Mistletoe Murders

11 months later from the Season 1 finale, we find Emily and Sam are not on speaking terms, Violet now works at Sue's Diner and there's been no additional contact from CH1MERA. Sam and Emily work together, albeit with hesitation, as the chess club coach at Violet's high school goes missing. We begin to see flashbacks of Emily when she was Violet's age and attending a boarding school and connect with a classmate names Aaron. The episode ends with the coach's body being excavated in the high schools' boiler room and Violet's love interest being the prime suspect.

Emily becomes the high school's new chess club coach in order to gain more intel on the suspects she and Sam have assembled. We continue to see flashbacks of Emily where she's allowed to enter a computer club and it's the first time the audience hears her real name, Grace. The mystery climaxes to a game of cat and mouse when Sam and Emily chase the killer down hallways during Violet's winter formal. Sam and Emily seem to have crossed a bridge after solving this crime but Sam's inquiry to Famous Ray comes back and he discovers the name CH1MERA.

The art world comes to Fletcher's Grove as an old friend of Sam asks him to help with a security job guarding a piece of art but Sam politely declines. The next day his friend is found dead. Since he's too close to the victim, Sam is not allowed to investigate the crime but decides to go on a short leave of absence and privately investigate. Emily finds out that Sam is looking into her past but pretends to not know causing her to question his warmer demeanor towards her. In flashbacks we see Aaron gift Emily with a new laptop and hack into the school's system to change their grades from a failed pop quiz. Emily receives flowers with a cryptic message. The art piece is revealed but questions arise when it seems to be tampered with.

Emily and Sam discover his friend was killed when a cop confronted him about accepting a bribe. The bribe was from the woman leading the art gallery and pretending to be related to the highlighted artist. In flashbacks, Grace's teacher is fired because Aaron made it seem that her teacher was the one to hack into the school system instead of him. Emily discovers the flowers are from CH1MERA and confronts Sam about looking into her past. Sam turns over his research into her past and promises to no longer research it. Emily questions if she saw Aaron in a busy crowd

A fine dining restaurant is opening up on the outskirts of Fletcher's Grove. Famous Ray is an investor and invites Emily to visit and help with a Christmas menu for the restaurant's soft opening. All goes awry when the owner of the restaurant is found frozen and dead outside. Famous Ray hides out in Emily's apartment, worried that he'll be arrested and all his connections won't trust if he spilled information or not. In flashbacks we see Grace from 8 years ago and see the beginning of CH1MERA. She, Aaron and other hackers steal money from rich people and give it to people in need. Her world turns upside down when she's approached by an federal agent that informs her that Aaron isn't redistributing the wealth to people in need. Sam's ex-wife comes to town as a lawyer representing one of the prime suspects of the murder.

Emily and Sam are locked inside a freezer and come very close to death. In a moment of vulnerability Emily tells Sam her real name is Grace and Sam admits he still has feelings for her. In flashbacks, we see Grace discover that Aaron is in fact a bad guy and tries to help the CIA arrest Aaron but the mission fails. Later we see she's recruited out of prison from the CIA. Sam and Emily find the killer and enjoy Christmas together now with their walls fully down. Aaron arrives at Emily's doorstep.