- Detectives find themselves with a strange case on their hands involving a young woman with a gunshot wound to the head.
- Star detective contemplates retiring to enjoy the quiet Ontarian nature, which his no less workaholic wife duly laughs away. His assistant Lise Delorme hopes to boost her career by stealing a spot in the prestigious national Information Service training from a senior colleague. Both suspend all plans as a red-hair woman is found in the woods, with full amnesia after freak-surviving a hit in the head. It's the territory of hiking bikers and Leon's drug gang.—KGF Vissers
- A young red headed woman tries to escape someone. She evades a truck, running through the bush a shot rings out and she falls unconscious.
Cardinal and his wife Cathy relax on a boat at the lake. The daughter Kelly won't be coming home for summer.
Detective Jerry Commanda is at a bar watches younger folk across the room. He notices disheveled young redhead woman with them. He asks if she is OK but she doesn't know what is going on.
Cardinal shows his wife a waterfront cottage he's thinking of buying as his 30 year point is coming in Sept and hints at retirement. His phone rings.
Cardinal meets Deslormes at the hospital, A doctor explains the young woman was lobotomized by gunshot, she has a bullet in her brain. Det. X doesn't know who she is from his preliminary investigation. Cardinal and Deslormes meet the woman and takes her photo, ask a few questions and she will be flown to Toronto for surgery.
The woman is operated on as Cardinal watches. She starts singing, wide awake as the brain is opened up. She babbles on, the extracted bullet is given to Cardinal.
Deslormes goes to a boxing gym to work out. She shows another boxer the cell pic of the redhead and warns her to be careful.
A tech explains the .32 bullet to Cardinal, it may be from two types of handguns.
Deslormes updates her Lt. They think the redhead is not local otherwise she would have been reported.
In the hospital the woman is still amnesiac and can't remember anything, she can't even recall meeting Cardinal.
Deslormes interviews the man, a taxi driver, who picked up the redhead on Hwy 11, he dropped her off at the tavern. She presses him why he didn't bring her to the police station or hospital.
Cardinal shops for clothes for the redhead with his daughter. His phone rings, Deslormes updates him on the taxi driver, she has six local weapons to follow up on from the ballistics report.
Cardinal brings the clothes to the hospital, the girl is asleep.
Deslormes meets Lt. Dyson, she is applying for a training with the NIS, and needs a recommendation, and has not discussed with Cardinal.
Cardinal drives the redhead back up to Algonquin Bay, she'll be in a local hospital with a neuro psychologist.
A male body floats underwater, the man comes up for air and horses around with a buddy. Another man comes and the three drive off in the truck that chased the redhead.
At the gym a Deslormes spars. Commanda arrives with a local, the young man needs a place to channel energy, he wants her to train him.
Another Det asks Dyson If she decided who will go on the NIS training, she tells him she decided on someone else. He approaches Deslormes testily and she snaps back at him. Cardinal is there, Cathy comes and brings him a clean shirt. Deslormes watches their interaction.
Deslormes and Cardinal drive to the first gun address. The man opens his safe but the gun is missing. He admits his fishing friend Dave knew about the gun. They want Dave's last name.
At a bait shop a woman employee says her boss Dave has been away for a couple of weeks. The woman hasn't seen the redhead. Cardinal tells Deslormes to put a BOLO out on Dave and his boat. They go to show the redhead a pic of Dave.
A doctor explains to the cops the redhead's memory loss is caused by trauma. Cardinal instructs a uniform cop to keep a close eye and note anything she says.
Cardinal chats with his wife, she is going to Toronto with a photo group for the weekend, he seems concerned for her. Later he has one of his visions of walking through a bush.
A shirtless man overlooks a lake from his cottage deck.
Lise Deslormes meets Sgt Musgrave of the NIS unexpectedly at the NIS offices after her interview, he says he can put in a good word for her for the NIS course. He edges close but she pushes off and he makes a remark about her having a thing for Cardinal, a married man.
Cathy Cardinal meets a psychiatrist, she knows John doesn't really trust her.
The redhead gets some treatment viewing pictures as the cops watch. She doesn't react to a photo of Dave but panics with a photo of an old school bus. The photo was taken near where she was found.
At the Beaufort Trail site Cardinal and Deslormes find the bus, split up and follow separate paths. They stay in radio contact. Cardinal ends at the Missinabi Creek rapids. He finds a cave and enters. The walls are covered with recent white markings. A bloody body is impaled.
Elsewhere a shirtless man stands in front of a table full of burning candles.
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