Just like a murderer dumps his corpse in to the lake across Valley Watch in Lily Dale, Bella Jordan is actually at her screen, not quite realizing what she’s seeing. Unbeknownst to her, the killer spots her silhouette and prowls right to her door. That’s, until he’s interrupted with a black kitty. A superstitious gambler, he takes off, but Bella’s seen too much, and he vows to come back.

Jiffy Arden, a neighborhood kid looking for the black cat and stumbling over the killer, begins to possess premonitions of being kidnapped through the season’s initial snowstorm. Sure enough, when it strikes, he vanishes, never arriving home from the bus stop. While her child, Max, feels Jiffy has been kidnapped, Bella is normally convinced he’s simply wandered off as he typically does … until a body shows up in the lake.

Now many people are pulling out all the stops to find the lacking child, identify the victim, and collar the killer. And fast, because he’s arriving for Bella next in Dead of Winter.