The unusually caring reporter goes to a village where a 10-year old boy has been murdered, but the locals are not very sociable - even with each other.

A police inspector is shot after pursuing a burglar along the street, and everyone Mitch talks to describes him as a saint.

A postman is shot while apparently being a have-a-go hero and stopping some armed robbers, but Mitch finds out everything is not as clear cut as it seems.