This week's episode is currently airing, but here's a recap of last week's episode of ABC's hit show.
In the opening scene, Nick is showing Andy some kind of food that was left for him in his car. Sergeant Frank Best calls the rookies in and tells them that Chris is gone, much to the surprise and sadness of all, especially Dove. When they are dismissed, Nick asks Gail why she left him food after days of the silent treatment. Before they can talk more, though, she has to help a man at the front desk. The man says he's worried because his 23-year-old daughter has been gone almost nine hours—she never came home last night. But Gail says it hasn't been long enough for the police to file a missing person's report.
Cut to Traci scolding Sam for moving things in the late detective Jerry Barber's office. He then introduces her to Steve Peck, Gail's brother, who works in Guns and Gangs, and tells her to give him the run down since 15 is handing over some cases to them.
In the next scene, as they get into their squad car for patrol, Oliver urges Dove to express his emotions about Chris leaving without saying goodbye, so that he can then focus on work. Dove pretends he's not bothered by it.
Meanwhile, Chloe tells her partner for the day, Marlo, that Dove accused her of being bipolar because someone dropped their medicine and he assumed it was hers. She's furious he blew her off instead of just asking her, and Marlo says she shouldn't be surprised because of the stigma that comes with having a mental illness, especially for a person with a job involving carrying a firearm. Chloe says she's more mad Dove thought she wouldn't tell him. "How can you keep that from someone you want to be with?" she says, which of course hits Marlo hard.
Shoot to Nick and Andy riding together, discussing Chris and relationships. As Andy is insisting she's happy and calm, a cab drives by with a man on the front hood, so they take off after it. The car pulls over and the man starts yelling at the driver, a younger male, accusing him of stealing the cab, as well as regularly stealing from the gas station he owns. Later, as Nick is looking over the gas station security camera footage to figure out who owns the cab, he sees a figure carrying a seemingly unconscious woman out of the cab in the middle of the night. Andy then tells Sam that the cab belonged to the man imprisoned for kidnappings and murders, including the murder of detective Barber: Ross Perik Frank brings in detective Luke Callaghan and tells him the girl is Grace Finn, the daughter of the man who'd come in earlier. In a meeting with 15, Luke recaps the Perik case, discussing his pattern: blondes and keeping women in his basement for 24 hours. They suspect it's a copycat. Frank tells Nick to talk to the father, the rest are sent to canvas the area around the station, and Luke reminds everyone that if it's a copycat, they have 12 hours to find Grace. Sam tells Luke he wants to be on the street and asks Andy to go with him, much to Marlo's chagrin.
From the father, Nick learns Grace left for a run around midnight, but when he presses for more details, the father says he already told officer Peck everything. Gail says that she's not on the case anymore and when he asks if his daughter's case is not important enough, she tells him, in an effort to comfort him, that division brought back one of their own that was kidnapped last year.
At the gas station where the cab was dumped, Dove and Oliver stop a man from getting too close to the scene. He says he's keeping an eye on his daughter, calling the name Maya to a young girl across the parking lot, though she does not respond. He asks the police if it's true someone went missing. Dove shows him the girl's picture but he says he doesn't know her and was sleeping at the time of her abduction.
At the station, Nick tells Luke and Frank that forensics found traces of Ketamine and ACP in the cab, which are the drugs Perik used to sedate his victims. Because the police kept that information private, they know the suspect must have had contact with Perik at some point.
Meanwhile, as Andy and Sam are attempting to uncover who owned the car, Andy tries to confront a mournful Sam. But Sam says he chose Andy because they were partnered the day Barber died, and thus, he wouldn't have to talk about it. They eventually get a name of the man who bought the car from the impound lot: Moses Kelly. They track him down and learn he makes a business out of selling items from murder cases, which leads the officers to an IP address of the person who bought it from Kelly.
Later, at the station, Frank tells Luke, Nick, Sam, and Andy that Perik is only willing to help them if Gail is the one he talks to. Luke wants to send Gail in but Frank insists she be kept away, though Gail overhears and says she'll talk to him if she has to.
In the next scene, Nick and Luke are at the prison where Perik is being held. The warden hands them records of Perik's visitor log, which is filled with lawyers, criminologists, psychiatrists, etc. Luke tries to get information from Perik, but he insists he'll only talk to Gail, and soon demands the guard take him back to his cell, taunting Luke before he leaves.
Back at the station, Traci calls Steve out on stalling and asks why he's really keeping her busy. He caves and tells her about the suspected Perik copycat. She storms off, but he stops her by reminding her that if she goes down there, 15 division will be distracted from the case by their concern for her.
Cut to Grace's father apologizing to Gail and saying he now knows she's the officer who was abducted. He says he'll put his faith in what Gail said—that if they found her, they can find his daughter. This prompts Gail to insist that she talks to Perik to get the information they need. Luke coaches her on what to do, warning her that he'll ask questions and try to distract her.
Gail begins with an aggressive hello. When he remarks that she's taller than he remembered, she retorts "I guess it's hard to judge someone's height when they're tied to a table." She then jumps into the case but he diverts, bringing up the theory of a thinker Carl Young: we all have a shadow self; it's a part of us that's so ugly, we try to keep it hidden away from world. The problem is the more we ignore it, the unhappier it becomes. Gail tries to bring him back to the case but he says I'll tell you a secret when you tell me yours.
Meanwhile, Traci breaks down to Steve about the pain she still feels over losing Jerry. Cut to Dove and Oliver making rounds through the neighborhood by the gas station. A woman answers and says she was at the scene earlier in the day with her daughter, who runs up to the front door to see them. The girl is the one the man they'd talk to had said was his. But when the cops tell the woman they talked to her husband, she says her husband is in New York and that she and her daughter, Karen, were going to visit him that weekend. At this, the officers realize the man they spoke with was the perpetrator.
Back at the prison, Nick joins Luke to watch Gail's interview. Gail tells Perik that she used to shoplift, but he isn't satisfied and demands a secret with more meaning. She then tells him that she accidentally killed a cat one day and it was an incident that traumatized her for life. Finally, Perik feeds them some information. He says there was a guy, though he hasn't seen him in a while, that was curious, a reader, and very attentive to detail. But when Gail asks what he does, Ross said we'll get to that. As Sam and Andy look through the prison visit tapes for a man matching Oliver's description, Gail's interview continues.
Perik cites a book, Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl, and when Gail asks if the answer is in a book, he says the answer's always in a book. He says the author wrote that in periods of stress, love keeps us going. Nick urges Luke to pull Gail out but he refuses. Perik then asks Gail who was on the other side when she escaped from him. She says her boyfriend, but when he asks for information about him, he doesn't believe her that there's nothing to tell about him but his name. "You're lying. It's in the back of your eyes, the shape of your mouth; your shadow self clawing to the surface begging to breathe." Desperate, Gail asks why he's doing this to her and he says that because of her, he has nothing and he wants something to think about while he rots away. She gives in and admits she slept with someone else... to make herself feel better because she was jealous. Perik taunts her in response and she gets up to leave, saying she knows he's not going to help her, but he insists he has helped her. "The answer is always in a book—he's the one with all the answers because he's the one with all the books." At this, Luke asks the warden who runs the prison library, and the warden says it was a recently-released inmate, Adam Sawyer. When Gail leaves the interview room and sees Nick, she realizes their relationship is officially doomed, though at least she was successful with the case. The officers are able to make the arrest and rescue Grace.
In the next scene, Traci apologizes to Steve for breaking down, but he shrugs it off and suggests they have a drink.
Cut to Sam apologizing to Andy for being hard on her and then asking how she is. In turn she asks about him, and he says "who knows... stable, if you can believe that." She says she's glad, and that she really wants to be his friend, to which he replies that he thought they already were friends. Marlo walks in, and he leaves the locker room. And though both women appear to want to say something, Andy merely says see you tomorrow, with a smile, and Marlo smiles back.
Elsewhere, Oliver finally gets Dove to admit he's upset but he knew Chris was going to leave. In response, Oliver tells him he's left his wife Zoey and officially filed for divorce. He suggests they go drink together to lick their wounds.
In the final scene, Nick and Gail finally confront each other in Nick's car. He reminisces about the day he met Gail, saying that he thought right then and there, she'd break his heart one day. Gail responds by mentioning the fact that he chose to spend his weekend off with Andy instead of coming home to her. When he says that doesn't give her license to cheat, and that just because he didn't come home doesn't mean he doesn't want to be with her, Gail says "no, it just means that you wanted to be with her more—you were just going to keep lying to me and to yourself." In response, he admits that it was a crush he thought would go away. In the end, Nick says good night, and leaves Gail standing alone in the street, looking dejected, crushed, regretful, and lost.
Check back tomorrow for the recap of tonight's episode, airing now on ABC.