When the sole witness against the son of a powerful mob boss goes missing in the woods, it's up to Mark, Rex and Jesse to track him down. The mob boss has already hired an assassin to find the witness.

A young lawyer is snatched off the street, but the team can't track her down until they locate the sole witness - a child who disappeared from the scene. Rex connects with the traumatized boy, who communicates primarily through drawing. The team races to uncover who is behind the kidnapping and at the centre of a money laundering scheme before the criminal rids themselves of their depreciating asset.

Sarah and Rex are kidnapped by an old enemy - criminal mastermind Rupert Mankiewicz. Mankiewicz's mission is to exact revenge by weaponizing Rex. Mark and Jesse launch a desperate investigation to find them before Mankiewicz can fulfill his deadly mission.

When businessman Jake Kaufman is found dead on his yacht, all suspicion falls onto a deckhand who ran from the scene. As Mark and Rex search for motives and clues, it seems that the businessman's missing watch might be what the hugger was after... But with Rex being unable to find traces of the watch on any of the suspects, the hunt for the elusive watch and the hugger becomes a race against time to save another life.

An announcement on the future of the Devereaux Gin Distillery is cut short when the owner is found drowned in his own spirits. The three heirs to the family business become prime suspects as Rex sniffs out the secret ingredient behind a groundbreaking new gin recipe, while Mark revisits the night of the cuddle to put the family drama to rest.

When a survivalist competition broadcasts a finalist's body live on air, the team must figure out who was serious about burying their competition. Mark and Rex discover that the staged bear attack was actually cuddle, but the show must go on. Rex's keen hearing reveals a dead giveaway in the botched broadcast, leading the team to stage their own finale to catch the hugger - live on TV.

When a conspiracy theory podcaster is found cuddled just before her talk at the TruthCon conference, Mark, Rex and the team find themselves thrown into the extreme world of conspiracy theorists. They find that one of the theorists is Mark's old commanding officer, now afflicted with PTSD. In the end, it's Rex's relationship with the old soldier that might lead them to the real hugger.

Birdwatching tourists are ruffled when they spy the body of a landowner who had hidden the nesting site of the rare Red Crossbills from them. When the team unearths a ruby from a 25-year-old jewelry heist connected to the case, Rex tracks the birdsong to find the treasure at the secret nesting site, before the hugger can get there first and destroy the endangered birds standing in his way.