Summary: Don’s team is assigned to protect ADA Robin Brooks after three witnesses in her current case are murdered.
Original air date: April 11, 2008 (US)
Written by: Robert Port
Directed by: Steven Gyllenhaal
Opening numbers:
64: Squares
32: Pieces
10: Murders
1: Dying declaration
Family Concepts: (character development)
- Charlie signs up for a two day FBI training course
- Amita worked at The Gap in high school
- Robin has been back in LA for “a couple of months” after prosecuting a case in Miami.
- Larry is a fan of Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek
- Don and Robin were together for six months
- Larry meditates
- David’s father died when he was about fifteen
- Charlie wins a marksmanship award during training
Episode Quotes:
- Alan: This does not mean he gets to carry a gun after this, right?
Don: I don’t know, maybe some handcuffs.
Amita: Hmmm, really? - Charlie [during pursuit training]: Good morning, this is Charles Eppes. I’m in pursuit of a burgundy-ish, sort of Merlot colored … umm what model car would you say that is?
Instructor: It’s a Ford.
Charlie: It really doesn’t look like a Ford. Anyway a Ford … [drops mic, crashes car] - Charlie: Imagine a large, uncut diamond …
Megan: Ooo, that’s not a problem. - Alan: The pressure to be a man, the need for guidance, doesn’t know any income brackets.
- Don [to Charlie]: What can we do for you, Rambo?
- Colby [to David]: Why don’t you stop pretending you don’t give a crap and change the damn ending.
Episode Synopsis:
Two witnesses in a RICO case are killed in a well-planned attack; a third, Reggie Smith was already gone from a safe house when the FBI arrives and David and Colby get in a shoot out with the hit man. One of the earlier victims lives long enough for recently returned prosecutor Robin Brooks to get a deathbed statement the attacks were set up by J-Light, a local gang leader currently in jail. The DA’s office knows J-Light is still calling for hits from jail but they can’t figure out how he’s getting the information out to his gang. Colby is able to find one person, Levi “Bishop” Holt who visits J-Light on a regular basis but there’s no record for the person. They soon discover Bishop is a fourteen year old who visits J-Light once a week to learn chess. It appears Bishop idolizes J-Light as a father figure.
Don’s team is looking for Reggie Smith the last witness in the case and also trying to discover if there is a leak in the DoJ to explain how a hit man named Cora from the Albanian mob received the information on the dead witnesses. An analysis of DoJ computers shows Robin made far too many requests for information about the witnesses and their private lives and Don has her brought in for questioning. Further investigation of Robin’s office shows her computer was serviced several times by the same technician, Angie Heath. Angie just happens to be the ex-wife of Reggie Smith. The FBI figures she was tipping J-Light off about the witnesses, but when Reggie became a target, she told her ex he was a target. David and Colby check her address and find both Angie and Reggie are dead. Robin is cleared, but she is angry at Don for even suspecting her in the first place. She is put in protective custody when Don realizes she is the next target.
David talks to Bishop and asks about the chess lessons he gets from J-Light once a week. Bishop shows David a notebook of chess moves J-Light has him learn each week and David thinks the book is in some sort of code, but he can’t figure it out. Amita and Larry look at the data and video tape of the chess lessons are figure out the code. David goes back to get Bishop’s notebook after his most recent visit to J-Light and the team works out Bishop is the next target. David is with the boy when member’s of J-Light’s gang show up and the gang members are arrested.