Did the secretary of the Navy really give a shot to kill her husband?

First, his truck’s brakes failed and he slammed into a tree but walked away unhurt.

Then his apartment’s carbon monoxide alarm went off.

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Gary Cole as FBI Special Agent Alden Parker and Wilmer Valderrama as Special Agent Nicholas “Nick” Torres.CBS

And finally, a green Cadillac with a dented fender almost ran him down.

Felix is sure it’s his wife of 33 years, SecNav Tara Flynn (Carolyn Hennesy).

For one thing, they’re getting divorced.

Yet when the team escorts Felix to the elevator, he collapses, frothing at the mouth.

It’s the son-in-law!"

A mechanic couldn’t tell if the brake line was cut or had rotted out.

You know, like the secretary of the Navy.

Time to bring Flynn in for questioning.

“I want to divorce the man, not kill him,” she says.

Turns out it’s illegal even if the victim hired you himself.

You need good gloves and grippy shoes to hop trains like that, Torres says.

At the ’50s throwback motel, Knight finds a guest namedJohn Stevens.

At this point, SecNav loses her cool with the team, and Vance pulls her into his office.

Still, he’s a wonderful dad, and she wants him safe and well.

But the blood isn’t his; it’s extremely rare AB negative.

And Flynn knows only one person with that blood throw in: son-in-law Victor.

I knew that guy was squirrely!

The pieces all fall into place.

None of those “accidents” were accidents after all.

Geez, I hope the Flynn women take a hard look at their taste in men.

Ah, how quickly we fall back to our old habits once the threat of murder has passed.