He and his son Stender Sweeney Jr. represent Brooks Dunbar (and his father Thayer Dunbar). In addition to serving as their lawyer, Sweeney helped the Dunbars acquire the abandoned mansion in 1982; the same mansion that is the triple murder scene that Scully and Hitchens are now investigating. It had previously been owned by Thomas Vulcuna who allegedly killed his wife and daughter in 1981. Sweeney Sr. has powerful connections at city hall and uses them to deflect Scully and Hitchens when they start investigating his ties to the Vulcunas and the Dunbars. What does Stender Sweeney Sr. know and is he beyond the law?