 Allison has a psychic dream about a man who seems to be threatening her daughter Ariel: someone who introduces himself as a Golem, a devil, a monster. Later dreams show that Ariel is standing in for a red-haired college-aged student named Sherona. And the Golem? Allison meets the man from her dream, but her boss, the district attorney, introduces him as a Good Samaritan: a man who reports a burglary he witnessed and makes himself available to appear in court. Allison knows he s evil and believes he s raped and murdered this Sherona, whom she s never met. Meanwhile, Allison may be pregnant. She s ambivalent about the possibility, but her husband Joe is happy and secretly hopes for a boy. He s even happier when Ariel seems to be a math genius, which would mean she is taking after him.