A man listens to Blondie's Heart of Glass in his apartment when he's stabbed from the back. Laura's (Debra Messing) making Valentine's day cups for the boys and gets her hand burnt by a glue gun, as Alicia (Alyisa Joy Powell) wants to know her plans, she's saved by the phone, as Jake (Josh Lucas) calls her. At the apartment she finds that the floor is buckled and should be treated nicer than that, Renaldo (Marc Webster) adding that the floors could do without blood as well. Jake also wishing her Happy Valentine's Day, ahh would've thought that was their day!! Or was that me being too cheesy.
Laura looks inside the mouth of the DB and then finds chocolate foil wrapper on the floor, as Jake finds a box of chocolates with a rat inside, not a real rat and Laura says they didn't come from the same box. Then think back to the serial killer, the St Valentine's killer, but he's dead and the case was handled by her former captain, Hauser (Enrico Colantoni) back in the '90's. Laura was looking for a groom's statue which would be left in the mouth of the male Vics. They think it had to be a copycat and as they check the files from the old cases, they find that there's too much for them to get through, including floppy disks. The original detective is dead and they need to find who the DB, Paul was seeing.
Meredith (Janina Gavankar) finds Paul had an app which was called 'anonymizer' and helped cover his digital trail but found out where he works. His boss talks of how he made money for them off an account selling shoes and ask if he had a girlfriend, when Laura notices the name Rachel on a name tag and her initials are RAT with Jake picking up a black rat from her desk. She's an intern from France but nobody's heard from her. Thus they think she's been abducted. As they have too many files Jake thinks Hauser can help them and got a DA friend of his, Jennifer (Jenna Fischer) to get a writ and let him help them. Laura's happy to see him and he goes over the case adding that they shot the real killer and he was found with a knife which matched the Vic's stab wounds.
Meredith notices how Max (Max Jenkins) gets flowers and even others are getting Valentine's Day gifts and feels left out cos Billy )Laz Alonso) hasn't done anything, not that she wants him to. Even Santiani (Callie Thorne) got balloons which are from her son. Laura asks Max who the flowers are from and tells him she'll work it out. Laura saying that Billy will surprise Meredith, in the meantime she's noticed that Laura hasn't gotten anything either, though she's too busy eating Love Hearts as we call them here, you know the candy with the love messages! Meredith finds a website where people are selling murderobilia for big money and finds one where the CS photos from the killings have been sold.
Jake visits the shop where the antique dealer, Mrs Delvecchio (Marylouise Burke) has lots of other memorabilia in stock and even Ted Bundy's undies. She recalls a man who asked about the photos and he also stole the serial killer's baby tooth. Jake needs a name and tells her he can help get the tooth back for her. He calls Jennifer who helped him with the writ and asks for a warrant to search Kevin's (Matthew Boston) house. Meredith and Billy arrest Kevin who tells them they caught the wrong man as he lays out several discrepancies to Laura. Santiani has ago at Hauser for not getting DNA evidence and he adds the city wouldn't fork out for it then and they'd already shot him. Also they didn't have CODIS back then either. They look at the CS photos from now and notice inconsistencies, like the Vic not being stabbed in the neck or being bruised. As Laura demonstrates on Hauser with Jake's help, someone would strangle the Vic whilst another person would stab him. Thus he had an accomplice, and this accomplice was more into the women than the men.
Laura recalling how she was afraid at that time and she and her roommate lived on milk duds whilst alone. Jake telling her that wasn't the reason she ate milk duds. They have less than a few hours to rescue Rachel before she's killed. In the photos Laura also realizes that the chocolates were wrapped in cellophane and then foil inside, which reminds her of Valpuffs, which were only available at this time of year. Max finds there's a retro site which still sells them and they find an address for Wayne Lewis (PJ Marshall). He was meant to have been questioned back when the original murders took place but he wasn't cos they shot the killer. At the apartment they find his wife, Mindy (Jennifer Laura Thompson) who's the splitting image of Rachel.
He started killing again cos Mindy left him and she tells him she met him back then cos she had an alarm installed and went to he movies with him. He's a security systems installer and had a storage unit, but they don't find anything there, except that he was staying there. Footage from the unit shows he left work with a large equipment bag in which he could've carried Rachel and he went to work for a company that's closed, so with his work uniform on he could get in and out.
Surveillance from SWAT shows he's in the server room and there's only one way in and out. He's dressed Rachel in a wedding dress now before he kills her and he hears Mindy telling him she wants him back and he should come out and talk. Laura had her on the phone and they arrest him, as Rachel is successfully revived as he's using the same kind of heroin he did back then to drug her. Laura notices Max now has chocolates on his desk and surmizes he sent them to himself and the flowers too. Asking him to watch moves with her and eat his chocs. He says she should "carpe diem with Jake" but she hasn't told him about Tony.
In the locker room she looks at the photo in her locker of the family and she also has her last love heart which says 'Be Mine.'
There like I said Laura missing her chance cos she had too many doubts and now she's left to ponder. Billy surprises Meredith with candles and wine at the precinct holding cells, where it appears no one will stumble across them. Max is picked up with someone in car who hands him a red rose, so much for buying the candy and flowers for himself, Laura got it wrong. I don't think Jake would be into Jennifer romantically already, but may see it as a way of moving on. What a Valentine's that turned out to be!
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