Help Me Help You

Linda introduces Danny and Baez to Lorie, a coworker at St. Vicks Hospital whose ex-husband Ronnie has been visiting her irregularly, and is mad about her engagement to fiance Paul. She's worried that things will dangerously escalate, her fears being confirmed when he attempts to harass them outside their home. The two exes have a chat that apparently fixes things, but Danny thinks the whole affair is a fuss over nothing (especially when Lorie panics over her son going to a friend's house without telling anyone). However, when Paul actually goes missing, Danny is forced to stop Ronnie before he does something horrible. Frank finds himself being opposed by city councilwoman Regina Thomas (Whoopi Goldberg), who fervently dislikes the NYPD's "broken windows" policy and is making a bill to destroy it. With the policy essential to other acts of good police work, he finds he has not choice but to act. At the meeting over the bill, Thomas outlines how many problems the policy causes, but Frank admits that even if one side wins, they both lose, and instead opts for a compromise. Meanwhile, Erin is concerned over judge Zack Wilson, a former mentor who has been making incredibly biased and harsh rulings after the death of his wife Ellen. After he throws out evidence in a case proving a repeat crook didn't commit a crime, she promptly files a complaint to the judicial review board, but is suspended by her boss for going against his order not to intervene. Wilson eventually realizes he was out of line, and mends things with Erin while planning to take an indefinite leave of absence.