A 911 operator receives a call from a woman who is run off the road in her car by bikers. She's the wife of The New York Ledger owner, Terrence Van Doren (Jeffrey Pierce) who needs them to find out who killed his wife, Isabel (Betty Gilpin). At the accident scene Renaldo (Marc Webster) finds the body is missing, probably washed away in the river and signs of head trauma with some scalp remains on the windscreen. Inside Laura (Debra Messing) spots a plastic bag and some empty coffee cups. After speaking with Terrence who tells them he recently published an article about motorcycle flashmobs and thinking it could be murder. Meredith (Janina Gavankar) knows where the bikers will be and Jake (Josh Lucas) wants to get out his Harley and go riding, but Laura doesn't cos he's still recovering and besides, Meredith adds she'd look better on a bike than him. Ooh missed our chance to see Jake in leathers!
Billy (Laz Alonso) follows her and she gets in the bikers good books and challenges them to a race but a motorist gets involved and has his window smashed, leading her to reveal her true ID. He insists he didn't have anything to do with Isabel cos they filed a lawsuit against Terence and were most likely to win, attacking her would've led to that not happening. He also has an alibi cos he was with his wife. Jake asks Terrence for the hate mail he's been getting and he tells his assistant, Beth (Anastasia Barzee) to help. Also telling him Claire died in a kayaking accident. Yeah they were all accidents how unlucky could Terrence have been with his wives! His former brother in law, brother of his first wife, Claire was sending him the mail and is most likely the suspect. Laura speaks with him and he says he used to beat Claire and didn't let the family see her whenever they wanted to.
Knew Isabel staged her own death cos it was that obvious, but more so since she would've got the same treatment as Claire and that Terrence also would've killed Claire. Remember always suspect the spouse! Meredith listens to the 911 call and says the sound effects were just that and there were no bikes following her. Thus she staged her death. Laura also assumes the bag she saw in the car would've had ice in there which would've melted in the water and would've been placed on the accelerator to speed the car and enter the water. Laura and Jake speak with the taxi ferry operator who doesn't recall seeing Isabel or Terrence. Santiani (Callie Thorne) disagrees she's still alive unless they can get evidence confirming the white van a woman wearing a baseball cap got into is actually Isabel. Who took a ferry to an IKEA store and got into the van and is seen on their surveillance. Jake commenting on how shoppers wanted to get to IKEA so early!
Terrence pays a visit to Santiani who believes her detectives are not doing their jobs and as he knows the police commissioner will have the case reassigned. She gives Laura her full backing to find Isabel cos Terrence is a jerk, to put it mildly. They find that Isabel didn't have any friends, after Laura speaks with her assistant who was meant to help her blend into Greenwich society. He tells Laura she didn't have much to do and didn't want to volunteer, also she preferred jeans to nice clothes, which Laura agrees with. But she did donate money to a place downtown, the Styvesant women's shelter. Where Max (Max Jenkins) finds the woman in charge hired a van using her credit card to rent the white truck. Meredith is able to narrow down motels near an airport, as the truck had GPS she can hack into.
Laura goes alone since she's a woman so Isabel would talk to her more easily and she pulls a gun on her. She tells her about Terrence and how he would've killed her cos he used to beat her up and shows her the bruises where he recently kicked her. Also saying she'd end up like Claire. She won't come in but Laura promises to get him for murdering Claire. Jake wants her to come in cos they can protect her, but that'd be ruining the ace up their sleeve, since he's got the police commissioner and everyone else eating out of his hand. Max tells them the only police interview they conducted for Claire's death was with Beth and Jake says he can talk to her, "it's man/woman thing."
She tells Jake she didn't see Claire that day and her finances show that Terrence bought her an expensive apartment which must've been a payment for helping him out. Terrence's lawyer shows up and prevents her talking further and Jake puts his foot in it by libelling him. He goes to the press who turn up at Laura's doorstep and Laura adds it's messy now. Hey why didn't they share dinner with
the boys since they were actually all at the house together. Max also raving about the decor in Terence's house and showing them magazine photos. She notices he hasn't changed the decor at all since then, so they could get a warrant to search his house. However they'd need Isabel for that so Santiani thinks if they searched anyway, then he couldn't refuse them or he'd look guilty. Jake wants a date with Laura and he asks what's happening with the forgiveness project, but she says she's with Tony.
She notices that there seems to be a painting there that's different and Max confirms there should be a tryptych there, maybe it had blood spatter. Meredith, Billy and Renaldo found a grave on the property which contained a DB there. Laura and Max pay a visit to the museum where he donated the third of the painting and Max gets her in cos the Carnegies are huge donators. He tells them Terrence donated it but it's been cleaned before it was hung. That's why he did it cos any DNA would've been cleaned along with it and was donated at the time Claire died.
Laura recalls how Isabel's assistant said he loved his mother and visited her grave every week, but the museum man says he hated her. Thus the body is most likely there. Got that when the assistant said Terrence went to see his mother every week! She can get into the family crypt with Isabel's consent cos she's family and Renaldo finds a skull with head trauma. They have enough to arrest Terrence, however Laura fools him with an ulna bone which she put together from a museum kit Renaldo gave the boys. Terrence smugly says they need a warrant for the crypt, but Isabel turns up saying they had her permission. He'll do down for Claire's murder.
Santiani tells Laura her ex beat her once and she left him and that's why she wanted to get Terrence as well. That's why she gave her leeway on the case. Laura still hasn't forgiven Jake but he hasn't given up and wants a date with her, with the "may the best man win" comment too. Well we know who the best man is, sorry but Tony is boring!! Lots of clues early on again that Isabel staged her own death and where Claire's DB would be found and also when the caretaker said he'd come in every week with a briefcase, off course that'd be to sneak in parts of the body.
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