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3. A Perfect Score

The murder of a federal judge's teen daughter leads the Lightman Group to her highly competitive prep school. Meanwhile, a NASA test pilot is accused of intentionally crashing a plane.

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The murder of a teenage girl who is the daughter of a powerful federal judge leads The Lightman Group to a highly competitive college-prep school where getting to the head of the class means everything. Lightman discovers that a fellow student killed her to protect her involvement in an SAT cheating scam. Foster investigates a NASA test pilot accused of intentionally crashing a $250 million aircraft. It is discovered that the pilot's wife, in an effort to "cure" his psychological disconnect from his family, slipped anti-stress drugs into his food, which compromised his piloting skills.

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