The scene opens with Cal (Tim Roth) telling a man he's lying and Cal is shot.
28 hours earlier: Gillian (Kelli Williams) informs Cal that he has a Sally Robinson waiting for him in his office. Sally is actually Terry (Lennie James) an old friend of Cal's. At a bar they both agree to leave their past behind and Terry wants Cal to play Texas Hold 'Em as he owes money. Ben (Mekhi Phifer) tells Gillian that Terry is on the Scotland Yard watchlist and so he's on the FBI watchlist now. In which case why was Terry even allowed to enter the US, especially since he's got a criminal record and spent time in prison? Since when did the US allow prisoners into the country?
Cal calls one of the players at the table and wins. Terry asks for a break and Cal elicits he actually owes $95,000. Cal headslaps Terry (hey that's Gibbs' (Mark Harmon) specialty in NCIS.) Gillian and Ria (Monica Raymund) watch a video which appears to be a threat to kill. The headmaster, Anders (Spencer Garrett) closed the school for a day but refuses to shut it down completely. Ria shows the video to some pupils at school and gages their reactions. Cal pays back Terry's debt and then some and calls them even.
Next day Cal watches the video and points out how some of the pupils are looking at each other and the teacher is looking at one in particular. Cal finds Terry in his office with broken fingers and he's been beaten. Lance McClellan (James Frain) the man at the poker table, wants to meet Cal or he's threatened to kill Terry. Cal questions the pupil after getting them to stand and asks who made the video. Stacey (BK Cannon) is about to say something but Jared (Alex Stamm) confesses. Gillian doesn't believe he's telling the truth. Eli (Brendan Hines) watches the tape and notices the expression of relief on Stacey's face when he confesses.
Terry wears one of Cal's shirts and he uses pressure on his broken fingers to make him admit what's really happening. Terry sold a fake home to a man as part of a scam and he has connections. They meet Lance in a hotel room, with Ben as back up after Cal tells Ben what's going on, but wants Gillian kept in the dark. Lance wants Cal to pick out the informant from three men but he knows Lance is lying.
Stacey confesses she made the video but didn't want to kill anyone. She's being bullied by the popular girl, Jasmine (Brittany 'Nieko' Mann) and others. She hates PE and she's told the teacher. Ria and Eli find Fitzgerald (JR Cacia). The PE teacher knew what was happening and ignored it. Cal used to run scams with Terry and Cal tells Lance to cancel his meeting as Terry has an FBI agent on his tail, pointing out Ben's car. Jasmine is sorry for what was happening. Is that only cos she's been found out but Fitzgerald wouldn't let them stop? Ria and Eli find Stacey in the toilet after taking an overdose and Gillian was wrong. It wasn't homicidal intent Stacey was exhibiting, but suicidal intent and she missed it. What was wrong with Gillian this episode - worrying about Cal? Or her date?
Cal must inform Lance if one of the men who brought the money is confident in its quality. Cal is really stalling and that's obvious since he must know Ben is back up and if he read the man at the poker game, then he must also have read that Terry and Lance having planned all this from the outset. He needs the counterfeiter here and the money to determine where he's lying or not and is sure the money is good. Stacey accuses Fitzgerald of ignoring her pleas for help and actually encouraging the bullying, backed up by Jasmine. Lance's bodyguard, Jimmy, (Jay R Ferguson) shoots Cal when he says that he's been stalling and he is shot by Ben. Jimmy is actually FBI, that wasn't a surprise and again apparent Cal would have gathered what was going on.
Cal asks for Terry's freedom and punches him. He doesn't want to see him anymore. Gillian et al wait for Cal at the office to make Cal undergo an intervention. Gillian says they're a team but he didn't come to them for help. Cal fires them all, Ria protests she didn't want any part of it and he fires her for being gutless and Ria not being able to tell Cal was lying as she let her emotions get in the way, which she needs to work on. Well he took over that intervention and turned it round. Does Cal really not trust his team or did he just not want them involved in his past and his private life? We know he has trust issues from the Control episode, spying on his employees but he still can't really not rely on them.
Eli tells them about a coach at his school who bullied a boy and made them all take part in it. Eli: "It's always the popular ones who think they can get away with murder." Does Eli have a dark past or something that's affected him deeply. He always gets these little gems of dialogue and they never follow through on them. Eli had something in common with Stacey but he puts it down to another boy being bullied. Could this other boy have been Eli? Still Stacey got away with making that video who's to say she wouldn't have gone through with it being a proper, little psychopath for real. Seeing as she wouldn't have gotten away with it, she could have tried to kill herself, knowing she'd be found and saved. Yes I am cynical.
Cal timed his dive when he was shot right down to the second, think maybe he knew that was coming, or was it just surprise on his part and then played along with it? Think he knew since he asks Jimmy how he does that with his eyes. Gillian getting into another misread case, though nothing serious happens when she does that. This is her second misread. Though last episode Ria berated herself for messing up and it wasn't her first time either. Cal's remark that Eli isn't getting a raise cos they can't afford it. Is he being paid now?
Contrast Terry to Cal's university friend, Jeff, we get to meet the complete opposite in Terry; who Cal tells Gillian saved him and did time for him - losing three years of his life. He knew Cal had a brain which he could use for good. Unlike Jeff, Cal and Terry do share a stronger bond. If Cal didn't care about him he wouldn't have seen it through to the end, cos he was onto what was happening from the outset. Jeff left Cal after things didn't work out on the drugs case and Cal wired him without his knowledge; Jeff couldn't decide if he wanted to be friends with him still. But Terry can't let go of Cal's friendship and vice versa. There's a love/hate relationship here and they genuinely do care, thus Cal repays Terry's sacrifice for him by asking Ben to let him go in return for the help he provided with Lance.
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