David appears back in Amy's life and ready to talk. However, she is still angry over his leaving her and breaks up officially with him. Meanwhile, she has to preside over a case of a boy who keeps running away to join the circus. She tells his parents to be a little more understanding of his dreams and perhaps go on the road with him as he preforms. She also tells the boy to be more patient with his parents because they are trying their best. She then gives Lauren permission to join Victor at a skateboarding park only to later learn that Victor was hit by a speeding car. She and David rush to the hospital and wait it out together as Victor barely hangs on to life. She deals with her conflicts with religion and lights a candle for Victor and asks for a prayer for herself and Lauren from the priest. Victor pulls through and David again tries to talk to her, but she puts him off and says that they can only be friends because she is not willing to put up with his disappearing acts anymore.
Maxine stands by a girl who claims she was sexually abused by a man in the park, only to find out that the girl made it all up to get out of being in trouble with her foster mother. The cops arrest her for filing bogus charges. Then, the girl turns nuts as she starts to yell that first the foster mother and then Maxine were the ones who abused her. Maxine, understanding that the girl has completely lost it, leaves the room. Meanwhile. it is Ignacio's mother's birthday and she has to attend. She finds that she is not the only one his mother hates as she meets Ignacio's ex-wife's boyfriend. Sean also shows up on the arm of Ignacio's daughter, Courtney and, with everyone thinking he will be hated too, he steals the grandmother's heart by singing a cheesy Mexican song to her. Maxine just rolls her eyes as if to say, "Whatever!"