A man climbs to the top of a church as another one tells him to hold on he's coming. He takes a picture of the stained glass window, he spots a DB down below. Jake (Josh Lucas) is already at the scene as Laura (Debra Messing) arrives after a morning juggling (okay assuming it's morning cos Alicia (Alysia Joy Powell) hasn't arrived yet) the leak in the kitchen as well as the children losing their hamster. Tony (Neal Bledsoe) arrives and says he needs to talk with her but she tells Alicia not to leave her alone with him when she does arrive. Assuming she didn't want to be alone with him to make a decision about them, or that he was gonna give her the brush off. Also it wasn't that hard to tell that Tony was going to say he's moving or has a job offer or both, so not terrible exciting, as she tells him to come by the precinct tomorrow for his sixty seconds chat when Jake calls. You could say she was gone in sixty seconds and out the door! ha.
At the church Jake reminisces about walking down the aisle and Laura recalls her dress had an iron mark on it, what she wasn't even perfect for her perfect day! The men who found him saying they were on a treasure hunt, The New Gotham Treasure hunt to be precise and show them their photos of the places they'd been. They were playing through the Dark Web and the prize is in bitcoins (ugh not bitcoins again, possibly in eevry show that I've watched lately!) New York loves its treasure/scavenger hunts as also seen in CSI:NY ep Get Me Out of Here! always ending in a murder or two. Laura takes their phone and Jake tries to locate the clues by starting at the beginning after deciding that Laura will go back to the precinct.
Meredith (Janina Gavankar) tries to figure out photos from the files and sticks the photos on the board. Also Santiani (Callie Thorne) believes they can't do anything with it but comes back in to play around with the photos too. Of course leave it to Laura to figure it out (sometimes you wish someone else would get that privilege, cos there's more than one detective on the force, even if she is the title character!) She's been doing puzzles with the children and hums the theme to Sesame Street rearranging the photos and turns them around to reveal they're all letters, spelling out 'Silver Cu' and the third letter is a 'P' leading to Silvercup Studios. When Meredith and Billy (Laz Alonso) arrive they see a man at the top of the sign but when they reach the top he slides down on his rope, but is caught by the police.
Elliot (Christopher Neiman) has a flashdrive containing the winning bitcoin prize and says he's been training for the event a whole year so he wouldn't kill anyone, admitting he saw the DB already there but continued with the game, which he calls competition. He then shows them the footage from his GoPro camera and he also took the man's camera. Billy realizes he put a lock on his camera to stop it being stolen. They trace it back to his apartment where Jake and Laura find his wife, Maya (Steffanie Leigh) and also her husband, Chris (James Padric). They were all married and they call it a 'throuple.' Thought of Jake, Laura and Tony here, hey anything would work for Jake, no seriously it's not really them and Tony is just a third wheel! Laura still trying to get her head around it. As she later tells Billy and Meredith it's possible to love more than one person at the same time. With Billy adding he could do it and Meredith would find it awkward sharing her 'stuff.' Anyone's guess what she meant by stuff but it did have a double entendre feel to it, eeww not the right word!
Anyway, Maya tells them he was an event planner and he planned parties. The last one he was working on was for some famous socialite and she shows them a page of designs. Laura realizing that's why the camera had all those photos in it of black material. They have an alibi. However he did have an assistant he worked with and when Jake goes to question Ingrid (Jessica Keenan Wynn) she has the same face masks from the design. She tells him that after she found out about his throuple marriage, she didn't want his services and so she went behind his back and took on the contract. Adding that he had this uniqueness about him, he was able to ask questions and then get an idea from that. She asks if Jake's married and if he kissed her on the first date, which he says is none of her business and then answers her anyway. He noticed her eyes, of course Laura would be listening and she says it was her boobs, oh don't think so. He liked the glowiness and the twinkle. She also adds that someone graffited his car and tagged it with 'deviant pig.' Max (Max Jenkins) finds surveillance footage which shows a suspect in black, of course that was a woman, it wasn't exactly a male body shape.
Allison (Brynn O'Malley) was his former girlfriend and they hooked up again after he was kind of tiring of the idea of the marriage and losing the job. This was at his own apartment and Laura also tries to get some DNA evidence off her. She plays violin for a production of Aida and cries when she recalls him. Laura hands her a hanky which Allison keeps after blowing her nose. But gets an address for the first apartment he had. Meredith and Billy check it out, leading to Meredith being attacked and the attacker jumping 15 feet down. He doesn't follow and she finds the flashdrive was placed in her pocket and the only one who knew that was Elliot, so he had an accomplice. But he insists he called his lawyer and doesn't have a partner. Also no one would risk that height cos there's another hunt in Amsterdam next week and he would've rolled his ankle. However the attacker did leave his DNA behind on the window and was looking for something at the apartment.
Nice touch the way Jake recalled where Laura put her cardigan, in the fridge, hid their passports in the waffle iron, a bit dangerous and her Summer shoes in the oven, and not forgetting the candy in
the crock pot. Jake finds a bag in the oven which contains his design book, a page has been ripped out but that wasn't his last job. He had another one with sketches of a church, and emeralds, as she recalls Allison's eyes were green and that she had moved on from him. They find out she was planning to marry the conductor, Niles (David Christopher Wells). Laura tells him they have his DNA on the shirt and he tries to make a run for it. Jake giving chase, well not much of a chase but we didn't get one thus far and we always get a chase, as well as telling him he rolled his ankle and won't get far. Jake has to rescue him after he almost falls down.
At the bar, Jake's buying drinks and Laura answers his phone. As Meredith tells Billy he should've chased the suspect and not hung around for her. He said he was following procedure and would've done the same for anyone. She doesn't want him to do that cos if Santiani found out then she'd transfer one of them and she couldn't stand not working with him everyday. But she'd still get to see him and anyway he shouldn't have to take anything back, cos it seems he's the one doing all the compromising for her in their relationship, including not wanting people to know, when he tells her they already do. Think they're going to have some problems there, just as Jake and Laura and they're nowhere near to being married or even fully committed. Also Meredith was the one who blurted out Billy and her were going back to her place and not to her Pilates class!
So the phonecall is the doctor who tells Laura about Jake's condition and that it's affecting his brain. Firstly she's his ex so didn't strictly speaking have a right to have that info revealed to her and secondly Dr whats-their-face is in violation of doctor/patient privilege cos Jake is still his patient and the only one he should've spoken to. Doctors don't go around leaving messages with next of kin willy nilly! Yeah sue him!! So she's got a nerve telling Jake the only issue she had with him and getting back together was trust cos there's other issues too. Not least of which is how she always has to be right. But she doesn't want to hear his reasons and it's a no brainer (sorry!) he's got brain problems, she knows he forget what he said to her last season and also giving her the wrong cup and the one with sugar in it. Okay so he most likely forgot he doesn't have sugar in his tea, but the cups were identical so it was a mistake anyone could've made.
She rushes off to Tony and seals the deal with a kiss and wants to be 'in' as he's executive chef of some Las Vegas joint. Which means he's going to give up his dream job for her and then there'll be problems later on, can see them coming. OH no that scene when she walked out on Jake like that was so heart breaking wasn't it, almost got teary eyed. Gotta say she had a nerve leaving in a huff especially with what he's going through medically. Even after he recalled they had those cheeso things at their wedding and he wouldn't change a thing about it. So it seems his problems are more short term than long term memory.
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