TEXT: Baseball field Lisbon: Nice place. Where does a baseball scout get this kind of money? Cho: Barney Sloop? He's got 15 players in the majors right now and a piece of everything they make. A million-dollar eye for talent. He spots 'em young all over the world, brings 'em here, trains 'em, gets 'em fat pro contracts. Jane: So you played. Cho: I played a little. Jane: Pitcher? Controlling the action? Man with the ball. Cho: Ah, I stopped. Jane: Which you still have unresolved bad feelings about. Yeah, now I see it. That's why you joined the gang. Your parents thought you were wasting your time, so they made you quit baseball, crushed your dream. You were angry about it, but you couldn't express that directly, so you joined a gang as an outlet for all that anger. Cho: Actually, I tore my a. c.l. Nice try. Jane: Parents. It's funny, isn't it- big regrets in life people keep to themselves? Lisbon: I don't know. I tell people about you. Jane: Nice one. A zinger. High and tight. Policeman: Yeah, as close as we can tell, the murder occurred around 10:30 p. m. Cho: Thanks. No big mysteries, weapon-wise. Looks like three or four blows. Lisbon: Rage killing. Cho: The coroner estimates t. o.d. around 10:30 last night. Freddy: Look like they're here, finally. Freddy Fitch, Barney's partner. I want to know who did this, quickly. Lisbon: Agent Lisbon. This is agent Cho. Jane. Freddy: Anything you need, it's yours. I can't believe it. Jane: This was his garden? Freddy: His peace garden, he called it. A year or so ago he got into all this zen malarkey. Lisbon: Who had access to this area? Freddy: Everyone at the academy- six players in residence, family members, staff. Lisbon: We'll need a list. Freddy: Sure, sure. But trust
SUMMARY:
The CBI team investigate the murder of Barney Sloop; a former professional baseball player, who is found dead in his Zen garden. The victim had been the founder of a baseball academy, which he started as his own baseball talent scouting and training facility for young up-and-coming baseball talents. During the investigation, Jane is hit on the head with a baseball and knocked unconscious, after which he experiences flashbacks of his past as a stage performer with his father, Alex, and shows signs of his "psychic" abilities. The CBI team interviews several people close to the victim, including his ex-wife and his business partner Freddie. It is revealed that a player on the team was too old to attend the academy, so his father had been paying Freddie double the normal rate. After Sloop found out, the player's father killed him to prevent Sloop from ruining his son's future.