New York, New Year's Eve, December 1991.

Roger's girlfriend, Carlie Donnelly, is kidnapped from Marquee Club on Tenth Avenue along with three fellow students from Stella Maris on an early graduation trip.

Paddy, Carlie's father, acting on pure paternal instinct, takes the first available flight to the city that never sleeps and brings Roger along with him. However, Dana also joins them, and the pair of young investigators puts their brains and instincts to work on their first kidnapping case. For the first time in their careers, both have a very personal stake in resolving the case as quickly as possible and bringing Carlie back home.

But there is no ransom note, and as the news threatens to become media sensational and undermine the authority of the Mayor of New York City and the NYPD, an FBI team sets up a command center at the 10th Precinct not only to locate the four kidnapped Uruguayan tourists but also to uncover something much larger and much more sinister.