Magnificat (S04E07)

Paul Whitlock (Sam Robards) is not happy that he's passed over for a promotion for a new project at Windale Electronics. That afternoon, he calls his wife Doreen (Carrie Preston) and sends her on an errand. She takes her four boys with her and stops at a gas station, where she encounters three Middle Eastern men. Shortly afterwards her car blows up. The three youngest boys are dead, and she and her oldest, Adam (Sebastian Vignone), are severely hurt. A pipe bomb is found under the gas tank, and when they retrace her steps, they immediately suspect the Middle Eastern men at the gas station, but they have alibis and are clearly not the ones involved. Paul seems eerily calm about all this, and very controlling. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) thinks perhaps Paul's work (he invented a new kind of igniter for land mines) might be the reason someone would hurt the family, but they are now starting to suspect something was amiss at home. (iTunes)