Hardin is a hired killer for Frank Loper, until Beaudreaux manages to stop him in his tracks. The D.A. tries to make a deal with Hardin in exchange for his testimony against Loper, and assigns Beaudreaux to protect him. Adam enlists the help of his friend Ted Willis to help him find Grady Jameson, a young boy who saved his life many years ago. He thinks he's finally on the right track when Hardin escapes.

Adam gets Grady a job at Malloy's, and soon learns that Grady tracked him down because he was looking for Hardin...Hardin told the VietCong that his parents were CIA agents, which is how they ended up dead. Grady then disappears, and not only are Adam and Teddy looking for him, so is Hardin. Adam shows up at Chan's dojo and patches things up with Grady just in time for Hardin to show up. Grady's hopes of getting vengeance are squashed when (after managing to live through an explosing car), Hardin is run down by another car.

When Victoria gets rapist Jack Walker off, he shows his gratitude by stalking her. She asks Grady and Adam for help, and Grady almost gets the police department sued when he takes matters into his own hands.

When Chase and then Traynor end up dead, the police put Adam in protective custody, believing the Shadow Dragons are behind it all. Teddy and Grady lead Adam to Old Kim, and Grady and Adam make it clear to Old Kim that if he doesn't leave Adam alone, his life of crime is over.

Grady rescues a beautiful young woman from the New Dutch Indies when he realises that her 'caretakers' are abusing her. When her caretakers charge her with stealing, Adam needs to find her and Grady to keep them safe.

When a young robbery suspect dies in a friendly fire incident, fellow cop James Halloran claims Adam fired the bullet that killed him, and Adam has to prove not only his innocent, but also Halloran's guilt.

Malloy's friend Lisa is being abused by her husband, but is relucant to leave him. When Adam taunts Doug in a bar ('you don't have the guts to do this to a man', etc), Doug claims Adam assaulted him.

Malloy's brother comes to town looking forward to a birthday celebration, but is beaten to death by a group of young hoods just because he is gay.

Miguel's mother comes to Adam seeking sanctuary for herself and her younger son, Fernando, prompting Miguel to seek sanctuary at Grady's, because his memories of his childhood aren't good. It turns out that a local criminal is after Carmen.

Adam falls in love with his new partner, Lynn, but learns that she isn't quite what she seems when she starts asking a lot of questions, not only about Adam, but about Dennis Malloy as well.

When two masked men rob Malloy's, Adam soon grows suspicious of former armed robber Emmett Wilson, who now runs the security firm everyone is rushing to hire.

Grady meets pop star Gabrielle in a shop and foils an attempted robbery. Gabrielle hires him to be one of her bodyguards. Adam tells Grady he doesn't trust her and not to get involved, but Grady doesn't listen. After Grady has left to tour with her, Adam is assigned to investigate her for money laundering.

Grady gets himself arrested to help his old friend, Gary, after he ends up in jail, having been arrested for armed robbery.

Teddy has been using Old Kim's help in sneaking Vietnamese immigrants into the country, not realising he was using them to smuggle in heroin until Old Kim frames him for drug trafficking.

When Malloy witnesses a mob killing, she is reluctant to testify, because she knows that if she does, her life as she knows it will never be the same.

Charlie is having a hard time of it, especially once his wife leaves him. Everyone is pressuring him to take stress leave, but it's not until after he loses his cool on the job that he is forced to take some time off...even though he insists on being kept informed of what's going on around him.

When a woman named Lan comes looking for Adam's help in finding her missing husband, Adam refuses at first, because she reminds him of a former love, Mei. Adam finally agrees to help her, and offers Old Kim a truce of sorts.

After being shot by a Shadow Dragon, Adam lays comatose in a hospital bed, dreaming that he is on trial for the unjustified death of Michael Sunks, the man he and Dennis were chasing when Dennis died.

Grady is pulled back into an underground world of no holds barred, to the death martial arts fighting when two of his students find themselves in the competition, and in over their heads. Beaudreaux is investigating a string of bodies with broken necks, and the trail leads straight to the Circle of Death.

When Schuham dies in an alley shoot-out, Kelsey is devastated, as they'd only recently begun a relationship. She is quick to pin the crime on Damon Moore, but Adam and Grady believe that there is more to it than that.

A prisoner accuses Adam of taking bribes, and the ensuing investigation uncovers evidence that Adam's old partner, Dennis Malloy, may have been on the take. Adam is reluctant to believe it, but he can't ignore the evidence.

Adam is trying to handle a hostage negotiation situation when he is introduced to his new partner, Eric Rothman. Initially Adam resents Rothman, because he believes his father bought him a place on the force, but changes his mind when he watches Rothman walk away. Any doubts he had left disappear when he realises that Rothman's got demons of his own...his sister was brutally raped and attacked months earlier, and has never come out of her coma.

Malloy is shocked to learn that her former sweetheart, Billy, is in town, and while she is saddened to learn of his wife's death, it opens the door for a relationship between the two of them. The only problem is that Billy is widely suspected of having caused his first wife's death, and there are some pretty bad people after him.

Grady saw Thomas Hardin, the man who killed his parents, alive. And when he tells Beaudreaux, Beaudreaux tells him that Hardin is dead, and they saw him die remember. However, Beaudreaux was lying it seems that Hardin didn't die but was in a coma and Beaudreaux chose not to tell Grady about this. But what Beaudreaux doesn't know is that Hardin regained consciousness and has been walking around, and has accepted a job. Grady finds out who he is working for, and he and Beaudreaux get Hardin and this time he is dead.

After Adam accidentally shoots the son of a terrorist, he returns the 'favor' by shooting Malloy. Even though Malloy is under house arrest, Grady and Miguel manage to get word to him that Malloy is dead, and the three of them go after Nidar.