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A college football team wins a game and the next morning, the coach is seen in his home bloody but still going through the motions of getting ready. He doesn't appear to be aware that he is injured...he's walking around like a zombie. The house alarm goes off as he walks outside and the campus police show up. He collapses on his front porch and has lost a lot of blood.
The team arrives and Nick is working on the body. Super Dave shares that the football team was on their way to victory this season. Inside Catherine traces the blood back to the bedroom where Ray is examining the site of the bludgeoning. They surmise that the person who did this knew the alarm code because it did not go off until 6 am that morning, triggered by the coach. They also find bloody shoe prints.
Greg and Sara recover a car from a lake with a woman's body in it. She had several escape routes but it appears she got stuck in the seat belt. They find her purse and see that both airbags were deployed, meaning that someone was in the driver side of the car. The car landed driver side down on the lake bed. They find a gun at the bottom of the car in the debris. One cartridge has been fired. Mandy comes to analyze the gun.
At the first crime scene, Catherine talks to the president of the Booster's Club. He shares that the coach had no family, besides the team. And he also shows her where the spare key is that most of his team has access to. In the autopsy room, Nick learns that the coach died from blunt and sharp force trauma. He was hit 12+ times. A wide flat object with narrow edges is the weapon of choice. The Dr. tells Nick that the paleocortex was not harmed explaining the zombie effect. Catherine is still on the scene and is inspecting the bottom floor. She and Ray discover that one of the trophies is missing and another was moved. There's a fingerprint on the back of the moved trophy.
The fingerprint turns out to the college security guy who was first on the scene. Brass shows the kid that he knows he stole a football from the home. He says that the missing trophy wasn't there when he stole the football that morning. Nick realizes that the tall obolisk shaped trophy was used to kill the coach. It was his coach of the year trophy. The bloody shoe impression was last year's model of a Jupiter shoe, a football team sponsor. This means that the killer was a football player...Hodges narrows it down based on shoe size to Calvin Crook, the star running back. He traces an e-mail trail that shows Calvin was thinking about leaving school early and then going into the NFL. The coach encouraged the kid to stay in school and had forwarded him an article of a young man that was shot and killed. For some reason, that convinced Calvin to stop asking about the NFL draft.
Nick and Ray go to question Calvin. He is evasive about the shoes and told them that the article about the young man, Andrew Jiminez, was used to motivate him to understand that life is short. He tells Nick and Ray that he threw the shoes out and that he was in his bed from 1 am to 6 am.
Sara finds out in the autopsy that the female victim had pubic hair in her teeth and had inhaled glass, proving that the window had been broken after the car was submerged. Greg test fires the gun to find a ballistics match. It was used in a 6 month old unsolved homicide - the murder of Andrew Jiminez. They surmise the fun was fired underwater. The man in the car escapes out the window in order to save her. She shoots out the window because she thinks that he has left her. She shoots him and then drowns. Catherine reminds them that there is no evidence of Andrew being in the car, so they start looking. Sara and Greg test whether it's possible to shoot through glass and water and kill someone. The discover the shot will go at least 2 inches, which proves that Paige shot him, probably by accident.
The whole team gets together when they realize that the coach was killed a day after the car with Paige surfaced. Andrew had no ties to WLVU and Paige was new to Vegas and was arrested for prostitution six months earlier. Nick posits that both victims had BMWs, and they are from the same dealership. The president of the team's booster club, Hal Arnold, owns the dealership. Nick and Brass arrive at Arnold's home and he is having a party. The silver BMW at the bottom of the leg was Arnold's. He had reported it missing. Paige had attended a party months before and Arnold says he figured she stole the car. They ask Calvin, who is at the party, whether or not he knows Paige. Calvin says that he needs an attorney.
Sara and Greg are back at the crime scene and find a Lakeside Pizza jacket, which belonged to Andrew. Greg finds a shoe with pizza sauce. The shoes weren't in the water. They realize he wasn't in the car. He took off his shoes and jacket to save the people in the car. The driver must have ditched the clothes and run off. At the station, Calvin is being questioned. The hair on Paige was hers. Calvin took Arnold's car to the lake with Paige. Coach Miller was going to blow Calvin's chances to go pro when he found out about the incident. Calvin admits he was at the party and that he was in the car with Paige. Coach Miller had shown up and said that Calvin was disappointing him. Hal and Coach Miller have a confrontation where the Coach tells him that Hal was never what these boys are and never will be. Calvin swears that if he was in the car he would have tried to save the girl.
Nick, Ray and Catherine talk about the case. There is no physical evidence connecting him to Coach Miller or Paige. Ray gets Wendy and Hodges to volunteer for an experiment to try to find the murder weapon. Brass questions Hal Arnold and tells him the gun has been traced to him. Hal confesses that he drove Paige home and that he crashed the car into the lake and left Paige there. He saw Andrew arrive and thought he would save Paige, until he saw the body float up. He didn't call 911 because he was scared. When he arrived back home, Coach Miller was waiting there, so Arnold had to tell him what happened. He convinced the coach to stay silent by telling him he'd take the team down with him. When the car resurfaced, Coach Miller's conscience reared up and Arnold had to kill him....or did he?
Hodges, Ray an Wendy dig through trash until they find the trophy. They also find the shoes. They trace both back to Calvin. He wants to tell Ray why against his lawyers wishes. Calvin says that he killed the coach because the coach didn't keep his promise - he stopped playing Calvin when it mattered the most.
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