The team investigate the death of alleged arsonist Rod Barrett. Detective Sparks - now the community officer for the area Barrett was found in - returns to Homicide and is paired with a very reluctant Allie.
When a suspected arsonist of an apartment block is brutally hanged, it seems an obvious act of retribution, an old-fashioned lynching. All the survivors wanted him dead. But which one did it? Or did they act in concert? And what if he wasn't the firebug? Did a furious lynch mob kill the wrong man?