Fraser's attempts to help Victoria Metcalf go horribly awry when she begins manipulating him and Ray, seeking vengeance upon him for her incarceration.
Tropes:
- Chekhov's Gun: All of the things Victoria was shown doing in Benton's apartment in the first part of the two-parter — slipping a set of $20s into his wallet, randomly scrubbing the counter in the middle of the night instead of doing the dishes — were part of a plan Victoria had to frame Benton (and, by extension, Ray) for Jolly's murder, leading to an internal mole hunt in the process.
- The Chessmaster: Victoria is revealed to have been setting up Benton (and, to an extent, Ray) since the first episode, using a variety of methods to lead Internal Affairs into believing both were in league with Jolly and had him murdered.
- Dating Catwoman: Once Victoria's duplicity finally becomes clear, her relationship with Benton lapses into this, as he's fully willing to help her despite knowing what damage it's caused to his career.
- Death Faked for You: Victoria is believed to have died in a fiery car crash that resulted in the body being unidentifiable, only for it to be discovered that this was actually Victoria's sister, who she claimed was herself in order to throw the authorities off her trail.
- Frame-Up: Victoria has Benton and Ray framed as Jolly's murderers/accomplices, all in a bid to lead the former to help her make the trade for the diamonds and escape Chicago. Luckily, Benton's quick thinking allows the frameup to be stopped, after she's impeded in a Chicago train station with the money she was trying to have Internal Affairs locate, along with the key and the diamonds, while in the process of escaping.
- Love Makes You Stupid: Benton ignores all the signs Victoria was planning to betray him, even chastizing his father for trying to talk some sense into him. By the end, all it gets him is a bullet in the back (as well as guns being pulled on him multiple times) for his effort.
- Love Martyr: Fraser lets Victoria go, and almost went with her, even after all she put him through and proved herself to be a fairly terrible person.
- Race for Your Love: At the end of the episode, Benton decides to throw away his career to flee with Victoria on the train heading out of Chicago — and likely would have carried through with it, had Ray not unintentionally shot him In the Back.
- "Rashomon"-Style: From Fraser's perspective, Victoria is holding out an open hand to him. From Ray's perspective, we can briefly see her holding a gun pointed at him.
- Shout-Out: Continuing the tradition of cheeky character names, the Internal Affairs attorney who initially offers to accept a plea deal from Victoria (and later tries to go after Ray) is named "Louise Saint Laurent", a riff on former Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, who served in the middle of the 20th century.
- Super Window Jump: Benton leaps from the second-storey window of a warehouse (dodging gunfire from the diamond smugglers) onto an overhang in order to escape.
- Turn in Your Badge: Internal Affairs forces Welsh to confiscate Ray's badge, though Welsh secretly allows Ray to keep his gun because he thinks the latter was set up by Victoria.
- Xanatos Gambit: Victoria's plan to pull a Frame-Up on Ray and Benton relies on an absurd number of factors — that Benton would owe money to Ray and pay it back it $20s, that she knew Benton carried a .38 in his locked trunk in his apartment, that Ray (being so devoted to his friend) would allow Victoria to stay at his place, the snowglobe shown at Ray's house — in order to pull off. The only reason Victoria doesn't get away with the whole thing is because Fraser manages to snag the locker key from Ray's apartment before IA can arrive, and palms it into her bag (which is subsequently left at the train station when she flees) so that the entire plan can be tied to her.
