Wiseguy

- Season 3

(1989)

While Don Aiuppo battles to survive an attempted assassination, Vinnie takes his place at the commission table, determined to bring down the family member who ordered the hit.

When Cerrico and Tommy Chin tangle over rights to the carting business in Chinatown, Vinnie has to balance his undercover role as a mobster with his responsibility to the OCB.

In his bid for the governor's seat, Peter Alatorre plans to reveal Vinnie as a mob boss.

Cerrico moves to consolidate his power within the commission and asks Don Aiuppo for his blessing, but the unforgiving don, who blames Albert for the death of his son 20 years before, plans his playback -- even if it means endangering Vinnie's life.

On the advice of a therapist, Vinnie and Amber agree to confront their true feelings for each other on a retreat in Vermont.

Some things that were with Pete are found and brought to Vince. And among them is a journal written by his father wherein he talks about a time when he got mixed up with some mobsters.

Still disturbed by his daughter's marriage to an aspiring sculptor, as well as his impending grandfatherhood, Lifeguard intervenes when his son-in-law takes a construction job with a suspect company.

Vinnie attends his high school's 15th reunion, but he finds that rekindling old and valued friendships is sticky when his closest friends believe he's a gangster.

In order to avenge his disruption of the plot to takeover Isle Pavot, Vinnie is drawn into a plot to destabilize the Japanese economy led by Admiral Strichen and General Leland Masters.

After the funeral of the assassinated economist Andrew Valenti, Vinnie accelerates his investigation into the covert plot behind the professor's murder.

The pieces of the diplomatic puzzle begin to come together for Vinnie as General Masters puts the final touches on his plot to make Vinnie the fall guy.

In a Senate executive session, a falsely accused Vinnie is systematically stripped of his honor, even as Gen. Masters' diabolical scheme is exposed.

When cantankerous Mike McPike is asked to leave his nursing home--the latest in a string of them-- he "retires" temporarily to the home of his son Frank, who is so close to his father that everyone, including Vinnie, thought the man was dead.

Sid Royce, the man who worked for Sonny Steelgrave, who after being arrested was placed in the witness protection program. And McPike, feeling that he doesn't deserve it, was the one who chose where he was relocated to and his cover name. And he was sent to a place in the middle of nowhere and his name is Elvis Prim. When his wife who hates what has happened to them runs away. Royce then bolts and goes looking for McPike and does when he is trying to work things out with his wife. He puts a gun on McPike and demands he locate his wife.

Vinnie joins his old neighborhood friends for a bachelor party but ends up finding one of his pals in trouble with a loan shark.

Vinnie goes underground as a small-town deputy to root out the corruption in a company town run by one man -- the reclusive Old Man Volchek.

Vinnie enlists Frank's help when two of Stem's deputies are murdered.

Vinnie bolts after watching Stem kill himself by electrocuting himself, which was the same way Sonny Steelgrave killed himself. Frank doesn't know what he's going to do now in regards to Vochek. But suddenly Roger Laccocco shows up. It seems Vince called him to ask him to help Frank.

McPike and Lococco wrap up their investigation of Volchek while Vinnie takes a job with an unscrupulous waste disposal company.

McPike and Lococco help Volchek come to grips with his family's legacy while Vinnie moves to stop the illegal dumping of hospital wastes.

Vinnie's crusade against illegal waste dumping uncovers a web of political ties to organized crime figures.

As McPike is near death in a coma, Kousakis plans to kill Boden and Weiss from his hideaway in Father Patrick's church.