Cal (Tim Roth) is asked to look into a collapse at a construction site by FEMA where three construction workers are missing. Everything is in chaos with the FEMA agent Greg Stevens, Boulware (Richard Brooks) and the construction foreman, Kevin (Fredric Lehne) blaming each other , causing Cal to grab a bullhorn. Stevens (Chris McGarry) gives Cal the lowdown. Boulware tells where the focus of their search has been. Gillian (Kelli Williams) gives Ria (Monica Raymund) and Eli (Brenden Hines) one of her cases and joins Cal at the site. Ria tells her to drive fast as Gillian comments she needs to get there before Cal alienates everyone.
Cal and Gillian question the worker who last saw the men and he appears to be holding something back. Cal shows his photos and asks him to describe the emotions he sees from the photos. The only one he gets right is disgust, cos as Cal explains, no one can lie about being disgusted. He admits he's an addict and he lied about where he saw the men. Dogs are brought to the site and banging can be heard, directing the search to that sector.
Eli and Ria meet with Jason Kachani (Pej Vahdat) a millionaire who wants to hire them to determine whether his fiance loves him for his money. She insists when they met she didn't know who he was. Ria refuses as they don't look to invade people's privacy. He writes them a cheque which makes them change their minds. Gillian is told about the amount (we're not) and she tells them to take the case. As the saying goes, it's easy money.
The Mayor of Frostberg, Meredith Fallon (Cheryl White) lied at the press conference and Cal asks why. She feels responsible for what happened as she made the construction company hire more men than needed. The men have been located by a fibre optic camera and are alive. One of them Cal notices shows fear when told they will be rescued soon. He thinks Jered Blunt (Shea Whigham) is responsible for the explosion. Did you notice the look that passed between Jered's wife and Kevin when she was leaving the trailer? There was something going on there. Cal questions Jered's wife, Valerie (Lauren Bowles) and thinks domestic violence may be involved and when Cal and Gillan put on an act for her, culminating in Gillian slapping Cal, she's clearly disgusted.
Cal wants Jered's photo blown up and sends it to Eli, who believes Jered is lying. Ria leaves with Michael (Ramon De Ocampo) to question Nadia (Virginia Williams) and Eli says he always tells a woman how much money he's got, which is why he doesn't get another date. Cal realizes Jered is exhibiting muscle spasms and suffers from multiple sclerosis. Cal and Gillian also see Kevin and Valerie being very friendly with one another, showing they were intimate with each other. Kevin tells them they had an affair when she was separated from Jered, but she went back to him. From his use of language such as 'cloud nine' etc, Gillian deduces he's not lying. Jered says he was using a blowtorch and dropped it when his hands shook.
Ria meets with Nadia pretending to know her from college and they talk. She tells Ria the same thing she told Jason, that she didn't know who he was when they met but she loves him. Eli shows this to Jason and says Nadia is lying, as she's not using her hands, known as 'illustrators' when she talks about him. Jason leaves and Ria wants him to stay as there's more to tell him. That was Eli being blunt and so to the point again, i.e.clinical cos he's had trouble with lies and women, he thinks it's fine to think the same and that
Nadia is lying point blank. Ria adds Nadia was using illustrators when she talked about Jason, but Eli just dismisses her as using, 'manipulators.' - touching her ear etc, which is what Farida did in 1.7 Do No Harm. They conclude Nadia does love him and his money. Eli justifies this by asking Jason if he finds her beautiful, which is one reason why he loves her and she loves his money in the same way. Yet the two aren't mutually exclusive and can be used to decide she's okay to marry, since one is a physical attribute and the other's an attribute of a different sort. Eli suggest Jason should get a prenup.
Boulware lies to the press about the blowtorch causing the explosion . He was bribed to miss an inspection and is concerned the cause of the explosion may be methane, making Cal call off the drilling, but no one listens. The trapped men are told to move into the lift shaft and seconds later, there's an explosion. Jered is killed, speeding up the inevitable death he was facing anyway. Gillian accuses Kevin of knowing about the methane and bribing Boulware, which he denies. Cal notices the expression of relief on Meredith's face as someone else is being accused, showing she's responsible. She never meant for this to happen.
Gillian and Cal return to the office where there Gillian gives Cal a real drink. Gillian: "Why do people think they're the only one with a secret?" Funny she should ask that and to Cal of all people.
Cal: "Human nature I suppose." Cos they've both got secrets and Cal knows Gillian's but she doesn't seem to want to admit it. As Cal earlier asks how her husband is when she was calling Alex. Gillian: "How'd you know...don't do that." He was watching her expression when she called him and she doesn't like that. Cal and Gillian acting like an old married couple when they put on the 'act' for Valerie.
Eli referring to Nadia as a hanging fly with yet more references to intercourse.
Ria: "It's not so easy to be open about money."
Eli: "I always tell women exactly how much money I have in the bank on the first date."
Sylvia: (Jessica Wright) "And you wonder why you never get a second." Thought it would be the nature of Eli's work that would drive women away and not really his bank balance, but then again he can be so brutally honest, or dishonest when he lied to Gillian last episode to save himself.
Kevin: "My men need engineers and rescue workers, not a couple of freakshow shrinks pointing fingers."
Cal: "She's the shrink, I'm the freakshow." And he means it too.
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