Private Eyes

- So, what's going on? - My friend Mia brought a victim

of an alleged hit and run. She wants to see us.

Her name is Teres Ramirez. She's an actress...

I wouldn't leave your mouth open that wide in here.

- The Rosa Trilogy? - Yeah, that's what Mia said.

She's a huge fan. Wait, you've seen it?

You haven't!?

The Rosa Trilogy's only the most successful Mexican

telenovela in history. It ran for 2000 episodes!

And Teresa Ramirez played Rosa!

After the series ended, she moved to Toronto.

She married a producer. That marriage ended very quickly

so she married two more times, and those marriages bo...

What?

You know more about Teresa Ramirez than I know about you.

- She was a very famous actress. - OK. Well, maybe she loved

the melodrama so much she couldn't live without it.

Telenovelas are not melodramatic!

OK. Maybe there is a certain heightened sense of reality.

Yeah. A handsome man walks into a room and the women squeal

like wounded geese and faint.

- Never happens, huh? - Not in the real world.

Gracias.

- Oh, th... - Ven aqui, guapo.

Ms. Ramirez, it is such an honour

to meet you. I am such a big fan.

That's sweet. Take some photos, mi amor,

so all my fans around the world know that I survived.

OK.

It's nice to be

- in front of the camera again. - Teresa,

these are the private investigators I was

telling you about, Angie Everett and Matt Shade.

- Painkillers. Doctor's orders. - Ah.

Mia said that you were walking

to your hairdresser when you were hit.

- What time was the appointment? - 8 o'clock. I am

always her first. If not for that angel,

this face would have been ruined. Look!

- Lucky we were in the area. - That devil car came

- out of nowhere! - Did you see what it

- looked like? - A limousine, dark as night.

- Did you get the licence plate? - No.

But I can tell you that it was deliberate.

- I was the target. - How do you know?

- I saw them! - Who?

In the back seat, grinning at me wickedly! I could

feel their evil.

You will help me. I know you will.

You have kind eyes.

Hola, everybody.

I'm sorry to break up the party, but wheels up. Yeah, we got

- a code four. - OK. Be right there.

- Stay out of trouble, lady. - I feel safer now that he's here.

See you.

A package for you, Ms. Ramirez.

Oh, I'll take it.

- Do you mind? - No.

Oh, it's beautiful.

- La rosa blanca! - Take it away!

- What's wrong? - I am marked for death.

Nobody at the nurses' station knows who sent the white rose.

You OK? You look a little flushed.

Oh, it's just the sun.

Um, I talked to the hospital florist.

She couldn't even identify the species. I called Zoe.

She's on it. But are we sure

this is an actual threat, Shade? I mean, it's just a white rose.

Every time someone got a white rose on The Rosa Trilogy,

it meant that a funeral was coming. They called it

- "the hand of fate." - Crossing the street

- while tipsy? Also tempting fate. - Speaking of,

I thought I heard the dulcet tones of espagnol

when I got in the car. Were you watching

The Rosa Trilogy? Strictly research.

- Oh. - It was the series finale.

Oh, the series finale was horrible. You need to watch

- the rest of the series. - There's 2000 episodes!

But I do need to see how it ended.

- Uh-huh. - Ahem.

Wait. That's it?

Now I remember why everyone hated the finale so much.

It's hard to believe that was 15 years ago.

Could present-day Teresa have sent herself the rose?

I mean, maybe she wasn't attacked.

Maybe she set up the whole hit-and-run thing herself.

Not a chance! She's Rosa!

She's also been out of the spotlight for quite a while.

Yeah, thanks. I can't tell them apart either.

- What are you looking at? - Hey! Danica!

- Hi. - Uh, I'm just here

for an insurance case for Angie and Shade.

Oh, I just got your text.

Yeah. Thought I'd just come out and...

- say hi in person. - Hi.

Have you ever lost something

but you know where it is? You just...

- can't get it? - Like, uh...

- losing a ring down the drain? - How did you know that?

You lost a ring down the drain?

It's not just any ring and it's worse than down a drain.

It's an engagement ring.

Oh, my God! You proposed finally!

- Congratulations! - No. I, um...

I was getting ready for work this morning and I took it out

of my makeup bag to admire it then I got cold feet

about proposing, like I do every morning,

and then I could hear Kate coming into the bathroom,

so I just freaked out and put it back in the bag...

- Just the wrong one. - Kate's?

We have matching makeup bags. I honestly

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

I'll get it back for you.

I would do it myself, it's just that I have to be

- at a crime scene all day. - As my first solo case,

I promise to give it all the attention it deserves.

- Deal? - Deal.

Danica's report said the accident happened

- in a blind spot. - If Teresa faked

the hit-and-run, it would be for attention.

No cameras here.

Which means it really happened.

All right, this is the path the limo took.

Let's follow it.

All right. You're dying to ask me. Go ahead.

Shade, your obsessions are none of my business.

But why a Mexican telenovela?

- Yep. - Better yet, how?

All right. My hockey career had just ended.

- Oh, I knew I'd regret asking. - I tried my hand

- at sports broadcasting. - "Tried" being

the operative word. Did you know that your epic fail video has

one million views now? When I'm having a bad day,

one click and all my problems seem so small.

And you're welcome.

Anyway, I took that pretty hard

at the time, so I went to Mexico to figure some stuff out.

Where you discovered your passion for telenovelas?

Hey, laugh all you want, but millions of people

around the globe have connected with Rosa's story:

the peasant girl who falls in love with a millionaire

and becomes the richest woman in all of Mexico.

I get it. You're from a small town.

It was either the farm or the steel mill,

but you had a dream and you got out,

a one in a million shot.

Basically, you are Rosa,

minus the sugar daddy. I mean, you've even had

some highly-publicized romantic melodramas of your own.

I saw you gasp for air when Hunter,

the hunky paramedic, walked in in his too-tight shirt.

That was the hiccups.

You know, maybe we're looking at this from the wrong angle.

Teresa takes the same route from her hairdresser's

- every week. - She said the car came

- out of nowhere. - But if you knew her schedule,

you could surprise her at that intersection.

You could hide around the corner out of sight

and wait for her to arrive.

That's a hotel.

With a cab stand out front.

- Hey, buddy. You got a minute? - I got an hour if you need

- a tour of the city. - The other driver said you do

the early bird run to the airport?

Yeah. I'm on the road to Pearson by 6 and back here

- by 7:30. - Any chance you saw

a darkish-coloured limo around that time this morning?

Was it a late '80s stretch with whitewall tires?

- This is all the footage from today? - Mm-hmm.

Wait! Go back.

There it is.

And the licence plates

are from Mexico.

Target has been seen biking, yoga-ing,

very excessive exercising. Note:

get more steps in.

Target is engaged.

Object in sight.

Time for Operation Ring Recovery.

Ahem!

I love being a mom!

Ah!

Danica couldn't

match the plates an owner,

but she did manage to track the car down to this impound lot.

It shouldn't be this hard to find a vintage limo.

What?!

- I found it! - Let's go.

No! No! There's someone in there. Maybe two someones.

What?!

OK.

Wait a minute. I recognize her.

It's the Black Widow from The Rosa Trilogy.

So this is just playing out like the telenovela?

Yeah. The black veil is her signature. It means...

Death!

I'm a quick study. We need to get

to Teresa before the Black Widow does.

Sounds like Teresa's put her hospital stay behind her.

So I've been thinking, what if the driver was