The Finder Episode 1.04 Swing and a Miss

Isabel and pro baseball pitcher Frank Haywood arrive at his expensive home. As Isabel calls Walter to invoke Paragraph C of their friends-with-benefits agreement, Haywood discovers that someone has broken in. Isabel chases the robber away.

Haywood wants to retrieve the trophies and memorabilia that were stolen, so Isabel introduces him to Walter. But Walter says that Haywood is omitting something that was stolen, and he refuses to help. Isabel explains her friends-with-benefits relationship with Walter to Haywood and asks Walter to take the case as a personal favor. OK, but Isabel won't be happy to learn what Haywood's hiding.

Leo tells Willa to watch over the bar. There's an "honor jar" for customers to pour-and-pay. By not stealing from it, Willa can prove she's a team player.

Walter and Leo arrive at a sports memorabilia store. The owner doesn't deal in stolen goods, but when Walter starts destroying the phony memorabilia he's selling, he fingers a smash-and-grab team, "the Twins," as the possible robbers.

Walter and Leo go to an address where they find the Twins: an unrelated, black and white duo (they each have a twin, hence their nickname). The Twins threaten to kill them; Walter and Leo disarm them but find nothing.

As Haywood tells Isabel that Walter was right - he didn't mention the St. Christopher medal that helped him out of a slump was missing - Walter enters Haywood's home. When Walter wonders if Haywood is being blackmailed for steroid use, Haywood orders him and Isabel away.

Walter and Leo reenact the escape route of a fleeing robber carrying a heavy bag and arrive at a culvert. Walter believes that the robber must have stashed the bag in a drainage pipe. As he crawls in, Leo spots the bag in a tree.

Walter and Leo find Haywood practicing at the ballpark with his catcher, Mack, and notice that he's lost all control of his pitches. Haywood is happy they found his St. Christopher, but Walter's not because he knows that's not really what Haywood wanted found. Mack tells Walter to leave. When he doesn't, Mack knocks Walter out.

While Walter's out, he fantasizes pitching to himself and giving up a home run. Willa appears as his manager and sends him to the showers, admonishing him for treating Haywood like a normal client instead of a favor to Isabel. Walter claims that he's just in a slump, so Isabel gives Walter his lucky baseball cap from Little League, explaining that it's a game of superstitions and every player has one.

When Walter comes to, Leo says superstitions stem from fear. Haywood admits that after he started wearing a pair of socks his great-aunt had patched, he hasn't lost since. Only he and his great-aunt knew this.

Meanwhile, the twins arrive at Leo's bar, smash the jukebox, and force Willa to promise to tell them when Walter finds what he's looking for. After Leo returns, Willa tells him what happened, but she lies about the twins taking the money from the "honor jar." To protect her, Leo makes Willa part of the team, and they determine that the thief is someone who wanted Haywood to lose - and wanted to be the only one who'd know this - namely, a professional gambler.

Walter, Leo, and Willa revisit the sports memorabilia store owner, who says that the line against Haywood winning jumped like crazy two days ago. Walter wants Willa to ask her underworld connected-family for information about this, so she calls Timo.

Willa learns that Marty Nix runs illegal floating casinos out of defunct restaurants. (Her Uncle Shadrack gave him the idea.) When they arrive at the restaurant/casino, Willa gains entry by flashing a roll of bills and dropping Shadrack's name. Willa is winning big, but Nix sees that she's counting cards.

Willa notices a private room, but she can't get in. She texts Leo, asking for a distraction, so he chops the cord to the satellite dish that's providing live sports programming. In the chaos that ensues, Willa bumps into Nix and steals his keys. She unlocks the private room, finds the socks, and calls Leo. Walter and Leo burst in, overpower the bouncers, and find Nix holding a gun to Willa, who kicks him in the crotch, enabling Leo to deck him.

Then the twins arrive. When Walter hands them the socks, Nix shoots and kills both twins, who shoot and kill Nix.Walter says that those couldn't be the right socks because they weren't worn asymmetrically like a pitcher's socks would be. Walter and Leo confront Mack, who admits selling Nix the fake socks to cover his gambling debts. The real socks are still in his locker.Walter tells Mack that Nix is dead. Leo says that they'll tell Haywood they found the socks, but not where they found them so Haywood won't know he'd been betrayed by a friend. When Walter tells Isabel about finding the socks, she's touched that Walter's giving her the chance to make up with Haywood. If Walter can't help her find the perfect man, who can?Back at the bar, Willa has returned the money to the honor jar, noting that she only borrowed it for a stake at the casino. When Leo asks about the $1,000 she won, she plays a song on the new jukebox she bought with that money.Later, Walter returns with Haywood, Isabel, and the game ball from Haywood's latest win. But Haywood dumps Isabel because of her relationship with Walter. When Isabel tells Walter she broke up with Haywood because his superstitious nature freaked her out, he offers to waive Paragraph C and become a monogamous couple.