- Mary is placed on administrative leave pending the investigation of the FBI's raid on her house at the conclusion of the previous season. (The FBI unsuccessfully searched Mary's house for the drugs that her sister Brandi was holding for Brandi's boyfriend, Chuck.) While on leave, Mary's cases are given to Marshall, but Mary is allowed to work unofficially -- as Marshall's deputy -- when one of Mary's witnesses, who had been taken into the program 17 years earlier, dies under mysterious circumstances.—aldanoli
- Searcy, Arkansas 17 Years Ago
Two young girls play in the parking lot of a closed motel. Their mom tells them to pack up. Her husband takes a radio to the trash, looking sadly at the ramshackle motel. Someone rides up on a motorcycle with a jacket that says Suicide Kings. They need rooms. They don't care that the motel is closed. He hands dad a wad of cash.
The two daughter creep up outside the bikers' room, where they watch one put something in a vent in the wall: gold coins.
Later that night, as the bikers raise a ruckus, the dad tells his wife to call 911. He opens their door. There's a body on the floor. The biker fires out the door. He misses dad, but hits mom in the lot. The bikers take off. Mom Lily and kids Amy, Angela and Henry Adams enter the program.
Albuquerque, Present Day Mary's sister Brandi waits on hold. She wants to see her boyfriend's body. He was killed two days ago (when last season ended). Mary wakes up. They ask how she's feeling. Surprisingly OK after 30 hours of sleep. She's on administrative leave. Brandi says she's going to pay for all the damage caused when the FBI raided Mary's house looking for drugs (which Raphael had swiped and used to line the infield of his ball park, covering for Brandi). Mary says thanks, but no one but the FBI a-hole O'Conner who tore the place up is paying to fix anything.
Marshall arrives at work where a woman is rearranging the desks. She's the new office administrator, Eleanor Prince. Her husband was an FBI agent. Marshall checks with Stan, Mary's not gonna like it. Stan gets an alert: One of Mary's witnesses, Lily Adams, was found dead in her house. Stan calls Mary, asking her to advise Marshall on the case, but he'll be in charge for a change.
The Marshals Mary and Marshall arrive on the scene. She's looking forward to watching him take charge. Mary tells Marshall that Lily was shot by a biker years ago (but lived), but the next day her young husband dropped dead of a heart attack.
Albuquerque detective Bobby Dershowitz is on the scene. He and Marshall are tight now, they bonded over Mary's near death. Mary enjoys their brotherly handshake and the fact Bobby is calling Marshall "honorarily black."
Inside, Lily is laid out serenely on the bed. Her note says she found her birth father years ago, and discovered he died of Huntington's Disease. She started showing symptoms a few months ago. She wants her kids to remember her as she was.
In the living room, Mary finds Lily's now-grown kids. Henry says their mom seemed happy. She was going through boxes of old stuff. They find the old radio they thought their dad got rid of.
Mary's in an oddly good mood. Marshall says it could be a coping mechanism, or she's just happy to be alive. Just as they're about to leave, Bobby tells them the coroner made a call: it wasn't suicide. Lily was murdered.
They found a pipe was plugged with a rag to fill the house with carbon monoxide, and then it was removed.
Bobby talks to the daughters while Mary and Marshall watch. They have different ideas about what would happen to the house. Angela thought Henry would get it. Amy thought the house would get sold and split three ways. Angela says Henry and their mom were super close. Angela gave her mom money to get by. Henry says money wasn't an issue.
Mary finds it all totally sad. She compliments Bobby on his work, totally out of character for her.
They head back to the office, where Mary finds her desk moved. Then she meets Eleanor Prince, who apologizes for the rearranging, but says asking would have wasted time. She wants Mary to give the set up a week. Stan and Marshall watch Mary nervously, but she agrees.
Mary sits down to start working, but Stan chews her out for working on administrative leave as Eleanor watches. Mary sees him putting on a show for her and shoves her desk across the room and leaves.
Outside, Mary is upset about a lot more than Stan. She starts crying and tells Marshall something's not right. She starts walking and walking. He follows. She tells him the happy feeling is gone. He tells her this is how she's supposed to be feeling after nearly getting raped and killed. He tells her to roll with it.
Back at the office, Eleanor tells Stan he was right to yell, they were out of line. He tells her he doesn't need her opinion on management.
Brandi and Jinx share some wine and Marshall brings Mary home, telling her to go to bed. Her mom is still obsessing over the letters her disappeared husband was writing Mary all those years. Brandi asks Mary if she can help her get in to see her dead boyfriend (the one whose drug operation nearly got Mary killed). Mary says no. Her phone rings.
She goes to the hospital, where Angela is being brought in. She whispers something in her sister Amy's ear. The doctor comes out and tells them they're moving her into quarantine. They can't tell what she has. Bobby arrives and tells her the ME says Lily died of carbon monoxide poisoning and a poison -- the symptoms of which Angela is currently exhibiting. Mary calls Marshall at the office. He has discovered that the biker Lily testified against got out of prison after 10 years and moved to Albuquerque.
Mary and Marshall visit him. He's in the middle of a calming ceremony involving sage. He has migrating whale music playing to calm his young son. He acknowledges knowing Lily, and says she'll be missed. She changed his life. She visited him in prison and told him she forgave him. They corresponded, she spoke at his parole hearing and helped him get set up in Albuquerque. He's calm and polite and his house is filled with wind chimes and peace.
When Marshall asks if there was anyone who might want to kill her, the biker realizes Lily got the gold. He tells them about the gold coins they had that night. They could be worth $4,000 to $50,000 each. He says they were cursed. Two days after they got the coins his brother went to bed with a headache and died the next morning. The bikers went back to the motel for the coins, they were gone.
At the hospital, Marshall and Mary talk to the sisters and Stan drops by. He tells Mary he got an approval for her to work the case under exigent circumstances. He apologizes for how he handled things. Mary says they're good.
Marshall wakes Mary up in the hospital. He gets a call from the biker. At his house, he shows them the letter and a key he got in the mail. It's from Lily and mentions that she found the coins in her husband's old radio. She put a share of them in a storage locker for him and sent similar letters to her kids. Robert wants no part of the coins' bad juju.
Mary and Marshall go to the locker Lily left for the biker and find the coins. Marshall recognizes something on them -- the poison that was in Lily's system. They open the other lockers rented to Lily's kids. They're all empty.
Bobby does research on the guy the bikers' stole the gold from, a biochemist. They review the storage locker security footage. It shows Angela opening her box and touching the coins, then taking Henry and Amy's share. A while later, Amy comes and opens Angela's locker, taking all the coins.
Mary calls Henry, who denies knowing anything about the coins at first. Then Mary tells him about the poison. He tells her Angela's at home with her kids. They bust in, Angela's passed out. Marshall and Mary race to find the kids. The little girl finds the box of coins and the boy joins her. Mary busts in just before they touch them.
At the hospital, Marshall tells Mary the coins come from a collection stolen by the Nazis decades ago. They'll revert to the original owners. Amy and Angela are doing fine at the hospital. Angela says she actually found their mom at home that day and sat with her. She removed the rag from the pipe and found the letter her mom wrote about the coins. She took the gold because she wanted her siblings to appreciate their mom before they lost their minds over money.
Angela and Amy took the coins from the bikers when they were kids. Their dad found them back then and put them in the radio. That's why he died. The sisters aren't under arrest; Bobby doesn't know what he'd charge them with.
Brandi goes to the morgue and looks at her boyfriend Chuck's body. She says if she'd known how this was all going to turn out, she would have killed him herself.
Mary and Jinx wait outside and Mary talks in voice over about cherishing what you have. They leave together.
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