Even though “keyboards and cell phones” are “the tools of the modern investigator” the case soon hots up as the odd couple discover links to both a building magnate and a mayoral candidate. “Lucky Lucy”, of course, turns out to have her own dark secret: as a grown-up survivor of an arson attack on a kindergarten she is determined to track down the culprits. Each conversation becomes a confrontation, until the tension eventually explodes into violence.