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Episode 9 - Life is Priceless
A construction site fire and building collapse has buried three workers alive. Company owner Kevin Warren, Mayor Meredith Fallon, and city engineer Mark Boulware claim they're blameless, so FEMA calls in the Lightman Group.
When Cal and Gillian interview the last man who saw them, and Cal shows him a standard set of photos, the only emotion he recognizes is disgust -- a symptom of opiate addiction. He was injured on an earlier job and has been self-medicating. Getting high on a break, he lost track of time, so the missing men weren't where he last saw them.
Back at the office, Ria and Eli meet a young Internet billionaire, who wants to be sure his fiancee isn't marrying him for his money. Ria says we don't snoop into people's personal lives. But the man places a check face-down on the table, saying make a decision after you take a look. Once they do, they take the job.
As the mayor gives a TV interview, Cal notices she's lying about there having been no wrongdoing on the site. When Cal questions her, she admits to forcing the contractor to hire more local workers than needed and feeling guilty about what's happened to them.
Rescue dogs locate the missing trio and dropping a fiber-optic cable through the rubble provides visual contact: One is in pain, another is filled with relief, but Jered Blunt's face shows fear. Cal wonders if Blunt is responsible for the collapse, but the video feed cuts out before he find out why.
Warren tells Cal that Blunt wrote the company threatening letters, complaining about overtime. He wanted to fire Blunt, but the union intervened. Cal wonders if Blunt got trapped while trying to sabotage the project. Gillian says workplace and domestic violence are strongly correlated and wants to speak with Blunt's wife, Valerie.
When Valerie tells Cal and Gillian her marriage wasn't perfect, Cal picks a fight with Gillian, who slaps him. (We learn they've done this act before.) But Valerie's disgust and lack of fear reveals she's not used to seeing male-female violence, so Gillian doesn't think Blunt blew up the building.
Watching a conversation between Warren and Valerie, Gillian notices they've been intimate in the past. Cal adds Valerie's eyelids fluttered at the mention of marital problems, indicating there's something she didn't want to say. Gillian now wonders if Blunt was the target.
Warren denies sabotaging the site and, yes, he's been intimate with Valerie -- when she was separated. Warren claims he broke it off, then admits that one night Valerie got a phone call from Blunt and immediately went back to her husband.
While Eli re-watches that video feed, Ria pulls up a photo of the billionaire's fiancée, the gorgeous Nadia Dawson. Eli says Blunt's face shows contempt, but Cal disagrees: Blunt's sick -- and he's been sick for a long time.
When the video feed returns, Blunt confesses to having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a few months back -- and his shaky hands caused him to drop a blowtorch down an elevator shaft, which must've caused the explosion.
Meanwhile, Ria fakes a chance meeting with Nadia and pretends to have attended the same high school. Unaware she's being videotaped, Nadia says she was familiar with her fiance's company -- it's a social network site -- but didn't know he owned it when she met him.
Eli shows the billionaire this video, explaining that when Nadia's telling the truth, she's talking with her hands, which are "illustrators." But when her answers include touching her watch and earrings, those are "manipulators" -- a sign of lying. So she knew who he was when they met. The billionaire storms out.
Ria persuades him to return for the rest of the video, which shows that -- although initially attracted by his money -- Nadia really loves him. Eli points out that he was initially attracted by her beauty, so what's the difference? Ria tells him to be honest with Nadia. And yourself, adds Eli, who also suggests a prenup.
When Boulware tells TV news reporters there's nothing on-site that could've caused such an explosion, Cal detects a slight shoulder shrug and a throbbing carotid artery; his heart's racing. Cal confronts the city engineer, who admits to receiving money, along with a note requesting he sign-off on the project without inspection because the site was a former landfill.
Cal tells FEMA Commander Stevens to stop the giant drill that's boring a hole through the rubble to provide an escape route because -- like Blunt's dropped blowtorch -- it could ignite the methane that's seeping up from the landfill. Stevens orders the crew to drill faster. As Boulware tells the trapped men to head for the nearest elevator shaft, the drill reaches the methane, and boom!
Rescue workers pull two guys out of the shaft. Blunt isn't one of them.
Warren tells the FBI he was surprised by the methane. Cal says the mayor's face didn't show surprise. Why? She knew that trying to build on a landfill prevented her father from getting the same site developed years ago, but the city needed the jobs. Then she gets handcuffed.
Back at the office, Gillian pours stiff drinks and asks Cal: "Why do people think they're the only one with a secret? If the mayor had told the truth or Blunt had been honest about his illness, if the lies hadn't come together ..." Cal sighs, "They always do."
When Cal and Gillian interview the last man who saw them, and Cal shows him a standard set of photos, the only emotion he recognizes is disgust -- a symptom of opiate addiction. He was injured on an earlier job and has been self-medicating. Getting high on a break, he lost track of time, so the missing men weren't where he last saw them.
Back at the office, Ria and Eli meet a young Internet billionaire, who wants to be sure his fiancee isn't marrying him for his money. Ria says we don't snoop into people's personal lives. But the man places a check face-down on the table, saying make a decision after you take a look. Once they do, they take the job.
As the mayor gives a TV interview, Cal notices she's lying about there having been no wrongdoing on the site. When Cal questions her, she admits to forcing the contractor to hire more local workers than needed and feeling guilty about what's happened to them.
Rescue dogs locate the missing trio and dropping a fiber-optic cable through the rubble provides visual contact: One is in pain, another is filled with relief, but Jered Blunt's face shows fear. Cal wonders if Blunt is responsible for the collapse, but the video feed cuts out before he find out why.
Warren tells Cal that Blunt wrote the company threatening letters, complaining about overtime. He wanted to fire Blunt, but the union intervened. Cal wonders if Blunt got trapped while trying to sabotage the project. Gillian says workplace and domestic violence are strongly correlated and wants to speak with Blunt's wife, Valerie.
When Valerie tells Cal and Gillian her marriage wasn't perfect, Cal picks a fight with Gillian, who slaps him. (We learn they've done this act before.) But Valerie's disgust and lack of fear reveals she's not used to seeing male-female violence, so Gillian doesn't think Blunt blew up the building.
Watching a conversation between Warren and Valerie, Gillian notices they've been intimate in the past. Cal adds Valerie's eyelids fluttered at the mention of marital problems, indicating there's something she didn't want to say. Gillian now wonders if Blunt was the target.
Warren denies sabotaging the site and, yes, he's been intimate with Valerie -- when she was separated. Warren claims he broke it off, then admits that one night Valerie got a phone call from Blunt and immediately went back to her husband.
While Eli re-watches that video feed, Ria pulls up a photo of the billionaire's fiancée, the gorgeous Nadia Dawson. Eli says Blunt's face shows contempt, but Cal disagrees: Blunt's sick -- and he's been sick for a long time.
When the video feed returns, Blunt confesses to having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a few months back -- and his shaky hands caused him to drop a blowtorch down an elevator shaft, which must've caused the explosion.
Meanwhile, Ria fakes a chance meeting with Nadia and pretends to have attended the same high school. Unaware she's being videotaped, Nadia says she was familiar with her fiance's company -- it's a social network site -- but didn't know he owned it when she met him.
Eli shows the billionaire this video, explaining that when Nadia's telling the truth, she's talking with her hands, which are "illustrators." But when her answers include touching her watch and earrings, those are "manipulators" -- a sign of lying. So she knew who he was when they met. The billionaire storms out.
Ria persuades him to return for the rest of the video, which shows that -- although initially attracted by his money -- Nadia really loves him. Eli points out that he was initially attracted by her beauty, so what's the difference? Ria tells him to be honest with Nadia. And yourself, adds Eli, who also suggests a prenup.
When Boulware tells TV news reporters there's nothing on-site that could've caused such an explosion, Cal detects a slight shoulder shrug and a throbbing carotid artery; his heart's racing. Cal confronts the city engineer, who admits to receiving money, along with a note requesting he sign-off on the project without inspection because the site was a former landfill.
Cal tells FEMA Commander Stevens to stop the giant drill that's boring a hole through the rubble to provide an escape route because -- like Blunt's dropped blowtorch -- it could ignite the methane that's seeping up from the landfill. Stevens orders the crew to drill faster. As Boulware tells the trapped men to head for the nearest elevator shaft, the drill reaches the methane, and boom!
Rescue workers pull two guys out of the shaft. Blunt isn't one of them.
Warren tells the FBI he was surprised by the methane. Cal says the mayor's face didn't show surprise. Why? She knew that trying to build on a landfill prevented her father from getting the same site developed years ago, but the city needed the jobs. Then she gets handcuffed.
Back at the office, Gillian pours stiff drinks and asks Cal: "Why do people think they're the only one with a secret? If the mayor had told the truth or Blunt had been honest about his illness, if the lies hadn't come together ..." Cal sighs, "They always do."
