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PASSION (#CI8020)
EPISODE PREMIERE: July 12, 2009
Nichols and Wheeler confront Don. He admits that Lauren came to see him on the night of her murder, but they didn't have sex. Jacob wanted her to, but she couldn't do it.
The detectives return to the Village Quarterly to talk to Jacob, but he's dead – stabbed with a pair of scissors. M.E. Rodgers tells that he should have known better, because a scar on his arm indicates he'd been stabbed before. An angry message left on the answering machine suggests John Dunbar may be their killer.
The detectives interrogate Dunbar and he has a rock solid alibi – he was with his girlfriend. He is thrilled about the upcoming divorce and tells that Sandra will leave the marriage with nothing, which is what she had when they met at Queens College.
Nichols researches Jacob's past and learns that his earlier stabbing took place while at Queens College. Nichols thinks the poem Jacob wrote about being left by a lover for money was written years ago, though published recently. Further research uncovers that Sandra and Jacob were in the poetry club together while in school. Nichols thinks the poem may have been about Sandra.
An old college acquaintance from that time confirms Jacob and Lauren were lovers, and they had a fiery and tumultuous affair. At one point, Lauren picked up a knife from a pizza platter and stabbed Jacob, followed by a week of make-up sex.
Nichols pays Sandra a visit and she confides that she and Jacob were involved in college, but she married John for money. She got back in touch with Jacob after seeing Jacob's poem recently published in the Quarterly.
In the final scene, Nichols and Wheeler attend a memorial for Jacob. Nichols reads a poem that he says he found in Jacob's office after his death. It must have been the last thing Jacob wrote. The poem tells of a lost love recaptured. Sandra breaks down. She realizes Jacob loved her after all. Sandra describes how she went to see Jacob to tell him she had left her husband for him. Jacob rejected her and told her to go back to her husband and that he only needs her money. She killed him in a rage. She realizes he did love her, and she made a terrible mistake.
As Sandra is led off in handcuffs, Wheeler asks Nichols if he's going to tell Sandra that he wrote the poem, not Jacob.
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