Victim Advocate Alex Mandalakis tries to keep an axe attack victim safe in a women's shelter. Social worker Drucie MacKay finds a foster home for two troubled children with gay couple Stephen and Steven.

Alex helps a teenager who was held captive put his life back together.

Jasper seeks sex in the wake of his failed marriage. Alex tries to recruit a victim's son to testify against his father.

Inappropriate behavior puts Alex's career at risk. Brenda has a secret affair.

An estranged husband takes over the women's shelter and Alex is in danger. Constable Roach isolates a killer.

Roach and Downey respond to a shooter at a school. Chanel urges Alex to leave Seamus.

Manny confesses an affair. Alex opens her home to an ungrateful abused woman.

Alex asks Seamus to help her start a women's shelter. Roach pursues her theory that a serial killer is targeting gay men.

Roach sees a connection between two mysterious deaths. Stephen rebuilds his life as a widower and Alex refuses help after being shot.

Constable Roach is assaulted outside a bar but struggles to have her case heard in court.

Megan, Roach, Drucie and Alex try to help a mother and her three sons to leave her unstable husband.

Alex tries desperately to raise funds for her women's shelter. An old mistake comes back to haunt Roach and the killer is revealed.

Drucie is called to the scene of a school shooting. Roach asks Drucie to help call attention to a crime.

Roach searches for the strangler. Drucie forms a bond with an injured teacher.

Drucie and Roach try to intervene when they suspect a teen is being stalked.