A Detective and an ADA meet in a courtroom. The deaf ADA finds that he can "sign". A pairing ensues. When they meet at The D.A.'s office both have doubts that this will work. Thus begins their journey as unlikely partners.
Det Cobb can't win for losing when he hits it off with his new girlfriend's (Kim Ulrich Johnston) blue-collar parents during their first visit together -- a kinship she hoped would not happen.
Dicky Cobb is hit from all sides, including a fellow cop (Richard Grant), when he is falsely charged in the murder of a drug dealer whose life he was trying to save.