Episode #33

At the beach, Sheridan and Luis ran into each other and shared a few pleasant words. They discovered a mutual love for tango and other Spanish music. Luis thanked Sheridan for going to Pilar's party. He told her it had meant a lot to his mother. Sheridan told Luis that Pilar had gotten her through her childhood. After their encounter, Sheridan was convinced that Luis would go easy on her at court, and told Ethan so. She was relieved that fear of publicity had caused Julian to order Ethan not to use a sexual harassment charge against Luis in open court. After telling Ethan not to use sexual harassment in court, Julian went behind his son's back and called the mayor to accuse Luis of sexually harassing Sheridan. When Luis returned to the station and heard about the charges from Sam, he was convinced -- with good reason -- that Sheridan had filed them. Luis confessed to Sam that he had been planning to go easy on Sheridan, but he would instead be playing hardball. At court, Sheridan offered Luis a CD, which he coldly turned down. He repeated to Sam that he was out for blood. Theresa, sans costume, was at the club to meet Whitney. When she spied Frank walking around with her picture in tow, she quickly donned her wig. Eventually Frank approached her, showing the picture and asking if she had seen the girl. Theresa threw him off course by telling him that she did recognize the girl in the picture, and she was long gone, off to South America. Theresa left convinced that Frank was ready to close the case. Frank was about to throw in the towel when a gardener commented that he had seen the girl earlier in the day. Frank realized that Theresa had lied to him. After her tennis lesson was over, Whitney met Theresa and told her friend that her student had been none other than Ivy Crane. Ivy had complimented Whitney on her tennis and had asked her if she had a corporate sponsor. The girls speculated that Ivy might look into Crane Industries sponsoring Whitney's career, the answer to Whitney's dreams. This caused good old down-to-earth Theresa to dream about the perks and luxuries that accompanied all that money, while wild and crazy Whitney thought the money would be a godsend because it would take the financial burden for her training costs off of her parents. Later, Ivy mentioned Whitney to Julian, who felt that sponsoring a local player -- a local minority player -- might be just the image boost Crane Industries needed. When Whitney stopped by, Julian made her an offer. TC arrived at the club and was briefly haunted by memories of what it felt like to have to watch his father serving the rich, white patrons. When Whitney told him about the sponsorship, he was initially elated -- until he was face-to-face with Julian and realized who was offering the money. He immediately turned it down, later making excuses to Whitney about how she just wasn't ready for that phase yet. Ivy questioned Julian as to why there had been so much tension when he had seen who Whitney's father and coach was. Eve attempted to get the key to the shed off of TC's key ring. When that failed, she tried to pick the lock, but was unable to gain access. She wanted to know what drew TC to the shed.