THE COMMISH

The commissioner sets out to trap a serial rapist in a Santa Claus mask who's been terrorizing the city.

Rachel refuses to believe Tony when he tells her that her school teacher colleague, Jim Hollister, is a child molester.

After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony initiates around-the-clock surveillance of his unsuspecting family.

Tony initiates a sweep to find a pair of missing cops; devises an ingenious way of keeping an habitually drunk driver off the road; and deftly handles an "extraterrestrial," all the while being scrutinized by a committee searching for a new police commissioner for New York City.

Two missing cops have been found under water, there a jail hunger strike going on and tony's up for the nypd commissioner job.

Tony is pursued by a woman he suspects is filing false complaints.

Tony butts heads with both a tough cop who is overzealous in his handling of criminals, and a hard-nosed management consultant hired by the city in a cost-cutting effort.

Tony is doubly stymied when identical twins both initially confess to the same murder, then, in a surprise about-face, accuse each other of the crime. Also, Arnie finds romance with a kindred soul, a phone-sex operator named Gloria.

A serial killer has been mutilating the bodies of Eastbridge tradsients and homeless people - and Tony begins to suspect the perpetrator's identity.

During the holiday season, Tony investigates the murder of an elderly woman allegedly killed in her home during a Christmas burglary; matches wits with a mugger, and defends a homeless woman who's been sleeping in the manger of a Holy Family creche.

After Commissioner Scali's friend and colleague, Chief of Detectives Irv Wallerstein, is struck down during a bloody encounter with hijackers, Tony becomes obsessed with finding the assailant!