- A girl is found stabbed to death in a forest and her amnesiac best friend is the prime suspect, although Patrick has doubts and attempts to jog her memory.
- A female is found dead under a truck and it turns out that her best friend, Nicole, is found holding the murder weapon with no memory of what took place. Jane believes that Nicole is innocent and forces her to deal with the blocked memories to help identify the real killer. That is, of course, if Nicole is actually innocent.—boucy772
- Smalltown sheriff Nelson calls the CBI about two missing locals . Under the girls' car in the forest lies the murdered corps of Kara Palmer, whose family took in her still missing best friend, Nicole Gilbert, allegedly reformed daughter of a jailbird. Kara's parents say Nicole mistrusted Kara's boyfriend, lush lumberjack Jason O'Toole. Ranger Kyle and others volunteer to help looking, Jane presumes including the killer. Simon believes Nicole is a victim too, even after she turns up alive, wielding a bloody knife in amnesiac shock, which Simon deals with his way.—KGF Vissers
- Two teenage girls are missing and CBI team is summoned to investigate the case. Soon Kara Palmer's body is found under her car in the woods and the search party seeks out Nicole Gilbert, who is the prime suspect of killing Kara. They find her but she is amnesic and do not recalls the incident. While in the hospital, Patrick Jane uses his skill to force her to recall the killer.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- The show begins with Jane, Lisbon and Cho being taken to an abandoned car in a remote woodsy location near a river.
The car, dead and out of gas, belonged to two local young women who left an engagement party at a bar the previous evening and haven't been seen since. Almost immediately Jane and a bloodhound help the local sheriffs department discover that one of the women, has been underneath the car the entire time and she has been stabbed to death.
The other woman, newly engaged Nicole Gilbert, is nowhere to be found and the CBI team helps the locals begin the search. We find out that unlike her friend Kara, Nicole has had some run-ins with the law involving drugs. Nicole's mother died when she was young and her father had issues with meth. Some park rangers show up to help with the search, and Lisbon has to scold one of them for assuming Nicole has murdered her friend.
Rigsby and Van Pelt meet with Kara's parents, who loved Nicole and don't seem to think she could have killed their daughter. They mention that the two had conflicted over Nicole's fiancé, Jason, who Kara didn't find trustworthy.
After several miles of search, Jane suggests a trick to see if a member of the search party is the guilty party. Cho and Rigbsy interview Jason, who tells them the two did not have a fight, but that Kara had driven Nicole home the previous night because he was wasted. The entire party was videotaped and Paul spent the night on the bar floor.
Jane's trick fails, and almost immediately afterwards the Sheriff gets a call that a crazed-looking Nicole has been found on her hands and knees in the middle of convenience store isle. She is scarfing down chips and drinking a Gatorade while covered in blood and holding a knife.
At the hospital the doctor tells Jane and Lisbon that Nicole has scratches and mild hypothermia, but is worse-off mentally than she is physically. She is in a psychotic state and has no memory. Given that the blood on her shirt turns out to be Kara's, the Sheriff wants to prosecute immediately but Lisbon holds him back, allowing Jane to interview a drugged up Nicole.
After some prodding Nicole remembers they stopped the car because she had to puke, and at that point a man showed up in a car coming the other way. Nicole remembers a rushing sound like water. The Sheriff still likes Nicole for the murder, but Jane points out that since it was raining the previous night the only way she would still have had blood on her was if she had been under cover. Lisbon decides to look in cabins and sheds near the river and a guard is posted at Nicole's room.
Viewing the bar video, the group decides videographer Jason was pointing the camera at Kara a little too much. They also spot a trucker leering at Kara from the background in a hat which matches make-up found in Kara's car.
Jane again interviews Nicole, who admits she has no idea whether she killed Kara or not. Jason tries to come to the room and is hauled away by officers. This scares Nicole. Later while Nicole is sleeping, a nearby piano sends Jane to a flashback, of a mother and daughter at the piano.
Though he fights being brought into custody, the trucker turns out only to be guilty only of creepiness. He had given Kara free make-up from the company he drove for in an attempt to acquire sexual favors which never came. Jane, who takes Kara's MP3 player out of evidence and listens to it during the interview, doesn't think it makes sense that the guy would kill the girl he liked and take the other one hostage. Lisbon isn't sure, but without evidence they agree just to put surveillance on the trucker.
Jane goes back to the hospital and sneaks Nicole out of her room by tricking the guard.
During surveillance of the trucker, Lisbon somehow realizes that the rushing noise Nicole remembered hearing might have been the highway rather than the river. She calls for ranger to pick her up so they can investigate other cabins and leaves Rigsby with the trucker.
Jane takes Nicole to the exact location of the murder and, using the same song they were listening to that night (MP3 players keep records on when song were played), helps jog her memory. Nicole remembers she had to throw-up because Kara had just told her she had been sneaking around with Jason behind her back. When Nicole got out of the car the man pulled up, knocking her unconscious. When Kara leaves the car to help Nicole he stabs Kara several times in the chest. "Kara died trying to save me," Nicole says, ignoring the fact she was unconscious and should not know this.
She was taken away in a truck with a diesel. At this point the Sheriff realizes Nicole is gone and places an angry call to Lisbon, who is investigating possible cabin/shed locations with the Park Ranger from the beginning of the episode.
More memories of Nicole's abduction are spliced with Lisbon trying to get Jane on the phone. We finally see that Nicole prevented a rape attempt with a well-timed groin kick, grabbing the knife and fleeing. Nicole is unable to identify the trucker but remembers his physical description.
Jane passes along the description to Lisbon, but nothing clicks until Nicole remembers that her attacker "smelled like pineapples." Jane calls back with that info, and Lisbon flashes back to the Ranger's pineapple shaped car freshener.
Lisbon and the killer draw on each other, both missing and both ending up behind furniture in the dark room. Lisbon has kept Jane on speaker the entire time, so when he asks if she's okay Lisbon has to shush him because his voice is audible in the room. Jane has Lisbon slide her phone into the corner of that room, where he purposely speaks loudly. The ranger fires the last of his bullets in that direction and while he reloads Lisbon is able to move position and ambush him, eventually with the help of the late-arriving Rigbsy.
Nicole thanks Jane in the final scene, and he tells her that eventually she'll "start to remember the good things."
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