 In New York a hooded serial killer blindfolds and shoots, then stabs victims which seem to have nothing in common, not even age or gender. The profiling team concludes that the cab driver could only be killed after thorough preparation. His latest attack on a priest who was accused but cleared in court of child abuse, after which he lets a female witness escape in a church, suggests the setting is essential to his ritual. It turns out all victims were acquitted or got the charges dropped- the killer is a vigilante who stabs his guilty victims in a  poetically just  organ, probably continuing on the theme of a first crime against a perpetrator whose victim he once was. Gideon thinks it may be a cop, but can t scare off the NYPD from collaborating, and indeed the next victim is a double cop-killer. All victims have been on trial in one single court-house. Crime newspaper reporter Lance Wagner gets incredibly precise scoops every time. After shooting in panic an undercover cop in the park, his hooded killer Will Sykes turns himself in, but isn t the killer. All victims trials were recorded by the same stenographic clerk, Marvin Doyle...