Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective. After she had been a teenager, she observed her mother's murder at the hands of 2 gunmen and somebody -- or some thing rescued herself. Years have passed while investigating a murder, Catherine discovers a clue which leads her. Catherine finds that Vincent is actually still living and that it had been he who rescued earlier. For mysterious reasons which have forced him to live out of conventional society, Vincent has been in hiding to guard his secret -- he becomes a monster when he is contested.