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WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB: GRANNIES, GUNS AND LOVE MINTS (TV)

Summary

One in this police drama about a group of women who investigate homicides in San Francisco. Cindy and Jill pester Lindsay about her date with Simon, but Lindsay is not forthcoming with details. She visits Claire, who is performing an autopsy on Edna James, an elderly woman who died in her sleep on a plane returning from vacation in Mexico. Claire is surprised to find a packet of heroin in the Edna’s stomach, indicating that she may have been a drug mule. Lindsay and Warren visit Edna’s daughter Noni and deliver the news; she insists that her mother used no illicit substances. Lindsay theorizes that the drugs may have been implanted involuntarily or under duress; this indicates that the death may have been a homicide. They discover that she was in Mexico with her retirement community and pay a visit, whereupon Lindsay is immediately greeted by Winnie Spencer, a retiree suffering from Alzheimer’s who mistakes Lindsay for her daughter. She is soon taken away and they speak to another retiree, Harold Larson, who makes a pass at Lindsay. They question the administrator of the retirement home, Allen Douglas, who explains the details of the Mexico trip, which took the retirees to a spa of high repute. He gives them the names of the staff accompanying the residents on the trip, but explains that the home’s social director, Reese, has not been in to work since Edna’s death. They investigate Reese’s home and are greeted by a blood-splattered dog. They discover Reese’s body, which apparently died in the midst of injecting heroin. They discover a number of drug paraphernalia items in her home and believe that she purchased heroin in Mexico surreptitiously and somehow forced some of the retirees to act as drug mules for her, hoping to “retrieve” them at the retirement home. During the investigation one of the homicide squad members asks Lindsay out for coffee, as her co-workers now believe that she is available for dating. Lindsay roundly rejects him and meets with Cindy, Jill, and Claire. Each of them plans to look closer into various aspects of the case, and Lindsay believes that Reese’s operation included someone else at the retirement home. Jill brings in an ex-drug addict friend of hers whom she attended law school with, and gets him to ask around about the drug operation. Tom asks Jill about his wedding invitations; he doesn’t want to invite Lindsay but also doesn’t want to hurt her feelings. Lindsay and Warren send in dogs to search the retirement home for drugs; Allen notes that he never suspected Reese of being involved with drug trafficking. The dogs find drugs on Harold, but they turn out to be unrelated substances, such as erectile dysfunction pills and medical marijuana. Lindsay interrogates Harold, who claims he has prescriptions for his drugs, but during the interview he feigns a heart attack to throw her off-guard. Warren discovers that other retirees have access to marijuana from the residential physician, Dr. Steven Poole, who has attended previous trips to Mexico. Jill discovers that Dr. Poole’s medical license was revoked from 1999 to 2003 due to a substance abuse problem. Tired of the constant remarks about her dating life, Lindsay gets up in front of the entire office and declares that she is not “on the market,” and will not date anyone there. She and Warren interrogate Dr. Poole over his former addiction to painkillers and possible involvement with the drug trafficking; he seems to have no knowledge of it. Claire performs an autopsy on Reese and discovers no physical evidence of drug use present in her body, indicating that she may have been murdered and the drugs planted there after the fact. The heroin found on her body was the same as the kind found in Edna’s, and Claire reveals that this batch of heroin was cut with a powerful analgesic which makes it lethal, as evidenced when the bodies of overdosed addicts start coming in to the station. Jill is devastated to find that one of the bodies is that of her contact. They find a scrap of rubber with the word “Vega” written on it in his pocket. Edna’s son-in-law Dennis reveals that not long before she died Edna wanted to change part of her will to leave money to one of the nurses at the retirement home, Logan Young. Tom goes out with his squad personally to find out more about the drug operation, although Lindsay is worried about him. Jill feels responsible for Robert’s death, although Lindsay, Cindy, and Claire believe she shouldn’t blame herself. She also reports that other retirees left portions of their estate to Logan, increasing Lindsay’s suspicions. Lindsay brings Logan in for questioning, and he simply states that he has befriended his elderly patients over the years and they are showing their appreciation for him. He insists that he has nothing to hide, but redirects their attention towards Harold, whom he claims was sleeping with Edna and several other female retirees. Robert’s mother comes in to identify his body and Jill tries to provide her with some comfort. Jill talks to Claire about it, noting that she doesn’t want children out of fear of losing them, and lamenting that the people she loves keep disappearing from her life. Claire tries to give her some reassurance about the value of perseverance. Lindsay and Warren try to speak to Harold again, but find him apparently dead in the retirement home. Lindsay suspects he may have been murdered to prevent him from passing on valuable information to the police. However, Harold is actually alive after nearly suffering from a hypoglycemic coma. He could have been induced into this state deliberately via an insulin overdose. An accident in Claire’s lab gives Lindsay inspiration: some vermiculite found at the scene of Reese’s death, which the police earlier had written off as merely broken insulation from the culprit’s shoes, may have come off the shoes of one of her lab technicians, as it could also be used as a soil additive. Lindsay points out that Dennis works in landscaping and was in the station to pick up Edna’s effects, making him a suspect in her death. Harold awakens in the hospital and Lindsay speaks with him; he reveals that Edna was running out of money and feared she wouldn’t be able to stay at the retirement home. He also reveals that Dennis visited the home weekly for landscaping work and only spoke to Edna to ask for money for an unknown purpose. Furthermore, Allen was threatening to evict Edna, and also threatened a few other financially insecure residents who signed their estates over to the retirement home in exchange for staying on; all of these residents were present on the Mexico trip. Jill and Cindy investigate further and find that Dennis’s landscaping business was in dire shape, and that he was secretly hiring ex-convicts to work for him. She also discovers that Allen was apparently taking trustee money for his own private investments and keeping the profits, and Cindy discovers that he used to be a nurse who attended medical school in Mexico. All this leads Lindsay to hypothesize that Allen spearheaded the drug trafficking and got Dennis to assist him in the operation. Lindsay and Warren bend the truth to try to extract a confession out of Dennis, and Lindsay accuses him directly of using the retirees as drug mules and killing and framing Reese. Noni arrives and Dennis keeps insisting that he is innocent. Lindsay tells Dennis that they’ve arrested his ex-convict workers, including a drug dealer named Vega. Under the pressure Dennis confesses, although he notes that Edna’s death was an accident and that the mastermind behind the scheme was Allen, whom he names as Reese’s killer. Lindsay and Warren arrive at the retirement home to arrest Allen, but he pulls a gun on them and leads them on a chase through the complex. He takes Winnie as a hostage, but discovers that his gun is out of bullets. Lindsay tackles him into a pond and subdues him, bringing him in for arrest. Jill has dinner with Luke, telling him that she doesn’t want to get married. He seems to understand her trepidation. Lindsay decides to take Winnie out for dinner for “girl talk,” although Winnie still mistakes Lindsay for her daughter. Commercials deleted.

Details

  • NETWORK: ABC
  • DATE: November 2, 2007 9:00 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 1:02:44
  • COLOR/B&W: Color
  • CATALOG ID: B:93050
  • GENRE: Drama, police/private detective
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police/private detective
  • SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 2007-2008
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CREDITS

  • Elizabeth Craft … Executive Producer, Created by
  • Sarah Fain … Executive Producer, Created by
  • R. Scott Gemmill … Executive Producer, Writer
  • James Patterson … Executive Producer, Based on characters from the books by
  • Joe Simpson … Executive Producer
  • Brett Ratner … Executive Producer
  • Rick Wallace … Co-Executive Producer, Director
  • Gretchen J. Berg … Co-Executive Producer
  • Aaron Harberts … Co-Executive Producer
  • Matt Witten … Supervising Producer
  • Ed Milkovich … Producer
  • Tony Palermo … Associate Producer
  • Barbara Hall … Consulting Producer
  • Jay Ferguson … Music by
  • Angie Harmon … Cast, Inspector Lindsay Boxer
  • Laura Harris … Cast, Deputy District Attorney Jill Bernhardt
  • Paula Newsome … Cast, Dr. Claire Washburn
  • Aubrey Dollar … Cast, Cindy Thomas
  • Tyrees Allen … Cast, Inspector Warren Jacobi
  • Linda Park … Cast, Deputy District Attorney Denise Kwon
  • Rob Estes … Cast, Lieutenant Tom Hogan
  • Anita Gillette … Cast, Winnie Spencer
  • Orson Bean … Cast, Harold Larson
  • Coby Ryan McLoughlin … Cast, Luke Bowen
  • Robert Picardo … Cast, Allen Douglas
  • Tim Griffin … Cast, Dennis Iverson
  • Joan McMurtey … Cast, Quinn Danies
  • Dale Godboldo … Cast, Logan Young
  • Eli Goodman … Cast, Robert Danies
  • Marcus Chait … Cast, Dr. Steven Poole
  • Rebecca Lowman … Cast, Noni Iverson
  • Kelvin Yu … Cast, Fong
  • Tyler Olson … Cast, Hollis