A man's DB was found inside a sauna, Matthew Burke who was the owner. He tried to claw out of the locked door. His bunch of big keys are found in his short's pocket and Laura (Debra Messing) wonders why men have to carry such large keys around unlike women who have handbags. His wife Cecilia (Sherri Saum) walks in and she's despondent at seeing him there. She has MS and after Matthew found out he dropped his job as an attorney and became a physical trainer to help her. She also has a van which has been converted so she can drive herself around and the camera purposely pans in on her orange medic alert bracelet, as a clue. But he insisted on driving her and he didn't do that on the night he was killed.
Looking through complains from unhappy clients, they find a husband and wife who own a crappy cycle store as Laura calls it. The husband, Connor (Isaac Caldiero) is doing a practice run on some makeshift obstacle course and it's made from scaffolding and orange netting. He says he's planning on going on American Ninja. Julie (Jesmille Darbouze) tells them about a man who was watching her named Archie (Robert Hallak) and she complained to Matthew about it, who said he'd take care of it. Way to get suspicion off themselves, cos if they weren't involved, they wouldn't be shown. Archie has unpaid parking tickets which Max (Max Jenkins) finds and they narrow down his parking tickets to a specific area. Jake (Josh Lucas) and Meredith (Janina Gavankar) check out and Jake thinks he's probably having a Continental breakfast at the cafe. But he's not inside. However Jake spots his car after a truck pulls away and Archie attacks him with a wrench.
Archie tells Laura he didn't know they were police cos he was almost carjacked and says he'd been using Matthew's computer to write his resume/CV after he wanted to help him out. Santiani (Callie Thorne) didn't think he was innocent and it didn't explain why he had Matthew's gym bag. Meredith asks him for Matthew's computer password which she uses to log on and finds his CV. Laura tells Santiani that hers and Meredith's gut says it's not Archie. Meredith also finds a file with photos of a man and woman together and Laura notices the orange bracelet. See clue! Ha. Cecilia says he was her sex surrogate since things weren't going well after her MS and he would work out the positions with her and Matthew knew. She recalled Matthew didn't lock the van with the latch that day and he always did that, he kept his keys in his backpack mostly. So someone who didn't know about the latch took the keys and didn't lock the van back.
The van was wiped clean and most likely Matthew had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Also they find orange fibres on the key chain, which Laura recalled were at the training course for Julie's husband. Cecilia also worked at the city and had access to municipal plans, which Jake finds burned out copies off at the shop. Yeah leave behind evidence without destroying it properly, they could have just as easily taken the plans with them, duh! Laura asks Cecilia which plans were more likely to have been stolen and she narrows it down to five. One of which is a bank. Didn't the corner piece Jake found have any info on it. Also Meredith and Billy (Laz Alonso) find a list of numbers, which Jake works out are sunset times. 5.59 being the time for that day.
They arrive at the bank and the lights go out after an explosion since Isaac used to work at a construction site, but there's no robbery. Santiani watches the news where Chief D'Angelo (Malachy Cleary) gives a press conference on how the second precinct foiled a bank robbery. However Laura says it's not the bank and from the photos taken of the buildings on the other plans, she finds one of the buildings has scaffolding and netting near a police evidence building. If they get into the vault then they can wreck thousands of convictions and criminals could go free cos of evidence tampering. She and Jake enter the building and Jake has a momentary problem with his heart. As Laura earlier wanted him to see a specialist and then she'd think about a date with him.
Jake hears a noise and seconds later the wall explodes, as he shields Laura to the ground. They enter and they have a shootout but Julie escapes, only to be caught by Billy and Meredith on the roof. Thought Jake might'vea gotten chance to have his go at climbing but obviously that wouldn't have been too healthy for him right now. The Chief has a go at Santiani for the press conference he gave, but Laura defends her by saying she planned it that way so the public wouldn't be aware of the real target. He's impressed by Laura. Oh watch out, she's next in line for Captain! Ha.
Billy's mother, Silvia (Geisha Otero) comes in to see Meredith and is impressed by her cos she's been pestering him to meet his girlfriend. Though they don't actually meet in person. Jake tells him the whole office knows about the two of them and he sussed it out cos he's a detective, but advises against introducing her to his mother yet cos Meredith might get too pressurized. Like he did with Laura's father. Meredith would like to meet his mother one day but for now they go back to her apartment and make a taxi driver she knows jealous. Jake agrees to see the doctor and Laura says after she sees the doctor's note, they'll talk about a date, but she's seeing Tony on Saturday.
Thought Jake would've already got a second opinion even if he is trying to keep the department from his health issue, cos there's doctor/patient privilege and who's to say he didn't, though it's understandable Laura would want him to cos she doesn't really want to lose him and especially for the children too. But is does seem that momentary pain he got may have more serious repercussions for him and he may just need to get "benched" to use Santiani's phrase from ep 4 and get a desk job. No chases in this ep and usually there's at least one in every ep, hmm, must be taking a new approach.
Laura's seeing Tony but it can't hurt to go on adate with Jake, I mean not like she's gonna jump right in and take him back, even if they do see each other at work everyday. Yeah but of course you know I'm biased in Jake's favour, still what he did can't be easily forgiven and why Laura needs time to get over that, not sure she ever will, but she needs to be sure. Especially considering he still doesn't recall what he said to her about loving her.
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