The IA investigation into Jensen's non-defensive homicide on their first serial killer nears its end, hanging on Schaeffer's testimony, yet he still hesitates whether to tell the whole incriminating truth, influenced by her claim of formative step-fatherly abuse by family court judge Howard Burgess . Even while she's suspended as routine procedure, PPD detective Jerry Molbeck, in charge of dumpster-dumped Monica Albreath's murder calls Thomas as consultant and can't keep preventing her from illegally consulting the file and making suggestions.
—KGF Vissers