The BEST episodes written by George D. Putnam
#1 - The Bookie and the Kooky Cookie
NYPD Blue - Season 2 - Episode 20
The detectives search for the killer of a bookie. Donna returns ready to resume her position. Bobby's head case witness tries to end his career, when he won't give her what she wants. John gives all of the detectives farewell greeting cards; later, Fancy proposes that he move upstairs to anti-crime where there is an opportunity. Andy and Sylvia meet with the priest and later Sylvia hears a story about what has contributed to Andy's loss of faith. Andy smells something familiar on Russell.
#2 - Caulksmanship
NYPD Blue - Season 4 - Episode 9
Diane wakes up the following morning in Jimmy's apartment not remembering anything that happened that night. She goes into the squad, where everyone comments on her appearance. She catches a case where a man with muscular dystrophy was killed in a very tight knit community. Witnesses are very reluctant to come forward. Meanwhile, Bobby and Andy work on a case that may have been "masterminded" by a married couple whom Fancy wrestles with Bass and knowledge of the fact that Bobby is going to be promoted to detective first grade and Andy is not. Diane confronts Jimmy with her gun (which she fires) about what had happened last night. He claims nothing.
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#3 - Up on the Roof
NYPD Blue - Season 1 - Episode 12
Martinez works his first case, which involves a fake ATM. A foster child that Fancy and his wife had been caring for is ordered back into the custody of his real mother who's just been released from a detox program. Sipowicz and Kelly investigate a mob shooting that turns up the notebook that Marino kept Janice's name in. Later the triggerman who nailed Giardella, and that Laura can identify, is trapped on a roof with a hostage.
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