Experiencing turbulence

Casey becomes a librarian. Flaw investigates a theft on an airplane.

## Episode Summary

The episode opens with an establishing shot of an airport. Flaw pushes past the crowd formed in front of a jet bridge entrance and greets the police officers before getting inside the plane. A flight attendant, whose badge says “Mariah”, welcomes him on board and offers him drinks, but Flaw declines. He approaches the distressed-looking man in business class. After introductions, the man, named Nicholas Monet, tells Flaw that his precious watch has gone missing while he was on this flight. As they were in air, only those on this airplane could have done it. He immediately called the police after landing, and so no one has left the plane since. Flaw agrees to investigate.

Over in the UK, Casey is in a library. She is standing in front of a bookshelf with various books having constellations on their covers. She is scrutinizing them, frowning, and then a librarian approaches her, asking if anything is wrong. Casey then launches into a tirade about somebody rearranging all of the books in the Astronomy section. She then promptly adds that she isn’t interested in Astrophysics. The librarian awkwardly apologizes and promises to shortly fix it, but Casey is having none of it and insists that she must investigate the matter by going undercover. The librarian asks what exactly this implies.

We cut away to Flaw interviewing another passenger from the business class. She is sitting at a luxuriously served table with two other men who are fanning her.  She is telling Flaw about how she met Mr. Monet - the detective’s client - at a ball, where she was invited because she knew Mr. Monet’s uncle. Flaw interrupts her and asks her about the theft of the watch. The women quickly changes her expression and takes a sip of a non-alcoholic beverage, the men at her sides starting to fan faster. She tells Flaw that she doesn’t know anything about it.

Back in the UK, Casey has now changed out of her Detective Terra outfit and into more casual wear. She is patrolling the bookcase rows, unintentionally scaring off some students. She bothers some of the browsers by asking if they need any help, to which they promptly scurry off. When Casey comes back to check the Astronomy shelf, she is irritated to find that it has been rearranged yet again. She begins to put the books back in their proper order, when another student comes up to ask her where they can a copy of “Discover the stars”. Casey glares at him, but still blindly finds the needed book and hands it to the student, who immediately runs off.

Meanwhile, Flaw is talking to other passengers. This time it’s two men playing a card game. They speak in half-sentences, finishing them off for each other. They tell Flaw about how they know Mr. Monet from the frequent card games they play with him. One of them adds that it’s a pity Monet’s uncle no longer joins him. Flaw asks what the reason for that is, and the men explain that the two had a family spat, and the uncle was cast out  from the family, leaving him without his riches. One of the pair adds that they really miss the uncle, as Monet is no fun to play cards with. Other other kicks him under the table. Flaw asks them is the know anything about the theft, to which the men answer simultaneously that they don’t have the slightest idea.

Casey is taking a break, drinking tea, asking the actual librarian how they manage to do it every day, and the librarian asks whether Casey is aware that she’s not getting paid for this. Then they hear a loud thundering sound, and Casey is immediately on her feet, running into the astronomy section. We see the same student that was looking for a book earlier standing in a pile of fallen down tomes. Casey is instantly on them, pinning them to a bookcase and telling them that they are under arrest, pulling out her handcuffs. The librarian urgently asks what the crime is, and the student cries out that they haven’t done anything wrong, that they just accidentally made the books fall. Casey snarls, but before she can say anything she notices that one of the books has fallen open to reveal a hidden compartment inside. She picks up the book and looks inside the compartment.

Meanwhile, Flaw is talking to a man who is wearing a very obvious disguise composed of a large hat and a huge mustache, which entirely cover his face. The man twirls it when Flaw asks him about the theft, and says that he doesn’t know anything about it at all. He then adds a couple of unflattering comments about Nicholas Monet himself. Flaw asks if the man had met Mr. Monet before, but the man twirls his mustache to the point of it turning into a thin line, and says that he has never seen Monet before in his life. Flaw nods and then gets up to stand in the middle aisle, getting attention of all the business class passengers. He then declares he knows who did it. He briefs them on all of the information he discovered about the passengers themselves and notes that they all seem to have one thing in common - Mr. Monet’s uncle, who had all the reasons to avenge himself and steal the watch to get money. The man with the mustache then remarks that he isn’t connected to the uncle in any way. Flaw smirks and dramatically takes off the mustache and the large hat, revealing a man in a comically stereotypical astronomer’s costume (with the tall cone hat and a star-covered gown). Nicholas Monet gasps and identifies the man as his uncle. Flaw then continues his explanation and says that every passenger was in on the theft, as they all have been friends with the Monet’s uncle. The uncle then laughs and opens his arms wide, inviting Flaw to search him for the stolen watch. Flaw does so, but doesn’t find anything. The uncle then laughs at him, as in his opinion it proves his lack of guilt.

Flaw then gets a phone call from Casey. Casey tells him that she had found a watch in the hidden compartment. The camera switches to show Casey sitting at a library table with computers, as the actual librarian is comforting the almost-arrested student with tea. Casey is twirling the watch in her hands. Casey reads out the name engraved on the inside of the watch, which is Nicholas Monet, and says that she looked it up and the man is a businessman from the US. Flaw thanks her and tells her that he’ll call her later.

Flaw then rounds on the uncle and tells him that what he needed was other two accomplices, one that could carry out the watch before the plane took off - Flaw points at the flight attendant, Mariah - and one that could take the watch from a secure location. And so when the plane arrived to the US, the watch would have been long gone. Flaw then informs him that the watch hadn’t been taken. The uncle explodes in an angry tirade about not trusting hired criminals and only trusting your friends, at which the other passengers of the business class (sans Monet) and the flight attendant coo and all hug the uncle. Flaw smiles but gently reminds them that they still have committed a crime.

Casey puts away her phone, and slips the watch back into its hidden compartment. The librarian then angrily asks if she’s going to apologize, gesturing to the upset student. Casey tenses up, but still awkwardly apologizes for making the wrong call. The actual librarian nods and tells Casey that she’s still now permanently banned from the library. And that she’s not getting paid.