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In the summer of 1987, six-year-old Clayton Hathaway was found dead with signs of physical abuse, in a construction site his father Mitch Hathaway was developing. His parents were desperately looking for him since he had disappeared two days earlier from their typical quiet neighborhood while riding his bike. The father was accused of the murder and sexual assault of his son, and though he claimed his innocence, he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. In the process, he also lost his wife, who divorced him and never showed up at his trial. This was the situation until a month ago. Hathaway was released since the original evidence was contaminated and the judge had ordered a new trial. Now, he is determined to get the murderer of his son even if this means pushing off every "piece of garbage", as he calls pedophiles, from the building roofs of Philadelphia.
D.A. Alexandra Thomas is constantly keeping up with Lt. Stillman's team, which is working on the case to find Clay's murderer and stop Hathaway. While they're discussing the case, Hathaway calls Scotty on the phone. He's read of Scotty's brother, who was also the victim of pedophilia when he was a child, on the newspapers. He urges them to solve his son's case or he'll continue his massacre.
Detectives Jeffries and Miller talk to Tara, Hathaway's ex-wife. They explain the situation to her, and ask her to tell them whatever she recalls about the day Clay disappeared. In tears, she describes the people she saw in the neighborhood, including their friends, the Burrells, who helped them to search for Clay. She also remembers seeing a postman. Jeffries immediately picks up on this: Clay disappeared on a Sunday when no mail is delivered.
Detectives Vera and Valens go talk to the postman, Ernest Grabowski, who's a known pedophile and registered sex offender under house arrest. He denies ever having touched Clay. He points out at Adam Murdoch who, at that time, was the boyfriend of Tricia, the Hathaway's careless babysitter. He once saw Adam in the kitchen, washing off blood from Clay's underwear while the kid was weeping.
Next, Adam Murdoch is questioned. He tells the detectives he was raiding the liquor cabinet but accidentally dropped a bottle on the kitchen floor. Clay entered the room all of a sudden, stepped on the glass and cut his feet. Adam grabbed the first thing he found in the laundry basket to clean up the mess and asked Clay to keep the incident a secret. He was out of town on the day when Clay disappeared. Then he tells the cops he once saw Clay showing Johnny Burrell, his best friend, a pocketknife someone named "Scarecrow" had given him.
Johnny, now a young man in his 20s, tells the cops "Scarecrow" was the nickname of an older boy, Damon Childress, who also lived in the neighborhood. He was a complete freak, an emotionally unstable kid who used to hurt cats and bully younger children like Clay and Johnny. The night Clay disappeared, Johnny saw him burying something in his back yard.
The cops dig out Damon's back yard and find Clay's bike. Just then, Hathaway calls Scotty. Scotty tries to calm him down to make him stop the killing, but Hathaway says he has already "taken out the trash" of the day. Indeed, the next morning the cops find another pedophile dead over a car: it's Grabowski, the postman. This means Hathaway is following them.
Lilly questions Damon Childress, showing him a photo of the bike they unearthed on his back yard. He says he wanted to sell it, but when the boy went missing, he panicked and buried the bike. He thought the father had killed Clay and even the mother knew it, long before anyone else did. He heard her telling so to Johnny's mother at Clay's funeral.
Tara Hathaway tells Miller and Jeffries she found some compromising photos of Johnny in her bathroom cabinet one day. It was in that moment she knew Mitch had done it. While the cops take in Johnny for questioning, Mitch Hathsway phones Scotty again, and tells the police to leave his wife in peace. Valens accidentally tells him about the photos his wife had found. Hathaway seems surprised and then shocked. He then angrily shuts down the call.
In the questioning room, Johnny tells Rush and Valens it wasn't Mitch who took those pictures: it was his father, Cliff Burrell. But Johnny says his father never abused him, just took photos of him sleeping. The detectives reason that Johnny was "out of bounds" because he was Cliff's own son. Unfortunately, Clay wasn't that lucky.
When they finish examining their witness, Rush and Valens are informed that Hathaway just took Cliff Burrell on the roof of a building. Valens realizes his mistake about the photos. They both rush to the place.
SWAT agents are already there, ready to shoot Hathaway down. Scotty, wearing a bulletproof jacket, approaches Mitch who's keeping Burrell under fire on the building edge. Scotty tries to reason with him, but Hathaway is determined to kill Burrell and then take his own life. Scotty tells Burrell to confess his crime; he does so amid tears of fear and regret. Nevertheless, Hathaway is determined to finish his job. Then Tara, his ex-wife, comes running, and tells Hathaway she's sorry she believed him to be a monster. She says she still needs him, her voice broken by tears. At these words, he, too, starts crying and surrenders. The cops first arrest Burrell, then Hathaway, but they give him a moment to share with his wife. Husband and wife are at last reconciled and they "see" Clay smiling at them.