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Previously on Sheriff Country.

No, no, no!

Boom, what are you doing? We need to try and find another way in. We could be

walking into an ambush.

Boom! This is insane!

He's the kid who was dating Donna, Petar. And you brought her here? My

mother's inside.

Who might this be?

Sonny's mother, Anna Stoyanov.

She's basically a civilian.

I'm so lucky your standards are so low.

Yeah?

What's it say about you that you're struggling to meet them?

Donna, your preliminary talk screen showed a synthetic opioid called

cyclorphine in your system. It's more lethal than fentanyl. There are

trafficked girls being held against their will up in Deadwater.

This is funny enough. They're behind all this.

Dudes! Yo!

Finally, bro.

Everybody into the classroom.

Everyone take a beaker. I took my chem final.

Brian, pussies out, would you?

What is this? Low reward for surviving midterms.

Yes, sir. Thank you. Come right up.

Thank you.

Watch him learn.

Sick.

See how the smoke's coming down?

That's exactly what we want.

Cyclone, baby.

Perfect. Like that. You go.

Yeah. One, two, three.

Olivia?

Olivia, hey.

Hey.

Guys.

All right, status report.

Where are we?

We're making progress against the Stoyanov's on both fronts.

On the trafficked women, Dale's daughter Donna gave descriptions of the girls

that she saw at the Stoyanov's grow house. We're running it through the

missing persons database. If we get hits, I'll bring the photos back to

Donna. Hopefully we can ID some of the girls that way. Okay.

Have Pena comb through the results with you.

Any intel we can get on those girls can help us locate the grow house.

Copy that.

Where are we at with the Stoyanov's new synthetic opioid?

Cyclone. I've got deputies checking in with their CIs for word of street

dealers or additional labs.

So far, it's been quiet. Okay.

Let's hope it stays that way.

I have to say, this is nice.

Working with people I actually trust.

Does that mean Deputy Director Santos doesn't qualify for that?

Have you ever seen the movie Bad Parents?

It's just horrible bosses.

Is that a dig?

Is that the last one?

Have you?

Five Edgewater State students were brought into Edge Med last night.

Possible drug overdose.

Cyclone.

Sheriff, Lieutenant Boone.

Dr. Henshaw asked me to meet you.

I was the first person to identify cyclorphine in Edgewater, so... You're

our local expert.

My mom would be so proud.

Of the kids who overdosed, are any of them willing to talk to us?

Only one of them is awake.

Are my friends okay?

Aaron?

Olivia? Look, the doctors are doing everything they can.

You got really lucky.

That is a dangerous drug you're messing with.

Where'd you buy it?

I didn't.

Just heard about it.

People say it's a great hide. No one's gonna bust you for having paper in your

dorm room, you know? Okay, so if you didn't buy it, then who did?

I don't want to get my friends in trouble.

Your friends are already in trouble, man.

You can help us stop anybody else from getting hurt.

Aaron, he bought it at the campus bookstore.

I guess you go in, you ask the clerk with the pink highlights.

Looks like pages ripped out of a book.

Was anything of Aaron's recovered from the scene?

Obviously, the whole desk duty thing has been put on hold, but...

I'd still like to take you to that concert.

Cool, yeah.

Wiseblood is playing in Eureka on Saturday.

This Saturday I'll be working, but... Once things settle down, maybe next

month? I mean, aliens could take over the planet by then.

How are my stitches holding up?

Does the sheriff not know that you opened your wound back up?

It is one thing to keep it from your doctor, Van. Emmy, Emmy, shh. No, Nate.

You're not only risking your health, this could impact your job, other

deputies. Boone. Yeah?

There's a book here with some pages torn out of it.

And the price tag says it comes from Edgewater State Bookstore.

Clerk with the pink highlight.

Mm-hmm.

Emmy, can you test these torn edges for cyclone?

I can confirm it and call as soon as I have the results.

Sheriff Fox.

Emmy?

Yeah, great. Okay, because, you know, if you two need a minute, I could, uh...

We're good.

A week ago, Cyclone was in the jails, and Donna Hawkins got it from her

boyfriend at a private party, and now it's being sold all over campus, and

anyone can get it who knows how to find it.

The Stunups are really scaling up their operations.

Sure, Fox.

Deputy Director Santos.

You should have called.

This couldn't wait. Well, it'll have to. In case I wasn't clear yesterday, I'm no

longer part of your task force.

I'm going to protect my community the way I see fit. Now, if you'll excuse us.

Mickey, please.

I'll be right outside.

Wes didn't come back to the trailer last night. Have you met my dad? Going AWOL

is one of his favorite activities. This isn't that.

I put a tracker on his phone when he joined the task force.

It went dark 12 hours ago.

I pulled up his last known location and my agents found his phone in a parking

lot off Route 9.

His truck was there, too.

So I pulled CCTV footage from the location.

No plates.

That's the same make and model as the car that kidnapped Dale Hawkins'

daughter.

Oh, my God.

Get your ass back here.

I want to speak to that's no way to treat a friend

Okay,

how

long the bastards had you in it

Wes is blown.

The Stoyanov's know that he's our inside man. Otherwise, how else would he have

known about the bug in the bakery?

They're going to kill him. If they haven't already. Sheriff, at this point,

we don't know anything for sure.

If the Stoyanov's were going to kill him, why would they put the hood over

his head? Why not just kill him right there? I'm supposed to find comfort in

that? The fact that I didn't see my father murdered on camera? It's not

comfort, it's logic.

Logic? Yes, this could be a test. And if Wes passes, he is exactly where he was

planning to go.

Undercover. So is this all going according to plan? Of course not. I

mean, any undercover op is bound to go sideways at some point. Is that how

Maria saw my father and I?

As an undercover op that went sideways?

What?

For 35 years, you could have chosen to come back and blow up my life.

My sweet 16, birth of your granddaughter.

But you chose now, under these circumstances, to put us all in this

situation?

Something happens to my dad.

So help me.

You better get the hell out of town.

And hope that I do not ever find you.

Mickey, I know you're angry and scared. I know you don't want to have anything

to do with me.

But the way that we can help Wes is by redoubling our efforts to take down the

Stoyanovs. We've got to preserve his cover and assume that he's working his

side while we work ours.

Wes is doing what he's supposed to do, finding someone who can testify.

You know I'm right.

Fine.

But we're going to do it my way with my people.

From here on out, I am in charge of this investigation.

Everything okay?

I need to deal with something. I want you and Cassidy to work the lead that

Brian gave us.

Canva bookstore?

Pink highlights.

Yeah, dosed copies of Ulysses.

Wear plain clothes. I don't want to tip our hand.

Okay.

Maybe I could pass as a super senior.

Maybe. But, um... This is a normal haircut.

Like, lots of non-cops have this haircut. Not the haircut. The grays.

Actually, you know what?

Cassidy's probably less conspicuous.

Got you.

Hey.

Are you sure you're good?

Let me know what you find out.

I'm thinking lit major.

You mean professor, right? Okay, grad student.

A young one.

I'm worried about Mickey.

She seemed okay earlier, but then just now something was off.

To be honest, I'm worried about both of you.

The other day, the way you ran into that suspect's house without waiting for a

backup while taking fire.

I wasn't like you, Boone. Not to mention a serious breach of protocol.

Oh.

Thank you for the tip.

It's not nothing, Boone. You could have gotten shot again. I'm sorry. How many

bars do you have on your collar?

Oh, that's right. None.

I am Mickey's number two. I will do whatever my sheriff asks of me, whenever

she asks it, by whatever means necessary.

Because that's my job.

All right, dude.

I wasn't going to bring it up, but since the gloves are off, I think I know what

this is about.

Please enlighten me.

I heard what Mickey said when she was drunk.

Which you and I both agreed, Cassidy. Never happened.

But it did happen.

And I can't unhear it.

You told her how you felt.

And she made the wrong choice.

You're in love with her. No.

That's why he rushed back to work after you got shot. And now it's clouding your

judgment. Okay, look.

I had feelings for Mickey.

I put them away.

I did.

And the reason that I rush back is because she is not okay.

That son of a bitch, Allie Kane, her mom. And now the Stoyanov's, these are,

I know these guys from Oakland. These are bad, bad guys.

Edgewater is in real trouble. And if somebody is not holding the XO together,

it's all going to fall apart.

The XO is a team.

Not one person, not even Mickey, can carry that burden alone.

If you keep going like this, you're going to burn yourself out, Boone.

Pink highlights.

You're up.

Hi. I'm looking for... Ulysses?

Uh, yeah. Fiction. J for Joyce.

Right. Um...

I'm looking for this special edition.

Sorry, I'm not really good at this.

I'm cramming to defend my thesis right now, and I really need something to turn

my brain off for, like, ten seconds.

My housemate said that the paper stuff was really good for that.

I have cash.

You want this one?

Courtney, this is what's going to happen.

You're going to give me all the dose books that you have back there, and then

I'm going to leave.

Ten minutes after I leave, you're going to take your lunch break, and then

you're going to get into that black sedan parked across the street.

This doesn't have to get messy, but if you don't work with us, this place is

going to be swarming with cops in two minutes, and then it'll get real messy

real quick.

See you in 10.

Petar was Wes's last known point of contact on the Story Enough crew. I've

had my guys sitting at his MMA gym all morning, but he's a no-show.

I've been piecing together traffic cam footage from CHP, trying to follow the

route of a black SUV.

Headed into Deadwater.

Basically the Bermuda Triangle.

Damn it.

Son of a bitch.

I'm Sonny Stoyanov.

Petard's boss. I know who you are.

Sorry. There's no way to treat a Deadwater legend.

What can I say?

Boys play too many video games.

Your boys could have left me a radio or something. That's a little lonely.

My roommate, he's not much of a conversationalist.

Thanks for the tip about the listening device in the bakery. You really came

through for us.

This is how you show your gratitude. I wouldn't want to be on your bad side.

Well, then it's your lucky day.

First, look me in the eye and convince me you're not a rat.

If I didn't think that I'd end up like my pal over there, I'd spit in your face

for even asking me that.

I just might do it anyway.

Okay.

Okay, good.

I have a problem that only the great Wes Fox can help me with.

This grower's produced prime bud like clockwork.

The last few months, it looks like someone took a leak on it.

My grower's tried everything he can think of.

Really, that fool in the barn? Nah, nah, he's at the bottom of the Eel River.

I need you to fix this for me.

Is that why you brought me here?

Figure out what's wrong with your grow.

But this was my dad's first field, so I'm not gonna let it fail on my watch.

Yeah.

Betar told me you're Constantine's boy.

Do I look like anybody's boy?

Do I look like anybody's indentured servant?

Yep. I'm your man.

I will guarantee you...

that this will be the finest weed that you or your daddy ever grew.

But in return, I am going to need a guarantee that I get my land back.

It's all I ever wanted in the first place.

Don't disappoint me.

Courtney Ulrich, senior at Edgewater State.

Dean's list, full scholarship.

You have everything going for you, so why don't you start dealing?

We have you dead to rights on distribution, and there are three kids

in the ICU who are still unresponsive.

If you don't want to throw away your entire future, I suggest you start

talking.

Hey, Campbell, I took those missing girl files to Donna Hawkins. She flagged

three maybes.

Thanks, Pena.

Keep up the good work.

Give us something, Courtney.

We need your help here.

Anything.

You gotta help us out.

Courtney, how long have this story not saddened your sister?

I'm sorry.

I was just trying to help Molly.

She had a problem with drugs. It started after our mom died, but then she had

gotten clean. She was turning everything around.

And then she met some guys.

She started going to parties.

They weren't good guys. I tried to warn her, but she said that I didn't trust

her.

Then what happened?

She vanished.

When was this?

A month ago.

I reported it to campus police, but then I got a text.

It was a photo of Molly.

She had a gun to her head.

They said that she was working off a drug debt.

Just like Donna Hawkins.

They told me that I had to start dealing for them.

That it was the only way to help Molly to make sure that she was safe. Who told

you this? I don't have a name, just a number. I text, and some guy shows up

with a box of books.

What's going to happen to Molly?

We're going to find her.

But we need your help.

We need you to place an order for Cyclone.

Okay, it's really important that everything is business as usual.

We don't want the people that have your sister to know that anything has

changed. Can you do that for me, Courtney?

Well, it looks good enough to eat.

So eats.

God bless you.

What? I thought that meant thank you. Thank you.

It does.

But I was born in Bakersfield, honey.

I'm Anna Stoyanoff.

I'm Wes Fox.

Ah, the farmer.

I hear you're going to revive my husband's grow.

Anything to get my land back.

Oh, sorry.

Since you're the only thing of beauty around here, I'm gonna guess that's

yours.

Thanks.

I was looking for it.

I, um... I know your husband by reputation, but... What happened?

A stroke.

Two years ago.

He was a great man.

And the love of my life.

In sickness and in health, right?

You married?

No. I've given up on the institution.

I've just decided every four or five years I'm going to find a woman who

hates me and buy her a house.

So this green thumb of yours, does it only work on marijuana or could you

possibly save my hydrangeas?

Could have saved myself a lot of trouble over the years if I just stuck to

hydrangeas.

All right, Courtney says that the reorders take at least a day or two.

I'll start a rotation. Me, Pena, Chang.

We'll sit on the bookshop until the re-ups arrive.

Mickey, I was thinking, I know you're not on the best terms with your dad

right now, but if these girls are being held up in dead water, maybe Wes could

help.

Mick, I could talk to him. Look, you never even have to look at that bastard

again if you don't want to.

Wes was abducted by the Stoyanov's roughly 18 hours ago.

He was working with the DEA as a confidential informant.

Wes was your inside man.

Mickey, why didn't you tell us? That was at my insistence. To protect the

investigation, I asked Mickey to put up a firewall between the task force and

her role as sheriff.

Wes's involvement remains on a strict need-to-know basis.

But right now, I think your sheriff needs you to know.

He's probably fine, but...

It's scary not knowing.

And we are here for you, Mick, okay?

We are going to find him.

Your plants are being poisoned.

Poisoned? By what?

Cannabis is like any other plant. It needs three things to grow.

First is sunlight, no problem.

Second is good soil.

Now, that's where the problem comes in. What's wrong with the soil?

It tastes like pool cleaner. You ate the soil? Your groundwater is contaminated.

How is that possible?

Probably runoff from somewhere.

Not using any heavy chemicals around here or anything, right?

You don't worry about that?

You want to keep killing perfectly good bud? That's your business.

But I have done my job, so I will kindly ask you for my land back.

No, no, no, no, no. Slow down, slow down.

Your job wasn't to tell me what was wrong with the plants. Your job was to

fix them.

This is your first harvest as the big cheese, huh? It's not a good look to

kill off daddy's grove.

Give my guys a list. They'll bring you supplies.

There's a problem with the water.

Fix the water.

Until then.

You're not going anywhere.

Where'd you find that thing?

Gathering dust out in the shed.

Constantine used to play.

I miss the sound.

Play me something.

What's wrong? Did something happen?

I'm worried about him.

Um, come in. I just made coffee.

I couldn't sleep.

I just kept picturing.

I shouldn't bother you about this.

My nephew, Bodie, has a saying.

If Wes is breathing, Wes is scheming.

We should have faith, I guess.

He still has that old thing.

Oh, that's his most prized possession.

That was the nickname I gave him.

Sly is an old fox.

Yeah, he told me you carved that on there after first time meeting him.

I didn't want him to forget me.

Yesterday, you said that I could have come back at any point in the last 35

years.

That's not entirely true.

There were three men in the DEA who knew about what happened here.

My transgression.

They would have made all of our lives very difficult if the truth ever came

out. And worse, if I tried to come back.

So I had to close that part of myself.

I had to.

I know it sounds terrible, but... I never looked you up.

It was hard, and some things made it easier.

Mostly scotch.

Then years passed, and two of those men died.

And I got sober.

And then three months ago, my handler, the closest thing I ever had to a

father, had a heart attack, a bad one.

And I was the last person that he saw in the hospital.

He could barely speak.

But he gave me this.

You were drawing this the last time that I saw you.

It just ripped me open. I just needed to know everything about you.

And a month ago, call it fate, call it God, call it random dumb luck, the

Stoyanovs.

expanded their drug operations in Edgewater.

And I started to hear about an ethics investigation into the local sheriff.

I thought that if I just met you, if I just saw you once,

it would be enough.

I don't know how I could have been so wrong.

Eva, I...

Boone,

yeah? Hey, Penny and I are sitting on the bookstore.

New batch of Cyclone just arrived, and guess who the delivery boy is?

Petar.

Pick him up.

Magic time.

Abracadabra.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

Yeah, come to find out I know what the hell I'm talking about.

You can scale this up as big as you need, so... All right.

Our deal.

We'll get to that later.

But first, I left a little gift in your room.

It's the token.

Good job. Well done.

I have no interest in whatever the boy brought you down here for.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

We saw Sonny drag you up here.

I could tell you weren't here by choice either.

Was it the bag over my head or the AR in my back that clued you in?

Huh?

I'm Molly.

Well, hello, Molly.

I'm Wes.

You, uh... You said we.

How many of you are there?

Four.

They keep us up in the attic. They keep us hooked on this... paper.

It's cyclone. That's what they call it.

And that's what's in the runoff.

Next thing we know, we're strung out and forced...

You're safe with me.

None of us are safe.

I tried to run, and they caught me, and now they bolt the door.

But I figured out how to jimmy the window open.

There's a pipe. It runs down the... Careful.

We don't know who's watching.

Molly, it's 20 miles to the nearest road.

Sonny, he's got an army, and they got ATVs, so you're not getting out of dead

water. We have to.

before she starts to show. I promised her.

We're leaving tonight.

My sister Courtney, I said that my sister Courtney would help us if we

could just make it to the road. I promised all of them. Molly, the sheriff

is gonna bring these bastards down.

I'm helping her do it.

If I can guarantee that you'll be protected, would you testify?

Hell yes.

All right, this is what we're gonna do.

You're gonna round them up, all of them.

And meet me at 10.

Meet me behind the utility shed.

I'm going to find us some wheels.

You're coming with us?

Yeah.

Ain't nobody knows this mountain better than Wes Fox.

You've worked in the family for 25 years.

You're right.

And we are like family.

Not like you Foxes.

We are loyal to our own.

We are having the books you delivered tested as we speak. I'm pretty sure

you're not going to like what we find.

I'm getting nowhere with her.

Just keep going. You'll find a crack.

I just want to scream, where the hell is my dad?

I'm not at my best.

Petra is a long-time soldier for the Staryonovs. That kind of loyalty is very

hard to break.

Long-time soldier.

Hold up.

After that first meeting, didn't Wes say that Petra wasn't happy with the new

family leadership?

Yes. He said he didn't like the direction that Sonny was taking him.

Right. So if Petra said that to Wes, he wasn't being very careful.

It could have easily got back to Sonny.

Keep him talking. I have an idea.

How long till we get these results?

20 minutes.

And the mouth breathing won't make it go any faster.

Emmy, I'm sorry about yesterday.

You're right. I should have told Mickey about my injury.

So why didn't you?

You know, me and Mickey, it's... It's complicated.

Yeah, I get the feeling.

But... I really, really like you, Emmy.

And I feel bad I can't take you to the concert, so I thought maybe...

I can bring the concert to us.

It was smoother in my head.

Got it. Pretty smooth.

I got through.

They're really doing this now?

I mean, we have 18 minutes, right?

You are a walking red flag. You know that, right?

Have I told you I'm married?

Seasons change and your love didn't last

Think I found someone

who loves me Somebody that's so proud that they found me

He said the Stoyanov's were like

family. I get it. You and Konstantin were close, but he's not calling the

shots anymore.

Sonny is.

And you're no fan of his.

Everybody knows that. Even he knows.

That's why he set you up.

The cell phone used to text Courtney Ulrich about the Cyclone deliveries?

In your name.

The cell phone that texted Courtney a photo of her sister with a gun to her

head?

Also in your name. That delivery truck you've been driving around like an

errand boy full of dosed books?

The registration.

Is in your name.

Sonny doesn't see you as family, Petar.

He sees you as his fall guy.

So I'm gonna ask you one more time.

Where are those labs?

A lab.

One lab.

I'm dead water.

A monster.

Show me.

I know. I know. You don't believe.

Where are you going?

Oh, Hannah.

Uh... Well, I have done two stints in the federal penitentiary, and

this is starting to feel like a third, so I'm out of here.

So what's the tarp for?

Trying to hide something?

Or someone?

I warned Sonny you wouldn't like your gift.

That hair clip wasn't yours.

And you've known about these girls the whole time, haven't you?

I'll take those keys, Wes.

I'll come back.

Well, I'll come back. I'll grow Sonny the finest cush that he has ever sold.

Those girls know too much.

I won't let you put my child in danger.

Those girls are somebody's child.

And what about their parents?

Their parents should have protected them better.

Malygard, you're thinking you can play hero, huh?

Hey, I've been called a lot of things in my life, but Hero's not one of them. I

wonder what would happen if she tried this again. Look, they had nothing to do

with this. It was all my idea.

I'm going to show those girls what happens when they put their trust in a

busted old man.

What the?

Hey, Jimmy, the window.

Where did the girls go? Don't look at me. I was with you guys.

Sonny, if the girls make it back to town... They won't.

They couldn't go far.

Send Miro's guys after them.

Wait, wait, wait. Come here, come here, come here, come here.

Tell Miro for me.

If even one of those girls gets off this mountain, I'll kill him myself.

Night, night.

Wait.

You might know what the girls are claiming.

You're parking up the wrong tree if you think I'm going to tell you a damn

thing.

Maybe not yet, but you will.

Take him to the barn. Get started.

I'll meet you there.

I'll definitely walk in.

The turnoff is coming up.

Roger that, Adam-1. We're right behind you.

Be careful.

You too.

Sorry about the mess.

The cops are coming. They're almost past the gate. We have to leave.

Now.

Towards the left.

Moving in!

Clear!

Third, Cassidy, you take the house. Eva and I will take the lab. Copy that.

You four.

come with us all right the rest of you

are with us let's form a perimeter around the lab nobody gets past you no

one sunny says

torch the lab

fire

suppression to the lab we need backup

Eva, mask up.

Shoot her!

Go, go, go!

Shoot her!

Clear!

All clear!

Thank you, we cleared the

house. Securing the rest of the property now.

Copy.

It's not good. We rounded up a bunch of guards, growers.

None of the Stoyanov's. They must have seen us coming to split.

The girls were here.

There are four beds and a locked attic, just like Donna said.

But they're gone, Mickey.

We're too late.

Mickey!

I need you in here.

What is it? Is it my dad?

He was here.

Wes was alive.

He was.

Where is he now?

Where are the girls?