Motive/Remains to Be Seen

Remains to Be Seen
Season 4, Episode 9
Airdate	July 19, 2016
Written by	Matt MacLennan
Directed by	Sturla Gunnarson
Stream
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Remains to Be Seen is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Motive, and the forty-eighth episode overall.

Special Guest Star: Tommy Flanagan (Interpol Agent Jack Stoker)

Guest Starring: Max Martini (James Lennathan), Douglas Smith, Keegan Connor Tracy, Ty Olsson

"Co-Starring": Marci T. House (Chief Wells), Luc Roderique (Cole Mack), Victoria Michaels (Lena Grimes), David Nykl (Darnell Murphy), Steven Cree Molison (Cal Sifton), Luvia Peterson (Lisa Benoit), Haig Sutherland (Dave Briggs, Sr.), Ruby Gillett (Summer), Patrick Spurling (Ross), Oliver Mahone Smith (Jay), Paige Shaw (Dee)

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Plot Overview

The killer is the owner of an antique store. The victim is a high-tech video game designer. The team is called to the designer's workplace, where they discover a large pool of blood, but no body. They're certain a murder took place there, as the victim was wearing a high-tech body motion suit, which captures his gruesome decapitation--but not the killer's face, just silhouettes. Angie and Lucas, with help from Stoker, who's remaining in Canada a while longer, investigate the victim and find out from his colleagues that he was being followed everywhere. At the dead man's apartment, they find all sorts of newspaper clippings and learn that his father, an investigative reporter, disappeared years ago, but he believed that his father was murdered due to a story he was working on which involved a host of corrupt government officials who were secretly meeting at the antique store. When the younger man's body is finally found, they find a second corpse that appears to also have been killed by decapitation and is a much older set of remains. The antique store owner is growing increasingly more paranoid and insists to his co-owner/fiancee that they have to flee the country for their protection, but she thinks his paranoia is due to alcoholism. Angie discovers a sword in the store with mold spores and blood on it and believes they have the weapon, but when she questions the suspect, he steadfastly denies anything. Could his odd behavior be a result of alcoholism or a more severe medical condition? Meanwhile, at the office, Oscar faces the wraith of Chief Wells when she accuses him of misconduct in the trial of Betty's attacker, but the truth is he lied to protect Lucas.