For the first time ever, Mozzie must turn for help to the FBI, via Neal, desperately worried when the person of his affection, waitress Gina De Stefano from a local diner, disappears. Mozzie uses cryptic clues, often references to book texts, left by Gina to find and rescue her. Neal got Peter also on the alert, and it turns out she has a boyfriend, petty thief Tommy Barnes, long on the FBI's radar, who works for a big fish, Colombian 'cigars' dealer Navarro, who actually abducted Gina to get Tommy to return what he stole. Neal concocts a convoluted plan to catch Navarro and liberate Gina, involving ID gay Devlin but compromised as Mozzie spooks Tommy.

When a magazine journalist's life is threatened, Diana goes undercover as her assistant to protect her while Peter and Neal investigate the subject of the journalist's story: a crooked pharmaceutical company.

When a mobster from Mozzie's Detroit childhood surfaces in Manhattan, Neal and Peter must help their friend rework a scam from his past to take down the ruthless gangster and prevent a mob war.