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Judge Fitzwilliam was presiding over a wake for her ninety year old mother when she saw her daughter Sophie walk into the living room where many friends relatives and friends sat talking over refreshments. The judge asked Sophie if she had seen her sister, Abby. Sophie said she had not and nodded when her mother asked her to locate Abby to at least put in a appearance.

Sophie walked out to a guest house on the vast estate, knocking on the front door once she got there. There was no answer so she went on in, calling out Abby's name, getting no response once more. She stepped into the living room, gasped and screamed, looking down at the dead body of Abby's twenty three year old boyfriend, Austin Marrs, who had been stabbed with a knife. She rushed back to the main house and called the police.

Agents Lisbon and Patrick Jane were asking questions of the security chief and family members when Jane took Sophie aside and queried her about when she had last seen Abby. Sophie said it had been last night and when she walked in to the guest house at that time, Abby and Austin had been having an argument. Sophie indicated that she'd seen Abby scratch Austin's face, but that usually they never fought. Jane wanted to know if Abby had any past or present trouble with drugs or alcohol, to which Sophie snapped angrily that of course not, Abby was clean and sober! Jane smiled his enigmatic smile and turned away to observe the living room closely. He wandered into the judge's study a bit later, closely inspecting the expensive Turkish rug lying beneath the judge's desk and chair, asking questions of the judge, irritating her into anger. The family doctor slipped in quietly whilst Jane was querying the judge, watching Jane as he probed into the family business. Jane decided to talk further with the estate's chief of security, not finding the information he needed from the judge.

Upon asking the security chief for the estate's security records for the last three months, Jane and Lisbon determined that Abby had entered the estate last night but there was no record of her leaving at all, so therefore, Jane surmised, she must still be on the property. A very careful and detailed search of the estate was made in looking for Abby, but she was not located. Jane decided that if Abby was dead, had been murdered, that her body must still be on the property and she would have to be found. His co-workers looked into when Abby's credit cards might have been used last and it was discovered that Abby had made purchases of clothing and an expensive hand bag in Sacramento, so Jane and Lisbon traveled to that city and made inquiries, Jane going his seperate way as usual.

Meanwhile, Lisbon and a female agent went to the store in Sacramento where the purchases had been made, asking a ditsy clerk for critical information. She willingly gave the address of the purchasee, the agents going to said address and finding a young woman, Daniella, there who vehemently denied that she was not Abby, but Abby's best friend. Jane was sitting, smiling, in the woman's kitchen, inviting his fellow agents in. The woman said that Abby had indeed loaned her the credit card, allowing her to buy herself some new clothes, that Abby was a very generous and kind friend. Lisbon decided that this was a dead end and the three agents went back to the Fitzwilliam estate.

Once there, Sophie, with a shocked expression on her face, brought her cell phone to the agents, which displayed a white supremacist code meant to put fear into her and her family. Jane decided to talk to the estate's security chief again, asking him if he knew of any white supremacists in his employ. He denied any such knowledge. Upon questioning Judge Fitzwilliam, the judge said that she had put away a white supremacist named Raymond Tubbs and that she felt sure he had it in for her and her family and that she feared that Abby might be dead. Jane tried to reassure her, which didn't seem to work. He began to stare at her rug closely again, and when she asked what he was doing down there on his knees, he replied that he was just admiring her rug. She shrugged and left the room.

A few minutes later, the security alarm began clanging and men ran to the north wall. They found Jane with the rug rolled up on his shoulder, very close to that wall. When they questioned him, he just replied that he was trying to see if it would be possible for a man carrying a body to climb the wall and get out. His decision was that it was too difficult to do, so that avenue was a no go.

The judge was angered by Jane's action and reported it to Jane's superior, Agent Hightower, who scolded Jane severely, but understood what he was trying to do. She told him to watch himself or they would all be losing their jobs. Back at the estate once more, Jane told Lisbon that he was quite sure that Abby's body was in the coffin with the judge's mother. He got the coroner to open the coffin after much protestation from the judge and her family and he was proven quite wrong. By now the judge was beside herself with anger and was only talked into allowing Jane to stay by Lisbon's ministrations. Jane was not sorry.

Agent Cho was sent to Folsom prison to interview prisoner Raymond Tubbs who at first denied that he had any "soldiers" out in the field, let alone at the estate of Judge Fitzwilliams. When Cho threatened to just walk away, Tubbs did admit that he had a man at the estate and gave a name. Cho thanked him and left, making a call to Lisbon and Jane, telling them to have the man interrogated. They did so and the man said he had not been told by anyone to kill anyone. He was released.

Now, Jane decided that Abby's body must be still hidden on the estate and came upon another wild idea. He and Lisbon hid under the judge's desk in her study that night, hoping to catch the killer. Late that night, they heard what sounded like someone dragging something heavy down the hall. Upon investigation, they found the family doctor pulling a dark body bag into the living room. When confronted by Jane with his crime, the doctor admitted that he had killed Austin and that Abby had overdosed on drugs that the doctor had been supplying her with. Jane said that he knew the doctor had lost a good source of income when the old lady, Ethel Fitzwilliam, had died and had found another in supplying drugs to Abby. The doctor said that Austin had come in, found him with Abby's dead body and the doctor had attacked him with the knife, killing the young man, then putting Abby's prints on the knife, trying to make it appear that Abby had killed Austin.

He had hidden Abby's body in his room's closet and was trying to take the body off estate when he was caught. He was arrested and taken away.

Later, when Hightower came to the estate to talk to Jane, he discussed the irascible judge's personality with Hightower when the judge walked in, overhearing. Hightower had told Jane that the judge demanded an apology. The judge said that Jane was correct in his judgment of her personality and turned on her heel. Jane said he was sorry and stood to leave too, when he smiled at Hightower and gave her a kiss on the cheek, completely surprising her.

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