06x14 - In Sickness and In Healt

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06x14 - In Sickness and In Healt

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Oh... great day, isn't it, huh?

Oh, this is my floor. Excuse me.
Hi. Pardon me.

Hey, have a good one.

Christine, Marcy, Stephanie,
have a cookie.

Hi.

- Jason, did y see that game last night?
- Yeah.

Sox were awesome.
Is this a great city or what, huh?

What are y doing here?

It's good to see you.

You were supposed to take six weeks
off. It's only been four.

Four was enough.

- You've had major surgery, Jordan.
- And I feel better than ever.

Guess what I did yesterday?

I to my guitar to Lincoln Park.
Sun was shing, air was warm.

I sat on a bench.
I played guitar for hours.

I earned bucks,
and then I meditated. I'm healed.

Listen, I'm glad you're feeling better.

- But the truth is the doctors...
- Jordan?

- Nige! Hi.
- Hey.

- How are you?
- Good.

Kate!

Hi.

Hey, oh-oh, guys, uh, have a cookie.
Chocolate mint chip.

- Mmm.
- Yeah, I baked them myself.

Oh, Bug, look who's here.

Oh, hey, Jordan.

Nice to see ya.

Um, I got a lot of work to do, so...

- Yeah, Bug looks...
- Dreadful, yeah.

Ever since Homeland Security let him go.

- Did he ever tell anyone what happened?
- He says nothing.

Well, it's not good for the psyche
to keep that all bottled up.

He barely goes home.
He does nothing but work.

I'll talk to him.

Great, um, listen, we gotta go.

Yeah, sh**ting at a wedding
in the North End.

- Two bodies.
- Oh, sounds like fun.

You know, i can take it.
After all you guys did for me.

They've got it covered. Listen.

If you want to dive back in,
start at the low board.

Anything you say, boss.

I'm just gonna go, uh,
feng shui my office.

So what did they do? Remove
the meningioma or give her a lobotomy?

- I love weddings.
- Of course you do.

It's a celebration of life and love.

Two people surrounded
by friends and family

beginning life's journey together.

- A journey likely to end in divorce.
- Statistically no longer true.

- The rate's been dropping.
- Uh-huh.

Well, a wedding wreaks emotional
havoc on everyone involved.

Not to mention, you're gauged
for flowers and food

that wou cost significantly less
under any|other circumstances.

You're just a ray of sunshine!

Where have you guys been?

Little reunion back at the morgue.
Jordan's returned.

She's still got two weeks.
Well, she doesn't think so.

Oh, when she offers,

ex-nay on the ookies-kay.

Tom Bissonette,
wedding photographer.

Was taking pictures of the bride
and groom before the ceremony.

Bride heard g*nshots.
Next thing she knew, he was down.

She didn't see anything.

Regular-shaped entrance wound.
Likely ricocheted off the altar.

From here.

Trajectory appears to be
a downward angle. So the sh**t

must have been somewhere up
in the balcony.

And the other body's where?

Daniel Kensith, the groom.
sh*t four times.

I'm guessing he's our target.

Miss Carson?

We were supposed
to get married today.

Let me take you to your friends.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

I'm so sorry.

This was supposed to be
the happiest day of her life.

Jordan, what the hell
are you doing up there?

It's a harmony crystal.
It helps promote good chi.

- Good chi, huh?
- Yeah, uh, energy, life...

The fish is looking good.

He makes the cutest expression
when you whisper his name into the bowl.

Evander.

Evander.

Look, are you sure that Dr. Sanchez

said it was okay for you
to come back|to work this early?

Be skeptical, but I truly think the
meningioma turned out|to be a blessing.

I mean, it represented
all the negative energy

I was keeping inside.
And all the anger, the bitterness

- You wanna give me a hand?
- Yeah.

And now it's gone!

You know, it's like, uh,
a second chance to be a happier person.

Positive, patient,
karmically centered.

Oh, maybe I should get
one of these for Bug.

- Has he talked to Stiles yet?
- He says there's nothing to talk about.

Okay, you know,
I have some exercises that might help.

Oh, and maybe some teas.

- Dr. Cavanaugh,|welcome back!
- Hey, Emmy. Oh, oh.

Uh, you wanna have a cookie?

Just had breakfast.

Police department called. A woman was
m*rder*d on Powell Street in Allston.

- Detective Chandler's on scene.
- Oh, I'll take it.

- Jordan.
- No, I came back to work, to work.

Look, I'm wearing a black onyx.

I'll be fine.

This is what we know so far,

Sarah Pasternak, .

A nurse from Beacon Hill.
Looks like she was stabbed in the neck.

Laceration.

Uh, hit the carotid artery.

at least it would have been quick.
Any suspects?

It was a mugging gone wrong.

Victim never saw the attacker.

- This isn't the victim?
- Brenda Matthews.

A man att*cked her with a Kn*fe.
Tried to take her purse.

She was stabbed twice.
They're taking her to General now.

This was the good Samaritan
who chased him away.

No good deed, huh?

She d*ed saving someone else's life.

Kinda restores your faith
in humanity, huh?

Hi.

I'm very sorry about your brother.
And I realize this is a difficult time.

But do you know of anyone
who would have wanted to hurt him?

No, no. Danny was...

everybody loved Danny.

You were the Maid of Honor.
Did you know them a long time?

We all met first day,
freshman year at B.C.

Me, Nat, Sam, Monica, and Danny...

I moved in sophomore year.

Where were you two
when the sh**ting started?

Well, we had just done group pictures.

Danny wanted to be alone
for the portraits.

He didn't want anyone to see them

together as a couple
before the ceremony.

He was sentimental. That's one
of the things Nat loved about him.

Excuse me.

- You find anything up there?
- No g*n.

But there were these

seven sh*t casings.
All -millimeter.

And these gloves
tested positive for GSR.

So when I get back to the morgue,
I'll run the inside for prints.

Looks like it would have been
a beautiful wedding.

You're taking him?
I'm not readto leave him.

Give us a minute.

My whole life

I pictured this day.

My father walking me down the aisle.

He didn't show up.

He thought we were too young,
that I could do better. He said...

he wasn't gonna let it happen.

Well, the last time I was here
nobody gave me the time of day.

That's because you were arrogant

and rude.

And you smelled.

- Bug, I see you've already met Elliot.
- Elliot?

I smell better today.

- Are you okay?
- Fine.

Wait, isn't that my case?

Look, don't sh**t the messenger,
but Dr. Macy asked me to help out,

to ease you back in.

Oh, that's actually great.
It'll give us a chance to talk.

I'd really like to...
Her sister's in the conference room.

Oh, then should we...
This isn't my only case.

Sarah's high school graduation.
A year after our parents d*ed.

I moved back from Kansas State
to take care of her

and make sure she went to school.

She was lucky to have you.

Sarah had this incredible
light about her.

When we were kids,
if there was a snowstorm,

I would just wanna curl up and watch TV.

And Sarah would drag me into
the freezing cold to make snow angels.

I'm so sorry.

I was worried about her working
that area of town.

She worked at a free clinic.

I begged her to quit.

She felt she was making a difference.

We're gonna find the man who did this.

It won't bring her back.

Your sister saw a complete
stranger being att*cked,

and she did something
no one else would do.

She helped.

Because of what she did,
two small children still have their mom.

I wish that made it better.

Photographer didn't catch
any images of the sh**t.

The sh**t did, however,
leave a partial print inside

one of the gloves. Not enough
points to run it through AFIS though.

And some saliva on the other glove.

He probably used his teeth
to pull it off.

- DNA?
- Maybe. I still need to test it.

The APB's out on Natalie Carson's
father. How we doing on ballistics?

I ran the striations
through Coplink, no match.

- You sure he even owns a g*n?
- Nothing's registered.

I get thinking someone's not good
enough for your daughter,

but sh**ting him on the altar
with her there?

What kind of father would do that?

What's with you?

I guess you don't know anything
about fathers and daughters.

She's a bit sensitive about betrothal.
Her father ruined her first wedding.

Well, that's what you said
a couple of weeks ago.

Your first wedding?
As in there's been two, three, seven?

- I'm not gonna discuss this.
- Oh, our little Kate,

the blushing bride.

Are you aware that work place
accidents are responsible

for more loss of limb
than almost anything?

This is Hoyt.

Great. I'm on my way.

Unis just picked up Mr. Carson.

- I'm going with you.
- To the precinct?

People here do it all the time.

- Is Natalie okay?
- Of course she's not okay.

Her fiancè was m*rder*d in front of her

by somebody who didn't want
this marriage to happen.

You wanna stay, shut it.

Where were you this afternoon?

I didn't do this.

That's not the question I asked.

Where were you?

I couldn't bring myself to go
to her wedding, so I...

I walked.

Stopped in a couple of bars.

Yes.

Did the drinks make you
forget you did this?

This?

- No.
- You wanted to ruin her life.

No, I didn't wanna ruin anything.

Natalie's mother and I
got married real young.

It screwed up our lives.

We got divorced right after
she was born.

I didn't want Natalie
to make the same mistake.

So you snuck into that church
and k*lled her fiancè.

No, that's why I wast there. I knew
I couldn't keep my mouth shut, or

not show that I hated it.

Or hated him.

I love my daughter.

She needs to know that.
Please, she can't think that I did this.

I didn't do this.

Her sister was right
about that neighborhood.

I'm surprised I didn't get mugged.

No one's gonna tell a cop jack.

Well, makes what Sarah did
even more remarkable.

Said Little Miss Sunshine.

You're not what I expected.

What, you thought I'd be taller.

Uh, no.

Cynical,

angry, difficult,

pushy.

Well, sorry to disappoint,
but I've turned her a new leaf.

What's that?

I found tissue under Sarah's nails.

Maybe she scratched her k*ller.

I pulled it for DNA and ran it
through CODIS.

You find anything else on the body?

Yeah, some sand inside
Sarah's s*ab wounds.

It could be from anywhere.

Okay, it looks like we got a match.

Uh, Richard Keats,

multiple assaults, battery...
and now m*rder.

Mercer. I'm on my way.

- This goes with our case.
- Who?

Brenda Matthews...

the woman our good Samaritan
tried to save.

She didn't.

Hospital sent over Brenda
Matthews' medical records.

I thought you went with Elliot
to pick up Keats.

Well, he's the cop.

Doesn't need me to help him
take down the bad guy.

Never stopped you before.

Boy, her younger daughter
is less than two years old.

Think she's gonna remember her mom?

If she doesn't rember this,
it's a good thing.

Look, uh, I know you don't wanna talk
about what happened to you.

Right, but you're gonna
bring it up anyway.

Bug, you and I have been through
a lot in the past few weeks.

No, you went through brain surgery.

Look, Homeland Security
just asked me a few questions.

They thought I was something
that I wasn't.

It's over.

Okay, I'm just saying
that bad things happen.

But on the balance, I mean,
things are okay, right?

Is that what our good Samaritas
sister thought

when you called to tell her
that her sister had d*ed for nothing?

Oh, good, you haven't started yet.
Um, Natalie Carson's here.

- She wants to see him again.
- I told her she could come in.

You all right?

Danny was a planner.

He had a schedule for everything.

He even put together a schedule
for every day of our honeymoon.

He wouldn't let me see it
until we got there.

You know what it said on each day?

Be in love with Natalie.

Love Natalie.

Love Natalie more.

Did my father do this?

I don't think so.

The reason he didn't come
wasn't to punish you.

He didn't wanna spoil it for you.

Then who?

Hey, looks like you were right
about John Carson.

Eyeball wits have him at a bar
during the sh**ting.

But then you didn't buy him
for the sh**t anyway.

What are you guys doing?

We track everything they did
leading up to the big day,

we find someone
who didn't want it to happen.

Someone who wouldn't care
what it would do to her.

Someone who was jealous.

The grieving fiancè say
if he was having an affair?

She was in love,
so what does she know?

Kinda sour on the whole wedding thing.

Stop fishing, Hoyt.

You know, we're gonna find out.

Didn't it say on his calendar,
tuxedo fitting on Tuesday night?

- Yeah, : at Tuxedo Tom's.
- Why?

Well, at : , he was paying for two
mojitos at the Wycombe Hotel bar.

And then two more a half an hour later.
And then two more.

Well, at least we know
what the groom was doing.

So who was he doing it with?

Security tape from the Wycombe.

It's not a bad place for a last fling.

One for the road,

sowing his oats, last chance dance,
going out with a bang,

- the last hurrah.
- We get it.

Looks like Danny was getting it too.

Unless he's kissing his sister.

That's how you kiss your sister?

- Wait, that's...
- Lisa Price, Natalie's Maid of Honor.

As is one's thought,

so one becomes.

It's a great way to stay centered.

Oh, you should see this new one
I'm trying to work on.

- I think it's...
- One-legged king pigeon pose.

Keep your shoulders square.

Lift your torso away from your thigh.

There you go, nice. Breathe.

- Nice.
- Thanks.

- You should have Dr. Vijay do this.
- Bug?

One look, the guy's chi is way off.

So you gonna tell me about Keats?

The apartment he used to live in,
torn down three months ago.

I've put out an APB.

You?

Bug found arsenic
in Brenda Matthew's system.

- She was poisoned?
- No, no, it was just a trace amount,

but it is odd. It might've come
from the Kn*fe blade.

Which means?

I don't know yet.
I need to run some more tests.

And go over Sarah's body again.

Yeah, you might want
to give it a minute.

I just saw Sarah's sister
being taken to view the body.

Oh, I should be there.

Hey, I thought you said that sh...

Okay, call - ! She slit her wrists!

Oh, Julie.

Hey, I'm not gonna let you do this.

Okay, stay with me, Julie.

Stay with me.

Stay with me, Julie.
Come on. Look at me.

Stay with me.

The hospital says Julie's stable.

We gotta find Keats.

I heard about that su1c1de attempt.

I wasn't there.

Still...

Look, I'm trying to find something that

gets the location
of the sister's k*ller.

Right, right, right. How's that going?

It's not... yet.

mYou want something?

Historical Society is doing a

reenactment of the Battle
of Bunker Hill next week.

Her Majesty's Grenadier Guards
need some replacements. So...

I signed us both up.

You shoulda asked me first.

- Well, you said last year that...
- This year I'm busy.

Okay.

No one's first wedding should be
scrapped because her father

- didn't like the guy.
- I am not talking|about this.

Or maybe he got too drunk
and made a fool... hey.

She came with the bride.

Okay, this is gonna be awkward.

You wanted to ask me some questions.

Alone.

Oh, we were all together
when you called.

Have you|found something?

We just have a few questions
for your friend.

We have to clarify a few things.

Clarify what?

Is there something you're afraid to say?

I wanna know.

No, it's nothing.

Really. Would you come with me?

It's okay.

You can wait over there.

What's going on?

It's just protocol.

What needs clarifying?
Why ask Lisa and not me?

If you think she's involved in this
somehow...She's my best friend.

Is it because they dated?

That was freshman year.
Before Danny and me. And it was over.

They were in a hotel bar when he was
supposed to be at his tux fitting.

That's it?

He lied to you.
It needs to be investigated.

There could be a million reasons.

Lisa booked a room.

You didn't know Danny.

I know this must be difficult.

Difficult?

Difficult is watching the love
of your life die in your arms.

You accusing him of being
unfaithful, it's just me.

So the six of you, you're all friends?

- Yes.
- Oh, likeSt. Elmo's Fire,

Dawson's Creek, Friends.

What are you talking about?

Friends hang out together too long,
one thing always happens.

Someone sleeps with someone
they shouldn't.

Is there something you wanna tell me?

I didn't sleep with him.

Drinks at the Wycombe.

How are their mojitos?
I've never tried them.

I didn't sleep with Danny.

We saw the bar surveillance video.

Well, then you didn't see me sleep
with him because it didn't happen.

Looked pretty cozy though.
Three rounds of drinks.

Some intense conversation.


And being that you had a room
booked for the night,

we just figured we were watching
the preliminaries.

You couldn't bear
to see him marry Natalie,

- so you k*lled him.
- No.

You had drinks.

You went up to his room.
You were in love wh him, weren't you?

That's what I wanted to tell him.

But I didn't sleep with him.

If you couldn't have him,

- than no one...
- I just wanted to tell him how I felt!

Do I need a lawyer?

Jordan said you found something.

Pearlash.

Well, I'll take cryptic clues for .

Pearlash was in both Brenda Matthews'
and Sarah Pasternak's wounds.

Together with the sand that Jordan
pulled from Sarah, and the arsenic,

they're ingredients used
in glass making.

I'm running a search:

recycling plants, glass factories,
art studios.

What about location?

I pulled muggings in the last year
with the same M.O. as Keats.

There's a cluster around Codman Square.

- There's a recycling plant on rd.
- I can get a list of employees.

No, Lapland Glass.
It went bankrupt two years ago.

- The building was condemned.
- So it's just sitting there empty.

Only three blocks from where
Sarah Pasternak was m*rder*d.

I'll tell Jordan.

minutes.
You still wanna wait for backup?

You wanted to come.

I wanted to catch a k*ller, who could be
escaping out the back door as we speak.

He stabs people.
You carry a g*n.

We're talking protocol.

Not fear.

Is that all that's stopping you?

At least stay behind me.

Brenda Matthews.

Well, if Keats isn't here,
we're gonna stake it out anyway.

Maybe he'll show up.

Boston P.D!
Stop! Police!

Keats, come on now!

Ah!

Got him!

You were supposed to stay behind me.

I'm not so good at following directions.

That's not Keats.

You know this guy?

- No.
- Look harder.

Nah, never seen him before.

This man, his name is Richard Keats.
He m*rder*d two people today.

What's that got|to do with me?

We know he's here.
We found the victim's wallet.

But if you're covering for him,
that makes an accessory after the fact.

You wanna have this conversation
down at the station?

They got warm food there?

Sounds good to me.

Tell us where he is!

- You're hurting me!
- Two kids lost their mom because...

- Jordan!
- piece of scum|you're protecting.

- I didn't...
- If you say

I don't know,
I swear to God I will break your...

All right, all right. That's enough.

Come here.

Keep that crazy bitch off of me.

Check this out.

- A crystal?
- Yeah, it's a blue opal.

Jordan said the longer communication
is supprsed, the greater the ch...

I don't know.
It's supposed to help, you know.

Help what?

- I know you don't wanna talk...
- I don't.

We just want you back.

We just want you back.

What's wrong?

This is why I don't get involved.

Excuse me.

I ran the partial print you
took off the sh**t's glove

against the set our maid of honor
gave at the precinct.

No match. Lisa's not the sh**t.

Woody said Natalie was there too.

Yeah, I had tell her
about her fiancè's infidelity.

Not the highlight of my day.

Or hers.

Come on.
What happened at your wedding?

Why does everyone around here
think they have a right

to know everything about everything?

We care.

What is it?

Well, there was no DNA
in the saliva on the glove.

Just a mixture of bacteria and amylase.

So I ran it through the mass
spec just to be safe.

Turns out there's mint
and sodium fluoride.

So we're looking|for a suspect
who brushes his teeth.

Actually,
I don't think toothpaste.

There's no baking soda,
no sign of calcium or zinc chloride.

But there was cellulose and lignin.

Wood?

Mint-flavored toothpick.

Ben Kensith?

The groom's brother?

So we run Ben's prints against
what we found on the sh**t's glove.

All three ridge points match.
It's not enough to convict.

But it's enough to put him in the box.

I just att*cked a homeless man.

The guy had thing to do with the case.

I... just...

snapped.

I haven't even been back yet
hours, and uh...

Who am I kidding, huh?

I held my breath for as long as I could.

Well, they kept dumpin' water.

More and more water over my face.

You start beggin' for the will
not to breathe.

Not to take it in.

But it doesn't matter how hard you try

or how strong you are.

The lungs beg for oxygen,
but instead, they take in fluid.

And you panic.

You have a foreign-sounding name.

And I look like what they think
a t*rror1st looks like.

And suddenly, I'm being punished.

We walk around thinking
we're in control of our lives.

We're not.

- Listen, I didn't do it.
- We've got your prints

in the sh**t's gloves.

- Okay, this is crazy.
- It's not crazy.

- It's biblical.
- Shakespearean.

Mommy love him best?

- Daddy hit you and not him?
- No.

Or maybe it's just because he got
the girl, and you didn't.

Look at them.

So happy.

So in love.

They were gonna have everything,
and you couldn't stand it.

Couldn't stand to see him happy.

Couldn't stand to see her live the life
that she chose, the life she deserved.

So you just had to ruin it
for everyone.

I love her.

She loved him.

And the one girl that I happen
to care for and love, he takes.

He took everything.

She shoulda been with me.

It was her life.

- Hey.
- Hi.

Looks good there.

- I should take it down.
- Yeah, you should.

It never went with this office. I should
have said something a long time ago.

- Uh, it doesn't matter.
- It actually does.

You know, I see you come in here trying
to change everything about yourself.

Like there's something wrong with you.
Like you've got something to atone for.

Well, maybe I do.

This meningioma wasn't some cosmic
punishment for who you were, Jordan.

How do you know?

Because I knew the old Jordan.
I loved the old Jordan.

Cavanaugh.

Okay.

Is there a problem?

Oh, that homeless guy I lost it on,

turns out he was lying after all.
He just gave Elliot a location on Keats.

Really?

So what the hell are you waiting for?

I was wrong.

I watched Lisa in her interrogation.

Danny didn't sleep with her.

I'm sorry.

I was engaged.

My father told me not to marry him.

That he wasn't faithful.

He wouldn't be faithful.

He kept harping on it.

The night|before my wedding
I finally confronted my fiancè.

I just wanted reassurance
to throw in my father's face.

I learned that you don't ask questions
that you don't want answered.

I'm sorry.

If I hear that that story got out
to anyone else,

you're gonna be missing a kidney.

Put him in interrogation.

Well, Keats lawyered up.
He says he's got an alibi.

- We've got his DNA.
- That's what they said|about O.J.

We have no m*rder w*apon.

Hey, Keats!

I'd wipe that smile off your face.

You m*rder*d two people for what?

bucks.

Trust me, I will turn over every rock,
spend every day in court,

drag the Charles River
for that Kn*fe if I have to.

Don't think you're gonna
get away with this.

We caught the man who att*cked Sarah.

I know it doesn't change things,
but, uh,

he won't be hurting anyone else.

You told me at Sarah
was an incredible person.

You said better than you,
but, uh,

where do you think she got that?

You gave up everything for her,
and she...

gave up everything for someone else.

I mean, if people like you start
throwing in the towel, God,

we're all lost.

I know she's gone, but

if she were here...

she wouldn't want you to givup.

I thought...

if I didn't have Sarah to drag me up...

I wouldn't be able to go on.

Thank you.

Bug, what's happening?

Hey, um, you've got me scheduled
to work this Saturday.

- Well, you want it off?
- Yeah.

Battle reenactment.
I kinda promised Nigel.

Yeah. Sure.
Take whatever you need.

Welcome back.

Discipline.

Hey.

- Who does this stuff?
- Me.

Does a body good.

- Ah, that's milk.
- Right.

Listen, I, uh,

I kept meaning to come by yesterday.

It probably should have been
the first thing I did.

I was worried about you
coming back too soon.

I did not wanna be the one
to burst your bubble.

Well, turns out
I did that all by myself.

But on the bright side, uh,

you did miss my cookies.

I'm glad you're back, Jordan.

Yeah. Me too.

Put your hands on the mat.

Yeah, come on. You can do this.

- I'm not very flexible.
- So we'll make you flexible.
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