 William Cotton, a new Faith Heritage minister with political ambitions who preaches of tolerance, and his son Darryl are new residents of Cleaves Mills. Darryl is a former member of the Seattle Korps, a white supremacist youth organization with online connections. When a young Muslim boy is killed in an apparent hate crime, Johnny picks up visions of Darryl committing an assault with a baseball bat, which is consistent with the victim s wounds. While the sheriff s office follows the lead, a visiting former love interest of Johnny s, reporter Dana Bright, and Josh Blake, editor of the Faith Heritage student paper, reveal that Reverend Cotton was formerly the leader of a neo-nazi organization. While Cotton tries to spin his past, Darryl confesses to the murder in exchange for a racially charged television appearance. Johnny begins to have doubts, and discovers that the murder of the Muslim boy was the result of a whole different kind of intolerance.