Josh Colum appears as normal as any one of us but he has a deep subconscious memory of how his mother treated his father. Josh has layered that early part of his life onto all females in Sacramento and he formulates a plan to eliminate their seemingly inescapable hold over him. Coincidentally, Janet Slade returns to California's capital. After seven years away from her original job as a public information officer with the Sacramento PD she has returned with political help from her father's friend to the higher status of homicide detective.