Nobody's Fool

Sami hands out NDAs to his elite students and Raymond before discussing the two cases he wants them to help investigate. All the students sign. Sami wants the class to help with background research and surveillance both for Victoria’s kidnapping case and Nicole Brett’s murder case. Sami introduces the circumstances of Tad Grayson’s release and his goal of finding new evidence to re-convict him.

Later, Sami visits Thomas and meets his doting family. Sami asks about New Year’s Eve 1999, and Thomas becomes instantly agitated. He feels guilty for Victoria’s disappearance because he signed the party’s rental agreement and ignored one of her calls that night. Sami senses that the man’s feelings are genuine. Thomas recalls how he drove Victoria and her friend Caroline to the pub early to decorate. Victoria tried to convince Thomas to join the party because his girlfriend, Lacy, had just broken up with him. Thomas went home instead and got drunk. He didn’t see his dad, but he knew he was home. Lacy drunk dialed Thomas, so he went to her house that night.

Thomas ignored Victoria’s call and didn’t remember listening to the unintelligible voicemail until days later, when the family wasn’t yet worried about her whereabouts.