An ex-boxer, drifting around after escaping from a mental hospital, seems the perfect pawn to pull off a kidnapping planned by a sexy widow and a cop-turned-con man.

An dealistic young attorney takes on the death row clemency case of his onetime Klansman grandfather (Gene Hackman). With just 28 days before the execution, he sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which his grandfather was convicted.

Rejoin Adrian Monk, the defective detective, who must overcome his obsessive-compulsive disorder and investigate the death of his wife, Trudy.