A retired cop teams up with four ex-convicts and a behavioral science student to solve a fifty year old bank robbery.

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Follows a detective who was fired from the department and is depressed after his wife was murdered. He is asked back to the department when a new run of killings look tied to his wife's death and the killer appears to be teasing him.