Big smiles!
Okay!
- Got it! Looking good! - So good.
Grab a seat. Grab a seat.
Well, look at all these gorgeous princesses and prince
here to celebrate Ivy's special day!
Princesses have costumes.
She didn't wear a costume.
Doesn't matter. A kind heart is what makes a princess.
Not a dress.
How come your waist isn't tiny
like the Sleeping Beauty from the movie?
Because I'm not a cartoon!
I'm a real-life human and thank goodness for that.
Could you imagine sleeping for a hundred years in real life?
Uh...
I'll...
be back... just... just...
Just in a minute. Okay?
Is it just me or is...
Sleeping Beauty slurring?
♪ That was the best dance I ever had ♪
♪ They played Brown Eyed Girl and you said that ♪
So if you've got a little fairytale fan on your hands...
princess parties are entirely enchanting.
You're always hustling, aren't you, Otto?
Well some of us have to work for our money.
- Mmm. - I'm gonna go make sure Sleeping Beauty
didn't fall in the toilet!
Hey, Melina. Just give her a sec, okay?
Hey, sweetie.
Sophie, why don't you go back in there
- and play with the other kids, okay? - Okay.
Alright. Go on.
Stacey!
Somebody!
Help us!
I'm Detective Charlie Hudson.
This is my partner, Rex.
Thank God you're here. The kids...
they don't know what happened yet.
She was playing Sleeping Beauty.
So I just told them that she's sleeping.
And he's trying to distract them
but I just don't know how long it's gonna hold. You know?
Is he Prince Charming coming to kiss Sleeping Beauty awake now?
Oh...
Yeah, sweetie.
I'm guessing no kiss
is gonna bring this princess back to life.
Blunt force trauma to the head.
We found handprints on the railing
dragging back, likely Stacey's.
The placement of the body...
I'd be very surprised if it was a natural fall.
So she was pushed.
- Mmmm. - Any witnesses?
No one saw or heard anything thanks to the Frozen soundtrack
playing in surround sound.
And it's hard to get a read on the bruising
given all the heavy stage makeup and princess poof.
- Is this her purse? - Yeah.
Okay, buddy. What have you got?
Huh.
Let's see. Last text that she sent, all caps.
I'M NOT DOING THIS ANYMORE.
Then the response...
RIP Princess. That's 11:05 AM.
From Boo.
Yeah but the host said that that was an hour before Stacey arrived.
Will you get this to Jesse? I need to know who Boo is.
- Thanks, Sarah. - Yeah.
- This is your house, ma'am? - Yes.
- I can't believe she's just gone! - I know. I know. Otto, I'm sorry.
It doesn't even seem real. Right?
And those kids. I mean...
This was supposed to be Ivy's special day!
The best day of her life!
You can't make up for being a lousy mother
364 days of the year with pink icing and princess hats, Melina.
- Really? - Oh, that's a lot coming from you, Ron.
Mister I'm-on-an-important businesstrip.
Here-Ivy. It's-a-stuffie- I-obviously-bought-
from-the-casino-gift-shop!
Are you falling for Melina's-damsel-in-distress act, Otto?
What have you got, pal?
We can't all peddle
fake herbal garbage...
Ron this is why I didn't want you here today!
If I let you call the shots
- I wouldn't be here for Ivy! - People!
Grow the hell up!
Hey! Police officer here. Remember?
And the big dog?
Thank you.
A woman might have been murdered here. So let's...
try and find out what happened, okay?
Her name was Stacey.
What else do we know about her?
She worked at a company called Princess for Hire.
Okay, well, the kids are with the neighbours.
Okay, so is this everybody now?
- Yes? - Yeah.
Thank you for your patience. I need to talk
to everybody who was in the house. And,
I'm gonna need phones on the table.
Sir?
Cell phones on the table.
- Unlock them, please. - You can't take our phones.
I'm not taking them. I'm borrowing them.
Photos and videos will help us piece together Stacey's last moments.
And everybody here I'm sure wants to know what happened.
Great.
So, I'm gonna need to know
who was in the house today,
- where they were and when. - Well, it'll be a short list.
We were all pretty much here.
Yes, except for Ron. Ron wasn't here.
I was in the bathroom. And getting a reprieve
from your grating voice.
I wasn't here.
- Why was that? - My daughter's costume was still in the dryer.
- I arrived late. - Hmm.
I don't suppose any of you saw or heard anything?
Well, when I was walking over,
I saw a van on the street.
Anything else?
If no one is gonna say anything, I guess I have to. I mean...
Guys, she was high.
She was probably upstairs, getting higher.
- Stacey was high? - Oh no no, baby.
She was your Highness.
She was Your Highness because she was a princess, right?
Your daughter Sophie,
she called Sleeping Beauty Stacey.
Yeah, Stacey babysat for us sometimes.
- Oh. - Having a princess babysit
might seem a bit much but it's fun for the kids.
Stacey would play princess with her for hours.
I'm not very good at playing make-believe.
Since her mother died she practically lives
- in a fairytale world. - Yeah, I'm the struggling stepmom.
- Ah. - Role-playing can be exhausting.
And Sophie is constantly in character.
Even today while the other kids were playing and having fun,
she got upset because she thought she heard the evil queen.
Really?
Sophie?
Hi, Sophie.
Could I talk to you for a minute?
You said you saw the evil queen here today?
But you heard her?
Where?
Get a shot of this?
- Huh. - Sophie was right. Fresh print.
I'll make a plaster cast of the shoe.
Because if the shoe fits...
- Cinderella. - Oh boy.
What? You have never seen a fairytale before?
Yes, I have. Except I find them all insufferably sexist.
Huh. Well, they offer a historical context!
What are you up to, pal?
Huh.
Okay, I see it, yeah.
Oh.
Oh!
A piece of broken eaves trough.
Uh, we're gonna need this home security footage.
Okay. Sure!
And then can we have our phones back?
Your phones are on the way to the station.
- You'll have them soon enough. - Ah.
- Okay. - You mind if I grab a ride with you?
Oh yeah. As long as you don't mind going past my house.
I forgot Rex's sweet potato jerky.
He hates the veggie crisps at work.
Your new place is really incredible!
- There's so much light! - Yeah, not too bad, right?
Oh, hey. Text from Jesse.
He just sent a file with the stitched-together video footage.
Oh. Should I make popcorn?
Wow, kids, they really have a certain pitch.
Yeah, they do make a lot of noise.
Yeah, I guess they're alright.
Oh.
Good timing, Jesse. We were just admiring your handiwork.
Oh, well I hope you go something
because security came up donuts.
The camera angles never caught our killer
coming down from the window.
But good news is: I know who Boo is.
The person who texted RIP princess?
Yeah. Rick Dobran.
He's the owner of Princess for Hire.
He was a failed actor before he started the business.
A bit of a piece of work. But,
apparently Rick and Stacey were a couple.
That's music to my ears.
Yeah, one problem, Charlie. We don't have him at the crime scene.
Wait.
Elaine said that she saw a suspicious van on the road.
The security cam caught the van out front.
Can you run the plates?
Looks like it's not necessary. Because guess who it is?
Actually, let's do it on the count of three. You ready?
One, two, three.
- Rick Dobran... - Rick Dobran baby.
Alright, you guys ready to go see
what a real big bad wolf looks like?
It's just a figure of speech, Rex.
Hey, smile! Kids don't like a sullen princess!
Rick Dobran?
Detective Hudson.
You mind telling me what you were doing
at 11 Washington Drive this morning?
That's easy.
One of my employees forgot the party supplies.
I delivered them to the location.
And this employee was Stacey Nielsen?
- I don't remember. - Oh.
You don't remember?
That sounds pretty silly, Rick,
considering she's your employee and your girlfriend.
You texted her this morning, RIP, Princess.
- You remember that? - Yeah, okay. So,
- what, she called the cops on me? - No.
She was murdered.
You're lying.
- Come on, we're gonna go down to the... - What are you saying that for?
Rick, we're gonna need to take a look in your van.
Not without a warrant, you won't. I know my rights.
Rex is a detection dog.
His alerts establish reasonable suspicion to search.
- So consider him... - My warrant.
So are you gonna open this or am I?
Suit yourself.
Alright, partner.
What do we have here?
Goody bags? For the kids party favours?
You know, Rex alerted me to one of these earlier at the house.
Oh. Looks like diazepam aka Valium.
You picked up on the residue, huh pal?
Yeah, it looks like you're dealing in more than just princesses.
Rex!
Uhh!
Ughh!
Rick Dobran. You are under arrest
for drug trafficking
and under suspicion for the murder of Stacey Nielsen.
Good job, partner.
You got anything to say yet?
Yeah.
Your dog ruined my favourite pants.
We have you at the scene of the crime
an hour after sending Stacey a death threat.
Care to weigh in?
Oh my...
Look, I get it.
Girlfriend breaks up with you.
Things are said that shouldn't be said.
You go to the house. You wanna sort things out, but she's high.
And things get out of hand. Am I getting warm?
You're in the Arctic freeze.
Stacey never broke up with me.
We were... good.
Then why did she text you that "I don't want to do this anymore?"
What did she not want to do anymore?
Deal.
She didn't want anything to do with the drugs anymore.
And so you threatened her life.
- No! - RIP, Princess?
RIP, her princess gigs.
Look, I was just warning her.
These women would stop hiring her if she stopped dealing.
Wait, are you telling me, that all your Princess for Hire clients
were buying prescription drugs from you?
Most of them, yeah.
I don't think not having a job is as fun as people think it will be.
Gives them too much time to feel guilty for having all that money.
And pill popping is more acceptable than getting day drunk.
Then why aren't they getting their prescriptions from their doctors?
It's not that easy. They don't just hand them out like candy.
Not like they used to. Too many malpractice suits.
Okay. There's got to be an easier ways to score
than throwing a princess party
or paying $65 an hour for an overqualified babysitter.
Look, my clients are parents.
Pillars of the community.
Kids entertainment is about as good of a cover as it gets.
Why were you at the house?
That Melina woman called me pissed.
She didn't get her mama's little helpers.
A public customer complaint from a Karen,
that could kill my business overnight. Trust me.
So...
I drove the Valium over to Melina's princess party myself.
Nice boots.
Take them off.
Come on.
Okay, pal. Hold.
Okay, give.
Ah, you're getting the hang of this, partner.
I'm sorry. The shoe doesn't match the print.
So Rick is not the owner of our glass slipper.
- Ughh. - I dug into Stacey's financials
and she put 65K down on a condo last week.
The deposit was registered to a numbered company.
- That old chestnut. - Yeah.
Smells of drug money.
Rick said that she didn't want anything to do with drugs.
Well the tox report says different.
She had Valium in her system.
Now, I'm still waiting on the full autopsy report
but the medical examiner says she found an anomaly in her brain tissue.
Could be nothing. But she sent that on
to a neuropathologist to investigate further.
You know, it also looks like
Stacey deleted an outgoing phone call
from her call history yesterday.
Wait. Hold on. Hold on.
She deletes the phone call
and then she turned up dead?
Yeah you know, I'll email the cell company
and see if we can get that outgoing number from the cell tower.
Seems like Stacey was keeping secrets for a lot of people.
Where are you thinking of starting?
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing too, partner.
Prince Charming! Good timing! I'm just making some margs.
- May I make you one? - Some what?
Margaritas. It's five o'clock somewhere, as they say.
I'm working.
Oh, well I'm grieving. So I win.
To what do I owe this pleasure?
Well, you failed to mention that you had drugs delivered
to your daughter's super special seventh birthday.
Drugs?
Oh God! I can assure you there are no drugs in this house.
Those? Those don't count. Obviously. They're not like
drugs drugs.
Well, actually they are.
They were illegally obtained. So, I'm gonna confiscate them.
My life is a gong show. I need those.
- Then talk to your doctor. - He's a moron.
Then get a better one.
I'm going through a brutal divorce.
Okay? I need that Valium for my anxiety.
Anyway, I don't think Stacey's death
has anything to do with drugs. I mean...
sex, on the other hand...
- What do you mean? - It was just a joke. She...
- Didn't sound like a joke. - It's just a rumour.
What sounds better? Obstruction of justice
or possession of narcotics?
Fine.
Stacey and Otto have been spending a lot of time together.
- You think they were having an affair? - It's just a rumour.
Can you please forget that I said it?
Because you know what? If this comes out,
it could destroy Otto's business.
And I do not want that.
What's his business?
Otto's built a social media empire
off being a dad.
The Natural Father?
Mm-hmm. And he's a dad influencer.
Chronicles everyday life with his beautiful wife
and three beautiful kids.
- People are really into this? - Oh yeah!
Yeah, two million followers and counting.
Also, look at this.
He has his own Zen smoothie.
It's an herbal elixir mixed with hawthorn leaf
that promises tranquility even when your kids are driving you bananas.
Hmmm. They are really milking this power couple thing.
Yeah, well every image is tailored to sell the perfect marriage.
Which would be shattered if old Otto was found to be having an affair.
- That gives us motive. - Mm-hmm.
Okay, I'm gonna have Charlie and Rex pay old Otto a visit.
- Two more Zen smoothies. - Thank you!
Let's go, pal.
Here, buddy.
Track it.
Detective Hudson!
I knew you'd be by for a smoothie eventually.
No. I'm actually, here to see you.
Oh.
You didn't have to do that for me.
Well I can't say I'm all that stoked
about my brand being associated with murdered princesses.
Stacey's murder has nothing to do with your brand.
- Subliminally. I mean subliminally. - Of course.
I wonder how your fans would feel about Mister Family Man
cheating on his wife with a princess for hire.
I'm not cheating.
Stacey was our babysitter. That's it.
Mm-hmm.
What was your babysitter doing in the back of your truck?
Keep an eye on him. Will you, Rex?
Hey, Sarah.
Good timing. What have you got?
Autopsy report came in.
Stacey's stomach contents show that the Valium
was ingested with hawthorn leaf.
Well, that is very interesting.
Rex just placed Stacey in the back of our hawthorn hocker's truck.
We were just about to have a little chat, actually.
Okay, well then I'll give you some additional talking points.
Stacey was pregnant.
Stacey and I were just friends.
Friends with benefits?
It wasn't like that.
She was in your vehicle
and there's rumours that you two were
pretty secretive about your time together.
It's not what you think.
Okay.
Convince me.
Convince you of what?
You don't think it's possible to have a platonic relationship
with an attractive woman?
Why was she in your vehicle?
- For advice. - About what?
- Health advice. - Then why was it so secretive?
She didn't want people to know about her condition.
Mm-hmm.
Her pregnancy.
- Right? - Yes.
She made me promise not to tell anyone.
So you're saying the baby is not yours?
A, I'm not a cheater. And B, I'm fixed.
You want a DNA sample? I'll give you one.
I'm not the father.
Do you have any idea who is?
She didn't want me to know.
He did come by once to pick her up
after babysitting to go grocery shopping.
How did you know it was him?
Because she acted weird when I asked who it was.
She left without saying goodbye.
I did take a peek out the living room curtain.
But they were already leaving.
- Turning out into the street. - Hmm.
I didn't even hear the car coming up the driveway.
And you never caught a glimpse?
It was silver.
Anything else?
It was clean?
I don't know. I'm not a car guy. Is that a crime?
What time was this was approximately?
Last Thursday. 6-ish.
I'm gonna need your address.
No street CCTV near 234 Oak Street.
- It's deep residential. - It was a silver clean car
that left that address around 6:00 PM
and then went to a grocery store.
Wait, he didn't get a make or model
while peeping on the babysitter?
He said he couldn't hear the car come down the driveway.
Wait, if he didn't hear the car coming, quiet or no motor,
then maybe what we're looking for is an electric vehicle.
- Wait, that's worth a shot. - You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna see if I can source some parking lot surveillance
- from grocery stores near Oak Street. - Yeah, do it.
Hey, I just checked in with Stacey's family and friends
and apparently, no one had a clue that she was pregnant.
I guess they're not gonna know who the father is then.
No.
But I think I do.
Our cell tower dump warrant just came in
and according to Stacey's phone records
on the day that she was murdered,
she made and then deleted a call
to Ron Craw.
Melina's angry ex-husband.
You think that Ron and Stacey were having an affair?
Well it would explain Ron and Melina's volatile relationship.
Yeah, a tryst with the nanny will do it.
Ron said that he was in the washroom at the time of the murder.
Yeah.
But was he?
- Jesse, you wanna bring up that footage? - Yep.
Okay.
Let's see what we've got here.
Stop.
On the right, that's where the downstairs washroom is.
The door is open.
He was never in there.
I guess Ron lied about getting away from his wife.
Then where was he?
I was in my study.
Melina is so damned petty. I can't believe she ratted me out.
Alright, well now's your opportunity to tell your side of the story.
She always hated the painting, okay? Begged me to toss it.
Then she takes it in the divorce settlement just to spite me.
- Sorry, no. - So.
So I broke into my study
which I saw Melina has turned into a meditation room
which is hilarious. She wouldn't recognize self-reflection
if it was chewing on her face.
So you gonna arrest me for robbery?
- Or what's the plan here? - Yeah, I might.
First, I wanna know the nature of your relationship with Stacey.
There was no relationship. I never laid eyes on her before Ivy's party.
Then why did she call you 35 minutes before she was murdered?
My lawyer advises me not to say another word.
- Who's your lawyer? - You're looking at him.
Wow.
That's a really clean car.
Silver, too.
It's sterling.
Everyone I know drives this car.
According to Otto, he picked her up to go grocery shopping.
Well the closest store to Otto's is...
Fine Cuisine Emporium.
Oh.
And...
parking lot surveillance footage just came in.
- There. - Huh?
Right there.
That's the silver car.
That's definitely Stacey getting out of the car.
Let's see if I can get it high res enough
to key out our suspect.
There.
That's not Ron. What's Corbin doing there?
So it seems that Corbin may be the father
of Stacey's unborn child.
If Corbin and Stacey were having an affair
then maybe Elaine found out about it at the party
and pushed Stacey down the stairs in a fit of jealousy.
Gave her extra Valium to make her vulnerable.
Or maybe Corbin had her killed
if she was threatening to tell his wife about the affair.
Yeah, I'm gonna talk to financial crimes
to see if I can tie that 65K
to Corbin that he deposited in Stacey's account.
In the meantime, Charlie, I want you and Rex
- to go and bring them both in. - You got it.
I'm coming.
Always one step ahead.
Elaine, I know this is a delicate subject
but we have reason to believe that your husband
was having an intimate relationship with Stacey.
We had an arrangement.
What kind of arrangement?
Hey.
If you lie to me,
I will charge you with obstruction of justice.
I did not have sexual relations with Stacey Nielsen.
She was deeply important to me.
Corbin loved her too.
There was no affair.
Maybe it was a misunderstanding.
Maybe Elaine saw you and Stacey talking together at that party
misread the whole situation.
My wife wouldn't hurt a fly.
Why didn't you tell us this before?
We have a right to privacy.
You know,
I want my lawyer.
Elaine said that she and Corbin had an open relationship.
But Corbin swears that he never had sexual relations with Stacey.
Okay, so one or both of them are lying.
Hey. So I was sitting with Sophie while waiting.
- She calls Elaine by her first name. - Yeah. She's her stepmom.
Did she say anything about her?
She said she's nice.
But they really weren't kidding about her fixation
with fairytales though.
She's worried that if her Dad and Elaine have a baby
that Elaine will suddenly turn evil.
Just like in Cinderella.
Here, she made me this for me.
It's some sort of woman with
one two three four... seven kids.
These are dwarves.
As in, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Oh boy. That's really obvious now.
- I'd make a really terrible mother. - Oh I would not say that.
If Sophie sought you out,
I'd say that there was a reason for that.
And you know what? Now that I think of it,
Snow White was totally in witness protection in the woods
because her stepmother was trying to kill her.
See, this is why I hate fairytales.
Wicked stepmothers aren't real.
And you don't need a prince for a happily ever after!
Hmm.
Nice of you to join us this morning.
Uh, Rex took forever to get out of the house this morning.
Okay. I took forever to get out of the house this morning.
- What'd I miss? - Well, I confirmed it was Corbin
who put the down payment on Stacey's condo.
Well if this is right
then we need to get Corbin's DNA to see if he's the father.
No, he's never gonna agree to that.
That's okay. I've got a backup plan.
Need I remind you Charlie that warrantless collection
- of DNA is not admissible in court. - Yeah, I know.
But at least it'll prove if we're barking up the right tree.
Am I right? Just a figure of speech though, buddy.
I am gonna need my partner though. So you up for it?
Okay.
Corbin.
What are you doing here?
Well, we know that you helped Stacey buy a condo.
So I need a DNA sample.
Yeah, well you're not getting one without a warrant.
Okay. Well, thank you for your time.
Rex!
Can you...?
Rex, come on, pal.
He's cute and everything. But...
can you get him out of my car?
Rex.
Come on, buddy.
Sorry about that. You know...
- dogs how they love their car rides. - Yeah, it's fine.
Nicely done, partner.
Yeah, this is a gold mine.
Nice work, Rex.
Thanks for coming to me. I wanted you to give this to you right away.
So, I extracted Corbin, Sophie, and Elaine's DNA
- from the car sample. - Is Corbin the father of Stacey's baby?
Yes. He is.
But Stacey is not the mother.
I'm sorry... what?
Yeah, what Joe said.
Elaine was the biological mother
of the baby that Stacey was carrying.
She was a surrogate.
- Yeah. - This is the arrangement
that Elaine was talking about.
So Corbin was telling the truth.
He's the father of the baby but he never slept with her.
No, and there's something else.
Elaine's shoes matched the footwear impression.
Oh. Just like Cinderella.
Yeah, if Cinderella was a murder suspect.
Yes, just like Cinderella.
So what's the motive here?
Why did they work so hard to conceal this?
Well it's illegal to compensate a surrogate in Canada.
The intended parents can be fined big money
and jailed for up to 10 years.
The thing is none of this explains why Stacey
deleted the call to Ron right before she died though.
Yeah, I've got Jesse working on that right now.
- Yeah. - Okay, and I'll push to get the results back
- from Stacey's brain biopsy. - Great.
In the meantime, Charlie, you get Corbin and Elaine in here right away.
It's time to start answering some questions.
Okay.
Where's Elaine?
I told you, I don't know. And she's not answering her phone.
We know that Stacey was a surrogate for you.
Then you also must know that Elaine and I
would never do anything to hurt her if for no other reason
than she was carrying our unborn child.
How did you three get tangled up?
Elaine hired Stacey to babysit Sophie after her miscarriage.
I was out of town and she didn't want Sophie to see her like that.
She and Stacey became friends
after Stacey watched her have another miscarriage
and a stillbirth at 22 weeks.
And then she offered to be a surrogate for us.
And the 65K?
It was a gift.
It made Elaine the happiest woman in the world.
Corbin, we can place Elaine at the scene of the crime.
She didn't do it.
She has no reason to do it.
Since Stacey's death, she's been inconsolable.
It's Elaine.
Put her on speaker.
Elaine, where are you?
I love you so much, Corbin.
Elaine, tell me where you are!
Tell Sophie I love her.
And please..
Take good care of yourselves.
You're gonna be okay.
- Elaine! - I love you both.
Whatever is going on, we can talk this through. Elaine!
Elaine are you there?
Alright baby. Just stay right there, okay?
Elaine!
Jesse, I need you to track Elaine's phone.
We have reason to believe that she might be about to take her own life.
Okay.
Charlie, her signal is too weak to track by GPS.
I think her antenna is damaged.
Corbin said that he and Elaine used to love to walk in Bowring Park.
I could have sworn I heard a clock chime in the background.
Okay, let me see if I can find her
using multi-lateration of radio signals.
Uniforms are taking Corbin into custody.
Sophie's gonna have to stay at the station
- until a family member arrives. - Well, I'll watch her.
Charlie, you were right. I pinpointed her position
within a 1 km radius of Bowring Park.
- I'm sending you the coordinates. - Thanks.
Oh!
Results of Stacey's neuropathology autopsy are finally in.
She had chemical cerebral anoxia.
Her brain was starved of oxygen from a benzodiazepine overdose.
What does that mean?
Well it means she would have already been dead
- before she fell down the stairs. - So Elaine didn't push her.
Okay. I need to find out why
Stacey deleted that phone call to Ron before she died.
I have to say it would have been very challenging
for Stacey to operate a phone during an OD like this.
Are you suggesting that Stacey didn't do it herself?
I am.
- When did she delete that call? - 2:35 PM.
- Time of death? - Approximately 2:30 PM.
It'd be hard to operate a phone when you're dead.
- Very hard. - Who found the body?
Have a seat, Mrs. Rhodes.
Why am I even here?
Well, you saw someone who was murdered
and your first response wasn't to call 911.
It was to check her cell phone
and delete a phone call that she made to your ex-husband.
You can't talk to me like I'm some kind of criminal.
We have you on possession of narcotics,
obstruction of justice, tampering with evidence.
You are a textbook criminal.
Have a seat, Mrs. Rhodes.
Elaine.
You need to step back from the ledge.
I'm gonna come closer and we're gonna talk, okay?
Easy.
- I just want to... - I'll jump if you take another step!
Okay. Okay.
Okay.
Corbin told me about the surrogacy.
I know that you lost a friend.
I know that you lost a child.
I have no idea how that feels.
But I do know that you don't need to go through this alone.
- Elaine. - No.
I'm gonna send Rex in okay?
He's just gonna come say hello.
Easy.
Now why do you think Stacey wanted to talk to your ex-husband?
- How should I know that? - Come on.
You've got to have some kind of hunch, right?
No.
Well, you deleted the phone call.
I just wonder why she wanted to speak to him.
Hmm?
No?
Well according to this,
you were pulled over with your daughter in the car last month.
Yeah. I had a glass of wine at lunch.
Was it served in a salad bowl?
- It was a one-time mistake. - A one-time mistake. Okay.
Your second-time mistake
was when Ivy's school phoned
and said that you neglected to pick her up.
I fell asleep on the couch.
Well, three strikes and you're out.
Right?
Because you do know that you're gonna lose custody of Ivy
when Ron finds out about your prescription drug habit.
I am her mother.
She's supposed to be with me.
Tell Corbin that I love him.
Tell him
that I'm sorry
that I failed as a mother..
- No, you didn't fail. - ...in every way.
You didn't fail.
It's not your fault you had miscarriages.
It's my fault this baby is gone.
How?
Corbin needs you.
Sophie needs you.
The world needs you. Come on.
The world needed Stacey!
And it's my fault that she's not here!
It all happened so fast.
What happened so fast?
I arrived and I saw her stumbling up the stairs.
She seemed drunk or high.
And then she came in and she went off on me.
Denied me service for no reason.
- I'm sorry. Service? - Her delivery service.
Oh, you mean your Valium.
Yes.
Yeah, she said that she thought I needed help
like I'm some kind of druggie and she was gonna snitch on me.
But it's none of her or Ron's business
what I do with my body.
Right.
So you just pushed her down the stairs in order to shut her up.
- I did not push her down the stairs! - No?
What did you do?
- For Stacey. - Thank you!
You drugged her.
I just wanted to discredit her.
So that Ron wouldn't believe what she was gonna tell him.
Even though everything she said was absolutely true.
It didn't sink in,
what I'd done until saw her.
Stay with her!
- Daddy! Daddy! - You just stay right there okay?
Yeah, I've got her.
I'll never forgive myself.
Elaine! Elaine!
Elaine, come away from there!
You don't know what I've done!
You aren't responsible for Stacey's death!
- I don't believe you. - It's true.
Elaine, her heart stopped
before she fell down those stairs. It's not your fault.
We lost another baby.
Then we'll grieve that loss together.
Hey, sweetie.
Are you okay, Mommy?
I'm gonna be! Yeah.
Can we go home now?
Yeah!
Yes.
Elaine!
Ahh!
Okay. Grab my arm.
Ah! Oh!
I've got you.
- Oh, Mommy! - Thank God!
- Are you okay? - I'm so sorry!
We love you, baby.
Melina just pled guilty to criminal negligence causing death.
Ron's been awarded full custody of Ivy for the time being.
What a needless tragedy this all was.
Do you think Elaine and Corbin are gonna be okay?
Yeah, I do.
I'm curious.
How did you know all that stuff about surrogacy?
I've done some research.
If I don't get my fairytale ending,
maybe I'll write my own story.
I think you'd make a great mom.
Thanks.
- Hey! - You're a great dad.
- Huh? - To your fur baby over here.
What do you think, pal?
Do you like being my fur baby?
I think that was a yes?
Yeah.