[blues music playing]
♪ ♪
- Hey, guys. What's up? - Hey.
- Hey.
♪ ♪
Hank, you are not gonna believe what I found.
Huh.
I was cleaning out the back room for Bob.
- Yeah? - Man hasn't touched the place
in 40 years.
Found this stuck to an old receipt.
Oh.
I didn't know Justin ever worked here.
Yeah, summer 2010.
Bob let him work behind the bar a few weeks when he turned 21.
He liked it.
Didn't last long?
Nah.
Nah, keep it.
He looks real happy there.
Before everything.
It's yours.
Thanks.
♪ ♪
[faint high-pitched beeping]
[beeping grows louder]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[cat meows]
[knocking]
Police.
I need to see your cameras.
Is this about that robbery I filed?
- When was that? - Then I guess not.
It was over a month ago.
It's the third one I reported this year.
Right, that's not why I'm here,
but I do need to see your cameras.
Of course, let me help you.
Back here.
Help yourself. - Thank you.
And I don't know how to make the footage any clearer.
And no, I don't have another angle, so.
♪ ♪
Yes. And I want photos
of the blood spatter in every size.
Put a rush on it. Use Greggins.
He's the best. - Okay. Come on.
The BOLO's out.
Ford Taurus was hot.
Check local chop shops, salvage yards.
We might get lucky if the offender tries
to ditch the vehicle. Go.
Car owner reported the theft. No footage of it yet.
Ruzek's uploading the footage from the convenience store,
and he's rushing facial rec. - Okay. Witnesses?
Knock-and-talks are happening right now.
Sarge! Hey, Sarge!
Found these under the dumpster.
It's possible it fell from the victim's hand,
maybe his pocket when he was attacked.
Huh. Party drugs.
Kid might have just bought.
All right, run them through the lab.
Loop in Narcotics, see what they know.
Right.
Boss, got a hit on facial rec.
Kid's name, Noah Gorman, 19 years old.
No LKA in Chicago.
Ah, just graduated high school last year.
Marion, Indiana.
Doesn't seem like he's been in the city very long.
All right, well, you head up the scene.
Start digging into Noah. - Yeah.
All right, get me his parents' contact info.
I'm gonna notify them myself. - Right.
Ma'am.
Yes, that is your right.
But your son--
Mm-hmm.
Right.
No, I think I understand.
Yeah. Goodbye.
Just got off the phone with Noah's family in Indiana.
They said this is what happens when you live a life of sin.
Well, what's that mean?
Noah came out as gay two months ago.
They kicked him out.
They said they won't be needing updates
on the abduction as Noah is no longer their son.
Whoa.
All right, he's been missing three hours.
Tell me we have something.
No hits on the BOLO yet.
Okay. Noah himself?
Seems to fit with what his parents told you.
Noah took a bus into Chicago two months ago,
but we've got no hits on shelters, hotels, hostels.
We have no idea where he's laying his head.
Yeah, and the kid's got no active credit cards,
no current cell phone, either.
No friends or family in the city.
It seems like he's all alone out here.
Got something good from Narcotics.
The lab ID'd the drugs as MDMA laced with meth.
The man who deals in that area is Zach "ZJ" Jones.
He deals in red octagon pills
and is known for abducting and torturing clients
who stiff him.
- Seriously? - Yeah.
He's suspected of doing it four times
but was only arrested twice for kidnapping
and unlawful restraint.
But managed to get out of both cases pre-trial.
- How close is it? - Almost exact.
Jones's stats match our offender stats
in the video to a T.
The MO matches the previous four abductions.
And Jones's prints were found on the baggie of drugs
at the scene.
He practically left us a calling card.
I went to his house, the place looks empty.
Hit the door now.
Hey, Sarge.
One more thing, Chapman was the lead prosecutor
on both previous cases.
Team is there now. Jones isn't home.
I'm not surprised. Man thinks he's smart.
He will be dodging the police.
Okay, what technicalities are we talking?
He claims illegal search on one,
and the next was a bad victim, drug user.
And Jones's scumbag of a lawyer dug up some skeletons
and the victim recanted.
But there was never any doubt
Jones was our man in both cases.
So we'll make it foolproof this time.
We find Noah, make it airtight together.
Hank, do you see my desk?
Are any of these a current missing?
No, but half of these have been personally handed to me.
Your bosses give you a pep talk too?
Our close rate's not where it should be.
Then work cases you can close.
I don't get to work in my own personal vacuum like you.
I would like to keep my job.
Nina, the kid's 19.
He's just a child.
You know what his family told me?
They said this is his fault
because he denounced God by being gay.
No one else reported him missing.
There's no one looking for him.
We're all he's got.
Jones's MO is always the same.
He abducts customers who don't pay.
Usually, he uses a stolen vehicle,
takes them to a private location,
and then uses a tack hammer to break their kneecaps.
- So it's a message. - Yeah.
Don't ever stiff him.
Usually holds them for about 10 hours,
and then he brings them to a public location
and makes them crawl to safety. - Hmm.
The last victim almost bled out before he was found.
Wow. - And you never uncovered
where he holds them? - No.
Victims refuse to talk out of fear.
Okay, so we may not know where he held them,
but we do know where he dropped them.
Same place he deals.
Three of the last four were found at Sweeney Park.
I'll hit Sweeney Park.
Torres, Upton, you're with me.
Rest of you, keep digging.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Still got no activity.
Copy that.
All quiet here.
Just keep circling.
I'm gonna take another pass around.
♪ ♪
One of Jones's clients?
Yep.
All right, take it.
Hey, Voight, hang tight.
We may have something.
We're approaching now. - Copy.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
What's good here, bro?
- This ain't a party, man. - Hey, no.
I'm just looking to pick up, man.
My boy says this is a spot for good ice.
You got cash?
Yeah, I got cash. [sniffs]
ZJ's your man, north side of the park.
But don't tell him I sent you.
Thanks, bro.
Sarge, I got a tweaker says Jones
is on the north side of the park.
I'm heading back your way right now.
Copy you.
I got eyes on Jones north side of the parking lot.
He's moving to his vehicle.
Get over here now.
Chicago PD.
Hey, wouldn't do that.
♪ ♪
- Up. Get up. - Okay. Okay.
Got anything that can hurt me?
Where's Noah?
You drop him here?
Where is he? Where's Noah?
Noah? Who's that?
Keep searching the park.
Let's go.
We scoured that entire park for Noah Gorman,
didn't find him.
Where is he?
Do I need to speak clear?
I don't know anybody by that name.
You're sure smiling at me like you know something.
I know lots, cop.
But nothing I'm gonna tell you.
Where were you last night, 10:15 p.m.?
Hmm.
I was... driving.
- Driving? - Yeah.
That is a really bad alibi.
We already know Noah had your drugs on him.
- My drugs? - Mm-hmm.
I don't got no drugs.
I don't sell no drugs. - No. No.
We got a witness and he's ready to testify that you do.
We got your fingerprints on a bag of pills
that belongs to Noah.
And we got footage.
That's you.
Where's Noah Gorman?
[chuckling]
That ain't me.
Where is he?
Looks like he's in trouble.
Well, you tell me where, we will deal.
- Lawyer. - Something went wrong, hmm?
You had to drop him someplace else this time.
Lawyer, lawyer, lawyer, lawyer,
lawyer, lawyer, lawyer,
lawyer, lawyer, lawyer.
[door shuts]
You wanna give me something to wipe that
smile off his face?
That's his playbook.
Thinks he's invincible.
He's gonna stall until his bulldog lawyer shows up
and then they're gonna backstop that alibi somehow.
Hey, start looking for technicalities now.
We're not giving him any.
All right, 17 hours in, tell me we have something.
Not at the park. Sweeney, all nearby streets,
they were clear.
No sign of Noah. - We towed Jones's SUV here.
No visible signs of blood yet.
No mask inside, no pipe, no evidence.
Nothing at Jones's house.
No sign Noah was ever there.
All right, where are we at with known associates?
Still running. Chapman's investigative team
is helping, but nothing yet.
What about the tweaker from the park?
He's not talking.
Hey, we got a hit on that investigative alert.
Patrol spotted the car used in the abduction
going southbound on Fifth at a high rate of speed.
- It's moving now? - Yeah.
You think somebody's dumping it?
Or moving Noah.
Tell him we're joining pursuit.
[tense music]
Offender vehicle approaching the 1400 block of Fifth.
Vehicle turned west onto Masconomet.
Offender vehicle just crossed three lanes.
It's now moving east on Masconomet,
high rate of speed.
Vehicle's turned north on Fifth,
heading westbound now.
Back on Fifth?
♪ ♪
What the hell are they doing? They're going in circles.
Patrol's lost eyes.
Repeat, Patrol's lost eyes on the offender vehicle.
Black Taurus. Plates Edward 271, George 54.
Last seen moving north on the 1500 of Fifth Street.
All units in the area, please respond.
Eyes?
Nothing.
Clear.
[siren wailing]
Clear.
♪ ♪
Voight!
- You all right? - I'm good. You?
Let's go.
Police! Get back!
50-21 Henry, got eyes on the offender vehicle.
It's parked at the 1600 block of Fifth.
I need cars now.
- Let me see your hands! - Copy, 50-21 Henry.
Backup en route.
Nice and easy.
Let's go.
Easy! Get out of the car.
♪ ♪
Clear.
♪ ♪
Get me an ambo.
Ambo now!
I need an ambo to the 1600 block of Fifth.
Copy. Ambo en route.
Noah, I got you.
Ambulance is coming.
You're gonna be okay.
We got you now.
You're okay.
[siren wailing]
You're okay, just try to stay with me.
We're almost to the hospital.
Can you hear me, Noah?
[machine beeping]
Can you tell me who did this?
[gasping]
Noah, did you know the person who hurt you?
Can you tell me what they look like?
Where they took you?
Can you hear me, Noah?
Can you hear me?
Wood.
Okay.
There were pieces of wood everywhere.
Wood.
Okay. Okay, good.
That helps.
That helps a lot.
♪ ♪
I did that to you?
I'm sorry.
I hurt you too.
♪ ♪
- Voight. - Hey.
How is he?
Not good.
I mean, was stabbed six times, and he lost a lot of blood.
Doctor thinks the knife probably missed major arteries.
I mean, we'll know more when he's out.
There were signs of bindings
on his wrists and ankles.
No signs of sexual assault.
His eyes were stapled open.
And knees and feet?
Not broken.
Anything on the car?
Towing it now, but it's been altered.
The handle's removed from the inside and the handles
from the safety and the trunk were removed too.
- Hmm. - Sarge, you got ears in?
Yeah, I'm here.
Okay, we got a hit on the Ford Taurus.
Traced it on PODs.
Traffic cams caught it leaving an abandoned pallet factory
eight minutes before Patrol clocked it.
The pallets could explain the wood pieces
Noah mentioned, Sarge.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
The place is clear.
No one's here but us.
[sniffs]
That's heavy bleach.
Noah must have ripped a binding
from the wall to escape.
This place linked to Jones?
No. No links at all.
Yeah. This doesn't match his MO.
This was planned.
Meticulous.
Someone held Noah here.
Stabbed him so he wouldn't die, so he'd suffer.
Yeah, certainly doesn't feel like punishment
for stiffing a dealer.
No, this is something else.
♪ ♪
Hey.
[machine beeping steadily]
Noah, you're okay. Hey.
You're safe. You're in the hospital.
You just got out of surgery.
[groans]
You remember me?
Yeah.
I'm Hank.
I'm police.
Noah, is there anyone I can call for you?
Okay. That's all right.
Listen, if you think of someone,
you just let me know, okay?
Hey.
[sobs]
I know this is hard to talk about,
but I really need your help.
Noah, can you tell me who did this?
[soft dramatic music]
I know.
I know it's hard.
It's hard.
I promise, I wouldn't be asking if I didn't have to.
[crying]
Just tell me who hurt you.
♪ ♪
I saw footage of your abduction, Noah.
My God, you fought like hell.
And you made it out.
It's incredible.
I mean, that is incredible.
♪ ♪
I just need a little more of that strength right now.
[sobbing]
You can do this. You can talk to me.
I know you can.
No. No.
- Yes, you can. - No, I can't.
- Okay. Okay. - Please.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
Hey.
Just stay with me a little longer.
Just clear one thing up for me, okay?
Noah.
Can you look at these men?
You just tell me if one of them is the one who hurt you.
♪ ♪
Him? He's the one who hurt you?
Can you look at me?
[sobs]
Noah, it's okay.
You're safe. - It's him.
- Okay. - Please.
- Noah, are you sure? - Please.
[sobbing]
[machine beeping rapidly] - You'll have to leave.
♪ ♪
- Well? - He's awake. In recovery.
Did he talk?
He ID'd Jones, but, I mean, it was a fake ID.
It was fake?
Wait, how do you know that?
The kid was traumatized.
He would have said anything to get me out of that room.
- He said that? - No.
He was on the verge of a panic attack.
I think he saw Jones, recognized him as his dealer,
thought that's what I wanted.
All right, listen. What hour are we on?
Uh, if we want to hold Jones, we got to charge him right now.
Wait. I'm sorry.
I-I don't understand the assumption.
How do we know Noah was lying?
Instinct.
Based on?
Experience, his body language.
And the fact that whoever tortured Noah
wasn't some pissed off drug dealer.
This was sadistic.
Someone got pleasure out of torturing him.
Okay, that could still fit with--
It doesn't.
All right, we are missing something, right?
Someone.
Who in Noah's life is capable of this harm?
What the hell are we missing?
Hank, wait a second.
Look, I got to talk to Jones before we release him.
Are you kidding?
He could be escalating.
It's still a possibility. - Noah was lying.
It was a bad ID.
- Hank! - I'm not wasting time.
Ugh.
You are hereby released from custody without charges
as the Chicago Police Department has found
insufficient grounds for a criminal complaint
against you.
[apprehensive music]
Please sign here acknowledging your release
before collecting your personal belongings.
Yeah, I'll just take a minute.
- Protocol is-- - One minute.
♪ ♪
I know where you deal.
I know who you deal to.
And I have every resource that I will run at you
until you're doing 20 for trafficking.
Mm-hmm.
Or you just tell me what you know and I will back off.
What do you know about Noah?
- What do I know? - Yes.
What do you know that I'm missing?
[tense music]
♪ ♪
I mean, we've dug into every corner of Noah's life
from Chicago to Marion.
There's just not much there. - Okay.
Well, what's not much?
This family may have strong opinions, but they're clean.
There's no priors.
His brother Seth was the one that gave him
the personal safety alarm because he was worried
about Noah moving to a modern day Gomorrah.
We looked into members of their churches,
friends, classmates, nothing.
National database came up empty
for other related crimes.
The eyelids, the stabbing is unique.
Come on, there has got to be something in Chicago.
Kid's been here for two months.
I did get a hit on that.
He was staying off and on at a homeless shelter,
a place called Great Lake House.
Spoke with the supervisor.
Apparently, he kept to himself. He had no friends.
What, he talked to no one?
Apparently. That's what the supervisor said.
All right, history of violence there?
We ran it, ran everyone who came through the shelter.
Petty theft, possession,
pops of prostitution, but that's it.
What about the party drugs?
I mean, he buys, he's using somewhere.
Mm-hmm. But you know he's not 21 yet.
So we got nothing from the local bars.
Naturally, we got raves and underground parties,
but nobody's talking to us.
Could it be random attack?
Stranger abduction? - Eh.
Sarge, offender matches every stat for Jones,
down to his shoe size.
Maybe the right answer is the simple one.
Noah's telling the truth.
[phone buzzes]
You got something?
So please, enlighten me, Sergeant,
why do I have an ASA coming into my office
telling me you released a known violent offender,
one who was just positively ID'd?
Because I did.
We didn't have a case on him.
My investigators went back to Noah,
and they found his statement to be credible.
Is that so?
They also uncovered
one of Jones's old social media profiles,
and it was filled with homophobic rants.
Hank, this is motive.
It's why he escalated.
This was a hate crime.
So Noah was the only gay man that Jones sold drugs to?
It was a false ID.
- You cannot know that. - Of course I can.
I've seen the look before.
Hell, I've seen it on my own son.
That child was broken.
He would've ID'd the Pope to get me out of there.
All right, enough.
You have a credible, sympathetic witness
with a positive ID and a repeat violent offender
who has beaten the system twice.
Yeah, and he will beat it again
if we arrest him for a crime he didn't commit.
[tense music]
Hank Voight.
Arrest warrant's already signed.
Go arrest him. - Sir, he--
That's a direct order.
You don't act unilaterally.
Arrest him.
♪ ♪
- Gun! - Chicago PD!
Drop your weapon!
He's coming to you.
Don't do it.
Drop the gun.
Y'all think you can frame me?
Don't try me, Jones.
Drop the weapon.
- I didn't do this. - What did I say?
Put the gun down!
♪ ♪
Up high, turn around.
Get them high, turn around.
I didn't do this.
Bring him inside.
- What? - Inside.
- Taking him to the dist-- - Inside now.
- Yeah. - Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're not gonna beat a confession out of me, cop.
I didn't do jack.
We're just gonna talk.
I'm not talking to you.
Yeah, you are.
You think we're trying to frame you?
You're right.
CPD is trying to bury you for this.
You're a dead man walking. - I didn't do--
I know you didn't.
So shut up and listen.
I'm gonna ask you some questions
and you're gonna answer them truthfully
or you're going to end up in a cell
that you can't get out of this time, do you understand me?
That was one of the questions.
Do you understand? - Yeah.
Did you sell to Noah?
- Yeah. - Good.
For how long? - A couple months.
- Who did he buy with? - No one.
He buys alone. - Every time?
- Every time. - At Sweeney Park?
Yeah.
Where did he live?
- I don't know. - Come on!
He's got to have friends, family,
people he parties with, a place he crashes.
What am I missing?
Who would want to harm him?
What?
Why do you think I know more than you?
You should be asking your own people.
What does that mean?
Police have been following the kid.
- What? - Yeah.
For a month, every time he picked up,
there was a black car following him.
Was it a-- was it a black Taurus?
I figured it was Narcotics trying to get me for a--
Was it a black Taurus?
I don't know.
Yeah, maybe, yeah. - It wasn't the police.
That was the offender stalking him.
Did you see him?
Did you see his face?
Nah.
I didn't.
♪ ♪
Right, there is no way in hell that the only person
that ever saw this car is Noah's drug dealer.
There's just not that many people to ask.
Jones sells in Sweeney Park on that corner
because it's a dead zone. There's no cameras.
Tweakers aren't talking.
We don't have the car on traffic cams.
Come on, anywhere?
Except for the last two days, no.
It's almost impressive.
Did you get anything from Noah?
No.
Techs found a burner at Jones's house.
It pinged it on a tower near the Dan Ryan
during the time of the abduction.
Traffic cam confirms Jones at the wheel.
Alibi's real.
Come on, there's got to be more on this car.
What else we got?
All right.
All right, it's late.
Just go home, change out, get some rest.
Get out of here.
- Sarge, I can stick around. - Hailey, no.
We'll start fresh in the morning.
Go. Go ahead.
[apprehensive music]
♪ ♪
Yeah, that's him.
But like I told your other officers,
I never saw him with anyone or saw a car following him.
He's a quiet one.
Did he mention any friends, associates?
Hardly said a word.
I don't think he knew anybody here.
He mostly slept.
Thanks.
No, I don't remember him.
And I don't remember ever seeing a car.
Why? Did--did he do something?
Doesn't seem like the type, does he?
No, he doesn't.
Always had the idea that he wanted to be alone.
I tried to talk to him about his singing once.
He was polite, but he clearly didn't want any conversation.
Singing?
Mm-hmm.
I heard him singing in the bathroom once.
Gospel.
He has a beautiful voice.
I hope he doesn't lose that.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
Who the hell are you?
Hey.
No, no, no, no.
It's okay.
Hey.
I'm not gonna ask you anything.
You don't have to talk.
I did want to say some things.
Would that be okay?
First--
first, I want to tell you
that the man you ID'd, your dealer, Zach Jones,
I mean, his alibi is airtight.
He couldn't have abducted you.
That's okay.
These things happen.
Look, Noah, people that are scared or in shock,
they make the wrong ID.
Happens all the time.
It's okay.
Noah, you said something to me in the ambulance.
You said
you thought you hurt me too.
Noah, you didn't hurt me.
[soft dramatic music]
Did you do something that caused this?
No.
I didn't think so.
So the only one responsible is the monster who did this.
And I'm gonna find him.
I promise you, I am gonna find him.
And I'm gonna be right here with you in this thing
until you're able to talk to me, you understand?
You're not alone.
I'm not gonna let you be alone.
♪ ♪
Please, just hear me out.
Have a coffee with me and hear me out?
Jones didn't do it. You were right.
But because of his arrest, techs found a hard drive
in his basement, and it had footage of him
abusing two other victims.
So we've got him on those.
He's going away.
That's good.
Any leads on Noah's abductor?
No, not yet, but, uh, there will be.
Hank, I'm sorry I went over your head.
I made the call I thought was right.
I felt it that Jones was our guy.
I was sure of it.
Do you know that feeling?
[scoffs]
Hank, it's my job to be checks and balances.
If it were the other way around,
I think you would have done the same thing.
Yeah, you're probably right.
You do this, you know.
You ask me for help, you bring me in,
and then...
you push me away.
And it's like--
it's like you don't know
whether you want to be alone on your island or not.
♪ ♪
Hi. Sorry.
I don't know where I put the painkillers from the hospital.
It's been three hours.
Bathroom cupboard, top shelf.
- Thank you. - Mm-hmm.
He had nowhere to go.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[wolf howls]