- The wife of a wealthy businessman is found shot to death in a spa and the CBI suspects that her womanizing lover is connected to the murder.
- Keith Wolcott's pampered, ignored, and bored wife's bullet-ridden body is found dead sprawled on the bed at an exclusive resort and spa. Her lover high-tails it out of the suite. The team investigates the husband, the lover, and an interesting 'Casanova' who finds the resort spa a great playground, ripe with love-starved affluent wives. Cho is a hoot as he goes undercover at the resort spa as a Lothario.—lemoviecritic@yahoo.com
- When the wife of a powerful businessman is shot to death on the bed of a spa, the CBI is assigned to investigate the case. Soon they find that she was an unfaithful wife having a love affair with a lover that is identified as Paul Fricke. The cheated husband becomes their prime suspect, but Patrick plots a plan with CBI agents to catch the killer.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- At Calistoga Canyon spa resort socialite Keith Wolcutt's adulterous wife Claire Walcott (42) is shot in her room. Patrick concludes her lover is innocent but wounded, and traces him to the bed of another married lover. Paul Fricke almost proudly admits to be primarily a 'pick-up artist'. After Keith mentions her assistant was fired for alleged jewelry theft, Patrick works out what she hid and where. Then he returns to the resort and works through the usual and unusual suspects.—KGF Vissers
- Outside a fancy resort hotel at night. Gunshots erupt inside
The next day. Claire Wolcutt was found murdered. Her husband called the governor to call in CBI. He wants discretion. They arrive at the scene. Claire was cheating and found dead in bed. Rigsby and Van Pelt find shell casings on the other side of the room. So the lover didn't do it, Jane says. He would have been closer to the victim. A blood drop leads him to believe Mystery Lover was also shot, but slipped away.
Jane goes looking outside. He finds blood drops on the gravel path. They lead into the parking lot. He homes in on a car with the plate "DOC LADY." The front desk says it arrived about 7 minutes after the shooting. They open the guest's room. Lisbon walks in, gun drawn, on a couple in bed. They want to talk to the man, right after he puts some pants on.
The hotel staff watches them wheel the body away. The man from the bed, Paul Fricke, tells the story of the night before, just like Jane surmised. Fricke woke up shot then ran away. He ran into the "DOC LADY" in the parking lot and she not only treated his wound, but took him to bed. He says he met Claire a few weeks ago. He doesn't usually stay the night, but it was a long drive home, so he did. He's a "pick up artist, a woman whisperer." He doesn't know who killed Claire. But he has a full list of names and numbers of his conquests and a grading system. He's flattered by the idea that someone might have done it out of jealousy over him.
Later, Lisbon says they searched thoroughly for the gun and didn't find it on the property, so Fricke is in the clear. Claire's husband stops by, saying he expects their best.
Cho asks him a few questions. Wolcutt was out of town. He says no one would have any motive, but she did fire an assistant last month for stealing. He knows Claire was meeting a lover. Wolcutt says he wants to know the man's name, but Cho says he can't give it. "Are you sure, agent Cho? Because I can make one call and your career is toast." "That's impressive, all I can get with one call is a pizza," Cho says, then continues questioning.
Jane watches video of Claire. Then he and Van Pelt go visit her former assistant, Natalie, who starts by calling Claire names and denying she stole anything. Natalie says she worked there for a year until Claire "turned psycho."
Jane looks around her messy apartment and tells her there's something on one side of the room she doesn't want them to find, what is it? Then he takes her wrist and uses her pulse as a "hot-cold" sensor, homing in on a camera. She doesn't want him to look. He finds a photo of Claire with Paul, time stamped two hours before the murder.
They take her in. Cho talks to Natalie. She says she took the pictures because she hoped threatening to expose her would get Claire to drop the theft charge. But she thinks it probably wouldn't have even worked. Mr. Wolcutt is controlling, especially about money. He probably knew all along she was sleeping around.
Cho believes her. Rigsby says Wolcutt's San Fran excuse checks out.
Jane wants to go back to the crime scene. Rigsby tags along. Jane steps outside onto the patio. The door locks behind him. He's done.
They go to the resort restaurant for lunch and find Fricke dining alone. The hotel manager, eager to re-open the room, asks how things are going. He sees Fricke talking with a waitress for too long and interrupts them. Fricke sees Jane and Rigsby and calls them over. He says he's upset someone he died, but the gunshot wound is a genius opener. He says he never falls in love. "Love is for guys who can't get laid.". His basic system involves contempt, control, excitement. (The waitress hears this last bit.) He goes on as he ignore the waitress, Katy. Jane asks what's going on with them. When she walks away he says he "used to let her" sleep with him. And he admits he once had feelings for her. He says the patio door was closed the night he was with Claire.
Cho works his way through Fricke's list o' ladies. It involves young, old, married, single, black, white, prim, slutty. He keeps asking what attracted them to Paul Fricke. The lobby is full of just A through M.
Three days before she was killed, Claire withdrew $200,000 from an account her husband was monitoring. The cashier's check was made out to Paul Fricke.
Rigsby and Jane drop in on Wolcutt, who's in a tux, having a grand old time with the boys. He blows Rigsby off, saying he'll talk to him tomorrow. From across the room Jane says he wants to talk to him about his wife's lover and the money they know he knows she gave him. Wolcutt looms over, trying to be imposing, and Jane calls him a "contemptible little buffoon." Then he flicks him on the nose and leaves.
The next morning, Lisbon warns Jane that Wolcutt is on his way for a formal apology. For a formal apology he'll drop the whole thing. Jane says no. He guarantees Wolcutt will drop it because this whole thing makes him seem shallow and silly.
Back at the resort, Rigsby tries Fricke's rules on Van Pelt. She wonders why he's acting like a jerk. They find Fricke.
At the office, Lisbon tells Wolcutt that Jane won't apologize and because he won't apologize, they can't rule him out as a suspect. He asks what they want to know. He knew about Fricke and the money. He stopped the check but didn't confront his wife. He was happy, he's wanted to divorce her for ages. Infidelity cut her payout in half. He freely admits her death saved him a lot of money. He promises Lisbon she'll be hearing from the attorney general. She uses Jane's "small and silly" line on him and says he'll drop it.
Cho confronts Fricke about having accepted money from Claire. He says there are dozens of rich, needy women he could go to for help. Jane busts in, wanting to know about Katy the waitress. It used to be if he couldn't score, he'd "call her off the bench." Jane says it must be hard for her to watch him seduce women because she loves him. He says she'd never hurt anyone.
Jane tells Cho his little plan. It requires clothes with "zing." Jane says he's taking him shopping.
Cho shows up at the resort at night, looking super fly in a sharp suit, shades and exuding general hotness. He sits at the bar and takes tips from Jane through an earpiece. He focuses on two women. He asserts himself and joins them, taking charge. No help from Jane needed. Fricke walks in with two blondes. Katy is on shift. Jane, Lisbon, Rigsby and Van Pelt watch from a nearby room. The manager tells Katy to clock out and have a drink on the house. Cho whispers something in one woman's ear that drives them both off. Jane declines to repeat it for Van Pelt but both he and Rigsby giggle. Alone now at the bar, Cho sweetly talks to Katy, who says Fricke was a "sweet, caring, generous man" when they were together. She screwed it up by saying mean things. Cho says she needs to make him jealous. She asks if he's hitting on her. He says yes. It works. They walk by, arm in arm, laughing and having a blast. Fricke notices.
In the room, Cho reverts to stone-Cho mode, ID'ing himself and apologizing. Katy says she's embarrassed and Cho says "that's understandable." She bursts into tears.
On their monitors the team sees a man walking down the hall to Cho's room.
It's the hotel manager, and he walks into the CBI room where Lisbon & Co. arrest him.
He asks how they knew it was him. Jane says the locked patio door means the killer must have entered through the main door. The staff has the keys. Flash to Jane noticing Fricke treat Katy like crap and the manager flinching. He had nothing against Claire, but hated Fricke for the way he used women. Jane gets him to say he's sorry. They realize Cho's not there.
Cut to Katy pouring her heart out to Cho. She finishes her story and says, "love is crazy, I guess." "No it isn't," Cho deadpans, "you should seek psychiatric help." She cracks up.
Fricke joins Jane at the bar. Fricke looks longingly at Katy. He sees her with another waitress and calls them "two tasty numbers." Jane throws his drink in his face and tells him to stop being so stupid. He has a good woman who loves him. Fricke goes to talk to her.
A woman approaches Jane, and asks him to join her. But he can't. He's married.
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