Certain that the evidence against him has been planted, Donovan tries to discover who would set out to try and frame him. However, concerned about a series of infrequent mental blackouts that he is suffering from, Donovan begins to wonder if he really was responsible for murder – a suspicion which is later intensified when he awakes from a blackout to find himself beside another victim.

Retired forensic pathologist Joe Donovan is called upon when his name is found scrawled in blood by a murder victim, who appears to have been attacked in the same manner as the last case that Donovan investigated before his retirement. However, when his DNA is later found at the crime scene, the police suspect that he may have been responsible for the murder.