When Nick stops him on the way to work to make amends as part of his drug rehab, the bus Alvin was going to take is involved in a fatal crash, leaving him feeling that the interruption saved his life. As Burton prepares the Transit Authority for an avalanche of lawsuits, he wants to keep Nick at a distance while he’s in recovery. But while Nick insists on interviewing the bus driver whose daughter was injured in the wreck, following his father’s death in the accident, 13-year-old Connor Adams arrives at LSP claiming that the Transit Authority’s Cliff Jenkins crashed the bus on purpose. Meanwhile, Suzanne’s ten-year-old son, Cam, overhears Nick’s halting effort to make amends for how he’s treated her. And after admitting to cheating Jake out of credit for his work at the firm, Nick asks Burton to compensate their junior partner.

Though Lulu and Suzanne have found him a foster home, Connor refuses to live with a mixed-race couple. While looking for a group home without any minority residents, Suzanne tells Lulu that things with Nick would have been different had she known about her pregnancy. As Alvin tries to help him understand Lulu, Norah Jenkins tells Nick that it was a racist remark directed at her by Connor’s dad that led to the accident. When Cliff confesses to losing control when he responded to the slur, Nick tells him to get Norah to back up his claim that the crash was an accident. However, upon learning the truth, Burton counsels the Transit Authority to distance themselves from Cliff and cooperate with any criminal investigation into the crash.

As Alvin encourages Lulu to join a support group for family members of alcoholics, Nick offers another unsuccessful apology to Suzanne. With their search for a home for Connor uniting Lulu and Suzanne, Cliff’s refusal to lie prompts Nick to send him to LSP for help with the criminal prosecution. Finally, as Nick hopes his speedy graduation from rehab will get him a second chance, Lulu is in no mood to listen. And as Alvin warns him about the challenges that lay ahead, Lulu assigns Nick to represent a man who, after serving ten years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit, wants to regain custody of his son.