Briscoe and Curtis race against time to find the killer of a parolee before two bounty hunters find the suspected murderer.

Jamie Ross returns as a defense attorney to represent a previous client who has key evidence concerning a prisoner on death row.

The investigation of a schizophrenic woman's death leads to a case involving a homeless man and his right to refuse medication.

Detectives Briscoe and Green probe the strangulation of a college coed who moonlighted as a stripper, and while they believe a pair of drug-dealing skinheads committed the murder, they struggle to determine the motive of the strip club owner who paid them for the hit. However, as they work their way up the ladder of complicity, the cops learn that the slaying is keyed to an insider trading scam that forces Assistant D.A. McCoy to connect a former porn star with a businessman.