With just four days remaining before the AAL championship, a stress-rattled Max Dupree fields questions from the press about rumors—a sports betting scandal attached to his prior football career —and his outlook on the most important game of his life. His teammates are beginning to take notice, but is it just pregame nerves, or something far more sinister taking over his mind?

Meanwhile, Rita Nash follows a lead to a professor at a local university who may be able to help her connect the alleged suicides and their strange circumstances surrounding the championship. Dr. Lee has a personal interest in a local history of similar deaths, and Rita may not be prepared for the connection she is about to discover.