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.

ADA Jessica Rossi is close to getting a conviction on a rape case until Bureau Chief Alexandra Cabot steals away her defendant for her own insurance fraud prosecution; while ADA Billy Desmond decides to network with an exclusive group of upwardly mobile black men, but the high powered connections come with a price, and his colleague Christina Finn gets caught in a landlord/tenant lawsuit.