Deception

- Vivian bowers was found dead

In a motel room early this morning.

- Vivian's contact is ben preswick.

We get him and we've got everything.

- I think we should see where this goes.

You know what?

We'll probably be sorrier before this whole thing is over,

So why don't you just get going?

- Mia is vivian's daughter. - She deserves to know!

Don't you dare tell her.

- Have you managed to iron out

Your miracle drug's inconvenient fatal flaws?

Huh? Gah!

Don't you ever...

Come near my family, ever again!

- You thought I could've murdered

My own sister, joanna.

- I'm covering the vivian bowers murder

For a celebrity magazine.

Trying to find out who her baby daddy was.

Look!

I came to help. I'm a cop.

- So you attacked edward bowers

Then you used his parking pass

To break into bowers pharmaceuticals.

What were you going for?

Hey! Listen to me, ben preswick!

What are we at, hour six?

I feel great.

I can do this for another six hours, easy.

Well, I can't.

Ben, none of us wanna be here.

You know what, I don't even wanna be in this city.

I'm a san francisco narcotics detective

Here on special detail.

And that's to find out who killed my best friend.

- Can I speak to you outside, please?

- So I'm not leaving here until you start talking.

You're that joanna?

The one she grew up with?

Yeah.

I'm that joanna.

- This wasn't supposed to happen.

- What? What wasn't supposed to happen?

None of it.

She wasn't supposed to get killed.

All right, we still need

A plastic surgery shocker sidebar.

- We're working on it, darcy. - I just struck gold.

Meet buffy franso.

She has our next vivian bowers cover story.

- You know, I'm very close with dominick dunne.

What's happening here?

- Buffy used to be best friends with catherine bowers,

Robert bowers' first wife.

She was an angel.

- So catherine dies tragically, or whatever,

And sofia swoops in and banishes poor buffy here.

- Somebody better screw or die in this story pretty soon

Or I'm gonna lose my mind.

- So buffy doesn't see robert and sofia

For years, right, buffy? - Right.

- Until she runs into them at a dude ranch in montana.

Guess when this picture was taken.

A week before sofia gave birth to mia bowers.

Does sofia look pregnant to you?

- Well, then who is mia's bio mother?

[rock playing, knocking on door]

- I got your gown for tonight.

You're gonna look so beautiful, I cannot stand it.

- Well, coming from my mom, that means a lot.

- Hey, I'm nothing if not honest.

You're gonna have so many men after you.

Mom, I'm seeing somebody.

- Oh, mia. Is it serious now?

Well... He's a lucky boy.

- Oh, gosh. Mom!

Oh, my...

- Oh, everything is so stupid and embarrassing, I know.

Here, I have something for you.

- What is it? - Open it up.

Mom, these are beautiful.

- My grandmother gave them to me.

They're as unique as you are, honey.

I'm so proud of you.

You're the best thing I ever did.

I love them.

And I love you.

- Are you saying that vivian bowers is mia's mother?

Knocked up at 16.

That girl never stood a chance.

- And sofia and robert bowers lied to her

And raised mia as their own. - Yes.

- And mia bowers has absolutely no idea.

None.

Did I oversell?

Not even a little.

Call graphics.

We need a new cover.

I was in thailand,

Working for bowers pharmaceuticals

As a med tech.

We were running a trial on a new cancer drug called lyritrol.

- How did it go? - Depends who you ask.

1,200 patients.

Acceptable loss on a trial that size is...

One or two deaths at most.

There were 27.

Then what?

- I got transferred back to new york,

Started working in r&d.

That's when I met vivian.

A few months later, I saw a report on the...

lyritrol trial.

It said there were only two deaths.

And you took this to vivian?

- We tried to find original reports,

But they were all gone.

What we did find...

Was a list of payoffs to the dead patients' families.

- Where is this list now? - Vivian had it.

It disappeared the night she died.

- Then we caught you breaking into bowers

To pull the payoff spreadsheets from the mainframe.

- Yeah. They're on an offline server in accounting.

Um, you don't have a server like that

Unless you're trying to hide something.

- Anybody else know about this?

Edward bowers.

- So do you think he had her killed?

He was the only one who knew,

And now she's dead.

He put me in a safe house, told me he'd help me.

And then the feds bust in.

- Will you excuse us for a minute?

Hey, look.

Next time you decide to blow your cover,

Would you like to talk about this first?

- I had to. We weren't getting anywhere.

And besides, it worked.

Look, everything is pointing to edward.

- My money's still on your boyfriend,

The sister-puncher.

- How long you gonna be mad at me?

- I don't know. What month is it now?

- Can I see you guys in my office, please?

People are talking.

I don't know what is going on between the two of you,

And I don't wanna know.

I just want it to stop.

Take the feelings and shelve them.

Can the two of you do that?

- Yes. - Yes, sir.

Okay.

So what's next?

- I can go to bowers, have ben walk me through

Where to find the files he was looking for.

- Ben says the files prove there was a cover-up.

And that edward bowers was a part of it.

- Then go get me edward bowers.

- Couldn't we have left the balloons at the hospital?

- The girls wanted to see you liked their present.

You up for mia's cotillion tonight?

I know she'd love to see you there.

- What? No. Maybe, I don't know.

Any news from the police?

The guy who stole your car

Used your I.D. To break into bowers.

- What? Did they arrest him?

- I talked to the new york cops,

Of course they gave me the runaround.

Finally said he got away.

- Where did they find him? What was he doing?

He was in the computer room.

What's the matter?

Ed, what's going on with you?

- Take me to the office. I gotta go to the office.

Come on.

Let's take a right here, let's go.

Sam, what the hell?

- Tell me what's happening. I'm not stupid.

Vivian was murdered, right? Some guy breaks into our house.

Obviously, something's going on with you.

- I don't have the time for this, all right?

Just gimme the keys. - No, no.

No. No, I'm not going anywhere.

Gimme the keys, samantha.

- Ed! Come on! - Come on.

I have to go to the office. Just gimme the keys!

- You know what? Stop it!

So this guy ben was vivian's boyfriend,

And he worked for bowers.

- Yeah. They had a plan...

To go to the media, and they came to me for help.

I told them to wait to make sure it was true.

I was looking out for the family.

- You're still looking out for the family.

- Did you throw the keys to the escalade

All the way to the reservoir or what?

- I should've driven the freakin' escalade