A case worker implores Mayor Alcala to intercede on behalf of a deaf couple faced with losing their 7-year-old adopted son in court proceedings because they are handicapped.
Janice Rule plays a member of the city council who opposes Mayor Alcala's proposed plan for a new water system. The two personalities clash and they fall in love, however she reveals she has a fatal hereditary illness.
A medical student treats a man who was in an accident. Later he comes forward and the man decides to sue. So Alcala knowing that they don't have the amount he is asking for tries to see if he can settle it. He learns that the man might have other reasons for suing.
The future of the mayor's School of Music and Arts is threatened when a young harpist accuses the principal of her pregnancy. Mayor Alcala believes in his friend's innocence and begins an investigation while the girl's father demands the removal of the man.
Mayor Alcala upsets militant Chicanos when he supports a police officer's claim that he is innocent of the beating of two suspects during interrogation, one being a Mexican-American.
Alcala and his deputy Andy Hayes see a golden opportunity to take down the city's ruthless head mobster when his frightened girlfriend is arrested on a traffic charge.