Someone’s knocking on the front door of an elderly man cooking food at home. He turns down his pocket radio and calls 911. He takes a rifle and tells 911 he thinks someone’s trying to break into his house. As he’s walking towards it, he hears a knocking on the back door, turns toward it. This is all happening as he talks to 911. The knocking stops, and he tells 911 he thinks they headed for the woods. At that moment, someone breaks down the front door and attacks and shoots him dead.
Angie and Ormwood arrive at the crime scene separately. There’s splatters of blood on the door and wall. They find the victim face down on the floor. They go out in the field and find a shoe, maybe from the killer. An officer leads them to another dead body near the shoe. It’s a woman bound at the wrists. Angie guesses it was an abduction and rape. Possibly she got out of the rapist’s vehicle, knocked on the other victim’s door, looking for help, but didn’t get it. She went running. The rapist broke into the house and killed the elderly man, and later the woman. They found the female victim’s tongue in her hand. Angie asks the officer to get a team out to look for the murder weapon, and walks off very disturbed. Ormwood shares with the officer that a murderer did the same thing before, and has just gotten out of prison. Angie knows him, John Shelly. He’s the repairman from the country club where she used to work.
Meanwhile, Faith and Will are with the Medical Examiner, Pete Chin, checking a body that is burned to a crisp. Pete gives them personal specifics. He found a bullet in his head. His body was found under the floorboard of a house that burned down. Will asked how long he’d been there, but Pete’s not sure but is running tests to determine this. At that moment, Marion Alba, Assistant DA walks into the lab. Will smiles. Faith notices his sudden attitude change. Marion’s there because the Fire Marshall called her. She’s looking for a missing witness, and thought she’d come to see if she recognized the victim’s face.
There’s no face. The only possible body part that could help them identify the victim are the feet. Will looked at the feet and guessed what socks the victim probably wore. Will asks how Marion is, cuz she looks a little wobbly. He gives her his handkerchief. Faith goes with Pete to identify the feet. Will and Marion share their knowledge of Spanish, and find their families are both from Puerto Rico. They chat a little more, but Marion has to leave cuz of the smells in the room. Ormwood and Angie go to check on John Shelly, at his apartment. They enter but he’s not there. They search the room. Ormwood says the place reeks of serial killer. Angie finds personal items in a book, and Ormwood finds some boots that may match the print on the first victim’s door. They leave and check the bathroom. John Shelley’s in the bathroom washing bloody clothes in the sink, and says he can explain.
Angie and Ormwood interrogate John at the station. He says the blood was cow’s blood from work. He lost his previous job as repairman at the country club gated community. They are awaiting lab results to confirm. Angie asks him if he drives. She walks through his previous crime with him to show he does lie. The girl he murdered was Alice Finney. Angie shows him pictures of the current dead female victim, Peggy Higgins. John doesn’t know her. Angie says the M.E. told them the same person killed both Alice and Peggy. John said he didn’t kill Alice. He admitted to murdering her because his mother was dying, and that was the only reason he could get released, if he expressed remorse. Angie walks him through what might have happened and gets him to let out his anger. He asks for a lawyer. CPT Cromwell and the ADA come to stop the interrogation. The CPT called the DA’s office, so they could discuss a strategy to get John Shelly.
CPT Cromwell tells them the blood test results show the blood is not from a human. He tells Angie and Ormwood to give John to his parole officer. Angie asks the CPT if he’s gonna look over her shoulder all the time. He doesn’t give her a good answer. Will and Faith interview the owner of the burned down house and shop. He asks if he’s familiar with a gang called the Grove Park Boys. The owner is avoiding answering their questions. He says all he has left is a watch from his father.Later in the conference room, Faith and Will loudly argue over their case. Amanda rushes in to quiet them down. Faith tells her what they found out, and that they are missing parts to solve it. The current owner, Elise Bedoin, can’t be a suspect. The burnt body was there for a year. Will wants to go a different direction and question Elise. He thinks he knows something about the fire. Faith’s focused on the body and who killed him. Amanda says Faith is right.
At that moment, Sunny dings her checking on her whereabouts. Faith tells her that Sunny’s up to no good, and doesn’t want Amanda to find out what. Will agrees. Amanda rushes out to check on Sunny. Will apologizes to Faith. Faith says he’s personally invested, but Will doesn’t understand. (ADA Marion) Faith found the victim, because of his socks. She found an article on his disappearance, and the previous owner who went missing two years ago.Amanda goes home and hears voices in her condo. It’s Sunny and her Dad, Rafael Wexford, are cooking in the kitchen. She tells him he can’t just drop by her house uninvited. Sunny runs back to the pot on the stove because the garlic is burning. Amanda asks him to leave.John’s parole officer, Ms. Lamb, comes to the police station to pick him up. She tells Angie and Ormwood John had nothing to do with the murder. She gives them John’s timesheets and drug tests.
John stares at Angie and slightly smiles as the elevator doors close. Did Angie see that?Ormwood goes to the hospital where Peggy Higgins worked. He is interviewing one of her co-workers. She told her about a guy who had a PO Box next to hers. She kept one because she didn’t want an ex-boyfriend couldn’t find where she lived. The PO Box Guy kept bothering Peggy and asking her out. She was afraid of him. The co-worker couldn’t describe, but agreed to come into the station to identify him. Ormwood’s not getting an answer from Angie.At the GBI Conference Room, Faith and Will identified the burnt body, a missing former building owner, Mr. Cedric Broufy. He went missing on a hike two years ago. His wife, Meadow, and friend, Dax Mason, grieved six months before getting together. Will tracked the best friend’s movements and found they matched times when her husband was out of the house. Faith walks through a possible scenario of Cedric’s death. Amanda asks them to bring them in for questioning.
At the police station, Ormwood finds Angie. Angie had been out tailing John. She found him watching a mailbox place. He goes in and empties the box. He hadn’t opened it, but it was opened years ago when he was in prison. Ormwood fills her in on the missing pieces. It was the same place where Peggy Higgins had her PO Box #849, next to John’s #850. It connects him to the victim.Faith and Will interview Meadow and Dax separately. They tell Will and Faith about the last time they saw the victim. Meadow sold the building because she needed the money. The buyer paid in cash. Faith and Will told them he was shot with a rifle used for competitive target shooting. Dax did it. He said Meadow didn’t have anything to do with it. She falls apart when she finds out. Will and Faith close the case.Faith gives Will a file that should have gone to the DA’s Office. She teases him, tells him it’s okay to be interested in ADA Alba. He tells Faith to keep quiet. The report said two other businesses burned down in the same area, Grove Park.
The current building owner, Elise bought the building with cash. Where did he get the money? Will goes to deliver the report.Angie and Ormwood return to John Shelly’s apartment building and Ormwood is shoved as an occupant passes him on the stairs. Ormwood makes a derogatory remark and they get into a scuffle. Ormwood’s cuffing the guy, as John Shelly comes out with an ice chest. He yells, throws down the chest and runs back into his apartment floor. The contents spill out, and a tongue is among them. Angie goes after him. John tries to get away outside. He says someone else is doing it . He jumps down to the ground and escapes. Will takes the file to Marion, she tells him the case may be a loan sharking scheme. Whenever the building owners couldn’t pay, their buildings were torched. Will thinks it might be Rafael and his gang. Marion said she could question him. She reaches to touch Will’s neck scar, and he pulls away. They hold hands. He asks her out, and she agrees. He’ll cook salmon. That Moment was hot! Will leaves.
John Shelly’s sister and husband come to see Angie and Ormwood at the station. They knew Alice Finney. They haven’t seen John lately. He had been earlier asking about a car. His sister gives Angie her Mom’s journals. John’s sister tells them to talk to Carter, his prison roommate. They bribe him with candy, and he tells them he borrowed his Mother’s car. He tells Angie to find out how a 17-year-old man can get a credit score of 710, then stabs her hand with the peppermint candy stick. Will and Marion have a delicious dinner. Betty is there! They flirt after dinner. Marion reads Will’s palm. They kiss, make out a little, and Passionately Kiss! Amanda’s working late at GBI. Sunny is there waiting to see her Dad, Rafael. She is angry with Amanda because she’s making her Dad come see her at GBI, a building full of cops. Amanda counsels her on respect and her behavior. Angie checked through John’s Mother’s book, but only found she believed John was innocent. Ormwood looks at an envelope and gets an address where John could be. Will meets Rafael at the elevator as he leaves work. He notices Rafael has a watch like Elise has. Rafael leaves to see Sunny.
Angie and Ormwood get to the address and finds Ms. Lamb dead. John’s in a room repeating the words “I won’t go back”, and staring blankly in space. Angie tells him to show them his hands. He keeps repeating the words. They arrest him.Later, Angie goes to see John in his cell. She asks him questions. He tells her he went to buy his sister a gift, and that someone put the knife and tongue in his cooler, and killed Ms. Lamb. He went to the PO Box and house to find who it was. He basically just gave up. Angie goes to a nearby restaurant to stop the ADA, Freddie, from charging John Shelly. She says they may be wrong about him. Marion is there and asks if there is another suspect. ADA Freddie told her he filed earlier. John’s sister comes to see Ormwood, Angie takes Will a box of evidence on the John Shelly case. She needs his help. He knew about it because Marion called him about it. She dumps the evidence box on his desk. Angie’s is adamant about getting help for John. They begin researching the box of evidence. Meanwhile, Peggy’s co-worker encounters the killer in the hospital parking garage.
A murderer is still on the loose! This is an interesting and fascinating mystery. It started scary, and hasn’t ended, yet. Loved the way there were two stories that split Will and Faith into one team, and Angie and Ormwood in another team. Neither really clearly closed their cases. The next episode will probably reveal who the tongue murderer/rapist is.
I think it’s John’s brother-in-law. Everyone’s at the station and GBI on a rainy, stormy Georgia night. Love the interaction between Amanda and Sunny, and Rafael popping in. Curious about that watch he’s wearing. Angie is outstanding, and glad she wasn’t turning her back on John. He was at his lowest point when they re-arrested him. Like seeing Will and Marion together, but think Angie’s his heart. That Carter was a nightmare! Is Marion’s ex-husband ADA Freddie? He’s the newest New Character, too! Rafael and Sunny ARE Scene Stealers! Happy to see Betty, and she likes Marion. Good seeing Pete Chin, too. He injected the creepiness in the epi. Tonight’s episode was like a real-life Game of Clue. Can’t wait for next week’s epi!
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Angie got stabbed in the hand but no wound was seen in the next scene?