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| - In the episode, "Feeding the Beast", someone who has just attended such a Twelve Steps program is murdered; but the other members' insistence on anonymity hampers the police investigation. Detective Nick Knight therefore goes undercover in the hope that, by joining the group, he can work from the inside to try to identify the murderer. When Nick realizes that his sponsor is herself backsliding in her own addiction to sex, he becomes profoundly disillusioned. After the murderer is caught, he does not return to the program.
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| - In the episode, "Feeding the Beast", someone who has just attended such a Twelve Steps program is murdered; but the other members' insistence on anonymity hampers the police investigation. Detective Nick Knight therefore goes undercover in the hope that, by joining the group, he can work from the inside to try to identify the murderer. At none of the meetings he attends does Knight reveal the precise nature of his problem. However, he actually hopes that the program will help him to cope with his reliance on blood for sustenance. To this end, he follows several of the steps. In particular, he informs his partner, Don Schanke, that he is an addict (though Schanke remains in denial of this revelation); and he pours down the drain all of the bottled blood that he has in his home. When Nick realizes that his sponsor is herself backsliding in her own addiction to sex, he becomes profoundly disillusioned. After the murderer is caught, he does not return to the program.
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