The story kicks off when (Phillip P. Keene), on his first ride-along as a reserve officer with Flynn (Tony Denison) and Provenza (G.W. Bailey), discovers a dead body in a hotel bathtub. The victim, Danny Egan, was a drug-addicted musician who had crashed a high-end wedding.

: One of the episode's most memorable moments involves a "cringe-worthy" rehearsal performance by the victim, Danny, where he played a terrible love song on a ukulele before the bride ultimately destroyed the instrument.

: Amidst the chaos of the Sloan wedding, the long-running storyline involving Rusty Beck (Graham Patrick Martin) continued, though critics at the time felt it lacked the momentum of the main investigation.

: Dana Sloan, who appeared to be in a near-psychotic state without constant high doses of Valium.

The investigation quickly shifts to the Sloan family, a group of suspects described by reviewers from TV Fanatic as "obnoxious and weird for the sake of being weird":