When Mary Casado returns home one night, she is brutally raped. She reports it to the police and identifies the perpetrator as a man who works with her, even though he was wearing a mask. The case is dropped due to lack of evidence, so she hires Orwell to prove she isn't lying. Harry's investigation sets off a chain of events in which the rapist threatens Mary, and she fires Orwell. He presses on in an attempt to disprove the rapist's alibi.
—Clintessence