Plot summary
A private investigator Diego Bracho ( José Ramón Rosario ) is murdered while was tracking down the whereabouts of a promising high school basketball player, Cory Fergin. Goren and Bishop canvas the local basketball courts to discover a link to gamblers and college recruiters and learn that several talented players were transferred to the same school. While investigating the coach, Perry Powell ( Jude Ciccolella ), they learn that he is infatuated with Karen Watkins ( Suzzanne Douglass ), the mother of one of the players, Ben ( Kevin Phillips ), and has boosted his statistics to gain her approval. The detectives discover that Cory confronted Coach Powell about the false statistics and he killed the young basketballer to silence him.
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