A misguided but desperate son tries to rob a pharmacy at gunpoint in order to get prescription medication for his very ill mother. Ryan, was under age and railroaded into confessing to a murder he didn't commit in the police station without an adult guardian present.
Ryan is up for parole and his mother gets a note indicating someone knows what happened, with the implication that it isn't Ryan.
Jane gets her nose bent out of shape at a performance when John asks her to drinks but then bails with hardly a text message at the beginning of the film. The fact that the police may have used an illegal procedure to get a confession out of Ryan puts a further wedge between them.
This creates a bit of an awkward scenario as Jane does a lot of this investigating on her own without John and this puts her in danger more than once with the real killer is still at large.
The tenacious Jane is not deterred and determined to solve this one on her own and help the innocent Ryan. The conflict between John and Jane was hard to watch as he was sure these particular cops were innocent as he went to academy with them.
I like the "righting wrongs" foundation conceptually and the source material, books by K. K. Beck, is wonderful. I am hoping this is a hallmark mystery series that is going to get better and better. I am also hoping that the romantic aspect gets ironed out because I can see the potential in the two leads. This case was pretty twisty and I enjoyed watching it unweave.
