Cause of Death Episode Summaries

Version 2.0
Last Updated February 4, 2014

Current guide status: Volume 1 complete.

Written by Peter Anargirou, user name panargirou

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of Death. There are lots of fun details in the episodes that a simple summary
won't capture, so to really experience it, play the game!

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Please do a find for the unique ID given at the end of each episode name to
jump straight to that summary.

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Volume 1: The Maskmaker
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 - Prologue [V1P]
 - Chapter 1: Washed Up [V1C1]
 - Chapter 2: The Masks We Wear [V1C2]
 - Chapter 3: Bad Medicine [V1C3]
 - Chapter 4: Buried Secrets [V1C4]
 - Chapter 5: Unmasked [V1C5]
 - Chapter 6: The Devil's Island [V1C6]
 - Epilogue [V1E]

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Volume 2: The Connoisseur
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 - Chapter 1: Tough Love [V2C1]
 - Chapter 2: Head Case [V2C2]
 - Chapter 3: Sins of the Fathers [V2C3]
 - Chapter 4: Catching Fire [V2C4]
 - Chapter 5: Missing Persons, Pt. 1 [V2C5]
 - Chapter 6: Missing Persons, Pt. 2 [V2C6]
 - Chapter 7: Old Wounds [V2C7]
 - Chapter 8: Revelations [V2C8]

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Prologue [V1P]
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Sophie wakes up in a strange room. She remembers being at a club but nothing
else. There's a masked man in the room looking at various instruments. She
tries to get away, but he stops her, giving her a paralyzing injection. He
carries her to a workbench where he puts plaster on her face to make a mask.
The Maskmaker mentions wanting to see her true face. He leaves the eyes for
last, forcing her to watch him make the mask as she suffocates.

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Chapter 1: Washed Up [V1C1]
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Detective Mal Fallon of the San Francisco Police Department plays Texas Hold
'Em in a bar in the Mission District with Diego when Detective Ken Greene
enters. Captain Yeong wants Detective Fallon to head the Maskmasker Task
Force despite previously being on suspension. In the car, Captain Maria Yeong
gives him the details. Detective Blackwell was heading the case with the
killer was only targeting prostitutes. Now that the third victim is a college
girl, she wants the best on the job. All the victims were young, Caucasian
women who washed up dead. In addition, they all had plaster masks molded to
their faces. While they haven't positively identified her, her student ID
says that she's Sophie Patterson of Stanford University. The first two victims
were killed by strangulation. There were no signs of struggle or sexual
assault but did have chloroform in their systems.

At the crime scene, Mal meets Special Agent Natara Williams of the FBI. She's
helping with the case as a profiler. Mal notes that this victim doesn't have
any signs of strangulation. They talk with Eric Mills, the forensic
technician and learn that she likely died of suffocation. In addition, they
note a stamp of Zodiac animals on her arm that Mal identifies as belonging to
the Zen Club in Chinatown.

Mal and Nat head to the club. On the way, they argue about whether hitting the
streets and using gut instincts is better than profiling. Special Agent
Williams profiles Mal. She thinks he's descended from Malachi Fallon, first
Chief of Police of San Francisco. She says he has an innate distrust of women
likely from an absent mother. She also thinks he was a rebel as a youth,
causing him to do his job without respecting authority. Mal admits that she's
close but wrong about his mother. He responds by giving her his reaction to
her. The FBI branch in their area is working a big case on the Flores Cartel,
which means she's likely being punished. She admits that it's true but
doesn't reveal what she did.

At the Zen Club, they talk with the owner Milo. He remembers the girl because
she's a regular and notes that she was talking with Jared, the bartender. He
calls Jared over who bolts out the door. Mal and Nat chase him. During the
chase, Nat almost gets hit by a bus before Mal pushes her out of the way. He
manages to catch up to Jared and tackles him. He finds a baggie of white
pills in his pocket, but he refuses to talk without his lawyer. They bring
him into custody.

Mal and Nat talk to Jared and his lawyer, who recommends that Jared stay
quiet. However, Jared starts talking when he learns that they're dealing with
murder. He admits that he knows Sophie; they hooked up in the past. She came
to him for drugs, but he refused to sell to her because she already seemed on
some substance. She walked toward the back exit and then disappeared. They
call the owner of the Zen Club, and he confirms that Jared was working at the
time of death.

Detective Fallon and Special Agent Williams part ways for the night. Detective
Ken Greene talks to Mal for a few minutes, mentioning that Mal's wife, Sandra,
must be happy that he's back at work. He asks how they're doing, and Mal
nervoulsy says they're doing okay.

Mal gets to his apartment, which is dark and full of boxes. A message on his
answering machine from Sandra mentions that she'll come pick up her boxes next
week.

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Chapter 2: The Masks We Wear [V1C2]
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In her hotel room, Williams gets a call from District Chief Blaire. He tells
her that she's being watched closely after what happened in Miami. For a
moment, Williams remembers. There was a small apartment, high heat, a crying
infant, gunfire, and a cry of pain. Williams asks about Agent Mallory's
recovery, and Blaire says that he's in physical therapy but probably won't
walk again.

Williams and Fallon enter the police station, and Williams gives a report on
the profile. The Maskmaker is probably between 20 and 40, an introvert,
highly intelligent, and in a position to access a hospital or clinic. They
head down to the lab to talk to Eric Mills. He asks Williams for her name,
having missed it earlier, and is surprised that a woman who appears of
South-Asian descent would have an Anglo-Saxon name. Mills proceeds with his
findings: bruising supports Fallon's theory she suffocated due to the mask.
Amy Chen, the technical analyst and data specialist, calls out for Mal. She's
found that the type of plaster in the mask came from Southern Italy, and only
one store in the local area sells it - Italia Imports and Exports. Their
website says they deal with exotic masks as well.

The two head to the store where they meet the owner, Lance Boggs. Something
isn't right about him, and Fallon gets aggressive. However, Williams pulls
him outside and says to play along. She believes Boggs is so narcissistic that
he'll open up to her. She goes back in alone and talks with him. He shows her
three masks, asking which she likes more. She chooses a white plaster mask of
a young woman's face. Boggs explains that that's the L'Inconnue de la Seine,
originally created by a pathologist at the Paris Moruge in the 1880s who
found a young woman who drowned so beautiful that he preserved her face by
making the mask. Williams notes the similarities between that story and the
Maskmaker, and Boggs agrees but points out that Sophie was only dumped
overboard after the mask was made. After a slight struggle, Fallon and
Williams arrest him, but he reveals that he didn't kill her; he's just been
talking with the killer.

The Maskmaker had contacted him online, wanting to sell the mask. Fallon
decides to pose as Boggs and meet for the deal. However, after getting out of
the car and approaching, the other car took off. They chase him, forcing him
into an accident. They find that the suspect is Marvin Celemente and that
Fallon knows him. Marvin was a crooked cop who took bribes. Soon after, a
secretary in their case file library reveals that she was dating Marvin and
that she was feeding him information about the case so he could make a fake
mask and try to sell it for profit, passing it off as one of the Maskmaker's
masks.

Williams heads to the lab, where Eric needs to get her DNA on file so they
can filter it from the DNA they find at crime scenes. He's not there, but Amy
Chen agrees to do it. She mentions being romantically interested in a
coworker, and Williams deduces that it's Eric. Amy asks she'd ever been
involved with a coworker. Williams says that she was once and that it didn't
end well; he was shot.

Elsewhere, Brittany Emerson, a high school sophomore, is at a beach party
after lying to her parents about where she is. She steps away from the party
near some quiet bushes so she can call her mom, telling her a lie that she's
studying. When she gets off the phone, the Maskmasker grabs her. She puts up
a fight, but he gives her an injection in the throat. He says that she looks
just like her, beautiful, disgusting, a stain. He goes on to say that she
might be the one, but that he needs to see her true face.

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Chapter 3: Bad Medicine [V1C3]
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Mal, Nat, and Captain Yeong stand on the beach where they found the body of
the slain high school girl. Captain Yeong seems especially upset to Natala.
Mal informs her that it's getting personal for her because she has a daughter
who's about the same age. They notice that this body doesn't show any signs of
being in the water. It didn't wash up here; it was placed here. The police
identify the victim as Brittany Emerson. They head to her house to talk to
her family. Her father, Timothy Emerson, greets them, explaining that she
called the night before to say she was working on a school project, and that
was the last they heard of her. Next they talk to Brittany's twelve-year-old
sister, Anna. She admits to them that Brittany was at a party on East Beach.
This makes them realize that the beach wasn't simply the location where the
body was dumped; it's the crime scene.

Amy Chen and Eric Mills examine the scene for evidence. The detectives told
them she was likely attacked near the fire. Amy thinks this is unlikely due
to the visibility. They begin bagging bottles to take DNA samples when Amy
notices some secluded bushes about thirty feet away. She discovers torn
clothing and blood, realizing that this was the location of the struggle. She
finds a vial and believes it to be the drug the Maskmaker used. They find
that it's syccinylcholine, "a powerful neuromuscular blocker." From the batch
number, they know it matches confiscated items from Dr. Christian Rose. A few
years earlier, Dr. Rose was performing illegal plastic surgery. Nat believes
he matches the profile of the killer, but Mal doesn't think it's him.

They head to an old warehouse near the ocean that Dr. Rose owned. He used to
perform his illegal surgeries there. Nat notes that it seems like a bad area,
but Mal responds that it used to be much nicer, and that his dad used to take
him there when he was young. Natala wonders if Mal and his dad are close. Mal
says that they're not, explaining that his dad's serving 35 to life for
corruption, racketeering, and extortion. When they get to the building, they
see a muscle car in the parking lot full of bullet holes and blood. They hear
screams from inside. Mal peaks through a crack and sees one person lying on
his back, one person standing over him, and one of two in the back of the
building. They kick in the door and enter, guns drawn.

They find Dr. Rose operating on Miguel Flores, an important family member of
the Flores drug cartel. In the back are two bodyguards who point guns at Mal
and Nat. Flores thinks they're there for him, but they explain that they've
come for Dr. Rose. Dr. Rose seems to think it's absurd that they think he's
the Maskmaker. He pulls a gun and shoots at Mal, who fires in response,
hitting him in a limb. He escapes as the bodyguards and Flores open fire. Mal
and Nat dive for cover. Mal provides cover fire for Nat by shooting blindly
at the bodyguards while Nat shoots a bullet straight in the center of Flores'
forehead. As one bodyguard stops firing to make a Molotov cocktail, Mal fires
under a cabinet, shooting the bodyguard in the foot and causing him to drop
the Molotov on himself. Mal leaves cover to look for the other bodyguard. Nat
calls him, and when Mal turns around, he finds the second bodyguard holding a
gun to Nat's head. Mal shoots him above the left eyebrow, dropping him to the
ground.

Outside, they get their bearings. Mal asks if Nat's ever been in a shootout.
She replies that has been, once, but that it didn't go very well. She talks
to District Chief Blaire, who's impressed with her work. Back at HQ, Captain
Yeong proceeds with the idea that Dr. Rose is the primary suspect despite Mal
and Nat thinking he's not the Maskmaker. She calls a press conference
announcing him as the prime suspect. Detective Ken Greene talks with Mal and
is surprised to find that he doesn't think Dr. Rose is the killer. Mal and
Nat agree that the fact that the city's police will now all be looking for the
wrong person is bad.

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Chapter 4: Buried Secrets [V1C4]
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Mal and Nat don't think that the Maskmaker is Dr. Rose. They discuss
similarities between the victims. They realize that all the victims had red
hair and that he must stalk redheads before killing them. However, the last
victim, Brittany, was killed on impulse. They think he must have seen the
party because he was too old to have been at the party. Looking at map, they
think that if he was on the cliffs in the Pacific Heights neighborhood, one
of the city's nicest, he would have seen the party.

They had to the neighborhood where they meet a real estate agent. Mal
pretends to be Charles Waldencrest and says Nat is his wife, Claudette. They
ask about the safety of the neighborhood and learn that there's a peculiar
doctor who keeps very odd hours in one of the homes. They examine the home
and find an empty can of plaster from Italia Imports and Exports in the crash
can, giving them probable cause to enter the house. As they explore the
completely empty house, the Maskmaker approaches Mal from behind to attack
him. Nat opens fire but misses him. Mal falls in surprise, and Nat chases the
Maskmaker into the back bedroom and down through a trapdoor.  In the back of
the basement, she comes upon the Maskmaker lying on the ground, barely
moving, with a syringe sticking out of his arm. She removes his mask and sees
Dr. Rose.

The police arrive to secure the crime scene. The basement appears to be the
Maskmaker's lair and is filled with tools, newspaper clippings, and other
similar items. Outside, Nat asks Captain Yeong if she can go back to examine
the basement so she can answer some unanswered questions. Yeong says she can
go back tomorrow morning.

Still wired from the events of the day, Mal and Nat go out to dinner together.
Mal takes her to Rip Van Winkle's. He reveals that his great-grandfather
started the restaurant after leaving the police force. After World War II, it
was sold, but Sean, the owner, treats Mal very well. He hopes to one day buy
it back. They trade stories and have a nice evening together. After dinner,
Nat asks Mal about his wife, and he admits that she left him a month
previously. He asks her what happened to her. She refuses to tell him and
leaves.

That night, Dr. Rose wakes up in the hospital. Office William Rye watches
him, saying that he saw what Dr. Rose did to the girls. Dr. Rose isn't sure
what he's talking about. There's a commotion outside, and Office Rye goes to
check on it. The Maskmaker sneaks into the room and suffocates Dr. Rose.

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Chapter 5: Unmasked [V1C5]
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Mal and Nat hear that Dr. Rose was killed but proceed to examine the
Maskmaker's lair while Eric bags evidence. They find many articles about the
Maskmaker killings along with some information on previous murders. They also
find many photos of young redheads. Mal tells Nat that the house wasn't owned
by Dr. Rose; it was owned by Michael Resler. The only known match for that
name was an accountant who died in 1998, so he believes Dr. Rose used his mob
connections to purchase the house under a false identity.

There are carvings of phrases in the desk, including "We All Wear Masks,"
"Face Your True Face," and "Stain." There's also a scratched out carving that
says "R.R." In a lab coat pocket they find an old photograph of a young woman
and a boy holding hands on a pier. They suspect they're siblings. Their faces
have been removed from the photo, the boy's cut out and the girl's scratched
out, but the woman has red hair.

The scene flashes back to June 15th, 1988. A young boy poses with his sister.
He doesn't smile for the photo, and she gets mad at him for it, calling him a
freak and picking on him. He gets upset, and his mom gets mad at him. He runs
away, banging his head against a railing and drawing blood.

Nat says that most serial killers have childhood trauma and believes this
could be the Maskmaker. However, Dr. Rose doesn't have a sister. The back of
the photo has an address near to their current location, so Mal decides to go
investigate, and the photo is sent to Amy to analyze.

As he looks at the house, an old woman approaches who answers some questions.
The house has been vacant for years. A woman, her daughter, and her son once
lived there. Two children were gone, and years later the woman died. Shortly
after that, a member of their family wrote to her, offering to pay her monthly
to check on the house regularly and keep it up because he couldn't bear to
part with it. Mal pretends to be looking for a gas leak, and she lets him in
the house. In the basement he finds many animal skulls hidden in a
compartment in the wall.

The scene flashes back to December 10th, 1989. The boy is in the basement,
torturing a bird. When his sister sees him, she calls him a freak and 
threatens to tell their mom. He says that if she does, he'll tell her about
what she does to him - about the slaps and the mask. She shoves up and leaves,
turning off the light on her way out.

Back in the Maskmaker's lair, Nat finds hastily burned papers. She can make
out something like "Reb," possibly "Rebel" or "Rebellion." Eric asks for a
word with Nat. He explains that he knows Amy talked to her and would
appreciate it if Nat dissuaded her for pursuing him if she brought it up
again. He continues to explain that he's a private person and likes to keep
his love life and work life separate. Nat understands.

Eric leaves to head back to the lab as Mal enters. He tells her about what he
found. He also mentions that Dr. Rose grew up in Wisconsin. Mal shows Nat a
ferry ticket he found dated July 18th, 1990.

Behind a mask on the wall, they find a wire leading to a small crack in the
wall. Nat calls Mal who then cuts the wire. They remove the panel and find
that the wire led to a pipe bomb. After bomb disposal removes it, they check
what else is there and find a locked, digital safe. It would take days to
crack open the safe, so Nat hopes they can guess the password.

Amy contacts Nat to let her know that when they zoomed in on the sister's
wrist in the photo, they found a bracelet that says "ebec." Nat pieces it
together with what she found earlier and enters "Rebecca" as the password,
and it works! The safe contains a plastic mask sized for a child.

The scene flashes back to July 3rd, 1990. The mom is talking to a therapist
in another room while the sister torments the boy. She says he's not sick;
he's a stain, and the way to deal with a stain is to cover it up. She forces
the mask on his face. She forces him to say he's disgusting and that he wets
the bed. The mother enters the room, missing the fact that the girl is
tormenting her brother. She says they're going to go on one last family
vacation, and then the boy is going to go away to a place that can help him be
better.

Further in the safe, Mal finds an old photo and a piece of paper. The photo
appears to be of a crime scene - a young woman's body is on a rocky shore and
covered with a white sheet. In the background, they see a building with
barred windows. The paper appears to be a map of the San Francisco bay with
X's where they think the Maskmaker made the kills. As they discuss the
relationship between all the data, they realize that they all center around
Alcatraz.

Mal and Nat call Amy and ask her to look into any murders of young women near
Alcatraz in 1990. She does find a report of a woman who drowned along with
suspicions of foul play. Her name was Rebecca Resler. Mal asks her to look
her up, and Amy finds that her father, Michael Resler, died in 1998. Her
mother died in 2000. Her brother, who's still alive, is Brian Resler. He was
institutionalized in 1991 when he was 12 and released in 2006, but there's no
other record of him. She suspects he changed his name. Mal tells her that he
believes Brian is the Maskmaker. He asks if there's a picture. Amy says no
but that she can check the institution's archives. She finds it and calls out
in surprise. It's a picture of Eric.

As Eric enters the lab, Amy quickly hangs up the phone and turns off her
monitor. She acts nervous, and when Eric presses her, she gets it under
control and plays it cool. Eric's suspicions drop, and Amy goes to leave. As
she does, Eric turns on her monitor, see's his photograph, and jumps on her,
injecting her with a syringe. Officer William Rye enters to talk to Amy and
finds her on the ground. Eric says that she simply collapsed. Officer Rye
tells Amy to focus on her breathing and tells Eric to call an ambulance. He
agrees but hits Officer Rye with a chair before pulling the fire alarm. He
picks up Amy and walks out, telling Captain Yeong that there was a fire and
that Amy inhaled smoke. He walks out with Amy. A couple minutes later,
Officer Rye comes running, explaining what really happened, but Eric and Amy
are gone.

Amy concentrates on her breathing. Eric drives toward an old boat on the
docks. He tells her that he thought she was different and that it wasn't
supposed to be like this. He tells her not to worry and that he won't hurt
her. He's just going to reveal her true face.

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Chapter 6: The Devil's Island [V1C6]
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At the station, Mal and Nat talk about what's happened. They realize that Eric
had excluded himself from the evidence (just as all investigators' DNA isn't
considered). They also believe that Eric must have tailed them to the
warehouse for the confrontation of Dr. Rose, drugged Dr. Rose, and then took
his body, improvising when Mal and Nat showed up at his house. They believe
Eric would be heading to Alcatraz. The Captain wants to send the Coast Guard,
but Mal convinces her to let him and Nat go instead because they understand
Eric. She gives them an hour and also gives Mal a flare gun he can use to
call for backup. Mal and Nat strap on body armor and their guns before
setting out.

On the island, Eric kills the two guards and takes Amy to the roof. Amy tries
to keep Eric talking to stall him from killing her. She asks what happened to
him, and he explained.

The scene flashes back to August 8th, 1990 at Alcatraz. A tour guide shows
them the Hole, a sensory deprivation chamber used as punishment for inmates.
To the young Brian, she says that he probably wouldn't like to spend time in
there. He says that he belongs there so no one has to see his face. The
conversation gets strained, and the tour guide hurries the group forward.
Later, Rebecca scolds him for saying that. He says that he didn't mean to do
anything wrong. She continues to berate him, and he throws a rock at her,
hitting her in the head, drawing blood, and knocking her down in the sand at
the water's edge. He holds her head down yelling that she's the one that's
disgusting and a stain. He eventually pulls her head out of the sand,
realizing what he's done. Sand covers her face, making a white mask.

Eric tells Amy that he knew what he had done. He says that he took away her
darkness and sickness, exposing her true face. He then sees a boat docking
and realizes that Amy was stalling, so he hits her. He then proceeds down the
stairs into the compound.

Best story branch:

Natara and Mal search the island. They find a claymore in the security room
that Nat almost triggers. Mal pushes her clear, and they both survive. Eric
confronts them, and there's a struggle. Eric's grazed by a bullet and runs
away, ascending the stairs. Mal and Nat chase after him.

On the roof, he holds a syringe to Amy. He tells them to put their guns down
or he'll give her a lethal dosage. After they put their guns down and kick
them over the side, Eric shoots Mal in the chest, drawing blood. He points
out that body armor won't save you at this distance. He tells Nat to get on
her knees before he kills her, seeming to take pleasure in killing her. Nat
says that he understands him. She believes he felt a thrill at killing
Rebecca and just wants to recreate that thrill. Nat proceeds to act like
Rebecca, telling him that he's disgusting and a stain. This unhinges Eric,
causing him to yell and even hit himself in the head. Eventually she tells
him that Rebecca was perfect. He lets go of Amy and lunges at Nat. Mal
manages to get his flare gun out of his pocket and slides it to Nat. She
grabs it and fires it right at Eric's chest. As it explodes, engulfing his
chest in flames, he's blasted back. His mask is fused to his face as he falls
off the building, landing in the surf below.

Three days later, Mal wakes up in the hospital. Nat sits with him. She
explains that the armor softened the blow, and that he's going to be okay.
Amy also survived just fine. The flare fused the mask to his face and knocked
him into the ocean. His cause of death was drowning. He asks if Nat's still
in trouble with her District Chief, and she says she's his star now. Mal asks
why Nat's still here and not on another case, and she explains. Brian Resler
was institutionalized from ages 12 to 24. There's no other information on
him. She wants to know how he got a job with the SFPD, how he passed a
background check, how got his forensics training, and how he paid for his
super nice house. Mal says he must have had an accomplice, but Nat says it
was a benefactor of some sort. She wants Mal to help her find the answers to
those questions.

Alternate branch:

In the struggle inside with Eric, Nat is killed. Mal follows Eric to the
roof. He refuses to put his gun down, choosing instead to shoot Eric in the
head. While he does kill him, Eric's able to give the lethal dosage to Amy
before getting shot. Two months later, Mal still hasn't gone back to work.
Detective Ken Greene brings take out to Mal, hoping to talk with him. He
helps clean up the dirty apartment for a few minutes before leaving.

Alternate branch:

During the fighting, Eric and Nat are both killed. The police look for Eric,
but Office Anna Willis says she can't find him. They doubt he could survive
the swim and assume he drowned. On the mainland, a young woman finds him
washed up on shore.

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Epilogue [V1E]
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Neha Mansingh wakes up on concrete. It's pitch black, and she feels that her
hands are bound and hears two voices talking. She finds a door handle, opens
the door, and falls onto the marble floor, able to see. She finds herself in
a trophy room of sorts. The room contains a female mask made of plaster,
human teeth, scalps, and more. A man tazes Neha. She can see graying hair and
a long burn on the side of his face. He mentions that the dosage didn't seem
quite right, but that that was Eric's strength. He turns her over, calling
her pretty. From another room, someone calls out, asking if everything is
under control. The first man replies in the affirmative. He removes a long,
rusty blade from his jacket, presses it under Neha's eye, and says "Tell me
about your sister... Tell me about Natara Williams."

Bonus scene:

Mal, Ken, and Diego play cards at McGinty's Irish Pub in the Mission
District. Ken asks how Mal and Diego know each other. Mal says that Diego was
a C.I. who helped him with some gang-related murders. When Diego makes a big
bet, Ken folds, but Mal thinks he's bluffing and calls. Ken asks Mal if
Sandra's okay with him spending her money like that, and Mal finally admits
to his friends that Sandra left him. He says he's starting to be okay with it
and that telling them makes him feel better.

At a nice restaurant, Amy eats with Captain Yeong. The Captain is treating
Amy to her first sourdough bread bowl (despite living in the city for three
years). Captain Yeong asks if there's anything else she can do for Amy. Amy
just wants out of her psychiatric sessions, but Captain Yeong says she can't
do that because it's mandatory for anyone who goes through a traumatic event.
Amy assures Captain Yeong that she's fine.

On a street nearby, Natara talks to her District Chief on the phone. Chief
Blaire is very impressed with her. He agrees that something's weird about
Eric's life after getting out of the institution but finds Nat's theory hard
to believe. She says she needs some time, and Chief Blaire acquiesces. After
hanging up, she enters Lance Bogg's store, Italia Imports and Exports. She
tells Lance that she's finding herself in the city longer than expected and
thinks her hotel room could use some new decor.

A few miles outside of the city, a large funeral takes place for Miguel
Flores. Carlito Flores, Miguel's brother, gives names and addresses to his
father, Esteban Flores. Carlito wants to go after his brother's killers, but
Esteban says he'll handle it and make his son's killers pay.

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* * * Volume 2: The Connoisseur * * *
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Chapter 1: Tough Love [V2C1]
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Emile Schulleman walks through Golden Gate Park late at night with Sandi
Demme. They begin to make out when Sandi's phone rings. She excuses herself
and walks away. Soon after, a man attacks Emile with a tire iron and kills
him.

It's two weeks after the Maskmaker incident on Alcatraz Island when Mal
returns to work. Nat has been trying to find information on Eric's benefactor
without much result. The institute in which Eric was a patient refuses to
release any information, and the Police Department can't find any of his
hiring informatioin. Captain Yeong assigns Mal to work a new homicide, a man
killed in Golden Gate Park. Nat asks that he help her with his investigation.
The Captain refuses, so Nat asks to help him with his, hoping that the
Captain will provide some help to Nat getting information on Eric. She allows
him to help Mal.

Mal and Nat head to Golden Gate Park to examine the body. On the way, Nat's
mom calls her, worried about Nat's sister who has been out of contact. Nat
knows that her sister likes to party and disappear and thinks things are fine.
At the park, they find that he was beaten severely before his throat was slit.
His body was found floating in a pond. His wallet, phone, class ring, and
more were all taken, making Mal think it was a professional who killed him.
Kai Kalaba, the new forensics guy, approaches, giving additional information.
He points out the murderer was left-handed because of the way the throat was
slit .They also note that his back's dirty but his arms are clean, indicating
that he was dragged into the pond.

Mal gets a call from Captain Yeong. They've identified the victim and have
learned from a local bar owner that he left with a woman named Sandi Demme.
She's at the station for questioning. Mal and Nat return, and Mal questions
her. She explains that she walked away to take a phone call. It took 15
minutes, and when she returned, Emile was gone. She slips and mentions that
she doesn't know who beat him up, but they never told her that he was beaten
up. When it's pointed out, she explains that someone must have mentioned it.
Eventually she reveals that she did witness a man beating him. She says he
beat him, slit his throat, and then ran away, but that she was scared to talk
about it. Mal points out that that story doesn't hold up because the body was
moved. Finally, Sandi tells the truth. She was approached by a man who
claimed Emile owed him money and would pay $100 if she got him to Golden Gate
Park. She gives them his name, Vincent Scaletti, in exchange for immunity.

They leave to locate Vincent and find him putting a suitcase in his car. He
sees them and runs. Mal chases him down the street, up a fire escape, and
even from rooftop to rooftop before blocking a blow and punching him. Nat
arrives, and the two arrest him. He's uncooperative until they mention
already having Sandi. He suddenly confesses, seemingly to protect her.

They return to the station where Sandi is about to leave and arrest her. She
claims she has immunity, but Mal tells her that she had immunity from
accessory to murder but is now being  charged with murder. He also notes that
she was signing papers with her left-hand and accuses her of murdering Emile.

Captain Yeong gives Nat a file that she got as a favor - the file on Eric
from the institution. Nat finds that everything of value in the file has been
redacted. She wants to investigate the institute but notes that it's the
Millbrook Institute, a major part of the national Second Chance Initiative,
which is a criminal rehabilitation program. The institute is fully owned and
ran by a senator named Jake Collins.  Mal and Nat expect people won't like
them investigating.

Meanwhile, Neha Mansingh is tied to a chair. A man forces her to call her
mom. She leaves a message saying that she's in Vegas and will be back in a
couple weeks. After hanging up, she asks to be released, but the man says he
can't make that decision and that it's up to The Connoisseur.

Bonus scene: Mal brings District Attorney Oscar Santos to question her, and
she reveals that she was scamming people with Vincent. She'd lead men with
money out of bars, he'd beat them up and steal their money, and they'd split
it. This time he went overboard and beat him nearly to death before suddenly
realizing what he had done and breaking down. Sandi then finished the job by
cutting his throat. She says she enjoyed watching the life drain from his
eyes. Mal asks how many men she's killed, and she says it's her secret.

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Chapter 2: Head Case [V2C2]
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At 2:30 in the morning on a Saturday, Mike Parsons, a security guard at a
dock, accepts money from Tom Grayson to allow him access to the docks for
some sort of illegal business deal. Shortly after hearing a gunshot and
scream, he runs into a man who smiles and walks away. Mike then finds the
bloody body of Tom before running away.

Nat's mom, Anita Mansingh, calls her to tell her that her sister called and
says she's okay and just partying in Vegas. She then mentions seeing Mal on
TV and wants to know what's going on with the two of them. She mentions Nat's
previous partner in passing. Nat remembers the hot room, the alarm clock, the
suspect shoving a shotgun into a crib, herself drawing her gun, her partner
Shawn lunging forward, and an infant's scream. Nat says their relationship is
professional before getting off the phone.

Downstairs, she gets into Mal's car. Mal's spending his day off investigating
the Millbrook Mental Institute in East Bay with Nat. They discuss the Second
Chance Initiative, which claims to have a 90% success rate of rehabilitation.

Down at the docks, Detective Ken Greene examines a body with Kai Kalaba. The
victim's head and hand have been cut off. His hand, holding the gun, is found
under the body, while His head is found floating in the water. Officer Anna
Willis finds his wallet and notes that he's Tom Grayson, who worked for
Customs Service. Kai points out that the neck wound is completely clean,
showing that it was one motion. He finds some dust that indicates the weapon
was a ceramic blade. Ken notes that the killer must have been trained in
combat.

Nat and Mal talk with Dr. Rick Tanaka, head of the Millbrook Mental
Institute. They explain that they want to better understand why Eric did what
he did. They push for uncensored files, but Dr. Tanaka says that rehabilitated
patients have their records blocked because they deserve a second chance. A
small argument occurs, and Dr. Tanaka asks them to leave.

Ken heads to Mike Parson's apartment. At first, Mike doesn't want to talk,
but as Ken cuffs him, accusing him of murder, he talks. He claims that he
isn't the killer and that it was a Mexican who did it. He also explains that
Tom performed shady deals involving his job at Customs, fake papers, and
drugs. Ken says he's no longer under arrest but should come to the station
anyways for his own protection. At the station, he asks Amy Chen to check
INTERPOL for similar cases involving drugs, murders, and ceramic knives. She
finds seven cases. The killer appears to be known as "The Ghost." His real
name is Alejandro Perez, and he works as an assassin for Latin-American drug
cartels, applying religious significance to his assassinations and only
killing his targets.

On their way out, Mal and Nat overhear a patient talking about Eric. They try
to talk to him. He says they were friends. Eric would always call himself a
stain, and he would tell him that he wasn't. He mentions being mad at the
doctors for taking him away. He then mumbles about Graves, Gault, and Voyer,
asking what the doctors did to them and why. Dr. Tanaka arrives, telling Mal
and Nat to leave. Suddenly,  the patient pushes them aside and slams Dr.
Tanaka against a wall, producing a piece of glass from his sleeve and holding
it to Dr. Tanaka's neck. Nat tries to talk him down by talking about Eric.
She learns that his name is Everett Legreaux, who killed his parents, and she
talks to him until she's close enough to knock the glass away and incapacitate
him. Guards arrive to restrain them, and Dr. Tanaka demands they leave. He
threatens to tell their superiors.

On their drive back, Nat seems worried, but Mal doesn't think Dr. Tanaka will
say anything because it'll make his own facility look terrible for allowing
Everett to get the glass. Nat suddenly realizes that the three names he
mentioned, Graves, Gault, and Voyer, were all patients released from the
facility between 2004 and 2008. She worries that Eric's benefactor might be a
benefactor to others, including these men. Mal pulls up outside a bar he
frequents and asks Nat to join him for a drink. She agrees. He says he'll
meet her inside in ten minutes because he needs to run around the  corner to
his apartment quickly. He asks her to order him a beer and onion rings. In
his apartment, he notices a man in the back holding a ceramic blade. He
greets Detective Fallon, saying that he's "been looking forward to this."

Bonus scene: At the Chennowick Docks the previous night, Tom approaches the
boat when the Ghost steps out. He explains to Tom that Tom recently sold a
boat registration to his employers, but that they didn't work. The boat was
taken, and his employers lost $20,000 worth of product. He asks if Tom's a
religious man, explaining that his employers respond to being wronged with
divine justice. Tom pulls out a gun, getting off a shot that misses the
Ghost. He quickly slices off his hand. As Tom screams, he cuts off his head.

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Chapter 3: Sins of the Fathers [V2C3]
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Mal and the Ghost fight in Mal's apartment. At the last second, Nat arrives,
shooting the Ghost. However, it only grazes him. She tackles him out of the
second story window. He gets away, and Nat ends up in the hospital. She's
down for a few days but alright. Mal goes to the hospital to talk to Nat. He
believes Esteban Flores put the hit out on him because he killed his son,
Miguel Flores. He suspects there's a hit out for Nat as well so gives her a
security detail.

He and Ken go to Esteban's estate to confront him. Ken tells Mal about the
Flores family. Miguel was Esteban's right-hand man, and now his other son,
Carlito, is filling that role. Esteban is the leader of the family in San
Francisco, but they're just part of a bigger cartel run by Arcangel Flores.
At the estate, they run into Carlito who's quick to anger. While he denies
hiring the Ghost, he doesn't seem surprised, which indicates to Mal that he
was part of it. A woman approaches who introduces herself as Carlito's
betrothed, Esme. She calms Carlito as Esteban arrives. Esteban is surprised
to hear of the Ghost. He tells Mal to leave. Mal thinks that the fact that
Carlito didn't flinch about the Ghost but Esteban did indicates that Carlito
called the hit himself behind his father's back.

Mal leaves Ken and travels to San Quentin Maximum Security Prison to talk to
his father. Mal's father always did what he thought was right, being more
than willing to cross the line and break the law. Mal worries that he's
following in his footsteps. Because Mal's father still has a lot of sources,
he's able to tell Mal that the Flores family hired someone to make fake
papers to bring someone into the country. Mal suspects it was the Ghost, but
he reveals that it was a woman.

Mal calls Amy, asking her to look up people that match the description of
Esme. He remembers that she had a scorpion tattoo on her wrist, which helps
her to find the woman. She's Esmeralda Salazar, daughter of Pablo Salazar.
Pablo's the leader of a huge drug cartel in Colombia. Mal sets up a meeting
with Carlito and Esteban. He reveals that he believes they brought Esme into
the country because they plan on killing Arcangel and staging a coup. He
agrees to stay quiet about it if they give him the location of the Ghost.
They agree, and the Ghost is cornered by police and arrested.

At the hospital, Mal talks to Nat. He's worried that he'll turn into his
father, but she consoles him, believing he's a good man. She reveals to him
what she learned about the three names they got at the mental institution.
Carl Voyer's prints match Patrick Wottace's, a bum who was found dead.
Kenneth Gault has stayed off the radar. Jonah Graves appears to now be Ramsey
Brand. He was in the institution for pyromania and is now a firefighter.

Bonus scene: Esteban hits Carlito, blaming him for recent setbacks. After
Esteban leaves, Esme tells Carlito that he did the right thing, and that a
leader must be strong. She tells him that soon it won't matter what his
father things.

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Chapter 4: Catching Fire [V2C4]
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April Ruane is on the phone when she smells smoke. She runs to the other room
to check on her kids, but a fire blocks her path. A firefighter saves her,
but it's too late for her two children and husband.

Mal and Nat arrive at the scene of the fire. The firefighter being treated as
a hero for saving the woman is Ramsey Brand, formerly Jonah Graves,
rehabilitated under the Second Chance Initiative just like Eric.  They inform
him that they want to talk to him about Jonah Graves, and he agrees to come
to the station to answer some questions. He explains that as a kid he played
with fire, and it once got out of hand and burned down his house, killing his
sibling and parents. He cries talking about it, but Nat and Mal both think
he's faking. He mentions the fire can be delayed but not stopped and that
it's insatiable. Deputy Mayor Seth Holland tries to find out why they're
questioning him, but the captain backs them up that they're not allowed to
disclose that information. Mr. Holland plans on giving Brand the hero
treatment. Without any evidence, they release him, but Mal secretly puts a
tail on him.

Nat gets a phone call from her mom, Anita Mansingh. She's worried about her
other daughter. She received a message from her saying that she was in Vegas
staying at a hotel that Nat would know. She also said something about Nat
having made out with a cute boy there. Nat seems confused, but she gets off
the phone before finishing the conversation because Mal has something
important to show her.

Mal and Nat enter the lab to talk to Amy and Kai. They've discovered that
this isn't the first time Brand's run into a house to be the hero. Three such
house fires were preceded by other fires. They believe Brand was responsible
for them and using them as decoys. Amy also found that these fires, three
family members died and one survived. And in all the cases, the survivor
later hung themselves after setting their houses on fire.  Nat believes
Brand's doing this to recreate his tragic past - being the sole survivor of
his family of four. However, his comment about fire being insatiable and only
delayed suddenly makes sense; he feels that fire was supposed to get him too.

Realizing that the recent survivor could be in danger, Mal and Nat rush to
get to where she's staying. Mal also hears from the officers tailing Brand
that they lost him. When they reach the house, Brand attacks them before
running. They find the ground soaking wet with gasoline and April Ruane about
to be hung, standing on a teetering piece of furniture. Mal helps her down
while Nat chases Brand. Outside, Brand explains that he knew it was only a
matter of time before fire took his life as well. He tells her that she
wasn't wrong and almost had it figured out, "Eric, [him]. the others, the
game." He tells her it's all about her before lighting the fire at his feat,
engulfing himself in flames. Luckily, Nat, Mal, and April were all out of the
house and survived.

While driving away, Mal and Nat talk. Nat mentions the phone call from her
mom and how during her trip to Vegas with her sister, her sister specifically
wanted her to party while Nat refused. She knows she didn't make out with any
cute boy and wonders why she'd lie. Suddenly, she realizes something might be
wrong.

Bonus scene: A few days earlier, Ramsey Brand talks on the phone to the man
that has Nat's sister. He feels like the fire will get to him soon, and the
man tells him to make the most of it, giving him the address of the survivor.
The man hangs up the phone and enters a dark room containing Nat's sister,
Neha. He gives her a script to read and tells her to call her mother. Neha
tells him that Nat didn't make out with anyone, but he tells her to read it
anyways.

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Chapter 5: Missing Persons, Pt. 1 [V2C5]
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Six months ago, Nat sits in a car with her partner, Shawn. They wait for
backup outside the apartment of a woman and her baby after the woman harbors
a serial rapist and murderer. When they hear her scream, they run inside. She
was shot in the head with a shotgun and killed. Darryl Glover, the murderer,
shoots at Nat, knocking her to the ground and grazing her shoulder. He's
wounded by Shawn by gets to another room where he holds the gun to a
screaming baby. Shawn tries to talk him down. Nat manages to line up a shot
and pulls the trigger. As she does, Shawn offers to be his hostage and steps
forward. The bullet enters his back, exits his stomach, and hits Darryl in
the head, killing him but seriously wounding Shawn.

She wakes up in her hotel room to Mal knocking at the door. He asks if she
was okay, but she doesn't want to talk about. She reveals that she was
looking into her sister. Her sister had called Mike Lancaster, of San
Francisco, a lot but suddenly stopped making calls except the two to their
mom. She leaves to talk to Mike Lancaster while Mal goes to the station to
give a report to the Captain.

Lancaster is a musician. The last he saw Neha, they had an argument at the
Zen Lounge. She wanted him to go on a trip with her, but he had a gig in his
band. He also wants to know where she is. Nat gives him her card and asks him
to contact her if he hears from Neha before heading to the Zen Lounge.

Captain Yeong still wants proof from Mal but is eventually convinced that
there is something going on. She can't get him a warrant to search the
institute, but she does officially put him on the case, asking him to be
discreet. Just then she receives a phone call. Senator Jake Collins wants to
meet with Mal today.

Nat goes to the Zen Garden. She argues with the owner before he lets her see
the security footage. She sees Neha leave the club and get into a cab, and
she's able to make out the taxi registration number.

Mal arrives at Jake Collins' house and is greeted by Genevieve Collins, Jake
Collins' wife. He talks with Jake Collins. Collins understands that the two
people in question shouldn't have been released but explains that lots of
good has come from the program as well. He mentions that his own brother was
schizophrenic and was institutionalized by their father when he was 18. No
one visited him but Jake, and when his brother was 20, he took his own life.
Jake Collins doesn't want that to happen to others. When Mal suggests that
someone was releasing those patients on purpose, Senator Collins seems
shocked and agrees to help.

Nat calls Amy to look up information on the taxi registration. Amy says that
she's not supposed to do that without a case number but agrees anyways. She
tells Nat that Reggie Soto and is currently at dispatch. Nat heads there and</pre><pre id="faqspan-2">
sees the taxi. She calls out Reggie's name, but he doesn't respond. She
identifies herself as an FBI agent, and he takes off. After a car chase, he
crashes into a lake at the park. She cuffs him and forces him to talk. He
explains that he just panicked and ran, but that he didn't hurt Neha. He was
short on money, and someone paid him to borrow his cab for the night. When he
got it back, there was a bit of blood in the backseat, but he didn't support
it. He tells Nat that the man had a burn on half his face. He gives her the
address where the man left the car and had him pick it back up.

As Mal leaves, Genevieve Collins approaches. In passing, she mentions feeling
guilty about Eric because she always felt uneasy about him after meeting him.
Mal is surprised that she met him. She explains that Dr. Tanaka thought he
was an exemplary case and thought the Senator could use him in promotions.
Mal finds it curious that Senator Collins didn't mention this.

Nat arrives at the address and hears her sister crying out for help. She
kicks in the door to the warehouse building to find a TV with a recording of
her sister. As she approaches, the feed cuts to a timer. It starts at six
hours and begins counting down.

Bonus scene: Six months in Miami, two days before the incident in the
apartment with Darryl Glover, Nat looks over four photos of female corpses.
Special Agent Shawn Mallory enters. They discuss the photos. Nat doesn't see
a connection. Shawn notices  that the first two were killed in their homes,
the third in an alley, and the fourth in the bathroom of a bar. He notes that
the killer is escalating, and that the kills are getting more public. Nat
realizes a person like that would start smaller than murder. Shawn decides to
get files on any thrill-seeking crimes.

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Chapter 6: Missing Persons, Pt. 2 [V2C6]
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When Mal walks into the warehouse, the timer cuts out on the TV. They realize
it's been rigged with a bomb and get out of the building just as it explores.
Forensics arrives, and they find something with "MMI" on it, which Nat
realizes stands for "Millbrook Mental Institute." They also find actual
fingerprints removed from a person that they trace to Jerome Eccleston, a
psychiatrist that knew Senator Collins who has been missing for years.

In his office, Nat and Mal find a tape. It seems he was leading at least one
of his patients to believe that some people deserved to die. After the
patient, Mickey Watkins, leaves, Eccleston can be heard asking someone if he
did it correctly.

They find Mickey Watkins working in a bar. They try to talk to him, but he
gets angry, and a fight ensues. Eventually Nat gets him to talk. Eccleston's
master was known as the Connoisseur. He also explains that he killed
Eccleston and hid the body near a water treatment plant. Nat heads there
alone and finds her sister, Neha, tied to a chair. A burned man
approaches, and Nat explains that she realizes what he wants. She already
profiled the killer has someone very intelligent and highly motivated, among
other things. Eccleston didn't fit it perfectly, but she does. She agrees to
go with the man if Neha is released.

Bonus scene: Mal races to the water treatment plant. Nat leaves with the
man just as Mal arrives and unties Neha.

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Chapter 7: Old Wounds [V2C7]
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The man with burned face incapacitates Nat using pressure points when she
tries to run, and she wakes up in a large house completely unbound. He calls
her his master's guest. She sees the room filled with gruesome trophies of
murdered persons.

Mal asks Neha some questions in the hospital. He learns that there was a huge
trophy room with a marble floor, which makes him realize it must be a large
house belonging to someone with a lot of money. The Captain informs Mal that
one of the security cameras at the water treatment plant wasn't disabled and
that the video was being analyzed. He races back to the station. When he gets
there, he runs into FBI Special Agent Shawn Mallory who says he's been in
contact with Nat (before she was taken) and was on his way to help with the
case. Mal accepts his help. From the video, Shawn identifies the man's gun as
a .380 Dukarov from the Soviet era and notes that the man is able to expertly
pilot the speedboat in narrow tunnels. He believes the man is Russian special
forces, specifically Spetsnaz GRU. Amy does some searches, and they find
reason to believe the man might have been an interrogator at the Orkutsk
Labor Camp in Siberia. They find that a former prisoner of that camp, Nikolai
Guryevitch, lives in San Francisco.

They go to Nikolai's house and show him a photo of the man printer from the
security camera footage. He's hesitant to speak at first but eventually
reveals that the man was Colonel Mikhail Volk, known as the WOlf of Orkutsk.
He explains that Mikhail mutilated his hand for not giving up his friends.
When asked if Mikhail seemed to enjoy it as a sadist, Nikolai explains that
that might have been partially true, but that really he just liked following
orders. Nikolai explains that he was released from the prison with the fall
of the Soviet Union and never saw Mikhail again. There were rumors that
Mikhail died in a prison uprising but other rumors that he fled the country
through a US political connection.

Outside, Mal says that he thinks it might involve Senator Collins. Just then
he receives a call from Genevieve Collins. She explains that Senator Collins
has been acting very agitated, mentioning Nat's name, and she wants to know
if anything is happening. Mal tries to ask some questions, but Genevieve says
that the Senator is meeting with Doctor Tanaka from the Millbrook Institute
and that she'll go get him. Something happens and the phone goes dead. Mal
rushes to the Senator's house while Shawn decides to investigate the
Millbrook Institute.

Mal finds the house empty with the door open. He enters and soon after
receives a call from Ken asking him what's happening. Ken explains that a
neighbor of Senator Collins left an anonymous tip that Mal had opened fire on
the Senator. Mal is confused, but then ends the call when he sees Senator
Collins on the ground in a pool of blood. He rushes to him, but he's already
dead. Suddenly flood lights hit the house as the police surround it,
demanding that Mal come out and stand down. Mal makes a break for it, jumps
out of a second story window and attempts to run. A car pulls up, the door
flies open, and Ken tells him to get in the car. As they drive away, Mal
suddenly realizes who's behind everything.

Bonus scene: The burned man tries to remain cool, but Nat says she knows it's
just an act. Just as he begins to get mad, his master enters the room, and
the burned man drops to his knees. Nat is shocked when she sees who it is.

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Chapter 8: Revelations [V2C8]
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Genevieve Collins enters the room. She talks with Nat about how she's the
Connoisseur. She looks up to the biblical figure of Lilith - a woman who
loves monsters unconditionally even though they're filled with darkness. She
believes that it's natural for some people to behave differently, and she
nurtures these people. She sees Nat as similar to many of her "children." Nat
is a killer of killers, and Collins wants Nat to replace her when she dies.

In flashbacks, Genevieve Collins encourages Eric Mills. Mills feels like
something's not right as he completes a mask. Collins tells him that it's not
him but the girl. She's not the right canvas. When Ramsey Brand has second
thoughts about lighting a man on fire, she tells him that the fire claimed
him and that he should do it. She even convinces Senator Collins that she
should be able to spend one-on-one time with some of the cases in order to
nurture them, and that if she had been allowed to do that for his brother, he
might still be alive. Through her manipulations, Senator Collins signs off on
the idea.

In the present, while Nat and Collins talk, Mal is in Ken's car. He realizes
that Genevieve Collins is responsible, even remembering that she has ties to
Eastern Europe. She was in Moscow in 1981 as an assistant to the ambassador.
He calls Amy Chen, who says she's not supposed to talk to him. He explains
that he's innocent. He asks her to find out if she had other houses. She
finds the address of a large house very near the Millbrook Institute. He
tells Ken to head that way. Ken and Mal find the mansion, but it's being
guarded by gunmen. They split up to infiltrate. Ken distracts a guard and
runs away while Mal makes it inside.

Meanwhile, Shawn Mallory explores the Millbrook Institute. Under Collins'
orders, Mikhail arrives. He beats Shawn badly and brings his body back to the
mansion. As he drags Shawn into a room, Mal enters and is alarmed. They
fight, but Mal gets the upper-hand. As he beats Mikhail, Collins enters the
room with a blade to Nat's neck and tells him to stop, which he does.

Genevieve Collins tells Nat  she has to choose who will die - Mal or Shawn.
She says that if she doesn't, she'll kill her.

If Nat chooses Mal to die, he tries to say something first, but Mikhail
shoots him in the head. Collins stays true to her word that she won't kill
Shawn, but she doesn't release him either. She chains him in a room with no
windows. Months later, Nat enters the room. Shawn is excited at first and
expresses his love for her. She explains that she loves him too but that she
has to do this after having learned so much from Genevieve Collins. She
shoots and kills Shawn.

If Nat chooses Shawn to die, Mal is instead imprisoned. When she enters the
room to kill him, he tells her to hurry up and shoot him if she's doing to do
so. She does.

However, Nat chooses neither of the men. She says that she doesn't think
Collins will kill her because she can't kill; that's why she manipulates
others into killing.

Mal gets up, and when Mikhail attempts to make a move, Mal shoots him in the
chest. As he looks up at Mal with fury, Mal tells him that Nikolai Guryevitch
sends his regards. Mikhail dies. Nat tells Collins that she's under arrest.
However, a guard returns, opening fire on them as they dive for cover.
Collins escapes with the guard.

The Captain arrives and tells Mal that while he did a lot of things wrong,
he's going to be okay. Nat puts her head down on Mal's shoulder as they talk
but gets up to be with Shawn.

Bonus scene: Tasha King reports on TV that while details aren't clear, police
have identified Genevieve Collins as the killer of Senator Collins. In his
room, Nikolai breaks down crying when he learns that Mikhail Volk was killed.
Dr. Tanaka resigns. At Saint Margaret's Hospital, Nat sits with her sister,
Neha, and mother, Anita. In the Crime Lab, Kai and Amy argue about who's
cooler - Nat or Mal. Ken recites a tale of his exploits to a woman in a club.
At a large estate in Mexico, Genevieve Collins thanks her host for helping
her. Esteban Flores says that the enemy of his enemy is his friend.

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Version 1.4, 11/12/13: Added Volume 2 Chapter 5.

Version 1.3, 11/2/13: Added Volume 2 Chapters 3 and 4.

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