Fall From Grace was the second part of the three-part season (and as it seems, series) finale, so enjoy the last of the Close to Home recaps. Unless they ever issue the Season 1 DVD, this will be the last of them.

Since Conlon has now waved goodbye to his bid for election, he has vowed to go full-bore after the corruption plaguing the police department, and it seems like he just might get it. A new tip comes in that looks like they just might have the evidence that they need to prosecute Detective Veeder for his role in all the goings-on around town. But Annabeth isn't there to investigate the tip. She's taking care of the kid, or her new beau or something. So Maureen goes instead. This is both good and bad. Good for Annabeth, but bad for Maureen, because Maureen gets whacked. Sopranos whacked. Seriously.

The three-part season finale continues, picking up where Drink the Cup left off last week.

Annabeth continues to try and dig up some dirt on Veeder, but she's not gaining much ground. The investigation focuses on the girls who were staying at the home run by Veeder's wife and the wives of the other team members, and it looks like some more details are slowly emerging, but there's now another problem - it looks like Hailey is being threatened. So Annabeth needs to figure out if she should press on, and try and connect Veeder to this mess, or if she needs to back off and keep her family safe. Naturally, she'll probably take the first option - but she does seem to consider the second one. At least for a few minutes.

Annabeth finds that a neighbor is murdered. He's also a police officer. Unfortunately, her investigation is slowed from an unexpected source - another officer. More specifically, a set of other officers, all led by Detective Chris Veeder (guest Eric Stoltz). Veeder has a long history of commendations, and his team is generally regarded as nearly untouchable, but that just whets Annabeth's appetite, because she can sense that something isn't quite right.

When the investigation turns up evidence that the dead neighbor was meeting a girl, and that girl was not just something simple like a prostitute. No, this girl may have had her seedy side, but she was more than that. It seems she came out of a non-profit organization that was run by a Samantha Veeder - wife of the detective who Annabeth wants to take down. In fact, it looks like many of the women on the board of the organization just happen to be wives of the men on the team. It just gets more interesting all the time.

In somewhat typical fashion, this episode starts off with a rather brutal murder. What is less than typical is that it is of a husband and wife, sleeping soundly in their bed, and the wife unexpectedly survives, to identify her assailant to the paramedics. The other surprise is that she points to a picture on her dresser. The picture she points out is that of her son.

Shortly thereafter, she is shipped off to surgery, and the hunt is on for the killer. You'd think that with an eyewitness account - especially from the victim - that it would be an open and shut case. But if it were, then we would be in for a very short episode, and naturally that just isn't going to happen here, for when the mother comes to, she insists that her son could not have done this to her. It looks like we're in for a whopper.

A woman gets a surprise email from an old college buddy. Except he isn't exactly a buddy. Perhaps he would have been, but instead of being a friend, he took her to a fraternity party, and when they were there, he - or at least one of his frat buddies - slipped her a Mickey, and then she was raped.

Well, now the guy is in some form of recovery program (Alcoholics Anonymous, perhaps), which involves as one of the steps apologizing to those you have wronged, and so he makes contact with the woman to apologize for what he's done. Only now it's past the statute of limitations, so he can't be prosecuted. Or can he?

Not long after Conlon leaves a close friend who is visiting for the weekend, it seems that he goes out for some extra-curricular activity of his own, and the next morning the prominent out-of-towner ends up dead.

The close ties to the prosecutor's office, along with the close ties to Conlon himself, means that this case is one that will be investigated closely. But that doesn't necessarily mean that it will be investigated fairly. Is Conlon doing his job, or is he just trying to get someone to take the fall for killing his long-time mentor?

This episode has a rather bizarre twist, and it all starts so simply (doesn't it always)? A Russian woman is found dead, and her husband, a prominent teacher at a local college is, suddenly indicted for her murder. Naturally the husband did it, after all, even though he was traveling for work. It seems like a fairly open-and-shut case, what with the physical evidence. In fact, it looks like he may have tried to cover his tracks by making it look like she was trying to kill herself in the garage by inhaling the fumes from the running car.

But when more evidence is found inside the house that makes it unlikely that his wife would have even been able to make it into the garage in the first place, much less start the car on her own, it seems even more unlikely that she could have done all this by herself, so it's time to bring the husband in to see if they can get him to trial. That's when the fun begins.

A surrogate mother turns up dead at the beginning of this episode, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, as they say. It seems that the mother was working in the office of the father - a very unusual instance, because typically surrogates are not known to the biological parents. In this case, however, the surrogate was apparently very close to the actual parents and wanted to do all that she could to help them have a child. Apparently it didn't work out quite as expected.

It only gets better.

A high-stakes college poker game turns into something more when one of the participants stops off to rob a bank on his way to a movie. Sounds a little strange, doesn't it? Well, it gets a little more interesting when the would be outlaw is arrested while riding his bike home later that night, and he then declines a plea deal when he doesn't want to stand up in front of the court because he doesn't want his parents to find out about what he did.

It's not that they know, obviously. But he doesn't want to have to stand up in front of them and tell everyone that he robbed a bank. So he turns down a plea deal. Lucky for him his parents are understanding, and they put up the cash to get him out on bail. Unfortunately, he turns up dead before he can make it to his next court date. Things just got a lot more interesting.

As a routine plastic surgery operation goes horribly awry when the patient dies on the table, the anesthesiologist gets by with what amounts to a slap on the wrist. Luckily for the prosecutors, the husband of the dead woman doesn't want to leave it at that, and he brings in the medical records from another doctor, showing that his wife wasn't taking one of the prescriptions that they want to insist that she was. This begs the question of why it was added to the chart if it wasn't the case, and Annabeth agrees to look into it further. What she finds makes them decide to take on the case, even though it still isn't strong.

As a father drives his daughter home from day care, the car in front of him suddenly stops, blocking him in. Then a car behind him pulls up, meaning he can't go anywhere. We've all been there, and it's not uncommon to be upset about the situation. But this guy gets out of his car, and so does the guy in front. The person behind pulls away. The next thing you know, the man is defending his actions, saying that he was afraid for his life, and the life of his little girl - it seems that he has killed the other man with a crowbar. That's one serious case of road rage.