1 00:00:02,373 --> 00:00:03,842 Previously on Fatal Attraction... 2 00:00:03,842 --> 00:00:06,144 - Hi. - Hold on. 3 00:00:08,413 --> 00:00:09,347 God... 4 00:00:09,347 --> 00:00:12,116 - Beatrice. Here for Kosna? - Oh. Yep. 5 00:00:12,116 --> 00:00:14,185 It's been a while since I've been up against 6 00:00:14,185 --> 00:00:15,987 one of Norman's juries. 7 00:00:15,987 --> 00:00:18,623 I have a thing with Macksey. 8 00:00:18,623 --> 00:00:20,892 - Oh. - Mm. 9 00:00:20,892 --> 00:00:22,894 Okay, so just... Shh. 10 00:00:22,894 --> 00:00:24,195 You ever hear any rumors about Alex? 11 00:00:24,195 --> 00:00:25,897 I did see her on the fifth floor once. 12 00:00:25,897 --> 00:00:27,165 She was arguing with this guy. 13 00:00:27,165 --> 00:00:29,133 I think he was in Legal Aid. 14 00:00:29,133 --> 00:00:31,503 - DAN: What's all this? - The rest of the prints came back. Two more hits. 15 00:00:31,503 --> 00:00:34,606 We now have Olena Kuzma and Elijah Acosta. 16 00:00:34,606 --> 00:00:36,474 MAUREEN: Is there somewhere else Ellen would go? 17 00:00:36,474 --> 00:00:38,076 What do you mean? Did you go to our house? 18 00:00:38,076 --> 00:00:39,577 What is it? What's the matter? 19 00:00:39,577 --> 00:00:41,513 MAUREEN: I'm there now, Dan. I don't see her. 20 00:00:43,481 --> 00:00:44,315 Ellen? 21 00:00:44,315 --> 00:00:45,717 I found her half a block away. 22 00:00:45,717 --> 00:00:48,520 Oh, my God. Ellen, Daddy's not mad at you. 23 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,288 - Dan. Dan! - I just need you to try and remember. 24 00:00:50,288 --> 00:00:51,823 - Did they tell you anything? - You need to calm down. 25 00:00:51,823 --> 00:00:53,458 - Did they tell you where they took you? - Enough! 26 00:00:53,458 --> 00:00:54,459 - Did she tell you who she was? - Come here, baby. 27 00:00:54,459 --> 00:00:55,660 (grunting) 28 00:00:55,660 --> 00:00:57,595 What is wrong with you?! 29 00:00:57,595 --> 00:00:58,997 (grunting) 30 00:00:58,997 --> 00:01:00,365 I don't fucking care anymore. 31 00:01:00,365 --> 00:01:03,201 I'm gonna call in every favor from anyone 32 00:01:03,201 --> 00:01:04,936 who has ever owed me anything 33 00:01:04,936 --> 00:01:06,504 to make sure that you go away. 34 00:01:06,504 --> 00:01:09,240 ♪ ♪ 35 00:01:21,019 --> 00:01:22,921 (indistinct chatter) 36 00:01:27,358 --> 00:01:29,294 (elevator dings) 37 00:01:43,875 --> 00:01:46,244 It's my first day, so I don't know anything. 38 00:01:46,244 --> 00:01:49,080 But am I crazy? Where is 3100? 39 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,049 Uh, yeah, Victim Services? 40 00:01:51,049 --> 00:01:52,684 Other way. 41 00:01:52,684 --> 00:01:54,986 But the sign says that the even numbers are to the right 42 00:01:54,986 --> 00:01:56,421 and the odd numbers are to the left. 43 00:01:56,421 --> 00:01:58,556 Well, if you want to trust signage. 44 00:01:58,556 --> 00:02:01,092 I just know 3100 is to your left. 45 00:02:01,092 --> 00:02:03,161 Because bureaucracy, or...? 46 00:02:03,161 --> 00:02:05,063 Or because confusion weeds out 47 00:02:05,063 --> 00:02:07,098 the people who aren't that motivated in the first place? 48 00:02:07,098 --> 00:02:08,099 Who knows? 49 00:02:08,099 --> 00:02:09,968 (chuckling): Right. 50 00:02:09,968 --> 00:02:11,469 Okay, well, here I go. 51 00:02:11,469 --> 00:02:14,472 I might be shouting out your name to come help me. 52 00:02:14,472 --> 00:02:17,208 Well, I'll still be right here because: these elevators. 53 00:02:17,208 --> 00:02:18,376 What is your name? 54 00:02:18,376 --> 00:02:20,478 Oh, sorry, I'm Clay. 55 00:02:23,648 --> 00:02:25,283 DAN: It sounds dramatic, 56 00:02:25,283 --> 00:02:26,718 but I feel like I have to say it anyway, 57 00:02:26,718 --> 00:02:30,722 without you, there would be no justice. 58 00:02:30,722 --> 00:02:35,193 As a direct result of the actions of the defendant, 59 00:02:35,193 --> 00:02:39,564 a mother of four can't be with us here today. 60 00:02:39,564 --> 00:02:44,202 A grandmother of two, a beloved colleague, 61 00:02:44,202 --> 00:02:47,372 trusted friend, can't be here. 62 00:02:47,372 --> 00:02:50,208 Lucilla Mendes cannot take the stand 63 00:02:50,208 --> 00:02:52,443 and tell you what the defendant did to her, 64 00:02:52,443 --> 00:02:55,647 because he murdered her. 65 00:02:56,447 --> 00:02:59,283 And so since she can't be here, 66 00:02:59,283 --> 00:03:00,652 I am. 67 00:03:00,652 --> 00:03:03,488 To be her voice. 68 00:03:03,488 --> 00:03:06,724 To speak for the actual victim in this crime. 69 00:03:06,724 --> 00:03:10,628 In the hope and the confident belief that ultimately 70 00:03:10,628 --> 00:03:13,798 you will choose to speak for her, too. 71 00:03:15,099 --> 00:03:17,869 Second time in two weeks I heard him do "voice of the victim." 72 00:03:17,869 --> 00:03:22,040 Can't even be bothered to write new material. 73 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:23,641 Must be nice. 74 00:03:23,641 --> 00:03:26,010 Don't give me that look. I'm mad at you, too. 75 00:03:26,010 --> 00:03:30,381 So, there you go. Everybody's mad at everybody. 76 00:03:30,381 --> 00:03:32,283 Oh, hi. I'm Emma. 77 00:03:32,283 --> 00:03:33,384 I live here. 78 00:03:33,384 --> 00:03:35,353 If you need anything whenever, 79 00:03:35,353 --> 00:03:37,255 just feel free to knock. 80 00:03:37,255 --> 00:03:39,190 Thank you. Um, I'm Alex. 81 00:03:39,190 --> 00:03:42,160 - Hi. - I need them to fix the elevator. 82 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,028 Oh, I know. It's so temperamental. 83 00:03:44,028 --> 00:03:46,798 I've just taught myself to live without it. 84 00:03:46,798 --> 00:03:47,965 You've met Luis? 85 00:03:47,965 --> 00:03:49,834 The super? Mm. Yeah. 86 00:03:49,834 --> 00:03:51,402 Anything else about the building, 87 00:03:51,402 --> 00:03:54,105 or your unit, he can help you. 88 00:03:54,105 --> 00:03:55,707 Just... not the elevator? 89 00:03:55,707 --> 00:03:58,776 Just not that, that its own thing. 90 00:03:58,776 --> 00:04:00,144 Oh, detergent? 91 00:04:00,144 --> 00:04:01,612 Does he have detergent? 92 00:04:01,612 --> 00:04:03,815 No, no, no, could-- Do you have any detergent 93 00:04:03,815 --> 00:04:04,816 that I could borrow? 94 00:04:04,816 --> 00:04:06,951 Oh, do I? (laughs) 95 00:04:06,951 --> 00:04:08,820 I absolutely do, sorry. 96 00:04:08,820 --> 00:04:11,255 Would you like me to bring some over? 97 00:04:11,255 --> 00:04:13,224 - No, I can... - Oh. Oh, great. 98 00:04:13,224 --> 00:04:14,392 Yeah. Oh... 99 00:04:14,392 --> 00:04:17,095 Are you allergic to cats or dogs? 100 00:04:17,095 --> 00:04:18,830 You have cats and dogs? 101 00:04:18,830 --> 00:04:21,299 No, but if you're not allergic to them, 102 00:04:21,299 --> 00:04:24,402 you won't be to rabbits either. 103 00:04:24,402 --> 00:04:26,871 Come here. Come here. 104 00:04:26,871 --> 00:04:27,972 (laughs) 105 00:04:27,972 --> 00:04:30,274 This is Eddie Rabbitt. 106 00:04:30,274 --> 00:04:32,343 You're not old enough to know who that is. 107 00:04:32,343 --> 00:04:35,747 No, I-I definitely am. The, um... 108 00:04:35,747 --> 00:04:38,616 ♪ Oh, I'm drivin' my life away ♪ 109 00:04:38,616 --> 00:04:40,551 ♪ Lookin' for a better way. ♪ 110 00:04:40,551 --> 00:04:42,186 - Yeah. - (both laughing) 111 00:04:42,186 --> 00:04:43,688 Exactly. 112 00:04:43,688 --> 00:04:45,556 Oh, do you need fabric softener? 113 00:04:45,556 --> 00:04:47,825 - No, that I am allergic to. - Okay. 114 00:04:47,825 --> 00:04:49,627 Well, come on in. 115 00:04:50,595 --> 00:04:52,697 - He wanted someone to talk at. - Mm. 116 00:04:52,697 --> 00:04:54,866 Just coked out of his mind. 117 00:04:54,866 --> 00:04:57,602 And then my other housemate was a health nut 118 00:04:57,602 --> 00:04:59,537 who used to go through my groceries 119 00:04:59,537 --> 00:05:01,239 and throw away stuff because it was bad for me. 120 00:05:01,239 --> 00:05:02,540 - No. - Mm-hmm. 121 00:05:02,540 --> 00:05:04,442 - No. - (laughing) 122 00:05:04,442 --> 00:05:06,811 I only didn't live alone once and that, I mean, 123 00:05:06,811 --> 00:05:10,915 all three of my housemates, kind of slobs, 124 00:05:10,915 --> 00:05:12,083 very gossipy, 125 00:05:12,083 --> 00:05:14,418 so I tried not to be home a lot. 126 00:05:14,418 --> 00:05:15,753 I don't blame you. 127 00:05:15,753 --> 00:05:17,622 Yeah, and then one of them, 128 00:05:17,622 --> 00:05:20,091 her mom actually bought the house and put it in her name. 129 00:05:20,091 --> 00:05:23,361 Because I guess it made more sense for her to... 130 00:05:23,361 --> 00:05:25,696 get a mortgage and charge rent than to... 131 00:05:25,696 --> 00:05:28,399 pay rent, so she was actually our landlord. 132 00:05:28,399 --> 00:05:30,234 - Oh. - Yeah. 133 00:05:30,234 --> 00:05:31,335 And then when I dropped out, 134 00:05:31,335 --> 00:05:32,537 she made this whole federal case 135 00:05:32,537 --> 00:05:33,704 about how I was breaking the lease 136 00:05:33,704 --> 00:05:35,206 and I needed to honor it 137 00:05:35,206 --> 00:05:36,774 even though the whole reason why I was living there 138 00:05:36,774 --> 00:05:39,076 in the first place was to go to school. 139 00:05:39,076 --> 00:05:40,912 So... 140 00:05:40,912 --> 00:05:42,547 I... 141 00:05:42,547 --> 00:05:44,916 invoked the city brothel law, 142 00:05:44,916 --> 00:05:48,286 which then made all three of our tenancies 143 00:05:48,286 --> 00:05:51,589 illegal technically because you can't have four persons 144 00:05:51,589 --> 00:05:54,258 living under the same roof, unrelated persons. 145 00:05:54,258 --> 00:05:55,660 Hmm. 146 00:05:55,660 --> 00:05:58,429 You dropped out of law school? 147 00:05:58,429 --> 00:06:01,566 I thought you said you graduated. 148 00:06:03,467 --> 00:06:06,003 Did I? So? I mean, you didn't even go. 149 00:06:08,272 --> 00:06:09,807 I know. 150 00:06:09,807 --> 00:06:11,475 - I'm not saying I care. - Good. 151 00:06:11,475 --> 00:06:12,643 Because why would you care? 152 00:06:12,643 --> 00:06:15,646 It's, like, none of your business. 153 00:06:18,115 --> 00:06:20,251 It really isn't. 154 00:06:28,492 --> 00:06:31,729 My mother still doesn't understand 155 00:06:31,729 --> 00:06:33,664 how they let me work in Legal Aid 156 00:06:33,664 --> 00:06:35,433 even though I'm not a lawyer. 157 00:06:35,433 --> 00:06:38,236 She also doesn't know what a clerk does. 158 00:06:38,236 --> 00:06:39,570 But because I'm a clerk, 159 00:06:39,570 --> 00:06:42,907 she assumes it must be something stupid. 160 00:06:45,243 --> 00:06:48,779 And maintenance had been screwing around with whatever 161 00:06:48,779 --> 00:06:51,682 electrical problem above the wall in the landing, 162 00:06:51,682 --> 00:06:53,985 for like a month, so I thought they would notice 163 00:06:53,985 --> 00:06:57,855 the fire door was broken and fix it, but... 164 00:06:57,855 --> 00:06:59,724 I mean, in retrospect, I don't even know 165 00:06:59,724 --> 00:07:02,093 what I was worried about. 166 00:07:02,093 --> 00:07:04,829 Anyway, uh... 167 00:07:04,829 --> 00:07:05,963 (chuckles) 168 00:07:07,865 --> 00:07:10,568 How great is that, right? 169 00:07:10,568 --> 00:07:14,038 For returning to like... 170 00:07:14,038 --> 00:07:16,641 mental factory settings. 171 00:07:17,441 --> 00:07:18,676 It's so much from up here. 172 00:07:18,676 --> 00:07:22,480 You can see so much of it all at once. 173 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,216 It makes you realize... 174 00:07:25,216 --> 00:07:26,684 whatever's bothering you, 175 00:07:26,684 --> 00:07:29,320 you just have to let it go. 176 00:07:33,391 --> 00:07:34,659 Alex? 177 00:07:53,511 --> 00:07:55,479 Oh, hi, hon. 178 00:07:55,479 --> 00:07:57,348 I just got your note. 179 00:07:57,348 --> 00:07:58,849 I wasn't here. 180 00:07:58,849 --> 00:08:01,519 I was visiting my daughter, the one in Vallejo. 181 00:08:01,519 --> 00:08:03,354 I don't need to know where you were. 182 00:08:03,354 --> 00:08:05,890 Hey. How about dinner later? 183 00:08:05,890 --> 00:08:07,491 I know you love enchiladas. 184 00:08:07,491 --> 00:08:09,894 And I'm on my way to the market. 185 00:08:10,628 --> 00:08:12,730 Okay... 186 00:08:14,165 --> 00:08:16,934 But... are you all right, though? 187 00:08:16,934 --> 00:08:19,437 Your note said you wanted to talk. 188 00:08:19,437 --> 00:08:22,673 Did whatever it was work itself out? 189 00:08:23,808 --> 00:08:27,678 You know, Joanne is in her third trimester, 190 00:08:27,678 --> 00:08:29,680 with a toddler, 191 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,450 so when she calls for reinforcements, 192 00:08:32,450 --> 00:08:34,318 Mom has to answer. 193 00:08:34,318 --> 00:08:35,953 But I'm... 194 00:08:35,953 --> 00:08:38,622 really sorry I wasn't here if you needed me. 195 00:08:38,622 --> 00:08:40,891 I don't care what you are. 196 00:08:40,891 --> 00:08:43,427 I don't care about you. 197 00:08:43,427 --> 00:08:45,196 At all. 198 00:08:48,299 --> 00:08:50,001 (door slams) 199 00:08:52,169 --> 00:08:53,871 - (distant siren wailing) - (music playing faintly) 200 00:08:53,871 --> 00:08:56,540 CLAY: Okay, and then it's gonna be two other teaspoons 201 00:08:56,540 --> 00:08:58,876 of sesame seeds... 202 00:08:58,876 --> 00:09:01,012 Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's-- You're not done. 203 00:09:01,012 --> 00:09:02,580 Well, the recipe says two cloves. 204 00:09:02,580 --> 00:09:04,815 Yeah, two. That means like eight for me. 205 00:09:04,815 --> 00:09:07,685 And it says to mince it. This is... 206 00:09:07,685 --> 00:09:09,787 I don't even know what this is. 207 00:09:09,787 --> 00:09:14,258 Mincing is small... It's like little, tiny pieces. 208 00:09:14,258 --> 00:09:16,427 - Oh. - Yeah. See? 209 00:09:16,427 --> 00:09:18,295 Way smaller than that. 210 00:09:18,295 --> 00:09:19,830 - Okay. - Okay? 211 00:09:19,830 --> 00:09:23,968 (laughs) And I don't do measured teaspoons, by the way. 212 00:09:23,968 --> 00:09:27,138 Spices, I just like scoop it. 213 00:09:27,138 --> 00:09:30,041 Like, even the cayenne. Just, you scoop it. 214 00:09:30,041 --> 00:09:32,176 If you're gonna season something, you season it, right? 215 00:09:32,176 --> 00:09:34,812 You got to remind yourself that you're alive. 216 00:09:34,812 --> 00:09:36,447 Don't make that face. Don't. 217 00:09:36,447 --> 00:09:38,649 I know that you-- You say you don't like spicy things, 218 00:09:38,649 --> 00:09:40,918 I know that you do. Remember the-the... 219 00:09:40,918 --> 00:09:42,920 curry, the Thai beef curry thing? 220 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,756 I remember all the openings in my face exploding. 221 00:09:45,756 --> 00:09:46,991 Okay, well, good. 222 00:09:46,991 --> 00:09:48,459 Because that's kind of the point. 223 00:09:48,459 --> 00:09:51,295 (laughter) 224 00:09:51,295 --> 00:09:53,964 (chopping) 225 00:09:54,765 --> 00:09:57,401 ♪ She cries your name ♪ 226 00:09:57,401 --> 00:10:00,204 ♪ ♪ 227 00:10:00,204 --> 00:10:01,872 Do you remember what else happened 228 00:10:01,872 --> 00:10:04,809 the night we got the Thai food? 229 00:10:06,277 --> 00:10:07,778 I mean... 230 00:10:07,778 --> 00:10:09,980 I remember how you don't say anything 231 00:10:09,980 --> 00:10:12,783 about anything when it's supposedly actually happening. 232 00:10:12,783 --> 00:10:15,886 Because you like to stew and then twist it around 233 00:10:15,886 --> 00:10:18,089 and then blindside me with all the crazy shit 234 00:10:18,089 --> 00:10:20,558 that I apparently said and did, which I guess 235 00:10:20,558 --> 00:10:22,793 we're about to do right now, so... 236 00:10:22,793 --> 00:10:23,794 - Alex. - ...go for it. 237 00:10:23,794 --> 00:10:25,162 What? What? Let me guess. 238 00:10:25,162 --> 00:10:26,964 It reminds you of growing up in your house 239 00:10:26,964 --> 00:10:29,033 when you were a kid, right? 240 00:10:30,301 --> 00:10:31,569 I've never said that. 241 00:10:31,569 --> 00:10:33,070 Okay, fine, you haven't used those exact words, but y... 242 00:10:33,070 --> 00:10:37,174 But maybe, maybe I am saying it now. 243 00:10:38,742 --> 00:10:42,480 My mom's been so unhappy my whole life. 244 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,515 Torment is the word. 245 00:10:44,515 --> 00:10:47,918 So afraid of being wrong, 246 00:10:47,918 --> 00:10:50,421 people judging her, leaving her. 247 00:10:51,455 --> 00:10:55,126 And so angry about being afraid. 248 00:10:56,427 --> 00:10:57,928 And it's hopeless. 249 00:10:57,928 --> 00:11:00,731 She'll never get help now. 250 00:11:00,731 --> 00:11:02,900 Because feeling better now 251 00:11:02,900 --> 00:11:06,137 after all this time, or even different... 252 00:11:06,137 --> 00:11:09,640 would be like an indictment of her entire life. 253 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,476 ♪ Three times again... ♪ 254 00:11:14,278 --> 00:11:16,147 And... 255 00:11:16,147 --> 00:11:18,582 Alex, it would hurt me a lot, 256 00:11:18,582 --> 00:11:22,520 but to help you... 257 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,856 Alex, I would give up... 258 00:11:25,856 --> 00:11:28,092 whatever we are to each other 259 00:11:28,092 --> 00:11:30,094 for you not to be in pain. 260 00:11:31,562 --> 00:11:33,564 We're nothing. 261 00:11:34,798 --> 00:11:37,034 ♪ ♪ 262 00:11:39,670 --> 00:11:42,540 Okay, okay, then whatever we could be. 263 00:11:42,540 --> 00:11:43,774 Nothing! 264 00:11:43,774 --> 00:11:45,176 We're nothing! 265 00:11:45,176 --> 00:11:48,445 We're nothing. We are nothing. 266 00:11:48,445 --> 00:11:50,281 Get out. 267 00:11:51,282 --> 00:11:52,049 Get out. 268 00:11:52,049 --> 00:11:54,084 - Okay. Okay, okay. - Go! 269 00:12:08,032 --> 00:12:09,200 Yeah. This is fine. 270 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,168 And now that I got my work phone, 271 00:12:11,168 --> 00:12:12,903 I can just call myself an Uber, 272 00:12:12,903 --> 00:12:13,938 don't even have to carry it all on the bus. 273 00:12:13,938 --> 00:12:16,140 All right. But you have to go 274 00:12:16,140 --> 00:12:17,675 to the one down on Barrington. 275 00:12:17,675 --> 00:12:19,877 You can't go to close Ralph's. 276 00:12:19,877 --> 00:12:21,412 It's not big enough. 277 00:12:21,412 --> 00:12:23,347 And you can't count on it having everything that you want. 278 00:12:23,347 --> 00:12:25,316 Speaking from experience, sounds like. 279 00:12:25,316 --> 00:12:28,185 Well, just if you don't get the good kind of rice cracker mix 280 00:12:28,185 --> 00:12:29,787 and the right brand of tonic water, 281 00:12:29,787 --> 00:12:33,457 she and her pinochle pals will tear you apart. 282 00:12:34,858 --> 00:12:36,794 All right, let me double-check your list. 283 00:12:36,794 --> 00:12:38,929 Okay, if this gets too complicated for you, 284 00:12:38,929 --> 00:12:40,664 I can go tomorrow. Just if we don't get down 285 00:12:40,664 --> 00:12:41,865 to the court clerk today, 286 00:12:41,865 --> 00:12:42,766 we're gonna have to wait until after Dawn 287 00:12:42,766 --> 00:12:44,034 gets back from vacation. 288 00:12:44,034 --> 00:12:45,736 Anyone can get us whatever we want 289 00:12:45,736 --> 00:12:49,840 on Olena Kuzma, but we need Dawn to help us with Elijah. 290 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,109 We got a mugshot, no rap sheet. 291 00:12:52,109 --> 00:12:53,877 Somebody with actual access, 292 00:12:53,877 --> 00:12:55,012 they're gonna have to fucking dig. 293 00:12:55,012 --> 00:12:56,213 And what about Benny's guy? 294 00:12:56,213 --> 00:12:58,082 The one he saw arguing with Alex? 295 00:12:58,082 --> 00:13:00,684 Biff, Smith, Cliff from Legal Aid? 296 00:13:00,684 --> 00:13:01,785 There could be a relationship there. 297 00:13:01,785 --> 00:13:02,786 Something went bad... 298 00:13:02,786 --> 00:13:04,321 Yeah, I-- Am I gonna bet 299 00:13:04,321 --> 00:13:05,923 the farm on Benny Diaz's memory 300 00:13:05,923 --> 00:13:09,360 15 years after the fact? Eh, eh, ah, I don't know. 301 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,762 - If I have time. - You just don't want to go to Legal Aid. 302 00:13:11,762 --> 00:13:13,330 (stammering, chuckling) 303 00:13:14,265 --> 00:13:15,699 Does Ruth Gurian still work there? 304 00:13:15,699 --> 00:13:17,268 Ah... 305 00:13:17,268 --> 00:13:19,003 Holy shit, Mike. 306 00:13:19,003 --> 00:13:21,839 Yes, because giant tortoises live for 300 years. Fuck. 307 00:13:21,839 --> 00:13:23,474 We don't have to relitigate 308 00:13:23,474 --> 00:13:25,643 the history between Legal Aid and the police department, 309 00:13:25,643 --> 00:13:29,213 all we need is for you to go ask your good friend Ruth 310 00:13:29,213 --> 00:13:32,283 if she remembers a tall, white khaki 311 00:13:32,283 --> 00:13:34,585 named Biff Smithcliff who used to work there. 312 00:13:34,585 --> 00:13:36,120 - Ah. - And don't worry. 313 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:37,721 She's not gonna eat all of you. 314 00:13:37,721 --> 00:13:39,156 She'll leave the bones. 315 00:13:39,156 --> 00:13:41,792 Well, all you have to do is get the sesame sticks, 316 00:13:41,792 --> 00:13:43,494 and try not to get arrested. 317 00:13:43,494 --> 00:13:45,396 Thank you. 318 00:13:46,797 --> 00:13:49,500 Tell Ruth I said hi. 319 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:51,635 ♪ ♪ 320 00:13:56,940 --> 00:13:59,910 Hey. How's it going? 321 00:13:59,910 --> 00:14:01,679 Quick question... 322 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:03,380 Don't talk to him, Anthony. 323 00:14:03,380 --> 00:14:04,548 Well, hi, Ruth. 324 00:14:04,548 --> 00:14:07,017 You were hoping I wouldn't be here, I bet. 325 00:14:07,017 --> 00:14:09,153 Well, I was, but really, where else would you be? 326 00:14:09,153 --> 00:14:12,189 Oh, you mean because I have no life? 327 00:14:12,189 --> 00:14:16,226 - Your knives need sharpening, shithead. - Mm. 328 00:14:16,226 --> 00:14:17,628 And, yeah, they're gonna have to carry me out of here, 329 00:14:17,628 --> 00:14:19,463 but they ran you out of here on a rail, right? 330 00:14:19,463 --> 00:14:21,832 Had to jump before you got pushed? 331 00:14:21,832 --> 00:14:24,001 "Sometimes there's God so quickly." 332 00:14:24,001 --> 00:14:25,235 Now how it happened, Anthony. 333 00:14:25,235 --> 00:14:28,105 Mike was Robbery-Homicide. 334 00:14:28,105 --> 00:14:31,175 After that, he ran Investigations Bureau. 335 00:14:31,175 --> 00:14:33,277 We all spent a lot of hours 336 00:14:33,277 --> 00:14:37,147 here mongoosing against your cobra ass back in the day. 337 00:14:37,147 --> 00:14:39,783 Why he is not off with his cronies 338 00:14:39,783 --> 00:14:44,054 goose-stepping in Northern Idaho now, I do not know. 339 00:14:44,054 --> 00:14:46,457 I just know that whatever he's asking for 340 00:14:46,457 --> 00:14:50,728 from anyone in this office he doesn't get. 341 00:14:51,962 --> 00:14:54,665 Ruth, hey, 15 years ago, 342 00:14:54,665 --> 00:14:57,901 there was a guy working here, Cliff or Smith. 343 00:14:57,901 --> 00:14:59,203 Something like that. 344 00:14:59,203 --> 00:15:02,506 In this office, 2008. Possibly a Biff. 345 00:15:02,506 --> 00:15:05,075 - The fuck is a Biff? - Okay, this has been terrific... 346 00:15:05,075 --> 00:15:07,911 I mean, do you hear yourself? 347 00:15:07,911 --> 00:15:09,947 Fuck off, Baconator. 348 00:15:09,947 --> 00:15:12,549 Thank you for your time. 349 00:15:12,549 --> 00:15:13,751 Lovely. 350 00:15:14,918 --> 00:15:16,587 Good luck, bud. 351 00:15:19,857 --> 00:15:22,559 GABRIEL: This like a "one day at a time" kind of thing? 352 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:25,028 COURT OFFICER: Well, they just call me in when they need me. 353 00:15:25,028 --> 00:15:26,296 That's not a bad gig. All right, man. 354 00:15:26,296 --> 00:15:27,765 - Good to see you. - All right, you too. 355 00:15:27,765 --> 00:15:29,500 Take care. 356 00:15:32,002 --> 00:15:33,337 What's this now? 357 00:15:33,337 --> 00:15:35,873 What? I can't ask how it's going? 358 00:15:35,873 --> 00:15:37,474 Oh, sure, you can. 359 00:15:37,474 --> 00:15:39,676 But since your BFF was just here trying to jam me up, 360 00:15:39,676 --> 00:15:42,212 what are the odds you came by to say fucking hi 361 00:15:42,212 --> 00:15:43,547 after however many years? 362 00:15:43,547 --> 00:15:45,182 Tell me I'm wrong. 363 00:15:45,182 --> 00:15:47,151 I'm just playing catch-up here, okay? 364 00:15:47,151 --> 00:15:48,519 Whatever you two are up to, 365 00:15:48,519 --> 00:15:50,020 you better leave me out of that shit. 366 00:15:50,020 --> 00:15:51,555 But I'm not sure how Dan presented this... 367 00:15:51,555 --> 00:15:54,425 Say anything else, I'm gonna think you didn't hear me. 368 00:15:55,793 --> 00:15:58,195 Sorry for the misunderstanding. 369 00:16:05,969 --> 00:16:08,205 (muffled thudding) 370 00:16:19,817 --> 00:16:22,719 ♪ ♪ 371 00:16:22,719 --> 00:16:24,188 (door opens) 372 00:16:24,188 --> 00:16:26,690 DAN: And you'll have to do it yourself. 373 00:16:26,690 --> 00:16:27,858 (door slams) 374 00:16:49,847 --> 00:16:52,115 ♪ ♪ 375 00:17:05,996 --> 00:17:08,265 ♪ ♪ 376 00:17:57,247 --> 00:17:58,515 I still stayed up to watch the end. 377 00:17:58,515 --> 00:18:00,350 Again, I can't say it doesn't hold up. 378 00:18:00,350 --> 00:18:01,919 Well, I'm not saying that, 379 00:18:01,919 --> 00:18:04,087 I'm saying Hollywood never gets that these officers 380 00:18:04,087 --> 00:18:05,556 would all be young fucking guys. 381 00:18:05,556 --> 00:18:07,324 Right? They got to make it to the end of fields 382 00:18:07,324 --> 00:18:09,393 full of snipers, climb, you know, hundred-foot cliffs, 383 00:18:09,393 --> 00:18:11,662 and that's before you even engage with the goddamn enemy. 384 00:18:11,662 --> 00:18:14,464 Right? You know, a 45-year-old guy gets a load of that shit, 385 00:18:14,464 --> 00:18:16,266 he got to lie down first. 386 00:18:16,266 --> 00:18:18,201 - Hey. - Earl. 387 00:18:18,201 --> 00:18:19,803 Thank Christ. 388 00:18:19,803 --> 00:18:22,272 I was starting to worry RHD was gonna punt on this one. 389 00:18:22,272 --> 00:18:23,340 Here you go, pal. 390 00:18:23,340 --> 00:18:24,841 Where's the body? 391 00:18:24,841 --> 00:18:26,810 MULLINS: I don't know. Started out as a wellness check, 392 00:18:26,810 --> 00:18:29,713 then they found this, what you see here. 393 00:18:29,713 --> 00:18:32,182 Super says the tenant's a lady named Forrest. 394 00:18:32,182 --> 00:18:33,717 That stuff there I just gave you, 395 00:18:33,717 --> 00:18:36,420 seems like she does something for the DA's office. 396 00:18:37,387 --> 00:18:39,690 No body, no weapon, lots of blood. 397 00:18:39,690 --> 00:18:40,891 This potato is hot. 398 00:18:40,891 --> 00:18:41,892 - All right. - All right. 399 00:18:41,892 --> 00:18:43,961 - Have fun. - Mm-hmm. 400 00:18:46,063 --> 00:18:47,331 (line ringing) 401 00:18:47,331 --> 00:18:48,231 CINDY: District attorney's office, 402 00:18:48,231 --> 00:18:49,266 human resources. 403 00:18:49,266 --> 00:18:51,468 Hey, Cindy, it's Earl. 404 00:18:51,468 --> 00:18:52,903 Hey, you guys pick a school yet or what? 405 00:18:52,903 --> 00:18:54,571 While we wait for USC 406 00:18:54,571 --> 00:18:56,206 we're pretending we're gonna let him go to Florida. 407 00:18:56,206 --> 00:18:57,774 Oof. That's a dangerous game you're playing. 408 00:18:57,774 --> 00:19:00,277 Hey, can you check if you guys got someone working there 409 00:19:00,277 --> 00:19:02,346 named, uh, Alexandra Forrest? 410 00:19:02,346 --> 00:19:04,014 Checking. 411 00:19:04,014 --> 00:19:06,083 - Yeah, Victim Services. - Hmm. 412 00:19:06,083 --> 00:19:07,384 Picture to start? 413 00:19:07,384 --> 00:19:09,186 - Send you a screenshot now. - My girl. 414 00:19:09,186 --> 00:19:10,287 Fight On To Victory, Cindy Lou. 415 00:19:10,287 --> 00:19:11,989 (laughing) 416 00:19:11,989 --> 00:19:12,990 Hey. 417 00:19:12,990 --> 00:19:14,524 - Your dad serve? - Marines. 418 00:19:14,524 --> 00:19:17,628 Yeah. Army. Mine was a lieutenant, he was like 23. 419 00:19:17,628 --> 00:19:19,429 You know, you just got all these movies with these 420 00:19:19,429 --> 00:19:21,531 Tom Hankses and goddamn Sizemores playing the captains 421 00:19:21,531 --> 00:19:23,266 and sergeants when in reality they'd be like, 422 00:19:23,266 --> 00:19:25,535 "What are all these old fucking people doing on this bridge?" 423 00:19:25,535 --> 00:19:27,037 That's what I'm saying. 424 00:19:27,037 --> 00:19:30,273 - (chuckles) - (phone chimes) 425 00:19:31,642 --> 00:19:33,810 MIKE: I'm waiting to go to grand jury still, I can't leave. 426 00:19:33,810 --> 00:19:36,079 I'm gonna come pull you out. We got to get on this. 427 00:19:36,079 --> 00:19:37,514 No, I'm-- How's that gonna look? 428 00:19:37,514 --> 00:19:39,149 Just stay focused, we need to lay out 429 00:19:39,149 --> 00:19:40,317 a pretty precise timeline for the Feds. 430 00:19:40,317 --> 00:19:41,618 Just think about that. 431 00:19:41,618 --> 00:19:43,453 You have someone specific we can go to? 432 00:19:43,453 --> 00:19:45,656 Schiller. Former New York guy. 433 00:19:45,656 --> 00:19:47,491 About as normal as they come in the Bureau. 434 00:19:47,491 --> 00:19:49,059 - You think he'll bite? - Yeah. 435 00:19:49,059 --> 00:19:51,528 One thing those jarheads love is kid kidnappings. 436 00:19:51,528 --> 00:19:53,664 Just sit tight. We'll turn the tide. 437 00:19:53,664 --> 00:19:56,066 See you as soon as I'm done. 438 00:19:59,269 --> 00:20:00,237 (door opening) 439 00:20:00,237 --> 00:20:02,005 Hey. 440 00:20:02,005 --> 00:20:03,473 We've, uh... 441 00:20:03,473 --> 00:20:06,376 We have got a situation, okay? 442 00:20:06,376 --> 00:20:08,945 A woman named, uh, Alexandra Forrest, 443 00:20:08,945 --> 00:20:11,014 she's saying that you assaulted her last night. 444 00:20:11,014 --> 00:20:13,216 What? 445 00:20:13,216 --> 00:20:14,618 What does that even mean? 446 00:20:14,618 --> 00:20:16,153 Hey, look, first off, we're good. 447 00:20:16,153 --> 00:20:18,422 Okay? She made the complaint over the phone to Carmen, 448 00:20:18,422 --> 00:20:19,823 Carmen knows that I know you, 449 00:20:19,823 --> 00:20:21,958 so she gave me a heads-up and I pulled it. 450 00:20:21,958 --> 00:20:24,327 So, that's where we're starting. 451 00:20:25,762 --> 00:20:26,897 Thank you, Earl. 452 00:20:26,897 --> 00:20:29,132 Yeah, but we still got to get in front of it. 453 00:20:29,132 --> 00:20:31,401 This ain't the old days where you could just tear it up 454 00:20:31,401 --> 00:20:33,403 and put it in the circular file, right? 455 00:20:33,403 --> 00:20:35,605 You got to... You got to give me something. 456 00:20:35,605 --> 00:20:38,675 Anything solid to make this go away. 457 00:20:42,679 --> 00:20:44,614 (sighs) 458 00:20:47,884 --> 00:20:49,820 She's a stalker. 459 00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:52,122 If that's what you mean. 460 00:20:54,091 --> 00:20:56,359 Conchita put her on a couple of my cases. 461 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:58,662 And then she just became... 462 00:20:59,596 --> 00:21:01,298 I mean, obsessed is the only word. 463 00:21:01,298 --> 00:21:02,966 She was up here all the time. 464 00:21:02,966 --> 00:21:04,701 She followed me down into the garage once. 465 00:21:04,701 --> 00:21:06,870 Crazy shit like that. I mean... 466 00:21:06,870 --> 00:21:08,772 It got to the point where I was ducking and covering 467 00:21:08,772 --> 00:21:10,741 all over the building just to be able to do my job. 468 00:21:10,741 --> 00:21:13,376 Jesus. Y-You make a report of her? 469 00:21:13,376 --> 00:21:15,345 Just... nutcase insurance? 470 00:21:15,345 --> 00:21:17,481 I thought about it, but... 471 00:21:17,481 --> 00:21:20,617 Ultimately, I didn't, I... (sighs) 472 00:21:20,617 --> 00:21:22,586 You know what a gossip mill this building is. 473 00:21:22,586 --> 00:21:24,588 A-And I was hoping that she would just come to her senses. 474 00:21:24,588 --> 00:21:26,189 You know, I didn't want to end her career. 475 00:21:26,189 --> 00:21:27,424 But now with this... 476 00:21:27,424 --> 00:21:29,259 Well, no good deed unpunished, huh? 477 00:21:29,259 --> 00:21:30,393 Yeah. Right? 478 00:21:30,393 --> 00:21:31,394 What a fucking mess. 479 00:21:31,394 --> 00:21:33,463 Well, uh, the good news is, 480 00:21:33,463 --> 00:21:35,866 uh, her complaint was pretty specific. 481 00:21:35,866 --> 00:21:37,467 You showed up at her place last night, 482 00:21:37,467 --> 00:21:39,703 you came in, you assaulted her. 483 00:21:41,138 --> 00:21:43,974 But till last night, where you really were was... 484 00:21:45,242 --> 00:21:46,843 At home, with my family. 485 00:21:46,843 --> 00:21:48,712 Yeah. (sniffs) 486 00:21:48,712 --> 00:21:50,814 This woman needs help, Earl. 487 00:21:50,814 --> 00:21:54,417 It's... It'd be sad if it wasn't so terrifying 488 00:21:54,417 --> 00:21:55,585 how delusional she is. 489 00:21:55,585 --> 00:21:57,988 I don't even know where she lives. 490 00:22:07,430 --> 00:22:09,666 This... 491 00:22:10,667 --> 00:22:12,936 ...is some messy shit. 492 00:22:14,271 --> 00:22:16,773 Yeah, obviously. 493 00:22:19,242 --> 00:22:20,677 But she's lying. 494 00:22:20,677 --> 00:22:24,047 So, just let me know what else you need from me. 495 00:22:26,349 --> 00:22:28,451 Yeah, I need to... 496 00:22:28,451 --> 00:22:30,020 figure out what to do about how your prints 497 00:22:30,020 --> 00:22:33,623 are all over her place, you don't even know where it is. 498 00:22:33,623 --> 00:22:35,859 All over a bathroom sink, 499 00:22:35,859 --> 00:22:39,496 kitchen, bedframe, that you say you've never seen. 500 00:22:39,496 --> 00:22:41,665 It's a fucking conundrum. 501 00:22:42,799 --> 00:22:43,767 Or is it? 502 00:22:43,767 --> 00:22:46,636 She is a fucking psycho, Earl. 503 00:22:46,636 --> 00:22:48,605 You go brace her, I promise you her story won't hold up. 504 00:22:48,605 --> 00:22:51,441 Just talk to her for ten minutes and you will understand. 505 00:22:51,441 --> 00:22:53,743 I would if I could, but she's dead. 506 00:22:55,946 --> 00:22:57,514 What? 507 00:23:05,388 --> 00:23:06,523 Where is the body? 508 00:23:06,523 --> 00:23:08,825 I was hoping you would tell me. 509 00:23:11,027 --> 00:23:13,263 Earl, you don't know the kind of person 510 00:23:13,263 --> 00:23:14,798 that we're dealing with here. 511 00:23:14,798 --> 00:23:16,299 Okay? Sh-- 512 00:23:16,299 --> 00:23:17,834 She broke into my home. 513 00:23:17,834 --> 00:23:20,170 I'm pretty sure that she had something to do with 514 00:23:20,170 --> 00:23:21,271 my mother-in-law's death, 515 00:23:21,271 --> 00:23:22,572 and she took my fucking kid, 516 00:23:22,572 --> 00:23:24,841 she kidnapped her right off the bus. 517 00:23:26,576 --> 00:23:28,545 (scoffs) 518 00:23:30,013 --> 00:23:31,581 The Rubidoh case. 519 00:23:32,649 --> 00:23:34,918 I told her about Sylvia Rubidoh, I told-- 520 00:23:34,918 --> 00:23:37,153 I told her that I couldn't charge the case 521 00:23:37,153 --> 00:23:38,788 because I didn't have the body 522 00:23:38,788 --> 00:23:42,459 and I was worried that the victim was gonna walking in... 523 00:23:42,459 --> 00:23:43,860 She is fucking with me. 524 00:23:43,860 --> 00:23:45,495 Do you see that? This is what she does. 525 00:23:45,495 --> 00:23:47,797 She's fucking with me. It's like a game for her. 526 00:23:49,599 --> 00:23:51,134 (sighs) 527 00:23:51,134 --> 00:23:53,103 You're saying this whole thing's a frame-up? 528 00:23:53,103 --> 00:23:55,305 She's framing you, t-that's what you're saying? 529 00:24:00,377 --> 00:24:01,544 So I guess you're not gonna tell me 530 00:24:01,544 --> 00:24:04,014 where you put her at, huh? 531 00:24:05,916 --> 00:24:08,184 (sighs) 532 00:24:09,352 --> 00:24:11,321 Okay. 533 00:24:11,321 --> 00:24:13,256 So here's what's gonna happen. 534 00:24:15,825 --> 00:24:17,694 I'm gonna find her body. 535 00:24:17,694 --> 00:24:20,997 And then I'm gonna put you under the prison. Okay? 536 00:24:24,734 --> 00:24:27,103 Y-You got nothing to say now? 537 00:24:28,238 --> 00:24:30,173 See, that's not like you. 538 00:24:31,408 --> 00:24:34,010 You always got something to say. 539 00:24:35,946 --> 00:24:37,681 MARCELLA: Okay, what is it? 540 00:24:37,681 --> 00:24:40,784 I don't even know how to say this to you, Marcella. 541 00:24:41,651 --> 00:24:42,919 A woman is missing. 542 00:24:42,919 --> 00:24:45,789 Alexandra Forrest is missing and Earl Brooker 543 00:24:45,789 --> 00:24:47,190 presumes that she's dead. 544 00:24:47,190 --> 00:24:48,625 And he thinks that I had something to do with it. 545 00:24:48,625 --> 00:24:50,694 Oh, Jesus, okay. 546 00:24:50,694 --> 00:24:52,062 I know, I know, but I need you to-to... 547 00:24:52,062 --> 00:24:54,664 call RHD and... 548 00:24:55,765 --> 00:24:57,500 What's his boss's name? I'm blanking on the name. 549 00:24:57,500 --> 00:24:58,935 - Hailey. - Yes. Hailey. 550 00:24:58,935 --> 00:25:00,570 So, I need you to call Hailey. 551 00:25:00,570 --> 00:25:02,939 This is a flex. Earl is fucking with me. 552 00:25:02,939 --> 00:25:04,641 And you, because you're my boss. 553 00:25:04,641 --> 00:25:07,377 He's so obsessed with all the power moves 554 00:25:07,377 --> 00:25:08,712 that everybody else is making, 555 00:25:08,712 --> 00:25:09,813 he's trying to make a power move on us. 556 00:25:09,813 --> 00:25:14,384 Okay, well, let me just, uh... 557 00:25:14,384 --> 00:25:18,021 catch up with you here, um... 558 00:25:19,222 --> 00:25:22,225 Okay. Alexandra Forrest. 559 00:25:22,225 --> 00:25:23,560 I'm only asking so I know. 560 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,096 Is the Alex Forrest who vouched for you 561 00:25:26,096 --> 00:25:28,031 when Jeanette Ruiz was looking into... 562 00:25:29,199 --> 00:25:30,567 Okay. 563 00:25:30,567 --> 00:25:32,702 Is there any more context to all that? 564 00:25:32,702 --> 00:25:34,237 Something I should know? 565 00:25:34,237 --> 00:25:35,739 No. 566 00:25:35,739 --> 00:25:38,074 Well, just in light of what you're saying now, 567 00:25:38,074 --> 00:25:40,010 because this... 568 00:25:40,010 --> 00:25:42,712 (sighs) It's a very long limb I'm about to go out on for you. 569 00:25:42,712 --> 00:25:44,881 I know. I know. 570 00:25:45,882 --> 00:25:47,584 You also know that I am your friend, 571 00:25:47,584 --> 00:25:50,620 who's gonna do everything I can for you. 572 00:25:50,620 --> 00:25:52,288 Which is a lot. 573 00:25:54,090 --> 00:25:55,091 Okay? 574 00:25:55,091 --> 00:25:58,428 All right, LAPD. It's its own thing. 575 00:25:58,428 --> 00:26:01,598 So I'm gonna need as much information as I can get, right? 576 00:26:01,598 --> 00:26:05,201 Because if they know more than I do going in, 577 00:26:05,201 --> 00:26:06,603 I'll be fucked. 578 00:26:06,603 --> 00:26:08,705 So, I just want to ask those questions that 579 00:26:08,705 --> 00:26:11,107 I already have the answers to. 580 00:26:11,107 --> 00:26:12,609 So, Dan, please... 581 00:26:12,609 --> 00:26:15,011 Okay? 582 00:26:16,980 --> 00:26:18,448 Did you? 583 00:26:20,183 --> 00:26:21,851 Were you... 584 00:26:21,851 --> 00:26:24,320 involved with her, at all? 585 00:26:25,622 --> 00:26:27,891 With Alex Forrest. 586 00:26:34,798 --> 00:26:36,733 Oh, my God. 587 00:26:37,867 --> 00:26:40,370 What's the matter? 588 00:26:41,571 --> 00:26:44,074 How could you do this to me? 589 00:26:45,308 --> 00:26:49,079 How could you think that I'm involved in this? 590 00:26:53,116 --> 00:26:56,086 - (Dan sighs) - (line beeps) 591 00:26:56,086 --> 00:26:57,687 (Dan scoffs) 592 00:26:57,687 --> 00:27:00,090 (door opens) 593 00:27:03,426 --> 00:27:05,495 MARCELLA: Don't forget to keep your housekeys. 594 00:27:05,495 --> 00:27:08,131 They're gonna need your cell. 595 00:27:08,965 --> 00:27:12,068 You're not going back into your office. 596 00:27:13,002 --> 00:27:14,571 You're going to need to get somebody 597 00:27:14,571 --> 00:27:16,439 to pick up your stuff for you. 598 00:27:16,439 --> 00:27:18,875 But not today. 599 00:27:20,977 --> 00:27:23,179 BETH: What does that even mean? Missing from where? 600 00:27:23,179 --> 00:27:25,648 DAN: Can't talk about this on the phone, okay? 601 00:27:25,648 --> 00:27:27,217 Not even on my personal phone. 602 00:27:27,217 --> 00:27:28,918 - This is not a good idea. - BETH: Where are you now? 603 00:27:28,918 --> 00:27:30,854 Downtown. They took my fucking car. 604 00:27:30,854 --> 00:27:32,755 Okay, tell me where you are. I'll come get you. 605 00:27:32,755 --> 00:27:34,691 Going to Beatrice Alba's. 606 00:27:34,691 --> 00:27:36,226 Her office is walking distance. 607 00:27:36,226 --> 00:27:37,026 Who's that? 608 00:27:37,026 --> 00:27:38,661 Criminal defense attorney. 609 00:27:38,661 --> 00:27:40,263 Should've called her right away. 610 00:27:40,263 --> 00:27:41,731 - Dan? - Yeah? 611 00:27:41,731 --> 00:27:43,533 Text me the address and I'll meet you there. 612 00:27:43,533 --> 00:27:44,901 Okay. 613 00:27:47,871 --> 00:27:51,274 I am so sorry you had to wait, Dan. 614 00:27:51,274 --> 00:27:54,777 My God, can some people not tell a story, right? 615 00:27:54,777 --> 00:27:56,913 (chuckling) 616 00:27:56,913 --> 00:27:59,649 Jesus. Are you okay? 617 00:27:59,649 --> 00:28:00,650 What's going on? 618 00:28:00,650 --> 00:28:02,218 I'm fucked, Bea. 619 00:28:02,218 --> 00:28:03,853 I don't even know where to start, 620 00:28:03,853 --> 00:28:05,021 but I'm gonna need the best. 621 00:28:05,021 --> 00:28:07,524 R-Representation? You are? 622 00:28:08,658 --> 00:28:11,728 Uh, okay. 623 00:28:11,728 --> 00:28:14,497 Tell me. No bullshit. Go. 624 00:28:16,799 --> 00:28:19,836 A woman that I work with has gone missing. 625 00:28:19,836 --> 00:28:21,271 Her name is Alexandra Forrest. 626 00:28:21,271 --> 00:28:22,805 We worked on a couple of cases together, 627 00:28:22,805 --> 00:28:24,440 she was in Victim Services, 628 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,176 she became fixated on me, 629 00:28:26,176 --> 00:28:29,112 I asked her to back off, then I told her to back off, 630 00:28:29,112 --> 00:28:31,414 she couldn't do it, there's some... some... 631 00:28:31,414 --> 00:28:32,815 mental health issues there. 632 00:28:32,815 --> 00:28:34,017 And now she's missing and they think I'm the guy... 633 00:28:34,017 --> 00:28:35,785 - Oh, Dan, good Lord. - I-I know. 634 00:28:35,785 --> 00:28:37,854 I told you, I'm fucked here. But, look, 635 00:28:37,854 --> 00:28:39,189 she is way out there. 636 00:28:39,189 --> 00:28:40,423 All right? S-She's completely delusional. 637 00:28:40,423 --> 00:28:41,791 You won't even have to try 638 00:28:41,791 --> 00:28:43,526 - to make her look unreliable. - No, I know. 639 00:28:43,526 --> 00:28:45,461 - I know. - But I'm gonna need the best with me here, please. 640 00:28:45,461 --> 00:28:49,065 Don't say anything else. Okay? 641 00:28:50,366 --> 00:28:52,735 This is not for me. 642 00:28:52,735 --> 00:28:54,737 Beatrice, this is perfect for you. 643 00:28:54,737 --> 00:28:55,805 - Please. - No. 644 00:28:55,805 --> 00:28:56,839 We have a history together. 645 00:28:56,839 --> 00:28:58,908 No, I mean I don't want it. 646 00:28:58,908 --> 00:29:02,278 I know, I used to take these kinds of cases 647 00:29:02,278 --> 00:29:05,515 and I did it so that someday I wouldn't have to do it. 648 00:29:05,515 --> 00:29:07,450 And then someday came. 649 00:29:07,450 --> 00:29:11,421 I don't need to go after the victims anymore, so I don't. 650 00:29:11,421 --> 00:29:12,889 This is... 651 00:29:12,889 --> 00:29:15,525 serious shit you're in, Dan. 652 00:29:15,525 --> 00:29:18,027 You need to put a killer on the road right now. 653 00:29:18,027 --> 00:29:20,897 You need someone that will trash the victims. 654 00:29:20,897 --> 00:29:22,332 And likes it. 655 00:29:22,332 --> 00:29:23,933 (phone buzzing) 656 00:29:23,933 --> 00:29:26,035 You want names? 657 00:29:35,678 --> 00:29:38,047 (indistinct chatter) 658 00:29:41,317 --> 00:29:43,820 Hey. Is chagaccino the thing that you said 659 00:29:43,820 --> 00:29:45,221 was mushroom coffee? 660 00:29:45,221 --> 00:29:47,423 Yeah, that I hate but you would probably like? 661 00:29:47,423 --> 00:29:48,925 (sniffs) 662 00:29:49,726 --> 00:29:51,494 Oh, shit, a-are you okay? 663 00:29:51,494 --> 00:29:53,463 He ended it. 664 00:29:54,797 --> 00:29:56,532 Out of nowhere. 665 00:29:57,734 --> 00:29:58,935 Said that... 666 00:29:58,935 --> 00:30:01,104 he had been worried for a while, 667 00:30:01,104 --> 00:30:04,040 that we were taking too many risks, 668 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,844 that the way he felt was making him forget 669 00:30:07,844 --> 00:30:10,613 that what we were doing was dangerous. 670 00:30:10,613 --> 00:30:14,083 Out of nowhere. Just... boom. 671 00:30:15,952 --> 00:30:18,054 I'm really sorry. 672 00:30:19,489 --> 00:30:21,491 Yeah, me too. 673 00:30:23,092 --> 00:30:24,694 OLENA: She was my advocate. 674 00:30:24,694 --> 00:30:26,062 Years ago, I had drug case. 675 00:30:26,062 --> 00:30:27,563 Before my children. 676 00:30:27,563 --> 00:30:30,133 Okay, but just through the courts then, right? 677 00:30:32,235 --> 00:30:33,936 Well, so how...? Why would your fingerprints 678 00:30:33,936 --> 00:30:35,438 be in her apartment? 679 00:30:36,706 --> 00:30:38,408 (sighs) 680 00:30:39,609 --> 00:30:42,178 I had drug case, but also there was Artem. 681 00:30:43,079 --> 00:30:44,947 My boyfriend was Artem. 682 00:30:44,947 --> 00:30:47,216 He had a delivery service. 683 00:30:47,216 --> 00:30:49,819 He would get calls for pills, or I would drive over 684 00:30:49,819 --> 00:30:51,154 what the people wanted. 685 00:30:51,154 --> 00:30:55,892 He was jealous, very angry always, Artem. 686 00:30:55,892 --> 00:30:57,060 Put me in hospital once. 687 00:30:57,060 --> 00:30:58,995 - I had to have operation. - Ooh. 688 00:30:58,995 --> 00:31:01,898 She wanted me to get away. Alex. 689 00:31:01,898 --> 00:31:03,199 If I wanted, she told me she would help. 690 00:31:03,199 --> 00:31:05,468 And did you? I mean, did she? 691 00:31:05,468 --> 00:31:07,970 She had said she could get emergency placement, 692 00:31:07,970 --> 00:31:10,006 but she called and all of them are telling her 693 00:31:10,006 --> 00:31:11,874 to check back, check back. 694 00:31:11,874 --> 00:31:13,643 Busy weekend, hot weather. 695 00:31:13,643 --> 00:31:15,545 I'm waiting in a diner while she's trying, 696 00:31:15,545 --> 00:31:19,549 but there's nothing, so she just took me home, to her home. 697 00:31:19,549 --> 00:31:22,218 And did you end up staying with her? For how long? 698 00:31:22,218 --> 00:31:25,054 She had to go to work next morning, 699 00:31:25,054 --> 00:31:27,056 but she's still calling the places for me. 700 00:31:27,056 --> 00:31:29,192 I said, "I'll go to my cousin's to wait," 701 00:31:29,192 --> 00:31:33,863 - but I went back to Artem. - Mm. 702 00:31:33,863 --> 00:31:35,565 But it wasn't her fault. 703 00:31:35,565 --> 00:31:37,333 Was she angry? 704 00:31:37,333 --> 00:31:42,205 For not being able to help when she promised me she would? Yes. 705 00:31:42,205 --> 00:31:44,674 Angry at me for going back? No. Never. 706 00:31:44,674 --> 00:31:47,377 Or not that she showed. 707 00:31:47,377 --> 00:31:50,279 - She was always kind with me. - (girl squeals) 708 00:31:50,279 --> 00:31:53,049 But so that's how the fingerprint... 709 00:31:53,049 --> 00:31:54,384 - (kids shouting) - Sorry. 710 00:31:54,384 --> 00:31:55,785 I've just got to see what they're doing 711 00:31:55,785 --> 00:31:56,886 - to each other this time. - Okay. 712 00:31:56,886 --> 00:31:58,688 Ugh! 713 00:32:03,059 --> 00:32:05,561 (phone chiming) 714 00:32:08,297 --> 00:32:11,100 Oh, you know, the people that say you're slow 715 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:12,402 and inefficient don't know you like I do, Dawn. 716 00:32:12,402 --> 00:32:14,637 DAWN: Wait, who says that? 717 00:32:14,637 --> 00:32:16,539 Goddamn you, Mikey! 718 00:32:16,539 --> 00:32:18,174 You ready for what I found you on Elijah Acosta, 719 00:32:18,174 --> 00:32:19,375 or are you ready? 720 00:32:19,375 --> 00:32:22,478 Ready as a porcupine for winter. 721 00:32:22,478 --> 00:32:24,947 Also, before I forget, you heard Judge Mills 722 00:32:24,947 --> 00:32:26,149 is retiring? 723 00:32:26,149 --> 00:32:27,784 Rackets tomorrow at 3:00. 724 00:32:27,784 --> 00:32:29,585 Believe it or not, there's gonna be people there 725 00:32:29,585 --> 00:32:31,721 - who would love to see you. - Of course there are. 726 00:32:31,721 --> 00:32:34,056 But the question is why? 727 00:32:35,758 --> 00:32:39,028 Meatball, Italian, grilled cheese, patty melt, 728 00:32:39,028 --> 00:32:40,563 tortas, panini, anything, classy PB&J. 729 00:32:40,563 --> 00:32:41,964 DAN: I know what sandwiches are, Mike. 730 00:32:41,964 --> 00:32:43,666 Eat in, take out, 12 hours a day, 731 00:32:43,666 --> 00:32:45,168 seven days a week. 732 00:32:45,168 --> 00:32:46,769 One night somebody beats him to death in there. 733 00:32:46,769 --> 00:32:48,271 Right? 734 00:32:48,271 --> 00:32:50,306 Elijah is the son. They iris in on him 735 00:32:50,306 --> 00:32:52,842 pretty quick, they charge him, case goes to grand jury. 736 00:32:52,842 --> 00:32:56,546 Grand jury returns no true bill. 737 00:32:56,546 --> 00:32:58,114 - Wow. - Yeah. 738 00:32:58,114 --> 00:32:59,582 Fuckin' moonwalks out. 739 00:32:59,582 --> 00:33:02,151 Probably thinks, from a technical standpoint, 740 00:33:02,151 --> 00:33:04,086 it's like the whole thing never happened. 741 00:33:04,086 --> 00:33:06,622 (door lock buzzes) 742 00:33:09,292 --> 00:33:10,927 (dance music playing) 743 00:33:10,927 --> 00:33:15,398 Fuck, I've put a lot of people in a lot of prison... for this? 744 00:33:15,398 --> 00:33:17,266 I'm having-- what do you call it?-- 745 00:33:17,266 --> 00:33:18,968 like a cognitive dissonance. 746 00:33:18,968 --> 00:33:21,304 Yeah. It was the law, 747 00:33:21,304 --> 00:33:23,206 and then all of a sudden it just wasn't. 748 00:33:23,206 --> 00:33:24,574 - Yeah. - Right? That's fucked up. 749 00:33:24,574 --> 00:33:28,744 Hi, buddies. Do we need recommendations? 750 00:33:28,744 --> 00:33:31,314 Actually, we were hoping to talk to Elijah. 751 00:33:31,314 --> 00:33:33,483 HOSTESS: Well, that's him over there. 752 00:33:37,687 --> 00:33:39,121 How you fellas doing? 753 00:33:39,121 --> 00:33:43,125 Uh, I wanted to talk to you about Alex Forrest. 754 00:33:43,125 --> 00:33:46,863 Oh, never heard of it. Are you guys growers or... 755 00:33:46,863 --> 00:33:49,165 Your fingerprints were found in Alex Forrest's apartment. 756 00:33:49,165 --> 00:33:52,001 Oh, it's a person. Okay, who's that? 757 00:33:52,001 --> 00:33:54,070 Wait, what do you-- 758 00:33:54,070 --> 00:33:55,438 what do you mean my fingerprints? 759 00:33:55,438 --> 00:33:56,873 Why do you have my fingerprints? 760 00:33:58,307 --> 00:33:59,509 They said when the case got thrown out, 761 00:33:59,509 --> 00:34:01,911 my prints would be erased from the system. 762 00:34:01,911 --> 00:34:04,013 I don't know who "they" are, but that doesn't just 763 00:34:04,013 --> 00:34:05,014 happen automatically. 764 00:34:05,014 --> 00:34:06,282 You have to file a petition 765 00:34:06,282 --> 00:34:07,183 to have your print card destroyed. 766 00:34:07,183 --> 00:34:08,551 Are you shitting me? 767 00:34:08,551 --> 00:34:10,653 - No. - The cops decided I was their guy 768 00:34:10,653 --> 00:34:12,855 just based on me existing and them being lazy fucks. 769 00:34:12,855 --> 00:34:14,490 Okay, and so having no case, not even being able 770 00:34:14,490 --> 00:34:16,492 to get me indicted, but here you guys are 771 00:34:16,492 --> 00:34:17,894 asking me do I know someone? 772 00:34:17,894 --> 00:34:19,228 And my fingerprints, 773 00:34:19,228 --> 00:34:20,763 you think that's fucking right, dude? 774 00:34:20,763 --> 00:34:23,499 I-- that doesn't really have anything to do with us. 775 00:34:23,499 --> 00:34:25,268 Oh, it's got something to do with you. 776 00:34:25,268 --> 00:34:27,069 All we know is that your prints were in her apartment, 777 00:34:27,069 --> 00:34:29,071 whether you remember her or not. 778 00:34:29,071 --> 00:34:30,306 Okay, it's a her? 779 00:34:30,306 --> 00:34:31,674 When the fuck are we talking about? 780 00:34:31,674 --> 00:34:33,442 2008. 781 00:34:33,442 --> 00:34:34,877 (laughs) 782 00:34:34,877 --> 00:34:37,113 Fucking unbelievable. Uh, where'd she live? 783 00:34:37,113 --> 00:34:38,948 - She live downtown? - She did. 784 00:34:38,948 --> 00:34:41,484 Yeah, did she eat food, you think? 785 00:34:41,484 --> 00:34:45,054 Okay, so maybe she ordered food that I delivered. 786 00:34:45,054 --> 00:34:47,590 Like a chump on a beach cruiser with a basket on the front, 787 00:34:47,590 --> 00:34:48,925 'cause my dad said he didn't want to waste money 788 00:34:48,925 --> 00:34:49,959 on a bike with actual gears 789 00:34:49,959 --> 00:34:50,993 when we already had this one 790 00:34:50,993 --> 00:34:52,094 my fucking grandma wasn't using. 791 00:34:52,094 --> 00:34:53,496 Yeah, I never want to forget 792 00:34:53,496 --> 00:34:56,332 those good times. Thanks, guys. 793 00:34:56,332 --> 00:34:58,034 What, you said I had to file a petition? 794 00:34:58,034 --> 00:35:01,037 A petition, yeah, of factual innocence. 795 00:35:01,037 --> 00:35:03,673 If it's granted, then they destroy your arrest record 796 00:35:03,673 --> 00:35:04,874 and your print card. 797 00:35:04,874 --> 00:35:07,143 Great. 798 00:35:07,143 --> 00:35:09,278 Hmm. 799 00:35:10,746 --> 00:35:12,448 So these two names are the flower strain 800 00:35:12,448 --> 00:35:14,784 - and the hash strain? - Exactly. 801 00:35:14,784 --> 00:35:17,219 So in these, the flower would be Lotus Diesel, 802 00:35:17,219 --> 00:35:19,622 and the hash strain is Wet-Ass persimmon. 803 00:35:19,622 --> 00:35:20,790 Do I want that? 804 00:35:20,790 --> 00:35:22,959 What's a tincture? 805 00:35:22,959 --> 00:35:25,828 Ooh. 806 00:35:25,828 --> 00:35:27,496 What's this? 807 00:35:27,496 --> 00:35:30,166 It's pizza. What do you mean, "What's this?" 808 00:35:30,166 --> 00:35:31,534 Is there ketchup? 809 00:35:31,534 --> 00:35:35,605 No, because life's an asshole. 810 00:35:35,605 --> 00:35:38,641 Oh, uh... 811 00:35:38,641 --> 00:35:40,776 Oh, hi. 812 00:35:42,511 --> 00:35:45,281 Plenty of alternate goos in here. 813 00:35:47,183 --> 00:35:50,186 Okay, ketchup-adjacent goos. 814 00:35:50,186 --> 00:35:51,454 Well, 815 00:35:51,454 --> 00:35:55,124 one of these has to work. 816 00:35:55,124 --> 00:35:57,560 (sighs) 817 00:35:59,929 --> 00:36:01,430 He was great today. 818 00:36:01,430 --> 00:36:03,099 - Who, the Weed Baron? - Yeah. 819 00:36:03,099 --> 00:36:04,634 In what sense? 820 00:36:04,634 --> 00:36:06,469 Well, in the for-purpose sense. 821 00:36:06,469 --> 00:36:09,805 He's emotional, quick to anger, 822 00:36:09,805 --> 00:36:11,874 a suspect in another violent death. 823 00:36:11,874 --> 00:36:14,377 I like him. 824 00:36:15,511 --> 00:36:17,380 'Cause you can see it in him. 825 00:36:17,380 --> 00:36:21,684 The potential. What he did to his dad. 826 00:36:21,684 --> 00:36:26,088 How angry he still is this many years later. 827 00:36:26,088 --> 00:36:27,523 That's what I'm in this for. 828 00:36:27,523 --> 00:36:29,258 - (door closes) - You know? 829 00:36:29,258 --> 00:36:32,395 Cause a new trial, judge says you didn't do it. 830 00:36:32,395 --> 00:36:34,764 That still leaves the person who did. 831 00:36:34,764 --> 00:36:38,834 The person I kind of burned my life down believing in. 832 00:36:38,834 --> 00:36:43,639 And until I find him, I'm not done. 833 00:36:45,908 --> 00:36:47,376 I can't even think about 834 00:36:47,376 --> 00:36:50,446 somebody else getting caught, convicted... 835 00:36:50,446 --> 00:36:53,382 It feels so far away. 836 00:36:53,382 --> 00:36:56,018 Denormalizing. Denorm-- 837 00:36:56,018 --> 00:36:58,754 - Demormalizing. - (both laugh) 838 00:36:58,754 --> 00:37:00,589 Demormonizing. 839 00:37:00,589 --> 00:37:03,626 (laughing): Can't say demoralizing. 840 00:37:03,626 --> 00:37:06,696 Well, don't worry about it, 841 00:37:06,696 --> 00:37:12,034 but just know that for me... (sighs) 842 00:37:12,034 --> 00:37:13,836 it is the endgame. 843 00:37:17,506 --> 00:37:21,677 Wait, what'd you do with Mom's... pinochle snacks? 844 00:37:21,677 --> 00:37:26,082 (gasps) Pinochle snacks... 845 00:37:27,683 --> 00:37:29,151 So he actually stopped seeing her at all, 846 00:37:29,151 --> 00:37:31,087 even as an analyst, because he didn't want to hurt 847 00:37:31,087 --> 00:37:32,488 his wife and daughters, 848 00:37:32,488 --> 00:37:35,124 until he realized that his attraction to her 849 00:37:35,124 --> 00:37:36,559 was coming from his unconscious. 850 00:37:36,559 --> 00:37:38,861 And if he didn't act on it, 851 00:37:38,861 --> 00:37:42,665 if he didn't explore his erotic potential, 852 00:37:42,665 --> 00:37:45,568 he would actually be damaging his daughters 853 00:37:45,568 --> 00:37:47,303 by making them witness to his unlived life, 854 00:37:47,303 --> 00:37:49,004 and therefore ruining their Eros. 855 00:37:49,004 --> 00:37:53,375 Okay, so his daughters needed him to fuck around 856 00:37:53,375 --> 00:37:57,346 on their mom with this Toni Wolff woman, 857 00:37:57,346 --> 00:37:59,849 or they would never feel whole. 858 00:37:59,849 --> 00:38:01,183 He did it for them. 859 00:38:01,183 --> 00:38:02,485 - Or... - I got it. 860 00:38:02,485 --> 00:38:04,420 Or, if he didn't, 861 00:38:04,420 --> 00:38:06,856 then they would grow up watching him fight 862 00:38:06,856 --> 00:38:08,524 the drive of his spirit to connect. 863 00:38:08,524 --> 00:38:09,992 And then they would learn to fight that drive, too, 864 00:38:09,992 --> 00:38:12,294 and then they would never truly be happy 865 00:38:12,294 --> 00:38:14,530 or live completely in the world. 866 00:38:14,530 --> 00:38:16,332 I mean, I don't think that, 867 00:38:16,332 --> 00:38:18,734 but I think that that's what he meant. 868 00:38:18,734 --> 00:38:21,871 Do you think your father killed Alex Forrest? 869 00:38:23,639 --> 00:38:25,207 - What? - I'm-I'm sorry. 870 00:38:25,207 --> 00:38:26,976 I'm not trying to make things weird, 871 00:38:26,976 --> 00:38:29,445 I just fell down a fucking Google hole the other night. 872 00:38:29,445 --> 00:38:31,914 No, he didn't. 873 00:38:31,914 --> 00:38:33,482 You sound really sure. 874 00:38:34,884 --> 00:38:37,753 You probably know what his alibi was then, I guess. 875 00:38:37,753 --> 00:38:41,457 Just the... the threads online 876 00:38:41,457 --> 00:38:44,059 and the excerpts of the trial transcripts said 877 00:38:44,059 --> 00:38:45,127 that he didn't have any. 878 00:38:45,127 --> 00:38:46,695 He did. He was at home with us. 879 00:38:46,695 --> 00:38:50,533 All right, just seems like if you're being 880 00:38:50,533 --> 00:38:54,470 tried for murder, you'd want to bring that up. 881 00:38:57,973 --> 00:39:00,142 I gotta pee. 882 00:39:05,314 --> 00:39:07,950 MIKE: What are they gonna find on your phone, Dan? 883 00:39:07,950 --> 00:39:09,251 Nothing. Nothing. 884 00:39:09,251 --> 00:39:11,253 I wiped it the second he walked out of the office. 885 00:39:11,253 --> 00:39:13,322 I didn't think it was gonna be Marcella who was coming for it, 886 00:39:13,322 --> 00:39:14,723 but I knew somebody would. 887 00:39:14,723 --> 00:39:16,358 Okay, just don't talk to anybody about anything. 888 00:39:16,358 --> 00:39:17,893 That's the rule. 889 00:39:17,893 --> 00:39:19,562 But if you got to talk to somebody about something, 890 00:39:19,562 --> 00:39:21,664 - why the fuck would it be Earl? - I know, I know. 891 00:39:21,664 --> 00:39:23,499 And you didn't just talk to him, you lied to him. 892 00:39:23,499 --> 00:39:26,235 He smells blood in the water now, goddamn it. 893 00:39:26,235 --> 00:39:27,603 What does he think he has on me? 894 00:39:27,603 --> 00:39:28,737 I don't know. I went down to Robbery-Homicide, 895 00:39:28,737 --> 00:39:29,972 and I talked to Hailey. 896 00:39:29,972 --> 00:39:31,707 Aw, Christ, Captain Headline himself. 897 00:39:31,707 --> 00:39:34,043 And according to him, what Earl's got is 898 00:39:34,043 --> 00:39:36,145 everybody's blessing down there to go at you 899 00:39:36,145 --> 00:39:38,814 as hard as he fucking can. 900 00:39:38,814 --> 00:39:40,683 Even if they had enough to arrest me, 901 00:39:40,683 --> 00:39:42,818 there's no way that Marcella's authorizing a charge, right? 902 00:39:42,818 --> 00:39:44,453 It's an election year coming. 903 00:39:44,453 --> 00:39:46,288 Her slogan is "equal justice under the law." 904 00:39:46,288 --> 00:39:49,024 It's hard to beat taking down your own Chief of Major Crimes 905 00:39:49,024 --> 00:39:51,260 to prove you're serious about that. 906 00:39:51,260 --> 00:39:53,796 - This is a joke. - (sighs) 907 00:39:53,796 --> 00:39:55,965 Right? This is a joke. Alex is playing a joke on me 908 00:39:55,965 --> 00:39:59,001 because she knows exactly how to fuck with me. 909 00:39:59,001 --> 00:40:01,136 I don't believe she's actually dead. 910 00:40:01,136 --> 00:40:02,738 - I can't. - I know. 911 00:40:02,738 --> 00:40:05,107 Why don't you say it ten more times? 912 00:40:05,107 --> 00:40:07,810 Maybe I'll go for it then. 913 00:40:07,810 --> 00:40:09,511 Fuck. 914 00:40:09,511 --> 00:40:11,747 He betrayed you and humiliated you, 915 00:40:11,747 --> 00:40:15,651 and now-now... now he makes you his goddamn bagman. 916 00:40:15,651 --> 00:40:18,554 Okay, enough with the moral outrage, Dad, okay? 917 00:40:18,554 --> 00:40:21,557 These kinds of things can cost upwards of $500,000, 918 00:40:21,557 --> 00:40:23,125 - retainer and fees. - (muttering) 919 00:40:23,125 --> 00:40:25,261 And things are gonna start to move quickly. 920 00:40:25,261 --> 00:40:26,695 We don't have time. 921 00:40:26,695 --> 00:40:27,997 Did you kill that woman? 922 00:40:27,997 --> 00:40:31,133 Oh, my God, of course he didn't. Dad! 923 00:40:31,133 --> 00:40:33,402 Even if I had that kind of liquidity, 924 00:40:33,402 --> 00:40:35,104 even if I could, I wouldn't. 925 00:40:35,104 --> 00:40:36,972 BETH: Do you think if I had any other choice, I'd be asking... 926 00:40:36,972 --> 00:40:39,041 WARREN: That money was for you and Ellen. Not for... 927 00:40:39,041 --> 00:40:40,976 BETH: ...begging you-- What-what do you think Mom would want? 928 00:40:40,976 --> 00:40:42,945 - If it was for me and Ellen... - WARREN: Mom? Mom would want me 929 00:40:42,945 --> 00:40:44,880 - to protect you... - BETH: ...then give it to me, I need it. 930 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,750 - We need it. - WARREN: Because someone should! 931 00:40:47,750 --> 00:40:50,419 It's just too much for him to react to 932 00:40:50,419 --> 00:40:51,921 on top of everything. 933 00:40:51,921 --> 00:40:54,456 He just, he needs to sit with it. 934 00:40:54,456 --> 00:40:57,293 He'll come around. He loves you. 935 00:40:57,293 --> 00:40:59,328 More than he hates Dan? 936 00:40:59,328 --> 00:41:00,729 More than anything. 937 00:41:00,729 --> 00:41:03,632 But you probably don't have the time to wait. 938 00:41:03,632 --> 00:41:05,868 And if you push him right now, 939 00:41:05,868 --> 00:41:08,504 - he's just gonna dig in. - Nope. 940 00:41:08,504 --> 00:41:11,740 - But that's okay. - Yeah. 941 00:41:11,740 --> 00:41:13,609 Because we're gonna do it. 942 00:41:13,609 --> 00:41:16,312 - What? - You're gonna do what? 943 00:41:16,312 --> 00:41:17,579 Pay for it. 944 00:41:17,579 --> 00:41:20,649 The lawyer, the retainer, whatever else. 945 00:41:20,649 --> 00:41:22,284 Alan's gonna call you. Our accountant. 946 00:41:22,284 --> 00:41:24,586 - What are you talking about? - JULIA: We don't have kids. 947 00:41:24,586 --> 00:41:27,589 - ARTHUR: It's done. - You can't take it with you. 948 00:41:27,589 --> 00:41:29,892 This is happening. 949 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,429 He's sad he won't be able to afford 950 00:41:33,429 --> 00:41:35,931 the solid gold house and rocket car 951 00:41:35,931 --> 00:41:38,968 he was planning to get after I'm gone, 952 00:41:38,968 --> 00:41:41,704 - but he'll get over it. - Yeah. 953 00:41:41,704 --> 00:41:44,206 And everyone will have a rocket car eventually. 954 00:41:44,206 --> 00:41:46,308 - (Julia chuckles) - I just gotta be patient. 955 00:41:47,609 --> 00:41:49,011 Listen, I don't want you to do this. 956 00:41:49,011 --> 00:41:52,448 We're gonna, though, with pleasure. 957 00:41:52,448 --> 00:41:57,252 I mean, not with pleasure, but... you know what I mean. 958 00:41:59,355 --> 00:42:02,558 I've just been so worried 959 00:42:02,558 --> 00:42:04,893 that you aren't gonna know 960 00:42:04,893 --> 00:42:07,229 how much I loved you. 961 00:42:17,339 --> 00:42:19,408 (indistinct chatter) 962 00:42:21,243 --> 00:42:22,845 Deputy District Attorney. 963 00:42:22,845 --> 00:42:25,614 Not too much trouble finding us, I hope. 964 00:42:25,614 --> 00:42:27,216 You better tell me you got a lawyer coming, 965 00:42:27,216 --> 00:42:28,817 'cause I'm not getting this tossed over some 966 00:42:28,817 --> 00:42:30,152 "you technically weren't represented 967 00:42:30,152 --> 00:42:31,620 at the time" bullshit. 968 00:42:31,620 --> 00:42:34,189 I'm Beth Gallagher. I'm his wife. 969 00:42:34,189 --> 00:42:36,158 Pleasure, Mrs. Gallagher. 970 00:42:36,158 --> 00:42:37,659 Wish the circumstances were different. 971 00:42:37,659 --> 00:42:40,729 Okay, let's go, Detective. 972 00:42:40,729 --> 00:42:44,633 Or were you offering drink service first? 973 00:42:44,633 --> 00:42:46,802 That's cute. 974 00:42:46,802 --> 00:42:49,304 - No, we're actually ready. - Excuse me. 975 00:42:49,304 --> 00:42:50,873 I want a Polaroid of all the fillers in place 976 00:42:50,873 --> 00:42:52,808 before I decide my client's position. 977 00:42:52,808 --> 00:42:55,210 I want rap sheets on all the fillers who have them, 978 00:42:55,210 --> 00:42:57,312 and personnel records of all the fillers 979 00:42:57,312 --> 00:42:59,014 who are off-duty cops. 980 00:43:00,049 --> 00:43:01,817 Do you have those things to which I'm entitled 981 00:43:01,817 --> 00:43:04,586 prepared to give me? 982 00:43:04,586 --> 00:43:07,756 Then you're not actually ready. 983 00:43:07,756 --> 00:43:09,425 Wow, you really must be shitting yourself 984 00:43:09,425 --> 00:43:12,428 to hire this mutt, huh? 985 00:43:12,428 --> 00:43:15,697 Don't ever directly address the mutt's client again, please. 986 00:43:23,238 --> 00:43:25,741 I'm gonna go give him some acid reflux. 987 00:43:42,291 --> 00:43:45,260 Clay Bishop, it turns out, not Cliff Biffsmiths. 988 00:43:45,260 --> 00:43:46,762 Ruth wouldn't tell me he existed, 989 00:43:46,762 --> 00:43:49,731 but she told him I was asking. 990 00:43:49,731 --> 00:43:52,101 Do you still work in Legal Aid, or...? 991 00:43:52,101 --> 00:43:54,970 At the foundation now, but yeah. 992 00:43:54,970 --> 00:43:57,272 Huh. So we must have crossed paths back in the day. 993 00:43:57,272 --> 00:43:59,241 We did. 994 00:43:59,241 --> 00:44:03,178 So, uh, we've heard from a reliable source 995 00:44:03,178 --> 00:44:07,349 that you were in a relationship with Alex Forrest 996 00:44:07,349 --> 00:44:10,419 at some point in the year before her death. 997 00:44:10,419 --> 00:44:13,455 For a few months, yeah. 998 00:44:13,455 --> 00:44:15,190 What happened? 999 00:44:16,925 --> 00:44:18,794 I fucked it up. 1000 00:44:18,794 --> 00:44:20,496 In what sense? 1001 00:44:22,197 --> 00:44:23,398 There are... 1002 00:44:23,398 --> 00:44:27,803 were mental health issues in my family. 1003 00:44:27,803 --> 00:44:32,608 Being around Alex, I could see so many things 1004 00:44:32,608 --> 00:44:35,043 in her that were familiar from growing up. 1005 00:44:35,043 --> 00:44:38,881 But you've got to be careful when you try to 1006 00:44:38,881 --> 00:44:40,949 go there with someone who thinks no one knows 1007 00:44:40,949 --> 00:44:43,719 they're not okay, and I wasn't. 1008 00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:45,988 I went about it the wrong way. 1009 00:44:45,988 --> 00:44:49,391 I never got another chance. 1010 00:44:49,391 --> 00:44:52,661 Did you ever think about coming forward? 1011 00:44:52,661 --> 00:44:55,597 That was my defense-- her mental state. 1012 00:44:55,597 --> 00:44:57,432 No, yeah, I know. I was there. 1013 00:44:57,432 --> 00:44:59,234 I went to court every day. 1014 00:44:59,234 --> 00:45:02,337 I heard all about how you were so appropriately polite to Alex 1015 00:45:02,337 --> 00:45:03,805 that she lost her mind. 1016 00:45:03,805 --> 00:45:05,908 Heard you describe someone unstable 1017 00:45:05,908 --> 00:45:08,911 and scared and lost as evil. 1018 00:45:08,911 --> 00:45:13,849 Mr. I'm The Victim's Voice. "I speak for the victims." 1019 00:45:13,849 --> 00:45:15,951 Prosecutor's toolbox, right? 1020 00:45:15,951 --> 00:45:19,188 Evil's elemental. It means no one has to feel guilty. 1021 00:45:19,188 --> 00:45:23,892 Not even you, after you gave her death for needing help. 1022 00:45:28,964 --> 00:45:31,133 But they still hated you more. 1023 00:45:31,934 --> 00:45:33,602 At least there was that. 1024 00:45:34,670 --> 00:45:37,940 Finally a jury saw the real you. 1025 00:45:44,646 --> 00:45:46,148 (Mike scoffs) 1026 00:45:47,516 --> 00:45:49,051 Okay, okay. 1027 00:45:49,051 --> 00:45:51,486 He made some cutting remarks that maybe now 1028 00:45:51,486 --> 00:45:53,789 you're internalizing. 1029 00:45:53,789 --> 00:45:56,024 But it doesn't mean he didn't kill her. 1030 00:45:58,126 --> 00:46:01,363 Hey, let's go to Andolini's later, okay? 1031 00:46:01,363 --> 00:46:04,333 - No, I... - Judge Mills' retirement racket. 1032 00:46:04,333 --> 00:46:07,102 Drink your feelings, like an Irishman should. 1033 00:46:07,102 --> 00:46:09,238 Come on. 1034 00:46:11,807 --> 00:46:14,109 All right, I'll take you back to work. 1035 00:46:14,109 --> 00:46:16,445 You drive my car there, you can drive it home. 1036 00:46:16,445 --> 00:46:17,813 I'll take an Uber. 1037 00:46:17,813 --> 00:46:20,115 Since I'm gonna engulf so much free vodka 1038 00:46:20,115 --> 00:46:21,850 at this fuckin' thing they're gonna make me 1039 00:46:21,850 --> 00:46:25,320 the president of Poland. Come on. 1040 00:46:27,723 --> 00:46:29,958 (busy chatter) 1041 00:46:34,263 --> 00:46:35,931 No one said you were coming. 1042 00:46:35,931 --> 00:46:37,899 Oh, fuck, I live to disappoint. 1043 00:46:37,899 --> 00:46:39,635 (laughter) 1044 00:46:39,635 --> 00:46:41,637 - Hey, Mikey. - Oh, shit. 1045 00:46:41,637 --> 00:46:43,272 Urbanek, you rockin' a beard now? 1046 00:46:43,272 --> 00:46:46,375 What a horrible day to have eyes. 1047 00:46:46,375 --> 00:46:48,844 Shit, Mikey, I don't see you for years, 1048 00:46:48,844 --> 00:46:51,280 now I can't get rid of you. 1049 00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,950 - Following you like a bad smell. - Mm-hmm. 1050 00:46:54,950 --> 00:46:57,019 Hey, you see Gonzales is here? 1051 00:46:57,019 --> 00:46:58,787 - Oh, no shit? - Yeah. (chuckles) 1052 00:46:58,787 --> 00:47:00,055 -"Vigil" Gonzales? - Yeah. 1053 00:47:00,055 --> 00:47:01,823 - That's what it was. - No sh-- Yeah. 1054 00:47:01,823 --> 00:47:03,258 Now, why did we call him that again? 1055 00:47:03,258 --> 00:47:05,227 - Was it the serial case in Newton? - Yeah. 1056 00:47:05,227 --> 00:47:07,062 'Cause Gonzales goes, "Hey, we can't call it 'Operation Vigil' 1057 00:47:07,062 --> 00:47:08,597 "because 'Vigil' and 'Villain' both start 1058 00:47:08,597 --> 00:47:10,532 - with a V." - (laughs) 1059 00:47:10,532 --> 00:47:11,933 And fucking Evrard goes, 1060 00:47:11,933 --> 00:47:13,402 "Hey, yeah, but your first name is 'Hector,' 1061 00:47:13,402 --> 00:47:15,437 "and Hector starts with an H, and so does 1062 00:47:15,437 --> 00:47:17,506 'Ho, my God, would you shut the fuck up?'" 1063 00:47:17,506 --> 00:47:20,509 - That's right, that's right, that's right. - Fuckin'... 1064 00:47:20,509 --> 00:47:22,944 - (sighs) - Yeah. 1065 00:47:22,944 --> 00:47:26,181 - Hey, you remember a case a while back? - Hmm. 1066 00:47:26,181 --> 00:47:29,351 Guy got murdered, had a sandwich place downtown, 1067 00:47:29,351 --> 00:47:31,753 case never make it out of grand jury? 1068 00:47:31,753 --> 00:47:33,455 Yeah. 1069 00:47:33,455 --> 00:47:35,490 Ackroyd... No. Acosta. 1070 00:47:35,490 --> 00:47:38,060 Yeah. 1071 00:47:38,060 --> 00:47:40,862 Son pureed him with a 60-inch pipe wrench 1072 00:47:40,862 --> 00:47:43,198 and then walked off into the sunset. 1073 00:47:46,101 --> 00:47:47,869 Tell you what. He better hope that the guys 1074 00:47:47,869 --> 00:47:50,672 that worked that case don't get some kind of terminal disease 1075 00:47:50,672 --> 00:47:52,741 'cause he's gonna be their last stop before they kick it. 1076 00:47:52,741 --> 00:47:54,810 - (scoffs) - That psycho shitstain. 1077 00:47:54,810 --> 00:47:56,878 Unbelievable. 1078 00:47:56,878 --> 00:47:58,880 - That is unbelievable. - Mm. 1079 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,516 Also, psycho shitstain's prints being 1080 00:48:01,516 --> 00:48:03,618 in Alex Forrest's apartment is unbelievable. 1081 00:48:05,987 --> 00:48:08,290 Except for how they were. 1082 00:48:11,193 --> 00:48:12,694 BETH: I mean, 1083 00:48:12,694 --> 00:48:14,296 I'm sorry your friend has the Internet, 1084 00:48:14,296 --> 00:48:15,931 and-and that she blindsided you. 1085 00:48:15,931 --> 00:48:17,933 Drunk people do kind of like to do that. 1086 00:48:17,933 --> 00:48:20,569 I mean, she's right, though, about the alibi. 1087 00:48:21,503 --> 00:48:23,839 About his not having one being weird. 1088 00:48:23,839 --> 00:48:25,807 He did have one. 1089 00:48:25,807 --> 00:48:27,376 Right, but nobody testifying to it 1090 00:48:27,376 --> 00:48:29,277 - was like saying that he didn't. - Right. 1091 00:48:29,277 --> 00:48:31,213 And the person testifying to it would have been me, 1092 00:48:31,213 --> 00:48:32,647 and that would have opened me up 1093 00:48:32,647 --> 00:48:34,316 to being asked if he'd had an affair. 1094 00:48:34,316 --> 00:48:36,151 Your father gave up his alibi 1095 00:48:36,151 --> 00:48:37,986 so I wouldn't be charged with perjury. 1096 00:48:37,986 --> 00:48:39,488 I know. 1097 00:48:39,488 --> 00:48:41,523 I know you know. Did you tell her? 1098 00:48:41,523 --> 00:48:44,259 Or are you saying you agree with her a little? 1099 00:48:44,259 --> 00:48:45,394 (scoffs) 1100 00:48:45,394 --> 00:48:47,229 How would I agree with her a little? 1101 00:48:47,229 --> 00:48:49,898 Think Dad killed Alex Forrest, but just part of her? 1102 00:48:49,898 --> 00:48:51,600 Just killed her partially? 1103 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,835 Well, it's pretty shitty that she did that, I think. 1104 00:48:53,835 --> 00:48:57,305 That she said those things, tried to pick a fight with you. 1105 00:48:57,305 --> 00:48:59,241 Maybe a good question to ask would be 1106 00:48:59,241 --> 00:49:01,676 what's up with your friend? 1107 00:49:05,714 --> 00:49:07,949 I don't think so, but I have played hearts. 1108 00:49:07,949 --> 00:49:09,551 I was pretty good at hearts. 1109 00:49:09,551 --> 00:49:13,822 Well, pinochle and hearts are both trick-taking games. 1110 00:49:13,822 --> 00:49:16,691 Well, maybe I'll sit in next time. 1111 00:49:16,691 --> 00:49:18,360 You're not invited. 1112 00:49:19,895 --> 00:49:22,597 How's your thing going? Good? 1113 00:49:23,398 --> 00:49:25,434 Yeah. We're making progress. 1114 00:49:25,434 --> 00:49:27,102 Ah, that's nice. 1115 00:49:27,102 --> 00:49:30,705 I won't ask why you're bothering. 1116 00:49:30,705 --> 00:49:33,909 What's that old saw-- Socrates, or someone? 1117 00:49:33,909 --> 00:49:36,678 "The clouds change, but people don't"? 1118 00:49:36,678 --> 00:49:38,947 (laughs) 1119 00:49:38,947 --> 00:49:41,316 I've always found that to be true. 1120 00:49:41,316 --> 00:49:44,252 Uh, about their minds, at least. 1121 00:49:44,252 --> 00:49:47,389 People don't change their minds. 1122 00:49:48,757 --> 00:49:52,260 Maybe that's Joni Mitchell. (chuckles) 1123 00:49:52,260 --> 00:49:56,097 Hey, next time, don't forget the sesame sticks. 1124 00:49:56,097 --> 00:50:00,101 Fannie Sykes gave me a big ration of shit. 1125 00:50:00,101 --> 00:50:03,205 I-I didn't. I-I didn't forget them. 1126 00:50:03,205 --> 00:50:05,607 - I bought them. - Then where were they? 1127 00:50:16,952 --> 00:50:19,421 - (grunts) - How you like me at your fucking house, 1128 00:50:19,421 --> 00:50:21,189 - motherfucker?! Huh? - (grunting) 1129 00:50:21,189 --> 00:50:22,791 - You like it? - (groans) 1130 00:50:22,791 --> 00:50:24,059 I come to your house now. 1131 00:50:24,059 --> 00:50:26,628 Maybe I'm gonna talk to your wife now, 1132 00:50:26,628 --> 00:50:28,063 dogshit motherfucker. 1133 00:50:28,063 --> 00:50:29,397 MIKE: Hey, hey, hey, hey, stop 1134 00:50:29,397 --> 00:50:31,132 whatever the fuck you're doing right now. 1135 00:50:31,132 --> 00:50:33,335 Stop it. Go faster than that, you asshole. 1136 00:50:33,335 --> 00:50:34,769 Get down on the ground. 1137 00:50:34,769 --> 00:50:37,873 Get down on the fucking ground away from him 1138 00:50:37,873 --> 00:50:41,109 before I get mad. Or madder. 1139 00:50:41,109 --> 00:50:42,878 Jesus Christ. 1140 00:50:42,878 --> 00:50:44,446 Dan, go through his pockets. 1141 00:50:44,446 --> 00:50:46,815 See if he's got any ID or something, okay? You okay? 1142 00:50:46,815 --> 00:50:48,650 - Oh, yeah, great. - Good. 1143 00:50:48,650 --> 00:50:51,386 - Never better. (groans) - Whew. In retrospect, 1144 00:50:51,386 --> 00:50:54,990 I got to say, that fifth round-- that was a bad idea. 1145 00:50:54,990 --> 00:50:58,793 - (sighs) - Hey, asshole, kiss the dirt. 1146 00:50:59,794 --> 00:51:01,263 "Artem Fedorko." 1147 00:51:01,263 --> 00:51:04,165 Fe-- Well, that's a silly name. Artem? The... 1148 00:51:04,165 --> 00:51:06,468 Wait. Artem, as in, 1149 00:51:06,468 --> 00:51:09,504 Olena Kuzma has a piece of shit boyfriend named Artem? 1150 00:51:09,504 --> 00:51:11,339 You were talking about Olena's house. 1151 00:51:11,339 --> 00:51:14,175 I was just in there. 1152 00:51:14,175 --> 00:51:16,545 - Oh, she married this asshole. - (door opens) 1153 00:51:16,545 --> 00:51:19,314 - How depressing is that? - Mikey? 1154 00:51:19,314 --> 00:51:21,917 - Hey, Ma. - You want me to call 911? 1155 00:51:21,917 --> 00:51:23,318 No, don't call 911. 1156 00:51:23,318 --> 00:51:24,953 - It's okay. - (groans) 1157 00:51:24,953 --> 00:51:27,756 Ma, on second thought, call 911. 1158 00:51:27,756 --> 00:51:30,892 Tell them it's Code 3, tell them I'm retired, I'm off the job. 1159 00:51:30,892 --> 00:51:33,361 And then, just don't ask 'em if they like working there 1160 00:51:33,361 --> 00:51:35,730 or what they had for lunch. Just hang up the phone, okay? 1161 00:51:35,730 --> 00:51:38,199 - (scoffs) - Ma, thanks. 1162 00:51:38,199 --> 00:51:40,001 - (door closes) - How are you, Danny? 1163 00:51:40,001 --> 00:51:42,103 - (groans) - Okay, good. 1164 00:51:42,103 --> 00:51:44,406 That's one of us. 1165 00:51:48,243 --> 00:51:50,512 ♪ ♪ 1166 00:52:04,392 --> 00:52:06,261 (door closes) 1167 00:52:18,006 --> 00:52:19,874 (Quincy barks) 1168 00:52:19,874 --> 00:52:23,912 (barking) 1169 00:52:24,879 --> 00:52:26,047 (drawer opens) 1170 00:52:26,047 --> 00:52:28,817 (silverware clinking) 1171 00:52:28,817 --> 00:52:30,518 (drawer closes) 1172 00:52:43,732 --> 00:52:45,867 (barking) 1173 00:52:50,138 --> 00:52:51,506 (barking) 1174 00:52:56,144 --> 00:52:57,545 (barking) 1175 00:53:03,618 --> 00:53:05,587 (barking) 1176 00:53:05,587 --> 00:53:07,722 - (loud knocking) - (barking) 1177 00:53:07,722 --> 00:53:09,591 (collar jingling) 1178 00:53:09,591 --> 00:53:11,092 (knocking) 1179 00:53:11,092 --> 00:53:12,994 (barking) 1180 00:53:12,994 --> 00:53:14,763 (distant barking) 1181 00:53:14,763 --> 00:53:16,698 (knocking continues) 1182 00:53:36,918 --> 00:53:40,388 {\an8}Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org 1183 00:54:48,690 --> 00:54:51,326 I heard all about how you were so appropriately polite to Alex 1184 00:54:51,326 --> 00:54:52,627 that she lost her mind. 1185 00:54:52,627 --> 00:54:56,064 Heard you describe someone unstable and scared and lost 1186 00:54:56,631 --> 00:54:58,800 as evil. Mr. "I'm The Victim's Voice." 1187 00:54:59,067 --> 00:55:01,002 {\an8}(MENACING MUSIC) 1188 00:55:02,637 --> 00:55:03,938 {\an8}Something about 106 1189 00:55:03,938 --> 00:55:06,508 that was important in terms of point of view 1190 00:55:06,508 --> 00:55:09,978 is two people in Alex's orbit 1191 00:55:09,978 --> 00:55:13,348 who were there before she ever crossed paths with Dan, 1192 00:55:13,348 --> 00:55:16,985 who saw that she was struggling, 1193 00:55:16,985 --> 00:55:22,357 because Alex's disorder is this terrible combination 1194 00:55:22,357 --> 00:55:24,993 of desperate fear of abandonment 1195 00:55:24,993 --> 00:55:29,430 and inability to have stable relationships with anyone. 1196 00:55:29,430 --> 00:55:31,666 {\an8}As much as she wants these things for herself, 1197 00:55:31,666 --> 00:55:33,802 {\an8}or she thinks she wants these things for herself, 1198 00:55:33,802 --> 00:55:36,738 this, like, stable, conventional relationship, 1199 00:55:36,738 --> 00:55:39,440 the emotional stakes are very, very high for Alex. 1200 00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:41,843 CLAY: Alex, I would give up whatever 1201 00:55:41,843 --> 00:55:44,879 we are to each other for you not to be in pain. 1202 00:55:45,413 --> 00:55:46,681 (SOFTLY CHUCKLING) We're nothing. 1203 00:55:46,681 --> 00:55:51,252 She ruins her relationship with Clay, 1204 00:55:51,252 --> 00:55:53,154 who wanted to help her. 1205 00:55:53,154 --> 00:55:54,722 ALEX: Get out, go! CLAY: Okay. 1206 00:55:54,722 --> 00:55:57,592 ALEXANDRA: That makes her immediately devalue him 1207 00:55:57,592 --> 00:56:00,628 because he's found her vulnerability. 1208 00:56:00,628 --> 00:56:03,131 Oh, hi! I'm Emma. I live here. 1209 00:56:03,131 --> 00:56:06,734 And also to a different degree, her neighbor. 1210 00:56:06,734 --> 00:56:10,171 Here is a wonderful maternal person, 1211 00:56:10,171 --> 00:56:13,274 but Alex is damaged when it comes to maternal figures. 1212 00:56:13,274 --> 00:56:15,743 I'm really sorry I wasn't here 1213 00:56:15,743 --> 00:56:17,946 if you needed me. I don't care what you are. 1214 00:56:17,946 --> 00:56:20,248 As soon as Emma isn't there for her, 1215 00:56:20,248 --> 00:56:21,449 she rejects her. 1216 00:56:21,449 --> 00:56:23,585 Because how dare Emma go out of town 1217 00:56:23,585 --> 00:56:25,753 ...to see her own pregnant daughter? (DOOR SLAMS) 1218 00:56:25,753 --> 00:56:28,022 Alex is making her a mother surrogate, 1219 00:56:28,022 --> 00:56:29,891 and then the first time that Alex needs her 1220 00:56:29,891 --> 00:56:32,760 and she's not there, "Now, you're dead to me." 1221 00:56:33,595 --> 00:56:36,431 Do you think your father killed Alex Forrest? 1222 00:56:36,898 --> 00:56:38,066 What? ALYSSA: A huge theme 1223 00:56:38,566 --> 00:56:39,767 {\an8}with the show in general, 1224 00:56:39,767 --> 00:56:41,903 {\an8}and just with the character of Ellen, is trauma 1225 00:56:41,903 --> 00:56:46,040 and abandonment wounds and how that would affect 1226 00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,043 somebody who would rather not share 1227 00:56:49,043 --> 00:56:51,412 and would rather stuff it down, and sort of from there on, 1228 00:56:51,412 --> 00:56:54,515 you could see how that would go into how you would sort of exist in the world. 1229 00:56:54,515 --> 00:56:57,685 I think Ellen was always very smart 1230 00:56:57,685 --> 00:57:01,055 and very able to keep her own secrets. 1231 00:57:01,055 --> 00:57:03,658 And so, I think that her mental health 1232 00:57:03,658 --> 00:57:07,395 has been sort of percolating in isolation 1233 00:57:07,395 --> 00:57:08,963 because she doesn't trust anyone. 1234 00:57:08,963 --> 00:57:10,899 Because she's been told she can't trust anyone. 1235 00:57:10,899 --> 00:57:14,736 And so, I think she grew up as a quiet and internal 1236 00:57:14,736 --> 00:57:17,105 and not demonstrative kid 1237 00:57:17,505 --> 00:57:20,708 with very few friends by choice. 1238 00:57:21,276 --> 00:57:24,045 And if anything, I think Dan being back in her life 1239 00:57:24,045 --> 00:57:25,747 gives her permission 1240 00:57:25,747 --> 00:57:27,815 to explore it in a deeper sense. 1241 00:57:27,815 --> 00:57:29,951 And that's making her think thoughts 1242 00:57:29,951 --> 00:57:32,253 that she hasn't had to deal with before. 1243 00:57:32,253 --> 00:57:35,857 It's all kind of able to come up, and we're just sort of getting to see 1244 00:57:35,857 --> 00:57:37,692 a little window into it. 1245 00:57:39,427 --> 00:57:40,695 EARL: Hey. 1246 00:57:41,095 --> 00:57:42,630 We've, uh... 1247 00:57:43,231 --> 00:57:44,432 We have got a situation. 1248 00:57:44,432 --> 00:57:45,833 {\an8}Earl loves his job. 1249 00:57:45,833 --> 00:57:49,203 Earl is always investigating, and you do not know 1250 00:57:49,203 --> 00:57:51,372 if you're getting set up by him or not. 1251 00:57:51,372 --> 00:57:52,440 He's the kind of guy that, 1252 00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,075 {\an8}you know, will make you feel comfortable 1253 00:57:54,075 --> 00:57:56,377 in a room until you start telling on yourself, 1254 00:57:56,377 --> 00:57:57,578 and that was the case with Dan. 1255 00:57:57,578 --> 00:57:59,547 And in terms of Dan and Earl's relationship, 1256 00:57:59,547 --> 00:58:01,382 Earl doesn't really like him because, 1257 00:58:01,382 --> 00:58:02,717 you know, when you're a detective, 1258 00:58:02,717 --> 00:58:04,519 you're out in the streets. You're on the field. 1259 00:58:04,519 --> 00:58:06,854 And then in order to get your case tried, 1260 00:58:06,854 --> 00:58:08,723 you gotta go to the suit. 1261 00:58:08,723 --> 00:58:10,591 And they've never been out in these streets. 1262 00:58:10,992 --> 00:58:12,727 They're privileged. They're entitled. 1263 00:58:12,727 --> 00:58:15,029 I think there's a bit of resentment there. 1264 00:58:15,029 --> 00:58:17,699 And once he finds out that that there's a moment 1265 00:58:17,699 --> 00:58:19,467 where he can kind of get him, 1266 00:58:19,467 --> 00:58:20,935 then it's like a shark in the water. 1267 00:58:20,935 --> 00:58:23,404 Yeah, I need to figure out what to do 1268 00:58:23,404 --> 00:58:26,407 about how your prints are all over a place you don't even know where it is. 1269 00:58:26,407 --> 00:58:29,644 But because he is a narcissist, 1270 00:58:29,644 --> 00:58:32,780 and because he's always been so good in this realm, 1271 00:58:32,780 --> 00:58:38,286 Dan believes in his own powers to charm and evade. 1272 00:58:38,286 --> 00:58:41,756 {\an8}And for the people who were close to Dan, it's shocking. 1273 00:58:41,756 --> 00:58:45,860 {\an8}He has presented himself as a decent and noble person, 1274 00:58:45,860 --> 00:58:48,129 and then, the moment that he's tested, 1275 00:58:48,129 --> 00:58:50,164 he goes to the lowest possible tactics. 1276 00:58:50,732 --> 00:58:52,300 It's a sequence of impacts for Dan 1277 00:58:52,300 --> 00:58:54,335 as he realizes that the people closest to him 1278 00:58:54,335 --> 00:58:57,538 did not hold him in the regard that he thought that they did. 1279 00:58:57,538 --> 00:58:59,807 There really is a residual of, 1280 00:58:59,807 --> 00:59:01,142 "I am a golden god." 1281 00:59:01,142 --> 00:59:02,643 "I'm the king of the courthouse." 1282 00:59:02,643 --> 00:59:05,380 He's learning some things about himself 1283 00:59:05,380 --> 00:59:07,115 in the course of this story. 1284 00:59:07,115 --> 00:59:09,083 What he's like when he gets denied 1285 00:59:09,083 --> 00:59:11,953 things that he wants. What it's like to fail. 1286 00:59:11,953 --> 00:59:13,521 He assumed everyone loves him. 1287 00:59:13,521 --> 00:59:15,089 It turns out maybe they don't. 1288 00:59:15,089 --> 00:59:18,026 That is kind of dovetailing with what we're trying to say 1289 00:59:18,026 --> 00:59:21,462 about people who have been born with advantages. 1290 00:59:21,462 --> 00:59:25,900 Not being appointed a judge is the first time that he didn't get something 1291 00:59:25,900 --> 00:59:27,502 that he assumed he was gonna get, 1292 00:59:27,502 --> 00:59:29,971 and he literally doesn't know how to deal with it. 1293 00:59:29,971 --> 00:59:31,606 He blows his whole life up 1294 00:59:31,606 --> 00:59:33,808 as a result of catching feelings. 1295 00:59:35,176 --> 00:59:36,811 (MUSIC CONCLUDES)