- Special agent Howard asks Brenda for Major Crimes' help in finding a "missing person;" however, when that person turns out to be a murdered drug dealer-turned FBI informant, the sparks begin to fly.
- Brenda and her squad are temporarily deputized into the FBI when a missing person case turns into a full-blown murder investigation involving drug trafficking at gay dance parties. The case gives Brenda and Fritz the chance to work together again, but her investigative tactics don't exactly fit FBI protocol.—TNT Publicity
- At home, Brenda puts dinner on the table like Suzy Homemaker. Work's been slow. Fritz comes home to see her efforts with mild horror. He tosses a box in the cupboard, but she sees it. He grimaces, knowing dinner -- mashed potatoes and meatloaf -- is ruined. It's Kitty's ashes. Brenda starts crying when she sees the ashes are in a paper bag. She transfers them to a Ziploc container which she tosses in her purse.
Finally, they sit down to cold dinner. Fritz mentions that if things really are that slow, maybe they could do the FBI a favor. They need to find a guy named Austin Blair - quietly.
At the office the next day she tells Pope about the 26-year-old. She tells Pope it's a special request, but doesn't say from who. Then she starts crying - she forgot to take Kitty out of her purse that morning. She takes the container out and puts it on Pope's desk. Fidgeting, he says she's too high-ranking to do it, so he'll send Commander Taylor.
Provenza shows a handsome woman around the squad room, introducing Lauren to the team, including Flynn as "my go-to guy." She says she's heard all about him, but he dryly says she's a complete surprise to him.
Taylor returns with the missing persons file on Austin, reported a month ago by his boyfriend Travis. There was no follow up report because they think Travis just filed it to find out who Austin was sleeping with.
Nobody knows why Brenda wants the info, but they go along.
Provenza introduces Lauren to Brenda, pausing awkwardly while trying to figure out what to call her. Sanchez asks how old she is.
The team reports - his credit card has been used all over and his mortgage payments are current. The coroner reports he has four possible matches.
Brenda and Gabriel go check on the bodies. When the coroner hears the date he went missing and that he's gay he realizes it was after a circuit party called HelLA (Hell and L.A.- get it?). He gives them some "Gay Culture 101," explaining that the parties are like gay raves.
The coroner announces he has a match and in walks Fritz and another suit. Fritz is ticked at the missus. Someone from Missing Persons called around to find out why the interest in Austin Blair.
They positively ID the body. "On the bright side," Brenda says, "at least he's not missing any more."
The coroner reports his findings. He had only GHB and alcohol before he OD'd and choked on his vomit. Fritz's No. 2 asks the coroner for his full report and Brenda smells the case getting away from her.
Back in the squad room, everyone has to sign a form to be temporarily deputized into the FBI so they can learn about the case. Provenza walks back in with Lauren and Flynn tells him about the forms. "But it's only temporary," Flynn says, "like love."
Pope gives Provenza an approving nod over Lauren.
Fritz begins the briefing, which turns out to include no information whatsoever.
Provenza goes to find Lauren in the screening room, where Buzz is supervising her. He says good bye and she says she loved meeting his friends. She plants a wet one on him and sashays out.
Austin's father, Dr. Blair comes to the squad room. Austin's his step-son. He thinks Austin's been arrested again. Brenda tries to ask a few questions but he gets anxious and demands information. Brenda tells him about the OD. He pauses for a moment then says "you people" and walks out. Brenda and Gabriel race after him asking questions, but he tells them to talk to Travis.
At Austin's house, they keep Travis put while they conduct a search. They find a bag full of cash and bottles of water in the fridge that Tao guesses are laced with GHB. They still haven't told Travis what's going on, and Flynn breaks it to him bluntly, that he's in the morgue. Then they arrest him for drug possession and murder.
Brenda calls Provenza to check in. He tells her everything they found and also about a business card Sanchez found. It's Fritz's.
Pope ambushes Brenda in the hall. They're wondering if Austin might have been a government informant. She assures him she didn't know that. Pope isn't happy it seems like the FBI expected them to clean up their mess. Fritz calls Brenda into the hall.
He explains that his team finding him would have jeopardized a major drug deal. Fritz thinks everything is going very well for them, she's providing them good cover. She thinks it's an OD, as did the coroner and Austin's dad, but Fritz suggests maybe she proceed as if it weren't.
Brenda and Tao interrogate Travis, asking about the $30,000 in GHB and $80,000 in cash. Travis says Austin didn't use drugs. Brenda takes a hard line with him, until he's crying and yelling defensively, while seeming genuinely broken up over the loss of his boyfriend. Travis says the night Austin left he said he had a big meeting with his boss in L.A. Travis called his boss, who told him he left with another guy. He didn't know what to believe. Brenda realizes he's saying Austin worked for the circuit party, HelLA. His job was selling drugs all over the country for them, Travis says.
Then he mentions his boss, Peter Benjamin, and Fritz and FBI No. 2 tell Buzz to turn off the recording equipment. Buzz tells Fritz he doesn't work for him, so they shout in her earpiece that she's done.
At home, Brenda and Fritz argue. She wants in on the Peter Benjamin interview, but he's giving her tons of guidelines. They're yelling as Fritz sets out Chinese. "I hate this feeling of not knowing everything you know," she says. Then she tries another tack, choking up and starting to cry over Kitty. "That is so not gonna work," Fritz says, and she shuts it down. She asks if he's using the investigation to get back at her for something. He says his first loyalty is to her.
Then he says he's going to show her something that she's going to have to pretend she's seeing for the first time when she sees it later. He takes out a flash drive from the wire Austin was wearing that night.
They watch the footage from inside the party. In the bathroom mirror, Austin doesn't look like he's doing very well, then he passes out.
The next day, they finish watching the footage with Peter Benjamin. Brenda waits about 15 seconds before asking a question, then fishing in her purse to flip on a tape recorder. He pretends he doesn't know Austin was dealing. He says their doctor treated him with an IV, revived him and he assumes he left fine. Brenda says she has three witness who'll say HelLA employees dragged him into an alley.
Benjamin's lawyer objects, saying they didn't agree to take questions implicating him in anything. Fritz asks to talk to his lovely bride in the hall. He's not pleased she lied about the witnesses, but she says if they didn't lie to each other all the time they'd never get at the truth. Her tape recorder beeps. He hears it. She's in full Brenda Snit Mode at this point and hands him her FBI badge saying she quits and is looking into his death as a murder, which is what Fritz says the FBI wanted in the first place.
Back at the squad room, Tao says Dr. Morales found no puncture marks, which means Benjamin lied about the IV. And he took four times the recreational GHB dose, so someone probably spiked his drink. She thinks someone knew about the wire. They look at his shirt, which was ripped where the wire was. The wire is missing.
They find his keys and they wonder where his car is. Travis says it's Austin's dad's car.
At Dr. Blair's house, he rushes out to turn off his car alarm and finds Brenda and the team there with a search warrant.
Fritz and No. 2 drop in the viewing room as Brenda talks to the doctor. He says he took the car back from Austin's house. But he never drove home. Brenda tells him they also searched his office and found supplies for a professional drug lab to make GHB. He says he uses the chemical to clean the wheels of his car.
Gabriel asks if he's ever heard of Peter Benjamin. Then Brenda accuses him of being in the drug business. She says the LAPD doesn't care about the drugs, she just wants to know who killed Austin.
He says Austin introduced him to Benjamin. They thought they could give the Feds Benjamin and go free but when he told him he wanted out, he threatened them. "So Austin tried to protect you, and you went and got him killed?" Gabriel says.
Dr. Blair says he didn't know what had happened until Benjamin called him to pick up the car and told him he'd better keep making the drugs or the same thing would happen to him.
Brenda and Frtiz meet in the hallway. They swap her drug dealer for his murderer -- and the LAPD gets to keep the cash. As she walks away, Fritz turns to his No. 2 and says "See? Did this not turn out exactly the way I said it would?"
The FBI men go get Dr. Blair and arrest him for a whole mess of stuff.
Back in the squad room, Provenza gives her the evidence bag full of cash. Travis waits in her office. She gives Austin's things to Travis, including the cash. She says they can't prove where the money came from. He gives it back but she tells him it's not disloyal to Austin's memory to take it. He does.
At home, Fritz says he asked her for a favor to take her mind off Kitty. She says if she hadn't brought him (her) to work, Pope never would have let her look into the missing persons file. They sit in front of the TV and watch one of Kitty's cat sitting DVDs. He (she) rests in a proper urn on the mantel.
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