On the eve of his campaign launch for a seat in the US Senate, a small town District Attorney receives word that the governor has exonerated a death row inmate whom the DA prosecuted five years earlier for the murder of a local police officer. In the wake of the ex-inmate's release and through the prism of the media frenzy, what unfolds is a public vetting of the DA's record. When hard evidence of actual impropriety finds it way into his possession, the exonerated man seeks out the DA for answers.Miles knew the key witness in the case had tried to retract her testimony, Bradler needs some closure to the case and ends up kidnapping Miles in search of answers.