2014
In dealing with their latest case, the unit is officially but temporarily down one person as Daniella has taken a personal leave to meet her son who she gave up for adoption years ago. That case is of an armed robbery of personal possessions and meds in a psych ward at St. Stephen's by a masked man, who took one of the ward patients, a young woman named Emily Froese who is bipolar, hostage. The unit is provided unofficial assistance on the case by Dr. Clara Malone, the psychiatrist on duty when the masked man committed his crime. Upon questioning Clara on what happened and Poppy and Leo finding some evidence outside, Aidan surmises that the robbery was a front for the man's true purpose, which was to abduct Emily, she who seemingly was in on the plot. In looking at Emily's troubled case file, they also surmise that the masked man was Emily's boyfriend, Nolan Arthur, an ex-con who was in prison for some of those violent crimes listed in Emily's case file. In looking at Emily and Nolan's past life together and as individuals, which includes Emily estrangement from her family who had her committed because of those violent incidents some against them, the unit will have to find clues as to where Nolan and Emily are hiding out, and what their ultimate end goal is. Through it, Clara, much like Daniella before her, may find that getting involved in police matters has its own set of protocols unfamiliar to her, those protocols which she may decide to break in an effort to help. By the end of the case, Daniella makes a decision about her future.
Mon, Oct 7, 2013
The first case in which Clara participates as an official a member of Psych Crimes and Crises is a shooting at a nightclub, where the band playing was targeted. The reason the unit is involved is that they need to deal with the primary witness, Annika Marné, related to one of the critically wounded band members, as she is distraught over the situation and she suffers from an unknown anxiety disorder. They learn that she also suffers from agoraphobia - the symptoms exacerbated by being out at the nightclub. She is a former model, who dropped out of the business years ago, from what they learn was substance abuse issues. Since, she has led a reclusive life with no income, the only material possession of worth she currently owning being her lavish house. By reviewing surveillance footage, Aidan and Clara find that Annika looked directly at the shooter as the event unfolded, which may place her own life in danger if the shooter knows. But she claims that she didn't see the shooter. Aidan and Clara have differing opinions on whether Annika is telling the truth on this matter, and if not what she is hiding to protect the shooter. One suspect they have to locate is the band's regular drummer, Derek Tilson, who conveniently bypassed this gig which, if he had attended would have gotten him killed.
Mon, Oct 14, 2013
When a schizophrenic young man living in the Rosedale Valley ravine is found murdered, Psych Crimes is called to a puzzling scene: the location has been cleaned and the body carefully posed. What starts out as a murder investigation becomes a quest to save a family and avert another disastrous outcome.
Mon, Oct 21, 2013
The team heads to Kensington Market where a grocery store owner, Idaris John, is slashed several times, he being a beloved figure in the neighborhood. The wounds end up being non-life threatening. Psych Crimes and Crises is involved because Idaris suffers from a rare neurological condition called, in layman terms, face blindness, where he cannot recognize faces, and as such he will not be able to identify his attacker. Upon further discussion with Idaris' doctor, Dr. Paul Bruckman, they learn that Idaris is also in the early stages of Alzheimer's despite being only in his early forties. Despite no accurate eyewitness accounts beyond the attacker yelling "I know you" - leading to Aidan believing the attack was personally motivated - and being a black man, the team is able to quickly identify the attacker as Benjamin Omari, a refugee from the Congo. In checking his refugee file, they find a photograph of Benjamin as a young teen in the Congo with a man looking like Idaris, but who is identified in the photograph as Melugo, who is wanted in the Congo for war crimes. They have to find out if Idaris and Melugo are one and the same which if so means that this attack was probably not a victimless crime. They also would have to find out how Idaris has been able to masquerade for four years as having this neurological condition under doctor care, the condition which would prevent him from being deported back to the Congo. Meanwhile, Aidan finds that he of late has needed his group PTSD therapy sessions, which may come in handy as well for others entering his life.
Mon, Oct 28, 2013
Psych Crimes and Crises' next case is investigating a bomb explosion at the home of sixty-seven year old Ed Janoski. Of the psychological issues Ed faces, chief amongst them may be his persecution complex, mostly against Damian Tremblay, self-coined as the "Condo Czar". Ed's house is located next to Tremblay's latest high rise condo complex under construction. Tremblay had tried to purchase Ed's house for "phase 2" of the complex, he who refused to sell. His refusal to sell placed him not only in a bad situation with Tremblay, who has the reputation of getting what he wants at any cost, but also all Ed's other neighbors who wanted to sell but the properties which Tremblay won't buy unless he can get them all. Ed is certain Tremblay is behind the widespread campaign of harassment against him, the bombing being only the latest issue, but which also includes continual death threats over the telephone, the voice being a computer altered one. Clara is worried that Ed will crack under the continual stress. But as that campaign continues, Ed, despite Aidan urging him not to take the law into his own hands and retaliate against Tremblay, may not heed the advice in his mental state. Meanwhile, Aidan's personal life is affected by something that happens to Caligra indirectly associated with the case.
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Mon, Nov 4, 2013
On the eve of the first anniversary of the school bus shooting, Aidan is not coping very well, which affects both his personal and professional life. The next case he and the team work on is the death of a twenty year old First Nations waitress named Ellen Owens. She was tortured and stabbed to death. Homicide and Caligra are certain that the seemingly crazy John Doe aboriginal man who carried her out of the woods is her killer, Caligra who wants to tie him to all the other recent female aboriginal deaths of late. The suspect only mumbles gibberish, but first Clara, then Aidan, then Leo, who all go to speak to him individually, can feel that he has a certain spiritual nature about him, and not that of a cold blooded killer. Circumstantial evidence they find, including why the suspect only speaks gibberish, seems to lead to the suspect not being the killer, but actually someone who tried to help Ellen. Aidan has a theory which the team follows. But Kaya Grey, Ellen's colleague at the truck stop diner where she worked, may know more about what's going on that she lets on, she who seems to have her own agenda in helping her "friends".
Mon, Nov 18, 2013
Psych Crimes and Crises investigates the murder of mental health nurse Maya Henson who died from trauma to back of her head, the murder weapon deemed to be half sharp/half blunt. She was found by a morning jogger in a wooded area next to a residential subdivision characterized by cul-de-sacs. Although she dealt with potentially violent patients, she was found nowhere near any of her patient's homes, leading Aidan to believe that she was meeting someone of a personal nature in the neighborhood, perhaps a lover. All this news does not sit well with Leo, who knew Maya and Maya's husband, Brandon Doerkes, on a personal level for a long time. The information that officers and the team are able to get from canvassing the neighborhood leads Aidan to one homeowner, Timothy Lawton, just on a feeling and a hunch. They are able to find a connection between Maya and Lawton, who they also learn has a mental health history. But it's Lawton's relationship with a young woman named Isabelle Saunders and what Lawton has hidden in his basement which may provide the most insight. This case makes Leo look critically about his past relationship with Maya and Brandon, and it makes Poppy deal with her officer father's increasing dementia, which she has tried to dismiss as he only has eight months until retirement.
Mon, Nov 25, 2013
Psych Crimes and Crises investigates the shooting death of Herman Strunk, the property manager of a group of tenements, whose residents are comprised primarily of those on welfare: drug addicts, the mentally ill and the down and out. He is generally disliked by the tenants, as he collected their welfare checks for rent before doling out the remainder - minus a kickback on occasion - back to the check addressee. A symbol - a stylized cross - was inked onto his abdomen post-mortem. Among the tenants is Mark Tisdale, who is not in medical care but knows that if he was would be diagnosed as schizophrenic. Clara learns that he hears voices telling him to do things, some of those voices which are chronically in his head and some which he hears only once or once in a while. He is in possession of the murder weapon, which he states is not his, which he did not use and which he was about to turn in. It was one of his voices which told him where he could find it. Beyond the gun, Mark seems to know a lot about the murder, that voice he states which is telling him that more deaths are about to happen that will make history. But the unit knows he could not have committed this killing as he has an airtight alibi. Clara wants to conduct a mental health assessment on him before making a determination. She uses new computer technology employing avatars to place faces and names to his voices so that he can control what he hears. But it is those that he can't control that may provide the biggest clue to why Mark knows so much about the murder, who committed it, and what may about to happen with regard to the further deaths. Meanwhile, Fenton heads to Ottawa for a job interview, the outcome which may place a hurdle in her and Aidan's relationship.