It is the fourth year of World War II. At the Detroit Police Headquarters, Lieutenant Zagreb gets a call from Lieutenant Osprey in Homicide. Osprey informs Zagreb that a prostitute named Bette Kowalski has been violently murdered. She is the third woman to be killed in the same way: throat slashed and stomach cut open. Zagreb and Osprey, along with Detective McReary, Detective Burke, and Sergeant Canal, take on the investigation of Bette's death. The team pays a visit to Bette Kowalski's living quarters, where Bette's roommate Jill found Bette's body. The team determines Bette must have let her murderer into the apartment as a client before she was killed in her bed. Next, the team tracks down Frankie Orr, a man they know to be involved in the same seedy circles as Bette, and Orr reveals that Bette's client the night she was murdered was a serviceman. McReary pays Jill another visit and learns that Bette referred to her client as a 'dogface,' which is slang for a member of the army. Now that they have narrowed down the branch of military which the murderer is enlisted with, the team interviews and investigates Army men in the Detroit area. One of the final suspects the team looks into is named Leonard Corbett. When they visit his home, Leonard is out, but his mother lets them in. When they ask to look in his room, she tells them that Leonard is a very private person: he locks his room, and even she is not allowed in. After Canal picks the lock, the men open the door to his room to find a cork board with black and white photographs of dead women. The men call in the suspect, and Leonard is soon located near the Paradise Theater. The men head to the site, and follow Leonard into a dark building. When Leonard shoots at McReary, McReary shoots back. Leonard is killed and McReary is shot in the wrist.