The DEA lead a raid on a restaurant and they find nothing. The restaurant owner, Steve Korbell (Ross Partridge) gets snarky with the female officer, Anita Hammonds (Chastity Dotson) calling her a bitch and Gonzalez (Philip Anthony-Rodriguez) calls him out on it. Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) meets with his former commander at Rio Bravo Station, Bill Peterson (Dylan Baker) who tells him (hey couldn't help but noticing, was Bill Peterson, a take on William Petersen from CSI? ha) Abbot tells him the FBI are looking into the raid and will be speaking with everyone involved. Bill tells him he needs to know if there's anything bad going on here cos he's got enemies and Abbot can't do that. Reluctantly he says he'll think about it, especially after Bill mentions Rio Bravo station.
The agents question the DEA officers involved and Vega (Josie Loren) and Wylie (Joe Adler) talk to two of them, Pedro Orosco (Jeremy Ray Valdez) and Jeff Bordick (Chris Connor). Jeff is standoffish and Pedro speaks in Spanish with Vega. Wylie wants to ask her out but hasn't mustered up the courage. Later Wylie asks her what he said and she says he just apologized for his partner, it didn't really look that way did it. Okay it was Spanish but sure 'sorry' doesn't take that many words. Anyway he was my suspect, not being racist or anything, but if someone was involved with the Cartel from Rio Bravo, then well, it pays if you know Spanish.
Abbot pays a call on Gonzalez as Bill gave him his address, but he finds him shot twice and blindfolded. Patrick (Simon Baker) looks at the photos of the raid as Lisbon (Robin Tunney) met him at the the Airstream and she tells him she's going to get him something special for his birthday. Patrick surmizes he can guess what that is. Okay Patty, just be grateful she remembered! Ha. It won't be a pony!
Patrick looks at the photos from the restaurant which Anita tells them were taken under weeks of surveillance. He goes into the room where Cho (Tim Kang) is interrogating Korbell with his lawyer, Susan Nguyen (Sumalee Montano) there and tells him he can go, asking what time the restaurant opens, at noon. Also Mike Milligan (Blake Shields) is peed that he let their suspect walk out of there. Patrick tells him the FBI are going to raid the restaurant and they'll need Korbell there as well. Obviously, there's a snitch in the DEA, that's why no drugs were being found. Got that in one! ha.
Patrick and Abbot drink tea at the mall and Abbot wants to know why they're here. Patrick having also worked out Bill's got something over him. Which Abbot denies. Up pops Bill and he wants to know why he wasn't informed of the raid. Before Patty meets with Abbot, he fiddles with a lightbulb in the sign, that being a signal. He shows Bill the photos were one light is off, then the same light is on again and then off again, so when there's a raid the light is off, the light on signals they're selling. As Korbell turns the light off.
Patrick asks Vega to get him the ID pictures of the DEA team going back three years, as he's going to study them. Vega is curious and wants to know why. He tells her he wants her to do something for him later, but she doesn't like being his trick. It goes back to her father being a stickler for the rules, which he understands, but he can't tell her whether she wants to be like her father, that's up to her. He tells Abbot he's narrowed down the suspects to ten people . Bill calls Abbot and asks for a meeting where he threatens to expose him for his past and he needs to be in on the bust and share the credit, so that they call the heat off on him. Of course Abbot refuses since he's been asleep on the job for six years and didn't even realize they had a mole working for the cartel.
Wylie asks Cho's help since there's nothing on e-mails or phonecalls which suggests any communication between Korbell and the mole. Cho suggests his Internet history, such as social media and he finds he's been a forum for Persians, as in cats. Lisbon thinks that odd since he's a macho guy and wouldn't be into cats. Patrick knows that Bill has something on him and Abbot comes clean about how he was newly qualified and working DEA in Mexico. The cartel would dress as soldiers and stop the buses, shooting all of the passengers, that way there'd be no one working for rival cartels. One night Abbot saw the leader and he shot him in the car. There were no buses stopped that night and Bill knew where he was. Patrick says Abbot did a good thing. Anyone think this story was a little like the Gibbs (Mark Harmon) one in NCIS, okay it didn't go as deep as having his family murdered by a drug lord in the Sonrisa cartel, but Gibbs took care of the problem and the man who shot his wife and daughter. Anyway, Wylie comes in and tells them he's deciphered the code, the first letter of every word spells a message, like meeting at 4pm.
Patrick says he knows of a way to catch the mole out and rounds up the then suspects. Vega arrests Bill and brings him to the meeting place. As Patrick eliminates anyone who inherited money, got divorced, since they wouldn't need money, had their hair done cos they were dating again and that leaves three suspects. Having had all of their guns removed just incase the killer gets antsy and starts shooting. Cho and Lisbon remove the bullets from the guns and replace them with blanks. But only the ones of the three suspects, Anita, Pedro and Jeff. Making them believe they're in the clear after Bill's public arrest, they each leave and are confronted by Cho, Lisbon and Abbot, as they all have go bags. They are all them called and turn their backs on the suspects so that they pull their guns. Well guess who fires on Cho, right it was Pedro. He tells them he was overlooked for promotion for six years and that's why he got away with it for so long, cos he was smart. Abbot telling Lisbon they should get the smart man a nice cell.
Bill threatens Abbot and his wife again cos he was humiliated and Patrick tells him he should stop the threats cos he knows he's been stashing dirty money and they'll find it one day.
Lisbon gives Patrick his gift and he admits he didn't know it would be the broken teacup from the CBI, which he says he didn't guess and he's not even going to lie to make Lisbon feel better. He tells her to look at the note he wrote her which says, "I really don't know." Ahh that was sweet, but part of me says that he did know and the other part says that he didn't. But really he would've read Lisbon all along though wouldn't he. A formulaic ep of the show since that Rio Bravo storyline was bound to surface once it was mentioned. Also Bill will too again, since he needs to be caught and since Patrick said they'll get him. Poor Wylie can't get Vega to go out with him cos she says that she's not really into dating right now and wants to concentrate on work. Cho has taken so much of a backseat in these eps, which is a shame. We don't even see him reading anymore! At least we got to see Lisbon and Patty kiss twice! ha, considering they don't show their emotions!
The title wasn't a reference to Christmas, ha, nor the lights that Lisbon had put up outside the Airstream to celebrate his birthday, but the light at the restaurant.
It had to be a teacup, cos what else does Patty do, drink lots of tea and also it reminded me of the chipped teacup that Gold (Robert Carlyle) kept as his reminder and love for Belle (Emilie de Ravin) in Once Upon A Time. You know it's kind of romantic!
It was a nice touch that Patrick knew exactly where Abbot was coming from when the killed the drug cartel leader, especially since as we know Patrick has been in that position too, having finally killed off Red John. Oh and I forgot to mention, is Bill part of that Blake Organization, the one where Patrick was meant to find that password, or maybe I'm clutching at straws? Cos to my knowledge that storyline wasn't resolved either was it, that list that Patty had and another reason why the FBI had to keep him out of jail. Hope we get closure on that too. Maybe Vega is dirty too, I wish!! ha.
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