AJ pressures Rick into taking the case of a woman accused of murdering the publisher who put her (against her wishes) on a list of San Diego's ten sexiest women, but Rick also investigates their client's mysterious secrets, while AJ is falling in love with her.

Rick enters Marlowe in a dog show in an attempt to locate the man who is holding their client's championship bitch for ransom, but the case hits too close to home when Marlowe gets snatched too.