Will Grady finds his girlfriend, Summer Elswick, brutally murdered in a rural Maine house that they have been showing for sale as realtors. Tom Nichols and his partner Dan Cleary, detectives assigned to the case, question Will who reveals he wanted to marry Summer but could not as she was still married to Sam Gifford. Video from a nearby CCTV camera shows a dark-colored car with a missing hubcap that Dan identifies as a 1990
Buick LeSabre. Later on, Tom's wife Judy correctly identifies the vehicle as a
Chrysler Imperial. After Summer's funeral, Will tells Tom about a man, Eli Phillips, who tried to force his way into his mother's house a few nights earlier. Will explains that when his father ran the family's real estate company, they had
forcibly bought Eli's family farm. Eli's father committed suicide, for which Eli blames Will's family. Questioned by Tom and Dan, Eli accuses Will of murdering Summer. Eli has also been researching Tom and mentions a corruption scandal involving Tom's former partner at a Philadelphia police precinct.
DNA analysis of semen found in Summer matches Sam’s DNA, corroborating a friend’s statement that they were still having sex. Tom and Dan return to Sam's with a warrant. Sam grabs Dan's gun and is fatally shot by Tom while attempting to flee. A search of his house finds 13 kilograms of
heroin. The deceased Sam is declared to be Summer's murderer, but Tom is hesitant to consider the case solved. Eli shows up at Tom's house at night and leaves behind a
flash drive with evidence that Summer was caught up in a scheme by the Gradys to launder drug money. Properties are planted with drugs and then commandeered via
civil asset forfeiture. The Gradys, operating under a shell company called White Fish, then snap up the properties at a discount. Summer was murdered to stop her from reporting the scheme to the
DEA. Evidence points to police officer Wally Finn being behind White Fish, as his private security company (Active Duty Consulting) uses the same post office box as White Fish. Will shows up at Eli's house demanding the flash drive back. Another person shows up. Tom later arrives at Eli's house and finds him missing, his kitchen scrubbed clean and an empty bleach bottle left behind. Tom attends the birthday party for Captain Robert Allen, his superior officer and Judy's uncle. He attempts to inform Allen of Wally's role in Summer's murder and the
money laundering scheme, but is interrupted. Later at the party, Tom discovers a Chrysler Imperial in Allen's garage with a new paint job. Allen finds Tom in the garage and tells him to let the matter go. On their way home from the party, Tom tells Judy what he knows and, fearing for their safety, says they must leave that night. Allen calls and asks Tom to come over the next morning, where he will explain the matter. Tom agrees. That night, he meets police chief Marty Graeber in an empty parking lot, hands over the drive, and they review its content. The next morning, the two go to Allen's house in separate cars. Marty excuses himself to go to the bathroom as Allen pleads with Tom to leave to save Tom's life before heading upstairs, where Wally fatally shoots him. Tom confronts Marty, who is in on the scheme, in the bathroom. Marty reaches for his gun, but Tom shoots and kills him. He then has a shootout with Wally and subdues him. The FBI arrests Will as he is golfing. ==Cast==