When a wealthy man is reported missing Jane quickly claims that the man never left his house; the local police claim that is impossible but Jane soon finds the man's body in a well-hidden 'safe room'. It looks as though the man was tortured by unknown assailants then managed to get to the room before dying. At the dead man's funeral Jane manages to offend his widow and the family lawyer but later, when he is sent to apologise he befriends her. Here he learns that far from being wealthy the man had recently gone bankrupt and she faces losing everything. As the investigation continues it emerges that he had a younger girlfriend who claims that he was about to leave his wife for her
along with his daughter and ten million dollars' worth of diamonds. The problem is nobody knows where he hid the diamonds and both women point the finger of blame at the other.
This was another entertaining episode; the intrigue starts almost immediately as Jane claims the man is in a house that has been thoroughly searched by the police. After that further questions are raised at regular intervals and the tension is increased when we learn about the diamonds ten again when the victim's daughter is kidnapped. As one would expect Jane provides plenty of laughs; the funniest when he accepts a bet to try to seduce the widow at her husband's funeral! Simon Baker is on great form here. The rest of the cast are solid too; as well as the regulars, Lisa Brenner and Angela Sarafyan stand out as the widow and girlfriend. The final resolution to the story is solid if not a great surprise there weren't too many likely suspects to begin with. Overall this was another really enjoyably episode.
This was another entertaining episode; the intrigue starts almost immediately as Jane claims the man is in a house that has been thoroughly searched by the police. After that further questions are raised at regular intervals and the tension is increased when we learn about the diamonds ten again when the victim's daughter is kidnapped. As one would expect Jane provides plenty of laughs; the funniest when he accepts a bet to try to seduce the widow at her husband's funeral! Simon Baker is on great form here. The rest of the cast are solid too; as well as the regulars, Lisa Brenner and Angela Sarafyan stand out as the widow and girlfriend. The final resolution to the story is solid if not a great surprise there weren't too many likely suspects to begin with. Overall this was another really enjoyably episode.