Baltimore City Homicide Detective Cal Hopkins and his partner investigate the rape of the daughter of Detective Elliott Bowers, allegedly committed by his seventeen-year-old foster child, Eddie Collins. Three days later, Baltimore City police officers arrest him for rape. As they try investigate, more questions arise about Bowers. Nothing in Eddie’s history suggests that he could commit a rape. Despite the testimonies of character witnesses, he is convicted and sentenced based on Caroline’s testimony and the DNA evidence from her bed. They accumulate enough evidence to charge Bowers. A search warrant at his bank revealed a safety deposit box containing $750,000, a notebook, and a handgun. The crime lab discovers that this gun is the same one that killed Detective Hopkins’ former partner a few years earlier. With the assistance of some “friends,” Bowers’ life gets turned upside down. Credit cards are cancelled, power is turned off, someone maces his car seats, and he is abducted. Even though they have enough against Bowers to send him away forever, Hopkins still wants him for the rape and wants Eddie cleared. By the time the victims of his dark deeds are finished with him, Bowers is almost relieved to be arrested.