Jessica learns that the plot to her new book has been stolen and will be used for an episode of a TV series. At the same time, she tries to unravel the mystery surrounding the murder of the same show's executive producer.
While staying in an opulent hotel, courtesy of Grady's fraternity brother Gary, Jessica must clear Grady of a woman's murder that is tied to Gary's past and blackmail.
When a cop is brought in wounded, Jesse patches her up and dates her, but as Amanda finds and brings her out, she sets him up for a staged scary ride. Alex reunites with an old flame, who had connections to a well-known call girl.
Brett Hayward murders Dr. Hjortsberg, the plastic surgeon who knew him as patient Eddie Dagabosian, and as such harbors something against Madison, with whom he moves in.
A body found on the beach turns out to be Jim, the hospital janitor, but when his twin brother Jeff shows up to identify the body, Mark and Steve become suspicious.
A spinster's racy novel has characters who seem all too familiar to the real-life citizens in her small town, including a doctor charged with murdering a minister in a failed attempt on the author herself.
A Beverly Hills cookie entrepreneur accused of killing his girlfriend hires Matlock after his own lawyers advise him to plead guilty for the sake of his company.
