018 - The Source
Summary
Delia Rivers, a television reporter, disappears in the middle of the investigation of a nightclub owner who is a suspected drug dealer. They also discover that Delia was working on the case of a murderer on death row whom she thought was innocent, and who might be linked to an assistant district attorney.
Rating
It’s a very twisted, convoluted plot, and they manage to bring it all together. Nice writing.
Discussion
Notes
Samantha seems to have hooked up Eric Keller. He asks if he’ll see her that night and she says, “I hope so.” Date? He sent her flowers. She mentions the word “relationship”.
Daughters are Kate (6) and Hannah (8).
Quotes
Vivian: How you doing with that code?
Martin: Well, it’s a modified shorthand, which is easy enough to read, except the sources names and key information, they’re in some sort of transposition cypher.
Vivian: Don’t we have people here who do that kind of thing?
Martin: Where do you think I got the term “transposition cypher”.
Eric Keller: So you come to your friendly, neighborhood homicide detective.
Samantha: Oh, it’s not just the “friendly” part. You’re also the cutest homicide detective I know.
Martin: You and, uh, Delia — fuzzy boundaries.
Samantha: Well, that’s how I like my relationships — nice and complicated.
Martin: Clearly.