- When a member of Cho's former gang, the Avon Park Playboys, is found murdered, Patrick Jane insists on helping Cho with his off-the-books investigation.
- Cho is summoned by a police detective to identify a gang member from his former gang Avon Park Playboys. Patrick Jane goes with Cho, who identify the man as David Seung that was his friend in the past. The grandmother of the victim, Suanne Seung, goes to CBI and asks Cho to investigate the murder case since her grandson was regenerated and was working after serving sentence in the prison, but Cho refuses. Out of the blue, Cho and his girlfriend Elise Chaye are assaulted at her home by two men wearing hood and Cho decides to find the responsible forgetting that he is an agent of the law, with the support of Patrick Jane, and finds that his friend had changed indeed.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Jane flips a coin, announcing it's the 18th heads in a row. He does it a few more times then Rigsby has to pay up. Jane won't tell him what the trick is.
In the main room, a beautiful woman is waiting for Cho. Her name is Elise and she's heard all about them.
They're about to leave for a dinner reservation when his desk phone rings. A homicide detective is calling just for him. They have the body of an Asian man with tattoos whose phone showed calls to Cho recently. Jane sees how Cho reacts to the news and insists on going with him.
The crime scene is in a dark alley. A detective greets Cho and tells him the victim was shot in the back. His wallet was taken, but she doesn't think it was a robbery. He also had a piece of paper with lots of numbers on it. Cho doesn't know what it is.
He looks at the victim, and knows him as David Seung. He got out of Folsom six months ago. He was a member of the Avon Park Playboys, Cho's old gang. Cho says he hasn't talked to him in 13 years. He didn't respond to his messages for help.
As they walk away, Jane asks what the deal is. Cho says they used to be like brothers.
The next day at CBI HQ, Rigsby is still puzzled by the coin flip trick. David's grandmother comes to see Cho. She asks if he'll be working to find who killed him. Cho says the Oakland police will be on it. She doesn't think he was killed because of the gang. She says he was out of it. She asks again for his help, but he says there's nothing he can do.
Van Pelt and Rigsby offer to cover for him if he wants to take time to look into it. Cho's not moved, saying that gang bangers get shot. Jane believes the grandmother and suggests they check to see if he was still in the gang.
Jane and Cho head to his old neighborhood. They go into a pawn shop where Cho talks to a fat man who knew Cho as "Iceman." He says David quit but a month ago he called about a deal , asking to talk to K.S., which the fat man thought was disrespectful. He says he doesn't know about the deal, but tells Cho that K.S. is still very mad at him.
Jane shows him the paper with numbers on it but the fat man claims not to know what they mean.
Rigsby calls Jane to tell him that David went to work for a janitorial company. Jane suggests they visit the boss. Cho doesn't see the point, saying David was a banger and deserved to get shot. Jane asks about K.S. He's a gang leader and a bad guy, Cho says. And Cho shot him once.
Jane and Cho talk to the janitorial boss, Frank, who says he likes giving cons a second chance. A businessman walks by and tells the guy to clean a bathroom. Jane calls him middle management, saying if he were higher up he'd know you catch more flies with honey. The boss says David was a good worker, and he doesn't recognize the sheet of numbers either.
Back at the office, Lisbon has gotten a call from the detective and wants to know what they're doing. Cho apologizes. When she leaves, Jane suggests they go visit K.S. Cho walks away.
At his house that night with Elise, Cho is distracted. She asks him about it, but understands when he doesn't walk to talk about it. They're starting to kiss on the couch when two masked men bust down the door and throw him to the ground. One tells him to stay out of Playboy's business. They punch Elise in the face.
He holds her hand to the ambulance. She's swollen and bruised, but OK. She asks if he's coming with her, but he says he has some things to take care of.
Lisbon's there and tells him they're taking over the case. She's laying out the plan when Cho walks away mid-sentence and gets in his car. He finds Jane in the passenger seat.
Jane asks why Cho shot K.S. He explains that K.S. wanted to do a home invasion, which meant terrorizing a family, but Cho wouldn't do it. K.S. pulled a gun on him but he pulled his faster and shot him in the shoulder. He dropped out of the gang and gave the gun to David, who got pulled over with it a few days later and got an increased sentence. But Cho says he didn't feel responsible because David was stupid to have it on him.
He enlisted two weeks later and never went back.
Back at the pawn shop, Cho goes looking for K.S. Cho tells him he's not a cop tonight and threatens to break the guy's arm unless he helps.
Back at the office, Van Pelt has found names of David's coworkers at Cedar Creek Equities, where Cho and Jane met with the boss. Ven Pelt and Rigsby head there. A secretary says he's not there but calls him. She's sniffling, which she attributes to allergies.
Outside K.S.'s house, Cho tells Jane to stay put.
Rigsby and Van Pelt talk to the director of operations, Adam Reed, the same suit Jane dressed down the day before.
Cho hops the fence and draws his gun to sneak up around the back of the house.
Reed says he doesn't know anything about Seung but they can ask the cleaning staff. He's dismissive and acts better than the cleaners. He also calls his secretary "my girl" and insults her coffee fetching abilities.
In the house, Cho walks up on a roomful of gangsters playing video games. He pulls K.S. into the kitchen and asks him if he killed David Seung. When K.S. laughs at him he throws him around. He takes some convincing, but K.S. says he didn't kill David or hurt Cho's girlfriend.
He says a month ago David called wanting to buy a lot of cocaine. He said it was a one time thing. Cho thinks he's lying and prepares to take him in but goes into the living room to find K.S.'s guys have Jane at gunpoint.
Jane tries to convince the bangers they don't want the headache of killing a cop. Then he tells Cho he doesn't want to kill K.S. either, because he'd never find out if he killed David.
Everyone lowers their guns and Jane and Cho turn to leave. Jane takes the paper with the numbers on it out of his pocket and shows them to K.S., who doesn't seem to recognize them.
Cho and Jane grab lunch and are soon joined by Rigsby, who says David's tox screen was negative. Cho is convinced K.S. killed David but Jane points out he had no motive. Jane suggests that if David wasn't using or dealing, they should find out who got the drugs. (And he also shows Rigsby the two-headed coin he used to win the bet.)
Cut to Crystal the secretary stepping into the ladies room for a midday snort. Van Pelt finds her there. In interrogation she tells them David got her the drugs, but she's lying. She's scared to talk, saying he'll hurt her. She says he likes to get high then beat her and have sex. It's her boss, Adam Reed. He got the drugs from David.
She says Adam caught David stealing a laptop and blackmailed him into getting the drugs. Jane takes the numbers into Crystal, who asks how she got them.
Back at the office building, Cho, Rigsby and Jane hear laughter late at night and find Reed doing lines with a woman in a conference room. They let the woman leave.
They sit Reed down. When he says he had nothing to do with David's death, Cho slugs him. Jane pulls out the sheet of numbers again. They're passwords to the accounts of the firm's wealthiest clients. David was stealing them when he was killed. Jane guesses that Reed wanted David to steal them. Reed protests, saying he had nothing to do with it. Cho starts roughing him up, but Rigsby tells him to calm down.
Out in the hallway David's janitor boss Frank hears them. When Reed insists all he did was buy drugs off David, Cho marches him out of the conference room, blocking Jane and Rigsby inside.
Frank lets them out, pointing them in Cho's direction.
Outside in the parking lot, Cho knocks Reed to the ground and pulls out a gun. He looks around and from inside we hear gun shots. Frank follows Jane and Rigsby, unlocking doors for them.
Outside they find Cho standing over Reed, who has blood all over his shirt. Cho tells them Reed wouldn't talk and made him mad. He tells Rigsby to put the body in the car. Frank says he can say he didn't see anything.
Jane tells Cho that Reed must have been innocent if we didn't talk, then he turns to ask Frank's opinion. Clearly, the game is afoot.
Frank professes innocence. Jane pulls out the numbers and says he doesn't believe him. Cho asks Frank why he's wearing gloves. He says he's working, but Cho knows he's not. He thinks he has cuts and bruises on his knuckles from beating up Elise.
Cho says he'll shoot him if he doesn't confess. Cho points the gun at him. Frank drops to his knees and spills. He tells them where to find the gun he used.
Jane believes him. Rigsby brings a very much alive Adam Reed from the truck.
Flash to Cho knocking Reed out and pouring fake blood on Reed, then firing his gun into the ground.
Jane talks Cho down and he puts away his gun. But he socks Frank.
Back at HQ, they've figured that Frank didn't hire David to give him a second chance, he hired him to steal for him. And then he threatened to report he'd broken his parole if he didn't go along. Frank says David was going to quit and wanted out of it. Frank thought he was going to tell the cops. He gives them the name of the other guy who broke in on Cho with him.
Later, Cho apologizes to Reed for accusing him of crimes he knew he hadn't committed and for assaulting him several times. Reed and his lawyer are getting excited about their lawsuit when Lisbon brings up the sexual assault and drug charges they can levy against him. Reed backs down.
Back home, Cho checks on his girlfriend.
Then he goes to see David Seung's grandmother. He tells her he was wrong about David; he had changed. He tells her that David called him. He apologizes and asks for her forgiveness.
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