Clarice and Ardelia team up to investigate a deeply twisted cold case after the body of a missing teenager is found entombed in concrete; Clarice wrestles with the knowledge that Krendler may know the man who attacked her while she was held captive.

Sidelined because of her harrowing ordeal with Marilyn Felker, Clarice goes to Ruth Martin to be reinstated and gets roped into having dinner at the Martin residence.

Clarice is drugged and confined to a hospital bed by a serial killer in the medical profession, causing her to experience intense hallucinations.

Following the assassination of a suspect, Clarice and VICAP are investigated by Krendler's rival at the Bureau; when Ardelia is recruited to assist him, it causes friction between the two friends.

In order to prove to Krendler and the VICAP team that she is fit for duty, Clarice must find the psychological key that will unlock a confession from the suspect in the three river murders.

Clarice Starling and the team are deployed to Tennessee where the FBI is laying siege against a fringe militia group called "The Statesmen."

A year after rescuing Catherine Martin from the horror of Buffalo Bill's basement, FBI Agent Clarice Starling gets an urgent assignment to join the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, VICAP, in the investigation of three serial killings.