- Tony is embarrassed, then enraged, as a publicity-seeking "video vigilante" metes out even more bizarre and harsh punishment to offenders.
- After Julia Green is found beaten into a coma in her dormitory room, Tony and Paulie question her boyfriend, Ryan Gibson. But, when they find a note which suggests an affair with her history professor, and Ryan claims to have seen him leaving the dorm on the night of the attack, Tony turns to Richard Hanick to ask about his relationship with Julia. While he insists they were not having an affair, Banick's alibi doesn't hold up and Tony arrests him for the attack.
Though jailed for the assault, Hanick refuses to divulge that he is really having an affair with his teaching assistant, Michael Harris, while Tony discovers that Ryan has not been truthful about visiting the hospital to see Julia. When a vigilante who videotapes his actions hits town, public support grows as the media coverage makes Tony look ineffective. Though asked not run the Video Vigilante's tapes, pointing to his skyrocketing ratings, the manager of a local TV station refuses to cooperate.
When Tony and Paulie learn Banick was at a gay bar on the night of the attack, he is cleared of the charges. However, insisting on keeping his homosexuality a secret, he is then beaten after his release by the Video Vigilante. Confronted with evidence that he is actually Julia's assailant, when Julia dies, Ryan finally confesses to attacking her. Finally, when Tony stages his own a videotape, the vigilante calls to complain, and is lured to a phony bank robbery where he is arrested.
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