Detective Richard D. Dick, a 1940's private investigator, is within spitting distance of unraveling a major caper. When Dick gets too close to piecing together the pie, he's frozen by a mysterious stranger and thaws out sixty nine years later in 2016. Dick is thrust into our strange, new, technological world in his hapless pursuit to find out who put him on ice. The defrosted detective reopens the cold case and is hot on the trail of new leads as Dick attempts to crack the biggest nut he's ever faced, the case of The Big Frozen Gumshoe.