Jamie Ball was heading home when his fiancée Logan called him from the underground parking garage. Through the interference, he caught fear in her voice, then she screamed, and the connection was cut off. Extremely worried, Jamie calls the police. Officers arrive at the parking lot within minutes, but Logan disappears without a trace.
That same day, road workers elsewhere in the city excavate the remains of a young woman who died thirty years ago. At first, Roy Grace and his team consider these two events unrelated. But in Brighton, yet another young woman goes missing and another corpse from the past is found. That is when Roy Grace has a chilling realization: all these crimes were committed by the same serial killer.