The episode opens on the night before Noelle and Frank's wedding, with Andy, Traci and Chloe helping with the final preparations. Traci tells a distracted Noelle to go rest and she'll take care of everything.
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Cut to Marlo packing for a trip to Miami, which means she'll miss the wedding. Sam insists she should go and get the break she needs.
The show returns to Traci, as she pulls up to the station with her car falling apart. Steve Peck sees her and offers to be her chauffeur for all her wedding errands.
Next, Chloe begs Dove to tell Frank about their relationship. She says sneaking around is sexy but that not being honest is giving her hives. He brushes the idea off.
In the morning meeting, Oliver tells everyone that they can get home early if all goes well. Then, as he and Dove head to the squad car, he tells Dove he's not going to the wedding because his ex-wife Zoey is going with her new boyfriend. Dove insists he should go and one-up Zoey.
Chloe and Gail are partners for the day, and Chloe is going on about the wedding. Gail makes a typical cynical comment, to the disappointment of Chloe. She officially ends the conversation when she cruelly accuses Chloe of being faker than a big wedding.
Meanwhile, Nick and Andy are partnered up. Andy is goofily singing along to "More than Words" and Nick is looking at her with amused adoration. He brings up possible police work they could do and she presses him to lighten up. Then offers to be his wing man at the wedding. Their conversation is ended when they get a call about a bus stuck under an overpass. They respond and find a number of seniors in the bus who'd been robbed by the driver, who assaulted two of them, and then disappeared. Sam shows up to the scene and after he and the officers discuss the scenario, Andy mentions how excited she is for the wedding. In her flirtatious way, Andy tells him she'll save a dance for him.
Cut to Dove pressing Oliver to call Celery, the woman involved with a case last episode, and invite her to the wedding. He gives in, stumbles through asking her, and she says yes.
Elsewhere, Frank calls Sam to ask for help prepping for the ceremony because his brother, who was supposed to be his best man, had to take care of an urgent matter. Sam leaves Oliver in charge of the investigation and heads off.
At the station, the officers talk to the seniors involved in the robbery. Andy and Nick are talking to a couple: Eleanor and Grim; Eleanor is blind. She tells them that the perpetrator's voice sounded as if it was fake, an act.
Another man, Archie, points out how smart the criminal was, since he attacked a bus of well-off seniors headed to the slots, and thus, certain to be carrying a lot of cash and valuables. Soon Oliver and Dove talk to June Heaton, the manager of the elderly home the victims belong to, Bedford House. She said she hires the bus company, and that she's been using Princess Coach Lines for six years without a problem. Oliver told her the bus belonged to Hock Line, and June says she's never even heard of them. Chloe tells Oliver that Hock Line doesn't know anything about the driver, but that they recently rented to a new customer: John Doe.
Oliver brings 15 Division up to speed about the investigation. Dove shares Archie's testimony and Nick points out that that means it must have been an inside job— someone on the bus knew the driver/thief. Oliver says they all need to re-discuss the case with their witnesses/victims.
Chloe asks June who she talked to at the Princess Coach Lines and how she didn't notice the bus was different or any helpful details about the driver. June then sees her husband come in and asks if she can leave to go greet him. Chloe tells Dove she thinks that June is the inside person and her husband is the driver, but when Dove tells her to turn around, she sees the husband is in a wheel chair.
Gail's couple are frenemies: Constance and Walter. They list the things that were stolen from them, including Constance's three wedding rings. Walter, makes fun of her for having married three times, and she retorts by insulting him for being a full-time bachelor. Constance says to Gail, "You're a lucky girl. You still have that special day ahead of you..." but Gail cuts in to make a cynical comment; she lists all the bad things about a wedding: divorce, annulment, public embarrassment, being dumped at the altar. As she says the last point, she directs her voice towards Nick standing behind her.
Cut to Sam and Frank. Frank is saying how nervous he is even though it's his third time getting married. He notes that maybe it's because it's the real thing. Sam asks him how he knows and he says "in a neighborhood like mine, you grow up thinking that real men didn't show how they feel, but it was an act, macho crap, but Noelle never bought into it." He goes on to say "you know it's real when she makes you better... it's tough sometimes, but you're grateful."
A couple of scenes later brings audiences back to Andy and Nick. Andy is complaining that they have to deal with the seniors and their missing items, including wedding rings (referring to what she overheard Gail's couple saying), instead of getting ready for the wedding. From her comment, Nick soon realizes that Grim and Eleanor Ward didn't list wedding rings in their inventory of stolen things. When they confront the couple, Eleanor says Grim had taken them to get cleaned a couple of days prior to the robbery. Out of earshot of Eleanor, Nick questions Grim about the seemingly-too-fortunate coincidence, but Grim brushes him off with an attitude.
As the robbery case is unfolding, Traci and Steve find Noelle, who tells Traci she's not getting married. She admits that at a recent mammogram, a lump was found, and though she has not received confirmation from a biopsy test result, she'd been expecting this to happen since both her mother and sister died fairly young of breast cancer. Traci asks why she hasn't told Frank and Noelle says, "Because he'd marry me anyway... I already feel like I trapped him by getting pregnant, I'm not going to let him end up with some sick wife to look after too..." She wants to get away and Steve says they'll take her wherever she wants to go. However, eventually, she changes her mind about leaving and tells Steve to turn the car around.
Back at the station, Nick and Andy are interrogating Grim. They explain that June said the couple was behind on payments and that she'd told Grim that they would have to leave if they couldn't pay. Then Nick points out that he has no pension or solid line of credit but he has a nephew with a history of B & Es [breaking and entering], theft, fraud, etc, and that according to phone records the two have recently been talking a lot. Grim gives up and launches a heartfelt speech about how hard life is and how hard it is to deal when the woman you love needs treatment you can't pay for.
Gail dismisses the rest of the seniors and on her way out, Constance tells Gail that she needs to have fun with a friend and not be so cynical. Gail points out that she and Walter hate each other, to which Constance replies "I don't hate him. He's my plus one. Life's way too long to go through it alone."
Shoot to Nick and Andy arriving at a construction site to confront the nephew, Jameson Ward. However, he's working on a project so they must wait for him.
Meanwhile, Oliver and Celery arrive at the wedding in style, and Oliver shows her around the crowd. When they run into Zoey, Oliver learns that she and her boyfriend broke up. He comforts her but soon returns to Celery. Then Gail shows up with Holly as her informal, impromptu plus one.
As Sam and Dove stall Frank for Noelle, Dove tells him about his relationship with Chloe. Soon Traci tells Frank that Noelle is ready to talk to him. Noelle tells him about the cancer and says she doesn't want to go through it with him but Frank insists he's not going anywhere, and uses her own trick to comfort her.
Elsewhere, Andy is bummed that they are going to miss the wedding because they have to wait for Jameson, so Nick calls Dove and tells him to put the phone on speakerphone so Andy can listen in on the wedding. Nick says I actually wish we were there but then says: "there's nowhere I'd rather be than here, though. Just you and me sitting here doing what we do." Big hint number one, and yet she does not pick up on it. Andy starts tearing up and says that even though she knows the key words in the traditional vows so well, they get more magical every time she hears them. Here comes the big moment... Nick says: "that's how I feel about you." And the girl misses the hint again. Andy jokes, "what that my words get more magical"... to which Nick responds, "No, you do, I know it's crazy right?" Before the conversation can continue, they are informed that Jameson is done. But before they detain him, he climbs back up the structure to evade them. While they wait once more, Andy asks Nick what they do now, questioning out loud if what he said is crazy. Nick replies, "Well that's up to you." Andy doesn't say anything but bites an apple and hands it to him casually.
At the wedding, Steve asks Traci to dance but she declines because she dislikes dancing. Celery tries to leave because she thinks Oliver needs to still work things out about Zoey, but he insists he doesn't and convinces her to stay and dance with him. Gail and Holly are in the coat closet. Gail asks her all about what it's like to be a lesbian. Their conversation is a little flirtatious and soon Holly casually kisses Gail, then gets up to go dance, saying "thanks, that was fun, plus one forever." Gail is left seemingly confused and enthralled. Well I saw that one coming. It's about time the show followed suit of every other show on television and introduced a same-sex relationship... don't get me wrong, I'm not against it, but it seems a bit of an unnecessarily forced plot line in this case. However, it does add a little spice to the show and maybe it'll make Gail a more likeable character.
Sam asks Oliver how his date is and if he's happy and Oliver asks Sam if he's happy. He says he's trying, and Oliver says" don't miss your chance pal." At that moment, Sam sees Andy walking in with Nick (and looking gorgeous).
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In the closing moments, Andy tells Nick she needs time, presumably to process what he's told her. He says "I'm not going anywhere, I got all the time in the world."Will Andy choose to see if their chemistry as friends translates into chemistry as a couple? Tune in next week [August 15 at 10 p.m.] to find out if her decision is revealed. (Personally, I think Nick's a great guy for her to date before she fulfills her destiny of being with Sam, but we shall see).