Tony e Alex investigano le teorie sull'omicidio d'onore, sul feticismo e sul cannibalismo quando si trovano resti umani nelle terre desolate. Il nuovo membro del team Collins viene coinvolto indissolubilmente nel caso e Tony inizia una battaglia personale con un serial killer.

Another victim disappears and a severed finger is sent to constable Chris Collins in an envelope, suggesting that the killer is into playing cat and mouse games with him. Chris, a new young constable whose attitude Alex dislikes, then disappears and is abducted by the murderer who strips him and strings him up. Tony realizes that the killer is the sort of person that anybody would trust - such as a doctor - as he races to save Chris's life.

Tony diventa il principale sospettato in un'indagine per omicidio dopo che un'amica che incontra ad una convention di psicologia viene uccisa. Alex sta indagando su una serie di omicidi di prostitute - e Tony si mette a rischio cercando di aiutare.

Tony is allowed to assist in the investigations. He sees the murders as ritualistic as 'Power Not Truth' was written in the dead doctors' blood. He also begins to see a connection with the murders of the prostitutes and, against Alex's advice, offers himself as bait to trap the killer.

Tony viene sorpreso a cacciare un serial killer che sta brutalmente massacrando giovani, quindi non si rende conto che il condannato assassino Michael sta progettando di fuggire da un'unità sicura, con conseguenze devastanti.

An Asian man is killed but the pattern is different to the serial killings of the white boys which appears to have stopped. However, Ellie, a young widow, is abducted and, in the search to find her, Tony looks for comparisons with the other murders. Bryant, claiming that he has found God, asks for an audience with the secure unit's chaplain, whom he then kills, making his escape in the chaplain's robes.

Another serial killer is at work. This one kills homeless men by stabbing them through the heart but a bizarre ritual is also at work because the bodies are bathed and wrapped up in paper before they are left around the town's business area. Alex is called away and her place taken by the young Oxbridge graduate Hall,of whom Tony is initially suspicious but he turns out to have a psychology degree and to be a big fan of Tony's work. A more sinister fan,clearly Bryant,is leaving 'presents' on Tony's door-step.