DB (Ted Danson) and Ecklie (Marc Vann) attend a Black Sabbath concert where they're to meet a reporter John Merchiston (James Callis). DB recalls being at The Dead concert at the same time Ecklie last watched Black Sabbath in concert. He's to follow DB around and Ecklie thinks it will be good PR. DB gets a call and agrees to let John accompany him. Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) has already met him and he tells him how he had forensics training at Scotland Yard before he accompanied them. Brass reminding him not to touch anything even if he has latex gloves. Brass explains the CS is a porn stage and has been closed for 48 years. The DB is mummified and is found on a bed, Brass referring to as the "lambskin linings playbook." Finn (Elisabeth Shue) sees she's wearing new lingerie and Brass and John both smell Honeysuckle Summer. So there are new additions added to the CS as well as old.
Nick (George Eads) sees a Bible on the nightstand and inside he finds some of the pages have been cutaway revealing a wooden box with markings and inside the box is a spider, Finn refers to as the Black Widow but Nick explains it's a fake one. David (David Berman) Greg (Eric Szmanda) examine the DB and Doc (Robert David Hall) thinks they can restore the Vic's face using a new technique involving hydrating the DB. Doc is able to give the Vic a face.
Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) shows DB the killer's possible signature, a gold heart charm which was placed inside the Vic's heart. Brass thinks they should show the Vic's photo in public and this leads to stripper Miss Kitty showing up. She now goes by her real name, Angela (Tangie Ambrose). The Vic's name is Megan Ramirez and she wanted to leave just as Angela has done, she was helping her through it. With help from the Fellowship of the Fallen Angels, run by Brother Larson (Eric Roberts). She shows them files of missing girls and Brass is shocked when he sees Ellie's photo inside. He calls his ex, Nancy (Annabella Sciorra) obviously so we can get to meet her now.
Finn visits Theresa in the hospital after the Doctor (Michelle N carter) found her photo in the missing person's file. She's in a coma and Finn wants to process her. Morgan shows up and goes through her belongings, finding a charm bracelet with another gold heart charm. Adding this is more than a coincidence. Nick and Greg find another Vic, Chloe, this time from a food fetish porn site. The camera was on and inside the freezer is her boyfriend with the ice cream. Chloe choked on a chocolate covered cockroach! There's another Bible and inside this is a gold heart charm. He says they have a "serial."
Greg finds Chloe was strangled due to her hyoid bone being broken and Hodges (Wallace Langham) notices some abrasions on her back, which when read are from the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not bear false witness." The killer wanted them to find this. Finn and DB concur that the killer doesn't have a signal signature and John thinks it strange Teresa wasn't killed by him. Finn doesn't think her CS was staged.
Nick and Greg go to the Fellowship where Larson is delivering a sermon and Jake (Luke Kleintank) stops them from entering. Liked the way Nick said, "po-lice." He doesn't speak like that, ha. Nick notices the Bible and inside he finds a wooden cross. Larson cuts out chunks of pages from the Bible. He also mentions Ellie being missing and he's also questioning them since it takes her to be missing before the police take any notice of the other missing women. Larson's prints are on that Bible but the boxes and the other Bibles were wiped clean. He has a record for pimping and pandering and has a licence for a .38, similar weapon used to kill Chloe's boyfriend.
The camera at Chloe's fetish show was turned on by remote and the address is traced back to the Fellowship. Inside Greg and Nick find a girl and outside John notices a man smoking. He gets knocked out. So did the man take the cigarette butt John was going to pick up. Angela denies killing anyone and the girl was an addict. She tells them DB knows her and John figures out a pattern, all the circular objects at the CS. In the first one there was a bicycle, a clock and DB realizes they're circles. Leading him to Dante's Inferno and the Nine Circles of Hell. Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger which was meant to be Morgan undercover. Larson is questioned and admits to making money. An anonymous caller asks for the girls and he drops them off at a street corner where they are picked up. He knows where Ellie is since he heard from her this morning and wants a deal.
Morgan has a plan to be bait and act like one of the girls. Ecklie is against it but Finn convinces him that there are other father's like him out there too. Morgan tells him she was undercover in LA and she's LVPD now. Morgan is picked up by an SUV and Nick and Greg follow. She's taken to an apartment where the man inside has lots of scientific things, including an old abacus. Finn IDs him as Oliver Tate (Tim Matheson). Morgan shows them his place and the things he has inside using the cam in her necklace and he gives her a present, inside is a box with the picture of 'Anger.'
Nancy arrives with a box and inside they find a memory stick. This reads 'Fake' on it and a message from Ellie saying, "we have sinned." Oliver takes the necklace from Morgan and says he's not interested anymore. (Yeah after getting her to remove her clothes!) Morgan comes out and Greg tells Nick they should pick her up. The SUV takes her away and DB tells them to stop it but it's too late. Jake is driving but Morgan is missing. DB saying the killer has Morgan and Ellie.
So we get Tim Matheson playing a bad guy again and did you notice his driver's license DOB 1960, when clearly he is older than that. Again why didn't Nick maintain visual on the SUV, they didn't have to be that far behind. See Ellie was calling out to help now from dad, when really she doesn't want to know him and has gotten into so many scrapes and trouble over the years. Also Nancy didn't even tell him that she saw her a year ago when she gave he the engagement ring. Nancy doesn't think much of Brass either aside from telling him he's "a good cop."
Dante's Nine Circles of Hell was nothing new and has been used before in many shows/films but this episode moved along nicely. With the added benefit of having a journalist on the scene too, which are usually hindrances than help most of the time, but you have to wonder what his angle is, as he conveniently turns up to shadow DB just when they catch the serial killer case. Well you do and he's a stranger to them too.
Morgan's hair wasn't as curled as it was when she got inside the apartment. Thought it was good to see her get into trouble for a change, she's a newbie and most of the cast have seen their fair share of trouble over the years, especially Nick when he was kidnapped in Grave Danger. More mentions of Nick being 'Bug Guy' and how he says he had a good teacher.
Angela/Miss Kitty was in the episodes Willows in the Wind and Terminal Velocity.
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