- CBI is forced to work with two Davis police officers to solve a double homicide involving a star witness in a drug trial. However, CBI soon suspects that the officers may have a connection to the other victim in the case.
- Street dealer Joseph 'Joe' Purcell and Patrice Matigan, indispensable witnesses against drug lord Rick Carris, are found slashed by uniformed Davis City cop Sam Blakely. His dad Dale and Steve Preciado are the local detectives on the Carris' case. CBI investigates several possible personal connections.—KGF Vissers
- When the rookie police officer Sam Blakely attends a dispatch call, he finds the drug dealer Joseph 'Joe' Purcell and his former wife Patrice Matigan murdered in a motel room. Police Detectives Dale Blakely, who is Sam's father, and his rude partner Steve Preciado, are forced to team-up with CBI agents in the investigation since Joe Purcell was the witness against the powerful kingpin Rick Carris that had fled from the protection of the police department. Soon Patrick finds a baby left in Patrice's car and Patrick and Lisbon investigate her address. Her mate Lacey Well tells that Patrice was a great mother that was financially supported by a man. The CBI agents arrest Rick Carris and soon they suspect of Steve Preciado, who has the alibi that he had spent the night at the Blakely's home. While interviewing Katherine Blakely, Patrick and Lisbon find new suspects and plot a plan to confirm.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Davis Motor Inn Davis, Cali.
A police officer responds to a report of screaming and gun shots at a seedy motel. He's young and doesn't seem particularly confident. He opens the door and sees two bodies and hyperventilates.
The next day, the CBI folk arrive. The man, Joe Purcell, was a state's witness who went AWOL. Jane sees keys in the dead woman's hand, a gun on a bureau, a baby bottle and what seems like a small baggie of coke. Jane says it's not cocaine. It's powdered milk. He picks up her keys and beeps her car in the lot. She was only planning on stopping by. Jane pulls a baby out of the car. She's alive and adorable.
Social Services comes for the kid and Jane is sorry to see her go. The Davis PD detectives arrive. Detective Blakely is the father of the young cop who found the bodies. He clarifies that the case still belongs to his department.
They think it was Rick Karras, the drug dealer Joe Purcells was going to testify against.
Jane finds a bridal magazine addressed to a Lacey Wells in Patrice's car. They go to the address. Lacey says Patrice lived there. Joe called Patrice, her baby daddy, last night, begging her to bring him food because he was hiding from Karras' boys. Jane wonders why she'd take Kaley. Lacey had been drinking and couldn't babysit.
Patrice always has money when she needs it, Lacey says. They got busted a while ago with Lacey's drugs and Patrice made the case disappear.
Rigsby calls, saying a snitch has a location on Rick Karras.
At the location, the Davis PD guys want to bust in and make the arrest before Lisbon arrives. Rigsby tries to tell them to be smart but Detective Presaido puffs up and charges in. Lisbon arrives in time to cover the PD as Jane, naturally, waits by the car, observing. Of course, the suspect runs out the back. Jane stops him by blocking shut a gate with a cement block. The PD guys come out after BCI have Karras in cuffs and, over their protestations, Lisbon takes Karras for herself.
In the interview, Karras denies involvement. The trafficking case would be his third strike. Cho plays Purcell's answering machine tape of Karras threatening to cut his heart out. He admits he was looking for him, but he hadn't found him. He was with a waitress named Sasha at his bar last night. Lisbon says she'll just hand him over to the Davis PD and he asks for a lawyer.
Lunch arrives, giving Jane an opportunity to talk to Van Pelt about her ratio of "nice" to necessary "bitch."
Sasha gave Karras an alibi. They were having sex with the TV on. "And she's confident of the time because it was that Scottish guy interviewing that actress who married the country singer," Cho reports.
Jane says Karras isn't responsible for the murders. It's not his style to wait and follow Patrice to Joe. Jane suggests Patrice was the target. She had, as Lacey said, a skinny boyfriend with dark hair that drives a blue car. And she had a supply of money and was able to make a serious drug charge disappear. The description fits Detective Presaido.
Cho wants to talk to him, but Lisbon suggests they go cautiously.
They find Presiado and Blakely. Rigsby notices he carries a .38. Lisbon tells him Lacey ID'd him, they can put him with Patrice. He goes with them.
Jane joins Lisbon, super friendly and eating his lunch. Lisbon lays out their evidence: he gave Patrice money and drugs disappeared from lock-up following her bust.
He says she was a confidential informant. But she wasn't on file and he didn't put in for the expense so that line doesn't work.
He says he was sleeping with her, but paying her for it. He says he didn't know Joe Purcell was the father of her child. Jane offers him the rest of of his sandwich and touches Presaido's wrist. Presaido offers his partner Dale and his partner's wife as alibi witnesses.
Lisbon asks if they can examine his gun. When he hands it over, Jane grabs his wrist again, which makes him angry.
Outside Jane describes Presaido's pulse as "dishonest."
They go to the Blakelys. Sam, the young officer, answers the door. He says it's not convenient but his mom comes to the door. Inside she goes on about how proud she is of her two cop men. Jane asks Sam to leave. He objects but his mom runs him off.
When they're alone, mom talks about how upset Sam was when he found the bodies.
Mrs. Blakely calls Presaido "a straight arrow" and giggles when Jane tells her he confessed to having an affair with Patrice. She tells him that Dale says Steve has a problem "down there" and that pills won't help. She says that Steve was probably lying to protect his "machismo" or someone else... She realizes who that someone else was and knocks over her glass. Sam comes in, angry at Jane for upsetting his mom. He asks what Jane told her. She realizes that her son knew. He says that she's got it all wrong, that his dad wasn't having an affair.
Dale drives up and his wife confronts him, saying he promised never to cheat on her again. He tries to hustle her in the house because that is what one does when accused of adultery on one's front lawn. Lisbon drives up behind him in time to see Jane try to talk to Dale and get socked in the nose in response.
At the office, Minelli tells Lisbon she'd better be sure. She arrested Dale Blakely for assault and thinks he might be good for the murders.
He tells Cho he was helping Patrice out. Blakely says his service revolver was stolen out of his car. It's the same kind as the murder weapon. Watching from behind the glass, Jane thinks Dale won't talk.
Sam Blakely stops by. Jane shuts him up by agreeing that his dad is innocent. Lisbon tells Sam the security camera from the liquor store shows a man driving up, it's a guy named "Q-Tip" who works for Karras. Lisbon tells Sam that Q-Tip claims he got there after they'd been killed, but saw who did it. Sam can't believe they're buying that. Lisbon says in fact they're not, but they're going to play along. They're going to get Karras to set up a meet with Q-Tip, pick him up and work him for the real story.
She wants him to have a "quiet word" with the chief to let him know what's coming, but not to tell anyone else. Sam says knowing the chief he'll want to know where the meet will happen and who they've got undercover. Jane watches like a spider observing an insect stepping onto its web, if the spider were very handsome.
From the office, Lisbon radios Van Pelt and Rigsby in one car and Cho in another and Sam, telling them Q-Tip is on the way to a warehouse in the same struck from the surveillance. Both BCI teams report they can't get there fast enough as they stay put, not attempting to get there. Jane radios Sam, asking if he's nearby, but Sam doesn't respond.
Instead, at the warehouse, he approaches the truck from the surveillance video, pulls out his gun and unloads into the driver - which turns out to be a dummy. The BCI team swarms.
Back at the office, Sam has figured out he was set up. They staged the footage. Sam says he has nothing to say and there's no use explaining. Cho brings in Sam's dad, who urges him to tell the truth. Sam seems to take offense to that. But his dad says it's time for a "reckoning." Sam talks: He heard his dad was cheating and checked into it, finding Patrice. He was upset his dad, who preached honor and integrity, is such a hypocrite. His dad lied to his face about her.
So Sunday night he followed Patrice, thinking she was meeting his dad. He thought he was going to catch his dad in the act and busted down the door at the motel. Purcell must have thought Karras had sent him and reached for his gun. Sam had no choice. He had to respond to the call to check it out because he was the closest in the area.
But Patrice wasn't his dad's mistress. She was his daughter, as Jane now says he suspected. He believed Sam when he told his mom his dad wasn't cheating.
Dad explains he learned about her four years ago when and old mistress got in touch. He wanted to tell his wife, but couldn't. She knows now.
Jane visits the Blakelys. She's mindlessly polishing silver as her husband watches TV on the couch. She's slow to answer the door. When she hears it's Jane she doesn't want to open the door, but he says he has something he needs to give her. Reluctantly, he opens it. He's holding the baby, Kaley. Their granddaughter. He hands her over like she's a package.
He tells them she likes Cheerios, napping at two and they should feel free to change her name. Social Services will be by later with the paperwork.
Jane leaves the stunned but happy Blakleys, his good deed of child-gifting accomplished.
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