Former Chicago police detective Jim Longworth takes on his first case in the sleepy Florida town of Palm Glade after a headless woman is found in a creek.

Jeff and Jim stumble upon a plane in a forest and the dead body of Oliver, and things become tangled when Jim has to question a wide range of suspects that include a drug runner, a swimsuit model, and a teenage boy.

With a Category 2 hurricane approaching The Glades, Jim and Carlos investigate the murder of a woman named Valerie Raines.

When a real estate developer is murdered in the middle of the Mud Bowl, a famous football game between two rival towns, Jim has to put the pieces together and find out the little secrets that the town is hiding from him.

Longworth gets a nightmarish call from Daniel that Carlos has been found dead. Longworth is speechless, and horrified at the sight of his face-down dead body, but not as horrified as the real Carlos, who is alive and angry.

Callie treats a man with a head wound who claims to have witnessed a murder by a man with the same face as his.