Double Abandando

Double Abandando is the seventh episode of the first season of NYPD Blue.

Summary
Donna's younger sister, Dana, arrives and moves in with her and Medavoy, and tries to make the moves onto him. Simone doubts the confession of his friend's 11-year-old son, a murder suspect in a gang related shooting at a school. Meanwhile, an HIV-infected Lothario comes to the station and asks Lesniak and Martinez for help when he appears to be targeted by a woman he's apparently infected.

Main

 * Jimmy Smits as Detective Bobby Simone
 * Dennis Franz as Detective Andy Sipowicz
 * James McDaniel as Lieutenant Arthur Fancy
 * Gail O'Grady as P.A.A Donna Abandando
 * Gordon Clapp as Detective Greg Medavoy
 * Sharon Lawrence as A.D.A Sylvia Costas
 * Nicholas Turturro as Detective James Martinez

Recurring

 * Justine Miceli as Detective Adrienne Lesniak

Other

 * Scott Cohen as Eddie Reyna
 * Ron Dean as Vincent Mackie
 * Isabel Glasser as Christy Williamson
 * Adam Hann-Byrd as Nick Williamson
 * Debra Messing as Dana Abandando
 * John Rubinstein as Matthew Bernstein
 * Gretchen German as Dorie Duncan
 * Noelle Parker as Jennifer Mills
 * Giovanni Ribisi as Bruce Mackie
 * Vincent Guastaferro as Sergeant Vincent Agostini

Important Events

 * Sipowicz's fish die.
 * Donna's sister Dana comes to stay temporarily.

Trivia

 * Scott Cohen, who plays AIDS infected Eddie Reyna, who in later seasons played Det. Harry Denby.
 * Simone says that eight years previously, his pigeons had all been killed by "Newcastle's". This fits the timeline in the real world, as well. Newcastle Disease spread from Europe to the rest of the northern hemisphere in the mid-to-late 1980s, and the carrier was racing pigeons.

Quotes
"Dorie Duncan: No. That's a lie! He's totally into health!"