"Grudge Count"

Willow Sturgeon learns on ending her patrol shift that she is being promoted to detective. She also learns the promotion is not solely based on her performance. The department has no female detectives. Then she finds out she is being partnered with the department drunk. She knows this is because of her past experiences with her father.

Travis Birch is the department’s best detective. His skills in interviewing persons of interest results in convictions. He is having trouble holding on to partners, though. The captain keeps reassigning them. He is unaware his partners have been asking for reassignment. When he arrives at the station to start his day, he learns he has yet another partner. A woman.

The partnership becomes volatile immediately and continues that way throughout the day as they draw their first case. A woman’s body has been found in a city park. When they arrive at the park to canvas the scene, things become more complicated. They find a second body.

Willow shakes off Birch’s insults, but Travis has no such luck as Willow continues to badger his drinking habits and on day two of the investigation she finds herself basically alone. She gets help from an FBI agent and his technical skills and resources as she tries to connect a picture she found of one of the victims standing with a man by a sailboat. She begins to doubt herself as she runs into one roadblock after another. Willow is no quitter, however, and her investigation becomes more intense when she decides to break a few rules and take unorthodox methods to find the killer.