When the prostitute Dakota leaves the street of Los Angeles in a car for a program with a client, she never contacts her friend Jersey again. On the next morning, Jersey reports to the police that Dakota is missing. The attending officer does not pay attention to her complaint and she calls her father on the phone asking for help. Jersey is Ellie and her father is Capt. Brass, who asks for a leave to the sheriff to resolve family problems. He contacts his old friend and LAPD Captain Annie Kramer, who gives their police records to Brass and he learns that Ellie works on the streets and her last address. When the car is located with broken windows, Capt. Kramer call one local CSI investigator that brings Warrick that is in a conference with him. Kramer and Brass visits the owner of the car, Assistant City Attorney Todd Piccone, who has not reported that his car was carjacked. He becomes a suspect but The Powers That Be seems to be not interested in resolving the case.

A young Hollywood actress is killed in what appears to be a simple drunk driving collision, but the team soon suspects that there is more to the case than meets the eye, and a shootout in the crime lab may confirm their suspicions.