Clarice (2021) s01e12 Episode Script

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Previously on "Clarice"
Angela Bird, Tess Laughty,
and Sandra Bishop
are interviewed
by Rebecca Clark-Sherman.
DNA says you were right.
Hudlin was the man
you saw at Woodhaven
the night Marilyn Felker
killed herself.
Karolina Savich was
here on a student visa
sponsored by
Global Health Horizons.
Hudlin led us
to Karolina,
who was sponsored here
in the States by Tyson Conway,
whose dad owns
Alastor Pharmaceuticals.
Tyson is our way to Nils.
Special Agent Clarice Starling.
-Mr. Hagen.
-Do you like art?
It's inspired by
Alastor himself.
Son of Cronos.
Clarice, are you sure
that this story you've been
telling yourself
is the whole story?
Your daddy's a thief.
What happens if you
find out you've been
building yourself
on a lie?
Oh, sorry about that.
You do not want to mess
with the parking cops
in this part of the town.
Thank you for being willing
to switch days.
Patients have professional
conflicts all the time.
I hope that whatever you have
tomorrow goes well.
We're just seizing
some financial documents.
That sounds routine.
Is there anything about this
case that would make you --
There are pieces of a memory
floating around.
-Alright.
-But I can't put them together.
I can't
I feel stupid and helpless,
and it is stickin' in my craw.
-You don't do well with helpless.
-No, ma'am.
Why don't you tell me
what you can remember?
-It won't make any sense.
-It doesn't need to.
You don't have to have
the whole picture.
You're allowed
to have blind spots.
What?
I don't have time for this.
I'm busy.
Why can't you say
that you're angry?
Unprocessed trauma often
manifests itself into anger.
I can help you
if you talk to me.
Mm-hmm.
You know, I'd say I'm angry
if I was angry,
but I am busy.
I am busy trying to do my job,
and I don't need any more
of these SOS calls
from my subconscious.
I thought you were gonna
help me wrap all this up,
and instead,
you're just planting
these little angry seeds
in my brain
-when I'm not angry.
-Okay.
You're not angry.
Everyone actually really
cares about their jobs here.
I'm learning stuff.
Good.
-What?
-Cat, parties I'm investigating
are trying to get at me
through you,
through the
incident with Lila Gumb.
I'm so sorry, Mom --No. Stop.
This subject
is politically connected,
and he has deep pockets.
He has everything to lose.
We should expect the worst.
So?
They're not the only ones
who can play games, Mom.
That's true.
I can take the hit.
But you need
to hit back harder.
I just hate that you're
in the line of fire.
I'm here. I'll own it.
Fry their asses, Mom.
Really make it hurt.
I need to take a leak.
-Really? Come on, man.
-Hey, hey.
Just hold it.
We're about to get the signal.
AG's gonna green-light
the raid any second.
Yeah, I can't.
I can't hold it.
-Try this.
Uh, anybody got a bigger bottle?
Oh, relax.
Starling can handle it.
Where's your manners, man?
Okay, we got the green light
to go in.
We've got Alastor on fraud,
but we need to dig deep
to catch the guys at the top.
Find the thing
that connects Nils to it all.
-Let's go.
-Let's go.
Nils Hagen.
I'm Agent Paul Krendler.
And this is a warrant
granting me permission
to search the premises.
So this is it?
Yeah. Nils really liked
showing it to me.
This painting
goes deep with him.
Interesting.
He ascribes special
meaning to objects.
There's some sort
of magical thinking going on.
It'sweird.
"Weird"?
Is that a clinical term?
It's an Eva Gallows,
but it's weird.
Her style is unmistakable,
and yet this is unlike
any of her other paintings
that I've ever seen.
-It's out of character.
-Well, means something to him.
Let's take the damn thing
and figure out why.
On three.
I love Raid Day.
He's hoping Santa
will bring him a pony.
Oh, don't laugh.
Murray confiscated
a miniature Shetland once
while working narcotics.
I'll settle for
a couple of forged checks
and a ledger
for an offshore bank account.
AG wants us
to put cuffs on Hagen.
-In an evidentiary raid?
-Mm-hmm.
He must have really
pissed her off.
It's a bold move.
Let the cameras catch him
doing the perp walk.
Reminds the world
he's mortal.
Looks like he beat us
to the cameras.
It's painful to hear
these accusations
against Alastor.
I founded this company
when I was only 34 years old.
I wanted to make the world
a little kinder.
Ease some suffering.
And it has been
my privilege to do so
for the past
50 years.
But I love this company.
They are
eatin' this up, boy.
"I'm a weak old man."
You know what would help
that wheezing
is a nice tap
to the solar plexus.
I've let myself go blind
to some bad actors.
But I promise you,
my eyes are open now.
I intend to cooperate fully
with law enforcement.
Mr. Hagen.
Hey --
No need.
Agent
Krendler.
Agent, may I?
This is outrageous.
He's doing his job.
And I will do whatever I can
to find out
how my company
has gone astray,
and we will
heal the harm
that has been done.
My eyes are open.
My eyes are open now.
Thank you.
No further statement.
There's power in the blood
In the precious blood
of the Lamb ♪
W-What am I looking at?
I had a cousin
who painted like this
between story time
and nap time.
Nils said this was Cronos --
a God in Greek mythology
who emasculated his father
and believed that his own
children would overthrow him,
so he swallowed them.
Nice. Geez.
"Li-berry," will you put us
out of our misery, please?
This is an original
Eva Gallows.
Nils commissioned it when
she was an up-and-coming artist.
It is extraordinary.
But it is unlike
any Eva Gallows
I've ever seen before.
She doesn't usually use
these color blocks,
and she doesn't work
in this encaustic style
of thick build-ups
of paint.
If Nils commissioned it,
he gave her instructions, right?
A commissioned painting is, uh,
usually a mirror of its patron.
Well, then she probably
has an in on his psychology
-that no one else does.
-I believe that.
Well, let's grill
Hagen about it.
U.S. Attorney asked us
to cut him loose an hour ago.
Son of a bitch.
Oh. Mm. He and the AG are
probably at each other's throats
over that little melodrama
in front of the cameras.
Mm. You and Starling
go see this artist.
See if she's got
anything to say.
You two, get into the evidence
we seized today.
If we don't tie this guy
directly,
he is flying off
to a private island somewhere.
You've been building
this house for a long time.
When you first started, you
and Sophia were still married.
-That's right.
-The girls were, ah,
tiny.
Not so much anymore.
I'msorry for today.
I've got calls
into my cont--
Once the ink is dry
on this merger,
you will be a rich man,
and they will be back.
I've been on the phone
all morning.
Everyone is still
very eager to move ahead.
This will all get taken care of
with a fine.
You will handle it
beautifully.
Thank you.
Thank you, Joseph.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Thank you
-for your time, Ms. Gallows.
-Mm.
Time passes quickly here.
Thank you.
Glad you like them.
So, you're here to talk about
the painting I made
for Nils Hagen?
Well, um, actually,
we wanted to talk about
why it's not your painting.
I've studied orphans --
works that are intentionally
outside of an artist's oeuvre
are, uh, oftentimes the more
interesting chapters
of an artist's journey.
Well, not this one.
People abandon things
out of callousness.
Or necessity.
You don't want to own this,
Ms. Gallows?
Look, Nils paid me. A lot.
And the commission
was very specific.
The details weren't up to me.
He controlled everything.
He even had a -- a paint lab
make custom pigment.
So, in the end,
it seemed like
he really just wanted that
blank canvas with my name on it.
You can't orphan something
that was never yours.
Well, that's kind of
passing the buck, Ms. Gallows.
It was a job, and I did it.
You can't understand that,
Agent?
I'd like to talk about
the original subject matter --
A-Agent Starling, I think we got
everything we're gonna get.
Thanks, Eva.
Sure.
Why did you cut me off?
Sorry, we don't know
the right questions yet.
We can push her harder.
She knows more.
Well, first, we need to unpack
what she did tell us.
She told us
that she painted it,
and she doesn't know a thing
about it. That's crap.
She told us that we might think
we're looking at a painting,
when in reality, we're looking
at a blank canvas.
Look inside
my woman's eyes to see ♪
I love you, babe
Do you love me?
I love you, babe
Do you love me?
-Krendler.
It's Joe.
Joe.
Nils Hagen doesn't
pay compliments.
-Joe, what's going on?
-I want you to tell my daughters
I never did any of the
sexual stuff.
I even tried
to help Karolina out.
I gave her money,
a place to stay.
What are you talking about?
-Joe?
-Don't let my girls think
I was a sick monster.
I never touched --
Tell me where you are.
Two young daughters at home.
I never touched
any of those women.
Joe, tell me where you are.
I'll come to you.
When I landed at Alastor,
I told my wife
"Our ship's
finally come in."
Now she doesn't even
pick up my calls.
I wanted them to be okay.
Joe --I wanted my family to be okay.
Joe.
Joe!
What's going on?
Hey, what are you guys
doing here?
Turf war.
D.C. Metro called us in.
Guess they got ViCAP mixed up
with Violent Crimes.
-Well, it's pretty easy to do.
-When Herman saw
that Krendler was already here
when we pulled up --
Violent Crimes
works with local PD here!
-They called us!
They got their signals crossed.
Or maybe
they were just looking
for a-a genuine FBI squad
on the scene!
Oh, God, is your head
really this far up your ass?!
-Excuse me?
-I'm the one who called in
local PD
to check on the deceased.
I was working him!
He was a major part
of a ViCAP investigation!
I was on the phone with him
when he died!
You were working him,
or was he working you?
I --
His suicide note.
He's confessed to everything
at Alastor.
He's confessed
to everything, period.
Wait, wha--
What are you --
What are you doing?
Yeah, I'm, uh,
having a situation here.
Okay.
Someone on the line
for you.
My team!
We don't need to watch ViCAP
kissing the AG's ass.
Leave this mess to them.
Alright, everyone,
just a big misunderstanding.
ViCAP's got it.
Thank you.
Drinks on us at McMurdo's.
I will be filing a complaint
with the SAC in the morning.
ViCAP, crime scene's
over here.
I guess
this is what happens
when they let bitches
have badges.
-Yeah.
Ooh.
-What'd you say?
-Alright, relax.
--Huh? Hey, what'd you say?
-Easy, easy.
-Hey, enough. Enough.
What'd you say, huh?
Esquivel. Esquivel!
Stand down.
That's right, Agent Taco Bell.
Stand down.
Say one more thing, huh?
One more thing.
Trust me, he's not worth it.
What is going on?
Tony, you want
to leash your guys?
Eddie!
What are you looking at,
sweetheart?
Huh? Had enough
Mexican takeout?
Hungry for something
home grown?
-Ohh.
-Ooh-hoo-hoo.
Okay, okay!
Knock it off! Knock it off!
ViCAP, crime scene
is in the living room.
Let's go.
Come on.
Tony, get your guys
out of here,
or they're all
getting written up.
Let's go!
Eddie!
Yeah, I don't believe this
for a second.
Hudlin took advantage of an old
man and took over his company,
and the murders
and the clinical trials
all fall on Hudlin
and no one else? Please.
I'm surprised he didn't
confess to killing JFK.
We did find evidence
that corroborates.
Financials.
They checked out.
That he just happened to have
on hand before killing himself.
It's their MO. We would have
pinned it all on Marilyn Felker
if Starling
hadn't kept looking.
What do we have
that ties Hagen directly?
-He is a dangerous man.
-Not much.
Starling is keyed in on this
painting Nils is obsessed with.
She's building a profile,
but other than that,
we're coming up dry.
I'm feeling a lot of pressure
to close this.
Everyone stands to profit
if Alastor is sold to W & W.
-Everyone.
-How long can you hold it off?
We need more time, Ruth.
We have one move
at the most, Paul.
So use me wisely.
Everything alright?
Everyone knows about
what happened last night.
Yeah, well, you heard him.
I did. And I wanted
to knock him out, too.
But I didn't.
Well, I guess the stress
of it all is just --
George wants me to file
paperwork about it
for the lawsuit.
-Why?
-They want it on the record
that you do things like break
people's noses and get promoted.
And I don't.
Well, you got to do
what you got to do,
and I support you.
-You know that.
-That's not really the point.
Okay, then
what's the point?
Clarice, you assaulted
a fellow agent.
That's not like you.
Well, I'm fine.
I am fine.
Eva said Nils wasn't interested
in her work.
What he wanted was,
essentially
a blank canvas.
-Whoa.
-Whoa.
There's a long tradition
of paintings
on top of paintings.
Vasari painting over da Vinci.
Van Gogh painted over himself.
In this case,
it just so happens
that the painting on top
is the hidden one.
It -- It -- It's Cronos.
That's what he kept saying.
But why not just
have the painting?
Why so cryptic? Nils doesn't
traffic in humility.
Why are you using luminol?
This isn't a bedspread
from the Travelodge.
Well, you can keep your motel
adventures to yourself,
but everything glowing
up there
is, uhbiological.
Mm.
Eva said that Nils provided
the pigment for the base.
-Blood?
-Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Yeah. Um,
don't know if it's human.
Well, it's not illegal, but
it's too weird not to pursue.
Get the artist in here.
Hudlin hinted at something
even darker going on.
Said he didn't want
his daughters to think
he was "involved
with the sex stuff."
This isn't about sex.
This is about power
and anger.
Not everyone
knows the difference.
Well, we should ask our artist
about that, too.
With Hudlin's
"suicide confession,"
Nils Hagen can just
run the clock out.
Hm.
AG Martin has given us
a Hail Mary --
a warrant to search
Global Health Horizons.
Alastor was GHH's primary donor.
Maybe there's something there.
Starling, you talk
to Tyson Conway.
You have the best
relationship with him.
Mm-hmm.
If he's smart, he's scared.
Bring him over.
Tell him it's his last shot.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Let's do it.
Starling, hang on.
The Black Coalition
cited the incident
with Eddie
the fact that you
weren't reprimanded.
To demonstrate a disparity
between how Black and Caucasian
agents are treated?
Well,
they have a point, sir.
Look, you were provoked
last night. I was there.
And I saw how you were treated
in the van before the raid.
-I'd be upset, too.
-Respectfully, sir,
"upset" is for
when someone breaks a nail.
I'd be righteously
pissed off, too.
But you got to
take it in stride.
I usually do.
I know.
I promised the Director
that this is the case.
But he wants confirmation.
Confirmation, sir?
Get your therapist
to sign that.
Yes, sir.
Conway first.
Clock's ticking, Starling.
Get out of here.
Starling.
Take a look at this.
Itineraries?
For the scholarship
recipients.
You coming after me now?
The evidence
we gathered from Alastor
contained some
troubling things.
You're working me now.
I can tell by your eyes.
I'm trying to protect you.
There are billions of dollars
on the line.
People get crazy
around that kind of money.
God.
If you talk to me now,
I can help you.
The FBI, we can help you.
But it has got to be now.
There won't be
another chance.
I don't know anything.
Okay, look.
Ty, when we love someone,
we see
who we need them to be.
So let me be your eyes
right now, okay?
Your father
is a dangerous man.
-No, he's not.
-I study dangerous people,
and your father
is a different species.
He scares me,
and I don't scare easy.
I know this is so hard,
and I'm sorry, but you
might have to consider
that he does not have
your best interest at heart.
Don't talk about him
that way.
Joe Hudlin is dead.
He turned up dead
last night.
Hudlin was the bad actor
in all of this.
I thi--Everything went bad
when Joe Hudlin showed up.
I think you know better.
It went bad long before.
My father came up hard.
He lost most of his family
when he was a kid.
That's why he's a bit hard.
Buthe's a good man.
Ty,
your father sells a drug
he knows will cause
birth defects.
That is not
what a good man does.
You know, I'd hoped
I'd never see this again.
The painting is unlike
anything you've done
before or since.
What's the story here, Eva?
I'd had shows
that were well-reviewed.
But I couldn't break through.
My professors
they were men.
They were all men.
They basically told me
Well,
they couldn't understand
why I wasn't jumping at the
opportunity to find a patron.
You were young.
When you hear something enough,
you believe it.
Nils Hagen took an interest.
He had such
an amazing collection,
impeccable taste.
I was so hungry.
And he liked my work.
Put me up
in this amazing loft.
It was intoxicating.
Yeah, I bet.
And controlling?
Yeah,
that's a word for it.
You must've been
terrified.
By the time I realized
how bad it was,
I couldn't get out.
He wanted children.
With me.
Eva, did you want
to have children with him?
You know he wouldn't
use birth control?
He wouldn't let me.
He monitored my --
all of that.
But I have known since I was 15
that I can't have kids.
And when I finally needed
to get away from him,
I told him.
I can't imagine
he was kind.
He was very angry.
And I was afraid.
One day, he just
came into my room.
The first time
I'd seen him smile in weeks.
And he says
he's going to commission me
to make him a painting.
And then, he'd let me go.
And that's how
this painting happened.
Yes.
Well, we've sprayed
the painting in luminol.
Whose blood is that?
It's his blood.
That's
Nils Hagen's blood?
He'd draw it over days
and watch me paint.
Look, I know that he might be
a dream for a shrink,
but that wasn't my job.
I wanted out.
Some people --
They're just unfathomable,
you know?
It's weird,
that, in the corner.
Is there something
under the paint?
Where, Esquivel?
Five stars.
Right here.
Huh.
Eva, did you do this?
No.
Those aren't mine.
He could have added them.
Anyone could have.
Do you think Eddie knows
you're not Mexican?
-No, I don't think he cares.
-Mm.
Krendler's sending me
to my shrink
to atone for
breaking his stupid nose.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah, they don't like it
when we lash out.
I think it scares them.
But sometimes, it's --
it's right there, you know?
The rage.
Right under the surface.
I saw a lot of crap
in my service days. It's --
It's been a lot of work
for me to
keep the monster at bay.
Do you mean last night?
That was your monster?
Sort of.
Yeah.
But you were defending me.
I can defend you
without hurting myself.
Jesse says
that if I keep
hurting myself,
I can't help anyone else.
Hey, thank you.
For defending me.
Well, I hate
how he talked to you.
You know, hate --
it's a lot to carry.
Esquivel.
Sometimes, I don't think
I can hack it here.
To strike
another officer is extreme.
You must have already been
at a high emotional pitch
when you arrived
at the scene.
Were you?
Still all the anger
around the past?
Maybe memories
of your father?
Something like that.
In his notes,
your past therapist
was concerned about
suppressed rage.
I need to know what I'm missing.
What about hypnosis?
I want to.
Maybe I can find it.
Your anger is not in the past.
It's in the present.
You already
know the truth.
Getting the memory from me
will make it feel less real,
make it hurt less.
You know,
the people I study.
At the end of the day,
they're all just looking
for a way
to feel powerful.
You think
I want power over you?
I think anyone who dissects
other people craves power, yes.
You think that
about yourself?
You use your hand
to cover your arm.
There are burn marks.
Go on.
I know you did not grow up
in this neighborhood.
I hear your accent.
Suburban.
You learned your English
by hearing native speakers
in the home --
and affluent ones,
at that.
And I'm guessing that scar
travels all the way up your arm.
I'm guessing you have burn marks
covering your body.
You didn't return to Chinatown
to serve your community.
This is where you search
for the thing that was lost.
This is where you cope
with why you were even alive.
You want to finish?
I'm finished.
I just have one question.
Why are you trying
to sabotage
your chances
of going back to work today?
And I'm not saying that
because you just
lashed out at me.
I can take that.
We've talked about
how your job
triggers the emotions
of a past trauma.
I see how your experience
with Buffalo Bill
has brought a deeper hurt
with your father to the surface.
But the question is,
how will you live
without feeling like
everything you do
is built on it?
Because it is not.
But it seems like
you're asking me
to supply a memory
that you already have,
and you want me
to force you
to stop going to a job
that traumatizes you.
And both of those things
need to come from you.
I fought for my job.
I love my job.
Do you?
You are not its prisoner.
You are not in its well.
You can decide yourself
not to go back to work today.
But forcing yourself to go
when you're traumatized
Well, that's just turning rage
on yourself.
Starling.
Sir.
Li wouldn't sign my slip.
Mm, damnit.
I'm gonna call her.
We need you today.
What's this?
I think Dr. Li
agrees with the Bureau.
About my fitness.
She didn't
say anything to me.
The day I got into Quantico
was the best day of my life.
It is all I ever wanted.
I was on the path.
And then something
changed me,
and now I'm just --
I can't do my job.
I am seeing red.
We all do sometimes.
No, all the time.
Like a monster,
and it won't let me be.
I can't be
who I'm supposed to be.
I can't be the agent
I am supposed to be,
and that is killing me.
That is --
Starling.
This job
gets to all of us.
I had to leave for a time
to get sober.
You need to take a minute.
Go for a run.
Clear your head.
Do not quit.
You're a decent man, sir,
and a good father.
I know being a father
is important to you.
And
Well, I'm grateful to have
gotten some time in your unit.
I haven't had something
like this in a
a long
long while.
But if I stay,
it'll kill me.
Agent Starling?
Rebecca?
Where have you been?
After you disappeared, we --
I never left.
Not really.
I couldn't with those women
still twisting in the wind.
When I saw Nils Hagen
in handcuffs,
I knew
that I had to step up.
It's not my case anymore.
What?
Go inside.
Tell anyone on ViCAP.
They can help you.
You can trust them.
I trust you.
You were there with me.
I'm sorry, Rebecca,
ma'am, but it is
not my case anymore.
If you change your mind.
"Whose stories
are worth telling?"
You don't just close the book,
Agent Starling.
I see you're redecorating.
Well, you learn to live
with the absurdities.
What's up?
Why do you need me?
W-Well, y-you're
smarter than us.
It's painted in blood.
Nils Hagen's blood.
That's confirmed?
Yeah.
We need DNA samples.
Just when I think
there's hope for our species.
Where's Clarice?
Why are you trying
to sabotage
your chances
of going back?
You're asking me
to supply a memory
that you already have.
Your daddy's a coward.
You are not its prisoner.
You are not in its well.
You already
know the truth.
A memory
that you already have.
A memory
that you already have.
Stop!
You're my good little deputy.
A memory
that you already --
Hey.
You know what you need
to do, right?
You're my good little deputy.
Your daddy's a coward.
Your daddy's a thief.
You think I won't do nothing in
front of your own little girl?!
I should kill you
for sending her
and put her out of her misery
for having to carry you
her whole life!
Whole life!
Whole life! Whole life!
You're my good little deputy.
What matters is
how you're going to live
without feeling that everything
you do is built on it.
Because it's not.
First, I never want
to see anything like this
ever again.
What'd you find?
The sample from the painting,
it was fetal.
Fetal tissue.
There's tissue
from five separate fetuses
on Ms. Gallows' painting.
Three female, two male.
They all had
different mothers,
none of whom
are in the Bu system,
but they all had
the same father --
Nils Hagen.
Wha--
How could he possibly --
Probably miscarriages.
None were viable.
They all had
severe abnormalities.
None of them would have even
survived to term.
I also tested
Karolina Savich's baby.
-That's the suicide?
-Yeah, that's right.
Hudlin mentioned it
before he died.
That baby also
had developmental issues.
Hell of a coincidence.
Nils Hagen
was the father.
To all of these children.
Hagen's
impregnating women.
Why?
Who cares why?
Myth? Immortality?
I'm saying right now,
I'm sick of men
and what they leave behind.
I'm sick of it.
How many women can you
forcibly impregnate and
miscarry for you?
Even for
a multi-millionaire,
how does someone
not notice?
For God's sake.
Not if your kid
is bringing over fresh women
specifically from
war-torn countries.
Ty said it himself --
half the women he brought over
don't have a home
to go back to.
Receipts from the travel agency
that books travel for GHH.
The men get a ticket
to come over and go back.
But the women --Young women under 30.
They're going one way.
Conway's been trafficking women
for his father.
That bastard's more dangerous
than his old man.
Hello?
Agent Starling, it's Ty.
Ty, what are you
doing here?
Can I come up?
I need to talk to you.
My father. Please.
He knew.
I can't live with this.
Please.
I need you.
I need to
I need to help you.
Come on up.