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19. Beast

After a busy dentist's wife dies from a form of dioxin poisoning, Detectives Goren and Eames ponder a likely set of suspects: the jealous doctor, the victim's possible online lover and a tight group of weekly trivia players. They also focus on who could have obtained the poison but their crucial clue is jealousy -- which might begin with a dead woman.

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Lisa Ross ( Elizabeth Hobgood ), beautiful wife of dentist Dr. Greg Ross ( Bronson Pinchot ), is admitted to hospital for an unknown disfiguring illness and later dies from what is determined to be dioxin poisoning. Detectives Goren and Eames uncover that ten years earlier, Ross was dating Colleen Dexler, but became engaged to her more beautiful sister, Morgan Dexler who later died from dioxin poisoning. Further investigation uncovers that Ross killed Morgan after he discovered she was cheating on him but they suspect that Colleen Dexler ( Katie MacNichol ) killed Lisa Ross to finally have Greg to herself. Under questioning, the detectives illicit admissions of guilt from both suspects after which Goren postulates that beauty can be a beast.

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