Homicide: Life on the Street — Season 6

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23 Episodes · Premiered October 17, 1997 · Ended May 8, 1998

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Episodes

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E01 – Blood Ties, Part 1

A prominent businessman's housekeeper is found murdered at a banquet in his honor.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E02 – Blood Ties, Part 2

Felix Wilson makes a shocking confession about his relationship with his deceased housekeeper.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E03 – Blood Ties, Part 3

Pembleton and Giardello reluctantly get search warrants to collect blood samples from Felix Wilson and his son.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E04 – Birthday

Lewis and Falsone, joined by Stivers, get the case of a woman almost beaten to death and left in an alley. Georgia Rae Mahoney tells Kellerman she has video of Luther's shooting. Frank anxiously awaits the birth of his child, but Mary is unruffled.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E05 – Baby It's You

Falsone and Munch team up with Briscoe and Curtis to investigate the murder of a 14-year-old girl. They trace the suspect from New York back to Baltimore.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E06 – Saigon Rose

An armed robbery at a family Vietnamese restaurant leaves five dead, sparing only two teenagers in the kitchen who implicate an off-duty Baltimore cop. Falsone confronts Kellerman and accuses him of executing Luther Mahoney.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E07 – Subway

John Lange (Vincent D'Onofrio) becomes pinned between a subway train and the station platform. The Baltimore homicide department is called to investigate whether a crime has been committed or whether the circumstances Mr. Lange finds himself in is the result of a terrible accident.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E08 – All is Bright

Gharty and Ballard suspect that a woman murdered her ex-boyfriend for infecting her with AIDS.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E09 – Closet Cases

Bayliss and Pembleton are forced to deal with their own prejudices as they search for a hustler suspected of killing rich gay men.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E10 – Sins of the Father

Lewis and Falsone attempt to solve the whipping and hanging of a wealthy advertising executive.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E11 – Shaggy Dog, City Goat

A couple give the police information about a murder-suicide, while Ballard and Gharty go after a pair of suspects outside their jurisdiction.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E12 – Something Sacred, Part 1

The stabbing death of a priest in his own rectory becomes a red ball, with Ballard and Gharty in charge. Allegations of sexual abuse complicate the case, and the unit searches for two Guatemalan refugees who were living at the rectory. The detectives find the pair and take them into custody as material witnesses, sparking an outcry from the city's Catholics, and Barnfather overrides Gee and releases them. A potential lead on a suspect dries up, and Pembleton and Stivers - who has rotated into homicide from sex crimes - are called to the scene of a second priest's murder as the refugees go missing again.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E13 – Something Sacred, Part 2

Another priest is murdered after the two Guatemalan political refugees suspected of killing the first one are set free.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E14 – Lies and Other Truths

An angry driver cuts off a state-owned truck, is rammed from behind and rearends a parked semi. Result? Two deaths and a paralyzed passenger, a lawsuit against the state, and pressure on the ME to alter blood alcohol results.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E15 – Pit Bull Sessions

Pembleton and Falsone investigate the mauling of an elderly man, in his own house, by three dogs belonging to his grandson. At the Waterfront, Bayliss, Munch, Gharty, and Ballard share stories of "goofy cases, senseless killings, senseless suspects."

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E16 – Mercy

Pembleton and Bayliss investigate the death of a cancer patient when a relative insists the hospice doctor killed him in a "mercy killing." Stivers and Falsone investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl outside a pizza shop on her way to school.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E17 – Abduction

When a 4-year-old boy disappears from a carousel, Falsone and Stivers catch the case and are joined by the entire homicide unit, plus Jeff Andrews, the host of "This Week's Wanted" TV show.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E18 – Full Court Press

Munch and Gharty investigate a high-school basketball player's murder.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E19 – Strangled, Not Stirred

Ballard and Gharty probe the case of single women who are strangled after they're picked up at fancy bars and subdued with a stun gun.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E20 – Secrets

Two business executives who belonged to the same country club kill themselves when they're given incriminating photos of themselves.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E21 – Finnegan's Wake

Bayliss is still having nightmares about the Adena Watson case, so Gee is reluctant to assign the case of another girl, murdered in 1932, to him. Therefore, Falsone is assigned the "oldest unsolved slaying still officially on the books."

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E22 – Fallen Heroes, Part 1

Bayliss and Pembleton are handed "the mother of all red-balls," the stabbing of a judge on the sidewalk in broad daylight. It doesn't take them long to connect Georgia Rae Mahoney's feckless nephew to the murder. But unlike their previous contacts with him, he doesn't go easily this time.

Homicide: Life on the Street S6 E23 – Fallen Heroes, Part 2

The Homicide Unit takes down the remaining Mahoney organization, but not without collateral damage. Stivers tells Gee that Luther Mahoney's shooting is the reason for all the carnage in the past 24 hours.

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