Nick Potter goes on a ride along with two ghetto cops, landing Potter in a meeting with Internal Affairs; Jessica Rossi prosecutes a wife beater, while wrestling with the same problem at home, when her mother tells her she's leaving her father for being abusive, and Christina Finn gets caught up in a case with a spoiled diplomat's son and a strip club.

Brian Peluso gets pressure from his recently reunited girlfriend; Christina Finn, who is light on case work, is loaned out to a hard-driving, nasty prosecutor; Alexandra Cabot feels the pressure to hire an image consultant; Nick Potter fills in for Desmond on a bail reduction case that has tragic consequences, and Jessica Rossi finds herself in the middle of a family battle when prosecuting a deaf girl's boyfriend for stabbing the girl's father.