Flynn (Tony Dension) has just attended his AA meeting, when a man approaches him to speak about the meeting and how he stays sober. As Flynn leaves and heads towards his car, he is attacked by a man with a knife. Flynn manages to shoot him and calls Captain Raydor (Mary McDonnell) for help. He gives her his gun and tells her what happened before passing out. At the hospital, he wakes to find Provenza (GW Bailey) at his bedside with a balloon, stating "It's a girl." That's all they had, how did I know that's what he'd say? Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) is also there.
Raydor tells Flynn if he can describe his attacker and ID him, then she'll take on the case, but if he can't then Major Crimes can investigate. He says he can't and when she leaves he says he knows what his attacker looked like. He was attacked by Bobby Harris (Michael Smith) and Provenza and Gabriel (Corey Reynolds) leave to check out his home. Money is found there, which Tao (Michael Paul Chan) comments is a batch of 'old money'. Flynn mentions his AA meeting and they're anonymous when Brenda asks him for a list of attendees. What was Brenda thinking? The name suggests it's anonymous and he feels she should ask Fritz (Jon Tenney) about it. Bobby was found where he was dumped in San Bernadino. Flynn: "Who would want to kill me?"
Brenda: "Lots of people, I'm sure, but who would actually go through the trouble?"
At home, Brenda tells Fritz she should accompany him to his meetings, which he thinks is a good idea, but her real reason is wanting to find the man in the sketch, i.e Bobby. Fritz asks for five minutes with her to canoodle and she leaves specifying she didn't say when that five minutes would be. Before that, Fritz tells her Tommy Delk may be appointing her assistant Chief, but she doesn't want Pope's (JK Simmons) job, he's her friend.
The team search through all of Flynn's past cases and he notices Rick Zuman (Peter Paige) who was accused of money laundering. His bookkeeper gave testimony against him and an FBI informant also vanished. Brenda talks with Rick, whose case is on appeal since the witness against him, Florina (Svetlana Efremova) claims to have found God and changed her statement, saying Flynn coerced her into making it.
Raydor didn't tell Brenda about the investigation on Flynn cos she can't share that info under the law, showing Brenda, Flynn's large case file and gives her Florina's file. Brenda confronts Pope as to why he didn't tell her about this investigation. When given the chance, he gets to reply this is the first he's heard of it. Brenda will make Florina come to her. Taylor (Robert Gossett) and Gabriel go to her house in order to warn her about a hitman who has been hired to take care of the witnesses in the case. Describing him as Hispanic in a blue hoodie and driving a certain car. When they leave, Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) circles the house in his hoodie and looks through her window. She calls 911 and Provenza receives a call back from the police, then tells them to ignore her calls.
Florina shows up as Brenda wanted and Brenda shows her the money they found. Florina wants to revert to her original statement. She was paid the money by Jeff (Michael Mosley) but she only has his number. She arranges a meeting with him. Buzz (Phillip P Keene) is annoyed Brenda is making a mess in his car. Of course Jeff, turns out to be the man at the AA meeting and is enamored with Rick. Brenda meets Jeff and tells him if he pays her money, she'll won't charge him with dumping Bobby's DB and gives him bags with a tracker inside. Raydor arrives at the storage facility with Fritz who finds some of the bills match FBI serial numbers, part of their investigation when the informant disappeared.
Brenda bets Rick she can make him confess showing him the money and that Jeff made a statement, causing Rick to confess like she said. Brenda notices Raydor's being nice to her so they can help each other out. Brenda wants her five minutes with Fritz now in her office. An episode where Brenda already has her plan to ensnare Rick by running a play on Florina, even before the end of the episode, since that's when her 'tricking' the suspect usually comes into play. Here she gets to trick Florina and Rick as well. Rick is thinking he could fool Brenda and win his appeal. Sorry no one's managed to fool Brenda thus far and if they do, she gets her own back in the end anyway.
Perhaps Raydor was being nice to her just incase Brenda gets to be Assistant Chief, helping her out to get into her good books. Fritz wouldn't mind Brenda getting the job either. Even Provenza notices Raydor's up to something as he comments at the start. She even said hello to Gabriel.
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