Sue gets assigned to deal with a bereaved mother whose daughter was murdered. Though the case has been cold for years, Sue becomes determined to bring it to a close when the woman confesses that she's terminally ill and wants to see her daughter's killer punished before she goes. Meanwhile, the men are dealing with more prosaic problems after a charity fundraiser with eyes for Jack drags them into participating in a Bachelor Auction.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Eleanor Rippendorf, the lady from the hospital benefit, has a very obvious crush on Jack. She is constantly flirting with him and trying to outbid anyone who would buy his company. She's not a bad-looking lady, but Jack does not reciprocate her feelings and finds the situation uncomfortable.
- Bachelor Auction: Eleanor Rippendorf, a lady associated with the hospital, drags the FBI's unmarried men into participating in a bachelor auction to raise money for the children. Bobby is bought by an older lady; Myles buys himself to extricate himself from the extravagant promises he made in his audition video, and Tara and Lucy team up to buy Jack so that he can go on a date with Sue and not Mrs. Rippendorf.
- Dance of Romance: Jack asks Sue to dance at the charity benefit after Tara and Lucy use her name for the winning bid. Sue decides she likes the song based on the reactions of the other dancers.
- Didn't Think This Through: The men compete for who can get the highest bid at a charity bachelor auction. Myles drives up his bids by promising a date on the Italian Riviera, then panics when the others point out how expensive that would be. He ends up buying himself to avoid the trip, and his credit card is declined.
- Doesn't Know Their Own Child: An example that is more due to the child hiding things than to Parental Neglect. Mrs. Randall and Julia were very close (at least to hear Mrs. Randall tell it). However, she had no idea that her daughter was seeing a married man, or that she was in on the bank robbery that led to her death.
- Double Entendre: When Myles makes a video for a charity bachelor auction, he ends with: "Followed by... dessert, the choice of which I'll leave up to you."
- Dropping the Bombshell: For the first part of the episode, the FBI and the audience alike assume that Julia was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, when Sue takes a look at the footage Tara put together, she sees Julia warning the robber that the guard is behind him. This makes them realize that she was an accomplice.
- Gratuitous Italian: Myles drops a "Ciao" into his second, more impressive, video.
- Inside Job: The bank robbery that ended in Julia's murder turns out to have been a collaboration gone wrong. Julia was seeing the bank robber and was willing to help him get the money. However, shooting the security guard wasn't part of the plan, and he feared she'd balk at murder and turn him in.
- Karma Houdini: Jack offers Julia's killer a plea deal — fifteen years in jail. Both Sue and Mrs. Randall lampshade that that's a very small punishment for murdering a young woman.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Mrs. Randall had to endure her daughter's murder, and she has never gotten over it. She contacts the FBI every year to see if they've made any progress on the case.
- The Power of Legacy: Jack makes a plea deal with Julia's killer for this reason. In addition to the flimsiness of the evidence, a trial would reveal the fact that Julia was the robber's accomplice, which would further break her dying mother's heart. In light of that, he sees not prosecuting the case as the best option.
- Shipper on Deck: Tara and Lucy combine their resources to bid on Jack, pitying his aversion to going on a date with Mrs. Rippendorf. However, they put Sue's name on the bid.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: At the hospital benefit, it's revealed that the winner for the date with Bobby was a sweet older lady. While Darcy D'Angelo is watching them slow-dance, she notes that he's making the lady feel like the brightest star in the room. She comments that one has to love a guy who behaves that way.
- The Topic of Cancer: Mrs. Randall specifically mentions that her doctor has said she has cancer and she's not likely to beat it. It serves as the spur for Sue to kick the case into high gear.
