Wayne Kruger is the owner of a company known as Lifetrace, which specializes in revealing members’ privacy on their profile pages and selling it to various organizations. Reese, Finch, and Shaw monitor Kruger’s activities in the company, which is currently making a deal with another large retail company called Riverton.

After being silent for three days, when the Machine generates numbers of six missing people, Reese, Finch, and Detective Carter realize that they are hunting a serial killer who assumes the identity of his victims.