Two mounted policemen find a man smoking crack. He's arrested and tries to resist especially by dropping some keys to the ground. The policeman puts the keys back into his pocket. He also has blood on his shirt and claims to have been attacked. At the station he's stripped searched and his pockets are emptied, but only a pack of gum is found. The keys have mysteriously disappeared. One goes back to search for them and finds them discarded in the rubbish. The policeman takes the case to Taylor (Robert Gossett) and tells him the suspect's name is Thomas Arthur Gavin III, known as Trey.
Taylor passes the case to Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) as Delk doesn't want them sitting around doing nothing. Provenza (GW Bailey) reads out Trey's academic achievements. He's told to make copies of the keys and find the Mercedes they belong to. Brenda questions Trey (Riley Smith) and he asks for chocolate as it helps him when he's in withdrawal. He claims to have been treated badly at the rehab clinic, Credence and Brenda takes him under her wing by ensuring she'll look into it, as well as speaking to his parents on his behalf. Of course knowing Brenda, she won't do this and she 'strings' him along the entire time. Flynn (Tony Denison) posits Trey could have left rehab anytime he wanted as it wasn't court ordered and so he left last night. Flynn also knows the rehab clinic isn't run by a bunch of cons.
Trey offers to talk but asks for protection from the man who attacked him, known as Sarge. (Matt McTighe) The police should know of him, stating also the keys belonged to him, he also has a knife. Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) finds out the Merc was stolen but that a girl - Kimberly Adams - was reported missing by her father, Kevin Adams (Matt McCoy). Kimberly was able to withdraw money from her card but it was in the name of K Adams like her father. So explains Flynn, she could still use it. Kevin brings in photos of Kimberly and says she had an appendectomy scar but no tattoos.
Gabriel (Corey Reynolds) finds she bought drinks for two people at a bar. Sarge is known as Edward Cain and Brenda asks Sanchez to assist the police in bringing in Sarge unharmed as she wants to check him for wounds. Buzz (Philip P Keene) sends Provenza Kimberly's photo. Sarge has been pepper sprayed as he resisted. Also Gabriel calls in Pope (JK Simmons) who wonders why a drugs case was within the remit of Major Crimes. He also tells Taylor he hasn't left yet and he may not leave, even if Taylor doesn't want him around.
Sarge claims he didn't rob anyone and the knife is Trey's. Gabriel can't shake the feeling he has about the keys and why Trey would throw them away. Trey wants out and throws a chair through the glass. Gabriel warns Brenda to be careful of Trey and not trust him and he shouts back to Trey that he's treated like a criminal cos he is one. Provenza locates the Merc and finds a DB in the boot/trunk they assume is Kimberly. Morales (Jonathan Del Arco) doesn't find any scar on the DB, but she has a tattoo on her ankle. Kevin IDs her as Michelle, Kimberly's best friend. Kimberly is still missing.
Fritz (Jon Tenney) is also called in by Pope and he admits to Brenda everything he did when he was an alcoholic, including shooting up his car one time. He was lucky he didn't shoot anyone. He calls himself a "monster" as well as being good. That's who he used to be be as well. Gabriel shows Brenda ATM footage of Michelle being attacked brutally by a man in grey hoodie, who beats her up over and over. Brenda can't stand what she sees and is upset she believed Trey. Brenda lies to Trey by telling him someone in his condition can't be held legally responsible for what he did within ten hours and he left the clinic nine hours before. If anything happens to Kimberly then he will be responsible for her death. He tells them she's in a container, still alive. Sanchez, Gabriel and Provenza also find a bloody hoodie.
Trey confesses to killing Michelle when she ran out of money and Brenda points out he could have got more money from Michelle. Brenda views him with contempt calling him a "monster," in Fritz's words. He's arrested for first degree murder. Brenda talks to Gabriel about going over her head to Pope and she hopes he doesn't have cause to do that again. Gabriel insists he's always on her side. Wonder if Brenda believes tha? It looked like she had her doubts, especially since Gabriel has been watching out for her since she arrived in LA in season 1 and had a better rapport with her even before the others warmed to her.
Fritz talks to Brenda about his life as an addict cos he thinks they need to as it's been too long. An episode where you almost think Brenda suspects Trey from the outset especially when she tells him she'll talk to his parents and help him. Yet it's just a 'ploy' to use as leverage and get him on her side and trust her; to open up to her. Not until she tells Fritz she was wrong about him do we realize she did believe he was telling the truth. Even Gabriel suspects Trey, but at least she doesn't falter when she finds the truth and uses this to get him to confess and find Kimberley. Maybe if she had spoken to Fritz about his addiction earlier, she'd have seen the warning signs and how addicts lie to get their next score or drink and would do anything for money.
Then again she's had such suspects in the past and what makes her so trusting of Trey? Surely it can't have been his privileged background. Flynn has to point out to Brenda and Gabriel that they still have a missing girl to locate when she and Gabriel are at loggerheads over Trey's guilt or innocence. Will her relationship with Gabriel be the same again? Also in 6.6 she saw firsthand what addiction can do when the addict killed the man at the ATM for cash.
Fritz: "Okay you know that conversation you never want to have - we've put it off as long as we can. I'm an alcoholic which means I'm an addict."
Brenda: "You're making it sound like you're some kind of monster. You're the most decent person I know."
Fritz: "I'm not honey, I'm sorry but I'm both."
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