Try to Remember 2004 After twelve years of being away, Lisa Monroe returns to her usually quiet hometown of Milford to work as a police detective She was recruited by her childhood friend, now Lieutenant Joe OConner The first case on which she works as lead investigator is the death of Louise Dexter, her grandmother Although the autopsy points to the death being accidental, Lisa finds evidence that implicates Jake Mitchell as the murderer Jake Mitchell raped and killed Lisas best friend Jenny Rand fifteen years earlier Jake has been paroled and has returned to Milford to live At his trial, he vowed revenge on the four people who testified against him, namely Louise, Sergeant Stuart Kling Lisas colleague who does not respect her investigative abilities, a security guard named Vinnie DiCampo, and Lisa herself To some extent, all four feel guilty, but especially Lisa, about not preventing Jennys death, each who had an opportunity that day to intervene in the interaction between Jake and Jenny Lisas current mission is to find and stop Jake before he kills them But she tries to be objective in the face of what so far is only circumstantial evidence against Mitchell, being objective which is something difficult for her to do