Chief of Police Jesse Stone is on his way home from a long shift when a call comes in for a welfare check on an elderly resident of the wealthy seaside town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Inside a house packed with junk and trash is a man’s dead body. It’s a sad, lonely end, but nothing criminal...until Jesse finds the photos of murder victims strewn around the corpse, on top of a treasure trove of $2 million in cash. Jesse takes on the case and finds a trail leading to an aging mobster who will do whatever it takes to keep the past from coming to light. Before long, Jesse has a price on his head as hit men converge on Paradise to take back the cash and destroy any remaining evidence. But the real danger might be coming from inside his own department.

John Smith has a special gift that seems more like a curse: he can access other peoples’ thoughts. The CIA honed his skills until he was one of their most powerful operatives, but Smith fled the Agency and now works as a private consultant. But now Smith is unexpectedly plunged into dangerous waters when his latest client, billionaire genius Everett Sloan, hires him to investigate a former employee --- a tech whiz kid named Eli Preston --- and search his thoughts for some very valuable intellectual property he’s stolen. Before John can probe Preston’s mind, his identity is compromised and he’s on a run for his life with Preston’s young associate, Kelsey. John knows their only hope for survival is using his powers to their fullest --- even if means putting his own sanity at risk.