The current scorecard: Detectives Deland and Gallardo: suspended; Celeste: arrested and recog'd out to her high-priced lawyer; Mayor Napolitano: temporarily freed from arrest after an interdepartmental jurisdictional battle; Attitude: everywhere.

Faced with Napolitano's angry barrage of questions, Celeste eventually admits she and Omar set up her kidnapping in order to squeeze some money out of the mayor. It would seem his efforts to keep this fiasco private is about to come to an end.

This week's winning co-writer knows how to make a scene crackle with emotional resonance: “Well... it's always good to get a love triangle together in the same room," she said. "Even if one them is dead.”

Carving out time for a makeup session will help the mayor avoid talking about being on the receiving end of two late-night assaults. The scene also spotlights the vanity and narcissism behind his quest to solve a rash of murders on his own.