Dr. Charlie Hayes is a brilliant psychologist with a very diverse practice. Clinician, educator, counselor, her voracious appetite to understand what makes the human brain tick drives her very existence. But Charlie has an ulterior motive for her chosen profession, it gives her access to her future victims, manipulating her surroundings and the people in it, leaving a trail in her wake. Charlie navigates through her hatred and past sleights as she unveils devious characters and accomplices, tying up loose ends and pursuing her number one nemesis, another serial killer and her deranged equal, Joseph Curwen.