A meal a day

Casey goes out eating to a restaurant. Flaw investigates a hospital that is losing its business.

## Episode Summary

The episode opens with Casey and Lieutenant Morry sitting at a table in a restaurant. The lieutenant congratulates her on finding the missing First Lady in the USA, as the case made the news. Casey rolls her eyes and stays silent. Morry asks her how she manages to travel between the continents so fast all the time, and Casey panics and says that Detective Terra has a private submarine. Before the lieutenant can reply, they are interrupted by a waiter bringing them their order. Lieutenant Morry thanks them and starts eating hungrily, while Casey takes out some chemical supplies and starts putting samples of the food in testing tubes. The lieutenant spits out the food and declares that it tastes horrible, Casey nods and says that she suspects it may be poisoned. The lieutenant stares at the food on his plate in horror, then raises up his eyes to stare at Casey. He asks how long he has left to live. Casey answers that it depends on the type on the poison, and continues working with the chemicals.

Meanwhile, Flaw arrives at a hospital’s lobby. The hospital is entirely ready save for a nervous-looking man, who, upon noticing Detective Terra’s arrival, eagerly introduces himself as Benjamin, the hospital’s administrator. He leads Flaw through the empty halls and rooms, talking about how they suddenly stopped getting any new patients. Flaw asks why he isn’t happy about people not getting sick anymore, and Benjamin replies that he is happy, of course, but he would prefer to get paid too. Flaw stares at Benjamin with narrow eyes for a moment, but still agrees to take the case.

Back in the UK, Casey and Lieutenant Morry are talking to the restaurant’s chef. He tells them that one of the cooks must have been poisoning the food. Casey points at her chemistry kit and informs him that she has found no known poisons in the meals they ordered. The lieutenant adds that the food did, however, taste awful. The chef almost faints from the idea that his food tastes bad, and decides that someone wants to ruin his career. Casey says that she will need to observe the cooks’ work in secret to catch the detractor. The chef tells them he knows how to organize that.

The scene cuts to Casey and Lieutenant Morry inside a fridge, the cooks in the kitchen apparently not noticing them. Both of them are shaking from the cold, and the lieutenant has an icicle hanging down from his nose. Casey says she’s never going to trust the ideas of others ever again.

They watch as the cooks get on with their duties, when Casey notices that one of the them, an elderly woman, adds something into another cook’s pot. She points it out to the lieutenant, who is very happy that they don’t have to be stuck in the fridge anymore. After a short pause he then proceeds to ask the detective how exactly they are supposed to get out of the fridge.

In the meantime, Flaw is sitting comfortably on a couch talking to an elderly man. Flaw asks him some questions about his life in the area, and the man, who says he has been living here for his whole life, confirms that he stopped getting sick, and so did all of his neighbors. The man then brings Flaw some hot tea. Flaw takes a sip and immediately starts coughing into his hand. The elderly man then apologizes, saying that the water tastes terribly around these parts, but that he got used to it after a while. Flaw then is struck with a realization, and asks the man when the water started tasting like that. The man is thinks for a few moments, and then says that it was around the time all the illnesses disappeared.

The last cook leaves the kitchen, and Casey and the lieutenant stumble out of the fridge. Casey sneezes and complains that she got a cold. Lieutenant Morry says that he feels fine, surprisingly enough. Casey stares at him in disbelief, then goes to inspect the pot that had been tampered with. She asks the lieutenant to taste the food again, and he complies. After eating a large spoon, he reports that it tastes as awful as the other meal did, but that it also tastes rather familiar. Casey then sneezes again, and says that she will need to buy some medication. Lieutenant Morry hits himself on the head and exclaims that the food tastes familiar because it tastes like medicine. Before Casey can question him, she gets a call from Flaw.

The two exchange the details of their respective cases, and Flaw comes to the conclusion that someone must have been mixing some sort of medicine in the water supply of the town he’s in. He then asks is Casey is going to tell the chef who the culprit is, and Casey says that of course she’s going to, the case needed to be completed. Flaw nods and hangs up.

We cut to the scene of chef firing the elderly lady as she frantically apologizes, saying that she just wanted to make the people in the area feel better. The chef says that she could have made people feel better by making tasty meals. After she leaves, the chef thanks Detective Terra and offers them free meals. Lieutenant Morry says that he’s as hungry as a wolf, but Casey declines. She then sneezes.

Flaw is once again in the hospital, reading over a long list, which is titled “Water analysis” in big bold letters. Benjamin comes into the room, greets the detective and asks about the progress on the case. Flaw hastily puts away the list, shrugs and says he hasn’t been able to find anything. Benjamin is devastated, saying that at this rate he might as well start dragging healthy people in to get at least some patients. Flaw smiles smugly and offers him a cup of water.