When a woman dying of a brain disease goes on a crime spree with her fiancé, the SRU team is called in to track them down at a ballroom, where they are sharing their last dance together before he intends to inject them both with a lethal dose of morphine.
After the meek anthropologist Fredrick Terrace bludgeons his assistant beyond recognition, he is convinced that the dagger of Kali, the Indian goddess of destruction, "made him do it."
On the scene of a messy highway accident, Chris and Gail stumble upon a car that has a license plate matched to an Amber Alert for a nine-year-old girl. A manhunt ensues to find the missing driver, meanwhile an intense interrogation of the parents reveals disturbing evidence.