Mack is notified that Jason was badly beaten by his father and is in the hospital, unconscious. Kate confides in half-brother Steve that she thinks he was the result of their mother's being raped, and Gary's puppies frustrate Anne and Nick's greed.
Hunter and McCall try to solve a bank robbery and murder, while attempting to cope with the double and triple-crossing schemes of a small time criminal who once saved Hunter's life and won't let him forget it.