A series of questionable calls by Kris brings the Mistress toher breaking point. Mr. Gold takes a huge gamble by miningCooper Gulch. Vernon acts on a hot prospecting tip. Emily'screw takes risky dives. Zeke's new girl is his gold luck charmon Tomcod.
Gary unearths a curious artifact on Lot 8 and in the MoneyPit; the team is astonished to discover that they may bechasing multiple tunnels towards the gold in the garden shaft.
As Steve's financial woes mount, Nick offers a lifeline in theform of a proposal that would take Chippendales global. Aprinting error has disastrous consequences for Steve.
Max applies his neurological expertise to the case of a retiredsoldier, Captain Steiner, who is convinced that he is cursedand tortured by vengeful spirits. It looks like a tragic caseof trauma-induced paranoia when the captain is found to havecommitted suicide in a gruesome manner. But Max and Oskar arenot convinced.
Running away together turns out to be more difficult thanGeorge and Tammy imagined, with Tammy's past threatening toderail their hopes for marriage, and with George's paststanding in the way of their future as a recording duo.
As MacMillan and the team grill Shay, Lindo continues toinvestigate Clellan's death, leading to a shocking discoverywith potentially fatal consequences.
Watched by the world, the Metropolitan Police follow theradioactive trail of polonium across London, leading them totheir main suspects, Lugovoy and Kovtun.
The Gamache's anniversary celebrations at the exclusive ManoirBelleforet hotel are cut short by the discovery of a body.Gamache pulls in his team and together they investigate thecase, which focuses on the hotel's owners - the dysfunctionalMorrow family - who are driven by bitterness and jealousy.Meanwhile, Lacoste receives a surprise call which blows theBlue Two-Rivers case wide open.
Gamache and his team get to the heart of the case, excavatingdecades-old resentments and deeply buried secrets in the Morrowfamily as they do so, and make the key discovery that enablesthem to identify the killer. Meanwhile, Lacoste's elation atmaking a breakthrough in the Two-Rivers case proves short-livedand a tragedy leaves her shell-shocked.
A team of detectives led by Timmons' 'best man' Brian Tarpeyarrive in Moscow hoping to interview Lugovoy and Kovtun, nowthe prime suspects behind Litvinenko's murder.