As a man, Lloyd (Richard Speight Jr) sells marijuana in a legalized store, for medicinal purposes, a woman walks in and tells him to answer his phone, his wife is kidnapped along with his children and she tells him to do what she says. The woman demands money, but as she's about to walk out, the guard shoots her. She was the only one who knew where his family was being held. David (David Berman) tells Nick (George Eads) she doesn't have fingerprints, there's no ID, no car keys, so they don't know how she got there. Nick hopes they can find something out otherwise the guard has left four people to be killed.
DB (Ted Danson) goes over the Gig Harbour Killer case, just so you know it's actually there in the background, as he plays over what happened last ep and Ecklie telling him to find the evidence to show the twins were behind the killings. Finn (Elisabeth Shue) walks in and DB tells her they do know Jared was in a foster home and part of the system, so they can go back and find info on him. Finn volunteers to go to Seattle and work the case from there, but we all know it's just so she can have some fun too and see Daniel again!
Lloyd doesn't know who would've done this and is at a loss for words as to why. He sells drugs so he'll have enemies and rivals of course. Doc (Robert David Hall) finds the woman was a former cancer suffer, but there's nothing on her body which will provide any ID. He does notice some sort of black mark on her underarm area and thinks it's from a tattoo. When the ink entered her body would've absorbed the ink and stored it in the lymph nodes. As he extracts a lymph node, it oozes ink. He uses ALS to detect a tattoo. Greg tries to put the picture together on the database and DB finds a match to a picture.
Video footage from outside the dispensary shows a black Mustang double parked outside, but Sara (Jorga Fox) can't read the number plate. Sara also comments that shea was nervous, like she didn't want to be here. Nick and Greg (Eric Szmanda) check out the teacher, Allison's (Alycia Grant) house and find her phone there. It has similar message on it which turns out to be from her brother, Stuart (Christopher Poehls) who's also been kidnapped. Actually it was obvious he wasn't really kidnapped and he was behind it, especially since it emerged he has no money or job and that Allison was probably helped him out. Her bank account reveals $50,000 were deposited into her account and it wasn't from her salary.
Hodges (Wallace Langham) finds that the sticky substance stuck to the bottom of Allison's shoe was black molasses which is used to grow Marijuana and that the car belongs to a friend of hers, Calvin (Matthew Tyler Risch) who was also part of the gang. She got out but he didn't, yet he was always there for her when she called. Like she did now and he helped her but he drove away after he saw what happened to her. Also telling Crawford (Alimi Ballard) that Stuart was a loser and that he owed money to some bookie, but he doesn't know his name.
A van is found which appears to be the one that was used in the kidnapping. As well as Stuart's DB inside. He's been shot and back at the lab, Greg points out where the bullet is lodged, as well as the void in the van which is clear of blood spatter. So the shooter would've had blood on them from the shooting and was in the back of the van. The bookie is found since the bullet is registered in IBIS and matches a gun that Remi (Andrew Fiscella) used to own and he's got many properties scattered across the state. But he says he wants his lawyer. Stuart owed him money. DB suggests they look for evidence on the van so they can pinpoint the location. So Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) collects bird droppings, dead insects, debris from the tyres etc. Adding that insects are Nick's thing, and gives the poop to Hodges to analyze, who has to comment on being lumbered with that job. He finds the birds have been eating berries which are native to the Amazon and Morgan recalls the Mediterranean has those berries which starlings have been eating. Thus leading once again to Remi.
Lloyd gets a call and drops off the ransom but doesn't get his family back. Nick and Crawford tell him this was his last chance cos he has no bargaining power now. As a result of the berries, Sara finds a property close by which Remi just bought and they find the family here. They're processed at the hospital and analyzing Dina's (Jama Williamson) phone Morgan and Greg see her in the background, thus proving she was in on it with Stuary. As well as having blood spatter on the sleeve of her cardigan when she shot him. Stupid woman. Apparently there's also a CODIS for cannabis as Sara puts it, set up by the FBI which led to Calvin in the first place since he used to sell cannabis and deliver it to people. His website went back up after he was released.
This ep was abit of a buzzkill since it was apparent that either or both of the parties had planned their own kidnappings. I mean seriously how many kidnappers do you know who'd let children watch TV. I first thought it was Lloyd, but it couldn't have been him cos he wouldn't have been able to get away from the police and shoot Stuart unless he had an accomplice, but then he didn't have any motive though. I mean it was his choice to run the dispensary. Besides he may have been the Trickster in Supernatural, ha, but he wasn't guilty here. Funny part was Dina trying to worm her way out of it, as if they don't know how to do their jobs and wouldn't have found evidence she was also behind it. The kicker being the way she tried to bribe DB, well she chose the wrong guy, with him adding there's nothing she can give him that he wants.
The plot has been done many times over in many a TV show and criminals pretending to be Vics of kidnappings and other crimes has been repeated many times over too. I didn't really like this ep that much, mostly routine as I said, killing time before they make any headway with the main arc of this season, the Gig Harbour Killer.
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