Homicide and the Coroner's Office investigate the beating death of a teenaged male found amongst a lumber pile on the waterfront. Homicide finds the site of the actual beating, where a young runaway, Jesse, is squatting. Jesse did not witness the beating but witnessed two teenaged males at the scene, which matches the evidence indicating that the body was transported by two people. Da Vinci receives off the record information from the RCMP that the deceased was a drug informant to the police, which may or may not have contributed to the death. Eventually, Homicide tracks down a suspect, Nate Gillis. Homicide does not have enough evidence to charge Nate with murder and thus pleas bargains, Nate with the assistance of his high powered lawyer father. Da Vinci, pissed off about the plea bargaining, does some investigation of his own, and finds Nate's partner, William Turner, a kid from the wrong side of the tracks. William, who lives a tough life, admits that the two of them did do the beating, that the beating was because he was a snitch to the police, but that Nate was the one who dealt the fatal blow. Homicide, wanting to take a tough stance, wants Da Vinci to give up William regardless of if he dealt the fatal blow or not, but Da Vinci convinces them that justice is better served by listening to William's story without prejudice. At the end of the day, this case takes its toll on all involved, but especially on an alcoholic Da Vinci, who starts drinking again because of it since it mirrors the unsolved beating death of his own brother, Gabriel, when he was a teenager.
—Huggo