High Potential

How'd you sleep, Lieutenant?

- You want me to lie to you? - Sort of.

Fantastic. Like a baby.

Good morning, Detective.

Good morning. Lieutenant slept great.

I didn't ask. And no, she did not.

Mason puts Anthony Acosta's death between three and five p ...m.

Confirmation of shotgun?

It's the murder weapon.

Next of kin?

Primary suspect, the wife, Lynette Acosta, vanished.

They have one daughter, Letty, studying up in Santa Cruz.

Should be on her way down here now.

You gave her the news?

So, how do we find the wife?

Only other next of kin is the sister, Sofia Bellier.

Who did this?

Hey! Who did this?

Who changed our board?

A man is dead. Our primary suspect is missing.

This is not a joke.

Daphne, I wanna know who did this.

Mom!

No, we don't need a magazine about castles.

Put it back.

- Uh-uh. - It's just lip gloss.

You know, I watched a documentary the other night,

we can make our own lip gloss out of beeswax.

Like when we made our own detergent and all got rashes?

That could have been foot - and-mouth, we don't know.

Why can't you be more like your sister?

She just tried to eat deodorant.

And look how happy she is.

All right. Your grand total is one...

168.47.

$173.81. Good guess though.

Yeah, it's-it's 168.47.

- Sorry, it's one hundred... - Oh. Maybe you missed a coupon.

Uh, 30% off detergent at 7.87, that's 2.36 for a total of 5.51.

15% off strawberries, that's 84 cents.

And up to two, so you can scan this one twice.

Okay. 35% off canola oil at 7.88, 5.13 total.

Oh. Okay, I was worried about this one 'cause I had a little falling-out

with the Groupon people, but I apologized.

- We were supposed to be good. - That one scanned.

3.12 more then.

The ham expires tomorrow, so we get 40% off.

That is $6.15.

Yeah, the total is 168.47.

4.99 plus tax is 5.34.

173.81 minus 5.34 is 168.47.

Thank you.

Who the hell is this?

When are we getting the car back?

Do you have any idea how much carburetors cost?

$395.95.

Now, plus tax.

- 420.89. - Plus labor.

I don't know how much labor costs. - Nobody does.

Stop showing off, both of you.

You can pay for groceries like a normal person.

- You don't have to perform. - It's not on purpose.

I just see the numbers. I can't help it.

Oh. This is our stop.

Driver, can you put out the disabled ramp?

Ask him to put out the disabled ramp.

- No. Mom! - Driver!

Whoopsie. Whoops!

Could you grab 'em?

We got a lot of options. I know, buddy.

You hungry? Let's go!

- Ooh. Oops. - I'll see you inside, Chloe.

Don't even offer to help.

I got it. I got it.

It's okay, Henry. I can manage.

Thank you.

Come on.

Don't break your old body.

I can't afford to lose a babysitter right now.

Your concern is truly touching.

Have you heard from Ludo?

We talk every day, Henry. We co-parent.

We're not enemies, we're just not together anymore.

Does he ever ask about me?

All the time.

He says losing you was the hardest part.

It's for the best and you know it.

- Ludo can't handle me. - Few can.

Morgan Gillory, I'm Detective Karadec.

This is Detective Ozdil. We need you to come down to the station.

Sometimes the music takes control.

Tampering with a criminal case is a serious crime.

So is obstruction of justice.

It wasn't tampering. I saw a problem and I tried to fix it.

- You were trying to help us? - No.

I don't care about you. I wanted to be able to sleep.

I have a compulsion to put things right.

If I see a mistake, I need to correct it.

Otherwise, I'm up all night obsessing.

That's all I was doing, cleaning up your mess.

Wanna arrest me for that? Fine. Go ahead.

You got it.

What mistakes did you see?

Okay. So you got a dead body.

I'm assuming you think this lady offed her husband, but that's not possible.

Look at this room.

Look at this couch.

All of these pillows are evenly spaced with alternating colors.

Check out these shelves.

Those objects are perfectly sized.

Even the choice of metals is consistent.

This house is immaculate. The owner is a tidiness freak.

Except...

all of these curtains are fastened with a tieback

except for one for some reason.

That's odd, isn't it?

You're telling me this woman,

who meticulously arranges her couch pillows,

doesn't care about her curtains?

So the tieback must have been used for something else.

See, look. You've got hair stuck to the chair leg.

Somebody put tape around it, ripped it off,

the glue stayed and trapped the little bits.

The samples are at the lab. We found no tape at the scene.

That means someone was tied up with the curtain cord

and taped to the chair around their ankles.

And since there are no marks on the victim's wrist,

it wasn't him who was tied up,

which means there was a third person.

We have Lynette tied to the chair, victim on the ground

and our unknown bondage freak,

who has either kidnapped or bumped off Lynette.

That's the person you need to find.

So, you guys made mistakes, I've fixed them.

Let's not make a big deal out of this.

You got a suspect to find.

I have some expired ham to fry up before tomorrow.

- So, if you will excuse me. - Sit down.

Let's wait for the lab results.

For now, this is just speculation.

We have the surveillance footage.

A woman was seen entering the house at the time of the murder.

The third person.

Oz, please escort Miss Gillory to the holding cell.

- What? - We have to check your story out.

If it all checks out, then you have nothing to worry about.

- Yeah, I know how to stand. - Ma'am...

Thanks.

I was just cleaning up your mess.

You're welcome.

Since when do you show an open case file to a civilian?

A potential suspect?

Can you refute anything she said?

No.

We have to be sure because if she's right...

Then we currently have a botched homicide investigation with no leads.

And even worse...

We have a second victim.

Hello?

Hi.

This is footage from the Acosta house

at the approximate time of the murder.

Who is she?

Lishka Zhang.

A few months ago, she filed a civil lawsuit

against one of Lynette Acosta's clients.

Acosta won the case. It appears Zhang didn't take it well.

She started sending threatening emails to Acosta.

Miss Zhang, three months ago, you sued Brian Dimon,

your boss at Spatial Technologies.

He harassed me for months.

I ran out of ways to tell him no.

So, one night, he locked me in his office and assaulted me.

I reported it to the police. I'm sure you have that in your file.

Insufficient evidence.

Couldn't file criminal charges, so I sued him.

And you lost.

Is that why you've been sending Lynette Acosta threatening emails?

I was just questioning why Lynette Acosta

chose to be complicit in the suffering of women like me.

You were angry at Mrs. Acosta?

Of course.

Even though Dimon was the one who assaulted you.

I am angry with him too,

but the police failed me on that front.

What were you doing at Acosta's house yesterday?

I wasn't at her house yesterday.

We have you on video.

And 30 minutes after you arrived, Anthony Acosta was dead.

That's impossible.

No. No, I-I wasn't there yesterday.

I was at home all day working.

Can anyone confirm that?

No.

You're cleared. Just need you to sign your paperwork and you're good to go.

She claims to know nothing about Lynette's whereabouts,

but Zhang has no alibi.

We have her at the scene, and we have motive.

Once we make the arrest, we'll lean on her for Lynette's location.

- Start writing it up. - Yeah.