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I need to see hands out the window now.

I want this window down, and I need to see hands right now.

Police, hands up right now.

Police, do not move.

Do not move.

Stop!

This was a tragic accident.

Officer Turley fired four shots, killing the driver instantly.

It was at 10.30 at night. The lighting on the street was non-existent. And the

driver, Ms. Burke, reached for an object that resembled a firearm on the

passenger seat.

Tragically, it was a cell phone.

Do you have it?

have any questions i've asked my team to hold their questions and comments until

we've had a chance to speak afterwards well complicating matters of course is

that officer turley is white and the victim was african-american but i i just

want to be clear there are no previous use of force complaints against officer

turley up until this moment he'd never fired his gun so i'm here from the

police union we've supplied Officer Turley with a lawyer.

He will appear before the grand jury later this week and most certainly will

be put on trial within the year.

The lawyer believes that the best defense would be for Officer Turley to

plead temporary insanity.

He did actually see a gun.

Now you're probably wondering why I'm here. Why go to the church instead of a

state-sanctioned psychiatrist for an evaluation?

Well, one of the reasons is Officer Turley's faith.

He's Catholic.

The other is Officer Turley's sincere belief that there was a demonic

intrusion into the events of that night.

He believes that he was momentarily possessed when he saw a gun.

I understand that this seems like a convenient excuse.

But I would ask you to be objective and consider the facts carefully.

Thank you, Louie.

Do you want me to explain myself?

Yes, that would be good. I took this meeting as a favor. Well, great. We took

the meeting. Favor fulfilled.

What's next? Wait, we need to discuss this. What's this?

A racist cop killed a black mother, and now he wants the Catholic Church to give

him a... Twinkie defense? Yeah. I want you to meet with him. The racist cop?

You don't know if he's a racist.

Oh. We have to learn to withhold judgment. David, as a man of God, you

must withhold ju... Where are you going?

To withhold judgment.

Hi.

Hello.

So do you want me to start? Yeah, why don't you start?

Yeah.

I know you, don't I?

Do you?

Yeah. Oh, I know. Holy Conception. My girls go there. Oh, right. You're in the

carpool. Dahlia and... Becky, right. Yep. You're the one with the four girls,

right? The funny ones?

Yeah. I'm sorry. I mean, it's like good funny.

Anyway, um... Yeah, sorry. Um, look.

I know it must sound like I'm trying to take advantage of my religion to stay

out of jail, but I just really want to understand what happened to me.

Because I saw a gun.

I know it's not a gun now, but I saw one. Miss Burke was reaching for it. My

training required that I fire.

All I can say is I just wish I could take those 15 seconds back.

I went to her funeral and, uh...

Could I have watched her family?

Watching them, watching her boys?

You knew she was African-American when you approached the car?

Yeah.

Yeah, dispatch told me.

Would you have behaved differently if it were Kristen you had pulled over?

If I knew it was Kristen? No.

If you knew the driver was Kristen's race, would you have fired?

I don't know.

Thank you for your honesty.

But I do know if I saw Kristen reach for a gun to shoot me, I would do what I

did. I'd order her to stop, and I would fire if she didn't. That's my training.

I saw a gun.

What did I say about that word?

Hey Rat G, it's on!

This was a polygrapher

not sympathetic to the police.

And all Officer Turley's answers were determined to be consistent with his

seeing a gun.

Does it matter?

Does it matter that he thinks it was a gun? That doesn't mean he's possessed.

It just means he expected there to be a gun due to the driver's race. Is it not

also possible that Satan uses racism as a form of diabolical oppression?

Cheers.

Cheers.

Hey,

I wanted to ask you something about someone you know.

Yeah, I know. Jim Turley.

He told me he made a mistake.

Do you know what he's arguing?

Yeah, that he was possessed when he saw the gun.

And you think that makes sense?

I don't believe in demons, but I do know that cops see guns in everyday objects

all the time.

In everyday objects of black people?

Oh, come on.

Not everything is about race.

This is about street sense.

A cop making a snap decision that could save a life.

Play it with me.

We got a call.

This is before I was in homicide.

We heard a dad had a gun to his two-year-old's head threatening to kill

her.

So we go to the apartment. We hear screaming.

We burst through.

And I see a man with his baby in his arms raising a rifle at me.

So I raised my gun. It was him or me.

And then I heard my partner screaming at me to stop.

A guy was using a mop to clear out spider webs.

And I saw it as a rifle.

I swear to this day it was a rifle.

And I was a split second from blowing him away.

So, what do I do with that?

Next time if I hesitate I get killed or a guy kills his infant.

So you tell me.

We're talking about a split second decision.

Right.

And yes, I know that race enters this, but only because 70% of my arrests up

until that point were African American.

I'm not saying there aren't bad cops.

There are.

But Officer Jim is one of the good ones.

And so am I.

At least I think I am.

So, now I have a question for you.

Shoot!

Sorry, that was a bad joke.

It's about the LaRue case.

Wife Emily has an alibi.

I heard.

But her new boyfriend doesn't. Del Rubin?

Did Emily ever mention him to you?

No.

Wow.

The new thinking is that Emily had her boyfriend kill LaRue to give her an

alibi.

Really? It's elaborate, but boyfriend's got a criminal record.

so it seems like good old Emily has a type.

We're hoping to charge them both, so if you hear from Emily, let us know, okay?

Yeah, of course. Great.

Hey, do you want me to call you an Uber? No, I'm good.

Take care.

We'll see you later.

This test measures pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and skin

conductivity. These physiological reactions are recorded via the

instruments attached to the subject.

A polygraph test subject can trick the mechanics by controlling their breathing

and blood pressure. Some criminals, for example, exhibit a relaxed demeanor

under interrogation, making it difficult to detect lying.

With practice, a person can control their blood pressure with the use of a

blood pressure cuff.

Sweetie, you've fallen asleep in your chair again, huh?

How's that?

Cozy?

I recorded you last time.

You're not real. Answer all my questions with a no, please.

You dropped out of college because you were offered a prestigious laboratory

job at U of M, correct?

I don't believe in this.

This has no power over me.

Did that hurt, Ben?

Did it have power over you?

What is CAS3, Ben?

This is not real. If it weren't real, it wouldn't hurt. Come on, CAS3. You were

so proud of it at the time.

I was not.

That was a lie, Ben. You thought your gene editing was going to change the

world. It was.

and childhood diseases.

Should I show you a picture of those babies?

It had nothing to do with that. Then why quit?

Why give up on it all?

You'd be fucking rich by now.

So this is the body cam footage?

Yes, Officer Turley's.

Right now!

Police!

It's just going to show a cell phone, right? Police! Do not move!

Do not move!

Yeah, so that doesn't help much.

What?

One second.

There.

what is it

a

sigil

Do not move! Do not move!

So now we think Officer Turley's possessed and not just racist?

I'm not proud of that sentence.

Yeah, it is weird to give him what he wants, a defense for his grand jury.

This might be bigger than that.

What's this?

Clips from my iPhone.

What, these are all pullovers?

Yeah. I have an iPhone app that records police stops.

Step out of your vehicle, please, sir.

Right, I have a friend who suggested I get that.

You just say I'm being pulled over and it starts recording.

How many pullovers are there?

Five. Over how long?

A year.

Oh, my God, David, do you know how many times I've been pulled over in ten

years? Wait, hold on, hold on, let me guess.

Zero. That makes me so angry.

You're so sweet, Kristen.

There. That isn't Officer Turley?

Nope.

So what are we thinking? It's a gang within the police? That's the question

now, isn't it?

Everything all right?

Yeah, I just... I've got to go.

Is it always this loud? No.

It's only the parade trains.

They come by three times a day.

What is all that? Huh?

Oh.

It's a doll. It looks like an altar. What? It looks like an altar. Oh, yeah.

The candles. Yeah, I like the smell of candles.

Ah! Baby!

My God, I didn't know it was you.

Did your mom say the police?

Guilty. I will let you talk. It was really nice to talk to you. You too.

So it's about LaRue again.

Something new?

No. Well, yeah.

Emily's boyfriend.

Turns out he has an alibi. The guy was taking a poetry seminar at Columbia.

Who would have thought?

I guess people with criminal records can be poets, too.

Huh. That's better.

So it made me remember that LaRue was intimidating you, too, and I thought I

should at least start covering my bases.

What bases?

When LaRue was killed, where were you? Were you here? Where you were?

Here at home, um... Yes, I came home from an exorcism. I love it, my friend

and her exorcisms. I came home to be with my daughters.

Were they awake, asleep?

Uh... Lexus was awake.

Great, so I can ask her later maybe if she remembered you coming in. I'm

guessing she's in school?

I think so, yeah.

Okay, one last thing.

LaRue was killed with a serrated blade.

So, just gotta check this off my to-do list.

Do you mind if I look at your knives?

Of course.

Ah, great.

None of these are serrated. We're all done here.

Great. Um, actually, I wanted to ask you something.

Oh, sure. Did I kill Laura?

No, um, do you know what this is? This tattoo?

What? It's, uh, cop superstition. Like, wearing two pairs of socks.

Some cops do it so you don't get shot.

Do you know where it comes from?

No idea.

There are all these ancient traditions.

Check on the rant.

The? What's that?

It's a cop threat on 4chan.

My guess is the cops there can tell you more.

Uh-oh. Better go before, uh... See ya.

Bye.

Hey.

What did I do?

What? Oh my gosh.

Nothing. Am I really that threatening when I come in and just talk to my

daughter? No, but did I do something wrong?

No. Actually, um, I need your help.

Okay. Do you remember my friend Mira?

Uh-huh.

So, um, she and her partner want to ask you a couple of questions about where I

was a couple of months ago.

Do you remember that guy that, um, a killer who came here to threaten you?

LaRue. Right. So they want to know if I was here, too.

Yeah, that's easy.

You were. Right.

And I know that I sent you to bed, and then later I came upstairs to tuck you

in.

Is that what you want me to say?

No, I'm just making sure that that's what happened.

I guess that could have happened.

You don't remember me coming upstairs, tucking you in about 30 minutes later?

No, I do.

I guess that makes sense to me.

Okay.

Good.

Thanks, Lex.

Here's the thing, Mom.

Ben had put in that alarm system, and you couldn't have left because it would

have set off the alarm, right?

Right. Yeah, that's a good point.

How's homework?

Good.

Good. Are you

seeing anything? No. Just a lot of complaints about overtime.

And your patrol cars.

Nothing about tattoos.

I think I just found out why you don't get pulled over as much. When you become

a cop... You get good at street sense, intuitively knowing the good guys from

the bad guys.

You go easier on the good and harder on the bad. That is just justice.

You all right?

Seem down?

I was just gonna say the same about you.

I didn't get much sleep.

You still having night terrors?

It's a lucid dream you're not working. I set my alarm at night, and then I wake

up. Then I go back to sleep, night terror. Okay, here.

The key is a repetitive pattern during the day. I already tried.

No, no, no. You got to set your alarm to vibrate, not to sound. Sound's going to

wake you up during the night.

Okay. Do it every hour on the hour during the day. Every time you feel your

alarm, you're going to look at your blue string and ask yourself, am I dreaming?

And then none of the books say this, but night terrors usually come around 4 a.m.

or so.

During the deepest hour, yeah. Right. So you're going to set your alarm to 410.

And 410 only. Then place it under your pillow so you'll feel it, but you're not

gonna wake up.

Then look at your wrist.

In your dream, the blue string's not gonna be there, so you'll know you're

sleeping. Then you can lucid dream and kill the night terror.

Kill it? Uh-huh.

I kept a weapon next to my bed. I knew it was there in my dream, so I could use

it.

Wow.

You're a font.

Yeah, I should write a book.

Hey, look, it's the sigil.

To all those protectors out there, wear your colors with pride, and together we

will ride.

Meaning? We think the protectors is the name of a gang within the NYPD.

There are similar gangs that were discovered in the LAPD. And we think

Officer Turley is one of their members. That wasn't your objective. It was to

assess whether Officer Turley was diabolically possessed.

Yes, and if he's a member of the protectors, then the answer is possibly

yes.

So, this miracle in upstate New York... Your Eminence, we have a case.

We're not finished yet. You pushed us to pursue this. You had a case. You're

trying to turn it into something bigger, involving racism and your sigil map.

You asked if Officer Turley was possessed when he killed an African

-American driver.

That's a question we are trying to answer. By going after all the cops? No,

no, by going after a gang of cops within the NYPD called the Protectors. The

Protectors are not a gang. It's what the cops call themselves on Justice Served.

Excuse me? The TV show.

You're making it all sound sinister. It's not. It's just a TV show, like Law

and Order.

So, now let's turn to our next case, please.

And if the show was the source of evil? What are you talking about?

The cops are influenced by the show enough to copy their sigil.

So, why isn't the show the source of evil?

I have no idea what to do with that.

That's why you have us.

Okay, what's wrong, Lex?

Come on.

I don't want to lie, but

I think Mom wants me to.

No, she doesn't.

Yes, she does.

About what?

About where Mom was.

Where was she?

I don't think I should say anything.

Okay.

So, here's what I say.

Mom doesn't want you to lie.

She wants you to tell the truth.

Always.

Even if it hurts her?

Truth isn't going to hurt your mom. Only lying will.

You think so?

I know so.

Here.

Follow me.

Where are you going?

Just follow me.

What is that?

It's Eddie.

Eddie, my Eddie.

I offer this sacrifice in the name of Lexus.

She's in doubt. Bring her clarity.

Grandma, what are you doing?

This is Eddie.

When you need something, you bring him a sacrifice and he will grant it to you.

Come on over here.

Oh, come on. He's not going to bite you. Come on.

Okay, stay there.

Look.

Oh, come on, honey. Honey, come on.

Oh, you're still trying to lose the gut, I see.

You're still looking like an extra in Kill Bill.

Third week of keto. Nothing but caveman fat and protein, baby.

What's with the mod squad here?

This is Kristen, David, and Ben.

Howdy. Hi.

Yeah, we're actually investigating something for the church, and we could

use your help, Mr. Carr.

For Louie, I can give you a hot minute. Walk with me.

So are you guys fans of Justice Served?

we've been watching a lot lately really compelling compelling is that all you

got it's the number one cop show in the world well we've seen sorry seen several

seasons and we found this symbol that's not a symbol that's a sigil

what did i say we noticed some of the cops watching your show started using

the sigil too yeah i know so where Where does the sigil come from? Oh, that's

old. I got that from one of my mentors. He used it on Dragnet back in the 50s.

Oh, yeah?

So you got it from Dragnet. Well, we all did.

You can see that on Chips. It's on Starsky and Hodge, every cop show for

the last 40 years. Right. It's kind of like our rabbit's foot, our Wilhelm

scream. This is craft services.

You can grab anything you want.

Mr. Carr, we're dealing with the case of a cop.

shooting an unarmed driver and then claiming they saw a gun. Oh, you're

talking about Jim Turley, right?

It's awful.

We give him some moonlighting work during our night shoots.

He's a nice guy.

Why are those two so grim?

They care. They care? And we don't?

Me and me, we gotta stick together.

Do you think your show... My shows.

I have five. Do you think they have any influence on the police or how they

behave?

I love these questions. Keep them coming.

Entertainment is the real issue, right? It has nothing to do with the behavior.

Yeah, but the lead character on your show, Cliff Locke, he's a cop who

doesn't play by the rules. But he gets the job done. Even though he abuses

suspects?

Badger's witnesses?

So if a kid plays a video game and shoots up a school, you blame the video

game, right? Kids don't get a badge or a gun.

Oh, come on. My shows help people no good from bad.

Cliff Locke, he's a hero.

He's not an anti-hero. He's not Tony Soprano or Vic Mackey, but a real hero.

who is aspirational mr carr cliff lock makes cops want to be better cops that's

why the naacp and the afl-cio gave us plaques and it's why there was a 30

increase in poc applications to the nypd right after our first season and i've

increased diversity by 30 across all of my shows i even pitched a show last year

three pocs in park slope for crying out loud and they passed on You see, I'm not

the problem.

The problem, I'm afraid to say, is what the public really wants.

You see, you can go out there and scream Black Lives Matter, and a whole bunch of

people will be with you.

Go and write a drama about people screaming Black Lives Matter and see how

fast people switch you off.

Listen, I got to get back to work. It was very nice meeting you.

Good luck.

Me.

He's a megalomaniac, but I hate to say it, he's not wrong.

So should we end this case?

Talk to his eminence.

Hey, Ben.

I've missed you.

Shh.

Don't speak.

I know you have trouble expressing your feelings.

So, CAS 3, why turn your back on genetics if you did nothing wrong?

Why become some stupid contractor?

Look how CRISPR advanced without you.

What do you think you're doing?

Playing.

I don't like video games.

Too bad. I do, and I'm really good at them.

Two against one?

Well, this is unfair.

David.

I was always here.

Damn.

Is everything all right?

I just wanted to talk for a minute.

About?

I don't know.

Forgiveness.

Maybe.

Really?

I know.

So, you're one month away from being a priest, right?

Unless something goes wrong.

What could go wrong?

Nothing. Just braced.

God could hate me.

I could hate God.

Is that possible?

Which one?

Either.

I don't think so.

but I'm always surprised by life.

You're the closest to someone who I respect, who believes

in God, the real God, the supernatural God.

Thank you.

And so what I need to know is...

What do you do when you don't believe in God and you're looking for forgiveness?

Not from one person, but something you did.

What did you do?

Nothing. It's a question. It's a hypothetical.

I did a job in my past that I'm not proud of.

When Julie and I...

doing the 12 steps.

They said if we were looking for forgiveness, we could ask it of anything

bigger than ourselves.

A tree, a forest, the post office.

What does that do?

It acknowledges that something is bigger than yourself.

It allows you to say the actual words, I'm sorry, to the world,

not just in your mind.

You have to say to verbalize it, you know?

To a tree.

Or the post office.

Or the ocean.

I mean, you're not treating those things as God. You're just looking for

something larger than yourself.

That sounds insane.

Yes. But forgiveness...

is looking for peace that passeth understanding.

Anything logical like going to a therapist or getting a pill is not going

to give you true peace.

People intuitively know that the limits of the empirical are the empirical.

Hey. I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?

Sure. Whatever.

No, it's not whatever.

Please forgive me. Say, I forgive you.

I forgive you.

Get some help.

Thank you for all your great work, and so sorry to put you out.

But, well, everything's great now.

Turns out the grand jury cleared Officer Turley.

You're kidding.

No. He's back on the force. So, as you can see, there's no need for a defense.

He wanted me to thank you for him. And, Your Eminence, the union's gonna be

sending some volunteers to you over the next few Sundays.

So was that the protectors protecting one of their own?

I don't know what you're talking about.

The grand jury's independent, and Jim made an honest mistake.

But I do have a thought for you, Mr. Acosta.

I would stop questioning Mick Carr.

He's a good man, and he's been good to the union.

Is that a threat?

Oh, no, no, no.

We never threaten a seminarian.

We respect the church.

But we want you to respect us.

Last year, Father Thomas died of natural causes. A week ago, monks heard humming

coming from his tomb.

The monastery opened the crypt and found him like this.

The Vatican wants to consider Father Thomas for sainthood, but they need two

things first.

DNA evidence to make sure this is true incorruptibility, no decay.

An evidence of a second miracle.

So you need us to go get it? Yes. And here's the difficulty.

Sacred Trinity is a silent monastery. No talking, not a word. For the whole

weekend, you're there.

That ended the way it was going to, didn't it?

Grand juries never prosecute cops.

On to the next.

Come on, what did I do?

Hello, officer. I honestly don't know what I did. No, don't worry about it,

Mr. Secure.

I'm just making sure you're getting home safe.

Excuse me?

The world can be so dangerous.

I just want to make sure nothing happens to you.

Have a good evening.

David, where are you?

Bird and Lamb.

I think we're being intimidated by the police. Yes, we are.

You need to call Kristen.

I can't.

Okay, I want it.

Hey, Ben, what's up?

Uh, anything going on there?

Uh, well, I'm packing for a silent retreat. Not sure what to bring.

Probably not a swimsuit, right? David and I are getting some intimidation from

the police and... stopping first stuff i think it's from our questioning mick

carr why oh i mean a lot of cops are moonlighting for him and i think they're

protective nothing going on there uh no nothing okay i'd watch out okay well you

be careful out there yeah same to you

Mira, hey, it's me.

No, I'm fine.

I mean, I don't know.

There's somebody in my yard trying to scare us. I hate doing this, but would

you be able... Oh, that'd be great.

Okay, thank you.

I will shoot you.

You're not scaring me.

You can't scare me.

Hi, Kristen.

Long time no see.

It's good to see you.

You're not real.

You're a manifestation of my guilt.

Well, that would make a lot of sense if you felt guilty.

But you and I both know that you don't. This is about the medication Dr. Boggs

prescribed. I'm still seeing hallucinations. You're not real.

Once you take a life, there's nothing like it, Kristen.

At first, you're a little nervous.

Maybe even a little clumsy.

And then it just all comes together.

You shut up!

That moment that they take their last breath.

It's incredible.

I would lean in and listen.

And I would look into their eyes.

Just like you and me now.

And they and I would both know that I was the last person they were ever gonna

see.

And at that moment, it's like I'm their God.

That was you.

To me, you were my God.

You deserve to die.

Your victims did not.

Freeze! Police! Drop your weapon!

I said drop it!

Kristen?

Mira.

Hey.

What are you doing? Who are you talking to?

I thought I... I heard someone in the yard.

We came as fast as we could. You okay?

Yeah, I just... I thought I saw someone.

Back there.

What's this?

It's my axe from climbing.

Yeah, I see that.

It's serrated.

It is?

And your daughter, she wasn't sure if you tucked her in.

You questioned her?

We did.

Your mother let us.

She's a good girl, Alexis.

She is.

I'm guilty, Mira.

Anya, can you give us a minute?

Kristen. it's true krista i need you not to say anything

larue was a piece of crap

a serial killer he was threatening your family

and you you're a good person you're a nice suburban

mom four sweet kids in catholic school you drive a station wagon

And you have a friend who's a cop.

Mira. No.

Don't say anything.

What happened to LaRue was justice.

We told our superiors.

The guy had hundreds of enemies. We'll probably never know who killed him.

Some people deserve to die.

Cops know that better than anyone.

You should put that somewhere safe.

I'll say we saw a black man back here. He came out, scared him off.

We are supposed to be completely silent.

There are these monks, see?

They say if even one word is spoken aloud, horrible things will happen.

Screw that, right?

Then you may think that evil is leaving you, but don't you believe it? I'm not

go-

In a few weeks, there is so much more evil coming.

Do you really want to know?

Yes.

There's creepy dolls, blood transfusions, hallucinations,

cannibalism, exorcisms, blood baths,

sacks of potatoes.

Excuse me.

Oh, my God.

Demonic computer chips, rituals.

Satanism. Goo.

Knives. Sigils.

Temptation. UFOs. Masks. Weird sex.

Evil influences.

Kristen off the chain.

Are you sleeping with my mom? David at the rink. Ben really scared.

It's a bit melodramatic.

Until then.

Keep looking for me in your dreams.

I'll be right there with you.

Promise? Promise.