Shaken from her job in Cuba, Jett is approached by a Bestic subordinate, Evans, about masterminding a heist at the site of a high-stakes poker game. A skeptical Jett agrees, and is forced to work with a pickup gang of thieves, including a man named Blair who once tried to kill her. Meanwhile, Charles Junior continues to make enemies in high places, as a turf war between Baudelaire and cartel kingpin Jacinto Salas escalates. Accompanying Maria on a hospital visit, Jett recalls their introduction seven years earlier, when both were coping with very different travails.

Jett tracks down Frank Sweeney, a brutal gangster she and Blair worked for ten years earlier.