Sean discovers that Katie recognized her killer and that the gun used to kill her, a. Sean and his partner, Sergeant Whitey Powers, investigate the murder, while Jimmy conducts his own investigation using his neighborhood connections. He tells his wife that he fought off a mugger and possibly killed him. That night, Katie is murdered, and Dave comes home bloodied and injured.
Katie goes out for the night with her girlfriends, and Dave sees her at a local bar. Katie, Jimmy's daughter from his first marriage, makes plans to run away to Las Vegas with Brendan Harris, a boy from a family Jimmy despises who she has been secretly dating. Jimmy and Dave are related by marriage, Dave's wife Celeste and Jimmy's second wife Annabeth being cousins.
Twenty-five years later, Jimmy is an ex-convict and neighborhood convenience store owner Sean is a detective with the Massachusetts State Police whose pregnant wife Lauren recently left him, and Dave is a blue-collar worker continually haunted by the abduction and rape. In 1975, Irish-American friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle are playing hockey in a Boston street when two men kidnap Dave and sexually abuse him for four days.
