Sat, Jun 11, 2005
On a bridge a sports car nearly runs over Dan, who had run out of gas; a Russian young woman gets out, screaming to the driver, hands Zoe her baby girl Svetlana and jumps down. Taylor asks Zoe to talk as her 'Cyrano' to weird-looking guitarist Monty, not quite to Zoe's liking. Dan admirably minds the baby till social worker Bonnie Peterson collects her- then they find it was someone else, physically without resemblance. The detectives track the expensive baby blanket to Linda's shop, and get sixteen buyer names, none Russian, but recognize the car from the bridge. The driver, her accountant, tells them Tatyana is an Olympic diver and screamed for money, he thinks for dope. She was offering herself on dating website 'love Russian Mission' run by Pavel and Oxana Petrovich, so Dan pretends interest in Anastasia -played by Zoe-, who is flown in illegally, and asks for the whereabouts of her friend Tatyana and baby Svetlana. Snooping she finds a receipt from Linda's shop linking the fake Bonnie to clients Nick and Elena (Yelena) Collins- at their home they find the baby, apparently snatched from them by Tatyana. Chicago PD Detective Leo Lombardi helps them put the heat on the couple, which now turns over Tatyana, who wants her baby back which was stole by catalog bride Elena, who turns out to be...
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Sat, Jun 18, 2005
Everybody was late, waiting for the lift, when an armed woman, Kathy, says nobody goes home till her son Glen Tippit, who will be sentenced 'innocent' on Monday, has been cleared of the murder of senator Carlson's daughter Andrea, whose corps was found clobbered to death in his co-ed dorm at Grant College, as the firm tracked him down. M. Pearl McGuire is kept hostage, but in her office shown the $250,000 Kathy brought because she got an e-mail from a firm employee that's the price for proof of Glen's innocence. Dan and Zoe are taken in confidence to help find the traitor. Dan quickly proves Kathy's 'gun' is a cigarette-lighter, but M takes her place and blocks the lift, determined to purge her staff. They all brainstorm, which proves hard. Hugh, who habitually makes passes at Zoe, now offers her double pay if she joins his spanking new detective agency. They find out several colleagues have interesting secrets and most of them lie. Then someone creates a power failure to steal the money case...
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Sat, Jul 2, 2005
Zoe's ex Miles Jacobs, comes to the agency saying he has a stalker. Zoe doesn't want to get involved but Pearl overrules. Zoe discovers he was at a building when a man died but he claims he wasn't there. And she eventually discovers that he's been stalking himself and he suffers from multiple personality disorder.
Sat, Jul 9, 2005
When Zoe has back-pain, M. Pearl McGuire sends her to her own Dr. Merrell. A stranger masquerades there as Dr. Quentin Jessup and gives her efficient myotherapy, deep massage, and a date. Dan and cop Leo Lombardi are presented to ex-cop Gigi Germain, who usually tracks non-criminal missing persons but needs his help within 48 hours to catch Quentin Myers, who ax-murdered his wife six months earlier; they ignore he is now Quentin Jessup. Quentin scores a B-minus with the kids (they never give an A on a first date) after an endless grilling, but Zoe is sold. Leo uses a lame excuse to 'drop by' at Zoe's and gets invited while she makes jambalaya with Quentin; after this scares Quentin, Leo asks Zoe out, but passes out drunk-sick before she can wriggle out of refusing bluntly. Dan is not amused by Gigi's brutality on their search, yet they play strip-poker; Zoe calls him before they show skin, and finally learns they are dealing with the same Quentin, but neither has heard his story yet...