Due to the city's budget constraints and concerns that the twelfth precinct could get shut down, Barney and the detectives learn that the neighborhood businesses have started paying protection money to area gangs. As a result, a criminal has a hard time turning himself in for a recent armed robbery.

After Wojo gets targeted by a sniper, Inspector Luger stops by the squad room to see how the investigation is going, and soon becomes a target himself. Fish then helps a husband file a complaint against a conman trying to sell a seat for flights to Saturn to his wife.