A young army vet is found stabbed to death on his living room floor, and suspicions quickly fall to a neighbor who was arrested during a nearby altercation. But when Kenda takes a closer look at the victim's love life, he realizes someone's been lying.

Kenda finds the bullet-ridden bodies of a middle-aged couple in a musty suburban house alongside the corpses of their two beloved pets. But the case is stuck in neutral until detectives discover an essential clue hidden behind an old wire birdcage.