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My name is Detective Rainey Sullivan.

My father was killed in 1916.

Last night.

Hi. Hello.

Hey. Hope Jones.

Your father.

Dad? So you're telling me that in 20 years, I'm going to be on the job with

my daughter? No. He died tomorrow.

Dad survived.

But saving his life changed everything.

We've ID'd the remains from the marsh.

I'm sorry, Rami. It's your mom.

The most wanted serial killer in New York took my mom. Now, whatever we do,

however we try to fix things, history keeps changing. Your name is Daniel

Lawrence. How do you know my name?

I'm your girlfriend.

I've never been to Queens. And I don't know you. I'm sorry.

All I want is to get back what I lost.

Previously on Frequency.

I will always love you.

But it's over between us.

It's okay. You didn't call me back.

Kyle? Carmen Felina. She was abducted four months ago. She's like a pretty

straightforward nightingale case.

He had a truck, dark blue. Had one of those white camper shells on the back.

She saw him at least seven times.

He's stalking his victim.

Step out of the vehicle, sir!

Sir!

What do you think happened?

50 feet away from him, Satch.

He was 50 feet away watching Julie, and I just let him get away.

The coroner's guessing that the body's been there at least three months.

You won't have an ID for a couple of days.

It's Carmen Salinas.

How are you so sure? Because I know. Because it was her case that led me to

his truck. So this is all about you.

The nightingale's not just leading us to a body. He's sending me a message,

laughing at me because I can't catch him. You know, I enjoy a good pity

party, Frank, but you rattled him. That's not nothing. Oh, yeah? What'd

that get us? It got us a body.

And a family that's been through hell so they can finally have some closure.

Maybe start to heal. Look, look, look, look.

We ID'd the truck.

Yeah, it came back stolen place.

And we know that he stalks his victims.

Hospitals have security cameras in the parking lot. If he's casing a nurse, who

says he stays in his car?

We get him to start acting out like this, he's bound to flip up.

That's how we catch him.

I'm not sure I can wait.

Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Sound winded? Go for a run?

No, I... I slept in.

Did you take my advice?

What advice?

You know, about living your life.

Are you asking me if I have a guy here?

I don't know.

Do you?

Okay. If you're gonna bust my balls, I'm gonna leave. Okay, I'm kidding.

Listen. You remember that truck that Ava said she saw before her mom's

disappearance? Yeah, yeah, the blue camper. Yeah, I saw it the other day.

You and your mom were at the park, and he was watching her.

The nightingale is stalking mom, and you're grilling me about my sex life.

Maybe I didn't want to admit how bad I messed up, okay?

What do you mean? I chased him, and he got away.

Did you get a plate, a VIN number? No, I got a torch truck. That's what I got,

since you're asking.

It doesn't matter.

What? We know where he's gonna be.

We know he stalks his victims, and in two days' time, he takes Amanda Baldwin.

You're saying I watch her? I'm saying you get a whole damn team on her. And

yeah, use her as bait. That's how we catch him. We?

You mean me. That's how I catch him. Look, a neighbor walking his dog saw

Amanda around midnight.

She's reported missing at 6 a.m. the next morning, which means she's safe for

the next 36 hours.

The nightingale is bound to show up sometime in there.

That is how we catch him.

I think we should tell Amanda.

Let her in on it.

Don't you dare lose your nerve on me now. You do, and everything changes. The

Nightingale disappears, and we are scrambling to save the next victim, who

happens to be Mom. Whoa, and how do you think Amanda's gonna feel about being

used as bait for a serial killer, Raimi? After we save her life, pretty damn

grateful.

Peg?

Do you know what this is?

No idea.

Me neither.

You've not one implement in these drawers an honest man could call a

kitchen utensil.

Was I not supposed to be here this morning? Did I misread?

No, you're great. Last night was... Great.

I have attachment issues.

It's just eggs.

And I'm late for work.

That's your car at the station. You want a ride?

Take the subway.

I'm sorry.

It's a joke.

No.

No. I swear I'm not stalking you.

I don't even usually take the subway.

Yeah, well, I do.

Every morning.

Do you believe in Kismet?

Excuse me? Like some things are meant to be.

I hadn't given it that much thought.

I just can't help but feel like we have this connection.

We both love the same dive bar for the same reason.

Puffy fries, lover boy.

Almost like we knew each other in another life.

Is that too weird?

Yeah, it is.

All right, go back. Go back. Stop.

See? Right there. There's the truck.

There's Amanda.

Yeah, I see her.

I also see a bunch of nurses. It's a medical center. So why put her tail

specifically on her? Because we spotted the Nightingale's truck outside of both

clinics she worked at eight out of the last ten shifts.

That's not enough to warrant a team.

It's all I got, Satch.

I got a torch truck. I got forensics that hasn't come back with a vignette.

This right here?

He's all we have. I got surveillance from every single hospital in the city.

I spent hours combing it, and I'm telling you, he stalked a man the same

way I told you it was golf. The same way you had me run a background check on

Ramey Thorpe, ball coach.

Are you ever going to let that go? No.

Now, are you sure this is the truck that was stalking Julie?

Yes.

All right, I'll give you 24 hours and two cars.

All right. Plus, we'll put another one on Julie until we know she's safe.

Detective Sullivan, knowing Eva Salinas faked her abduction by the Nightingale,

have charges been brought against her?

That's a question for the district attorney.

How does it feel to know that your mother's killer is still out there?

We're working round the clock to apprehend the Nightingale and get

justice for all his victims.

Now, as soon as your sugar rush kicks in, I need you to follow up on the tip.

Looking into something right now, Mike could use the exercise, though. There's

plenty to go around.

You know how many tips came in ever since Eva Salinas' gone girl escapade?

Besides, this guy asked for.

Detective Fella, baby.

Me? Uh-huh.

Are you John State? Serving life for murder.

It's a pretty drive.

Take the day.

On the gate.

Hello.

Mr. Pierce.

Call me Carl.

Okay, Carl.

Tell me why you wanted to talk to me.

I think you know, detective.

You saw me on the news?

Because you know I can give you some answers.

Do you mean about the nightingale killer?

About him.

About your mom.

What could you possibly tell me?

I have a special friend.

Who?

Me.

Okay. I talk to myself. Shocker.

In the future.

Is that something you'd be interested in?

You can talk to the future.

Mm-hmm.

Hal, do you understand quantum physics?

I'm a little out of my kick zone.

Time is infinite.

Fact. Past, present, future, all exist at once.

Would you like a glass of water? You look pale.

No, thank you.

Quantum physicists who espouse this belief, dime a dozen.

I wanted to prove it. It took me 20 years, but I built a communication

device.

A communication device?

Yeah. How else would you expect me to talk with the future?

Then why didn't you tell yourself how to avoid jail?

You don't get it. My future self is the one that put me in this pickle jar.

How?

Shrubbery. More than that, actually.

Steve Fishman never mowed, he never edged, never raked the leaf.

What are you talking about?

Why are you not getting this?

I'm a crusader.

Is another protective detail really necessary?

It's just protocol, Jules. Satch insisted, and I mean, honestly, what's

it gonna hurt? Could you be more oblivious, Frank? Hey, this isn't my

fault here.

Raimi is gonna come home, and she's gonna see that.

Hey, Frank, I try so hard to protect her, and to not let her know I'm scared,

and there is a creep out there preying on nurses.

I appreciate that. She's eight years old. I know how old she is, Jules. She

shouldn't have to worry about things like this.

Do you even know that she worries?

Just let me fix this, please.

That's what you always say. Look, I'll take nights.

That way it's just her dad.

You know, it's no big deal. I'll start tonight.

Okay, then all this about us being separated and having a life. Hey, I'm

not trying to move in here, okay? I have a date tonight.

You're dating?

Yeah, we're separated, Frank. For what, two weeks?

Officially.

We both know it's been a whole lot longer than that.

Just forget it. I'm canceling. So you can come by, don't come by.

I don't care.

I was living the American dream.

I had tenure, passion, standing room only at my TED Talks.

But I didn't have that one thing, that one thing that would make them take

notice.

And then I did.

It took years, every possible sabbatical, but I could communicate

across time.

And what is the first thing my future self tells me?

You're going to win a Nobel Prize?

Nah. Steve Fishman is no good.

The man you murdered.

You ever hear about doing your part for the cul-de-sac?

You cut a branch, another one grows back.

Once again, what are you talking about? I am talking about why I had to kill

Steve Fishman.

What the... kind of a man doesn't care about his lawn.

He's the kind of man who doesn't care about a lot of things.

He doesn't care if he has too much to drink after his shift at the big box

store.

And then gets behind the wheel and mows down a group of kids in their front

yard.

innocent children were going to die because of him.

And that's why I had to kill him.

Your machine told you to kill him. I told me.

You think I asked for this burden?

Knowing a future no one else knows?

I tried to get him to go sober. I put... AA flyers under his door.

I stole his beer stash.

Nothing worked.

Maybe it delayed the inevitable an hour, a month, a year even.

But you cut a branch, another one grows. And in every eventuality, my future self

reported that Steve Fishman drove drunk and innocent children died.

What?

You get it.

I know you do.

That's why we need to work together.

Where's my nightingale tip?

I've been here an hour. You haven't given me one thing I can use. Because I

don't have my communicator.

You're wasting my time.

All right, buddy. Let's go.

So just get me access to my communicator. I can help you save lives.

Just give me access. You'll see.

We have information that says our target's going to be taken within the

next 24 hours.

We know that Nightingale stalks his victims, so we start to watch her now.

Hopefully catch him that way.

Say we find him. What's our call here?

We arrest him.

Sicko who killed and buried all of these women. We really care what happens to

him? We arrest him.

Am I clear?

All right. Let's hustle up.

Hey, Sullivan.

Got a minute?

You got a team heading out. 36, 36.

Our dearly departed little Jay, I just got word that his product's back on the

street. I thought you might know something.

Why would I? It's not my circus anymore.

I mean, I know how close you got with Ricky's family when you were under.

You mean when I was playing a role?

Of course you are.

Yeah, I'm just giving you a heads up. Maybe you could do the same to, you

know, your pretend friends.

We both know it's a dangerous time dealing with someone else's drugs.

I've been hearing some things. You need to call me.

Hey, man, you, uh... You ever think about talking to someone?

Huh?

Hey, man, you get department change?

Yeah, that does wonders come promotion time.

Oh, you could just keep checking your phone.

Look, man, I know it's tough coming out from undercover.

Could be that your head's still in that world more than you think.

It's the reason why I keep telling you, man, take those sick days.

Take the time to get things right with yourself.

Your concern is duly noted.

Duly noted?

Well, I have duly noted that you miss your family.

Can't get things straight with them if your head's still in the game. Can we

just focus on nailing this psycho, okay?

That's how I get my family back.

I just want to sit here and braid each other's hair all night.

Atlas 1, subject exiting work location, heading eastbound on Hester to Mott

Street. Coming to you, Atlas 2. Blue scrub, black sweater, white high top.

We have eyes on the subject.

Just around the corner of Mott and Hester, heading south on Mott.

Check it out.

I have eyes on a suspicious male, 6'2", 160, black hoodie.

Heading south now, on Mott, behind the subject. He's going to be coming your

way on Canal Street, Atlas 1. You copy?

Atlas 1 on Canal Street, subject not in sight. Anyone have eyes on the subject?

Does anybody have eyes on the subject? Anyone?

Come on. All right, we're going portable now.

You okay?

Sullivan, hold up.

The guy's selling bootleg CDs.

Once again, we're really sorry about this.

We got a tip that the nightingale was in the neighborhood, and the guy who walked

up on you fit the description.

And you wearing scrubs made us extra vigilant.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, of course.

Let me ask you a question. Have you noticed anyone suspicious around you

lately?

I work in a women's clinic.

There aren't many days I don't have something crazy, hecklers or protesters.

Am I in danger?

Honestly, every nurse in this city is at risk right now.

But we just slipped on our own peel here, so if it makes you feel any safer,

we'll have someone keep an eye on you. You got it, Lieutenant.

Okay.

How about I take the first shift? How about I got it covered?

Go home.

Get some rest.

Are you implying I'm a fraud?

I'm saying you were crusade. Sounds more like a reign of terror.

Steve Fisherman had a restraining order against you. You had a history of

harassing your neighbors, including dumping a bucket of dog waste on

someone's front porch.

Only after they tossed it in with my recyclables.

You blinded another inmate. Okay, that guy had it coming.

That was quite a task.

Rebuilding my machine in prison? It took me a year just to get machine shop

privileges.

Smiling at every idiot guard.

Cleaning toilets.

Attending anger management classes with raving lunatic.

Hello?

Hello? But then, one day...

There he was.

Hello?

Can you imagine the joy I felt knowing, even in prison, I could begin my

crusade for justice again?

And then he had to ruin it.

What do you think you're doing?

I'm trying to gizmo while you took a leak.

It doesn't work.

Did you think maybe you were too stupid to hear it?

Okay. I'll bite.

Tell me how it worked.

Take me to the machine shop. I'll show you. No.

Explain it to me. I want to know exactly how you did it.

I seriously doubt you'll understand.

Okay. Give me your pad and pen.

A tree?

Oh, I'm giving you the idiot's version.

So.

Life. Is like this tree.

Always growing upward with lots of branches.

Now, take the nightingale. Say this is his tree.

This branch is his next victim.

Now, we can cut off that branch, but then another one grows back in its

place. And that victim is a branch further up the tree.

Are you saying...

A person can't change the future.

Of course you can.

You have to cut off the trunk.

Get me my communicator.

I will show you where and when the Nightingale will strike.

I'll help you track him, and all this goes away.

That's why you're doing this, isn't it? Doing what?

Your crusade to take down the Nightingale.

To avenge your mother.

My mom?

Really?

Is this how your con works?

You squeeze people to prey on their weakness?

Guard! No.

No, we're done here. This is a real thing.

If it's going to happen again this time, it's going to be your fault!

Carl said it'll happen again.

Maybe he meant Amanda's abduction.

It still says he's taken after midnight.

You really think this guy can predict something that happens in 1996?

I don't know. I'm talking to you, aren't I?

Who's to say we're the only ones who can do this? Maybe Carl is crazy. Maybe he's

a master manipulator, but... Seems like he gets it.

I see why your mom says you worry.

She said that?

Yeah, she thinks all this is gonna mess you up.

Maybe it did.

You could explain why I sleep around.

Kidding. Very funny.

Between you and me, your mom's a warrior.

It'd make it so much easier if I could just tell her that you turn out okay,

you know?

Just okay?

Seriously, babe.

I'm proud of you, kid.

Thanks.

I decided to tell Amanda.

What? We still have four hours before she's in any danger, and you told me

that there's one of ours parked outside her house. I'm not taking any chances on

this one. You're taking a huge chance that you could change the future and

make things even worse. Or not.

I mean, we don't know. This is really messing with my head right now. It's

making me a bad cop.

I just took down a kid selling bootleg CDs.

This is why I'm talking to Carl. I'm trying to get a handle on this. You see,

Raimi is messing with you too.

What? Right? Any good cop knows that if a victim is going missing in four hours,

we don't just sit around talking about ramifications.

We get them the hell out of there.

If anything happened to Amanda right now, I couldn't live with myself.

What about Mom?

I just saw her bones on a slab.

That is my reality.

Amy, I promise you, if we get this close again and we don't nab them, I will take

you both.

Anywhere you want to go.

We're making a mistake.

I'm sorry, baby.

I am.

So, this is new information?

We took another look at the intel and it tells us that you may be a target.

The Nightingale? You're gonna be fine.

Okay, we have plenty of time to get you out.

Do you have someplace that you could stay?

Um, uh...

My mom, I guess I could go to my boyfriend's or... I want you to pack a

bag. Enough for two or three days, and we'll sign the car, okay?

I'm here to make sure you're safe.

Amanda, is there someone else here?

You have a pet? No, what's wrong?

Here's what I need you to do. My car's at the curb.

You run like hell, you get inside, you lock the door, you get on the radio, and

you call 911.

You think you can do that?

Okay, you come now. Go.

So you didn't see anything?

I saw boots.

He just left you there. He didn't drive in.

I've been wondering that, too.

Maybe it's just not fun to mess with me, you know?

I rub my face in it.

Rinses come back on that wallet?

We got nothing.

Cash and ID is still in there.

Not surprised.

You know, frankly...

You're going back there saving Amanda from whatever sick things the

Nightingale does to these women.

I think you'd be rubbing my nose in your butt now.

Look, man, I'm glad she's okay, you know, but that doesn't change anything

for me. I mean, I close my eyes, I'm still just gonna see her getting taken,

you know? Hey, hey, hey, come on, man.

Look, nobody's getting taken. It gets to the point sometimes.

All I want to do is protect her, and I don't... I don't know if I can.

All right, so that's why you've been acting.

And here I am thinking it's your time undercover that's putting you on edge.

You were right.

Partially, anyway.

When I was undercover, there was someone, okay?

And it's not going away like I thought it would.

I wish you hadn't told me that.

You asked.

I get how worried you are about those in jewelry.

This is how it happens, not the Nightingale.

So whatever stupid thing you did on whoever, you better make it right.

On the gate.

You know what I think this is about?

I talk to the future, I don't read minds.

I think you saw me as an easy mark.

I checked the logs.

I know you tried others.

Cops.

Judges.

Anyone who'd lost a loved one.

Preying on their grief.

You had no idea what a jackpot you'd hit with me.

I mean, you knew I lost my mom to the Nightingale.

You didn't know.

I'd be interested in what you say you can do.

Did you get my communicator?

Don't even try. We both know it doesn't work.

Your life's work was a complete failure.

But that was too painful to admit, so you concocted your insane story.

You had to convince yourself that you were some crusader of justice.

Because if you're not, what are you? Just a washed-up physics professor who

kills people for no reason at all.

And yet you're back.

You're wrong.

About?

Didn't happen again.

We stopped it.

It still will.

It'll happen again.

And again and again.

What will happen again?

Get me my communicator. I will show you how to stop. Stop what?

Your pain.

You have one hour.

That's it.

We will do wonderful things together.

This is Sullivan.

I thought she lived in India.

Boyfriend said they moved back three months ago.

You sure you don't want to wait for Lieutenant Raina?

Oh, I don't want to wait for anyone.

You know your dad saved this woman from the Nightingale two decades ago. I'm

almost glad he's not here to see this because it's...

Man. Branch grew back.

It doesn't make sense.

Why 20 years later?

She's living in India until now.

You know your dad thought the Nightingale was sending him messages.

I didn't buy it at the time.

What do you mean?

Setting up scenes to make a point.

Goading him.

That's how your father saw it.

Because you couldn't catch him.

Neither can I.

Same thing all over again. You ever get anything from that inmate?

I don't know.

Starting to think he was on to something, though.

Any idea what that is?

Guessing not a suicide note.

Let me know as soon as you find out.

If you find anything, you let me know.

Okay, now it's a joke.

What are you doing here?

Neil, I'll look over there.

I'm working here.

I'm a cop.

Detective, actually.

It would not have been my first year.

Doctor was my second year.

And you asked me if I believe in fate.

Yeah, fate.

Kismet, whatever you want to call it.

I guess I never really had a reason to.

My name's Raimi.

Raimi Sullivan.

Do you ever want to run into each other on purpose? I'm working on the 21st.

Daniel. Daniel Lahr.

No.

Hey, Einstein.

You heard the bell. This drop is closed.

Had to cut off the trunk.

He used me.

The guard said you had a beef with that guy. Thought his hoarded food was

stinking up your cell. You needed access to that contraption so you could talk to

your fake self so you could justify killing him. I didn't use you.

I had every intention of asking my future self about the Nightingale after

I asked about Mr.

Saunders, who was, by the way, about to shoot up a liquor store, killing a

family of five.

He was in for life.

No possibility of parole. Have you ever heard of a tunnel?

I could help you find it if you just get... If I let you use your machine.

They dismantled it, Carl.

Sorry, no more crusades.

Look, you're smart. You know things.

You could help me understand.

We might even be able to do wonderful things together.

If you would just please drop the crazy Carl act.

Would you like a glass of water?

You look pale.

Bye, Carl.

How can Amanda be gone? I just saw her.

I'm sorry.

One thing I thought I actually said. She had a rich, full life because of you.

She just ended up working in a clinic in India. She had friends, family.

No, you were right. Every time I think I help someone, they just end up dead.

This isn't your fault.

It's like Carl said.

Amanda was just a branch on the nightingale's tree. He was going to get

her no matter what you or I did. So even if we save your mom, he's not going to

stop until he kills her.

Unless we cut off the trunk.

What?

You have to kill the Nightingale.

Come on, Rami, I know we need to get to Nightingale. It is the only way. No, I'm

a cop.

Rami, I'm not a murderer, okay? We bring him in, we put him away for life. That's

how we do it. And ten years from now, he gets off on a technicality.

Branches grow back.

You have to cut off the trunk.

It's how this works.

It's not right.

If we do, Amanda lives.

Mom lives.

That's the bottom line.

It's open.

Hey. Hey.

Lorenzo sent us back after you left.

They never did find anything.

Yeah, I'm not surprised.

Hey, man, uh... I was way out of line earlier.

You know, who am I to judge, right? Oh, man, you were right.

I'm going to ask. All right, then. Well, come on. Let's get something to eat. Oh,

I'm worried. I got to wash the house tonight. All right, bro. All right, man.

Next time. All right, I'll holler at you.

Raimi made them for her bake sale.

Whoa. What happened?

I'm okay. It's not that I'm fine.

You don't have to stay out here, you know. No, I should.

I mean, this is my shift.

Wow. These are really good. She made these, right?

Just watch out for eggshells. Oh, yeah.

I didn't mean it when I said that. I didn't care.

I want you to be here.

So take shifts as much as you can.

It's okay, you know, I get it. No, I actually do.

I feel safer when it's you.

Okay.

Then I will.

I hate that I'm scared.

It's okay, right?

I'm not gonna let anything happen to you.

To you or Rames.

Okay?

Come give Ramey a kiss goodnight, okay?

I'll be right out.

Oh, um, Stan brought this by.

Sorry, I should have just told them that we were separated.

Oh, no, no, no.

It's okay.

It's okay.

I'll be right out.