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[female announcer] Previously on Crossing Jordan:

You okay?

Dexamethasone for a headache.

It's pretty hard core.

It's like a cannon for a housefly.

I'm just--I'm so tired.

Remember that meningioma victim I showed you last week?

She's not dead yet.

[Garret] Something that size grows in your brain,

doesn't matter it's not cancer.

If you say a word of this to anyone...

So I spoke to Dr. Sanchez.

He says surgery,

transnasal now.

Did he give you the stats on that?

That I could probably die?

They're on their way up from the garage.

Kate's problem, not mine.

She called in sick. I think she's ditching.

Too bad. She'd be great at it.

Don't look at me, though. I'm not doing it.

[cell phone ringing]

Cavanaugh.

Boston Common, uh, across from the Capitol Building.

Got it. On my way.

Hey, why don't I--

[mouths words] [Macy] Jordan!

I had the hospital email you the new MRI.

Oh, you got it.

Good news, huh?

It's a growth in your brain

the size of a golf ball.

How is that good news?

Yeah, but it hasn't grown.

And I don't have any symptoms anymore.

No more blurred vision. No headaches.

I don't even have numbness in my hands.

That's great. You still need the surgery.

Yeah, I'm weighing my options.

You're down to one.

Look, it's my life. My brain. My decision.

The, um,

the probation kids are here.

Assault, assault, burglary, and assault.

Kate's turn.

She's not coming in.

Then you're up.

I don't do well with juvenile delinquents.

[exhales]

Woody!

Thanks for speeding right over.

I'm sorry. I spaced on which entrance.

And then I had to drive all the way around.

You're getting senile. You should write stuff down.

You know, my grandpop used to keep a bunch of little notes

sticking out of all of his pockets.

Of course, he'd never remember to look at them,

so it was kinda...

Well, I'm here now.

Fresh manicure, new shoes.

So not homeless.

Blunt force trauma to the head.

Did you find a weapon?

I'm guessing she got shoved into that,

but it doesn't look like it bled much.

So where did all the blood come from?

Oh, my God.

She was pregnant.

Somebody cut the baby out of her.

Late-term pregnancy,

so the baby could still be alive out there somewhere.

[suspenseful rock music]

♪

Hospitals, clinics, get it out to the media right away.

Anybody who suddenly had a baby, nobody knew they were expecting.

Dedicated hotline for tips, okay?

List of all the cars parked nearby.

Patterson's running them through RMV.

Thank you.You're welcome.

Hey. No I.D.

She's got a wedding ring.

I have to notify a husband that his pregnant wife is dead,

and his baby has been ripped from her womb?

We'll I.D. her as fast as we can.

Just tell the husband we're doing everything we can

to bring his baby back home.

She's convinced herself she's had it forever.

She doesn't seem to get that this thing could kill her.

I know. That's what I told her.

But she's not listening.

I know. I know.

Yeah. I'll keep an eye on her.

All right, last year in Boston

homicides increased by almost 20 percent.

Does anybody know why?

Rosa?

Yeah, I'm here. No clue.

Look, uh, all cell phones off, okay?

Okay.

Charlie, do you know the answer to the question?

What question?

Look, Dent, no wonder why you so stupid.

They got your brain in this jar.

[laughter]

Hey, you stop that.

You, you're interfering with a--

Get your hands off me, man!

Knock it off.

Show some respect.

Man, who put you in charge?

God.

Hey.

That's formalin solution. The nasty smell is formaldehyde.

Your eyes burning yet?

In a second you're gonna be leaning over a toilet

puking your guts out.

Come here.

Shall we continue?

[Nigel] Blow to the head kill her?

Don't think so.

Most likely just knocked her out.

So the baby was still getting air

when the C-section was being performed?

And then she bled out.

Amateur, wasn't it?

Oh, yeah.

Hesitation marks, jagged cuts.

One of those women who're fixated

on having a baby and doesn't care how she gets it.

Probably. It usually is.

The killer might have injured herself.

It looks like you got drip spatter there.

Could be drops from the bloody knife.

I'll run it against her own blood, and see what we get.

Carla Owens, 24. 112 Skyline.

[Jordan] Call Woody.

I don't envy him.

Having to tell a husband this.

[doorbell rings]

Is something wrong?

I'm looking for Mr. Owens.

Mr. Owens?

Carla Owens' husband. Do I have the right address?

Carla doesn't have a husband. I'm Marissa Owens, her wife.

She just went for a walk.

How can she be dead?

The baby?

Gone.

The baby died too?

I don't know. Just...gone.

Someone killed Carla, and--

Took the baby out of her.

I'm so sorry.

Carla used to walk

around the block, and she started driving to the park.

She said she wanted the baby to hear the birds singing.

She drove? What kind of car?

Green, plate number 50AI74.

Please find our baby.

Anybody here from Roxbury?

Yeah. Roxbury, right here.

Do you know Kenny Jackson?

Cujo?

I think his mother is going with Kenny for the headstone.

Shot by Clive Little.

Then Kenny's brother shot Clive here.

You know Kenny's brother?

If he makes bail, somebody else will shoot him, right?

More revenge.

Does anybody see a lesson here?

Yeah, if you're gonna shoot somebody,

make damn sure they ain't got no brothers.

[laughter]

Funny guy.

Just telling you like it is.

We allowed to go to the bathroom?

Yeah.

Aren't you supposed to be shepherding the little felons?

Relieved of duty.

Why are you using Dr. Macy's email?

You get answers a lot quicker when the request comes directly

from the Chief Medical Examiner.

Dr. Macy know you do this?

Good Lord, no.

That's the third email with meningioma

in the slug.

When I came in earlier, he hid something

that he was looking at.

He's got a couple of meningioma research sites pulled up too.

Look at the slug on this latest email.

Immediate attention required

from Dr. Rene Sanchez.

The neurosurgeon at Brigham?

We can't read his email.

Oh! Finger slipped.

"Garret, I'll need to conduct a thorough examination

"but based upon the MRI you sent,

"I would recommend immediate removal of the meningioma.

Schedule an appointment."

A meningioma can be fatal.

Who could do this?

Who could hurt Carla this way?

I'm so sorry.

We've made some progress. The killer left blood behind.

It could be anybody.

Look, I know this is hard.

If it helps, chances are that whoever did this

is taking very good care of the baby now.

Anthony if it was a boy.

Claire if it was a girl.

You didn't know?

We wanted to be surprised.

Now I wish I knew.

Anthony.

What?

We determined gender

from the blood in the umbilical cord.

A little boy.

We're gonna find your baby.

I'd like to see Carla.

[knock on door]

Did you find anything?

Nothing on the baby. We're searching round the clock.

Do you mind if I ask you a few questions

that might help us out?

Anything.

Pregnancy can be tough on a couple.

How were you and Carla doing?

Good.

Closer than ever in fact.

No fights, arguments about the baby?

Who was the baby's father, by the way?

It was a sperm bank.

Woody, what are you doing?

I don't think you're being completely honest here.

One of your neighbors told me

that you and Carla fought constantly.

That's not true.

Said at least three times a week there were screaming fights.

Woody.

Let me guess, a man in his 50s next door to us on the north?

The same man who constantly harassed us?

Called us bull dykes.

Told us he'd show us the equipment you need for real sex.

That the right neighbor?

He said you called Carla a slut on more than one occasion

and then he heard crashing noises at least twice--

He's lying! Please!

Carla's dead.

Our baby's out there with whoever killed her,

and you're on me?

Two women being married

offends some people.

That occur to you?

A lot of possibilities occur to me.

That's enough, Woody.

You have the killer's DNA. Take mine.

If I prove to you

that I didn't do this,

will you look for the person who did?

[Woody] Hey, Jordan.

Jordan.

Hey.

Woody?

I thought you were tuning me out.

No. I, um...

You zoned out?

Yeah, I guess I did.

Look, the way you attacked Marisa, that was out of bounds.

You know what she's going through.

If she's innocent, I do.

I had to check out the neighbor's story.

Oh yeah, the bigot neighbor,

very important he gets to have his say.

Same-sex couples fight too.

I know.

I have to treat Marissa like I would any other spouse

in this situation.

You know the drill.

Yeah, but this is so clearly a case

of an unstable woman wanting a baby.

Who else kills pregnant women then rips the baby out?

Did you get anything on that?

Carla drove her car to the park.

It's still missing.

Hopefully when we find it, it will give us something.

Okay. Well, if it turns up, I'll be there.

We gotta find this baby and get him back where he belongs.

[DNA sequencer beeps]

Does that mean what I think it means?

No, this can't be right.

Marissa's DNA matches the blood on the body.

If she's the killer,

where's the baby?

Why are you doing this?

This is never gonna be good, but you can make it a lot better

if you tell me what you did with Anthony.

I didn't--

Is he alive?

I didn't kill Carla.

Then why was your blood on her body?

What?

Take the place apart.

You can call your lawyer down at the station.

Any questions?

Is she, like, naked under there?

Any real questions?

She wasn't shot or stabbed or nothing.

Why you gotta do all that stuff?

To determine how she died.

If this were your mother,

you'd wanna know, wouldn't you?

Not gonna be any mystery there. She's gonna O.D.

Sorry.

After Trace comes Autopsy.

Is that where they chop up the bodies?

Great.

[laughter]

This the little side trip when you went to the bathroom?

You gotta admit that's funny.

I'm not laughing.

You look like you ain't laughed your entire life.

Did ya ever hear of death with dignity?

There's no such thing.

Nothing dignified about getting shot on the sidewalk

and lying under a tarp for hours,

hearing investigators make jokes.

Then they bring you here

and slice into your body like it's a side of beef.

This is why you're here,

to see where you're gonna end up.

This guy was just walking down the street.

You think he deserved this?

Cops don't even know who shot him.

Maybe it was one of you.

Okay, now I'm gonna show you what bullets do to your insides.

I defended her.

She puts on a good act.

You finish the autopsy yet?

[Jordan] Yeah, but it's nothing that helps us.

I need to talk to her.

She ready to tell us where the baby is?

She doesn't know.

Marissa, I don't know what happened between you and Carla.Nothing.

Nothing. You're all making a mistake.

Your blood's on her body dripped from above

as you were standing over her.

I have no cuts on my hands.

Do you wanna strip search me? I have no wounds.

Where's the blood supposed to have come from?

It's a question that needs answering.

It's major reasonable doubt.

DNA doesn't lie. She coulda had a nose bleed.

Look, if Anthony dies--

I don't know where he is.

If you let that baby die, I am coming after you.

The third slug ricocheted off the rib,

punctured the right lung, a kidney, and the heart.

So the shooter wasted ammo. He only needed one bullet.

Yeah, he was a real amateur.

What, you're trying to make me think that you're cool?

I don't give a damn what you think of me.

Good, 'cause I think this is a big waste of time.

Where else do you have to be? Robbing another liquor store?

It'll be there when you're done.

[laughter]

He seems a little cranky.

Irritability is one of the symptoms of meningioma.

Think he could have had this

the whole time we've known him?

Not funny.

No.

We could lose him to this.

If Dr. Sanchez is recommending the surgery,

why isn't Macy jumping at it?

I don't really get the lifestyle,

but Marissa could never have killed what's-her-name.

Mother.

I'm sorry, but we have hard evidence against your daughter.

Look, I understand you wanna help her.

But there's a missing baby boy out there.

We need you to get Marissa to tell us where he is.

Marissa doesn't listen to me...

about anything.

You're her sister. Does she listen to you?

Uh, we're not that close since...

Since?

Since Marissa turned gay.

My wife has very little to do with her.

Didn't even know what's-her-name was pregnant.

And really, is that baby even Marissa's?

I mean, I don't think my daughter contributed any sperm

to the project, do you?

The project's name is Anthony.

He's less than two days old.

And if we don't find him soon, he's gonna die.

I knew she was pregnant.

Marissa told me a few weeks ago.

She was really excited about it.

Would you talk to her?

Try to get her to tell the truth.

This baby's life may depend on it.

Please, just tell me where the baby is.

My client's already indicated--

This has to work.

We're running out of leads.

I don't know.

Marissa, please, it's a baby.

Have you checked with her friends?

Half the department is checking.

[Rebecca] You know I have a problem with your choices,

but--I don't wanna have this discussion again right now.

Marissa.

Go away.

We're back to square one.

We're here for you.

We don't approve,

but you know, hate the sin, love the sinner.

Uh-oh.

Uh-oh, what?

I'm not signing your attendance sheet.

Yeah, you are.

I showed up. I looked at all your stiffs.

I don't sign, you go back to juvie, right?

Hell, no. I'm not going back there.

You want my signature, be back here in the morning.

Man, for what?

I'm done here, man.

Sign my damn sheet!

You don't know nothing about me.

Don't make me do something you'll regret.

9:00 a.m. Be on time.

Man, to hell with you, man.

We've got to go over all this again.

It's not gonna tell us what she did with the baby.

Just pull out all the evidence we collected.

Jordan?

Yeah.

That swab that they took from the victim's arm?

The killer's blood?Yeah. What about it.

It's still sealed. It hasn't been processed.

But I matched it to Marissa Owens.

How many samples did you make from Marissa's blood?

Four.

Two are gone.

You tested her DNA against itself.

How could you make a mistake like that?

They arrested her based on your findings.

Were you distracted? Is it Dr. Macy?

Is that it?What?

Bug and I know about his meningioma.

Okay.What are you talking about?

Look, we have to rerun this test.

But you didn't refrigerate it.

It's degraded by now.

Run it anyway.

But if I run it--

Run it!

You tested her sample against her sample?I don't know why--

I arrested Marissa Owens based on your screw-up.

I put her through hell, as if she wasn't there already.

I'm telling you--

Now she's got a case for a wrongful arrest.

And you've compromised this entire investigation.

I'm sorry.

Sorry.

Can we stay focused on the baby?

Who could be out of the state by now.

Out of the country. Ten hours, Jordan.

Ten hours we wasted sniffing down this wrong trail.

Where are you going?

I'm going to release Marissa.

I'm going to apologize and hope she doesn't hit us

with a big, honking lawsuit.

You don't got no games on this thing?

Hey, I was here on time, big bro'.

Not my fault you were late.

Okay, show me the bodies.

Show me the way. Turn my life around.

Beyond my power.

Isn't that why I'm here?

You're here to see death.

What you do with your life is up to you.

Come on.

I and the department truly apologize.

Please don't blame Detective Hoyt.

It was my fault. I'm so sorry.

Sorry?

I've been trying to arrange a funeral

for Carla from a jail cell.

This shouldn't have happened.

My knees are raw from kneeling

on the cement floor, praying for my son

you accused me of kidnapping.

I can't even imagine--

Keep your sorries.

Just do your job and find Anthony.

He was horsing around with his friends

at a construction site, fell into a 30-foot hole.

Shoulda watched where he was going.

Yeah.

I want you to clean him up.

What?

What I look like?You afraid?

No, he's dead. What's he gonna do?

Handling the dead makes some people think

about their own mortality.

Yeah, well, my cousin was shot,

my boy got knifed up,

and the girl across the street bit it in a drive-by.

Think about how I'm gonna die every day.

Maybe you should start thinking about how you're gonna live.

Clean him up

so his parents can see him.

A couple of mountain bikers found it.

I don't know what we'd do without hikers and bikers.

You look inside?

Yeah. Empty.

No baby?

Baby? No, not that I saw.

I didn't wanna touch anything.

Pop the back.

[phone ringing]

Uh. Woody?

[Woody] We found Carla Owens' car at the bottom of a ravine

near Main and Brookline.

Oh, any sign of the baby?

No, but there is a lot of blood inside.

Just take Main all the way past the Y

and look for the cruisers.

Okay.

You writing all this down?

We don't have time for you to get lost.

Yeah, I'll be there in half an hour.

And Woody?

Yeah?

[Jordan] Thanks for calling me.

You weren't my first choice.

Nobody else was available.

Look, what are we supposed to do?

If Jordan blew you off about Dr. Macy,

then it's meant to be a secret.

I don't care.

If he wanted us to know, he woulda told us.

It's not right.

Dr. Macy knows we care about him, doesn't he?

Woody found Carla Owens' car. I'll be on scene.

We need to talk to you about Dr. Macy.

No, not now, Nigel.

Yes, now.

Is he gonna have the surgery or is he gonna do the gamma knife?

I don't know where you guys got the idea that Garret's sick,

but he's fine.

Why do you keep covering for him?

He's fine!

So just back off, okay?

[scoffs]

You're gonna have to talk to him.

We're gonna talk to him.

Nice job, Charlie.

You sign my thing now?

I didn't see any reason to do the arms, who goin' see 'em?

Is this how you do stuff? Half-assed?

What's it to you?

Come with me.

Whoo!

That dude took a major beat-down.

It was a car accident.

Yeah?

The other driver was on a cell phone, he jumped the light.

Why are you showing me this?

Because there was a man here.

Now he's gone.

That's left a huge hole

in the lives of the people who loved him.

These his? The guy that died?

Yeah.

What the hell you trying to prove, man?

What're you?

Charlie!

Hey.

A lot faster than yesterday.

Hey.

You had every right to blow up at me yesterday.

I know.

Blood.

[Woody] Gotta be Carla's, right?

The killer must have been covered in it.

Yeah.

If that's amniotic fluid--

Then the baby was transported in this car.

I'll have to take this back,

run some tests.

Hey, what's this?

It looks like a pamphlet maybe.

It is seriously bloody.

Bag it.

Let's hope the killer left it behind and not Carla.

Hey, Charlie.

Listen, I read your file.

I know your father died in a car accident when you were ten.

Listen, it wasn't my intention--

Yeah, it was.

You figured if I boo-hooed, it'd make everything all better.

Reggie Dawkins.

He took the tour last year.

So sick of your little tales from the hood.

Man, it ain't Halloween.

He made fun of the bodies and made jokes.

He didn't get it, and I knew it.

Six months later, Reggie was back on a slab.

So now I'm your little project?

No, I just don't like cutting up children.

I'm 16.You're a kid.

And you think all adults are full of crap.

So far.

What about your dad?

Is he a good father?

Not home much. Worked two jobs.

Nobody should ever have to work two jobs

just to feed their family.

It's one of the hardest lessons any of us has to learn

is that life isn't fair.

It sucks.

Except for when it doesn't.

When's that?

When you decide it doesn't.

He was wearing his work clothes when he died.

He left during the middle of an oil change.

Nobody knew why.

It just killed my mom not knowing.

He died because of me.

I jacked some video games, and a rent-a-cop threw me

in mall jail and then called my dad.

So he was going to pick you up.

When security found out about the accident,

they let me go.

They didn't tell no one.

And neither did you.

Did you ever think about telling your mom?

She'd hate me.

You know, most parents love their kids no matter what.

Does it still bother her not knowing why your dad was

on the road that day?

Well, you can fix that.

[Woody] Can you tell what it is?

Paper.

I know that. I mean, what is it?

Well, there's a couple of isolated letters,

unless you wanna buy a vowel.

It's--it's too saturated with blood.

So we've got nothing.

We don't even know if the killer left it behind.

I am undefeated.

New toy. Video spectral comparator.

Focuses different wavelengths of light on the document

until one of those wavelength matches that of the blood,

thus canceling it out.

Nigel.

It will show us the letters.

So do it already.

Okay.

[Woody] "Dead...Jordan?"

It says "Jordan."

River Jordan.

Bethlehem, Galilee, the River Jordan.

It's a travel itinerary for a church trip.

Carla Owens was Jewish.

Then it's got to be from our killer.

It looks like it's part of a church bulletin.

What's that on the upper left corner?

Whitesmouth something Church.

[Woody] I checked.

This church has over 1,000 members.

That's 1,000 people who could have done this.

Ah, well, I think we can narrow it down.

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."

Isn't that what Marissa's sister said?

[Jordan] Perfect timing.

Guess who's a member of this church?

Rebecca!

Did you find the baby?

No, but we did find a bulletin from your church

in Carla Owens' car.

It was soaked in Carla's blood.

You know, I remember when Marissa was born.

She was so beautiful.

So perfect.

And she stayed that way, perfect...

until she met that woman.

People love who they love. It's not wrong.

No, that kind of love is a sin.

I pray for that baby.

Maybe if he's given the chance,

he'll get to stay perfect forever.

All right, what do you mean?

What? Did you kill them?

To make him "perfect?"

Come on. Come on.

You find any prints on the bulletin?

Just smudges.

Anybody else's' blood besides the victim's?

No.Damn it.

Okay, thanks.

Rebecca and her husband live half a mile

from where the car was found.

She'll never admit she did it.

She's gonna get away with this, and it's my fault.

Maybe she's not the one we should be focusing on.

Were you home in the morning?

Yes.

Rebecca left the house, didn't she?

Early. And came home bloody.

Did she have the baby with her?

If you had any evidence, you wouldn't be talking to me.

[Woody] We don't have any...

yet.

So I can leave then?

[Jordan] There's a baby out there.

If he's still alive, we'll find him.

If he's dead, your wife killed him.

Are you willing to live with that?

Is she?

I can't help you.

You tell us where the baby is, we'll do what we can

to help Rebecca.

We'll tell the D.A. that you cooperated.

If not...

I love my wife.

He that covers his sins shall not prosper,

but he who confesses and forsakes his sins

shall have mercy.

Proverbs 28:13.

She didn't go there to kill her.

But when Carla fell and hit her head--

She saw it as a sign from God

that she was supposed to take care of the baby?

Keep it away from the perverts.

That's not what we are.

I kept telling Rebecca, God's message

is about love and acceptance.

She just couldn't get her head around what Marissa was doing.

Where is he?

Where's Anthony?

Is he alive?

He needs to go home.

Yeah. This is your son.

Hospital checked him out. He's fine.

Hey, I cleaned that kid again.

For real this time.

His parents will appreciate it.

Anything else I gotta do?

No.

So you'll sign my sheet now?

You need to talk to your mom.

Are you gonna sign my sheet or not?

I still don't like you.

I know.

How are you feeling?

Fine.

You sure?

Okay, one of you is gonna tell me what's going on.

We know.

About your meningioma.

We saw your emails.

I don't have a meningioma. I was doing a consult.

And how exactly did you see my emails?

Consult. Really?

Yes.

Freaks.

[laughter]

No, no, no. No hugs.

No problem.

And stay the hell out of my email.

Of course.

Never again.

[both sigh]

It's an abomination.

Judge not, lest ye be judged.

Condemn not, lest you be condemned.

What? I went to Sunday School too.

But I must have missed the day when they said

it was okay to kill and kidnap.

Sick how people use the words of love to inflict so much hate.

I better get back to the morgue.

Um, hey.

Yeah.

I'm sorry I didn't let up on you before.

I was frustrated.

Hey, I screwed up.

I woulda chewed your head off if you screwed up like that

and done that to Marissa.

Plus I know what it feels like to be wrongfully accused.

Jordan.

You sure you're okay?

I don't mean the case. I mean you.

Yeah, I'm fine.

I'm just--you know, I could use some more sleep.

You know you can talk to me, right?

Yeah. Well, I'm good.

Look, I screwed up on the Owens' case.

Short-term memory loss.

It's a mass effect from the meningioma pressing

on your temporal lobe.

You've been seizing, and you didn't even know it.

Maybe.

[sighs]

So I'm taking you out of the rotation.

What?

No autopsies, no crime scenes, no lab work.

What?

Is this your way of blackmailing me into surgery?

You won't let me help you. I can't do anything about that.

But I can't cover for you anymore.

Garret.

You have to deal with this.