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'', a thriller horror

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that airs on the

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channel. Each episode is either "TV-PG" followed by V or L, or "TV-14" followed by V or L. The plot of each episode is described, below, using in-universe tone.

Series overview

Season 1 (2008–2009)

Season 2 (2009)

Season 3 (2010)

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, a dramatic rise in teenage disappearances prompts the mayor's office to assemble a task force to investigate. Detectives John Sloan and Rhonda Ramirez are dispatched to follow a lead suggesting secret underground

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s are connected. They apprehend Steven "Spike" Mills, a promoter for the raves, and offer him

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in exchange for leading them to one. Upon arrival, a snake-eyed man marks their hands with symbols that are only visible on

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cameras. Mills notes Sloan got the "V.I.P. stamp" before the detectives investigate the rave's surrounding area. Noticing a gigantic lizard tail slither around a corner, Sloan runs ahead to catch the owner, but finds a

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with several teenagers hanging from the ceiling before an unseen figure

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s him. As Ramirez and Mills find the larder, his camera reveals the teens all have the V.I.P. stamp and flees, only to be attacked by a hooded figure. Ramirez finds and rescues Sloan, but several figures capture them. The detectives and Mills' bodies are never recovered, though their surveillance equipment is confiscated and the task force is disbanded due to "budget cuts". Both the raves and disappearances continue to occur throughout the country. , LineColor = F66B1B

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