- Four family members are killed in their home - innocent victims in an attempted execution of a trial witness, all because the killer went to the wrong address.
- Brenda and the Major Crimes unit investigate the murders of a family of four, the grandmother, mother and two children. The father, Victor Rivera, had apparently left for work that morning and, under Brenda's questioning, admits to having an affair that he recently broke off. Lt. Provenza, having his own romantic problems, gets in a foul mood over having been sent to the wrong address on the morning of the shooting. Brenda soon puts it all together, realizing the killers made the same mistake. It's clear that a major drug dealer passed information to have someone killed from jail. Brenda has to figure out how.—garykmcd
- When Brenda's squad investigates the quadruple murder of a family, it accidentally stumbles upon an FBI investigation that may have been a factor in the homicide. Meanwhile, Provenza's ebullient mood has suddenly turned sour, and bad news hits Brenda's family.—TNT Publicity
- Birds chirp and a sprinkler waters in a bucolic suburban setting. And then a 911 call in which a woman says four people are dead in a house across the street. Squad cars arrive. Then more. Then Flynn, Tao and the rest of the team, followed by Mrs. Fritz Howard, Brenda Johnson (in a snazzy pink tench). Gabriel tells her there are four dead inside, including two kids. (So apparently he didn't transfer out. No sign of Daniels yet...)
A kids cartoon in Spanish in on the TV inside. They were eating breakfast. Whoever did it came and left through the front door. The victims are covered with blankets. The coroner comes in, late, saying he went to the wrong address. A few minutes later, Provenza comes in having done the same thing.
Brenda pulls back a blanket to see a young girl holding a doll. There is a box of chocolate bars spilled nearby. Sanchez reports neighbors saw the father leaving at the same time he does every morning. Flynn is sure it's the dad. Brenda tells Buzz to restart the camera. The police are not supposed to make assumptions as to the guilty party. The defense can claim that the police decided who was to blame and tailored their investigation to fit their assumption. It's against protocol but he does it.
The victims are the young girl, a teenage boy, their mom and their grandmother. The coroner puts the time of death at 7:30 and 9 a.m. The father was seen leaving at 8:15 a.m.
Provenza and Flynn leave to pick up the dad, Victor Rivera, at work. He has a criminal record, domestic violence charges that were dropped.
Back at the squad, Brenda is oh-so-thrilled to see Commander Taylor walk in with the reporter Ramos. Provenza comes back in a serious snit and takes it out on Gabriel.
Flynn says Rivera complained the whole way over. She and Gabriel go in to talk to him. Ramos watches as Brenda talks to Rivera. He clearly doesn't know his whole family is dead. About the domestic violence, he says he's going to church and is doing better. After enough questions he starts to get agitated. Brenda tells him his whole family is dead. He cries and then throws up. Ramos is delighted to have the vomit exclusive.
Tao, Flynn and Sanchez set up hidden cameras in a hotel room. Buzz doesn't quite have sound working when Rivera arrives. He rigs the hotel phone from the adjoining room as Rivera tries to think of anyone who would have a grudge against his family. A neighbor who thinks he ran over his dog, a boy in his wife's class. He's tired and wants to go home. Brenda explains that his life is going to be scrutinized.
He asks her to pray with him. He begs for forgiveness for what he did to his family. He confesses to an affair. From the other room, Flynn, Gabriel and the rest hoping for a confession are disappointed.
Rivera is sobbing and wracked with grief as Brenda peppers him for information about his mistress. Sanchez gently calls her off and hands him a Bible.
Brenda asks Provenza to stay the night and watch Rivera with her. He pulls a sleeping mask from his pocket and says sure, it's not like he has anything else going on in his life.
Flynn meets with the mistress, a waitress named Aria. She says Victor couldn't have killed his family, he's a good man. She cries for his kids and mentions he was a watchful father, wouldn't even let them have sweets.
Sanchez wakes up Brenda in the room with Victor. He's still sacked out.
Provenza and Brenda meet up in the hall, where he reports Flynn's anti-sweet findings. Odd, since a giant box of chocolate bars was found at the scene.
Driving Brenda back to the crime scene, Provenza rhapsodizes ostensibly about Victor dumping Aria, and the vagaries of love but instead sounds like a man recently dumped. He stops, realizing he made the same mistake again, driving to 26th Place instead of Street, which is two blocks away.
Brenda gets out. They went there first and so did the coroner.
She knocks on the door and a stoned-looking youngish loser answers. Before she can get a question out, a black SUV pulls up and a man with a badge grabs the guy from inside and ushers him into the SUV saying it's FBI business. Brenda is, naturally, perturbed.
At home, Brenda carps to Fritz about his FBI buddies. The name on the house title is a woman with a teenage grandson named Hector Cruz.
Fritz urges her to work with the system for once, instead of always making everyone angry.
She picks up the phone.
She comes in to Pope's office to find a narco detective Nick Carey already there. But he didn't get her message. He's just there to yell that she went to Hector Cruz's house. He's been working with the police and FBI on a joint drug task force to dismantle a huge drug ring run by Tavio Baran.
Carey doesn't buy that she went there accidentally. She wants their file. After some yelling, Pope explains that there is no scenario in which her quadruple murder doesn't take precedence over his drug case and he will be sharing. Especially since the target of the investigation, Tavio Baran, also has all his info since he's acting as his own lawyer.
They go through the 967 pages from Carey's file. Provenza brings in the candy bars from the scene. They're from a high school, not the victim's school. Brenda thinks someone selling candy would have lowered the family's guard.
Gabriel finds something interesting in the file. He and Brenda meet with Carey. They show him a page from his file where he wrote Hector's address. Brenda points out that he got Victor Rivera's family killed. Carey says gee, he's sorry.
They watch the tapes of Baran talking to his pregnant girlfriend in prison. They talk about a witness against him and his girlfriend promises to do whatever she can. At the mention of love, Provenza leaves the room, disgusted. The video is from the day before the murder. At the end it looks like she's leaning into check out his junk as he looks down her shirt, steaming up the glass. But he never told her who or where. According to her schedule, she'll be meeting with him tomorrow.
At home, Fritz watches the video and tells Brenda that he took Kitty to the vet. As she gets out of the shower, she talks to him about how Baran would have passed the info. She wipes off the fogged up mirror and has a Brenda Revelation.
At work the next day, Provenza reports that Tavio's girlfriend Dina has a sister selling candy bars at the high school. They get a warrant for Dina's house.
In the prison, Dina walks in to meet with Tavio. Instead, she sees Brenda on the other side of the glass. Through the prison phone, she waives her rights. Brenda congratulates her on her pregnancy. Then she shows Dina a picture of Hector, saying he's the witness against Tavio and an attempt was made on his life. "An attempt?" she says.
Brenda tells her she killed the wrong people. She lays out how Dina stopped by with the candy then probably asked to use the bathroom. And who would say no to a pregnant woman? Dina starts to leave, but the team surrounds her on the other side, one holding up the murder weapon they just found at her house. Brenda continues, explaining how Tavio gave her the address. He wasn't steaming up the glass because he was turned on, he was writing. Brenda breathes on the glass and 214 26th Pl. shows up. The glass hasn't been cleaned. Then Brenda tells her babies of single mothers born in jail go straight for adoption, but if she confesses she'll arrange for a family member to raise her baby.
She confesses, screaming that she did it for her family. "And you really thought executing other people's children would give you that?" Brenda says.
At the office, Brenda packs up the Baran file and Sanchez brings in Victor Rivera. Sanchez is going to let him sleep on his couch. His sister is coming to get him tomorrow. Sanchez asks for the day off to go to the funerals. Of course, says Brenda. She watches at Sanchez takes the photos of Rivera's family off the crime wall and gives them to Victor.
Brenda comes home, calling for Kitty. Fritz says hello and tells her Kitty's not doing so well. She's still at the vet. Brenda upset that she might not see her again. "Why didn't I know that this could happen?" (And a hint at the season's theme of a loss of power is laid...)
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