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Previously on "Cardinal."

It's another abduction.

It's Josh McNider.

I think we have a third party.

Kit's like he justd stumbled on the abduction.

And Josh is supposed to be the next victim.

Say hi to Daddy.

This is Neil Cuthbert.

Detained in Quebec after a suspected contract killing.

That's our suspect.

Scott.

Where's my son?

You said you could keep me safe.

He's alive!

The doctors say Josh will be okay.

With Neil Cuthbert dead, do we think the killings will stop?

No, they won't stop.

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Home sweet home.

We'll try and make it fun.

Stop lying to me.

Never seen you scared before.

I'm not scared, sweetie. Let's go.

Come on, move it.

Vance.

Morning, Taj.

All right, lock everything up.

Send everyone home, all right.

Get to the security station.

Mena, stay with Vance. I'll b in a minute.

All right, let's go!

Lock it all down!

Hey.

Where's your daughter right now?

She's here. She's safe, and so are you.

He's gonna come for her.

We've got the place locked down,

I got Vance, and I got a gun.

I'd like to see him try.

Barry said there was more to it than I know.

I want to know.

Really?

Took you long enough.

Okay, you read the girl was dead,

and that Scott Riley was accused of the murder.

Yes.

And you just accepted that?

I had no reason not to believe it.

Oh, come on, Sheila,

you had over a million reasons.

You don't think I don't notice

you flaunting all your good deeds around town

all the time?

So desperate to prove that you're good.

I didn't hurt anyone.

Neither did I.

She was alive the last time I saw her.

DiKeer have any dealings with Sheila Gagne?

Or Barry LeBlanc?

Ken's been in the resources business for a long time.

This would've been about 1999.

1999, okay.

How long have youwoed f?

Since he opened his first logging company in '93.

He's a good boss.

You ever have any problems with anyone?

A ex-employee with a grudge,

a competitor?

Well, a little bit of both, but,

Nothing violent.

Oh, here's something, Barry LeBlanc.

And Sheila Gagne, too,

they were both paid as subcontractors

by our forestry division.

Can I, can I see?

Paid quite well, actually.

Subcontracted to do what?

It says consulting.

But, um-

We won a bid to

log a section of the Aagimaak Forest that year.

It was a big turning point for the company.

Well I remember that there was a,

a-a tip about the upcoming timber rights.

Yeah, Sheila and Barry both worked

for Watershed Forestry in '99.

Oh, I-I-I didn't know that.

Nelly?

Well, Watershed had all the local government contracts

at that point.

Well, is it possible that Barry and Sheila

took that information and sold it to Ken?

And he paid them off as consultants.

And made his first fortune.

You would have to ask them.

Yeah.

Barry's dead.

And Sheila and Ken are missing.

So we're asking you.

Yes.

It is possible that Ken paid Sheila and Barry

to leak future logging prospects

using their Watershed access.

So Barry and Sheila share information illegally,

information that makes them all rich.

He could.

Thank you.

Can we keep this?

We're getting call-ins about rescue activity

around the old Mead Lake quarry.

Police, fire, and ambulance vehicles are on the scene,

but no word on what's going on.

Our sources will not confirm if this is related

to the disappearance of resident Josh McNider,

who is the son of local resources magnate Ken McNider.

We will continue with updates on this developing story

along with your local forecast all evening.

There's one.

Got it.

Hey!

Scott! What the hell do you think you're doing!

Where's my son?

Where's my son?

What was her name?

Rebecca.

Her name was Rebecca.

Where's Josh?

Where's my son?

WWhere's Josh?

There's the door.

I'm gonna give you as much of chance as you gave her.

No!

So the Aagimaak Forest project

connects Ken to Barry and Sheila.

But there's gotta be more here

than fraudulent business practices.

Go back over old cases from around then.

See if anything happened in or around

the Aagimaak Forest area.

I'll get OPD and RCMP doing the same.

Aagimaak used to be huge.

It was thousands of acres of crown land.

It's mostly been divided up and sold off.

Okay, let's put some satellite pictures on the monitor.

Maybe you can try to figure out where he might've taken Ken.

He's chosen a clear cut,

a salvage yard and a quarry.

Well, Ken McNider

had sawmills and quarries running all over the area.

Start with those.

Snowmobile's been through here.

Blood.

There's a body.

Go call it in.

Lise.

Is Mena okay?

Why am I more worried about her than you are?

Sheila look,

if no one does anything stupid,

Scott Riley's gonna get caught, killed.

This'll all be over.

What if he goes to the police?

Yeah, well,

that really didn't go too well for him last time, did it?

If I go to my friend at the OPD-

- Whoa, whoa, whoa stop now, stop. - He will make sure that

- we get fair treatment. - Stop, Sheila, stop.

No, I am telling you, no more lies.

I cannot carry this anymore.

All ght, I'm sorry, okay.

I'm sorry, all right?

I'm not losing my daughter over this.

Not totally frozen yet like the others.

Hasn't been here long.

This victim was beaten, shot.

It's a different killer.

The legs were shattered.

Probably a blunt instrument.

Wrist is broken.

From the blood patterns up there,

looks like he got himself to the stairs,

took a tumble.

Looks like that to me.

Cause of death?

Possible hypothermia,

combined with the blood loss fm the gunshot.

It was a slow and painful death.

Thank yo Dr. Barnhouse.

The other victims, Adele and Robert,

they were a means to an end,

a way of hurting eir loved ones.

And Barry,

he was an accident,

or he was a suicide.

And I don't think he took Sheila.

I think she's in hiding.

So what are you saying?

I'm saying I don't think he meant to kill Ken.

The killer could've found out that Josh is still alive,

threw off his plan and made him angry.

Killing Neil Cuthbert would've thrown off his plan, too.

I don't think he meant to do any of this himself.

Hey, we just have to push on through.

Don't let it get personal.

You can't say that to me.

Have to tell Josh.

I'll go with you.

No.

No, I have to do it alone.

Lise.

Have you found my father?

He's dead.

I'm sorry.

I thought you were good at this,

you and your partner.

My father, Lise,

Did he,

Did he suffer?

I'm afraid he did.

Josh, is there anything you remember about your father?

Anything that might help us find out

who would want to hurt him like this?

No, Lise, no.

And you should leave us alone, please.

I'm sorry.

Hey.

Hey.

What are you doing here?

Uh, it was a slow week at school,

so I thought I'd come up.

You said you were busy with a case, so

Well thanks, but you didn't have to do that.

Selling the house was supposed to be a new start.

Are you just gonna end up getting stuck here?

No, no, but you-

You have to live your own life, Kel.

Yeah, I'll do that when I can stop worrying about you.

But you, you said that you wanted to retire,

but, uh you keep doing this job that grinds you down,

and-and makes you shut everyone out.

Why can't you just stop?

I-I can't actually,

I can't do this right now, Kel,

but stay and we'll talk later, okay?

No no, it's okay, um,

I'm sorry, I shouldn't have surprised you.

I'll head back.

No, no, please.

I'm sorry.

Kel, I'm sorry.

Come here.

Mm, I'm sorry you had to grow up so fast.

Your mother and me, ya,

You took care of both of us.

And, um,

I just don't want you to have to do that anymore.

Look, Dad, whatever-

Whatever your plan is,

You can't just let Lise walk out of your life.

You okay?

Yep.

Guys, Kular's got something.

Right, okay, thank you.

You were right about the Aagimaak Forest.

OPD advised us of a homicide investigation from 1999.

Rebecca Bailey, master student, 26.

Raped and murdered in the area.

And this is the guy convicted for it.

Scott Riley, 28 at the time.

You talked to the lead investigator?

He died four years ago.

Riley did time at Collins Bay.

His sentence overlapped with Wade Kleiss.

He got out eight months ago.

We're checking his prints against the ones

found at the workshop scene.

We have an address for him?

Toronto.

After some post-release time in a halfway house,

he moved into his late parents' home.

You talk to his P.O.?

Just now.

Riley did an in-person check in

around t te of Robert and Adele's murders.

Next one's not scheduled till tomorrow.

And we think he'd go back for that?

Try to preserve his alibi?

I think we should go down there.

Search the house at least.

Rebecca Bailey's murder case was OPD.

Call Commanda, ask for everything they have.

We'll check in from the road.

Delorme?

Look, the salvage yard,

the clear cut,

the quarry.

And the forest.

His next victim.

Riley's parents owned this place.

His dad died not long after Scott was incarcerated,

uh, mom passed from cancer two years ago.

What do you know about his life before the conviction?

He was a finance guy, like his dad.

Loved to hunt, alpha type,

um, then he had some sort of, uh,

like an environmental awakening

when a company he backed

dumped two milon barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Gave it all up for the cause.

So he quit his job.

Started to attend rallies.

Became a bit of a firehead.

Ended up in some trouble with the law.

Anything violent?

I, I only know what's in his files and wh he told me.

Hm.

What's he said about Rebecca Bailey?

That he didn't kill her.

Do you believe him?

I don't know.

I'm just trying to keep him from going back.

But he must have spoken about her.

He said he fell in love with her in the moment he saw her.

They met doing eco work,

uh, pipeline protests,

logging, stuff like that.

He ever say what they were doing in Algonquin Bay in '99?

Something about birds.

Um, she was an ornithologist.

They heard about some endangered one

and went up to try and get its habitat protecd.

This bird,

was it a Peregrine Falcon?

I think that's what he said, yeah.

McLeod says Scott Riley's emptied all his bank accounts.

Well, he's probably figuring to go on the run

after all this is over.

Or maybe making sure

he's got everything he needs to finish.

Mm, well lab confirms some of the prints

from the old Cuthberts' workshop match Riley.

But still no sight of him in Algonquin Bay.

Um, I'll see you in the lobby at 5:30?

Yeah, goodnight.

I, uh-

I don't want you to leave.

I know.

Anything on Sheila Gagne?

No, and no sightings of Scott Riley,

but, um, Commanda is in the boardroom

with background material on the Rebecca Bailey case.

How was Toronto?

- Good. - It was good.

I pulled everything I could on the Rebecca Bailey murder.

This is the original arrest interview with Scott Riley

from 1999.

Were younvolved in the ce?

I was in Timmins.

Bob McKinley was the investigator.

I never met the guy, but uh-

Well, you'll get the idea.

So can you please tell me again

what you and Rebecca Bailey were doing

in a remote section of the Aagimaak Forest?

We, looking for Peregrine Falcon.

It's endangered.

Oh.

So, did you find them?

No.

Ah.

We heard shooting, so,

We went to see what it was.

And there was blood in the snow.

On a bloody feather.

They were killing your birds, huh?

Those 'parka people' of yours.

Stop calling them that.

That's what you called 'em before.

And these parka people were the ones

who assaulted Rebecca, you said, right?

Yes.

Ah, and, now the sexual assault was them too,

I told you,

I did not rape her.

Why do you think these people were shooting falcons?

What?

Well we went where you said andhere were no,

there were no feathers,

no dead birds.

My question is,

is why kill them at all, hm?

If endangered birds are nesting there,

the area is protected,

so if they wanted to log,

then killing them would be,

We had to confront them, okay.

But I never touched them.

They hit first.

You can't describe these peop?

Well they had their,

They had their hoods up, couldn't see their faces.

Look, one might've been a woman,

but she left wn we got tre.

Mm hm.

Look, we started pushing, okay,

and one of them tried to hit me with the butt of his rifle.

It was a white guy, older.

I dodged him, but,

Rebecca, he uh,

He hit her, okay.

I mean, knocked her down.

So I bent down to help her and I just saw the guy

who hit her talk to one of the others,

and then that guy took off.

God.

How many people were there there?

Four!

Look, I keep telling you four.

So you dragged this bleeding girl

into the middle of nowhere?

I was holding her up, trying to help her.

I got her to the snowmobile, but the keys were gone.

That guy who took off, he must've taken them.

So this guy ran to your camp,

took the keys to your snow machine and vanished,

all before you got there?

She was bleeding, okay?

I had to get her out, so we started walking.

Ah, but you said that she couldn't walk hm?

So you dragged her for a while.

And then when you got tired you left her?

I told you,

I left her to get help.

Okay, I didn't drag her.

I left her to get help!

I left her to get help!

Well, Detective, uh, McKinley

had his mind made up about Scott Riley.

Yeah, I went through his notes.

He had Scott pegged as an eco-terrorist,

history of aggression.

Priors?

He was arrested at two environmental rallies

in Toronto the year before,

but it was nothing.

Okay, any other suspects?

Well, McKinley talked to a couple of local sex offenders,

but no record of him looking for the four people in parkas.

Tunnel vision.

Rebecca had a blow to the head,

bruising that could've come from a fall in the woods.

The only evidence to suggest sexual assault

was Riley's DNA and the fact that she was found half-naked.

If she was hypothermic,

I mean, she might well have stripped off

like Robert Quillen.

And maybe the sex was consensual,

like Riley claims.

So he's convicted for rape and murder

AND LOSES EVERYTHING:

the woman he loves, his parents,

twenty years of his life.

That would explain the rage.

Twenty years for it to build up.

Twenty years to plan his revenge.

Sheila Gagne,

Ken McNider,

Barry LeBlanc.

Those were his parka people.

He wants them to pay for Rebecca's death,

and he wants them to suffer too.

That's three.

So who's the fourth and how do we find them?

Sheila phoned Ken, we're pretty sure of that,

and the warrant gets us access to her cell phone records.

Maybe Sheila phoned this fourth person,

who must have been connected to the forestry project.

Then, from the parka,

we're safe to assume that they have a, a child.

She's in trouble in the corner after that roundhouse.

She's struggling to get back up now.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, but here comes the pain again!

What a shot!

What a shot indeed!

Wait a minute, there she is.

There she is, back on her feet.

Here comes Morning Gloria,

she'been performing a wh.

She really puts on a show.

She knows how to work the crowd.

They say every time gets better and better.

And here she comes again.

Oh yes, and she's got some real fans

out in the crowd tonight.

Up against the rope.

(crowd cheerin

Ken had the resources,

Barry was a forester,

Sheila probably set the deal up.

Who else would they need?

Transport.

Remember the guy at the memorial,

Taj Roy?

Yeah, yeah, I checked him out.

He had a-

Yeah, he os a trucking company.

Do we have a number?

Let's look at Sheila's phone records.

There.

She called a number registered to this guy's company

three days ago.

Taj Roy has a daughter.

She was with him that day.

And she'd fit that parka.

Mena get up, we're going downstairs.

Mena!

Mena!

Jesus.

Mena!

Mena!

Mena!

Mena!

Mena!

Mena,

You get away from her!

You trust your aim with that?

Take it easy!

Take it easy.

It's gonna be okay, sweetie.

Scott, just listen to me.

I got Sheila Gagne in a truck in the other room, okay?

She's all yours.

I know that!

I'm finished with her.

I'm finished with Barry,

and with Ken.

There's only you left.

Listen, we can work this thing out.

Drop the gun!

Tell me what you want.

Clear.

That's Mena's bag.

Detectives!

He was here, he took them!

Sheila Gagne,

You're under arrest.