After a freak accident killed his wife and son, Pritchard slipped into alcoholism to drown his sorrows at a blue-collar bar nearby to avoid the dead and empty house. But then a teenage girl asked for his help, and it turned his entire existence around.

Pritchard's life has come full circle, and the path he'd walked as a young man, briefly interrupted by Monica, is now leading him to become even more involved in the criminal lifestyle he'd left behind. At least he gets to stay in Glens Falls and run the legitimate side of things.

But then Cat asks him to come help the son of a friend. Another teenager is in trouble, and Pritchard pulls out the brass to get the point across that the kids from Hell's Kitchen are not for anyone to take advantage of. But it isn't just anyone stepping on his, Cat's, and Papa Joe's toes. It's an enemy they've faced before but never at this level.

This time, brass knuckles won't be enough, and Pritchard's tattered wings aren't ready to fly.