When a famous, avante garde photographer is found murdered and handcuffed to the steering wheel of a crashed car, Detectives Goren and Eames probe the victim's controversial works and his tortured past -- but they make a grisly discovery that a dead model had been used at the site of a former photo shoot. When other similarly pretty women are found missing, the investigators suspect that the secretive artist was exploiting them to gain an ugly new perspective for his lagging career until Goren studies the artwork and arrives on a new theory.
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Famous photographer, Gerhardt Heltman ( Sam Tsoutsouvas ), is found dead in a staged car crash. While investigating his background, Goren and Eames find secret photographs of dead women in staged scenarios similar to the covers of pulp detective novels. Similar sketches found in Heltman's belongings lead the detectives to a sketch artist, Spencer Farnell ( Glenn Fitzgerald ) who is seeking revenge on the women he believed ruined his life. Farnell murdered Heltman after he tried to end the macabre collaboration.
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