… Danny is looking up Dean’s file, and Sara is going through records, they’re trying to figure things out…
… Ian stands in an alley, apparently meditating…
… Two guys are playing video games, ignoring Jake’s entry. Jake whistles and a third guy draws on him. He says he’s taking Big Ben’s place, he starts to turn over the money, and the guys try to just shoo him out the door but he refuses until they give him the “merch”. They toss it at him, he starts to leave, and Dean comes in, shooting the place up, much to Jake’s amazement. The game continues to play as Dean takes aim. Jake begins to fire with the big gun he brought in, the game says, “shoot”, Dean kills off the guys in between the game sending game images, One guy gets in a shot on Jake’s shoulder, Dean caps him and the game flashes, “Game Over”. Dean is nasty with Jake, he pushes the cash over to Jake, and Dean conjectures Jake was sent in for a buy, but Jake lost his cool, shot all the guys with Jake’s gun, blew them all away, he was high as a kite – and then Dean shoves pills down Jake’s throat, washing them down with Jack Daniels. He leaves a terrified Jake. Jake tries firing after Dean with the big gun Dean had given him before, but Dean leaves before Jake can take aim; Jake runs out another door, and Dean comes back for the money and the pills. He exits as the sirens start outside.
Sara is amazed as she listens to Dean spin a tale: he mocks Sara a little bit, but he says Jake was supposed to set up a connection, no mention of the money or the pills. Sara is disbelieving, but she says there are units looking for Jake, and IA is also looking into things; this wasn’t a clean deal. Before she leaves, Sara tells Dean she doesn’t like him and doesn’t trust him, and if she finds out Dean betrayed Jake, she’s going to ruin him.
Jake is outside in an alley, puking up his guts, he finds a picture of Irons on a cover of Time Magazine with the headline “Missing Billionaire.” Irons’ picture talks to him, asks how he’s doing, shouldn’t he get the slug out of his shoulder? Then Irons directs Jake’s attention to the approaching police car, and Jake hides under trash.
A man gets into a limo, tells the first man in the back he doesn’t like meeting this way. The first one talks about the other’s missing money, and his own people who are missing, specifically Big Ben. He says he heard it was a rookie cop who stole the money and drugs and ran off. They agree to join forces and find Jake together.
Danny tells Sara that Torres invested a lot of money before the dot-com. Danny asks Sara about Jake’s involvement here, Sara doesn’t think he’s guilty, Danny thinks they should be talking to everyone Dean did business with, but Sara thinks they should be leaning on Dean. Sara peruses pictures, she notices a doll on the floor beside a dead man: it’s the same doll the little girl she keeps seeing is carrying. Sara asks Danny for a picture from another case, she shows Danny the two pictures are different, and shouldn’t be – the doll had been taken and the pictures re-taken to cover it up. It had been at a dealer’s house, his daughter had been there, too, and was killed. Sara speculates the doll was stuffed with the money or drugs, and Dean or Torres walked away with it.
Lazar finds Jake under a box, Jake is dreaming about the sushi he ate with Dean.
Sara and Danny figure out Torres was investing the money he and Dean were stealing, then the dot-com crash, they lost money, and Dean killed Torres for revenge. They decide to go find Dean.
The thugs find Jake, they were tipped off by a couple of guys in the street who recognized him from pictures being circulated by the NYPD. The two guys are warned not to talk. Jake tries to escape, but he’s too stoned to put up much of a fight, and he’s dragged away.
Jake sits on a couch, stoned, and the two bosses who’d met in the limo earlier are there, they introduce him to Mr. Lomax, a chemist, who carries a bowl full of blue pills. They offer Jake drugs, but he doesn’t like them and refuses them. At first they’re disbelieving, then they realize Jake is telling the truth, so they demand to know where the cash is, where the drugs are, and where is Big Ben, and Jake tells them about Dean Gorner; they go after Dean. Mr. Lomax grabs Jake, tells him, “Take Dean Gorner out of circulation.” And he holds the pills before Jake, a silent threat: he’ll tell them everything, or they’ll make it look like he overdosed.
Big Ben is found, and his wig is picked up off the ground.
Sara and Dean sit in a car, wondering about Dean and Jake, they speculate it was Dean set up Jake as part of a bigger plan, a getaway. Sara blames herself for the whole thing, Jake was a rookie and she let Jake go with Dean; Danny sighs, maybe Jake was turned, he’s a rookie. He and Sara look at each other and agree: “Nah…”
Coming out of his apartment, Dean is met by Big Ben in his wig; Ben takes his guns, and pushes Dean into a car. Sara and Danny were sitting outside, and they follow the car. Dean sits in a chair opposite Jake, they push pills down his throat with alcohol, as a smug Jake watches. Dean says they can’t kill him, he’s already dead. Two guns are put on the floor, one near Jake, one near Dean, and the bosses leave. Sara and Danny make their way into the building, Danny downstairs, Sara on the roof, planning a bust; the thugs watch Jake and Dean from behind a pile of wares, waiting for them to kill each other. Dean and Jake are still tied to their chairs, with one hand free, they both stumble for the guns, Dean tries to kill Jake, Jake tells Dean not to do it, but he fires his gun, too, ready to defend himself. Danny pulls a gun on the men from behind a plastic curtain, and they fire at him, he backs away, and Sara drops through the skylight between Dean and Jake, deflecting bullets and trying to pull Jake to safety. Then she leaps to where the bosses just pushed back Danny, and proceeds to beat up everyone with the gauntlet. When Danny pulls the curtain back again, Sara is standing in the middle of a pile of groaning men, the gauntlet gone, and she shrugs innocently at him. They find Jake holding a gun on Dean, he wants to shoot Dean, but Sara talks him out of it, taking the gun from him.
As they enter the station, Jake is saying he was not completely under the influence anymore, but Danny and Sara are looking at him like he’s crazy. He says Sara was like, “an avenging angel,” and Danny says if it doesn’t seem real, it’s not a hallucination. Sara sees the little girl skipping with her doll, and Sara agrees with a smile.
David Chokachi as Jake McCartey
Anthony Cistaro as Kenneth Irons
Will Yun Lee as Danny Woo
Eric 'Kaos' Etebari as Ian Nottingham
Kathryn Winslow as Vicki Po