As death row prisoner Mark Ford Brady nears his end, he asks to see Detective Goren in hopes to extend his sentence and leads him to hidden scrapbooks which chronicle unsolved cases and victims. When Detectives Eames and Goren uncover the identities of the women and victims in Brady's scrapbooks, they come across a familiar picture -- Goren's mother, Frances. Through the help of his brother, Frank, Goren learns a troubling secret about his mother and deals with her numbered days.