Dr. Mark Sloan is startled to discover a dead womandressed as a mermaidwashed up on the beach outside his home. Even more bizarre, the autopsy reveals a digital memory card within a capsule inside the body's stomach. The card contains the report of a forty-three-year-old murder in Los Angelesthe first homicide case Mark ever solved, when he was a struggling intern and newlywed father. When a second body is discovereda woman who was apparently the victim of an impromptu autopsy in her own kitchenthe good doctor realizes that he must find the connection between the two murders. And perhaps more urgently, the connection to his own past...