Charlie’s returns from Europe, only to learn that Brita, Marco’s sister, has been raped and is pregnant. Determined to stop the rapist from striking again, he’s armed only with a first name.

His sister, Sally, was slipped a mickey, and were it not for a kind cigarette girl who knowingly knocked the drink over, she might have ended up in the same predicament. Instead, the cigarette girl is found murdered. Was the man upset with her for foiling his plans? Or is it another in a string of killings by a man the newspapers call the Scollay Square Strangler? But it’s Olivia, not Charlie, who pursues the man who drugs and rapes women,

Are Charlie and Olivia on the same case? Or are there two rapists and a third man who kills?