When a serial killer's spree crosses from Texas to California, Brenda must work with Detective Curt Landry, her Texan equivalent. The two match wits and find themselves going toe to toe as each tries to gain control of the case.
Brenda snoops when a shooting on a school parking lot results in one person's death. Landing squarely in the middle of the case: Brenda's rebellious visiting niece, Charlie (Sosie Bacon). Meanwhile, Provenza is ripe for a sweeping life change.
The squad room receives a box which is stuffed with a dead body, and the suspects are piling up. Brenda and Fritz are sorely tested 由 her troubled visiting niece and her behavior.
Brenda needs to reopen a case in which a man had confessed to murder while she was away on her honeymoon, but got the details of the crime wrong during his allocution. Brenda’s investigation is interrupted 由 her mother’s visit.