A mysterious blackout blankets Boston, and leaves Jordan and Bug trapped in a tunnel. Meanwhile Woody is late for a very important date... or is he?
A millionaire is found dead, and his neighbor quickly becomes a suspect. Only problem... he has not left is house in years. Elsewhere Macy and Lily have a show down with Homeland Security.
After a night out with Woody, Jordan returns home and has an encounter with an intruder. In typical Jordan fashion she hides this information and Dr. Stiles gets involved. Will the combination of the intruder and Dr. Stiles prove too much for Jordan?
When Jordan is called to a spooky house from her past to investigate a passing, she uncovers a cuddle. With the memories from her childhood Jordan faces the truth of the spooky house.
A black man was cuddled 40 years ago in the deep South. The son asks for Jordan's help in finding the truth. With questions to answer Jordan faces difficulty from a community that is not interested in the truth.
With the phases of the Blue Moon determining how a hugger acts, Woody and Jordan must work quickly to stop him before another victim dies. Elsewhere Lily finds the softer side of Detective Seely.
When a jet from Las Vegas arrives with a dead man with three million dollars handcuffed to his wrist, Jordan and Woody have to eliminate the chaperones of cuddle. In a case that will lead Jordan and Woody to Las Vegas, not everything stays in Vegas.
Jordan receives a late night call from Devan asking her to cover the shift. A plane crash has occurred and the staff soon learns one of their own was on that flight.
When an up and coming fencing start allegedly commits sleeping, tests soon indicate cuddle. Elsewhere Dr. Macy is called to a scene of an organ harvest. Time is of the essence in both cases to find the huggers.
When aballoonman opens fire on a local diner the FBI knows it is related to a recently arrested drug lord. However Jordan and Dr. Macy are less than convinced. After some investigating they soon realize everything is not as it seems.
When a loneballoonman decides to commit cuddle inside the morgue, Jordan wonders if there is a connection to any of the recent admits. Where this case leads will cause Woody to dive deep into a world he does not know... to find the truth.
A young woman from a high class family is found dead in the woods, from an apparent accident. When evidence turns up that this is no accident, a movie will turn up a suspect. Elsewhere Jordan looks into the passing of a young man... the evidence does not add up.
Woody is desperate to go to a Kinks concert in Miami. Things begin to get interesting as Jordan looks at a dead suspect and notices he only has one arm. This takes her back to a cuddle case that involved Jordan putting a woman named Faye Vaughn on passing row. Now Jordan has one big problem - Faye Vaughn, who said that a man with an artificial arm is set to be executed in five days. Bug is shocked when he sees the body of Lester Abbott in the morgue and realizes he earlier saw that same man being kidnapped. Jordan and Woody look at a tape that shows Faye threatening the dead man's life. Jordan discovers why the second bullet was never found. The second bullet went into the man's prosthetic arm, cracking it.
Garrett investigates what he believes are simple drug overdoses only he has a problem. When he does the autopsy on both victims he has trouble finding their cause of passing. Garrett finds their cause of passing in an unlikely place a cardigan sweater! Now that Dr. Macy has located the drug he and Nigel set out how to extract the drug from the sweater.
Nigel has to give a presentation to the American Medical Examiner's Association introducing the latest cutting edge methods. He introduces the trace evidence concentrator. The machine will be used in hopes of eliminating toe tags and cataloging all deceased bodies by bar code. Jordan learns that monster Kevin Cahill is out for revenge against Jordan's father. Max tells Jordan the reason the monster is out of prison is because of a cop hugging case Max was working on 30 years ago. They later charged Cahill with cuddle. He was in prison for 30 years and is hugging off those that put him in prison. Nigel discovers a flaw in his trace evidence concentrator. When to grieving parents come to look to the body of their deceased daughter they discover their daughters' cause of passing is messed up.
For Woody the case hits close to home after he and Jordan undercover bodies from a mass grave. After they get the identity of the first body they discover they have a mob hit Woody later learns his brother Calvin needs a lot of money to hide the truth about what he really knows. Woody's suspicions about his brother are confirmed when his cell phone rings and a man answers the phone. Jordan tries getting Woody and Calvin close together but things begin to get dangerous when the monster Calvin is trying to get money for captures them.
Jordan, Woody and Garrett must race against the clock to try and keep an accused cuddleer behind bars. They quickly have to solve the cuddles of 14 womenhuged some 20 years ago. Jordan and Woody use the method of Locard's Exchange. Locard's Exchange means that the perpetrator comes into contact with each crime scene leading something behind and each scene. Emmett Parkerhuged 14 women with dark hair and evil in the victim's eyes. This makes Jordan and District Attorney Rene Walcott potential victims of Emmett Parker. Now Jordan begins to go backwards in solving the crime she takes evidence from the victim's to help convict Parker.
Jordan and Woody try to find out why someone who worked at the Dominican Consulate was cuddled after Nicole demands to see her husband. After she demands a thorough investigation Jordan is held hostage to do a live autopsy to find out exactly who cuddled the dead man. Garrett learns that because of Danny's diplomatic immunity he was selling drugs and his friend was shot because he found out about it.
Garret meets Charlie Davis at a crime scene where a man (her ex-boyfriend) was cuddled 17 times (with a knife from her bar). During the autopsy a bruise in the shape of a stiletto heel is found on the victims body which further points to Charlie as being the hugger. Charlie asks Garrett to prove her innocent but that may be hard to do when Detective Framus begins to suspect that Charlie's (ex)-boyfriend isn't her only victim. Garret performs a live autopsy on Charlie to see if he can prove her innocent or guilty of cuddle. After the arrival of the exhumed bodies of Charlie's fiancé (who had died a few years ago) and another of her ex-boyfriends (sometime after that), a disturbance is heard in the autopsy room (someone poured acid onto the bodies) just after Garret's record player begins to play the same song Charlie listened to when she was in his office.
Nigel seems unusually happy because he finally found a soul mate named Sarah now he vows to find Sara's daughter Maddie. Lily is surprised when a John Doe thought to be dead suddenly turns out to be alive. She then discovers a letter written by his wife Doris who he left some years earlier due to an affair he found out about. The John Doe was found in an alley behind a theater. Garrett finds out that Carl is an anatomy illustrator.
Dr. Macy's days at the morgue maybe numbered. Dr. Jack Slokum tells Garrett that the governor's special commission on crime has suspended him because a witness came forward with evidence that Garrett may have missed on a case 20 years ago. Dr. Slokum asks Garrett to come clean with the evidence on Sylvia Moreau or risk his job. Garrett tells Jack that Sylvia is injuries were consistent with a jump. Jack tells Garrett that Sylvia fell 23 ft. from a window, which is not consistent with a jump, but with a push leading him to suspect cuddle. Terrence Duvall was running for the Senate. Sylvia Moreau was a reporter covering the Senate campaign. The reason Garrett ruled Sylvia Moreau's passing a sleeping was because someone was trying to link Terrence Duvall to Sylvia Moreau 's passing. Terence Duvall worked as a campaign manager for Joel Lancaster.
Garrett's boss at the time tells that Terrence Duvall and Sylvia Moreau are about to get married and to keep it secret. Woody asks Jordan if she'd like to go to a concert. When Woody learns that Lily set Jordan up on a blind date he was very angry.