- The detectives reopen the 2006 case of a murdered Jane Doe when relatives and friends identify her as an Amish teenager who went missing in Philadelphia during her Rumspringa.
- When her younger sister comes to the Philly police for help, the team reopens the 2006 case of Anna Gunden, a 16-year-old Amish girl who was murdered while she was in Philadelphia, experiencing the Amish rite of passage called "rumspringa", a taste of the big bad world to determine if a youngster chooses to stay Amish, with her scared best friend Rachel Wagler. Seeking to see the ocean, they stay with shunned former village friend Jakob Beachy, who chose to remain 'English', but lapsed into drug addiction in the city. Initial suspect is his rogue friend Vince Patrielli, but the team finds all doubted their own choices, and mother Gunden's secret visit to retrieve her daughter triggered a tragic series of choices and events, which reprises as Anna is identified and brought home for burial.—KGF Vissers
- A young Amish teenager visits the homicide unit in search of her missing sister, who disappeared during her rumspringa ("running around"), a cultural rite of passage that temporarily separates Amish adolescents from their sheltered communities and allows them to experience the "English" (non-Amish) lifestyle. When the detectives identify the missing girl as a savagely murdered "Jane Doe" found in 2006, solving the case becomes an unusually complicated and uncomfortable process. Key witnesses lie among both the Amish and the "English," and Detective Rush has to bring the two clashing cultures to a temporary reconciliation. As the story unfolds, it is clear that Rush's dilemma in many ways mirrors that of the young Amish victim, who was torn between her thirst to experience "English" life and all it had to offer and her deep love for her family and her safe, secure Amish world.
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