Special investigators Annemarie Lucas, Mark Macdonald and undercover agent H are called to a restaurant in Queens where two emaciated Korean jindo dogs have been discovered in a storeroom. With them is a litter of dead puppies. Special agents Richie Ryan and Adam Gankiewicz have a distressing and delicate situation to deal with — a dog that has been the victim of violence in a domestic dispute. Finally, the winter weather is presenting problems for a guard dog in Brooklyn: it has no shelter and temperatures are plummeting.