Victoria Heller faces a tough trial lawyer in court, when she agrees to defend a famous football player accused of homosexuality by a sleazy tabloid magazine.
When Victoria defends her father, Judge Norton Heller, against bribery charges, she asks Gabriel and Louis to help prove his innocence—not realizing their investigation will reveal some painful secrets about her family's past.
Bird, Josephine, and others are held hostage in Josephine's restaurant by a panicked would-be robber whose dream is to escape to a ranch in North Dakota.
Gabriel Bird, unjustly imprisoned for 20 years, wins his freedom through the efforts of a beautiful female lawyer. Now she wants to hire him as an investigator for her law firm, but an embittered Bird refuses.