A crowd awaits the opening of Digital Convertor for Black Friday. As a man searches for his wallet, the crowd get restless and frenzied. A woman is trampled; as a girl lets go of her father's hand and wanders off. Whilst at Cal's (Tim Roth) a boy, Max (Daniel Ross) hires Cal to find if he is James Knox, who was kidnapped. Lots of cold case solving in this show. He shows Cal the scar on his body and pays him. Gillian (Kelli Williams) can't believe he took his money. Hey I said that. Cal allows Max to question his current parents, the Roland's and advises him not to back down on anything. Max took a DNA test and found he isn't related.
Eli (Brendan Hines) has the photo of the footage from the store and Bernardo (Shashawnee Hall) hires them to show they're not at fault, thus significantly reducing the settlement payout. Eli negotiates a percentage of their fee based on the amount he saves them. Eli explains convergence theory: which holds aggression runs in the mindset of such crowds. Cal wants Ria (Monica Raymund) to help and leaves them alone as the Institute needs the money.
Cal and Gillian visit the Knox's and Gillian tells them about possibly finding their son. Cal watches Mrs Knox (Hannah cox) become nervous and fidgety. She admits James died in the bath when she left him alone; it was an accident. This is news to Knox (Randy Lowell). Jackie Roland ( Lisa Waltz) confesses she got Max from a woman named Cheyenne (Jackie Debatin) who didn't want him. There aren't any records and they didn't tell him out of fear he'd be taken.
Eli and Ria meet with the plaintiffs and they state a security guard was the cause of the frenzy. All of them look to one man who describes the guard as bald. But none of them actually saw him. Cal looks through video footage and finds one of Ben (Mekhi Phifer) accessing his password, which Cal uses to access the FBI database, finding an address for Cheyenne. Emily (Hayley McFarland) catches him and he leaves it logged on incase she wants to check someone out. He's committed a felony. Cheyenne say she is Max's mother and hugs him, but she's lying. She's an addict and stole the baby from her dealer, Romeo. She replied to an ad in the paper for a baby.
Ben catches them out as he was meant to be playing golf on holiday but he's been informed by the FBI his password was used. Emily talks with Max who thinks she shouldn't talk to a freak, she tells him of her dysfunctional family. Ben has the Roland's arrested. Max runs away. Did he actually want to find his parents so what was with the running away business? Ria notices Bernardo is hiding something as he hides his "gonads" and has Eli pull up footage of Churchill doing the same with his hat. Bernardo admits he has security tapes showing the guards and customers in the crowd having a fight before the frenzy ensued but they have a confidentiality agreement with the Institute.
Gillian lies to Emily by telling her they've found Max's parents, which Cal asks her to do since he can't lie to her. Ben discovers Romero's real name is Blake and his daughter died when he was in prison. Emily is upset with Gillian for lying. Ben locates Blake's parole officer, Donnelly (Nick Searcy) who finally admits there was a break in at his house 16 years ago. His wife was killed and he was shot in the back thus ending up in a wheelchair. His baby son was stolen.
Ria finds a man in the crowd who was grabbed. Eli mentions contagion theory and how crowds are affected by it. They also have the video, but Ria is aware Eli wants to get into Cal's good books, let's face it he needs to. Sense a little jealousy on her part. She's not the only one who wants to do the right thing and get to the bottom of it. As we know, Eli is big on doing the right thing, especially if it means blowing the whistle on someone who deserves it. The man, Ken heard his daughter and she broke her arm, but not during the riot. He just wants a pay out..
Max is Donnelly's son. Eli tells Cal they found the riot was started by a man in the crowd and Cal offers them dinner on him, which Eli accepts, but Ria comes across as stroppy and wants to see it through to the end, watching more tape. Eli has a few drinks at the bar and leaves when he sees a woman slip on some ice. Max's real name is Owen but but he refuses to believe he is his father after seeing him in a wheelchair. See the difference between Max now and his reaction to Cheyenne, whom he immediately hugged. Cal provokes max into lashing out at him and Max finally breaks down and cries.
Bernardo has settled for $2 million and hands them a cheque for $1.8 million. Eli asks how they clear up the ice outside and the employee replies they salt. The girl slipped on ice and that's why the crowd stampeded. Bernardo again brings up the confidentiality agreement and Eli threatens to expose the report. We know Eli is more than capable of exposure. Oh not in that way! They can use it but Bernardo won't be using any of the report.
Cal questions Blake (John Bishop III) who wanted to keep his daughter and exacted revenge on Donnelly. Blake wishes he knew who took his son and Cal tells him now he does. Eli wanted to tell the truth and Cal is proud of him for standing up and not taking the money - he'd be fired if he did. Donnelly and the Roland's agree on co-custody of Max and Emily wants to invite him for Thanksgiving next year. Eli and Ria being allowed to work on their own where such a lucrative deal is concerned, wonder if Cal was expecting one of them to mess up? Ria once again demonstrating the truth of her convictions in wanting some form of justice for the two who died and for their families.
As for Max and his search, it seemed to take forever to reveal who they were and each one of the would-be parents had something to conceal. Max remarking to Gillian if she wants a kid she should have one of her own, already said before and sad for her as she's tried that already too. As far as Max was concerned looking for his parents seemed like a vicious circle or a wild goosechase. First lot, the mother killed her baby. His actual adopted parents got him from a drug addict, who stole him from her dealer, who stole him from his parole officer.
Cal: "How'd it go with the suits?"
Eli: "We got the job. Where were you?"
Cal: "None of your bloody business. I figured you were up to it. It's probably a gross over-estimate on my part."
Eli: "I appreciate the confidence boost." Funny part, Cal blaming Eli for accessing the FBI database.
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