The detectives start investigating a massage parlor rip-off. While their rip-off involves a homicide there are similar rip-offs occurring in the Bronx, Sipowicz and Clark Jr. are going to work the case with detectives from the Bronx, including Clark Sr.; leaving the others to look into the case of an elderly woman being robbed in her home by exterminators. And Mrs. Hornby sends her agent, Beacham, to ask Sipowicz to come back to her apartment and work security. The dollar figure for the job is raised and other perks are offered, but Sipowicz rejects them all. McDowell, Ortiz, Jones and Medavoy look into the exterminator case, through the efforts of two Samaritans; one of the exterminators was captured and subdued at the scene. The other has gotten away, but is quickly grabbed up. While waiting to talk to the victim and one of the perps at the hospital; small talk leads to Ortiz telling McDowell that she and her husband are working on their marriage. In the meantime back at the s