The Cycle

Dr. Meg Garland (Deborah Ann Woll) is a forensic anthropologist who runs a facility called "The Body Farm", in which she teaches FBI agents about how human bodies decompose in different environments to helps solve cold cases. She is summoned to a small town where a mother and daughter have been brutally killed, seemingly by an animal. Near the crime scene, police officers discover the corpse of a man who has been missing for 36 years—Meg's father, Peter, who abandoned her family when she was a child. The body appears unnaturally preserved and bears no visual signs of the animal attack, leaving investigators baffled about his possible connection to the murders. As Meg assists local police officers Ian (Will Hochman) and his father Marks (Jeffrey Donovan) in unraveling the case, she uncovers clues pointing towards a sinister secret rooted in her father's past.