Prime Suspect Episode 1.06 Shame

It's morning when Jane finds herself in the lobby of an upscale hotel. Up on the fourth floor, 44-year-old drill salesman Edward Wadzinski lies dead, and his laptop, wallet and phone are missing. When Jane sees he had a drink from the mini-bar, she hands off the bottle for testing - maybe Wadzinski was drugged and rolled. Later, Duffy gossips with his old buddy Chuck Rhinegold, a former detective who's now the hotel's Head of Security. He's got video of Wadzinski strolling the lobby with a pretty young woman who's clearly not his wife. When Jane spies the woman on the tape leaving alone on the service elevator, Rhinegold teases. Doesn't Jane recognize the service elevator? She claims she doesn't, so Rhinegold moves on, gossiping with Duffy about Costello, making clear implications about what happened between him and Jane at this very hotel. Pissed, Jane plows into Rhinegold's breakfast tray, sending its contents flying.

Later, Jane interrupts the guys' joke party to hand off a photo of the red-wigged woman they believe robbed and drugged Wadzinski. Duffy has already spoken to the victim's business partner. After attending a hardware convention, both men went out for drinks, but the partner left at 11:00 and didn't see the woman in question. Jane sends Duffy to the bar to verify the story; Augie and Calderon will get the photo to all security at Manhattan hotels which are two star and above and check with Vice to see if they recognize the suspect. When Blando reminds everyone to hit the range for quarterly sidearm qualification by the end of the week, Duffy asks if it's possible to get an extension - not for him, but for Jane. She was a little unsteady on her feet during their meeting with Rhinegold, so he's just looking out for her.

Jane proceeds to the morgue to meet Wadzinski's wife Irene, who positively identifies her husband. When Irene asks who did it, Jane admits that Wadzinski had company last night. Furious, Irene starts beating her husband's corpse. Jane lets her have at him until she dumps the body onto the floor. Calderon shows up to report that the woman in the red wig definitely met Wadzinski at the bar, but no one at any of the hotels or on the Vice squad knows who she is. But what he really came to tell Jane is that the redhead struck again. It's not long before Jane and Duffy are at another hotel watching videotape of naval Commander Adam Wells walking the lobby with their suspect, now in a blond wig. Head of Hotel Security Ben Bellows informs that the woman left alone 45 minutes later, and about 10 minutes after that, a half-naked Wells stumbled into the lobby, raving like a lunatic.

After learning that Wells is currently on psych hold at Bellevue, Duffy starts busting Jane's chops. Does she know this hotel too - or does she prefer to frequent more out of the way places? When Duffy tries to involve Bellows, also a former detective, in smearing Jane, Bellows indicts both Duffy and Rhinegold for their idle gossip. What cop hasn't slept with another cop? Duffy claims the issue is unfair advantage, but Bellows maintains the issue is solving cases, which is clearly what Jane's trying to do. Jane and Evrard proceed to Bellevue to interview a mortified Wells, who confirms their suspect is the same girl he was with last night. A widower, he didn't think he'd be hurting anyone by picking up a prostitute. Back at the hotel, she made them both drinks. She said her name was Candace, and she stole his dress uniform. Wells is grateful that he's not dead; but he did report himself to naval intelligence, so he probably won't be walking away from this unscathed.

Jane finds Matt at the bar, hanging out with Des. She asks Des if she can call his old buddy Dunsmore, who works at the Department of Defense, in hopes of helping the disgraced Wells. Matt's impressed, so Des explains that Dunsmore was the pilot on his helicopter back in 'Nam. Des was a door gunner, and he saw a whole lot of things he couldn't unsee. He tried to talk Jane out of being a cop; he wanted her to be an ice skater. When Matt gets up, Jane confesses that she's not really alright, then tells Des about her morning with Rhinegold. Des allows that Jane can't undo a mistake like Costello; she knew that back when she was doing it. All she can do is atone, and the hell with the rest of them.

The next day, Jane meets with Wells down at the precinct to inform that both he and Wadzinski were drugged with ketamine, which is more than a little ironic considering all the wars Wells has lived through. Meanwhile, chaos reigns in the hallway, which is where Duffy stands amidst a bunch of cantankerous prostitutes. Jane leaves Duffy to wrangle the girls, while she sets up several lineups for Wells, but none of them is the suspect. In fact, no one has made any progress on identifying the suspect. Evrard points out that Augie and Calderon used to work Narcotics - doesn't that mean drugs, and isn't ketamine a drug? When Jane asks if they know anyone who works the street, Calderon racks his brain, then remembers a club kid named Bugsy, Augie's old snitch.

Later that night, Augie and Calderon pull Bugsy into the stock room at the back of a hipster club. Bugsy claims he doesn't go down the K-hole anymore. Calderon suggests that when they make a bust, they'll confiscate merchandise, and since they're not working Narcotics anymore, they won't care if that merchandise maybe got misplaced. Bugsy claims he doesn't have a name, only a number. Just as Augie and Calderon are pretending they're going to pop Bugsy in the mouth for his trouble, Jane calls. They've got another dead guy named Marcus Normandie, whose business partner Nate Taylor stands by, crying and looking traumatized. Later at the precinct, Taylor explains that a drunken Marcus called him around 11:30 claiming he felt terrible. By the time Taylor got housekeeping to open his door, he was dead.

Calderon shows Taylor a picture of a black-wigged woman in Marcus' hotel lobby. Taylor identifies her as a woman they met at the raceway in Westchester. It was their annual trip to the track, and Marcus won big. When the woman started flirting with him, Taylor knew it didn't feel right, but he didn't want to spoil Marcus' good time. Afterwards, Augie, Duffy and Jane puzzle over a deep question in the break room - what's a beautiful, high-class prostitute doing at the harness races? Augie admits he's been to the track before, and the only decent girls working that place are the fillies. Duffy points out that their suspect may have gotten her ketamine at the track. Evrard walks in after qualifying at the range. He admits he doesn't like shooting, but he has other fine qualities - he can make babies laugh. When Calderon announces that there's a veterinary hospital at the track, the detectives head out.

Duffy asks Jane why they're at the track if it's a dead end. Claiming she's going to cut Duffy some slack on his attitude, Jane sharpens her claws. After all, Duffy's life must be tough, living with his mother. Duffy claims he doesn't live with his mother; they just happen to live in the same building. Jane thinks this is a very wise move to preserve personal space; this way Duffy's mom can do his laundry and make his bed. Jane and Duffy meet with veterinarian, Dr. Sinclair, who claims that it's not possible for anyone to steal her ketamine. She keeps all her schedule three narcotics locked up, and only she and Dr. Haziakian, now on vacation, have the key. Haziakian's nephew Gary might know where he is, and he's out back. Dr. Sinclair opens her drug cabinet to discover that she's mistaken - vials are missing.

Jane and Duffy cruise the stables looking for Gary, and they know they have their man when he starts running. Gary ducks into a stall and hides behind a pile of hay, so the detectives pretend they've lost him. When Duffy states that he's going to take a couple of practice shots into the hay pile, Gary reveals himself with his hands up. After learning Gary's phone number is the same one Bugsy gave Augie and Calderon, Jane shows him photos of the woman in the wigs. Gary maintains his innocence, insisting the woman in the photos isn't his girlfriend. However, he may have sold some Special K to a friend, who may be the boyfriend of the woman in the photos. He'll tell them where the guy is, but then he wants to walk away. Jane needs him more than he needs her. After all, she's got a killer on the loose, and if she could find him, she would have done it already. Jane refuses to make a deal, so Gary tells her the next dead guy is on her.

Outside the interrogation room, Duffy insists they're not releasing Gary, who's now up for conspiracy to murder. Luckily, Calderon has good news. Ten months ago, Gary was released after serving 18 months at Fulton for dealing. His cellmate, a drug dealer named Ward Foster, was just released two months ago. Smiling, Jane and Duffy return to interrogation, pretending they talked over Gary's deal. Jane hands over a slip of paper with Ward's address - turns out they don't need Gary after all, and he'll proceed directly to booking. It's not long before Jane and Duffy are knocking on Ward's door. When Ward doesn't answer, the cops bust down the door, to find him wearing the Commander's dress blues and headphones, playing a loud video game. Ward has no clue that he's surrounded by cops with their guns aimed at the back of his head. Finally, Duffy knocks the fake gun out of Ward's hand.

Down at the precinct, Duffy and Jane question Ward, who remains silent - until they get under his skin, calling him a pimp and his girlfriend a prostitute. Jane asks Ward if he's going to take the full wrap, life in prison for conspiracy to commit murder. On a break, Jane spies the Commander and offers him his uniform, which she's had dry cleaned. Oh, and did Wells actually have sex with their suspect? Wells insists that he didn't, so Jane asks if he's willing to take a polygraph test to that effect. Later, Duffy pulls Ward out of interrogation, promising there's something he's going to want to see: Wells' polygraph test. Augie and Calderon administer the test, asking Ward repeatedly if he had sex with "that woman." The machine goes bonkers, making it look like he's lying and did have sex. Afterwards, Calderon pulls the magnet off his watch, which is what he used to manipulate the lie detector machine. Augie and Calderon are a little too happy with the success of their ruse.

Back in interrogation, Jane keeps playing her game. Ward put his trust in his girlfriend Emma, and she violated it. He's not sure if she killed those men on purpose or not, but now he wants to help the cops. What does he have to do? Later that night, Jane and Calderon sit in a car with Ward, who's wearing a wire. All he has to do is get Emma to talk about drugging her victims. Ward enters the bar and spies Emma, who's about to close on a mark. Once he tells the guy to shove off, Ward starts the ketamine conversation. Emma claims she keeps it simple; she just puts the ketamine in their drinks. When Ward accuses her of having sex with the men, she gets mad, and a scuffle ensues. Seated nearby, Duffy pulls Ward out of the bar, while Jane arrests Emma.

In the interrogation room, Jane remarks that Emma's a smart girl - salutatorian of her high school class, merit scholarship to Fordham - that's better than Jane ever did in school. But if Emma's smart and a good judge of people's height and weight, it would probably be easy to figure out how much ketamine to give people and not kill them. Unless, Emma doesn't care if she's killing people. That's when Emma makes it clear that she didn't realize she was a murderer - it was just ketamine after all; it's not supposed to kill people. Disgusted, Jane figures that her original impression of Emma was wrong; apparently, she's just a dumb thief whore. Emma insists she's not a whore, but it doesn't matter to Jane. Either way, Emma's a murderer.

After it's all over, Jane meets with Wells. This incident shouldn't be the end of his career. Prostitution may be illegal, but he'll never mess with it again. Though he will have to return to New York to testify, Jane doesn't see any reason why anybody in Annapolis has to know anything. Des' friend at the D.O.D. thinks he can keep the incident from going up the ladder, so even though Wells called naval intelligence, he should be okay. When Wells asks why Jane would go to such lengths, she explains that he seems like a good man who did something stupid. He should just move on and not do anything stupid again. Later, Jane and Duffy head to the range for their sidearm qualification. Duffy does okay, and he's more than a little ruffled to learn about Jane's perfect score. When the range officer asks if she forgot that she already qualified two weeks ago, Jane states that she didn't forget - she just likes it at the range. A lot.