Jane investigates the murder of a graduate student who worked at the university's natural history museum. She was a dedicated student of biology, and had just earned the dean's fellowship for her work, a triumph that created an atmosphere of jealousy among her colleagues. She had also just been dumped by her boyfriend, a cop who broke up with her after being anonymously sent a link to her online dating profile. As Jane delves into the surprisingly cutthroat world of academics, Lisbon attempts to convince Bertram to fund a leave of absence for Van Pelt to take a month long seminar on computer hacking.