Fraser returns from a vaction up North to find that his apartment complex has burned down. Worse yet, when he goes to the station to meet Ray Vecchio, he finds his friend vanished without a trace. In his place is a strange man, whom all others at the precinct seem to think IS Ray Vecchio. Fraser decides to play along as he, 'Ray' and Dief track a dangerous peformance arsonist to what may be a firey- or watery- grave for all three.
It is a solar eclipse, and Stanley Raymond Kowalski, alias Ray Vecchio, has revenge on his mind. The target? One Marcus Ellery, a man who has had a huge impact on his life. Meanwhile, back at the precinct, a brutal IA investigation is taking place. 9 kilos of cocaine are missing... Or are they? The real Ray Vecchio is suspect, but Brandauer, the IA investigator, is a long time enemy of Lt. Welsh.
When Fraser and Ray see a man save a young boy's life, they are asked by a news crew to track him down so he can be thanked on TV. However, the man flees, and when Ray sees his gun and multiple IDs he arrests him. Back at the precint, the man, Bruce Spender, is discovered to be a Federally protected witness. His cover is blown, and now he's in danger of being assassinated... Perhaps by someone closer to home then the police can suspect.
When Ray and Fraser save Ray's ex-wife, Stella Kowalski, from a drive-by shooting, her Alderman boyfriend is so impressed by their performance that he asks to have them appointed as personal bodyguards.
Inspector Thatcher, Ray, and Lt. Welsh witness a murder. However, they each claim to have seen the killing differently. To make matters worse, the two suspects in the crime at first refuse to talk, and then both confess. Fraser is forced to revert to such unorthodox methods as hypnotism to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Fraser takes time to help a down-on-her-luck bounty hunter get her man when the rest of the precinct, including Ray, seems to have come down with the 'blue flu'.
An innocent boxing match turns into a case when Ray's boxing protege apparently sends his opponent into a coma. To make matters worse, the victim's brother swears revenge- and then turns up dead in an alley.
When a friend of Fraser's, an old man who thinks he's a spy, interrupts a mysterious transaction between two real spies, he involves Fraser and Ray in a dangerous case involving stolen arms and a famous spy known only as Nautilus.
Ray is set up in an alley and left with a dead informant and a smoking gun, so to speak. The new States Attorney is out to have him arrested for a crime he didn't commit, but Fraser gives him asylum at the Consulate. If the police want him, they'll have to extradite him...
A snitch and a Canadian flight attendant: Are their murders related? It seems so when Ray finds the flight attendant's pin on the informant's corpse. Worse yet, the flight attendant is the daughter of a prominent Canadian general- who swears revenge on her killer.
Fraser and Ray inadvertantly discover a corpse walled up in the interrogation room. The main suspect? Ray Vecchio. The real one. Fraser is sure Ray isn't the killer, but he still can't let the body be discovered until he finds who REALLY killed the guy...
The ghost of the Robert Mackensie is prowling the Great Lakes, and a pirate ends up dead on the hood of Ray's car. Ray and Fraser are contemplating transfers due to personal conflict, but they decide to take this one last case together.
Ray and Fraser are trapped on a sinking ship, with no way out except a drowned corridor. Ray needs to trust Fraser if he wants to get out of this alive, but it turns out that Fraser needs to trust Ray as well...
Sabotage is rife in the peaceful little white-picket-fences town of Willison, Illinois. The sawmill and the department store have both fallen victim, and now the town baseball team is in danger. Sheriff Wilson Welsh needs some help from Chicago to solve this vicious crime, and the help he needs is his brother- and Fraser and Ray of course.
Quinn, Fraser's childhood mentor, is in town to protest the building of a new hydroelectric dam- one that will submerge his village- when he and Fraser witness a jewel heist and capture one of the perpetrators. The other man escapes, but he doesn't know where the jewels are. Posing as a lawyer, he sneaks into the precinct and gets the location out of his friend. However, when he gets to the hiding place, the jewels are gone- Quinn has taken them. Fraser must track Quinn and find him before the jewel thief does, or his mentor may be in way over his head...
Mr. Tucci, an elderly pretzel vendor, is gunned down in the park. The 27th precinct is shocked to discover the man was a millionaire- who left all his money to his long lost son. The prime suspect is Mr. Tucci's ailing wife's beautiful caretaker, but Ray- who has fallen for the woman- doesn't want to believe it. Then the Tuccis' son shows up to claim his inheritance... With a price on his head.
Denny Scarpa, a dangerous and beautiful card-shark, is scheduled to play a grudge match with a man named Farah. When she is arrested for illegal gambling, she accepts a deal with the Feds- she will set up Farah so they can take him down, on one condition- Fraser must play Farah too. But does Denny have an ulterior motive? Ray thinks so...
8 years ago, Ray, a rookie cop, arrested Beth Botrelle for the murder of her police-officer husband. All the evidence pointed to Beth, and the case seemed open-and-shut. Except for one small thing- a blood soaked piece of paper. Ray contaminated the chain of evidence when he put the paper in his pocket without reading it and then gave it to another officer. Now Beth Botrelle is on death row- with less then 48 hours to live before she's executed- and Ray believes she may in fact be innocent of the crime.
Ray brings the wrath of Mama Lolla- a voodoo practitioner- down apon the precinct when he attempts to capture the man who has stolen his prized GTO. When the man, Gerome Lafarette, is finally caught, he dies in his holding cell and then his body vanishes from the morgue- Lafarette was into voodoo too. Ray disbelieves in curses or zombies- all he wants to do is find his car... Before his father finds out he let it be stolen!
When Tracy Jenkins, a country singer, apparently recieves death threats from a psychotic fan, it falls apon the Canadian Consulate and the Chicago police force to protect her. The plot thickens when Huey and Dewey try to write a country song, Fraser sings backup in Tracy's band, and Turnbull and Francesca have a date...
Fraser goes under-cover at a funeral home- as a corpse! Unfortunately, the precinct gossip spills the tale that he's REALLY dead when she sees him shamming in the morgue, giving Francesca and many others the wrong idea... Francesca, who is engaged to be married, decides she still loves her favorite Mountie and gives her groom the boot.
Fraser and Ray try to save a young man named Davey from being killed by the over-protective guardians of the strange girl he is in love with. In doing so they find themselves investigating the Unfettered Evangelical Church and its parishioners.
Maggie Mackenzie, a Mountie from Inuvik, shows up to ask Fraser's help in tracking down the killers of her husband. Unfortunately, both Fraser and Ray are attracted to her...
A homesick Fraser goes ice-fishing in the city reservoir, but the only thing he bags is a corpse. When a second corpse turns up soon after, the clues point to an arms-dealer named Muldoon, who just happens to be the subject of Robert Fraser's last case. Fraser and Ray track the killer to the Hotel California, where they accidentally interrupt an arms deal between Muldoon and... the real Ray Vecchio?
Fraser and Ray K. finally manage to clamber inside the plane they were clinging to at the end of CotW part one, only to be captured by Muldoon's goons. With quick thinking, Fraser saves his and Ray's skin by throwing them both out of the plane onto the ice-field below. Though alive (their fall was cushioned by snow), they are now stranded in the middle of the Frozen North unless they can meet up with Buck Frobisher's lonely detachement of Mounties miles and mountains away. Even if they make it there, they'll still have to face Muldoon and his heavily armed troops if Fraser wants to set right the wrong his father couldn't.
