The Listener Episode 1.06 Foggy Notion

There's a heat wave on. Toby and Oz are trying to chill out in Chinatown with a few coconuts, when they hear the sound of gunshots. First on the scene, they find two twentysomething males with multiple gunshot wounds, lying outside a tea house. Oz's guy dies, as Toby struggles to save the other. Oz is just realizing that his guy is covered with gang tattoos as Toby gets a flash: his guy promises a beautiful young woman he'll be back.

Toby's guy dies as someone calls out for Raymond from the tea house. Toby enters to find the young woman from his flash. Kim is blind and has hurt her arm. Her brother Raymond just went outside to make a phone call. Before long, Charlie is on the scene to question Kim, who has little information to provide as a witness. Toby knows she's in shock. Kim's thoughts are a mess, and her head is full of violin music.

Kim doesn't want to go to the hospital, but Toby and Oz take her anyway. Kim replays a memory of Raymond telling her it's not safe, and inadvertently takes Toby's hand. Down at police HQ, Becker knows this isn't a typical gang hit. Raymond seems like an innocent kid, and that makes for the kind of headlines they don't want. Frustrated, Charlie admits that she has no eyewitnesses and no one will talk to her. Since it's her first case in Chinatown, Becker points her to Bill Tan, a distinguished businessman who's run the district for 20 years. Charlie should do her best to treat him with respect.

In the ambulance bay, Ryder lays into Toby and Oz. What the hell have they done to his rig? Oz admits they had a situation with an ice cream guy, and the truck got dented up, but it wasn't their fault. Toby leaves Oz to file the paperwork when he spies Olivia, who's tending to Kim, who has badly sprained her arm. Realizing there's no one to take Kim home, Toby offers her a ride.

Charlie meets with Bill Tan. Bill informs him that one of the murdered boys, Sean Lee, belonged to the Tiger Claw gang, and had a beef with someone from the 905 Crew over a girl. Despite Charlie's snarky suggestion that Bill might be worried about gangs muscling in on his turf, he offers her his complete cooperation, pointing the finger at the jealous 905er, Terrence Jian, or T.J.

In a cab, Toby asks Kim if there's anyone who can stay with her. She admits that Raymond was all the family she had. When their parents died years ago, he brought her over from Hong Kong and paid for her violin lessons. Raymond was a truck driver by trade. Toby senses that Raymond was up to something, but Kim claims that he was good guy, and didn't have anything to do with gangs.

Toby stops by the PD to tell Charlie that Kim thinks her brother was into something and the shooting may have been more complicated than it seems. Charlie tells him not worry his pretty head. Toby spies T.J.'s file on her desk. When Charlie gets a call with T.J.'s location, Toby and a reluctant Oz tail her in the ambulance. Oz thinks Toby should trust Charlie, but Toby is convinced that Kim is scared, and Raymond promised her he'd come back for "them." It's not over until the shooter goes to jail.

Charlie enters a pool hall to show T.J.'s picture around, but everyone claims not to have seen him. Charlie spies a guy with gang tattoos, who runs out the back, just as Toby is checking out the alley. Charlie chases T.J. as Toby runs back to the ambulance, instructing Oz to cut T.J. off at the mouth of the alley. T.J. slams into the ambulance, then proceeds to beat in the passenger door as Charlie runs up to apprehend him. When Charlie accuses T.J. of Raymond's murder, Toby flashes: T.J. was sticking up a convenience store at the time.

Toby and Oz worry over the new destruction to the rig, when Charlie demands to know what's going on. Toby claims it was just a case of right place, right time. Sarcastic, Charlie tells Toby he can inform Kim that the banger that killed her brother is behind bars. Toby scoffs -- how does Charlie know that T.J. is guilty? Back at the station, Ryder lays into the guys for the new dents in the rig. He's spent 25 years on the job trying to avoid anything that smells like freight, and now Toby and Oz have turned his life upside down in less than six months. Toby runs off to find Kim, leaving Oz to fill out more reports.

Toby escorts Kim back to her apartment after helping her shop for Raymond's funeral gathering. Strangely, Kim trips over a chair -- who could have moved it? Toby informs her that the cops have a suspect, but he doesn't think T.J. is the shooter. Was Raymond involved in any funny business? Offended, Kim asks Toby why he can't just let Raymond rest in peace. When Toby explains that the police can protect her, Kim insists she can take care of herself, and tells Toby it's time to go.

Toby returns to the PD, where everyone is frustrated with the broken air conditioning. Even though the chief, the mayor and the public are happy that Charlie got the right man, Toby insists T.J.'s innocent. He's convinced that someone broke into Kim's apartment, and she may be a target. Thinking Toby is playing another hunch, Charlie claims she'll look into anything he has that's solid. On the way out, Toby tells Charlie to look for a convenience store robbery at the same time as the murder; she might recognize someone on the surveillance footage.

Toby calls Oz, who can't believe that he's spying on a blind girl -- that's pretty low, even for Oz, who accuses Toby of falling in love with the Dragon Lady stereotype. Or even worse, racism. Spying Kim, Toby hangs up and follows her, just as a threatening guy we'll call She Kwong pulls her into an alley. Claiming Raymond had papers that didn't belong to him, She Kwong demands to know where they are. Toby runs up, and She Kwong promises he'll be back. When he sees Kim again, she'd better have what he wants.

Toby and Kim look through the apartment but have no luck locating any papers that She Kwong might want. Kim breaks down. Ever since they were young, Raymond had big plans to get rich and live the good life. It was all talk until he started coming home with extra money in his pocket. She didn't recognize She Kwong's voice, and she has no idea how to make him believe that she doesn't have any papers. Toby convinces Kim to stay at his loft for her own safety, but neither of them sees She Kwong watching them get into a cab.

Already late to work, Toby tells Kim to keep the door locked, then persuades Oz that they have to check out the trucking company where Raymond worked. While Oz flirts with a sexy assistant, Toby tells nervous manager Keith that Kim asked him to empty Raymond's locker. Reading Keith's thoughts, Toby pushes him to learn that Mr. Tan owns the trucking company, and there's some question about a missing shipping container. On the way out, Toby runs into Charlie in the parking lot.

Charlie wants to know how Toby knew about T.J. robbing the convenience store. He claims that he's on the street all day; he hears things. Tipping Charlie about Bill Tan and the container, Toby advises Charlie to interrogate Keith. Later, Becker and Charlie confront Bill. Keith has revealed that Bill is running a smuggling operation -- where is the missing shipping container? Bill politely reveals nothing, but after the cops leave, he tells She Kwong that time has run out. They must find the documents and eradicate all traces of both the container and Kim.

Toby calls Kim with the news that Raymond was probably moving illegal goods for Bill Tan. Does she know where he might have left the shipping container? Kim is just deciding to return to her apartment when the power flicks off, and cell networks go down. She Kwong breaks into Kim's apartment. Kim hides as best she can, but She Kwong finds her. Holding a gun to Kim's head, She Kwong confesses that Raymond was smuggling a shipping container full of illegal aliens, and ultimately finds the paper tracking the container concealed in her violin.

Toby enters Kim's apartment to smash She Kwong over the head with a golf club. She Kwong stuns Toby, then goes after Kim, trying to choke her. Kim manages to grab a kitchen knife, and stabs She Kwong. Revived, Toby calls in the injury, and gets to work trying to save She Kwong's life. Charlie reports to the scene. Once she has the number of the missing shipping container, she calls for a list of every warehouse connected with Bill Tan. Charlie races off, telling Toby to call her if Kim remembers anything that might help.

Toby asks Kim to remember Raymond's call, asking her to meet him on the day of his death. Did she hear anything in the background? Kim recalls hearing sea gulls, and also the sound of whipping or chopping wood. Toby, Oz and Kim jump in the ambulance and proceed to a warehouse adjunct to a driving range. Toby is able to flash on a shipping container, and he and Oz bust the lock to reveal 20 sick and weary illegal aliens.

Becker and Charlie accost Bill Tan on the street. When Charlie informs that they intend to take Bill down to the station, Bill warns Becker to control his subordinate, but Becker thinks Charlie is doing just fine. They need Bill to explain his connection to the illegal immigrants in the shipping container.

Toby finds Kim leaving her apartment with a new violin. She intends to return to Hong Kong, where she'll bury Raymond alongside her parents. Toby knows Kim won't be coming back. Kim gives Toby a juicy kiss goodbye before stepping into a cab bound for the airport.