NARRATOR: Previously on Unforgettable: AL: When I met you, everything was about Rachel.
But the one day that really matters,
that might have the answer, you could never remember.
CARRIE: I've been in those woods a thousand times before
and I've never seen that. You weren't ready for it then.
Now you are.
AL: This is the first real lead you've had in years.
Detective Franks, Syracuse PD, we found a body two days ago
You made an arrest? Found him hanging around the crime scene.
So, I just sent you a picture.
It's him.
CARRIE: He killed my sister.
You take a nap?
No, just thinking.
We don't have to do this, you know?
We can turn right around.
Not after you charmed Tina Burdosky into giving you
a full-size upgrade at the airport.
You really play football with her cousin?
Bronco Burdosky, best wide receiver Corcoran ever had.
We almost went to the state finals junior year.
Do you know, I think I'm really glad
I didn't know you back then.
I'm not sure I could have handled Al Burns,
high school football star.
Yeah.
You had enough trouble with Al Burns, former football star.
Yeah, because every girl in town still had the hots for you.
Hopefully they still do.
Want to know something funny?
One of the first things I remember
after my sisters murder,
a football.
I can still remember their uniforms.
45, 48, 27, 33.
AL: Well, here we go.
MARSTON: Well, what do you know, the dynamic duo. AL: How ya doing, Dan?
Good. Tell me I got to call you Lieutenant, huh?
And Carrie Wells. Who would have thunk it, huh?
Hey, Dan. Well, I wish our reunion could be under better circumstances,
but come on and take a look.
MARSTON: Name is Becky Hartley
14, bus left her off four blocks from home
after volleyball practice just after 6:00.
And her folks called us when she didn't show.
A couple of bikers found her the next day.
We don't have a full autopsy back yet, but it looks like
he got her in the back of the head with a rock.
And then drowned her in the water.
As a matter of a fact, yeah.
Any sign of sexual assault? No, none what-so-ever.
Your suspect, Sam Rhodes, where is he?
Well, we got him down at the station.
He's been pretty cooperative. Hasn't asked for
a lawyer or anything. Does he have an alibi?
Uh, yeah, he said he was Downstate on business.
We're checking it out. I want to talk to him.
Uh, look, Carrie, uh, I don't have a problem
with you guys coming up here digging around a little
in your sisters case, But, uh, we all know that past,
that's led to some overly aggressive and, I think,
questionable investigative techniques.
And I don't want to see those repeated in this investigation.
Wow, that is so impressive, Dan.
Did you practice that in the mirror?
You know Carrie, you're not
the only one here with a long memory, all right?
Let's head back to the station, huh?
He always did have a thing for you.
Talk about failing upward.
Play nice.
Hey, Dave, how are you?
Love what you've done with the place.
MARSTON: So, turns out Rhodes was actually
on the force for a couple years back in the early 80s.
One of the uniforms remembered seeing him at the crime scene
day after the murder and we grabbed him.
Is that him?
Yeah.
MARSTON : How you doing, Sam?
You comfortable? RHODES: I'm fine.
Good. Good.
MARSTON: You understand we're just holding you on the
outstanding warrant you got from Pennsylvania.
What was it? Uh, trespassing or something.
That's what you said. Well, it's going to take us the whole time to clear that up.
So, uh, well, you know the drill. Right?
You have anymore thoughts about Becky Hartley?
I told you I don't know anything about what happened to her.
MARSTON: Yeah, yeah I guess you said that.
But what you haven't said is what the hell you were
doing at her crime scene.
I heard it on the radio.
I was curious.
MARSTON: Really? Where'd you say you were two days ago?
I told you, I had a couple of appointments
installing security systems over in Columbia County.
Austerlitz. I have you the numbers.
Burns.
How's it going up there, boss?
Well, you know, they've redone the Erie Canal Museum,
It's really quite something.
ROE: We've actually been working over here.
Been all over our pal Rhodes's credit card and phone records.
Tanya whipped up one of her algorithms,
threw it in the pot, success.
Looks like we can place him at the location of
at least two other unsolved teenage homicides
in the past eight years.
And we are working on some more.
TANYA: Oh, and, uh, this might help;
we pushed a little on that warrant out of Pittsburgh,
yeah, they, uh, want him for trespassing
near another crime scene.
This is a creepy guy, Al.
Okay, keep digging. Thanks, guys.
Nina, Roe, and Mike have been looking into Rhodes.
It's like this guy's been leaving bread crumbs
at homicide scenes for years.
I don't know, guys. I need more to work with.
We'll get the full forensics in and we'll get some
DNA back on her or something. I want to talk to him.
No. No, you can't.
You're not getting anything out of him in there.
Right, but the point is he's still talking to us.
You go in there and you start asking him questions about
some old murder, he's going to lawyer up in a second.
Dan, can I talk to you? Yeah?
Uh, yeah.
Chief of C.I., huh?
Well, I guess I've had some things
fall the right way, you know?
Yeah. Now I hear you're lining things up
for the top spot when Chet Dowling steps down.
Where'd you hear that?
Chet Dowling.
Chief and I stay in touch.
Helped his nephew get his badge in the Bronx last year.
He's very appreciative.
He seems to value my opinion a great deal.
Hm.
You two still, uh...
Just college, Dan.
It's a lot simpler.
Right.
Okay, you have ten minutes. Thank you.
You know, one of these days, you're going to tell me
what you got on that guy. I got you.
You sure you're okay in there?
Yeah. You worried I'm going to try to blow his head off?
Yeah, it crossed my mind. Well, it crossed mine, too.
You know me, don't you?
September 14th, 1983...
that day mean anything to you?
Excuse me?
Addison Reserve?
The woods a long route 6, by the ball fields.
Ringing any bells yet? I know the area.
My sister,
Rachel Wells was murdered on that day
in those woods.
Smashed in the back of the head with a rock
and then held down and drowned in three inches of watch.
You were there, weren't you?
Ah, no. Yes, you were. I saw you.
RHODES: You're mistaken.
CARRIE: I remember you.
I thought she couldn't remember anything about the murder.
It's been coming back. She remembers Rhodes.
I know you murdered my sister and I want to hear you say it.
No.
You murdered my sister! I saw you!
No, you didn't.
AL: Carrie?
Wha... what?
What's going on?
All right. I just got off the phone with the DA in Pittsburgh.
The trespassing warrant that they had out on Rhodes,
they're going to let it go.
What? So, I've got nothing left to hold him on.
You can't let him go. I can't keep him.
You want to get this guy? You'll help us nail him
for the Becky Harley murder.
Listen to me, if you let him go, he will disappear.
You won't get him back. Carrie, I'll put a car on him.
And in the mean time, we will take the info your guys gave us
on Rhodes, linking him to the past crime scenes
and maybe we can get a search warrant out of it.
I thinking we should go back and check on Becky's parents.
You know, they were broken up the first time we talked.
Maybe we can get more details now.
I'll come with you. I'll stay on the warrant.
MARSTON: I'm sorry, Will, we just
didn't have enough to hold him.
KAREN: You told us you thought that was the man.
Well, we still do but, you know, we got to take our time,
make sure we're not overlooking anything.
CARRIE: Look, I know how how difficult this must be
for both of you.
We just have a few more questions
about Becky, if that's okay?
Yeah?
All right, were there any other men
who showed an unusual interest in her?
WILL: We've been over and over that in our minds.
We can't think of anyone.
Okay, what about, um, boys, boyfriends?
No, she's...
She was just starting to get interested in boys.
There was no one.
Was she having any problems with friends at school?
I don't think so.
Wait, there was one thing.
Becky's closest friend, Katrina,
they were inseparable for years.
And then about three months ago,
Becky came home and I could see she'd been crying.
I asked her what had happened
and she told me she and Katrina had had a really big fight.
I couldn't get her to give me the details,
but she said that
Katrina had betrayed her.
She used really
rough language.
I'm-I'm sorry, could you excuse me for a moment?
Hey.
Hey. We got a warrant for Rhodes' house.
That's great.
We'll head over there now, okay?
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Carrie?
Look at this.
How far back do they go?
2004, '97, '93...
This guy's got stuff on dead girls going back least 20 years.
And the latest...
Becky Hartley.
Al...
Rachel.
I knew it was him.
All right, let's pick him up.
Guys, we just got word the patrol car
that was tailing Sam Rhodes-- they-they lost him.
AL: We got his name, his car, we're watching the airport,
the buses, the trains. We're gonna get him.
Marston has already lost him once.
If I'm Sam Rhodes, I'm six states away by now.
Well, hello.
Hey, welcome to Syracuse.
And a lovely little hamlet it is.
Look, Rhodes is on the run,
but we found some files
tying him to a string of murders
going back nearly 30 years.
And we still want him
for the murder of Becky Hartley.
CARRIE: I'll get you her forensics.
I mean, Becky was older than Rachel,
but there are definite similarities.
I'll just park myself in the lab.
Uh...
Do they have a lab?
Of a kind.
Marston's waiting to show you around.
We're gonna go talk to Becky's friend, Katrina,
see what their fight was about.
Boy, the two of you on the streets of Syracuse.
Must seem like old times.
Yeah, sort of.
You okay?
You haven't said anything in almost an hour.
That's a record, I think.
: Yeah.
I don't know, it's, um...
more memories?
New ones-- about Rachel, that day.
I can see the sky, I can see...
leaves, trees.
It's almost like I'm... flying?
Hmm.
So you've never seen this man?
No, I'm sorry.
I don't recognize him.
Mr. Sadler?
Sorry, no.
Do you think he's the one?
We don't know.
You're Katrina, right?
I'm Carrie.
Hi. Have you ever seen
this guy before?
No.
You and Becky were good friends, right?
I heard you guys had
a fight about something.
We'll be in in a minute.
You want to tell me what the fight was about?
We were, like, super best friends,
but then Becky just sort of changed.
Changed how?
She got all judgmental, about fashion and stuff.
Which we both really liked.
And she got into camping, gross things like that.
And she started saying things.
What kind of things?
Things at school.
Nasty things.
About me.
About sex stuff.
Even though she was the one who was...
This is a difficult time, Detective.
Yeah. No, I understand.
Um, couple more questions?
Katrina, do you know if Becky had a boyfriend?
Some older guy.
I never knew his name. She was all proud of it.
CARRIE: Well, did you ever
get a look at him? Do you know what he looked like?
No.
Do you know when she started seeing him?
Few months ago, maybe.
I'm not mad at her anymore.
I just...
Hey.
Thank you.
I appreciate it, okay?
Come on, honey.
Yeah. Let me know what turns up.
That was Marston.
Based on Katrina's story, they're canvassing
Becky's friends again, see if we can
find this guy she was seeing.
More memories?
Well, yeah.
Because we're here.
Yeah.
I got a few memories of my own.
We're home.
"Home."
Sounds nice.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, well, we're just a couple of gypsies, aren't we?
Maybe I'm getting tired of that.
Yeah, well, you did settle down
for a while there with your girlfriend
on the Upper East Side.
Till she kicked me out.
You seem to be doing just fine.
Could you live here again?
It would depend on why, I guess.
"On why"?
For what?
Uh...
For a cheeseburger with bacon
and those flat greasy onion rings
you dip in the stale ketchup.
And it's stale because it's been here
since we were here. All right, okay.
I'm going to go to the bathroom.
Why don't you order us a couple burgers.
Don't say a word.
Carrie?
Hey!
You see a woman come through here a minute ago
Yeah. She took off with some guy in his car.
You know...
if I get ahold of that gun, you're dead.
TANYA: If she's got her phone on her, this should work.
Great, I've got her GPS locked in.
It looks like she's
on Route 38, couple miles
south of the city, heading east.
Looks like there's some kind of park.
Addison Reserve.
He's taking her to the woods where Rachel was killed.
Route 38!
Get out.
Come on.
Move.
(girls giggling faintly, heart beating)
Remember this place?
That's where they found her.
Get on the ground.
Kneel down.
No.
Kneel down.
You do it. No.
You do it.
You were just a little thing.
Just so high.
Do it.
: Kneel down.
They told me you couldn't remember.
Around the precinct,
everybody was talking about it.
First, I thought it was a joke.
'Cause I told you to forget.
Forget you ever saw me.
Then when you came in two weeks later for your follow-up,
I knew it was true.
You saw me three more times that first year.
Nothing.
I started to think I was safe.
Then, six months ago,
that sketch started making it around the police wire.
That sketch.
Why do you have a drawing?
I knew
that you remembered.
But you still don't.
Hmm?
Not everything.
And until you do...
I won't be safe.
Not from you.
Come on.
Here.
I'm gonna kill you. You understand me.
I'm gonna kill you like you killed my sister.
I didn't kill your sister.
My only crime and it was a crime.
I was in the woods that day
and I heard ayoung girl scream
and another little girl call out.
And finding her...
and not knowing what to do.
Not doing enough.
*
Where are your parents?
Are you all right?
*
I took you away from this place.
I carried you away.
*
Do you remember?
Thank God.
The field. Right?
It's over there.
They don't use it anymore.
I put you down and...
And I watched you walk away.
AL: Rhodes, on the ground! Now! I said now!
No! Al!
He's okay.
She was still warm.
The guy who did it was out there, somewhere in those woods.
I was a sworn officer of the law.
I couldn't...
Why didn't you just come forward
Now, there was this guy, worked for Vice, named Cromartie.
I was part of a team that was assisting a raid.
It's a... meth lab, a big production.
Huge stacks and stacks of cash.
Suitcases full.
And, uh, he picked me out right away.
Promised me a suitcase for myself
if I kept my mouth shut.
That day was my day off.
And I was meeting Cromartie in the woods.
Now, I knew
if I phoned it in your sister's murder,
it would expose us all.
and Cromartie would make sure
I ended in the bottom of a lake somewhere.
Okay, so you... you may have saved my life.
Right? I mean, y-y-you picked me up.
You carried me out of there.
Why didn't you ever just tell me?
Why didn't you come and, and find me?
I don't...
Guess I just, I never knew what you would remember.
I...
Just...
I was ashamed.
That day was the end of something for me.
I started drinking and just...
Anyway, I washed out of the PD within a year.
But I never, I never stopped thinking about the killer.
And when another girl turned up down near Elmira,
I went to check it out.
I've been following him ever since.
I'm probably the only guy in this world
who wants him as badly as you do.
Yeah.
Wow. Wow.
Remember this?
Yeah. I remember you liked this place.
I never liked it.
All right. Well, my room is a couple doors down that way, so...
Wait.
You want a drink?
Yeah.
You know, I think I remember
that you used this place to seduce young rookies.
Is that how you remember it?
I seduced you.
That's exactly how I remember it.
Funny, I have a very distinct memory of you making the first move.
Well, seduction's on the setup, right?
And you set it up.
Yeah.
I did.
Thank you.
For rescuing me.
You handled that yourself.
I mean, always.
I feel like such an... idiot.
I've just been wrong about everything, and I just...
Carrie, it's okay.
It's okay.
Oh, sorry.
I want to stay with you tonight.
Yeah.
Of course.
No, I mean, stay with you.
I know what you mean.
Are these potatoes?
"Breakfast" potatoes.
Yes. Oh, and they got these little green
peppers, and they're swimming in this...
Butter.
Dairy country!
Wisconsin.
Damn.
Is this coffee?
Yes.
Okay. Thanks.
Ah, here's your pal.
You know, Marston called.
They cleared his alibi for Becky's murder, and I told
Marston I went with him willingly,
so they got nothing to hold him on.
And you thought the more the merrier?
I thought we could use all the help we can get.
Hey, Sam.
Hey. Lieutenant Burns.
Hey.
Sam Rhodes.
Call me Jo.
So, Carrie tells me you're an expert on our guy.
I wouldn't say "expert."
What would you say?
I have a personal interest in finding him.
And I'd say we have enough personal interest to go around
in this case already.
Jo, what'd you pick up?
Here's the deal.
I looked at the results from the local M.E.
and compared them
to Rachel's case,
and there are some similarities
but nothing determinative; I did find
something interesting when I did my investigation of Becky.
There's a very fine powder on the seam of her blouse
and also on the front panel of her jeans.
I did a quick analysis,
and I came up with quartz, feldspar and mica.
Granite.
It's like, uh, quarry dust.
WEBSTER: Oh.
I used to work summers splittin' rocks.
Up on Limeledge?
No, out near Fayetteville.
Jordan Quarries, Kavanaugh, those guys.
CARRIE: Mr. Sadler?
SADLER: Yeah. I'm sorry?
Katrina's family was expanding their driveway.
AL: So maybe our guy's a worker,
met Katrina and Becky around the house.
RHODES: I can call the contractor.
Get a list of his workers.
See if anyone connects to the victim.
I'll get Mike and Nina on the workers of the quarry.
RHODES: In all these cases,
your sister's included,
there's no evidence that these victims were forced
to the location.
So, theory's been that she knew who attacked her.
CARRIE: Katrina, do you know if Becky had a boyfriend?
Some older guy.
She didn't tell me his name.
She was all proud of it.
This a very difficult time, Detective.
Wait a second.
Katrina said Becky was having an affair
with an older guy.
Her stepfather David Sadler would've met Becky
through Katrina, right? He's a contractor.
That would explain the dust.
Katrina and Beck's friendship ended
right around the time Sadler married Katrina's mom
just a few months ago.
What if Sadler seduced Becky
and then dumped her because he was getting married?
And Becky, being a child, didn't know what to do,
so she took it out on Katrina.
It's a theory,
but before we take it to Marston,
we gotta come up with something more.
MIKE: : David Sadler, 56.
He's been basically around
Syracuse his whole life.
Worked as a handyman in construction, in a gun store,
very nice, before he got his contractor's license
about five years ago.
Was he in Syracuse when Rachel was murdered?
I wish I could tell you exactly.
There's no street address from the early '80s.
Let me get deeper into it.
CARRIE: All of these victims
are within driving distance of Syracuse.
AL: It's not enough.
We need something definitive.
NINA: All right, you want something definitive?
You're on.
Okay, how's this?
Six months ago,
Sadler's credit card was used to buy
two burner cells
from a drugstore in downtown Syracuse.
Both numbers only called each other.
One pinged off a cell tower on Burnet Avenue
a block from Becky's house,
the other off a cell tower around the corner from Sadler's.
The calls ended the night Becky was killed.
Can't be a coincidence.
That's enough to pick him up.
Let's go get him.
Let's get him.
Mrs. Sadler, we need to speak with your husband.
He's... he's not here.
Where is he?
Uh, he just left.
CARRIE: Alone?
No. With Katrina.
Why
Where'd they go?
Camping, up at Fillmore Glen.
David wanted Katrina to have a little break from all
the terrible things that have been happening.
I'll call it in.
We need to talk.
What's wrong? Let's go.
Yeah, the wife says they've gone camping.
Fillmore Glen.
Just a few minutes ago.
He's got the girl.
This is all such a misunderstanding.
When... when David gets back,
he'll be able to explain it all to you personally.
When was this photo taken?
A couple weeks ago.
Katrina, she loves
all those magazines, you know.
We had a professional do that.
KATRINA: Becky just sort of changed.
She got all judgmental
about fashion and stuff, which we both really liked.
She got into camping and gross stuff like that.
It's beautiful.
So, how often does Katrina go camping?
Oh, you know, um, on the weekends,
whenever there's time.
She has all the camping gear?
Tent, sleeping bag, backpack,
all that kind of stuff?
Of course.
Why are you asking me that?
Well, it's just that when I talked to her yesterday,
I got the impression she hated camping.
"Gross stuff," I think, were the words she used.
Your husband didn't take her camping, did he?
Yes, of course he did.
No, he didn't.
You're lying to us.
He told you to lie to us, didn't he?
RHODES: Mrs. Sadler, please.
Your daughter's life may be in danger.
Do you understand that?
Well, he said that he would kill her.
He said that he would kill her if I told.
Where is she?
He said that I should say that he was camping
and that, if I said anything else,
he would kill Katrina.
CARRIE: I need you to calm down
and tell me where he took her.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
AL: I'll call in an AMBER alert.
Tell Marston to turn around, cover the airports
and the trains.
Your husband, does he have a boat?
Yes. Where does he keep it?
He's got a storage place.
Uh, dry storage up in Oswego.
RHODES: I know that area.
If he gets that boat in the water,
it's just a couple of hours to Canada.
CARRIE: Marston and his guys,
they're way south by now.
They don't have a chance.
All right, let's go.
You come along with us.
We need all the help we can get.
Glad you got that upgrade.
Come on. 12 miles.
If he's got that boat in the water already, we...
There he is.
CARRIE: Whoa!
You all right? Yeah.
Al.
*
We should fan out.
You all right?
RHODES: Sadler!
Hey. You all right?
Katrina.
Hey. Hey.
Sam
Hey. You're going to be fine.
You're going to be fine.
Sadler?
We got him.
We got him, okay?
Sam. Sam.
Hey.
How's your head?
Well, I'm only seeing two of you now instead of five.
MARSTON: All right, thanks.
Well, they found a bunch of Becky's clothes
in the back of Sadler's truck.
Good.
Good job, guys.
It was nice working with you again, Detective Wells.
What are you not telling me?
September 1983, Sadler was incarcerated at Sing Sing.
He did two years there,
'83 to '85.
He couldn't have killed your sister.
I'm sorry.
Want to get out of here?
Yeah, let's get out of here.
Al?
Can we make a quick stop on the way?
He say what he had for you?
No.
Those.
All of his work.
28 years of tracking, following, hunting this guy.
You never knew you had a silent partner.
This RV.
Rhodes places this RV
at a number of the crime scenes, Al.
I remember it.
I remember it-- it was at the field
the same day Rachel was murdered.
It's a start.
Yeah.
Thank you, Sam.
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