He and his partner, Officer Jacob Reed (Anthony Griffith), are sent to investigate a strange call about a possible animal attack.

The officers are shown the truck from the opening sequence, and determine that the door was kicked out by something extremely powerful.

Faraday realizes that the victim was trampled from the groin upward, and figures the man died in a state of arousal.

Elsewhere, a businessman encounters a beautiful silent Native-American woman (Cinthia Moura), who takes the man to a hotel.

In the morning, Reed and Faraday go down to the morgue to examine the cadaver of the businessman, and the same markings found on the previous victim are noted.

On his way home, Faraday passes a Native American mural, where images of the Deer Woman are portrayed.

Faraday and Reed travel to a casino on a local Indian reservation, where they learn from an Indian bartender about the Native American legend of the Deer Woman: a malevolent forest spirit resembling a beautiful young woman with deer legs, who sexually arouses and kills men just for the thrill of it.