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According to the doctor, David's conditions improve, but he hasn't been

medication long enough for it to be fully effective.

Now, when we get in there, I'll take the lead. No making promises, no sharing

information, and no coaching answers.

With all due respect, Captain, I know how the medication works.

And while I may not have as much street experience as most of your inspectors, I

am familiar with the do's and don'ts of conducting an interview.

Yes, but this interview is your son.

He's a prime suspect in a brutal murder, and you lied to me about knowing where

he was. I was going to bring him in.

So you say.

You know, having you participate in this investigation at all has me going way

out into the margins of the gray area.

You know, if you don't trust me, why are you letting me do that?

Because I've seen you work, and you're a good cop.

And I'm a cop and a mother, too, and I believe it's possible to do both well.

Well, I will prove you wrong.

Good.

I don't like this medication.

I don't like what it makes me remember.

Are you remembering what happened that night?

The night Mary was killed?

I wish I could stop.

What is it you're remembering?

Do you promise to forgive me no matter what I tell you?

Yes.

I love Mary so much.

I needed her.

I wanted to tell her that we needed to be together, but she wouldn't listen to

me anymore.

Is that what happened that night?

You tried to make her listen to you?

I went to her work because she wouldn't talk to me on the phone anymore.

The people where she lived kept me out.

I heard her when I walked up. She was saying things about me. She was

What happened after that?

I think I hit her.

I think I hit her really hard.

She tried to stop me. I wanted to stop her.

I couldn't.

I can feel her bones breaking.

Little matchsticks breaking.

I can hear it.

What do you remember after that?

What?

Did you do anything else?

I woke up on the pier.

I don't remember getting there.

I smell like blood.

Can't you smell it?

I don't want to smell it anymore. I don't want to think about this anymore.

Don't touch me. I don't want to think anymore.

Sorry, Reagan.

I'm not.

What do you mean?

David didn't do it My son is innocent

Well, Regan, David just admitted to attacking Mary O 'Reilly. He admitted to

beating someone, but Mary wasn't beaten. She was strangled with her own belt.

Yeah, the only prints on the belt belonged to David and Mary. And the

the diner saw him do it. I don't know what happened yet, but I do know that

David didn't kill her.

Not like I don't know how to feel.

This is not just a mother's wishful thinking.

That was a graphic memory.

When David imagines, it's different.

You know, he did beat someone that night at the diner. I need to find out who

that person is.

Well, anything's possible. I have to ask you this probably.

And what about the unidentified blood found at the scene? What if it matches

blood on the shirt I found in David's backpack?

Well, it's going to be at least a week before we get the DNA back from the lab.

Until then, you can pursue your investigation.

Everything goes through me, though.

Absolutely.

Hot date?

No, tonight's my literacy volunteer thing.

Oh, right, the Russians.

Hot date. We volunteer together and he's touching.

And he's adorable. You already said he was adorable.

Good night, Raina.

Call me if you have a brother.

I'm serious.

Carol,

how's my favorite paralegal doing?

How you liking the neighborhood?

Well, I found this place that has a fantastic chicken Caesar.

Again?

You're going to get sick of it. Oh, and an iced tea, please.

Okay, you got it.

So how did it go with Nadia today?

Better. It was such a struggle for you. You were so lucky that your dad made you

and your sisters learn English.

I wish Alexander's father had done the same.

He's a terrible student. He only wants to know English slang and curse words.

So I told him that for every chapter he can take from the workbook, I will teach

him a new curse word.

Michael, we're supposed to be the teachers. We're supposed to set good

What, are you going to report me to the Literacy Council?

If you tell me why you're in such a good mood.

Again, you haven't done anything.

Sorry, I shouldn't have done that.

No, it's okay. I didn't... I didn't know that you liked me like that.

Well, we change our sometimes backwards.

First we kiss, then we date.

But now do we go out to dinner?

Not tonight.

It's Tuesday or Saturday, whenever you say, I promise.

Tonight, Lara and Katerina arrive.

Oh, your sisters are coming from Chechnya.

Actually, they went first to Mexico.

Hello?

Katerina, where are you?

Hello?

Where is Katerina?

And Lara?

What? No, no, we paid you already.

No, you put my sister on the phone.

Hello? Hello?

Cap!

Cap! Wait! What happened?

I don't know where to go.

Who was on the phone?

The man we paid to bring my sisters here.

I could hear Katerina crying.

Where is he?

I don't know. He wouldn't tell me.

He said he wants $5 ,000 by tomorrow or he will kill Lara and Katerina.

Where will I get $5 ,000?

Okay, Mikhail, you need to go to the police.

No, not police.

I'm here on my student visa. My sisters, they have no visa.

It doesn't matter. Okay, the city police have nothing to do with immigration. We

don't ask anyone their immigration status.

San Francisco is a sanctuary city.

Wait.

You are the police?

Yes, I work for the police. I didn't tell the literacy program because I knew

that most of the people we teach here are like you. They come from places

they can't trust the police. But it is different here, Mikhail.

You can trust the police.

You have to. No.

Mikhail. Mikhail.

Then trust me.

Okay? Trust me.

But Richard's lives depend on them.

Excuse me, Patrick.

I'm going to need a residue test run on this jacket.

Thanks.

Captain Miss Regan.

Yeah, I found something on Mary O 'Reilly's jacket that wasn't tested in

original investigation.

So did immigration know anything?

No, sorry.

And Captain Randall at Homeland Security wasn't very optimistic.

Apparently the people smuggling business has gotten even uglier since 9 -11.

I mean, drug smugglers, organized crime are all getting involved. The money's

good, and the penalties are relatively low compared to drug smuggling.

Well, does she think that he has any reason to hurt McHale sisters?

Oh, it's very possible. She said that these coyotes will do whatever they

it'll take to convince these families to find more money.

These girls are from Chechnya, right? What are they doing coming into the

country through Mexico?

Customs and immigration control in Mexico is really porous.

Smugglers pay the official to look the other way when their clients get off the

plane.

Then how they get from Mexico to here is up to them.

We've got a trap on Mikhail's phone, right?

Magda served the phone company with a warrant. We're waiting for the call.

They're just kids, Kat.

Katarina's 16, Lara's 8.

Yeah, well, unfortunately, the coyotes could care less.

What do you got?

Oh, I took these to the diner.

What do you think?

We'll see.

His first name is Joey, one of the waitresses says he's been a regular for

years since she's worked there.

This guy's the owner, Craig Larson.

He's the only one who handles Joey's takeout.

Is that significant?

I don't know, but it seems a little strange, though, don't you think?

Maybe.

Any luck with the area hospitals?

No one has a record of treating someone who was badly beaten the night that Mary

was killed.

Well, maybe that person doesn't exist.

Maybe because he just killed Mary O 'Reilly, he didn't want doctors asking

questions.

I'm keeping all options open at this point.

Hey, Cap.

We got a hit on the Coyotes. We just got off the phone with McAllen and set the

drop for 6 o 'clock on 5th and Brennan. That's in three hours.

Could you trace the call? Yeah. Phone booth at a storage facility over on

Mariposa. Uh -huh.

Perfect place to stash whatever vehicle they used to bring them up here. Or to

hold hostages.

Yeah, but if we raid it and we don't find anything, we risk tipping off the

coyotes and we blow our chance at the drop. Let's keep it real low -key at the

storage facility.

Take Nate with you, and I'll send Rain over to the drop to set up.

What about Mikkel?

The only photographs we have of his sisters are about four years old.

And if the coyote is at the facility and he sees us and takes off with the

girls, we won't recognize any of them.

Right, okay. Send him along with Daisy, but keep him on the outer perimeter.

I'll call in the search warrant to the on -duty judge.

Okay.

Got a couple of cigarette butts.

Matchbook cover from a bar in Rosarito, Mexico.

You seen anybody using this payphone in the last hour?

No.

How many ground floor units do you have that are big enough to hold a van or a

pickup truck?

You'd need at least a 20 by. We got about 30 of those.

What was it like in Chechnya? You never talk about it.

Unlimited violence.

That's what it was like.

Your father was a doctor, right? That's why you came here to study medicine?

I started treating people at our house.

Very dangerous to go out with, like, the soldiers at the checkpoints. They get

drunk and they shoot anyone who approaches.

They come into the villages, they shoot into people's houses.

One night after I came here, they took my father away.

They accused him of treating the rebels.

I'm so sorry, Miguel.

My sisters and my mother, they had to buy the body bag.

The scalp had been removed like a cap.

From all the bleeding, it was clear that he was still alive when it happened.

I will not pay for the bodies of any more of my family.

We must find my sister alive.

Nate!

Tide tracks.

Looks like it could be from a small truck.

Open this one up. Watch out for the tide tracks.

Stay right here.

No.

Stay back.

Dispatch, this is Inspector Bassett. We're going to need backup at 895

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

She's dead.

You think I've not seen that?

You think not knowing it better?

They're alive. She's my sister. Please let me see him.

We'll not get to Nina. She's not there.

Where is my sister?

The guy never showed up to the drop camp.

How's the little girl?

The doctor has been there checking her out. Dacey and McKellar with her.

Any word from the ME on the others? They all died of dehydration.

Probably in the last 24 hours, world. No more after the autopsies.

No claw marks on the walls.

Oh, my God.

I mean, what does your life have to be like to choose to let some stranger seal

you in a box in the back of a truck?

The odds were actually in their favor.

He's right.

Bassett.

There's about a million people who come into the U .S. illegally every year.

And the number who die trying goes up every year, but last year it was still

less than 500.

Of course, that's called comfort for the families of the people who died in the

truck. Got it. Thanks. Or Mikhail if we don't find Katerina.

I had dispatch run the plate on the truck.

A hit came back on a rental place out in the marina.

Excellent.

So the man that drove the truck was in the garage a little while before we got

there? Yes, and Caterina. I hear her crying.

But you didn't see him?

Not even in Mexico?

No. One man put his hand, the other moved the car.

And they sounded different.

This is it?

This is your great American police work, interrogating a child?

Thank you. No.

I should have done what he said. I should have found the money.

We found Laura.

I have two sisters.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

Look, Raquel, we're not the enemy here, okay?

And this will all go a lot more smoothly if you just cooperate.

Now, we're going to keep the trap on your phone.

The kidnapper's going to call you again soon. He wants money.

My guess is that he went back to the truck and discovered that the others

dead, and now he's desperate. He wants money to get out of town.

What happens to him if you catch him?

He'll be tried.

And if he's convicted, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.

If he's convicted?

Mikhail, we don't just drag people out on the street and shoot them.

Innocent till proven guilty. Isn't that one of the reasons why you wanted to

come to this country?

Elliot's pond?

I haven't thought of that in years.

Remember how we used to put our skates on at the top of the hill?

We'd hit the ice on the pond going about 90 miles an hour.

And gave every mom in the neighborhood a heart attack.

I wish I was back there.

How could I have killed somebody, Mom?

I mean, how could I have killed Mary?

I don't think you did, David.

What if I did?

Then we will find a way through this somehow.

And I will love you no matter what.

Homicide?

You think this truck was involved in a homicide?

The bodies of four people were found suffocated in a hidden compartment in

back of the truck, Mr. Marcus.

That's horrible.

I don't have any trucks with concealed compartments.

I rented this guy our basic 14 -foot panel truck. He said he was moving some

furniture.

Maybe you have the wrong truck?

Yeah. How long did Michael Thim have the truck?

He rented it 10 days ago. He called this morning to report it stolen. I was just

about to call the police when he got here.

Where did he say it was stolen from?

Parked outside of a loft on Euclid. He said he left it there last night, and

when he got up this morning, it was gone.

Yeah, well, we're going to need all the identification information he gave you

when he rented the truck, a full description, anything you can remember

him. Of course.

And you didn't make them fill out any paperwork.

They said they only needed the unit for a few days.

They offered me 200 bucks.

Ooh, and you took it.

Kept the cash for yourself.

I didn't know what they were going to do in there. No, you didn't.

But you still took their money and let them in anyway.

Look, I'm going to send in a sketch artist.

Don't leave anything out.

So, our Michael Sims doesn't exist.

The driver's license and the credit card he gave Vargas are fraudulent. And the

phone number comes back registered to the same stolen cell phone he used to

the first call to the town.

Did Vargas' description of Sims match either of these?

According to Gerald, these are the two guys that rented the storage unit. That

one is a pretty good match for the picture on the license that Vargas had.

The DMV is faxing over Douglas Reed's license.

Who's Douglas Reed?

We got a match on a print crime scene that pulled off the truck.

It belongs to Douglas Reed.

So do we have any information on this other guy?

No, just that he doesn't talk much and he's got a bunch of tattoos on his arms.

Well, it looks like Douglas Reed and Michael Sims might be one and the same.

Let's go get Mr. Reed.

IMS said smuggling syndicates recruit college students and old people to drive

illegals across the border. I guess I just didn't believe it.

This must be the place.

Mr. Reed, the police.

Looks like our guy.

He's got no pulse, but he's still warm.

He hasn't been like this for long.

Police! Come out with your hands up!

Now!

What are you doing,

Mikhail?

Why don't you tell us what happened?

Well, I don't believe that you meant to kill Douglas Reed. I don't believe that

you'd do that to Katarina or Laura.

He's not going to talk to her either.

He doesn't trust the police, but he trusts Stacy.

What we believe doesn't matter.

Nothing matters.

No, no, that is correct.

What do you know?

Anything!

You all live in a bubble with your warm, safe homes and your family is all

around you whenever you want them there.

What do you know?

Yeah, you're right.

You're right.

I have no idea what it's like to be you.

None.

And I'm so lucky to be born in this place at this time.

But you know what?

You know what? No matter where you were born, we all have to decide what we're

going to do with the lives that we are given.

Are you going to roll over?

Or are you going to fight?

Are you going to fight for yourself?

I

didn't

kill Douglas Reid.

I tried to save him.

She did it.

When I got to his room, the door was open.

He was on the floor, the knife still in his chest.

Tried to stop the bleeding, but I was too late.

How did you find him?

He called me.

Not on my cell phone, at the community center.

We agreed to meet.

I said I had the money. Told me he would kill Katerina if I brought the police

again. Did you have the money?

No.

I planned to wait outside at the meeting place and then follow him.

I hoped he would take me to Katerina.

But he took you to the dorm instead.

I didn't believe he had Katerina there.

So I waited outside for him.

But he didn't come back.

I decided then that I was going to go inside and I was going to do what they

I was going to beat him.

I was going to beat him until he gave me what I wanted.

I got in there and he was dead.

How will I find Katrina now?

Okay, let's find Reed's car.

Have crime scenes go over it for anything that could narrow our search

Katerina. Soil samples, fibers,

receipts, anything that would put him in a neighborhood away from the campus.

Looks like crime scenes reports just came back on Douglas Reed's dorm room.

And it seems Mikhail's fingerprints were all over the place, including on the

handle of the knife that killed Douglas.

Yeah, but that could still track Mikhail's version of the story.

And it could mean that he lost control and killed the kid.

Hey, I got info on the guy that rented the storage unit with Douglas.

One of the witnesses thinks she saw him coming out of an apartment building on

Crescent. Okay, let's grab some uniforms and canvas.

This guy could be our only definite connection to finding Katerina.

What's the status of the little girl?

CPS released her from the hospital this morning to a family from the church that

Mikhail belongs to.

Stacy's bringing her over for dinner tonight to our place, and maybe we can

some more information out of her.

We'll make it an early dinner.

It's 48 hours now since anyone's heard from Katerina, and we're running out of

time. This is my diner takeout guy. His name is Joey Louganis. He's a low -level

heroin dealer.

Which has what relevance, if any, to Mary O 'Reilly's murder?

I think this could be the guy that David beat up. That's relevant.

Any priors?

Apparently he's never been arrested.

How'd you know? How'd you know? Remember the residue I found on Mary's jacket?

Turns out it was quinine.

Quinine, that's used to cut heroin.

You think Mary's death was drug -related?

Her autopsy tox screen came back negative.

She had no history of drug use, neither does David.

Not illegal drugs, anyway.

Which leaves the person who murdered her.

I thought exactly.

Smart enough to wear gloves, but not smart enough to realize he'd left

on her jacket.

When I got the report back from the lab, I took the picture of her to narcotics.

An inspector there recognized him, said they'd had him under surveillance, but

never arrested him. They were going after bigger fish.

So you think Larson and Louganis are in the drug business together?

No one eats that much takeout.

It would give Larson a reason to point the finger at David.

Give Joey an alibi.

Let's find out what's really cooking down there at the Quality Cafe.

It's going to Larson's office.

We have a warrant.

You

have

the right to remain silent, and I suggest you do so.

We need to know a little more about your trip up here from Mexico to help us

find Katerina.

Do you remember anything about the hospital?

How you said the truck stopped once? Can you think back? Remember anything that

you heard or smelled?

It's okay.

He gave me a lemon dream.

Who? The man who moved the truck.

When? I'm tired, bro. Please.

So the truck got a flat tire on the way up here?

That's when Douglas let you out of your hiding place?

And that's when

Douglas fixed the tire?

Water,

please, water.

Did you get a look at the other guy driving the truck?

No, it's calm. He made me hide.

Do you remember anything about the other truck?

Anything.

I saw...

The

sun.

The sun?

Yes.

This is the picture our witness drew.

She remembers seeing a son like this painted on the side of the truck that

to help Douglas Reed with the flat tire.

Look familiar?

It's a very simple design. It's your design, Ms. Vargas.

It's on every truck in your fleet.

Except for the one you rented Douglas Reed. Now, why is that?

What are you implying? That you knew exactly what Douglas Reed was

in that truck. You just didn't want anyone to connect it to you. That's

ridiculous and offensive.

And you told me this Douglas person built special compartments in my truck.

don't think that he could have painted over a logo, too? We checked the paint,

okay? The logo was never there.

Well, maybe... Look, stop pat -dancing, Mr. Vargas. We don't have time.

There's a girl that's been missing for three days, and if you have any

information that can... Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't think there was anybody in here.

We'll try knocking next time.

Let's go.

I want my lawyer.

We want Katarina Omensky.

Regan, I got the call back. Dr. Frank Winthrop. Here's a list of what he's

Thank you.

Let me get this straight.

You want me to finger Joey Lutanas for murder in order to get consideration on

drug charge with a maximum four -year sentence?

That's right.

I stand by my original statement.

The whacked -out boyfriend strangled the girl and took off.

You're not just looking at a drug charge, Mr. Larson.

You're looking at conspiracy to falsely indict another person with murder.

That's 25 years to life minimum.

Do you have something other than threats, Inspector?

We have the whacked -out boyfriend's testimony that he beat someone at the

scene, not strangled him.

We have unidentified blood found at the scene.

that we expect to match Mr. Louganis. We have a plastic surgeon who treated Mr.

Louganis for facial fractures and lacerations. And we have an eyewitness

now know was strongly motivated to lie about his drug partner's involvement in

the crime.

We'll be looking for possession for sale and accessory after the fact.

Five to ten, depending on his cooperation.

We'll recommend the DA take your request into theory of consideration, depending

on his cooperation.

The night Mary O 'Reilly died, Joey and I were in my office doing a little

business. I guess we've got a lot to do. I just need to get the keys to the John

Buck.

I can just get him later.

Don't worry.

I'll talk to her. She doesn't want any trouble.

I'm not worried.

Do you want a soda?

I want a soda.

I followed a few minutes later.

Why did you wait to go after him?

I didn't go after him.

I thought maybe he couldn't find the soldiers.

Mary?

Mary?

Who gave this to me? Who gave it to us?

You didn't try to stop any of it?

I was too late to help Mary, and I thought McGannis was getting what he

deserved.

I was just on my way back to my office to call the police.

A couple of glasses fell on the floor.

I didn't do that.

Her boyfriend did that.

It's all an old thing.

I wasn't even here.

Don't need to worry about her now.

You could have saved that girl's life.

And you could have spared David Torricelli years of agony.

Have we got a deal?

We have a witness who can put you in Douglas Reed's dorm room about the time

the murder.

Search warrant for your house and office will be ready in the next half hour.

See, with all that blood, it's unlikely that you didn't take a little bit with

you. By my count, that's five deaths you're responsible for, Mr. Vargas.

I had nothing to do with those people in that truck. That was Douglas.

Douglas got greedy.

Yeah, well, that's not what your tattooed employee says.

Yeah, he snitched you off, Mr. Vargas. He was there.

He heard you and Douglas Reed discussing the plan before and after he went to

Mexico. He says you and Douglas Reed are the only ones who would know where

Katarina Ominski is.

You might be thinking, this probably can't get any worse, but it can.

You see, if you have it within your power to help us find Katarina Ominski,

you don't, and she dies,

the only way I can imagine you leaving prison is in a body bag.

Your memory getting any clearer?

Hold on, sweetheart.

It's okay. We're the police.

Just hold tight. We'll be right there.

You're safe now, sweetheart.

Don't worry, okay? We're going to take you to your brother. All right.

and leave without saying goodbye, were you?

Honestly, the goodbyes I could do without, I'm not very good at them.

But I never would have left without saying thank you to all of you.

You helped me get my son back.

Well, you helped us solve a murderer, too.

It's a shame you never got to meet Ginny. I think she would have liked you.

I take that as high praise.

You're getting ready to release David. I'll walk you down.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

You take care of your boy.

I will. You do the thing.

I thought I'd never see you again.

For what?

I was harsh with you.

You're forgiven.

Please join us.

It's not exactly a date, but it's a start, yeah?

Okay.

Every summer we would go to the Jersey Shore and we would spend hours in the

tide pools.

They loved starfish.

Something about them always made them laugh.

He had such a funny laugh. When he did, other people would laugh, too.

Everything I know about you tells me you can handle this.

You and David are going to be all right.

He's lucky to have you.

Thanks for everything.

The door's always open.