Tonight on NBC The Mysteries of Laura continues with an all new Wednesday October 21, season 2 episode 5 called, “The Mystery of the Watery Grave” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode a media mogul’s wife is driven off a main highway.
On the last episode, two inmates fled prison and Laura’s team helped look for them, but others doubt her team’s loyalties because one of the fugitives was their old captain. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the NBC synopsis, “a media mogul’s wife is driven off a main highway, and the investigation unearths a secret in an old—and supposedly closed—case.”
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The voice apparently belonging to Isabel Van Doren had made a call to 911 early one morning claiming someone was trying to run her off the road. Now, unfortunately, that call was abruptly ended when the caller got involved in an accident but what the detectives of the NYPD could take away from the call was that a motorcycle had clearly been overheard in the background. So when a car belonging to Terrence Van Doren was later retrieved from the nearby river – the police believed Mr. Van Doren’s newspaper’s recent expose into the underground motorcycle races was what led to his wife’s death.
After all Isabelle’s own car had been in the shop that day and so her husband had told police that she had borrowed his car. And most importantly the bikers that the Ledger, Mr. Van Doren’s paper, had written about were not the cuddly sort. Meredith had in fact been in their company for less than a day when they tried to run a suburban dad and his family from off the road right in front of her. So everything seemed to fit and the bikers did look guilty. Yet at the day, despite their belief, the bikers weren’t their killers.
As it turns out they were in the middle of suing Terrence’s paper and it did look like they had a great chance of winning. So attacking Terrence much less accidentally attacking his wife did not make sense for them. And thus Laura had suggested that maybe the bikers were being framed because of that expose when really they weren’t the only enemies that Terrence had accumulated.
Terrance’s paper had written several other scathing exposes over the years and he naturally had a lot of enemies. But when Jake asked Terrance’s assistant about who she would suspect above the rest, she gave him Wilson’s Becker’s name. Wilson being Terrance’s former brother-in-law.
Wilson was the first Mrs. Van Doren’s brother and he made no secret of hating Terrance or his drinking problem. However Wilson believed it was Terrance that had killed his sister Claire and that her accidentally drowning story was just that – a story. So when the police brought him in, he told them that they were looking at the wrong guy. He said if Terrance could kill his sister then it was highly likely that he killed his second wife as well.
And surprisingly Wilson was onto something with that theory of his. Meredith had gone back to check over the 911 call and she had realized it had been fabricated. Therefore the detectives were starting to believe Wilson’s theory of Terrance killing his wife when Laura found out who had exactly staged Isabel’s death.
Someone had to stay behind to watch the car go into the river and so Laura knew the person that a taxi was needed in order for that person to drive away. Yet a certain taxi driver didn’t remember Terrance, he remembered Isabel.
Isabel had faked her own death in order to escape her husband. And that’s when things finally began making sense.
See, Isabel had been orphan when she met her husband. She didn’t have any other family and seeing as Terrance was unlikely to change his behavior then there was a chance he was probably beating her like he had allegedly used to beat his first wife. But Claire had a brother that had tried to talk her into her leaving her husband and Isabel had no one. Including friends.
Her assistant Erin had told the detectives that she only socialize with Terrance’s friends and rather than join Junior League, where he hoped she could make friends of her own, she had actually decided to volunteer at a women’s clinic. So Laura went to that clinic which offers shelter for battered women and she told them that she needed to find Isabel. Because once the police had found out she was alive, It seems both Laura and Captain Santiani were in agreement on what to do, they had to protect Isabel from her husband instead of handing her whereabouts over.
And the only way to ensure Isabel was safe was to lock up her husband for domestic assault and for the death of his first wife.
Laura later found Isabel and Isabel revealed that her husband hadn’t taken her request for a divorce very well. He had beaten her up and said that Claire had tried to ask for a divorce but looked what happened to her. So Laura suddenly had just cause to reopen Claire’s case and luckily Terrance was arrogant enough to lead the detectives to where he had stashed Claire’s body.
It had been reported that Terrance visited his mother’s grave at the family crypt everyday. And Laura realized that he had slowly been transferring his first wife’s body in parts to the graveside.
However it was only the family that had access to the crypt so Isabel came out of hiding and she helped the police find Claire’s body and arrest her husband. So he’s finally going to pay for what he did to both of his wives. And Isabel is free to have her own life again.
THE END!
