ryan
    Marisa Ryan
    as Nell Delaney
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Episodes

4 seasons · 89 episodes

Ended · 89 aired
Season 1
26 episodes · 26 aired
▾
  • E1
    School Ties
    Aired · Fri, Sep 9, 1994 · 60m

    Manhattan police detectives J.C. Williams and Eddie Torres are assigned to a case dealing with a 17 year old girl who accuses a high school football player of rape. Eddie has problems going to see his mother, who is in the hospital, after six years of non-communication with each other.

  • E2
    Pilot
    Aired · Fri, Sep 16, 1994 · 60m

    Kids working for an auto-theft ring steal the car of a mobster's mother; J.C.'s ex-girlfriend wants to send their son to a private school.

  • E3
    Sins of the Father
    Aired · Fri, Sep 23, 1994 · 60m

    Torres and Williams investigate an ice cream vendors murder who's drug dealings ends up in G's school.

  • E4
    To Protect and Serve
    Aired · Fri, Sep 30, 1994 · 60m

    The detectives look for clues in a collegian's murder; J.C.'s ex-wife is involved with a musician in Nancy Wilson's band.

  • E5
    Garbage
    Aired · Fri, Oct 7, 1994 · 60m

    Torres and Williams go undercover to investigate a sanitation worker's murder. Sandra is embarrassed J.C. is a police officer.

  • E6
    After Shakespeare
    Aired · Fri, Oct 14, 1994 · 60m

    A real-estate developer is suspected of fueling gang tensions to lower property values; Eddie tries to repair his relationship with his dad.

  • E7
    Tasha
    Aired · Fri, Oct 28, 1994 · 60m

    When a baby dies, Torres and Williams discover there's more to the story then people say. Torres's sister askes him to investigate their friends missing son.

  • E8
    Missing
    Aired · Fri, Nov 4, 1994 · 60m

    Detectives Williams and Torres investigate an incident involving the abduction of a young boy who happens to be the son of a politician running for office. JC and Sandy come to terms with their relationship.

  • E9
    The Friendly Neighborhood Dealer
    Aired · Fri, Nov 11, 1994 · 60m

    Detectives JC and Eddie investigate a number of street drug related overdoses all in the same neighborhood.

  • E10
    Mate
    Aired · Fri, Nov 18, 1994 · 60m

    The detectives investigate the disappearance of a young woman involved in the adult film industry after another woman has been found murdered. The case hits close to home.

  • E11
    The Eyewitness Blues
    Aired · Fri, Nov 25, 1994 · 60m

    Williams protects an eyewitness, while Torres looks for the people who want to kill her.

  • E12
    Blondes Have More Fun
    Aired · Fri, Dec 9, 1994 · 60m

    The detectives investigate a string of related murders involving members of the NY Drag community.

  • E13
    Los Macheteros
    Aired · Fri, Dec 16, 1994 · 60m

    A violent Puerto Rican gang supporting the cause of their people causes trouble in the community. JC is concerned as Eddie goes undercover to investigate their criminal activity.

  • E14
    Private Enemy No. 1
    Aired · Fri, Jan 6, 1995 · 60m

    The detectives investigate the murder of man who played a major role during the Black Panther Movement. A suspect in the case is from JC's past.

  • E15
    The Smoking Section
    Aired · Fri, Jan 20, 1995 · 60m

    A reverend is targeted and threatened as he fights to ban the sale of cigarettes in his community. Eddie is visited by an old love in need of help.

  • E16
    Mama Said Knock You Out
    Aired · Fri, Feb 3, 1995 · 60m

    Detectives JC and Torres investigate a drug on streets that took the life of a promising boxer.

  • E17
    You Get No Respect
    Aired · Fri, Feb 10, 1995 · 60m

    J.C. and Eddie enter a world of drugs, gangsters and deception in search of clues to a rap artist's murder.

  • E18
    Innocent Bystander
    Aired · Fri, Feb 17, 1995 · 60m

    J.C.'s son, G, becomes a target after he witnesses a mob killing.

  • E19
    CAT
    Aired · Fri, Feb 24, 1995 · 60m

    Working under cover, Eddie uses his chemistry knowledge in an attempt to bust a drug lord's operation of manufacturing a dangerous new drug.

  • E20
    All in the Family
    Aired · Fri, Mar 17, 1995 · 60m

    The partners pose as black-market weapons buyers to nab a family of gun thieves; Eddie's dad blows his chance to play saxophone for James Brown.

  • E21
    Eliminate the Middleman
    Aired · Fri, Mar 31, 1995 · 60m

    A difficult situation arises when Eddie and J.C. discover the middleman for a drug operation is a friend of Eddie's father.

  • E22
    Olde Thyme Religion
    Aired · Fri, Apr 7, 1995 · 60m

    Eddie goes under cover to investigate a murder linked to a bizarre Caribbean religion and winds up seeing visions of his own death.

  • E23
    The Shooter
    Aired · Fri, Apr 14, 1995 · 60m

    The partners investigate a sharp-shooter's vendetta against his former accomplices in a financial scam; J.C. learns Sandy is pregnant.

  • E24
    Manchild
    Aired · Fri, Apr 28, 1995 · 60m

    G must decide if he is "man enough" to protect a friend, a 10-year-old boy involved in a gang-related shooting.

  • E25
    Downtown Girl
    Aired · Fri, May 5, 1995 · 60m

    The investigation of a high-powered female attorney's death leads Eddie and J.C. to a prominent law firm's money-laundering scheme.

  • E26
    Catman Comes Back
    Aired · Fri, May 12, 1995 · 60m

    A murder case hits J.C. and Eddie close to home when a drug lord takes vengeance to a personal level.

Season 2
26 episodes · 26 aired
▾
  • E1
    High on the Hog
    Aired · Fri, Sep 1, 1995 · 60m

    Now physically recovered, Williams is awaiting approval to return to active duty. Torres and his new partner pose as bikers to solve the double homicide of an informant and her little girl.

  • E2
    Tag, You're Dead
    Aired · Fri, Sep 8, 1995 · 60m

    Williams and Torres investigate the case of a Wall Street bond salesman who claims to have shot two graffiti artists in self-defense.

  • E3
    Man's Best Friend
    Aired · Fri, Sep 15, 1995 · 60m

    A man gets killed by a pit bull which causes Williams and Torres to go into the world of dog betting.

  • E4
    Brotherhood
    Aired · Fri, Sep 22, 1995 · 60m

    Williams poses as a freshman to investigate a racially motivated killing on a college campus.

  • E5
    Digital Underground
    Aired · Fri, Sep 29, 1995 · 60m

    Lt. Cooper's daughter ends up missing because of a pedophile she met through email.

  • E6
    Buster and Claudia
    Aired · Fri, Oct 6, 1995 · 60m

    A string of robberies leads to an ex-con and his girlfriend. Torres tries to settle a dispute between his father and a mobster.

  • E7
    Student Affairs
    Aired · Fri, Oct 13, 1995 · 60m

    Williams and Torres pose as a substitute history teacher and a janitor at the high school where a crime was committed.

  • E8
    The Highest Bidder
    Aired · Fri, Oct 20, 1995 · 60m

    Moreno poses as a nurse. to solve a newborn's abduction.

  • E9
    Young, Beautiful and Dead
    Aired · Fri, Nov 3, 1995 · 60m

    Williams poses as a model to investigate the face-slashing of a teen cover girl.

  • E10
    Color Lines
    Aired · Fri, Nov 10, 1995 · 60m

    A serial bomber threatens Williams and Torres.

  • E11
    The Finals
    Aired · Fri, Nov 17, 1995 · 60m

    Danny Cort returns with an agenda for Williams to lose his job and his best friend and to "smoke [the officer's] little kid."

  • E12
    Internal Affairs
    Aired · Fri, Dec 1, 1995 · 60m

    Williams is investigated by the internal affairs division for Danny Cort's death (or murder?).

  • E13
    Bad Girls
    Aired · Fri, Dec 15, 1995 · 60m

    Moreno poses as a prostitute to track down a serial killer; J.C. wants G to come live with him.

  • E14
    A Time to Kill
    Aired · Fri, Jan 5, 1996 · 60m

    After being freed, a policeman's murderer is killed and the cop's partner is under investigation. Meanwhile, the murderer's girlfriend plots revenge on the gang leader who ordered the officer's death.

  • E15
    Bad Blood
    Aired · Fri, Jan 19, 1996 · 60m

    Williams and Torres investigate the murder of a free-lance writer. Moreno gets a visit by her missing husband.

  • E16
    Fire Show
    Aired · Fri, Feb 2, 1996 · 60m

    Moreno poses as a firefighter in order to find out who's responsible for a female firefighter's death.

  • E17
    Toy Soldiers
    Aired · Fri, Feb 9, 1996 · 60m

    Three youths, who were brought from Rwanda to act as mob hit men, are befriended by Father Torres. Moreno gets an inheritance; Williams disagrees with the methods of his son's hockey coach.

  • E18
    Sympathy for the Devil
    Aired · Fri, Feb 16, 1996 · 60m

    When three youths are charged with shooting a couple, one of them insists that, while they robbed the couple, someone else fired the gun.

  • E19
    Checkmate
    Aired · Fri, Feb 23, 1996 · 60m

    A hit man's widow wants to become a soldier in the mob and poses as a police officer to kill a fellow crook in Williams's and Torres's precinct.

  • E20
    Unis
    Aired · Fri, Mar 8, 1996 · 60m

    Lt. Cooper sends two patrol officers to infiltrate a group of corrupt cops when neighborhood dealers start disappearing.

  • E21
    The Reckoning
    Aired · Fri, Mar 15, 1996 · 60m

    Williams poses as a member of a militant religious group engaged in an ongoing conflict with a religious sect. Torres's father receives devastating news.

  • E22
    The Enforcers
    Aired · Fri, Apr 5, 1996 · 60m

    Williams investigate the murder of his son's tutor.

  • E23
    Andre's Choice
    Aired · Fri, Apr 12, 1996 · 60m

    A fight promoter's death leads to a case involving blackmail, murder, and an ex-con whom Williams has helped.

  • E24
    No Greater Love
    Aired · Fri, Apr 26, 1996 · 60m

    Torres believes the the man who confesses to a killing is taking the blame for his younger brother, who's just received a basketball scholarship to college.

  • E25
    Deep Cover
    Aired · Fri, May 3, 1996 · 60m

    Torres tries to gain the confidence of a gun ring's leader. Williams pretends to be a Jamaican who's prepared to place a substantial firearms order.

  • E26
    If This World Were Mine
    Aired · Fri, May 10, 1996 · 60m

    A gun-ring leader seeks revenge on Torres.

Season 3
24 episodes · 24 aired
▾
  • E1
    A Time of Faith: Part 1
    Aired · Fri, Aug 30, 1996 · 60m

    Harlem churches are targets of bombings. Eddie tries to help Nina recover from her shot wound. Williams has issues with newcomer Det. McNamara. G's friendship with a white person is being questioned.

  • E2
    A Time of Faith: Part 2
    Aired · Fri, Sep 6, 1996 · 60m

    Williams discover that Rev. Harris may be part of the bombings. Nina moves in with Eddie.

  • E3
    Tough Love
    Aired · Fri, Sep 13, 1996 · 60m

    Williams befriends a woman whose boyfriend is a leader of a gang that robs apartments. Eddie asks Nina not to go back to work.

  • E4
    Blue Boy
    Aired · Fri, Sep 20, 1996 · 60m

    A recently released child molester is a suspect in the rape of an eleven year old girl. G is in trouble at school.

  • E5
    Rules of Engagement
    Aired · Fri, Sep 27, 1996 · 60m

    Nina and McNamara work together on a case where two robbers are murdered. Nina freezes in battle and decides to turn in her gun. G hangs out with young thieves.

  • E6
    Kill the Noise
    Aired · Fri, Nov 1, 1996 · 60m

    A war happens between east coast and west coast rappers when a California rapper is shot.

  • E7
    Smack is Back
    Aired · Fri, Nov 8, 1996 · 60m

    Torres' father dies of a drug overdose and Torres believes that it was suicide. Williams tries to get custody of G.

  • E8
    Don't Blink
    Aired · Fri, Nov 15, 1996 · 60m

    Nina's new undercover case questions her future as a cop.

  • E9
    Without Mercy
    Aired · Fri, Nov 22, 1996 · 60m

    Torres goes undercover at an AIDS clinic to solve a murder case of a bisexual man. Cooper and Captain O'Byrne start to become closer.

  • E10
    Going Platinum
    Aired · Fri, Dec 6, 1996 · 60m

    Williams goes undercover as a security guard. McNamara's discovers more of his father's case. Captain O'Byrne confesses his love for Cooper.

  • E11
    Brown Like Me
    Aired · Fri, Dec 20, 1996 · 60m

    Torres and Nina become involved with two feuding Latino gangs.

  • E12
    The Reaper
    Aired · Fri, Jan 10, 1997 · 60m

    Lt. Cooper is taken hostage in her office by a man threatening to blow up the precinct if his son is not reprieved from a death-row sentence. Nina learns that the daughter she gave up for adoption 11 years ago wants to meet her.

  • E13
    Fade Out
    Aired · Fri, Jan 17, 1997 · 60m

    A thirteen-year-old boy has a videotape of a murder. Torres and Williams try to protect him; The boy's mother turns out to be Williams's old high-school girlfriend, whom he betrayed by sleeping with her best friend, Chantal.

  • E14
    The Solomon Papers
    Aired · Fri, Jan 31, 1997 · 60m

    Feds may be part of a drug case and McNamara might lose it all to prove it. Cooper and her husband tell their kids about their separation.

  • E15
    School's Out
    Aired · Fri, Feb 7, 1997 · 60m

    Moreno joins in the investigation when her daughter's adoptive mother tells her that the girl has been kidnapped.

  • E16
    Outrage
    Aired · Fri, Feb 14, 1997 · 60m

    The detectives have to prove that a Gulf War veteran has stolen missiles. Williams meets with G's French teacher about G's crush on her.

  • E17
    The Promised Land
    Aired · Fri, Feb 21, 1997 · 60m

    Williams discovers evidence relating to Martin Luther King Jr's murder.

  • E18
    Descell
    Aired · Fri, Mar 14, 1997 · 60m

    Nina and McNamara go undercover to find out who tried to kill an executive. Williams and Natasha get close.

  • E19
    Hubris
    Aired · Fri, Mar 28, 1997 · 60m

    A female bounty hunter uses Williams to help find a fugitive in protective custody. Nina and McNamara suspect the wife of a recently deceased cop. Natasha visits the precinct.

  • E20
    The Unthinkable
    Aired · Fri, Apr 18, 1997 · 60m

    The detectives suspect a mother of being involved in a carjacking involving her two children. Nina deals with her custody battle for Melissa.

  • E21
    Vendetta
    Aired · Fri, Apr 25, 1997 · 60m

    McNamara goes undercover involving a Chinese Mafia that has a link with his father's death. Torres asks his sister for money to buy an engagement ring for Nina.

  • E22
    Is It a Crime?
    Aired · Fri, May 2, 1997 · 60m

    Williams investigates a case where a girl fell down an elevator shaft in her building. Torres goes shopping for Nina's engagement ring.

  • E23
    No Place Like Hell
    Aired · Fri, May 9, 1997 · 60m

    Williams goes undercover at a prison to find evidence that will catch a drug lord. William's new friend in prison becomes involved in a murder. Torres proposes to Nina.

  • E24
    The Last Hurrah
    Aired · Fri, May 16, 1997 · 60m

    The detectives go after a bank robbery ring. Torres and Nina get married.

Season 4
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    Change Change Change
    Aired · Fri, Jan 9, 1998 · 60m

    JC and Nina are called into the office of the chief of detectives after 6 months of being off to deal with the deaths of McNamara and Torres. They are assigned to the Special Investigations Division. Along with new detectives Alec Stone, Nell Delaney, and Lt. Malcolm Barker they go after armored car robbers. During the investigation JC and Nina find out they have been recruited to go after Nadine Jordan, the women who killed McNamara and Torres.

  • E2
    Drop-Dead Gorgeous
    Aired · Fri, Jan 16, 1998 · 60m

    After a model's drug overdose, Williams and Barker pose as publishers of a new magazine.

  • E3
    Pipeline
    Aired · Fri, Jan 23, 1998 · 60m

    The unit goes after a Ukrainian kingpin who is using this "pipeline" to distribute cocaine, and causing massive deaths. But when the unit bust him, they find out that he is under diplomatic immunity and can't be prosecuted by the laws of the US. Under direct orders they are told that the case in closed. In secrecy under the order of the Chief of Detectives the unit goes undercover to shut down the "pipeline" once and for all. During the investigation, Nina considers giving up her badge if that means she can be with her daughter.

  • E4
    Spare Parts
    Aired · Fri, Jan 30, 1998 · 60m

    Missing teenagers prompt the unit to investigate a private hospital's organ-donor program.

  • E5
    Mob Street
    Aired · Fri, Feb 13, 1998 · 60m

    Detective Stone becomes torn between work and family while trying to reveal a stock-manipulation scam being conducted by a brokerage firm.

  • E6
    Rat Trap
    Aired · Fri, Mar 13, 1998 · 60m

    Delaney is torn between family ties and duty when her brother becomes the suspect in an arson case when the unit probes mysterious fires in the garment district.

  • E7
    Quid Pro Quo
    Aired · Fri, Mar 20, 1998 · 60m

    The detectives discover that the CIA is involved in a money-laundering scheme involving the killer of Moreno's husband at a bank in a Cuban neighborhood.

  • E8
    Capital Punishment
    Aired · Fri, Mar 27, 1998 · 60m

    In order to uncover the detectives responsible for a series of killings, Williams and Delaney pose as uniformed cops.

  • E9
    The Unusual Suspects
    Aired · Fri, May 29, 1998 · 60m

    Following the shooting of a nanny and a baby, Stone, Delaney, Williams and Barker go undercover to try to capture the weapons-suppliers. Meanwhile, Nina and J.C. grow close to each other.

  • E10
    Sign o' the Times
    Aired · Fri, Jun 5, 1998 · 60m

    The Special Investigations Division tries to track a serious serial killer who targets young men on the rave scene by giving them tainted drugs. During this G catches Nina and his dad together in bed.

  • E11
    Going Native
    Aired · Fri, Jun 12, 1998 · 60m

    The unit goes after the leader of a criminal empire who is extorting money from several businesses in Manhattan. This case turns personal for Barker when he is reunited with an old flame and is treated like family by the target. Meanwhile JC and Nina try to find where their relationship is at after sleeping together.

  • E12
    The Troubles
    Aired · Fri, Jun 26, 1998 · 60m

    When a woman becomes a fugitive, Nina uses her only resource to help find her, her daughter. Stone's life becomes threatened. Delaney poses as a bartender, in order to learn why three Irish terrorists were killed and why they were in America.

  • E13
    Catharsis
    Aired · Fri, Feb 12, 1999 · 60m

    Nadine Jordan, the accused killer of Torres and McNamara has been convicted of their murders. She receives a life sentence with no parole which upsets Moreno. Meanwhile The District Attorney who prosecutes a radical terrorist by the name of Eve Flemming finds that his daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom until Flemming is released from prison. He receives a videotape of her tied up and crying for help. Barker devises a plan where they are going to play along to see where Flemming's people lead them to. One part of the plan includes Moreno going undercover as a fugitive to get close to Flemming. While undercover in the prison, Moreno finally gets the chance to settle the score with her husband and partner killer.