A Badge of Betrayal

Zoey and Barry Loson, parents to first-grader Timmy, are both detectives with the Brantford Mills PD. Zoey, head of the cyber-crime unit, and her team are working on a case to capture a serial rapist who lures his young female victims through the Internet, while Barry, who works shifts allowing him to be home to look after Timmy while Zoey is working, works plain-clothes, often undercover. Barry is feeling both stress and dissatisfaction with his life through a combination of work issues and family obligations and commitments. Despite their problems, Zoey and Barry love each other and Timmy. Then Zoey discovers that Barry has been lying to cover up what she ultimately sees with her own eyes is marital infidelity, files for divorce and sole custody of Timmy and locks Barry out of the house and out of her and Timmy's lives. Tragedy occurs one night when Zoey and Timmy are asleep at home and a massive fire blazes through the house, killing Timmy. Amid her grief, Zoey discovers that the official report places the entire blame of the fire on her when Zoey and Timmy are asleep at home for the night, and a massive fire blazes through the house, killing Timmy in the process. In the midst of her grief, Zoey eventually finds out that the official report places the entire blame of the fire on her, charging her with arson and murder. She knows that she did not start the fire as stated in the report, the evidence discovered not true. As Barry abandons her, blaming her for killing Timmy, she starts to believe, based on her own evidence, not only that Barry framed her but also that he's on the run with a still-alive Timmy (the dead boy's body pulled from the fire being that of another boy killed in one of Barry's cases. With Zoey formally charged, she must find a way to gather conclusive evidence of what she knows to be the truth against the overwhelming evidence against her.