Set in a small So CA beach town, an imaginative stalker's decapitation sends Detectives Milligan and Marshall on an investigation of the stalker's family, his victim and her family. When Doug strikes out on his own to corner the murderer and no one knows where he went, Stacey frantically tries to find him. She almost comes to a dead end, when his beloved MG is found in the lagoon on the Santa Barbara college campus.