Desperate over the closure of the portal, Draven consults a discredited underground hypnotherapist, Michael Dorsett, who specializes in Near Death Experiences. Seeking to re-establish contact with Shelly under hypnosis, Draven instead keeps regressing, locked in his own sub-conscious, ultimately unearthing a past life as Blackfeather, a Haida warrior. In this past life, Draven’s alter ego found his soul mate in Rebecca Morgan, a missionary’s daughter who defied the wishes of her father, Reverend John Morgan, to be with him. After being murdered by angry settlers, Indian legend had it that the brave came back as a “Crow” to take revenge on his killers and to save his lover. It all adds up to a tentative theory: Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are literal “soul-mates” who have found each other before the lives we’ve seen them live and lose.

Also, Albrecht is given a new partner in this episode – Jessica Capshaw – a fresh-out-of-the-Academy, top-of-her-class, newly minted detective who asks way too many questions for Albrecht’s comfort. Their first work together: talking to Funboy who wants to withdraw his plea bargain agreement to testify against Top Dollar (who, although apparently dead, continues to terrify him in his dreams). Capshaw finally catches Albrecht, forced to come to Draven’s aid, in a revealing lie.