NYPD Blue (season 4)
| NYPD Blue (season 4) | |
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Season 4 U.S. DVD Cover
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | October 15, 1996 – May 20, 1997 |
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The 4th season of NYPD Blue premiered on ABC on October 15, 1996, and concluded on May 20, 1997.
A painful part of Andy's less-pleasant past emerges when activist Kwasi Olashula is found shot to death in his car along with a drug dealer. Lt. Fancy orders Andy to not talk bad about Kwasi until they know the whole story, which ends up with Kwasi dying a hero over a drug dealer's confiscated items. Kwasi's family angrily confronts Andy about his racism, and Bobby later listens in discomfort as Andy explains the origin of his problems with African Americans going back to his childhood and early days on the force. Elsewhere, James and Greg investigate a murder at a bodega, but are unable to close the case because everyone involved is lying.
The American-born wife of a European prince is severely beaten during a robbery attempt, and the prince quickly angers the cops by being too insistent that his wife would want to be taken off life-support. With some help from disgraced ex-Det. Mike Roberts, they learn about a plan to steal paintings and then claim the insurance payoff. James gets a sticky case as Delegate when he has to deal with a detective who seems to have two wives. He does well enough to ask Gina the PAA out to dinner and she says yes. Diane gets an offer to return to OCCB work and reconnect with an arms dealer named Jimmy Liery who might have gone active again.
Detective Jill Kirkendall joins the 15th and immediately picks up a case where a guy is being threatened unless he marries an overweight young woman her brother claims he impregnated. The cops move in before anyone gets hurt and arrest the brother for murder. Andy tells Fancy that Geri's behavior is bothering him, and Fancy has Geri and Gina switch working locations at the 15th. A limo driver's murder is connected to a closeted businessman and his bad taste in male prostitutes. Diane remains in her undercover role. Bobby slaps Henry Coffield in the face a few times and the little weasel finally reveals he was the target of murder because he had promised money to some dealers and that failed when he did not inherit the building.
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Fancy and his wife are pulled over in Bayside, Queens, by two uniformed officers on the basis of driving in an all-white neighborhood. Fancy angrily plans to transfer the senior officer Szymanski to a precinct in the all-white Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, as punishment before some criticism from Captain Bass leads to Officer Szymanski's arrival at the 15th. Andy begins having dreams where he see his dead son, Andy Jr., but he is confused and angry about the uneven and pointed nature of their conversations. The dreams play into Andy's psyche when he and Bobby investigate a real life string of bar robberies. They have to deal with a stolen .45 automatic, the involvement in one robbery of Vince Gotelli, and a too-eager cop who is trying to solve the case on his own before they get a break and make arrests. Diane and James come up with a plan to bust scam artists who are ripping off disabled women. Andy learns he will need to find a different outlet to see his dead son in the future.
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