What a rotten couple of days for fifteen-year-old Gina Meadows. First she was busted for shoplifting, then got lost in Juarez and narrowly escaped a kidnapper, and then came home only to watch the killer giving her dad a Colombian necktie. Obviously whatever she saw is of great interest to the investigation -- especially Cross, who just can't stop herself from pushing the traumatized girl for details. You'd think Cross would be more empathetic, given that she herself had to identify her sister's murdered body when she was Gina's age.

Actually, let's follow that tangent for a moment. While going through the patient files of Dr. Meadows in search of a possible suspect, Ruiz finds an old record of therapy sessions with a Detective Hank Wade. The now-lieutenant privately confesses to Ruiz that he went to the shrink after having shot a rape/murder suspect. The bullet inflicted severe brain damage on Jim Dobbs, the man believed to have killed Cross's older sister when Cross was only fifteen. So now we know how those two met.

Speaking of catching up, Daniel Frye and his fellow reporter Adriana Mendez are doggedly pursuing the threads of what we viewers already know: the connection between Gedman and Cristina Fuentes, as well as the discovery of Christina's upper half in a death house where Fausto Galvan's brother was also found. Not to mention Ruiz's possible part in covering up that last little factoid. Mendez is doing most of the work, but at least Frye is trying to sober up. Their final discovery of the episode is that Fausto Galvan has had Hector Calaca's knife-riddled body strung up from a telephone pole, but the intrepid reporters aren't going to be scared off the story that easily.

Charlotte's reason for summoning Ray to town wasn't just for sex, but also because she wants him to be her contact with Graciela Rivera on all matters tunnel. They notify Graciela and her lawyer, who seem open to the idea. But then stupid Ray decides to further monetize the tunnel by calling a drug distributor he knows back in Tampa. What Ray doesn't know is that his contact has already been turned by the government. So when it came to finding a partner to deal with that tunnel mess, Charlotte chose...poorly.

There's some familial intrigue in the Ruiz home, but the main thing that happens with him is that he finally gets around to returning the million dollars that Fausto Galvan staked him for Maria's ransom. Galvan is not only ungrateful, he's mad at Ruiz for his superior moral fiber. In fact, Ruiz is lucky to get out of there alive.

Progress is pretty slow with Gina, so Wade decides to take her and Cross out for burgers. And the stupid girl pulls a runner, apparently unaware that the serial killer that only she has seen clearly might be waiting for a chance to take her out before she can identify him, which he forthwith does. Nice move, Cross and Wade. After this crushing setback, Cross decides to make an ill-advised visit of her own -- to Jim Dobbs. And after all these weeks of staying away, too.