When L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware receives an elaborate album filled with gruesome crime-scene police photos of a series of apparently unconnected killings, he's stymied. He's also in the midst of a personal crisis Robin, his long suffering partner, has made it clear that it's up to Alex to heal the breach in their relationship that's been caused by his over involvement in criminal investigations. The pictures mean nothing to him, but one image gets his policeman pal Milo Sturgis's immediate attention the victim was one of his rookie cases, and her murder was never solved, perhaps because someone much higher up in the department didn't want it to be.