Fortune favors the gullible

Flaw starts an investigation into shockingly accurate fortune cookies. Casey is suffering from bad luck.

## Episode summary

The episode opens with Casey sitting in the Detective Terra’s office, reading through a book with a picture of a constellation on its cover. Lieutenant Morry enters, and Casey quickly closes the book hides it in a desk drawer. Morry hands the detective a newspaper and sits across from her. She opens it up and starts reading the crime section out loud, immediately rejecting all of the cases. The lieutenant seems enraptured with the horoscope section of the newspaper that is viewable from his side. He asks the detective what astrological sign she is, guessing that she is either a Virgo or a Capricorn, but the detective tells him that she doesn’t believe in Astrology. She adds that she’s a Cancer. Lieutenant Morry reads out today’s horoscope for Cancer out loud. It warns all Cancers about bad luck. Casey scoffs in disbelief, and says that there is no such thing as bad luck. She then reclines back on her chair, and its legs break, making Casey fall on the ground.

Over in the US, Flaw, Sasha and Thomas are in a restaurant. Sasha is excitedly looking through the menu, until Flaw tells her to put it down, as they are not going to order anything. The waiter then brings in a large plate filled with fortune cookies. Flaw starts opening them up, reading the prophecy inside, while Sasha scoops up the cookie itself and eats it. The prophecy warns to be beware of the flying bear. Thomas wonders what it means, and Sasha says that it’s a very specific prophecy, as usually they are supposed to be very vague. Suddenly, two crying children run by the crew’s booth and one of them throws a teddy bear, which hits Flaw square in the face. After he hands the toy back to the child, he explains to his companions that the fortune cookies from this particular restaurant always come true. Thomas gasps and grabs a handful of the treats, starting to open them up, and so does Sasha. The paper pieces send them warnings about a fire-breathing dragon, a heavenly strike, and a betrayal from the one you trust most. Flaw read a cookie too, and it tells him his loved ones might experience a breakthrough. Sasha is mad that she and Thomas got ominous fortunes, meanwhile he gets a nice one. Thomas is trembling and yells to the gods that he’s never done anything wrong. Sasha and Flaw agree.

In the UK, lieutenant Morry gets a call about a bank robbery that just happened, and he and the detective set out to the scene. Upon exiting the office, Casey immediately steps into a muddy puddle, and her shoes get temporarily stuck. Lieutenant elbows her and reminds her about the horoscope, and Casey reminds him that bad luck doesn’t exist. She tries to fetch a cab, but the passing cars all splash her with dirty water. They decide to walk.

While they are strolling down the street, Casey walks under a stepladder. Morry is right behind her, and when it’s his turn to walk under the ladder, he jostles it, causing the worker on top of it to drop a bucket of yellow paint. Casey is able to jump out of it way, but the spilt paint still gets onto her coat. The Lieutenant jokes about bad luck, but Casey says that it’s just a coincidence.

Back to the US, Flaw decides that the best way to test out the theory is to see if the fortunes come true. Thomas is frightened by the prospect, but Sasha seems cheerfully skeptical, as there are can’t be any dragons in real life, she says. While the three are leaving the restaurant, they are offered to buy souvenirs on their way out. Sasha points at a dragon-shaped hair-dryer and takes it to try it out, but upon being turned on, it short-circuits, and Sasha is hit by a beam of fire. Her face and hair are now black with soot (because that’s how fire works). Thomas blows into her face and she is back to normal, although her hair is still dark. She remarks that she did want to dye her hair anyway.

Meanwhile, Casey and the lieutenant are still making their way to the scene of the robbery, when a black cat crosses their path and runs into an alleyway. Morry tries to make Casey believe in bad luck again, but she is persistent. There are sounds of a ruckus coming from the alleyway the cat had absconded into, and then one of the trash containers opens and raccoons come running out of it. Casey is covered by the raccoon wave, and after all of them leave, she is left with scratches and hair all over her. The black cat then nonchalantly walks out of the alley and sits down in front of the Lieutenant, who coos at her and feeds her a fish, while Casey tries to get raccoon hair out of her mouth.

Flaw and his companions finally exit the restaurant. Thomas fearfully looks up at the sky and begs for nothing to strike him. Flaw comforts him, and tells him that there wasn’t any thunderstorms on the weather podcast. But just as Thomas steps out of the doorway, one of the letters on the building’s front breaks off, falling down at Thomas. However, it misses him by a foot. Thomas still shrieks and covers on the ground, and has to be pulled up by Flaw, who tells him that it’s safe. Thomas is relieved that the fortune didn’t come true, but as he makes another step out on the street, a billboard creaks and falls right on top of him. The billboard has a picture of an angel on it.

Casey and Lieutenant Morry have finally arrived at the scene of the robbery. It’s an apartment on second floor of the house. The police at the scene are shocked at the detective’s appearance, but Morry orders them not to mention it. The officers relay to Casey that the burglary was discovered by the owner of the apartment arriving home earlier than they usually do. The cameras show someone opening the door and entering, but no one coming out.

While Casey is looking at the crime scene, she gets a phone call from Flaw. They tell each other about their unlucky days, and Casey insists that their prophecies coming true must have been a coincidence, as there isn’t a malevolent force making fate happen. Flaw repeats her words, and comes to a realization. He then relays the fortune about a breakthrough to her. Casey shrugs it off, and they end the call.

Flaw checks up on Thomas, who is in an ambulance with his head patched up, and goes back into the restaurant. He confronts the restaurants employees, telling them it was them who made all of those fortunes come true. We are treated to a series of flashbacks, in which we see the bakers writing and putting specific profecries inside the cookies, one of the waiters setting off the kids who hit Flaw in the head with a teddy bear, the gift shop employee messing with the hairdryer’s wiring, and the maintenance crew unscrewing the letter from the building’s front and the billboard from the ground. He then finishes it off by saying that there is no such thing as fate. He asks what was the deal with the other two unfulfilled fortunes, and the employees tell him that they just put random words in that sound vaguely ominous.

Meanwhile, Casey is searching the apartments kitchen for clues. She opens the cupboard door too hard, and the whole thing topples over, the plates breaking on the floor and salt spilling onto the detectives coat. The counter breaks apart under the cupboards weight, and a person rolls out from under it. They notice Casey and spring up and break into a run. Casey chases after them. The two run through the room where the police officers are in, and Casey shouts at them to apprehend the suspect. They try to restrain the suspect, but in their scuffle they knock over a rack of umbrellas, and the detective, who just stopped running, slips on one of them, and falls onto a window, breaking it and falling to the ground. Lieutenant Morry jumps out after her. Casey tells him she’s fine, lying there on the ground in broken glass. She finishes by telling him there’s no such thing as bad luck.