2.5: WHO'S YOUR DADDY?- Avaliable!

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PART 1
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The episode opens in July 1991. It's a bad area of
Philly at night where drug deals and prostitute
arrangements are going down. Sen and Channary Dhiet
are up in their apartment. Channary teaches their
young daughter Kara a dance. There's a knock on the
door, and Sen sends Kara into the bathroom to hide.
Kara keeps the door cracked and she hears two shots,
and sees the shadows of her mom and dad fall to the
ground. She runs out there and tries to wake them,
but it's to no avail. The case boxes are filed under
"Dhiet, S" and "Dhiet, C."

Present day, an eighteen year old Kara and an older
man (Booker) bring a picture of a bracelet she saw on
eBay. Kara believes the bracelet is her dead
mother's. She wants Lilly to investigate the seller,
and find out if he/she killed her parents. Scotty
asks if Kara lives with Booker, but she says she lives
with her aunt and uncle, but Booker is a friend (he's
the one who called in the double murder the night
Kara's parents were killed). Kara works at her aunt's
restaurant, and she tells Lilly that her mom was a
dancer and her dad was an architect.

Lilly and Stillman check the case files down in the
vault. The theory at the time was a robbery gone bad,
but nothing was taken except maybe the bracelet. Sen
was shot in the chest and Channary point blank
execution style. The gun was never found. Scotty
found the eBay dealer who says he bought it off of a
Wilma Whiting. Her son, Dolla Bill, is doing time for
a burglary. Lilly points out that Booker was a
suspect the first time around. She doesn't trust his
relationship with Kara.

Lilly and Scotty go talk to Booker. They tell him
that the bracelet was solid gold and quite valuable,
meaning that they believe that whoever took it had
some inside information. He tells them that he didn't
know the Dhiets. He served time in prison for
possession with intent to sell because he came back
from Vietnam hooked on drugs. He got clean in prison.
Lilly wants to know how Booker came to be the one who
made the 911 call. The night Sen and Channary died,
Kara ran into the streets asking for help. She came
across Booker and he agreed to help her when he saw
the blood on her hands. When he got to the bodies, he
noticed dirt on Channary's face, and he cleaned it off
because he says she had a beautiful face. He tells
Lilly and Scotty that he started taking care of Kara
after that because her aunt and uncle worked long
hours at the restaurant. Lilly still believes that
there's more going on between Booker and Kara.

Vera and Jeffries go to the prison to talk to Dolla
Bill. He says he traded it off "some white dude" for
smack. He doesn't know the man's name. Jeffries
tells him that they know he worked with Sen at the
construction company. He says he doesn't deny knowing
him, but he points to their boss Brad Athingyer. Sen
had a problem with him because he caught him skimming
his paycheck. Sen didn't say anything about it
because he was in the US illegally, but he was
rallying the others around Athingyer.

Lilly and Scotty go talk to Brad Athingyer and his wife.
They remember Sen and Channary. Athingyer claims he
was fixing potholes in the driveway until around 10:30
pm that night. They ask Athingyer about the kickbacks.
He explains that he and a friend in the INS went on
raids busting illegals. They would give them
fraudulent work VISAs for a cut of their paychecks.
Athingyer first encountered Sen and Channary during one
of these raids. The INS officer threatened to send
Sen and his family back, but Sen was concerned for his
family's safety if they got sent back to Cambodia. He
offered the INS agent a ruby in exchange for letting
them stay. The INS agent took the ruby and gave Sen
two legit work VISAs that he has taken from someone
else. Sen didn't want to take the VISAs because he
knew that he was sending the other family back home to
their deaths. He reluctantly took them and he and
Channary assumed the identities of the Dhiets. The
real Dhiets were deported, and most likely sent to
their deaths.

Stillman, Vera, and Lilly are in the lobby of the
police station. Scotty walks up and tells them that
he tracked the deported couple. They were executed
three days after arriving back in Cambodia. They
decide to look into whether there were any real Dhiet
relatives that stayed behind in the US in the early
90s.

Vera and Jeffries go talk to Kara's aunt and uncle.
They tell Jeffries and Vera Sen and Channary's real
names. Channary was a member of the royal family.
She and Sen had to leave Cambodia when there was a
regime change. It would have been much too dangerous
for them to stay with her past connection. They say
that they didn't know the real Dhiets or their family.
The aunt tells Jeffries and Vera that Channary was
too proud and refused to put aside her royal past.
She walked around like she was better than everyone
else. She wore fancy dresses and used to say that the
calluses of her fingers (from being a seamstress) and
the holes in her stockings didn't exist, they were
just allusions. She and the aunt used to bring lunch
to Sen at the construction company. The aunt and
uncle say that the way Channary carried herself made
it seem that she had a lot of money when all she
really had was that bracelet. No one knew that
Channary was royalty, including Kara.

Lilly goes to the restaurant that night to talk to
Kara. She tells her that they found the bracelet and
it's very valuable. She tries to tell her that her
parents weren't who she thinks they were, but Booker
is there and he doesn't want Lilly upsetting her. She
tells her that Channary was royalty. Kara remembers
stories that her mom told her, but she thought they
were just stories. She had seen the bracelet as a
child, and she sneaked it off to school for show and
tell. Kara's upset because she thinks that by telling
all the other kids, teacher, and assistant that she
may have gotten her parents killed.

Outside the restaurant, Booker approaches Lilly. He
is angry that she upset Kara. Lilly wants to know what
Booker was really doing that night on the corner. He
tells her that Kara doesn't know about his drug past.
He says that a girl needs a father-figure to look up
to, but Lilly insists not all girls. Booker accuses
her of having man problems since she's not wearing a
ring. She tells him that she "just can't find the
right ex-con, drug dealing, smack addict to settle
down with." Lilly knows Booker is hiding something
and she plans to find out what it is.

Back at the police station, Lilly tells Jeffries,
Scotty, and Stillman that there's a new list of people
to check out since Kara took the bracelet to school.
Scotty tracked down a Buddhist monk who knew the real
Dhiets and he told him that they had a niece that
lives in Philly. It turns out to be Kara's aunt,
which gives her motive to kill Kara's parents.

Vera and Jeffries interrogate Kara's aunt at the
station. She admits who she is, but says she didn't
kill them. She admits she hated Channary, but not
because of what happened to her family. Atkinson
tried to get Channary to sleep with him because he
said it would make up for Sen's bad behavior when he
found out that Atkinson took part of his paycheck.
Channary refused to do it and walked off, leaving
Kara's aunt to fill the void with Atkinson. She
agreed to do it because she was afraid he would deport
Sen and Channary. She tells Vera and Jeffries that
Atkinson was repulsive and would make her lick his
boots.

Lilly and Scotty track down the teacher's assistant
from Kara's class back in 1991. He admits that he
stole the bracelet for drugs after Lilly tells him
that the guy he traded with (Dolla Bill) IDed him. He
broke in through a kitchen window and only found the
bracelet. He claims no one was home when he broke in,
and he didn't kill Sen and Channary. He does tell
them that he saw something at a crack house the night
of the murders. He was looking for drugs, but no one
would let him borrow any. In one of the rooms, he
sees Channary and Booker getting high together.

Back at the station, Scotty pulls the old crime photos
and notices that the kitchen window is already boarded
up, meaning it happened before their deaths. Jeffries
ran a background check on Athingyer, but it came back
clean and no registered weapons. Scotty wants to
bring him in and sweat him, but Vera says that he
already lawyered up. Stillman pulls Lilly aside and
tells her that he looked into Booker's Vietnam record.
He had an old pal from when he fought in the same
war, who works at the VA. He found out that Booker
was brought up on charges for allegedly massacring
locals execution style (like Channary). He beat the
court marshal, but was dishonorably discharged for
psychiatric reasons.

Lilly interrogates Booker at the police station. She
wants to know why he lied about knowing Channary. He
tells her that she doesn't like him because he did for
Kara what no man ever did for her - take an interest
in her and be a father. Lilly accuses Booker of
wanting Channary. She says he tried to get her to
leave Sen, but she wouldn't so he killed them both in
a fit of rage just like in Vietnam. She tells him she
knows he was on the corner that night buying for
Channary. Booker says she was in agony so he helped
her with opium, but the person who was selling was
late that night past 10:30pm (after Sen and Channary
died). He has the name and number of the dealer, but
he never told Lilly because he didn't want Kara to
know that her mother was "damaged goods." He admits
he was in love with her. From the moment they first
met, he knew they shared a desire to forget the past.
He asks Lilly not to tell Kara.

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PART 2

Kara comes into the station upset that they have
Booker. Lilly tells her that they made a mistake and
they're releasing him. Kara says that they should
arrest Atwater because she heard her aunt telling her
uncle about how he would make her lick his boots.
Booker wants to know if it's true, and Lilly says that
they're looking into it.

Outside the police station that night, Stillman finds
Lilly. She feels guilty for judging Booker and his
relationship with Kara. Stillman tells her that
Jeffries got Atwater's phone records back. He made a
lot of calls to Sen's all within a week before the
murder. She and Stillman both get calls on their
cell, and they leave in a hurry.

Outside Atwater's home, there are a lot of police
cars. Lilly and Stillman go inside, and they find
Booker holding Atwater and his wife at gun point.
Booker tells Lilly that Atwater shot Sen and Channary.
Lilly wants him to put the gun down. Booker says he
figured it out when he found out that Atwater liked
women licking his boots. He realized where the dirt
on Channary's face came from when he heard Kara tell
the story about her aunt. Stillman tells him to put
the gun down, but Booker says he has killed before and
he doesn't mind doing it again. Stillman says he did
the same in the war, but they were just 18 years old
then, not grown men like they are now. Lilly reminds
him that Kara needs a father-figure. Booker agrees to
put the gun down if Lilly can nail Atwater. Stillman
brings up the phone calls, and Atwater's wife admits
she called Channary so she could hear the voice of the
woman who drove her husband crazy. She also admits
that Atwater left while he was filling potholes that
night. She says when he came back, he buried
something in one of them. Stillman knows it's the
gun.

The day of the murder, Channary acted better than
Atwater. That night he knocked on the door to teach
her a lesson. He held them at gun point and forced
Channary to her hands and knees or he would kill Sen.
He forced her to lick his boots and then move on up.
Sen hit him and the gun went off, killing him.
Atwater gets upset at what they made him do, and he
has to kill Channary too. He asks her if she's going
to beg, but she tells him that he "doesn't exist."

The closing scenes are to the Scorpions "Send Me an
Angel." Stillman cuffs Atwater and Lilly escorts
Booker out of the house. The CSU unit digs up the gun
in the driveway. Lilly brings Kara the bracelet, and
watches as she runs outside and embraces Booker.
Lilly "sees" Sen and Channary in the window of their
old apartment. Stillman files the solved case in the
vault. Lilly sits alone with her cats at home looking
at photos. One of them shows a young Lilly holding an
adult male's hand. The other shows the back of the
head of an adult make holding a young Lilly. She
closes the box that holds the old photos and hugs her
cats.