- Brenda and Fritz both deal with cases on the day before their wedding; Provenza puts his foot down, resulting in a resignation.
- Work never stops for dedicated law enforcement officers as both Brenda and Fritz find themselves working the day before their wedding. While Fritz is trying to wrap a drug case he has been working on for two years, Brenda investigates a shooting and robbery at an escort agency. It's the latest in a series of robberies at other agencies all perpetrated by the same masked intruder. When Brenda learns that most of the girls work for several different agencies at the same time, she begins to suspect an inside job. Wedding preparations, meanwhile, are somewhat frantic, but the wedding photographer gives her an idea as to how she might get one of the robbery-murder suspects to confess.—garykmcd
- Claire and Willie Rae argue over wedding decorations. Claire insists on following feng shui and Willie Rae focuses on not having her head explode. Fritz keeps Brenda calm with promises of an Italian honeymoon. In the distance at their hotel, Brenda sees helicopters and hears police cars and is intrigued.
In an empty squad room, Pope answers a ringing phone. It's Brenda calling from the hotel bathroom phone to find out what's happening.
She comes out to find Fritz saying he has to leave because a drug boss is coming in to town and he has to be there. Sensing an opening, Brenda doesn't mind him leaving at all.
At the scene, Provenza and Flynn chat up the best endowed witnesses, not entirely on task. They see Brenda coming and Provenza covers by calling Brenda as she walks up. An escort service murder. Everyone is called in.
Gabriel tries to joke around with Daniels and it goes very poorly. She slaps him for saying their relationship is proof he knows a joke when he sees one. As he yells to Provenza that he's going to write her up for insubordination, Provenza explains that instead everyone will be pretending the whole thing didn't happen.
At the murder scene, Brenda learns the thief got $40,000 and one of the girls was shot and is in surgery. The manager was killed. Brenda counts four casings. They watch the security footage of a masked man coming in to the room filled with five women and the manager. It looks like he's aiming at the men and just happens to hit a woman. One woman is now MIA.
Brenda preps for the wedding, painting her nails in her office. Provenza interrupts with news that the missing girl, Whisper, is in interview. Brenda and her wet nails talk to the woman. She lets slip that works for multiple agencies and they all give her the same number to call in case of emergency. Evan Young, an attorney.
Sanchez calls him. After he says he's on his way and hangs up, Brenda talks to the dial tone, telling the dim blonde her lawyer says it's fine if she discusses everything before he gets there. Even the drugs, she asks? "Oh yeah," Sanchez says, "lawyers, they like to get all the drug talk out of the way early."
The girl who got shot was worried about the the drugs in her purse. Whisper says Tony the bodyguard gave her all the girls' drugs and told her to run.
Flynn does some diligent stripper research, trying to find women who worked at more than one agency. Basically, this consists of looking at their pictures.
The minute Brenda is out of the room, Gabriel and Daniels go at it again. Provenza has had enough. He tells them, in front of everyone, that one of them will be applying for a transfer while Brenda is on her honeymoon.
Brenda runs into Pope, who tells her she can't hide from the families forever. She wants Pope to tell the lawyer they're going to hand the case over to the feds.
Pope talks to Evan Young, wanting employee records. When he refuses, Pope introduces Brenda Johnson, special investigator with the IRS who babbles some accountant speak and threatens audit to get Young to cooperate.
Daniels and Provenza tells Brenda they found one other employee besides Young who is connected to all the businesses: Kelly, the woman who got shot.
Brenda goes to the hospital. Kelly is worried her husband will learn she's a stripper. He's an Iraqi war vet and she's supporting him. She works at other agencies that have been robbed. She says she didn't deal drugs, she just gave it away. She starts crying and saying she's only trying to help her husband.
Gabriel thinks it's a sad story, but Brenda thinks it's bull. Conveniently, vets use the make of gun involved in the shooting.
Brenda heads home for dinner and greets Kitty. She calls Fritz, who is still working his case. He thinks they're going to be out all night. Brenda tries to act upset as she straps on her gun and gets ready to head back out.
Brenda rejoins the team and they serve a search warrant on Kelly's husband. They bring a drug dog, who goes nuts at their cabinets. Sanchez finds a gram of coke. But the dog keeps whining. They move a bookcase and find fresh drywall. Sanchez starts whacking and finds a wall full of case (bills used to snort coke, so the dogs could smell it). Brenda finds bills covered in blood. He cracks quickly, saying he wasn't trying to hurt anyone and his wife wasn't involved.
Provenza promises Brenda that they'll get the wife. And he'll tell her how when she checks in from Italy.
At the hotel, Willie Rae reassures her not-at-all nervous daughter. Fritz still isn't there, but Brenda isn't worried the minister - Claire - isn't going anywhere. Her dad comes in to check on her and report that Fritz has arrived.
Claire officiates a short ceremony on the balcony. We skip "I do" -- still photos tells the rest of the story.
As they're posing, Fritz whispers that he has to run back to sign some more papers for the arrest on his case. Brenda isn't worried, because there are three hours to the reception. And Clay is in favor of anything that means they're out by 3 p.m., so that he's spared paying for a second night on the room. Brenda seems to pause at something the photographer says while snapping away.
At the station, Gabriel answers Brenda's call. Money is exchanged from Sanchez to Tao when they learn she went through with it. She wants to talk to Buzz. He says he can make the video look that way.
At the hospital, they set up a laptop in Kelly's room and read her Miranda rights and set up a video camera for good measure. Brenda, naturally, is there. Kelly's husband waits in the hall.
Brenda goes in to talk to Kelly, telling her about the cash they found and the blood on it. Buzz plays the security footage from the robbery. It shows her husband pointing the gun at her. She thinks he shot her on purpose. They tell her they caught him packing up and leaving. Brenda gives the nod, and out in the hall her husband can suddenly hear her rant, saying "I only married Vince because I was drunk."
"It's a lot easier to get decent sex from a client," she says, blaming her husband for the robberies. She hears him yelling from the hall. Brenda tells Kelly she couldn't compel her to testify against him, but Brenda knew Kelly could. Brenda goes back out to talk to the husband.
He didn't want her stripping and promised to get most of the money back for her. He asks if he's going to get a life sentence. Unable to let such a set-up pass, Provenza says yes, from the moment he said "I do."
At the reception, Tao and his wife record a "When Harry Met Sally"-style message about what makes a good marriage. He says patience. She says separate bathrooms. Gabriel and Daniels manage to get through theirs separately (but she says she's "happy to have been a part of your lives" - note past tense). Sanchez talks about his wife dying six years ago and holds up his hand, noting he's never taken off his ring. Pope puts on a brave face. It's Taylor's turn. He preps to say something nice, but needs a minute to think.
Pope goes to talk to a cake-eating Gabriel, mentioning his transfer request. Pope tells him he has some competition. Daniels applied, too. Pope suggests they not mention it to Brenda.
At bouquet throwing time, it sails over everyone and goes straight to Provenza who immediately hucks it back to Fritz, who lobs it to Claire, who mauls Flynn.
Brenda and Fritz grab a quiet moment in which he says he knows he also just married her job. She goes to change, wiping away happy tears. She grabs a ho-ho from the bedside table and celebrates by topping it off with some wedding cake frosting. She digs in while taking in the sight of herself in her wedding dress, relishing both.
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