"Pilot"

Tribeca and Geils interviewing the blackmailed mayor in the "Pilot" episode.

**"Pilot"**  is the first episode of Season One of TBS's *Angie Tribeca*. It was written by Steve Carell & Nancy Walls Carell and also directed by Steve Carell. It is the first episode of the series overall, and premiered on January 17th, 2016.

## Summary

Angie Tribeca is assigned a new partner, Jay Geils, to find the mayor's blackmailer and bring him to justice.

## Synopsis

The lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca faces a turning point when Lieutenant Atkins assigns Jay Geils as her new partner. At first, Tribeca and Geils don't get along with each other, but they have to find a way to team up and accomplish their mission to search and arrest the mayor's blackmailer. After interviewing the mayor, they were able to identify three possible suspects: the mayor's wife (Mrs. Perry) , the mayor's mistress (Monica Vivarquar), and a Verdugo Valley College Art Teacher (Professor Everett). Now Tribeca and Geils have no choice but to accept their detective partnership, or even fall in love, to solve this mystery.

## Recap

*Warning*: *This section is a detailed recap of this episode. **There are major spoilers.***

The opening scene features Angie Tribeca sleeping in her apartment. She is awaken by her alarm clock at 4:45 am sharp. She then begins to train and exercise by running on a treadmill, doing some air-punching and kicking, targeting with spikes, popping balloons by kicking them, doing pull-ups, and so on. She ends up training so hard that she ends up destroying her home by using her force. After taking a shower, Tribeca gets into her uniform and loads up her weapons. Then she walks out of her apartment where she passes by a crew of men that are going to reset and fix the damages that she caused in her apartment.

The scene shifts to Angie Tribeca and Dr. Monica Scholls, a medical examiner, investigating the *death* of an elderly woman at the park. The old lady ended up to be alive, but that was ignored and she was still considered dead. Suddenly, a cop, vomits when he sees the *corpse* of the elderly woman. Then Tribeca tells the cop that he'll just get used to it. Suddenly, a screaming cop named Dave screams.

At the Los Angeles Police Department, DJ Tanner and David Hoffman approach Tribeca to inform her that Lieutenant Chet Atkins wants to see her. Once Angie Tribeca arrives at the lieutenant's office, Lieutenant Atkins introduces Jay Geils as her new partner. Tribeca immediately complains and disagrees with lieutenant about having a partner. Geils felt very disrespected and ends up having an argument with Tribeca, which Atkins stops. It's revealed that Geils is Tribeca's 237th partner. After the argument, lieutenant gives Tribeca and Geils a case about the mayor being blackmailed and they are both ordered to go to city hall as the mayor was expecting them yesterday.

Tribeca drives on their way to city hall, while warning Geils not to get personal. Once they arrived, a security asked personal questions before Tribeca and Geils could enter the Mayor's office. While interviewing Mayor Perry, it's revealed that the mayor's issue is that someone has photos of his tattoos, which are all over his naked body, and he's being threatened that his career will be ruined if he doesn't pay $4000 to the blackmailer. The possible suspects are the only people who had seen Mayor Perry shirtless, which includes his wife, his mistress, and a Verdugo Valley College drawing class as he shows his nudes to them every Wednesday. Thus, Angie Tribeca decides to start examining the mayor's wife.

Tribeca and Geils go to the mayor's wife's house. When they knock on the door, a male stripper opens up and unpleasantly answers them when Tribeca asks if Mrs. Perry, the mayor's wife, is home. This caused Jay Geils to slap the stripper, who punches Geils back. Geils takes off his shirt and physically fights the stripper; they grab each others nipples and cat fight outside. Then Mrs. Perry shows up and Tribeca begins interviewing her inside her house. During the investigation, Mrs. Perry offers some tea, cream-filled donuts, and baby-back ribs from a pig, which Tribeca refuses, while Geils and the stripper continue fighting outside as seen in the background windows. When Tribeca questions Mrs. Perry if she was the one who extorted money from her husband, Mrs. Perry reasons that she isn't the blackmailer since she has access to all her husband's accounts. In addition, when Tribeca asks if Mrs. Perry loves her husband, she gets offended for being accused of loving her own husband. Then Mrs. Perry offers a taco to Tribeca, which she accepts, while Mrs. Perry eats cotton candy. After, it's revealed that Mrs. Perry's marriage with the mayor was arranged and that they have their own play things. Tribeca accidentally mentions the mayor's mistress and the wife gets mad and cries, meaning that she actually loves her husband. Tribeca leaves and goes in her car, planning to get more details from the mayor's mistress. Suddenly, Geils and the stripper enter and continue fighting at the back seats of the car.

The next scene features Tribeca and Geils interviewing the mayor's mistress, Ms. Vivarquar, who was smoking and confusing to talk to. Tribeca asks Ms. Vivarquar various questions, but the mayor's mistress would answer irrelevantly and connect the topic to having sex with the mayor. Tribeca then accuses Ms. Vivarquar of lying and never having an affair with Mayor Perry, which she denies. When Tribeca asks Ms. Vivarquar to describe the mayor's lower back tattoo, she gets all of her guesses wrong and Tribeca and Geils reveal that the tattoo is a picture of a sheep with words, "THAT'S WHAT SHEEP SAID!". Finally, Ms. Vivarquar admits that Mayor Perry is not her lover, she is just a *wanna-be* mistress. The detectives leave and they talk in the car. Tribeca and Geils seem to be getting along, and they almost kiss a few times. When they stopped the drama, they noticed that the car windows are full of moist.

Later, they visit the coroners and forensics at the police department to observe the blackmail note. In the background, the *dead* elderly woman featured earlier is being put into a body bank. Meanwhile, Dr. Monica Scholls is examining the note with a magnifier. Dr. Edelweiss, the expert scientist, enters the lab on an electronic wheelchair. He seems to have a disability, which is why he couldn't shake Detective Geils' hand, but when Scholls introduced the blackmail note, Dr. Edelweiss stood up from his wheelchair and revealed that he was just pretending. Dr. Scholls placed the note in a claw crane game machine and Dr. Edelweiss played and attempted to grab the letter, but he ended up getting toys and stuffed animals a few times. When he caught the note, he magnified and enlarged the message. Dr. Edelweiss inferred that the "t"s indicate that the person who wrote the note is someone who's desperate, the "b"s and the "d"s tell that this person is of financial need, the spaces between the words show that this person has no respect for authority. Tribeca simplifies that the note was written by an individual who is desperate enough to blackmail the mayor for money.

During a boxing match between Tribeca and Geils at the fitness center, they discuss the possibilities of the mayor's wife and/or the mayor's so-called mistress being the blackmailer. Tribeca ends up punching Geils various times that he faints and gets a swelled face.

Later, they visit Verdugo Valley College where Professor Everett Lamereau is teaching his students how to draw nudes. The teaching assistant introduces Tribeca and Geils, as detectives, to Professor Lamereau in the classroom. Then Tribeca and Geils interview the Professor in his office after informing him of the extortion plot and their duty to investigate. Professor Lamereau questions the two detectives about why they would think that he did it as he and his class treats their figure models with dignity and respect. And the professor also tells Tribeca that it's a shame that she doesn't put her natural attributes around art, but Tribeca says that she doesn't prance around nude for money anymore. Then Professor Lamereau avoids Tribeca and Geils by telling them that he has to get back to class immediately. Tribeca instructs the Professor to not take any out-of-state trips in the near future, but Lamereau excuses that he has to attend a wedding in Phoenix on the 14th, it's his grandmothers birthday on the 24th, and he has tickets to the Harlem Globetrotters in October. Tribeca is persuaded and lets the Professor go to those events as long as he doesn't do anything stupid.

After Tribeca and Geils' investigation at the art college, they run into a female nude model who's looking for the art school since she's late for figure drawing class. The nude model gave Tribeca an idea as she and Geils think the Professor is hiding something and being suspicious. Tribeca's plan was to disguise herself as the nude model and continue investigating in the art classroom while the Professor is running the class. When the disguised Tribeca walks in the class, Professor Lamereau judges her for being late, but Tribeca just stays silent and sits at the center of the class. She then strips off her coat, exposing her naked body to the class. Then Geils, who is in a van, attempts to communicate with Tribeca through a short-range interconnection. Geils advises Tribeca to look out for anything suspicious while the class begins to draw. Professor Everett Lamereau walks around the class, making comments on what his students have drawn already. After, the Professor tells the class that she is as she was born; her skin is smooth, no piercings, and not tattooed. Lamereau then keeps talking about how he hates disgusting and dirty tattoos. When Geils and Tribeca heard the keyword, Tribeca asks the Professor if he'll blackmail someone with those bad tattoos that he described. The Professor admits that he will do something like that, and Tribeca immediately reveals her true self. Lamereau grabs Tribeca's clothes and escapes out of the classroom, while Tribeca informs Geils that the Professor is coming to his direction.

Tribeca gets up and looks for something to wear. She grabs a bunch of random nude drawings on paper and staples them together. Meanwhile, Geils begins to run after Professor Lamereau in the most crazy way. Geils even does some random tricks and some gymnastic moves while chasing the blackmailer. Tribeca finally runs out of the class, wearing a dress made out of paper. Geils continues to run after the Professor; Geils somehow ends up at the third floor of the college and finds the Professor, who gives Geils the middle finger on both of his hands, on the second floor at the other side of the building. Geils takes the emergency rope on the wall and uses it to get down of the building. Professor Lamereau continues running and passes by Angie Tribeca who throws a heavy backpack at him. The Professor falls on the ground and he gets arrested by Tribeca and Geils for suspicion extortion. Geils throws the handcuffs at the Professor so that he could put it on by himself.

Later on, Tribeca and Geils are back at the police station. Tribeca apologizes to Geils for the way she treated him earlier and for not accepting him as his partner. Then Jay Geils asks Tribeca if she wanted to go get some beer with him. Tribeca accepts the invitation and she and Geils begin to go to the elevator, on their way to get some beer, but Tanner interrupts and tells Tribeca that lieutenant wants to see her again. Geils would have to go and leave Tribeca, but before he goes in the elevator, he asks Tribeca if she was okay with being partners with him. Tribeca says yes, meaning that she finally accepted having a partner again, then she walks away. When the elevator doors open, Geils walks in and falls as the elevator was absent. A police officer was shocked and screams, "somebody call 911", even though they are at the police station already. Tribeca continues walking to the lieutenant's office with a smile, still not aware of Geils accident.