A shooting threatens to end a 25-year truce between two rival Memphis crime families, while Dwight's co-workers prepare for his "surprise" birthday party.
Dwight tries to settle a hostage situation, and finds out that the African American gunman escaped from Angola prison in Louisiana in the 1960s after being found guilty of a crime he claims he did not commit.
A man turns to Dwight for help in finding his daughter who ran away from home four years earlier, and Dwight soon suspects that her abusive husband may have killed her and dumped her car in the river.
A shooting in the parking lot of a supermarket leads to a case involving blackmail, a bloody trunk, and a possible link to a cold case from Hendricks' past involving the death of a young girl.
The manager for a recently-deceased country music legend falls to his death right after her tribute show, but Hendricks suspects that his death was not a suicide.
While Dwight and his mom travel to Angola Prison in Louisiana to confront his dad's killer before a parole board hearing, Rice teams up with Whitehead to investigate a fire at a historic Memphis movie theater.
Dwight's mom asks him to help out his former childhood friend, who is a suspect in a robbery case. Meanwhile, Tanya catches heat from her mom when she gets her driver's license revoked.