The investigation of the murder of a high school English teacher gives Patrick an opportunity to show off his acting skills to a drama class.
Generally liked and respected Redmund high school English teacher McTierney's corpse is found in the surrounding woodland, skull smashed on his jogging route. Patrick uses many tricks, often interacting with the Hamlet school production, to discover social dynamics and secret among pupils and staff, including drug dealing, forbidden love and the principal's petty dictator practices.—KGF Vissers
When the body of the English teacher Jack McTierney is found on the baseball field of the school where he worked with the skull fractured, the CBI agents find Ecstasy and a letter addressed to a former student with him. They also learn that McTierney was a teacher that loved to help the students. Meanwhile, Patrick Jane meets the theater teacher Ms. Austin and her students that are preparing the play Hamlet, and he shows knowledge and how to act, impressing the group. He also finds that principal Snyder had hidden cameras in the bathroom. During the exhibition of the play, Patrick exposes the criminal.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil