The team investigates the 1999 murder of Luke Cronin, an 18 year-old member of a prep school debate team who supposedly committed suicide after losing his first debate. A 2009 debater checked his archives and presents new evidence in private shorthand, suggesting his death may be staged. Luke was super-gifted but the odd man out, as son of blue collar veteran Stan Cronin, from whom the jealous studax got estranged, as well as from his former school teammate and buddy Ronnie Jacks, on whom pretentious future attorney Oliver Calhoun pulled a cruel prank the evening before the fatal night. The team also focuses on the prep school debate coach, who couldn't afford his star announcing he would leave rather than move on to national competitions and finds the fatal weapon was recently purchased by the anti-gun father.
—KGF Vissers