In a ghetto quarter the murder of single mother Tamika Weaver and her baby in the car, where a heroin stash is found, seems little more noticeable then the unanimous uncooperative 'ignorance' of all neighbors. However not even cash was stolen, and the ballistic expert is sure the missing weapon is the machine-gun used years earlier in the never solved Russell case gang murder. Although all colleagues consider perjured ex-detective Mark Hickman a shunned traitor since he caused as mistrial, she implores newbie Amy Sykes to sit on the info and contact him first informally, convinced he has the key info, but he's bitter, she lacks his sharp mind and they don't get along. All traces lead to the dubious church of 'reverend' Daniel Price, a former murder suspect, and his jail-bait parish team. A search yields only dust of moved drugs, but also the Uzi. Rusty is worried to be followed by a man, not amused to find it's his biological mother's boyfriend, startled he's seeking contact again with his birth mother Sharon Beck, who is delighted to talk to him but almost hysterically insists he should avoid contact with either of them.
—KGF Vissers