Malloy and Reed are irked that Officers Brinkman and Walters seem to be involved in all the high profile, exciting busts of late. They're more irked that Brinkman and Walters are rubbing everyone else's noses in their glory. Even their latest bust leaves Malloy and Reed to complete the task Brinkman and Walters were doing before the call: ticketing illegally parked cars. Malloy and Reed attend to a call by an elderly woman suspicious about hippie neighbors, especially one minor female who may or may not be in trouble, before they think they may have beat Brinkman and Walters to a high profile case. One of their snitches, Teejay, provides information of a drug deal going down later that evening. After Malloy and Reed report such to the sergeant, the Narcotics detectives make a request that Malloy and Reed assist in the stakeout. Reed is excited but worried that dealing with other calls will prevent them from attending the stakeout. One of those calls is investigating a purported break-in at a house where two adolescent boys are home alone. Malloy and Reed hope their shift ends with an exciting bust. It doesn't quite work out the way they hope, but not for the reason about which Reed was worried.
—Huggo