50 Shades of Greyson – Director: Cal Coons/Writer: Jessie Gabe
This one starts in the Krazy Kitten Club with a dancer (C.C. Storm) doing a fan dance. She keeps her breasts covered (which really bothers a loudmouthed guy in the audience) until she notices a red light at the foot of the stage go out, then she drops the fans to show off her charms. Backstage, C.C. argues with the club manager (Elmer) because she thinks she deserves more money and a headlining role. While she’s behind a screen
changing, Elmer is murdered and C.C. freaks when she sees his body. The cops show up and Mary is asked to help C.C. (who is all bloody from trying to revive Elmer) get dressed. The bloody knife is found in C.C.’s robe and she’s arrested, but insists she’s innocent. As Mary is leaving, she notices Detective Greyson pick up a handkerchief from the body and stick it is his pocket.
Mary believes C. C. is innocent and tells Frankie and Trudy about Greyson’s strange actions. Frankie pretends to be drunk so Mary can throw her in the cell next to C.C. and Frankie is soon convinced of her innocence too. Mary runs into a fellow Morality Officer (Muriel Wood), who works a different 
station but dropped by to check out the hoopla around the murder investigation. In the cells, C.C. tells Frankie the dressing room door was open when she and Elmer went in and she heard it close just before finding him dead. At the morgue, Flo tells Trudy that Elmer was knocked out with ether before having his throat cut. At the Krazy Kitten, Frankie talks to Vera Jean, another dancer who’s worked at the club for years. Vera tells her Elmer was a cad, but a good businessman, very adept at skirting various blue laws to keep the club operating. Vera mentions the obnoxious guy in the audience last night (Lou Hastings), pointing out that he’s a gangster working for a mob boss named Nelson
Kovac. Kovac is in prison, but is stubbornly continuing to run his bootlegging empire from behind bars. Trudy tells Frankie and Mary about the ether and Mary figures the handkerchief Greyson pocketed was the delivery method. Frankie talks to a bootlegger friend of Wendy Quon, who tells her Elmer was banging Kovac’s wife. At the station, Mary finds the handkerchief in Greyson’s desk (along with a file on someone named Jack Ross), but when Greyson catches her snooping, he fires her.
When Frankie finds out what happened, she immediately hires Mary as an investigator. Mary tells her about Jack Ross and when she goes to the station to return her uniform (where she learns Muriel has replaced her), she sneaks a look at Ross’s file … but it’s empty. When Mary goes to tell Frankie and Trudy about the missing file, they aren’t there. She decides to 
use Frankie’s camera to get some evidence on her own. At the club, Vera shows Frankie and Trudy where everyone was the night of the murder and they realize Lou would’ve had to walk all the way across a crowded club unnoticed to get backstage. Mary manages to break into Greyson’s apartment and photograph the handkerchief and the Jack Ross file. (Turns out Ross was arrested for opium possession a few years back and recently turned up dead.) Mary drops the lens cap and while she’s looking for it, Greyson comes home. Mary hides and manages to get out safely.
When Mary tells Trudy and Frankie what she did, Trudy gives her shit for being so reckless and Frankie—though she’s oddly proud that Mary managed to pick a lock by herself—says she should’ve at least left them a note. Mary mentions the Jack Ross file didn’t indicate how he died, so they talk to Flo, who tells them he was stabbed. There was also ether in his system and a handkerchief was found near the body. They go to the office to
tell Frankie, who shows them the photos Mary took of Ross’s file. Apparently, Ross was stabbed by an ivory-handled knife, which later disappeared from evidence. They figure the two cases are connected and Greyson must’ve stolen the knife, just as he took the handkerchief from Elmer’s body. Greyson shows up to accuse Frankie of breaking into his place, since he found the lens cap Mary dropped. Frankie accuses him of railroading C.C. and being in the mob’s pocket. Greyson tells her he figures Ross was killed by Kovac, but the murder weapon disappeared from the police station … meaning a dirty cop took it. Greyson figures Kovac has Lou doing his dirty work for him, but Frankie takes him to the Krazy Kitten to prove that was impossible. When Frankie asks about the red light 
on stage, Vera tells them Elmer rigged it up so he could let the dancers know when a plainclothes cop was in the club. They talk to C.C., who tells them the red light was on through most of her act, which means a cop was in the club and is probably the one who killed Elmer. They get a call about a murder and find Kovac dead, stabbed but with no murder weapon nearby (and another handkerchief on the body). They figure whoever put Kovac away originally probably waited at his place to kill him, but he got out on a surprise early parole, so not many people could’ve known he was out. Trudy takes Mary to check the handkerchief’s embroidery at a church. Kovac had an alibi for Ross’s murder, so Frankie wonders if Bessie Starkman might’ve had him killed, since Ross was one of her guys. Starkman denies it and Frankie believes her, since she had no
reason to kill Elmer. Trudy tells Frankie and Greyson that the handkerchiefs were sewn by a woman at her church, Alice Lehman. Turns out Lehman was killed in the crossfire during an attempt on Kovac’s life six months ago, so the killer may be acting out of revenge for Alice’s death. Greyson realizes a cop named Donohue was involved in Alice’s case, the Ross killing, and was the one who pulled the knife out of C.C.’s robe. Frankie and Greyson go to Donohue’s place and find the missing knife. Donohue shows up and tries to run, but Greyson catches him.
Turns out Donohue isn’t on the take, he’s a vigilante trying to “clean up” the streets. Donohue confesses to all three murders, but Frankie isn’t sure 
why Donohue would’ve used a different knife to kill Elmer if he was trying to make some kind of point. Mary asks Muriel to check into Donohue’s whereabouts when Elmer was killed and arranges to meet her at the club. At the morgue, Flo tells Frankie and Trudy that Elmer’s wounds are shallower, indicating he was killed by a weaker man … or a woman. At the club, Muriel tells Mary Donohue was a few blocks away during the murder, so he couldn’t have done it. Muriel expresses sympathy with Donohue’s vigilante campaign and admits that Alice was one of her closest friends. She asks Mary to join her in ridding the city of all the filthy degenerates and when Mary hesitates, Muriel tries to
knock her out with some ether. Luckily Mary took Frankie’s advice and left a note this time, so Frankie and Trudy show up in time to stop Muriel. C.C. is released and tells Frankie she and Vera are going to take over the Krazy Kitten. Greyson thanks Frankie for her help and Mary later tells Frankie and Trudy she got her Morality Officer job back.
This is a pretty good episode, with Greyson (whose name I’ve apparently been spelling wrong) looking like a crooked cop but turning out to be okay in the end … even if he is kind of a dick sometimes. It was also cool to see 
Mary (who we learn was a fully-decorated Girl Guide) in the private sector, gleefully breaking the law and being reckless, which she wouldn’t do while in uniform. C.C. says Mary is the first person to treat her like a human being, which shows that Mary can look beyond her morality officer role and see the true character of a person. Speaking of C.C., it’s cool that she and Vera are going to go into business for themselves, and the implication seems to be that they’re more than just friends … or maybe I’ve just been watching too much Xena lately.
Favourite Quotes:
- “Clearly Greyson doesn’t entertain much.” Mary on seeing the Spartan nature of Greyson’s apartment.
- “This coming from a gal who broke into her ex-boss’s apartment.” Trudy’s reply when Mary mentions her and Frankie’s illegal methods.
- “Whaddaya, nuts? I’m at the top of my game.” C.C. when Frankie asks if she’s considering retiring from dancing.