At an unrelated auto accident by the river, evidence surfaces which implicates Jim and his old partner, Jack Pendergrast, in a kidnapping/murder case from four years prior.

Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.

Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.

An armored truck explodes on a freeway overpass and rains hundred-dollar bills down into a ghetto neighborhood. Ellison and Sandburg investigate, but Marcus Watson, the sole witness, has vanished and no one in the ghetto is giving back the money they found.

A construction foreman is murdered at a racetrack under renovation, and his body is hidden in a pillar. Weeks later, Banks attends the opening of the racetrack with friends, and Ellison attends a police benefit at the track's turf club. During the benefit event, one of Banks' friends is pushed from the roof, and falls to his death in what looks to the partygoers to be a suicide.

It appears that Brad Ventriss and Suzanne Nadine, two students in Blair's anthropology class, are engaged in some extracurricular activities that aren't listed in any of the college handbooks.

When Internal Affairs accuses him of stealing money captured in local drug busts, Ellison finds that during this case he's forced to answer the hard questions instead of asking them.

A present day murder leads to a revelation that may be able to finally clear up a 45 year old murder, and vindicate the victim and the boy (now a troubled, haunted man) who saw it happen. And Jim discovers a new ability.

Professional thief Harry wants to see his daughter and grandson one last time, but his position on the FBI's Most Wanted list makes that difficult - especially when another thief is using his MO and has killed two cops during a job.