Delahoy goes back to the morgue. She is embarrassed because she didn't fingerprint the body before calling the social security office. Delahoy starts to tell her how he got diagnosed with his brain tumor, when he hit his head. He wants her to examine him. She protests but he points out that she won't tell anyone because he can basically blackmail her over her mistake. Although he doesn't use the word blackmail because that would make him a dirty cop. And there's already enough of them.
Schraeger and Walsh talk to the bartender at the Tikki Bar. He says he doesn't notice people who don't have flapjacks, aka boobs, and lots more boob references here. Casey doesn't get some of them. How long has she been a cop? Hasn't heard these, really? She asks to see the periodic table card again. Walsh asks "Crossword?" ENNNNNTTT (Buzzer for wrong.) Then they connect that Lou was with a chick and so maybe the periodic card has something to do with a hotel. Casey looks it up on her phone and comes up with a Boutique hotel called "Element." Because all cops go to boutique hotels for hook-ups?
Banks remembers, with a laugh that he and Eric shared a check the day the ID's were stolen. As he goes through the file he is incredulous because the guy who stole Eric's ID actually improved his credit and bought a house. He asks Eric about his past so Eric tells him about a house his father built on Lake Placid and Karen and how he lost her. He decides he is going to pay a visit to the guy who stole his ID, and he wants to go alone. I would love if someone stole my ID and made my credit better.
Lou, Schraeger and Walsh go to the hotel. They find out that Lou was there and that he's all paid up through the next day. They go upstairs to find the blonde in bed. She's Ellen Richards and she was beaten to death, with what looked like a revolver. Casey thinks this proves that Lou killed her and dumped the gun.
Delahoy stands outside the house of the guy Bob, who stole his ID. Karen appears and wistfully says "That could have been us." Delahoy says no, because of the tumor. The man comes outside to see why Delahoy is there. When Delahoy tells him his name the man pleads, "Please don't arrest me. I changed my life. I'm good now, please don't tell my wife." The wife comes out to see what's going on. "Everything's okay Mrs. Delahoy" Eric says. "There was a robbery in the neighborhood. Have you seen anything?" Nope. She goes inside. The fake Eric thanks him. "Stay out of trouble, you'll be alone soon enough," the real Eric warns. So I guess they're sharing bank accounts for the rest of their lives?
Karen appears again. "That was nice," she offers. "Good to see you, even if you are a hallucination. I think you were the only girl I ever loved...Can I call you?" "I'm married. Don't give up."
Brown says the 1313 is over and they are taking Lou into custody. Another cop comes up and tells them that the blood on Lou's shirt is the girls. But the weird thing is that both the girl and Lou tested positive for rohypnol in their systems, aka ruffies. Walsh proposes that maybe someone drugged Lou and the girl, aka the bartender, followed them to the hotel and killed her. Casey realizes it's probably the bartender. "Go!"
They bring the bartender in for questioning. They bring out a picture of him and Ellen that was taped up in the men's bathroom at the bar along with a bunch of others. He denies that she was his girlfriend, that he only does casual flings. Schraeger said she called Ellen's room mate and found out that Ellen dumped him a week before, after 6 months. (Maybe I should call her Casey when she's wimpy and Schraeger when she's crazy butch cop? Hmm. Research needed.) So obviously what happened was that Ellen met a man and took him to the bar to make the bartender jealous. He calls that he wants a lawyer and they laugh and say they are taking their search warrant to his place.
Banks is starting to feel better about the stolen ID. Delahoy suggests that Eric steal a new ID from the box and become a completely different person. He suggests a couple of the names before coming across Peter Sharp, a name that interests them both and makes me think of the Simpsons and the "Max Power" episode.
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