After narrowly escaping from a police raid on a Chinatown gambling parlor, Carrie joins Al at the Morganson Recreation Center where seventeen-year-old Marisa Perez has been shot and killed. As the investigation is getting underway, more shots ring out, killing gang member Oskar Mendoza and wounding attorney Beverley Jackson and anti-gang activist Jim Clayburn. As the police piece together clues that point to a shootout between the rival DKK and QB-6 gangs, Carrie is disgusted to learn that Detective Ben Cortez enlisted Marisa to be an informant in his case against the DKK. While focusing her anger on Cortez for placing Marisa in danger, Carrie remembers eleven shots being fired during the melee though only ten shell casings were found. Although an off-duty Parks Department cop admits that he panicked and shot the unarmed Mendoza, ballistics tests reveal that Marisa and Clayburn were shot with the same still unidentified weapon. And after Jackson admits to seeing Marisa arguing with Tito Alvarez, and Carrie backs up her story, the DKK member becomes a prime suspect. Meanwhile, after her fingerprints are found in the gambling parlor raid, Al warns Carrie against doing anything to jeopardize her job. As Carrie continues blaming Cortez for Marisa’s death, she and Al interview the critically injured Clayburn and his teenage son, JJ. Though unable to speak, Clayburn indentifies Tito as the man who shot him and Marisa. Picked up at his girlfriend’s home, Tito denies pulling the trigger and argues what Carrie and Beverly witnessed was Marisa attacking him for breaking up with her. And while Carrie’s recollections of the crime scene corroborate his claim that he didn’t shoot Clayburn, a jailhouse informant reveals that Tito has ordered a hit on someone who can finger him for killing Marisa. When pressed, Clayburn says that family tensions have arisen over his son JJ’s flirting with gang membership and admits that his son accidentally shot him as they struggled over a gun he was hiding for Tito. Realizing that JJ is the only one who can positively identify Tito as Marisa’s killer, Carrie and Al and hurry to the Clayburn home to keep him from being killed by a pair of DKK hit men. © 2011 Sony Pictures Television Inc. and CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
