Los Angeles'ta iş bitirici Ray Donovan, babası Mickey'nin hapishaneden beş yıl erken serbest bırakıldığını öğrenir.

Ray, Mickey'yi hapishaneye geri yollama planını uygulamaya koyar.

Mickey, eski kız arkadaşı ve aynı zamanda Daryll'in annesi olan Claudette'i görmek için Daryll ve Bunchy'yle birlikte Palm Springs, Kaliforniya'ya doğru yola çıkar.

Ray brings Mickey to the FBI to turn himself in. Four months later, when one of the police officers’ heads turns up and Ray and his family are implicated in the murder, Ray finds his work with his therapist threatening to unravel. Meanwhile, Mayor Feratti is back to his corrupt ways with increasingly unsavoury jobs for Ray, including blackmailing a powerful family from the Donovans’ Boston past.

Ray must find a new way to get Detective Perry off his trail while reckoning with a personal loss. When Bunchy’s pharmacy is under attack, he takes matters into his own hands and is catapulted into the public spotlight. Daryll’s isolation mounts as he struggles to find his place in the Donovan family.