A fire, mono, and the looming arrival of a news director whose job should have gone to someone else introduce the Channel 10 team; then a hostage situation puts one of them in danger and leaves Ann facing an impossible choice.
The hostage situation suddenly spirals out of control and Jake is critically injured. The suspicious timing of the crisis point to a cover up at the mayor's office.
While Jake and Dan track a garbage scandal, the rest of the Channel 10 team deals with a disappearing source for a story about a struggling mayoral candidate.
Ann doesn't know who to believe when a former university pal gives her classified information that he stumbled on while working at a lab with U.S. military contracts.
Dan gets a little too involved with the story of a battered woman whose husband is seeking parole; workplace safety concerns are raised after it's learned that Channel 10 was built on an old dump.
Jake and Dan start a piece on ambulance drivers but get in trouble when a lawyer launches a nuisance suit against Jake; Mike's daughter Carrie hears that he's looking for her and reconnects.
When CTLS reporter Janice Roberts is found dead, it's presumed that she committed suicide, and her brother Clarke takes over her final story to get to the truth of her death.
Dan has difficulty reconciling two conflicting accounts of the Tiananmen Square massacre; Ann's old friend comes to stay, bringing her two unruly children.
Clarke has another shot at a KKK story he botched several years before, but can he keep perspective? Jake doesn't handle Martha being hired as a temporary researcher very well.
Dan and Clarke work together on a story about the police and race relations but things get out of hand; Ann hits a woman who darts out in front of her car.
The team kicks into high gear when a man starts shooting in a downtown office building; Mike's decision to broadcast violent footage from the incident sparks controversy.
