4. Sex, Lies and Silicone

A powerful business consultant is killed during an unrelated street party, and the motive appears to be related to her missing flash drive, which contains incriminating information against some of New York's most influential people.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

When a prominent journalist named Ann Steele turns up dead at a street party, the investigation leads the team to a life-sized silicone doll company. When Mac and the team close the case, Ann Steele is revealed to have had a flash drive on which she kept several damning secrets about several city officials and other prominent people, but at the end of the episode, the flash drive is shown to be stolen by an unknown person.

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