Wildside (AU)

Episode 15 (2x15)

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Charlie is becoming increasingly frustrated because he has little to go on. The serial rapist abducts and drugs his victims, tortures them and dumps them in the park. His victims are all young males who are reluctant to come forward and talk about their trauma. Meanwhile, Kate has raised with Charlie the question of marriage. In spite of his feelings for Kate, Charlie is freaked out by this. His anxiety is heightened considerably by The Mask investigation—his personal involvement in the hunt for a sexual psychopath who preys on young men. Keiran Palmer—one of Maxine's patients attempts suicide. At the scene Charlie finds a note that Kieran had scribbled, and from what Charlie can make out, it says 'kill the mask'. Charlie is intrigued by this, and when he follows it up he finds that Keiran too is a victim of The Mask. Around this time, some strange inconsistencies in Kieran's statement and his subsequent behaviour lead Charlie and Kate to suspect that Keiran is not a victim, but perpetrator. A late night discovery of Keiran cruising the home turf of the rapist sets in motion a series of events which culminates in a bizarre one-on-one showdown between Charlie and Keiran, where Charlie ventures into the private idaho of the rapist and finds there-in his own demons.