Special Investigator Annemarie Lucas follows up a report that a dog has been starved to death at a house on Staten Island. With her partner Special Agent Joann Sandano, Lucas sets out to uncover exactly what has happened, and to make sure that willful neglect does not go unpunished. Meanwhile, Special Agents Paul Romano and Mike Geller investigate a report of an underfed dog being kept in the cellar of a Brooklyn house.