And we're on the sofa together again, like last ep!
A man wears a hairpiece and sunglasses and takes his briefcase to a bus stop. There he swaps the bag as the bus approaches and whilst the other man already there is distracted by the woman with the pram, the first man swaps the briefcase. Later the bomb explodes in the bag. Patrick (Simon Baker) times Lisbon (Robin Tunney) as she arrives in a taxi as her car wouldn't start. Excuses, excuses, perhaps she didn't go home driving her car. He asks about her date with Pike and she says it went okay. Patrick thinks the man at the bus stop was a target since he was the only one who was killed. The bomber could have caused so much damage but he only targeted him. Abbott (Rockmund Dunbar) doesn't go along with his theory until the bomb expert tells him the bomb was blanketed to cause the minimum damage. Hence showing the man was the intended target as Patty said.
At HQ, Wylie (Joe Adler) has a new clock on his computer which calls out the time and Fischer (Emily Swallow) thinks he should turn it down a little bit, he's trying to maximize his work output. Then the firealarm sounds, it's a drill and will happen regularly at the same time, twice a day. Of course I knew that Patrick would use that to his advantage later on, it's one of those foreshadowing ploys. Otherwise they wouldn't have shown Wiley using it again. The DB was David Ronaldo (Halbert Bernal) and he was working to clear Luis Cruz (Oscar Torre). A man who was accused of killing his shrink's wife after he was on a drugs binge. Ronaldo had found something that would clear his name since his execution takes place in two days.
Abbott talks with Cruz at the prison and he tells him how they were close like brothers when younger and Ronaldo believes he was innocent. He got close to finding evidence to clear Cruz's name and that's why he believes he was targeted. Cruz tells Abbott that he didn't kill anyone and Abbott does believe him. Cos they're trying to show that no matter what he was like when he was after Patrick and the lengths he went to reel him in so to speak, underneath it all, he does care about doing the right thing and about justice.
Abbott fills the team in on the case and Wylie's clock tells the time again. Lisbon and Cho (Tim Kang) are in cos they believe Patrick is right when he says he's confident enough to believe that Cruz is innocent. Notice Fischer's shoes when Abbott was briefing them were high heels and then when she's at Ronaldo's condo, they were a lower heel. She notices the map when everything else there is old and wonders why he was using it.
Patrick, Cho and Wylie look at the footage from the bus stop and find that the man intentionally swapped the briefcase cos he wanted to see what was in there. He says the woman with the pram was in on it and Wylie IDs her through facial recognition software. Gina (Angelique Cabral) was hired the man, Peter Koch (Peter Colburn) a PI but she didn't know about the bomb. Fischer says they found Koch's DB but not the briefcase.
Patrick and Lisbon visit Edward Feinberg (John de Lancie) and his current wife, Mae (Jud Tylor). Patrick thinks he was the real killer, as of course it's the old tale about the spouse being the murderer. But it was apparent that it wasn't him.
They ask questions about his wife and Mae who was a former student of his and when they began the affair, before or after his wife's death, since he says it took him a while to get over it. Patty asks to use the loo and snoops in his office but can't find anything so he steals his prescription pad. He is later arrested for dealing prescription drugs and Mae insists on coming with him. Patrick plans to put the clocks forward using Wylie's computer clock and the fire alarm into fooling the suspect into believing Cruz has been executed. The oldest trick in the book of course. Cos it's been done so many times before in most shows/films. Lulling the real suspect into a false sense of security so they give themselves up.
Edward will stay here and he calls his lawyer. The FBI take their phones and watches and Wylie's clock tells the time as soon as they arrive. There's a large display with the number of hours until the execution. As well as telling them the fire alarm goes off at 5 and 9. Edward tells Patrick he didn't kill his wife but of course that's what they all say. When his lawyer arrives, he tells him not to answer any questions, but they can all ask them. Cho, Lisbon, all ask him questions but he refuses to answer. Buying time in the process for Patrick's plan to work. Fischer brings a blanket and pillow for him but he tells his lawyer to go home. Edward spends the night there on the floor. Abbott questions him further.
Next morning, Fischer takes Mae for coffee and she listens to Abbott and Fischer talk about it being over since the governor's aide doesn't want to stop the execution. That after Cruz's executed, the case will be closed and won't be reopened. Being music to Mae;'s ears. The news shows that Cruz has been executed, with a message displayed across the screen, which Wylie managed to plant. Patrick breaks the news to Edward who isn't as pleased as he thought he'd be. That he'd be relieved and get his revenge, but he's just sad. Which is exactly how Patrick knew he'd react. Cos he knows he didn't kill him. It was Mae and he shows him footage of her sighing when she sees the news of his execution, proving she was the real killer. When they leave, Edward just drives off and he then questions her about killing his beloved Sarah. She confesses and the FBI rolls up to arrest her. Patrick planted a bug in Edward's pocket.
Abbott tells Cruz they found the gun in the lake where she'd thrown it the night of the murder and this will help to free him. Ronaldo believed in him and that's why he was going diving for the gun himself near all the spots where there was water near the CS. Abbott tells Patrick that a psychic led to the lake, but Patrick doesn't believe in psychics, saying that it's obvious most things are found near a body of water.
Lisbon comes in wearing a short-ish black number and Patrick tells her she looks beautiful and to enjoy herself, calling her Teresa, ahh! Lisbon looks a little flustered or a little guilty as Patrick goes to sleep with a good book. Nice to see Patrick and Lisbon have a small scene together when they interviewed Edward but it wasn't long enough and was just there to give Patty a chance to grill her about Pike. Clearly she's moving on and it doesn't appear Patrick's going to do much of anything to stop that. Which is a little sad, see by now if it had been anyone else, he'd have scared them away or put them off by now!
So being in Texas, Patrick had to have a case and solve it too where the accused was on death row and facing an execution. A roundabouts way of being a damning indictment of the death penalty in Texas and the number of innocent convicted who are executed, not to mention Cruz being from a minority too. Aside from that, it was a bit of a routine ep and not as good as last ep. But it was good to see Lisbon and Cho follow Patrick's lead cos he was confident that Cruz was innocent. A little reminiscent of the good old days there. Oh and Fischer went back to wearing her heels as soon as she returned to the office and boy why'd she change them, she didn't even get a chase scene where she'd be running!
Patrick's funny-ish response to Abbott about a broken watch being right twice a day. In response to the psychic comment and that Patrick was just jealous. Maybe but not of the psychic. Then there was Fischer talking about Patty and Lisbon and their not 'dating' Why's she so interested. Okay she didn't mention Patrick by name, but she implied it. She should just ask him.
Fischer: "Did Lisbon date on the job at the CBI?"
Cho: "Don't know. Never asked."
Fischer: "Surprising to see her and Pike hook up, Wouldn't have put those two together. You ever wonder what Jane thinks about it?"
Cho: "Never...my brain would explode." Another funny reply from him, kind of true, cos only Patty knows what's going on in his own mind when it comes to Lisbon. Maybe Lisbon did pick up on Patrick being a bit put off when he called her Teresa or perhaps not.
Oh I forgot about Patrick cottoning on to Koch wearing a rug! Ha.
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