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This episode has a rather bizarre twist, and it all starts so simply (doesn't it always)? A Russian woman is found dead, and her husband, a prominent teacher at a local college is, suddenly indicted for her murder. Naturally the husband did it, after all, even though he was traveling for work. It seems like a fairly open-and-shut case, what with the physical evidence. In fact, it looks like he may have tried to cover his tracks by making it look like she was trying to kill herself in the garage by inhaling the fumes from the running car.

But when more evidence is found inside the house that makes it unlikely that his wife would have even been able to make it into the garage in the first place, much less start the car on her own, it seems even more unlikely that she could have done all this by herself, so it's time to bring the husband in to see if they can get him to trial. That's when the fun begins.

It seems that the husband has a thing for the Internet. Of course, we all have a thing for the Internet, so you can scarcely hold that against him. But his new bride came from Russia through the Internet, and by most accounts, it seemed that he may have loved her. Except for what her brother has to say. He thinks that perhaps something else was up, because his sister was trying to tell him something just before she died. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to talk to her to get the full story, so he comes all the way from Russia to see that justice is done.

The bad news is that the professor seemed to think that they might come after him, so he used some encryption software and erased some important data off of the computer before he (allegedly) killed his wife. What's more is the DA's office can't seem to find anyone who knows anything, so he just might end up walking.

There is some great physical evidence. After scouring the kitchen, they actually found the wife's contacts on the floor, which seems to indicate that she was hit so hard from behind that her contacts actually popped out of her eyes. That's impressive. They also were able to catch up with some scavengers who appear to have found the iron that was used in the assault. But without motive, and without any direct tie to the professor, it looks like he might escape.

And that is when the forensic guys break into the computer and it's a gold mine. There, they find some lovely images of the professor, who recorded himself dogging - which is apparently the process of meeting anonymous people online for sexual encounters. As if this isn't bad enough, in at least one of those meetings, he managed to catch someone in the rear-view mirror of the car, and that someone is a co-worker at the university.

So Annabeth goes to visit this person again (she had already been interviewed once), and now that there is evidence that has her at the scene, she admits that she lied before. She didn't want to mess up her marriage, and she didn't want to lose her job, which has an ethics clause, but she doesn't want to be in even more trouble, so she agrees to help. And that's all she wrote for the professor.