Benton misses his mother's birthday while Greene misses his daughter's. Hathaway wants to adopt the Russian girl who was abandoned in the ER, but faces opposition.
After a gang member is killed, the Fishers find that his family's wishes for burial differ from those of his gang leader. Nate's girlfriend Brenda (Rachel Griffiths) makes an unfavorable impression during a family dinner.
Simone and Sipowicz grow suspicious while investigating a missing persons case in which a man reported his infant daughter was snatched, and Martinez runs for Squad Delegate.
The team reopens the case of a dock worker who was moonlighting as a wrestler on the independent circuit until he was shot dead in 1986. Plus, Valens secretly looks into a lead on the man who mugged and raped his mother.
While investigating the 1983 case of a tagger who died from a fatal dose of spray paint down his throat, Rush, Valens and Miller each contend with vexing personal issues.