Shades of Gray
Episode 10 · 1999-01-08

- Mystery
- Drama
- Crime
Episode overview
A white bus driver striking a black female pedestrian sparks a riot. The driver is killed, and some distance away from the riot another body is found. MGee and Gharty look into the death of the driver while Lewis and Sheppard look into death of the other body. Lewis finds a clue at the scene, a button (later discovered to be missing from a police uniform). Gharty and MGee actively debate whether race was the motivation for the driver's beating death; MGee suspects the incident wasn't racially motivated. The bus riders are interviewed to find out what they know. Lewis and Sheppard approach a house looking for their witness (without backup). For her trouble Sheppard keeps hold of her suspect, but loses her gun and is severely beaten. Ballard is recalled from her hiking vacation. Lewis lays down the law for the residents of ""Little Jamaica""; he wants Sheppard's gun returned tonight. The witness Sheppard caught identifies Hellriegel as the murderer, and the men who beat the driver to death
45 minutes
Season 7 episodes
1. La Famiglia1998-09-25
2. Brotherly Love1998-10-16
3. Just an Old Fashioned Love Song1998-10-23
4. The Twenty Percent Solution1998-10-30
5. Red, Red Wine1998-11-06
6. Wanted Dead or Alive (1)1998-11-13
7. Wanted Dead or Alive (2)1998-11-20
8. Kellerman, P.I. (1)1998-12-04
9. Kellerman, P.I. (2)1998-12-11
10. Shades of Gray1999-01-08
11. Bones of Contention1999-01-15
12. The Same Coin1999-01-29
13. Homicide.com1999-02-05
14. A Case of Do or Die1999-02-12
15. Sideshow (II)1999-02-19
16. Truth Will Out1999-03-26
17. Zen and the Art of Murder1999-04-02
18. Self Defense1999-04-09
19. Identity Crisis1999-04-30
20. Lines of Fire1999-05-07
21. The Why Chromosome1999-05-14
22. Forgive Us Our Trespasses1999-05-21