1st to Die

As Lindsay and Chris prepare to leave, Warren radios—he’s leaving Joanna’s to join the search.

Nicholas calls Lindsay to say that he didn’t murder anyone but knows who did.

Lindsay and Chris rush to Joanna’s apartment. Chris spots Nicholas walking away from the building, but Lindsay studies the figure and decides that it is someone dressed to look like Nicholas—she assumes Joanna. Chris follows the Nicholas-figure, while Lindsay goes up to Joanna’s apartment and finds Joanna dead.

Real Nicholas drives to the Palace of Fine Arts, the building where Nicholas and Chessy were married.

Lindsay rushes to the Palace of Fine Arts in a borrowed radio car and discovers that Chris has been wounded. She calls for backup. Chris urges her to keep going—he saw Nicholas and Chessy, who is dressed in male clothing, arguing.

Lindsay listens as Chessy confesses to the murders while accusing Nicholas of cruelty and cheating. She gives Nicholas the wedding rings from her victims and orders him to swallow them. Lindsay confronts them as Chessy shoots at Nicholas, but misses. Lindsay shoots Chessy in the chest. As Chessy dies, Nicholas self-servingly insists that he’s innocent. Lindsay punches him in the mouth.

Lindsay returns to Chris and holds him until he dies.

Lindsay is devastated by Chris’s death. She attends his funeral, where Chris’s ex-wife insists Lindsay join the family at the graveside. Lindsay is awed by the other woman’s empathy. Lindsay visits the Hall of Justice to see Chris’s name added to the list of San Francisco police officers killed in the line of duty.

Lindsay is surprised by a knock on the door. Nicholas bullies his way into her apartment, tells her that he and Chessy were in on the murders together, and attacks her. Lindsay pulls a gun out from under her bed and kills him. Her first calls are to her friends.