Dunbar tries to redeem himself after he lets a man who murdered a Korean grocer escape, and the Chief of Detectives chastises Dunbar for pulling out his weapon in public.

Dunbar and Bettancourt force a mother to give her child to its father in a bitter custody dispute. Meanwhile Dunbar tells Bettancourt's new boyfriend to end the relationship or have his arrest record revealed to her, and an old Army buddy of Dunbar's confesses that he's responsible for the death of a platoon mate in Iraq.