A twenty-year-old aspiring comic-book illustrator trying to get away from his life as a drug dealer is found dead. Meanwhile, Raines has growing concerns about the emotional well-being of his dead partner's son.
The wife of Raines' friend, a judge who sent one of the leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood to prison, is killed in what seems to be their retaliation. Raines learns that the judge is a liar and that the victim may have had a lesbian lover.
