1.5 "Law & Order: Los Angeles" - "Pasadena" Quiz

Answer: Spanish

"Bamboleo" is an upbeat song in Spanish, even though the band Gipsy Kings is French. The group, which was born in 1978, is known for creating many great songs that blend the flamenco style with pop and rock. The band was founded by the brothers Nicolas and Andre Reyes with Jacques, Maurice, and Tonino Baliardo. All founding members were born in France, but most of their music is in Spanish because they were raised by Spanish Romani parents. "Bamboleo" is perhaps their most popular song.

It was released in 1987 in their album "Gipsy Kings" and has been covered by other famous Spanish-language artists like Celia Cruz and Julio Iglesias.

Answer: Santa Claus

The opening scenes show Rebecca greeting guests on a busy night at the restaurant and momentarily sitting down, apparently feeling ill. As she leaves the restaurant, a car's engine turns on behind her and runs over her, causing bleeding and multiple fractures.

The police find a gruesome scene upon their arrival. The only witness to the crime was a homeless man who the officers call "Santa Claus" because he is wearing a red and white hat associated with Christmas. Detective Jaruszalski talks to the witness, who explains that the car hit her once, then came back and ran her over for a second time.

The man believes the car was either gray or white but doesn't know much else. Jaruszalski then asks another officer to buy a hot dog for the man.

Answer: Bread

Rebecca had been pregnant for months, meaning that if the fetus was killed, it could potentially make it a homicide case. The chef at Rebecca's restaurant says that neither he nor anyone else knew about her pregnancy because she wasn't seeing anyone as far as they knew.

The detectives then head to her house, where her landlord tells them that he hasn't seen Rebecca for at least a month. Winters and Jaruszalski find a closet with no clothes and a loaf of bread with mold that Jaruszalski thinks is also about a month old.

The landlord says he hasn't seen anyone stalking Rebecca or watching the house.

Answer: Twentynine Palms

Robert Forrester tells the detectives that he was away on business in Twentynine Palms and was unaware of what happened to Rebecca. They say to Mr. Forrester that she is in a coma and unfortunately lost her baby. He says he last saw his ex-wife four months ago to agree on a financial settlement after their divorce since she cheated on him. Forrester says that whoever Rebecca was seeing was probably a rich customer who she met at the restaurant. To rule him out as a suspect, the detectives ask for documentation proving that he was at Twentynine Palms. The hotel where he stayed confirms that he was there all night.

Twentynine Palms is a city in Southern California. It is known, among other things for being an access point to the Joshua Tree National Park and the home of an important Marine Corps base. It is also close to the Mojave Desert.

Answer: Vitamins

The police find a corporate gas card issued by Yarborough Media Strategies in Rebecca's car. They ask Adam Yarborough about his relationship with Rebecca, but he immediately tells the detectives he should speak to his attorney. Following this suspicion-raising encounter, the LAPD obtains a search warrant for Mr. Yarborough's home. His wife, Carolyn, is as reluctant to answer questions from police as he is.

The detectives also ask an OBGYN doctor about Rebecca's baby. He shows them that the address Rebecca gave was Yarborough's, and tells them his office has been sending prenatal vitamins to that same address. Upon the execution of the search warrant, Detective Jaruszalski finds the prenatal vitamins in a medicine cabinet in their guestroom. Carolyn denies knowing Rebecca at first, but then confesses at the police station. According to Adam, his wife cannot have children so they were using Rebecca as a surrogate. Carolyn gives another version of the story and says Adam and Rebecca had an affair in which Rebecca got pregnant. Therefore, the Yarboroughs decided to have Rebecca give birth to the child and then raise the child as their own.

Answer: Grapefruit

Yarborough claims he had an alibi for the night Rebecca was attacked: a political fundraiser in Bel Air. The detectives interview the woman whose house hosted the fundraiser, and she says that event was to support candidates for state assembly. She also says that she can't imagine Adam cheating on Carolyn, and tells the detectives that he left the event with Congressman Nelson from Riverside.

While Winters speaks to the woman, Jaruszalski is asked to fish out the grapefruit out of her pool, after she is unsuccessful in doing so. Jaruszalski helps while she complains that her husband should've never planted a grapefruit tree right next to the pool. Jaruszalski tries to give her the fruit, but she insists that he keeps it.

Answer: Delaware

Congressman Nelson tells the detectives that Adam and he left the fundraiser to get drinks at his hotel. The congressman also says that Adam had run two of his campaigns and that he is loyal, but at the same time implies that he was cheating on Carolyn. This would contradict what the woman in Bel Air told the detectives (Adam never even looked at another woman). Winters and Jaruszalski interview Adam again and still believe he is lying. They ask Adam about blood tests performed on the baby's father, and he claims he received them. Winters catches him in the lie then, because the doctor never performed tests on the father.

Rebecca finally wakes up from her coma, so the detectives try to talk to her about the night she was assaulted. When Rebecca finds out her baby is dead, she screams in desperation and shouts: "Tom Nelson killed our baby!" The detectives and DDA Price suspect Nelson is the father, but DDA Morales doesn't want to pursue any charges against the Congressman until that information is corroborated. Rebecca's mother tells DDA Price that the father of the child was unknown because it had to be kept secret. Her mother wanted to convince her to go back to her place in Delaware because L.A. was no place for a single mother, but Rebecca refused.

Delaware, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, was the first state to be admitted to the Union in 1787. The state is located in the Northeast United States and has Wilmington as its capital city. Actress Aubrey Plaza was born in Wilmington in 1984. Joe Biden, the 46th President and 47th Vice-President of the United States, was born in Pennsylvania but lived most of his childhood in the state of Delaware.

Answer: Gas station

Carolyn Yarborough finally reveals the truth to DDA Price: Congressman Nelson used Adam to cover up his affair with Rebecca. In fact, Nelson wanted Rebecca to go to an abortion clinic but she refused. DDA Price talks to Patricia Nelson, the Congressman's wife, while her team gets a DNA sample from him. She says that she wants everything to be clarified, and seems upset at her husband after the prosecutors leave her home. The prosecution then discovers that Robert Forrester works for AQG Industries, one of Yarborough's clients and also beneficiaries of legislation sponsored by Congressman Nelson. Since Forrester started that job immediately after he separated from Rebecca, the prosecutors now believe he was paid off by Congressman Nelson.

Rebecca now denies that the Congressman had anything to do with this, so Morales and Price think that she is under duress from Nelson. She gives them a description of the car that ran her over and since it sounds like an older vehicle, the prosecutors want the police to check nearby gas stations where the car must have stopped at some point. The detectives narrow the search down to stations between Pasadena and Twentynine Palms, as they now think Forrester is involved. Winters and Jaruszalski ask the attendant at Mataro Gas if he saw Forrester. While he didn't, the attendant leads the police to a puddle of water where the car was supposedly washed. He also gives them a shirt that was probably used to clean the car, which turns out to have Rebecca's blood on it.

The LAPD arrests Robert Forrester and the Congressman gives a press conference saying he hopes this puts a stop to the speculation surrounding his family. DDA Morales still wants to press charges against Congressman Nelson, so he tries to "flip" Forrester to no avail. The LAPD then discovers something new: Forrester's alibi is not as airtight as they thought, because his computer was accessed remotely to make it look like he was in the hotel room all night. DDA Morales decides to charge Nelson as a co-conspirator to see if either he or Forrester will tell the truth. After a judge rules there is sufficient evidence to take the case to trial, Congressman Nelson agrees to talk to the prosecutors.

Answer: Patricia Nelson, the Congressman's wife

Congressman Nelson insists that he would never hurt Rebecca and had nothing to do with the baby's death. This story is confirmed because he was planning to set up a trust for Rebecca and the baby. The trust would've needed Nelson's wife's permission unless she was dead. Since Patricia suffered from ovarian cancer, Morales and Price believe that the Congressman expected his wife to be dead by the time he and Rebecca had the baby. While Morales and Price talk to Patricia, the police go to a home in Palm Springs belonging to Patricia's aunt and uncle. They thought they would find a car matching the description of the one used to run over Rebecca, but the garage turns out to be empty.

Patricia confesses, saying she was very distraught when she found out her husband was not only having an affair but a child with Rebecca. She then told Forrester that she would get him fired if he didn't help her, and persuaded him by letting him know Rebecca was having a child with the Congressman. Forrester committed the act while Patricia made sure to forge his alibi. Patricia doesn't understand why the car wasn't in the garage because she had instructed Forrester to put it there. It looks like the Congressman took care of the car as he knew about what Patricia had done and was trying to protect her.

Both Patricia's attorneys and the prosecutors ask the judge that Patricia serve her sentence on probation because she only has a few months to live. The judge decides to convict her of solicitation to commit murder and sentences her to a year in jail, despite Morales's objections.

Answer: John Edwards

John Edwards is a Democratic politician who served as a U.S. senator representing North Carolina between 1999 and 2005. Edwards was seen as one of the Democratic Party's rising stars and was picked by John Kerry as his running mate in the 2004 presidential elections, which they lost against George W. Bush. Edwards also ran a campaign for president in 2008, where Barack Obama was eventually picked as the Democratic candidate and then elected president of the United States.

The political career of John Edwards abruptly ended at the beginning of the 2010s when it was revealed that Edwards cheated on his wife Elizabeth. In addition to the affair, Edwards also had a child with Rielle Hunter. Since his wife was sick, Edwards apparently planned to propose to Hunter once his wife passed away. Edwards was then prosecuted for misusing campaign funds to cover up the affair. The senator did not try to kill the baby, of course, but this "Law and Order: Los Angeles" episode does share several similarities with the senator's affair and ensuing scandal.