Popular Mayor Gavin Channing dies while surfing, but although coroner Woody shares Shawn's murder suspicion, the chief refuses to ruffle political feathers and has it called an accident. Shawn suspects a political motive tied to a major real estate project, focusing on the interim mayor and forces an election by standing s candidate, only to find his alibi solid, so the focus shifts to the merry widow, her and the mayor's adulterous lovers and a governor campaign fund.
—KGF Vissers