Somewhere Between (2017) s01e06 Episode Script
Madness
1 Previously on "Somewhere Between" Somebody who might be the man who shot Haskell DeBray just brought my husband a photograph that he lied about and then shredded.
Nico: Looks like he was going to put a stop to whatever he was being blackmailed for.
One thing led to another.
[Muffled screaming.]
Stay out of this.
Don't ask questions.
Next time, I drop you.
Nico: This was taken the day it happened in Spanish Harbor, 10 years ago.
Look at the tattoos.
That's fresh ink.
By Simon Spencer.
How could you possibly know who inked them? Because he's Susanna's father.
And this picture was taken down the street from his shop.
I'm leaving.
I'm taking Serena with me.
Whatever you're messed up in is putting our daughter in danger.
Nico: I'll text you the address.
In a mechanical room, under a broken skylight, there's a glove drenched in the guy's DNA.
[Cellphone vibrates.]
I thought they got a warning.
Apparently, it wasn't loud enough.
Serena, where did you put your time capsule, baby? Nico: Why did one of those sunburnt frat boys shoot Haskell DeBray, blackmail the D.
A.
, drown a little girl? Could those three things have less to do with each other? In half an hour, we'll be in Spanish Harbor, and we'll know something.
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no.
Simon is not the guy you wake up at 2:00 in the morning and say, "Hey, let's talk about the day your precious daughter was murdered.
" Tattoo parlor opens at 10:00 AM.
Till then, motel.
[Exhales shakily, chuckles.]
When I woke up today, I didn't think I'd be breaking up with my husband and running away in the middle of the night.
That's gonna destroy her.
Tom: This is a call from Father Unit to Daughter Unit.
- [Gasps.]
- This is a call from Father Unit [Cellphone beeps.]
[Exhales.]
[Car horns honk.]
Well, counselor, I was just about to finish off a box of cheap wine and cyberstalk my ex-husband, so this better be good.
She took her.
Who took who? My wife isn't well.
I shouldn't have asked you to look the other way when she pulled a gun on DeBray.
She's taken Serena.
She's denying contact.
Where is she now? With Nico Jackson? Oh, boy.
If something horrible happened to Serena, I'd never forgive myself.
Are we talking Amber Alert? I can't risk setting Laura off again not while she has Serena.
I'll do a "Be on the lookout," then.
No noise.
I just want them back.
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
[Car door closes.]
[Chimes ring.]
[Music plays on speakers.]
[Chimes ring.]
[Police radio chatter.]
Eh.
[Inhales sharply.]
It's pump 6? Yep.
Hey! You forgot this.
Thank you, officer.
That's, uh That's decent of you.
[Click.]
Testing it out while I can still return it.
It's good.
[Click.]
Good night, officer.
Yeah, you too.
[Gearshift clicks.]
- Get in! - Let's go in the car.
Serena: What's going on? Why didn't you want the policeman to see us? The story I'm doing is about the police, partly, and they don't want me to tell it, so we have to be careful.
Or they'll shoot you? No.
No.
They'll just, um stop me from telling the story.
Give me the phones.
No motel.
Too many eyes on us.
No credit cards, no phones.
SIM cards got to go.
Where are we gonna stay? [Engine starts.]
I know a place.
My brother's old clubhouse.
Hold on.
Slauson: Got a ping on the little girl's phone.
Cordero exit off the 101.
Marin.
[Tires screeching, engine revving.]
What is this place? Oh.
My God.
Nico: You know what they say location, location, location.
- Here, take the princess.
- Okay.
Three trees from the door Three trees from the door [Scoffs.]
[Sighs.]
[Groans.]
It's a genuine World War II bunker.
Dad used it as a darkroom before he got his camera store.
Then, when I got my own place, Danny wanted one, too, so, uh, he moved in here.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
[Sighs deeply.]
Danny's collections.
Used to say he had two brothers me and the forest.
That's Ruby.
- I can't believe - Can't believe what? Someone so sweet could do something so terrible? You think I put my brother on death row for the thrill of it? No, of course not.
But one of the men in that picture you found at Jesse's house is a killer, and maybe he killed Susanna.
The evidence would not support that.
You want the official $10 hop-on/hop-off murder tour of the Jackson Brother Clubhouse? Ladies and gentlemen, direct your gaze to the very spot the cops found the blade drenched in Susanna Spencer's blood the night Mr.
Jackson confessed to the murder.
And here, behind his childhood chalkboard, is where Mr.
Jackson kept his secret collection of much-caressed photographs of Janice Kim and Carina Markovich.
And for the Jackson DNA found on personal items belonging to Janice and Carina, you'll have to visit the Marin County evidence lockup.
What happened that night the night Susanna died? The person who killed Serena was in Spanish Harbor.
Maybe you saw something that will help us figure out who he is.
I was in Sulfur Springs most of the day with Cupcake, running down a hot-car ring.
I went home early 'cause I had plans.
What plans? [Sighs.]
I was gonna propose to the girl I wanted to marry since I was 7 years old.
You don't have to say any more.
Her house was through the woods, not far from here.
Danny lit the house on fire before he took the body.
Man, when I saw those flames, I went running, 'cause there ain't a lot of houses out here.
I did it I I I killed her.
- I I I'm sorry, Nico! - What did you do?! I don't know.
If there's If there's some connection if it has something to do with Serena I don't know what it is.
I don't.
Marjorie says nothing is a coincidence everything is connected.
I'm so sorry I can't help you.
[Chimes ring.]
North.
[Tires squeal.]
[Car horn honks.]
Mrs.
Jackson.
Good morning.
Do you have any news a-about Danny? I'm close to something, but I need to see Nico, and I can't find him.
- Do you know where he is? - What did you find out? Are you going to reopen the case? It's very sensitive right now.
I need you to find out where Nico is.
- I'll call him right now.
- No, he may be in trouble, Mrs.
Jackson.
He'll be scared to talk to me, but I can help if I can see him.
My son isn't scared to talk to anybody.
And he's never needed help not from you or anyone else.
Mrs.
Jackson You think because I'm poor and desperate that I'm stupid.
Well, there's one thing desperate people know when they see it, and that's desperation.
You want me to find Nico? Get your phone out, call your office, tell them to reopen Danny's case.
With the speaker on, so I know who you're talking to.
I don't want to be late for work, so if you'll excuse me? [Cellphone ringing.]
I still don't know where Nico went.
Man: He took the Cordero exit off the 101.
Not much up that road, except the town where you grew up with Nico.
Any idea where he might go to hide out around there? Please.
We're not gonna hurt your boy.
We're just saving him from himself.
So don't make me remind you why it would not be a good idea for you to hold out.
[Fire crackling.]
Mom? Right here, angel.
Making us some sandwiches.
Look at all this cool stuff.
Where are we? It's my summer palace.
You like it? Yeah.
Except it smells like feet.
[Laughs.]
It's where I used to come to get away from my parents when I was your age.
I never get away from my parents.
Well, today is a good day to be with one of them, because I have to go incognito for the story I'm doing, so when we go into town, we get to be in disguises.
Like Halloween.
Can I be the Headless Horseman? [Laughs.]
Well the point is not to attract attention, so It's kind of a resort town.
I was thinking movie star on vacation.
Hmm? Can we go swimming? If we have time, okay? One burner phone for you, one for me.
Next stop tattoo parlor.
Can I get a tattoo? N-O spells? Predictable.
They were standing right here.
Did Marjorie work at the shop? She had a tea shop in the back, till Susanna died.
Then, uh, her and Simon fell apart, she moved to the city, and Died in the fire.
No.
Oh, no, no, no! Look at this! Everything's still in there.
Records, too, probably.
Susanna used to live upstairs during junior high.
But I could always find where they hid the key.
T.
M.
I.
, Jackson.
Watch your step.
Laura: Hey.
We'll just be here a little while, okay? 2007 - 2007 - [Shotgun cocks.]
Turn around slowly.
Hey.
Simon.
Nico? Hey.
What the hell? Please put the gun down.
My daughter's here.
It's loaded and ready.
I keep it around for break-ins.
I'm sorry, Simon.
It's just, you know Place felt like home still.
And I-I thought there was nobody here.
This is Laura.
She's a reporter.
She's trying to track down a guy that came in here 10 years ago.
He shot a man in San Francisco the night before last.
What makes you think he came in here? Well He's one of the men in this picture, with your fresh tattoos.
Oh! Hey.
Whoa, whoa.
Take it easy.
Is that real?! Put it down, please.
Listen, I understand.
I know you're upset.
There's a killer on the loose, and we need the names of the men who were here on the 4th of July, 2007.
That's all.
And why should I help you? When the next body shows up and you know you could have done something and didn't All right, then.
2007's right over here.
What the hell? It goes up to the week of June 25th.
The week of July 2nd is missing.
Well, was there a break-in? Around the time Susanna died, someone broke in through the teahouse.
We thought it was just vandalism because 'Cause nothing was missing.
Except for the names of the people who were here July the 4th, 2007.
What did you bring me, Nico? - Simon, I - Why did you come in here with a picture of my girl and dig all this stuff up again? Please, let us know if you know anyone in this picture, and we'll go.
[Sighs.]
It's like the bad-luck club.
[Sighs.]
Everyone knows him.
He died yesterday.
And then there's [Voice breaking.]
my baby.
[Sniffles.]
Those are the Tanner boys.
Blake and Jason.
Their family owned a bait shop down in Bodega Bay.
[Sighs.]
Blake blew his brains out.
Jason set fire to the family home.
- What? - Where's Jason now? Well, they sent him away.
I don't know where.
Who's the fourth one? I have no idea.
Nico: I must be mistaken, 'cause for a second, I thought you said no to me.
Look, you got to come in, man.
It's dangerous out there more than you know.
What does that mean? You're playing with fire.
That's all.
Find me Jason Tanner, or I'm going to get up on the stage at the next reunion and I'm going to tell the Tijuana story.
Look, man, you do whatever you want, but I will not be party to you landing in prison.
[Cellphone beeps.]
[Sighs.]
Next brilliant plan? We sit here and wait.
Take in the beautiful scenery.
I give him 90 seconds.
[Breathes deeply.]
- [Cellphone rings.]
- Huh? [Cellphone beeps.]
I don't care how much you beg me.
I'm not taking you back.
Cupcake: Jason burned his house down in March 2012.
He was found mentally incompetent to stand trial and diverted to the secure wing of a psychiatric facility.
He's there now.
- Could he be getting in and out? - Nico.
Whatever you're after, please don't go there.
Cupcake, give me the name of the hospital.
It's a fancy place in Cotati.
Fremont Grove.
[Gasps.]
Call you later.
It's gone too far now.
Oh, we left "too far" in the dust three days ago.
I won't do it.
You won't do what? Fate can destroy my marriage.
Fate can make me sleep in a stinking hole in the ground, and ruin my shoes and drag my daughter halfway across the state, but my mother's at Fremont Grove, and fate cannot make me visit my mother.
You can't just walk into a hospital with flowers and say, "Hey, hi.
I'm here to visit one of your violent patients.
" I've talked my way into scarier places.
I will talk my way into this one.
Your mother being in there is a gift, just like the picture on top of the piano at Jesse's house or us drowning in the bay together at the same time.
It's a gift.
Visiting her gets us in the door.
From there, we're halfway to the locked wing.
And she can watch Serena while we talk to Jason.
Nothing with my mother is a gift.
There's always a bill.
No.
I get the "insane, soul-crushing mother" thing.
I g Oh, yeah? You get it? Really? You get it? You get the glass splinters in the rug after party time in the penthouse? You get the banana/coconut/bourbon smoothies for breakfast? The interchangeable men leeching off the money my dad worked himself to death for? And her name? [Chuckling.]
Esperanza.
She was born Hope, but that wasn't fabulous enough.
Your mom in Fremont for drinking? Started that way.
She's been there for six months, and now it's for the attention.
Round-the-clock doctors and nurses fussing over her psyche.
She can afford it, so why not? She loves everyone to think she's suffering.
But I don't have to suffer.
Not anymore.
And I won't.
[Vehicle approaching.]
Incoming.
Serena, come here.
Come here, come here, come here, come here.
Your mom's gonna take you down to the stream to wash your face, okay? - My face is clean.
- Yeah, well, mine's not, so we're gonna go.
What are you gonna do? Go.
[Car doors open.]
[Dialing.]
[Car doors close.]
[Cellphone ringing.]
[Ringing continues.]
[Ringing continues.]
[Ringing stops.]
[Door slams.]
Slauson: Hey! Time to go! [Pounding.]
Open up! Barnes: We just want to talk.
Come on! [Cellphone dialing, ringing.]
Woman: Emergency Services.
How may I direct your call? [Electricity crackles.]
- [Engine starts.]
- Ah, there we go.
Good.
Wait.
Mom, are we stealing a car? Not stealing trading.
Come on.
It's a take-one/leave-one situation.
These people are going to be very happy.
I promise.
Okay.
[Engine revs.]
It was a man, a woman, a little girl.
How'd you end up down there to start with? Oh, we have an interest in the local relics of World War II.
Thank you, officers.
Reporter or no, requests for visitation to the secured wing need to be submitted to the committee in writing.
I'm doing a story on Jesse Reid, and Jason Tanner is a friend of his, and with so many people mourning Jesse's death right now, a personal story could be a lovely thing.
Jesse who? This part of your fist, you're gonna come down right here with great speed.
Hut-hut-hut-hut-hut-hut! Go, go! Go, go! - Hyah! - Aah! Ow, ow, ow.
You're just pretending.
My pride wishes that was true.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Who wants to go see Grandma? Me, me! I do, I do, I do! - Baby heart! - Grandma! Oh, oh, oh, oh! Ohh! I brought my scarves, and guess who gets to pick three and take them home! Top drawer by the bed.
Silk! And who's this? Nico Jackson, this is my mother, Esperanza Portman.
- Pleasure to meet you, ma'am.
- I'm the pleased one.
Nico's helping me with a story, which is why Serena looking healthy as a bear! Yes, she is.
Mom, there's something I have to talk to you I worry for her in that industrial plant you moved her into.
God knows what chemicals got left behind.
It's a converted piano factory.
I'm actually here because How far south of Market can you go and still have indoor plumbing? - [Scoffs.]
- Couldn't tell you.
I tell my friends you moved to Costa Rica.
Mom! Why are you raising your voice to me? I have given you no cause to raise your voice.
Would you forgive us for being unforgivably rude? We just need a second.
Absolutely.
I'm no model for constancy, but I had living, breathing hopes for you and Tom.
- Nico is not - Did you think about Serena taking her on the road with your bad boy? Oh, the sober companion you brought along to Barcelona you think I didn't know what that was? 12 years old, and you were already judging me.
It's a good thing you're here, because you are insane.
I'm going to talk now, so don't interrupt.
[Sighs.]
I need your help.
I have to interview someone from the secure wing for a story.
I need you to get me in there.
For one quarter of a second, Iwas delusional enough to think you actually came here [Voice breaking.]
because you wanted to see me.
Mom? Why do you always have to make Grandma cry? [Scoffs.]
I'm sorry, Laura, but I [Sniffles.]
I don't like helping the tabloids violate the privacy of a celebrity.
It's not about celebrities! Well, movie stars or lurid sex criminals or whatever it is, will you wait for the "but"? [Cellphone clicking.]
But [Sniffles.]
one of my physical therapists is desperate to get in my pants.
- Oh, my - Too butch for my taste, but if that's what I have to do to win my only child's attention, it's worth the price.
You know what? This isn't worth the price.
Eye on the prize.
You want me to pimp my mother? There's no gun to her head.
Only because I don't have one.
What would you do to save Serena? Hmm? [Sighs.]
Huh? [Scoffs.]
[Knock on door.]
There he is.
What can I do for you, Mrs.
P.
? Hello, Matthew.
[Chuckles.]
[Chuckles.]
Your guy's in 223 down the hall, last door to the right.
I appreciate it.
If you get challenged, you never met me.
If you go after my mother's money, I will end you.
Money's not what I'm about.
- Door code 4711.
- Thank you.
[Gasps.]
[Door opens.]
- [Door closes.]
- Okay.
All right.
You stay here and holler if there's any incoming.
You stay here.
I've had lifelong experience dealing with the mentally ill.
And I have recent experience fighting a big dude on a roof, and if it's him, you're not going in there.
[Scoffs.]
It's not him.
I'll be 5 feet away.
[Sighs.]
[Beep, door unlocks.]
[Door closes.]
Visiting Jason Tanner.
Ah.
Mm-hmm.
System's running a little slow today.
- Bear with me.
- [Keyboard clacking.]
Jason? I'm sorry to disturb you.
My name is Laura Price.
I need to ask you a question.
Can you please tell me the name of this man in the picture with you? Please? An innocent life depends on it.
[Screams.]
[Screams.]
- [Screams.]
- [Shushing.]
- It's okay.
- [Jason whimpering.]
It's okay.
It's okay.
Don't scream.
Shh.
Shh.
Shh.
It's okay.
You know the way.
You look for Jackson and Price.
I'll clear Tanner's hallway.
What if they already got to him? You think too far ahead.
All right.
[Muffled, indistinct speaking.]
[Door opens.]
Got it cleared.
Have you seen them? Slauson: Have not.
Me neither.
Now, remember Not a hair on Tanner, no matter what.
Though, if you ask me, the money the boss spends on keeping him here could go to a better cause.
If the man in that picture scared you, I understand.
He's scary.
But he can't hurt you, because I'm here, and I'm not alone.
[Whimpering.]
If you help me, I can stop him.
Forever.
Just tell me his name.
Okay.
Okay.
Can I sit here with you, though? [Whimpering.]
You're safe with me.
How did you know we were here?! How?! I got called! By who? It's a private contract! [Grunts.]
With who? With "whom," moron! [Grunts.]
[Panting.]
[Grunts.]
This is my little girl.
My Serena.
She's crazy about somebody you once knew.
Jesse Reid.
She listens to his music all day long.
He was your friend, right? I don't know why, but somebody else you know wants to hurt her.
[Exhales shakily.]
To kill her.
Somebody who got a tattoo on his wrist the same day that you did.
If I don't stop him if she dies a bright-burning light goes out of the world.
[Grunting.]
What are you after? What do you know? You first.
Who are you working for? - [Groans.]
- What do you know? [Chuckles.]
That you're going down.
Could you look at the picture again? [Whimpering.]
Can you do it for me? For Serena? Please? This is Jesse.
And this is your brother, who you loved.
[Exhales sharply.]
I'm sorry you lost him.
I lost something precious to me, too, once.
I know it's a hurt that never goes away.
[Grunts.]
This is you, right? And this is Susanna Spencer.
[Groaning.]
Who is this? Please, tell me who is this man? - I - Please.
I don't know.
Okay, okay.
[Gasps.]
Oh, my God.
F-Five.
[Grunting.]
Don't pass out before you tell me your story.
[Choking.]
[Grunts.]
- [Spray hissing.]
- [Groaning.]
[Screaming.]
F-F-F-F-Five.
There's five points on the star.
No, no.
No, no.
No, five.
- I don't understand.
- Five! O-Okay, okay, okay.
We don't have to talk about it.
Five.
No! [Groans.]
No! - [Growls.]
- [Screams.]
I got him, Laura! [Whimpering.]
Did the bastard hurt you? I'll be okay.
We have to get out of here.
What? What are you seeing? Nico? Take pictures.
Get every detail.
Okay.
[Jason whimpering.]
You saw this? Were you there? [Muttering.]
Is that who you saw? No, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
Is that this man? Is this who you saw? - No, no, no, no, no! - Look at it.
Look at it! - Five! - Five what? - Five! - Did you watch it? - Five! - Five what? She wasn't stabbed five times! She was stabbed 13 times! - She wasn't stabbed five - Stop it! You're torturing him! - Five! Five! - Stop it! Five! We have to take him with us.
He doesn't want to go.
He's in danger.
- They're not gonna hurt him.
- How do you know that? I'll fill you in.
Come on.
Let's go.
Jason, I'll be back.
You're not alone.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
- Let's go! - Okay! Okay.
Serena.
[Door closes.]
Mmm! [Laughs.]
Mm! Scorsese was mad for me.
Oh! If my father hadn't laid down the law against showbiz, that would've been me in "Taxi Driver," not Cybill Shepherd.
What's troubling you, baby heart? Nothing.
I'm fine.
You don't fool me for a second.
Remember, Grammy's room is a judgment-free zone.
So out with it.
Mom's been acting really strange.
Genetics in action.
What flavor of strange? I think her and my dad are mad at each other.
And no one will tell me what's going on.
She says she's doing a "story," but we keep going to the strangest places and she never takes any notes.
[Sighs.]
You see everything, don't you? I know your mother better than she would care to admit.
She loves you like a sickness.
Whatever is going on, someday, somehow, you are going to find out it was all for you.
Well, right now, it's like some stupid game.
And I don't want to keep playing it.
Well, maybe your mother needs to.
And if people need to dream [Chuckles.]
why wake them up? Hmm? Hmm? Come on, baby.
Get your stuff.
We got to go.
But Grandma's just about to tell me about her and Al Pacino.
Yeah, well, the story Mommy's working on is about top-secret things, and there's people here who want to know who I've been talking to, and I can't tell them, so we got to go, okay? [Gasps.]
[Laughs.]
All these years, I have underestimated you.
Thank you for watching Serena.
All right, listen, we got to make some tracks, okay, little buddy? - Okay.
- Get on.
Yep.
They're here.
In here! They're right in here! They have a gun and a knife, and they scared me to death! Barnes: Where are they? Well, I don't know.
They were here a moment ago.
But they must have gone out the window.
That's two floors down! Well, they had grappling hooks and cables, and I think they were CIA or NSA or Mossad.
But, I mean, you cannot tell them apart nowadays.
Sometimes I think they're all one big organization! [Door closes.]
[Sighs.]
[Snaps fingers.]
Fremont Grove is the absolute last place on Earth she would go.
I-I-It's It's where her mother is right now.
Man: Well, she was there, and she left more chaos in her wake.
I hope we don't have to ask you twice to take care of this.
The star is a window I put in for Susanna's 21st birthday.
That's her.
That's her house.
And my mom's been right for the last 10 years.
That's not my brother.
It's just an outline.
I mean, how can you be sure? Look at it.
He's stabbing with his right hand.
My brother's a lefty.
It's been 10 years.
Maybe Jason drew it wrong.
Look at this picture.
Blake offs himself.
Jesse Reid goes to the D.
A.
, ends up dead in a week.
You think that wasn't an accident? Look at the pattern.
We drop in on Jason, the homeboys from Hell show up.
Somebody's scorching the earth to keep somebody's secrets.
And they're not doing it for somebody who's already on death row.
Maybe that's who's paying to keep Jason at Fremont Grove.
His parents own a bait shop.
They can't afford it.
Why would Danny say he did it when he didn't? Why would he keep saying it for 10 years? I don't know.
But he's gonna tell me, or I'm gonna carve it out of him.
[Chains clinking.]
Nico.
[Buzzer.]
[Door unlocks, opens.]
What's wrong? Why are you here? I could ask you the same thing.
W-What do you mean? You didn't kill Susanna.
Oh, no.
I-I-I killed her.
I did it.
I have proof that you didn't.
That you threw your life away and Mom's and Ruby's and mine.
You know who these people are, Danny? No.
Isaw them.
I t-took that picture, - No.
- but I don't know who they are.
No, you didn't take the picture, Danny.
You didn't take the picture.
The camera was broken.
There's no pictures from that day.
One of these men he killed Susanna.
Did you see one of them the day that she died? Not them! I killed her! Tell the truth! Did one of these people scare you into saying you did it, Danny? - Did they? - It is the truth! I killed her! I did it! Fine.
Let another guy go free.
But he's out there killing people right now including me, if he gets the chance.
What do you care? You're all safe in here, with your mommy bringing you care packages.
Goodbye, Danny.
You You do bad things when you drink.
What? You got drunk.
So what? What does that have to do with anything? Y-You didn't know, Nico.
Y-You didn't know what you were doing.
Doing what? It was you, Nico.
Through the window, I saw you kill her.
I ran away, and when I came back, the house was burning.
[Voice breaking.]
And I took Susanna out so I could hide her.
What are you saying? I-I lied because you loved Susanna and you would never hurt her on purpose.
Because you forgot, and I didn't want you to remember.
I didn't want you to go to jail.
[Voice breaking.]
Why do this to us? What What about the others, huh? What about the others?! I don't know.
I was scared.
- [Buzzer.]
- Did I kill the others, Danny? [Crying.]
Nico, it was you.
It was you.
[Sobbing.]
It was you, Nico! It was you!
Nico: Looks like he was going to put a stop to whatever he was being blackmailed for.
One thing led to another.
[Muffled screaming.]
Stay out of this.
Don't ask questions.
Next time, I drop you.
Nico: This was taken the day it happened in Spanish Harbor, 10 years ago.
Look at the tattoos.
That's fresh ink.
By Simon Spencer.
How could you possibly know who inked them? Because he's Susanna's father.
And this picture was taken down the street from his shop.
I'm leaving.
I'm taking Serena with me.
Whatever you're messed up in is putting our daughter in danger.
Nico: I'll text you the address.
In a mechanical room, under a broken skylight, there's a glove drenched in the guy's DNA.
[Cellphone vibrates.]
I thought they got a warning.
Apparently, it wasn't loud enough.
Serena, where did you put your time capsule, baby? Nico: Why did one of those sunburnt frat boys shoot Haskell DeBray, blackmail the D.
A.
, drown a little girl? Could those three things have less to do with each other? In half an hour, we'll be in Spanish Harbor, and we'll know something.
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no.
Simon is not the guy you wake up at 2:00 in the morning and say, "Hey, let's talk about the day your precious daughter was murdered.
" Tattoo parlor opens at 10:00 AM.
Till then, motel.
[Exhales shakily, chuckles.]
When I woke up today, I didn't think I'd be breaking up with my husband and running away in the middle of the night.
That's gonna destroy her.
Tom: This is a call from Father Unit to Daughter Unit.
- [Gasps.]
- This is a call from Father Unit [Cellphone beeps.]
[Exhales.]
[Car horns honk.]
Well, counselor, I was just about to finish off a box of cheap wine and cyberstalk my ex-husband, so this better be good.
She took her.
Who took who? My wife isn't well.
I shouldn't have asked you to look the other way when she pulled a gun on DeBray.
She's taken Serena.
She's denying contact.
Where is she now? With Nico Jackson? Oh, boy.
If something horrible happened to Serena, I'd never forgive myself.
Are we talking Amber Alert? I can't risk setting Laura off again not while she has Serena.
I'll do a "Be on the lookout," then.
No noise.
I just want them back.
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
[Car door closes.]
[Chimes ring.]
[Music plays on speakers.]
[Chimes ring.]
[Police radio chatter.]
Eh.
[Inhales sharply.]
It's pump 6? Yep.
Hey! You forgot this.
Thank you, officer.
That's, uh That's decent of you.
[Click.]
Testing it out while I can still return it.
It's good.
[Click.]
Good night, officer.
Yeah, you too.
[Gearshift clicks.]
- Get in! - Let's go in the car.
Serena: What's going on? Why didn't you want the policeman to see us? The story I'm doing is about the police, partly, and they don't want me to tell it, so we have to be careful.
Or they'll shoot you? No.
No.
They'll just, um stop me from telling the story.
Give me the phones.
No motel.
Too many eyes on us.
No credit cards, no phones.
SIM cards got to go.
Where are we gonna stay? [Engine starts.]
I know a place.
My brother's old clubhouse.
Hold on.
Slauson: Got a ping on the little girl's phone.
Cordero exit off the 101.
Marin.
[Tires screeching, engine revving.]
What is this place? Oh.
My God.
Nico: You know what they say location, location, location.
- Here, take the princess.
- Okay.
Three trees from the door Three trees from the door [Scoffs.]
[Sighs.]
[Groans.]
It's a genuine World War II bunker.
Dad used it as a darkroom before he got his camera store.
Then, when I got my own place, Danny wanted one, too, so, uh, he moved in here.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
[Sighs deeply.]
Danny's collections.
Used to say he had two brothers me and the forest.
That's Ruby.
- I can't believe - Can't believe what? Someone so sweet could do something so terrible? You think I put my brother on death row for the thrill of it? No, of course not.
But one of the men in that picture you found at Jesse's house is a killer, and maybe he killed Susanna.
The evidence would not support that.
You want the official $10 hop-on/hop-off murder tour of the Jackson Brother Clubhouse? Ladies and gentlemen, direct your gaze to the very spot the cops found the blade drenched in Susanna Spencer's blood the night Mr.
Jackson confessed to the murder.
And here, behind his childhood chalkboard, is where Mr.
Jackson kept his secret collection of much-caressed photographs of Janice Kim and Carina Markovich.
And for the Jackson DNA found on personal items belonging to Janice and Carina, you'll have to visit the Marin County evidence lockup.
What happened that night the night Susanna died? The person who killed Serena was in Spanish Harbor.
Maybe you saw something that will help us figure out who he is.
I was in Sulfur Springs most of the day with Cupcake, running down a hot-car ring.
I went home early 'cause I had plans.
What plans? [Sighs.]
I was gonna propose to the girl I wanted to marry since I was 7 years old.
You don't have to say any more.
Her house was through the woods, not far from here.
Danny lit the house on fire before he took the body.
Man, when I saw those flames, I went running, 'cause there ain't a lot of houses out here.
I did it I I I killed her.
- I I I'm sorry, Nico! - What did you do?! I don't know.
If there's If there's some connection if it has something to do with Serena I don't know what it is.
I don't.
Marjorie says nothing is a coincidence everything is connected.
I'm so sorry I can't help you.
[Chimes ring.]
North.
[Tires squeal.]
[Car horn honks.]
Mrs.
Jackson.
Good morning.
Do you have any news a-about Danny? I'm close to something, but I need to see Nico, and I can't find him.
- Do you know where he is? - What did you find out? Are you going to reopen the case? It's very sensitive right now.
I need you to find out where Nico is.
- I'll call him right now.
- No, he may be in trouble, Mrs.
Jackson.
He'll be scared to talk to me, but I can help if I can see him.
My son isn't scared to talk to anybody.
And he's never needed help not from you or anyone else.
Mrs.
Jackson You think because I'm poor and desperate that I'm stupid.
Well, there's one thing desperate people know when they see it, and that's desperation.
You want me to find Nico? Get your phone out, call your office, tell them to reopen Danny's case.
With the speaker on, so I know who you're talking to.
I don't want to be late for work, so if you'll excuse me? [Cellphone ringing.]
I still don't know where Nico went.
Man: He took the Cordero exit off the 101.
Not much up that road, except the town where you grew up with Nico.
Any idea where he might go to hide out around there? Please.
We're not gonna hurt your boy.
We're just saving him from himself.
So don't make me remind you why it would not be a good idea for you to hold out.
[Fire crackling.]
Mom? Right here, angel.
Making us some sandwiches.
Look at all this cool stuff.
Where are we? It's my summer palace.
You like it? Yeah.
Except it smells like feet.
[Laughs.]
It's where I used to come to get away from my parents when I was your age.
I never get away from my parents.
Well, today is a good day to be with one of them, because I have to go incognito for the story I'm doing, so when we go into town, we get to be in disguises.
Like Halloween.
Can I be the Headless Horseman? [Laughs.]
Well the point is not to attract attention, so It's kind of a resort town.
I was thinking movie star on vacation.
Hmm? Can we go swimming? If we have time, okay? One burner phone for you, one for me.
Next stop tattoo parlor.
Can I get a tattoo? N-O spells? Predictable.
They were standing right here.
Did Marjorie work at the shop? She had a tea shop in the back, till Susanna died.
Then, uh, her and Simon fell apart, she moved to the city, and Died in the fire.
No.
Oh, no, no, no! Look at this! Everything's still in there.
Records, too, probably.
Susanna used to live upstairs during junior high.
But I could always find where they hid the key.
T.
M.
I.
, Jackson.
Watch your step.
Laura: Hey.
We'll just be here a little while, okay? 2007 - 2007 - [Shotgun cocks.]
Turn around slowly.
Hey.
Simon.
Nico? Hey.
What the hell? Please put the gun down.
My daughter's here.
It's loaded and ready.
I keep it around for break-ins.
I'm sorry, Simon.
It's just, you know Place felt like home still.
And I-I thought there was nobody here.
This is Laura.
She's a reporter.
She's trying to track down a guy that came in here 10 years ago.
He shot a man in San Francisco the night before last.
What makes you think he came in here? Well He's one of the men in this picture, with your fresh tattoos.
Oh! Hey.
Whoa, whoa.
Take it easy.
Is that real?! Put it down, please.
Listen, I understand.
I know you're upset.
There's a killer on the loose, and we need the names of the men who were here on the 4th of July, 2007.
That's all.
And why should I help you? When the next body shows up and you know you could have done something and didn't All right, then.
2007's right over here.
What the hell? It goes up to the week of June 25th.
The week of July 2nd is missing.
Well, was there a break-in? Around the time Susanna died, someone broke in through the teahouse.
We thought it was just vandalism because 'Cause nothing was missing.
Except for the names of the people who were here July the 4th, 2007.
What did you bring me, Nico? - Simon, I - Why did you come in here with a picture of my girl and dig all this stuff up again? Please, let us know if you know anyone in this picture, and we'll go.
[Sighs.]
It's like the bad-luck club.
[Sighs.]
Everyone knows him.
He died yesterday.
And then there's [Voice breaking.]
my baby.
[Sniffles.]
Those are the Tanner boys.
Blake and Jason.
Their family owned a bait shop down in Bodega Bay.
[Sighs.]
Blake blew his brains out.
Jason set fire to the family home.
- What? - Where's Jason now? Well, they sent him away.
I don't know where.
Who's the fourth one? I have no idea.
Nico: I must be mistaken, 'cause for a second, I thought you said no to me.
Look, you got to come in, man.
It's dangerous out there more than you know.
What does that mean? You're playing with fire.
That's all.
Find me Jason Tanner, or I'm going to get up on the stage at the next reunion and I'm going to tell the Tijuana story.
Look, man, you do whatever you want, but I will not be party to you landing in prison.
[Cellphone beeps.]
[Sighs.]
Next brilliant plan? We sit here and wait.
Take in the beautiful scenery.
I give him 90 seconds.
[Breathes deeply.]
- [Cellphone rings.]
- Huh? [Cellphone beeps.]
I don't care how much you beg me.
I'm not taking you back.
Cupcake: Jason burned his house down in March 2012.
He was found mentally incompetent to stand trial and diverted to the secure wing of a psychiatric facility.
He's there now.
- Could he be getting in and out? - Nico.
Whatever you're after, please don't go there.
Cupcake, give me the name of the hospital.
It's a fancy place in Cotati.
Fremont Grove.
[Gasps.]
Call you later.
It's gone too far now.
Oh, we left "too far" in the dust three days ago.
I won't do it.
You won't do what? Fate can destroy my marriage.
Fate can make me sleep in a stinking hole in the ground, and ruin my shoes and drag my daughter halfway across the state, but my mother's at Fremont Grove, and fate cannot make me visit my mother.
You can't just walk into a hospital with flowers and say, "Hey, hi.
I'm here to visit one of your violent patients.
" I've talked my way into scarier places.
I will talk my way into this one.
Your mother being in there is a gift, just like the picture on top of the piano at Jesse's house or us drowning in the bay together at the same time.
It's a gift.
Visiting her gets us in the door.
From there, we're halfway to the locked wing.
And she can watch Serena while we talk to Jason.
Nothing with my mother is a gift.
There's always a bill.
No.
I get the "insane, soul-crushing mother" thing.
I g Oh, yeah? You get it? Really? You get it? You get the glass splinters in the rug after party time in the penthouse? You get the banana/coconut/bourbon smoothies for breakfast? The interchangeable men leeching off the money my dad worked himself to death for? And her name? [Chuckling.]
Esperanza.
She was born Hope, but that wasn't fabulous enough.
Your mom in Fremont for drinking? Started that way.
She's been there for six months, and now it's for the attention.
Round-the-clock doctors and nurses fussing over her psyche.
She can afford it, so why not? She loves everyone to think she's suffering.
But I don't have to suffer.
Not anymore.
And I won't.
[Vehicle approaching.]
Incoming.
Serena, come here.
Come here, come here, come here, come here.
Your mom's gonna take you down to the stream to wash your face, okay? - My face is clean.
- Yeah, well, mine's not, so we're gonna go.
What are you gonna do? Go.
[Car doors open.]
[Dialing.]
[Car doors close.]
[Cellphone ringing.]
[Ringing continues.]
[Ringing continues.]
[Ringing stops.]
[Door slams.]
Slauson: Hey! Time to go! [Pounding.]
Open up! Barnes: We just want to talk.
Come on! [Cellphone dialing, ringing.]
Woman: Emergency Services.
How may I direct your call? [Electricity crackles.]
- [Engine starts.]
- Ah, there we go.
Good.
Wait.
Mom, are we stealing a car? Not stealing trading.
Come on.
It's a take-one/leave-one situation.
These people are going to be very happy.
I promise.
Okay.
[Engine revs.]
It was a man, a woman, a little girl.
How'd you end up down there to start with? Oh, we have an interest in the local relics of World War II.
Thank you, officers.
Reporter or no, requests for visitation to the secured wing need to be submitted to the committee in writing.
I'm doing a story on Jesse Reid, and Jason Tanner is a friend of his, and with so many people mourning Jesse's death right now, a personal story could be a lovely thing.
Jesse who? This part of your fist, you're gonna come down right here with great speed.
Hut-hut-hut-hut-hut-hut! Go, go! Go, go! - Hyah! - Aah! Ow, ow, ow.
You're just pretending.
My pride wishes that was true.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Who wants to go see Grandma? Me, me! I do, I do, I do! - Baby heart! - Grandma! Oh, oh, oh, oh! Ohh! I brought my scarves, and guess who gets to pick three and take them home! Top drawer by the bed.
Silk! And who's this? Nico Jackson, this is my mother, Esperanza Portman.
- Pleasure to meet you, ma'am.
- I'm the pleased one.
Nico's helping me with a story, which is why Serena looking healthy as a bear! Yes, she is.
Mom, there's something I have to talk to you I worry for her in that industrial plant you moved her into.
God knows what chemicals got left behind.
It's a converted piano factory.
I'm actually here because How far south of Market can you go and still have indoor plumbing? - [Scoffs.]
- Couldn't tell you.
I tell my friends you moved to Costa Rica.
Mom! Why are you raising your voice to me? I have given you no cause to raise your voice.
Would you forgive us for being unforgivably rude? We just need a second.
Absolutely.
I'm no model for constancy, but I had living, breathing hopes for you and Tom.
- Nico is not - Did you think about Serena taking her on the road with your bad boy? Oh, the sober companion you brought along to Barcelona you think I didn't know what that was? 12 years old, and you were already judging me.
It's a good thing you're here, because you are insane.
I'm going to talk now, so don't interrupt.
[Sighs.]
I need your help.
I have to interview someone from the secure wing for a story.
I need you to get me in there.
For one quarter of a second, Iwas delusional enough to think you actually came here [Voice breaking.]
because you wanted to see me.
Mom? Why do you always have to make Grandma cry? [Scoffs.]
I'm sorry, Laura, but I [Sniffles.]
I don't like helping the tabloids violate the privacy of a celebrity.
It's not about celebrities! Well, movie stars or lurid sex criminals or whatever it is, will you wait for the "but"? [Cellphone clicking.]
But [Sniffles.]
one of my physical therapists is desperate to get in my pants.
- Oh, my - Too butch for my taste, but if that's what I have to do to win my only child's attention, it's worth the price.
You know what? This isn't worth the price.
Eye on the prize.
You want me to pimp my mother? There's no gun to her head.
Only because I don't have one.
What would you do to save Serena? Hmm? [Sighs.]
Huh? [Scoffs.]
[Knock on door.]
There he is.
What can I do for you, Mrs.
P.
? Hello, Matthew.
[Chuckles.]
[Chuckles.]
Your guy's in 223 down the hall, last door to the right.
I appreciate it.
If you get challenged, you never met me.
If you go after my mother's money, I will end you.
Money's not what I'm about.
- Door code 4711.
- Thank you.
[Gasps.]
[Door opens.]
- [Door closes.]
- Okay.
All right.
You stay here and holler if there's any incoming.
You stay here.
I've had lifelong experience dealing with the mentally ill.
And I have recent experience fighting a big dude on a roof, and if it's him, you're not going in there.
[Scoffs.]
It's not him.
I'll be 5 feet away.
[Sighs.]
[Beep, door unlocks.]
[Door closes.]
Visiting Jason Tanner.
Ah.
Mm-hmm.
System's running a little slow today.
- Bear with me.
- [Keyboard clacking.]
Jason? I'm sorry to disturb you.
My name is Laura Price.
I need to ask you a question.
Can you please tell me the name of this man in the picture with you? Please? An innocent life depends on it.
[Screams.]
[Screams.]
- [Screams.]
- [Shushing.]
- It's okay.
- [Jason whimpering.]
It's okay.
It's okay.
Don't scream.
Shh.
Shh.
Shh.
It's okay.
You know the way.
You look for Jackson and Price.
I'll clear Tanner's hallway.
What if they already got to him? You think too far ahead.
All right.
[Muffled, indistinct speaking.]
[Door opens.]
Got it cleared.
Have you seen them? Slauson: Have not.
Me neither.
Now, remember Not a hair on Tanner, no matter what.
Though, if you ask me, the money the boss spends on keeping him here could go to a better cause.
If the man in that picture scared you, I understand.
He's scary.
But he can't hurt you, because I'm here, and I'm not alone.
[Whimpering.]
If you help me, I can stop him.
Forever.
Just tell me his name.
Okay.
Okay.
Can I sit here with you, though? [Whimpering.]
You're safe with me.
How did you know we were here?! How?! I got called! By who? It's a private contract! [Grunts.]
With who? With "whom," moron! [Grunts.]
[Panting.]
[Grunts.]
This is my little girl.
My Serena.
She's crazy about somebody you once knew.
Jesse Reid.
She listens to his music all day long.
He was your friend, right? I don't know why, but somebody else you know wants to hurt her.
[Exhales shakily.]
To kill her.
Somebody who got a tattoo on his wrist the same day that you did.
If I don't stop him if she dies a bright-burning light goes out of the world.
[Grunting.]
What are you after? What do you know? You first.
Who are you working for? - [Groans.]
- What do you know? [Chuckles.]
That you're going down.
Could you look at the picture again? [Whimpering.]
Can you do it for me? For Serena? Please? This is Jesse.
And this is your brother, who you loved.
[Exhales sharply.]
I'm sorry you lost him.
I lost something precious to me, too, once.
I know it's a hurt that never goes away.
[Grunts.]
This is you, right? And this is Susanna Spencer.
[Groaning.]
Who is this? Please, tell me who is this man? - I - Please.
I don't know.
Okay, okay.
[Gasps.]
Oh, my God.
F-Five.
[Grunting.]
Don't pass out before you tell me your story.
[Choking.]
[Grunts.]
- [Spray hissing.]
- [Groaning.]
[Screaming.]
F-F-F-F-Five.
There's five points on the star.
No, no.
No, no.
No, five.
- I don't understand.
- Five! O-Okay, okay, okay.
We don't have to talk about it.
Five.
No! [Groans.]
No! - [Growls.]
- [Screams.]
I got him, Laura! [Whimpering.]
Did the bastard hurt you? I'll be okay.
We have to get out of here.
What? What are you seeing? Nico? Take pictures.
Get every detail.
Okay.
[Jason whimpering.]
You saw this? Were you there? [Muttering.]
Is that who you saw? No, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
Is that this man? Is this who you saw? - No, no, no, no, no! - Look at it.
Look at it! - Five! - Five what? - Five! - Did you watch it? - Five! - Five what? She wasn't stabbed five times! She was stabbed 13 times! - She wasn't stabbed five - Stop it! You're torturing him! - Five! Five! - Stop it! Five! We have to take him with us.
He doesn't want to go.
He's in danger.
- They're not gonna hurt him.
- How do you know that? I'll fill you in.
Come on.
Let's go.
Jason, I'll be back.
You're not alone.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
- Let's go! - Okay! Okay.
Serena.
[Door closes.]
Mmm! [Laughs.]
Mm! Scorsese was mad for me.
Oh! If my father hadn't laid down the law against showbiz, that would've been me in "Taxi Driver," not Cybill Shepherd.
What's troubling you, baby heart? Nothing.
I'm fine.
You don't fool me for a second.
Remember, Grammy's room is a judgment-free zone.
So out with it.
Mom's been acting really strange.
Genetics in action.
What flavor of strange? I think her and my dad are mad at each other.
And no one will tell me what's going on.
She says she's doing a "story," but we keep going to the strangest places and she never takes any notes.
[Sighs.]
You see everything, don't you? I know your mother better than she would care to admit.
She loves you like a sickness.
Whatever is going on, someday, somehow, you are going to find out it was all for you.
Well, right now, it's like some stupid game.
And I don't want to keep playing it.
Well, maybe your mother needs to.
And if people need to dream [Chuckles.]
why wake them up? Hmm? Hmm? Come on, baby.
Get your stuff.
We got to go.
But Grandma's just about to tell me about her and Al Pacino.
Yeah, well, the story Mommy's working on is about top-secret things, and there's people here who want to know who I've been talking to, and I can't tell them, so we got to go, okay? [Gasps.]
[Laughs.]
All these years, I have underestimated you.
Thank you for watching Serena.
All right, listen, we got to make some tracks, okay, little buddy? - Okay.
- Get on.
Yep.
They're here.
In here! They're right in here! They have a gun and a knife, and they scared me to death! Barnes: Where are they? Well, I don't know.
They were here a moment ago.
But they must have gone out the window.
That's two floors down! Well, they had grappling hooks and cables, and I think they were CIA or NSA or Mossad.
But, I mean, you cannot tell them apart nowadays.
Sometimes I think they're all one big organization! [Door closes.]
[Sighs.]
[Snaps fingers.]
Fremont Grove is the absolute last place on Earth she would go.
I-I-It's It's where her mother is right now.
Man: Well, she was there, and she left more chaos in her wake.
I hope we don't have to ask you twice to take care of this.
The star is a window I put in for Susanna's 21st birthday.
That's her.
That's her house.
And my mom's been right for the last 10 years.
That's not my brother.
It's just an outline.
I mean, how can you be sure? Look at it.
He's stabbing with his right hand.
My brother's a lefty.
It's been 10 years.
Maybe Jason drew it wrong.
Look at this picture.
Blake offs himself.
Jesse Reid goes to the D.
A.
, ends up dead in a week.
You think that wasn't an accident? Look at the pattern.
We drop in on Jason, the homeboys from Hell show up.
Somebody's scorching the earth to keep somebody's secrets.
And they're not doing it for somebody who's already on death row.
Maybe that's who's paying to keep Jason at Fremont Grove.
His parents own a bait shop.
They can't afford it.
Why would Danny say he did it when he didn't? Why would he keep saying it for 10 years? I don't know.
But he's gonna tell me, or I'm gonna carve it out of him.
[Chains clinking.]
Nico.
[Buzzer.]
[Door unlocks, opens.]
What's wrong? Why are you here? I could ask you the same thing.
W-What do you mean? You didn't kill Susanna.
Oh, no.
I-I-I killed her.
I did it.
I have proof that you didn't.
That you threw your life away and Mom's and Ruby's and mine.
You know who these people are, Danny? No.
Isaw them.
I t-took that picture, - No.
- but I don't know who they are.
No, you didn't take the picture, Danny.
You didn't take the picture.
The camera was broken.
There's no pictures from that day.
One of these men he killed Susanna.
Did you see one of them the day that she died? Not them! I killed her! Tell the truth! Did one of these people scare you into saying you did it, Danny? - Did they? - It is the truth! I killed her! I did it! Fine.
Let another guy go free.
But he's out there killing people right now including me, if he gets the chance.
What do you care? You're all safe in here, with your mommy bringing you care packages.
Goodbye, Danny.
You You do bad things when you drink.
What? You got drunk.
So what? What does that have to do with anything? Y-You didn't know, Nico.
Y-You didn't know what you were doing.
Doing what? It was you, Nico.
Through the window, I saw you kill her.
I ran away, and when I came back, the house was burning.
[Voice breaking.]
And I took Susanna out so I could hide her.
What are you saying? I-I lied because you loved Susanna and you would never hurt her on purpose.
Because you forgot, and I didn't want you to remember.
I didn't want you to go to jail.
[Voice breaking.]
Why do this to us? What What about the others, huh? What about the others?! I don't know.
I was scared.
- [Buzzer.]
- Did I kill the others, Danny? [Crying.]
Nico, it was you.
It was you.
[Sobbing.]
It was you, Nico! It was you!