9. Poor Man's Paradise

Complete story — includes the ending

Lieutenant Terry Colson is set up by his colleagues and takes a beating during an investigation while two uniformed officers and his partner sit idly by. Bucking under the pressure on her and Sophia, Toni Bernette decides to call off her investigation of Officer Wilson until she is presented with a witness to the shooting of Joseph Abreu in a supermarket. Janette is finding that she has much less control of her restaurant than she expected, with Tim hosting his freeloading friends at her expense, while she and her crew have become prisoners of her signature crawfish ravioli. Annie also finds that she has less control of her life that she expected, with her manager Marvin and the recording studio running the show. As Delmond becomes more involved in the proposed jazz center, he begins to have misgivings, especially when Albert suspects that it will not be benefit the local community. Toni suspects that Terry is crooked but is reassured by the FBI agent that Terry has been tracking evidence to implicate crooked officers in cover-ups and she reconciles with him. After weeks of intimidation, LaDonna's bar, GiGi's, is set on fire to stop her from testifying against the men who raped her. To find some relief for the pressure, LaDonna pays visit to Albert during his chemotherapy session.