- After setting her cheating, art thieving husband up for the F.B.I., Marci and Jay Allen (now Arnstein) are placed into WITSEC, because the art smugglers/fugitives Jay worked with, are still at-large. As retaliation for his wife's betrayal, and as part of his deal with the D.O.J., Jay insists on bring his mistress into the program as well. Unfortunately for him, after six months, he tries to turn over a new leaf by getting Mary to re-relocate his mistress, Kay, moments before she shows up drunk at an art show, exposing Jay's secret to his wife. Shortly afterwards, Jay is critically shot. This begs the question... who shot Jay Arnstein? The scorned wife? The jilted lover? The smugglers? Or could it be some new, unknown threat? While recovering from a sports injury, Raf is laid-up at Mary's where he and her adversarial sister, Brandi, get a chance to know each other better.—Lynne Boris Johnston
- Several months earlier, a man packages artwork while his wife demands his stop seeing someone. He tells his wife she needs to grow up, which seems super sensitive coming from a cheater. She takes it well. He explains he's packaging up $2.5 million worth of stolen artwork, which she also doesn't have much of a problem with.
Probably because that's what she needed to hear. The FBI barge in, she reveals that she was wearing a wire. Jay and Marci Arnstein enter the program.
The Arnstein's meet with Mary, Marshall and Stan. Marci's fired up for the new start she helped orchestrate, but Jay is glum. She gets up to go to the bathroom. Jay asks his handlers when his mistress is arriving. Part of his agreement with the justice department. He gets a super secret something on the side. And Mary gets to help him lie to his wife, which she is definitely not thrilled with.
Kay Swensen enters the program as Jay's something on the side.
Cut to: Mary bandages Raphael's knee. He tore his ACL, cutting short his time in the majors. Brandi comes home, put out that someone's in her usual TV-watching spot.
At the opening of Jay's art gallery, Mary runs into Marshall and banters with him. "Look at you, all upright and not dead." She asks if the sling has impressed the ladies. She's eager to get out of there. Jay schmoozes, Mary seethes.
Marci comes over to thank Mary for all her help. She's glowy and happy and thinking her marriage is going great. She walks away. Jay actually agrees about the state of their marriage, and wants to do right by his wife. So he's going to need Mary to break up with his mistress for him.
Mary explains it's not that simple. Jay yells at a guy smoking in the gallery and Mary tries to calm him down. They're at a showing of some art painted on wood. Marshall tells Jay his program is wrong, it's on cottonwood, not poplar. Marshall says he knows his wood - and then stops Mary from commenting on that assertion.
Back at Mary's house, Brandi and Raph continue their Bickersons act.
At the gallery, Marshall explains the repercussions of Jay breaking up with Kay. Jay and his wife would have to be relocated as well, to keep the scorned woman from turning him over to the people who want him dead. Just then Kay waltzes in, stumbling drunk. It goes about as well as one would expect. Marci gets off a good slug at Kay and slaps Jay. Marci runs off, but not before she calls Mary a liar, and Jay yells at Kay to leave.
Back at their office, Mary gets to leave a good "I told you so"-laden voice mail for Stan, right that the situation she predicted would end badly, has. Marshall and Mary eat pie, because pie makes everything better. They get a call that someone has shot Jay Arnstein.
They arrive at the hospital, but he can't talk. They need to relocate Marci and Kay, but Albuquerque PD has them in custody. M & M go to the station, where Kay is talking to Detective Bobby Dershowitz. Kay claims to have "diplomatic immunity." As Mary goes to sweet talk Dershowitz, Marshall explains to Kay that diplomats have diplomatic immunity and she has nothing at all. Bobby and Mary do their usual routine. Bobby wants info, Mary won't give it to her.
Mary goes to talk to Marci. The police took Marci's clothes for evidence. She tells Mary she heard a shot at the gallery and ran to Jay. She doesn't have any idea who could have shot her husband.
Mary and Bobby strike a deal, she'll turn the women over if he issues an arrest warrant. "It's a good thing you're hot," he tells her.
Marshall takes Kay to her hotel room, where she issues a long list of demands.
Mary's with Marci. She won't take her to her husband until it's safe.
Back at Mary's house, Brandi goes through Raph's stuff as he watches. She finds the ring he tried to give to Mary. Brandi tries to give him proposing advice. Whatever he does, don't put it in food, Mary hates that stuff. Too bad that's what he did.
Mary stops in later to say hi to him, and is surprised to learn that Brandi's being nurturing.
Marshall brings Kay her pile of requested stuff and tells her he hopes it fills the void. She doesn't appreciate him being enigmatic.
Mary, using Marci's keys, goes to check out the crime scene at the gallery. She finds a memory card. Dershowitz shows up and mocks her for not wearing booties. Mary asks if he's reconsidering Marci's guilt. They paw through drawers of art. Mary recognizes a sketch of the guy smoking at the party, who Marci denied knowing. They hear a loud noise and run to find the rear of the gallery in flames. The door's locked but Mary shoots out the lock, which apparently doesn't just work in the movies, she's surprised to find.
Firefighters arrive on the scene. One tells Bobby and Mary that the fire was definitely started by a Molotov cocktail. That rules out Marci and Kay because they're in protective custody, unless they had an accomplice.
At her house, Mary showers and Brandi comes to interrogate her about Raphael. Brandi is now a fan of his and tells Mary someone that great won't be around forever.
Marshall brings Kay lunch. She wants to know more about the "void" comment.
Meanwhile, Mary and Bobby check out the guy from the sketch, the same one who was smoking at the party. He's leading an art class where students are nude sketching. ("What's he make an hour? Or does he charge by the foot?" Mary asks of the nude male model.)
The art teacher confesses he was having an affair with Marci. Mary makes like his carved wood pillars turn her on. They're carved out of cottonwood, the same wood the art from the gallery was painted on.
Marshall listens to Kay cry over her failed love affair. She asks about the possibility that Jay is supposed to be with her, not Marci. Apparenly, Kay genuinely loved Jay. Marshall says that in this situation, Kay represents entropy. Kay sobs, "I don't want to represent entropy." Mary calls him to ask how sure he was that the paintings were on cottonwood. He's positive. Which could mean the paintings are fake.
Kay tries to console herself by throwing herself at Marshall. He resists.
Mary confronts Marci about her affair. She says it was a weak moment. Then Mary opens the door for Bobby, who arrests Marci despite her claims of innocence.
Bobby interrogates the art teacher. Mary interrupts. She accuses him of forging the paintings. He says he wouldn't dirty his brush painting such "pedestrian early American crap," the same phrase the paintings' owner used to describe them when Mary asked why she was getting rid of them.
Mary calls her and tells her Marci was arrested for Jay's shooting and that she should visit Jay in the hospital.
She shows up with a hypodermic needle and sticks it in the IV of a man she thinks is Jay. It's not. It's Marshall in a bad wig. Mary, Bobby and Stan bust her.
Stan and Mary review the case. The woman's husband died and left her in debt. The plan was to burn the fakes in the gallery, collect the insurance and sell the originals to an overseas collector. It would have worked, too, if Marshall the wood whisperer hadn't tipped Jay off to the forgeries.
Marshall finishes up with Kay, who's leaving the program. She is standing at the edge of the motel swimming pool, holding a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other. He's telling her that the "cleansing" is more figurative than "a soap and water thing". She says that she was always kind of literal. She jumps in and "cleanses" herself of her past.
Mary looks at the photos on the memory card she found in the gallery. They're Jay's and show he knew about his wife's affair. Somehow, it's what made him dedicate himself to their marriage. Mary's voice over talks about the power of change. The Arnsteins are moving to a new town, getting a second second chance.
Back at her house Mary sits with a sleeping Raphael and knows she won't change so easily.
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