Motive/Chronology of Pain

Chronology of Pain
Season 4, Episode 12
Airdate	August 23, 2016
Written by	Julie Puckrin
Directed by	Rachel Leiterman
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Chronology of Pain is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of Motive, and the fifty-first episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Joanna Cassidy (Judge Natalie Rodman), Emily Tennant (Lexi Moore), AJ Buckley (Mark Duff), Tim Matheson (Brent Rodman), Victor Zinck, Jr. (Det. Mitch Kennecki), Erin Boyes, David Lewis (Sgt. Gavin Saunders), Cameron Bright (Manny Flynn)

Co-Starring: Luke Humphrey (Justin), Hiko Kanagawa (Craig Sugimoto), Carmen Moore (Gemma Fowler), Dean Marshall (Trevor Dale), Kurt Max Runte (Monty), Jaren Brandt Bartlett (Greg), Jarelle Hepburn (Clerk), Victoria Campbell (Female Student), Loopy (Herself)

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Plot Overview

The victim is someone very special to Angie...her former law professor and mentor, Judge Natalie Rodman. The killer is the judge's law clerk. Initially, the team is surprised to be called into a simple arson case, until Angie discovers that it was a murder attempt on her friend, Judge Rodman. She was lighting her barbecue grill when it exploded in her face, and it appears that someone hid butane tanks in the grill to cause the explosion. With Oscar now retired, Angie is the acting Staff Sergeant and isn't sure she wants the job permanently due to the politics involved, plus she's still considering the Interpol job offer. She and Lucas go through a torrent of hate mail directed at the judge, thinking that someone she sent to prison is behind the explosion, and they also investigate the irate father of a murder victim who was upset that his daughter's killer got a slap on the wrist. Angie goes back to visit the judge with follow-up questions, but the judge, who refused to be checked out at the hospital after the blast, collapses and dies in front of her, due to a chest injury from the explosion that caused her lungs to fill up with fluid. Angie looks into the open marriage that the judge and her husband had and whatever romantic entanglements she had, while Lucas checks her financial background and discovers that the judge was taking kickbacks from a prison camp, where she sent a number of minor juvenile offenders, some of whom were crippled due to the abuse from the camp's owner. The camp's owner is now a mechanic and downplays the abuse complaints from the inmates, stating that the kids were troublemakers. Eventually, they're led to one particular former inmate, a young girl who was sent to the camp for a minor shoplifting offense and now suffers from severe depression...a girl who happens to be the friend and roommate of the killer. She eventually tracks down the mechanic and visits him on the premise that her car needs to be fixed, but winds up killing him as well. Also, Sergeant Saunders wants to talk to Lucas, who naturally avoids him, but he winds up being surprised when Saunders tells him why he wants to talk to him--he wants to offer him a position in Internal Affairs. Lucas tells him about the situation where he crossed the line, but Saunders knows about it and appreciates his candor...and tells him that Oscar recommended him for the job!