Nick (George Eads) and Crawford (Alimi Ballard) are called to a CS where a woman who was earlier shown dancing is found covered in silver paint. Cue comments about the Tin Man and not finding the Yellow Brick Road and the Silver Surfer. Her TOD is between 12 and 3am. David (David Berman) washes her and Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) takes samples of trace from her. Doc (Robert David Hall) tells DB (ted Danson) that COD wasn't blunt force trauma but asphyxiation, she was drowned in the silver paint. There was also a grill pattern on her back and this Finn (Elisabeth Shue) thinks could belong to a car, which she searches for online. Earlier Hodges (Wallace Langham) identifies the paint as chrome, but the more newer version with chromium dioxide. He tells Finn that the paint belongs to a flashy car and she's all over the case in her usual smug way. Ava's (Blair Bomar) parents are interviewed by Sara (Jorga Fox) and her mother, Ruth (Karen Sillas) says that she was wild and got into drugs and her step father, Duncan (Tracy Fraim) said she resented him by taking her father's place. Sara watches them hold hands, which seemed a little forced. Some drug dealer of hers came to the house once and Ruth asks if Sara has children. It's not right when a mother loses a daughter.
They find a car matching that description is owned by Aaron Derosa (Travis Schuldt) who turns out to be Ava's ex. He takes them to the vault, where his father kept all the classic cars. The one they're looking for is behind the curtain as work was being done on it and Finn finds it's the CS. Finn didn't see the blood on the figurine of the car before. There's also a tub of silver paint. The silver paint drops are followed to where another car, a Packard, was and that's now missing. It was a classic car and belonged to his father. His brother Carlo (Wil Travel) also comes in and they're arguing over whether to sell the collection or not as they both own half. Carlo tells Finn about their father, Alfonz Derosa and he was killed in the car by a hitman so it's worth plenty. Sara tells Aaron she's heard about that story. All I said was where's Greg (Eric Szmanda) cos he's all about the mob re his book and Finn asks him about writing such a book. He tells her about it and how Alfonz was in the car with his mistress and a hitman from another family in Chicago shot them both. A snitch in prison gave him up and the shooter apparently died in prison.
Finn only now notices blood on the car and there's a smashed car light. Also finding the heel of Ava's shoe. Outside where the other car was, Greg notices a pizza magnet. Finn doesn't believe the brothers, but Greg thinks the CS was too messy for them and why wouldn't they clean it up. Finn wrong as usual. Cos my first instinct was her mother and step father, they just seemed shady (does anyone still use that word? Ha.) Henry (Jon Wellner) and Hodges checked out the pizza place and brought back pizza as well as magnets. DB says no one invited him for pizza. As Hodges eats, he shows him that the magnet only sticks to one side of the fender and not the other side. That's why it fell off, meaning that side was recently repaired. Also finding that a car appraiser/mechanic also frequents the pizza place by the name of Bixler (Matthew Glave).
Sara talks to him and he lies saying he hasn't been there for the past two months. She tells him about the magnet and he then says he was there three days ago as Aaron wanted the car appraised as he had a buyer for it. Also whispering he was afraid cos of who their father was. Finn finds the sale online and he had a buyer who deposited $100,000 for it. It turns out Ava had a warehouse which could be the right size to hold the car. Nick and Crawford go there and find the car aswell as Carlo with the keys. He says he didn't kill anyone or had the car stolen. Ava used to go out with him too but she was messed up. He had a credit card for her so the bills came to him, so he knew about the warehouse. The car had sentimental value for him since his father took a ride in it with him the night of his death. He dropped him off at a diner and didn't pick him up. He was closer to him cos Aaron was too much like him and didn't get on.
Greg and Morgan process the classic car and she finds a piece of chrome under the passenger seat, as well as a fibre on the back seat. Greg commenting on the size of the backseat where you could have a picnic. Morgan saying Alfonzo The Vice wouldn't be thinking of that but he had his last ride there. Opening up the boot, they find the tarp in which the DB was wrapped up, as well as the appraisal report. A partial print is found on the report which is a familial match to Ava. Her mother wanted the car since she had a buyer for it, she borrowed the money for the deposit from a loanshark. She wouldn't kill her own daughter. As Sara says she would've been too valuable alive, but that she's seen it all before. They find prints on the headrest belonging to her Bixler, so they believe there was no buyer from Dubai.
Finn says that hemp wouldn't be used in the seats so it must've come from somewhere else. Telling DB she restored a car her brother used to have and to took the entire engine apart. Greg finds the chrome came from the headrest which was replaced. There was something there that the shooter wanted. This turns out to be the bullet. Ava used the appraiser to help her remove the car but he killed her instead cos she saw him replacing the headrest. Bixler was the shooter and he would've been 18. He tells DB and Crawford that Vera, The Vice's mistress was his girlfriend. Bixler confesses and Finn tells Greg that means the car is no longer evidence. They take it for a spin and the brothers have agreed to donate it to the mob museum.
Didn' think much of this ep, it seemed like everything was just fitted into the puzzle more so than usual. DB mentioning the evidence Greg wanted to show him looked like he was writing another mob book. Very flimsy, selfish motive as well for the murders. Nick had very little to do in this ep seeing as he'll be leaving at the end and that's going to come out of nowhere. Finn just gets all the lines and the smugness, whilst everyone else takes a backseat (no pun!) She really wasn't necessary for the show since they had enough of a cast to keep it going without her.
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