While at the movie theater, Balthazar is called to help a woman who appears to have been stabbed, but after realizing the blood she's covered in belongs to someone else, he races to find the other injured person. Learning that the two victims were engaged, Bach interviews their families, who claim the pair were very much in love, but evidence shows the woman was deeply depressed.

Balthazar arrives on the scene of a horrific car accident and finds the body of a woman a few yards away. The police assume she was killed in the crash, but Balthazar determines she died several hours earlier, and her corpse was in one of the car trunks.