A young girl is dancing on top of a table making everybody happy and then suddenly is found dead. The victim's name is Joanna and is featured stripper. They find signs of a struggle. Mack and Lindsay begin looking of the crime scene over to see if they can find out anything more about how the stripper died.
Stella and Danny are at another crime scene. Danny begins telling Stella about his brother. Stella and Danny find the body of Hunter Hudson his throat has been slashed with a knife. Stella tells Danny that he is a computer fanatic. He was on a daily dose of anti-depressants.
Danny wonders why the room makes him feel scared. Stella notices the room has no windows.
Detective Flack tells Stella that Linda the housekeeper first noticed the body and that there were no signs of forced entry.
Mack and Lindsay go over the evidence they found so far they did find one piece of evidence that skipped processing. Lindsay finds a male wedding ring. Mack finds blood and the note that leads both detectives to believe that someone was cheating on stripper.
They find that the official cause of death of Joanna is severe burn trauma due to contact with a light. Sheldon and Dr. Marty Pino finds that the victim had a liver. The liver has the letter a carved in it.
Detective Flack and Stella question Hunter Hudson's Doctor who said that Hunter had suffered some trauma of 20 years ago when his brother was murdered and that never got over it.
While the Danny is still trying to find evidence he mistakenly gets locked in a panic room and is on able to get out. Now his situation becomes a little more complicated because he doesn't have a kit to analyze the evidence.
A woman tells Mack and Stella that a panic room was built some Mr. Hudson could have his bedroom inside. Stella and Detective flak learn that Mr. Hudson was the only one that had the Security code to open the room. The room was set to close at 9:00 p.m. and open again at 9:00 a.m. when the staff arrived. Stella and Detective Flack get more bad news there's only one door to the panic room.
Danny is anything but thrilled when he may have to stay in the panic room with a dead guy because the panic room can't be opened until someone gets the Security code or, Jerry Gordon the person who built the panic room for Mr. Hudson.
Mack asks Andy how he got a fat lip. He tells Mack that he got the fat lip by having to throw one of the customers out. Mack also questions if he was in candy's room He tells Mack he was because he felt she was cheating on him. Mack goes so far as to accuse Andy of murdering candy.
Danny and Stella each check their blood trails. Stella is blood trail leads her to believe that Linda took her time when calling the police. Danny finds that there are no signs that anybody bothered to check for a pulse after Mr. Hudson died.
Jerry Gordon informs Mac, Stella, and Danny that to get him out of the panic room it would take 13 hours to do this because a door will have to be built. Jerry also informs the team that the panic room doesn't have much power because it is not hooked up to an auxiliary power supply.
Wall Danny waits to be let out of room he is told to start processing the evidence because the air supply decreases the body will have a chance to decay at a faster rate and evidence will be lost. Danny has one problem he doesn't have a kit and will have to improvise.
Danny isn't yet sure what he will use to collect the evidence. Mack asks Lindsay for an update on the case so far. She finds it candy was on a website that had the pictures of cheaters and that her last bit of the Internet activity showed that the IP address was hers but the e-mail address belong to someone else Angie Charles.
Mack and Lindsay find out that Angie and candy/Joanna board lovers. Angie tells Mack and Lindsay that candy was and she was asked to move out of the apartment because she wanted to move on. Angie then decided to post candy's picture on a website for revenge because Angie got burned.
In the panic room Danny is being asked several questions about the victim specifically about the blood coming from his neck. Danny is asked to take several measurements around the victim's body
We also learn that Marty hates tight places and chose to be a pathologist because it would help pay for his car. Danny must find a way to get to the victim's temperature and find a thermometer. Danny has trouble taking the victim's temperature because rigor mortis has begun to set in. Marty tells Danny that the victim has been dead about six hours because both the body and the hardening of the body also confirm it. Danny and then tells Marty that the panic room only opened three hours ago. Now they wonder exactly how the killer got inside.
Linda doesn't remember dialing 911 when she found her boss dead. She also tells Detective Flack and Stella that everything was a blur. When asked if she was afraid the killer was still in the House she was thinking about herself.
Detective Flack and Stella believe that Linda man had something to do with her bosses death because his well was worth about $40,000. Mr. Hudson even made sure that when he died she would be well taken care of. Detective Flack and Stella learn that Mr. Hudson was killed at 8:00 a.m. just before the panic room was set to open.
Stella suggests finding a knife and looking for a fingerprint on it. She tells Danny to look for coffeepot and some glue. Danny then empties the glue into the coffeepot and then and sticks the knife into it to hopefully find a foreign fingerprint.
The foreign fingerprint belongs to Roger Halger is Mr. Hudson's body guard. After the commercial break Dr. Sheldon is busy pulling with burn fragments of the model and carefully examining them. Stella is interrogating Roger about why he broke the rules the night Mr. Hudson was found dead He tells Stella he was drinking with the guys because he thought his boss was in bed and wouldn't mind.
While waiting for the panic room to open Danny opens a drawer and finds newspaper articles about Joshua Hudson being kidnapped and feared dead. The only way the family has of knowing their son has died it is the ear removed from their son.
Mac questions John Grimes about how he burned his hand the night he tried to get money Candy who was already dead. Mack decides to the arrest John Grimes on Grand Larceny. Danny and Stella learn that Dr. Pen smoked he tries to suggest Linda also smoked he treated her with hypnosis. Stella learns that Linda went to see Dr. Pen to learn how to hypnotize Mr. Hudson into cutting his own throat.
Mack discovers Angie then something called macular edema meaning she got it when she suffered trauma to the retina.
Jerry Gordon could open the panic room at all times. Danny figures out that it was Jerry who murdered Mr. Hudson. Jerry then hurts Danny. Danny takes the time to call his brother and get a beer.





