Crowley Jr. is a cop’s cop. Everything in his world is by the numbers, and by the book. Escaping a troubled childhood and drunk abusive father, Jim Crowley knew he would join the Danville police force since his first “ride-along” at the impressionable age of 14. He has spent the last 40 years doggedly fulfilling that goal.

Now a 30-year veteran, Jim takes his job as Police Captain and Lead Detective extremely seriously, leading the department and his long-time affable partner Ben in the day-to-day operations of the small-town Danville Police department. Laser-focused on his job, with few friends and even fewer distractions, Captain Crowley lives his job. So much so, the long hours, late nights, and psychological games are now weighing heavily on his marriage to Astrea.

As Jim becomes increasingly obsessed with apprehending the undertaker serial killer, the mental chase exacerbates his simmering marital problems and exposes long-buried and debilitating childhood traumas, as he attempts to navigate his past, his obligations, and his marriage to the woman he desperately loves.

The captain’s buttoned-down world begins to completely collapse when beautiful Astrea becomes a victim of the undertaker killer, Jim is subsequently taken off the case, and then removed from active duty by his Chief, and is sent home for grief counseling, prompting him to begin his own clandestine investigation employing less than reputable characters.

As captain Crowley inches closer and closer to unmasking the undertaker killer, he suddenly finds that nothing in his small-town world is quite as it seems.