Hanson discovers one student, Joe Coolege (Jake Richardson) might be hiding something. Joe is often referred to by the students as "Joe Cool", his reputation has been made by preforming many dangerous stunts. Hanson discovers something may be happening with the kid, he wonders why he would put himself in such danger. To Hanson's suprise he stops by Joe's house to have a chat, and finds Joe is an altar boy. As quickly as he can Hanson gets to the church, only to find Father Egan is still there. What we don't know is that Father Egan is a rapist. He's done it to Joe and supposedly many others. Joe tells his describes his story to Hanson in the hospital one day after Joe gets in a serious accident, "It used to be all fun, you see there's this store room down in the basement. He would take me down there, and at first we would just start to wrestle, then he started rubbing me. I was so ashamed. I didn't know what to do, my mom loves this guy. He threatned if I told anyone he would start on the younger boys, and I didn't want that to happen." What Joe doesn't know is, Hanson understands him, because he himself had been raped by Father Egan.

Meanwhile in Boston...Harper receives a manslughter charge in the death of a student's father. It's beleived that Harper killed the man. But his son confesses that his father had been having heart problems and had refused to see a doctor. Harper is found innocent.