Maxine makes a great effort to track down the former dog of a little girl who has had a series of awful experiences. Amy presides of the case of a teenager illegally playing the stock market, and another who is the head of a school gang.

Amy hears the case of a high school gang leader charged with torturing an undercover police officer and a teenage girl involved in day-trading fraud; Maxine searches for the dog of an abused little girl.