The ep opens with Patrick (Simon Baker) coaching Vega (Josie Loren) on how to do a balancing exercise with a stick, one that I'm sure a lot of us have tried over the years, I know I have. But with Vega it was really boring to watch and as Lisbon (Robin Tunney) walks in, she mentions smores. She likes smores and Patrick mentions chocolate covered ones, but Vega drops the stick when Cho (Tim Kang) mentions smores in the microwave are great. US Attorney Julie Sandoval (Romi Dias) looks for Lisbon and tells her she's looking for her brother Jimmy (Robert Belushi) who's a material witness in a murder case, that of Nathan Barnes (David C Scott) the son of a judge. Jimmy left his house without talking to them and she needs to find him or issue a warrant for his arrest. Yeah just walk in and tell the entire office Lisbon's personal business.
Lisbon calls her other brother Stan (Derek Phillips) but he doesn't know where he is, so Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) tells her she can go down there to look for him. Asking her how many brothers she's got, three, with her being the eldest. Abbot says he's got five and it can be tough. Patrick says he'll come with her if she wants him too and she says she'd like it if he did come. Lisbon thinks he could be at their parent's house but she hasn't been here since they died. Patrick's envious cos he never lived in a house. As we know, he was living with the Carnie and his father when little. She finds the spare key still outside and that Stan was doing some renovations to the house. She calls Stan and Patrick finds an old clipping of hers, as well as a photo, asking her which one is her bedroom. He looks around upstairs and not before long he's attacked by a man in a black jacket, as he turns around and says he loves Lisbon's doodles on the wall, but it's not her. Patrick trying to scream, 'no' was funny sounding. As I thought to myself that newly painted green wall would look good with a red, smiley face on it! What? Ha. It would.
Lisbon runs up and he escapes through the window. She introduces Patrick to Stan at his house and his wife, as Stan mentions her high school prom date, Woody, who ended up getting a puffy face cos of allergies to his pierced lip. He hasn't seen Jimmy but he called a few days ago. Wiley (Jason Adler) tells her he found out about the murder Vic and he was found beaten to death behind a hotel in Dallas. He had Jimmy's card in his pocket and worked for battered women. Also Patty gives him a detailed description of the man who attacked him, warts,n'all. Including smelling like aqua velva. She thinks they should check out the bars and bumps into TJ (Ryan Churchill) who she used to babysit. Patrick takes his phone and finds Jimmy called him a few hours ago. He only knows he went fishing. Patrick returns his phone, telling him he should call his mother back. At the lake, Lisbon finds Jimmy and tells him he's in trouble. She only checks up on him when she thinks he's in trouble and asks if Patrick is her boyfriend. Patrick talks to him alone and tells him he knows the man wasn't after him, but obviously he was after Stan. He says if he comes back to Houston, he won't have to testify cos they'll find the real killer. To which he agrees.
Lisbon records his statement wanting to know where he was on the night, he says he was gambling and reminds her she taught him how to play. He saw him with Charles McInnes (Tom Gallop) a law clerk, Vicki (Janelle Giumarra) Ben (Michael Cory Davis) and a man named Holiday (Jeremy Ratchford). Cho saying he's with the mob. Patrick says they need to get in on the game and Nathan owed Holiday money. Who Patrick rules out as a suspect cos you can't collect from a dead man. Abbot says they have 72 hours to find the killer or they'll have to hand Jimmy over. Sandoval wants the collar on the case. Wiley tells Patrick the man in the house is Delphino but isn't connected to Jimmy, which can only leave Stan, as I said. Cho and Patrick hang out at the bar and Patrick drunkenly bets on the football game and loses his money to Cho. Holiday asks if he knows anything about the game and Patrick notices he's into women, so they're using the wrong bait.
Vega talks to Charlie who introduces his fiance, Heidi (Anna Rose Hopkins) who worked some domestic abuse cases with Nathan. He mentions Holiday and who else was at the game. Adding that Judge Barnes made a ruling against Ben a few months ago. On the night in question, Charlie lost the game and Vicki was chasing after Nathan. Lisbon enters the bar wearing a little number and sits at the bar. Holiday buys her a drink and Patrick walks in as her rich boyfriend. He just plays for the thrill of the game and throwing his money away. He lost $20,000 like that, Lisbon tells him. Holiday invites him to a poker game and Jimmy invites the other players as well.
They'll need cameras inside the hotel room, so Vega and Wiley pose as a couple wanting to check out the room and then get into a fight, so the clerk leaves them alone. They set up the cameras. Wiley knows she said something about ripping his head off in Spanish and she realizes he's been studying. She also makes sure the toilet won't work. Karen (Milissa Skoro) calls Lisbon telling her that Stan was beaten up and said it happened at work. But she realizes that Patrick knew the man was after Stan all along and didn't tell her. He replies cos it wasn't his business. Jimmy tells her Stan's in debt to a loan shark. She had to watch out for them and it was tough having to be the one in charge, which he's fine with, but then she left.
Lisbon tags along to watch and Patrick tells Jimmy to just play poker and let him handle everything. Ben tells them the toilet's busted and not to go in there! Holiday thinks they should change rooms, but Patrick says he's here for the poker, not the toilet, so Holiday tells them there's one down the hall. Vega notices that Patrick's cheating and they work out the player's tells, Ben rocks sideways, Vicki scratches her nose, Holiday scratches his head and Charlie scratches his eyebrow. As the game gets underway, Lisbon acts like a psychic and tells them something dark happened here. Patrick saying she likes to think she's one. Holiday tells her someone was killed nearby and she says someone in the room did it. Adding that whoever has as an ace is the killer. Well, no surprises there then that they all have an ace and so think she's not very good at all. At that point they see Charlie scratch his eyebrow and so he's the killer. Of course got that ages ago, especially since he was the only one who personally knew Nathan.
He wins cos Patrick lets him and then uses the toilet, where Cho tells him he knows he's the killer and he can take him in now or Holiday will be after him. Patrick tells the others there's a camera in the room and that Charlie had people watching them and helping him out. Cho shows Charlie the footage from the room and it has Holiday mouthing son of a bitch. Charlie returns to the game, but Holiday invites him in and decides Cho should take him with him. He tells Cho he saw Nathan was wearing his shirt cos of the insignia on the sleeves. So he suspected Heidi was having an affair with him. He cornered him in the alley and beat him up. Cho tells him he spoke with Heidi and found that he spilled coffee on his shirt, so she lent him one of his. Ain't that always the way, so he killed him for nothing, instead of confronting her about it. I mean all he had to do was say he's got a shirt missing. Then again that whole coffee story could've been made up.
Lisbon returns home for the christening of her nephew and Stan thanks her cos she's going to help him out. They decided they like Patrick, he's a good man and she should hold onto him. Lisbon tells Patrick that he might be surprised as what she has to say, that she loves him, even if she hasn't said it, cos healways knows what she's thinking. He tells her he is surprised. Ahh, Lisbon always acts so shy when she tells him personal lovey dovey things like that! But Patty's smile was so perfect!! Ahh! SO gonna miss this show!!
I like the fact they are keeping their relationship and the mushy stuff low key and aren't going overboard with it every minute, like they can do in some shows and I'm superficially referring to Castle here. Lisbon and Patty don't need to be telling each other how they feel every second and that's exactly in keeping with their characters. They weren't ones to talk about their personal lives and they still aren't.
- Lisbon: I don't think I've said this. I mean, I know I haven't said this, but I don't really know if I need to because you always know what I'm thinking.
Jane: Well, not everything.
Lisbon: Would you surprised if I said I love you?
Jane: I'd be... I'd be lying if I didn't say I would be moved by that.
Lisbon: I love you. I said it.
Jane: I'm surprised. So sweet!!!
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