Clark protects a police friend who is suspected in the cover-up of a rap star's murder, and Ortiz and McDowell investigate when a man and his stripper girlfriend are found crucified in her apartment.

Clark tries to find a foster home for a teenaged boy who's been sexually abused by his mother. Meanwhile, he and Sipowicz are investigating the murder of a teenage girl from a family that never wanted her, Ortiz and McDowell question a woman who claims she was raped by her fiancé's half-cousin, and PAA John has a bitter reunion with his homophobic, dying father.