The second series of the compelling US legal drama continues. This week's action sees Stark (James Woods, pictured right) at the very centre of his own case. After having dinner at a restaurant, he and Paul Faber, the lawyer's friend and former colleague, are shot at from a moving car. While Stark escapes the incident with scratches, Paul is killed. Evidence leads the investigators to arrest a professional hitman called Anton Robitaille who soon confesses to the crime.
However, Robitaille reveals some shocking news. "Your friend was a mistake," he tells Stark. "I was hired to kill you." Robitaille does not know who paid for the hit but is able to point Stark's team in the direction of one Hank Busby, a well-known fixer who acted as a go-between in this arrangement. With Stark off the case because of his relationship to the victim, Reyes tries to track Busby down but learns that he has been strangled to death. An informant tells him that shortly before he was killed, Busby was questioned by homicide cops about a girl's body recently found in an oil field - news which seemed to frighten the fixer.
Reyes visits the oil field in question and speaks to the police. The body found there belongs to a young woman called Sarah Belkin who went missing 12 years ago. On the day she vanished, Belkin was picked up by none other than Hank Busby and was due to go to a cocktail party at the house of one Jason Normandy (Jonathan Banks, pictured left) - a rich oil baron. Could the deaths of Belkin and Busby be somehow linked to Stark's attempted murder?
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