Robin Hendlix (Also Hendrix) is a one shot star. After a movie he made over a decade ago he hasn't been able to get a decent part and his acting career is thought to be over. On top of that, his most recent girlfriend has dumped him because he adores and collects lizards.
      Leon and the investigators find Robin's body in his home. He's already been dead for 16 hours and doesn't seem to have died from anything unnatural. But Leon spots a small white lizard on the back of his neck.
      Back at the station Leon is looking over all the past unsolved cases. Nothing is similar, the only connection is they all visited Count D's petshop. Jill comes back and informs him that the lizard found on Robin's neck wasn't poisonous, and they were having trouble finding any information because it was a very rare species. The make-up around the room was from Robin's wife, who had separated from him long before and had an alibi.
      This leaves Leon with one choice. He heads over to the petshop, taking Jill's last bit of advice with him, "Pull when you want to push."
      Robin was no stranger to the Count's shop since he has gotten most of his lizards there. Showing The Count the picture of the white lizard he tells him they found it dead there. For once D seems to be genuinely concerned, upset that such a rare species died. Once again Leon is accusing him of selling dangerous pets. Of course D just replies that he doesn't sell such things.
      That brings Leon to pull out the big guns. Calmly he puts down a small box of De Champagne from Hotel de Marseilles, a difficult treat to get. More than just impressed Count D declares he didn't know Leon was such a nice man. It isn't too long before he sits Leon down and tells him the story.
      Robin was shot into fame with one film, and after that he couldn't find any roles to expand his career. Everyone always thought of him as the prince from that movie, he couldn't move on. People didn't want to picture him as anything else but that prince. Leon isn't quick to believe that Robin was killed by the spirit of the prince he played though. So the Count tells him of two months previous, when Robin last came into the petshop.
      Robin was just recently dumped and came to the petshop to purchase another lizard, hopefully something rare. Count D showed him to the back room where he had a medusa, a lizard that appeared as a young woman from above the waist. At first Robin thinks it's a sick joke, but D assures him that she is a lizard. Even though Robin wants to see her with her blindfold off Count D tells him he can't. Myth told that medusas had been kept as weapons before. A king had been defeated and was running to save his life. The opposing soldiers went after him, but a young woman step out from behind a pillar. She pulled off her blindfold, and the men saw her eyes and turned to stone. They dropped their guard, and died when they looked into her eyes.
      Once again Leon is disbelieving of the story. He jumps up and pounds his fist on the table, yelling at the Count that if Robin even believed the lizard was a woman in the first place he must have been on drugs. The Count recommends he gets a Java sparrow for himself.
      "I don't need any pets." Leon mutters.
      "No, what I'm suggestion is that you grind it and eat its bones." D replies, something between being malicious and teasing Leon, "You are so irritable you must suffer from a calcium deficiency."
      Completely taken by surprise, Leon gives in with a smug, "You win." and seats himself for the rest of the story.
      Robin bought the lizard, whom seemed to like Robin as well. He picks up his always handy contract and reads it as he continues. The three sales terms were:
1) The customer is to feed her fresh fruits or small live animals on a daily basis
2) The customer is not to show her to anybody
3) The customer is not to look into her eyes under any circumstances.
      He hands over the contract to Leon, who takes it. Leon tells the Count that a few weeks earlier Robin had gone to an audition since he hadn't done anything special for so long, and he thought after all this time he would have given up on his dreams. D disagrees, that he already had other dreams.
      Robin took good care of Medusa, and enjoyed taking care of her. She depended on him and believed in him when no one else did. Even though she couldn't speak back to him, she wasn't fake or shallow.
      His agent called him up with a new audition for him to show up at. The conversation goes normally, until his agent happens to mention that without his wife anymore he couldn't afford his home, and he wouldn't be able to keep all of his pets if he didn't get the part. Shocked, as if he hadn't thought about that before, he glances up at Medusa who is sitting on the stairway.
      At the audition he performed better than he had in years. He felt rejuvinated, he finally had something to work for. Unfortunately, he was competing against a new rising pop star Toby Highmer. He doesn't let this bother him too much; he isn't taking the job just because he wants it. He goes back up and performs his best.
      Robin doesn't get the part. It turns out that Highmer's manager was the producer's lover, so Highmer got the part. Calmly Robin lets his manager know that it doesn't bother him too much. He wasn't meant for competition. He walks back to his house.
      Robin returns home to Medusa, saddened because he won't be able to keep her.
      He takes out his wife's make-up and puts it on Medusa. With a few bottles of wine and a small celebration set up he and Medusa toast. He puts his glass to the side and unties Medusa's blindfold. Quickly she turns her head away, but he tells her to look at him. Reluctantly she opens her eyes, and he falls over, dead.
      Leon interrupts the story again. No lizard can kill a human with its gaze. This doesn't bother D much, that means he can't be held liable for anything that happened (yet again). He tells Leon to leave, but Leon wants to know why Medusa died too. That's the part the Count didn't expect.
      Medusa was traumatized because the man she loved died the first time she saw him. She picked up a mirror and gazed into her own eyes, and fell over dead next to him.
      At Robin's funeral D brings a small bottle holding Medusa's bones, telling Leon it would be just for the lovers to be together. Again the Count sees the good of what has happened. Robin is dead, but now his spirit was free to live on. People at the grave site murmured what a wonderful actor he was, how terrible it was for him to die so young and that they heard he had a new role coming up soon. In his death he could finally be a rising success.