An architect working in a creepy old house is found thrown out a window, though the house's alarm was active and not disturbed. Rumor has it, the house is haunted, and so perhaps the murderer was a ghost?
Right...like Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) would ever buy that! But he still insists that Cho (Tim Kang) and everyone else ask about the ghost while questioning the suspects.
And what a list of suspects. Jane repeatedly asks Deputy Nick Fisher (Matthew John Armstrong) if he killed the victim, and he denies it every time, spluttering. The dead man's wife (Christina Chang) was seen spying on the house hours before her husband's death, and she suspected him of adultery because it had happened before. Jeb Haas (General Hospital's Derk Cheetwood*) stole hundreds of dollars worth of power tools from the victim the night he died. Philip Raimey (Ron Canada) knew a whole lot about the history of the house, including the potential of secret passageways? And Victoria Abner (Frances Fisher*) and her nephew Drew (Michael McMillian*) had been the previous owners of the house, and seekers of its rumored treasure.
From the moment I saw Drew, I recognized him, with images of a seemingly nice man who'd gone a little psychotic and violent. I actually had to check, and, of course, Michael McMillian plays Rev. Steve Newlin on True Blood. Doesn't matter how subdued this guy looks, he's a killer.
But that's hardly the point.
Jane discovered that the old man who built the house was not only a bootlegger, with a myriad of secret passages throughout the house and into the garden, but also that he was into the occult and had rigged the house to appear haunted, with pipes transmitting sounds in the halls, flickering lights, and even a glass pane to show the ethereal image of a man. So we learned how the murderer got in without tripping the alarm, and why the architect had thought that perhaps the house was indeed haunted.
When Victoria revealed that a clue existed to the whereabouts of the secret treasure, which Philip Raimey had shared with the Abner family alone for a cut of the treasure, Jane and Lisbon (Robin Tunney) created an elaborate treasure hunt with all parties present to lure the killer back at night. It worked, and of course the nephew was the killer. Always a little unhinged that one.
But what was the treasure, you ask. Wine. Lots and lots of wine, some of which was indeed still good. Yummy.
And so the crime was solved and the episode entertaining, and then comes to the best part. That's right, the part about Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) and Grace (Amanda Righetti). Rigsby finally did it! He told Grace he loved her, he said screw the CBI, screw the rules, he'd loved her since the day they met. And though she hesitated, he told her he was going to kiss her unless she stopped him. Which was the moment Jane interrupted the whole thing. Grrr Jane!
So Rigsby told Cho what had happened, and asked what he should do now. "Tell her again," Cho told him. Duh! Hehehe. But for a moment there, it looked like the opportunity had passed, but at the end of the episode, it was Grace who pulled Rigsby in the other room for some lip-locking and then told him to meet her at her apartment when they left work that night.
And so the affair has begun! I am SO happy.
Are you happy? Did you love this episode? Because of the cool haunting murder or just cause of the love story?
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