Episode Named After: The phrase “flesh and blood,” which refers to animal meat and/or people who are your kin. If this was season one Memphis Beat, when episodes where named after Elvis songs, “Flesh and Blood” would have been called “Teddy Bear,” a song that Dwight Hendricks (Jason Lee) sings during the hour.
Rowdy Memphis (Plot Synopsis): Sutton (DJ Qualls) responds to a call of a disturbance at an old folks’ home. He finds a dead man in the room, the victim of a gruesome attack. The man is Sam Walters, a defense attorney. The dead man’s legal assistant, Deloris (Jillian Armenante), says he’d lost a number of big cases in the last couple years, but that he had a bleeding heart and wouldn’t do anything bad to anyone. He was, however, making money on the side by meeting people and helping them off the books. An infant is put in the back of Sutton’s car, parked in front of the scene of the crime. It is surmised that Walters was helping someone illegally adopt an unwanted child, and that this is that baby. Sutton is put in charge of the tot. He’s nervous about it, but with the help of Dwight’s mom (Celia Weston), he becomes a pro. The investigation leads Dwight and Whitehead (Sam Hennings) to a halfway house run by nuns. It appears that the baby’s mother is Sister Katherine Thomas (Danielle Panabaker). But Sister Katherine is really covering for her real sister, who’s the real mama, and for her father, who was getting a hefty finder’s fee to get the illegitimate kid adopted (and to pay off a gambling debt to boot). Dwight and Katherine talk Sam Walters’ murderer out of a hostage situation, and social services come get the little baby from Dwight. All is right again in the world.
