Jessica drops in to help with a board game called Murder Will Out, only for things to become too real when she and company head Mr. Greenstreet discover one of the top executives dead in a highly secured toy laboratory. The murdered woman had made herself plenty of enemies, and two people, including Jessica's escort, Brian Singer, disappear the same night. Now it's no longer a game, and Jessica will have her hands full solving the crime.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Chekhov's Gunman: Frank Christy, the toy designer Ms. Delaney fires, turns out to be key to the puzzle. He gave Miss Moffett the passcode to the lab in exchange for twenty thousand dollars.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Miss Moffett, Ms. Delaney's secretary, turns out to have killed her.
- Hypocrite: Ms. Delaney accuses Mr. Greenstreet of stealing the credit for some of her ideas (though no one ever confirms it one way or another). At the end, Miss Moffett tells Jessica that Ms. Delaney would use her keys to raid her employees' offices and steal their ideas.
- Inheritance Murder: One of the suspects, Mr. Delaney, tells Jessica that he and Ms. Delaney signed a prenup saying that in case of divorce he'd get nothing. He's rightfully concerned that the police will think he killed her.
- Locked Room Mystery: The toy lab where Ms. Delaney was found was only accessible with a secret code after hours, which would have made it difficult for most people to enter it. Furthermore, most if not all of the people who had the code also had solid alibis. Jessica ultimately discovers that the killer bribed someone.
- Love Forgives All but Lust: Ms. Delaney follows Mr. Steloff on his trip to convince Amanda to switch companies and witnesses him kissing her. When he returns, calling her "lover" and saying he succeeded, she slaps him and threatens him with professional consequences for "the one offense she can't forgive".
- Red Baron: Amanda North calls Ms. Delaney "the Iron Butterfly."
- Shout-Out: When he sees Mr. Steloff telling Amanda North bad news, Mr. Greenstreet refers to it as "trouble in River City."
- The Wonka: Ms. Delaney dismisses Mr. Greenstreet as a kook and he does do some strange things, like acting as though one of his toys is a real person. However, he's behind a lot of the company's successes, and at the end of the episode, he's planning the launch of a virtual reality project.
