I'm sorry but am I good or am I good, as soon as I saw Valeria I said the wife did it!! Well wasn't too hard to tell!
Laura (Debra Messing) monitored crowd outside and they think shots are fired and Laura can only shout "Jake!" He's too far away to hear you!! And what if he'd had been hurt again, don't think could've gone through the agony of the season 1 finale again.
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Anyway as Laura deals with her son putting peanut butter on his head to remove chewing gum, Id have thought she'd be more concerned how he managed to get that on him. Alicia (Alysia Joy Powell) asks if she's told Jake (Josh Lucas) yet about Tony and well we know the obvious answer to that one and it's the one which states that we'll have it dragged out as long as possible!! Santiani (Callie Thorne) calls her about a case where the Second Precinct must protect a Cuban dignitary and she tells her that her finest was asked for the detail, which was actually Jake and not Laura as she was thinking, she got roped in cos she's his partner.
Carlos Hernandez (James Martinez) and his wife, Valeria (Marta Milans) will be speaking at the UN but before that will have some other engagements, like visiting the gallery and attending an interview with Anderson Cooper. As Laura meets him and tries to entice him with pizza slices, cos you gotta eat NY pizza! Or should I have said, when in New York. Funny bit where they get Jake to pronounce Hernandez as if Josh wouldn't really know how to say that really, for obvious reasons. They gave him quite a few Cuban/Spanish names to say. Carlos received death threats and no one wants the heir apparent to the Cuban presidency to live, as he represents a progressive Cuba. As crowds have gathered outside the consulate in protest. What were they protesting about anyway if he wants to make better changes.
Carlos's bodyguard, Garcia (Luis Moreno) refuses to let him out of his sight and won't give up the diplomatic pouch, which would have a part to play in the ep, it was like the bag had a character all of its own. Valeria fusses over him and as does his press woman Liz (Alysia Reiner) so there were plenty of suspects once again. As Liz also tells Yasiel (Elliot Villar) not to wear a paperclip as he's lost a cifflink, another clue as always. What they had a shortage of cufflinks now. She gets Jake and Laura to change their clothes, though it was Laura who ended up in the black dress, Jake didn't even get a tie and got to wear his jeans still. Yes I was expecting a tie. But hey he didn't even make any comments about her dress or how she looks, so either he was keeping his tame comments to himself or he just didn't want to rock the boat any longer now she's with Tony, but isn't with Tony.
Carlos asks Garcia to leave after he stops a waiter from pulling out his phone for a selfie and Carlos sends him for a walk. Laura gives him her number, but he takes the diplomatic bag with him, don't know why if it's meant to have state secrets in it. Santiani calls Laura telling her that Garcia has been killed and the bag is missing. Laura asks Billy (Laz Alonso) if they found his phone and some hurried questions, but they didn't. However he does have GPA on the phone and they assume it's a mugging. They find a signal which Meredith (Janina Gavankar) and Billy chase up, but it's actually a man running up the fire escape of a building. They can't open the bag but gather the phone is inside the bag.
Santiani says they can't open the bag but Laura needs the phone cos Garcia made all his notes on it. Jennifer (Jenna Fischer) arrives to help out as the ADA she can advise them on correct protocol. They can't open it and it's all locked, but if there's a bomb threat or imminent explosion then they can, as Laura dials his number. The bomb squad retrieves the phone and Laura finds out there was info on Carlo's assassination, which seemed to be days away. But Carlos refused to back down, even wanting to attend the interview for which they're both prepared by Liz. She gives Valeria waterproof mascara incase she needs to cry which will a good thing. Laura and Jake accompany him to the studio, but a man comes at him, with a butterfly bladed knife. They can only think of Sergei who gave them phones to use here and runs a company.
The protestor tells Billy he's an Astro-turf protestor, one who is hired to protest. Billy speaks with him in Cuba and realizes he doesn't know the Cuban slang. He was just hired by someone. They think the consulate must be bugged and Billy and Meredith conduct a search and find that Yasiel's phone beeps, as does Liz's. They need to take them to a safehouse, which just happened to be Laura's house where they eat pizza. Valeria tells Laura that she's married to Jake and she looks like she still has feelings for him. Laura tells her they're not together.
Carlos is speaking at the UN so they must plan meticulously for this as he refuses to backdown and be intimidated. Meredith tells Laura over the walky-talky to tell Jake already otherwise she'll lose him to Jennifer. Laura only just finding out from Alicia that they've been out three times together at least and she was thinking ii was only one. Oh Jake gets to wear a suit and tie now!! Laura and Santiani are in a swanky hotel which overlooks the UN and the others are on duty below. As Laura sips a mocktail, she spots a man on the roof who Meredith heads to. As Jake arrives in the car with Carlos they hear shots and she tells Jake to duck and is worried for him, but they're all fine. Quickly heading into the building, as Meredith finds the man doesn't have a gun. He was changing transformers and Sergei asked him to disrupt the speech as he wanted to make a stock takeover.
Laura watches the news coverage of Carlos's speech and Jake grabs the remote to look at all the camera angles cos she spots Liz giving him a new glass of water, which is cloudy and Jake finds her putting something they assume is poison in his water. When they arrive, they're too late as Carlos is in hospital and Jake realizes she was giving him medicine cos he has a heart condition just like Jake does, that's why he's nervous and shaky.
At the hospital Carlos is in surgery and Valeria waits for him, but doesn't look very upset and Laura recalls she was a wreck when he was there. She takes out the mascara and puts it on as Laura wonders why she'd need it now. Then spots the cufflink in her bag. She was having an affair with Yasiel and wanted Carlos out of the way, as she'd also be able to rule. He was going to use blood thinner in his blood so it wouldn't clot. Billy also recalls 'El Pintor' is also Spanish slang for 'scratched paint' which also applies to a cheating woman in Cuban. So she had to kill Garcia.
Drinks are on Billy and Laura thanks Jennifer for helping out and asks her for drinks too. Though how she was going to do that and actually go along seeing Jake with someone else is anyone's guess. Meredith looks at her and tells her she has to let him know. At the bar, as they play their fave darts again, Jake asks Laura what she thinks of Jennifer for him. She calls them a perfect fit. She sees he's finally moving on, or at least he's trying to, cos we know he just wouldn't get over Laura so quickly and she's just letting it all fester.
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