Till I do us part

Flaw looks for a runaway groom. Casey tries to find out who stole a crown.

## Episode Summary

Flaw arrives at a wedding chapel. He pushes through a crowd of people to get inside and meet the bride, Shelly Laurens, and her parents. Shelly is crying, and her mother is comforting her. The father explains to the detective that the groom, Ted Nelson, didn’t show up to the wedding and now they lost all contact with him. Flaw nods and requests to speak with Shelly one-on-one. After her parents leave, Shelly abruptly stops crying and begs Detective Terra not to investigate. Flaw frowns and tells her that he needs to find someone if they are missing, and that they can sort out their marriage business later. Shelly starts crying again.

Over in the UK, Casey is peering down at an empty glass case. Behind her, Mr. Sterling, who is telling her the history of the King Balthasar’s crown. He had been the owner of this historical artifact before it got stolen. Casey asks for a photo of the crown, however Mr. Sterling says that there haven’t ever been taken any, as the crown is very photosensitive. Then Casey inquires whether there has been any surveillance on it, and Mr. Sterling tells her that there hasn’t been any because he had been afraid it would get stolen. He then laments that the crown got stolen just before a public viewing of the artifact, and that it’s photo would surely have made the front page on the Times. Casey reminds him that the crown is photosensitive and asks to interview the servants.

Meanwhile, Flaw is on the phone with a bank teller, who tells him that they don’t have any clients by the name of Ted Nelson. He thanks them, hangs up, and crosses over “bank” on a list of paper. The rest of the list has entries like “apartment building”, “school”, “university”, which are also all crossed out.

Shelly’s mother appears over Flaw’s shoulder, asking about his progress, and Flaw tells her that it’s almost like Ted got erased out of existence. He then asks her how long she had known the man for, to which she answers that she hadn’t ever actually met him, Shelly was away at the university when she met Ted and he proposed. Flaw then asks if anyone else had ever seen Ted besides Shelly. Her mother says that no one she knows had, except for some of Shelly’s friends from the university. She then worryingly asks Flaw if he thinks Ted just wanted to marry Shelly for money, and he run away because he was swarmed with guilt. Flaw answers that the guilty one might be someone else here.

Casey is questioning the maids, who all tell her that they aren’t allowed in the room where the crown had been kept. Casey asks if anyone has ever even seen it, and all the maids unanimously shake their heads. Casey lets them go and calls Flaw.

They tell each other about their cases, and are stunned by how similar they are. They come to the conclusion that neither the groom nor the crown have ever existed, and now they need to reveal the truth to the others.

Flaw ends the call and goes to talk to Shelly one-on-one again. He tells her that he figured everything out, and she bursts into tears. She explains that she never wanted to date anyone, but her parents were insistent, and she, along with some of her friends, made up a fake person for her to pretend to date. She says that she wanted to pretend to break up with Ted after she graduated, but her parents kept asking about marriage, and so she told them that Ted proposed to her, and now there they were. She begs Flaw not to tell anyone, and, after a moment, he agrees. Shelly is very thankful. Flaw exists out of the room and tells Shelly’s mother that Ted did, indeed, run away because he felt guilty about marrying for money.

Back in the UK, Casey is talking to Mr. Sterling. She tells him that she figured out everything. He hangs his head and meekly hands her the keys to the glass case where the crown is supposed to be. Casey looks confused, but still uses the keys to open the empty case. Mr. Sterling than gently grabs the emptiness and hands it over to the detective. She takes it and almost drops it when her hands make contact with a physical object. Mr. Sterling says that, yes, the crown is invisible. Casey, still starting at the nothing in her hands, asks why he hasn’t told anybody else about it, if the evidence towards the crown’s existence is clearly here. Mr. Sterling answers that he didn’t see any point in doing so, since there couldn’t be a photo of the it on the front page of the Times. Casey stares at him in disbelief.