An esteemed former senator succumbs to cancer, while his son and daughter wrangle over a codicil to his will providing that his body be cremated of cryogenically frozen after his death. But when the daughter of the senator is found murdered, and her father's brain apparently was removed by someone for research, Detectives Goren and Eames uncover a few startling facts about the family and start looking at murder suspects and their motives.