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The detectives enter the crime scene, a large empty room with the body in a chair. The police say that 'Rewind99' didn't use his real name on the B-Friends website, so they don't know who he is. There's no ID on the woman's body and the medical examiner says that her larynx was shattered -- she was probably killed with a large pipe or similarly shaped object. She died between 3 and 8 AM the day before. Green notes that this is a normal time for prostitutes to be out on the streets, but Cassady notes that the heels on the woman's feet don't fit. They would have been very painful to walk in; the killer must have added them after the woman had already died. Green finds that the body has manicured nails and no needle marks, casting doubt on the idea that she's a prostitute.

"I don't know, but she's an Internet celebrity now."|Ed Green and Nina Cassady}}

Rodgers reports that Caroline died from an overdose of an anti-psychotic drug. They weren't her pills -- there was no sign of long-term use. Someone force-fed the pills to her. After she was unconscious from the pills, the killer broke her jaw in five places and broke most of her toes to get the too-small shoes on. Caroline's bra was on upside down, but there was no evidence of sexual contact. Cassady recognizes the logo on the bra as belonging to a lingerie shop she knows.

"I went there for my sister-in-law's bachelorette gift, but thanks for assuming I have crappy taste in lingerie."|Ed Green and Nina Cassady}}

The singer, Rich, protests that he doesn't know Elam. He just used the B-Friends page to promote his band; Elam showed up one day and picked a fight, screaming about being the Messiah. When the cops question him more, Rich yells that everyone thinks he's the killer because he has the same name and he's in a death metal group. He tries to leave.

--Ed Green

Carl 'Vic Vodka' Barlow tells the police that they should go away, since he's with two ladies.

"Feel this!" }}

--Carl 'Vic Vodka' Barlow and Ed Green

He clarifies that Molly wrote, on her B-Friends webpage, that her mother beat her. Rubirosa says that the page looked clean, but Gaines says that the page must have been sanitized. Elam says that Molly called her own mother a whore. Rubirosa asks why Elam raped Molly if he was trying to help her, but Gaines says says that Molly offered to have sex with the person that killed her mother.

"The whore has to die!"|Jack McCoy and Richard Elam}}

CSI tech Julian Beck says that the computer is worn out from overuse, but that he found data regardless. IM exchanges, he says, aren't stored in memory, but aren't always deleted either. He found some IM conversations that Molly participated in. It's studded with acronyms and Internet slang.

"Let me see. W-M-I-R-L. Wanna meet in real life."|Ed Green and Nina Cassady}}

On the stand, Barnes says that she warned Molly that someone might attack her mom based on the webpage.

"She said, 'I hope that they do. Then the bitch will finally get what she deserves.'"|Jack McCoy, and Clarissa Barnes (quoting Molly Preston)}}

Rundberg, the B-Friends owner, testifies about Molly's webpage. He confirms that it was hers and that she updated it over 800 times. He also confirms that Elam wrote Molly 278 [[I Ms]]; Preston wrote back 216 times. Stuart asks Rundberg to clarify what B-Friends is, and he describes it as a social-networking site and a meeting place for friends.

"Without the loud music and alcohol."|Ms. Stuart and Jason Rundberg }}

In the lobby, McCoy says they knew this would happen, but Rubirosa says that Stuart is very effectively shifting the blame to B-Friends.

"Honestly, I kind of enjoyed watching her stick it to Rundberg."|Connie Rubirosa and Jack McCoy}}

On a football field, Gregg Robinson denies everything. He says he barely remembers the email, and when Rubirosa says that the email size was far larger than the three lines in the email, he says he doesn't remember what else the email said. He walks briskly across the field; when Rubirosa calls him on running away, he says he just wants to practice for the big game so he doesn't get benched. He claims not to have met Preston, and says that he threw out his computer recently so it can't be searched.

"Not my problem."|Connie Rubirosa and Gregg Robinson}}

In a conference room, McCoy meets with the Prestons and Stuart. He offers a 10 year manslaughter sentence. Molly claims that Robinson was lying for revenge -- she says that she turned down his advances -- but Rubirosa says that Robinson's roommate walked in on them. Molly again claims that she didn't mean it, and Douglas once more begs for them to give her a better deal in return for testimony against B-Friends. Molly doesn't want to take the offer. Douglas attempts to have her take it, saying that he's her father and she needs to listen to him for once, but she rejects it -- she's being tried as an adult, so Douglas can't make her take the deal. She castigates him and his wife -- Caroline for sleeping around and him for never standing up for himself or for her (Molly). Douglas gets fed up and slaps her.

"Damn right we are."|Molly Preston and Jack McCoy}}