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Apparently even a small college (or a small-sounding college, perhaps) can have well-known student athletes, and at a homecoming party, the three best known players on the team get into a fight and before you know it, one of them ends up dead. The only problem is that no one seems to really know what happened - or at least, no one is talking about it. All that anyone can seem to say is that the dead one lost his starting spot and was mad enough to start the fight.

Luckily for him, Annabeth and crew do some poking about and find that there is more to the story. For starters, he wasn't beaten to death. It appears that the guy had some internal injuries and he ended up just laying down and dying. If he had some help, he may have lived - but that just didn't happen. The only problem is trying to figure out why he didn't get any help.

After doing some more digging, it turns up that the school has these Crimson Girls who do favors for the athletes, including just about anything that you might imagine - but unfortunately the one who was dead couldn't seem to get his turn with them, and he had a thing for one of the girls, but she didn't share his feelings. So perhaps that had something to do with it.

At first, the girl stonewalls Annabeth, but after they put some pressure on her, she admits that he was mad, but not about other football players, about a booster that was there. She just didn't want to say anything because she was afraid she wouldn't get the car that the booster had promised her. Talk about a sweet deal. That's when it gets a whole lot more interesting, because it turns out that the coach came to help out the booster - and also that one of the other football players was involved with the coach's wife, which started the whole fight. Talk about twisted.

There is even an appearance by defense attorney extraordinaire Doug Hellman (Bruce Davison), but unlike most of his appearances, he really didn't make much of an impression here. It's a shame to have him there and not use him.

In any case, once the dirt starts to come out, it all comes out. The coach, who liked to say he ran a clean program, just managed to keep it clean in appearances. In reality, it was as dirty as it comes. This guy was like the mafia. The good news for the prosecutors is that once the information starts coming, it didn't stop.

When the coach came to pick up the booster, he saw the kid who had just been beaten up sitting by the pool and went down to talk to him. When the kid threatened to expose all the corruption, the coach just held him down and refused to get him help, essentially letting him die. That's just scary.