I wasn't aware that I missed TWO episodes.. Grrr the fangirl in me is shaking her head lol
This one begins on a dark night (well, as dark as the neon-lit nights in Vegas ever are) at a diner called Frank's, it's kinda cute and cosy, but also ominous, especially considering the last show I watched that began in a diner (NCIS:LA) continued to have the diner blow up and kill everyone inside... Also it's dark out!! And there's a creepy guy staring in through the window at the one waitress as she talks to the 'regulars', an old couple eating breakfast at 5 am (talk about early bird special), the cook, the cook's brother (who is arguing on the phone with his wife), a drag queen, and a couple cops. The cops notice the creeper and say they'll talk to him if he's 'still bothering her' and then when they look up again the guy is gone. Then the cook goes into the back (which is of course dark) and hears a noise then goes into the fridge, next thing you see is Nick Greg and Sara outside coming in for breakfast and the same cops from before pull up and say the cook called them saying he was locked in the fridge and his brother won't answer his phone and I paused the video to type but I'm thinking 'oh shit'.
They walk in, and surprise, surprise, everyone's dead. It's so sad, they knew everyone by name too, being regulars themselves :( They open the fridge and find Vincent (the cook), he's fine but runs out into the restaurant, and naturally freaks out.
Brass pulls up outside, and BOY, he's pissed. He grills the two cops who told him about the stalker and they put an alert out for him (but they said it coulda also been a robbery, because the cash register was empty). Brass, however, doesn't buy it.. And there are 2 random guys in among the regulars that nobody recognises. Apparently the stalker had been bothering the waitress Edie for 6 months but she couldn't get a restraining order - poor girl!! Greg looks so sad (and this part made me tear up) because he's looking at the old couple, and says he always noticed them because they looked so happy.. And they died holding hands :(
Finn notices that somehow one guy's finger got detatched and spun across the room O.o She asks to be left alone to analyse the blood and Greg goes into the walk-in fridge, placing the same box of potatoes in front of the door that the Vincent guy had before, but the door slams shut and my Greg is trapped!!! He tries to call for help but has no cell service - which is damn suspicious, because Vincent had supposedly phoned from INSIDE the freezer!! Then he finally gets a signal and notices a camera in the back wall of the fridge - CREEPY!!
Russell goes to see Ecklie as he's getting discharged from the hospital and he says he 'doesn't recommend getting shot' haha.. Morgan arrives to take Ecklie home and tells him to stop working (But as soon as she leaves the room, he calls the sherriff haha).
Russell arrives on-scene and Finn is stumped by 3 of the bodies - the 2 random guys and one of the regulars (Shirley?) were all moved after they died.
At the lab, Greg and Morgan are going over the footage from the fridge camera (apparently Vincent had put it there because someone had been stealing steaks and lobsters), they see him in there for about 7 minutes, and Greg defends himself saying it's easier to get locked in the fridge than you'd think haha..
Then the creeper shows up at the morgue!! DAMNIT GET HIM OUT!!! I don't care what they say in Hoodwinked, it should be a crime to be creepy. He says he was going to be married to Edie, and Doc Robbins isn't buying it (attaboy!) so he tells David to call Sara and tell her this guy's here. Then there is some creepy music and creepman advances towards the body so Robbins stops him with a crutch to the chest (such a badass for a Santa lookalike!) Then Ronald (the creeper) pulls something out of his pocket and it's an engagement ring, he wants to put it on her finger but Robbins says NO and then as things get spooky, Sara busts in and aims a gun at him. His shoe matches the bloody footprint and he says he went for a walk around the block so the cops wouldn't harrass him, and when he came back everyone was already dead. He says he didn't own a gun, he hates them.
One of the mystery dead guys, 'Alex Brenner', has fingerprints matching.. Who knows. The access is blocked. The other guy was from Arizona and named Robert Rios. Then a US Marshall shows up to tell Brass that Brenner was in witness protection but they can't tell him who he actually is, or who he was being protected from.
Sara and Greg finds records that say Ronald (the stalker, cripes there are a lot of names being thrown around in this episode) won 200,000$ in a lawsuit after he was attacked by a guy (probably the boyfriend or husband of some lady Ronald was stalking) and during the attack Ronald shot the guy!!! Proving he doesn't 'hate guns' as much as he said!
Nick and Hodges (with some griping from the latter about never being invited to the diner) realise that Brenner was involved with some kind of drug cartel. Rios had fleece fibers in his throat and lead on his clothes, indicating he was wearing a ski mask (I thought there was one on the floor earlier on, when they first entered the diner?) and had a gun. OMG! HE WAS THE SHOOTER!
Then they realise that there were 2 shooters and based on trajectory, Brenner apparently was the other one. But why is Rios dead? And who moved the bodies? They think it was 'the cleaner', someone who the cartel would send in to kill their hired gun, Rios. And Finn thinks it was Ronald. Although, the cleaner didn't use his own gun, he picked up Brenner's off the floor.
Apparently Owen (the brother of the Vincent guy)'s wife was involved with Rios, so they think she hired him to kill Owen, then Nick is interviewing Vincent and he says they were making a buisiness deal that would make them a lot of money, then suddenly a call comes in to the police station about shots fired at the diner! Again! And I'm freaking out because practically EVERYONE (except Nick, phew) is there!!! Russell, Finn, Morgan, Greg(?), Sara, ALL OF THEM!!!
EVERYONE IS OK, (Ecklie's there, though, he shouldn't be!) I am so relieved, there was a guy replacing the newspapers out of the machine and a gun fell out and he picked it up it discharged and hit him in the leg. Poor guy, but I'm glad my babies are ok!! The find the other gun wrapped in a paper in the same machine, and there are no prints on either guns, but there are prints on one of the papers - WHICH MATCH RONALD THE STALKER!!! DUN DUNN!!
But there's a legit reason for the prints to be there, he has OCD. Grr. I won't bore you with the details, but then Nick and Finn find the coin slot was jammed with something so no one could open it, a Chinese coin. Then Nick realises it was Vincent, because he kept a bowl of foreign coins below the cash register. Damn, that's too bad :/ He did it because he wanted to get the money from the business deal and his brother didn't agree to it. But his brother was already rich so he was jealous and wanted the money. So he hired Rios. And the whole thing got screwed up so he killed Rios too.
And all the cops are sad now :( And stupid creeper Ronald is free. Damn the justice system. Sara tells him off, and I applaud her badassness.
Looks like there's some family trouble for Russell, his wife is staying in Seattle with his daughter and her daughter because they're teriffied still (understandably, after what happened) and she wants them to move back to Seattle but he says they can't.
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