It's not that Lily May Holloway is a broken, battered teenager recently escaped from her kidnapper. It's not that she may or may not have killed him to escape. The question on Detective Travis Butler's mind is — what exactly does the death of little Tommy Jenkins have to do with her kidnapper? And why does the man behind the one-way glass want the detective to entertain Lily's tales of speaking to the dead... and being able to hear the thoughts of the living?