- Mr. Reese goes undercover as a chauffeur to get closer to the latest number.
- Reese is able to track his and Finch's next case, a woman named Zoe Morgan, when she uses his vehicle for hire service. In watching her as he drops her off from place to place, Reese learns that she is a high priced "fixer", which often places her in potentially dangerous and precarious situations. As such, Reese figures she is the target of someone associated with one of her current or past clients. When the situation arises, it becomes apparent that she is being targeted by Mark Lawson, one of her clients, the CFO and heir apparent to Virtanen Pharmaceuticals. Lawson hired her to retrieve an audio recording supposedly implicating him of an affair, news of which would not sit well with his father-in-law, Virtanen's President, Robert Keller. To find out exactly why Lawson is willing to kill for something seemingly so minor, Reese, Finch and Morgan, who somewhat begins to trust Reese (as trustful as she can be as a person in her line of work), have to find out what's on the recording. When they do, Finch in particular becomes more invested in the case in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Carter is investigating a murder, which ends up being associated with a forty year old cold case.—Huggo
- Finch tells Reese that the machine gave the number of the mysterious Zoe Morgan, who lives in an expensive apartment without any income. Reese poses of her chauffeur and clones her telephone. She first meets the corrupt Lieutenant Allan Gilmore in a party and gives a weapon used in a crime. Soon Reese learns that she is a fixer. When she meets the CEO of the Virtanen Pharmaceuticals, Mark Lawson, she is assigned to retrieve a flash drive with the recording of Mark Lawson with his mistress Dana Miller from a snoopy journalist. When Zoe delivers the flash drive to Mark's right hand Samuel Douglas, she is attacked by Mark's men and Reese saves her. Soon, Reese and Finch learn that Virtanen Pharmaceuticals' results in the submitted report to the FDA are fake for a new medicine. Now the executive from the Virtanen Pharmaceuticals is trying to erase any evidence of the manipulation of his laboratory.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- We hear a scratchy recording of a woman talking to someone, saying they should know how she feels and what they're doing is wrong.
Reese is posing as the replacement driver for a woman (Paige Turco), with Finch helping cover the story by intercepting her confirming call to the service. As Reese drives her away, he clones Zoe's cell phone while Finch breaks into her brownstone apartment and begins a search.
The woman has Reese take her to the docks where she meets up with a rough-looking group of men, who look to be a threat in the form of gang members. Instead, she purchases something in a paper bag, giving one of the men, Slip (Samuel Smith), a large roll of currency.
When she gets back in the car Reese sees it is a gun. She changes into a party dress and goes into a building. Reese follows her and sees she is returning the gun to a cop, Lieutenant Gilmore (Jeff Wincott). The gun is a sidearm another officer, Gilmore's nephew, left in a subway bathroom. This will save the officer's career and in exchange she wants Gilmore to ease up on investigating an elected official. The woman, who goes by the name Zoe Morgan, is a fixer. Reese thinks the potential number of people who would want to do her harm is going to be large.
Detective Carter goes to the scene of a murder of an old former mob enforcer with a knife stuck in his chest. Looking at his record, Carter sees he was once charged with stabbing a woman named Marlene Elias.
Reese takes Zoe to meet with Samuel Douglas (Matt Servitto), the head of crisis management at pharmaceutical giant Virtanen. An investment blogger has tape of conversation between a woman and Douglas' boss, CFO Mark Lawson (Tim Guinee). Lawson is supposed to take over the company from his father-in-law and doesn't want his wife to find out. They want Zoe to hand over a $40,000 payment to Talbot.
Zoe makes the exchange with Talbot (Adam LeFevre). He doesn't seem like a threat.
Carter meets with a retired detective named Sullivan (Dan Hedaya), who has investigated Marlene Elias' murder. Sullivan says Elias had an affair with a mob boss. She was killed when she wanted him to dump his wife. The DA was paid off so the enforcer went free. Carter tells Sullivan the evidence from the trial was stolen several weeks ago. Sullivan says the relationship between Elias and the don produced a son, who ended up in the system.
Zoe meets Douglas. He's with two other men. Once she hands over the recording, they attempt to grab her. Reese jumps in and saves the day, forced to shoot his way from the scene. Reese brings Zoe to Talbot's for more information, but he's been killed. As soon as Reese steps away from the car, Zoe disappears.
Finch is working on the audio of Lawson with the woman. Her name is Dana Miller, a former employee of Virtanen. Finch tells Reese that Miller's number came up six months ago. He had no way to help and she ended up dead of a supposed brain aneurism. The think Lawson killed her to hide the affair from his father-in-law.
In the last few hours. Finch has purchased 87 million shares of Virtanen, making him an eight percent owner of the company. He schedules a meeting with Lawson, who shows him around the company and tells him about Sycolet, a "revolutionary" anti-migraine drug just approved by the FDA. Finch also has a brief face-to-face with Robert Keller (Brian Murray), Lawson's father-in-law.
Finch leaves a bug in Lawson's office and hears they are going to go after both Zoey and Reese.
Sullivan calls Carter with information. Elias' son was a runaway who spent time with a woman named Gloria Resento. Carter is going to stop by and get the correspondence between the Elias boy and Resento.
Finch has cleaned up some of the audio. It's clear Miller wasn't having an affair with Lawson, but rather was intending to blow the whistle on some product Virtanen was intending to introduce. Zoe's cell phone pops up on the grid.
Reese meets Zoe at a restaurant. She doesn't trust Reese, but thinks he can perhaps help her.
After a quick conversation with Gilmore to ensure the police won't respond, Zoe and Reese break into Virtanen. The find a deleted file Miller spent time with. It turns out six names were removed from the clinical trial for the migraine drug. All six died of heart problems. Such a mortality rate would have prevented the drug from being FDA-approved. it seems Miller was killed to keep this quiet. Finch (who has been helping from home base) records more audio to finish cleaning up the Lawson/Miller's tape, learning, to his shock, Keller has been in on it all along.
During that time Reese and Zoe are surprised at gunpoint by Douglas, who is being assisted by Gilmore who has turned on Zoe.
Reese and Zoey are tied to chairs. Lawson walks in and asks about the report. Zoe says she E-mailed it to someone she trusts. If anything happens to her. it will be E-mailed to Keller. Keller walks into the room and is upset Reese and Zoe haven't been killed yet; he's in on the cover-up. Douglas pulls out a hypodermic containing potassium chloride and tells Reese and Zoe whichever one gives him the report will live. Zoe says she'll do it, but slips Reese a paper clip to pick his handcuffs on her way out of the room.
Reese has little trouble freeing himself from the cuffs and as they struggle, dispatches Douglas with the lethal dose in the syringe with which he was about to inject Reese.
Finch has figured out Keller is involved and meets him for dinner. He tells Reese on the phone Zoe is taking Lawson to the same naval yard where she bought the gun earlier.
While sitting in the car at the docks Lawson tells Zoe he doesn't think she sent the report to anybody. He thinks she sent it to herself. After confirming the information is on her cell phone, he tells he's going to kill her and instructs the driver to leave. At this moment, Reese smashes in the driver's side window and incapacities everybody.
At dinner at his club, Keller intrudes to ask Finch what his plans are with such a large stake in Virtanen. Finch looks down and sees a text from Reese. They're in possession of the FDA report. Finch then tells Keller he's shorted his stock "to the tune of half a billion shares" because he's heard upper management is about to face "some very serious legal problems." He places a picture of Dana Miller on the table and leaves.
Carter drops by to see Sullivan and finds him dead on the floor. She looks down the stairwell and spots someone trying to flee. They exchange gunfire. The person gets away. Carter spots blood on the door frame, indicating that she wounded the person in the exchange of shots.
Reese is driving Zoey to another stop as we hear on the radio that Keller and son-in-law Lawson are appearing in court to be arraigned on charges of fraud, conspiracy and murder. Reese mentions hearing Lieutenant Gilmore is facing corruption charges. Reese tells Zoe to be careful. She says "not gonna happen" but tells him he has her (cell' 'phone) number as the episode ends.
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