- The FBI gets closer to a suspect they believe is responsible for the latest murders.
- Agent-in-charge Nick Donovan continues to ignore Ryan's view that they are chasing the wrong man. He remains convinced that Manitech Security is the key to finding Dr. Strauss' favorite student. They reexamine the background checks on the company's employees and an anomaly leads Ryan and Mike into a trap. It also leads them to Eldon Wick, one of Theo's references for the Sam Wood identity Theo used at Manitech. He turns out to have a key piece of information. Theo meanwhile decides to do something about a nosy neighbor who thinks he is cheating on his wife. Theo makes his first big mistake and it leads the FBI to his front door.—garykmcd
- Theo calls his wife with excuses for while he'll be late. As he talks, he picks up body disposal supplies, then he returns to grinding Tucker Moore's body up.
Meanwhile, at the FBI, Agent Nick Donovan leads a briefing about the hunt for Moore. Ryan interrupts that they're wasting valuable time tracking the wrong guy. He learns that Agent Mendez is taking early retirement and goes to see her. He tries to talk her out of it, but her mind is made up.
At home in bed with Gwen, Ryan can't hide the giant bruise from the bullet hitting his vest. Gwen is upset she didn't tell him about it, and he promises to learn how to let her in more.
Joe Carroll sits down for his psych eval in prison. He works on unlocking his handcuffs. He quickly kills the doctor and guard, then another guard who responds. He puts on a guard's uniform and briskly walks and kills his way out of the prison, when Ryan Hardy pulls up and tells him to get in the car.
Joe snaps out of his reverie and returns to his actual psych eval.
Back at the FBI, Mike and Max find the security footage from the gas stations where Tucker supposedly used his credit card was erased remotely. Ryan suggests they widen their search into Manitech Security people who would have had access for the frame job.
Meanwhile, in Baltimore, Cindy tries to trap Theo in a lie asking about a business trip. But he keeps his story straight.
Cindy's friend pulls up and privately urges her to trust her intuition and says Theo is hiding something.
Back at the FBI, Max tells Ryan about a part time programmer named Sam Lewis, who she had a brush with, whose record is too perfect. They decide it seems like a created identity and decide to look into it without telling Donovan.
At home with his wife, Theo delights her by suggesting they have another baby. They're interrupted by an alert on Theo's phone, triggered by Ryan and Mike approaching a house Theo has wired for surveillance. He races downstairs and hacks into the FBI database, but at FBI HQ, an agent sees a file on Sam Lewis change before her eyes. They try to stop the hack, but every picture of "Sam" disappears.
Meanwhile, Ryan and Mike bust into the house listed as Sam's address -- an empty house, not Theo's. Ryan goes through a suitcase and finds Sam's Manitech ID badge, with a picture of Theo on it. Ryan notices the security camera in the corner watching him.
He finds Mike to tell him it feels like a trap. Mike takes a step and they hear a click. Ryan tackles Mike into a nearby clawfooted tub as the house explodes.
Later, with fire and EMS on the scene, Mike and Ryan are OK. A pressure plate detonated C4 and destroyed everything inside.
Agent Donovan arrives and finally believes Sam Lewis is the one they should be chasing, but they have no existing photos of him.
At the prison, the psychologist tells Joe Carroll that Ryan Hardy has declined to attend his execution. Joe is insulted.
Ryan arrives home late to find that he's missed most of the dinner Gwen was hosting with her boss.
At Theo's house, Cindy arrives home to find Theo has arranged a surprise party for her.
At Ryan's house, Gwen's doctor boss picks a fight with him over the morality of executing Joe Carroll. Ryan gets pissed and kicks the doctor out of his apartment. Gwen is livid. Ryan defends himself, pointing out that "me and Joe" were almost blown up today. Gwen notices the slip and thinks he's losing it.
At Theo's house, Cindy's nosy friend Nancy Gibbs needles Theo. She asks what company he was working for in Boston and asks if Theo met her husband, Bob's college friend who also works there. She says the friend is coming to town in a week and they should get together.
Later that night, Nancy thinks Theo's reaction has confirmed her suspicions. Bob is defending Theo, until Theo pops out and holds a gun to his head. Theo kills the couple.
The next morning, Gwen rebuffs Ryan breakfast peace offering. Gina drops by to tell Ryan she'll wait to retire until after they catch the killer.
Theo and Cindy get a visit from Detective Noble, who tells them Nancy and her husband are dead in a murder-suicide.
At FBI HQ, they find that a lawyer named Eldon Wyck vouched for "Sam Lewis" to help him get his Manitech security clearance. But nobody at Wyck's law firm remembers Lewis working there.
Mike, Ryan and Gina head to Wyck's house. It's empty, but they find a hidden panel in the floor leading to a cellar. There are dozens of human ears strung from the ceiling.
Searching in the dark, Ryan freaks himself out imagining he sees Joe Carroll.
They find a dead man strapped to a chair with the top of his skull sawed off.
Upstairs, a man tackles Gina and races to his car to escape. Ryan stops him.
Back at the FBI, Wyck is thrilled that Ryan was the one to catch him. He tells Ryan that "Sam Lewis" tracked him down and knew things he'd only posted anonymously on dark chat rooms. He threatened to expose Wyck unless he acted as a reference for the FBI. He kept the USB that Sam/Theo gave him to upload his profile at his law firm. Later, the FBI links the digital signature of the USB to a computer that hacked Bob Gibb's in Maryland. They know about the murder-suicide and fly to Maryland.
On the plate, Max finds a photo that seems to be "Sam" on Nancy Gibbs' Facebook page. He's hiding his face, but they run facial recognition on Cindy.
At his house, Theo gets an alert that Cindy's DMV records have been accessed by the FBI. He feels them closing in on him and tries to figure out his next move.
He turns on his family.
As Ryan, Max and Gina drive to Theo's house, Mike calls with Sam Lewis's real ID.
Meanwhile, Theo has his wife tied to a chair and injects her with something to knock her out, saying the fact she won't feel what comes next is his gift to her.
Ryan, Max and Gina kick down Theo's front door and head through the darkened house. They find Cindy laid out on the bed, dead with her wrists slit open and candles and rose petals all around. The two kids are in their bedrooms -- drugged but alive.
Gina is totally unnerved. After the ambulance takes the kids away, she tells Ryan she changed her mind about coming back. She gives him her badge.
Ryan gets a call from Theo, taunting him.
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