Cal's (Tim Roth) ex turns up for help on an arson case and Ria (Monica Raymund) gets to meet her: Zoe (Jennifer Beals) is the Assistant US Attorney. A family's house was set ablaze and their grandmother died in the fire. The boy, AJ (Griffin Cleveland) saw Jack Garcia (Kurt Caceres) a TV reporter, at the house. Cal talks to AJ asking if he knows about the boy who cried wolf. AJ doesn't back down and is certain he saw Jack. Jack claims he hasn't seen Frank Ambrose (David Harbour) the house owner in a while. Cal watches the tape of the interview Jack did with Frank and notices the contempt shown by Jack for Frank.
Gillian (Kelli Williams) appears to be concerned about Cal working with Zoe - she always messes him up after she leaves. Cal disagrees and asks Gillian what she's doing in the men's room. Gillian corrects him, he's in the ladies room. Proving her point. As already we see Cal isn't over Zoe. Jack doesn't like Frank as he asked him for money and was all high and mighty about it.
Gillian and Ria meet with Det Riley (James MacDonald) investigating the murder of Dante Edwards, who worked for rapper, Little Sid (Harold 'House' Moore) the enemy of fellow rapper, Caden (Allen Donshik). Caden and his cousin Benny grew up with Dante and Caden exhibits genuine sadness over his death. A killer, says Gillian, wouldn't show remorse for his Vic. Cal sits with AJ colouring in and pretends to have an invisible friend, Penelope. AJ doesn't believe he has one. Gillian asks AJ about Santa Claus, whom he thinks is real, he's at the age where he still believes this. Gillian posits AJ can tell the difference between reality and fantasy.
Zoe finds that Frank's house was worth more in insurance burned out. Cal realizes Frank's wife, Cheryl (Mireille Enos) was having an affair with Jack (aren't they always) and finally broke it off, though she was going to leave Frank at one stage. She's sure Jack wouldn't burn the house down. Eli (Brendan Hines) speaks with their daughter Maggie (Annalise Basso) who displays obvious anger towards her mother - she knew about Jack as she saw then together. Cal asks Zoe why she didn't cheat on him, was he expecting her to at some point in their marriage. She replies he would have found out, she wanted someone who didn't know everything about her. Jack's wife, Sarah (Karis Campbell) is angry at Jack over his affair and he told her about it two weeks ago.
Eli watches a video of Little Sid at a party and he finds the hostility between him and Caden was faked in order to sell records. Eli asks Ria to identify from two groups of men, those that exhibit the same expression as Dante. She picks the ones from the left side, who Eli explains are gay. A study has shown gay men all reveal similar facial expressions and so can be identified as such. Little Sid's song displays animosity towards gays, but he insists it's just for record dales and he didn't kill Dante.
Gillian thinks someone has conditioned AJ to lie about seeing Jack at the house and it could be either parent. Frank is genuinely shocked at the revelation of Cheryl's affair. Roger proposed to Zoe and Emily (Hayley McFarland walks in to find Zoe is only now just telling Cal. Cal says he enjoyed sex with Zoe since the result was Emily; who later goes through their family photos and Cal likes one of the photos Emily doesn't. They were happy back then. Cal misses the fights with Zoe. Emily knows how her parents feel and that's why Zoe hasn't worn Roger's ring, she's still in love with Cal, giving Cal an idea as to who may be behind the fire. It's not Maggie cos she wouldn't endanger their grandmother's life. Cheryl tells her she'd never leave them and Maggie was the one who told AJ about Jack.
Ria realizes Dante and Caden were together and if news got out it would affect record sales. Ria sees Benny shows contempt towards Dante and he was the one who killed him to save Caden's name. Caden answers he was prepared to lose everything if he still had Dante. Another fire is reported on the news and the FBI thinks a serial arsonist is behind it. The couple saw their house on fire but Cal watches the husband secretly smile, being happy about the fire. He was glad the house burnt down as they were breaking up and didn't have any money. His wife had an affair with Jack too, thus Sarah being the most obvious suspect as the arsonist, exacting revenge on the women he had affairs with for taking everything from her.
Zoe didn't find the right time to tell Cal about Roger, and Cal wants her to go ahead if it makes her happy, she should wear his ring. They end up in bed together. Gillian takes a backseat in this episode, with the two stories being about love affairs. Finally we meet Cal's wife as she was mentioned before in the show, maybe an intro in the flesh much sooner would have been better.
Zoe: "You always did like them so young ...his proteges - they're usually young. It's easier for him yo try to mould them in his image." Which surprises Ria who thinks she means something else by the comment. Cal ending up with Zoe at the end which anyone could see would happen, and even Gillian warned him to be careful and not take the case.
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