"Once upon a time, there was a fearless Captain named Adalet. Every criminal in Pacific Bay feared her might..." Frank says as he was looking at the cover of a green book.

Adalet glanced over the monitor of her computer, "Frank, are you turning us into a fairy tale?"

"Sorry Adalet, it's just that today's a special day. Have you ever heard of The Glass Princess?" he held up the book for her to see, "it's a famous fairy tale for kids. It was my daughter's favourite book when she was little. Back then it was still easy to know her tastes..."

"I think I've heard of it before..." she hums.

"Anyway, the Mr. Sparkles studios are shooting a live-action adaptation of the book right here in Ivywood! They hired the young Jenny Galguera to star in the movie. And my daughter has always been a big fan of hers," he continues to explain, "as far as I remember, Jenny's been on TV since she was 4, and my daughter followed her all her life. Talk about a career! So I thought... If I can get an autograph from Jenny on her favourite book, maybe my daughter will speak to me again, you see?"

"I think that's a great idea, Frank," she smiled proudly at his heartfelt plan.

"Really Adalet? You think that's a brilliant idea?" he beamed with pride, "let's go to the movie set, then. And of course, they'll let us in! What's a police badge made for?"

"Pretty sure it's not for that, but you put me in a good mood so I don't feel like arguing..."

"Here we are, Adalet! We're on the set of The Glass Princess movie! Do you see Jenny anywhere?" Frank inquired as they walked around the movie set.

"No," Adalet answered as she looked around, "but something doesn't feel right... Where is everybody?"

"What do you mean, something's not right?" he questioned, he only got a shrug in reply, "well if you can't be any more specific, I'll just let you search the set for me then!"

While Frank wandered around the studio, Adalet and Hunter approached the main set for the Glass princess movie. The set was a cute bedroom, covered in pink and frills, it looked to have been taken right out of the storybook, but there was a gruesome sight in front of the mirror that tainted the lovely set. The body of a teenager in a yellow ball gown was slumped against the shattered mirror, glass shards sticking out of her body and blood dripping down from the wounds onto her gown and the floor.

Looking around the set, Adalet found some clues that the killer could have left behind. The first was yellow agenda that lay on the ground a couple of feet away from the body, and the second was a sheet music score that someone had taped on the mirror. As she was picking up the evidence, Frank rejoined her on the set.

Frank gasped in shock at the sight before him, "oh no Adalet, you found Jenny Galguera alright... but she's dead!"

"And it's clear that someone used this mirror to kill Jenny," Adalet responded, "the glass debris has cut into her face! We can rule out accident Frank, this is murder!"

"And this is how Jenny's life ends. Born an actress, star for a decade, and now she ends up in an autopsy room... And now she's dead, I'll never get that autograph for my daughter! She will never love me again!" he complained.

"Frank!" she scolded.

He gulped quickly falling into a salute, "erm you're right, I guess we should find who pushed Jenny against that mirror quick, Adalet. Well, at least it looks like you found Jenny's agenda! Let's have a look inside..."

Frank took the book from his partner and flipped through to the most recent entries, "Dress fittings, song rehearsal, shopping"... She had a busy schedule. The other page is faded, but if you can retrieve what's on it we could know where Jenny went before she died!"

"And this music sheet was put on the mirror after it was broken," Adalet says pulling it off of the shattered glass, "it could be a message from the killer! If we can figure out the tune from the notes, it might give us a lead!"

"You think you can identify the tune by reading the notes?" he frowned, "I doubt it, but let's see..."

Adalet took back the victim's agenda and pulled out her dusting kit. She dusted the blank page that Frank had found and gently shook off the excess dust left behind. They took a look at the entries and saw that they were for the time period leading up to now.

"Well done Adalet, now we know Jenny was at the Mr. Sparkles art studio just before she came to the shooting set!" Frank grinned pointing to the entry he was referring to.

"Well, I guess we know where we're going next!" Adalet says putting the book away in her case.

"Roger that, Adalet. We gotta follow this trail. Let's go to the art studio!"

But before they could leave the set, they first had to examine the sheet music. Luckily, Adalet knew how to read sheet music from her time in theatre. She imputed the time signature, key signature, and the notes to find out who had written the tune. When she had gotten the results, she turned her device around for Frank to see.

"That's not half bad Adalet! Analyzing the notes from the music sheet the killer left on the crime scene, you found out it was written by author Gaston Dumas!" Frank said as he read the profile Adalet had found. He seemed to think for a moment before adding, "now I remember! Gaston Dumas is the author of The Glass Princess, and that tune is taken from his book!"

"Looks like our best course of action is to go question Gaston Dumas," Adalet says as backup arrived to take over the scene.

"What are you waiting for? Let's go!"

They tracked down Gaston Dumas to another part of the studio that functioned as a library for workers to use for research or to just have a quiet place. As they made the introductions, Frank couldn't hide his shock at meeting the author.

"You're Gaston Dumas? You're the one who wrote the Glass Princess? Honestly, I expected something different..." the detective admitted.

Gaston pulled out his cigarette, "everybody's got to eat, right? Princess books are what sells! What do you know, all the parents love those soppy stories for their brats!"

"Right," he decided it was best to move on, "well Capt. Adalet found this tune on the set of the Glass Princess movie, right where Jenny Galguera was killed."

"Are you telling me the Glass Princess got killed? Now that's entertainment! And you say the killer pinned this tune to the mirror?" he looked way too excited at hearing that piece of information, "this is the evil witch's song. In my book, she appears inside the Glass Princess' mirror to sing it. It's like an omen, bad news."

"My daughter hated that part. It gave her the creeps..." he commented.

"Well, at least it definitely means Jenny's killer had read my book! I guess I should feel flattered!" he chuckled going back to whatever it was that he'd been doing.

As they were leaving the building, Frank spoke up, "Gaston may be a horribly cold-hearted man, but I agree, he's got a point. Jenny's killer clearly knows the Glass Princess book by heart!"

"And since Gaston wrote the book, he knows it better than anybody!" Adalet pointed out as she made a note of it for his profile.

The cops made their way across the studio to where the sketching room was located. Once they were inside, they searched for anything that could be linked to Jenny's murder. Frank found a yellow purse with a bedazzled "Jenny" on the front of the fake leather, while Adalet picked up some bits of broken pink plastic off the ground that someone had tried to throw away but had missed the trash bin.

"Come on Adalet," Frank smirked, "you seriously think this plastic junk will give us something related to our victim's last moments? Well, you can restore it on your own then! This looks more promising! This purse says "Jenny" as in Jenny Galguera, our victim! I'll let you do the searching though, I'm not comfortable with women's belongings."

"You're the opposite of Jones, then..." Adalet rolls her eyes but still took the purse.

Adalet turned the purse upside down and the contents spilled out onto the table below. Sifting through the bottles of perfume, gloves, make-up and candies, she found a folded piece of paper. Adalet pulled it out of the pile and opened it up to see what was written on it.

"Gee, Adalet... I just figured out this girl's purse is something my daughter could have. She must be so grown-up now..." Frank sighs, "sorry Adalet, I got carried away again... You found a scribbled sheet inside the victim's purse?"

Adalet nodded, "it looks like Jenny scribbled "I am a Princess" over and over again... the kid must have been really disturbed. And it seems as if there used to be something else here on this page!"

"Well all I'm asking is that you retrieve it!" he laughed.

Adalet smirked as she pulled out her dust and brush. She dusted the center of the paper and recovered an inkblot image that seemed to resemble a woman wearing a ballgown, a princess one could argue.

"You're on the right track Adalet, you've revealed an inkblot on the victim's sheet!" Frank grins taking the paper from her to get a better look at it.

Adalet rolled her eyes, "with how much you annoy Russell, I'm surprised you know what those are!"

"Of course I know what an inkblot test is Adalet, I'm not stupid! Shrinks use it to, well... mess with your head!" he answered, "speaking about messing with your head, and Russell, we should send the inkblot test off to him. He'll know what to make of it."

While Frank was folding up the paper, Adalet had begun gluing and taping the pieces of plastic back together. It turned out that it was a pink alarm clock, with a cartoonish image of Jenny dressed as the Glass Princess on the face of it. But someone had written across the front of the clock's base with a permanent black marker.

"Sorry Adalet, I can see the Glass Princess on this toy alarm clock you just fixed, but what is your point?" Frank asked.

"There's something written on the clock: "Be late again, get fired!" And it's signed by a certain Horace," Adalet explained while pointing to the writing.

"But who's Horace? Don't move, Adalet. I'll text Hannah about it if it's such a strain on you," he smirked sending a quick message to their resident techie.

"Stop the presses, Frank Knight is willingly using a smartphone?" she teased.

"You're hearing right, I can use a computerized phone now," he replied proudly, "and Hannah just sent me her reply: this "Horace" must be Horace Foster. Not only did Horace Foster give this clock to our victim, but he is the producer of The Glass Princess movie! Let's pay him a visit, Adalet!"

They got the address for Horace's house from Hannah and drove out to the location to ask the man about the message to the victim. The man's house was more of a mansion, styled to resemble a fancy ranch/castle hybrid. Frank and Adalet were showing inside by an assistant and introduced themselves to Horace once they were brought into his private office.

"Okay officers," Horace says letting out a puff of cigar smoke, "you have my attention. Two minutes tops, cause time is money and time I'm lacking!"

"Talking about time Mr. Foster," Frank said as Adalet produced the alarm clock from her bag, "why berate Jenny for coming late with this Glass Princess alarm clock?!"

"Well I admit, not everything about Jenny was perfect. She could act, sing and dance alright, but she was always late! Let me tell you, it would never have happened back in the 70s..." he boasted, "that was the time when actors were devoted and compliant! We owned them with real contracts! Those were the years! But above all, actors finished their movies before dying! How am I supposed to work with spoiled brats like Jenny?!"

"Hey, Frank! Did the mirror shatter on the victim before or after you looked into it?" Roxie teased.

"That's a low blow. Even for you, Roxie. And I'm not in the mood for jokes. A young girl the age of my daughter has just been murdered. This is all kinds of wrong," Frank says with deadly seriousness. .

"Alright, the killer pushed Jenny against the mirror hard enough to make it shatter. And that was just the start," the ME picked up a large shard of bloody glass, "what sealed the deal is this piece of glass. The killer had the guts to stab it in her neck. Delicate move, but that worked perfectly!"

"Good work, Roxie," Adalet smiled, "we can file this piece of glass as our murder weapon!"

Roxie winked, "sadly for the killer, that glass debris gave us precious information, as I found residue of anti-ageing cream while doing a culture on it!"

"Interesting," Frank smirked, "so the killer uses anti-ageing cream? They gotta be addicted to their reflection, just like the Glass Princess!"

The pair left the morgue and headed across the station to Russell's office to see what he had discovered about the inkblot test they had sent him.

"Hey Adalet," Russell greeted with a nervous smile, "glad to see you again. I'd like to apologize again for my little mistake the other day, making you arrest the wrong suspect and all..."

"Alright Russell, down to brass tacks, shall we? What's with the inkblot test Adalet found in the victim's purse?" Frank asks before the profiler could continue his babbling.

"As you know, people see what they want in an inkblot. And it appears your victim saw a princess in that shape. And according to what she wrote in these pages, your victim thought she was an actual princess!" he informed as he places his glasses down, "I'd say her neurosis is on a reality/fiction struggle basis, but just in case, you should ask the victim's psychiatrist, Dr. Trevor Neuman. Neuman got his reputation from helping star children deal with their careers."

"You got it Adalet, that's our man! Time to go see the shrink! But I'm warning you," Frank tells her, "he'd better not try to mess with MY head!"

Russell gave them the address for Trevor Neuman's office building. Adalet and Frank arrived at the upscale office building and rode the elevator up to the third floor which housed the psychiatric offices. They caught Trevor as he was returning from his lunch hour, and the doctor invited them into his room to talk.

"Ah, you're here about Jenny's murder, I assume. I am so sorry for her," Trevor tells them pulling his pipe from his mouth, "all her life she's been struggling. And now she's dead!"

"The reason we're here is that Jenny seems to have been a little... unbalanced," Adalet decided on, "we would like to know more about this."

"I can see you're not from around here. Ivywood is one tough place to grow up in. The competition, the peer pressure... not exactly a safe environment for kids," he complained, "and Jenny was like any other kid who started her career before learning how to read. She couldn't really build proper empathy and well, fell into depression. What do you know? Ivywood is such a jungle... maybe Jenny is happier where she is now!"

"This is a bad day, Adalet. Normally I enjoy the excitement of chasing a murderer, but not when an innocent teenager is the victim!" Frank sighed slumping down his chair, "Jenny was under great pressure as she was about to star in The Glass Princess live-action adaptation, a big thing for such a young girl."

"Her producer, Horace Foster, berated her for coming late on stage and threatened to fire her if she kept doing so," Adalet took over as she updated their case file, "Jenny was also seeing a psychiatrist, Trevor Neuman, who told us she was missing a few marbles. But according to him, nothing uncommon for a child star."

"Adalet! There's a situation at the Mr. Sparkles flagship store!" Andrea informed as she came marching over, "your victim was supposed to make an appearance in her princess dress there, all her fans were waiting for her. But when they got wind of her death, the fans had a massive temper tantrum!"

"Yeah, what about it? Jenny's fans are a bunch of 8-year-old kids. What should we fear from them?" Frank asked skeptically.

"Really, Frank? So you've handled a hundred angry kids before?" the chief asked clearly unamused.

That made him gulp nervously, "oh, now you say it that way... It's true my daughter was tough to deal with when she was angry! A whole bunch of angry kids must be a force to reckon with! Alright Adalet, we better go to that shop now!"

"The crazy Glass Princess fans have left the place, but look at the mess they left behind!" Frank says looking around at the almost destroyed toy store, "now that homage shrine to the victim is one nice thing! You think we should search through it?"

"Definitely," Adalet answered, "and these scraps of paper could probably lead us to a new clue."

He grinned, "but we both know who's good at puzzles in this team, so I'll just wait for you to be done!"

"Go away! Go away, scum! Leave Jenny alone!" the cops were shocked to see Dr. Trevor Neuman shouting at them while brandishing a brick with his hand.

"Wow, calm down doc! What are you doing here? And you might wanna lower that brick, too," Frank advises.

Trevor put down the brick, shocked to see who he was talking to, "but you don't understand! The shop couldn't use Jenny to sell their toys so they set up her death into another marketing stunt!"

He sighed, "I know doc, it's sad. But for now just calm down, Capt. Adalet will have a few more questions about Jenny."

"I can't take it anymore, Capt. Adalet. This place, this industry..." he wiped tears from his eyes, "and all these kids we take away from their childhood. Ivywood killed Jenny!"

"I know, doc," Frank agreed, "I too have a daughter, about the same age as Jenny. I wouldn't want this kind of life for her."

"How many kids do we have to sacrifice so the masses can keep having their cheap entertainment?" Trevor questioned.

Adalet sighed, "I wish it could be none, Trevor."

"And really it's sad to see how a book as bad as The Glass Princess can be so successful! I read it, it only glorifies youth and beauty! A terrible message for young girls!" he ranted, "this age glorification is a plague for our society. Even I am a victim. I use anti-ageing cream every morning, even though it is completely useless! Can you believe it?"

She blinked not sure how to respond, "that... is surprising, but thank you for the information, Trevor. Now, I suggest that you go home and rest, it sounds like you have a stressful day... or week!"

As Trevor left the toy store, Adalet worked on repairing that torn pieces of paper she had found. She taped together the pieces and saw that they made up a promotional poster for The Glass Princess movie. Jenny stood in front of her mirror singing, while in the reflection of the glass was a wicked-looking witch. But someone had defected the poster and marked a large 'X' across Jenny's face while adding in a speech bubble for the witch.

"Not too shabby, Adalet! This poster you just fixed shows the Glass Princess singing in front of her mirror, but the reflection shows the witch instead," Frank summarized the image, "but what's the deal with the victim's crossed-out face and that message, "It's my turn now!"? It's like the witch is threatening the princess!"