1. Detective Graham Waters and his partner Ria are called to a shooting: a narcotics detective Conklin has shot and killed another officer, a black detective Lewis. Internal Affairs investigates; $300,000 is found hidden in the spare tyre of the car Lewis was driving. Waters is asked by the DA's office to support their making an example of Conklin for the incident, from which they will gain political advantage. Graham resists a job offer but agrees to their request to save his brother Peter from a mandatory life sentence in prison. Later, Graham arrives at a crime scene to find that his brother has been shot.
2. Farhad, an Iranian shop owner, buys a gun after his wife was threatened. He does not realise that his daughter Dorri has taken blanks instead of bullets. Daniel is sent to fix the lock on the shop door, but advises that the door needs replacing. Farhad thinks he is being ripped off. When the shop is vandalised, the insurance company decides it is negligence. Farhad blames Daniel and demands recompense; Lara sees her father facing a gun without his 'protective cloak' and runs out to save him. The gun goes off but Lara is fine.
3. Peter and Anthony car-jack the Navigator of D.A. Rick Cabot and his wife Jean. They knock over Korean Choi and dump him at A&E; because of blood on the vehicle, Lucien rejects it. They try to steal another Navigator but Cameron resists ; Peter runs away , but Anthony is in the vehicle when the police stop it. Officer Hanson persuades the other officers to let Cameron go. Anthony finds Choi's abandoned white van and it is found to be full of illegal Asian immigrants. Anthony releases them.
4. D.A. Rick Cabot looks for a way of spinning the car-jacking and decides that hanging Conklin out to dry would be the best way.
5. Jean Cabot feels threatened by Daniel, a Mexican, who changes their locks; she falls down the stairs and discovers none of her 'friends' actually care about her, whereas her Mexican maid is kind.
6. Locksmith Daniel Ruiz is a loving father who has recently moved house because a bullet came through the window of his five-year-old daughter Lara's bedroom. He calms her fears with a fairy cloak that will protect her.
7. Choi is paid for his van-load of Asian (Cambodian?) immigrants but is knocked over before he can deliver them and is dumped at the hospital. His wife Kim Lee, who had previously rear-ended Ria's car , finds him; he tells her to cash the cheque. Anthony takes the abandoned van and releases the Cambodians.
8. Officer John Ryan cares for his father who is suffering from a urinary disorder; Ryan can get no help from his medical insurance company.
10. Officer Hanson is appalled by Ryan's racism and harassment and asks for a different partner; he is assigned to his own car. He rescues Cameron, who is defying police out of anger and frustration. Later, he picks up Peter who is hitch-hiking. Hanson mistakes Peter's St Christopher for a gun and shoots him; he dumps the body and burns his car. Graham arrives at the crime scene where Peter's body lies and recognises his brother. He takes his mother to see the body. She blames Graham.
11. Humiliated by Ryan and by his wife's anger, Cameron goes to work and is further angered by another racist put down. When Anthony and Peter try to steal his Navigator, he responds with fury and fights them. He takes off in the vehicle with Anthony in the passenger seat; stopped by police, he defies them. Hanson, to make amends for Ryan the previous night, defuses the situation. Cameron agrees to go home, and eventually tells Christine he loves her.
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