Some guy’s friend is filming his house. The house is practically all windows and looks like the house from some movie I saw a long time ago. Anyway, that guy shouldn’t throw stones. Hey, maybe the movie I’m thinking of was called Glass Houses or something. Uh-oh. The cameraman goes into the bathroom and finds a drowned guy in his boxers in the bathtub.

Strike that. In the first spooky-vision Charlie equation (what is the deal with that spooky-vision!), gumballs show us that it’s a girl. They’re running her face through recognition systems.

Colby comes back, and everything is *awk*ward. His desk has been cleaned out and his stuff sent to Quantico. They get a hit on the girl. She’s a Jane Doe in the morgue named Andrea.

Megan and David go over to Andrea’s apartment, and the landlady apparently doesn’t label her apartment keys. She just has a chain of random keys, because she’s inefficient and possibly very dumb. While they wait for the door to open, they hear noises inside the apartment, and David spots someone through the window. He goes around to the window, chases the perp into the garage, and she drives off in her Mini. It’s Andrea!

Oh my goodness. I don’t really even care for swordfish, but this swordfish I made tonight is so good (coconut oil, garlic, red onion, salt, stone-ground mustard, ginger, wheat-free soy sauce, parsley, cumin, pinch of ground cloves, and coconut milk). Also, turnips are officially my favorite veggie now.

Andrea’s in the morgue for three days; she was dumped in a canyon. COD was drowning (not accidental). She’s had a ton of plastic surgery done. It could be that the other girl has had the same plastic surgery from the same surgeon (you know, like Sparky Polastri) or is a body double.

Colby and Don’s girlfriend, Warner, (apparently they didn’t break up) are now partnered. They go visit the glass house and the three men who live there. They’ve never seen the girl who died in their bathtub. One of them has a dead brother who died in a carjacking.

Amita now has a key to Charlie’s house.

Charlie sent his Friendship Analysis paper to some journals, and people are interested. Charlie’s procrastinating.

Charlie has come up with a dumb conjecture that he can figure out the exact size of the killer based on the water level in the bathtub when they found the girl dead. But um, how do they know the water level before the killer got out of the bathtub, and do they really think the killer submerged himself all the way? Got all the way underwater? Seriously?

So they go to the glass house and explain that they do know the upper water level, because there was a towel hanging off the edge of the tub, and it was wet. But still. Killer submerged all the way? Maybe they’re just planning to come up with a range.

They go see a plastic surgeon… and… tada! Andrea and Tracey were two girls whom the plastic surgeon made into twins. I’m awesome. Don’t forget it. And it turns out that Tracey is the dead girl, not Andrea. And they were prostitutes for a famous madam.

Colby thanks David for saving his life. David is mad about not knowing who his best friend was for two years. But see, it was highly classified in a fight against Commies! How can you stay mad at that?! David storms away.

Again with the friendship paper. Is this going to be the overall story arc this season? Charlie’s friendship paper? Seriously.

Colby brings in the movie star and his friends, and they’re going nuts, taking pictures, video… of the inside of the FBI. No security risks there. Oh, and the movie star’s manager looks very stoic and maybe guilty. They take the three friends and manager into an interrogation room. Charlie has determined that someone of above average size was the one in the tub. That’s Logan. The other guys are forced out of the interrogation room, and Logan says, “Yeah, I was in the tub with her. We had a thing. But I didn’t kill her.” Oh, then he’s innocent! The manager rushes in before Logan has a chance to tell all and starts yelling at Don, saying he can’t do this to this guy’s clients, and nothing is admissible. Don’s like, “You SHUT UP!”

BTW, I don’t like Don’s girlfriend, never have. She’s telling Don that if he wants info on Colby he’ll have to ask Colby, because she can’t get respect as it is, sleeping with the boss. Don gets ticked off, and Warner gets a call from Logan. Logan sounds panicked, says the whole thing has just gone too far, and asks Warner to meet him at a certain location. She and Don show up at the place, and they find his car wrecked in the trees. He’s dead. Has been shot.

Colby wants to know why Liz Warner, his partner, didn’t call him when she got the call from Logan. “Because I was about to get my freak on with the boss! So I figured he was good enough to come with me. If I was sleeping with you, I totally would have let you come instead.”

At the glass house, Colby and Liz come in with a warrant to search Logan’s personal effects. The manager (Mark) is very particular about where they can search. Sounds guilty. Brett (the movie star) comes in to talk to them and, after mentioning his brother again (we’re suspecting there’s more to that story), says that he was at the house last night, and Josh was there too. No one can corroborate. He also says Mark will freak out if he knows Brett talked to them. He leaves, and Liz and Colby think he’s acting. Colby is checking out Logan’s computer and discovers he was sending “data files” (which are actually labeled “data file”) to Tracey. They assume Tracey. I think the madam.

Liz and Colby go see Charlie, Amita, and Papa Epps, who thinks patriotism is all subjective. They figure out that Logan was emailing Tracey mpegs. Then why were they labeled “data file”? Shouldn’t they be labeled mpegs on the computer screen? Anyway, he was emailing Tracey a pirated movie. The watermark traces the DVD back to Brett.

They talk to the madam, and she doesn’t know nothin’ ’bout pirating DVDs. David and Megan are the ones questioning her, and all the switching back and forth this episode amuses me. Colby and Liz find evidence, David and Megan follow up. Liz and Don and Colby end up at Logan’s murder scene. Megan and David go to Andrea’s apartment. Liz and Colby go to the glass house. Don tells everyone what to do. Charlie does the math and talks about friendship.

Anyway, they’re talking to the madam and insist that the madam has to know what Tracey was doing with the pirated movies. Madam, under pressure, tells them to check out Kevin and Bryce Lee, who run a Hollywood club called Bedouin. Megan and David go to the club and see delivery drivers taking beer *out* of the club. While they’re waiting for the shootout to begin, David and Megan talk about their feelings about Colby. Once David discovers the liquor guys removing the boxes of “beer,” a shooter appears on the balcony. Megan takes him out, and the other brother gives up.

They question the not-hospitalized brother. So many brothers in this ep! David and Don question him (another changeup!). This brother doesn’t know anything about dead Logan, but he does know Tracey (or Andrea). She had leverage about Brett and was using it to blackmail him for the tapes, and then she sold the tapes to him for pirating. Charlie Vision alert! Charlie starts talking about game theory again, this time with jackals! Spinelli’s involved?

The filmmaker is brought into the FBI. He says he pretended to erase the video, and that’s how he was allowed out of the house with the tape, which he sent to the FBI a week later after nothing about Tracey had turned up on the news. Josh and Logan knew about the dead girl and said they’d take care of it, and Josh and Logan didn’t want to tell anyone, not even Brett. He doesn’t like his old friends anymore.

Charlie can’t make his equation about the blackmailing work using Tracey as the variable. David’s like, “At what point does it become smarter for me to kill you rather than have to listen to another math equation?” Nah, that’s not what he said, but he was saying it to Charlie, and I was quite sure that’s how the question would end. It’s more like, “At what point does it become smarter for me to kill you rather than pay you off?” Papa Epps makes an excuse to come into the garage so he can help with the equation. David figures out that if they plug in Andrea instead of Tracey, the equation works.

So it’s really Andrea who was blackmailing the guys for the tapes. David and Megan go back to see her again. Andrea to Megan and David: “I was wondering when you’d be back.” So casual and happy. And then at the end of the scene, a random short montage of future scenes.

Megan and Don question Andrea (I should have kept track of the number of changeups they’ve gone through). Tracey had told Andrea something about Brett, and Andrea was using it to blackmail him for the tapes. Tracey felt like they were really twins. Andrea saw the whole thing with Brett as an opportunity and is not bothered by the fact that it got her friend killed. “It’s not like she was my real sister.” Andrea tells Don that he has to guarantee she won’t be charged with blackmail before she’ll talk about Brett’s secret. Don fake smiles to imitate her and says that if she doesn’t tell, he’ll guarantee she’s charged as an accessory to murder. She talks.

Colby and Liz go see Brett. Turns out, Brett killed his brother. Brett, Logan, and Josh gave the same exact account of the carjacking, no minor variations in stories, all word for word. Brett shot his brother with a prop gun in a drunken accident. And he’s glad it’s out, because now his “friends” can’t hold the accidental death over his head. Colby says, yeah, well it’s down to you and Josh. Brett says that Mark also knew about Brett’s brother. Lightbulbs go off, and they all look at Mark. Well, it’s about time. Mark jumps over the balcony and shoots at Colby, Colby follows him, and Liz goes down the stairs to head him off. Mark is shooting back at Colby randomly and grabs one of the party girls as a hostage. When Liz arrives, she gets Mark’s attention, he turns the gun on her, and she shoots him. He lives, so they can prosecute him for Logan’s death and probably Tracey’s.

Charlie is finally finishing that paper. Because he now knows what goes along with the math in his friendship paper. Um… humans? And don’t forget the feeeeeelings.

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