The remains of a 14-year-old boy are found in a greenhouse, and the episode follows the skull as it proceeds through the case. Angela once again calls upon her psychic friend Avalon Harmonia (Cyndi Lauper) when she believes that Avalon could help find out who murdered the young boy but, when Avalon arrives, everyone believes that she shouldn't be there; she later returns saying that she believes the victim is still trapped on Earth and has yet to pass on. The team finds that the boy's death was accidental, after he was riding on the hood of a car, and his friends decided not to tell and, instead, hide the body. The team, with Avalon, play a video he made for the girl he loved, which allows his spirit to move on.
Note: This episode is told and filmed from the point of view of the deceased victim.
Tropes
- Formula-Breaking Episode: The episode puts the viewer in the POV of the victim's skull.
- It Never Gets Any Easier: The episode shows how the entire team's affected by the remains of a young 14-year old.
- Shaky P.O.V. Cam: The camera is played this way, and often focuses away from the person who's talking, all to emphasize it's the skull's POV.
- Unbroken First-Person Perspective: Everything until the last few minutes is seen from the POV of the victim's skull.
- Unfinished Business: Avalon senses this about the victim, and after having tried to reassure him about the children he would have fathered and the team solving his death, they eventually figure out that the reason he couldn't move on was that he Miranda never heard the song he wrote her.
- What Could Have Been: In-Universe. Avalon tells Colin's spirit that he would've grown up, had a wife and children, and would have made the world a better place had he not died, and laments the loss of that future.
- Whodunnit to Me?: The episode plays with this. The victim is dead and doesn't play any tangible part in solving his murder, but all of the characters treat him as if his spirit is still with his body and the entire episode is seen "through the victim's eyes", with the victim's skull always immediately Behind the Black.
