After his involvement in a third fatal police-involved shooting in less than a year, the department brass decides to temporarily reassign him from Hollywood Division to Robbery-Homicide Division's Cold Case Homicide Special Section while he undergoes mandatory evaluation by a department shrink aimed at determining whether Malone is too quick to use deadly force.

While reviewing cold case files Malone comes across an unsolved 23-year-old homicide case where a woman was found brutally murdered inside her Los Angeles townhouse in 1992. The original police investigators concluded that...