Carrie has EAGLE EYES.

NOTHING gets past her.

She whispers this to Oswald. "Not sure if we should steer to confront him somewhere with more people around, while he's unarmed, rather than letting him follow us to City Hall or trying to lose him?"

"...Let's keep on. Not like there's something unique to us about City Hall."

Jack Pizner follows them into City Hall and reads a newspaper.

>:(

Carrie and Oswald discover that someone has very clearly fucked with the records in Pasadena City Hall.

As far as the records are concerned, the house does not have a basement. 

Carrie finds a record of the construction company which built the house so they can ask them about this.

Before they leave, Jack Pizner stops them. 

"Hello, ma'am, sir. I think we got off on a bit of the wrong foot the other day."

Carrie steps back to a possibly-somewhat-impolite distance, but listens.

"I'm not armed. Not gonna shoot you in City Hall anyway, even Trammel can't save me from that."

"What do you want."

"I see that you’re still in town. That’s stupid, but I’ll be honest, you and your friends don’t seem all that bright. So I'm gonna give you a carrot to go with the stick, all right?"

"Is the carrot Lacie Ferrier returned unharmed? Because that's our asking price."

Pizner opens up his blazer and pulls a bundle of cash partway out of the inside pocket. At a rough guess, he’s carrying close to a thousand dollars. “If you tell me that you and your friends are going to go home, Imma give you half of this cash right here, right now. And then Imma follow you to the train station and watch you get on a train. And then Imma mail you the rest of this here cash. And then you and me, we’re never gonna see each other again. I think that’d be real nice, if we never had to see each other again. What’d’ya say, sir, ma'am?”

why is everyone in LA like this

"So you're offering us thirty pieces of silver for her? No deal."

This is Socially Complicated, and obviously the actual answer is No We Are Going To Continue Trying To Get Lacie Back, but probably the specifics of the response should be handled by the person with the most at stake, who is Statistically probably better at dealing with this conversation.

"Your loss. You keep poking around, they're going to start sending in the big guns. And the big guns don't have my sweet and charming personality." He hands Oswald a business card. "Here's my card. You change your mind, give me a call."

"Pleasure to meet you."

And Jack Pizner saunters out.

Carrie and Oswald call the construction company.

The construction company DOES have blueprints and is HAPPY to give them to a fellow engineer.

Did you see this thing they did with the basement.

It is very cool.

There is a TRAPDOOR from the LIBRARY.

Please explain all the cool basement things sir he is very interested.

There are two secret doors to this room under the library! They are not sure why Samson Trammel wanted secret doors. Maybe he thinks they are neat.

Meanwhile--

Anemone brings some of the gruesome pictures that have Trammel in them and leaves the rest with Frank, since he has a gun.