A top-rated episode overall and certainly one from the second season. Brenda's awakening to solving the case was prompted by Fritz speaking about the unknown things the cat does when the two of them are not home. You can see Brenda's eyes light up when he comments about Kitty doing stuff behind their backs.
Two people are killed outside an FBI safehouse, one person is an FBI agent, the other is the spouse of a protected witness prepared to testify in days in Federal court. After arguing the jurisdiction-priorities, Brenda wins the case investigation, but she has a mere forty-eight hours before the witness is due in court. The testimony is against a crime family's middle-aged son, currently in custody, and the protected witness was formerly employed by the mob-father. The agent in charge of the case has worked with witness for years and wants desperately to bring the crime-family down.
Brenda has her team dig for facts surrounding the characters involved and strangely the records fall back to the agent in charge and the protected witness. Brenda's insight has her believe the crime was set up by the witness alone or with help from the FBI agent. The wrap-up is another double homicide with the two main characters going down prompting a Federal investigation after a horrific shootout in the murder room. Some old-fashioned values give way to the murders, likely by the witness, who did not want his wife to give up their unborn child and the agent who escorted the wife to the abortion clinic. I guess the premise is from the wife who was going to have the abortion anyway. While the cat's away, anything can happen; while the witness goes unwatched twenty-four-seven, a crime can be staged to look like a hit.
The gun-fight at the close is built up by tension between the two antagonists. I think the husband was mad at the wife for ending her pregnancy coupled with the agent escorting her to the clinic out of state behind the husband's back. Trying to mesh the mob-conviction and the spousal dilemma is complicated; none of it ended well, ask Provenza.
Two people are killed outside an FBI safehouse, one person is an FBI agent, the other is the spouse of a protected witness prepared to testify in days in Federal court. After arguing the jurisdiction-priorities, Brenda wins the case investigation, but she has a mere forty-eight hours before the witness is due in court. The testimony is against a crime family's middle-aged son, currently in custody, and the protected witness was formerly employed by the mob-father. The agent in charge of the case has worked with witness for years and wants desperately to bring the crime-family down.
Brenda has her team dig for facts surrounding the characters involved and strangely the records fall back to the agent in charge and the protected witness. Brenda's insight has her believe the crime was set up by the witness alone or with help from the FBI agent. The wrap-up is another double homicide with the two main characters going down prompting a Federal investigation after a horrific shootout in the murder room. Some old-fashioned values give way to the murders, likely by the witness, who did not want his wife to give up their unborn child and the agent who escorted the wife to the abortion clinic. I guess the premise is from the wife who was going to have the abortion anyway. While the cat's away, anything can happen; while the witness goes unwatched twenty-four-seven, a crime can be staged to look like a hit.
The gun-fight at the close is built up by tension between the two antagonists. I think the husband was mad at the wife for ending her pregnancy coupled with the agent escorting her to the clinic out of state behind the husband's back. Trying to mesh the mob-conviction and the spousal dilemma is complicated; none of it ended well, ask Provenza.
