Kate Stevens,a law clerk for a Justice on the United States Supreme Court, and Julia Gold, a bright young detective in the Homicide Division of the Chicago Police Department, have their hands full solving the case of a journalist with the International Herald Tribune in Paris who's found dead in a back alley on Chicago's South-side. Meanwhile, Gordon Cox, Kate's fiancee, is called in by the President to help manage political damage control when it's discovered the President's recent Supreme Court appointment is not a U.S. citizen.