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Look alive! Look alive!

Get up. Get up.

(grunts)

Come on.

(groaning)

(groaning)

Back off...

(grunts)

Stop!

Stop!

Stop! Back off!

What the hell is wrong with you?

You're a sparring partner.

You okay, Pete?

Pete. Come on.

There's no pulse.

(crickets chirping)

Three sixes.

Beat that.

(clicks tongue)

Flush. All hearts.

- You should have folded.
- Hmm.

I was feeling lucky.

There was a less than an 18%

probability that you were gonna
complete that flush.

You really should have...

- ...folded.
- Charlie,

how long are we
gonna play poker?

The Texas Hold 'Em tournament
is coming up, yeah?

Yes, I know, and you promised
Larry that you would defend his title.

That's right,
against Professor Novich.

Okay, who's practically a
professional poker player.

A big jerk.

Your father is out of
town for the weekend,

and we have the house
all to ourselves.

- (doorbell ringing)
- Wait. You know what?

Hold that thought.
I think that's dinner.

ALAN:
That's okay. I'll take it from here.

- Thank you.
- (door closing)

(sighs)

- Uh...
- Dad...

I-I caught the delivery boy
at the door.

My meeting was over,
so I, uh, caught the last plane.

I, uh, think I'm interrupting.

I should... I, uh, I...
I-I should leave.

AMITA:
No, um,

you should...
have dinner with us.

There's...
there's plenty.

Charlie always orders too much
food anyway.

Really?

Because I'm starving.

I'm looking
for Larson, Homicide.

Thanks.

Hey. David Sinclair, FBI.

I got your call.

One of my suspects
dropped your name.

Called you as a courtesy.

Dropped my name?

Guy over there -- Ben Ellis.

So, you do know this guy?

Yeah, I know him.

What happened?

How much have you heard about
mixed martial arts fighting?

Um, it's like, uh, kickboxing
with some judo and stuff, right?

- Yeah, kind of.
- (camera shutter clicking)

Anyway, the deceased,
Pete Munson,

was gearing up for an All-Out Fighting
qualifier against Ken Bainsworth.

Qualifier for what?
Mind if I take a look?

Go ahead.

If he beat Bainsworth,

he was gonna get a shot
at the champ.

- And Ellis?
- The training partner.

Landed a punch,
Munson went down, never came up.

Fighter dying in a ring
is a tragedy,

but not necessarily a homicide.

ME's talking
about Munson being drugged.

Drugged? With what?

Won't know until the autopsy.

Why is Ben a suspect?

LARSON: Same thing happened
six months ago.

Ben was in a training match
in Vegas.

Other guy, fighter
named Octavio Lopez,

also died in the ring.

Was Lopez drugged as well?

We're looking into that
right now.

Meantime, we're putting together
a list of everybody

who was at either gym
the day of each death.

Mind if I talk to him?

Be my guest.

(camera shutter clicking)

Guys, have a second?

Long time no see.

Look, I didn't know who
else to call, all right?

So is it bad?

Cop says it's a murder.

Murder?

I just threw a couple punches.

That's it.

Is that right?

Yeah, that's it.

Cop told me
about the other fight.

The guy in Vegas.

Look, I have no idea
what's going on. I swear.

LARSON: Just talked to a witness who
said you threatened Munson earlier today.

I didn't threaten anybody.

Then you won't mind giving me
a statement at the station.

What? You're
arresting me?

Just want to hear your side.

If you want,
Agent Sinclair can be there.

(quietly) You just don't say
anything till I get there.

Okay?

Raise ten.

I'm out.

Too rich for me.

Ten dollars is too rich for you?

Yeah.

Unlucky in love.

I didn't plan on any of this.

Oh, Charlie, I'm kidding.

- I'm having a great time.
- DON: Yeah, well, you're winning.

Of course you're having fun.
I'd be having fun, too.

- I'm out.
- (doorbell rings)

I'll get it. I got it!

You know, you have a seriously
strange concept of a romantic evening.

Who the hell is this now?

Hey.

I'm sorry to bother you
so late, Don.

DON:
What? Everything all right?

I kind of want to talk
to Charlie about something.

Yeah, yeah, come on in.

- What's up, David?
- Hello, David.

How you doing,
Mr. Eppes?

- I'm sorry to interrupt you guys.
- No, it's all right.

I wanted to know if I could
get some help on something.

A guy I know got into
a little bit of trouble.

What kind of trouble?

He's a mixed
martial arts fighter.

He's in a sparring session;

he threw a punch;

and, uh, the other fighter...
he died.

- That's awful.
- Yeah.

It gets a little worse.

Um, six months ago,
the same thing happened.

Another sparring session,
and that guy died, as well.

Trouble seems
to follow your friend.

Yeah, always has.

Um, LAPD thinks the two fighters
could have been drugged.

What, so they're looking
at your friend for this?

Yeah.

What can I do?

I'm hoping you could do
something like what you did

with the Syntel shareholders

when that-that corporate
whistleblower was killed.

Okay, so you have a large list
of potential suspects.

Yeah. Actually, I have two.

This list is everybody
that was at the gym tonight.

And I'm waiting on a second list
to come in from Las Vegas

where the other fighter died.

I know it's a lot, Charlie,

but there's a lot of overlap.

About 100 names.

Spectators, trainers,
some fighters.

(playing cards flapping)

What if we construe
the precipitating events

for the two murders as
appropriate for a Kruskal Count?

That's creative.

We could, um, look for the
linkages and find any key pattern.

You know, you may help us narrow
down the lists to a few key suspects.

- Mm-hmm.
- Or maybe just one.

I mean, um... your friend.

My witness says
you threatened Munson.

Said you'd kill him.

Wasn't like that.

So, you don't deny saying it?

DAVID: Why don't you tell
the detective what it was like?

We were just talking

about what would happen
in the ring -- me and him.

And you said you'd kill him.

It's a figure of speech,
Detective.

Doesn't look like a figure
of speech to me.

Does it look like a figure of
speech to you, Agent Sinclair?

Are you ready to charge him?

No, I'm not.

So he's free to go then.

You need to stay in
Los Angeles, Mr. Ellis.

Why?

Because you're a material
witness in a murder investigation.

You need
to get yourself a lawyer.

So this is how it's gonna be?

Just get yourself
a good lawyer, Ben.

You don't know anybody,
I'll make a phone call.

I should have known
you would take their side.

I am down here in the middle of
the night helping you out, am I not?

Yeah.

At least that much has changed.

(sighs)

DON: So, more people watched
mixed martial arts fight on pay-per-view

than a baseball playoff game
on network TV.

Yeah, this is big business.

I saw Larry Alston
on the news the other night.

- Well, who's that?
- Larry Alston?

He's the guy that partnered up
with all the big casino money

and bought the All-Out
Fighting League.

He's trying to clean it up,
take it mainstream.

Yeah, well, this whole thing
ain't gonna help, huh?

Yeah. Neither is
losing his fighter.

I mean, it's not that Munson
could have taken Tino Alva.

Oh, who's that?

Alva's the AFL's champion.

Well, so, how you know all this?

The guys I teach Krav Maga to
are way into it.

They're so excited for
that Alva-Bainsworth rematch.

Why are we looking at this?

I thought the thing
with David's friend was LAPD.

Yeah, well, it might be two
murders in two states, right?

Meanwhile, we're just playing
a supporting role for now.

Just got off with the Vegas ME.

They found a heart defect
in Lopez's autopsy.

The death was ruled accidental.

So, the other fighter
wasn't drugged?

They stopped looking
once they found the defect,

so they're gonna pull an archived
tissue sample and take another look.

All right, meanwhile,
Charlie's gonna need data,

so we'll start looking
into their background,

and we'll talk to this guy,
uh, Larry Alston?

I thought this was
an LAPD Homicide.

Yeah, key suspect's a guy I know
from the old neighborhood.

New York, right?

Yeah, Bronx.

What can you tell me?

Munson was killed
with 1080 poison.

Poison?

1080 is the brand name
for sodium fluoroacetate.

It disrupts the body's
ability to process oxygen,

induces cardiac arrest.

To be honest, I
almost missed it.

So, it's pretty hard to detect?

Unless you're looking for it,

but Munson had a
strange allergic response,

so I was looking.

And how do you get your hands
on 1080 poison?

Agricultural companies,
chemical suppliers, nurseries.

It's mostly used to protect
crops from animal pests,

but it's not regulated.

All right, and how
was it delivered?

Munson's reaction was
localized to the tissue in his mouth.

So what? You think
maybe he drank it?

Probably, but the LAPD checked
all the water bottles in the gym.

They came up clean.

Okay, so, uh,
we have a generic chemical

and no forensics on delivery.

Sorry there's nothing
more specific.

You and the suspect old friends?

Yeah. Back during grade school,

me, uh, Ben Ellis
and another kid --

we were pretty tight.

And now?

Uh, you know, Ben and I sort of
drifted apart after high school.

You know how that is.

How about the other kid?

Earl's, uh... Earl's dead,

so...

Sorry.

- Thank you.
- Mm.

Appreciate it.

AMITA: It's tough
to determine linkages

when these two seem to have
almost nothing in common.

Yeah, the first fighter
killed, Octavio Lopez,

is Hispanic;
he's from Colorado.

And the other, Pete Munson,
is a white guy from Wisconsin.

Fighting seems to be
the only thing in common.

Well, then... then that's it.

What's it?

That the common link
is fighting.

I mean, look at the
fighters' histories.

I have to assume that the
motive in both of these deaths

involves the fighters' rankings, right?

What?

David's friend, Ben Ellis...

With Lopez and Munson
out of the way,

he moves to the top of the list.

- (knocking)
- Yeah, you're right.

Stanley, you're a long way
from the Biochem Department.

Amita, you remember
Professor Novich.

Hi.

I hear you're taking Fleinhardt's seat
in the Texas Hold 'Em Tournament?

I am considering it.

Well, you should think again.

With Fleinhardt in space,
I'm in line for the title.

I don't think that's
the way it works,

(laughing)
but okay... okay.

Well, I've seen your game,
Eppes.

Won't make it at the big table.

My game is vastly improved.

Been practicing, have you?

I've been working

on a specialized
training program.

Should make me more than ready
by tournament time.

Guess we'll just see about that.

What was that?

Geek trash talk?

Actually, what that was,

was terribly rude,
terribly inappropriate.

He has a lot of nerve coming
in here with that attitude.

(chuckles)
Oh, come on, Charlie.

He's trying to psych you out.

Just ignore him.

So Tino Alva --

he's been the AFL champion
for quite a while now, right?

ALSTON:
Alva's 22 and one.

He hasn't lost a fight since he took
the championship away from Bainsworth.

So what's the deal?

This guy Pete Munson,
he would've been up next?

If he could've gotten past
Bainsworth in the qualifier.

Pete was a promising fighter.

If you could get past
the tattoos, he was a good kid.

Charismatic. College degree.

Our sport's not
as brutal as it looks.

His death was an aberration.

How about Octavio Lopez?

His death an aberration, too?

We're gonna be looking
into his death as well.

What?
Do you think they're related?

They were fighting the same guy.

Look,

we're in the middle of filing a petition
to the State Athletic Commission.

Trying to put
our best foot forward.

It would be
extremely unfortunate

if it were to get out that
these deaths were connected.

I understand.

We're not gonna rule out
anything at this point.

Agent Sinclair.

Glad you joined us.

I appreciate the call.

Results from the Vegas
medical examiner on Lopez

came back positive
for 1080 poison.

Wanted you to be here for this.

Here for what?

We just confirmed
the original hit.

This is your friend's locker
and gym bag.

These markers indicate traces
of sodium fluoroacetate.

That's 1080.

I just wanted you to see
for yourself who it was

you helped walk out of
the station last night.

Find a judge.

Get a warrant
to pick up Ben Ellis.

Thanks a lot.

So looks like that credit
card trace paid off.

Manager says he's
up in the room.

You notify LAPD?

They're on their way.

I don't want to wait.

I'm gonna bring him
in right now.

Ben! It's David.

Open up. Let's go.

Get your stuff, man. Let's go.

Why? Where we going?

Jail.

But I told you,
I didn't do anything.

They found traces of the poison
in your gym bag and your locker.

Now, get your stuff.
Let's go.

Poison?

Yeah, you're under arrest.

You have the right
to remain silent.

If you can't afford
an attorney...

COLBY:
You all right?

(elevator bell dings)

Hey, I just heard from
this homicide detective.

What's going on?

Ellis got away.

Yeah, well, this I know.

It was my fault.

Well, what's going on, David?
Is it too much?

It wasn't anybody's fault.

And we're on it.
We got pictures at the airport.

We're monitoring
his credit card.

Caught him with his
credit card once.

He's not gonna make
the same mistake twice.

All right, so where's he go?

He doesn't have any
immediate family in L.A.,

but we might have some
mutual friends out here.

We could pull his phone records.

Do it.

CHARLIE:
You said, "Just ignore him."

Right?

(chuckles) Well, obviously,
I didn't think this was gonna happen.

Novich is

a world-class authority on
animal defense mechanisms.

This says that my office
has been contaminated

with a derivative
of thioacetate.

That's the stuff that gives
skunk spray its smell.

Says I can't go back in

until they determine
the level of toxicity.

Okay, well, when will that be?

Minimum of three or four days.

And my laptop is in there,

which means I can't work
on my poker training program.

- Hi.
- Hey, you guys.

- Hey.
- What happened in here?

I don't want to talk about it.

Is this the file on Ben Ellis?

Yeah. What is that smell?

(laughing)

He got skunked.

Okay, look, is he familiar
with the Los Angeles area?

Well, he fights out of New York,

but he's been out here
training for about a month.

So Ellis' knowledge of the area

will give us a prior
distribution on his location.

We can start
with his training regimen,

who he works for, who he knows.

We should also
factor in the people

that David knows
from the old neighborhood

who might now be in L.A.

Because if they were
old friends,

then Ben's escape routes might
go through points in common.

Yeah. That's exactly
what David was thinking.

- So there you go.
- Thank you.

Bye.

(sighs)

Hey, you knew this guy
Ben Ellis pretty well?

Something on your mind?

You really think he's
capable of a double murder?

These murders do move him
to the top of the rankings.

I'm sensing you don't think
he fits the profile.

I think our killer has
to be methodical.

Planned out two murders
in advance.

Spent two years in
a youth correctional facility.

And that's just for starters.

You're a psychologist.

You know what those kind
of places can turn you into.

What did he do to get in?

Three of us went to a movie.

It's me, Ben Ellis and...

another kid, Earl Day.

After the movies,
I decided to go home,

and Ben and Earl went
to hang out with Earl's lady

over at this burger spot
she worked at.

Ben got into it
with some guy over there.

As usual.

Gun came out,
and Earl was killed.

And you blame Ben?

So did the State of New York.

CHARLIE: So next time,

we'll get into strong type versus
end-point weak type estimates.

Look, I just want
to thank you all

for dealing with
the change of venue.

I know it's a little strange.

Drive safely, okay?

Hey, Dad, this is my graduate
harmonic analysis seminar.

- Bye-bye.
- In our living room?

Yeah, we usually meet
in my office, but, uh,

kind of locked out
at the moment.

How'd you get locked out?

Oh, it's a long story.

Okay.

But, I can tell it quickly.

There's this professor,

who's my competition in the
Texas Hold 'Em tournament.

What do you mean?
He stole your keys?

No.

He turned my office
into a toxic swamp.

He's a biochemist.

He works with skunks.

What are you saying?
You got skunked?

He's trying to psych me out,
you know.

Yeah, well, you know
they always say:

the best defense
is a good offense.

Yeah.

Yeah, you know what?

That's a great idea.

I'm gonna call Amita.

- (beeping)
- Hey, we have messages.

(dial tone)

(dialing)

Yeah, Don Eppes, please.

Thought you were calling Amita.

I was, but I think I just figured out
a way to help Don catch his fugitive.

I have all these computers
networked for you.

I have 50 phone numbers from
Ben Ellis' phone records ready to go.

That's awesome.

Here is the program
with the algorithm

that I constructed
on Amita's laptop.

Do you mind telling me
what we're doing with it?

Oh, we're just gonna find Ben
Ellis by identifying his call pattern.

But he hasn't used his phone

since he got away
from David and Colby.

Yeah, doesn't mean he hasn't
been making any calls.

Oh, like if he borrowed a phone
or used a pay phone?

Yeah.

And this algorithm will help us
identify his call pattern

hidden amongst all the other
calls made on that phone.

All those other calls
are like a symphony.

Ben's calling pattern
is like a series of notes.

If we know the notes,
then we can identify his tune

even if it's being played
on another instrument.

But we need to do that

while listening
to the entire symphony.

So what do we do now?

We just wait,

and the program will find the
new number calling Ben's friends.

I heard you're doing a lot of work
on this poker tournament you're in.

Yeah.

You really want to win it, huh?

The winner gets a seat
at the final table

at next year's tournament.

Larry had that seat
five years running.

I just want to make sure it's
there for him when he gets back.

(beeping)

Did you get him?

We got his phone.

So whose house is this?

Turns out, Ben has
a cousin in L.A.

And he's been using
the cousin's phone?

According to Charlie's
dialing pattern algorithm, yeah.

Nobody's home.

Ben could've taken off.
He could be anywhere.

Or he could be coming
up the block right now.

Suspect spotted
approaching on foot.

MAN (over radio):
We have a visual.

All right, move into position.

Let's take him.

(tires screeching)

(tires screeching)

On the pavement.

Hands on the back of your head.

So you gonna shoot me now?

Ben, I said on the pavement,
hands on the back of your head!

Been a long time coming, right?

You haven't changed a bit.

I am not gonna ask you again.

Come on, David.

Come on!

You want to get shot,

I'm your guy.

Get down on the ground, and put
your hands behind your head.

Traces of the poison used
to kill both Munson and Lopez

were found in your locker
and on your bag.

How many times
I got to tell you this?

I've never seen that bag.

Really?

'Cause that bag
was in your locker.

Why?

Why would I kill those fighters?

Moves you up in the rankings.

So you're gonna arrest
Kurt Bordinay,

'cause it moves him up, too.

Or maybe Bill Tallridge.

- He was in prison.
- Yeah.

But we're not talking about
either of those guys right now.

Come on, David.

You know me.

When have I ever
backed down from a fight?

Thought you'd finally step up,

take responsibility,
be a man for once.

- A man? Yeah?
- Yeah.

(chuckles)

What do you know
about being a man, David?

This isn't going anywhere.

That's it. Leave.

It's what you do.

Whoa, hey, hey, hey.

COLBY:
Come on, man. David, easy.

Hey.

Hey.

We don't have any coffee.

Yeah, what,
you don't even drink coffee.

So, now what's going on here?

That dude has always
made me crazy.

You ever know anybody like that?

Well, you know Charlie, right?

Look, you two were close
at some point?

Once upon a time.

So, I mean, is it possible?

Could he have done this?

I don't know.

I had a case.
I put away a guy for ten years.

The wrong guy.

I mean a day doesn't go by,

he doesn't pop into my head
at some point.

So you have your doubts,
you better run 'em down.

I'm all in.

Okay, I'll call.

I got 'em, Charlie.

- Aces and Jacks.
- (sighs)

Whatever.

Charlie, you gotta,

you gotta remember you
can't play percentages.

Remember when Millie beat me
at chess?

Yeah, she figured out
that you had a tell, right?

Right.

She played the player,
not the game.

You think Novich has a tell?

Everyone has a tell, Charlie.

I don't.

- Yes, you do.
- Yeah, what's my tell?

I'm not telling you.

What do you say we
knock off this practice?

No.

No, no, no.

He skunked my office.
I'm taking him down.

Five more hands.

- That's my deal.
- (sighs)

So, Ben isn't the only suspect.

No, just the best one
we have at the moment.

Say he is telling
the truth, all right.

That would mean the
traces found on his locker

on his gym bag
had to be a plant.

Where are you going with this?

I'm thinking a guy's gym bag has got
to have some kind of DNA on it, right?

It should.

Did you check the bag?

I had no reason to.

Can you get me a sample?

From Ben.
For comparison.

Whoa, you're really
serious about this.

Is this still an LAPD case?

Technically, it is.

But we have Ben in our lockup.

(sighs)

Can't be easy having
to arrest a friend.

You okay?

(sighs)

I wasn't really ready for
old home week, you know.

Hmm.

Just when you think
you've gotten away.

What's that mean?

South El Paso isn't the Bronx,

but I had to work pretty hard
to get out of there.

I guess you don't ever really
get all that past behind you, huh?

Hmm-mm.

Thanks for the help.

ALSTON: Bill Tallridge will fight
Ken Bainsworth in the qualifier.

And we all know who'll be
waiting for the winner...

Ladies and gentlemen,
the champ, Tino Alva.

(cheering and applause)

So they just announced, uh,
Munson's replacement.

The guy on the right,
Bill Tallridge.

That's one of the guys
that Ben mentioned.

Said he did a few years
in lockup, right?

Yeah, three years at Pelican Bay
for aggravated assault.

Hey, Champ.
How you doing?

You worried about either
of these guys or what?

No, not really.

- (crowd laughs)
- To be honest,

I'm just tired of waiting.

I've been in training camp now
for the last six months.

I'm ready to go...

Whoever it is.

Well, Bainsworth's been
tripping around

but he said that
if he gets you in a rematch

he's gonna knock you out.

I think Ken needs to worry
about Bill Tallridge.

Don't worry about what I need.

I ain't worried about anything
here, sweet cheeks.

CROWD:
Ooh.

(crowd laughs)

Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Ken, that's it. Sit down.

Hey, but Champ, not for
nothing you gotta give this,

the last you fought,
he did knock you down.

How 'bout I come down there
and knock you down.

(laughing)

Look, that fight was almost
four years ago.

Ken was at his peak.

He took me down.

I got up and I took his belt.

If Ken makes it
to the qualifier,

I'll beat him again.

He ain't taking this belt.

(cheering and applause)

(beeping)

Looks like Tallridge
is gonna have to wait.

If there are no more questions,
we'll see you at the fight!

CHARLIE:
Hey, Megan.

Hey, Charlie.

Uh, Don's gone home already.

- No, actually, I came to see you.
- Me?

It's about the tournament.

I see.

Do you know what a tell is?

An unconscious gesture,
usually brought about by stress,

that reveals an inner emotion,
like your brother.

He always checks his watch

anytime he feels threatened.

He does do that, doesn't he?

Anyway, I, I need you to tell me

how I can figure out
what Stanley Novich's tell is.

Well, simply speaking,

it's just an
observational exercise.

I have to watch Novich?

Yeah, but you have to watch him
under the right circumstances.

You have to watch him
when he's under duress.

And then I can see his tell.

Mm-hmm.

Can you help me with some
surveillance equipment?

No.

Got your message.

You said you had something.

From the DNA tests.

I found three different
specimens on the bag.

Compared them against
your friend's swab.

Ben's not a match.

Somebody did plant
that bag in his locker.

Physical evidence says
he's telling the truth.

I owe you one, Claudia.

David, if Ben Ellis didn't kill
those two fighters,

who did?

And why would they frame him?

All right, so if Ellis
is in the clear...

Oh, that'll bring us right back
to square one.

Who killed these guys?

Maybe somebody who, uh, opposes
to the violence of the sport.

Yeah, but Charlie
seemed to think

that the motives had something
to do with the rankings.

Didn't Ben say something
about the other fighters?

Tallridge.

Yeah, but I checked into that;

he was fighting in Japan at
the time that Lopez was killed.

He's got a good alibi.

DAVID: What if this is just about
the All-Out Fighting League itself?

DON: So, what, like an
attack from a competitor?

Or someone who has
a grudge against Alston.

Yeah, let's talk to him again.

We'll take a closer look
at his business.

You know, find out what his
competitors might be worried about.

We think someone might be
targeting your fighters

as a way of getting at you.

Me? I don't understand.

These murders don't exactly help
your efforts to clean up the sport.

Let me ask you this,
is there anyone

who might wanna
sabotage your business?

Boxing, baseball, basketball.

Our ratings make us the
fastest-growing sport in the country.

Yeah, what about you personally?

Any threats against you?

No.

I'd like to take a look at a list of
your investors if that's all right.

I don't see how that'll help.

Mr. Alston, if you're
not the target,

then quite possibly somebody
else involved in your business --

they might be.

- You're Sinclair, right?
- Yeah.

A detective from LAPD came
to see me yesterday.

He told me about you
and Ben Ellis.

I don't think that's the issue.

Oh, I think it's right on point.

I understand loyalty. I do.

But you're not gonna
jeopardize my business

because you're unhappy
about arresting your friend.

Yeah, well, I mean that's
a nice little speech,

but I wanna see those records.

I'll happy to cooperate with you
when you have something specific.

Well, you better cooperate now,
or I'm gonna get myself a subpoena.

I'm gonna take a look at your...

Fine. Fine. Fine.
I'll get you what you need.

And you might wanna know

that if it weren't for the
fact that he was in custody,

your friend Ellis -- he'd had
a shot against Bainsworth.

He was next in line
for the qualifier.

We'll be in touch.

Hey.

You're welcome.

Excuse me?

Who do you think
got you out of here?

I don't even know why I bother
coming down here, man.

Maybe you trying
to make some sort of amends.

Make amends?

Look, I was in that youth
facility for two years.

Finally get something
straight, man.

Locking you up back then

is one of the best things
they could have done for you.

Look, I know you put the
Bronx in your rear-view,

but I would have thought
my best friend, the guy I knew

would have come to see me
at least once.

Just to find out what
happened that night.

What happened?

You did the same thing, man,

I seen you do a hundred times.

I know what happened.

You know that Earl
step to that guy.

'Cause you know what happened.

You're saying
that E started that fight?

E never started a fight
in his entire life.

That guy was messing
with E's girl.

E tried to back him off.

That guy came back hard.

I don't think E
even saw the gun coming.

But I did.

Why didn't you tell anybody?

Lawyer said if I told my side,
claimed self-defense,

I'd do 20 years.

Wait. Hold on.
Wait. Hold on.

I didn't know what to do.

You weren't there.

What's done is done.

Never. Never.

Say what?

You asked me before, I ever seen
you back down from a fight.

Answer to the question is never.

What your partner said earlier
about the rankings.

You oughta know, it
doesn't work that way.

I mean, the rankings,
they matter, yeah,

but at the end of the day,

it's Larry Alston
who decides who gets to fight.

Charlie.

Hey, check this out.

What do you got?

(sniffing)

What is that smell?

You get used to it
after a while.

- I don't think so.
- No.

Okay, so there he is, all right.

Now this is
Professor Stanley Novich,

and this is where the door
to his lab used to be.

What do you mean, "used to be"?

I had one of my dad's contractor
friends bring in a crew late last night.

They dry-walled his doorway.

(laughing) Then painted it to
match the wall.

COLBY: Ah, you made his
office disappear?

Yeah, well,
now watch. Oh.

See that?

That could be it right there.

That could be what?

I'm hoping that the stress
of losing his office

will force him to reveal
his poker tell.

Well, he just did it again.

Gotcha.

Now, how can I help you,
gentlemen?

We actually have some new
information on the stuff

you been working on about
the fighters and their rankings.

AMITA:
The modified Kruskal count.

Yeah. You said before that Ben
benefited from the other fighters' deaths

because he improved
in the rankings.

Exactly.

What if rankings weren't
the only thing

to determine who fought
for the title?

How do you mean?

Ben told me that the head
of the league sets the fights,

that the rankings
are only a loose guide.

Well, we were assuming
that the rankings alone

determined
the fighting patterns.

Right, I mean, if there's
an arbitrary variable involved.

Yeah, it could
change things, right?

Big time.

Amita and I are going
to have to rework

the entire
network flow analysis.

What's all this?

Alston sent over the business
records that you asked him for.

Hey, you could have gone.

And?

Not much here, really.

Except that the All-Out Fighting
League is in a fair amount of debt.

I thought it was a big success.

It is, but Alston's focus has
been on expanding the business.

What, like he's overextended?

It looks like he's using his equity in
the business as collateral on the loans.

Right, so if he gets in trouble,

he's going to lose everything
though, huh?

We looked at almost a hundred
fighters over the past three years

and mapped out idealized
fight trajectories for each.

Idealized trajectories?

Essentially, we used skill level
and past performance

to create an objective
rating for each fighter.

Then we compare our results
to the actual histories.

Right, and what we found, well,

it's like driving two different
directions to the same destination.

One route has all the normal
road hazards,

uh, potholes, pedestrians.

The other considers
road hazards in advance

in order to map out
the most efficient route.

So you compared what actually
happened to what should've happened.

In an idealized world where fighters
only advance based on their merits.

DON:
All right, so?

What did you find?

Over the past two years,
Ken Bainsworth

has seen nothing
but green lights.

There's no way that would've
happened just by chance.

Right.

So you're saying
that the fights are fixed.

No. No,
the fights are very real.

But someone's been manipulating
Bainsworth's schedule

to make sure he doesn't lose.

DON:
All right, so why?

Megan said that the AFL's
pay-per-view deal

for the Alva championship

was going to be the
richest in MMA history.

But only if Bainsworth
is the challenger.

Right. So then Alston's got no
choice but to make it happen.

Or the broadcast company has the
right to void the entire deal.

All right, so he gets Lopez
and Munson killed...

Probably 'cause they could've
beaten Bainsworth.

Bill Tallridge broke his hand
in training.

They just pulled him
from the qualifier.

- So will they cancel the fight?
- No way, right?

Nah, the venue's booked.

Tickets are already sold.

If the fighter going
into that qualifier

has any chance
of beating Ken Bainsworth,

then... then he's in danger.

They announced the replacement the same
time they broke the news about the injury.

It's Ben.

Then they'll come
after him next.

I found traces
of a silicone polymer

in the sodium fluoroacetate
used to kill Pete Munson.

I was hoping I could use it
to pin down the manufacturer.

And?

I've been through every
chemical catalogue in the library.

I've spoken to ten different
manufacturers.

- And nothing?
- Mm-mm.

I even checked
with packaging companies.

Packaging?

Yeah, I figured that
the silicone might have come

from the container
the chemicals were in.

Why would you think that?

Because that silicone compound

is used to insulate
molded plastic.

You mean like that?

I assumed the 1080
was on the mouthpiece

because the victim put it in his
mouth after he was poisoned.

(speed dial beeping)

David's not picking up.

(crowd whistling and cheering)

COLBY:
All right, guys,

they tested all the water
and all the bottles,

so those are all good to go.

Alston's not going to come after
me in front of all these people.

COLBY: Look, his pay-per-view
deal's on the line.

Without it, he goes bankrupt.

Then he needs me to fight,
right?

Yeah, but he needs you to lose.

OFFICIAL:
Two minutes.

Let's do this.

Fighting out of the blue corner,

weighing in at 205 pounds,

the former light heavyweight
champion,

Ken "The Big Bang" Bainsworth!

(crowd cheering)

In the red corner,
the challenger,

with a record of 11 wins,
two losses,

from the Bronx, New York,

the pride of Jerome Avenue,

Ben Ellis!

(cheering)

(bell dings)

(cheering)

(crowd cheering wildly)

(bell dinging)

ANNOUNCER:
Winner by submission...

Ben Ellis!

(cheering)

Expecting a different result?

We found the mouthpiece.

You're under arrest.
Turn around.

Hands behind your back.

Take him away.

I didn't lose.

No, you didn't.

Didn't die either.

Thank you.

Yo, back there, in front
of my cousin's house,

when you picked me up...

you weren't really going
to shoot me, were you?

Yeah.

You looked good out there, man.

Thanks.

So, you think you can take Alva?

Bro, we're just going to have
to see about that.

About Earl...

No, no.

What's in the past
is in the past, right?

We're cool.

Yeah. Cool.

I love you, bro.

(crowd cheering)

(applause)

- Hey.
- Hi.

- Charlie's still in it.
- Yeah?

It's down to the final two.

Dr. Eppes,
the small blind, please.

You have a large blind,
Dr. Novich.

Action to you, Dr. Eppes.

I'll check.

(quietly)
Check.

I bet 100.

Raise... 200.

Call.

You think Charlie's
got the cards?

He must have kings;
otherwise he would have folded.

I mean, given the percentages.

I'll bet 200.

I raise...

one thousand.

(shocked murmuring)

Wow.

You have the tens, huh?

I'm all in.

(crowd murmuring)

DEALER: If you'd like to call,
you're all in, too.

I guess I'm all in, too.

DEALER:
Two pair.

Kings and tens.

Oh, that's not good.

I guess Charlie got beat.

Flush. Winner.

(applause)

(whoops)

- That's great, Charlie!
- Yeah!