Written by: Bruce Lansbury
Directed by: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Jessica's friend Holly uses her contacts to help Jessica land a session to tape her first novel, The Corpse Danced at Midnight, for the blind, but what starts out as a simple recording session ends up turning into a murder investigation when a ruthless music producer is killed.
Tropes:
- Bluffing the Murderer: Jessica confronts Charles George Drexler with the evidence she has gathered, then surreptitiously broadcasts his confession via the speakers in the studio so Lt. Alan Terwilliger can hear and come to her rescue.
- Continuity Nod: Willi Piper notes that the book Jessica will be recording is an early one of hers.
- This is the second time that Jessica records for an audio-book version of one of her novels.
- Conveyor Belt o' Doom: Invoked by the murderer when Freddie Major apparently gets shot and then spat out of a conveyor belt they were using for the music video.
- Dying Clue: Freddie Major left a clue to his killer's identity via music notes on an electric piano.
- Musical Episode: Well, there was one musical number midway through the episode that was performed as they were shooting the music video for it.
- Red Herring: Mitch Randall's investigations on Rick Lefko would make one suspicious of the latter as the killer. But he wasn't.
- Spanner in the Works: Jessica ruins the elaborately staged murder by poking around and deciphering the clue left behind by the victim on three notes on an electric piano.
