 Rachel must push aside her personal nightmares when Vincent, a disturbed child slayer whom she failed to prosecute four years before, has resumed kidnapping young girls and putting them in gilded cages where he worships them as virginal "princesses." At the same time, Rachel is troubled by the sudden disappearance of her drug-addicted brother, Danny, from a halfway house and her romantic relationship with therapist Tom enters a new stage when he decides to end it to accept a job in San Francisco. Also, George frets about the hotshot computer whiz, Kim Doyle, who s temporarily replaced him while he s on leave.