Synopsis  

A girl living with her grandmother in Cabrini Green and goes missing, while an older man loses his family following a vacation, and another young girl into voodoo goes missing.

Review  

Connie works the case of a forgetful man who has lost his family following a month vacation. Victor Deely’s son Karl had gone to Florida but never returned. Victor presses Connie to learn about her personal life, and gets cagey when she says they’ll have to search his house. His house is all but empty, and while Victor is really friendly his explanations as to why the house is devoid of furniture and clothes are suspicious.

Victor comes to the unit with presents for everyone. Ray distracts him so Connie can go investigate his neighbors. The neighbors explain that Victor has been very needy and overly sweet to everyone since his wife died, and has been driving everyone crazy. As Connie’s there, the cops arrive to serve a warrant. Karl sold the house months ago, and the new owners want to evict Victor. After finding Karl, they learn that Karl had filed a missing persons on Victor three days ago.

They had put Victor in a nursing home due to his dementia, and Victor keeps running away to live with them again. He had forgotten that they’d moved. Everyone in the family loves him, but he drives everyone crazy.

Notes  

• Connie is still pretending the man in the wedding photo on her desk is her husband, and not her brother Richard.

Quotes  

Ray: When your husband wants to take you out to dinner, where’s your favorite place to go?
Connie: A restaurant? Oh that’s easy. Schulers. They have the most fabulous cabbage soup there and this cookie for desert.
Ray: No, no no no no. Romantic, it’s gotta be romantic.
Connie: Well it is romantic! It’s dark and there are candles on the table and the waiters wear this sexy lederhosen. And the owner is a real hoot, he thinks he’s a —
Ray: Thanks. Go.
Connie: You’re welcome.