By Sabrina Cognata

I missed stupid Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) last week when I was busy playing Thanksgiving and he was busy not having his show aired.  This week writers do not let us down with a fantastic layered storyline.  Detective Ames is dead and Internal Affairs has been trying to pin his murder on Charlie.  Charlie’s personal investigation into the murders he was convicted of comes into scrutiny when Internal Affairs shows up at his house and starts snooping around.  Ted (Adam Arkin) breaks into Charlie’s closet and steals his entire creepy investigation wall saving Charlie from the grips of the EVIL people at Internal Affairs.  Now Ted and Charlie are going over some of the evidence when Charlie points out to Ted that the young girl was in the house and managed to live AND she got a good look at the perpetrator.  Charlie also takes the photos he has of Dani’s (Sarah Shahi) father, Jack (Victor Rivers) arguing with the recently deceased Det. Ames.  Dani eventually tells Charlie that she spent her childhood trying to figure out if her father was just plain mean or a bad guy while saying she knows that Charlie is weird as hell, but he’s definitely a good guy.

In the middle of all that Charlie’s called away in order to investigate a murder that has nothing to do with him or the LAPD.  A young homeless girl, Josie, is found dead with her guitar and her throat cut.  Some other girls she knows point Charlie and Dani into the direction of a young boy at a grocery store that is friends with Josie.  The boy, Nate, is terrified of the police and his father comes out of the store and tells Charlie and Dani to leave his son alone.  Charlie decides something is wrong and goes to speak with the boy at home where he realizes the boy’s apartment is literally a jail cell.  Charlie gets Nate to tell him that Josie had a weird relationship with the guy that delivers the bread to the store.  Charlie asks Nate if something is wrong with his father when the father shows up and makes the detectives leave.  Charlie accuses the father of being a prison guard and tells Nate to call him if he needs anything.


Dani and Charlie then switch their investigation into two; one focusing in on Josie and her death and another on what’s going on with Nate and his father.  The visit the bread truck delivery guy, Dean, at his home because he hasn’t shown up for work in a few days.  When they get there they hear what they think is screaming, but after they break down his front door they realize it’s the song of hundreds and hundreds of kittens and that this guy is a total fruitcake.  His bread truck is in the backyard and has been freshly washed.  While inside taking a look at it Dani finds a guitar pick that probably belongs to Josie.  When Dean sees this he rips it out of her hands and eats it.  This suspicious behavior gives the detective just cause to bring Dean down to the station.  Dean denies hurting Josie at first, but eventually fesses up after Dani and Charlie discover that Dean’s been killing the kittens once they become cats because he has a virtual cat graveyard in his backyard.  WELCOME TO THE PSYCHO VERSION OF PET CEMETRY.  Ray then says he killed Josie for her song cause you grow the childlike song goes away.  Case closed.


Charlie is still troubled by Nate and his weirdo father.  Charlie and Dani get a warrant and return to Nate’s apartment, but find it abandoned.  Using some prints from inside the apartment they discover that Nate was actually abducted by the man pretending to be his father when he was three years old.  They manage to track down the father, but Nate is no longer with him.  Charlie decides to book the man for murder so that Nate will come forward to defend the man he believes to be his father.  When this happens Nate realizes that his entire life has been a lie and he approaches Charlie whom tells him it is going to be really hard to escape the fact that he is used to being a prisoner and he’ll never be like anyone else.