- The team discovers that a missing woman recently won $32 million in the lottery, but was it her ticket? Meanwhile, Jack begins investigating the father of Samantha's child.
- A gang of penniless young friends is treated on another camping trip to luxuries in celebration of one of them having won a fortune in a lottery she plans to share, but she's suspiciously aloof. After her disappearance is reported, the team works out she was intending to return it to the estranged son of a deceased friend and neighbor she stole the ticket from, despite lack of proof. Samantha sort of resigns to letting Brian Donovan, the father of her expected child enter her life, but just hospital-released ex Jack informally has him checked out.—KGF Vissers
- Sam comes home and her baby daddy is there, trying to put a crib together. He asks her how long she plans on working and touches her stomach to say good bye to the kid.
Friends gather around a fire on a camping trip. A pregnant lady busts out the champagne. One woman decides to leave early. She gets in her Lexus and leaves. Then disappears.
The team starts 25 hours missing.
Lacey Moran, a 24-year-old, just won the Lotto and went missing. Viv and Martin check out her new apartment.
Jack goes back to work, looking a little worse for wear.
He gets a call from Alex and says he'll take full responsibility.
Viv goes to talk to Jeff Turner, the missing woman's boyfriend. The woman who busted out the champagne is Paula, his sister. The women knew each other from Philadelphia and moved out together, he met Lacey later.
He doesn't know why Lacey left early, but says something was going on with her. Flashback to Jeff finding some man arguing with Lacey at the campgrounds. She acts like she doesn't know him, but it sounded like she did.
Jack tries to talk to Sam about the case, but can't quite remember the names. Sam has found Lacey was spending like crazy and lending thousands to friends. He's wobbly.
Elena talks to Paula and her husband, showing them a sketch of the guy Lacey was arguing with. She asks if they know why Lacey withdrew $3,000.
Flashback to Lacey and Paula. Lacey's surrounded by new stuff. She says she met a guy on the street collecting donations for kids in South America with cleft lips. She gave him money. She feels guilty about spending money on stuff. She says she feels responsibility to help people with the money. Paula suggests a charitable fund.
Sam finds that Lacey got pizza the night before. Danny says NYPD just picked up the suspect, Raul, who was soliciting donations for kids with cleft palates.
Danny confronts him with the fact that he was fired by the organization for scamming donations.
He says he thought she'd figured out that he'd conned her. Flashback to him at the campground, asking for money, laying on the guilt trip. She says her situation has changed. She tells him the money's not hers and she has to give it back.
Viv, watching, thinks the lottery ticket didn't belong to Lacey.
Sam, Elena and a tech look at the surveillance video from the store where the winning ticket was sold. They see an older man buying the ticket. He's holding a bag from a pharmacy in his hand. They track him that way.
Danny goes to his apartment and when no one answers a neighbor tells Danny that he just died of cancer and that Lacey was a friend who helped take care of him.
The neighbor had lent him money for utilities and wanted her money back. She says that Lacey cleaned out his stuff but that the man's son came looking for it. The neighbor gave him Lacey's name and number.
Back at the office, Sam gives Jack maternity leave paperwork. Jack asks who's going to take care of the kid when she's on call. Sam says she thinks Brian, the dad, could help. Jack asks for his last name. She says she's decided to give him a chance.
Danny get a sketch of the dead man's son. He also tells Viv he'll back her up with the brass because Jack was out of line to pursue the child rapist that ended up getting him shot.
Jack asks an agent in the office to do a background check for him on Brian Donovan.
Elena tracks down the guy who delivered pizza to Lacey's apartment. The flashback shows she handed him a wad of cash then turned to talk to Jeff in the apartment, telling him they just have to stick to the plan when he said they should call the cops.
Viv goes to Jeff's apartment with Danny. He's not home, but across the street, slumped in his car. He doesn't respond. He's been shot.
At the office, Martin has ID'd the dead man's son, Alex Shaw. A witness saw him confront Lacey.
Elena shows Paula and her husband a picture of Alex and they say they don't know him. Paula is upset over just learning her brother is dead. Elena doesn't believe them when they say they don't know about how Lacey got the money.
Flashback to Lacey showing Paula the winning ticket. Lacey didn't want to keep it, but Paula convinced her, saying that Lacey's the one who took care of him and that he said she could take whatever of his she wanted.
Jack talks to Alex Shaw. Flashback to Alex confronting Lacey. He knew ticket was his dad's because the numbers were his and his mother's birthdays. Alex says Lacey called him from the campground and said she wanted to give him the money, but never showed. He waited at her apartment. But, contrary to what the witness said, it wasn't Lacey he saw in front of her building. A flashback shows it's Paula.
Martin and Elena think Paula and her husband might be behind it, even killing Paula's brother, Jeff, though the coroner is classifying it as a suicide. Or, it was the guilt that did Jeff in, they figure. They think maybe the pizza guy saw Paula and not Lacey and that Paula was posing as her. A hat with Lacey's blood on it was found in Paula's apartment. They think Lacey never left the campground.
Elena talks to Paula. She confesses when Elena says she'll keep Elena's husband out of it, since he didn't know what was happening. Flashback to Lacey telling Paula at the campsite that she was giving the money back. Lacey said she couldn't live with what she'd done. When Lacey turned to leave, Paula conked her on the head with a deadly water bottle. Her brother Jeff wanted to go to the police, but she talked him out of it. They buried the body and Paula went back to the city to pose as Lacey.
The teams in the woods find her body.
The agent Jack sent to research Sam's baby daddy comes with her report. Brian Donovan is clean in all databases, except for a file in Delaware on sex with a minor, but no charges were brought.
Fade out ominously.
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