When a pub landlady is stabbed to death in the basement of her own pub, and her little finger is cut off by the killer, Nikki is isolated in her quest to prove her husband’s innocence, against Jack and Leo’s mounting evidence to otherwise suggest his involvement. However, when her husband is charged by the police with her death, Nikki must convince Jack and Leo that she is infact the latest victim of a psychopathic serial killer, who is igniting a deadly game of cat and mouse, as the pathologists close the net on his reign of terror.