When the carjacking, confinement, starvation, and assault of a young couple is exposed as a hoax, and Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, the couple who cried wolf, are charged as criminals themselves, Alex Delaware is called upon by the court to perform a psychological evaluation of Michaela Brand. When Michaela is savagely murdered, and Dylan disappears, Delaware and homicide detective Milo Sturgis investigate.