Detective Kate Reilly continues to have the bad dreams that are somehow linked to the murder of her parents that occurred almost eighteen years ago. The dreams haunt the very little sleep she has as she tries to juggle the heavy workload alone, while her partner, Andrew Stephens recuperates in Hospital but it is not long before they are back on the beat together chasing another serial killer. Oliver Watkins was the Elements serial killer, a murderer who had stalked and brutally murdered the women of another city fourteen years earlier. Now he has a fan who is hoping that he could move from serial rapist to serial killer and be as famous as Watkins. Watkins is keen to be a mentor to his eager protege and teach him the way to kill, Watkins relishes in the idea of being the puppetmaster in the shadows."