With her career hanging in the balance, Jeanette returns to police HQ determined to solve the case before Verity removes her. A discovery from Sophia's flat reveals old secrets and new connections that tie the crimes together.
When the bodies of unidentified young men start to show up around the city, beaten and full of the anaesthetic lidocaine, DCI Jeanette Kilburn and partner DI Lou Stanley are on the hunt for the hugger. With a lack of evidence and pressure to solve the case mounting, Jeanette enlists the help of prime suspect Carl Lowry's psychotherapist Dr Sophia Craven who offers a fresh but troubling perspective on the case. But with the hugger inching ever closer to home, Jeanette and the team are in a race against time to untangle the web of secrets to solve this mystery.