"The Cape" is really a drama series following Vince Faraday, an honest cop onto a corrupt police , who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving his wife Dana and boy, Trip. Fueled with a desire to return his family and also to combat the offender powers that have jeopardized Palm City, Vince Faraday becomes"The Cape" - his kid's favorite comic book superhero and takes the law into their hands.