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* ContentLeak: Competing magazine "Starscene" keeps beating Frances Hunt's [[TheMagazineRule "A-List Magazine"]] on supposedly exclusive stories, suggesting that they have [[TheMole a mole]] in their midst.
* MistakenIdentity: When Jessica visits Davey Wells in the hospital, the nurse at the reception [[StalkerWithACrush mistakes Jessica for a groupie]] trying to get into the athlete's private room. Once inside, Davey [[MistakenForServant mistakes Jessica for a hospital volunteer]].

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* ContentLeak: Competing InUniverse, competing magazine "Starscene" keeps beating Frances Hunt's [[TheMagazineRule "A-List Magazine"]] on supposedly exclusive stories, suggesting that they have [[TheMole a mole]] in their midst.
* MistakenIdentity: When Jessica visits Davey Wells in the hospital, the nurse at the reception [[StalkerWithACrush mistakes Jessica for a groupie]] trying to get into the athlete's private room. Once inside, Davey [[MistakenForServant mistakes Jessica for a hospital volunteer]].



* ThirdActMisunderstanding: Jessica sets a trap for the killer by [[FeedTheMole feeding a mole]] information that ends up being overheard by the [[spoiler: Arnett Cobb]], who then proceeds to confess to the crime to protect[[spoiler: his wife. Junie denies being the murderer and they reconcile...only for Junie to be revealed to be the actual murderer]]

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* ThirdActMisunderstanding: Jessica sets a trap for the killer by [[FeedTheMole feeding a mole]] information that ends up being overheard by the [[spoiler: Arnett Cobb]], who then proceeds to confess to the crime to protect[[spoiler: his wife. Junie denies being the murderer and they reconcile...only for Junie to be revealed to be the actual murderer]]murderer]].
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Written by: Donald Ross\\
Directed by: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Jessica must unravel the reason behind the murder of a popular florist

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* ContentLeak: Competing magazine "Starscene" keeps beating Frances Hunt's [[TheMagazineRule "A-List Magazine"]] on supposedly exclusive stories, suggesting that they have [[TheMole a mole]] in their midst.
* MistakenIdentity: When Jessica visits Davey Wells in the hospital, the nurse at the reception [[StalkerWithACrush mistakes Jessica for a groupie]] trying to get into the athlete's private room. Once inside, Davey [[MistakenForServant mistakes Jessica for a hospital volunteer]].
* NoodleIncident: Lt. Caceres and Jessica had apparently worked together on a case before (though this is the first actual appearance of the character).
* PlotInducedStupidity: The only reason why [[spoiler: Betty O'Hara]] would step out of the Starscene office and display the wad of cash she got from them, was so Jessica can catch her and reveal her identity as TheMole.
* ShearMenace: The episode's VictimOfTheWeek was killed with a pair of pruning shears.
* ShoutOut: The title is a spoof of Film/ThePetrifiedForest.
* ThemeNaming: Several characters are named after {{Jazz}} musicians, ie Billy Kyle, pianist from Music/LouisArmstrong 's band, trumpeter Johnny Windhurst, BigBand singer Frances Hunt, Arnett and Junie Cobb (two unrelated musicians, the former a saxophonist, the latter a multi-instrumentalist), and the last names of Caceres (from saxophonist Ernie Caceres), Wells (from trombonist Dickie Wells), and Hendricks (from singer/songwriter Jon Hendricks).
* ThirdActMisunderstanding: Jessica sets a trap for the killer by [[FeedTheMole feeding a mole]] information that ends up being overheard by the [[spoiler: Arnett Cobb]], who then proceeds to confess to the crime to protect[[spoiler: his wife. Junie denies being the murderer and they reconcile...only for Junie to be revealed to be the actual murderer]]
* TwistEnding: After being outed as the killer, [[spoiler: Junie Cobb]] was about to be arrested by the police, but then [[spoiler: she]] pulls out a gun and then shoots Jessica.... [[AllJustADream then a plate shatters on the floor, and]] [[spoiler: Jessica awakens from the quick snooze she had at the party near the beginning of the episode. Turns out, the entire murder scenario was all a dream]].

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