1.18: RESOLUTIONS- Avaliable!

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PART 1
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The episode opens on New Years Eve 1999. Four friends are out celebrating the millennium at a local bar.
Jill and Mel are out with Greg and Susan. They all
make resolutions and toast. The next shot shows Greg
stumbling outside on the street. As voices are heard
counting down to the new year, a car approaches and
appears to hit Greg. The next shot shows him dead in
the street while the fireworks and celebrations go on
in the distance. The case box is filed under
"Cardiff, Greg Jan '00."

Present day, Lilly meets Det. Sherman at an AA
meeting. One of the members, Tammy, wants to tell
Lilly something. She was out drinking on the
millennium, and she hit someone with her car. She
believes that it's the man she heard so much about on
the news - Greg Cardiff. Her car had a dent in it the
next day. Lilly agrees to look into it for her.

Lilly, Scotty, and Sherman pull the case box down in
the vault. Everything seems to match Tammy's story.
According to the original report, none of the
neighbors saw or heard anything and there were no
witnesses. One neighbor, Russell Brinkley, never
responded to police requests for statements. Tammy no
longer has her car, but Sherman has a picture of the
red Jeep Cherokee.

Lilly and Scotty go talk to Greg's widow Susan. They
find out that she just got remarried. They show her
the picture of Tammy's Jeep, and she recognizes it
from New Years Eve. Greg wasn't feeling well that
night, so she walked him out. He insisted that she
stay at the bar. When she kissed him goodbye, she
noticed a red Jeep parked outside the bar.

Vera and Jeffries knock on Russell Brinkley's door -
the one neighbor who police never spoke to. There is
no answer, so Jeffries goes around back, and catches
Brinkley trying to go out the back door to avoid them.
He swears that he didn't see anything.

They bring him back to police headquarters. Lilly and
Scotty find out that Brinkley has a fear of crowds, so
Stillman tells them to crowd him. Lilly and Scotty go
into the interrogation room with Vera and Jeffries
while they interrogate Brinkley. It works, and
Brinkley gets uncomfortable. He tells them that he
saw a car speeding off and a man in the street that
night. The problem is that the car belongs to John
Butler - a nasty neighbor who killed his dog. He was
afraid to come forward in the past because of Butler.

Lilly and Scotty head out to talk to Butler. Lilly
wants to know where Scotty was for the millennium. He
tells her that he was at Elisa's grandmother's house.
Lilly mentions that he must have been with her for a
while, and he tells her that they were fourteen when
they met. Lilly wonders why he never married Elisa,
and Scotty tells her that Elisa is sick like Barry
from the Richardson job (he had schizophrenia). Lilly
comments that the meds they have now are suppose to
help a lot, and Scotty tells her that she has her good
days. After an awkward pause, Lilly thanks Scotty for
sharing something so personal with her.

They find Butler at a meat plant. He refers to Lilly
as "a piece with a piece." He asks her out for steak,
but she says that she is a vegetarian. They tell him
that his car was seen running Greg down the night of
the murder. He also has two drunk driving
convictions. Butler tells them that his car was
stolen that New Years. He went to a gas station, and
got into a fight with the attendant because the owner
raised the price to $3 a gallon because of the
millennium. While he was arguing, his car was stolen.
He reported it that night, and the car was found
stripped in New Jersey the next day.

Lilly and Scotty go back to Greg's widow. She knows
Butler, and she tells him that everyone hates him.
Mel walks in, and they explain that they are married
now. Mel's ex-wife, Jill left him for a cardiologist
that year. Mel tells Lilly and Scotty that he and
Greg ran into Butler on New Years day. They had run
out for beer, and Butler got mad at Greg. He claimed
that Greg scratched his car with his door. Greg
apologized and they both left.

Lilly and Scotty interrogate Butler back at the
station. They tell him that they checked and he made
the stolen car report an hour after Greg was hit.
Lilly brings up all of the neighbors complaints about
him including cutting down their trees, calling their
children inappropriate things, and not taking no as an
answer when he asked one neighbor out. Butler comes
clean, and tells him that he paid someone to steal his
car for the insurance money.

Lilly and Scotty find the guy, Trevor, in a
neighborhood bar. He denies the hit and run at first,
but then he breaks down. He tells them that the night
he was driving Butler's car, he ran over a body in the
street. Lilly says it doesn't make sense, but Trevor
insists that Greg was lying in the street, not
crossing it.

Back at the police station, they decide to look into
the angle that Greg was sick the night he died. Lilly
suspects that he might have been drunk since it was
the New Year. They send Vera down to the morgue to
check for any of Greg's tissue samples they might have
kept. The medical examiner wouldn't have done a full
toxicology report because the case looked like a auto
death.

Lilly and Scotty go talk to Susan about her claim that
Greg was sick the night of his death. She tells them
that Greg wasn't drunk that night. She says that he
had a headache and nausea that day, and Lilly says
that he must have collapsed from it on the street
before the car hit him. Susan remembers that their
son Gary was sick that day as well. They go talk to
Gary, and he confirms that he was sick as well. He
remembers having yellow tinted vision. They try to
make a link between the two. Gary remembers that he
took a sip of Greg's margarita and Mel and his mom
were quick to stop him.

Back at Stillman's office, they point out that Susan
and Mel could have slipped something into the
margaritas to harm Greg. They look especially guilty
because of their recent marriage. Stillman believes
that it's possible that Mel and Susan were having an
affair. He asks Scotty to go talk to him man to man.


Sherman brings Tammy from AA in to the police station.
Lilly tells her that they found out that she didn't
kill Greg. She must have hit an animal or injured
someone, but she is not guilty of murder. Instead of
being relieved, Tammy is upset. She says that her
only reason for quitting drinking was the accident.
She's afraid that she might start drinking again now.

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PART 2

Scotty talks to Mel again. Mel seems shocked that
Greg might have been poisoned. Scotty asks him off
the record if he and Susan had an affair, and he
swears that nothing happened until after Greg died.
Mel tells Scotty that Susan made the margaritas, but
he didn't drink one because he had a bad experience
with tequila in college. He doesn't like the
implication that Susan poisoned Greg. Scotty wants to
talk to his ex-wife to verify that nothing was going
on, but Mel doesn't know where she is now.

Back at the station, Lilly finds Jill Davis's
answering machine. Jeffries and Vera couldn't find
any tissue samples at the morgue, but Greg was an
organ donor. The transplant unit at a state hospital
had some blood samples stored. They ran them, and
they found lethal levels of digoxin - medicine used
for an irregular heart beat. Overdose symptoms
include headache, nausea, yellow tinted vision, and
fainting. Stillman comes in and tells them that Mel
is in the hospital with the same symptoms as Greg.

Scotty interrogates Susan at the station. She tells
him that she has never heard of digoxin. Scotty
accuses her of being a black widow, but she says that
she loves her husband and wouldn't hurt him.

Lilly interviews Mel at the hospital. He confirms the
yellow tinted vision, and he tells her that he last
ate at home. He insists that Susan wouldn't hurt him
or Greg. He says that Greg was plan A and he's just
the one she settled for. Lilly gets a call on her
cell, and she finds out that Jill is at the station.

Back at the station, Jill tells Stillman that she left
Mel because she knew that he loved Susan. She says
that there was no affair because Susan was so loyal.
A few days after Greg's funeral, Mel drew up divorce
papers. Stillman asks her if she's familiar with
digoxin since she married a cardiologist. She tells
him that she takes it. She has an irregular heart
beat, and that's how she met her now husband.

Lilly joins Scotty in the interrogation room with
Susan. She tells them that the hospital confirmed
that Mel was poisoned with digoxin and that Jill took
it giving Mel easy access. Susan remembers that Mel
was moving in on her even on the day of the funeral.
At the time, she thought he was just being nice.
Lilly tells her that Mel tried to set her up by
poisoning himself. Stillman interrupts to tell them
that the hospital called, and Mel just skipped out.

Lilly and Scotty join Sherman and a flock of police
cars under an overpass on a closed off street.
Sherman tracked Mel through his cell phone. He is
holed up in his truck. Lilly tries to get him to
surrender, but nothing happens. They send a police
dog to the truck. A gun shot is heard, and the next
shot shows the police dog still alive outside the
truck. The officers approach the truck, and Lilly
takes the driver's side. She finds Mel dead in the
seat from a self-inflicted gun shot wound. He had
been writing a note. In the note he details what
happened to Greg. He said that his New Years
resolution was to have a family, and Susan and Greg
were that family. But even after Susan married him,
Greg was still her true love. He slipped digoxin into
Greg's margarita that day and his champagne glass at
the bar that night while it was just the two of them
at the bar. He told Greg that he didn't think that he
and Jill were going to make it. He told him that he
was going to make some big changes in the new year.
Greg left the bar that night sick. He stumbled
through the street until he finally fell onto the road
and Trevor's car ran him over.

The closing scenes are to Jewel's "Hands." Lilly,
Scotty, and Sherman watch as the officers take Mel's
body away. Mel's casket is put into the ground.
Susan and Gary visit Greg's grave. The neighbor,
Brinkley, takes his new poodle puppy out for a walk.
Trevor is released from jail. Sherman attends an AA
meeting with Tammy. Lilly drives out of Greg's
driveway, and she "sees" Greg. She reverses the car
and goes out of frame. Fade to black.