1.2: GLEEN- Avaliable!

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PART 1
Recap provided by Naj

The episode opens with a flash back of May 19, 1983 at the Deemer home. Mrs. (Dana) Deemer is putting on make up as her husband (Rob) is getting dressed and talking to her about taking the stand against some pervert (Albert Miller) when there are ten other women who could do so. Mrs. Deemer wants him put away. The daughter comes into the bedroom and asks her dad if he’s going to the firehouse. He acknowledges and picks up his daughter (Gwen) and leaves the room.

CUT to another sequence of wife approaching the backyard picnic table where she picks up the box of Gleen laundry detergent and it explodes into fire with glass flying all over.

CUT to the case being closed and the box being stored at the police headquarters in November 1983 only six months after the accident.

CUT to present:: Stillman and Rush are walking in the Cold Case area. Stillman mentions Lorraine Loomis and a job in 1983. She contacted him and is waiting for her in the office. He tells Rush he’s sending her over to talk to her. She wants to know if Det Rush handles Cold Cases and explains it’s her fiancé’s daughter (Gwen) who needs help and she will be arriving. She explains that this girl’s mother was murdered 20 years ago and she’s haunted by it and her father (Lorraine’s fiancé) won’t talk about it too much. The daughter is obsessed about it.

Gwen then arrives. They show her as the flashback Deemer girl. She’s telling Lorraine she doesn’t think coming to the police is going to do any good. Lorraine asks Rush for help. Lily asks Gwen for information. Gwen tells Rush that her mom was killed by Albert Miller, a deranged pervert she was about to testify against. He exposed himself to her. One week before his trial, a bomb went off in her face living for 16 minutes after it went off and then she died in their backyard. Gwen was upset because Miller never got arrested. Lily told her that sometimes “we don’t always get them” to which Gwen agreed. Then Lily finished her sentence….“the first time.” The man was in jail now, for another charge, but was about to be paroled in three days. Lily wanted to know how long Gwen had been tracking him. Gwen said she just turned 25 and that was how old her mother was when she died and now she realizes how young that is. Lorraine talked about Gwen’s behavior being reckless--calling Albert Miller in jail and making threats. Lily told Gwen she didn’t want to do that but Gwen said if no one is going to do anything about her death she would. Lily asked for more information on what Gwen recalled that day of the accident. Gwen says she can only recall parts of what happened because she was only 5 years old.

CUT TO FLASHBACK:
Gwen was playing with her dolls in her bedroom and her mom came in. Her mom told her she’d be back to fix her hair. And then little Gwen heard the explosion in the backyard and was terrified. She went out to the back and saw her mother. She wished she had never seen something like that. It haunted her. Lily said she’d talk to the parole board and see if they’d give Miller more time but Gwen had to stop with the threats.

Rush runs into Jeffries and Vera in the police station talking about a case they are working on and Rush tells them she can’t help because she has a new (old) case. They tried to talk her out of following up on it right away and she refused.

Next we see Rush and partner (Lassing) in the Cold Case file reviewing the case:

Dana Deemer: bomb left on her backyard table in some kind of a box. She picked it up and it went off in her face.

Suspect was Albert Miller--a high school teacher and chronic sexual deviant. Dana dies before her scheduled appearance to testify against him for flashing her. Daughter living with it for 20 years.

Case never made against Miller because they couldn’t place him at the scene.

Next stop for Rush and Lassing is to talk with the father Rob an ex fireman. They go to his house. Rob doesn’t want them to spend time on old cases when there are many new ones. But Lily says they work old as well as new cases. He felt that his wife’s case should have been an open and shut case but felt it slipped through the cracks. Lorraine talked about the worry of Gwen and Rob agreed how she wasn’t helping matters by threatening Albert Miller. He says she never got over losing her mom. Lily wanted to know if Rob got over her. He said he tries to look ahead not back. Lily said she would try to see if something could be done before the parole hearing. Rob agreed that would be good because he is a dangerous man. Lily wanted to know if Miller threatened Dana in 1983. Rob said he did but that Dana still insisted upon testifying, Lassing wanted to know if it was his fire company that responded to the scene. Rob said he had responded to 1000 fires and when he heard his own address........

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PART 2

FLASHBACK
Fire trucks arrive to the house back in 1983. Little Gwen is crying for her mom saying her mom is hurt. Rob talked about sitting by her body as long as he could and then they handed him her wedding ring. Lassing wanted to know if there was an arson investigator on the scene from his company. Rob gave a name of Frank Lawson who still works at Cedar brook.

CUT to Police Station:
Vera tells Rush he has something. Jeffries tells her they located something in the data bases about the pervert-(a secret) because they didn’t have the auto tracking data system then. From 1978-82 Miller worked his summers in the mines on a iron range in Minnesota working with explosives. Lily and Vera talk about getting physical evidence from the scene. Vera to go to warehouse to see what evidence they had so they can use for the hearing. Lily thinks it’s time to talk with Albert Miller.

Rush and Lassing go to the prison to talk with Miller. Miller is heard telling Lassing and Rush that Gwen is calling her up and telling him she’s going to shot him dead on the street if he gets out. He tells them he flashed Dana like he’s flashed many ladies and never killed any of them. He said he never threatened Dana. He has Compulsive Sexual Behavior and that he is not a violent man. It’s a psychological condition that he feels should not be a criminal thing. Lassing confronts Miller that he walked naked through a woman’s middle school. Miller said he had an urge that he couldn’t handle but he didn’t blow people up. Rush asked him about the explosives he worked with in Minnesota. Miller said he put fuses into dynamite and pushed a button. That was it. Lassing asked why he didn’t mention that part of his work to the detectives in 1983. Miller admitted that would have been committing suicide. Rush said that murder would be more his style. Miller claimed he was a reformed man by being in jail and training eye dogs for the blind. He felt he paid his dues.

Rush asks Lassing after leaving Miller if Miller had murder in him. Her partner thought maybe he did it 20 years ago.

CUT:
Rush back at police headquarters. Rush is looking for original evidence and calls in someone to go to the Deemer house to check things out. Rush wants to know the oldest crime scene evidence ever stirred up. Louie says Lucy from 6000 years ago. Rush thinks fresh evidence could be found at this 20 year old crime scene. Lily thinks a good place to look is a crawl space where it was all protected by the house. Doesn’t think anyone looked there.

CUT to the house:
Louie pointed out the places where evidence could possibly be attained. Rush verified if he was going to check the crawl space. He affirmed. Lily’s partner tells Lily that a Maria Sanchez is out front claiming to be the first person on the scene (a neighbor who came over and helped with Gwen at the scene)

Rush and Lassing meet with Maria. Rush shows her a picture of Miller and asks if she ever saw him in the neighborhood. Maria says she should have said that she did see him. Rush says that would be lying. Maria asks how else justice could be done. Lassing asks: “but you never did see him“. Maria says technically no. Rush asks for an account of what happened that day. Maria explained that she was letting her dog out and heard an explosion (they cut to the scene of what happened). Maria saw Dana and there was blood all over. She heard Gwen call and rushed to her and took her in the house and as they ran she saw a phone off the hook and put it back on and ran to the front taking Gwen where the fire engines were arriving.

Rush said that Maria never mentioned the telephone in 1983. Maria says she guesses they never asked. Lassing wanted to know if she was sure of hanging it up. Maria says she’s sure because she was thinking: “what if her husband tries to call“. Rush tells her partner to get the telephone records from 20 years ago. Frank Lawson, the fire marshal shows up at the house. Lily had called him earlier. Rush asks him what they found on the scene in 1983. He says it was an explosive device/gun powder---it wasn’t sophisticated. Louie calls out to Rush. Louie found charred cardboard the remnants of the box with the bomb which could have finger prints and bomb residue. Rob Deemer shows up and is a bit upset. Wants to know what they are looking for. Lily tells him they are looking for remnants of the explosion. Rob seems skeptical. He mentions that Lily contacted Frankie Lawson and Lily wants to know if the two of them have a problem between them. Rob says he thinks Frank had a thing for his wife.


CUT to Lily back at the police headquarters

Vera is going through telephone records from 20 years ago. Vera claims there is no telephone number associated with Albert Miller that called the Deemer house. Lily wants to know if he did call her why would Dana go get a package he left for her if he was threatening her? Louie enters with some evidence from the house. He puts together pieces of card board and they look at it with a magnifying glass. It spells GLEEN. They have a picture in the file of Dana standing by a cupboard with the detergent in the closet. The bomb was made at the Deemer house. They speculate if Albert still did it. How would a flasher know what detergent Dana used on her laundry. The bomb had to be made closer to home by someone she trusted.

CUT to the hearing for Miller

Rob, Lorraine and Gwen are there waiting outside the Miller hearing. Rush tells Gwen that she won’t be able to stop the hearing. Gwen is upset and wants to know about evidence found at the house. Lily tells her it doesn’t support evidence against Albert. Lily told Gwen it didn’t mean she was dropping the case, though. Miller comes out and passes Gwen and Gwen loses it. Gwen asks Lily why she should trust Lily because she doesn’t even know her. Lily tells her if she did know her she’d know she was just getting started.

CUT to police headquarters
Vera calls over Lily talking about the telephone logs he has gone over three times and that there is no record of an incoming call that morning. But he has another number showing. But there are 9 calls to the Deemer house one month before Dana dies. The number is traced back to Frank Lawson who is an explosives expert. Lawson was only calling when Rob was at work. Vera had records of the work schedule. Lily can’t believe there is a duty record to locate!

CUT to Lily talking to Lawson at work.
She wants to know why he transferred to another firehouse as it was a 40 minute commute. Frank says it was for a change of pace. Lily brings up the tension she thinks is between Frank and Rob. Frank says Rob and he drifted apart after Dana’s death. Lily brings up the 9 secret phone calls in one month while Rob is not home. Frank says the marriage was falling apart because Rob wasn’t a great husband and his mom was hard on Dana. Frank and Dana talked. She needed someone to talk to. Lily asked Frank if he was in love with Dana.

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PART 3

FLASHBACK
Dana is talking to Frank about her life. They have feelings for one another. They would talk about her wedding ring like it had a surveillance camera in it. She told him when she takes her wedding ring off it sets Rob off. Maybe, they joked, there was a tiny microphone in it.

BACK in present Frank tells Lily the day Dana died the only thing Rob could think about was that ring. He was running around looking for the ring. Lily asked him if he thought Rob planted the bomb. Frank said no because the guy she was going to testify against did it. Lily told him “no” that’s the old story. Frank told Lily that both he and Rob were at work, although, Rob was upstairs while he was downstairs. Lily wanted to know if there were phones upstairs. Frank said only where he was. Lily wanted to know if he called Dana that day or left the building. Frank said he would have remembered if he did. Lily said that Frank could have called or left. Frank said he could have but he didn’t. Lily reminded Frank that he was an explosives expert and half in love with Dana. Frank said he did love her but why would he kill her?

BACK at the police headquarters
Lily and her partner and Stillman hash the story out about Frank and Dana: Dana’s unhappy and wants to leave Rob and Frank knows it and blows her up or Lawson’s in love with her and thinks she’s going to leave her husband and she laughs in his face. Stillman reminds them he knows about bombs. Lily says he hangs out in her kitchen and knows what detergent she uses. Stillman reminds them to keep looking at the two guys.

Lily decides to work thru the night and go back to the bank records to follow the money. Lily find deductions in 1979, automatic deductions, payable to the court for spousal support. Rob had a prior marriage.

CUT to Lily and Stillman visiting the first wife, Adrian Martin. Adrian tells them the marriage was a disaster. Rob was temperamental. She was afraid of him sometimes--he was possessive. She left him. But Rob wouldn’t let her leave without getting the ring back.

Lily gets a phone call after their meeting with Adrian and finds out there was another wife.

Rush and her partner call in the woman to headquarters. She says it was only two years but she was traumatized by him. He was possessive and controlling. Lily wanted to know if Rob made a big deal about the wedding ring. She wanted to know how Lily knew that. She tells them about going out one night with a male friend from high school and when she got home Rob asked her to take her wedding ring off. She wanted to know why and he told her to do it and she’d find out. She took it off and he took it downstairs and crushed the ring in a vice. So she left him. Lily wanted to know what kind of workshop he had. She told them he made amateur rockets as it was his hobby.

Jeffries interrupts Lily that Albert, the pervert pal, is on the line. Gwen tracked him down. Lily meets him at the scene where his car windows have been smashed out by Gwen. She is sitting in the police car. Lily asks him not to send her to jail. She doesn’t believe he did anything to Dana. He promises not to press charges if Lily gets her out of his life. Lily goes to the police car and talks to Gwen that it’s not the right track to be on to handle the situation. She tells Gwen that she doesn’t believe Albert killed her mother. Gwen disagrees. Lily tells her that the bomb that killed her mother was in a box of GLEEN and that the person who killed her would have known what brand of detergent she used and that wouldn‘t be Albert. Also someone placed a phone call to her mother that morning. Lily asks Gwen if she was aware of that and for some reason there’s no record of that phone call and they don’t know how to explain that. Gwen is upset saying she wanted Lily’s help getting Albert. Lily says that there’s evidence pointing another way---to her father. Gwen says that’s crazy. Lily tells her his hobby was making rockets--how her mom and dad fought and how he had two other wives. Gwen said it was one wife. Lily explains that there was a wife before her mom and one wife after her mom. Gwen doesn’t feel that matters. Lily says it reveals a pattern of her father’s behavior that wasn’t known in 1983. Gwen doesn’t understand. Lily explains he had controlling relationships with both women and fixated with getting the wedding ring back when it was all over just like he did when he lost her mother. Gwen said his father was devastated over losing his mother. Lily told her that her father was hunting for the wedding ring while she lay there dying and Maria, the neighbor, was holding her hand. Gwen’s father shows up at the police car at that moment to take her home. Gwen gets out of the car and they go to his car. Lily confronts Rob that she needs to talk to Lorraine who is in the car. Rob wants to be left alone. Lily tells Rob she’s getting deception from him. He leaves. Lily looks at Lorraine’s ring on her finger and asks her if the ring is new. Lorraine tells her she got it this morning.

CUT to Rush and partner
meeting with Gwen and she tells them she was checking out her dad’s workshop and was thinking about her mother. She tells Lily about how she saw a whole pool of blood and can’t forget it. She feels if she has to turn her father in, she’ll have to kill herself. Lily wants to know if Gwen has evidence against him.

FLASHBACK
She’s the five year old talking and she says she knows how to make a phone call with leaving no record of it. Her father knows how to wire to do that to make phone calls anywhere in the world and they do that--Gwen her mother and father and they laugh.

BACK to Present
Gwen explains that her grandfather was a telephone repairman. She wants to know how her father could do that? Lily asks where her father is. Gwen tells her that her father and Lorraine went to the Pocono’s--they had eloped.

CUT
Lily, Gwen and Vera go to the Pocono’s to where they are. Vera makes a comment to Rush that there isn’t enough to arrest him. Lily says that he doesn’t have to know that. Rush and Vera sit down at their table in the restaurant and Lily says that she hopes they haven’t taken their vows yet. She tell Lorraine to go sit with Gwen to get the details of why Rob doesn’t have much luck with marriage. Lorraine leaves. Rob accuses Lily of brainwashing her daughter. Lily says she doesn’t know how to control people like her. Rob wants to know what Gwen and Lorraine are talking about. Lily says “rocket bombs“. Rob says Gwen doesn’t believe that. Lily confronts him about how he makes untraceable calls. Lily confronts him about his two other wives--Colleen and Adrian. Lily keeps needling Rob with the information she gathered on his personality. Then Rob flies off with remarks about wife flirting with your friends, mouth off to his mother and insult her to her face…….then Lily says how it would be handy to have a guy like Albert Miller to set up.

FLASHBACK TO WHAT HAPPENS
Rob comes out of the house with the box of GLEEN. Puts it on the table and sets it up as a bomb. Then he makes a call to his wife which is untraceable from the fire department. He tells her he got her something and it’s out on the back porch. He tells her that he’ll wait while she goes to look and he hears the explosion.