Convinced the beast that resided in Pennington's brain has been eradicated, the State of Georgia Appeals Board overturns Pennington Wentworth II's conviction for the murders of 12 people, and he returns to his life of leisure in his Atlanta Buckhead district penthouse condominium. Drinking fine wine, dining at Atlanta's best restaurants and dating beautiful young women, Pennington enjoys the return to the life he loved and would do anything to keep from going back to the hell that was prison. But a string of murders catches the attention of law enforcement, including the detectives that originally arrested Pennington, and the heinous killings have his murderous alter ego's signature all over them. Has The Bad Penny returned, is it a copycat killer, or are the killings even related?