8. Saving Face

Complete story — includes the ending

The body of female medical student, Kerri Livanski ( Erin Fritch ) is found with body parts missing after she returned from a trip to Guatemala. Detectives Logan and Barek assume that she was a drug "mule" smuggling narcotics, but a forensic examination rules that out. Evidence leads to a nurse's aide, Antonio Morales ( Vincent Laresca ) who is working for cosmetic surgeon, Christine Ansel, ( Samantha Mathis ). She runs a charity called the Frederick Foundation after her dead brother which claims to provide facial reconstruction for the poor in Central America. However, the detectives realize that she is incapable of performing surgery and the charity is fraudulent. The uncover that Morales actually carries out operations for poor Latin American New Yorkers instead while claiming that they live in Guatemala. When confronted, Ansel confesses murdering Livanski because she would have exposed her deception, but she also blames her parents for whom she was considered only a surrogate for their dead son whose memory she could never live up to.