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[ragged breathing]

- No no no no.

Hang on, hang on, you'll see.

You'll love it, it'll be great.

Yeah.

Okay, I'm gonna take this off, and you'll see.

Just thought that the first thing

you see should be something nice.

[dubstep music]

- Fuck, come on.

Did either one of you bring me some pizza?

- Well I had an extra large extra cheese in my coat for you,

but Yolanda told me to leave them in the car.

- Negro, next time leave Yolanda in the car

and bring me the damn pizza, okay?

[laughs] - Nice, nice Jimmy.

Look your nurses are watching what you eat.

They have to watch your, what,

your calories, your nutritional intake.

- They need to watch some damn cookin' shows,

'cause this shit is nasty.

- Well you know hospital food usually looks good.

They thought that if it looked good

that it'd impact the patient's recovery.

You know nurse and nourish has the same Latin root.

You know that?

- No you left me with him.

- What, I know things.

- I know somebody better get me some pizza

up in this mother-effer.

And you know what, y'all can just leave,

I'll call the chief, he'll bring it for me.

- Oh yeah, good luck with that.

- Have you seen him?

- Yesterday.

- Did he talk to you about coming back to SIU?

- We talked.

- Has Gloria been here?

I haven't heard her yelling at the nurses.

- She hasn't come by in a few days.

- Where is Tess?

- I haven't talked to her all morning.

[phone buzzing]

[phone buzzing] - Go.

- We're gonna come back, okay?

We'll be back.

- Yola.

Don't come back without my fuckin' pizza.

- All right, I'm gonna take these off

so you're a little bit more comfortable, okay?

All right, just do me a favor, try to relax a little.

Here, you probably want these.

I didn't want them to get messed up by the hood,

so I took them off, and anyway, there you go.

- [Tessa] Thank you.

- Yeah I get it you're looking for a way out.

But it's okay, no judgment, I'd do the same.

But I've buttoned the place up really well.

So instead of trying to figure a way out,

why don't you just try and figure out

why you're in here to begin with?

- [Tessa] Please just let me go.

- Don't do that, just answer the question.

- [Tessa] Please, just let me go.

- Look, stop that!

That's beneath you.

Just focus on why you're here.

Just think about it Tessa!

Why are you here?

- [Tessa] I don't know.

- Yes, you do, or you would,

if you'd stop wasting time being

afraid and just answered the question.

[Tessa crying] Just do your job Tessa.

Just do your damn job!

We're on the second floor Tessa.

What are you gonna do, jump?

- Hey, hey!

- Come here, come here! - No!

Come on. - Get the fuck off me!

Get off!

- Just sit down!

All right all right, angry.

All right, I'll take that, it's better than afraid.

Look I believe you're acquainted with Mr. Gabriel Acosta?

[moan] Thanks for inviting us

into your home but shut up!

Okay.

Here.

I'm gonna show you something.

- Used that to tack it to him.

Fingerprints, ASAP?

- Yes sir.

- Nice Guys Business Solutions.

Nice Guys finish first.

August 18th.

- August 18th?

You know most holidays are on a Monday.

- Don't care Tarik, what else?

- [Tarik] You said August 18th, right?

- Yeah, why, you got something?

- There's a photo with that exact date on it.

Wait, I think it's...

Holy shit.

- Oh my God, I don't want to see that.

Are you kidding me?

- There's gotta be terabytes on here.

There's children.

The whole thing is all kids.

You know what, we need to get into contact with--

- Yeah, I'm on it.

Tess, where are you, are you kidding me?

Call me back.

- You sent me those emails from Catherine Gallo.

- I did, that was me.

I sent the emails.

So, is that it?

Come on, say what you're thinking.

- You screwed up.

- Did I?

- Tessa?

Your door was unlocked.

Tess?

Tessa?

Tess?

- You gave us all the information to

prove Catherine Gallo totally guilty,

but we couldn't even get a warrant for Gabriel.

You screwed up.

- Did I?

- Tarik, yeah, it's Yo.

I'm at Tessa's.

I think I want to get a team out here right now.

Mm-hm, yeah.

- If you knew what you were sending,

you know what we'd have to do.

But you were trying to see what we would do.

You were testing us?

- There she is.

She's a phenomenal thinker, isn't she?

One in a million.

- So you were testing us and what, we failed?

- Oh, yeah you failed spectacularly.

I mean look, this piece of shit's still breathing, isn't he?

- You wanted us to kill him?

- Yes, that's exactly what I wanted.

You just said it.

The different between what you'd have to do

and what you wouldn't do.

Your whole team, you'd have to let him go.

And so you would.

- So we failed and I'm here to suffer for that?

- What?

Tessa, no no on no no no no.

You're not here to.

You're not here to suffer,

you're here because you have suffered.

You didn't fail.

Your team failed you.

- SIU?

No, no, they are always--

- Here.

There's a hidden partition on that drive, find it.

- It's password protected.

This is Catherine Gallo's laptop.

This wasn't at the crime scene.

- My word you are good at what you do.

Couldn't make it too easy.

- I know you.

- Yes, you do.

- Basically if you just scrub

your web RTC storage files clean,

that's how you find your suspect.

Easy, got it?

I gotta go.

- Hey.

I mean, my word you're good at what you do.

- Thanks.

You were at SIU when we were first starting up.

You were installing the new computer system.

And what, you were watching us?

- I was watching all of you,

but I paid attention to you.

- Why?

- Because you had the answers,

or if you didn't, you got them.

And they took you for granted.

- Who, SIU?

No.

- Yes, yes!

They think that this is the hard part.

Walkin' the streets,

getting their hands dirty on the trash of the world.

What they don't understand is that it takes

more brains than brawn to defeat the vices of this world.

- No, Jimmy--

- No, SIU is the worst.

Him in a coma,

it's probably the best thing that could happen to you.

You are just a tool to a guy like that.

No better than his badge or his car, his gun.

And those things serve a purpose and he needs them.

But he doesn't truly value them.

He doesn't value you.

- And you do?

- I see you Tessa.

Yeah.

There's a folder labeled CP in the bottom right.

- What is this?

Where is this?

- Those are crime scene photos taken earlier today.

By your team at the tailor shop of Mr. Charles Bernathy.

- [Tessa] You did this to him?

- Don't ask questions you already know the answer to.

That's pedestrian.

You recognize the name?

- Don't ask questions you already know the answer to.

- [Man] Touche.

- He was as child pornographer.

- Alleged, you couldn't prove that.

- No, I found hundreds of torrents linked back--

- Almost linked back to him.

But you couldn't prove it conclusively.

So you let him keep on keeping on.

- No, my team needed more, and the judge wanted more!

- That's right, they wanted more, the judge wanted more.

Your team wanted more.

And they didn't back your play.

You know who else wanted more?

Charles Bernathy.

And while you told them what they needed to do,

and they didn't listen to you. [laughs]

Charlie boy, he went out and added to his collection.

So like with this kid here.

Look, and here.

And here, look!

And here. - Stop.

- And there.

And this kid here, look at him!

- Stop it. - And this kid.

And this kid here, and here.

- Stop it!

Put that away, I can't see anymore.

- Hey, you don't have to.

Because I didn't need more.

You told them what they needed to do.

And I went out and did it.

- I didn't ask you for this.

- No no no no no.

[sigh] You're a good person.

But tell me,

are you really sorry for what happened to this monster?

Your team failed, Tessa.

But you and I?

We didn't.

You don't need them,

but they can't do any of this without you.

That's true.

Look, here.

Tell me what they missed here.

Look.

- Nice Business?

You're Nicholas Nice.

- Call me Nick.

- This is Detective Rodriguez.

Yes, with SIU.

I'm sorry, hang on, Officer Pope?

Can you say that again?

Text me a picture of that.

Thank you.

The fuck, Tess?

- Police are now questioning two men

they believe may have information

about who shot and killed a

34 year old woman in the Bronx Monday night.

The victim identified as Cassandra Walters Nice

was found about 9:40 p.m. Monday

with a gunshot wound to her head

in front of an ATM at the Glen Houses near Tintin Avenue.

According to NYD a source in the department

indicates that the two men, male,

still have information about the series of

other ATM assaults and the robberies

which have occurred in that area over the last few weeks.

These men killed your wife?

- Yes.

- And they got away with it.

- No.

They were the first.

I wanted to kill them, Tessa.

I mean obviously.

And, I didn't hesitate to find them.

Cassie deserved that much.

And I intended to stop with them.

I thought it would bring me peace.

- But it didn't.

- No, no.

'Cause I saw how easy it was to,

to make things right.

Not for Cassie, or me, but for the next person, you know?

To clean things up and make the world

a better place for the next person.

So easy.

And I [laughs] didn't understand how no one was doing that.

But then.

And then I met you.

And you, I saw someone who was trying.

Trying but ignored.

So I hacked your computer.

I know, I know.

You're so good I thought for sure

you were gonna see me in there.

Um, looking through all those files.

Those lost cries for help.

All those cases that didn't pass

Jimmy's bar or the judge's pleasure.

And then for a little while,

I thought for sure you knew I was in there,

Helping me with this crusade against all this vice.

You've been helping me for so long now.

- Nick, I wasn't--

- Sh.

It's okay.

Either way, you're here now, right?

- Yeah.

- And I'm so glad.

Because my window of opportunity

has gotten a littler smaller, you know?

And um, the stuff you do, it's incredible.

It's the most difficult stuff, the hardest stuff.

But this part is so easy, you'll see.

When you do it you'll see, this part's so easy.

- When I do what?

- When you kill this son of a bitch.

- Look I am just saying,

there's got to be a couple T. Daniels in this area.

- No Jimmy, the card was pinned

to a GHP dealer that we're looking at.

I mean Tess has been on that case--

- Don't jump to conclusion, Yola, just call her.

- Call Tess?

- Yeah.

- I have been calling her, she's missing, Jimmy.

She's been missing since this morning.

- You went by her place?

- Yes, and there was signs of a struggle.

- Forced entry?

- No.

But the kitchen was a mess, there was--

- Wait wait wait wait.

I remember going to Tess' house.

Her kitchen was always messy.

- Jimmy, how long have I been doing this?

You think I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about?

- You're cussing at me now?

Unbunch them fuckin' panties.

Now you want to find Tess?

- Obviously.

- Then you think how she thinks.

She's always looking at things from a different angle.

You know, from the other side.

She's unique.

[sighs]

- Officer Pope, this is Detective Rodriguez.

Did you pull that card?

Yeah, pull it.

Tell me if there's anything on the other side.

Can you send me a picture of that?

Got you.

Thank you.

[coughs]

- I'm gonna kill you.

I'm kill you for what you did.

- No, you're not gonna do anything expect watch,

just like always.

Now shut up before I put a bullet

in each of your peeping Tom eyes.

I found these two on my own.

His girlfriend.

- Don't talk--

- Shut the fuck up!

I didn't need your computer or your intel for these two.

I've found a few others on my own.

Mostly from fixing their laptops or their home computers.

But this time, well his girlfriend,

she took the whole cake.

- She was an artist.

- An artist?

An artist?

An artist. [laughs]

Oh my.

I am an unhinged man in an unhinged world,

but this moron actually thinks that [laughs]

his girlfriend was an artist.

Open the file on the far left.

- [Gabriel] Damn Cat!

Oh shit.

Oh you was shaking so bad on this one

I thought her head was gonna pop off!

- [Cat] I wasn't shaking, baby, I was getting off.

- [Gabriel] She give you the big oh, baby?

- [Cat] The way she squirmed, the hotter I got.

You didn't leave a mess over there, did you?

- [Gabriel] Saved it for you.

- [Cat] Lemme finish you right here on top.

- What do you think, Tessa?

Is that art?

Was it art with Antoinette Debrechio?

She had friends, people who loved her.

Called her Tony.

Was it art with Debbie Ingram?

She was a lawyer.

You know how hard she worked to become...

Was it art with Stacey Howel?

With Victoria Klein?

That's the girl in that video, she was 23.

The first in her family to go to college,

and she was working in a coffee shop to buy her books,

to study, if you can fuckin' believe it, art history.

Until these monsters came along.

- She was a bitch to Cat.

- What?

- She was a bitch.

Catherine ordered cafe macchiato.

She brings her this fuckin',

I don't even know, this fuckin' cafe mocha bullshit.

All this whipped cream.

- And you killed her because she got

the wrong coffee order?

- She was just such a bitch about it.

Said that Cat was the one that gave her the wrong order.

- And you strangled because

she brought you the wrong coffee?

- Cat did that.

- And you watched it.

You watched it, you sick motherfucker.

- This is the easy part, Tessa.

Because he's the vice,

he's the exploiter of children and the rapist of women

and he's the monster and the maker of monsters.

He is the promise of a bitter tomorrow.

But if you pull that trigger, and it is so easy to do,

clean the world up a little.

Clean up the world, Tessa, for the next guy.

- I can't.

I can't. [sobbing]

I can't, I want to, but I can't.

[trigger clicks]

- I know.

- Yeah, I checked there too.

Yep, and there.

Look I got a BOLO out on Nice's work van.

Yeah, it's registered under him.

Look I got units at his apartment

and a unit at his workplace.

I'll keep you posted.

All right.

[sobbing]

- Nick? Nick?

Nick?

Nick please don't do this.

Nick please!

Nick!

Nick!

Nick!

Nick!

[phone buzzing]

- Yeah, Detective Williams, SI--

- [Tessa] Nick.

- Tess?

Tess, where the hell are you?

- [Tessa] I'm at Gabriel Acosta's place.

- [Nick] Is he still there?

Tess?

Tess?

Shit.

[phone buzzing]

- Hello Tessa.

- Nick?

Nick, don't hurt Sean, okay?

- He chooses administration over administering justice.

He crosses Ts and dots Is instead of stamping out vice.

He's part of the problem.

- It's a system.

He is part of a system.

- A flawed system.

He and the DA were happy as

schoolboys just to close the case.

- It's just that way.

- Where's the justice, Tessa?

Where is the justice in any of that?

- I don't have a great answer.

I don't even actually have a good one.

I wish I did.

But um, I know that Sean's a really good guy, okay?

He went to bat for us.

He went to bat for us and the

judge denied a warrant for Gabriel.

So if you hurt him Nick, if you kill him,

there's no justice in that.

Please don't kill him.

I'm not begging, I know that doesn't get me anywhere.

I want to do more.

I want to do more, 'cause you showed me that.

But for now this is all I can do,

is ask you to please, if you value my opinion,

if you care about me.

Please don't hurt Sean.

Okay?

Nick?

Nick?

- Clear. - Nick!

[distant shouting]

- Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa!

I work here, I work here!

I work here, I work here.

I work here, whoa whoa whoa whoa!

- Police, open up.

We got a body, we got a hostage.

- Clear. - Clear.

Coming downstairs with one female, we need EMT.

- [Man] Weapon secure, weapon secure.

- We've got a closed door. - Clear!

- Oh my God, you're okay.

- Yeah, I don't know what happened.

What the fuck's going on?

- Nothing, nothing, you're okay.

- [Tess Voiceover] I hate that I'm aware

of how much I don't know.

I don't know why Nick thought his time was running out.

Why he wanted to groom me.

I don't know why I didn't try harder to run,

why I just sat there and listened and agreed.

Why he was so convinced I was the one for him.

Why I wasn't completely convinced that I wasn't.

In the end I guess I played a little at the trauma,

told everyone what they wanted to hear,

what they expected about what I went through.

I'm not 100% sure what it was that I did go through.

Or if he'll come back.

So I'll keep my own counsel.

I don't know how I feel about that.

I don't know how I feel.

- [Yolanda Voiceover] Hey, Tess,

I'm just calling to check on you.

[phone ringing]

I'm sorry, Tess, there's no trace of Nick.

All the cameras were out.

We got his card, but no prints, no trace.

Jimmy checked himself out of

the hospital without telling anyone.

Just left, just left.

And I'm sure he's probably

staying at his parents' old place,

but he just, he left.

Tessa, if I've learned anything,

it's that there are things in life that change you.

They change you.

And there are the things that you cannot move passed,

no matter how hard you try.

And it's up to you, Tess, to decide which.

To decide what you can live with.

[phone ringing]

- [Man] Mr. Blue, this is Dr. Felix calling again.

You've missed your followup.

Hey, these appointments are very important.

Head injuries can take time to manifest,

and can show themselves in all sorts of ways.

Please, call us back as soon as possible.

Thanks.

- [Yolanda Voiceover] Take as much time as you need.

You know SIU will always be here for you when you get back.

Obviously.

If you need anything, you know I'm here.

- [Tessa Voiceover] I don't know how to

keep that one emotion from bubbling up.

It boils over and I don't know if I can contain it.

I don't know if it's directed at Nick or at them or at me.

This one feeling.

Rage.

[dramatic instrumental music]