CAPSULE: Brandi is forced to shoot a skip who she believes is going for a gun. But later the gun can't be located, and Dottie's and Brandi's bounty hunting licenses are suspended. Tiny pushes himself further away from Dottie.

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Brandi and Dottie are in foot pursuit of con artist Edmund Riley on the Santa Monica Pier. He's cornered against the railing overlooking the ocean. He pulls out what looks like a gun and Brandi quickly responds by shooting him. He falls over into the ocean. When the police arrive, one of them is Jack Forbes, a detective from Las Vegas who pursued Dottie earlier in the ""two Mrs. Thorsons"" mystery. They're in no trouble, but Forbes notes that no one else saw a gun but Brandi. Dottie was distracted and didn't see it either, but believes her daughter. So far there is no body recovered or gun, either.

Dottie goes to see Tiny in jail with the idea of delving into the background of the young man he's accused of murdering in order

CAPSULE: The Thorsons take on a job as bodyguards for a famous female singer who has been receiving threats. Lonigan continues his frame-up of the jailed Tiny.

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With no promising work forthcoming from Ricky, Mike Kaputo offers the Thorson women a chance to be bodyguards for Lisa Lee, a fast-rising young singer. Dottie thinks it is be a good idea and would give them a change of pace. At a video shoot, Lisa's manager Marvin tells the women that her number had gotten out on the internet and that she'd received some threatening phone calls. When Dottie and Brandy meet their new client she acts like a total prima donna and says she wants Mike for her bodyguard, not these women. While in her dressing room trailer, Lisa receives a threatening call from someone there on the soundstage. The Thorsons find no suspect but do find a poster of Lisa slashed by a knife which is still stuck in it. Lisa wants Mike back as bodyguard more than ever, but Mike wants

CAPSULE: Dottie and Brandy work to solve the mystery behind the arrest and murder charge against Tiny. When Lonigan gets wind of their efforts, he sets up Tiny to be killed in prison.

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Ricky calls early one morning with a tip about a skip. When Dottie goes to wake her mother, she's not in bed but there's evidence a man has been there. Dottie enters the room with Mike Kaputo, though she later insists to Brandi that nothing happened between her and Mike. At Ricky's office Brandi tries to convince Dottie to look further into Tiny's case because there is something suspicious about it. Det. Forbes calls. When they see him, he says the lack of a name of whoever made the original call in Tiny's case was a ""clerical error,"" a claim Brandi is highly skeptical of. Lonigan notes the Thorsons asking about details in Tiny's case. At the bar, Dottie examines the books and finds that all business is in order and a nice profit is being made. This convinces her