Someone has killed the man who was going to appoint a new head to the American Studies program at Hudson University. One long-professor, who fancies himself a kind of old Black Panther Party-type guy who wants the promotion is one suspect. A grungy loser graduate student, working 10 years on his dissertation and also benefits if that professor gets the promotion, is another suspect. His girlfriend, a visiting professor from Oxford, is a looker but not much in character, either, nor is the woman who got the promotion. I'm surprised a Liberal-slanted program like this showed all these academia to be so corrupt.
The visiting "professor" turns out to be from Australia, is a serial killer who spent prison time in Thailand and....well...... this woman, "Nicole Wallace," aka "Elizabeth Hitchens, "is so diabolical that, in the end, we find out we haven't seen the last of her.
This was an outstanding episode, one of the best I've ever seen. I look forward to seeing Goren match wits with this woman again.