Nick (George Eads) and Sara (Jorga Fox) accompany two other officers from the Mobile Patrol Unit as they patrol the Strip. Crawford (Alimi Ballard) tells Nick he'll be becoming a detective soon which he thinks its great. Ah Nick never has a bad word to say about anyone, unless it's a crim. A prostitute named Chastity (Inbar Lavi) is arrested as they look for other trouble makers. They then come across a drug deal going down and one of the men drops the baggie to the ground. Crawford knows Adrian Dinan (Anthony Azizi) and this will be his third strike. The other man, Bobby Reed (Mat Vairo) seems to be a buyer and they need his statement in exchange for his freedom. They come across a man in a bloodied shirt who is holding a decapitated head, there's chaos and he hits another man with the head. Sergeant Weiss (Lilly Walton) says the head isn't real and a girl in the crowd wearing a hoodie runs away holding a video camera. They chase the man and arrest him next to a car in which the driver is slumped inside.
At the station the people are processed and Weiss talks with a transgender named Joslyn (Andrew Elvis Miller) who seems to be agitated and in distress, claiming she's having a baby and it's coming out. They try to subdue her by putting her in a chair with restraints but Weiss later lets her out. She grabs a scissors from a paramedic there to help her and stabs himself repeatedly. Doc (Robert David Hall) finds he wasn't high and David (David Berman) brings in X-rays showing she was a drug mule. Doc cuts open her intestine and finds a burst condom which caused her to behave in this way. Joslyn is known as Josh.
Greg (Eric Szmanda) talks with Marko (David Magidoff) and tries to get info from him. Finn (Elisabeth Shue) processes the man who was attacked with the head and finds he's had some sort of a reaction on his hands. Greg needs to know what the blood was as Finn's test shows it's non-human. It's pig's blood and it may be contaminated so they need to know where the girl is. Greg needs a map of everywhere they went to see who they came into contact with. Finn finds the blood is clean so there's no immediate threat. Sara notices the map and says they were at their CS. They need the video to see what evidence may be on the camera.
Marko can't get Lydia to answer her phone and when she finally does Sara wants to meet her for the camera. She suggests an ally where she should drop it near to the Strip. Wasn't that a bit premature and amateurish if they need it for evidence how do they know the killer wouldn't be after it too. Sara and Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) arrive to pick the camera up and Morgan notices blood which leads them to Lydia's DB.
Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) interviews Chastity after Morgan tells him there's something he should see and he interrupts his conversion with Ecklie (Marc Vann) who's thinking about resigning. Sheriff Liston wants him to take over her job. The ring has an inscription on it and it's from Brass's ex-wife, given to his daughter, Ellie. Chastity, real name Heather says she bought it for $200 from Jersey, another pro. Brass is upset over this since it means Ellie's in trouble but couldn't come to him, especially when he finds out she was in Vegas. Chastity is linked to the DB found in the car and she was in their hotelroom and stole the credit card. She denies seeing him later on.
The drugs found in Joslyn match the sample found from Adrian, but he says he was sampling and Bobby was the seller. Adrian works for Mad 10 gang leader Roland Zahl who didn't want his turf taken over so they suggested they might want to work the Strip together. Bobby is the son of lawyer, Dennis Reed (Patrick Cassidy) but is released by Crawford. Morgan finds the stolen card was used to rent the car in which the DB was found, who is identified as Keith. They find a video of Keith with Chastity in the car and Bobby in the backseat and think it could have been a case of mistaken identity since they both look similar. Chastity admits she was told by Zahl to go after Bobby and Keith, he's her pimp, but claims she wasn't there. Obviously the video shows she was but says she left. She texted Zahl with info on where Bobby would be. Brass wants to use her to help them and he will buy her a bus ticket home where she can start over.
Hodges (Wallace Langham) talks In the Line of Fire and comes up with the theory that the killer used a gun which only fired once, like John Malkovich in the movie. Which DB (Ted Danson) also mentions. Hodges thinks it was a gun made from plastic or some sort of polymer and proves his theory right when he finds a 3D printer. The gun was printed out and used once but could have been reprinted out over. The printers are expensive and Hodges traces one to an autoshop. However no printer is found there. Finn recognizes the components of the polymer as those found on the man, Anthony Pak's (Ming Lo) hands, so he was the shooter. He must have been heading straight for Lydia to take the camera when he was hit with the head.
They use Chastity as bait to get Pak as Greg monitors his moves on CCTV. Pak knows where the cameras are located and goes out of camera shot. He eventually catches up with Chastity but it's Weiss in disguise, could tell she had a wig on. He's arrested for the murders but they have nothing to link to Zahl. Brass finds Chastity's gone and she left him the ring and a note saying she hates bus rides. Morgan has lunch with Ecklie and she seems to think she isn't worth his time but he sets that straight. He's been thinking about leaving for a while. They seem to be bonding as Brass is even more distant with Ellie. DB tries to understand and be there for him but he has a perfect family and may find it a little hard to understand what's happening with Brass.
All this trouble started with Bobby just cos he's fed up with his father and being rich, well not wanting to study and become something normal and it doesn't seem fair that he gets away unscathed, aside from prison when everyone else is killed when they had nothing to do with it. Apparently Joslyn was Bobby's cousin but it's not clear how his dressing as a woman contributed to the story or whether he really was a transgender, transvestite or anything more. It appears he was just there to move the story along and connect it to the drugs.
An episode where the arrest of the suspects came together to be related into one big story and at least this episode was different, introducing a new character in Crawford, who will be back again. Nick was complimentary in telling Hodges he proved his theory about the 3D gun.
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