Episode 1
A widow being terrorized by a real-estate developer trying to force her out of her home.
Episode 2
A young man turns to crime to pay off inherited debts to a loan shark. Extortion and purse snatching by a bicycling thief heat things up and community service cops Alex Woodward and Johnny Dias move quickly to defuse a dangerous situation.
Episode 3
Two social workers are involved as a Metis mother of two children fights to keep from being evicted from her home.
Episode 4
An informer's tip shatters the dreams of two elderly pensioners whose obsession with owning a farm in Alberta leads them to commit a rather unusual robbery.
Episode 5
The rape of a young woman soon to be married triggers a series of events affecting the lives of several people in addition to the rapist and his victim.
Episode 6
A police inspector is torn between a sense of duty and paternal concern when he learns that his son has become involved in organized juvenile crime.
Episode 7
Tempers flare when a professional strikebreaker leads a group of scabs across a picket line.
Episode 8
A young parolee is harassed by two overly zealous cops who employ barely-within-the-law tactics to extract information from him.