 A Jane Doe crawls out of a shallow grave in a park, with virtually total amnesia caused by a blow on the head and the emotional trauma of live burial, unlikely to recover fast or completely, yet tells the police, which calls the NCSI, about a bomb on an unspecified US Navy ship. She wasn t raped but gets memory flashes, first about a church, then says her name is Maureen Ingalls and is taken in by Caitlin  Kate  Todd who keeps trying to trigger her memory about the bomb. A magnetic hotel key and the chemicals required for a serious explosive are found in the grave. Micro-laser numbering traces the key to the Jackson hotel in Washington, notably Mr. Walter Richter s year long-leased suite; it contains his corps, fitting Jane Doe s description of her attacker, but he is dead too long and worked for a German bomb detection equipment company...