Nolan's prosecutor lover Jessica Russo arranges for him, supervised by Bradford as Bishop refuses the 'drudge', to be act as protective detail for former border patrol guard Brad Hayes, who became a human trafficker and is to testify, hence targeted by the coyote fiends. Grey struggles with absurd orders from captain Tom Weatherby. West unintentionally insults his hospital nurse lover Gino, who returned his service gun. After Chen and Bishop save a young man from a brutal exorcism performed by his crazy mother, Chen confronts her father, his therapist whose arm was broken by a patient but warns her arresting him, under the law, will undo his work, which she redeems by having the patient transferred. An earthquake leaves Grey to try to coordinate the city's response while Nolan and Bradford are attacked at the safe-house, and after they flee there even the lifeguard hut they believed untraceable, finding their human trafficker's GPS tracker led the cartel fiends, whom they overpower in a gunfight.
—KGF Vissers