1. A woman is murdered in a bathroom by an unknown killer while talking on the phone. 2. The protagonist, Alistair Murkland, wakes up shocked on his couch after having a dream about the murder. He is a police detective who is disgruntled and rushing to work. 3. At work, Alistair ignores a colleague and collects coffee before entering an investigation room to work on the case of the unknown killer, pinning up a photo of the killer's mask that was shown in his dream.