- Vick is asked to investigate the disappearance of a young man, and it leads to a club owner whom Mike is attracted to.
- Vicky is hired to locate a young man, Brendan, who seems to have vanished. They visit one of his regular haunts, a club run by a beautiful woman named Elena, but she claims to barely know him. A posting Brendan made on a web site seems to indicate otherwise. Mike Celucci is also investigating the case and becomes quite friendly with Elena, much to Vicky's annoyance. When they find a stone statue resembling Brendan in Elena's house, they realize that they are dealing with a Medusa. Brendan isn't the only one who has been turned to stone and Henry says they are still alive. Just how they can bring them back is not obvious however.—garykmcd
- When Brendan Ledford, young and model-perfect, doesn't show up for a booking, his manager hires Private Investigator Vicki Nelson to find him. Vicki thinks this is a simple case of a 22-year old simply sleeping it off somewhere, but she agrees to take the case. Rent has to be paid, you know.
The last place Brendan was seen was at a certain nightclub, so that's where Vicki, with vampire partner Henry Fitzroy in tow, begins her investigation. While Henry circulates among the "hotties" and picks up the name "Fox City," Vicki seeks out the owner. Elena claims not to know Brendan, but when Vicki and Henry later compare notes, Henry makes note of Elena's increased heartrate when Brendan's name was mentioned and Vicki picked up on some comments made by Elena about "sexual predators." She's lying, they conclude. Coreen recognizes "Fox City" as a website where guys post photos and comments about their latest conquests. Brendan is on there, and he's posted a photo of the tattoo on Elena's boob. Proof positive that Elena knows him.
Meanwhile, Mike Celluci is also investigating the case of the missing Brendan, which leads him to the same club and the same owner. Again, Elena denies knowing Brendan, but she makes it clear that she would like to know Mike better. While Mike dallies with Elena, Vicki and Henry go snooping around Elena's house. Although it's Friday night and Elena is at the club, Henry can hear a heartbeat inside. It's unnaturally slow, however, so Henry tracks it to a statue that looks like Brendan. As Vicki and Henry wonder how Brendan could have been turned into a statue, they hear Elena coming in the front door with Mike, so they grab the statue and run out the back. Mike hears the back door closing and goes to investigate while Elena stands dumbfounded. Her statue is missing.
Vicki and Henry take Brendan to Vicki's office, where Coreen goes over the myths of creatures that can turn people to stone. It's either a basilisk or a Gorgon, Coreen concludes. Vicki goes down to the TPD and tries to tell Mike what she knows, but he won't buy that a phonecam shot of Elena's tattoo is evidence that Elena is lying. Vicki realizes by his refusal to consider Elena suspect that Mike is interested in Elena in a personal way, so she drops by Elena's club to speak with her, but bouncer Dimitri won't let her in. Vicki tells Dimitri to ask Elena if her house seems a bit empty lately, and Vicki goes back to her office. When she gets there, she sees someone poking around inside, so she arms herself and goes in. A man wearing a black ski mask knocks her for a loop, smashes Brendan into a million bits, and then runs.
While Vicki buries Brendan's remains, Henry and Coreen visit the nightclub for the purpose of looking for and photographing any other statues Elena may have on display. The next day, Coreen runs the photos through some purloined FBI software and matches them to photos of missing men. Coreen also searches the fabled Medusa and reads up on her myth, which she relates to Vicki. It seems Medusa was a beautiful young women coveted by Poseidon. One day he followed her to the Temple of Athena and raped her. Athena got angry over the desecration of her temple, blamed Medusa, and turned her into a hideous creature with snakes for hair and a gaze that turns people to stone. Coreen wants to tell Mike about Elena, but Vicki doesn't think he'll listen, so Vicki confronts Elena with the photos, but Elena simply tells her that she's nuts.
Now that Elena knows that Vicki is on to her, she is placed on the defensive. She orders Dimitri to destroy and get rid of the statues. Before he can do it, however, Mike drops by the club after being told about Medusa by Coreen. Elena sends Dimitri out for food while she and Mike talk. Mike asks Elena whether anyone had hurt her in the past because of her beauty and offers to help her. Elena confirms that she was violated and then told she deserved it because of her vanity. Suddenly, Vicki and Henry enter the club, Vicki carrying Henry's sword. Elena thinks it's a setup and turns on Mike. She removes her Elena mask and turns into the snake-haired Medusa. Mike immediately turns to stone. Then she looks at Henry, and he turns to stone, too. Using the sword, Vicki has blocked her view of Medusa. Then she swings the sword and beheads her. Mike and Henry regain their bodies as do all of the statues.
Epilogue: Henry returns to his condo and puts away his latest drawing of Christina, the vampire he fell in love with and who turned him. Vicki and Mike chill together in the park and discuss how people are all the time falling in love with the wrong persons. [Full synopsis by bj_kuehl]
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