A woman calls for help after she finds a pregnant woman dead in an alley and is having her car towed away. Jake (Josh Lucas) and Laura (Debra Messing) continue with their usual banter of how she's still not forgiving him and she's got a pain in her neck which he says he can massage for her. Laura adding that's what got him into trouble and being led astray in the first place. The woman, Susan (Marisa Ryan) tells them she saw a white man in the alley and Laura stops her car from being towed for which she's offered a free massage. Jake has written down the details in the notebook that Laura just gave him so that he doesn't forget things. Also mentioning how good her memory is. Lucky I don't need notebooks to recall things, never forget a thing! Laura also hinting that she can sort out Susan's parking tickets too. The thing about the notebook she gave Jake can also be implied it's cos he forgot what he said to her in hospital, but then he was in pain and pumped with drugs so that's easy to understand.
Renaldo (Marc Webster) calls for EMTs cos the baby is still alive and is rushed to hospital, Jake reminding him they still need the forensics from the woman. The baby is in ICU and the mother had a pre-existing condition which needed medical attention, however her placenta ruptured. She died after her head hit the pavement. She was also found on Hooker's Row where Meredith (Janina Gavankar) tries to get information from and one of the girls tells her she looks good but she doesn't know the woman. Her pimp, Vladi (Andrew Hovelson) turns up and gets rough with her so Billy (Laz Alonso) has to intervene, when Meredith was just getting started on him. He tells Billy that he didn't touch her and points to her tattoo behind her ear. She's from Nigeria and you don't mess with the Nigerian smugglers from Benin City.
Laura had Max (Max Jenkins) look into any pregnant women who had entered the country on a tourist visa and he narrowed the list down to two women, the pregnant one was DJ and she was registered at a hotel. The concierge recalls she would book a room but wait to be picked up by a white van. As a man comes into the hotel and sends a text on his phone. Laura grabs it and reads the text where he warns someone about the police being here. He gets paid for picking up the women by a man named Carlo and that's all he knows. Billy and Meredith follow the GPS on the phone and the white van to another location, when they raid it, they find other men and also a woman in her underwear. She says DJ was new and how they smuggled uncut stones into the country so they couldn't be traced.
DJ had been locked up and escaped through a tiny window which caused her placenta to rupture. They ask Carlo (Blake DeLong) for her suitcase and he says he didn't kill her. Inside they find a teddy bear and Jake puts smoothing aside for the baby from his mother. Laura finds a notebook and deciphering the entry leads them to an apartment building. They find out about Ambaby and in the penthouse find other pregnant mothers who were brought into the country cos they wanted their babies born here and would have dual nationality. I don't know why Santiani (Callie Thorn) found this difficult to grasp. There was no proper medical care and only a nursing student (Alexandra Turshen) who got paid here and they had a Dr Nick (Andrew Rothenberg) on call if they needed help. He's tracked down to a clinic where he's treating criminals.
Nick gives them info on a young man with blond hair and how he has an alibi for when DJ was killed. He should've been on call but he lost his medical licence to his gambling habit and was on a winning streak when he got the text. He didn't leave. No wonder he lost his licence, he should get the book thrown at him, what happened to his Hippocratic Oath, oh poker was far more important. They can't find who the man is, but then Laura recalls the estate agent in the flyer the apartment doorman (John Hattington Bland) had given her, in which she placed her gum. Jake poses as a rich man looking for an apartment, well at least we go to see him in a suit and tie again this season! Scott's (Eric Sheffer Stevens) arrested and says he wanted to help DJ and in return she gave him a sapphire. He sent an email to a nurse on call that night, her domain is massage.com, which Jake recalls belongs to Susan.
She says she wanted to help her but she panicked and dragged her to dump her, she hit her head on the kerb. After they find Susan's DNA on DJ's ankle. See another 'witness' trying to be too helpful and thus giving herself away in the process, especially when she saw the street cleaner and pretended to be a witness. Her DNA wasn't in the system cos she hadn't been arrested. DJ's relatives were found so they can keep her baby. Did you notice the look on Laura's face at the beginning when DJ was taken away in the ambulance, she seemed to recall losing their own daughter, which we heard about in season 1, that's why both she and Jake wear their bracelets still. Also Jake putting away the toy for the baby so the baby would have something the mother got.
Jake stays for dinner and he really needed to do that cos of this case. Also he shows her the doctor's note written on a letterhead concurring with his first doctor's opinion and he asks for a date for Saturday night, a date in the night, which Laura agrees too albeit rather hesitantly. Jake also commenting one her hair earlier in the ep cos it was straight and she says she got into a struggle with her hairdryer, but he mentions she's actually seeing Tony.
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