Motive/The Dead Man

The Dead Man
Season 4, Episode 2
Airdate	March 29, 2016
Written by	Sarah Dodd, Dennis Heaton
Directed by	Kristin Lehman
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Motive — Season Four

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The Dead Man is the second episode of the fourth season of Motive, and the forty-first episode overall.

Guest Starring: Victor Zinck, Jr. (Mitch Kennecki), Jamie Clayton, Kristine Cofsky, Nathan Mitchell (Russell Bowman)

Co-Starring: Giacomo Baessato (Gary Camper), Brandi Alexander (Gina Williams), Chiara Guzzo (Marcie Dunleavy), Michael Karl Richards (Ray Calandra), Jen Oleksiuk (Terry Page), Brian Cook (Hotel Clerk), Christina Walls (Brandi), Paniz Zade (Jessica), Aadile Dosani (Bride), Kwasi Thomas (Groom)

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Plot Overview

The victim is a high-society woman and the wife of a popular quarterback for Vancouver's team. The killer is a high profile baker. At first, it looks like the victim was killed in an automobile accident, but Betty's autopsy shows that she died of anaphylactic shock due to a peanut allergy, and indeed, peanut oil was found on her body. Angie and her team have to deal with the pressure that the victim's husband is putting upon them to solve the case. Investigation reveals that both women were being blackmailed, and that the blackmail has something to do with the baker's husband's mysterious death in a boating accident, for which his body was never found. It's that information, along with a shocking secret about the dead woman, that leads the detectives to the motive. All through the case, Angie, Oscar, Lucas and Betty all get into it with the obnoxious Kennecki. It's a final act of stupidity on his part that just might give Oscar a reason to get rid of him, possibly for good.