SYNOPSIS:
When the number of a leading tech executive comes up, Finch infiltrates
her corporation to gather intel but can't determine whether she is
working in her company's best interest or planning to destroy it from
the inside. Meanwhile, Carter continues to question Detective Beecher’s
integrity after he provides incriminating information about a fellow
detective.
SYNOPSIS:
When an elderly gambler’s number comes up, Reese and Finch head to Atlantic City to delve beneath the surface of their POI’s seemingly ordinary life for answers. In New York, Carter’s crusade to clear a fellow detective’s name brings her perilously close to discovering the remaining HR faction within the department.
RECAP:
Reese and Finch must protect Lou Mitchell, a widowed retiree in his
seventies who likes to spend nearly all of his time at the Venus Casino
in Atlantic City. After looking into his financial records, Finch
determines that Lou is nearly flat broke, but somehow he manages to
gamble away thousands of dollars each day, to the tune of over $300,000
in the last six months. After checking into the shady casino owner,
Makris, and some of the other elderly casino regulars, our heroes
determine that Makris has been using the seniors to launder his dirty
drug money. Lou was the best card shark in Atlantic City, but Makris
caught him and forced him to work off his debt for cheating. Finch
offers to help Lou disappear, but Lou is too attached to the hometown
memories of his departed wife to ever leave. Instead, he takes matters
into his own hands and vows to clean Makris's casino out. With some
help from Leon Tao, Reese and Finch help Lou win over $20 million
dollars at the tables,
but Makris and his thugs blindside them and tie them up. After a scary
showdown involving Russian roulette, Reese gets the upper hand on Makris
and his thugs, saves Lou and the team, and giftwraps the casino goons
for the FBI.
Meanwhile, Carter is shocked when she learns that Detective Szymanski is
being charged with corruption by Internal Affairs, and that Detective
Beecher may have been involved in one way or another. When she discovers
that the charges against Szymanski reek of HR involvement, she brings
it up to the ADA prosecuting the case. However, Alonzo Quinn, the head
of HR, shoots the ADA and Szymanski to cover HR's tracks.
