Liz Farrell is still reeling over the murder of her mother almost a year earlier when she receives the startling news that she's inherited her estranged father, Leo Bauer's, sizable estate. Wanting nothing from her late father, Liz and her grandmother, Kate Stanton, reluctantly visit Leo's property in Benedict Canyon, hoping to find closure. Instead, they find a bunker hidden under an old hunting lodge that had been used by Leo at one time as a prison. Horrified by the discovery, Liz immediately orders the bunker filled and the lodge destroyed but the ensuing demolition quickly comes to a grinding halt after a man's remains are discovered in a shallow grave at the base of the old lodge. Once the press get wind of the gruesome discovery, rumors quickly surface, linking the remains to a murder spree that took place at the same address almost half a century earlier; a gruesome murder spree conveniently covered up by the governor at the time who also happened to be Leo Bauer's stepbrother. Liz and Kate's efforts to uncover the truth behind the murders are soon hampered by a cold-blooded killer whose intent on keeping the past buried - even if it means killing everyone standing in the way.