When an abandoned infant is turned in, C&L go to work on a baby-broker scheme. The baby is deaf, and Mary Beth wants to take it home for child #3. (This was shown before Tyne Daly's pregnancy.) In the B plot, Cagney is dating a glamorous playwright, but he doesn't think much of her career.

• Georgia Jeffries
• Deborah Arakelian
• Barbara Corday

• Jonathan Banks
• Cotter Smith
• Graham Jarvis