A Mentor's Return: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Convict Mentor"

This week's case reunites a familiar face to Laura and the team, when her former Captain and friend helps on a cold case that she's been trying to solve for a long time.

When Laura gets a phone call from a familiar face, her old captain that tried to shoot her in the series premiere, Hauser. He tips Laura in code that he has information on a suspect that's has some hidden stuff. One of them were two dead bodies in a vent in a warehouse basement.

Laura and Jake take a look and found that Hauser was right. Laura tries to play it cool like he's her CI and try to get more information when she visits him. Hauser talks about Mullens, the one case that Laura spent nights trying to solve and find those two victims that she just found.

Just as Laura goes through the case, Jake get her to watch the news and found out that Mullens and Hauser had escape from jail. A man hunt underway, Laura thinks of what Hauser had told her. When they figured out that Mullens had more warehouse than they had thought they try to put a SWAT team out there waiting for them. But Laura gets a clue that from her police radio of a robbery at a store and one of the items was pork grins.

That got Laura to find the other clue which was an address left by Hauser and soon Laura gets there. She tries to wait for Jake and the others to show up but couldn't take the chance when Mullens pulled a gun on Hauser. Laura acts quickly trying to stop Mullens. The all three of them talk and Laura acts like she doesn't have a shot. I couldn't really tell if she didn't or if she was playing but by the time she was about to shoot, Billy takes the shot.

This doesn't help Hauser reducing his sentence for the murder that he did, but it does give a bit of closure for him and Laura as they give a one final goodbye. He was not just a mentor but a friend and family member.

I couldn't help but to think that Billy and Meredith have to know that they are in a relationship. I think that they're pretending in the public's eye but we know what's going on.

This episode was very good. I think that this episode was one of Debra Messing's best one yet. Her character dealing with the return of Hauser and solving an old case from the suspect that's in jail.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

Here's a promo for next week's episode.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.