Last year, four teenagers were taking regular classes at their respective high schools. This year, they'll be studying crime scene investigation at the newly-established Boston Forensics Academy... and also investigating a murder. Cooper Vernon, the son of the seasoned CSI, wants nothing more than to make a name for himself. Tara Hu, whip-smart and street-tough, sees this as her chance out poverty. Charlotte Parkman is a girl on a mission to leave her picture-perfect family and Billy Spivack is trying to find a place where he belongs. Together, they take on the unsolved murder of Ainsley Hendrickson, a beloved pageant queen from Boston who suspiciously fell 10 floors down to her death.