Jack and the team search for a boxer, Dante Jones, who vanishes before a much anticipated fight at New York's Madison Square Garden.
When a young Army veteran dies of Gulf War syndrome, his embittered brother decides to shun a military funeral in favour of a simple cremation and disposal. Plus, Nate and Brenda plan to spend their first weekend away.
Sipowicz is on the job, shaking down a drug dealer named Gordo, whom he asks for any information on cops that may have been shaking down dealers.