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Aired: 10/21/2003
When the body of a cop is found at the scene of a double murder, and with only some traces of lipstick to go on, Nick turns to Natalie for help. After a check of the victim's phone records turns up the number of a downtown strip club, Nick and Schanke question Billy, the club's manager, who admits to seeing both victims from time to time. However, Nicks attention is soon drawn to Ann, a provocative stripper whose act rekindles his memories of his own seduction by Janette during the 13th century. Followed to her dressing room where she is questioned about Crawford and Officer Burkhart, Ann admits to having talked to them, but she denies knowing either man well. Having to restrain himself from giving in to her temptation, Nick leaves with some samples of Ann's lipstick and returns home to learn that Crawford had been suspected of embezzlement by his employer. Told that the lipstick samples he took were similar to those found on the bodies, Nick then follows Ann home from work, where she reveals an important detail about the victims that was not made public by the police and indicts herself as the killer. Insisting that the evidence is only circumstantial, Ann tries seducing Nick, unaware that she is dangerously close to arousing his vampire instincts. Suspected by Natalie of being more interested in his suspect than he is in solving the case, Nick then brings Burkhart's casebook to Ann and watches as she throws it into the fireplace, destroying whatever evidence it may have held. Enlisting Schanke in an effort to catch her, Nick allows Ann to seduce his partner while he strangles him from behind with a cord. However, when she admits to killing Burkhart and Crawford and Nick reveals that he has recorded the confession, Ann calls to Billy who has been hiding in the shadows, and orders him to shoot Knight. Finally, upon regaining consciousness, Schanke helps Nick pursue the fleeing pair and, after Billy is shot, Ann takes her own life by jumping off the top of building to avoid arrest.