Alaska Daily (2022) s01e03 Episode Script
It's Not Personal
1
Previously on "Alaska Daily"
Her name is Gloria Nanmac.
She went missing two years ago.
Her death is part of a pattern,
and I want you both on it together.
I don't care. I work alone.
You wanted to see me?
Mrs. Nanmac.
They told me I couldn't get the autopsy.
I'm not permitted to
turn over that report.
It's an open investigation in Meade.
The coroner's report is a
clear indication of assault.
They don't want to solve these crimes.
We gotta be patient.
Tell that to the next mother
of a native missing girl.
Toby?
Who was Gloria with
when she disappeared?
TOBY: I don't know. I
didn't go to the after party.
Where was it? Whose house?
Some guy called Skeeter.
I could use your help
getting ahold of so
[GASPS] Whoa.
WOMAN: Zachary. Belongs to Austin.
Oh, he doesn't bite.
Just don't touch his iPad.
If you print it, it will destroy me.
BOB: A token for your
first front page story.
Thank you, guys.
REPORTER: Anchorage
resident Jordan Teller
has died in a plane crash
in the Gulf of Alaska.
Teller was the only one
on board at the time.
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ROZ: First time in the Arctic?
Yeah. I think it is.
No trees.
Yeah, look at that. No trees.
Have you been up here before?
Some. I don't really like it.
Why not?
I'm Tlingit.
I grew up Southeast in a rain forest.
The "no tree" thing, it
doesn't really work for me.
Tlingit? Is that your tribe?
We say culture.
We never traditionally
organized as tribes.
The native communities up
here, they're all Iñupiaq.
Totally different culture,
languages, everything.
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- How are you doing?
- Oh, I'm glad to be going home.
Hey, if, um, it's too much
for us to stay with you,
- we can stay at the hotel.
- Tavra!
You are my guests. I insist.
♪♪
PILOT: We are beginning
our descent into Meade.
Flight crew, please prepare
the cabin for landing.
♪♪
Thank you for sitting
down with me, Mr. Moses.
You're the paper of record for Alaska.
I'll do whatever I can to help
you write an accurate profile.
So tell me, why are
you running for Senate?
The Roger Mudd question.
- It's a legitimate question.
- Of course it is.
It's the question.
Ted Kennedy couldn't answer it,
but I know exactly why I'm running
for the same reason
you became a journalist.
Which is what?
A desire to make the
world a better place.
You do it by holding
people like me accountable.
I want to do it through direct action
once I'm elected to the U.S. Senate.
Okay, can you give
me a specific example?
Act in the best
interest of all Alaskans.
Uh, that's not really specific.
And how is it possible to act in
the best interest of all Alaskans?
It's not easy to represent
the disparate interests
of all the people of this great state,
but that's what I plan to do.
Can you give me one example
- of how you might
- [WATCH CHIMES]
Everything okay?
I gotta deal with something.
We will pick this back up.
- Promise.
- All right, well
Hey, Bob, Frank Moses just got a text
and ran out of my interview.
Is Is something up?
An environmental activist
took unauthorized photos
of a leak at Meacham tailings pond.
Is that LH Mining?
Yeah, he sent them to us and TV outlets.
It's bad.
Uh, okay, on my way.
REPORTER: Schmidt was
attempting to photograph
BOB: This is really horrible.
CLAIRE: So upsetting.
And just in time for
the upcoming election.
It's gonna be very interesting to see
how the candidates respond to this.
Speaking of, Ford's on
TV. or more is known.
Five bucks he says "malarkey"
and mentions Alaskan jobs.
Another five he adds "media stunt."
I call malarkey.
Alaskan jobs are on the line
and they will not be
lost to this media stunt.
Bob with the trifecta.
I hope our publisher tracks all this
before he delivers the
paper's endorsement.
Come on, Bob. You know
Pritchard's endorsing Moses.
- I know no such thing.
- I just sat with him.
I feel like he already knows.
Well, Moses is pro-fishing.
I bet he's very upset about this.
Yeah, well, according to Moses,
he's pro-everything and everyone.
He just tweeted a response.
"We have to advance our
mining safety practices
and protect our watersheds.
I stand with Alaskans who
need good, honest work,
and I stand with the salmon."
Can you stand with salmon?
[TELEPHONES RINGING]
Hey, nothing for my salmon joke?
You still reading responses
from your Jordan Teller story?
Some of the things people are
saying about me are horrible.
Those aren't people. They're trolls.
Your story was solid.
I know.
But the truth is, he killed
himself because of it.
We don't know that for sure.
I get it. It's intense,
but you reported the facts.
How Teller reacted is on Teller.
It's messed up, but still
Now, start by laying off the trolls.
Okay. Thanks.
All right, people. Lots to do.
Bob, can you write-through
the run-off leak,
get me a clean set of
follow-ups into LH Mining?
Give 'em a deadline.
Every question they don't
answer goes into this story.
- Sure thing.
- Our Senate candidate profiles.
Can we fold in responses
to the leak, please?
Claire, how close are we on Brewster?
Wrapping it up.
I'll add comment to the Ford profile.
Austin, where are we with Moses?
I had 10 minutes with him.
He bolted after he heard about the leak.
I will dig into his
financial disclosures
- while I wait to reschedule.
- Okay.
Oh, hey, any word on
who Pritchard favors?
No word. And we are
equal opportunity diggers.
Get to it.
Hey, help me with Moses' financials?
- Sure. Yeah.
- Okay, cool.
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- You made it!
- Hello!
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[CHUCKLES] That's a good photo.
She loved to dance.
This is her room.
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She seems like such a nice kid.
How'd she end up at Skeeter's?
Like you said, she's a kid.
Fair point.
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Gloria made it.
Is it mink?
It's itigiaq. Ermine.
Look at this.
It's Those are
walrus ivory and baleen.
She was getting really good.
The place where they found
Gloria's body, where is it?
It's It's about three
miles from here on the tundra.
You can't get there by car.
How do we get there?
I think I can help with that.
Just give me a few hours.
Thank you.
- ROZ: Where are we going?
- EILEEN: Police station.
Now?
Better to cold call
before word gets out.
Maybe we'll get lucky
and they'll give us
- the police report.
- Doubtful.
I think we should go to the
Atanaura[ng]it offices first.
The what offices?
The Cultural Council. We
should tell them we're here,
what we're working on, and offer a gift.
Oh, that sounds nice, but I
want to go to the cops first.
The Council's not a
bridge you want to burn.
We'll have to come back.
We'll need their help.
Okay, well, I'm gonna
go to the cops first,
and you can go to the Council,
and we can meet up later.
♪♪
Hi.
We're with The Daily Alaskan,
doing a story on a death.
We need to make a records request
for anything public on the case file.
Case number 3747.
- Quyanaq.
- Tavra.
- What's that mean?
- "Thank you."
Oh, yeah. Thanks.
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
♪♪
That's still an open case.
Funny, people keep telling us that.
Would you mind telling us
who's working that open case?
We'd love to talk to him.
Sure.
♪♪
Chief Durkin was on that case.
He wasn't the chief then.
But he is now.
Is the chief in?
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Tell me, ladies, you don't
have stories down in Anchorage?
We do, but the paper is
looking into some older cases
we might not have given enough
attention to the first time around.
For some reason, we can't get our hands
on Gloria Nanmac's police report,
so we thought we'd ask, in person.
That's a long way to
come for a police report.
Could have just called and
saved yourselves a trip.
Maybe, but then we wouldn't
be sitting across the table
from the man who tried
to solve her murder.
Murder, huh?
What kind of story are
you lookin' to write?
Well, since Gloria's case is
still open two years later,
I assume you're still
actively working on it.
I thought maybe you could walk
us through the investigation.
That was a while ago.
I mean, I'd have to
I'd have to look at the report.
Things around here were
different back then,
and, uh, not in a good way.
My predecessor, Oren
Conners, was a drunk.
The department was in disarray.
Are you from around here?
Not remotely.
Yakutat.
Southeast.
- Haida?
- Tlingit.
I really like it down there.
I go fishing every summer.
I admire your people.
The Tlingit, they had this
whole system of government
that went back hundreds of years.
Thousands, actually.
Pretty smart, Tlingits.
So how about that police report?
Sure thing. I'll just need
to give it, uh, a read-over
and make sure that, uh,
anything sensitive is redacted.
I'll drop it off later today.
Great. We're staying at
Yeah, we'll find you.
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I don't like that guy.
Is it because he white-splained
my own culture to me?
That and I don't believe
he'll turn over the report.
MAN: Hey.
- You guys with The Daily Alaskan?
- Yeah.
Sylvie asked us to take you to
the tundra and then Skeeter's.
[THE JERRY CANS' "MAKILIQTA" PLAYS]
Kisumi takuvit ♪
Ivvi nunangani ♪
♪♪
Makigiaqaqtutit ♪
Quviasunngikkuvit ♪
Sapilinngillutit ♪
The hunters, they found
her under that boat.
You find a young woman's
battered body under a boat
and you don't suspect foul play?
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Eileen?
Eileen!
You okay?
Yeah.
You sure?
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There would have been three
feet of snow on the ground
the night she went missing.
What do you think?
I think I'm angry.
Good.
I've been angry for a long time.
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ERIC: This is it. Skeeter's house.
ROZ: Thanks, guys. We
can take it from here.
[VEHICLES DEPART]
EILEEN: Am I missing something?
Like Skeeter's house?
There was a house here.
Probably got moved. It happens a lot.
Building supplies are
hard to get up here,
so when people gotta move
They take their house.
Let's see what the neighbors know.
Thank God they took that house away.
The noise they made.
There was parties there
all hours of the night.
Did you ever complain?
[SCOFFS] Sure.
They didn't care.
Neither did the cops.
Never came out once.
That house was Dot Redding's house.
Quiet lady.
Secretary at the
Presbyterian church for years.
But then she went to a nursing home,
left that house to
her grandson, Clarence.
ROZ: Clarence? Did he have a nickname?
I called him Skeeter. We all did.
- So Clarence is Skeeter?
- Yeah.
Do you remember seeing
this woman hanging around
Skeeter's place about two years ago?
She went missing one night.
Yeah, Gloria came around.
I was drunk most of the time back then.
I'm sober now.
I don't remember what
night she disappeared.
Did you tell the cops you saw her?
[SCOFFS] Are you kidding?
You can't trust those guys.
I had a buddy he got busted
and the cops confiscated a pound
of Matanuska Thunderfunk off of him.
A couple days later he went
to re-up, and the dealer
tried to sell his weed back to him.
Same exact Thunderfunk.
So the cops are selling drugs
from the evidence locker?
Yeah, it's screwed up, right?
AUSTIN: Hey, check this out.
Frank Moses got contributions
from these LLCs
Marlin, Doxie, and Mour
all within the same week.
Can you look them up?
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
[COMPUTER BEEPS]
There's not much about them online.
[CLACKING CONTINUES]
But they all have the
same mailing address,
and it looks like they were
all created in the last year.
Oh, looks like they're all
repped by the same law firm.
- Which one?
- Gardner and Wise.
You've gotta be kidding me.
That's my ex-wife's firm.
Your ex-wife is a lawyer?
Yeah. Don't get me started
on being married to a lawyer.
I used to be a lawyer.
Oh. Really? What kind?
Corporate litigation.
[CELLPHONE VIBRATES]
Don't.
I'm trying, but these
guys are relentless.
They're called trolls for a reason.
Here.
Give me your phone.
Are you responding?
No, I'm deleting your Twitter.
- No. Don't! Don't!
- Now, now, this
Don't do that!
♪♪
I didn't mean to piss you off.
But you gotta deal with you.
When I got burned out
on that Fentanyl series,
I was in a dark place.
I finally talked to a pro
about it, and it helped.
A lot.
Who'd you talk to?
A counselor at the Dart Center.
They're built to help
us deal with the crap
that comes with the job,
be it trolls or our own damn feelings.
Two different people said
the house was gone as
soon as the snow melted.
That would have been
right after Gloria's death.
I wonder if the cops
questioned Clarence.
About Gloria?
They didn't even look
into noise complaints.
That's true. We've gotta go deeper
- on Clarence Redding.
- MAN: Roz?
- Roz Friendly?
- Uh, yeah.
Derek Friendly, from Selawik.
Right, yeah. How ya doing?
Don't worry. We
actually haven't met yet.
I just, uh I can't
believe it's really you.
Dad's always talking about you,
making sure we know when
you've written something.
Yeah, well, it was, uh, nice to see you.
- Hi, I'm Eileen.
- Hi.
- You guys work together?
- We do.
That's cool. You guys here for a story?
Yeah, but we're really busy right now.
- Sorry, Derek.
- Totally.
I just wanted to say hi.
If you guys need anything,
I work at the City Hall.
I just do payroll, but, uh
Okay.
Uh, nice meeting you.
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Bye.
Is he your brother?
Half-brother.
I thought you didn't grow up here.
I didn't.
Hey. Thanks for pushing a
little later, it's been a
- it's been a crazy day.
- Yep. Sure thing. How's Zach?
Uh, pretty upbeat. I'll go grab him.
Hey, wait, Anna. Can I pick
your brain about something?
Sure. What?
So I'm profiling Frank
Moses in the Senate race,
and I was pulling
campaign disclosures today,
and I noticed that he got a
lot of these donations from LLCs
- I never heard of.
- I'm not surprised.
There's literally millions of LLCs.
Right, but, um, a lot
of these particular LLCs
were incorporated and
repped by Gardner and Wise.
- Austin.
- And it turns out
that LH Mining is also repped
by Gardner and Wise, so
That's privileged information.
You know that.
You know, I didn't like playing
this game when we were married.
This kind of stuff mattered to you
when you were a public defender.
And then I got a real job
because your job wasn't cutting it.
Don't start with that, Anna.
I do my best to support our son.
No, I'm not saying that you don't,
but the truth is, you're
late on child support
- every other month.
- You're dropping that on me now?
We've gotta think about what's
best for our son, Austin.
- Daddy!
- Hey, Z-man.
You ready for soccer practice?
- All ready.
- All right.
Okay, give me a hug, kiddo.
Mm.
- Bye, Mom.
- Bye.
- Ready to score some goals, man?
- Yeah.
[SIGHS]
Damn it.
I thought you weren't from here.
I'm not.
But your brother is?
Don't interrogate me. I'm not a story.
Okay.
But he does work at City Hall.
- He could be helpful.
- No, he can't be helpful.
He's off limits. Got it?
Got it. He's off limits.
So much for the family reunion.
According to Nexis, Clarence
"Skeeter" Redding, born June 1998.
Hold it. How'd you get on Nexis?
A buddy's account he
works at a local TV station.
Clarence has no criminal
cases filed in court,
no civil cases, restraining
orders, bank loans.
No phone number, and the only
address is the missing house.
[VEHICLE DOORS CLOSE]
♪♪
Ma'am, this is for you.
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Police report.
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You gotta be kidding me.
They redacted everything.
Oh, they left in a DUI
and a possession charge.
And here's their
description of Gloria
"Troubled. History of drinking."
Victim blaming. Stonewalling.
This is why we can't get
anywhere with these stories.
Not this time. Durkin wants
to play tough, we'll scrub him.
Hey, I used to cover the legislature.
Most police departments in Alaska
submit their monthly
reports of their work,
and it's all public record.
Let's start there. Review
every case he's worked.
See what we find.
[CHUCKLES] That's gonna piss him off.
I'm counting on it.
What do you mean you're sorry?
The police department's monthly
reports are public record.
Yes, but we are swamped today.
[SCOFFS]
Swamped?
Yeah. Clerical stuff.
Can I speak to your supervisor?
No. He's not in today. Sorry.
Is anyone in today? Just curious.
Let's go. We'll be back.
I'm gonna use the restroom.
I'll meet you outside.
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DEREK: Come in.
Hey, Derek.
Oh, hi.
I remembered you offered to help.
Sure. Yeah. Anything.
Great. We're trying to get ahold of
the police department's monthly reports.
We're on deadline, but
everyone is swamped.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do that.
Well, sure you can. It's public record.
This is a really important story,
and it would mean a lot to Roz.
♪♪
Hey, Bob, you've been around the block.
Any chance you know about these LLCs
Doxie, Marlin, Mour?
Nope. Did you look up the members?
Yeah, of course. Uh, there's
Emily Sanders, Tim Brooks,
- John Flemming.
- Wait a minute.
- John Flemming?
- Yeah.
I was just going over the
board members of LH Mining,
and he's one of them.
What?
And so is Amelia Sanders and Brooks.
Wait. LH Mining is funding
the pro-salmon candidate's
campaign for U.S. Senate?
[INHALES DEEPLY]
Something makes me think
he's not gonna be pro-salmon
if he gets to Washington.
♪♪
Moses is in bed with LH Mining.
This pro-salmon candidate is
taking big money from a company
that poses a giant threat
to the fishing industry.
- Did you finish his profile?
- No, but this is news.
We shouldn't sit on this for a profile.
Agreed.
Are you sure these
executives didn't do this
for any other candidate?
I saw no sign of that.
But you can't rule it out?
They didn't give anything to Ford.
Check on every other candidate.
We need to make sure
we are buttoned up here.
We have to rule it out.
I'm sorry, are we
pumping the brakes here?
We're doing our job.
Okay, but would we be doing
this if it wasn't Moses?
- Austin.
- What?!
We know Pritchard is backing this guy.
I mean, I can't help
but to think that maybe
- this story is being held
- You better think very hard
about what you say next, Austin.
Something about this
just doesn't feel ri
Austin. Leave the room. Now.
I'll handle this.
[PAPER CRUMPLES]
[FOOTSTEPS DEPART]
I'm sorry about that, Stanley.
You should have asked him
about the other candidates
before you came into my office.
Austin should know better,
and, as acting editor,
you definitely should.
Understood.
ROZ: You get lost?
I got the monthly reports.
- How?
- I bumped into Derek.
He was happy to help.
What? How could you do that?
What? You're upset
that I got the reports?
No, I'm upset that you
went behind my back.
- Give me a break.
- No, I won't!
You have no idea how
complicated it is for me.
This isn't about you.
It's about the story.
That's all that matters.
- Is that right?
- Yeah, it is.
It's work. If you don't like
how I do it, then step aside.
♪♪
Hey.
Made some tea.
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My dad lives in one of
the nearby villages
biological dad.
Oh, you're Iñupiaq, too?
Um, no. He's white.
Left when I was a baby.
Met an Iñupiaq woman, moved to Selawik,
and started a whole new life.
Big family. Whole deal.
You ever talk to him?
No. I try to avoid him.
But I ran into one of his kids.
Turns out he reads my paper.
Reads me.
My half-brother was saying
that he brags about it.
He's proud of you.
Yeah, well, he still chose
his whole new life over me.
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I want to get this story
right more than anything,
but working with her oof.
She makes me feel like a Tonto.
[LAUGHS]
Roz, your people are warriors.
I've never heard of a Tlingit sidekick.
She may underestimate
you, but she will learn.
You are smart, tough.
You care about our people.
I wouldn't be helping if
you weren't on the story.
Do it your way.
♪♪
YUNA: Is that how you play?
Wanna tell me what happened?
I took the Moses story to Stanley,
spelled out everything we dug up on him,
and I'm not sure he's gonna print.
Why not?
Because Pritchard is endorsing Moses.
I don't believe that.
Believe it. He's giving
me busy work to delay it,
but it's pretty clear what's up.
You know, I thought
Stanley had our backs.
Silly me.
Maybe she's right.
Who?
My ex-wife.
Maybe I should just suck
it up and get a real job.
This is a real job.
And you're very good at it.
I don't care what your ex-wife says.
Her job sucks.
And I should know.
I had the same sucky job.
You making this all about you?
No.
But maybe you're making
this about Stanley
when it's really about your ex.
I hear that.
I'll tell you what
You make a shot on me, I'll stop.
And you'll do the busy work?
Deal.
♪♪
All right, she puts the ball down.
She dribbles. Take your time.
- You're not gonna get many chances.
- Yes!
Thanks for seeing me on short notice.
I know you're busy.
I assigned Austin to profile Moses.
He dug up some damning intel.
Turns out this pro-fishing
guy is financed by mining.
You have proof?
Financial disclosures.
- Anything illegal?
- Uh no.
So it's politics, not a story.
Well, it's a question of ethics
because Senators help
determine land rights for mines.
Yeah, but what about the other guys?
I mean, Ford's a
walking corruption case.
Maybe, but not this.
Frank Moses is the most
competent person in this race.
It just doesn't seem like you have
much of a story to me, Stanley.
♪♪
I won't take any more of your time.
I'm always here.
Thank you, Aaron.
♪♪
[MAN SINGING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
Roz Friendly?
Yes. Hi.
[SPEAKS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
Asisaun, Council Chair.
Quyanaq for welcoming me.
Um, I apologize for not coming sooner.
[SINGING AND DRUM BEAT CONTINUE]
I brought you some nagoonberry jam.
It's from my Auntie in Yakutat.
Quyanaq.
So you're here for Sylvie, right?
What can I do for you?
The more we investigate Gloria's murder,
the more it points to gross negligence
in the police department.
Is there anyone else that has
had problems with Chief Durkin?
Someone who might be
willing to talk with me?
It's pretty risky, speaking up
against the police in a village.
I know. I wouldn't be
asking if it didn't matter.
Let me make a call.
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ASISAUN: Roz. Molly.
This is Roz Friendly
with The Daily Alaskan.
Hi, Molly. Thanks for
agreeing to talk with me.
This can be all background for now.
What does that mean?
It just means I I won't use your name
when I'm writing about it.
♪♪
Will you tell me your story?
♪♪
Last year, my ex-boyfriend
beat me up real bad.
- I reported it, but
- To Chief Durkin?
Yeah. He He twisted
it so I sounded crazy.
I had bruises everywhere.
Like, what more proof do you need?
He said he needed me to call up my ex
and get him to confess on speaker phone.
I didn't want to do that,
so Durkin decided my case was unfounded.
I am so sorry that happened to you.
I'm not the only one.
I know a few more
people you can talk to.
They never do anything.
Thank you for sharing that.
♪♪
Oh.
You can use my name.
Screw him.
♪♪
What do ya got?
You're not gonna believe this.
I went through all the
records that Derek sent over.
Of all the felony complaints to
the Meade PD in the last two years,
72 were for sexual assault or rape.
The cops didn't arrest or even charge
a single person for any of them.
What? How is that possible?
It's not. Or shouldn't be.
They either keep the case open
like they did with Gloria's,
or, look, they dismiss it
as undetermined or unfounded.
Molly's case was declared unfounded.
- Who's Molly?
- I went to the Council.
Spoke with an assault survivor
who's willing to go on record
saying that Durkin didn't
investigate her case.
Well, we just got our lead.
The cops here, they
don't investigate crimes
against Native women,
which makes it look
like there's no crime in Meade.
- All thanks to Chief Durkin.
- Got him.
♪♪
[KNOCK ON DOOR] Morning.
Morning, Austin.
I checked every
donation, every candidate.
There's not a whiff of any of those LLCs
giving to another candidate or
anyone related to the candidate.
It's all here.
[TELEPHONES RINGING]
[SIGHS]
Okay. Good.
Write it up and put
all that in the story.
And we publish?
Yes. We publish.
Great. Okay.
Thanks.
[SIGHS] Stanley
I'm sorry for popping off yesterday.
It wasn't right.
I let stuff in my own
life get in the way.
You all right?
Just gotta work some things out.
Good. For the record,
I don't mind disagreeing about a story,
but we have to give each
other the benefit of the doubt
or we can't do this job.
Is that clear?
Very.
- Hey, your boss around?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa. Whoa. He's not here.
Okay, can you call him for us?
He's on a hunting trip.
So you can't reach him?
Not right now.
You got an envelope?
We're about to go back to Anchorage
and write a story about your boss.
He's gonna want to read
this as soon as possible
so he knows what's coming.
My gut is if he doesn't,
he's not gonna be happy.
Quyanaq.
ROZ: What'd you write on the note?
"See you soon."
♪♪
There goes the messenger.
[ENGINE STARTS]
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
ROZ: You get our note?
CHIEF DURKIN: Pretty clever.
There are allegations
that confiscated drugs
from your evidence locker are
being resold on the street.
Nice truck, by the way.
You have proof of these allegations?
No. Just a fun fact.
But we are running with
a story about your record.
My record?
Well, what about your record?
Yeah, I've been doing some reading.
You were, uh, run out of New York
and sentenced to Alaska
because you were wrong.
My record is clean as a whistle.
Your record is perfect, in fact.
72 felony complaints and not one charge.
Yeah, well, I stand by
my record and reputation.
Now, is there anything else?
Because I really need to get going.
No, actually, I'm curious how
your office determined no foul play
after seeing Gloria
Nanmac's coroner's report.
Orbital fracture,
lacerations, contusions
basically, wounds on both the front
and the back of her head.
Do you have a theory on
how she did this to herself?
Hey, why don't you, uh,
give me a minute alone
with your boss here? I'm
not her boss. We're partners.
Why aren't you investigating
violent crimes against native women?
Well, because I don't like to
waste my time or anyone else's.
So I'm not gonna tie up the
courts with that kind of nonsense.
Nonsense?
Yeah. You know, native girls
who can't handle their alcohol.
You really think that's all it's about?
Look, historically, this is the place
where Iñupiat men used to come to
trade their women for booze and guns.
It's just how they are.
Wow. Your insights have been
very illuminating, Chief.
Now get the hell off my property.
♪♪
Did you get that?
♪♪
Got him.
Durkin's racist quote really
connects his beliefs to his actions.
Agreed. Durkin's going bye-bye.
- Mm-hmm.
- We need another graf.
- On what?
- Context for the racist quote.
If we don't state that
Durkin's words are false,
we'll just perpetuate the racist myth.
Yeah, you might be right.
She is right.
Right up a new graf and drop it in.
Then we publish.
Sounds good to me.
I'm gonna add a tip line
at the end of the article.
My gut is, once people read
it, they'll want to reach out.
You got someone to
sift through the cranks?
Gabriel will do it.
This is good reporting.
Good work, team.
- Agreed.
- Agreed. Just one thing.
You may not want to admit it,
but you need me on this investigation.
So I've gotta be able to trust you.
I'm not a sidekick.
What you did with Derek was wrong.
You do it again, I'm out.
Are you giving me an ultimatum?
I am.
We can get this story
without you being a dick.
That seems fair.
I hear you.
Good.
Still pissed, but I'll take it.
♪♪
Just to say, no one
complained when I worked alone.
At least not to your face.
Gotta give her credit she's got guts.
She does. And issues.
♪♪
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
[SIGHS]
♪♪
[COMPUTER CHIMES]
♪♪
Hi, Yuna. I'm Kyle with the Dart Center.
- Nice to meet you.
- You, too.
So I understand you're
dealing with some online hate.
REPORTER: As the damage from the
LH Mining leak becomes clearer,
a breaking story in The Daily Alaskan
puts Frank Moses' campaign in jeopardy.
Moses is done for, anyway.
Pro-mining tag is
gonna cost him his base.
Gotta say, I actually kinda liked Moses.
I was pulling for him.
Pisses me off.
That's why we do what we do.
A guy like Moses can
say whatever he wants.
Our job is to hold him accountable.
And that we did.
With Stanley's help.
Agreed.
Now, back to work.
♪♪
[TELEPHONE RINGING]
Austin Teague.
ANNA: Austin, hey.
- Anna.
- I saw your story.
- You must be proud.
- I am.
Look, um, I'm sorry about our fight.
- Everything okay?
- Yeah, yeah, just, uh
there's Look, there's no easy way
to say this, but I got an offer.
A huge promotion.
Dream position, really.
Okay.
In Chicago.
So I'm going to accept it,
and I want to take Zachary with me.
No. No.
You can't just
We have an agreement.
I wanted you to hear it from me.
[DIAL TONE]
♪♪
Hi, Ken. I need some information.
KEN: Stanley, it's been a while.
I'd like to know more
about the Pritchard family.
Pritchard, as in your publisher?
Does this have to do with
the Frank Moses story?
The Pritchards dropped
their endorsement,
but I want to understand what
they stood to gain if Moses won.
You sure you want to go
down that road, Stanley?
Conrad Pritchard is not
a man to be taken lightly.
I understand.
I'll see what I can see, Stanley.
Thanks, Kenny.
♪♪
[SIGHS]
♪♪
♪♪
Previously on "Alaska Daily"
Her name is Gloria Nanmac.
She went missing two years ago.
Her death is part of a pattern,
and I want you both on it together.
I don't care. I work alone.
You wanted to see me?
Mrs. Nanmac.
They told me I couldn't get the autopsy.
I'm not permitted to
turn over that report.
It's an open investigation in Meade.
The coroner's report is a
clear indication of assault.
They don't want to solve these crimes.
We gotta be patient.
Tell that to the next mother
of a native missing girl.
Toby?
Who was Gloria with
when she disappeared?
TOBY: I don't know. I
didn't go to the after party.
Where was it? Whose house?
Some guy called Skeeter.
I could use your help
getting ahold of so
[GASPS] Whoa.
WOMAN: Zachary. Belongs to Austin.
Oh, he doesn't bite.
Just don't touch his iPad.
If you print it, it will destroy me.
BOB: A token for your
first front page story.
Thank you, guys.
REPORTER: Anchorage
resident Jordan Teller
has died in a plane crash
in the Gulf of Alaska.
Teller was the only one
on board at the time.
♪♪
♪♪
ROZ: First time in the Arctic?
Yeah. I think it is.
No trees.
Yeah, look at that. No trees.
Have you been up here before?
Some. I don't really like it.
Why not?
I'm Tlingit.
I grew up Southeast in a rain forest.
The "no tree" thing, it
doesn't really work for me.
Tlingit? Is that your tribe?
We say culture.
We never traditionally
organized as tribes.
The native communities up
here, they're all Iñupiaq.
Totally different culture,
languages, everything.
♪♪
- How are you doing?
- Oh, I'm glad to be going home.
Hey, if, um, it's too much
for us to stay with you,
- we can stay at the hotel.
- Tavra!
You are my guests. I insist.
♪♪
PILOT: We are beginning
our descent into Meade.
Flight crew, please prepare
the cabin for landing.
♪♪
Thank you for sitting
down with me, Mr. Moses.
You're the paper of record for Alaska.
I'll do whatever I can to help
you write an accurate profile.
So tell me, why are
you running for Senate?
The Roger Mudd question.
- It's a legitimate question.
- Of course it is.
It's the question.
Ted Kennedy couldn't answer it,
but I know exactly why I'm running
for the same reason
you became a journalist.
Which is what?
A desire to make the
world a better place.
You do it by holding
people like me accountable.
I want to do it through direct action
once I'm elected to the U.S. Senate.
Okay, can you give
me a specific example?
Act in the best
interest of all Alaskans.
Uh, that's not really specific.
And how is it possible to act in
the best interest of all Alaskans?
It's not easy to represent
the disparate interests
of all the people of this great state,
but that's what I plan to do.
Can you give me one example
- of how you might
- [WATCH CHIMES]
Everything okay?
I gotta deal with something.
We will pick this back up.
- Promise.
- All right, well
Hey, Bob, Frank Moses just got a text
and ran out of my interview.
Is Is something up?
An environmental activist
took unauthorized photos
of a leak at Meacham tailings pond.
Is that LH Mining?
Yeah, he sent them to us and TV outlets.
It's bad.
Uh, okay, on my way.
REPORTER: Schmidt was
attempting to photograph
BOB: This is really horrible.
CLAIRE: So upsetting.
And just in time for
the upcoming election.
It's gonna be very interesting to see
how the candidates respond to this.
Speaking of, Ford's on
TV. or more is known.
Five bucks he says "malarkey"
and mentions Alaskan jobs.
Another five he adds "media stunt."
I call malarkey.
Alaskan jobs are on the line
and they will not be
lost to this media stunt.
Bob with the trifecta.
I hope our publisher tracks all this
before he delivers the
paper's endorsement.
Come on, Bob. You know
Pritchard's endorsing Moses.
- I know no such thing.
- I just sat with him.
I feel like he already knows.
Well, Moses is pro-fishing.
I bet he's very upset about this.
Yeah, well, according to Moses,
he's pro-everything and everyone.
He just tweeted a response.
"We have to advance our
mining safety practices
and protect our watersheds.
I stand with Alaskans who
need good, honest work,
and I stand with the salmon."
Can you stand with salmon?
[TELEPHONES RINGING]
Hey, nothing for my salmon joke?
You still reading responses
from your Jordan Teller story?
Some of the things people are
saying about me are horrible.
Those aren't people. They're trolls.
Your story was solid.
I know.
But the truth is, he killed
himself because of it.
We don't know that for sure.
I get it. It's intense,
but you reported the facts.
How Teller reacted is on Teller.
It's messed up, but still
Now, start by laying off the trolls.
Okay. Thanks.
All right, people. Lots to do.
Bob, can you write-through
the run-off leak,
get me a clean set of
follow-ups into LH Mining?
Give 'em a deadline.
Every question they don't
answer goes into this story.
- Sure thing.
- Our Senate candidate profiles.
Can we fold in responses
to the leak, please?
Claire, how close are we on Brewster?
Wrapping it up.
I'll add comment to the Ford profile.
Austin, where are we with Moses?
I had 10 minutes with him.
He bolted after he heard about the leak.
I will dig into his
financial disclosures
- while I wait to reschedule.
- Okay.
Oh, hey, any word on
who Pritchard favors?
No word. And we are
equal opportunity diggers.
Get to it.
Hey, help me with Moses' financials?
- Sure. Yeah.
- Okay, cool.
♪♪
- You made it!
- Hello!
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[CHUCKLES] That's a good photo.
She loved to dance.
This is her room.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
She seems like such a nice kid.
How'd she end up at Skeeter's?
Like you said, she's a kid.
Fair point.
♪♪
Gloria made it.
Is it mink?
It's itigiaq. Ermine.
Look at this.
It's Those are
walrus ivory and baleen.
She was getting really good.
The place where they found
Gloria's body, where is it?
It's It's about three
miles from here on the tundra.
You can't get there by car.
How do we get there?
I think I can help with that.
Just give me a few hours.
Thank you.
- ROZ: Where are we going?
- EILEEN: Police station.
Now?
Better to cold call
before word gets out.
Maybe we'll get lucky
and they'll give us
- the police report.
- Doubtful.
I think we should go to the
Atanaura[ng]it offices first.
The what offices?
The Cultural Council. We
should tell them we're here,
what we're working on, and offer a gift.
Oh, that sounds nice, but I
want to go to the cops first.
The Council's not a
bridge you want to burn.
We'll have to come back.
We'll need their help.
Okay, well, I'm gonna
go to the cops first,
and you can go to the Council,
and we can meet up later.
♪♪
Hi.
We're with The Daily Alaskan,
doing a story on a death.
We need to make a records request
for anything public on the case file.
Case number 3747.
- Quyanaq.
- Tavra.
- What's that mean?
- "Thank you."
Oh, yeah. Thanks.
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
♪♪
That's still an open case.
Funny, people keep telling us that.
Would you mind telling us
who's working that open case?
We'd love to talk to him.
Sure.
♪♪
Chief Durkin was on that case.
He wasn't the chief then.
But he is now.
Is the chief in?
♪♪
Tell me, ladies, you don't
have stories down in Anchorage?
We do, but the paper is
looking into some older cases
we might not have given enough
attention to the first time around.
For some reason, we can't get our hands
on Gloria Nanmac's police report,
so we thought we'd ask, in person.
That's a long way to
come for a police report.
Could have just called and
saved yourselves a trip.
Maybe, but then we wouldn't
be sitting across the table
from the man who tried
to solve her murder.
Murder, huh?
What kind of story are
you lookin' to write?
Well, since Gloria's case is
still open two years later,
I assume you're still
actively working on it.
I thought maybe you could walk
us through the investigation.
That was a while ago.
I mean, I'd have to
I'd have to look at the report.
Things around here were
different back then,
and, uh, not in a good way.
My predecessor, Oren
Conners, was a drunk.
The department was in disarray.
Are you from around here?
Not remotely.
Yakutat.
Southeast.
- Haida?
- Tlingit.
I really like it down there.
I go fishing every summer.
I admire your people.
The Tlingit, they had this
whole system of government
that went back hundreds of years.
Thousands, actually.
Pretty smart, Tlingits.
So how about that police report?
Sure thing. I'll just need
to give it, uh, a read-over
and make sure that, uh,
anything sensitive is redacted.
I'll drop it off later today.
Great. We're staying at
Yeah, we'll find you.
♪♪
I don't like that guy.
Is it because he white-splained
my own culture to me?
That and I don't believe
he'll turn over the report.
MAN: Hey.
- You guys with The Daily Alaskan?
- Yeah.
Sylvie asked us to take you to
the tundra and then Skeeter's.
[THE JERRY CANS' "MAKILIQTA" PLAYS]
Kisumi takuvit ♪
Ivvi nunangani ♪
♪♪
Makigiaqaqtutit ♪
Quviasunngikkuvit ♪
Sapilinngillutit ♪
The hunters, they found
her under that boat.
You find a young woman's
battered body under a boat
and you don't suspect foul play?
♪♪
♪♪
Eileen?
Eileen!
You okay?
Yeah.
You sure?
♪♪
There would have been three
feet of snow on the ground
the night she went missing.
What do you think?
I think I'm angry.
Good.
I've been angry for a long time.
♪♪
ERIC: This is it. Skeeter's house.
ROZ: Thanks, guys. We
can take it from here.
[VEHICLES DEPART]
EILEEN: Am I missing something?
Like Skeeter's house?
There was a house here.
Probably got moved. It happens a lot.
Building supplies are
hard to get up here,
so when people gotta move
They take their house.
Let's see what the neighbors know.
Thank God they took that house away.
The noise they made.
There was parties there
all hours of the night.
Did you ever complain?
[SCOFFS] Sure.
They didn't care.
Neither did the cops.
Never came out once.
That house was Dot Redding's house.
Quiet lady.
Secretary at the
Presbyterian church for years.
But then she went to a nursing home,
left that house to
her grandson, Clarence.
ROZ: Clarence? Did he have a nickname?
I called him Skeeter. We all did.
- So Clarence is Skeeter?
- Yeah.
Do you remember seeing
this woman hanging around
Skeeter's place about two years ago?
She went missing one night.
Yeah, Gloria came around.
I was drunk most of the time back then.
I'm sober now.
I don't remember what
night she disappeared.
Did you tell the cops you saw her?
[SCOFFS] Are you kidding?
You can't trust those guys.
I had a buddy he got busted
and the cops confiscated a pound
of Matanuska Thunderfunk off of him.
A couple days later he went
to re-up, and the dealer
tried to sell his weed back to him.
Same exact Thunderfunk.
So the cops are selling drugs
from the evidence locker?
Yeah, it's screwed up, right?
AUSTIN: Hey, check this out.
Frank Moses got contributions
from these LLCs
Marlin, Doxie, and Mour
all within the same week.
Can you look them up?
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
[COMPUTER BEEPS]
There's not much about them online.
[CLACKING CONTINUES]
But they all have the
same mailing address,
and it looks like they were
all created in the last year.
Oh, looks like they're all
repped by the same law firm.
- Which one?
- Gardner and Wise.
You've gotta be kidding me.
That's my ex-wife's firm.
Your ex-wife is a lawyer?
Yeah. Don't get me started
on being married to a lawyer.
I used to be a lawyer.
Oh. Really? What kind?
Corporate litigation.
[CELLPHONE VIBRATES]
Don't.
I'm trying, but these
guys are relentless.
They're called trolls for a reason.
Here.
Give me your phone.
Are you responding?
No, I'm deleting your Twitter.
- No. Don't! Don't!
- Now, now, this
Don't do that!
♪♪
I didn't mean to piss you off.
But you gotta deal with you.
When I got burned out
on that Fentanyl series,
I was in a dark place.
I finally talked to a pro
about it, and it helped.
A lot.
Who'd you talk to?
A counselor at the Dart Center.
They're built to help
us deal with the crap
that comes with the job,
be it trolls or our own damn feelings.
Two different people said
the house was gone as
soon as the snow melted.
That would have been
right after Gloria's death.
I wonder if the cops
questioned Clarence.
About Gloria?
They didn't even look
into noise complaints.
That's true. We've gotta go deeper
- on Clarence Redding.
- MAN: Roz?
- Roz Friendly?
- Uh, yeah.
Derek Friendly, from Selawik.
Right, yeah. How ya doing?
Don't worry. We
actually haven't met yet.
I just, uh I can't
believe it's really you.
Dad's always talking about you,
making sure we know when
you've written something.
Yeah, well, it was, uh, nice to see you.
- Hi, I'm Eileen.
- Hi.
- You guys work together?
- We do.
That's cool. You guys here for a story?
Yeah, but we're really busy right now.
- Sorry, Derek.
- Totally.
I just wanted to say hi.
If you guys need anything,
I work at the City Hall.
I just do payroll, but, uh
Okay.
Uh, nice meeting you.
♪♪
Bye.
Is he your brother?
Half-brother.
I thought you didn't grow up here.
I didn't.
Hey. Thanks for pushing a
little later, it's been a
- it's been a crazy day.
- Yep. Sure thing. How's Zach?
Uh, pretty upbeat. I'll go grab him.
Hey, wait, Anna. Can I pick
your brain about something?
Sure. What?
So I'm profiling Frank
Moses in the Senate race,
and I was pulling
campaign disclosures today,
and I noticed that he got a
lot of these donations from LLCs
- I never heard of.
- I'm not surprised.
There's literally millions of LLCs.
Right, but, um, a lot
of these particular LLCs
were incorporated and
repped by Gardner and Wise.
- Austin.
- And it turns out
that LH Mining is also repped
by Gardner and Wise, so
That's privileged information.
You know that.
You know, I didn't like playing
this game when we were married.
This kind of stuff mattered to you
when you were a public defender.
And then I got a real job
because your job wasn't cutting it.
Don't start with that, Anna.
I do my best to support our son.
No, I'm not saying that you don't,
but the truth is, you're
late on child support
- every other month.
- You're dropping that on me now?
We've gotta think about what's
best for our son, Austin.
- Daddy!
- Hey, Z-man.
You ready for soccer practice?
- All ready.
- All right.
Okay, give me a hug, kiddo.
Mm.
- Bye, Mom.
- Bye.
- Ready to score some goals, man?
- Yeah.
[SIGHS]
Damn it.
I thought you weren't from here.
I'm not.
But your brother is?
Don't interrogate me. I'm not a story.
Okay.
But he does work at City Hall.
- He could be helpful.
- No, he can't be helpful.
He's off limits. Got it?
Got it. He's off limits.
So much for the family reunion.
According to Nexis, Clarence
"Skeeter" Redding, born June 1998.
Hold it. How'd you get on Nexis?
A buddy's account he
works at a local TV station.
Clarence has no criminal
cases filed in court,
no civil cases, restraining
orders, bank loans.
No phone number, and the only
address is the missing house.
[VEHICLE DOORS CLOSE]
♪♪
Ma'am, this is for you.
♪♪
Police report.
♪♪
You gotta be kidding me.
They redacted everything.
Oh, they left in a DUI
and a possession charge.
And here's their
description of Gloria
"Troubled. History of drinking."
Victim blaming. Stonewalling.
This is why we can't get
anywhere with these stories.
Not this time. Durkin wants
to play tough, we'll scrub him.
Hey, I used to cover the legislature.
Most police departments in Alaska
submit their monthly
reports of their work,
and it's all public record.
Let's start there. Review
every case he's worked.
See what we find.
[CHUCKLES] That's gonna piss him off.
I'm counting on it.
What do you mean you're sorry?
The police department's monthly
reports are public record.
Yes, but we are swamped today.
[SCOFFS]
Swamped?
Yeah. Clerical stuff.
Can I speak to your supervisor?
No. He's not in today. Sorry.
Is anyone in today? Just curious.
Let's go. We'll be back.
I'm gonna use the restroom.
I'll meet you outside.
♪♪
DEREK: Come in.
Hey, Derek.
Oh, hi.
I remembered you offered to help.
Sure. Yeah. Anything.
Great. We're trying to get ahold of
the police department's monthly reports.
We're on deadline, but
everyone is swamped.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do that.
Well, sure you can. It's public record.
This is a really important story,
and it would mean a lot to Roz.
♪♪
Hey, Bob, you've been around the block.
Any chance you know about these LLCs
Doxie, Marlin, Mour?
Nope. Did you look up the members?
Yeah, of course. Uh, there's
Emily Sanders, Tim Brooks,
- John Flemming.
- Wait a minute.
- John Flemming?
- Yeah.
I was just going over the
board members of LH Mining,
and he's one of them.
What?
And so is Amelia Sanders and Brooks.
Wait. LH Mining is funding
the pro-salmon candidate's
campaign for U.S. Senate?
[INHALES DEEPLY]
Something makes me think
he's not gonna be pro-salmon
if he gets to Washington.
♪♪
Moses is in bed with LH Mining.
This pro-salmon candidate is
taking big money from a company
that poses a giant threat
to the fishing industry.
- Did you finish his profile?
- No, but this is news.
We shouldn't sit on this for a profile.
Agreed.
Are you sure these
executives didn't do this
for any other candidate?
I saw no sign of that.
But you can't rule it out?
They didn't give anything to Ford.
Check on every other candidate.
We need to make sure
we are buttoned up here.
We have to rule it out.
I'm sorry, are we
pumping the brakes here?
We're doing our job.
Okay, but would we be doing
this if it wasn't Moses?
- Austin.
- What?!
We know Pritchard is backing this guy.
I mean, I can't help
but to think that maybe
- this story is being held
- You better think very hard
about what you say next, Austin.
Something about this
just doesn't feel ri
Austin. Leave the room. Now.
I'll handle this.
[PAPER CRUMPLES]
[FOOTSTEPS DEPART]
I'm sorry about that, Stanley.
You should have asked him
about the other candidates
before you came into my office.
Austin should know better,
and, as acting editor,
you definitely should.
Understood.
ROZ: You get lost?
I got the monthly reports.
- How?
- I bumped into Derek.
He was happy to help.
What? How could you do that?
What? You're upset
that I got the reports?
No, I'm upset that you
went behind my back.
- Give me a break.
- No, I won't!
You have no idea how
complicated it is for me.
This isn't about you.
It's about the story.
That's all that matters.
- Is that right?
- Yeah, it is.
It's work. If you don't like
how I do it, then step aside.
♪♪
Hey.
Made some tea.
♪♪
My dad lives in one of
the nearby villages
biological dad.
Oh, you're Iñupiaq, too?
Um, no. He's white.
Left when I was a baby.
Met an Iñupiaq woman, moved to Selawik,
and started a whole new life.
Big family. Whole deal.
You ever talk to him?
No. I try to avoid him.
But I ran into one of his kids.
Turns out he reads my paper.
Reads me.
My half-brother was saying
that he brags about it.
He's proud of you.
Yeah, well, he still chose
his whole new life over me.
♪♪
I want to get this story
right more than anything,
but working with her oof.
She makes me feel like a Tonto.
[LAUGHS]
Roz, your people are warriors.
I've never heard of a Tlingit sidekick.
She may underestimate
you, but she will learn.
You are smart, tough.
You care about our people.
I wouldn't be helping if
you weren't on the story.
Do it your way.
♪♪
YUNA: Is that how you play?
Wanna tell me what happened?
I took the Moses story to Stanley,
spelled out everything we dug up on him,
and I'm not sure he's gonna print.
Why not?
Because Pritchard is endorsing Moses.
I don't believe that.
Believe it. He's giving
me busy work to delay it,
but it's pretty clear what's up.
You know, I thought
Stanley had our backs.
Silly me.
Maybe she's right.
Who?
My ex-wife.
Maybe I should just suck
it up and get a real job.
This is a real job.
And you're very good at it.
I don't care what your ex-wife says.
Her job sucks.
And I should know.
I had the same sucky job.
You making this all about you?
No.
But maybe you're making
this about Stanley
when it's really about your ex.
I hear that.
I'll tell you what
You make a shot on me, I'll stop.
And you'll do the busy work?
Deal.
♪♪
All right, she puts the ball down.
She dribbles. Take your time.
- You're not gonna get many chances.
- Yes!
Thanks for seeing me on short notice.
I know you're busy.
I assigned Austin to profile Moses.
He dug up some damning intel.
Turns out this pro-fishing
guy is financed by mining.
You have proof?
Financial disclosures.
- Anything illegal?
- Uh no.
So it's politics, not a story.
Well, it's a question of ethics
because Senators help
determine land rights for mines.
Yeah, but what about the other guys?
I mean, Ford's a
walking corruption case.
Maybe, but not this.
Frank Moses is the most
competent person in this race.
It just doesn't seem like you have
much of a story to me, Stanley.
♪♪
I won't take any more of your time.
I'm always here.
Thank you, Aaron.
♪♪
[MAN SINGING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
Roz Friendly?
Yes. Hi.
[SPEAKS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
Asisaun, Council Chair.
Quyanaq for welcoming me.
Um, I apologize for not coming sooner.
[SINGING AND DRUM BEAT CONTINUE]
I brought you some nagoonberry jam.
It's from my Auntie in Yakutat.
Quyanaq.
So you're here for Sylvie, right?
What can I do for you?
The more we investigate Gloria's murder,
the more it points to gross negligence
in the police department.
Is there anyone else that has
had problems with Chief Durkin?
Someone who might be
willing to talk with me?
It's pretty risky, speaking up
against the police in a village.
I know. I wouldn't be
asking if it didn't matter.
Let me make a call.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
ASISAUN: Roz. Molly.
This is Roz Friendly
with The Daily Alaskan.
Hi, Molly. Thanks for
agreeing to talk with me.
This can be all background for now.
What does that mean?
It just means I I won't use your name
when I'm writing about it.
♪♪
Will you tell me your story?
♪♪
Last year, my ex-boyfriend
beat me up real bad.
- I reported it, but
- To Chief Durkin?
Yeah. He He twisted
it so I sounded crazy.
I had bruises everywhere.
Like, what more proof do you need?
He said he needed me to call up my ex
and get him to confess on speaker phone.
I didn't want to do that,
so Durkin decided my case was unfounded.
I am so sorry that happened to you.
I'm not the only one.
I know a few more
people you can talk to.
They never do anything.
Thank you for sharing that.
♪♪
Oh.
You can use my name.
Screw him.
♪♪
What do ya got?
You're not gonna believe this.
I went through all the
records that Derek sent over.
Of all the felony complaints to
the Meade PD in the last two years,
72 were for sexual assault or rape.
The cops didn't arrest or even charge
a single person for any of them.
What? How is that possible?
It's not. Or shouldn't be.
They either keep the case open
like they did with Gloria's,
or, look, they dismiss it
as undetermined or unfounded.
Molly's case was declared unfounded.
- Who's Molly?
- I went to the Council.
Spoke with an assault survivor
who's willing to go on record
saying that Durkin didn't
investigate her case.
Well, we just got our lead.
The cops here, they
don't investigate crimes
against Native women,
which makes it look
like there's no crime in Meade.
- All thanks to Chief Durkin.
- Got him.
♪♪
[KNOCK ON DOOR] Morning.
Morning, Austin.
I checked every
donation, every candidate.
There's not a whiff of any of those LLCs
giving to another candidate or
anyone related to the candidate.
It's all here.
[TELEPHONES RINGING]
[SIGHS]
Okay. Good.
Write it up and put
all that in the story.
And we publish?
Yes. We publish.
Great. Okay.
Thanks.
[SIGHS] Stanley
I'm sorry for popping off yesterday.
It wasn't right.
I let stuff in my own
life get in the way.
You all right?
Just gotta work some things out.
Good. For the record,
I don't mind disagreeing about a story,
but we have to give each
other the benefit of the doubt
or we can't do this job.
Is that clear?
Very.
- Hey, your boss around?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa. Whoa. He's not here.
Okay, can you call him for us?
He's on a hunting trip.
So you can't reach him?
Not right now.
You got an envelope?
We're about to go back to Anchorage
and write a story about your boss.
He's gonna want to read
this as soon as possible
so he knows what's coming.
My gut is if he doesn't,
he's not gonna be happy.
Quyanaq.
ROZ: What'd you write on the note?
"See you soon."
♪♪
There goes the messenger.
[ENGINE STARTS]
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♪♪
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ROZ: You get our note?
CHIEF DURKIN: Pretty clever.
There are allegations
that confiscated drugs
from your evidence locker are
being resold on the street.
Nice truck, by the way.
You have proof of these allegations?
No. Just a fun fact.
But we are running with
a story about your record.
My record?
Well, what about your record?
Yeah, I've been doing some reading.
You were, uh, run out of New York
and sentenced to Alaska
because you were wrong.
My record is clean as a whistle.
Your record is perfect, in fact.
72 felony complaints and not one charge.
Yeah, well, I stand by
my record and reputation.
Now, is there anything else?
Because I really need to get going.
No, actually, I'm curious how
your office determined no foul play
after seeing Gloria
Nanmac's coroner's report.
Orbital fracture,
lacerations, contusions
basically, wounds on both the front
and the back of her head.
Do you have a theory on
how she did this to herself?
Hey, why don't you, uh,
give me a minute alone
with your boss here? I'm
not her boss. We're partners.
Why aren't you investigating
violent crimes against native women?
Well, because I don't like to
waste my time or anyone else's.
So I'm not gonna tie up the
courts with that kind of nonsense.
Nonsense?
Yeah. You know, native girls
who can't handle their alcohol.
You really think that's all it's about?
Look, historically, this is the place
where Iñupiat men used to come to
trade their women for booze and guns.
It's just how they are.
Wow. Your insights have been
very illuminating, Chief.
Now get the hell off my property.
♪♪
Did you get that?
♪♪
Got him.
Durkin's racist quote really
connects his beliefs to his actions.
Agreed. Durkin's going bye-bye.
- Mm-hmm.
- We need another graf.
- On what?
- Context for the racist quote.
If we don't state that
Durkin's words are false,
we'll just perpetuate the racist myth.
Yeah, you might be right.
She is right.
Right up a new graf and drop it in.
Then we publish.
Sounds good to me.
I'm gonna add a tip line
at the end of the article.
My gut is, once people read
it, they'll want to reach out.
You got someone to
sift through the cranks?
Gabriel will do it.
This is good reporting.
Good work, team.
- Agreed.
- Agreed. Just one thing.
You may not want to admit it,
but you need me on this investigation.
So I've gotta be able to trust you.
I'm not a sidekick.
What you did with Derek was wrong.
You do it again, I'm out.
Are you giving me an ultimatum?
I am.
We can get this story
without you being a dick.
That seems fair.
I hear you.
Good.
Still pissed, but I'll take it.
♪♪
Just to say, no one
complained when I worked alone.
At least not to your face.
Gotta give her credit she's got guts.
She does. And issues.
♪♪
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
[SIGHS]
♪♪
[COMPUTER CHIMES]
♪♪
Hi, Yuna. I'm Kyle with the Dart Center.
- Nice to meet you.
- You, too.
So I understand you're
dealing with some online hate.
REPORTER: As the damage from the
LH Mining leak becomes clearer,
a breaking story in The Daily Alaskan
puts Frank Moses' campaign in jeopardy.
Moses is done for, anyway.
Pro-mining tag is
gonna cost him his base.
Gotta say, I actually kinda liked Moses.
I was pulling for him.
Pisses me off.
That's why we do what we do.
A guy like Moses can
say whatever he wants.
Our job is to hold him accountable.
And that we did.
With Stanley's help.
Agreed.
Now, back to work.
♪♪
[TELEPHONE RINGING]
Austin Teague.
ANNA: Austin, hey.
- Anna.
- I saw your story.
- You must be proud.
- I am.
Look, um, I'm sorry about our fight.
- Everything okay?
- Yeah, yeah, just, uh
there's Look, there's no easy way
to say this, but I got an offer.
A huge promotion.
Dream position, really.
Okay.
In Chicago.
So I'm going to accept it,
and I want to take Zachary with me.
No. No.
You can't just
We have an agreement.
I wanted you to hear it from me.
[DIAL TONE]
♪♪
Hi, Ken. I need some information.
KEN: Stanley, it's been a while.
I'd like to know more
about the Pritchard family.
Pritchard, as in your publisher?
Does this have to do with
the Frank Moses story?
The Pritchards dropped
their endorsement,
but I want to understand what
they stood to gain if Moses won.
You sure you want to go
down that road, Stanley?
Conrad Pritchard is not
a man to be taken lightly.
I understand.
I'll see what I can see, Stanley.
Thanks, Kenny.
♪♪
[SIGHS]
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