Durante os duros anos 30, Billy é um adolecente pobre e esperto que cai nas graças do gângster Schultz. O garotão se transforma num ajudante de ordens, seduzido pelo poder, dinheiro e glamour trazidos pelo crime. Descraçadamente, acaba apaixonado por Drew Preston, nada menos que a namorada do chefão Schultz. Tem início um perigoso triângulo amoroso que pode acabar com a vida de Billy e sua bela amante.
Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of two young boys. Their bodies are discovered in a Harlem river, the boys mother is the major suspect. But what appears to be an open shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.
JoAnn Hammil faces a harrowing fight to rediscover her personal identity when her husband of 15 years announces that he is leaving her and their children to search for the indefinable joy he feels he is missing from his life.
A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate. Peter tells him of fear he felt in following Jesus' arrest in the Garden of Gethesamene, when he denied knowing him three times - and yet Jesus told him that he would be the rock upon which the Church was built. Peter goes on to relate the events of the passion week, including the Christ's crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.
A rookie New York cop has to deal with juvenile delinquents, his superiors, and blame for the suicide of a woman who jumped to her death while he was in her apartment.