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My sister was taken.

When's the last time you saw her?

When I was eight.

They believe her disappearance is linked to sex trafficking.

You have a lead on your sister?

A man contacted the tip line.

Marine said she was working a corner.

Told him she thought her name was Shari.

Half the time I think, if I turn around fast enough, the light's just right,

I'll see her there.

Always right there over my shoulder, and she still is.

You want the help?

Hey.

Hey, where we headed today?

Three new Red X page ads for potential working girls.

That's the same site where that Marine said he met Shari.

They're all east side.

None of them look too good for her, but could be a match.

All right, so east side.

East side.

This is her at six.

She'd be 28 now.

I mean, it's been 22 years since she was taken. It's possible she's still with

her abductor, or she could have been sold.

Working for a new pimp?

Mm-hmm.

Or she could have gotten lost again.

Drugs, alcohol.

The likelihood that she was abused further by someone else is high.

She could be anywhere.

Anything.

But I swear, I'd know her if I saw her.

I'd still know her.

You sure this is it?

No, I'm just guessing.

She goes by Lila on the site. Can't really see her face clearly, but same

red X page.

That's up with our timeline.

Police, anyone home?

Might be an old address.

Wait.

What?

What is it?

Ava, listen, I can...

I'm sorry.

She looks like the girl from the ad, though. Lila.

She's younger than I thought.

Not much bruising.

Yeah, stab wounds probably killed her.

There's no blood here, though.

It's a dump site.

Not recent.

Maybe 12 hours.

So it's only a half inch.

Yeah, but it's deep.

See the sides?

Yeah, the knife had a blade going.

All right, I'm gonna call the crime lab. I'll get the team down here.

Imani?

Sir, this is Shari.

The girl on the left, that's my sister.

All right, Prince popped into the system. Her real name is Laura Kerr.

Multiple priors for solicitation and possession.

No family.

Sorry, I don't understand.

You were here running her? Why? We're eliminating her as possible in the

missing persons case.

It's Imani's sister.

Her name is Shari. She went missing at six years old from Imani's family home.

Recent tips suggested she was in Chicago and had been sex trafficked. Imani and I

have been working on the side.

It's not a match, obviously, but there may still be a connection, okay? We're

taking the homicide.

There is a connection. That was Shari on her phone.

All right, so run Laura's phone contacts, all her movements last night.

Start building a timeline.

Run all the DNA inside that trailer. Shari's will pop.

They were definitely friends. They might even have the same pimp.

All right, that's her trailer right there. No one set foot inside except us.

Let's do a full sweep.

Witnesses. Well, sh... The trolls already started knocking talks, but I

want us to take over. We run this ourselves.

I want to know everyone who visited Laura, if she worked tricks at home.

Dante, just find out who she was with last night.

Come on.

Police, I need your camera footage.

What the hell are you doing?

What do you mean, what footage?

What are you talking about?

You've been loud all morning long.

I already told them. Ma'am, there's a camera in your window. Where does the

footage go?

What? Where does the footage go? Is it a link to an app on your phone? What is

it?

Yolanda, I don't think you're supposed to be in my house ordering... Ma'am, ma

'am, we just... We just need the footage.

Please.

I'm still running the rest of the footage, but this is the cleanest image.

Can't see the vehicle clearly, but there's no vehicle registered to Laura's

name, so my best guess is it belongs to John or Pimp. All right, anything on

Laura's last movements?

No. We could rerun these images by the residents, do a second knock and talk to

see if anyone remembers the vehicle.

All right, we got her phone records?

We should have those soon, Ruzick's on it.

And me?

Still working on autopsy. Preliminary suggests that the cause of death was due

to sharp force injury.

We're going to learn more from the ME soon, but they think the knife was

either a stiletto or a switchblade based on the shape and size of the flat guard

indentations. All right, shout at me when you get those phone records. Imani?

Imani? Give me a minute.

I also ran the address for all in-service calls.

no pops for solicitation which doesn't mean much because police doesn't

frequent that park often so we're gonna work everything i know every lead on

your sister i know look i need you to tell me that you also know we're working

a young woman's homicide i need you to tell me i know what you're asking me

okay i can work it

Saliva sample from a beer bottle in Laura's trailer met Shari's DNA.

You were right. She was there.

Hey, I got the GPS data from Laura's phone. It's good. So there's not much in

contacts. No Shari listed.

But Laura's last tower ping came back to a complex on West 109th. Place has

multiple vice complaints, priors for solicitation, and it was the site of...

Operation Angel, which unfortunately went nowhere. A virtual prostitution

site. Besides, last place Dolores phoned pinged before her trailer last night.

Let's hit it.

Blood.

Chicago PD!

Claire!

Claire.

Polaroid was attacked here. Blood on.

all right we found the kill site unit 2d roll the crime lab taking anyone you see

Excuse me, sir?

Can I talk to you for a second?

I'm not going to keep asking you, all right? It is a simple question. Give me

a simple answer. Why did you run? I panicked. Because of how you got those

injuries on your face? How did you get them?

We're going to find out one way or another. The mine in the ambush area

should get your legs chipped.

You were here last night. You saw a girl that went wrong.

So what? You hurt him? You killed him?

You killed her, didn't you? No, of course. I didn't kill anyone. Then why

does your face look like that? Why did you run? I didn't hurt them. They

attacked me.

Okay. I didn't touch them.

They did this. Okay. How is that?

I met them here. Yes.

Working girls.

Yes. Okay. Fine. Yes. But once I got here, they jumped me. They attacked me.

They took my wallet. I couldn't report it. Of course not.

All right. So why'd you come back?

I thought my phone was here. But I didn't touch either of them. I ran from

them. I left. And then they were fine. Was this them?

Yes. Yes. Yes? Yes.

Lila and Sable.

He's lying.

He's lying. He knows more. He's probably good for it.

You get anything else?

Fowler's in with that water now.

He gave us a timeline, said he left the unit at 1.30 a.m.

His GPS says the same. So does his wife.

He also claims that he saw them get dropped off by a black BMW, a male

driver, white, 40s, 50s, tough-looking.

Could be their pen.

We're processing the vehicle right now. We're running it.

He didn't get the girls off of Red X. He got them off a different site, um,

Ambrosia.

He said her name was Sable, Shari.

He could still be lying. He could have killed Laura and had their pimp disposed

of her body.

Well, either way, we need more. Let's dig into Ambrosia.

All right, there's no page for Shari, Sable either.

We're in her picture. It's not there. All right. Laura is.

This might be something.

This girl Kat, she's got the same profile as Laura. Same language, same

codes. Doesn't pop in any other pages.

Okay, so it probably means she's got the same guy, right? Same pimp. This could

be her man.

What's that number?

She's got an SMS number used to book.

Does Laura?

No. Where does the SMS go? If there's a phone, we got a location.

So what am I looking at? We tracked the SMS to a burner. The burner's still on.

It's pinging inside that house. The place is abandoned, but it's been

indexed to hell by Narcotics Vice Area Central.

It is an unknown trap house.

Yeah, it sounds like it's just a junkie crash pad known for deals in small-time

trafficking. It's owned by nobody in particular, so we could just walk right

through the front door.

Then burn it as a lead.

If the phone is pinging inside, then our pimp could be there now.

Shari could be there.

And if we move and she's not there, there's zero chance she'll ever come.

We can sit on it.

Yeah. Let's set up surveillance.

We'll see who's there.

Two hours, no one in, no one out.

Whoever's there is there for the night.

We don't know that.

What, because junkies cut late-night errands to run?

We're not burning it. If the phone is in there... If, if. You know why you keep

saying if?

Because there's a margin for error.

Well, then, let me go, you see.

Look, I'll go in there, I'll search for the targets. If they're not in there,

I'll slip right back up and sit here again.

I'm not gonna burn anything.

Torres, you good to go, UC?

10-4.

Hey. Who the hell are you?

I'm just here to pick up, man. That ain't no answer.

That's the best you're getting.

I don't know you.

We supposed to know you.

What you picking up?

That is none of your business.

Bro, I'm messing.

Look, I don't care what you pick up. Just don't fool with nobody except who

you picking up from.

It ain't none of the drinks here free. Go on up.

All right.

Hey. What?

Go on up that way.

Uh-uh.

What? Occupied.

My bad.

Can I help you? Shut the door.

Yo, do you go by Kat? Whoa, whoa. What the hell do you think you're doing?

It's your name? Yeah, you're Kat. What are you doing? Do you know these women?

Can you get out of my room? Do you know these women? No, I don't know them, and

I don't know who the hell you are, and I don't know what you're doing.

Hey.

I'm police, all right? Do you want to know you're in here with police?

I'm not trying to put you in danger.

Relax. Yo, yo, yo, baby girl.

You deaf?

Do you know these women?

Huh?

One of them is my sister, right? I'm just looking for my sister. Just tell me

the truth.

Please. Hey, if you shut out that bro, I swear to God, Kat.

All right.

Do you know them?

Okay. Is the man who's running in here?

If Emma lets you go, you're gonna tell me you're fine. And he'll never know you

came with us, okay?

Not if you understand. Yo, is someone else in there with my girl?

Don't.

Give me a minute. I got my goddamn period, you fool. I was in the bathroom.

Stop slamming the house in.

If Laura was murdered... What? She was. We found her body. And I don't know you,

George. What?

That's the expression. Hey, Kat.

Look. Photos are real. No one's lying to you.

And you knew Laura, right?

Yeah, once.

But I don't trick no more. I haven't seen them in months. Like I said, I

don't have numbers or addresses for them. I got Brock now. Okay.

I'm with him, so I don't run with those girls no more. Okay, your picture was

still on the site. Yo, there's girls from ten years ago on that site. I

forgot to take it down. But you knew Laura, right? You said you knew Laura.

So do you know Charlotte? I don't know.

How many times do I have to tell you I don't know? Let's just take it back. You

said you ran with them.

What did you mean by that?

Hmm?

Look at me.

We are working a murder, okay?

Couple of tricks, that means nothing to us. Believe me.

Come on.

All right.

I like them.

Laura and Shari.

They were cool.

And I needed some cash, so I... I let Shari's man run me for a bit.

And then, you know, when the girls wanted to take things into their own

hands, I thought, okay, why the hell not?

And then I might rock, so I don't do that no more. You honey-trapped your

Johns.

Yeah, it was easier than... Hey, yeah, Kat.

Who is running them? Who is Shari's man?

Girl, your sister's married.

Okay? Her husband runs her.

And... He... It's bad.

He roughs her up.

She always got marks around her neck. Okay, okay, I need a name. Give me a

name. Kirby.

Russ. Address.

I don't know. I legit don't, okay? I always met them out. At Lucky's, mostly.

Description. Give me something.

White?

50s?

Big, but like small John Mullen, if you know what I mean.

Did Kirby know you were robbing John's?

Hell no. If he knew, he'd kill us.

Kat's description of Kirby matches Fowley's description of the man at the

scene to a T.

Hands around the neck.

Same injuries as Laura. So Kirby pulled up early the night of, discovered the

girls were beating their johns, he got pissed, and he killed Laura. He doesn't

want to connect it to that building, so he dumps the body near the trailer.

All right, I got him. He's got a license, but not much of a footprint. No

car, no mortgage.

His social security number comes back to a boy who died in 2007 in Jackson,

Mississippi. Okay, stolen identity.

Anything on a wife? No. There's got to be something else. No, he just, he

doesn't have that much of a record.

Okay, keep running that ID.

All right.

If Kirby killed Laura, then that means we don't know that Shari's safe. I mean,

he could be, you know. Come on.

Hey, let's go to Lucky's.

Excuse me Sergeant boy with Chicago Police Department wondering if you

remember a girl who might have worked here by the name of sable Mm-hmm, I knew

Sable. Sweet, sweet girl.

Always heard her nose in a book.

Why? She in trouble, officer?

No, not at all. We're just trying to find her. When you speak to her less.

I don't know, a couple months.

Things get blurry around here.

You want to dance?

Oh, no thank you. I'll give you the CPD discount.

I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

You police?

You gonna make my day and shut this place down?

I'm looking for Sable.

She bounced months ago?

I don't know where she went. Left with her husband.

Kirby? Yeah.

Hoping she'd leave without him.

But, uh... No luck.

Why's that?

I'm... I'm her sister.

Look,

Kirby used to pimp her out in the parking lot.

All right.

I know I should have tried to shut it down, and I just didn't know what I was

supposed to do, okay?

And you haven't heard from her?

No.

No.

She just didn't clock in one day, and then it was radio silence.

I'm sorry.

Did she clean out her locker?

Anything? Venture card's good.

CTA hit us back with a credit card attached to a car belongs to Sarah Jane

Kirby. That's her.

There's an LKA house in Bridgeport. All right, she have a sheet?

Can't find a damn thing. Far as I can tell, she didn't exist before 2023.

Let's start typing up a warrant. Request a no-knock. We move as quiet as

possible.

Clear. Clear.

Clear.

Clear. It's clear. No one's here.

Switch to inventory search. Keep your lights low.

We'll give it three minutes, then go outside and hold anchor.

We got a car rolling up in the front.

Unrelated. Disregard.

Is that Farsi?

A quote from a book saying goodbye is a little like dying.

There's years of stuff in here.

Hey, pictures.

Money.

They had the same last names when she was a kid.

He was pretending to be her father, and then he went from father to husband.

It's him. He's the one that he took her at six, and he's had her for so long.

All right, we gotta go.

Imani, come on, let's go.

All right, Atwater's holding anchor with Tack. Hopefully they come back. Kev will

move on him. Rest of us, we dig into Kirby.

Look, he would have needed help getting all those fake IDs and passports.

There's gonna be a trail.

It could be running.

We're getting a new identity. So let's dig fast.

Come on, let's go. Come on.

Seven identities over 20 years. It's a lot to sift through.

One of these aliases does have a car registered to him. It's outdated, but

it's worth a bolo.

I've seen this hologram before.

Where?

South Side Hustlers. You remember that credit card scheme? The raid I joined up

in OT?

They made fakes.

Detective Albini, this is Torres Intelligence.

Money What we got Air um, I'm good. Yeah,

so so get some air Nothing is gonna happen without

you

You know, we used to buy these together.

We'd save up our allowance when we'd go to the corner store.

We'd like to hold them in our cheeks to see how long this sweetness would last.

She had a pack of these in that house.

She was in that house. She was.

She's been with that man all her life.

I gotta find her.

Hey, Mark.

Hey, thanks for the call, man.

Oh, yeah.

Okay. So he was picked up before, yeah?

All right, yeah. No, that's helpful. That's helpful.

Hey, next round's on me, all right?

All right.

I got a name. Marius Palmer.

Husser used to steal the bank plastic to make fake credit cards. Marius Palmer, M

-A-R-I-U-S?

Yeah. Served two years in state law for felony fraud. Got out of bail six months

ago.

He's still got a place that's not far from Kirby's house down the south side.

What if they're still in touch? What if he knows where Kirby is and how we can

reach him?

It's a long shot.

What's what we got?

Yeah, a blueprint void.

What's up, man?

What's going on? Who are you?

I'm just the guy who wants to put some cash in your pocket. Yeah, we heard you

got some digits for sale.

Yeah? Where you hear that from?

Your boy T.W.'s and my cousin at Stateville.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, you've been missing far.

And as much as I would like to help you little sweethearts, yeah, I'm retired.

Come on, man.

Yeah, come on, man. Look, we're in a jam.

Well, go fix your jam somewhere else. Move along.

Who you got in there?

None of your business, man. Why not?

It's Chicago PD backup. You can't do this. Don't move. I got him. Don't move.

What the hell is y'all doing, man? Y'all can't come in my house like this. Get

down on the ground!

Police! Hands!

50-21 unit, I got a homicide suspect, Russ Kirby, driving in a black BMW

Southbound in an alley on Adams and 33rd Street. I just lost eyes. I need a

perimeter. I need cars. Give me cars now.

Copy, 50-21 unit. Back up.

I see him. I got eyes on Kirby.

Illinois tags, John 5-7, King Sam 1-8.

Boy, I need everyone here now. Kirby was at that house.

Shari's got to be close. She's got to be here somewhere. She could even be at

that house. I hear you. I'm coming your way.

I lost him. I lost eyes on the black BMW. Does anyone see him? He was last

seen on Adams and 28th Street.

Junior, we have no eyes.

Well, then keep looking. He's got to be around here somewhere.

Copy. Excuse me, sir. Sir, did you see a black BMW on... a black...

Police. Squad 1229, do you see him? Negative. We don't have eyes.

Well, keep searching. He's got to be around here somewhere. Try South Green.

Copy you.

Imani, you there?

Yeah, go for Imani.

I got her.

What? I've got Shari. It's her.

You... She was at the house.

I've got her.

She's secure.

my

She's upstairs.

She okay?

Yeah, she says we waited for you to begin

Amen.

Who the hell are you?