1-The mystery of the taken boy
Captain Nancy Santiani (Callie Thorne) is the new boss. Frankie has been transferred back to CDIU or whatever that is, and five months have passed since Jake was shot. When Jake comes back he partners with Laura and Billy with Meredith. Laura fights a lot with Santiani, keeps calling her Santini, and wants Jake to use a secret they have on her to get his job back, but instead he says he never asked to be captain and he wants to keep working there as detective.
A man dies trying to save a kid from being kidnapped but he’s taken anyway.
2-The mystery of the cure for loneliness
Jake acts all cool now about Laura and Tony, saying that she deserves to be happy, and also takes some medicines secretly.
A girl is found dead. Jake calls it a suicide, but Laura is strongly against it. Of course she’s right. This girl was so lonely that she started faking cancer to meet supportive people, and with another girl (who really has cancer) they started to collect money for sick kids. She wasn’t a bad person, she had no greed motivation here, she only wanted human company, but a guy was slowly robbing their charity account, sure that they’d die soon, but then he found out her secret: at first he helped her faking it better to raise more money, and then he killed her when she wanted to back out.
3-The mystery of the locked box
Laura gets Jake to open up a little and he tells her that he has a ‘minor heart condition’ which is important but doesn’t explain why he forgets things. She’s worried but he asks her to keep it a secret because he’s afraid of losing his active job.
A very rich tech genius is killed with a drone with sharp blades.
4-The mystery of the convict mentor
Laura’s old boss calls her and gives her a tip on where to find two bodies connected to an old case. Jake gets mad because he says they both let her down and yet she still can’t forgive Jake no matter how hard he tries to do well. Next day Dan Hauser escapes from prison with the man they think killed those two, and Laura thinks he did it to help her close their old case.
Santiani puts her on desk duty because of all her lies, and honestly I don’t like the disrespectful way that Laura has been treating Santiani: she IS their captain!
A female guard helped Hauser escape (why don’t they keep male guards for men prisons and female guards for women prisons? They separate the prisoners for a reason, they should separate the guards too, as far as possible, right?)
Hauser leaves Laura clues to follow, so she arrests again the Irish guy and retrieves the millions he hid. At the end, Hauser tells Laura he didn’t do it to get a deal, but because he regrets hurting and losing her. They hug before he goes back to jail, then Laura tells Jake that he was right, “you are there for me everyday, and I appreciate it, you” but fact is, she’s still working on forgiving him because it still hurts. Yep , that’s the problem, it’d be easy to say I forgive you, but how stop it from hurting??
Laura tells Meredith “I liked you both better before you were a couple”, but they still deny it. She gets pissed when he tries to protect her “remember this, I stand beside you, not behind you” :-D
5-The mystery of the watery grave
Isabel Van Doren appears to be dead when they find her car in the water after she called 911. Van Doren’s first wife Claire also died, apparently she drowned, but her brother tells them that her husband killed her, that he was abusive and beat her, and that he thinks he killed Isabel too.
Laura finds out Isabel is alive, she staged her death because terribly afraid of her husband. Van Doren complains to Santiani about Laura, but Santiani tells her “take him down”
Isabel is too afraid to testify because Van Doren is friends with the mayor and the chief commissioner, so Laura wants to prove he murdered his first wife. She finds Claire’s bones in Van Doren’s mother’s grave, so they arrest him :-)
Laura asks Santiani why she backed her up: “my ex hit me once and then I got the hell out” which proves how people care more when they are personally involved.
Jake asks Laura for a second chance, a date, even if she can’t forgive him, and I liked the fact that the episode ended with the song “I’ll be needing stitches” in a female voice, kind of appropriate.
6-The mystery of the dead heat
Laura agrees to a date with Jake only if he sees another doctor to have a second opinion, and at the end of the episode Billy’s mom came to the precinct to see Meredith, and Laura sort of helped Santiani :-)
The ep’s victim is Matthew Burke, a good man who took good care of his wife diagnosed with MS. He was collateral damage; two people wanted his wife’s blueprints to break in the department evidence vault. Laura and Jake go there, she injures the man and he gets the woman.
7-The mystery of the maternal instinct
At the beginning it appears that a woman (who does massages and promises Laura a 50%off) witnessed a crime: the body of a pregnant woman being dumped on the street. She was dead already but the baby wasn’t. They stumble on an organization smuggling uncut jewels using women from Nigeria; the victim was one of them but since she was pregnant she has started looking for a way out. She wanted to give the stones to a secret organization that provided care for pregnant women, but the ‘witness’ dumped the girl when she didn’t find the doctor.
Jake shows Laura a note from the doctor so she agrees to a date.
8-The mystery of the ghost in the machine
A guy was driving a red Ferrari, with multiple gunshot wounds. Laura thinks he was a car thief until Billy finds out that he was an undercover cop, working for the same lieutenant Billy worked with. They find the shooter, but they keep looking for whoever leaked his picture and real identity, making him a target. Someone hacks the police system and Santiani orders to get off the internet right away. At that moment we see a letter from Jake’s doctor saying that they “detected a frontal lobe anomaly” and need to do more tests. Jake is worried that Santiani might learn that he hid his condition. Only the second precinct is targeted, because they’re the ones investigating the case.
The victim’s sister had been bullied on the internet and he put a stop to it. Carl the bully took revenge, some kind of stupid pathetic kid, like all bullies. :-/ At the end Laura tells Santiani that she knows her secret (we know, from her first episode) and that she’ll never tell anyone because they’re a family, so she won’t take any action to separate Billy and Meredith.
9-The mystery of the triple threat
Tony tells Laura that he got a job offer, executive chef, his dream job, but it’s in Vegas, so he asks her if they have a future because he wants her more so if she tells him they have a future together he’ll stay…
Laura answers Jake’s phone when his doc calls and learns that Jake’s condition is more serious than he told her. She’s angry, tells him that she can’t trust him and never will, and goes home to Tony.
A secret online treasure hunt is going on, and one of the hunters is found killed, or so they think at first. Peter was in a three-way marriage, but that was not the reason either. Jealousy, sort of.
10-The mystery of the downward spiral
I liked this two-part ep because I liked Jonathan.
Michael Dunham, perfume maker, is killed. His son Jonathan (Jerry O’Connell) is the primary suspect. They find a group of people angry at him because they want to protect animals, and also a man called ‘the nose’ who got attacked by someone who broke his nose. Laura fells bad for Johnny who lost his dad, found out he was not appointed new head of the firm, and now learns that his fiancée slept with his father (well, he knew, but now everybody knows he knows, so it’s out there). They find evidence against John, but when they go catch him the lab explodes, so they think he did it and ended it this way, dying.
Next morning Laura finds John in her bedroom with a gun.
Santiani tells Laura that she’s very strong, spending so many hours together with her ex, “but just because you can doesn’t mean that you should” and tells her that if she wants a change of partner she’ll make it happen..
Laura tells Meredith that she told the twins about Tony being her boyfriend; Meredith tells Billy and Billy tells Jake.
11-The mystery of the unwelcome houseguest
John made a bomb and brought it with him. He went to her house and she found him hidden in her room. He asks her “why did you frame me?” and he wants to record her confession. At the precinct, they knew that she was going to have a crazy week because of the boys taekwondo tournament, and Alicia texts Jake that Laura’s sick. John keeps telling her that he didn’t kill his father and that she ruined his life. Meredith thinks John might be alive, so they start thinking about where he could be. They start suspecting Brenda the lawyer, but alas she didn’t kill anyone. When Laura doesn’t answer even Max calls, Jake knows she’s in trouble, so he goes there with Billy and help her. Laura puts the bomb in the washing machine..
The assistant found out that years ago a drunk John hit her family’s car killing her parents and that his father covered it up paying off the cops, so she killed him. After such a day Laura realizes she didn’t think of Tony the whole day “makes you realize what’s important”, obviously thinking of Jake, again. Poor Tony :-/
12-The mystery of the morning jog
Billy’s rent went up, a lot. He wants to move in with Meredith and at the end she agrees to it.
Jake has two tickets for a game and everybody at the precincts wants them, but he gives them to Tony :-) nice :-)
Laura’s dad watches Blindspot on tv and keeps telling her he knows, he can see she still loves Jake. At the end she breaks up with Tony, tells him to go to Vegas, and that she’s still in love with Jake (with a nod, not in so many words, but still).
A guy is kicked in front of a bus and killed. He was a doctor and he got offered a job from FIFA that would mean relocating to Europe with his family. They find Aidan’s stepson’s biological father Kurt at a “Mens renaissance meeting” where ‘men’ rant against women :-/ Later Kurt kills his pal George’s wife because George told him that he had killed Aidan for him, but he didn’t. Ellen, the child’s grandmother, killed Aidan so that he wouldn’t take her grandson away to Europe. (But if she was alone, surely she could have gone to Europe with them right? She was already living with them wasn’t she?!?!)
13-The mystery of the dark heart
Valentine’s day. The murder of a man reminds them of an old serial killer. It’s the same MO, so they think of a copycat- he killed the man right away, took away the woman and if they don’t catch him in time she’ll be dead by midnight. Jake has Hauser brought in to help. “serial murderabilia .com” posted pictures and lots of stuff on serial killers. As Meredith said twice, people suck. A man obsessed with the valentine killer thinks they caught the wrong guy back then. Laura says the valentine killer Glenn Baker had a partner, who now is killing again 22 years later. Glenn killed the men, the other only cared about the women. They catch him and save the girl (who had a very beautiful wedding dress on, very pretty!!) Hauser goes back to jail.
Meredith always said she doesn’t like Valentine’s Day, but after a whole day seeing people getting flowers or exchanging gifts, she has a change of heart. When she confronts him, he shows her the romantic date he had planned, right there in the precinct.
Jake reaches to his friend DA for help on the case. Laura considers going out with Jake but doesn’t tell him because she finds him with Jennifer, his friend at the DA’s office, and they already planned to have dinner together.
14-The mystery of the political operation
A cuban politician’s life is in danger. His wife and her lover tried to kill him during heart surgery, after killing his guard before, and she stops them, but they have diplomatic immunity. Still, they’ll be sent back to Cuba and tried there…
Jennifer is ok, nice and smart, so Laura invites her to celebrate with them at their bar, and tells Jake “I think you’re perfect for each other”
15-The mystery of the unknown caller
A man calls Laura before being shot to death. He was her sister’s boyfriend. Lucy’s actually her half-sister, from her cheating father. Laura tracks her down; Lucy didn’t even know that Ian was dead. Ian was involved in counterfeited meds. Santiani puts Laura on desk duty, while Jake goes out with Harris from another precinct to work the case. Lucy hid 50.000$ in her dad’s house, and Laura tells her she’ll go to jail but Lucy walks free because Laura handcuffed her without reading her her rights. For once Laura admits to Santiani that she messed up. They have Lucy help them contact Jimmy Chang the dealer/murderer. Laura goes to meet him as his big buyer. Santiani tells her she’ll track her, like she does her son “in parenting as in police work, you hope for the best but you plan for the worst” and uses a FindYourFriend app… “I guess this makes us friends” - “I guess it does”. When they arrest Jimmy, he threatens Laura’s life. Laura tells Santiani “thanks for finding me… friend”. Lucy asks Laura if she can come live with her and the boys :-) During a press conference, when there’s a gunshot that took down “a female officer”, Jake rushes there to find Laura alive but Santiani dead
16-The mystery of the end of watch
Laura notifies Santiani’s son Justin. The tragedy makes Jake and Jennifer get serious faster. When they tell Laura she may have been the target, of course she thinks of Jimmy. He escaped prison and they find him with his newborn child, but he says someone else put a hit on the captain, not on Laura. When they go to the wake, they find Justin has disappeared. (Santiani mother is played by Mercedes Ruehl, aka Lucia Barba, and Justin’s father is played by Scott Cohen, aka Max Medina).
In the morning Laura finds Lucy and her well-behaved boys and thanks her for her help. Jake buys a ring for Jen.
When they find Justin he tells them his dad didn’t kidnap him, he was trying to save him. He was into something dangerous, owed a lot of money to bad people, so they killed his wife so he’d be the beneficiary of her insurance money. They catch the guys with his help.
Max tried very hard all the time to keep it together to help. Billy tells Laura that Jake bought a ring and plans to propose to Jen. At home she cries, and Lucy hugs her: “you said it yourself, you pushed him away” - “I make a mistake” - “then fix it” - “how?” - “stop him”
and Laura drives to the place where Jake is having dinner with Jen, and she tells him that she still loves him “now you tell me??”, and “your timing sucks”. They kiss, and then Jen comes to see what is going on and Laura can see she already has the ring on her finger, so I guess he didn’t wait till dessert to propose, which is nice actually, but bad news for Laura.
I think this is the end, they didn’t make a third series, but it doesn’t matter, it’s not a big loss and anyway who cares about Laura and Jake getting together, it was always obvious from ep one.
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