Kate has divorced her famous husband, changed her last name back to Callahan, and moved to San Fernando with Jenny to work for a new paper. Her first investigation involves a suspect who claims he didn't murder his wife.
After her colleague is murdered, Kate decides to continue the investigation of a shady local elite country club she was working on for the paper at the time of murder.
Kate goes to jail for refusing to divulge a source of information about the murderer of a restaurateur and his wife.
Angered at public commotion over the arrest of a suspected strangler, Kate starts her own probe.
False leads frustrate Kate in the disappearance of a restaurateur.
The death of a blackmailing woman threatens a politically ambitious lawyer and Kate's romance with him.
Kate joins a sex-therapy group to investigate the shooting of a member.
Murder evidence points to a Czechoslovakian emigrant, but Kate believes he is innocent.