An ex-con (Robert Knepper) returns to the neighborhood he shot a woman after serving time. After writing a piece on a sweatshop Jack Reilly is threatened by mobsters.
Angela Villanova investigates the shooting of a mother and her two young daughters in Central Park. Amato is picked by a champion boxer to write his biography and cash-poor Ellie takes a second job.
Angela does a story on domestic abuse. Reilly investigates a lead on a man locked in the trunk of a car by a mad bomber. More dirt than expected turns up for Ellen's series on city building code violations.
Angela receives an anonymous call claiming responsibility for bombing a New York City department store who threatens to detonate another if the paper does not b print his manifesto.