The Cape centers around an honest cop on a corrupt force. He gets framed for murder and is force to abandon his family.
To reunite with his wife and son, and also to fight crime, he takes on the persona of his son's favorite comic book superhero.
Fueled by a desire to reunite with his family and to battle the criminal forces that have overtaken Palm City, Vince Faraday becomes "The Cape" – his son’s favorite comic book superhero – and takes the law into his own hands.