"The Accident" starts an investigation that leads David Deschanel into a romantic triangle with its victim and her attorney whom he believes is the brains behind a Russian mafia fraud ring. But the attorneys's no criminal. Desperately pursuing Gia, he's equally desperate to wrestle his practice from the hands of the mafia. But David single-mindedly stumbles on with his investigation, leading to Bennet's eventual arrest, his unexpected release, and to a confrontation that will challenge the validity of their closely guarded values and send their lives in unforeseeable directions.