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♪ Echo, echo, echo ♪

♪ Echo in the dark ♪

♪ In the dark, in the dark ♪

♪ Somebody broke my heart ♪

Every morning I rise.

And before the city exhales,

before the lies wake up,

before the truth starts hiding.

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Two sisters, same blood, same vein ♪

♪ And the same man offers the same ♪

♪ Apologies don't end the shame ♪

♪ Two hearts lost in this flame ♪

♪ We was young, just trying to love ♪

♪ One tried to move on and found peace, found life ♪

♪ The other still haunted by the past ♪

♪ And those echoes, echoes of deception ♪

♪ Can't bury what's been sold ♪

♪ These echoes won't leave me alone ♪

♪ No, no, no, can't leave me alone ♪

I see that trash ain't moved.

Well, good morning to you too, sunshine.

It's Wednesday, trash day.

Okay, I know exactly what day it is

and I'm gonna get it taken care of

like I always do, all right?

Do you?

'Cause the way you've been coming in and out of this house,

I would've thought you was a visitor.

Be shocked to know if you knew what month it was.

Look, that Detroit case is uh, really starting to heat up.

It's a lot going on.

There's always a lot going on.

But none of it's in here.

You said what now?

Nothing at all.

Enjoy your coffee.

Well, I'm gonna get up outta here. I'm gonna...

♪ Can't run from your reflection ♪

♪ Reflection ♪

♪ Blood don't wash away the blame ♪

♪ The internal shame haunts my confession ♪

♪ My confession ♪

♪ You killed the man we used to know ♪

♪ Now I'm the one you framed this collar on ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're escapin' ♪

♪ Echo ♪

You look like you're trying way too hard

to look like you don't wanna be here.

That obvious?

Well, only to someone doing the exact same thing.

You're not from around here, are you?

Nah, I'm from Novi. You?

- Detroit. East Side. - Mm.

Okay, well um, I'm Kameron.

You wanna maybe try this school thing together?

Nyria, but my friends call me Nini.

And, sure. Why not?

Okay.

New motion from the defense, juvenile gun charge.

And the DA's trying to push it to adult court.

Of course they are.

Nothing makes a prosecutor feel braver than bullying a child

with a public defender.

He's 16 years old and this is his first offense.

Send it to my docket. I'll hear it on Friday.

They're pushing for expedited hearing,

and the local news has it, so, the pressure's on.

Now Mia, you know I don't rule for the headlines.

I rule for the law.

So you can tell the DA

that my bench will not bend for click bait.

I will rule when I'm good and ready.

You're one of the few who still looks at these kids

and sees more than just a charge.

Somebody has to.

Another girl gone.

No leads, no prints, nothing.

The school cameras were pointed at a brick wall.

Of course they were.

This girl's 14.

She was last seen walking from the store.

Do you think this could be connected to the other cases?

I think we got somebody that knows the system,

knows the gaps, knows just how long it takes

before we stop looking.

So, you're saying we have a pattern.

I'm saying we have a predator, and he ain't sloppy.

Okay, well, we could request a multi-unit task force,

maybe loop in missing persons, even-

You ever try swimming upstream in cement, Jones?

No ma'am.

Well, that's exactly how it feels

asking anybody in this precinct for help.

One by one, they disappear.

And I keep writing reports nobody reads.

God help me if I'm missing something.

So here's what we'll do. We'll go to the schools.

We'll talk to anybody who will talk, lunch workers,

janitors, kids who linger after the bell rings.

And I'm gonna tell you,

if we find one damn loose thread,

we pull that bitch till it bleeds.

You know, I was just telling one of my associates

about the audacity of these young attorneys.

I mean, you wouldn't believe the way that she was acting

in my courtroom.

But then again-

Hello ladies. My name is Kiki.

I will be your waitress today.

I have a few menus for you to look over.

Oh.

Take your time and I'll be back to check with you guys.

Okay? - Thank you.

Yeah.

I've never been here, bet it's good here.

Have you ever tried anything here?

I haven't. It's my first time.

Hmm. I think uh, maybe the sea bass.

That sounds like that would be tasty.

Judge Newsome, didn't expect you in the wild

without your robe and gavel.

Detective Hart, wasn't expecting

to be followed to brunch like a suspect.

Coincidence, I swear.

Now Chance, you are many things, but a liar's not one.

At least, not with your eyes.

I, I've gotta run. I'm gonna catch you later.

I'll see you.

So, we need to talk, tonight.

My wife is not clueless and she's been asking questions,

insinuating things, and I don't know how much longer

I can dodge.

Then perhaps it's time she hears the truth,

from the source.

So what do you think will happen when it comes out?

I know exactly what would happen.

What always happens,

which is why I have kept your name out my mouth

even when I wanted to scream it.

Every time I try to end this,

some way, somehow, I end up right back into your orbit.

Then stop orbiting. Orbit's only end one or two ways.

They either crash or they burn. You decide.

Man, this is (sighs).

You ever notice professors act like their class

is the only one that matters?

I mean, it's no way they expect me to read 10 chapters

on top of all my other work.

Man. That's why I don't read all that.

I skim the bold words, pray for multiple choice,

and let God do the grading.

See, that's strategy.

Me, I always highlight everything,

then I'm just left like a fool

with a yellow book of confusion.

It's just ridiculous.

Look, sometimes you just gotta trust your gut.

My mom always tells me, when in doubt,

just take an educated guess.

You close with your mom?

Define close.

Like, do y'all talk about real stuff? Get deep.

No. Um, my mom's a judge.

She works too much.

Always got that "I'm fine" look, even when she's not.

I gave up trying to figure her out.

Sheesh. But same for me, really.

My mom is a detective.

She questions everything

but never has the answers to anything.

Okay, okay, so what I'm hearing is,

we're both raised by women who don't know

how to sit still and tell the truth.

- Yeah, basically. - Mm, gotcha.

Look at us, bonding over emotional neglect.

There are worse support groups out there.

True.

You ever feel like you're carrying someone else's pain,

and you don't even know why?

Every day.

You ever listen to music like that

and feel like it's talking to you?

Jazz don't talk, it just understands.

Hmm.

Damn. I know this.

It's something like what my mom listens to.

That's Coltrane.

My dad used to play it when I was a kid

to get me to fall asleep.

Or, at least that's what I'm told.

Wow, that must, that must be nice

having the soundtrack to your childhood?

I wouldn't know. Never heard him play it.

Maybe he will again someday.

What about your dad?

Ain't never been around.

You ever wonder who he was?

All the time.

But I know whoever he was and whatever he did,

he left my mom messed up.

She won't even talk about him.

You ever try to ask?

Yeah, once. But, she was evasive, as usual.

I mean, I just, I don't get it.

She is just so secretive with me.

You would think I'm trying to ask

for her banana pudding recipe.

My mom doesn't talk much about her life before me either.

Like, no matter how much I ask.

I'm starting to think she was a stripper.

Or, maybe a contact killer.

Shut up. Don't say that.

Hey.

Low key.

You feel me? It's a possibility.

Turn that off. You need to be studying.

Well, I've got some good news and some bad news.

Talk to me.

Street cameras caught her two blocks from East Side Middle

about 3:37 PM.

She wasn't alone.

Hmm. Let me guess.

Hood up, face turned just enough to piss off

facial rec software.

Exactly.

But check this out.

This van is the same exact model from that Southfield case

we worked two months ago.

You know, where the girl vanished walking home?

Any struggle?

No.

Could have been someone she knew,

or someone who knew exactly what to say to get her in a van.

How many of our girls come from schools

within a 10 mile grid?

All seven. Same basic MO.

What's that?

All of them were students, varying ages.

Three middle school, three high school, and one in college.

Hmm.

Hmm.

I think I found your hunting ground.

See, they think we're too busy, too tired,

too buried in red tape to connect the dots.

But I'm seeing it clearly now.

These girls aren't just missing. They're taken.

Yeah.

I'm not either. She sent that email so last minute, like-

Yo. What up my boy?

Boy, what's up?

Not much, bro. What you got going on tonight, bro?

Nothing man, I'm chilling.

Look, I'm having my birthday party tonight at Society.

I need you there.

Live DJ, drinks flowing, we up tonight my nigger. You down?

Mm. What's the vibe, man?

Is it a real party or is this some bullshit

where everybody just standing around watching each other?

Kam, come on, bro. You already know how I get down.

DJ Black Gold coming out. We got a whole section tonight.

We finna be lit, my nigger. Is you ready?

Hey look, you come on out too.

Bring that little mysterious girl energy you got going on.

They gonna love you.

Uh, I don't know.

Come on. You said you wanted to have some fun this year.

I say a lotta things.

What's the worst that can happen?

You act like I'm trying to sign you up

for OnlyFans or something, girl.

All right.

Right.

But I'm not dancing.

Cool. I'll dance for the both of us.

Let her know, my brother.

All right, but if I detect any weird,

frat party energy, I'm out.

We got you. We got you.

Deal, okay. I'm telling you, it's gonna be fun.

But, you cannot bring that hostile energy.

- Yeah, no. - You are going

to scare everybody.

They gonna be running

everywhere. - For sure.

- Whatever. - For sure.

Leave that at the crib.

At the crib.

I'm telling you it's gonna be lit. We up, okay?

Yeah, we trusting you. Okay?

♪ Echo, echo, echo ♪

♪ Echo in the dark, in the dark ♪

♪ Dark, in the dark ♪

♪ Somebody a broken heart, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Whispers touch across ♪

♪ Not behind my (indistinct) ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Yeah, two sisters, same blood, same vein ♪

♪ The same man offers the same ♪

♪ (indistinct) don't end the same ♪

♪ Two hearts don't fan this flame ♪

♪ We was young, just trying to love ♪

♪ One tried to move on and found peace, found life ♪

♪ The other still haunted by the past and echoes ♪

♪ Echoes of deception ♪

♪ Can't bury what's been sold ♪

♪ These echoes won't leave me alone ♪

♪ No, no, no ♪

♪ Can't leave me alone ♪

Why do you always look like

you just belong on the cover of a magazine?

You're so beautiful, perfect.

That's survival, baby. Shining my bulb just enough.

Nobody sees the cracks underneath.

Oh, so you got cracks?

Hmm, you've had your hands on every last one

for the past year and you still gotta ask?

Sometimes I like to think this thing is simple.

Helps me sleep better at night.

Hmm. I don't sleep.

Sometimes I think I'm the only thing

that makes you feel human.

No, you're not.

But you are one of the few things that make me feel alive,

even if it is poison.

Chance, what about your wife?

Cut it out, all right?

Don't act like you wasn't the one that started this.

Don't do that.

You walked into my courtroom asking for favors.

Wearing that badge like a charm.

♪ Show me that ♪

You looked at me like a man

that wanted to escape his wedding ring.

And that's why I'm here.

That's why I don't like to look at it.

Want what you can't have.

That's your thing.

Power games with expiration dates.

Maybe.

Maybe I just like the way that an unhappy man's loves

make me feel.

Every time you leave, I hate myself a little more.

And when you're here I just, I forget.

Well, don't let me go.

♪ But why can't the hurt let you go ♪

♪ No, can't let you go, let go ♪

♪ Why can't I let you go ♪

♪ No, no, no ♪

Yo, man. The line to get in this place was crazy.

Look, I'm not gonna get lit.

Try that then.

You just focus on loosening up.

Man, come on,

little dance moves- - I'm not drinking.

I got you.

I'll take whatever you got. - Yo, yo, what it do?

What it do? I told y'all this was the moves tonight.

Y'all good?

Happy birthday.

Yeah, man, this shit livid. Thanks for the invite.

Hey, you already know, my bud.

Are you good?

I'm good. I'm just taking it in.

Hey yo, look, I don't usually share my good shit,

but your ass need to loosen up, yo.

You out here clocking folks like the feds.

Uh, no, thank you. I like my brain cells.

Kam, don't smoke that.

You are driving.

Come on, it's his birthday. Come on, just relax.

Are you supposed to be smoking that in here?

- Come on, okay. Loosen up. - Come on, man.

Yeah, we with the birthday boy. Will you please?

Yo, yo, Detroit. What up though?

It's your boy, DJ Black Gold on the ones and twos.

And right now we in here celebrating your boy Ty b-day.

Make some noise.

Yeah, that's what I like to hear.

Ladies, come on, bring them boys out.

We about to get into this.

♪ Troll now you got two kids like me ♪

♪ Flow with your gang, give your all dog, what up ♪

♪ Dog, your friend keeps calling me ♪

♪ Like, who the hell call the phone, oh no, oh no ♪

♪ Hey, bottoms up ♪

♪ We toastin' that for days, days ♪

♪ Come by with us ♪

♪ You know we only get one life, let's turn it up ♪

♪ And shorty walkin' with them guys lookin' big as fuck ♪

♪ Candy shots, hey, bottoms up ♪

♪ Toastin' up to better days, that was us ♪

♪ Come on, you know we only get one life, turn it up ♪

You still here? You need some sleep.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

I traced the van from the school cam.

Mm-hmm.

Found one just like it

outside of a warehouse in Southfield.

Same night, another girl goes missing.

Quiet neighborhood, no chatter.

So that's eight now.

Eight girls, all in their teens, all gone without a trace.

See, they're not just snatching 'em up from the alleys.

They're blending right in, going to the school functions,

popups, anywhere there's noise.

They watch, they wait, choose their target, then move.

Like magic.

This isn't just some guy in a van.

Like, these people are sophisticated.

Exactly.

And we've been calling it scattered, but this isn't random.

It's more organized.

So you think we're looking at a ring?

I think we've been thinking too small.

These girls were cataloged, they were watched, then taken.

I think whoever's behind it slipped up,

cracked the door wide open.

And what do we do?

We find the door, we kick it down

before there's a number nine.

Man.

All right, all right, I hate to admit it, but that party,

that party was low key kinda fun.

Oh, wait, so we doubted. You doubted me?

No, I doubted Ty's taste. That boy's crazy.

He is pretty crazy.

You, never. You all right.

Thank you, I appreciate that.

That last shot though, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know what's going on with me.

Hold on. Where did that girl just go?

Where?

That girl.

This is crazy. We really about to do this?

You saw her.

We don't know what that was,

but we know what it looked like.

What if it was your sister? Or mine?

You ever did anything this stupid before?

Nope, but I've watched way too many people see something

and do nothing.

Tonight's not that night.

They keep going deeper.

Where the hell are they taking her?

Where am I?

Hello? Where am I?

Listen, you don't shut the fuck up,

I'm gonna give you somethin' to scream about,

and I put that on my dead daddy mind.

Yo bro, you sure no one saw us, bro.

That warehouse was packed, and that DJ had people filming.

♪ Hey, get your bitch ass in the trunk, eh ♪

Nobody saw shit.

And even if they did,

you think somebody gonna play superhero?

Nigger, I got 16 in the clip and one in the chamber.

I wish a nigger would.

Please, we, we don't have to do that.

Please, I just wanna go home.

Can I please just go home?

I promise I won't tell anybody anything. I promise, please.

Yo, if she keeps this shit up, we're fucked.

I promise I won't say anything to anybody.

I just wanna go home, please.

You will.

Keep running your mouth,

you gonna be tied up back there with her.

You forget who you work for?

Shit is fucked up.

Both y'all gettin' on my motherfuckin' nerves.

Handle that shit. Or else I'm gonna be forced to handle it.

You don't want me to handle it.

Please. Please, I wanna go home.

You gotta stop talking to me

like I'm a marked-ass nigger too, bro.

You is a marked-ass nigger, now go on.

Please don't, I don't, I don't wanna die.

I don't wanna die today. I just wanna go home.

You wanna die today or tomorrow?

Man, you a weak-ass motherfucker, man.

Gonna have this bitch back there

kicking your motherfuckin' ass.

Thought you was better than that, Ghost.

Ghost?

Hey, what the fuck did you do, man?

Man, you done fucked up the bag, man.

I don't feel a pulse, yo. Yo, yo.

Move the fuck out the way.

I think she's fuckin' out.

Yo, fuck this. I'm out, bro.

Kameron, wait.

Hey, Nyria, get back, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.

Are you (indistinct), girl?

We're recording you. Where did she go?

Hey, where's the girl?

- Oh, y'all making it easy. - Let her go.

Where is the girl?

Oh, she's in the back. Wanna see?

Ow.

Get your monkey ass off of me.

Stop, he's done.

You're good.

Are you okay? - No.

No! No!

Come on, come on, come on.

You're good, you're good. You got it.

Listen, Nyria.

Kameron, I can't, I can't, we can't just leave her.

We can't leave her.

- Listen, listen- - We can't leave her-

- Nyria, Nyria, listen. - Kameron, we have to go back.

- Nyria, Nyria, listen, okay? - We have to go back.

No, no, we, we are good, okay. We're safe.

Listen, all right?

I want you to understand right now

that you didn't do anything wrong, okay?

You saved me. Okay, we, we tried to save her.

We tried to do the right thing.

Okay, that's, that's gotta count for something, all right?

Listen, listen.

You're still here and I'm still here because of you.

Don't feel bad, okay?

We're in this together, we,

we're in this together, okay?

Do you trust me?

Yes.

What happens now?

I don't know.

♪ Oh, it's too late, too late ♪

♪ Too late now, yeah ♪

♪ You said blood was forever ♪

♪ Now your hands ain't clean, no, no ♪

♪ And your hearts still beating ♪

♪ That don't mean ♪

♪ Echoes, echoes, echoes of deception ♪

♪ Your lies they became my sentence ♪

♪ Praying by the love we shared ♪

♪ And the secrets we declared ♪

♪ Now true is my resurrection ♪

♪ Can't bury what's been sold ♪

♪ These echoes won't leave me alone, no, no, no ♪

♪ Can't leave me alone, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no ♪

♪ Show it by, by these ♪

♪ Echoes, echoes of deception, deception ♪

♪ Echoes, echoes, echoes of deception ♪

Detective McIntyre.

We got two bodies abandoned in the woods.

Just to Route 7, 47.

Looks fresh. We're needed on site asap.

They struck again.

Who found 'em?

It was a hunter, around 6:12 AM.

No witnesses but the scene's hot.

Forensics already digging in.

Looks like attempted rape, homicide, maybe retaliation?

All right, text me the location. I'm on my way.

We should have called the cops.

And told them what?

That we followed a van into the woods and we killed a man?

I killed him.

You stopped him from killing me,

from hurting someone else.

And the girl, we didn't save her.

No, we were too late for her.

But at least we didn't run. Okay?

We didn't pretend we didn't see anything

and we didn't just look away.

At least we tried, Nyria.

Breaking news this morning.

Two bodies were found in the woods near Route 47.

One female, early 20s, and the other a male,

who was previously linked to a prior trafficking case.

Authorities believe that were others involved

who had fled the scene.

No names are being released.

People think being a judge

makes you immune to fear.

But fear doesn't care about robes or titles.

It only needs one crack to get in.

Forensics found three additional sets of footprints

at the crime scene.

No matches yet. Blood's still being processed.

Whoever they were,

they were there when everything went down.

Could have been a drop gone wrong?

Or maybe someone tried to stop 'em.

Or finish it.

You really think someone's out here

trying to take these guys down?

Maybe, or maybe they just got too involved

in something bigger than what they understood.

Pull every record that we have on missing girls

from the abduction case.

Crosscheck from Southfield to Trenton.

Flag everything from vans to party flyers.

Also, men under the age of 35 with sealed juvi records.

Okay? - Okay.

Oh, on that note,

I did get a tip from a guy that was at a party last night.

Claimed he saw our girl.

Okay, did he see her leave? Did he see the offender?

No, didn't see her leave, but said she was really cozy

with two weird guys at the party.

And those could be our suspects.

Okay, but the other two footprints,

who did they belong to?

Yo, yo, Nyria. Nyria, slow down.

You are moving like you're being chased.

I feel like I'm being chased.

And you know girl from the party never made it home.

If you saw something,

why in the hell didn't you do something?

- Nyria. - She's dead.

You know that right?

Nyria, you have to relax.

I can't. I can't breathe.

- Listen- - I can't do this.

- Listen, listen. - I can't-

Listen to me and relax.

We are in this together. Okay?

Now go to my room.

Please.

Kameron, why aren't you up, son?

He's not here.

Yes. Well I can see that.

And you are?

I'm Nyria. I'm his friend.

Friend. What kind of friend?

Just a friend.

Well, just a friend, when you speak to Kameron,

let him know that his mother expects the text

sooner rather than later.

I trust you'll pass that along.

Class, and it becomes, what do you do

when morality and survival no longer align?

When silence becomes-

the safer choice?

Class, I want you to think about it the rest of today.

We will discuss it tomorrow.

You wear the badge like a armor.

You think it'll keep the world out.

You know, make you strong enough to face anything.

But when it's your kid,

when it's your blood tangled in the crime scene,

nothing makes sense.

And there's no training for that.

Nyria, wait. Stop, stop, he's done.

No, no, no, no. Fuck.

Okay, get in.

No! No!

Hey, Ma. Sorry I missed you earlier.

Where are you?

On campus. Just had class, grabbed food with Ty.

You didn't answer my text.

Oh, my phone was on silent. You good?

I'm always good. You're the one that I'm asking about.

You know, you do not sound like yourself.

Is there something wrong?

Something you wanna tell me, Kameron?

Nah, I'm straight, Ma. Seriously.

It's just been a long week. You know how school gets.

Baby, if you're not okay, don't lie to me about it.

I'm your mother, I know the difference

between tired and troubled.

Yeah, I'm okay. Just tired.

Everything's cool.

You know I got you. No matter what, right?

Thanks, Ma. I know you always hold me down.

Oh, I met your friend Nyria.

Interesting character, that one.

When I walked in, she acted like she'd seen a ghost,

and barely said much either.

She's just cautious, always overthinking.

She didn't mean anything by it. She's good people.

Mm-hmm, well, you let her know

that your mother is not the one to hide from.

All right, I guess I'll let you go for now.

Just don't get too busy for your mama. And, answer my texts.

That's not optional.

Yeah, Ma, I got you.

Love you.

I love you too, baby.

I've been calling you, texting you.

What the hell is going on? You scaring the hell outta me.

Ma, we saw them take her, at the party.

She was out of it, and they just forced her in the van.

Kameron said we couldn't let it go, so we followed.

Kameron who?

He's just this guy I met this semester.

He's, we're just friends.

He's not like the others, Ma. He listens.

He didn't wanna walk away, and neither did I.

What happened at that party?

One of the guys, he attacked Kameron.

Had his hands around his throat. Kameron couldn't breathe.

He, he was choking him and he wouldn't stop.

I didn't know what else to do. So, I grabbed a rock.

I just wanted him to stop.

But he didn't move after that.

I didn't, I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to kill him.

I didn't mean to kill him, I didn't mean (crying).

Why don't you come home for a few days? Okay?

Get your mind off of it. Leave the rest up to me.

Am I in trouble?

You're safe.

We gonna figure this out.

We gonna figure this out.

Gonna figure this out.

I promise.

♪ I can feel it in my soul ♪

♪ And I just can't control it ♪

♪ Can't control it ♪

♪ The only truth I know ♪

No!

♪ Is wrapping what you folded ♪

No way.

♪ Is wrapping what you folded ♪

This can't be.

♪ But I hear right through the silence ♪

♪ Whispers in the darkest light ♪

♪ They're scheming something mindless ♪

♪ Their love feels like a weapon ♪

♪ And I can't stand your presence ♪

Is this how y'all do me?

- Brandi. - How can y'all?

Brandi, please- - I thought you're my sister!

Wait.

- What is this? - Wait, wait.

- This how y'all do me? - Brandi, wait.

♪ Echoes of deception ♪

♪ Deception ♪

Oh god.

♪ Deception ♪

Morning.

- Morning. - I got something.

Yeah?

So I was able to pull street cam footage

from outside of that party, and the van did show up.

Now the thing is, the driver looks familiar,

almost like someone I locked up about a year ago.

But, that's not even what's throwing me off.

I want you to take a look at something.

This girl looks a lot like your daughter.

That could be a lookalike.

No, I, I don't think so. I'm pretty good with faces.

This is Nyria.

You must need glasses.

My daughter wasn't at that party that night.

Nyria hates parties.

Now, if you say you saw her at a library,

that would make more sense.

That girl stays in a book.

How can you be so sure? She stays at the dorms, right?

Yeah. Her and every other student.

If she keeps pressing, I might have to make a choice

I can't come back from.

You still like making an entrance, I see.

You still like creeping with other people's men?

Why are you here?

What the hell is this?

Open it and read it.

Now you oughta know better.

If this is regarding a case,

then you already know my process.

Bring me something with weight, a full affidavit,

probable cause, evidence, chain of command.

Until then, I'm not touching this.

Read the paperwork, Alex.

DNA analysis.

Nyria McIntyre, victim.

Sherry Brooks, deceased.

Bishop Stewart, suspect.

Keep reading.

Fingerprint analysis, one trace link.

Kameron Newsome.

My son?

Yep. Your son, my daughter.

Same place, same night, same blood in the dirt.

No. Your daughter maybe, but my son wouldn't.

This, this can't be right.

Not only is it right, it's real.

And we don't get to pretend that it isn't

just because it hurts.

I raised him alone.

I made choices that you will never understand.

Oh, is that what we calling it now? A choice?

You stole something from me.

Something I don't even have the words.

And I done set my ass back far too long and not said nothing

because I got a damn daughter to raise,

and I refuse to poison her with the bullshit you did.

What do you want from me?

It ain't about want. Need.

We need to protect them.

Yo, I cannot believe you told her.

She's my mom. What was I supposed to do?

She saw the footage. She already knew.

You weren't supposed to say anything. We had a plan.

There is no plan, Kameron.

There is blood on my hands, and on yours.

Do you even get what you just did?

I told the truth.

To a cop.

To my mother, she's not just a cop.

She is scared for me. She wants to protect me.

So you think she's gonna protect me too, huh?

She is going to hang me out to dry.

What? No, she wouldn't do that.

You don't know what a mother would do

to protect her child.

She doesn't even know me.

This just keeps getting worse.

Yeah, that's because it is.

You're the only one with the power to make this disappear.

You're asking me to bury a homicide.

I'm asking you to save them. Both of 'em.

Your son, my daughter.

They didn't want this. They didn't ask for this.

It was a moment that could very well ruin their lives.

So, what? Throw out forensics, suppress DNA?

Risk my robe, my bench, everything that I have built?

Oh, you mean like I did when you destroyed

everything I had?

This is not about that.

Oh, it's always gonna be about that. You owe me.

What do you want from me?

The cleanest way to make this go away.

Chain of command.

If the evidence wasn't properly stored,

if the DNA was somehow tampered with,

it would be inadmissible.

Then I can refile the log, say it was compromised

before it hits evidence.

That should work.

I mean, we can argue the fingerprints

down to circumstantial.

There was no weapon recovered at the scene.

No eyewitnesses, no clear timeline.

- Jesus. - What?

Jones.

The picture from the, the picture from the party,

Nyria was in the background.

She recognized her.

She suspect anything?

She's green, but smart.

I played it off when she asked me, but,

if she start asking the right questions.

Oh god, what are we doing?

I'll discredit the photo.

Say it was flagged in error, toss it from the chain,

no confirmation, get rid of the source.

We're doing what's right. We're protecting our babies.

Yeah. Yeah.

You should have told me the moment that it happened.

I didn't wanna drag you into it.

You are my son.

I'm in it the moment you decided to follow the van.

Don't lie to me again, ever.

You understand me?

Yeah.

Look, I know what you did wasn't about violence.

Baby, I know that you were only acting on instinct,

but people don't care about motive when blood is involved.

Mom, there's something else.

Nyria's mom is a cop.

I know.

You know? And you weren't gonna say anything?

There's a lot I didn't say, a lot I'm still unpacking,

but I don't have the time to get into the history

of all of that right now.

However, I do need you to do one thing for me.

What?

Stay away from Nyria.

No. Nyria is my friend, Mom.

She's the only one who was there

and the only one who gets it.

Exactly, which makes her a liability,

to herself, to you, to us.

She is not a problem.

She's dangerous, baby.

Trust me.

No.

I don't want you seeing him anymore.

What?

Kameron. Stay away from him.

You don't get to control that.

I do when your life is on the line.

How you think all of this is gonna end?

In some fairytale?

Prison, or worse.

Leave him alone.

You, you don't even know him.

I know enough.

Please, just listen to me, please.

I'm your mother, it is my job to make sure you're okay.

It is my job to protect you.

Please, just do me this solid, leave him alone.

It's for your own good.

So I'm driving back from Chicago,

somebody hit me from the back,

and that fell from under the seat.

I don't know who drugs it was. It was not mine.

So you're telling me this is not yours.

That's exactly what I'm telling you. That is not mine.

Who the hell are you two?

Two kids, wrong place, wrong time.

But their DNA hits the scene.

No priors,

no names, no reason to really be there,

unless they knew each other.

Maybe.

Same markers.

Maybe they're related.

I mean, not parent-child, not even full siblings,

but maybe half.

Maybe.

Or, maybe cousins.

Definitely.

My mom's been watching me like a hawk.

I can barely breathe in my own house.

Same.

Mine is about two seconds away

from putting a ankle monitor on me.

She told me to stay away from you.

Mine said the same about you.

Do you think, do you think we're bad people?

No.

Just two people who did a bad thing for the right reasons.

They're hiding something, both of them.

Yeah, I feel it too.

Go ahead and tell me that I'm the best you ever had.

Is that what you wanna hear?

Or, I could tell you the truth.

Well, you know your body tells me things

that your mind would never allow you to say.

What I know is that you're a good distraction.

Hm. So I'm just a good distraction, huh?

Chance, you're married.

You be saying that like it means something.

That's just routine, paperwork, all right?

But what we have is real. And you can feel it.

This isn't just sex, not for you, not anymore.

And you saying it like it's a bad thing.

It is a bad thing.

You weren't supposed to fall.

You were supposed to leave before it got complicated.

But you like complicated.

Like dealing with men that you can't have,

until they want you.

That's exactly why we should end this.

Why haven't you?

And don't overthink this, all right?

I'll be back before you know it.

♪ I don't wanna pass on your time no more ♪

♪ You ain't sleep no more ♪

♪ You're faking, baby, baby, baby ♪

♪ After you start doing this ♪

♪ Feel like I am falling in love ♪

Well, good morning.

I see you didn't make it to bed last night.

Yeah, I'm tired of pretending like everything is normal.

Is there something that you wanna talk about?

Talk about what?

Me drowning and your ass is on the shore

with your hands in your fuckin' pocket.

Look Bran, I'm working the same case as you.

You know how busy I've been, all right?

Is that right?

Is it the case that has you so distracted,

or is it somebody else?

Are you questioning my loyalty right now?

I'm questioning everything at this point.

When was the last time you checked up on our daughter?

When the last time you asked about our daughter?

Or did you take a leave of absence from that too?

Oh, so you wanna take it there, huh?

Oh, I've already been there. You care to catch up?

Didn't think so.

♪ Echo in the dark, in the dark ♪

♪ In the dark, in the dark, mm ♪

♪ Somebody have overheard ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, whispers cut your cross ♪

♪ Locked behind our heart ♪

We need to talk.

I'm busy.

Well, I've been busy lately as well.

I've ran that DNA again

and got a partial familiar match between the two unknowns.

Okay, so?

So, they're either half siblings or cousins.

That's not a coincidence.

I ran the name that came up in the internal database

and guess what I found?

Kameron Newsome, the son of Judge Newsome.

Do you wanna tell me how your daughter and her son

end up at a crime scene together?

Be careful, Jones.

Careful? We're past that.

What I want, what I need, is the truth, Brandi.

I'm your partner. I know when you're hiding something.

You don't want the truth.

You got this case so far up your ass,

I'm starting to see you get a hard on.

You wanna find your guys so bad

just to get that pat on your back,

when in reality you just don't know

the first thing there is to know about real detective work.

So I'm gonna ask you again, no matter of fact,

I'm telling you, slow your roll.

Judge Newsome, right?

Hmm. Nyria, wasn't expecting to see you here.

I go here, you knew that.

I stay in the same dorm building

you came to looking for Kam.

Yes. Right, of course.

That would explain why you were in my son's room,

and why you're here.

I'm always there. I live there.

You look at me like you know something I don't.

I'm just protective.

I've seen a lot of bad things happen to young people

that didn't deserve it.

Yeah, well, I don't need another eye in the sky.

I already got a detective breathing down my neck.

So, excuse me.

She looked at me different. It's like she knows something.

Well, you have been spending more nights at the office

than at home.

I mean, what does she say?

Wasn't anything in particular.

She doesn't ask questions that she don't know the answer to.

She has a theory. I can feel it.

Then derail it.

Whatever scent she's on,

you kill it before it reaches my doorstep.

You know it's not that easy.

You're a smart man, Chance. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

She's your problem.

Let me be your solution.

Brandi, you need to come clean.

Look, I'm not sure exactly what's going on,

but if you don't let me know,

I'm gonna have to go to sarge with what I found.

Jones, you wouldn't understand. It's complicated.

No, it's not. We took an oath, remember?

To, to protect people, to seek justice.

This ain't justice.

I'm asking you, let it go.

You know I can't do that.

You know what, you're right.

Things have gotten outta control.

I gotta put an end to it. So how 'bout I come over.

I'll tell you everything.

Okay?

Okay. All right.

It's unlocked.

Uh, you know you didn't have to come this late.

This could've waited till tomorrow morning.

Yes, I did.

Ma, you're acting like the sky is falling.

Maybe it already has.

Do you recognize her?

Yeah. That's, that's Kameron's mom, right?

My sister, Alex.

Wait, your what?

We haven't spoken in over 20 years.

Not after she slept with the man that I loved,

your biological father.

No. No.

You, don't say that. What are you, what are you saying?

Didn't know that she was pregnant too.

Not until recently.

Baby, that boy you've been hanging around, Kameron,

it's not just your cousin,

it's your brother.

You're lying.

I wish I was.

I wish I was.

Wait.

So you mean to tell me this whole time,

my daddy's not my real father?

Wait, hold on, hold. Chance is your father.

Never mistake that.

That man brought you in, he loves you-

- You lied. - He loves you.

- You lied to me, Mom- - He raised you

like you were his own.

He is your father. - The whole time.

- I just found out. - And you let me,

oh.

- Calm down. - How could you?

Calm down. I just found out.

- You- - I would've told you if I-

No, no. You've been lying.

I can't, I need to be alone.

I can't, I can't breathe, I can't...

- Okay. - I need to go.

- No. - I need to be alone.

Mm-hmm. Okay.

♪ I'm sure ♪

She stopped responding. No texts, no calls, nothing.

Good. Leave it that way.

Why are you acting like this?

Because you're safer for not being near her.

Something is wrong, Mom. I can feel it.

She wouldn't just ghost me like this. I know her.

How would you know?

You've known this girl all of what, three months?

You wouldn't understand.

Nyria has been here for me, Mom.

We are both in this situation together.

There are things you need to know.

Things I want to tell you, but I can't.

Not now. Not yet.

What is it? Tell me.

Why do you keep putting things off?

Because freedom isn't free, Kameron.

Sometimes it comes with a cost,

and right now it's one that I cannot afford to pay.

So we just keep lying?

No, we keep surviving.

You're not about to keep getting away

with what you doing to me.

Kameron, we need to talk.

I just found out something that changes everything

and I don't even know where to begin.

All right, talk to me. What's going on?

It's about us, about everything.

Kameron, we're cousins. Worse than that, we're siblings.

What?

How?

Our moms are sisters. And we share the same dad.

No, no. That cannot be right.

It is. My mom finally just told me the truth.

She said that she and your mom had a falling out

like 20 years ago because your mom slept with my dad,

your dad, our.

She kept this from me my whole life.

Let me walk right into whatever this was with you.

Let me feel things I was never supposed to feel.

My whole life feels like a lie.

Nyria, I swear I didn't know, okay? I swear.

Neither did I.

Not when I kissed you,

not when I let myself feel safe with you.

Look, I didn't mean for that to happen.

Nyria, I don't, I don't regret it.

All right? I just don't know how to feel.

I do. I feel sick.

I feel like I don't even know who the hell I am anymore.

I can't. I can't do this.

I can't stay here and look at you

and not feel it all over again, I'm sorry.

What the?

♪ I hate you ♪

♪ I can't help but for say it ♪

♪ I hate you ♪

♪ In every single way ♪

♪ I hate you more than I should ♪

♪ And I hate that my hate for you feels good ♪

♪ But I hate you ♪

♪ And that hate is here to stay ♪

♪ Don't let these tears confuse you ♪

♪ 'Cause tears is all it is ♪

♪ Don't let my sadness make you think I'm ashamed ♪

♪ Of what I did ♪

♪ Don't let my cry confuse you because I'm really pissed ♪

♪ I only cry because the kid inside I cherished is now dead ♪

♪ The click, the power, the bang, the bang ♪

♪ Falling to the ground ♪

♪ The click, the power, the bang, the bang ♪

♪ Me having a smile ♪

♪ Is how I know ♪

♪ Oh, I hate you ♪

♪ I hate you ♪

♪ I hate you ♪

♪ Oh, I hate you ♪

♪ More than I should ♪

♪ And I hate that my hate for you feels good ♪

♪ But I hate you ♪

♪ And that hate is here to stay ♪

♪ I still feel the power of the gun in my hand ♪

♪ I still remember how you made me feel ♪

♪ And why this all began ♪

♪ I still hate you deeply ♪

♪ It's hard for me to forgive ♪

♪ I didn't think that this was me, but now it's all I am ♪

♪ The click, the power, the bang, the bang ♪

♪ You falling to the ground ♪

♪ The click, the power, the bang, the bang ♪

♪ And me having a smile ♪

♪ Is how I know ♪

♪ I hate you ♪

♪ Hate you ♪

♪ I hate you ♪

♪ I hate you more than I should ♪

♪ But I hate you and that hate is here to stay ♪

State your name for the record, please.

Judge Alex Newsome.

Alex, you were found in bed with Chance McIntyre

at 2:17 AM.

He had a bullet in his skull.

Help me understand how that happens.

I didn't kill him.

You were having an affair, a long one, with a married man.

I know what it looks like, but we were in love.

Oh god.

What type of person would do that, and just go to sleep?

I didn't kill him. I loved him.

Loved him enough to sneak around with him

behind his wife's back.

No.

Loved him enough to ignore the messages we recovered,

where he told you it was over.

He didn't. We were happy.

The murder weapon was recovered in your home.

No, that's not possible. Someone had to put it there.

They are setting me up.

- Who? - I don't know.

Who would set you up, Alex?

His wife. Maybe she found out about us.

Is that so?

Because his wife is one of the most trustworthy people

that I know.

Detective Brandi McIntyre, your sister.

She was at a charity gala last evening.

No.

20 eyewitnesses, stamped photos, timestamped photos.

She even gave a speech in the mayor's honor.

She did this.

She, she did this.

Chance said that he was gonna tell her,

that he was tired of living a lie.

She had to have known.

Maybe, just maybe, that was motive enough.

I didn't kill him!

You loved him, yet he was found shot dead in your bed,

and you're saying that someone else pulled the trigger.

Alex, you gotta help me understand.

Help me understand a version of this that makes sense.

I didn't do this. Oh god, I didn't do this.

I swear I didn't do this. I didn't kill him.

I didn't do this.

♪ I hate you ♪

Where are you?

I'm leaving, and please, don't look for me.

Kameron, we share the same blood

and that's the part that won't let me breathe.

It clings to everything.

To the laughter, to the kiss, to the one second

where I thought maybe, just maybe, I could be happy.

We got so close to something real.

We were something real.

Cameron, we were doomed from the start

because of our parents, because of the lies.

I don't care how it started, okay, Nyria?

I don't care about their lies.

Kameron, I can't do this.

She's not coming back.

And why should she?

♪ I can feel it in my soul ♪

♪ And I just can't control it ♪

♪ Can't control it ♪

♪ The only truth I know ♪

♪ Is wrapping what you folded ♪

So what's a pretty girl like you doing traveling alone?

I'm going to my niece's cheer competition.

Ain't nothing better than being with family.

That's nice.

You're awfully quiet.

I'm just tired.

Tired runs deeper than sleep.

You running from something or towards it?

Running, from

family.

Family's complicated.

They can love you and hurt you,

but sometimes they can break things so badly

that it gives you no other option but to run.

But remember this, even if you cannot do the past,

you get to decide what type of person you'll be tomorrow.

I hope you're right.

Trust me, I done made enough mistakes.

If I'm not right by now, what good am I?

You look different.

You look like you got what you deserved.

You still think I killed him?

What I know is, is that my whole life

has been nothing but secrets and lies.

And when it all blew up, when you killed him,

I had to live with the wreckage.

I came here for closure, that's it.

Did you find it?

No, but I found something else.

Nyria mailed me this.

She's mine.

I probably will never get to meet my daughter

because Nyria wants nothing to do with me.

And I don't blame her, after all of the hurt

and the lies that...

I just thought that you should know that you're a grandma.

Congrats.

Oh, my gosh.

Hey, I'm sorry. I should've been paying attention.

No damage done.

No, but I still should've been paying attention.

Are you Kameron?

Yeah. Have we met?

Um, not exactly. I've actually seen you around campus.

You know, you're pretty hard to miss.

Well I guess I can't say the same.

Ouch.

I am so sorry. I didn't mean it like that.

I'm just, I'm just saying

I haven't really been paying attention.

I figured it.

A lot of times I see you around campus

you look so deep in your thoughts.

Maybe now you'll notice me?

Anyway, um, I have some classes around here.

- Oh yeah? - Yeah.

Which one?

I'm actually gonna leave that up to you to find out.

So, I'll see you around, Kameron?

Yeah, maybe.

They know they crazy for that one.

Correctional facility. What's this?

Hello?

You have a collect call from-

Alex? I accept.

Alex.

What happened?

It's a long story.

It's about your children, Kameron and Nyria.

How you doin', Brandi?

You look good.

I thought you were dead.

Can I come in?

No. What the hell are you doing here?

Okay. Okay, fine, fine.

I'm here for my children.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Come on, don't be like that.

I got 'em from here on out.

Plus, I think that it's really time,

Brandi, that I meet my kids.

Now I hear that I'm a grandfather too?

Come on.

You show up to my doorstep 20 years later

to tell me some bullshit like that.

Look, I've always had my eye on 'em,

and I still do now, okay?

Appears to me like you a little bit too late.

No, I'm just getting started.

♪ Echo, echo, echo ♪

♪ Echo in the dark, in the dark ♪

♪ In the dark, in the dark ♪

♪ Somebody ain't comin' home ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, whispers touch across ♪

♪ Locked behind our heart ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Yeah, two sisters, same blood, same vein ♪

♪ And the same man offers the same ♪

♪ Apologies don't end the shame ♪

♪ Two hearts lost in this flame ♪

♪ We was young, just trying to love ♪

♪ One tried to move on and found peace, found life ♪

♪ The other's still haunted by the past at night ♪

♪ Now they meet again for the children's sake ♪

♪ But one got a secret she can't erase ♪

♪ There's a shadow in her smile ♪

♪ Been holed up here for awhile ♪

♪ The truth got a way of coming back, back ♪

♪ And it's like going through the cruel ♪

♪ Can't run from your reflection, reflection ♪

♪ Blood don't wash away the blame ♪

♪ Not inside the shame that housed my confession ♪

♪ My confession ♪

♪ You killed the man we used to love ♪

♪ Now, I'm the one you've framed ♪

♪ It's all right, it's all right ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah I just gave it ♪

♪ Echoes ♪

♪ She said I didn't mean to make you bleed ♪

♪ But jealousy got what it need ♪

♪ A husband's gone, a life undone and she ♪

♪ Pointing fingers at the wrong one ♪

♪ Why you lie on your blood, girl ♪

♪ You lying on your blood ♪

♪ Now the sun is down, the tears have sown ♪

♪ You watching from the windows ♪

♪ We built this case ♪

♪ We just stand on the echoes blown in our ear ♪

♪ Now, I see the truth in her eyes ♪

♪ Underneath them alibis ♪

♪ Now just listening to her cry ♪

♪ And I feel it every time, every time ♪

♪ Echoes, echoes of deception, deception ♪

♪ Love turned into a weapon ♪

♪ Oh he took his life and mine the same, now I'm trying ♪