Daniels and Molina are called to the upscale Mayfield Hotel, where Steven Lewis was found dead from an apparent heart attack. Although the case seems routine, a few small details — the doctor leaving the scene hurriedly because he can't stand the sight of a dead body, and the victim never being seen the hotel staff — don't add up and, during a lull in police work, the detectives decide to look deeper into the deceased's life.

Working out of Homicide, Daniels and Moilna catch the case of star high school quarterback Rick Randall, who is found dead in a park with crack in his possession. Yet as they pursue the investigation, everyone tells them that Rick was a clean, fit and healthy athlete who would never touch drugs.