The Port Columbia police force is the target for a cop killer. Extremely intelligent and bold, the killer uses women as bait, kidnapping them, then calling in a tip and killing the police who come to investigate. Dogged by a news team, Vincennes loses control and calls the killer a coward, vowing to catch him. When this is televised, he becomes the killer’s next target, and his wife Karen the lure. She is kidnapped, and Vincennes brings his children Jason and Libby to the precinct, where Albrecht assigns Sarah to look after them. To distract them, she spins a fact-based tale of a superhero who will save their mother.

Meanwhile, the superhero she has in mind has his own problems. Draven is finding he has less and less control over the “Crow” side of his nature. Aided by Draven’s empathic talents, Albrecht and Capshaw piece together the awful truth: the cop-killer is himself a cop – officer Reid Truax. They discover too late that Vincennes has gone alone to sacrifice himself for his wife, and it is up to the Crow to find him in time. The Crow defeats Truax, and it is all Albrecht can do to stop him from killing this cop with a death wish.

In a cathartic moment, Vincennes and his wife are reunited with their children, and Vincennes realizes how deeply he loves the family that he has neglected due to his reponsibilities as Lieutenant of the Port Columbia detectives division.