While in L.A., Mannion unexpectedly meets up with Vanessa Cavanaugh and offers her a ride. Unfortunately, the pair find themselves stranded in a deserted part of town after their rental gets carjacked. Back in Washington, Deputy Mayor Lockhart asks Debreno to help her find a blackmailer who has a scandalous videotape that could destroy her career; Kendall is threatened by her ex-boyfriend; and the mayor offers Ella a job.

Mannion's old partner arrives from New York and gets involved in a murder investigation. In the meantime, a woman scheduled to testify in a fatal shooting case in Chicago talks Debreno and Nancy into letting her visit her daughter first and Ella believes that an officer being hailed as a hero for rescuing a woman from a building burning isn't telling the whole truth.