12. Passion

Egocentric poet Jacob Garrety ( Will Chase ) is embittered when foundation president Don McCallum ( Stephen Kunken ) announces he is cutting funding to the poetry journal "The Village Quarterly". Garrety appeals to his assistant and lover Lauren Collins (Christina Brucato) to use her feminine charm to change McCallum's mind. At a poetry reading, Jacob enjoys the attention of arts patron Sandra Dunbar ( Sarah Rafferty ), wife of wealthy John Dunbar ( Rufus Collins ). Meanwhile, Collins visits McCallum, but she is later found dead on the street, murdered with a brick. Days later, Garrety is violently murdered with a pair of scissors in his office.

Detectives Nichols and Wheeler discover that Sandra Dunbar (née O'Bannon) was the former girlfriend of Garrety in college and still is infatuated with him. To entice Dunbar into confessing to the two murders, Nichols produces an unfinished poem penned by himself but which he attributes to Garrety. Also stars Damian Young and Yvonne Perry.