Early morning sunshine. A glorious deserted beach. Detective Frances Tully is enjoying her morning run until she encounters a young girl, smeared with blood, standing in the surf. Where has she come from? And why can't she speak? The traumatized girl leads Tully to a nearby brothel. Inside, Tully discovers three dead Russian prostitutes and one very unlucky john. Is this Lazar's handiwork? Or is someone trying to tell him something? And just what was a child doing in the brothel in the first place? While Tully gets onto the Child Protection agency, the girl's mother arrives, furious, looking for her daughter. While Lena Ivanova and Tully face off over custody of the girl, Nelson is annoyed. There are too many Russians on his patch. There's been a shoot out at El Paradiso. And now there's another mysterious newcomer in town. Is he, as he says, a simple tourist? Or is he an old foe from Mother Russia come to exact revenge on Lazar? And what does he have to do with Katz and the missing diamonds? Things get worse for Tully when the young girl is abducted from her foster home. A distraught Lena pleads with the detectives. She will give them Lazar if they find her daughter. But can they trust her? And just how far will a mother go to protect her child?