Plot summary
In a flashback to twenty-two years ago, four teenage students hound a fellow student, Tom Reynolds (Tom Reynolds), into the freezing river at night and after he drowns, they lie about the circumstances of his death. The incident becomes a lifelong burden and forges a bond of silence between them. After a late night meeting of the now four adults, one of them, the former professional baseball Bailey O'Doyle, ( Joshua Burrow ), is bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat near his home. The other three, John Silversti ( William Mapother ), now dean of a prestigious boys' school, Chris Denardi ( Josh Stamberg ) a heart surgeon and Greg Foster ( Karl Bury ) a car dealer, were being blackmailed by O'Doyle who was in financial difficulties due to a gambling problem.
Nichols and Stevens investigate O'Doyle’s death and link it to the cover-up of Reynolds' drowning. However, they uncover that it was O'Doyle's wife, Lani ( Tina Benko ), who killed him after years of frustration at his post-baseball career failures and gambling addiction.
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