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This story starts out in the streets. A man is being chased by a car. The car corners the man and the occupants get out and beat the man with ball bats.

Mancuso goes to the rehearsal dinner of his niece, LeAnn. She is engaged to marry Bobby DeMello (Vincent Irizarry). The police come to the dinner to arrest Bobby’s best friend, Richie Lombardo. The police say that Richie’s car was seen at the scene of the beating crime. The bride to be’s father, Andy, is mad because Mancuso did not stop the police from arresting Richie.

Mancuso finds out that there have been cases of discrimination crimes in the Fremont Avenue area. Consequently, the neighbors started an organization called Friends of Fremont Avenue [FOFA].

The man dies and LeAnn questions why Richie being held in jail. She is afraid Bobby is involved. Corinne (LeAnn’s mother) goes to talk to Mancuso. She tells him she doesn’t know where Bobby gets all his money. He was hired by FOFA to help fight crime. They set him up in a security business selling burglar alarms. Mancuso goes to Bobby’s place of business to try to get some answers. While there, he finds that Bobby doesn’t know how to use his on equipment. Mancuso threatens that Bobby had better not hurt his niece. He is very suspicious of Bobby and thinks he may have been apart of the crime for which Richie was arrested.

FOFA have a meeting to raise bail to get Richie out of jail. The leader of the meeting was Andy. Andy has to talk the members into coming up with the $100,00 bail, which they do.

Mancuso goes to see Mrs. Halpern the victims wife. He wants to know what Mr. Halpern was doing in that neighbor that late at night. She tells Mancuso that her husband had been working on an article regarding skin heads and people obsessed by racial hatred.

Bobby talks to Richie when he gets out of jail. Richie isn’t happy about taking the heat. Richie ends up killed in his car with a bullet through his head.

Mancuso tells LeAnn that Bobby was in trouble with a loan shark when he lived in Chicago. He had a record in Chicago and he had hurt a lot of people. LeAnn says that Bobby told him about being in trouble in Chicago, but she knows he didn’t hurt Mr. Halpern. LeAnn tells Mancuso that Bobby was with her when Mr. Halpern was attacked. Mancuso tells her if she is lying, she can be held as an accomplice to the crime.

Mrs. Halpern goes to Mancuso’s office with more information about what her husband had been doing. He said that FOFA started out as an honest organization. They built playgrounds and had after school programs. When that didn’t help, they hired thugs to take matters into their own hands. He was going to meet with someone to talk about this and was beat up before he could meet him. Mancuso finds out the person he was going to meet was his brother-in-law, Andy!

He drags his niece to the coroner’s to show her Richie’s body. He told her Bobby killed Richie Lombardo and she needs to tell the truth about where Bobby was the night Mr. Halpern was beat up.

Andy tells Bobby what happened and he tells him he was going to marry LuAnn that night so she can’t testify against him. She confronts him with everything that Mancuso has told her. He tells her what she wants to know. He reaches out to give her a hug and feels a wire on her. Mancuso is listening to the conversation and rushes up to save LeAnn.