Vicki and Henry begin this episode enjoying a leisurely drink on Henry’s terrace (no… not THAT kind of drink). Vicki is saying how she used to love looking at the night sky and then asks Henry what he sees. He describes that the night to him looks like mid-day and then he goes on to describe how differently he sees everything in life.

Vicki would like to experience that but when Henry tells her all it takes is a simple blood they begin to discuss the pros and cons of being a vampire, one of which would be that Vicki would lose her family, friends and Henry. She wonders if the territorial instinct can’t be overcome and Henry admits that it can, with control. But sometimes you end up regretting that course of action even more. Vicki thinks he’s a bigger pessimist than she is.

In a darkened house across town a female burglar is going through the trophy room of a hunter’s home when she comes upon a jaguar head proudly displayed on the wall. She focuses on it for a moment before realizing that the owner has arrived home.

As Melville, the owner, comes in he hears noises and realizes he’s not alone. Taking out his gun he cautiously enters the trophy room only to be surprised by a wild animal, which kills him violently. As his bloody body lies on the wood floor, we see two human feet going through the house and stealing various collectibles before leaving through the front door.

Crowley hands a nameless detective a list of what was stolen from the murder victim, Melville. She wants it sent out to all the pawnshops and tells him and his partner that no one rests until this case is put to bed.

She’s interrupted by Mike and Kate, who walk a young woman through the squad room as she protests about what a big mistake they’re making. We can see that it’s the same female burglar from the victim’s house and as he points Kate and the woman towards interrogation Crowley stops him to ask who she is.

She’s Felicia Bannock and neighbors saw her in the neighborhood around the time of Melville’s death but there’s no physical evidence and no one saw her leave the house so basically they need a confession.

Crowley reminds Mike that Melville and the Mayor were drinking buddies so the case is white hot and Mike contends that Felicia is involved. She saw his and Kate’s badges and took off running.

There’s a bit of discussion and disagreement about who or what actually killed Melville. Mike thinks it was a murder because the killer took the time to put the ripped off head on a nearby table and Crowley takes a moment to push home the ME’s findings that the guy was killed by a large cat, maybe a jaguar or a cougar.

Crowley finally tells him the clock is counting and he better get a confession soon and Mike heads off to interrogation. Before he goes in he has pretty much the same discussion with Kate as he had with Crowley but Mike knows in his gut that she’s involved and gets Kate to hang with him on the interrogation.

They go into the room with Felicia and start questioning her about where she was, what she was doing and why her car was found in the area of Melville’s house. Basically her story is all over the place and she’s looking really guilty but she’s not confessing to a thing.

Mike tells her that maybe she was just driving the get away car but that if she doesn’t give them anything she’s going to be in a small cell for a long time. As he talks he turns away from Felicia and looks into the two way mirror. Felicia is very affected by his contention that she could get put away and her eyes glow very bright for a moment before she tells him that he has no idea.

Freaked out by Felicia with the glowing eyes, Mike hightails it over to Vicki’s. She’s surprised that he needs her help. Henry, lying on the light table and drawing, points out that it’s “us” not “her” and then asks Mike to turn his head to the side while he’s talking so that Henry can get a better angle to draw from.

Mike is annoyed that Henry is drawing him and he doesn’t want to be in his book but Vicki interrupts their fight to get Mike back on the case. Mike explains that Felicia’s eyes glowed while he was interrogating her.

That gets both Vicki and Henry’s attention but Vicki is reluctant to get involved because she won’t be getting paid for it. After a bit of flirting, which gets Henry annoyed, Mike says that he really needs her help and she finally agrees. Mike takes his leave and Henry declares how much he likes Mike and that he’ll regret having to draw him getting eaten by hellhounds.

Back at the precinct Kate and Mike are still pushing Felicia to confess to the murder and Felicia is still stalling. They get her to admit that there wasn’t anyone with her and so they begin to press her on why she put Melville’s head on the table. She doesn’t know why someone would want to take someone else’s head and says it’s not even human.

Vicki and Henry are at Felicia’s apartment, going through her things. They find a picture of her family and a key to a storage locker. They head down there and start coughing from the smell. There also appear to be large scratches in the wall.

Kate is still questioning Felicia, this time about the fact that there are no records on her at all, no school records, health records, not even a library card. Mike comes back in and they keep trying to get her to talk. She thinks the only truth you can tell to someone is a truth they’re willing to believe.

Mike says she would be surprised at what he’d be willing to believe. He tells her he doesn’t think she’s as lonely as she makes it out to be and thinks she has a nice, big cat that normally stays in her basement. She tells him she doesn’t have time for a pet but he’s clearly getting to her as a tear runs down her cheek.

Henry and Vicki are looking up Bannock farms on the net. She’s going to pay them a visit in the morning. Henry doesn’t know what she expects to find but Vicki insists the whole family is hinky. There are no records of them anywhere.

She heads up to the farm. She tells the family about Felicia being at the police station for questioning and Father Bannock says he doesn’t know what she’s up to. He lost his son a year ago and lost Felicia a month later. Vicki questions him about his son’s whereabouts and he finally says that his son is dead.

Vicki thinks he must know something about Felicia’s life but he says he doesn’t know anything and he doesn’t want to know. He warned her about the city and about leaving. They spar for a minute and he finally tells her she needs to go.

She stops him from leaving by asking if Felicia knows anything about wild animals. He says she knows a lot about animals from having grown up on a farm. When Vicki mentions the big cat she’s been keeping in the basement, Felicia’s sister Alyssa, who’d been listening to the conversation, says that Felicia didn’t and wouldn’t hurt anybody.

Felicia’s dad stops Alyssa from saying anymore and then tells Vicki that Felicia knows nothing about discipline even though he tried to teach her. Vicki tells him that if he knows anything about Felicia he should tell her. He counters that there’s nothing to tell. Felicia had a choice between good and evil and she went toward the darkness and is now paying the price.

As Vicki turns to leave she finds a padlocked barn, similar to the storage room in Felicia’s apartment. Mr. Bannock prevents her from investigating further and orders her off his property.

Back at the office, Vicki and Henry discuss what Vicki learned and why Felicia would kill a man. Vicki says that animals don’t take off the head and Henry says the murder must have been done out of hate. They talk about the glowing eyes and Henry thinks it might be a shape shifter.

Henry decides that "were-thingies" will be the new villain in his book but Vicki quickly gets him back to the case and says the father must have known what Felicia was, that maybe that knowledge was why he tried to keep her on the farm.

Mike and Crowley continue to argue about the interrogation with Mike saying they have the killer and Crowley contending that she’s not giving anything up. She tells him he has until the morning and then he’s done. After she leaves, he and Kate argue about him cutting her out of the investigation and he tells her she wouldn’t understand. She’s insulted and leaves as Vicki comes in.

Vicki tells Mike that she believes Felicia is the were-cat. They talk about the family on the farm. Vicki thinks her family knows what she is but that they aren’t involved in the murder. Mike wonders who she might kill next if they let her go and Vicki thinks that Felicia and Melville must have had a connection.

Mike goes back to interrogation and Vicki goes to leave but Kate stops her. Kate thinks that Mike is screwing up his career by letting Vicki getting involved in his cases. Kate tells Vicki that if she cares about Mike, she’d stay away and Vicki counters that if Kate knew Mike, she’d trust his instincts.

In a dark parking lot, a woman approaches her car while digging in her purse for her keys. As she approaches the door a black jaguar growls and emerges from between two other parked cars. The cat stands there growling as the woman runs for her car and calls 911.

Mike is still interrogating Felicia and getting no where. Felicia knows his game is up and that he has nothing. Mike agrees that there are no answers with her, just questions. He brings up her father and she wants her father kept out of it, her family’s not involved. Mike keeps pushing and Felicia pulls out her lawyer card. Mike tries to tell her getting her lawyer involved is a mistake but she yells that she wants one now and the interrogation is over.

Kate tells Mike about the Jaguar report and that Crowley says the case is over, that’s it not a homicide but an animal control issue. Mike is not at all happy with that scenario but Kate keeps trying to press that Felicia might not have done it.

Mike finally calls Vicki and fills her in on the cat and the lawyer. Vicki says that even if Felicia isn’t the cat, she may be controlling it. Mike tells her that Felicia will be out the door in two hours and Vicki says to stall and that they’re headed over to Melville’s now.

Over at Melville’s house Vicki and Henry look for something that might connect Melville to Felicia. They find a bunch of books on lycanthropy and then find the trophy room with all the heads. When they see the jaguar head they put together that Melville may have killed shape-shifters for sport and that he killed Felicia’s brother. They realize that the whole family are probably were-cats and decide to head up to the barn.

Back at the precinct Felicia’s lawyer is grousing about Felicia not being charged but held for over 24 hours. They have some back and forth about Felicia’s rights and filing a lawsuit and Kate takes the lawyer out to start the paperwork. After they leave Mike tells Felicia it isn’t over and Felicia counters that it is and then flashes her glowing eyes at him to slam the point home.

At the farm Henry and Vicki are poking around the padlocked barn when they’re confronted by a jaguar. Henry and the cat get into a growling match and confront each other as Vicki looks on.

Vicki realizes what’s going on and tells Alyssa that she doesn’t want to do this. Alyssa runs away and shapes back to human form. Vicki realizes that Alyssa was the jaguar in town last night and she and Henry tell the girl that they know what Melville did. Alyssa confirms that Melville studied them. He knew what they were and he killed her brother anyway.

Alyssa tells them that Felicia was there the night Melville killed Robert and that even though her father wanted to let the matter go and stay hidden, Felicia couldn’t do it. She moved to the city and hunted Melville but she’s not a killer. Melville’s murder wouldn’t change her but that their father doesn’t believe that.

Vicki realizes that Felicia’s father is going after her and calls Mike but only gets his voicemail. They leave the farm just ask Mike has to release Felicia. He tells her before he lets her go that he’ll find out what happened with Melville and she tells him to ask himself who was hunting whom. They walk away as Kate approaches.

Kate tells him they didn’t have a case but if she did it they’ll find a way to prove it. Mike finds his phone and gets Vicki’s message and goes out to stop Felicia from leaving. It’s not before Kate has one more go at him though for keeping her out of the loop. He asks her to trust him and says he’ll call her and then he leaves.

In the parking lot Felicia sees Mike leaving the station and changes to cat form and goes to attack him. He asks her what she wants and tells her he knows what happened to Melville. They’re interrupted by Felicia’s father who’s arrived with a shotgun. Mike and Felicia’s father face off as Felicia changes back to human form.

Felicia tries to explain that she did what she had to do, what he didn’t have the strength to do. He doesn’t know what he could have done. He doesn’t know who would have seen justice done for Robert and Mike tells him that maybe only three people in the whole world and they’re all in the parking lot right now. Felicia’s father turns to see Vicki and Henry have arrived as Mike puts his gun down and tells Felicia’s father to take her home.

As the Bannock’s leave Vicki congratulates Mike and tells him he didn’t need their help after all. Henry compliments Mike on his tolerance and Vicki says it was almost sensitive. Mike complains that he’s now chasing were-cats and wants to know how this all happened. He wants to know what he’s doing and Henry confirms that they’re not sure but if he’s still working animal control there’s a skunk loose in Henry’s underground garage. Mike just shakes his head and turns away with a mumbled “I hate him”.

Synopsis generously created by: Sandra