1Pilot
During the course of her birthday (and a dreaded "surprise" party thrown by her mother), US Marshal Mary Shannon tries to find out how a mob hit-man's son under her protection in the Witness Protection Program became one of the victims in a double homicide.
2Hoosier Daddy
After witnessing the murder of his mother, and because of his knowledge of his father's drug business, young eight-year-old Lonny, soon to be Leo, must be placed into witness protection. Because of his age, the only option for the lad, is to be placed with another family, the Billups, who's already in the program. A year and a half later, the Billups make it official and legally adopt 'Leo', only to discover that Leo's father is out of prison, and wants his son back. Knowing that this is must be a ploy to bring Leo out of hiding, and into harm's way, Mary does everything in her power to stop it. Jinx, Mary's mother, tries her hand at door-to-door cosmetic sales.
3Never the Bride
Diamond thief, bigamist, and con-artist Teri Ranzino (aka Trudy Wainright, Tenley Bishop, Toni Denard, Tress Stevenson), is put into Witsec after stealing 10 million dollars in raw diamonds from her latest clueless husband/mark, getting arrested by the FBI, agreeing to divulge the whereabouts of 20 million dollars worth of unlawful conflict diamonds, and giving up the identities of the men conspiring to sell them. After settling in to her new life, the now-Trenna Morris, find a new rich man to marry, claims she really loves this one, and ropes Mary into being a bridesmaid. When the diamond smuggler, Ngwama Mubutu, sees her picture in the paper, however, "happily ever after" may not be in her future. Raphael proposes to Mary after being called up to the Majors, with disastrous results.
4Trojan Horst
Horst Vanderhoff, who reportedly works for a high-priced contract killer, gets popped by the F.B.I. negotiating a hit. With promises of delivering the boss, Lola, he goes into Witsec. While transporting Horst, Mary and Marshall are ambushed in the middle of nowhere, Marshall is shot, but they manage to force the would-be killers to retreat. Finding an abandoned building, they take cover and prepare to defend themselves when the assassins return at nightfall to finish the job.
5Who Shot Jay Arnstein?
After setting her cheating, art thieving husband up for the F.B.I., Marci and Jay Allen (now Arnstein) are placed into WITSEC, because the art smugglers/fugitives Jay worked with, are still at-large. As retaliation for his wife's betrayal, and as part of his deal with the D.O.J., Jay insists on bring his mistress into the program as well. Unfortunately for him, after six months, he tries to turn over a new leaf by getting Mary to re-relocate his mistress, Kay, moments before she shows up drunk at an art show, exposing Jay's secret to his wife. Shortly afterwards, Jay is critically shot. This begs the question... who shot Jay Arnstein? The scorned wife? The jilted lover? The smugglers? Or could it be some new, unknown threat? While recovering from a sports injury, Raf is laid-up at Mary's where he and her adversarial sister, Brandi, get a chance to know each other better.
6High Price Spread
10 years earlier - Following a street basketball game, and free-throw practice, orphaned Scott Worley and his baby brother Chris, witness the execution of one bookie by another, followed by threats of "You know what happens to snitches". Testifying landed them in the program as Marshal Mary Shannon's first protectees. Present day finds Scott owning an auto-repair business, and young Chris as a rising basketball star in college. Mary soon discovers that Chris has developed a serious gambling problem and is in thirty-thousand deep with his bookie. Unable to pay the debt, the bookie, Bill Donner, abducts Scott to force Chris to throw a ball game, leaving Mary and Marshall in a race against the clock... the time clock. Jinx gets news that her husband is going to be declared dead. Marshall hooks up with his former teacher's assistant he had in college, who gives him a different type of education.
7Iris Doesn't Live Here Anymore
When teenager Iris McBride witnesses her boyfriend, Lawrence, being shot by a member of a violent Hispanic gang, she and her family must enter WITSEC to prevent retaliation for her planned ID and testimony. Iris's arrogant father, Dr. McBride, now Dr. Morris, goes ballistic, refusing to accept his forced circumstance, making life difficult for his family and the Marshal's alike. Fed up with his new lifestyle that he feels is beneath him, he tries to make his wife choose him, and their old life, over his daughter. Overhearing her Father's plan to leave the program, leaving her in it alone, but not hearing her Mother's refusal, Iris runs away. Lily, the "Morris's" youngest daughter divulges a secret she and Iris have been keeping about the shooting that changes everything. Brandi and Raph become closer.
8Don of the Dead
Donald Ferguson, who's under Mary's watch, dies in a suspicious car accident and it is up to Mary and Marshall to find out if it was just an accident or if it has something to do with the O'Connor family from his old life when he was known as Donald Fraser. Meanwhile, Brandi continues to flirt with Raphael despite Jinx warning her not to.
9Good Cop, Dead Cop
Mary has a one-night stand with her witness Detective Robert Patrone but problems abound later when he is then accused of murder. Meanwhile, Raphael admits to Brandi that he had had a brief dalliance with his physical therapist when he and Mary had broken up.
10To Serge with Love
Two witness protectees, Tasha and Sergei, in the program for two unrelated cases, meet accidentally through a dating service, and discover each others' secret when Tasha catches Mary and Marshall at Sergei's house. Tasha and Sergei fight to stay together, until Mary discovers Sergei's enterprising new www.side-line, staring clueless, naked Tasha. Brandi boyfriend, Chuck, arranges a drug-buy for the methamphetamine she has been holding for him, with a man named "Spanky". When Brandi discovers an infant in the hotel bathtub of Spanky's front-team, Russell and Rachel, she wakes up to the reality of what she is doing, backs out, turning them in to the police instead.
11Stan by Me
Mary is abducted leaving a studio where her mother, Jinx, is auditioning for a musical, by blundering drug thugs who think she is Brandi, who really has stolen their drugs... twenty pounds of pure Meth. Brandi's New Jersey boyfriend, Chuck, is abducted by the thugs as well, after the drug dealers shoot and kill two F.B.I. agents in Chucks home, who had arrested him, and arranged to place him into WITSEC for his testimony about the drug ring. With precious few clues to go on, the Albuquerque P.D., the F.B.I., and the Inspectors for WITSEC forge a joint task-force to figure out who has kidnapped her, and hopefully rescue Mary from her abductors, before it's too late. Certain truths about Brandi are coming to light to the authorities.
3A Stand-Up Triple
Las Vegas, two months agoA blonde knockout meets a man in his hotel room. He has to finish up some business first. He shows her to the bedroom, where she waits. A few minutes later her date, Albert walks in with company - her three kids. The teenage boy Tripp was looking after them but the youngest got sick. As she argues with Tripp about baby sitting they hear gun shots in the other room. Albert and his business associates lie dead.At WITSEC HQ
Maureen, William, Tripp and Gretl Stewart enter the program.
Albert stole a high tech computer chip that can be used to break encryption.
As Mary watches Maureen and her three kids she asks Stan and Marshall to promise to shoot her in the head if she ever has three kids. No problem.Jinx joins her daughters in the morning, all hearts and sunshine. They think she wants something because her DUI hearing is coming up. They're right. She needs character witness statements.Eleanor calls for Mary relaying a message from a principal saying that Tripp has been cutting school and they haven't been able to reach Maureen either.Mary goes to their house. Marshall calls saying they tracked her cell phone to the shore of Lake Mead. Mary's about to break in to look for clues when Maureen pulls up in a truck hauling a boat, acting as if everything is fine.
A man named Sandy took them to the Lake. He's not the sexiest guy and Maureen dodges his kiss good-bye.Mary tells her she's not allowed to just pick up and go. She reminds her people are actively looking for her. She doesn't know what to do about Tripp cutting class. Mary offers to talk to him. She asks about Sandy but Maureen says she won't be seeing him again. He's not the one.Jinx begs Brandi to do go to her AA meeting for her so she can go to the dentist, saying the officer cracked her molar. "I think you should go," Brandi tells her mom. "It must work or they wouldn't make all these TV movies about it."
She refers to "alcohlics" and Jinx insists she isn't one.
When Brandi resists Jinx asks if she wants her to go to jail, very subtle mom guilt trip.Mary takes Tripp to school, telling him to get with it. She calls him a "snotty, self-centered teenager". He tells her she doesn't know a damn thing.At the office, Mary looks over Tripp's attendance record. He was being scouted by big schools for baseball. Eleanor and Mary start wrangling over the desks again.Marshall looked up Sandy. His ex wife has a restraining order against him and he has two domestic assault charges.Brandi goes to AA and meets Peter, who is leading the meeting. She fidgets as he tells his story but listens as he proves entertaining and sincere.Mary calls for Maureen at work and learns she quit her job three weeks ago. The principal calls and leaves a message - Tripp ditched again. Mary can't reach Maureen at her numbers. They go looking for him.Peter calls on Brandi to share her story. She introduces herself as "Jinx" and talks about her daughters, especially how smart Brandi is.At Maureen's house Mary and Marshall find Tripp at home doing laundry. He doesn't know where his mom is working now. He says his mom got a new cell phone three days ago in Vegas. Mary calls her. She's getting out of the shower when she answers. Mary asks Tripp how long he's been cutting class to take care of the kids.Brandi finishes her mom's story, sobbing now about the impact her disease has on her kids. Peter listens intently.Mary thinks Tripp needs a break. She calls Raph, the pro baseball player.
Raph takes him through some BP at the park as Mary watches in the stands.Mary and Marshall watch the kids as Mary wonders to Marshall how she could miss a situation so similar to her own.
When Maureen comes home Mary confronts her and Maureen works up some heady righteous indignation asking Mary how dare she pass judgment on her. Mary is having none of it and tells her she knows she was in Vegas and if she can't take care of her children she'll find someone else who can.After the meeting, Peter and Brandi get some coffee and he tells "Jinx" to stick with the program. He tells her the story she told isn't important, it's just important that she not drink. She 'fesses up and he walks away, saying he doesn't like people treating the program like a joke.At the office late Mary tries to figure out what to do about Maureen and her kids. She doesn't have much faith in Maureen acting like a mother.Brandi comes home and gives her mom her signature card for the meeting, telling her not to ask her to do anything like that ever again. Her mom is drinking. Jinx thinks the people in AA "got to" her when she suggests her mom drink less.Mary and Raph go out. He thinks Tripp has talent.
Mary gets a call from Maureen's home number. It's one of the kids. Sandy is trying to break down the door. He wants to talk to Maureen but the kids are home alone.Mary speeds there with Raph, where Sandy is attacking Tripp. Mary gets the little kids and Raph, disobeying Mary's order to stay in the car, races in and knocks out Sandy.The police are on the scene a while later. They arrest Sandy.
Mary goes to the hospital where Raph has his hand bandaged up. He broke a tiny bone punching out Sandy.Mary takes the kids home to stay with them until Maureen wanders home. There's a message from Maureen on the machine telling Tripp her new guy is taking her out of town over night and asking him to take the kids to school the next day.Mary talks to him, not reaching him until she tells him about how she grew up. He thinks he has to take care of his siblings. But she says it could change.
She suggests foster care, but he doesn't want to split them up. She thinks he should do it for his own good.Jinx calls Mary as 6 a.m. wanting her character reference letter. Tripp hears Mary's side of the conversation and asks her how to start the foster care process.Mary, Brandi and Jinx meet with her lawyer. She suggests they watch the police cruiser arrest video. She plays it. She weaves wildly and then gets out, stumbling, asking why he's harassing her. She tries to walk home. She rails and throws her shoe at him, falling down. Jinx is horrified watching her drunk self.Mary visits Maureen. She's cooking breakfast, acting like mom of the week. She tells Mary she finally found a decent guy.
Tripp has changed his mind. She begs him to change his mind back and he says he's not her. Mary asks how they're different and he says he has her.Jinx's lawyer makes her case in court but Jinx, still shaken, interrupts. She asks to change her plea to guilty and says she's a black out drunk and needs to go to rehab. Mary listens incredulously and Brandi cries.
The judge sentences her to 28 days in rehab.
4Rubble with a Cause
Mexico City, Five Months AgoA man hooks up a shady-looking guy's cable then goes out to join his buddy in the van. He takes out a keypad and punches in some numbers. The entire floor of the building explodes.
The guy in the van with him is upset that he used such a big charge and pulls a gun, but Harry says it was to send a message to kidnappers.
Lewis Fowler isn't happy. He knocks out Harry, the guy who set the charge.Lewis Fowler enters the program as Lewis Ford.Present DayRaph brings Mary breakfast in bed. He's excited she slept over. He made coffee and blueberry pancakes.
Stan calls, telling her to turn on the TV.
There's footage of Lewis Ford bringing people out of a collapsed building as a reporter says he's now trapped inside.At the building, Stan tells Mary that the building still isn't stable and they don't know how bad Lewis is hurt.
With his picture on the news the clock is already ticking on how long they have to move him. Marshall is worried about sniper fire.
Mary puts on her hard hat and goes in.Brandi calls Peter, the guy who led the AA meeting that she went to and lied at. She's been calling all week. She leaves him a message. Then she hangs up and calls him again.Stan watches the scene outside trying to run facial recognition software on the crowd.Al with the search and rescue team arrives, wondering why US Marshals are there. He's not happy to hear someone already went in.Inside, Lewis lies pinned by giant slabs of concrete. He may or may not be impaled on a pipe. They're several stories up and giant pieces of building are everywhere with no ceiling, exposed to the world. Mary crab walks her way across the rubble with Al and the medic behind her. Al wants her to get out, but she says she's not going anywhere.Outside, Marshall spies a TV reporter arriving, Janice Austen, a woman who blew a story about the vice president getting kickbacks. He sends her back behind the barricade.The medic can't get close to Lewis so Mary moves some rubble for a better look. Lewis clearly has a pipe through his gut.The medic walks Mary through helping Lewis as Stan and Marshall try to clear offices with sight lines to Lewis.Brandi waits for Peter at the meeting. He tells her to drop it, that he's not interested. She wants to apologize. He tells her to consider herself forgiven. She gives up and walks out.Lewis walks Mary through inserting his IV.Stan, just off the phone with the US Attorney, asks Mary over walkie talkie if Lewis can give a dying declaration. She points out that Lewis can hear him and tells Stan he'll be fine. She puts in an earpiece.Stan gets a call from the Mayor as Marshall checks nearby buildings. He sees people on the roof of a parking structure. Marshall sees one of them has some kind of scope. He takes off running for it. They fill Mary in and she remains calm. Their snipers can't take the shot until the threat is confirmed. Mary blocks Lewis with her body. He tells her it'd be stupid to get herself killed for a dead man.
We see through the scope and hear a man try to will Mary to get out of the way so he can get his shot.Marshall runs up behind them. It's Janice and her cameraman. She got a good look at a Marine Force Recon tattoo on Lewis' arm. She wants to know what US Marshals are doing at a construction accident.Marshall shoos her away, telling her she might think this story is her ticket out of the dog house but it isn't and if she interferes again, he'll lock her up.Al predicts it'll take seven to eight hours to get to Lewis. Night falls. The medic tells Mary to keep Lewis awake. He thinks the people after him will come soon. He tells her the men coming for him are the best in the world at what they do.
She asks him about the private mercenary business and how he went from being a decorated soldier to that. He says he joined because protecting American citizens against foreign kidnappers seemed like a good idea.Mary disconnects from Stan. She asks Lewis if he ever thinks about the people he killed and if there's some trick for dealing with it. He says he doesn't discuss it with people who haven't been through it.
She tells him about being kidnapped a few weeks ago and the man she killed. She remembers the look after he'd been hit, like she was looking at a scared little boy. She can't get that face out of her head.Lewis says every soldier who's been through that is haunted by the realization they've killed some mother's little boy. You can't do anything about it, it just becomes part of you.Mary turns her radio back on when they hear movement. Stan tells her they've stabilized the floors enough to try to get to her.Janice approaches Stan and Marshall, reading them what she's found out. She knows he's Lewis Fowler and is suspected in the death of a Mexican kidnapper and 17 innocent civilians. She has a picture of Mary. She wants the story.Marshall starts to put her under arrest. Stan takes him aside. He points out Lewis' cover is already blown and suggests they give her the story to protect Mary's identity.Peter wraps up a meeting and Brandi walks in. He rolls his eyes but lets her talk. She introduces herself and tells the group about the lie she told and why she told it. She says they were all really nice to her and she's sorry for coming there and lying to them. She chokes back tears and apologizes again, saying she thinks it's a great thing they have going on there. Peter watches her leave.Mary watches as the nearby construction workers all clear out except one. Mary says she has a bad feeling about it as Marshall goes running inside. The floor explodes, Marshall stumbles out, coughing up dust, but OK. He says the blast took out the stairway, the only way in.In the rubble Mary has her gun drawn as the dust clears. Lewis' old partner Harry has his gun on Mary and it standing two feet away. He puts down his weapon and says if his mission was to kill Lewis, he'd be dead by now.Mary sits him down and turns on her walkie behind her back. Marshall and Stan hear Harry tell Mary it's about loyalty. He asks Lewis what happened. Lewis says what happened was that he planted a charge that killed 17 people.
Harry says that eight hostages were released unharmed after they sent that message
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Marshall, Stan and the reporter listen as the medic, monitoring his vitals, says that he's barely hanging on and Mary better do something.Mary shifts her friendly tone and starts in on Lewis, saying that he turned on his partner and never had any loyalty in the first place. He knew what he was getting into when he signed up and it turns her stomach that she has to protect him.Mary continues on Lewis as Stan and Marshall figure she's stalling for time and see Lewis' vitals go up as he gets worked up.Harry picks up on what Mary's saying, talking about the 17 people who died to send a message. When he's done, Mary picks up her walkie talkie and asks if they got it all. Yep.
Harry's caught.The rescuers come for Lewis and carry him out.Janice thanks Marshall and promises no hints of Mary in her story. As Mary takes Harry into custody he tells her he meant what he said, that your partner is the only thing that matters.Mary goes to Raph's after a long day. Janice's report about Harry and Lewis plays on the TV. Raph asks if that's where she's been all this time. She says it was crowd control, clean up, "boring stuff."
Janice's report says that Lewis died after the rescue.Seattle, Two Months LaterThe Washington Marshals welcome Lewis to the program as Mary watches.
7Duplicate Bridge
At the scene of a the Beaumont Bridge collapse in Omaha, Nebraska. Reporters accost the designer, Norman Baker, asking what could have gone wrong. He says he doesn't know.Five months later he testifies in court, with Marshall and Mary looking on. He testifies that he later found out that the bridge came down because some of its parts were of lesser quality and not to his specifications. The defendant glares at him as the defense lawyer points to Baker's signature on the plans. He says it's not his.The defendant Carl Hogeland, denies he did anything wrong. Baker testifies he went into witness protection because the day after the collapse Carl came to him and said they could either get on the same page or Baker would disappear.Norman Baker enters the program as Norman Danzer.Mary and Marshall take Norman out of court. He wants to stay for the verdict, but they try to prepare him for life as Norman Danzer.A news report announces that Carl was found not guilty. Norman is shocked. On TV, Carl says Norman made a mistake. Norman uses big engineering words to explain to Marshall how he didn't mess up, clearly bothered that his name hasn't been cleared.Norman asks to go to the bathroom but shortly after they find him on the balcony. He explains that standing in high places helps him build bridges in his mind to relax. No, he's not planning on killing himself, he says. Why would he, he didn't do anything wrong? he says.Present Day
Mary and Marshall arrive at work, where Eleanor is very excited to show off her brand new stapler. Marshall shares her enthusiasm. Sexy office supplies.
A package arrives for Marshall. It's ribs for Norman from Omaha. Marshall is going to visit him and, using ribs as a lure, gets Mary to go along.He's not eager to see them. They invite themselves in under the guise of ribs but aren't happy to find a model of a bridge and signed plans with his old name on them. They take them and some of the ribs.The next day, Mary comes out to find Brandi picking her teeth next to a plate of rib bones. She needs Mary's help with a paper for English class, in which she has to write from the point of view of a family member, but Mary is busy.At work, Marshall gets an alert from the Albuquerque PD that Norman's car was found abandoned on a bridge. Suicide is suspected.At the scene they find a suicide note in his glove compartment. Marshall doesn't think it seems right.They go back to the office to run down possible suspects. Hogeland's at the top of the list along with Thomas Hanson, a man who lost his wife and child in the collapse and another victim who threatened Norman once.Marshall checks out Norman's house. All his folders and files are missing. He finds a wooden box with a note from Norman inside, telling him the drafting tools and the stereo are for him. Marshall starts to believe Norman might have really killed himself.There's a ring at the doorbell. It's a young woman looking for Steven Mayberry. She describes someone who looks like Norman and works at Chemicals & Toxins and has for nine months. She says he quit two days ago. She has his stuff from his locker. Norman's face is on the ID badge.At the office Mary and Marshall go through Norman/Steven's things. Marshall now thinks he was up to something and wouldn't off himself in the middle of a plan. Eleanor reports that Norman's bank records show he withdrew $60,000 two days ago. And Stan says a flight manifest show Steven Mayberry flew to Omaha that morning. The memorial for the one year anniversary of the bridge collapse is the next day.Off to Nebraska they go. Mary and Marshall visit Carl Hogeland, telling him they think he's in danger. He declines protection and insists on going to the memorial.Brandi calls Mary, feeling stood up. Mary tries to apologize, but gets hung up on.Carl gives a speech at the memorial the next day as Mary and Marshall and a few other agents try to look inconspicuous. They spy a man putting together what could be a rifle sight and take him down. It's a photographer. Carl's peeved they ruined an important day for him.Marshall gets a call. Norman's been arrested. They go to get him. But it's not Norman. It's Thomas Hanson dressed in Norman's clothes. At first, he denies being Hanson.
Then he tells Marshall that a month ago Norman showed up on his doorstep to apologize. He says Norman must have left his jacket then and that's how he ended up in it. Marshall points out that might be believable, but he saw Norman in the same jacket two days ago.Thomas says Norman came to see him the night before. He said if Thomas did this, all the families hurt by the bridge collapse would get their justice. Mary and Marshall are called to Hogeland's office, from that diversion. It has been ransacked. And Carl is missing.They call Brandi to have her look at the plans in Mary's trunk. They have the name of Norman's first bridge.Mary and Marshall race there to find that Norman has tied Carl to the bridge and is holding a gun on him, refusing to let him go until he tells the truth. Then they see he's holding a trigger switch.
The bridge is rigged with explosives.
Norman has a video tape set up on Carl. He shoots his ear to get him to talk. Carl says his contract included a $1 million early completion bonus. He changed the plans so that he could get the bridge finished on time. He says he's truly sorry, even if Norman doesn't believe him.Norman cuts Carl loose, but keeps his hand on the blast switch. He faces the camera. He says after a year of research he found that Carl was right in that the bad materials weren't the only cause of the collapse. He used the wrong numbers and that contributed to the collapse.
He's designed 26 bridges in his career, including the one he's standing on, also built with the same wrong numbers he's always used. He says unfortunately he'll have to leave the demolition of the others to someone else.Marshall tries to talk to Norman, saying we all fail at times. He chokes up, asking Norman not to quit. Norman starts counting down from ten, saying he can't go from being someone who was never wrong to someone who was never right.Marshall looks fondly and hopelessly at his witness. He says to Mary that it's time to go. Mary can't believe Marshall is quitting. She tries to talk to Norman, saying she's not going. But Marshall says it's time. He knows his witness. He drags Mary away as Norman counts down "two, one..." and the bridge goes up in a spectacular explosion, taking Norman -- and only Norman -- with it.On the drive home, Marshall helps Brandi complete her paper, talking for Mary, saying that Mary doesn't understand that failure is a part of life. The part that teaches us things and the part that hurts.
11Jailbait
Miami, Florida, 18 months agoCarmen, a beautiful woman, hangs off the arm of her husband Jesus, as she tells him he should get the harbor contract. They're with a group of other couples, saying good bye at the end of the night. When Jesus' friends get in their cars and drive off, he yells at Carmen for embarrassing him in front of his boss, Felix Calderon, by asking him for a job. She gets in his face in front of their teenage daughter, saying someone should stand up in the family. She calls him Calderon's "little bitch."He tells her to shut up, then he sees someone coming and shoves his daughter into a waiting car.Two men walk toward him, guns, drawn. He pulls out a gun and takes them both down as his wife bangs on the door of the restaurant to be let back in. Jesus is hit, but OK.His daughter Olivia circles back in the car and he tells her to get out of the way. She runs for the restaurant.Jesus sees the men they were with earlier circle by in a black car.
Then Olivia sees her mother Carmen, dead by the restaurant door.Jesus and Olivia Moreno enter the program as Jesus and Olivia Morales.Marshall and Mary settle the new Morales into their new apartment. Olivia isn't happy. Her bedroom is smaller than her closet back home. The Marshalls mention the wanted ads and Olivia mumbles something about anyone being the market for hired muscle. Mary tells Jesus how fast his daughter adjusts will depend on how he handles it.Mary helps Olivia unpack but finds a photo of the girl's mother in her things. She reminds her of the rules. She yells at her dad, saying it's his fault. Marshall says they're there because of Calderon, not her father.
"Actually," she says, hatefully, "I'm here because the men Calderon hired to kill my father were lousy shots."Mary tells her in a year Calderon will be in jail and they'll be in a better place. Jesus promises his daughter he'll get her back everything they had before.
She tells him to let her know when he gets her mother back.Present Day
Raphael cooks breakfast, as Mary runs to answer the door. She tells her boyfriend there's an angry looking Hispanic man at the door, repeatedly ringing the bell. He answers the door. It's his mom, Josephina (in a ballcap and sunglasses, not otherwise looking manly). She tells Mary to call her "Mama."
She came early. Mary had no idea she was coming.At the office, Mary talks to Raph on the phone, asking what in their relationship led him to believe surprising her was a good idea.
She gets off the phone, weighing in as Eleanor sets up hotel accommodations for a witness.
Mary's cell phone rings. It's Olivia. She's hysterical. The line goes dead. Mary and Marshall run out.They bust into the Morales' place (the same apartment) and find Jesus laying on the floor with a teenage boy over him. Olivia runs out in lingerie and tells them to put their guns away, it's just her friend Eric. She was showing him her frilly things to get his opinion when her dad walked in and they whacked him with a frying pan to keep him off Eric.Olivia's mad that she's in trouble. Jesus is the one who yanked the phone out of the wall and went after Eric, she says. She calls her dad a bully and says she doesn't haven't to take it. She says they wouldn't be there if they had any balls, like her mother said. She storms off.Mary goes to talk to her.Marshall talks to Jesus, suggesting he maybe back off a little.
Mary comes out and says the same thing. "If you don't loosen the ropes you might lose her forever," she says.Mary comes home to find delicious smells on her stove, but is slightly unnerved to find them coming from a simmering goat head. Her mom and sister are in her kitchen, so is Raphael's. She's cooking for Mary's engagement party, Jinx explains, giving Mary a "go with it" look. Josephina wraps a very surprised Mary in a hug.At the office, Mary calls Raph, wanting some clarification. He tells her his mom knew he was going to propose and he was afraid if he told his mom Mary said no that mom would hate Mary forever. Raph says he'll deal with it.Meanwhile, the US Attorney is there to prep Jesus. He sits down with him and Mary, telling stories of Felix chopping someone up in to bits and watching a building burn.
Later, he tells the Marshalls he had a long talk with Olivia after they left and things are much better.
They say good bye, planning to see him in 38 hours.Mary comes home and is upset to find Josephina's boiled goat stew still cooking on her stove. Jinx reminds Mary that Josephina came all the way from the Dominican Republic, why doesn't she just go along with it?Mary and Marshall prep for transporting Jesus to trial. They have a lot of potential threats to look out for. Mary gets a yelling calling from Jesus, saying Olivia has vanished.At his apartment, he says he hasn't seen her since she left for school yesterday. He says he won't testify until Olivia is back.Mary and Marshall go through her room. She has lots of new clothes with the tags still on and purses that cost thousands a piece.At the office, Marshall reports no one at the school has seen her.Eleanor recognizes the purse brand name and knows they're $10,000 a piece. They think she might have told her best girlfriend about them.They visit Eric (who, it turns out, really was just giving advice on lingerie), who tells them he has no idea where she is. They explain her life might be in danger.
He says she was having some sort of thing on line, using his computer. The guy emailed her expensive gift certificates and was always trying to get her to run off with him. He pulls up their chats.She's meeting him in LA.
Mary and Marshall hop a flight.Moments later they're busting down a fancy hotel door to find Olivia in her lingerie with Cesar Calderon, Felix's hot young son. She says they're in love. She tells Mary they haven't talked about the case. Mary watches as they make goo goo eyes at each other.Later, Marshall gets a call from Stan telling him Jesus is MIA. Mary opens the hotel room door to find an angry Jesus holding a crowbar. He storms in, wanting to see what man is with his daughter.When he sees Cesar, Olivia tells him her mom knew about them and gave her blessing. The two men fight over OIivia. She tells her dad he has no say in the matter, she's 18.
She wants to be with Cesar.Jesus relents, listening to her.
Calmly, he tells Cesar that if he so much as harms a hair on his daughter's head there is no power on earth that will stop him from killing him. Cesar is OK with that.Jesus tells his daughter he loves her and then tells the Marshalls he's ready to go.Mary pauses for a moment, reminding Olivia that if her dad leaves now he'll be relocated and she'll never see him again.Jesus says it's OK, Olivia is a grown up and she's made her decision. He tells her to be happy.Miami Federal Courthouse
The Marshalls escort Jesus into court. Olivia and Cesar are next to each other, holding hands in the gallery.He begins his testimony, but seeing Olivia in the gallery with the Calderons, he pauses, saying "he doesn't recall" in response to all questions.
Felix smiles at his son as Olivia looks at her dad. Cesar looks smug.The judge takes a break.
Jesus tells Mary if he testifies, Felix will kill Olivia. He doesn't care if it means he'll go to prison. He says he doesn't want Olivia to end up like her mom.Mary says he's been holding out on her. Carmen was killed by two shots to the chest. She was the target, not him. Mary asks why.Carmen was having an affair with Felix, she threatened to tell his wife. He had her killed. He didn't tell Olivia because he didn't want her to think badly of her mother.
He tells Mary to throw him in jail, he doesn't care, he's going to protect his daughter.From the other side of two-way glass, Olivia listens to her dad.The trial resumes, with Olivia back in the gallery next to Cesar. On the stand, again, Cesar says he won't testify. Olivia sees Felix nod at his son.
She stands up, telling him she doesn't know what she was thinking. Felix tells his son to control his "woman." She tells Felix that he killed her mother, she's not going to let her father go to jail for him.She goes and sits away from Felix, nodding at her dad on the stand.
Jesus tells the judge he remembers everything now. He spills.After he testifies, he and Olivia meet up and get in a good long father-daughter hug as Mary the dad-less looks on.Back home, Mary comes home to find Jinx and Brandi sitting down to dinner with Raph and his mom for some simmered goat.
She tells Josephina she wishes she hadn't gone to all the trouble.
But Josephina gives her a speech about the four days it takes to prepare the goat being symbolic of working to make a marriage work.
When Josephina's done with her heartfelt and warm words, Mary thanks her but tells she can't possibly let her continue under false pretenses. She tells her the truth about what happened.The family members clear the room, allowing Mary and Raph to hash things out. He can't believe she ruined that for his mom. She says she takes the ceremony and marriage very seriously, which is why she didn't want to fake it. He accuses her of being afraid of commitment because her dad abandoned her.
She says, yes, that messed her up, but that's not it.
She doesn't think you get married just because someone got called up to the majors (which was what precipitated her ballplayer boyfriend's proposal). He tells her she won't have to worry about that anymore.He retired yesterday. He couldn't recover from his injuries.He tells her he bought the ring six months before he gave it to her. She's the most difficult woman in the world, but he's known for a long time that he wants to spend the rest of his life with her.She hauls him to his feet and goes through his pockets, she knows he carries the ring around with him. She slips the ring on her finger and says yes.
13Let's Get It Ahn
San Diego, California:
As Aretha sings about "Dr. Feelgood," an Asian man and woman make out. The woman examines the man's tattoos and suggests they become partners. In a warehouse, another woman looks over sheets of paper being printed -- sheets of money.Mid-make-out, the Asian woman asks the man who his partners are, and it seems as if she is more interested in information than sex.The printer-woman, who later learn is Helen, looks in on them and is upset. She wipes away a tear. Back in her studio, she kisses a large portrait of the Asian woman and trashes the place.Looking at the counterfeiting plates, she picks up the phone and places a call to the Secret Service.Helen Trask enters the program as Helen Traylen.In the office, Marshall leaves yet another message for Stan, as Mary entertains herself by shooting spitballs at his face. Marshall is worried because Stan is two hours late.Then he comes in with Helen (Sherilynn Fenn). She is filled with doubt and thinks she's made a terrible mistake. She wants to go back.Stan briefs M & M: last night he got a call from HQ to meet a private plane at a hidden location. Helen is a primo counterfeiter who's been making technically perfect $100 bills -- at least until she walked in on her girlfriend inflagrante with one of her North Korean associates.But the North Korean claimed diplomatic credentials and was whisked away. A DC paper did an investigation and concluded that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved, perhaps behind it to subsidize covert ops below the radar of Congressional oversight."So the Secret Service broke up a CIA counterfeiting ring?" Mary recaps.And Helen thought her partner was a Chinese gangster. So they're either hiding her from the CIA, North Korea or the Chinese mob... no matter who or what, there's an eight-figure bounty on Helen's head.The Secret Service released Helen's girlfriend Ahn Lee, whom she met in prison, after they determined she wasn't involved.Stan leaves them to deal with Helen.In the briefing room, Helen is in tears and really missing Ahn. M & M see why, even Mary thinks the Asian galpal is ridiculously hot. But she tries to talk her out of contacting her."She's a cheating, lying, violent, antisocial sociopath," Mary says of Ahn. "Is she really the kind of person you want to hang your future on?""I could do worse," says Helen.The next day, Raphael examines the engagement ring on Mary's hand, waking her up. It's moving day. He's joining the Shannon girls.
He teases her about work, asking if she's relocating some mafioso today. She doesn't think it's funny, she told him what she does so he'd understand why she can't talk about it.There's a ring at Mary's door. It's Albuquerque Police Detective Bobby Dershowitz, with coffee and a request. He got a fingerprint answer "no reply" from the system on some prints found at a murder scene and wants her to check it out. She agrees.Marshall calls Mary about Helen. Mary guesses that her prints showed up at a murder scene. Yep.M & M visit Helen at an art shop. She looks happy, working with a youngster as a teacher.Mary takes her aside and asks about her prints in the house of a woman named Caroline Straub.Helen bursts out crying. She was there two nights ago. They had dinner and watched some TV. They were just good friends, they were out at a lesbian bar last night.Caroline had come out about four months ago and Helen was there for her, understanding what she was going through.Helen tells Mary her ex-husband wasn't thrilled when she came out.Mary and Marshall go to breakfast. Sitting across from her, Marshall notices a tan line on Mary's ring finger. She nonchalantly tells him she and Raph are engaged. Marshall sits in stunned silence.She says, "There, are you happy?" And he counters, asking if she is. He's vamping for time.Yes, of course she is, why wouldn't she be?He asks why she didn't tell him. She says because she wanted to avoid a moment like this. Marshall slips her ring onto his finger. It fits. And stays there.When she asks if he's going to congratulate her he stands to hug her and as he says congratulations we see the face of a man having a hard time believing what he's saying... he is in pain.When they leave the diner, they see Bobby Dershowitz leaving the art shop. He reports that Caroline's ex said Helen had an unusual hold on on his wife.At the house, Brandi "helps" Raph move by reading all his magazines as he hauls boxes. Then she asks if it's weird that they're going to be living together given that they have a past and almost had a thing. She suggests they talk about it and get on with their lives. They attempt, but get nowhere.Back at the office, M & M tell Stan that so far they're buying the ex-did-it-theory. They sit down to run a threat assessment and check the counterfeiting angle.Then Eleanor notices the huge shiny rock on Marshall's finger. When he says it's an engagement ring she panics, calling for Stan, thinking M & M are engaged. Mary sets them straight.Eleanor goes to examine the ring on Marshall's finger.Mary looks up Carolyn, who turns out to be a professor of graphic arts, with a specialty in engraving and intaglio print processes."So your counterfeiter witness' murdered friend turns out to be the one lesbian in Albuquerque with access to everything necessary to literally print money," Marshall says. "What are the odds?"Marshall wants to check the alibi. Mary thinks he just wants to go to the lesbian bar, but off they go.The bartender says everyone knows Helen and she was in there Wednesday with the "newbie," "Carol" something. They had gotten into a big fight.M & M go to Helen's apartment and kick in the door. She's not there. They search her closet; all her clothes are gone.They find the license of someone named Darryl Preston.Back at the office they find a report filed by Preston, saying he hooked up with a hot chick in a bar then woke up with his wallet missing in a hotel room -- where Ahn Lee's prints were found.Mary wonders why the local cops would check for finger prints in a hotel robbery, and why the license was so casually left behind at Helen's. They find NCIC searches by a Hong Kong cop looking for Ahn Lee, specifically her known associate, Helen Trask. Since the wallet report was filed three weeks ago, they think he must be close.Mary calls Darryl Preston while Marshall calls David Palmer, the Albuquerque police officer who took the report. They each talk to whoever answers for a moment before he puts them on hold.While on hold, they end up singing along in remarkably perfect sync to with Gilbert & Sullican's "I am the very model of a modern Major-General," then realize they're talking to the same guy. But who?Mary gets Eleanor running background checks on Darryl, David and Ahn. They think the wallet theft was faked to fish for Helen.Dershowitz comes in, wanting to talk to Helen. They tell him she split. They ask him to check if Albuquerque PD has a David Palmer. He does -- they don't.Eleanor reports that it looks like the Hong Kong captain is also a ghost as well.Marshall gets a call: a casino has gotten $30,000 fake bills in the last few hours. Off they go to follow-up.At the casino, a manager tells them the Secret Service is on the way. A few of his dealers remember a hot Asian woman using the bills. They're not very good copies, which means they're from Ahn and she's the one dropping bread crumbs to find Helen.Mary thinks they're in the hotel. She asks about the most expensive suite.In the room, they find Helen calmly painting her toenails. And then Ahn runs out, gun drawn, telling M & M to drop their weapons. A good ol' True Romance-style stand-off ensues. Mary hustles Helen into the bedroom for her safety. Ahn tells her she'd rather they both die than be split up again.Mary sizes Ahn up and tells her her training is showing. Her aggressive handgun stance, they way she holds her weapon, the fact she called it a "weapon" (instead of a "gun"), passing easily detectable counterfeit bills so that someone could easily find her...
What they don't know is who she's expecting to walk through the door.Busted, Ahn lowers her weapon. She's Jane Kwan, CIA, and the men who are after Helen will be there any minute.Four years ago when the story broke that the CIA was involved, they sent her undercover in prison to get close to Helen so they could clear their name. Helen hears this and comes out of the bedroom. But Ahn gets word that the men are there.Three Asian men bust is. As Mary holds her gun on them, Ahn cuffs them. Dershowitz brings in another he found in the hall with an automatic weapon.Situation diffused.Outside, Helen asks Mary if she'll have to be relocated. It depends, Mary asks her why she fought with Carolyn. She says Carolyn found out Ahn used school equipment to print counterfeit bills and threatened to turn her in. Helen swears she didn't kill her.Mary tells her she's a national security threat and Ahn was just doing her job.Helen counters that she's not a job, she's a person.Ahn/Jane comes over and asks to talk to Helen. She says it started as a job, but after a while it was more than that. That's why she hooked up with the North Korean associate, so she could wrap up her assignment and they could be together.Dershowtiz reports they found one of the Korean's fingerprints at his murder scene, they're all being charged.Mary goes back over to sort things out with her witness, but stops short when the two women start making out.M & M return to the office to find Stan and Eleanor blowing noise makers and balloons everywhere. They wish her a happy engagement.If only she had a ring....Eleanor gets to work on Marshall's finger. A nifty trick with some hand lotion and dental floss pops it right off.Stan pours champagne as Marshall muddles through a toast to "the best friend he's ever had." He says he hopes she knows he loves her and he wishes for her a lifetime of happiness. They toast happiness.Marshall drinks down the champagne over a song with the lyric "I will carry my torch for you...."His pain is palpable.
