Virgil McLendon has finally joined the FBI and is training for a position in the area he and his friend are developing: The BAU, the Behavioral Analysis Unit, so all he can do is give a little advice. Vivian McLendon and Tina Rant take a case to find a missing friend, but they discover many young women are vanishing from the town and each one is somehow connected to a carnival and alligator farm. Earl owns the farm and is a charismatic man who preaches on the side and wishes to made all the "bad girls" clean again. He is determined to save their souls by taking away their sinful pride; unfortunately, to make them pure again, and either they will have to endure surgery and acid baths to become like the alligators Earl loves or...they can become food for his pets. Vivian and Tina race to find a way to prosecute earl but discover a nightmare. Earl not only has an alligator farm, but he also has a room for "change". Can the two female detectives stop Earl and save his victims or will they become reptilian? It will take beauty and brains to stop Earl.