KFTLC - Season 1

The Lacquered Box

Peter is shot by a junkie and recovers from surgery in the hospital. While Caine keeps watch over his sleeping son he remembers another incident that nearly cost Peter his life shortly after their reunion. A Chinese thug named Clarence wanted to get rid of Caine and planted a bomb in Caine’s new home. Peter, who merely wanted to visit his father, was able to disarm the bomb. To get revenge Clarence gets two corrupt cops to get Peter out of the way. Pretending to need help from Peter in a case, they lure him into a trap. Injected with a deathly dose of Speedball Peter was left to die in a drug den. Caine, who followed his son, took him home and started detox. But all too soon Clarence and the cops found out that Peter was still alive and come to Caine's brownstone to finish off Peter.

 

Illusion

Because a drug syndicate runs short on the drugs, the junkies have to pay higher prices. To provide money more and more burglaries take place. Caine and Peter discover that a Chinese druglord is behind the faked dope shortage. The lead directs them to a transvestites bar, where Peter has to work undercover as a woman who pretends to be a man. Peter asks his father to help him take down the druglord's operations. Caine gets work at the bar as a busboy. Caine quickly gains the druglords confidence who wants to have Caine around as a good luck charm. Not his wisest decision.

Straitjacket

For several months now the young heiress Karen Kade is stalked and threatened by someone. The police as well as her ill father’s estate manager John Mitchel believe she suffers from paranoia. Mitchel’s persistence and the fact that he commits Karen to a mental institution arouse Peter’s suspicion.. Caine must protect Karen from getting killed. Fortunately, because the murderer already lurk in the institution.