Detective, Nancy Roberts, encounters a strange scene. CSI can't be sure if it is suicide, murder... or.... well, kinda something else?
After fifteen years on the force at LAPD, Nancy Roberts, is promoted to Detective and is called to the scene of a fire at an apartment block. The scene baffles both Nancy, CSI and the Fire Officer, who has not encountered anything like what they find in his thirty-years in the fire service.
Nancy doesn't buy the spontaneous combustion theory put forward, even when confronted with evidence from an experiment at the fire service laboratory. The CIA are keen to put the case to bed as an accident, but their involvement, intuition and a missing lasagna from the apartment, give her the notion that foul play is involved, much to the displeasure of her boss.
Nancy suspects the janitor, and convinces her chief to obtain a search warrant of his apartment. The search unveils a probable kidnap. A slick attorney and a medium, thwart Nancy's attempts to unravel the truth.
Nancy continues to dig at the edges of the case against orders and is suspended. She continues the search for the truth. Her search takes her into the bizzare world of CIA dirty tricks and paranormal experiments.