To squelch their threat to his own role in the local drug trade, Vic declares war on Navaro and Armando Quintero's plan to unite two violent gangs and monopolize cocaine trafficking in Farmington. It's a war that favor casualties over prisoners and one that sends the Strike Team south of the border before exposing them to an Armenian mob's multimillion-dollar money laundering operation. With Claudette investigating his ties to drugs, concealing his illegal schemes is not only critical to saving Vic's job, but to preserving Aceveda's run for City Council, too. As Vic fights to maintain the criminal enterprise he's conducting under the color of law, Dutch pursues a pair of sadistic serial killers; Danny is dogged by a campaign to get her fired for the fatal shooting of an innocent Muslim and Julien is finally forced to disclose his homosexual past.