Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

After driving Steven home, Finn pockets his house key. Nick is waiting for Finn on her porch, wanting to know what she has discovered about Theresa. She tells him about the stakeout and Steven’s suspicion, insisting that Theresa is having an affair with a client, though she pretends not to know the client’s name. Finn also asserts Theresa couldn’t have been at the bar, as her colleagues from the social networking group at the bar would have recognized her. Nick reveals that he spoke to the bartender who remembered meeting “Theresa,” who behaved strangely when Nick showed him pictures of Theresa, and claimed it wasn’t the same person. Nick finds this suspicious.

Picking up on Finn’s exhaustion, Nick attempts to console Finn by assuring her Theresa won’t win the custody suit. He also brings up the book deal, and Finn is alarmed to learn that Georgia has been telling people about it. Nick offers to take Finn along on a field trip, which will help her research for the book; he will pick her up at 11am the next day.

The next day, Finn breaks into Steven and Theresa’s place using the key she stole, looking for information before Nick arrives. Finn finds Theresa’s yearbooks, which have pictures of Aimee. While Finn is inside, Theresa arrives, and a panicked Finn messages Vero for help. While waiting for Vero to distract Theresa, Finn overhears her talk to someone on the phone, saying she can’t tell Steven where she was, and confessing she is worried about the detective calling her. Upon hearing a loud noise, Theresa steps outside only to see her car being towed by Ramón. While Theresa is distracted, Finn rushes out to find Nick parked in a car across the street, watching her.

Nick explains that he arrived a little early and decided to stake out Theresa’s house while he waited, only to see Finn break in. He drives Finn back home, and Vero takes the kids so she and Nick can talk, even as Delia begins interrogating Finn as to whether she will date Nick. Finn cleans up and heads out with Nick, taking her loaner car instead of his.

Nick and Finn stake out Theresa’s office, Nick revealing on the way that he knows her client’s name, and that Harris was employed by him. Owing to Feliks’s connections to the mob, Nick thinks Theresa is possible a victim rather than an accomplice. No one has ever been able to convict him of anything; even if they had, Feliks has the resources to create a different identity for him and help him disappear.

Nick promises to keep Finn and the kids out of the investigation; he has promised Georgia this, who told him Finn recently had her heart broken, and warned him off doing the same. In a charged moment between them, Nick admits spending time with Finn wasn’t entirely Georgia’s idea. Just as they are about to kiss, Feliks’s Lincoln pulls up.

As Feliks enters the building, Nick steps out and examines the bottom of his car. Feliks and Theresa exit together and drive off in the Lincoln, and Finn and Nick follow. Feliks and Theresa drive around looking at different plots of land, after which Feliks drops Theresa back at her office and leaves. Finn again posits that they are having an affair, but Nick still finds it suspicious that Theresa is a suspect in a murder investigation while Feliks is her client. He reveals Patricia’s Volvo was found, along with her personal effects, at the bottom of a reservoir. Finn finds this strange, remembering the brown Subaru she had seen.

Suddenly, Finn spots Aimee exiting Theresa’s office with her and, not wanting Nick to recognize Aimee from Harris’s pictures, pretends to have something in her eye. Nick tries to help her, and as the women drive off, Nick kisses Finn. However, he breaks away and asks her what it was she didn’t want him to see; he knew she was faking an injury, as a corneal abrasion is especially painful. Despite her lying, he kissed her anyway, hoping it would be worth it, which Nick indicates it was.

Nick drops Finn back home and heads to drop something off at the regional forensics lab. Finn is curious about what this is, having seen him pocket something from underneath Feliks’s car.

Back home, Finn fills Vero in on everything she learned. She sits down to write some more later that night; she has made several changes to the manuscript to avoid suspicion, including removing Julian’s character. However, she misses him, and once again calls him on a whim. Surprised when he picks up, Finn confesses that her name, hair, and profession aren’t real, though she does have two kids, is divorced, and in the middle of a custody battle with her ex. Julian believes her and assures her that since the detective is looking for someone named Theresa, Julian has no reason to tell Nick about her. He asks her to call if she ever needs help, through Finn reassures him she will be fine.

Having tracked down Aimee, Finn and Vero follow her to her workplace, a cosmetics store in a Macy’s. Vero approaches her and makes small talk, hoping to find out where she was the night Harris disappeared. Aimee grows suspicious of Vero’s questioning, thinking she is a cop, but swears she hasn’t seen Harris in more than a year. She was at an AA meeting that night, which can be confirmed by her sponsor. Vero assures Aimee she can confide in her, as the police already know about the photos and Harris can’t hurt her anymore, but Aimee clams up.

On the way back, Finn and Vero wonder who else the killer could be, as Aimee has an alibi. Finn hopes that without a body or any further leads the case will just run cold and Nick will stop pursuing it. Vero asks her to make sure there are no sod farms in her book, and Finn grumpily states that in her story the body is buried in a cemetery, on top of other bodies.

Ramón texts Finn that her minivan is ready for pick up, but when she arrives at his garage, she is ambushed by Feliks and Andrei, who have forced Ramón to take the evening off. Feliks demands to know why Finn and “Detective Anthony” were following them, having recognized Nick. Finn tells him they were following Theresa, whom her fiancé and Finn’s ex-husband, Steven, thinks is having an affair; Finn claims her relationship with Nick is entirely personal, and he was just keeping her company.

Feliks doesn’t entirely buy her story but is forced to leave with a warning when he hears a police siren. Nick runs in and finds Finn, having rushed to her after receiving a frantic message from Vero, whom Ramón tipped off. When Finn tells Nick what happened, he apologizes for putting her in danger. Finn collects her things but is forced to leave behind her wig-scarf in the garage, where it had fallen from her purse, for fear of Nick seeing it. Nick takes Finn and promises to have a cop stationed outside her house henceforth.

Nick arrives to check on Finn the next morning and asks her to accompany him to the lab to collect the results. On the way out they run into Steven, who has arrived to pick up the kids. Delia informs him that Finn is dating Nick, which upsets Steven. She also asks Steven if they can pick up Sam from the shelter, as Aaron had promised her she could adopt him.

At the lab, Nick reveals that the undercarriage of the Lincoln had soil and grass stuck to it, indicating it had been off-roading recently. He guesses that Feliks has already found the plot he wants, and Nick wants to figure out where it is so he can raid it in time.

The technician at the lab, Pete, recognizes Finn, professing he loves her books, and asks her to autograph a copy. Finn panics when Pete points out how different Finn looks from her author photograph in the book, and she realizes Nick could easily use it to place her at The Lush. However, Nick doesn’t seem to notice, and impatiently asks Pete for the results.

Pete reveals that the grass in the specimen is rare enough that it was easy to track down to a single address in the area. When Nick looks at the address, he grows tight-lipped and rushes to take Finn home. On her demands, he finally reveals that the grass came from Steven’s farm. Despite Nick’s hesitation at involving Finn any further, she insists that she accompany him to the farm.

At Steven’s farm, Finn and Nick meet Bree and pretend to be buying sod for Nick’s land. She directs him to the patch where the specific grass that Nick names is grown; the patch lies right across from the plot where Harris is buried. Nick hits upon the idea that Feliks is dealing with Theresa not as a real estate agent, but as someone who is about to be co-owner of the farm as soon as she marries Steven. He rushes back to request a search warrant to dig up Steven’s farm.