She learns that the mother, was a piano prodigy and the daughter is away at private school in Europe. Inside, Macleah sees photos of Jennifer, the mother, but none of the daughter Jenny. Macleah visits the Eben estate and meets a housekeeper who tells her Eben is on vacation but invites her in. The attending physician during their birth was their own father, Douglas Eben (Ron Perlman). After flipping a page, Macleah sees the birth record for a female twin, Jennifer Lynn Eben, born with extremely malformed hands. She visits the old shuttered hospital and finds birth records for Jordan Brian Eben, given up for adoption at birth after the hemorrhaging death of his mother Jennifer Lynn.

With help from a colleague, Macleah finds the identity of a Jennifer Lynn Eben, who has been deceased for some time. She is assaulted from behind and the truck drives away with her inside. She stumbles upon an unaccompanied ice cream truck and goes inside for a snack. At the same time, a young girl is seen running through the woods with her dog. Jennifer tells Macleah that the hands are given from Daddy so she can play. On Jordan's birthday, during a hypnosis game, Macleah gleans information from Jordan's alter-ego named Jennifer Lynn. The Houston police department track down a lead with a pedophilic ice cream man but he turns out to be a dead end. After watching a video from a missing girl's file, Macleah hears the song of the ice cream truck and figures out it's the song Jordan hums each time she goes to visit him. Despite Jordan's initial reluctance to communicate with her, Macleah earns his trust and discovers there is a psychic connection between Jordan and the killer.Īfter combing through Jordan's medical files and the databases, Macleah learns that the hands belong to young girls who have all gone missing over the years on Jordan's birthday, July 16 from nearby parks around the Houston area. Every year on his birthday he has seizures, his wrists start to bleed, and he carves hands into the walls - each with numbers stenciled on the palms.

His patient is Jordan Thomas, who has been shuttered through foster homes and institutionalized since he was four years old. Captain Swaggert (Martin Sheen) sends Macleah to a nearby psychiatric hospital to talk to a doctor who called in a tip about one of his patients after hearing about the discovery. After examination the hands appear to be the hands of young girls from various ages, each with a number tattooed on their palms. Macleah immediately ruffles some feathers with her methodology and frankness but is determined to catch the murderer.

Following a gruesome discovery of a bag of severed hands in the sewer system, State Profiler Audrey Macleah (Ally Walker) is called in to help the Houston police department investigate.

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