St. Francis of Synopsissi, at your service: "A bag full of cash links the murder of an aspiring musician to the angry father of a young girl who was allegedly kidnapped, but Lupo and Bernard quickly use the girl's missing cell phone to uncover a massive terrorist plot."
First of all, when I think "bag full of cash," I picture a green dollar sign on the side of it. Nobody uses those anymore. Instead, they use McDonald's bags, and the "they" in question are rich fathers who are the targets of virtual kidnappings, wherein cell phones are stolen and used to call the parents, pretending that their pretty daughter is being held hostage. The "aspiring musician" in question was just dumpster diving, and was shot (but not actually killed, he lived — BAD SYNOPSIS! BAD! [hits with newspaper]) by the father, a.k.a. the mark.
It was all a pretty goofy situation that could have made its own intriguing episode, rather than jammed into the first 10 minutes. The father made a bad decision by bringing a gun to a ransom dropoff, and he was acting under duress because he thought his daughter was in danger. But his daughter wasn't kidnapped, and the trash diver wasn't actually a kidnapper, and he didn't really die. Anyway, it's all moot, because the virtual kidnapper, Sameer Ahmed (Ben Youcef) was also into something else.
On his next virtual kidnapping scam, Lupo and Bernard tracked it all the way, and caught Ahmed junk food bag-handed. Gulp! But he wriggled out of trouble by telling the police that he knew about some guys who were planning to blow up a synagogue. Well, son, you've just gone from suspect to informant.
Ahmed (who keeps wanting to be called Sam, because he's a PROUD AMERICAN) seems to be almost overzealous in assisting the police with following his three companions as they build a bomb to blow up a synagogue. Bernard went undercover as an explosives dealer who actually sold the gang some silly putty. Whee, fake bomb! And as they were setting up the fake bomb outside the synagogue, they were predictably apprehended by The Man. They were loudly telling the men to put their hands behind their heads and so on when ... another synagogue four blocks away blows up.
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Matthew:
Thanks for your comments and support. Hopefully I will perform up to your expectaions! THANKS!
Ben Youcef