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Eric!
Shit.
Brought some bagels.
What's up mom?
What, I can't come visit my own daughter?
Any time.
You could text or call first.
So, how long has this little
hobby of yours gonna last?
You mean, my career?
You know, your dad would have been so proud of you.
Dad would be proud of me.
Is that why you're doing this, to prove it to him?
I mean, he wanted you to make real changes.
I am.
You know, you're living in a man's world Samantha.
Oh, my god.
Don't you see what's actually happening in the world?
Well, unlike your generation,
I have lived long enough to know that
men and women never truly change.
I can't talk to you.
That's because you're naive... reckless.
I have to go to work.
Not that you know what that's actually like.
Catherine Prescott is hosting a dinner party on Sunday
and wanted to know if you and Ryan wanted to come.
That's why you came over.
To ask me about a stupid dinner party?
Morning Jackie.
Hello, Ryan.
Bagels.
Sweet.
I should go.
You sure... you don't want some
coffee or anything?
No... I don't wanna be a nuisance.
Just let me know about the party on Sunday.
She's talking to caterers
so it's very time sensitive.
I'll let you know.
Deep down she really loves you.
She knows I hate bagels.
Yeah, we're at the scene right now.
Yeah, I'll keep you posted.
Okay, bye.
... said this pipeline was already in bad shape.
So?
So it could have just been an accident.
Two explosions in two weeks.
You think that's a coincidence?
I think it's a possibility, yeah.
Sam, Buke.
Yeah, so the blast happened at 7:33 AM.
Blew the hell out of the compression shed.
But operations team at Deerfoot said the system
didn't detect any alarms, so...
Who got hurt?
Two maintenance workers.
Eric Wapiti caught the worst of it.
The guy's probably gonna lose his leg.
He's at St. Mary's right now.
- What about the other one? - Emily Calfrobe.
She's being looked at by the paramedics over there.
Thanks.
Can you give us a sec?
Yeah, for sure.
Hi, Emily.
I'm Chief Woodburn, Tribal.
Can you tell us what happened?
Eric and I were just out doing our rounds and
bleeding the lines when the shed just exploded.
So this was just a routine inspection?
This shed's not on our rotation
but Eric just wanted to make a quick stop.
This is serious, stop!
I think they have cameras!
No, they don't.
Please just stop it.
Fine.
I hate it when you're always right.
He was just gonna make sure the shed was locked when...
when...
Where were you when it exploded?
Um... I was right over there, behind the truck.
Eric just gave me this promise ring a week ago
and it's an opal and he knows
how much I love them.
He's gonna be okay, right?
They're doing everything they can.
_
Mr. Gervais...
Mr. Gervais, do you have any comment on this situation?
As CEO of Deerfoot Energy, I am overwhelmed with grief.
Whoever's done this disgraceful act will see justice.
Hasn't this pipeline been rusting
and leaking into the ground?
Partially, which is why we've been
actively trying to upgrade it.
Safety's always been our top priority.
Do you believe that this was an intentional attack?
Absolutely.
And I will not rest until we find this terrorist.
Our thoughts and prayers are with Eric
and his family.
Like his mother?
- Chief Theresa Wapiti? - Yes.
Yeah, didn't she oppose your upgrade to the proposal?
This is a complicated issue.
We are an indigenous owned and run company
devoted to this community.
Now's the time for us to unite,
to come together and demand justice for our people.
Sam Woodburn, Chief of Tribal.
Where's Daniel?
He's gone.
How old are you?
I'm Detective Bukansky.
This is our business.
Oh, didn't you hear?
We're all one big happy family now.
Is that some kind of joke?
I'd say so.
Is it true what that reporter said?
That Eric is the Chief's son?
Yes, and a valued member of our team.
- And she opposed the upgrade? - Yes.
If this pipeline is leaking oil,
it's possible these kids
were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, right?
It's possible.
Have you received any threats recently?
Day and night.
Around the clock.
Any idea who would want to do that?
No, but my head of security
keeps better records on our active threats.
We had a break-in at my office recently.
- Who broke in? - We don't know.
We're still looking into it, but could be connected.
Was that shed equipped with security cameras?
Yeah, the footage gets uploaded to a cloud account.
We're gonna need to see that.
Anything you need.
That it?
For now.
Alana.
Hmm?
I don't get it.
You don't get what?
Do those people want the pipeline,
or do those people want the pipeline?
- They both want it. - What the hell are they fighting for?
'Cause they can't agree on how to fix it.
Shocking.
That on the record, Buke?
It's a little more complicated than that.
The council elected a new chief
Theresa Wapiti, who opposed the original plan.
Why?
Because it wasn't safe enough.
She's trying to help.
This is helping?
In the long run, maybe.
But right now, lakes are being contaminated and
kids are getting sick just by drinking the water
because of the leaking oil.
Hey, why don't you put that on the record?
Sick kids, huh?
Shit.
Excuse me.
Hey.
What?
Never seen you so fired up.
Yeah, well, you don't know what it's like
living on a reserve.
Is that why you became a lawyer?
Why'd you quit?
I didn't quit.
You went to law school.
Passed the bar.
Never practised.
You mean, you could be sitting behind a desk right now
making real money like an actual lawyer?
Is that so hard to believe?
Hey, easy.
Didn't mean it like that.
- I know that look. - What look?
"Really, you, a lawyer?"
No, I just don't get it.
Don't get what?
You grind through seven years of law-school,
probably up to your ass in debt, then what,
just walk away?
Yeah.
To do this?
Yeah.
Why?
We're still analyzing the blast radius
but we found traces of tannerite residue
at the scene.
Explosive compound, like TNT.
Along with shards of copper wiring
and steel pipe fragments, all very common, low-grade,
IED components.
So this was a targeted attack?
Definitely.
Found these in the dirt too.
Cellphone fragments.
It's not Emily's phone.
Or Eric's.
Which means it's probably the remote detonator.
Can you trace it?
Not without a complete serial number.
However, a lot of experts in explosives
are superstitious.
Why?
Better chance it won't blow up in their face.
So, I ran a search
and found something interesting.
The Keystone Pipeline in 2010.
The Olympic River Fracking Blockade in 2014.
And the Martin County Blast in 2013.
What about them?
All these explosions used the same forensic signature
and all were at the hands of the same guy.
Gunter Ludwig.
Who the hell is Gunter Ludwig?
It's this crazy environmentalist.
Gunter's been in and out of jail for years
fighting for mother's pure earth.
Ludwig is an expert on explosives.
Blew up all kinds of pipelines and oil tankers.
And back on patrol he was always stirring up
the locals at environmental stand-offs.
He's older now.
Lives alone in the bush and he's been
off the grid for years.
Until now.
Woah, easy!
Gunter's an environmentalist.
He's not out to hurt people.
Tell that to Eric.
I know this guy.
And I know his type, they don't like cops.
Trust me, Buke.
I know how to handle guys like...
Gunter, it's Sam!
Sam who?
Woodburn...
from Tribal Police.
I just wanna talk.
Woodburn?
Just put the gun down Gunter!
Who's the white bastard?
He's with me.
- Why? - He's Tribal, too.
My ass... he's white!
Hey, hey!
Tribal, Justice, and Metro are working together now.
That'll be the day.
We need to talk.
So talk, Injun.
You know why we're here.
Just 'cause one of your own gets blown up.
Come accuse me for it.
Well, when your signature shows up on the forensics report,
yeah.
What signature?
Tannerite, N27 phone, copper wiring, steel pipe.
That was your bomb.
Oh, horseshit.
I've been out of the game for years.
So those forensics are coincidence?
People just ripping off my brand.
Deerfoot has cameras.
And if we find you anywhere near that pipeline,
you're going away for life.
Hmm.
You're not gonna find nothing.
I kept outta this one.
Those idiots didn't want my help.
What idiots?
The Indians.
Arguing about everything.
Can't agree on nothin'.
They don't care about the environment.
They just want the money.
Like everyone else.
It's their own fault that boy got hurt.
I don't give a damn about their pipeline mess.
So if you're not charging me,
get the hell off my property,
before I get real angry.
Sorry.
You all right?
I'm fine.
Look, you're right, I should have held back.
You should have listened to me.
I've been doing this shit a long time.
Look, I'm not reckless, I'm determined.
There's a difference okay?
Yeah, Mitch.
All of 'em?
Shit.
Yeah. Okay, thanks.
Deerfoot's security cameras were all offline
at the time of the blast.
Tech maintenance.
What, they don't have anything?
How convenient.
Look, call Nate, tell him to find out
if anyone spotted Gunter on the reserve.
Yeah, well, someone had to.
- Hello. - Hi.
- Is that her? - Ya.
How's your son doing?
He's still unconscious.
They cut off the rest of his leg.
Theresa, have you seen Gunter Ludwig around recently?
Not for years.
Why?
We think he may have set the bomb.
Gunter?
It wasn't Gunter, it was Ray.
He's the one who did it.
Who's Ray?
Ray Napoose?
He's one of the band council members.
He's a bastard, is what he is.
Why do you think it's him?
Because I got elected Chief.
And I am officially putting a stop
on the Deerfoot Pipeline upgrade.
You can't do that!
Watch me.
Chief Mikisew already approved the agreement.
It doesn't protect us.
That pipeline is leaking onto our water table.
And that agreement is just a Band-Aid
to try to fix the problem.
So we need to fix it now.
- No. - Yeah!
We need to overhaul the entire system.
Reroute the pipeline away from the water table to
outskirts of the reserve.
That will take years!
But it will help us in the long run.
So you're gonna let it rust and leak out,
possibly explode.
We fix it on our terms, not the government's
and not Deerfoot's.
They're exploiting us, Ray.
By giving us jobs?
By lining their own pockets.
That agreement was a cash grab.
This is our chance to grow.
Yeah!
For jobs, and yeah, money.
We need it.
See, that's all you care about.
I'm warning you Theresa.
Don't do this.
New Chief.
New rules.
So the upgrade was in place
and you come and reverse the decision?
I had to, for my community.
It doesn't prove Ray planted the bomb.
Of all the workers, my son ends up in the hospital.
You know where we could find him?
He's probably around here somewhere...
watching all this.
Oh, God, it's Eric.
I need to get to the hospital.
Come on.
Heard about your fancy promotion, Woodburn.
Big city cop now?
Tribal, Ray.
What's he doing here?
We're working together.
You think you're pretty hot shit.
Watch your mouth.
I'm not talking to you, white boy.
You will.
Yeah?
Or what?
Is he really that stupid?
You've never played this game?
I'd start small.
Stop sign violations, speeding tickets.
Sounds scary.
Then we tail ya.
Wait 'till you've had a few drinks,
hit you with a DUI.
That's real police work.
Then another one until you violate your parole.
And then we lock you up, and you don't get
to see your family for a month.
Or you just talk to us.
Big city bullshit don't work out here.
Did you threaten Theresa over the pipeline?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Poor kid lost his foot, Ray.
Shame.
When'd you last talk to Gunter Ludwig?
Ludwig... I don't.
So you won't mind if we run
your phone records and texts?
Go right ahead.
I don't give a shit about Eric or Theresa.
You threatened her in public.
'Cause that pipeline's our future.
She was elected Ray.
That's kinda what politicians do.
They whine and piss, while my daughter's go swimming
at our lakes and come back with rashes.
That doesn't give you a right to blow up a pipeline.
We can blow up what we want.
Not when you're putting innocent boys in the hospital.
You have no idea what's going on here Sam.
And don't pretend you're like one of us.
You're a sellout!
I'm done talkin'.
If you had anything on me, you'd arrest me.
We finished analyzing the blast radius.
And?
Based on shrapnel pattern and scorching,
we determined that the blast came from inside the shed.
Inside?
Emily said those sheds are locked.
They are.
I called Deerfoot and they confirmed that they're
secured with a digital key-pad and
they change the codes regularly.
So whoever planted the bomb probably had help
from someone inside the company?
It's a hell of a view.
Thanks for waiting.
Kinda goes with that suit.
Have you had any internal conflicts
at your company recently, Mr. Gervais?
Internal?
Lawsuits, threats, HR complaints.
No, nothing comes to mind.
In a company this big?
Come on.
Didn't you say someone broke into your office?
How'd they get in here anyway?
Holiday party. Someone must have slipped through.
What'd they take?
Nothing, as far as we can tell.
What does any of this have to do with the pipeline?
Well, it's possible whoever planted that bomb
was someone in your own company.
No, that's impossible.
And why is that?
I take care of my workers.
We're like a family here.
My old man was an asshole, what's your point?
You don't understand.
Deerfoot is a beloved indigenous owned
and run company.
I provide crucial jobs to our community.
People love working here.
No one working at Deerfoot has ever gone
against our mission.
Or me.
There's only one person on that reserve
who opposed our operation,
who started this whole protest.
Who?
Must be nice, working up here,
looking down on us all.
I worked hard to earn this space.
Think that gives you some kind of rights over us?
The ex-chief already signed the deal.
Well, I'm the chief now.
Theresa, council have already spent the money.
Not my problem.
It will be if you re-neg on this deal.
What are you gonna do?
It's up to me now.
How do you think the community will feel
when you rip away their jobs, their income?
I'm not afraid of that.
They'll come after you.
You're exploiting us Tom.
Actually, I'm trying to help you here.
Of course you are.
Incredible.
After everything I've done
to give back to our community.
You don't live like us.
You don't get it.
And you never will.
She brought this on herself.
People were angry.
It's her own fault that her son's in the hospital.
Is that true?
That the council already spent the money?
Yes.
So what's gonna happen with the pipeline now?
Damage reports are still coming in,
but my engineers are optimistic we can repair it.
As in, upgrade it?
Potentially.
So because of that explosion,
your upgrade has a better chance
of moving forward now.
People need oil.
These people.
These people?
I'm sorry, but...
no, the deal was in place.
The council even spent the money.
So?
So, then this new Chief Theresa 'What's-her-name'
parades in with feathers in her hair and says,
"No, no, no, sorry, deal's off!"
I'm so sick of this shit!
Just go ahead and say it Buke.
It all lines up.
Tom pushed back.
He gets Ray and Gunter riled up
to blow up his own pipeline.
You really think that Tom would do this
to one of his own workers?
With 'these people', it wouldn't surprise me.
Got a better theory, Chief?
No.
No, so stop making this personal,
like some little Tribal cop out on reserve.
Tom had means, Tom had motive.
Hell, he's probably protected by insurance.
So what are you saying?
Now they're gonna be forced to upgrade it.
But he's smart, see?
He gets Ray to set the bomb that butcher's Eric
for payback against Theresa.
So yeah, that's what I think 'these people' did.
Stop saying "these people".
Ugh!
Nate, I have to call you back.
What?
Eric's heart just gave up at the hospital.
He's dead.
Connie!
Why is Ray Napoose still walking around a free man?
When we have sufficient evidence,
we'll be making an arrest.
If Daniel was still chief,
this never would've happened.
Trust me, Chief.
This is our top priority.
We have our best resources totally devoted to this case.
I don't trust you people.
What is this place?
Tribal Police in the city.
Who's really running Tribal?
We're doing everything we can, Theresa.
You think these people give a shit about us?
Yeah, I do.
Eric is dead because of a pipeline.
They don't care about us.
They never have and they never will!
Theresa...
You're blind, Sam.
So blind.
So, where are we at?
It's complicated.
Complicated.
Buke, you're supposed to show her how it's done.
It was a shed in the middle of nowhere, Connie,
- what do you expect? - Leads, evidence, suspects.
Takes time.
It's a bloody homicide now.
You know what that means?
It'll go national.
Try international.
You must be thrilled.
You two better get in front of this case,
or it'll blow back on all of us.
And Sam, whatever you do,
don't tell the press it's complicated.
He's a political animal.
Don't worry about it.
I won't.
I shouldn't have said what I said.
Probably went too far and I'm sorry.
Do you know where the term Indian-giver comes from?
I never said that.
But you implied it.
So, do you know?
Of course.
- Tell me. - No.
Why not?
Because this is a trap.
I was just curious.
What?
Colonial encroachment.
Settlers would come over
and they would exchange gifts with the Indians.
But the Indians didn't get the whole gift giving thing.
They felt cheated.
So they'd demand their gifts back.
And do you believe that?
I didn't make up the expression.
But you used the analogy earlier.
You asked, I answered.
Hey, don't put me on trial here councillor.
Yeah, I asked, because people like you...
Oh, people like me.
Now look who's talking.
Yeah.
White, aging, racist dinosaurs.
I am not racist.
You're the worst kind of racist because
you don't think you're racist.
I have an opinion.
Doesn't make me racist.
They spoke different languages.
And the settlers would offer gifts in exchange for land.
They didn't understand the terms of the agreement.
They were confused, so of course
they wanted their land back.
They felt cheated, because they were.
I knew this was a trap.
You know what the settlers did after?
They murdered them.
Every last one of them.
Well, I didn't murder anyone.
And they called us stupid and Indian givers
because that's easier than to empathise and try to understand.
And that's what you guys still do.
Even today.
Got it.
I'm an asshole.
We good?
No.
Look...
Eric is still dead.
Can we get back to this please?
I'm not ready to look at you.
Awww.
What is it, Mom again?
What the hell's with her?
She's a little crazy.
Ha ha, yeah.
Crazy parent. Now that, I get.
Been accused of that, too.
You have kids?
Yeah.
There's no pictures.
It's not really my thing.
Well, how many?
Two.
Do they live here?
No.
Out East.
Boys, girls, how old?
Anton is 25.
Janie just turned 22.
Oh, God.
What?
It was her birthday.
You forgot your mom's birthday?
It's this whole thing with her.
Like the world's supposed to stop.
So call her back.
I can't deal with her right now.
Connie's right.
We need to get moving on this.
You think?
We need to find the pressure points soon.
Pressure points?
Weaknesses, blind spots, susceptibilities.
Leads to motive.
I'm gonna get a coffee, you want one?
No.
His name was Eric.
He was 18 years old.
All alone now, Woodburn?
Where's your partner?
You two break up already?
You know he had a family?
A mother.
She's in a lot of pain right now.
Get out of my face.
You know, he had a girlfriend too.
Emily.
And he bought her this opal promise ring
because he was in love with her.
I'm warnin' you.
Your fight's with the energy companies,
corporations, the government.
Not kids like Eric.
His blood's on you now.
He's a fraud.
You been here all night?
His real name is Tom Weber.
He grew up out west, near Merritt...
Which neighbours the Nooaitch Indian Reserve.
Tax records show that he started working construction
right out of high school
but when he turned 18, he changed his name.
Oh, you have been here all night.
He formed Deerfoot at 23 and started applying for
federal grants, claiming he was Nooaitch.
Why?
So he'd qualify for indigenous owned
business subsidies.
But I crosschecked his ancestors
against the membership roles.
And?
Not one person in his entire family is listed.
How the hell did you figure this all out?
I called in some favours.
At 3 in the morning?
I told ya, been doing this shit a long time Sam.
Wow.
He's not even an Indian.
And yet, this guy has been awarded
over 87 million dollars in federal grant programs
designed to help build indigenous
owned and controlled businesses.
Hey, Sam.
I've got some nut named Gunter asking for you.
Government skunks, all of ya!
You stink ***!
- Hey, calm down! - Get your dirty skunk hands off of me!
Hey, just put him in holding.
Back down, Buke.
What... the son of a bitch shot at us, Sam.
- He should be in jail already. - I shot the air, ya skunk.
You want my help, or not?
You went after Tom.
I went after Gunter.
All right, ease up.
Talk.
I got an email.
They said no one would get hurt.
Who did?
- Don't know. - Bullshit.
Didn't wanna know.
It's called plausible deniability, ya prick.
What did they want?
Blow up the pipeline.
So you helped them?
Someone may or may not have left
cash on my doorstep in exchange for something.
You know we can arrest you as an accessory?
Like I said, may not have.
Then what do you want?
They promised no one would get hurt.
I don't like being lied to.
Can you trace an email address?
Opal 685.
Hey... Opal.
Thanks for coming in.
Is that your email address?
No.
Come on.
I don't know who's that is.
Gunter rolled on you.
You paid him to build a bomb so you could blow up
your boyfriend.
No, I didn't.
Kinda make sense now,
how you didn't get hurt that day.
You don't know what happened.
Did someone put you up to this?
Was it Tom?
Did he pay you off or was it Ray?
I had nothing to do with the bomb.
Come on, Emily.
You knew the codes, you knew how to
get inside the shed.
I didn't send the email.
Then who did?
Come on, let's get out of here.
Don't do this... please Eric.
He's not even an Indian.
I figured it out when I was in his office.
You shouldn't have been in there.
- And we should just tell somebody. - No!
This is our land and he treats us like shit.
Making us do 18 hours a day.
Doing his dirty work.
While we have nothing!
While he makes millions off us.
This'll show him.
Please Eric, I know you don't really wanna do this.
This is serious, stop!
I think they have cameras.
No, they don't.
Please just stop it.
Fine.
I hate it when you're always right.
Eric!
Well, you were right all along.
What part?
It really was an accident.
They're gonna push through with the upgrade now, aren't they?
I'd put money on it.
So the white guy makes more money
and the community gets screwed.
Yeah, that fake Indian... can't believe
he'd get away with shit like this today.
He won't.
Can I trust you with this?
Is this all true?
Yeah.
I can guarantee the front page.
Do what you gotta do.
Yeah, that's all great.
I'll remember that, thank you.
Can you leave us?
I was extremely saddened to hear the truth
about Eric Wapiti.
He was the one who broke into your office.
Eric did?
I don't understand.
_
What did you say?
Oh, you don't speak Cree?
I'm a little rusty.
What nation are you from again?
Nooaitch.
Are you sure?
Of course I am.
Hmm.
Yeah, that's funny.
We checked with the band office
and even their ancestry records.
My great uncle was a proud member
of the Nooaitch Nation.
I grew up on the reserve.
Oh, don't even start.
You didn't grow up on any reserve.
You're not one of us.
What's that even mean anymore, us?
_
Hey.
You could have just told me.
Are you trying to give me a heart attack?
It's not a dinner party.
It's your birthday party.
I did, didn't I?
No, you wanted me to figure it out.
Stop it.
I'm sorry I forgot your birthday.
I don't care.
What, you love your birthday.
That's not true.
Dad used to get stressed out every year trying to
figure out what to do for you.
No, he didn't.
I'm sorry.
I should have remembered.
So, uh, are you gonna be there Sunday?
I'll try, Mom.
Don't do me any favours.
Hey, if I can't make it,
I'll take you out for brunch okay?
You don't even wanna come in?
I'm exhausted, I...
I just wanted to say I'm sorry in person.
Go on then.
Go save the world.
You're proud of me.
Just like he is.