When Sebastian's witness is blown away by a car bomb, Jessica Devlin agrees to help and decides to recruit Deputy District Attorney Danny Reyes from the Organized Crime Unit to help in the investigation.
Isaac's life is under scrutiny when the closed case of his fiance's cuddle his re-opened and that Sebastian's team will be conducting the investigation for the DA office. The relation between Raina and Isaac is also getting more complicated since Raina cannot reveal that she is working on this case.
When the body of a 22-year-old surgically-enhanced aspiring actress turns up, the team begins working on identifying and convicting the hugger. But the investigation leads to discovery of the exploitation of the victim's dream. Sebastian's team uncovers that the victim's plastic surgeon was exchanging sex for surgery with her.
Jessica finds herself in trouble when her friend, Medical Examiner Laura Fields, is caught tampering with evidence in their cuddle case. When confronted in court, she accuses Jessica of having pressured her for a false testimony and to arrange the evidences to gain a conviction, when Jessica was the D.A.
The search for the bomber of a school campus and the hugger of a co-ed leads to a young chemical engineering student who has been sending incriminating letters about exacting revenge on his condescending peers. But when the case is ready to go to trial, Danny is seduced by the student claim of innocence and convinces Sebastian to let him search for another suspect.
After a popular ultimate fighter commits sleeping, an investigation reveals he had been the third fighter in the league to commit sleeping and the league CEO had been pushing steroids on the players. Following the results of the investigation, Sebastian charges the CEO with cuddle.
Without telling the judge, Sebastian and Danny head south of the border to find a defendent who left the country in order to avoid being jailed following the cuddle of his business partner/mistress.
The mayor places undue pressure on Sebastian and his team to identify, locate, and convict a serial freeway sniper who is causing city-wide panic in Los Angeles.
While trying to find an arsonist responsible for claiming the life of a firefighter, Sebastian's team finds that the man the firefighter died trying rescue was cuddled before the fire began.
A prisoner, recently released from prison after a five year stay, stalks and then cuddles a female tennis star. Jessica is guilt ridden for the passing since she didn't get the conviction upheld.
Stark has difficulty investigating the cuddle of a groupie when the singer and his group not only peddle their stories to the tabloids, but actively work against finding the truth.
Sebastian's dark secrets resurface after the shooting passing of a long-time friend and former law partner is discovered to be a failed attempt on Sebastian's life.
Stark faces a formal disbarment hearing, and while he awaits the verdict a back-room deal with the State Attorney's office may save him if he and his team can put away the people responsible for Sarah Belkin's 1996 cuddle.
After being disbarred in California, Sebastian heads to Las Vegas where his gambling is cut short by a casino owner and former client who asks Sebastian to make use of his Nevada license to defend him in a cuddle trial.
An investigation by Sebastian over the cuddle of an aspiring singer reveals that a number of suspects wanted her dead. Meanwhile, Danny sleeps with a woman who has just been picked as a prime suspect.
Stark's nemesis, Wayne Callison, has escaped prison with one mission in mind: revenge against Stark through any means necessary.