Alejandra Flores

Justin's resolve to stay clean is shaken by a disturbing letter from the US military requesting that he go back and join them.

Christine feels pressured to throw an extravagant party for Ritchie's ninth birthday, his first involving children from his new private school. Christine decides to have an arts-and-crafts party at her home--with mixed results.

The team responds to a tragic freeway pileup; Andy helps Natasha face the fallout of a recent decision just as Ben deals with the fallout of his own.

Nick gets caught between father/son clients when the sale of their family department store becomes complicated with a class action lawsuit from several African American customers claiming discrimination.

Christian and Liz grow closer when his chemotherapy makes him ill and she becomes his caretaker. Sean reconnects with his broken family.

After Dave Mendoza is injured in a drive-by, Ben takes it upon himself to solve the case – much to Sammy's dismay. Lydia regains her footing as a detective while investigating the murder of a female boxer's husband. Tensions between Cooper and Steele finally come to a head during a traffic stop-gone-sideways.