Chase Episode 1.06 Havoc

In Marina Del Rey, California, Annie and her team chase two fugitives along a dock. Jimmy and Luke capture one of the bad guys while Marco chases after the second. When the fugitive jumps onto a waiting boat, Annie yells at Marco to leap after him. Marco hesitates and the criminal falls right into Ben Crowley's trap. Seeing Ben speed off with her criminal, Annie's eyes narrow. Marco apologizes for hesitating, but Annie simply says, "I told you to jump." At a coffee shop, a creepy man wearing sunglasses chastises a yuppie couple for not giving a homeless man some change. Moments later, the creepy man sets off a bomb hidden in a cooler. The entire coffee shop goes up in flames.

At the County Jail, Annie complains to Jimmy about Marco. Jimmy comes to Marco's defense, claiming that Marco didn't jump into the waiting boat because he thought it was full of criminals. Annie knew Ben Crowley was hiding in the boat and wishes Marco would've followed orders. Not willing to drop it, Jimmy argues that nobody on the H.E.A.T. team can fully trust Annie when she charges towards gun-toting fugitives without any hesitation. Her recklessness endangers other team members too. Offended, Annie tells Jimmy that if anyone has a problem with her, they can leave. Annie bumps into Ben Crowley outside the station and warns him to stay out of her way. Ben doesn't take the hint and invites Annie to dinner. Annie rejects his offer.

Annie pulls up a link chart on the sunglasses-wearing bomber Carson Puckett. The blast killed two people - Theo Mack and Dr. Rick Elmore (the man Carson spoke to just before the explosion). Rick's fiancée Melanie survived, and is currently in surgery. A teen runaway, Carson served time for beating a co-worker with a crowbar, and currently has an outstanding warrant for skipping out on an assault charge. He took a swing at an officer who pulled him over on a D.U.I. charge. Clearly, Carson isn't a big fan of authority. While Daisy uses her experience at the H.P.D. Bomb Squad to investigate Carson's explosives, Annie invites Luke to join her at Ben Taub Hospital where she'll interview Melanie. Annie pointedly doesn't invite Jimmy to come along.

At the hospital, Melanie recounts the moments just before Carson's bomb went off. Carson was angry that Rick didn't give a homeless man some change. Then Carson set a cooler down next to Melanie's table, detonated a bomb, and made a point to look at Melanie seconds after the explosion. Melanie recalls that Carson was wearing a patch featuring a lion with a bird in its mouth. Annie discovers that Carson's patch represents an anti-government group called the Southeast Militia, led by Norwood Hayes. Annie and the gang decide to pay a visit to Southeast's compound.

At the Southeast compound, Annie and her team interrogate Norwood, who admits he invited Carson to join after meeting him on a construction project. Jimmy finds condoms in Carson's room and correctly assesses they're used to make homemade bombs. As a result, Annie has the Southeast members arrested. Meanwhile, Annie and Jimmy find an angry letter written by Traci Zimmet and addressed to Carson. Annie decides to question Traci. Traci tells Annie and Jimmy that she met Carson at a bar after he punched out another suitor vying for her attention. At the time, Traci thought it was romantic and invited Carson to live with her. Traci offers them a bag full of Carson's mail. After the bombing, she wants nothing to do with him.

At H.E.A.T., Daisy confirms that a condom filled with lighter fluid was used in Carson's attack. Strangely, the bomb wasn't assembled properly; if it had been, everyone in the coffee shop would have died. Annie wonders aloud about what set Carson off. A month ago, he moved out of his girlfriend's place, joined a militia, and starting killing innocent people. Luke enters with strange news: when Carson was pulled over for drinking and driving, he actually had a blood alcohol level of zero-zero. If Carson wasn't drunk, why was he swerving? At a convenience store, Carson buys a new pair of sunglasses and sets another bomb down on the floor!

Annie and her team show up at the convenience store where the Bomb Squad has just finished investigating. Daisy's former colleague Rando says there's no sign of a bomb. Annie and Jimmy interview a clerk who recognized Carson and his cooler. He recalls that Carson bought sunflower seeds, sunglasses and condoms. Outside a gym, Carson asks two teenagers to describe the people running on the treadmill. After Carson confirms that a man in a red sweatshirt is still working out, a bomb goes off, setting the entire gym on fire. At H.E.A.T., Annie tells Luke to find out information on the victims at the gym. In the meantime, Marco discovers that Carson's first victim Dr. Rick Elmore once treated Carson at the Houston Community Clinic.

At the clinic, Annie pulls up Carson's file. He saw Dr. Elmore a month the bombing, complaining of dizziness. Suspecting Carson was drunk, Dr. Elmore refused to treat him. When Carson objected, Dr. Elmore had him thrown out and banned from the clinic. Annie discovers that Jordan Roush was listed as Carson's work contact. This resonates with Annie because Jordan was killed at the gym bombing! Annie notices that Craig Wilson is listed as Carson's boss; Annie decides it's best to find Craig before Carson does. At a farmer's market, Craig Nelson shops for produce when he receives a chilling call from Carson. In a whisper, Carson says, "You knew," before hanging up. Annie and her team arrive seconds later. Annie spots Carson, and in spite of Jimmy's warning, rushes right into one of Carson's deadly bombs!

An ambulance carries Annie away as Jimmy and the gang watch in horror. Jimmy interrogates Craig Wilson, demanding to know how he's linked to Carson. Craig won't utter a word and demands to speak to his lawyer. At H.E.A.T., Jimmy tries to figure out why Carson would have wanted to kill Craig. Did Craig fire Carson? Was it revenge? Jimmy plans on charging Craig with obstruction of justice in order to force him to talk. At the hospital, Annie takes an M.R.I. No matter how hard she tries, she can't stop thinking about the last fleeting image she had of Carson feeling his way out of the farmer's market. Annie's finally got it: Carson's going blind! Before Annie can phone Jimmy, Ben shows up, offering his support during her trying time.

Annie texts Jimmy that Carson might be going blind. At H.E.A.T., Luke offers another clue: Craig owns a company that underbids for jobs cleaning up toxic chemicals. Perhaps Carson got sick on the job! He killed the doctor who refused to treat him and attempted to kill the work colleagues who made him sick. But now that Craig - Carson's former boss - has escaped, what will Carson do next? Jimmy correctly guesses that Craig's children might be in danger! At a bus stop, Carson approaches Craig's daughter. Carson tells her that he used to work for her father. She doesn't know quite what to make of Carson or the cooler he's holding in his hand.

Moments later, the H.E.A.T. team arrives at the bus stop and evacuates all of the commuters including Craig's daughter. Underneath one of the buses, Daisy spots a bomb only minutes away from detonating! Daisy calls upon her experience on the Bomb Squad and hurriedly works on defusing the explosive! With only 2 seconds left, Daisy deactivates the bomb. But unfortunately, during the hubbub, Carson managed to disappear again. At the hospital, Ben visits Annie and flirts with her shamelessly. To Ben's dismay, Annie's not in a playful mood; she's still preoccupied with capturing Carson before he harms more innocent people.

At H.E.A.T., the news that Carson almost killed Craig's daughter has finally convinced Craig to start talking. Craig tells Jimmy that Carson got methanol poisoning on a job in a train yard. Instead of helping Carson out, Craig had Jordan fire Carson on the spot. At a train yard across town, Carson attaches a bomb - made with methanol - to the exterior of a train. He then points a gun at the conductor and demands that he drive the train to downtown Houston. Moments later, the H.E.A.T. crew arrives and finds Carson holding the conductor hostage. Jimmy removes the bomb from the train while Luke finally gets a clear shot at Carson and fires, killing him instantly.

At the hospital, Annie gets word from Jimmy that Carson's been killed. Melanie's heard the good news too and visits Annie to thank her in person. In spite of the good news, Melanie's clearly still mourning the loss of her fiancé Rick. Overcome with grief, she tells Annie how difficult it is to say goodbye "when you know that you've found the right one." Ben enters the room as Melanie's words echo in Annie's mind. Still shaken up, Luke joins Daisy for a drink. Meanwhile, Jimmy spies Ben and Annie leaving the hospital - together.