- Detective Kennex and Dorian have to deal with a mysterious murder case. The victim is murdered mysteriously by a new technologically innovative bullet.
- Kennex and Dorian investigate a crime scene in which a bullet with auto-guidance capabilities can track, target and kill a specific person at any time. Meanwhile, Captain Maldonado looks into the deadly ambush that almost ended Det. Kennex's life.—JD
- A man runs frantically through a crowd and down onto the subway without stopping to pay. He's racing furiously for the subway, but it pulls away. When the security guards arrive he shouts that "they" know where he is and are coming for him. Then a bullet seemingly comes from the sky and kills him.
John Kennex sits in his anger management meeting. He puts on a sunny smile and says he's "all for sharing, feelings, but I feel good." The therapist reminds him that his girlfriend betrayed him and set his squad up to be massacred and cost John his leg, but John keeps up his happy face.
After class, Dorian greets him. "Hey, Mr. Friendly, how was Angry Class 101?" Dorian asks.
"Call me that again and I swear I'll stick my boot behind your face," John says. "Clearly it went well."
They head to the murder scene. The victim is Anton Cross, he died from a large caliber bullet but there were two other points of impact.
Detective Paul's MX goes on at length to tells John there's a .0004% chance one bullet could have ricocheted. Dorian looks at the bullet and, seeing no floor residue on it, disagrees. The MX points out that Dorian is a DRN and an inferior model, at which point John puts his hand over the MX's mouth and tells Dorian to continue.
Dorian notes some sort of microchip on the bullet and says there could have been just one, but it didn't move by ricochet.
Detective Paul laughs as his MX starts critiquing Dorian again. "You are continuing to listen to a retired old system, believing the rambling illogical theories of your appropriately canceled partner," it says.
At which point John takes out his gun and shoots the MX through the face.
Back at the station, Captain Maldonado chews out John.
John calmly argues the MXs aren't cops. "If you force me to work with a faulty machine, I will dispose of it with the same degree of compassion that I would a toaster that burns my toast," he says.
Detective Paul warns John that he and Dorian better watch out.
Dorian studies up on Anton's girlfriend, Kira Larsen, who works at a software company with him.
On the way there, Dorian enjoys the fact John shot the MX because it insulted him, proving that John likes him. Rudy calls to let them know the bullet has a power source and micro electrical systems, and aerodynamics - meaning the bullet can go where ever the shooter directs.
At the software company, Kira says Anton wasn't into anything bad. She plays a message he left her last night, in which he seems distracted and signs off when there's a knock at his door.
Kira says Anton was meeting with a head hunter, Natalie with Kinsey.
As John talks to Kira, a series of holographic ads targeted at Dorian pop up for him alone. An employee confirms the company makes real-time tracking software for personalized advertising.
Dorian explains how this software could essentially track someone, due to a glitch. Rudy calls, the bullet was stolen by Russian gun runners.
"So Anton sold his software to arms dealers, and they killed him," John concludes.
A man watches video footage of Anton being killed and listens to a sales pitch from a man and woman. The buyer wants to see the bullet work, so the sellers decide to use it on Kira, reasoning that they have to kill her anyway.
Back at the station, John enjoys as Stahl fends off Detective Paul's insults about her rich parents. Dorian checks and finds no one named Natalie working at Kinsey.
John sees on surveillance that Maldonado is interviewing Rinehart, the leader of the Syndicate attack looking for something in the evidence lock-up weeks ago. She offers him a deal.
When John comes down, Rinehart taunts John, saying he knows where his girlfriend "Anna" is and if they give him a full walk on the charges, he'll talk.
Maldonado is considering a deal even though eleven cops died because she's worried whatever is in their evidence lock-up is worse.
Kira gets lunch from a food cart, where John and Dorian find her. They ask about Natalie. She's not sure about the name, but describes the woman as blonde with a Slavic accent -- the gun seller.
Meanwhile, that woman and her partner load up a rifle with the smart bullet intended for Kira.
Standing outside, Dorian starts to survey their surroundings.
The bullet fires from blocks away , around corners. As it's getting close, Dorian notices all the electronic equipment near him scanning for the same person and realizes a bullet's coming. He steps in front of it at the last second and is hit. He's OK, but comes up speaking Korean.
Later, Dorian appears to be in working order, except for the language issue. Kira is safe in a titanium car nearby which protects her from scans. John wants to take her to protective custody, but she asks them to bring her daughter, Amy, who is with a friend.
The bullet dealers scan for her, but can't find her.
John gets her and her daughter to safety. Kira admits to John that she was suspicious of how secretive Anton was, even though he was great with her daughter. Kira wonders about going to a "scrubber" to erase her memories of Anton, so the gun runners won't have a reason to want her dead but John doesn't think that'll keep her safe.
John takes Dorian to Rudy to get his circuits fixed so he'll stop singing Korean pop songs. They're planning to move Kira somewhere the software can track her then wait for the arms dealers to come after her.
Stahl calls to report that Anton had parking violations outside a bank a few weeks apart. There was an account there under Anton's middle name and a safe deposit box.
Dorian and John check out the box. They find torn up scraps of paper with numbers on them and a video chip. The video is surveillance of Kira and her daughter a voice warning Anton they can find her at any time. They realize Anton was being extorted.
Meanwhile, Kira leaves the secure facility without permission.
Back at the station, Maldonado shows them a sort of mini-commercial for the bullet, featuring Anton's frantic running and Chechnyian narration promising "the magic bullet" can hit a target from 2 kilometers.
They intercept a signal from Kira's personal comm.. She's at a scrubber. The bullet dealers find her, but can't reach her because she's underground.
John and Dorian find Kira, but the arms dealers are right behind them. A gun battle breaks out (with regular semi-automatic weapons).
Dorian draws their fire, walking down the hallway and allowing them to shoot at him. They kill the man, and take the badly wounded woman into custody.
Back at the station, they play the extortion threat for Kira and tell her Anton traded his software for her life. She explains the ripped paper is from when they met. He was old fashioned and wrote his number on paper. When she initially tore it up, he promised to keep it until he won her over. She gives John her pen, thanking her for encouraging her to keep her memories of Anton.
Detective Stahl brings John an energy chew and he takes out a piece of paper to write her a note, using the pen. She laughs at the note.
On her way out, Maldonado thanks him for not killing any MXs today. "The night is young," he says.
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