When a self-destructive, controversial radio deejay is found dead of asphyxiation, Detectives Goren and Eames believe it's a suicide -- but after learning that the dead man was issued placebos instead of his anti-depressant medications, they suspect that an obsessive female fan may be to blame. Their investigation broadens when another related victim is murdered but the key to an arrest hinges on both how and why the passive-aggressive slayer chose to act.
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Shock jock Ray Garnett ( Fisher Stevens ) goes missing and is found dead after an apparent suicide. As Goren and Eames investigate, his housekeeper who supplied pain killers to which he was addicted is found murdered. Their investigation leads them to a prescribing nurse at a detox clinic, Nelda Carlson ( Francie Swift ) who is obsessed with her ex-husband, Barry ( Brian Haley ), who listened to Garnett's program daily. Goren plays on her emotional codependency to illicit a confession to the two deaths.
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