Major Crimes looks into an old case at the request of Pope (JK Simmons) but Chief Tommy Delk (Courtney B Vance) wants Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) to investigate one involving a spate of armed robberies at medical marijuana stores; on the basis that Robbery/Homicide haven't been able to solve them. Whilst there, Delk also offers Brenda Pope's position as Assistant Chief. The team aren't happy about this new assignment, especially not Provenza (GW Bailey). Brenda breaks the news to Pope about his case being dropped and he tells her he's only received job offers outside of the state. It's difficult for him to accept as he can't take his children, unless their mother leaves too. Brenda lies about Delk offering her Pope's job.
Gabriel (Corey Reynolds) interrupts, as usual and tells Brenda there's been another robbery and a murder too. Sam Dodson (Tim Guinee) - suspect number 1, owned the store with the Vic, Shea Collins . He appears to be upset and the only one who signed in at the store was John Park (Aaron Yoo) whom Flynn (Tony Denison) will locate. Their best seller at the store was 'Shea's Lounge' which Collins came up with. Gabriel finds fliers written by Collins which warn of a man with a phone who cases the stores prior to the robbery. Brenda requests a forensic botanist from Delk and the store to be closed.
Provenza can't get over the Hippies and their 'Mary Jo' and vents the LAPD have done enough to protect them. His outburst leads Delk to assign him as liaison for the other store owners. Brenda watches the surveillance footage from the cameras with Buzz (Phillip P Keene) and notices Park let the robbers in when he was leaving the store. Flynn brings in Park who is high and he describes an orange car belonging to the robbers. Provenza informs Brenda about one of the owners who spotted a man casing the store. His physical description is a match to the one on the other tape.
Fritz (Jon Tenney) celebrates Brenda's assignment as Assistant Chief with champagne for her. He was told the news by a reliable source - this being Delk. However Brenda tells him she doesn't want Pope out of his job and if it wasn't for him they wouldn't be married now. Fritz likens that to him still being married to his ex, Cindy. Fritz wants her in the new job so she won't be out in the street catching murderers. They use the store as a set up to catch the robbers. One of them gets into the car after robbing the store and Brenda sets off a smoke bomb covering him in blue dye. The other two are arrested by Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) and Gabriel.
After analyzing ballistics, Tao (Michael Paul Chan) reports the guns are fake. Pope tells Delk Brenda won't stop until she believes her case is solved. Taylor (Robert Gossett) believes they have the robbers and that's all they need. Two of the robbers ask for lawyers and the third, AJ Clark (Noah Harpster) who was prop master on a failed legal show says they didn't kill anyone. Brenda has Flynn and Provenza show the other two footage of AJ cooperating and they revoke their right to a lawyer, saying they didn't kill anyone.
Fritz admits he doesn't like Brenda working with Pope as he still has feelings for her. Brenda doesn't want Fritz telling her which job she should be doing. Either way, Fritz tells her Pope is out; would she want someone she didn't like in the post, someone like Taylor? Fritz gives her an idea as to who might be behind the killing, which was obvious from the start. She calls Gabriel telling him to release the store back to Sam, who turns up for the drugs. He stole the drugs and put them in the loft for safekeeping, where he also placed the gun and then tries to say Collins shot himself and put the gun in the loft! He killed Collins cos he wasn't charging enough for the drugs and for the money.
Provenza has to get his say, sarcastically telling Delk that surprisingly, the drug dealer killed his partner for money. Delk looks for Brenda but she's not in her office. She's admitting to Pope that she lied about the job Delk offered her but she wants Pope to stay and fight, as she needs him. She's not taking the job. Pope agrees to stay "to the bitter end," cos that's what it will come down to. After all that, Brenda still doesn't want the job. She doesn't like anyone, including Fritz telling her what to do and he should know that. But she didn't really come up with anything to sort out Pope's feelings for her like she told Fritz she would.
Another episode where Brenda shows she and Major Crimes are an asset as they can get the job done and solve crimes, a credit to Pope as he came up with the idea. Buzz revealed (to everyone's shock), that his mom has a prescription for medical marijuana and he's helped her out through the doors sometimes, as they have electrically secure locks. Flynn: "...ever buy anything."
Sanchez: "How do you think he got the name Buzz."
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