Today’s episode continues from last week’s episode. There’s a terrible storm rolling in. Angie and Ormewood are working late at the APD, Atlanta Police Department. Angie goes to check on John in his cell, to assure him she’s going to help. John is close to giving up. She asks him about something in his Mom’s journals, and will talk with his sister about it. John asks if Joyce and Keynan were there at the station. His brother-in-law hates him. Angie tells him about a witness, Mia Elken, who was coming in to see a photo lineup on Peggy’s killer.
Angie takes John’s photo.Angie, Will, ADAs Marion and Freddy meet to discuss new evidence, and Angie asks for time to follow-up on John’s case. There’s a little tension between Angie and Marion. Angie’s going to talk to John’s sister. She state’s there’s tension between Keynan and John. Caroline comes in to get a case number for a witness statement. After she leaves, Will tells Marion they are doing a witness photo lineup to confirm the killer’s identity. Angie still thinks Mia’s coming in. Freddie says the review clears everything. Will and Marion subtly flirt.Amanda comes into the office with a beautifully wrapped gift. It’s for Caroline. She goes to check with Sonny and Rafael to get the handcrafted card. Amanda’s throwing Caroline a surprise birthday party. Will stops her and asks about the witness statement in the file room. He thought Faith was going to get it, but she’s on a special case.
Angie and Will continue down the hall. Will stops Rafael to ask him if he could stay. He needs to talk to him. At that moment, Joyce and Keynan Peters step off the elevator. Angie introduces them to Will. ADA Freddie Markovich walks up and introduces himself. Freddie recognizes Keynan. They went to high school together. Keynan is upset and tells Angie, Will and Freddie they don’t want anything to do with John. He angrily tells Joyce they need to get this over with. Mia’s still not there. Angie and Will go to find her in the parking lot. Ormewood shows off his decorating skills. Amanda’s a little disappointed with the party decorations, and tells them it looks a little shabby. She asks if they can make it look more festive. CPT Heller escorts the Mariachi Band into the station area. The lights flicker then go out, and the generator doesn’t kick in. The Mariachi Band’s Hats light up the area. CPT Heller, Ormewood and Franklin go get the portable power station. Amanda and Faith take the party, food, attendees and the band to the GBI. They will surprise Caroline when the power comes back on.
Angie and Will are trapped in the elevator. Neither have cell service. Will tries some small talk but Angie cuts him off. He later shows her an app on his phone that he uses to swap faces with Betty. Angie abruptly asks if he’s hooking up with Marion. Will comes back with what Angie told him when they broke up. She expected him to date someone who doesn’t work in their work building. He defends Marion from Angie’s comments made earlier in the meeting. Something drips on Angie’s face. It’s red, and looks like blood. Will hoists Angie up to the elevator ceiling opening. She breaks it open. Will’s precariously trying not to drop Angie and accidently grabs her but as he pushes her up through the ceiling opening. She freaks out when she sees Mia’s body. Mia was thrown down the elevator shaft. Will and Angie get out of the elevator to examine the body. It’s still warm, and they determine she hadn’t been dead long. She had been killed somewhere else, and dumped there. Angie had just been on the phone with her. John couldn’t have killed her, but Angie surmises it was Keynan.
They don’t know how he got the body in the building. The killer had to have an elevator key. They need to alert everyone that a killer is loose in the building. They start yelling, but no one’s there. Everyone has gone to the GBI for the party. Faith, Amanda and Marion gather everyone in the conference room. Marion’s struck by the way Rafael holds and protects his daughter, Sonny in a corner. The main generator has failed, so there’s still no lights. Amanda goes to check for stragglers. Faith stops in the hall facing the elevator. It looks like she hears something. It is eerie.in the dark. Downstairs, CPT Heller, Franklin and Ormewood go to get the portable generator.
It’s heavy and takes all three of them to lift it. Franklin and Ormewood start making jokes, and start laughing. Faith did hear Will and Angie, and lets them out. They plan their response, and how to find the killer. Faith goes to tell Amanda what’s happened. Angie goes to get Keynan. Will gets a walkie talkie from the breakroom, and sees Marion in the hallway. Marion is concerned about Rafael, a gang leader being in the conference room. Will tells her he’s taking care of his daughter. He tells her about the serial killer loose in the building. tells her to return to the conference room, and keep everyone calm. He gives her a walkie talkie. She kisses him and tells him to be careful, as she leaves. Angie comes running up to tell Will Keynan is missing.
They go to sweep the building. Amanda hears someone crying, and finds Caroline bleeding on the floor near the morgue. She calls Will for help. Amanda calls for Pete, who comes out of the morgue. Keynan runs past them, but Amanda catches and cuffs him. He said he didn’t do anything, as Will and Angie arrived. Pete says Caroline needs to get to a hospital. Angie goes to call for an ambulance on the LAN line. Will goes into the file room and finds the weapon, a cake knife. Keynan continues pleading his innocence, and says he found her like this. Amanda tries to get Caroline to tell her who stabbed her, but she’s in pain and can’t answer. Pete says he doesn’t have any pain meds cuz his patients are always dead. Angie returns and says the flooding is bad, and they may not get an ambulance for an hour. Amanda tells everyone to stay calm, and directs Will to get a confession out of Keynan. She tells Pete he’s going to save Caroline’s life. They move Caroline to the morgue, and Amanda asks Pete for help. Faith is there with lights.
Pete’s panicking but is accessing Caroline’s injuries. He tells them she needs an ambulance, cuz Caroline’s not going to last long. Amanda refuses to hear that, and asks him what he needs to save Caroline. He tells her, and Faith goes to get everything he needs. Upstairs in the conference room, everyone is partying as the Mariachi plays. Marion comes in asking if anyone has O- blood. Freddie asks if there is a problem. She tells him she’ll tell him later, and takes the person with the blood type she needs, the Mariachi Band Leader,with her. A patrolman escorts him to the morgue. The hallway’s spooky, and it seems like someone’s out there. Will and Angie interrogate Keynan in a room. Angie goes through his backpack and finds the elevator key. Keynan says he never saw it before.
Will asks him where the missing witness statement is. Keynan says he was trying to find a quiet place to take some drugs, cuz he’s a drug addict. He proves it, and begs them not to tell Joyce. Will takes his oxycodone pills to Caroline. Meanwhile, CPT Heller, Ormewood and Franklin are carrying the portable power station up the stairs. They stop for a break, and the power station falls back down the stairs. Faith comes to see what’s going on. She tells them about Caroline, and they need to get the power station to the morgue. She helps them carry it up the stairs. In the morgue, Pete sets the band leader up for a direct blood transfusion to Caroline. Will comes in with the oxys and Pete tells him to crush up two. He tells Amanda to rub the powder under Caroline’s tongue. Will asks Pete about Caroline’s injuries. They begin the operation. Will returns to the room where Angie and Keynan are and tells him to draw a smiley face. He notices Keynan is right handed. Pete told him the killer stabbed cross body favoring the left side. Angie and Will talk outside the room. Neither believe Keynan’s the killer.
They plan to find out Who, Where, How the stabbing happened. Will calls Rafael. Will and Rafael go to the elevator shaft to look at Mia’s body. Will tells him it’s about the same size as a prison cell. He asks him to help him remove Mia’s watch. He tells everyone on the walkie talkie to be quiet while finds his phone. Rafael shows him how to make a call from Mia’s watch, but they hear nothing. The crew carrying the power station hear a noise. They put it down, and Faith tells Will it’s in the stairwell. They continue carrying the power station up the stairs, as they start joking again. Angie is walking the darkened halls to get to John’s cell. She asks him about the night Alice Finney was killed. She tells him the killer’s not Keynan, and they need to figure out who the killer is. Pete continues operating on Caroline. He finishes suturing Caroline’s wounds. Amanda tells him he’s very good at this. He shares that he used to be a surgeon and why he wasn’t anymore. He sees bleeding from Caroline’s abdomen. The crew gets the powerstation hooked up. CPT Heller says he is O- if they need more blood. They get the lights and suction machine on. Pete sees a laceration on her spleen. He needs to remove it. Caroline’s pulse stops. Marion and a police officer do a vending machine run because everyone’s getting hungry in the conference room.
Downstairs, Angie walks John through what happened before Alice was killed. He remembers someone else, named Rick, was there. Will and Rafael find the phone and Mia’s wallet on a stairwell, where she was attacked. Rafael’s a little miffed at Will’s comment on his watch. He tells him he got his watch from someone very much alive, and that it was a business arrangement. Will continues looking around for clues. He does his Will Thing, and walks through how Mia’s murder happened. Rafael listens quietly, slightly amazed. He tells Will he’s taking over the Grove Park Boys business. Will tells him he already knows about his ‘business’, and he was demonstrating how he figures things out.Angie continues asking John for information on that night Alice was killed. He remembers that Rick might have had a Polish last name, had acne and was awkward. He also had a weird tick. A blinking thing, Angie suggested and John said yes. Angie knows who the killer is, and runs off!
Will picks up an American Flag pin off the floor, and suddenly knows who the killer is. Marion gets a call from Will on her walkie talkie telling her to go to channel 2, and moves to the squad room. Will asks her if Freddie had an American Flag pin, and suddenly a sound of the police officer being knocked out startles her. She drops her walkie talkie as Freddie steps out of the shadows. He has a gun and approaches her. Will races up the stairs to get to Marion. Meanwhile, Freddie tells her how he felt overlooked for years, and confesses he felt power when he killed Alice. He grabs Marion and tells her he’s like a god. He tells her if she stays quiet he’ll let her keep her tongue, and knocks her out. Angie gets to the squad room and finds the cop knocked out on the floor.
The thunder and lightning make the room more spooky. She hears a noise and follows the blood stains on the floor into the CPT’s office. A terrified Marion is there hiding behind the desk. Angie tries to calm her as she checks her head wound. She tells her she’s going to find Freddie, but Marion doesn’t want her to leave. Angie leaves Marion her gun. Freddie shoots at her through the office window. Will approaches and Angie tells him the killer is Freddie. He asks if she’s seen Marion. She tells him she’ll be okay. She points to a gun on an office chair, and Will tries to go get it, but is fired at. Down in the morgue, Pete applies lifesaving measures to revive Caroline.
Faith stops the blood with bandages. Still no pulse. Pete continues chest compressions.Will and Angie continue searching for Freddie in the squad room. Angie gets a gun, and they canvas the room working their way back to the party table. They don’t know Freddie’s watching them with night vision goggles. He’s sneaking up on Will from the rear, and starts shooting. Will ducks behind a desk, while Angie comes up behind Freddie. He turns and she jumps him. They fight as Will tries to get a clear shot at Freddie.
He can’t, and Freddie disarms Angie, and grabs her by the hair. He backs away from Will smiling. Will looks like he’s putting down his gun, but flashes a bright light at Freddie who is blinded. Will shoots him and Angie falls to the floor. He hears Marion crying in the office, and rushes off to her. He leaves Angie stunned. He takes the gun out of Marion’s hands, and hugs and softly comforts her. Angie came in and saw what was happening, then sadly left. Pete continues with the chest compressions on Caroline in the morgue. The lights come on, and the EMTs get there and take over.
They shock her once with the defibrillator and get a faint pulse. They rushed her to the hospital. Pete saved Caroline. The storm’s cleared. Ormewood, Faith, Franklin start cleaning up the squad room. Ormewood’s grumbling about not getting any cake. Angie comes in with John. She asks him if he wants to see the killer. He identifies him as the weird person from the night Alice was killed. Angie asks if he needs a place to stay, and he says Joyce said he can come home with her. John thanks Angie for giving him his life back. Amanda announces that Caroline is going to pull through. Angie asks about Marion, and Amanda says she’ll be fine. Amanda’s going to the hospital to see Caroline and take her the birthday gift. She tells Angie she did a Great Job! Faith asks if anyone got the Mariachi Band’s name and walks off.
This episode was another great one! This show keeps building on previous epis and getting better and better! The storm and power outage set the scary backdrop. There were points when I got perturbed when the commercial breaks happened. Angie was relentless and the only one who believed in John, except his mom. Glad she was able to free him. I thought it was definitely Keynan or maybe his sister.
The clear and impressive character development continues with Pete and Rafael. Loved how the writers intertwined the different subplots, a birthday party, serial killer, Rafael and Will’s relationship, and Angie saving John. Marion surprised me. She worked with Freddie, but never felt he was a killer. Loved Amanda and Faith’s calmness and take charge ability under pressure. Also loved the Mariachi Band music! Sad to see Angie and Will aren’t getting back together. The Excitement Keeps mounting for this show! Looking forward to seeing Jake Ballard in the next epi.
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