Next stop: Top Fleet Limousines headquarters where name-dropping proprietor, Armand Lepompier, identifies the kinkajou as belonging to Nancy Sheraton. However, Russo was not her driver and she was never in his car. So the animal hairs had to be transferred. As it turns out, the driver who handled Ms. Sheraton and the animal was Blake Mathers, recently fired. They bring the guy in, and it's clear he has a delusional idea about being "tight" with Kid Rock. Lindsay, on emotional edge about Stella, presses uncharacteristically hard, reminding the suspect that he was fired as the rock star's driver for trading on his relationship, bringing groupies into the car, to hotels. They know that he was in Russo's limo last night because of the pet hair transfer. He was trying to sneak in backstage. Did he kill Russo in a rage because the man had taken his job? Blake clams up.

At Stella's hospital room, Flack is given the task of trying to sort together what happened before Stella fired her Glock-9 at Frankie. She reveals a startling secret - one hinted at the conclusion of the previous episode. The sculpture Frankie had made her, which he called "Aresanob," was actually "Bonasera" spelled backwards. It also turned out to be Frankie's personal website. He had secretly recorded the two of them having sex, a horrific betrayal. She abruptly ended the relationship, refusing to return his calls, e-mails. Then Frankie began stalking her. Last night she came home from shopping to find that him in her apartment fixing a candlelight dinner. She had never given him a key. She had no idea how he got in.

Later, Mac examines the apartment door lock and notices silver flakes and a gummy substance on the outside cylinder mechanism. He takes it back to the Trace Lab where Dr. Hawkes compares keys from Frankie and Stella's sets. He discovers that Frankie has a key that matches Stella's house key. When he places it under the microscope he discovers shavings in the teeth that indicate it was a homemade metal key, something an experienced sculptor like Frankie could easily make. So Frankie seduced Stella, sexually betrayed her, exploited her, and then stalked her. What happened next? Stella grapples with a traumatized memory, remembering that Frankie became cold and enraged when he discovered that she had dumped the "Aresanob" sculpture in the apartment trash bin. He put it back on her dresser. He ripped the phone out of the wall, then pinned her, holding a knife to her throat. That's all she can remember at this point.

Moving to the A/V LAB, Danny and Lindsay inspect the "Harry Belafonte" CD. It actually contains a live recording of Kid Rock's "Bawitdaba." It's a master recording with identifying serial numbers encoded onto the disc to track and prevent piracy. Someone close to Kid Rock had access to this disc: the band, his manager, Blake Mathers (former driver) or Nick Russo (victim/current driver). Maybe Blake killed Russo to prevent his replacement from ripping off his idol, Kid Rock? If so, he was too late. Further checking reveals that Russo uploaded the song online. GSR results come back on Blake Mathers. He's clean. Lindsay has another suspect in mind.

Fresh cigar smoke was found in the limo when she and Mac first examined the body. Kid Rock smokes cigars. He had a five minute break between the final song in his set and the encore. He cannot be ruled out as a suspect. Mac and Lindsay pay a visit backstage as Kid Rock gets warmed up for the night's show. The singer reveals that he did pop into the limo to talk with his substitute driver just before the encore and yes, he knows the man uploaded his live song onto the Internet. He told him to do it. He just didn't want his management to know about it. He felt a little preview to his fans would wet their appetite, help sales of his new album coming out. Mac notes blood trace on his leather show jacket. Kid Rock explains that a fan jumped up on stage last night and grabbed him. Security got rough. Mac and Lindsay force him to turn over the jacket, and she finds the CD given by the groupie, Felicia Badman, in his locker. There's a piece of the cover torn off that matches the piece of paper with the victim's phone number found in the limo. She bags that, as well. Kid Rock proclaims his innocence. Mac's heard that song before.

Back at the hospital, Detective Flack gently takes Stella through the next traumatic steps in her horrific night. He notices the bruising on her wrists, and the cuts on her hands and fingertips. As she studies them, she has a visual flashback to Frankie throwing her down on the bed, tying her wrists behind her, telling her how he poured his heart and soul into making that sculpture, how much he loves her! Stella tries to turn him back to sanity, swallowing her fear, telling him that she loves him, too. But he doesn't buy it and with a viscous punch to her face, knocks her unconscious. When she awakens, he's seated in a chair watching her. Now he's going to show her another kind of art form - the perfect crime scene. With that, he coldly drags her by the ankles towards the bathroom.




Meanwhile, in the Layout Room, Danny and Lindsey identify the printer striations used to make counterfeit CD covers. That leads them to Felicia Badman working a stall on Canal Street loaded with music CDs. She's a professional bootlegger. She admits to hooking up with Nick Russo in the alley and flirting with him to get a backstage pass. He tore a piece of paper off her CD cover (the one she gave Kid Rock) and wrote down his phone number. She hands over the backstage pass he gave her. As they take her downtown for prints and processing, Lindsey gets a call from the DNA LAB. The blood found on Kid Rock's jacket is not a match to the victim. The singer's in the clear.

At Stella's apartment, Mac studies the crime scene again, and HEMATRACKS where Stella was dragged to the bathroom. In the bloody tub he finds a broken female plastic leg shaver, and a single razor blade in the drain. There are skin shards on it. In the fingerprint lab, Hawkes lifts a print off the blade.

In the Layout Room, Danny tells Lindsay that only two sets of prints were found on Felicia Badman's backstage pass - the girls and Russo's. However, Lindsey remembers that all passes were worn around the neck with a thick beaded metal chain. Felicia's pass has no chain, and autopsy photos of Russo reveal a welt on the victim's neck that looks as if the pass was torn from him. Under the microscope they find what appears to be blood trace on the backstage pass. They run the sample through the VIDEO SPECTRAL COMPARATOR and confirm it. Armed with the evidence, they corner Felicia in Interrogation, including the bloody backstage pass chain in her purse. She says that Russo demanded oral sex in exchange for the pass. She reluctantly went ahead and gave him what he wanted when he then reneged on the deal. She thought the pass would be in the glove compartment, but found a Baretta revolver instead. She pointed the gun at him and demanded the pass, but he grabbed the gun and they tussled and it went off, killing him. Accident or not, the case is closed and Felicia is placed under arrest.




Back at the hospital, Flack informs Stella that her blood and prints were found on a razor blade in the bathtub. That triggers a memory stream of what happened after Frankie dragged her into the bathroom. He put her in the tub and was going to carve her up but the doorbell rang. It was a Chinese food deliveryman. While Frankie was occupied with that, Stella managed to reposition her body in the tub, break the shaver, get the blade, and despite repeatedly lacerating her fingertips she managed to cut through her bindings. When Frankie came back, she was hiding behind a door, which she shoved in his face, knocking him to the ground. She scrambled back to the living room and made a desperate reach in her back for her Glock - but he was on her, tackling her, smashing her into a nightstand. The gun went skidding across the floor. He reached it first, turned it on her. Time stopped until Stella moved forward toward the pointed gun, gripping the top of the slide. Frankie pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. In his confusion, she twisted his wrist, grabbed the gun, racked the slide back in place, then fired three shots as he stepped toward her, the last one when he nearly reached her. That's the last thing she remembers.

Later, IAB clears Stella, calling it a justifiable shooting. She is grateful to Danny for walking her through the traumatic experience with Frankie. Mac is waiting as Stella is released from the hospital. He wants her to stay in a hotel with a view of the park and, despite her objection he is putting her on leave from active duty for awhile. She insists on going home. Once back at her apartment, she realizes it's no longer her home - it's a crime scene, a memory of love betrayed. She packs her bags and heads out, passing the blood-misted "Aresanob" sculpture carved by Frankie's artistic but homicidal hands.