Lieutenant Ambrose more than meets his match in Captain Farmer
I have to giveThe Sinnercredit this week.
Short of a water-skiing squirrel, theres nothing local news loves quite as much as an unidentified corpse.
The remains discovered in the county forest preserve last night are all over television.
Credit: Peter Kramer/USA Network
Phoebe looks several years older, a young teenager herself now; Cora looks like…present-day Jessica Biel.
(Sorry, maam, but Im not buying it.)
Over dinner, Coras dull date Scott drones on and on and on about his job.
Cora tells him he has something stuck in his teeth, suggesting he grab a toothpick from the register.
While Scotts gone, she grabs all the cash in his wallet.
This is your moneymaking master plan, ladies?)
Captain Farmer (Joanna Adler) has been assigned to the case of the body in the woods.
But its clear that this prisoner isnt going to be treated like detectives pet anymore.
Eventually, he reaches a fence with a back road and buildings beyond it.
This is not J.D.s crowd, nor is it Coras, nor it it even Ambroses.
Photos of tennis-playing, rifle-toting (not both at once, though) white dudes line the tony lobby.
An employee with a broom tries ineffectively to encourage a lost bird out a window.
Ambrose spots an old-fashioned wallpaper that looks…familiar.
It isnt long before the police chief hears about Ambroses antics at the Beverwyck.
He isnt happy and neither is the clubs attorney, the very same slimeball who represents J.D.
Conflicted over this decision, Cora is invited to join a prayer circle with her fellow prisoners.
Someone in scrubs and an incongruously shiny pair of black dress shoes enters and kneels down beside her.
Its the man in the creepy, featureless knit mask again.
She was working late at a fundraiser where a table of guys kept buying more and more drinks.
She had one, and she blacked out.
Cynthia woke up in a Walmart parking lot, naked in the passenger seat of her car.
She was fired the next week.
Well, thats terrible (if useful) information but Ambroses day is about to get a lot worse.
At couples therapy, Faye tells her husband that, once and for all, its over.
I think it was a mistake for you to move back in, she says.
Ive realized I dont want to do this anymore.
She feels alone, even when theyre together.
Ambrose is utterly blindsided.
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Despite Ambroses request that she tread lightly around J.D.
so they can take him by surprise later, Farmer orders a SWAT team bust of the dealers house.
They only pick up his girlfriend, who insists the drugs are hers and refuses to say more.
Ambrose, less than thrilled by this development, accuses Farmer of trying to coerce a confession from Cora.
She in turn (correctly!)
You do that with all your defendants, or just ones that look like Cora Tannetti?
And with that, Ambrose is back with his dominatrix.
Its there that he gets a call from Cora, who tells him shes thinking about taking the deal.
He asks her to hang in there.
So you want to talk for a while?
(Okay, nerd.)
Someone has graffitied killer bitch on the side of the Tannettis company van.
Theyre losing their clients and their friends.
Must have been a prank.
As he walks back to his truck, J.D.
I cant take it here much longer, Phoebe tells her.
Their bond is clearly stronger than ever Phoebe says Cora is the only reason shes still alive.
And so Cora meets the mysterious Kevin in a local park at night.
She immediately gets a bad vibe.
She denies shes Anastasia and bolts.
He runs after her and grabs her by the arm.
offers Cora a ride to a party at his house.
Maddie is there, watching their arrival with irritation from a distance.
sit out back by the fire, where J.D.
demonstrates for the first time in this series why someone might conceivably want to sleep with him.
Youre a force, you realize that?
he tells Cora, whom he just met, like, 25 minutes ago.
You could be anything you want.
You should be asking for the world.
Okay, J.D., pal, tone it down a little.
Cut to an intense make-out, which Cora interrupts, apologetically, to tell J.D.
He is anything but deterred by this news.
Mom, helpfully, calls Cora a whore.
Ambrose returns to the club in stealth mode, wearing a ball cap.
Lieutenant, I didnt realize you were such a master of disguise.
He quietly opens a door marked Staff Only and finds a staircase descending to a basement.
You were in love with J.D.
You were obsessed with him…I know how it feels.
These men, they just screw you and toss you aside, she tells her.
Then its time for the piece de resistance: Farmer pulls out a photo of Coras son Laine.
Tell me what happened and all of this will be over.
Cora, her face tear-stained, looks at the cop: Go to hell.
Well, whatever, lady.
Mason leaves his mom snoozing at the delivery guys bedside in the hospital.
