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PASSION (#CI8020)
EPISODE PREMIERE: July 12, 2009
Jacob confronts Don about seeing Lauren on the night of her murder. Don doesn't want the foundation dragged into a police investigation and offers to continue funding The Quarterly if Jacob cooperates, which suits Jacobs just fine.
The detectives pay a visit to disgruntled poet, Wetherly, who wrote venomous letters to Jacob and Lauren for rejecting his poetry. When Wetherly accuses Jacob of plagiarizing a poem (the meter not the content), the detectives quickly realize they're dealing with a paranoid artist, not a killer.
Meanwhile, Sandra comforts Jacob, who is inconsolable over his flagging journal. Sandra promises she won't let that happen; she understands how important his art is. She'll get the money from her husband, she says. Her tenderness quickly turns sexual and the two have a passionate night together.
Nichols reads a poem by Jacob about a lover who leaves him for money. They presume Jacob meant Lauren.
The detectives approach Sandra to check out Jacob's alibi on the night of Lauren's murder. She confirms they were together throughout the evening. Sandra's husband, John Dunbar, a wealthy Wall Street suit who prefers sports to poetry, disparages Sandra's support of the arts. She dismisses her husband along with the idea that Lauren was a great love of Jacob's – he has a great love every week.
Nichols and Wheeler check out Jacob's former lover and assistant, Emma, who tells that she left both Jacob and her job willingly. She confides that Jacob used to ask her to sleep with donors in order to guarantee continued support of the journal, and Don MacCallum was at the top of the list.
Meanwhile, Sandra's husband, John, erupts when he finds out Sandra donated a total of $100,000 to the journal. Sandra tells him she wants a divorce.
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