- Brenda gets in more trouble with Pope when the Catholic Church stonewalls her investigation into a priest's murder. Meanwhile she also faces pressure at home caring for her sick father.
- The L.A.P.D. runs into trouble with the Catholic Church after a priest is found murdered in an elementary school playground. Brenda's parents are in town so that her father can receive treatment from a specialist. With both her father's health and the murder case demanding so much time, Brenda neglects some of those closest to her and suffers unforeseen consequences.—skillwithaquill
- The working relationship between Brenda and Chief Pope continues to deteriorate as Major Crimes investigates the murder of a Catholic priest, Father Adam Gray. Lured to an apartment in the middle of the night by a request for Last Rites, he was attacked then dumped in the parking lot of a Catholic primary school. Pope does his best to keep church officials on his side, but Brenda pursuit at full throttle creates a blow-up between them. Police quickly find the apartment where Father Gray was killed, but the lease is in the priest's own name, and there are many pictures of young girls at the school where he taught. As it appears Father Gray has been set up, they begin to look for anyone who might want him dead, making access to the Father's personal journal imperative. Meanwhile, Brenda also has to care for her father, visiting Los Angeles for cancer treatment. Brenda's mother assures her that they are fine and that she should just go and do her job.—garykmcd
- In the middle of the night, a housekeeper knocks on a door and calls for Father Adam. He opens the door and she says there is a Last Rites. She tells him that the doctor, Dr. Handlin, is on call and may not be able to stay, but he'll leave the door open. Mrs. Wallingham, the housekeeper, gives him the address. Father Adam goes to the address and finds a note from the doctor. He walks to the back bedroom, calling for Mr. Basky. He begins the ceremony, and pulls back the bedspread. A hand reaches up and stabs him in the throat. The killer then wraps Father Adam up in the rug.
The next morning, Major Crimes is in a parking lot looking at the body. Chief Pope tells them to wrap it up quickly, that the Archdiocese wants to have as few children exposed to this as possible and they are in an elementary school parking lot. They tell him that Chief Johnson would want them to wait and they will need to get into the rectory. Pope says that's not going to happen, that the Church is sending over an Archivist to get Father Adams' papers and journal. Pope says they need to get rid of the body now. Julio says he will get something to cover the body.
Brenda and her mother are in the kitchen helping her father walk back to the bed while Brenda's phone is ringing. He says its hard, that maybe he should just stay in bed. Willie Ray tells him that the doctors want him to move around to help get his strength back. She and Brenda talk about how they are going to deal with helping him recover.
Brenda and Julio drive up to the Church, and step back into the rectory. Mrs. Wallingham tells Brenda that she cannot be there; Brenda walks past her into the room and confronts the Archivist, telling him to give her the journal. He refuses, and Chief Pope calls on Brenda's phone. She tells him where she is, and he hangs up, furious. She asks Mrs. Wallingham where Father Adam was going last night. She doesn't want to tell Brenda, but reluctantly hands over the address. She hands it to Julio as Chief Pope storms into the room and tells here that she is ruining the negotiations with the Church and undermining him. He tells her to leave now, and she sits down and says not until she gets the journal. They yell at each other, until he finally screams at her to get out. She leaves.
Major Crimes goes to the apartment at the address Mrs. Wallingham gave Brenda. They find wine coolers, a camera, and a Catholic schoolgirl's uniform. They open the closet to find a lot of pictures of young girls. Tao notes that there had been a rug there; he measures it as a 6 x 9-- the same size that the priest had been rolled up in. Gabriel walks in and tells them that this apartment is leased to an Adam Gray, as in Father Adam.
Brenda is at the table with her parents, reading off the computer. Willie Ray says those poor girls were being taken advantage of, but Brenda says that there is no evidence of that. Brenda tells Willie Ray that Fritz is helping with talking to the parents. Clay says that he can't stand them rearranging their lives for him. Fritz enters and says there doesn't seem to be any evidence of abuse, and it doesn't fit the profile; there was no evidence of grooming a specific girl.
Sharon and Brenda are in Brenda's office arguing about getting that journal. Sharon says that she needs to back off. That Chief Pope has filed an unsigned complaint against her due to her insubordination at the crime scene. Sharon tells her that Pope is not her friend, and she needs to play this smart; let Chief Pope solve the problem with the Archdiocese, and back off.
Major Crimes is analyzing the evidence. There were only fingerprints on the camera and on the coffee mug. They wonder if he knew the call was fake, then they notice that their was olive oil in the rug, so he was performing the last rites. Willie Ray calls Brenda and says that things are going well with Clay; his numbers look good. Brenda stops and says "his numbers?" while looking at the pictures of the girls. Brenda comes back into the murder room and says the clock on the camera was never set, and she wants blow ups of the pictures and the lease. If Father Adam didn't take the pictures of the girls, it might explain why he went out in the middle of the night to an apartment he didn't know was his.
The game Brenda was looking at was played when Father Adam was at a debate meet across town. Another picture showed casual Friday at noon, when Father Adam was giving Mass in the cathedral. A man comes in and says that Father Adam wasn't the man who signed the lease on Mar. 23rd. Brenda asks if he changed the locks, and he says not if they give him back the keys. Commander Taylor and Capt. Raydor are called into Chief Pope's office to talk to the Priest in charge, Father Calhoun. They come to an agreement that Father Calhoun will be with them at all times while they are looking at the journal.
Brenda, Gabriel, Sharon and Father Calhoun are looking at the journal. Brenda asks what Father Adam was doing on Mar. 23rd. Father Calhoun looks, and turns the journal around, where they can see that he was travelling that day. Tao knocks and leans in to say that there are no prints from Father Adam on the lease, just Mr. Morris and Major Crimes. Brenda excuses herself. They ask Father Calhoun if Father Adam mentions Mr. Morris in his journal; they suggest starting on Mar. 23rd and working backward from there.
Brenda asks the team if Mr. Morris has a criminal record. They say he was in a bad car accident a few months ago. That seven years ago, he reported his wife missing. There was an apartment in Cabo, but the police couldn't find any evidence that anyone ever lived there. They also noted at the time that there was a large rug missing from the Morris' home.
Brenda, Fritz, Willie Ray and Clay are at the dinner table, talking about how well Clay is doing with his doctor in LA. The team calls to tell Brenda that Father Adam wrote down the names of Mr. Morris' sons on the date of the car accident, since he was on call, and was at the hospital when Mr. Morris was injured. Willie Ray wants to talk to her, but Brenda says it'll need to wait until tomorrow.
At the office, Mr. Morris is in interview 1. They discover that Father Adams' car was almost out of gas. He was going to leave the priest's car with the body on the street and take his own car back, but there wasn't enough gas. That's why he duped the body at the school. Gabriel says that there is a storage place near where Morris' car was towed. Brenda says the unit wouldn't be in his name, but that must be where he was going to leave the body.
Brenda and Julio interview Mr. Morris. He explains that his car died and he didn't read the signs, and that's why his car was towed. They confront him with the car accident, and the confession to Father Adams. That he must have left messages for his sons. While they are doing this, the rest of the team is searching a storage unit. It flashes between the two, until the team calls and tells Brenda that they found his wife's body. Mr. Morris calls for a lawyer. Julio tells him that he'll see his next last rites just before he gets the needle. Brenda then tells him that they found his wife's body.
Sharon asks Pope what he wants to do with the complaint. He takes it and finds Brenda leaving the interview room. He says he was never going to file it, but he won't be able to watch out for her from his new job, and that Taylor won't take care of her like Pope did. He scared of her burning herself up.
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