Pool employee Armando Diaz's bloodily battered corpse is found in Craig Seaborn's 5-star hotel Graciana's gardens. He was killed in the penthouse, where three wives had a 'husbands nor sex' weekend. Beth Jacobson admits she had sex with him, but when he called her too unattractive to get hard a fight ensued, so she struck him with a towel bar, thrice. He also had safe sex with Felicia Hardy, who claims she didn't realize he was badly wounded when passing out after hitting his head against the bed. Wolfe follows a third blood trail, to the staircase and more suspects. It must all be tied in. Meanwhile chief James Burton warns Horatio his team is under scrutiny, just now there are tensions about sticking up evidence kits, labor division and Wolfe's media ambitions, apparently paying off a TV reporter.

Henry Darius, a man who killed several women in New York, claims that he also killed a woman in Miami and offers to show them where he buried her. The plane transporting him suddenly has to make an emergency landing and Dairus escapes. He kills some people to get their car. Horatio learns that the plane was sabotaged and he thinks Darius had a hand in it. Horatio sends for New York Detective Mac Taylor who was the one who caught Darius. Horatio decides to look at the woman's disappearance again and discovers that the husband didn't tell him some things that could have helped him find his wife. Darius continues to go on a killing spree and Horatio learns that Darius is not the killer, so he has to find out how Darius knew about the woman.