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.
The new owner of The Reporter shares his unconventional philosophy of the news business to the staff. Ellie's overprotective parents visit from Ohio and Angela investigates an alleged Satan worshiper.