Sgt. Greevey and Det. Logan investigate the rape of a 16 year-old African-American girl, Astrea Crawford, who was found in a pile of garbage and had been missing from home for 3 days. It takes Greevey and Logan a few minutes to get her to say anything, but she eventually tells them that she was attacked by two white policemen. The police and prosecutors soon find themselves up against Congressman Ronald Eaton, a former civil rights activist with a penchant to go to the media at every opportunity. The girl's family refuses to cooperate with the police, and Eaton grants the girl sanctuary in a former church. With tensions rising, ADA Stone takes over the case and concludes that Eaton doesn't want them to solve it. Stone also begins to doubt that the girl was ever raped in the first place.
—garykmcd