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Annabeth is faced with a tough case, when a man turns over some footage of his neighbor, a typical soccer mom, receiving several men in her underwear at home while her kids and husband are out. Steve is urging her to press charges, but she thinks it's not a big crime and it's not worth prosecuting it, but when Det. Marquez tells Annabeth the man who filmed it is threatening to go to the media and release the tape, she is forced to take the case to avoid exposing the woman in the tape.

Annabeth interviews the woman in the tape, Shannon Cooke. She claims all the men are her friends and she did nothing illegal, Det. Marquez threatens to call her husband and ask about her so called "friends" she begs him not to tell her husband, and explains she was only doing it because her husband was unemployed for a while and they got behind the mortgage. She says Terry was the one who suggested it to her, Annabeth asks who is Terry and if there are more women involved in the scheme, but Mrs. Cooke says she can't reveal anything. She pleas to Annabeth not to tell her husband or her kids, and Annabeth says she can give Mrs. Cooke immunity and do whatever she can to preserve her anonymity if she tells everything she knows.

Meanwhile Steve pressures Maureen to get more drug convictions; he gives her the files of three guys arrested for possession of drugs. She is unsure of it, she thinks only the owner of the car is accountable for the drugs and the other two were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, but Steve tells her to prosecute the three of them for possession with intent to sell.

The police find Terry Schaefer's rap sheet, she has been arrested before in Tulsa for commanding a prostitution ring, but the charges were dropped on a technicality. They find a website "raunchymammas.com" where the women advertise their services, and men place their orders, that way Terry is able to screen all the clients beforehand to prevent any undercover policemen to bust their operation, and the payment is made through an online billing service, so the clients and the women never exchange any money. They decide to wire Mrs. Cooke and send her to the meeting where Terry gives them the money.

After the meeting is over and all the women are gone with their money, Annabeth and Det. Marquez go in with the search warrant and seize Terry's computer. At the courthouse Terry's lawyer tries to get the contents of the laptop suppressed, claiming that the warrant was only for the laptop itself, not it's contents, and the judge holds the laptop until she can rule the matter. At Maureen's drug trial, the defense puts into evidence the $7 million grant the DA's office applied for, and claims that the DA's office is overcharging defendants on drug charges to get the grant.

Annabeth receives a call from a distraught Shannon, saying the press is all over her front lawn, the images of her receiving men on her underwear all over the news. She says her husband took the kids and left, and she won't testify anymore. Annabeth is crushed by that. Later that day she receives a call informing that Shannon overdosed on sleeping pills. Steve tells Annabeth she has to arrest all the women involved, but she insists she only need one of them to testify against Terry, and she cannot ruin any more lives after what happened with Shannon.

Maureen sees Danny talking to the defense lawyer in her case and confronts him about the grant documents, she asks if he leaked the information about it and accuses him of blowing her case. Danny says it wasn't him, but he thinks Maureen really is overcharging the two guys that were in the van with the dealer. Annabeth goes over to Ryan's house and ask her to testify against Terry in the trial and Ryan refuses, saying Terry isn't a good person and she isn't ready to go against Terry. Annabeth asks her why didn't she quit it and she says only Terry decided when was the time for anyone to quit. Annabeth realizes Terry blackmailed the women so they wouldn't quit. None of the women are willing to talk because they are afraid of Terry and of losing custody of their kids.

The judge rules in Annabeth's favor over the laptop issue and the laptop is turned over to the prosecution to be analyzed. Maureen decides to reduce the charges against the guy in the drug dealer's van after talking to him and realizing the guy had no idea about what was going on. Upon hearing the news, Steve freaks out and give Maureen an earful, but Maureen says she's only doing what she thinks is right, and that the guy deserves to be in a rehab center, not in jail. Over at the computer analysis, Annabeth is called because of a major crisis, there is a virus eating away all the data from Terry's laptop. Annabeth panics and shuts down the laptop before loosing any more data, she says she knows a guy that can fix it, upsetting Matt. Annabeth takes the laptop to a hacker and he is able to stop the virus and recover everything that was erased, except for a few files that were deleted that afternoon before the virus was installed. He gives her the exact time the files were deleted and the virus installed. Annabeth realizes that at that time the laptop was already at their possession so there is only one person that could've done that.

Annabeth confronts Matt about the laptop, he admits he deleted the files because his daughter's name was in there as one of the prostitutes, and didn't want anyone to know that. He says he tried to make Terry to cut Lilly off, but she threatened to tell everyone about Lilly if he didn't erase the contents of the laptop. Annabeth goes talk to Lilly and convinces her to testify against Terry, who agrees after learning that her father is going to jail for trying to protect her. At the trial, Lilly gives her testimony and Terry is found guilty of all the charges.