Summary for Love Hurts by Destiny:
Last night's episode begins with Vicki being hired by a man who believes his wife is cheating on him. Despite Vicki's discouragement on hiring her instead of a marriage counselor, he insists she take the case. During the conversation, Vicki says, "Your money would probably be much better spent on a marriage counselor," and the man replies, "Or a hit man." He assures her this was a joke.
The twist: the next day, the wife is found dead, strangled after a lustful encounter with her lover. Her husband tells Vicki to prove he did not murder his wife.
Vicki begins questioning the neighbors, three girls who look like they just stepped out of Wisteria Lane. They all say they were at a flower arranging lesson with their gardener, Emmanuel, one of those Italian/Spanish types with abs and a nice body who's really into the ladies. Vicki begins to interrogate him, although he answers her questions and then procedes to quote poetry, give her a flower and flirt. Vicki leaves him to speak to one of the women's husbands, who is the owner of several miniature "idols" (those little statues that kind of look like dolls) from all around the world. Vicki takes pictures of them when he isn't looking then leaves.
She tells these things to Henry, who seems a little, dare I say, jealous at the thought of a gardener who can make Vicki's heart race. He offers to go interrogate Emmanuel, but Vicki assures him he doesn't need to.
The next day she goes to interrogate him, stopping at his house. She finds him across the yard kissing and romancing Isabella, the bleach blonde who looks like she ought to be in a men's magazine. Then the other two women show up after Isabella leaves. Emmanuel leaves and Vicki asks the remaining two women, "The flower you started the lesson with, which one is it?" (Those are NOT the exact words, I know, but they're as close as I can get. ) They disagree for a moment before one off-handedly corrects her mistake.
Vicki leaves. That night, she sends Henry to interrogate the girls, to no avail, even with his "powers of persuasion" (quoted from the first episode, part two).
That night, while Vicki sleeps, she has a dream that someone is in bed with her, kissing her and laying on her before she wakes up, thoroughly freaked out. She goes to Henry and he assures her it wasn't him.
Later she tells Coreen about it, making it out to be a dream, and Coreen suggests that it was a sex demon, an incubus. Vicki, however, has to run off to try - and fail - to save Isabella, who has the life sucked out of her by some demon that throws Vicki across the room.
Vicki and Coreen stop to find Henry in the middle of a solitary game of golf, and they tell him about what happened with the demon.
Back at Vicki's office, Coreen looks up information on the incubus. Henry realizes why the three girls were able to resist giving Henry information regarding the murder of Marcie (the first woman who was killed): they were under the influence of the incubus.
Vicki goes to one of the women's houses and finally gets the information she needs. They decide to use Vicki as bait to trap the incubus, and it works. The only problem: Emmanuel (the incubus who has been romancing the neighborhood's wives) isn't the one who's been killing the women. It's a Fury, a demon drawn by powerful feelings of jealousy.
As usual, they bust in, kick butt, the fury is vanquished, the summoner of the fury arrested, the incubus allowed to remain, and everyone goes home happy.
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