Close to Home Recap: Drink the Cup
Annabeth finds that a neighbor is murdered. He's also a police officer. Unfortunately, her investigation is slowed from an unexpected source - another officer. More specifically, a set of other officers, all led by Detective Chris Veeder (guest Eric Stoltz). Veeder has a long history of commendations, and his team is generally regarded as nearly untouchable, but that just whets Annabeth's appetite, because she can sense that something isn't quite right.
When the investigation turns up evidence that the dead neighbor was meeting a girl, and that girl was not just something simple like a prostitute. No, this girl may have had her seedy side, but she was more than that. It seems she came out of a non-profit organization that was run by a Samantha Veeder - wife of the detective who Annabeth wants to take down. In fact, it looks like many of the women on the board of the organization just happen to be wives of the men on the team. It just gets more interesting all the time.
Annabeth gets the help of another officer, who wants to take down Veeder. I think he looks like he's going to turn something himself. He just seems too good to be true - but we'll have to see what happens there. In the meantime, he sure does seem to be helping out, protecting Annabeth when she goes home and finds the door open and the like. Maybe the producers are just trying to replace her husband or something. Regardless of their motivation, it allows Annabeth to get enough evidence to take Veeder to trial, and it looks like he's going down.
He even has my man Doug Hellman as his lawyer, which means he gets a break at trial, and the informant supplied by Annabeth's new beau doesn't want to testify, since it means that he'll be out in the open, and a target of not only Veeder, but the rest of the force. The police don't like people going up against their own.
That means that Veeder takes a walk.
Stay tuned for Fall From Grace and Eminent Domain - parts two and three of the season finale, respectively.
