Season 4, Episode 4: ‘404 Not Found’

Agent Dom DiPierro is having a nightmare before Christmas.

Forced to become a double agent against her own government by the Dark Army, which has threatened to torture her mother to death if she rebels, Dom returns to a pastime we’ve seen her indulge in long before that sinister hacker collective got its hooks in her: joylessly masturbating by the glow of her laptop. When interrogation-room footage of her one-time quarry Darlene Alderson no longer does the trick, she launches a chat with an ostentatiously male-seeming anonymous partner — since she is gay, this is a clear sign she’s searching for any port in a storm. It is Christmas Eve, after all, and any balm against loneliness will do.

So she’s surprised, and borderline delighted, when her mystery chat partner reveals she is actually a woman who gets off on playacting as a man. By then, this stranger has already asked to meet her in the flesh and make good on all their dirty talk; now that Dom knows she’s a woman, she is prepared to take her up on the offer.

Things are going pretty hot and heavy when Dom excuses herself to use the bathroom. But when she steps inside, she finds the bath drawn and every surface covered with candles and rose petals. It would be romantic … if it weren’t for the fact that someone had to break into her apartment to do it.

Suddenly her one-night stand appears behind her, wearing the distinctive demon mask of the Dark Army. The demon attacks, plunging Dom into the water of the bath and holding her under. Everything will be much easier, says the attacker, if Dom stops fighting: “Realize you’ll never be free.”