Tonight on NBC The Mysteries of Laura continues with an all new Wednesday October 7, season 2 episode 3 called, “The Mystery of the Locked Box” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode a technology whiz is killed in a supposedly secure building
On the last episode, a cancer patient died under puzzling circumstances, so the police investigated her death and unearth some surprises as they delved into the world of cancer survivors and supporters. 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 technology whiz is killed in a supposedly secure building, and his valuable ideas are in danger of being stolen if the police don’t solve the case quickly.”
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RECAP:
Zac Romero was the billionaire founder of Folkalize, an internet company that instantly took off, and yet Zac wasn’t like the other computer billionaires. He didn’t move to Silicone Valley or hit the party circuit on the arm of a model. He just mostly stayed indoors all day working on his computer.
So why would someone kill him? Zac’s body was found by his housekeeper and it seems she was one of the few people Zac willingly acknowledged. Unfortunately Zac was the proverbial loner. He didn’t have any friends and, besides the housekeeper, his mother and business partner were the only other people allowed in his Fortress of Solitude.
And his apartment was a fortress. Everything was high-tech and Zac didn’t even have to worry about getting up if he wanted to turn on the lights or work the air conditioner. It was all set to an automatic and more importantly the apartment was closed off. It was a penthouse so unless someone could fly they would have to actually pass the diligent doorman to get into Zac’s apartment.
Yet the doorman said no one went up to see Zac and that there weren’t a lot of avenues one could use to reach the penthouse. They either had to take the elevator or the stairs. And there was a lot of stairs. Like a good 20 flights of them that no sane person would take everyday.
Thus the detectives were left with another mystery. How did Zac’s killer get in and out of his apartment without no one seeing them?
It was a question that stumped all of them and so they took to calling their killer the invisible man. And started paying attention to the people that Zac would have invited into his apartment. Like the business partner Shane Allen. Shane Allen ran the business end while Zac handled the programing. However not that long ago, Shane was the golden boy and Zac was the one looking up to him.
Shane was an inventor himself yet it’s been nearly ten years since his last great idea. And some could even say he was milking Zac’s inexperience to make himself rich. But Shane deny those charges and told the police that they should be looking at Abby Pollard. Abby being Zac’s stalker.
A convenient person to point the finger at.
But when the police went to her house to talk, Abby came flying out of her place wielding a knife. She later said that she was afraid about the man that killed her “husband” trying to come after her next. So she didn’t mean to hurt Billy. She was just scared at the time and had attempted to defend herself.
And though she called Zac her husband, Laura didn’t think Abby was homicidal. She was crazy and Laura admitted that however she didn’t think someone so in love would kill the object of their obsession. So she sat Abby down and the two began to talk.
Abby mentioned dates and times when she and Zac had apparently gone out to dinner. And Meredith and Billy checked out her story seeing as the doorman said Zach never left his apartment.
And, surprisingly, Abby was right. Well almost right. Zac did leave his apartment to go have dinner but Abby was sitting across the street watching him from the window. So there was some substance to what she told Laura about that dinner.
She said Zac got into a fight with a white guy wearing a baseball hat. Then Laura and Jake saw that same man from her description at the memorial for Zac. The older man was revealed to be Zac’s father. The man that had abandoned his mom when he found out she was pregnant.
It seems he came back into the picture because he wanted some of Zac’s money and Zac refused to cut him in.
Yet that doesn’t mean his father was the one to murder him. Not long after their fight, the father went to the Apple Store and stayed there until there till 1 in the morning. So that proved he wasn’t’ the killer. Though Max did catch him on the security feed stealing a set of earbuds and so the older man still committed a crime.
Only not the one they were all hoping for. So it was back to the drawing board though they did figure out Zac himself got in and out of his apartment undetected. The grocery store next door was doing some renovations when they accidentally found their way into the stairwell of Zac’s apartment. And because the owner of that grocery store felt bad about the kid billionaire hiding out from the paparazzi, he let Zach used that secret entry whenever he needed to get away.
So that’s Zac was able to move about but that still didn’t explain how a killer got in. The secret entry way was blocked unless Zac called his friend to help him out. And with that turning out to be a dead end, the detectives made looking for Zac’s phone their first priority.
The phones was missing from the scene and there was nothing on until low and behold Shane ended up turning it on. He was going to use the phone and the project Zac had left on it in order to make himself even more money. But that was before he was arrested for evidence tampering.
Shane still had an alibi for the murder so all he was guilty of was being a thief. However, having the phone, yielded results. It seems Zac’s old childhood friend Jordan Pellham had tried to reach out to him but Zac never returned any of his calls. Thus he never heard the voicemails from when Jordan said he needed a friend or that he was about to kill himself.
And when Zac continued to ignore him, Jordan went out and bought a drone. The detectives found it under credit card purchases.
Jordan added onto the device several blades and used that to fly into Zac’s apartment and kill him. But to get the drone down, Laura had to rely on Jake’s baseball skills. She noticed that he’s been out of it lately yet in the end she trusted him. And he brought the murder weapon down and still intact.
Which, of course, made Santiani happy because it meant she could finally close the high-profile case. Though for Laura, she knew that she and Jake had to talk about whether or not he should still be on the job.
