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We're home. We brought steak frites and chocolate tart.

I almost felt bad putting it on Eddie's dime, until I didn't.

That's what he gets for leaving us.

- Thought you made peace with it. - Yeah, I did.

I'm taking over his lease, aren't I?

Yeah, and Freddy Fakeman didn't let anybody

forget about it at dinner.

Hey, do me a favor, would you?

Grab a plate.

It is criminal to eat steak frites from a to-go box.

Ooh. Uh, hey Maddie, I'm eating your fries.

Easy, Mr. Megaphone, I got a sleeping toddler in the house.

If she wakes up, it's your job to put her back to bed.

Eh, I will take any quality time with my niece I can get.

Where, uh, where is Maddie?

Probably in the shower.

I don't hear any water running.

Neither do I.

Maddie?

She's not here.

Jee-Yun's asleep. Maddie's not here.

Why would she leave her alone, even for a minute?

This doesn't make any sense.

Okay, now I'm freaking out a little.

I-I found this on the sink.

Daddy?

Where's Mommy?

Are you sure...

are you sure there isn't another way?

She has a... a daughter.

I know that. I was there, stupid.

Yeah, but I think she's a...

a really... a really good person

and I think she just w-wanted

to help us.

That was her mistake. And yours!

Thi... This one is not... not like the others.

People will be looking for her.

We're-we're gonna get caught!

Stop it! Stop it, you sniveling little baby!

You think I like doing this?

I hate doing this.

Then why are you?

To protect us. Protect you.

This is a private conversation.

- Synced and corrected by synk - - www.addic7ed.com -

Look, just please give me a call if she does.

Yes. Maddie Han.

H-A-N.

Uh, okay, copy.

Uh, no, no, that-that's all I got. Thank you.

Nobody matching Maddie's description

at Presbyterian ER, either.

Dispatch said her car

hasn't been involved in any kind of accident

anywhere across the city.

What about her phone?

No. There's nothing here.

Uh, I got it.

Hey, thanks for coming.

- Where is he? - Over there.

Chim.

- Hey. - Hey.

- Any news? - No. We've called

every hospital from here to Orange County.

I think it's time we call someone else, Chim.

I think you need to file a missing persons report.

Yeah, I-I agree.

I don't know.

What are you waiting for?

Listen, when we found out

that she was pregnant, we made a deal.

She said that she wouldn't leave

without telling me, and I told her

that I would not treat her like she's broken.

But Chim,

if she's really out there having a mental health crisis,

we need to get her help.

God, she was doing so well.

She was doing well before, too.

Till she wasn't.

Chim, this is not your fault, okay?

- We're gonna find her. - All right, you two

start canvassing the neighborhood.

You don't know, she might just be

- out there walking. - Right.

I'm gonna stay here with Jee-Yun while Chim heads downtown.

- Yeah. - Downtown? What...

- Who are you calling? - Athena.

Time to wake up.

Sit up.

Here.

Have some water.

You must be parched.

Chloroform will do that.

- Mm-mmm. - It's not drugged.

If I wanted to dose you again I would just use the rag.

Come on.

See? Isn't that's better?

Okay, I know what you're thinking.

And no, it's not a dream.

You were the first to raise your hand.

Athena said that you volunteered for this case.

Well, yeah.

I mean, I-I wanted to see if I could ease your mind,

convince you that it was all a hoax.

And then you walked into my office

with all that evidence.

I knew you were going to be a problem.

It was you?

The whole time?

But-but your voice...

There's an app for everything.

- Richard Bullock. - We did a service

with that one.

I'd been after him for a long time,

so thank you for giving me a reason to take out that trash.

But we are not here to talk about him.

We are here...

to talk about you.

- What about me? - Come on, Maddie.

You didn't go home last night with the sneaking suspicion

that something wasn't quite right in how it all ended?

"Did I really make that man turn a gun of himself?

"And the voices?

Well, something just doesn't quite fit."

I was just sick about all of it.

No. When I was sitting in my office with Athena,

I saw the little wheels turning in your head.

It was only a matter of time

before you expressed your concerns to someone.

Who did you tell... Athena?

Did you call your husband?

You took me from my home.

I didn't get the chance to talk to anyone.

I don't believe you.

- I'm not lying. - Just like you said

you didn't lie about sending the police

when I called you for help?

You're supposed to save those girls.

I do save those girls!

Amber, you kill them.

Ah...

Using my first name.

I really love the tactic.

What are you gonna do to me?

Oop.

Athena Grant.

Looks like somebody noticed that you went missing.

Probably wants me to help find you.

Amber. Please.

Last time you spoke to Maddie, how did she sound?

- Was there any indication that... - No.

I thought that she sounded fine.

Maybe I was just too caught up to even hear her.

Hey. You didn't do anything wrong.

We're gonna find her.

Sorry, took me a second.

Uh, is this Maddie's husband?

Yeah, hi. I'm Howard Han.

Uh, people call me Chimney.

Mm. And...

Bobby Nash. Her husband, his captain.

So, w-what more can we do?

My friends are out looking for her, I checked all the hospitals.

First things first, why don't you finish

filling out that form so I can get it into the system?

- Did you bring a picture? - Uh, yes. Digital okay?

Absolutely. Just keep writing.

Okay.

Can I speak to you for a second?

- Of course. - Okay.

I have to ask. What do you think?

About Maddie?

Last time I saw her was with you.

She didn't seem like a woman who would

suddenly pack up and then just disappear.

Come on. Come on.

She was pretty upset.

And what about the husband?

Can you vouch for him?

Chimney?

He's true-blue.

He would never do anything to hurt Maddie.

Plus, he was with people all day.

And you did not speak to her after our meeting yesterday?

The last time I saw her was with you.

Okay.

There's something I haven't told you two.

Something I probably should've put on that form.

Maddie's pregnant.

Wow.

Okay.

All right. She's in the system.

APB's going out now.

What?

You should probably tell her.

Maddie's pregnant.

Just past her first trimester.

I'm guessing you didn't put that on the form.

It might explain things, though.

After we had our first child,

Maddie suffered from postpartum depression,

and it was... it was pretty bad.

How bad?

She drove down to the beach intending to drown herself.

I see.

But that was postpartum.

Uh, she's shown absolutely no signs of depression

or anything out of the ordinary since.

Mr. Han, did-did your wife

say anything to you about the case

we've been working on together?

Yeah.

I know that she was freaked out,

but she told me that you got the guy.

Did she say anything about how we got him?

No.

He took his own life.

Maddie talked him into it.

What?

We have to take this into account.

She was under a-a very unique stress.

May I have a moment to talk to Mr. Han alone?

Yeah.

- Chim, we'll meet you outside. - All right. Thanks, guys.

God.

Which beach?

I'm sorry?

You said that she drove herself

out to the beach to drown herself last time.

Which one?

I want to send a cruiser out there, just in case.

Uh, Zuma, I think.

S-Something about this isn't right.

I would say almost nothing is right about it.

Not just about Maddie running away.

About it happening on the same day

that she helps to stop a kidnapper.

That's just too big a coincidence.

Has she been drinking, Mr. Han?

W-With a baby on the way? No.

No. Absolutely not.

Are you sure she wants this baby?

Yes. Yes.

A man's dead.

He didn't kill himself and then kidnap Maddie.

But what if he wasn't working alone?

You suspect he had an accomplice?

I didn't. Until now.

Don't say anything. I don't want him to worry.

- Hey. All set? - She gave me her card.

Told me to try her anytime, day or night.

I get the feeling she thinks Maddie will be missing for a while.

- Why don't we give you a ride home? - I feel like I should

- be doing something more. - No, you are doing

exactly what you're supposed to.

You have one place to be right now,

and that's with your daughter.

Okay.

Somebody's got a bun in the oven.

What are you doing?

Just getting a few things ready.

You know, I'm not some homeless runaway.

My husband's not gonna believe that I just walked away.

But you have before, Maddie,

- haven't you? - Did he tell you that?

Actually, you did.

When I called you the first time for help.

That you thought you were a danger to your daughter.

You told me something true about yourself, and...

I think that's why we felt we could trust you.

But then it was just lies.

Your husband confirmed the details.

All the details.

About how you nearly...

I think he's afraid you might do it again.

I was suffering from postpartum depression.

But I also hear that prenatal depression

can be really bad, especially for someone

like you, with your history.

What is that?

Fentanyl.

It'll be painless.

Just like falling asleep.

Wait, Amber. Wait.

For what?

My daughter.

Please let me say goodbye.

You do realize where you are, right?

I mean, you don't, like, get a phone call.

It's not a call.

A note.

Please.

I need to explain some of this. I need to...

I need to tell her that her mommy

did not walk away because of her this time.

What, like a suicide note?

Yeah.

Please.

That could be good for both of us, actually.

I'll get you a pen and paper.

Hey. Silver SUV.

Oh, uh, no, that-that's not her.

This is pointless.

She's not walking around. She took her car.

Whatever's going on with her, this is way worse

than last time.

Last time, she let me know

she was leaving. She made sure Jee was safe.

She dropped her at the firehouse.

I-I don't know what's going on.

Everything felt like it was finally getting back

to the way it should be.

Gerrard was out as captain and-and Bobby was back in and...

And then Tommy dumps me.

And now Maddie is-is missing or she's run away,

lost her mind, whatever this is.

And-and you.

You're just moving back to Texas,

mm, like it's nothing, it doesn't affect anybody else.

It does.

It's not nothing.

No, I-I know it's not nothing.

- I-I didn't mean... - Hey.

We've been up all night.

You don't have to say anything.

Yeah.

I got to get some gas.

And some coffee.

Yeah.

Hurry, hurry.

Time's almost up.

- Come on, come on. - Game.

- Hey, Chim. - Hey, everybody.

Hi, Daddy.

Can we play again?

Hey, listen, why don't you kids,

uh, start a new round and the adults will go talk?

All right.

But, Jee, we're gonna beat you this time.

- Yeah. - No way.

Chim, uh, I hope you don't mind I brought the kids.

Thank you for doing that for Jee.

And for me.

We're family.

So...

how did it go with the detective?

She was very kind.

Listened patiently to everything I had to say.

Good.

And she weighed all the available evidence,

including some things

I didn't even know about Maddie's last call.

And?

And she came to the informed conclusion that...

Maddie ran away.

Rick, thanks for arranging this.

Hey, when Athena Grant calls, I come running.

Oh, yeah, well, anybody else know we doing this?

Just the M.E., but don't worry, I'm keeping this between us.

I appreciate that, because I am really going out

on a skinny branch here.

I have to admit, I was surprised you wanted to review the autopsy.

The guy shot himself on the air with 911.

Seemed pretty open-shut.

Yeah, maybe a little too open-shut.

I just want to make sure he's the one

who actually pulled the trigger.

Well, his finger was definitely on the trigger.

He has gunshot residue all over his right hand

- and temple. - So he did shoot himself.

I didn't say that.

- Didn't you? - I said his finger

was on the trigger, but he had a healthy amount

of trichloromethane in his system.

- Chloroform. - Well, we believe

that he used chloroform to incapacitate his victims.

- Could that account for it? - Not at these levels.

My guess is, he was chloroformed repeatedly.

So he was drugged, somebody put a gun in his hand

and then manipulated his trigger finger?

I don't put the puzzle together, Sergeant.

I only provide the pieces.

So somebody kept him alive long enough

for him to be a fresh kill

- when we got there. - And that somebody

is still out there.

Hey, Jayna.

Sorry to wake you.

No, it-it's okay.

- This is Detective Romero. - Hi.

Is it all right if we come in?

Of course.

- How are you feeling? - Better.

The doctors said I might even be able to get discharged soon,

if my mom can pick me up.

Is she coming down from Bakersfield?

Uh, she's trying to get a ride.

Jayna, we wanted to ask you a few questions about your captivity.

I don't remember much.

Do you remember anything about being abducted?

I remember being at the bus station.

I went into the bathroom.

And when I came out of the stall,

I guess he was waiting.

He came up behind me,

put a rag over my face.

It was wet,

smelled like chemicals.

Chloroform.

I don't remember a lot after that.

And he never...

No.

He never touched me.

Jayna, when he took you,

do you remember seeing anyone else with him?

You mean the woman?

Wait, you saw a woman?

I mean, no, not exactly, but...

there was a woman.

At first, I thought she might be another victim like me.

She was crying.

What makes you think that she wasn't a victim?

Because they were, like...

fighting.

Arguing.

And she sounded older.

Are you finished?

You really love her, don't you?

I do.

If my mother had loved me half as much as you love her,

maybe we wouldn't be here right now.

All right. It's time.

Amber.

No more talking.

Please don't do this to my daughter, okay?

I'm begging.

Amber.

Please. Amber?

Please don't make me do this.

If you don't do it, I will.

Please don't take this personally.

John?

We talked on the phone, remember?

My real name isn't John.

Okay, what's your real name?

My name is Peter.

Hi, Peter. It's-it's nice to meet you in person.

It's nice to meet you, too.

I'm really...

I'm really sorry that I have to do this.

So don't.

No, she makes me do it because...

she's a coward.

So, then you need to fight her.

I try.

Okay, I-I know that you do.

But she always wins. She always wins.

- No, so don't let her, okay? - Oh, God.

I... that's why I'm here. I-I'm-I'm,

I'm here, and I'm glad to be here.

You're glad to be here?

Yeah. Yeah, so that I can help you,

'cause that's-that's why you called me, right?

Yeah, but you didn't help me.

You wanted me to kill myself.

No, no, no, I know. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to do that. I didn't understand.

Okay? Now I understand, so...

so can you just give me another chance?

Please, just give me one more chance.

Well, I...

if I thought you could.

So let me try.

Please.

We'll see.

What?

What?

I'm still at this number.

I'll leave my phone on.

Still nothing?

That's the third message I've left for her.

Who do you call when your missing persons detective

goes missing?

- You want to wait a little longer? - No.

I don't think this can wait.

So, what's going on? Why'd they bring me down here?

We have some questions for you, is all.

Did you find him? Richard?

Yeah. We found him.

A-And the girl, the one you thought he took.

- Was she with him? - She was with him.

Is she okay?

Yeah. She's alive.

Well, that's great.

Aren't you gonna ask about your boyfriend?

Ex-boyfriend.

Ex-everything, as it happens.

- What does that mean? - Richard's dead.

Wow. Okay.

You don't seem

- too broken up about it. - What do you want me to say?

- The guy was a creep. - A creep that you were with

for how many years?

It was complicated?

I'll bet.

How many of those girls did you procure for him, Isabelle?

- What? - Were you in on it

with him from the beginning?

Maybe he forced you to participate.

Maybe you hated it. Maybe you didn't see any other way out.

Okay. Okay, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Whatever Richard was sleazing around doing,

I didn't know anything about it.

We know that Richard was working with a female, Isabelle.

The last girl Jayna Whitlock was abducted

from a ladies' room at Union Station.

Richard would have been a little too conspicuous

to go in there, but not you.

That's crazy. I cooperated.

You wouldn't have found him

if I didn't tell you where he was.

Except that's not where we found him.

He wasn't at the trailer.

- Somebody warned him. - Well, it wasn't me.

No. You killed him.

- What? - This is what Richard looked like

when we found him.

It looks like he killed himself.

Except he didn't. He was drugged.

Somebody else pulled the trigger.

Somebody who wanted it to look like a suicide.

This was last night?

- Mm-hmm. - Okay, that proves that it couldn't

have been me, because I was at the Fairway Casino

playing blackjack all night.

And I'm probably on about a hundred cameras.

You know, they have a lot of cameras there.

People cheat.

Her alibi checks out.

That's her hitting blackjack at 9:30 last night.

I spoke to the casino's head of security.

She was there till 3:00 in the morning.

All right, let's kick her loose.

I really thought we were onto something with that theory.

We still might be.

Maybe Isabelle Tanev wasn't the only woman

in Richard Bullock's life.

Okay, now we're gonna get in there,

we're gonna take this fat calf off,

we're gonna get right into those ribs that you just saw.

- We are going to... - Hello, Jayna.

Uh, hi.

Oh, uh, you don't remember me, but I was there

the night that we found you.

My name's Amber Braeburn.

I'm the missing persons detective

who was in charge of finding you.

Thank you.

You all saved my life.

I've got good news.

I spoke to the doctors.

You're being discharged.

- But my mom's not here. - That's okay.

I'll take you to her. She can't wait to see you.

These are the weepy caller's known victims.

Jayna Whitlock, whom you rescued,

Holly Martinez, whose body

was found in 2015 in Griffith Park,

and Angie Bixby, 2022 in Portland.

Hmm.

I'm guessing that Bullock and his unknown companion

took more than three girls over ten years.

Agreed.

What? What are you thinking?

Well, I'm thinking that if we can maybe identify

a few more potential victims,

that maybe a lead might shake out.

We need to go through the case logs,

we need to find any kidnappings

over the past 20 years of runaways,

age 14 to 20,

where the perpetrator used chloroform.

Bonus points if the suspect called 911.

David-11. Possible 211,

located at 2526...

Another cup?

I don't think my kidneys would survive it.

You guys should go home.

It's a school night. They should be in their own beds

and I should go put Jee to sleep.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Off to sleep.

Hey. Did you forget something?

Uh, no, we were, we were loading them

in the car, and-and Mara...

Mara, tell him what you told me.

Jee said her mom

was talking to someone who was crying last night

after she went to bed.

There was someone else in the house.

Holy smokes.

- You got something? - 14-year-old female

taken outside of Union Station in 2000.

Found two weeks later wandering the streets

with near-lethal amounts

of trichloromethane in her system

after she called 911.

So, she escaped?

Yeah, it looks like.

Maybe she can identify her attacker.

- Yep. - All right, what's her name?

- It doesn't say. - We need to speak with her right away.

It's been redacted, probably 'cause she was a minor.

Well, who was the investigating detective?

Maybe we can contact him.

Uh, Detective Bruce Strazzio.

Died five years ago.

Damn it.

You said she called 911?

Yeah, but it doesn't provide the transcript.

Maybe we can get that on our own.

We hit up every desk agent at LAX,

Burbank, and Union Station.

No one's seen Maddie.

I already called her office line.

I need you to patch me through to her cell.

Uh, what's going on?

He's trying to reach that missing persons detective.

- Did something happen? - Well, we think somebody

was in the house when Maddie disappeared.

Jee-Yun said that she heard someone crying.

- Someone not Maddie? - Yeah.

Have Detective Braeburn call me as soon as possible.

My name is Howard Han.

It's about a case. She'll know.

They said her cell went straight to voicemail.

It is getting late.

Well, this can't wait.

June 16, 2000?

Well, according to the log, it would have come in

from downtown sometime around 7:30 p.m.

That's a deep pull. Do you know who made it?

No. The whole reason we want to listen

is to figure out who the caller is.

Copy that.

Uh, no, nothing from 7:30 p.m.

Oh, call from Temple Street at 7:17.

911. What's your emergency?

Oh, God, please come get me before he kills me.

It's okay, honey. I need to know

where you're calling from.

I'm calling from a pay phone.

I-I hurt him really bad, but I still think

he might be after me.

Who might be after you?

The man who took me.

He put a rag over my face outside Union Station.

He kept me in his house.

I-I don't know how long he drugged me for.

Okay, I need you to tell me your name.

My name's Amber.

Amber Braeburn. I...

I ran away from home.

Detective Amber Braeburn was a kidnapping victim herself?

And a runaway.

You think she was working with Bullock?

I think that Bullock was her patsy.

She handed him to us on a silver platter from the start.

Josh, I need you to pull up her address.

I already did.

Chimney called me for her address five minutes before you walked in.

Come on.

"The victim, a minor whose identity is being withheld,

slashed her captor with a broken bottle to get away."

"They believe he tortured his victims in a private dungeon

he built in his home."

Oh, my God.

I'm back.

Jayna?

Say hello to Maddie.

Amber, what are you doing?

Just what you asked me to do.

Giving you a chance.

Go ahead.

Talk me out of it.

I know who you are.

I know you escaped once.

I know what happened to you,

I know what he did to you.

You have no idea what he did to me.

Yes, I do.

I was a prisoner once, too,

and I did whatever it took to survive.

We both did.

I'm a monster.

Amber, you're sick. That is not your fault.

Okay, you fought him once. Fight him for her.

Fight him.

You have to fight him.

I'm sorry.

Son of a bitch.

Amber, please.

Yep, yep, yep.

It's okay. It's okay.

We'll have to get back to this later.

What are you gonna do?

I got to get rid of your husband.

No!

Screw it.

Mr. Han.

I'm so sorry to show up on your doorstep like this.

I've been trying to reach you all night.

Oh, no, it's okay, I'm sorry, I was downstairs working.

Reception sucks down there.

- C-Come in. - Thank you.

So, what's going on, Mr. Han?

Maddie didn't leave on her own. I think she was taken.

What makes you say that?

Our daughter. She said that someone else was in the house.

Uh, let me get you some water.

And what did your daughter

- say that she heard? - Somebody crying.

Someone not my wife.

Crying?

Look, I know this sounds strange.

No, uh, maybe not.

Let me get you some water, let's go downstairs.

I'll take an official statement.

You know, no stone unturned.

It's Athena.

Hey, Athena, did you find her?

Chimney, answer me,

Yes or no: are you with Detective Braeburn right now?

- Yes. - Okay, listen to me.

It's very important that you keep your voice calm, okay?

Yeah, for sure.

We think she's the one who took Maddie.

What?

We think she might be a damn serial killer.

No kidding.

I need you to get the hell out of there.

Make any excuse. We're on our way right now.

Sorry, I can't tonight.

Thanks for asking.

Athena figured it out?

Where's my wife?

Where is Maddie?

- Maddie! - Sorry, you just missed her.

Maddie. Oh, my God, Maddie.

No, no, no, no. No, no.

Maddie. Maddie, stay with... no, no, no.

Hey, hey, hey, no, no, n-n-no.

Keep your eyes open for me, baby. Keep your eyes open.

Siri, call 911. Stay with me. Eyes open.

911. What's your emergency?

I need an ACLS ambulance

at a level-one trauma, address is 6374 Worley Road.

My wife's throat has been slashed.

Focus on me. Focus on me, okay?

Okay, I'm right here.

Keep your eyes on me, all right?

I'm right here, baby. Right here.

That's right. I'm right here.

Scene's secure. Come in now.

Get that backboard in here.

Maddie, stay with me.

Stay with me.

Help is here, Maddie.

You're gonna be okay. You're gonna be, you're gonna be okay.

Thanks.

Hey, you don't have to be here.

What are you talking about?

You've already done so much.

I can call you if anything happens.

You should be with your family.

What makes you think I'm not?

Mr. Han?

Hey.

Chim?

Everything's gonna be okay.

And the-the baby?

The doctors told me he's just fine.

It's a, it's a boy?

Yeah.

That's what they tell me.

Thanks for helping me finish packing.

Chris is gonna be psyched you found his favorite shirt.

He's been looking for it ever since he got to El Paso.

Well, you make sure he knows I'm the one who found it.

Right. Credit where credit's due.

Thanks for helping me get back to him.

Uh, yeah, of course. Don't sweat it.

I know this whole thing between us has been messy and hard,

and both of us could have handled it a little bit better.

But I hope you know, you do matter to me.

I know.

Chris and I are always a phone call or FaceTime away.

Well...

Well, uh...

Oh, I-I baked you something. Um...

Chocolate chip protein cookies.

They should give you enough energy for the drive

with no sugar crash.

That's really thoughtful of you. Thank you.

Uh, you make sure you save a couple for Chris.

Oh, man, I'm gonna miss you.

Yeah. I'm, uh, I'm gonna miss you, too.

A-And you let me know when you get there, okay?

I will.

Bye, Buck.

All right, you hit the road.

Just get out of here.

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