Victim Advocate Alex Mandalakis tries to keep an axe attack victim safe in a women's shelter. Social worker Drucie MacKay finds a foster home for two troubled children with gay couple Stephen and Steven.

Constable Roach is assaulted outside a bar but struggles to have her case heard in court.

Jasper seeks sex in the wake of his failed marriage. Alex tries to recruit a victim's son to testify against his father.

An estranged husband takes over the women's shelter and Alex is in danger. Constable Roach isolates a killer.

Roach sees a connection between two mysterious deaths. Stephen rebuilds his life as a widower and Alex refuses help after being shot.

Roach and Downey respond to a shooter at a school. Chanel urges Alex to leave Seamus.

Megan, Roach, Drucie and Alex try to help a mother and her three sons to leave her unstable husband.

Manny confesses an affair. Alex opens her home to an ungrateful abused woman.

Alex asks Seamus to help her start a women's shelter. Roach pursues her theory that a serial killer is targeting gay men.