While on a date, Stokes realizes a piece of art at an exhibit has decomposing body parts in it, which leads to a full-blown investigation. Also, D.B. Russell makes a decision to ground one of the staff from the case.
The scene opens with Nick on a date at a garbage art exhibition! While he is looking at the pieces of art; he comes across a block of cement. But there’s more to it; pieces of a decomposing body. And the art exhibition becomes a crime scene. The team arrives at the scene. Russell notices that the piece costs $2200. He asks Nick about his date. But just then he realizes that there is a partial facial impression on the block. They call the artist. His name is Slade and Russell tells him to show them the place where he found the block. They reach the place and find the missing face. Looking at the soldier flies, beetles and maggots; Nick infers that the face was dead for around three weeks; cut and cased in cement. Russell tells him about the movie, The Lady in Cement; and how the body was disposed in the ocean. ..