Don't Be So Cruel - Recap

The scene opens with Dwight entering into a hotel and sees his mom putting a bread roll in her purse and asks if she is going to be hungry later. Tony comes over dressed in a suit and tells that it is a beautiful day to have a nice meal. Dwight is a little leery of Tony and his splurge of money at a fancy hotel restaurant. He orders tomato soup and Paula starts to choke. Dwight helps her and an engagement ring pops out. Dwight asks if the ring is for his mom and he tells him yes. Paula accepts and Tony tells Dwight, “Welcome to the Bellew Family”. Suddenly, a bride enters the hotel and asks for a police officer. Dwight tells that he is an officer. The bride tells that her soon to be husband, Greg, has run off. Thinking it is just pre-marriage jitters, Dwight tells her to give him time. But she plays a message that was recorded to her voice mail from Greg. It is a fight and a man’s voice too.

Lt. Rice and Charlie arrive and Sutton fills them in that the bride’s name is Hilary Orlen, daughter to Councilman Orlen and the groom is Greg Watson. His family Don and Laurie Watson are there too. Don tells that he talked and gave him diamond earrings to give to Hilary. A man stands up and says that he and Greg were drinking at the bar until 1:30am. But Dwight looks at the sign and it says that bar closes at Midnight. Sutton recognizes the man to be Collin Stevens, a basketball player. He tells that everyone loves Greg and Dwight tells that they need total honesty. Dwight asks if Greg went with him to the Leopard Lounge Strip Club and his parents deny it. But Collin tells that he came but didn’t look at the girls. Sutton takes the initiative to go interview the girls at the Strip Club and tells that they might have some “information”. Dwight notices that there are cameras in the wall statues. Larry the security guard tells that he can’t give footage without a search warrant but Dwight tells that Larry owes him because of the fact that he stuck up for him in high school that got him elected for president. He gives Dwight the security footage from the other night but there is a problem. All the security tapes are stolen. Larry allows them to look in Greg’s room and tells that he could get into trouble and for them to hurry up. They find Greg’s cell phone on the night stand and Dwight goes into the bathroom. He sees that the shower curtain has been ripped and that there is water in the shower still. He looks down and sees a spot of red. It is blood. The dig up the tile and hit it with a lamp and find that it is a large amount of blood.

Lt. Rice tells that the blood is Greg’s blood type and that it is probably personal and that there is a political issue. Dwight tells that the person that killed Greg knew the hotel. Sutton tells that the strippers tell that they didn’t see anything and he “believes them. He tells to make sure, he is going to give them the “once over” again to make sure. Dwight and Charlie meet with Hilary and tell that they found Greg’s blood and she cries. They move onto Councilman Orlen and they ask if Greg had any enemies and he tells that everyone loved Greg. He pauses when he tells that they got together for dinner. Councilman Orlen tells that Greg and Don got into an argument and that Greg came back frustrated. They visit Don and he tells that Greg got up in the middle of dinner and tells that he jumped up quickly. Sutton tells that there have been robberies in the hotel and a man found an employee going through his things and the man got a broken nose. That would explain things would be easier if it was an employee behind the murder. They look for the murderer and in the kitchen, Dwight sees a girl with Diamond earrings. He stops her and she runs to Manuel. They take them both to the station and Manuel tells the girl that the detectives don’t speak Spanish and that they just need to deny it. But Dwight surprises when he speaks Spanish back and he tells that he took pictures of Greg’s room and that the argument that they heard from the phone was about Cocaine and Collin is involved. Sutton plays a message of a voice mail from Collin and he tells that he will bash his head in if he doesn’t stay cool.

Lt. Rice meets with Collin and he comes clean about the cocaine but tells that he had nothing to do with Greg’s disappearance and tells that Greg was seeing a girl on the side and that the number should be in Greg’s phone. They locate the home of Rachel Stein and a girl answers the door. She sees the badge and tells that her paperwork is good and she uses “it” for medicinal purposes. She tells that Rachel is not there and that she had to go out of town. Dwight sees a car in the yard and sees Rachel’s ID badge. He unlocks the door and finds folders. They point to a Green Street Port Complex. It is a mall that is going to be built and Dwight sees that there are pages ripped out. He uses a pencil and finds out that Orlen is going to get kickbacks for stopping this and that Greg is messing with big people. Meanwhile, Lt. Rice and Paula are working out and Lt. Rice tells that Paula needs to make sure that Paula needs to make Tony her second wife. Rice tells that when men get married to a 2nd wife, it is a 20 something girl. She tells that she needs to stop him from telling her to make him a sandwich and Rice tells Paula to have him keep up his body. They laugh.

Back at the hotel, Dwight and Charlie tell Councilman Orlen that Greg was approached by the Green Street Port Project and asks about Chester Bayon and Orlen tells that he is a corrupted. He gets agitated to think that they hurt Gregg. Sutton tells that Chester is under investigation for tax evasion and that he already put $5 million of his own money into the project. That gives him motive if Greg wanted to shut it down. Sutton points out Chester and tells that he always eats at the hotel. Charlie tells that Rachel never made it to Chicago. Charlie and Dwight sit down with Chester Bayon and they question about Greg and Dwight suggests that Chester killed Greg and Rachel because they were getting in the way. He tells that Dwight is crazy. A woman walks in and gives Dwight a dirty look. Dwight tells things work differently around here. The woman that gave Dwight the look is at the station and Sutton walks by and drops money into her cup. She gets upset that he ruined her latte. The woman is Sgt. Birdie Thorpe. She is introduced to Lt. Rice and Thorpe tells that it is nice to meet her and asks if she works out in a flirtatious tone. Lt. Rice tells her to stand up and tells her to watch her tone. She asks what she is doing there and Dwight tells that Thorpe has been building a case on Chester and Thorpe tells that Chester set up a meeting tomorrow with Rick Stanislaw at the Green Port construction site.

Charlie, Dwight, and Sutton listen in on the conversation about girls for a circus. They leave and Dwight spots a car that was there before. They approach the car and Sgt. Thorpe is above them. Dwight gets the trunk open and the bodies of Greg and Rachel are in the back. Greg’s body is positioned strangely. He is holding his side and finds a piece of paper. At the station, they open the note and it is a bank statement and sees 500,000 was wired to HLO account. Dwight finds that it stands for Hilary Lorraine Orlen. Dwight meets with Councilman Orlen and tells that Chester is going to turn on him and Dwight tells that he is a murderer. Orlen tells that he knows the town better then him and that everyone gives up their morals. Dwight sees that Councilman is wearing the cuff lings that she was going to give to Greg and asks when he got the cuff lings. He tells when he meet for breakfast with Hilary.

Dwight and Charlie meet with Hilary and tell that they know about her giving the cuff lings before Greg was found dead and that it was her that arranged the murder and tried to pin it on Chester Bayon. They tells that they are going to find the man who did the killing and that Hilary is going to jail. She tries to say that her father is a good man and that his reputation should not be tarnished. Dwight tells that it was Hilary that tarnished the history of her family and handcuffs her. As she walks off, Councilman Orlen tells that it is never going to stick. The episode ends as always with Dwight singing. This time it is “Don’t be Cruel”. He points to Tony when he sings the words Don’t Be Cruel.

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