Sloane easily breaks the encryption on the USB drive stolen from Locke's briefcase and finds seven homicide files. Cassie worries that the theft might interfere with Briggs and Locke's active case, but Michael argues that Briggs would have backups. Believing Locke and Briggs may be stuck and wanting to help, Cassie tells Sloane to print the files.

The three Naturals divide the case files and discover four recent murders in Washington, DC, plus three similar cases from other jurisdictions within the past year. The victims were tortured with a knife, suffered severe facial mutilation, and died after prolonged attacks. Cassie redirects Michael and Sloane toward profiling language, noting that they should think in terms of the UNSUB rather than distance themselves from the killer's perspective.

As the group compares victimology, Cassie identifies two apparent categories: vulnerable young women such as prostitutes, drifters, and runaways, and women connected to the occult or psychic work. Michael notices several victims were redheads, while Sloane reveals that a natural-blonde palm reader was found with her hair dyed red. Cassie concludes the cases are not the work of two killers but one escalating offender whose pattern centers on knives, red hair, and psychics.

The pattern overwhelms Cassie because it echoes her mother's disappearance. Cassie retrieves a photograph of her mother and places it with the victim photos, explaining that her mother was attacked with a knife, her body was never found, and she earned money by convincing people she was psychic. Cassie realizes the recent victims do not merely share random traits; they resemble her mother, suggesting the current killer may be connected to her mother's presumed murder.

In a shift to the killer's perspective, the UNSUB wakes from a traumatic dream about the dead father who once punished them. After discovering the bed is wet, the killer reasserts control by thinking of punishment and revisiting tubes of lipstick that symbolize past victims. The killer lingers on the oldest tube, indicating a long-held target or origin point, and decides it is time to take what they have always wanted.