Episode 84
Enlightenment (10-23-05)

Play by Play Synopsis:

Teaser: Jordan walking down ally, JD pops out scares her.  He brings her to a dead body in a car.  He wants her to examine the site.  Was the lady killed or did she kill herself. Jordan wants to call the police.

Woody and Garret arrive at a hotel room; there is a dead child in a hotel room. A phone number is on the child’s hand. Woody calls the number.

The cell phone at Jordan’s crime scene rings, Jordan answers, and it is Woody.

Act One: Woody shows up at car.  Woody wants to know who JD is.  Why he called the morgue before the police. Woody tells her that he thinks the woman killed her son before killing her son.

Jordan wants to know where the boy is.  Woody said no comment.  JD answers, he palmed the hotel key.

Woody driving (with extremely loud music blaring) and someone cuts him off.  Then takes his spot.  He gets pissed.  He says it’s his spot.

Lady walks out of car. Says she doesn’t see his name on sign.  She’s Detective Lu Simmons and he has an appointment with her at noon.  Says she’ll see him at noon and walks off.

Lily comes in and says is this Kevin Carter.  Says his wife is on her way over.  Lily introduces herself to his wife and says why don’t we go to his office to talk.  She says she doesn’t want to talk she wants his sperm.

Jordan and Garret enter morgue.  She tells him to go get ready.  JD shows up.  He explains that the dead lady was the wife of Eli Graham.  Says they’re divorced and there’s no story.  Woody comes in.  He wants the autopsy report.  Jordan says first she does the autopsy and then the report.  Woody gets frustrated and says he’ll go deal with Garret on this case.

Lily and Bug talking to wife.  Explains how they wanted children. She begs for Lily and Bugs help.

Woody goes to the resort of Eli Graham.  Woody is skeptical of the place.  Eli is a life coach.

Woody talks to Eli about Sky.  Eli says he thought his wife was cleaned up and that it would be okay for the son to go with her.  The other boy stayed home because he wasn’t feeling well.  Woody says thanks for help I’ll be in touch. Eli tells him next time to contact his attorney.

Garret is talking with lady who wants info.  He introduces her to Mrs. Carter.  Bug says a lady came in and he assumed…Mrs. Carter says that was his mistress.  Garret assures the lady they’ll get the sperm back. Garret is not happy with Bug.

Precinct: Lu calls out to Woody.  Woody says sorry for missing appointment with sarcasm.  Lu doesn’t take it.  She says the department has an interest in his emotional state. She’s reschedule appointment and if he blows it off again he goes on to desk duty.

Garret talking with Woody.  The boy died after his mother so she couldn’t have killed him.  And they walk into the other autopsy room and Jordan says wife didn’t kill herself, no gun shot residue on her hands. So much for open and shut.

Woody comes into Lu’s office.  He sees her badge on her desk.  He tries to stall.  Lu says more he stalls longer it‘ll take.  Woody goes on spiel about his family and says people should be in charge of their actions.  Woody is playing a game.  Lu is calling him on it.  She gives him a talking to.  He bails on her.

Nigel and Bug at sperm bank.  Nigel is known there.  Bug gets thoroughly embarrassed when the reception thinks he’s with Nigel. Nigel and Bug play along and they get specimen.

At morgue: Mistress comes back.  She says the sperm weren’t there. Bug tells the mistress they know about Carter’s real wife, he says she doesn’t know how much trouble she could’ve got him in.

Jordan in morgue doing autopsies on sky and her son.  Woody comes in.  Jordan and woody talk about the case with their backs to each other.  Garret wants to know what’s wrong with them. Nothing.  Finds a hair that is male. Garret tells Jordan she has to sort out the situation with Woody.

Act 2: Prescient: Jordan arrives to watch woody interviewing sky’s sister.

JD is in precinct looking onto the interview.  JD tries to convince Jordan to work with him.  Woody with sister, she says Eli is a scam artist.  Her sister knew too much and that’s why he wanted her dead.  Says he killed boy because Leroy would have sided with mother. Sister begs them to get her nephew away from Eli.

Woody gives JD a look and Jordan says she’s not with me. JD chases after Sky’s sister. Woody walks off.

Eli’s Compound: Woody talks to Eli.  Says Dawn was never a fan of him.  Woody wants to know where he was between 6 and 8. Eli says he did not kill his ex-wife and son.

Precinct: Woody is on his phone looking for a warrant, but can’t get one.  Lu is there coming out.  She says she’s talked to his coworkers, everyone likes him.  She says he meets minimum requirements she’ll sign it if that’s what he wants.

Morgue: Lily and Bug talking.  Bug is saying that the woman should have his sperm.  Bug says he could give the real Mrs. Carter some other sperm.  Lily tries to talk him out of it. Bug ignores her pleas.

Jordan’s Apartment: Doorbell ringing.  Jordan goes to answer her door.  JD is there.  He comes right in.  JD says Dawn gave him something information they should go over.  JD puts his foot in his mouth as he says he didn’t realize Jordan was so hot.  They go over the notebook JD brought.  It’s in French.

Lab: Nigel is called in and Jordan hands the notebook over to him.  Nigel says it’s in French.  She wants him to go over it. JD over hears Nigel talking about the hair they found. Jordan tells him they would need Eli’s DNA in order for it to be considered evidence.

JD knows how to get the evidence.

Eli’s Compound: Jordan and JD show up as Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Act Three: Eli tells them to stand up and kiss.  Jordan: Excuse me?  Eli says it’ll tell him everything he needs to know about them as couple.  Jordan and JD stare at each other for a while then finally just kiss.

Eli: says Jordan has some obvious intimacy issues.

Eli’s son comes in and he’s drenched in sweat.  Jordan says she can look at him she’s a doctor.  Eli won’t let her.  They go to seminar.  JD gives Jordan key car he swiped. JD tells her that the wedding bands came from his second marriage. Eli comes in and they start the seminar.

Morgue: Bug gives Mrs. Carter her husband’s sperm.  She goes to flush it.

Lily comes up and wants to know whose sperm it was. Bug walks away.  Lily goes to tell Garret.  Garret goes to see Bug.  Garret gives him a lecture.  Bug answers back.  Garret says it’s not just about the mistress, there’s also the unborn child he has to consider.  Garret gives Bug the sperm.  Says take it I know you’ll do the right thing.

Woody comes in.  Nigel is there.  So Woody tells him how he thinks Eli murder son and wife.  Nigel says could he have been from Martinique.  Because Nigel found a mention of it in book. 

Woody runs into Lu at morgue.  Lu asks if he got the warrant he needed.  Lu types a number into Woody’s phone, her Uncle is a judge, she tells her to use her name and his luck might change.

Bug meets with Kevin Carter’s mistress.  He talks to her, and runs scenarios about having a child by herself.  He convinces her it’s not right for her.  And she comes to the conclusion that she wants Kevin back, not a child.

Garret comes in and asks how it went.  Bug says went ok.  Garret asks if he’s okay, and Bug walks out.

Eli’s Compound:  JD wants Jordan to call his cell.  Then her phone starts ringing, it’s actually Nigel. She slips out of meeting and Nigel explains about how Eli was in Martinique where he stole off with money and then burned a church down with 25 people in it.  Jordan is busy going though the rooms and hangs up on Nigel.

Just as she does, A match comes up from the Martinique police base, Eli is the same person who committed other crimes.

Act Four: Jordan goes into room with sick boy to check up on him, Michael.  Eli walks in.  Jordan accuses him of poisoning is his son.  JD comes in and hits him.  They help the boy out.  Eli gets up and grabs his gun from his office and follows the two of them out.

Eli grabs Jordan just as Woody shows up with warrant.  Woody arrests him.

Morgue: Jordan says the DNA from Eli’s pen was a match.

Woody comes in.  Says they got there just in time. Jordan goes to make a copy of the DNA report for woody.  JD says she’s a handful.  Woody says that’s an understatement.

JD: mind if I go for it?

Woody: knock you’re self out.

Precinct: Woody goes to see Lu.  They talk about their cases, and then Woody says he thought about making another appointment.  Lu says how about now. He sits and closes door

Jordan’s Apartment: JD shows up.  He came to get the ring back.  He says he felt something (the kiss) Jordan says if she felt something it was only physical.  JD says Physical is good.  JD says he might try it again.  Jordan says she’d defend herself.  He says he’ll take her chances and kisses her again.