Mindhunter (2017) s02e08 Episode Script
Season 2, Episode 8
1 [CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR STEREO.]
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
[SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
- This is $100,000.
- [STEAM HISSING.]
And it's all yours if you'll help us identify the person or persons behind the murders of our children in Atlanta.
Somebody out there knows something, has seen something.
Please, come forward if you have any information.
Thank you.
[WOMAN.]
According to Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, the task force investigating the murders is costing taxpayers $150,000 per week.
In an effort to help Atlanta foot the bill, entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
has announced that he and pal Frank Sinatra will throw a charity concert here in Atlanta.
All proceeds will go toward the investigation.
- [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING.]
[GARLAND.]
Light it up, buddy.
That's it.
Well, these may be for shit.
It's so dark out here.
But unless he steps way out of bounds, possession may be all we got to squeeze him with if we get the chance.
Well Well, that [SIGHS.]
may have been the highlight of our entire evenin'.
Wow.
- And just nine hours to go.
- [SIGHS.]
Reboot? Ah I've been watchin' the Sanders do less than nothin' all my adult life.
They excel at it.
Missed most of my kids' birthdays watchin' 'em.
How many kids you got? Three.
[EXHALES.]
But they're popular, and it's a lot of fuckin' birthdays.
You want a snort? No, thank you.
These guys seem awfully quiet to be the operational arm of the Klan.
Well, Charles here is mainly a foot soldier, but his older brother, Don, is an officer in the local.
The big achiever in the family.
Uh, together, they got about as many brain cells as teeth.
Mostly they're into car theft, larceny, pot.
So, you think this is a waste of time? Every second I spend staring at a Sanders is a waste of time.
[SIGHS.]
They may be too ignorant to organize this crime wave, like some folks wanna believe, but there's a strong possibility they're involved in some of them.
See, one of these idiots may have figured, "This is an opportunity.
So many dead, hey, one more might get lost in the mix.
" Sadly, they're probably right.
- [SIPS.]
- [TENCH.]
We should've been lookin' at them from the start.
With a black mayor, you'd think [GARLAND.]
Oh, Maynard knows this city's a powder keg, underneath all that kum ba yah.
He's been looking hard at the Klan.
But he's smart enough to keep that under wraps until we bring back something undeniable.
[TAKES A DEEP BREATH.]
- [PHONE DIALING ON RADIO.]
- [SUCKS TEETH.]
Well, here we go - [LINE RINGING.]
- another scintillating conversation.
- [RECEIVER CLICKS.]
- [DON.]
Hello? [CHARLES.]
Hey, what's going on? [DON.]
Eh What are you up to? - That's the overachiever, Donnie.
- [CHARLES.]
Nothing.
Might just, you know, might go out and get me another kid.
[DON.]
See they found that Geter kid? [CHARLES.]
Yeah, fucked up my truck with that go-kart.
I told him I was gonna fucking kill his ass.
[DON CHUCKLES.]
Might go get another? [CHARLES.]
Just doin' the Lord's work.
Or I might just hit the hay.
[DON.]
All right.
Me too.
- See you tomorrow.
- [CHARLES.]
Yeah.
[LINE DISCONNECTS.]
- That enough for a warrant? - Even in Georgia.
Listen, after that plumber fiasco, the DA might not be that sympathetic to me.
I'll make a call in the mornin'.
[HOLDEN.]
We've been reduced to reacting to him.
The idea is to be proactive.
Exploit his compulsions, force him to reveal himself.
Sorry to interrupt, sir.
We got something last night.
Garland's putting in for a warrant.
Is it solid? 'Cause those boys have been hauled in so many times, they don't even call their lawyers.
Know the drill themselves.
It's not an admission, but the younger Sanders brother definitely knew Lubie and threatened to kill him.
The older brother confirmed it.
Get me transcripts.
Let's get anything corroborative we can, get 'em in here.
- Yes, sir.
- We were just presenting something to the chief.
[TENCH.]
Okay.
The benefit concert: Sammy Davis Jr.
and Frank Sinatra.
Gonna be a nightmare for us.
Half Atlanta'll be there.
[HOLDEN.]
Our guy will be too.
- [REDDING.]
How do you figure that? - He's going to volunteer.
For what? We put out a call for additional security.
In his mind, he'll be working directly with the investigation.
He won't be able to resist.
We work the profile on the applicants So we'll end up with a sizable group of black males between the ages of 20 and 30.
Exactly.
But are we narrowing the field too much? What if one of the Sanders brothers applied for your security job? Would we just ignore that? You're going to question your white supremacist, so there's no need to screen for him.
This is designed specifically to find men who fit our parameters.
It doesn't eliminate other evidence.
There'll be hundreds of applicants.
Free evening with Sinatra? And Sammy.
- Love Sammy.
He's the best.
- We interview the most likely.
Get their make of vehicle, education.
Maybe even their whereabouts for some of our timeline.
It shouldn't be difficult.
We know he's a talker.
How do we know that? How else is he getting kids into his car? You'll have to get permission from the commissioner for this one.
African-American? Drives a police-type vehicle.
Lives with parents or a close relative.
Owns a dog.
I have communities organizing vigilante patrols because of the Klan.
It's not the Klan.
It's statistically rare for serial killers to cross racial lines, sir.
It's also statistically significant that the Klan kills black people.
Do you know what will happen if word gets out that we're ignoring other leads to focus on a black suspect? [HOLDEN.]
The victimology is clear.
Aside from perception issues, this brings about questions of legality, - entrapment.
- Everything would be voluntary.
There'd be a real job, no false pretenses.
We have security firms that already have arrangements with the city.
Minority-owned businesses that the mayor and I have spent two terms working into the municipal contracting process.
I won't allow what amounts to be a fishing expedition to jeopardize that.
[BARNEY.]
Commissioner, we have no intention of undercutting those relationships, but we have 19 dead children and no suspect.
We do this, or we wait for more bodies.
[BROWN SIGHS.]
I want your assurance that your criteria is not spoken about outside of this room.
I don't want to hear from any quarter that we're looking for a black suspect.
Yes, sir.
[TAPS LOUDLY.]
Agent Ford? Sergeant Stokes.
Chief asked me to help you with the logistics for this whole security plan you got going on.
Yes, thank you.
[STOKES.]
Ah, so, what you need? Flyers? Advertising for volunteer security positions.
Concert night only.
Okay.
That sounds like a simple print job.
[HOLDEN.]
We'll need to get them placed You got your PO number? No.
How do I get that? You gotta get that off your work order.
See, this comes out of the city budget, and I can't do anything without a signed work order.
Okay.
Try to get one from someone we already have an account with for printing the flyers.
Makes it easier.
[HOLDEN.]
You aren't printing the flyers? No, sir.
We don't handle that in-house.
You need to talk to community relations, and they'll give you a list of outside vendors.
Well, let's assume I have a signed work order, a PO number, and a community relations vendor is printing the flyers.
What I need is distribution.
No problem.
Hit me.
Everywhere a body was recovered.
DeKalb, Fulton, Cobb, Rock What? You want all six counties? [HOLDEN.]
Yes.
[SIGHS.]
I hate to keep throwing you curveballs, but you need to get individual approval from each jurisdiction.
Now, I can't so much as distribute a Post-it without proper authority.
As soon as you get that, we'll get those flyers out.
- I promise you that.
- [TAPS PEN.]
[STOKES WHISTLING UPBEAT TUNE.]
[SMOOTH JAZZ PLAYING ON RADIO.]
[QUIETLY.]
They're running long today.
[NANCY.]
Mm.
[MAGAZINE RUSTLES.]
[QUIETLY.]
Do you like our house? - What? - It doesn't feel small? You're always going on about a workshop.
[SIGHS.]
I've been looking at comps.
- We could sell for a profit.
- [AT NORMAL VOLUME.]
Sell our house? Afford some more square footage.
Maybe a two-story.
I was thinking about something closer to Alexandria.
A little more cultured.
The schools would be better.
An opportunity to meet new people.
It could be an adventure.
[QUIETLY.]
Where is this coming from? We could do a short escrow.
Be out in six weeks.
Nance did something happen? I am thinking of Brian.
Is this really the right time for him? Could there be a better time? Let's talk about it when I finish in Atlanta.
And when will that be? I just don't think we should move him out of his routine.
If that's what's best for him.
What about what's best for us? [DOOR OPENS.]
[MORITZ.]
Okay.
Let's go find your parents.
- Oh, hi, sweetie.
- [MORITZ.]
Here they are.
Thank you.
Hey, honey.
- [KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
- Door's open! - ["DANCING BAREFOOT" PLAYING ON RADIO.]
- She is Addicted to thee [KAY.]
Almost ready! Give me two minutes! Take your time.
I'm early.
[KAY.]
I called the restaurant.
They don't take reservations.
Okay.
Here I go, and I don't know why I flow so ceaselessly Could it be he's taking over me Hello, gorgeous.
- Hi.
- May I? [CARR.]
Must you? I'm practically wearing flats.
Now I have to rethink everything.
You still want to try Chinese? I can't vouch for this place one way or another.
Yeah.
I think we should be adventurous.
[KAY.]
Chinese in suburban Virginia.
Pretty adventurous.
[RADIO CLICKS OFF.]
Ready.
[CARR.]
I'd like to talk before we go.
Okay.
I've had a lot of time and a lot of reasons to think.
You're right.
I need to be more forthright in asking for what I want.
And I want you, Kay.
I don't care how, where.
We can do this at our own pace.
I just want to be [CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
- Mm.
- We can't be late if they don't take reservations.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
Well, do you think that they'll deliver? [CHUCKLES.]
[DOORBELL RINGING.]
Shit.
Oh, I swapped weekends.
I forgot.
- [CARR.]
What? - Fuck.
Just wait here, okay? - Who is it? - [KAY.]
Just wait for a minute.
[FOOTSTEPS.]
- [DOOR OPENS.]
- [BOY.]
Hi, Mom.
[KAY, IN HIGH-PITCHED TONE.]
Nicky! Hi, kiddo! Tom, good to see you.
Hi, Mandy! [TOM.]
You remember we're not picking him up till Monday night, right? - We're out of town.
- [KAY.]
Of course.
We finally get some sleeps together.
- [TOM.]
Were you on your way out? - [KAY.]
No.
I was just No.
[TOM.]
He has to be in homeroom by the 8:20 bell.
[KAY.]
Not a problem.
We'll be early.
Right, buddy? [TOM.]
So, you still working at that bar? [KAY.]
Don't start.
It's not so bad.
[TOM.]
That was supposed to be temporary.
[KAY.]
And I'm still looking for something permanent.
[TOM.]
And this apartment was just for a few months.
- Remember? - [KAY.]
I'm working on it.
I'm thinking about Edgewood.
It's really nice over there.
Hey, whoa! Nicky.
You wanna go double-check the car? Make sure you didn't forget anything? [NICKY, SLOWLY.]
Okay.
[KAY.]
Whoa! Enough with the attitude, Little League.
[TOM.]
Can I come up for a minute? [KAY.]
It's not really a great time right now.
- [TOM.]
Is there someone here? - [KAY.]
No, no.
[TOM.]
Um, okay.
[KAY.]
Actually, Tom, I might introduce Nick to a friend this weekend.
[TOM.]
Kay, we already talked about that.
- [KAY.]
I know.
I just - [TOM.]
He needs structure.
Stability.
Nothing about the divorce was easy for him.
[KAY.]
Of course.
Sure.
You're absolutely right.
It's fine.
[TOM.]
Is it someone important? [KAY.]
No, no.
It's nothing like that.
It's nothing.
Whoa, buddy, got your backpack with your homework? - [NICKY.]
I don't have any.
- [KAY.]
So say goodbye.
Thanks, Tom.
Come on, buddy.
Everything's right where you left it.
I found your baseball bat.
It was in the trunk.
Now, we've got bigger spaces, the ballroom.
[HOLDEN.]
No, this is perfect.
We'll set up an interview area.
Do a sign-in desk here: names, addresses.
[TENCH.]
We should include their consent and videotape them.
May I ask why the FBI is holding job interviews? The city is holding interviews.
We're just facilitating them.
You think he's going to apply? There's a possibility.
Well, I'll block the room out.
I'll call it a non-profit event, so there's just a facility charge.
- We appreciate it.
- [TANYA.]
Of course.
- [RECEIVERS CLATTERING.]
- [BOY.]
Hey! Get off of me, man! Excuse me.
Freeze! Calvin, what is wrong with y'all? This is my place of business.
You better not be running through here like that.
You get thrown out of here, where you gonna go? Huh? The streets? - Yes, ma'am.
- [TANYA.]
Uh-uh, look at me.
If either one of y'all end up on the side of a road, I will kill you.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- [TANYA.]
Now go on back to the arcade.
We ain't got nothin' to do there.
[PURSE UNZIPS.]
[GASPS.]
[TANYA.]
Twenty dollars is all I got today.
Uh-uh! Now, I'd tell you to bring me change, but y'all split it.
- You staying at your aunt's now? - Mm-hmm.
[TANYA.]
Then y'all make it last till you can go straight there.
- Y'all hear me? - [CALVIN.]
Yes, ma'am.
[BOYS LAUGHING AND CHATTING EXCITEDLY.]
[TENCH.]
Twenty dollars is a lot of Atari.
It's the only thing that keeps them inside.
Do you get a lot of kids hanging out unsupervised? Well, they like the arcade.
It's open till ten.
Might be the safest place they can be.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[OVERLAPPING SOUND EFFECTS PLAYING ON ARCADE GAMES.]
[HOLDEN.]
We should put flyers in here too.
- Yeah.
- Hunting ground.
[TENCH.]
I imagine you've been following what's been going on in Atlanta? Braves are shit.
Ought to fire Bobby Cox.
- Garland here agrees with me.
- About the only thing we agree on.
I believe Agent Tench is referring to the 19 murdered children.
Well, now, that there is just frustratin'.
Frustratin'? All them searches tying up traffic.
Ever met a boy named Lubie Geter? No.
[SNIFFLES.]
- [CLICKS.]
- [CHARLES ON RECORDING.]
You know, might go out and get me another kid.
[DON.]
See they found that Geter kid? [CHARLES.]
Yeah, fucked up my truck with that go-kart.
I told him I was gonna fucking kill his ass.
- [DON CHUCKLES.]
Might go get - [PLAYER CLICKS.]
Ring any bells? Remember him now.
Fucked up a brand-new paint job.
[GARLAND.]
We have a witness.
Works the parking lot where Lubie disappeared.
He remembers the incident.
Said you were real fired up about it.
- I do love my truck.
- And you hate blacks.
That's not what I call 'em.
But yeah, amongst some other folks, I hate niggers.
But hate ain't a crime.
I'm allowed to hate whoever I want.
It's in the Constitution.
We found Lubie Geter strangled to death shortly after that incident.
Okay.
Okay? What did you mean by "go out and get me another one"? I reckon, uh you're tappin' my phone, you must be watching me too, so did I go out and get me another one? See, that's in the Constitution too.
I can feel anything I want, and I can say anything I want.
Don't hurt nobody.
Y'all ought to be thanking me.
At least I'm trying to protect our way of life.
Through lawful gatherin' and free speech.
[GARLAND.]
By "way of life," you mean burglary, drug trafficking, - a little larceny on the side? - [CHARLES.]
What you got, Garland? Bag of weed in my closet? Maybe a new muffler? Go ahead.
I get a lawyer down here, I'll be out in two hours.
How about you? This ain't worth your time? Don't look like it much as you checking that watch.
[SCOFFS.]
How about we cut to the chase.
Y'all give me a lie detector test, and I can be on my way.
[SUCKS TEETH.]
Third pass.
Do it again.
Unless he comes out as a total fail, we can't use it as leverage, and that doesn't seem likely.
Probably knows how to beat the machine.
Brother Donnie passed too.
[SIGHS.]
Forensics got nothin' at the house or from the truck.
We're stuck.
For now.
[DOOR OPENS.]
Always nice to see you, Garland.
Agent.
Pure class.
- We start with breaking news - [HOLDEN.]
He passed, huh? - Authorities tell us - We both know that means nothing.
And while we were questioning the Hayseed brothers, DeKalb PD pulled number 20 out of the woods.
- It's believed to be that of - Goddamn it.
12-year-old Patrick Baltazar who disappeared only one week ago.
A source confirmed to Channel Five that police have found fiber evidence on the body.
Shit.
Fibers.
The lab has found carpet fibers on six so far.
But we've never released that information.
Now he knows we can retrieve evidence from the bodies.
He'll change his MO.
[TENCH.]
Yeah.
How is the question.
Nancy? [NANCY.]
Out back.
Hey, Nance.
I was thinking about the couch.
The couch? There's not much point in keeping it.
[EXHALES.]
Do we need a new couch? We got it when we moved in.
There's no point in paying movers for something like that.
[TENCH CLEARS THROAT.]
I thought we talked about that.
We decided to wait until the school year's over.
You decided.
He was in the bath today.
And for a minute, it was just like it used to be.
I was washing his hair, he was playing with that stupid boat of his.
I forgot what he'd done.
And for a minute, it was just me and my beautiful boy.
I got him out.
[EXHALES.]
Wrapped him in a towel.
Started brushing his hair.
And I saw us.
In the mirror.
The two of us.
Bath time.
And I was so relieved.
[EXHALES.]
Relieved? Relieved that he wasn't really mine.
His body didn't come from my body.
None of it was my fault.
You need to pick him up today.
- Okay.
- [TAPS ASHTRAY.]
Make him dinner, put him to bed.
I can do that.
I'm going out.
Where? [NANCY.]
To the mall, maybe.
I'm not sure.
- Will you be home for dinner? - [NANCY.]
I don't know, Bill.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[TAPS LOUDLY.]
Good to go.
I've got a conference room at the Omni.
A signed work order, a PO number, a vendor's bid.
- Agent Ford.
- [HOLDEN.]
Yes.
The concert's in less than four days.
Even on a rush, we'd barely get these printed in time.
- What? - [STOKES.]
We're looking at another three business days just to canvass the jurisdictions.
I'm sorry, but you're too late.
You're saying there's no possibility of Nope.
Not in this time frame.
Sorry.
If I can help with anything else, though [CHILDREN LAUGHING AND CLAMORING.]
[MAN 1.]
Come on, girls! Come on! [BOY.]
Here, catch.
[MAN 2.]
All right, guys.
Come on.
[WOMAN.]
Let's go! How was school? Same old, same old, huh? You have any homework? Okay.
How about you and I take a little adventure? - ["ARTHUR'S THEME" PLAYING.]
- When you get caught between the Moon - And New York City - [TENCH.]
How is it? [SMACKS LIPS.]
Mm! My dad used to take me for ice cream.
Right after we'd go fishin'.
- I ever tell you that? - [LIGHTER CLICKS.]
[TENCH.]
How my dad took me fishin'? [EXHALES.]
There was a lake about an hour from our house.
We'd get up early, around 5:00 a.
m.
I remember the first fish I caught.
Must have been about your age.
I'd never caught anything before.
He was just flappin' away.
Did the fish die? Eventually.
- ["ARTHUR'S THEME" FADES.]
- [EERIE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
Brian you and I have never talked about what happened.
So I can only guess how confusing and strange this all must be for you.
But I don't know because you won't talk to me.
I don't know if you're mad or sad.
I need to know that you're okay.
Or whatever it is, I just need to know.
Because this scares the shit out of me, Brian.
And I don't want to be afraid.
[PATRONS CHATTING AND LAUGHING.]
[SAXOPHONE SOLO PLAYING ON RADIO.]
When you get caught between the Moon - And New York City - [DAVIS.]
The Candy Man can 'Cause he mixes it with love And makes the world taste good [SINGERS.]
Makes the world taste good Oh, Candy Man, oh, Candy Man Oh, Candy Man - [SINGERS.]
Makes the world taste good - [DAVIS.]
Oh, Candy Man Oh, Candy Man - Oh, Candy Man - [AUDIENCE APPLAUDING AND CHEERING.]
Thank you.
Thank you, Atlanta.
[SINATRA.]
We love you, Atlanta.
[QUIETLY.]
He's here.
He has to be.
[SINATRA.]
We'd like to take a moment to recognize some very special members of our audience.
From all around the world, we've prayed for them, anguished with them.
Join us in showing them how much the world supports and loves them.
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING.]
[DAVIS.]
To these wonderful, strong mothers.
- It's like Sisyphus.
- [DAVIS.]
To lose a child Push the ball up the hill, watch it roll back down.
[DAVIS.]
We cannot let this go unheeded - or unanswered.
- [SIGHS.]
- [DAVIS CONTINUES SPEAKING.]
- How are we supposed to do anything? We advise, we consult, but we can't actually do anything.
We're just watching kids get butchered and thrown into the woods.
- [QUIETLY.]
Holden.
- What? - [DAVIS.]
your incredible strength.
- Shut up.
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS.]
I know he's here, in this building.
And we didn't do a goddamn thing.
- [SINATRA.]
Justice will prevail.
- [BARNEY.]
We tried.
- I'm sick of trying.
- [SINATRA.]
Honorable people will triumph over evil.
[HOLDEN.]
He's learned.
No more fibers.
Any ID? Not confirmed, but they think it's Curtis Walker.
Missing about three weeks.
- [HOLDEN.]
Where have you been? - [TENCH.]
Just landed.
- We got people working on his timeline? - Yeah.
We're all over that.
We should re-canvass where he was last seen.
Let's check boat ramps upstream.
Someone may have seen a vehicle.
We've all watched Dragnet, Bill.
Can I talk to you for a minute? Twenty-one victims.
No suspects.
And the guy I'm supposed to lean on, if he's even around, has to be brought up to speed? Holden, this is not the time or place.
You're only half here when you are here, and you're only here half the time.
I'm asking you nicely I'm sorry that you're having family issues, but you're either in or you're out.
I'm doing the absolute best I can.
Well, it's not enough.
First of all, you may lean on me, but I don't work for you.
And the family issue I'm dealing with happens to be that my seven-year-old son watched three other children murder a toddler.
So when I'm not in Atlanta, I'm taking him to a child psychiatrist, dealing with the commonwealth attorney, enduring visits from social services, and trying to keep a marriage to the woman I love from crashing and burning.
Bill, I'm sorry I don't need your sympathy.
And you're right.
I should be out, taking care of my issues.
But Ted Gunn sent me down here to make sure you don't do anything stupid to jeopardize our debut on the big stage.
So you want to help me? Show some fucking professionalism so we don't look like we got off a plane with a suspect we're tailoring all of our insights to support.
And you look anxious.
Take a fucking Valium.
The ME says he's been in the water more than ten days.
Could have floated downstream from Johnson Ferry, Morgan Falls, anywhere.
We have to stake out the rivers.
Do you have any idea how many access points there are - on these rivers? - [TENCH.]
He's right.
This is what he's gonna do now.
So how do we cover hundreds of miles of riverbank? [BARNEY.]
I grew up on these rivers.
If you want something to go with the current, drop it in the middle.
We cover the bridges.
Fourteen bridges.
Set up scouts under the bridges on either side.
Constant surveillance from sundown to sunrise.
Two cars per bridge, two officers per car.
At least one agent at each location.
- How long? - It could be days, weeks.
But we know where to look.
And are we stopping every car? What What's the plan here? We're looking for a very specific person.
Black male, early 20s to early 30s.
And regardless of race or age, he would be stopping, maybe driving across several times, slowing down, assessing the dump site.
We may even get lucky and catch him in the act.
That's a lot of manpower.
And we'd be putting all our eggs in one basket.
What if I got all our men crouched by the Chattahoochee, and he doesn't dump them in the river? [TENCH.]
Sir, we've made no progress.
If Holden says this is the way to find the guy, I think it's time we listen.
[REDDING.]
Use recruits.
Can't carry a weapon, but they can be eyes and ears.
[TENCH.]
Thank you, sir.
Four weeks.
If it takes longer, we'll just, uh figure that out when we get there.
- Thank you.
- I do hope this works, gentlemen.
[CRICKETS CHIRPING.]
- Cube truck.
- [RADIO BEEPS.]
[FROGS CROAKING.]
Tonight's box score: one vehicle every 20 minutes.
- Someplace you'd rather be? - [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
Watching Boston bring it to the Sixers.
- Celtics fan? - I love to watch a white man jump.
[CHUCKLES.]
[GRUNTS, EXHALES.]
[CAR APPROACHES.]
[HOLDEN.]
Finally.
- Thank you, Lewis.
- [LEWIS.]
No problem.
I'd rather be running coffee than sitting out here in the weeds all night.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- [LEWIS.]
Can't stay awake no more.
Nights are rough.
When we get him, it'll be worth it.
We don't even know who we looking for.
- We have some pretty good ideas.
- [LEWIS.]
God's truth? Profile's bullshit.
Some black guy's running around killing black kids? No way.
This is the South.
White folks kill black folks down here.
No psychological mumbo jumbo's gonna change that.
When we catch him, it's gonna be some cracker with half his teeth missing.
All right.
I didn't make it up.
[REPORTER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV.]
What? I ran experiments.
Inner-city kids would not get into a car, even for the money, unless the driver was black.
"Inner-city"? That's a fairly general term.
What neighborhood were you in? Gilmor Homes.
In Sandtown.
Sandtown.
Baltimore? [SCOFFS.]
Atlanta's not Baltimore.
Those projects are rough.
Most of these neighborhoods are families.
They're just poor.
But you agree we'd have witnesses if it was a white perpetrator - picking up these kids.
- Not necessarily.
A lot of these places are mixed.
Lakewood area, mall parking lots.
[SIGHS.]
Look, I think the theory has some common sense.
But we see someone dump a body off a bridge, profile's not gonna matter much.
It'll matter to me.
Reports are filed.
Your turn tomorrow.
One Irish whiskey, please.
Thanks.
Can you turn that up? last spotted at a rally that was held on the Morehouse College campus.
- [LIGHTER CLICKS.]
- Anyone having information on his whereabouts is encouraged to call the Atlanta task force tip line.
[MAN.]
Hill is a resident of the southwest Atlanta neighborhood Techwood Homes, which last night was the scene of a police raid on the so-called "Bat Patrol.
" The group was founded to provide protection to children in a neighborhood plagued by the murders of several young people.
Police arrested two members who are accused of weapons violations including possessing baseball bats wrapped with barbed wire.
That's what the commissioner meant by vigilantes.
It won't help.
Most of these kids disappeared in broad daylight.
What if they were your kids? [TENCH.]
If it was my kid, I'd be out there with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.
[CAMILLE.]
This city is persecuting a community that has already suffered in the deepest way.
Timothy Hill is missing from that very neighborhood.
And we know what missing means.
Missing, in Atlanta, means dead.
[FEMALE REPORTER.]
As we've been reporting, the investigation - What if he doesn't show? - He has to.
[FEMALE REPORTER.]
has put a serious crunch on the city's budget.
- [ENGINE REVS.]
- [RADIO BLARING.]
And ME, I eat dust We're all so run down I'd call it my death But I'll only fade away And I hate to fade alone Now there's only ME We were so sure We were so wrong Now it's over But there's no one left to see - And there's no one left to die - [MOSQUITO BUZZES.]
There's only ME [MOSQUITO BUZZES.]
[MOSQUITO BUZZES.]
[MOSQUITOES BUZZING.]
[SONG CONTINUES PLAYING.]
[MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
[SIGHS.]
[PLATES CLATTERING IN TIME WITH SYNTH BEAT.]
[FEEDBACK WHINES.]
[BANGS.]
[SIGHS.]
[URINATING.]
[REDDING.]
Five weeks of surveillance.
Twenty-eight cars a night.
Overtime for 42 officers per day, camped out on every bridge in Metropolitan Atlanta.
Food.
Gas.
And all we got is more bodies.
[HOLDEN.]
Timothy Hill, Jo-Jo Bell, Eddie Duncan, the last five have exclusively been in the rivers.
We're not out there to find more bodies.
We're out there to find a suspect.
I was telling Jim Surveillance is the only actionable course we have right now.
Otherwise, we're just re-treading old leads.
I can't move the numbers around anymore.
I was tellin' Jim, the city's looking at overages I can't hide, and they can't cover.
Even working the recruits at intern wages.
I have to shut it down.
- This is our last week.
- You can't do that.
We're out of money.
No two ways about it.
Sorry.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
Hello, you've reached Dr.
Wendy Carr.
Please - [MACHINE WHIRRING.]
- [PHONE RINGING.]
[MACHINE CLICKS.]
[WOMAN ON RECORDING.]
Hello.
The person you are calling is not available.
You may leave a message at the beep.
[ANSWERING MACHINE BEEPS.]
[KAY.]
Wen? Are you there? When did you get a machine? It It's me.
I don't know what's going on.
I I just want to talk.
I'm downstairs, if you're there.
I just need to know what's happening.
Please call me.
- God, I hope this is you.
- I'm coming down.
- You are there.
- [RECEIVER CLATTERS.]
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
- Can we talk? - Of course.
- Upstairs? - Here's fine.
- You're not returning my calls.
- I wasn't sure who was calling.
- What is that supposed to mean? - Please.
I didn't know your voice went that high.
With your husband.
Ex-husband.
And I told you that relationship was complicated.
- Why are you judging me? - I find it a little unnerving that someone who places honesty over everything else can lie quite so - Lie? - Looking for another job? Somewhere in Edgewood? You were a completely different person.
Oh, and you're always who you are? Yes, I manipulate my ex so that I can have some sort of relationship with my son.
- An inauthentic relationship.
- That is not your place to say.
You know, if you had even a modicum of the honesty that you're endlessly hocking [FOOTSTEPS PASSING.]
To think that you actually made me feel bad about myself.
[CLICKS TONGUE, SCOFFS.]
- This is not about me.
- [CARR.]
This is entirely about you.
- Lecturing me to be one way, while you - [KAY.]
I have never lectured you.
And if I have to change the tone of my voice when I talk to my son, that is light-years from a person who can't admit who they are.
This is about you.
You're right.
This is about me.
- [KEYPAD BEEPS.]
- [DOOR BUZZES.]
You want honesty? You're not who you think you are.
You're not free.
And you're not some enlightened being who's living her life to a higher standard.
You're a bartender who takes relationship advice from bus stop magazines.
I hope things work out for you.
[SIGHS.]
I'm feeling these nights more than I used to.
Only one more.
Unfortunately.
Breakfast? Can't do another French toast combo.
- Gonna go straight to bed.
- [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
See you tonight.
[SIGHS.]
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Hey.
It's okay.
Remember me? I'm Tanya's friend.
Arcade will be open in a little bit.
Here you go.
I don't do that.
What do you mean? I know what ten dollars buys.
A lot of Asteroids.
Here, you can have it.
Just stay inside.
Wait, what does ten dollars normally buy? Well, five for a picture.
Like a Polaroid? Yeah.
Did you know any of the kids who have gone missing? I knew some of 'em.
- [HOLDEN.]
Any of them take money? - A couple of 'em did.
Did they go to a brick house in Lakewood? Nah, the brown house by the stadium.
[TAKES A DEEP BREATH.]
Listen.
I'm with the FBI.
[REPORTER ON RADIO.]
for tonight.
Elsewhere today, Atlanta police say there's still no progress in the murder of 17-year-old William Barrett.
His body was found fully clothed in a wooded area off Winthrop Drive.
That breaks with the recent pattern of victims found in Atlanta's rivers.
Barrett is the 28th victim of the Atlanta Child Murderer.
After ten months of task force investigation, there have been no official suspects and no charges filed in any of the cases.
[HOLDEN.]
He's a minor, I couldn't press him for names.
[TENCH.]
Any chance his parents will let him talk to us? [HOLDEN.]
Finding the parents, getting cooperation, - it might be a challenge.
- [BARNEY.]
Guys, one second.
Annie Rogers just said Patrick never mentioned any house near the stadium.
But look at this.
She said he knew Curtis Walker from the neighborhood.
He was best friends with Timothy Hill's brother.
- He knew Eddie Duncan - [HOLDEN.]
Number 24.
And Jimmy Ray Payne.
Number 27.
Wait a minute.
Weren't Hill and Duncan's bodies found in almost the same spot? Within a few feet, less than 24 hours apart.
So we have some sort of personal or geographic connection between one, three, eight 15 of the 28 victims.
No shit.
[REDDING.]
All right, gentlemen, five o'clock.
Time to get to your rendezvous points.
Come on, boys.
Last ride.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[BARNEY.]
JD, you on desk tonight? - [JD.]
Yes, sir.
- [BARNEY.]
A project for you.
Known pedophiles.
See if any of them live near Fulton County Stadium, and if they have any connection to this house in Lakewood.
There's another box under my desk.
- Will do.
- [BARNEY.]
Thank you.
[RIVER FLOWING.]
[HOLDEN SIGHS.]
[THUNDER RUMBLING.]
[HOLDEN.]
Wake up.
[HOLDEN EXHALES.]
Everyone's falling asleep out there.
Everyone's falling asleep in here.
[HOLDEN HUFFS.]
[TENCH.]
So, these kids are vulnerable.
They're hustling to survive.
Some sell deodorizers, a few are in the trade.
A lot of them know each other.
Which means they tell each other which parking lots to work.
And somebody knows exactly where to find them.
It's not completely random.
- Some kids may know him.
- He may not even have to hunt.
If they're going to different houses There could be more than one "him.
" - Maybe I've been too - Myopic? [HOLDEN.]
Yeah.
[RIVER FLOWING.]
Everybody awake out there? [OVER RADIO.]
Campbell, Jacobs.
You guys there? - [CAMPBELL.]
Yes, we're here.
- [JACOBS.]
Awake here.
- [OFFICER 1.]
We're here.
- [CAMPBELL.]
I just heard a splash.
You got anybody on the bridge up there? I just heard a loud splash.
- [OFFICER 2.]
Side of the bridge.
- [OFFICER 3.]
Checking it out now.
[ENGINE REVVING.]
- [OFFICER 4.]
We have a white car.
- [BARNEY.]
Clear this channel.
- We have a car.
- [OFFICER 5.]
Copy that.
Lights just came on.
Looks like he could have been stopped.
[OFFICER 6.]
You're on.
Here we go.
[SIREN WAILS.]
We got a white station wagon coming across the Cobb Parkway Bridge.
East side.
[INDISTINCT, OVERLAPPING RADIO CHATTER.]
He's coming back across.
I'm pulling out.
[OFFICER 7.]
Cut him off at the other end.
Boys, let's get those lights on.
Let's go.
[SIREN WAILING.]
[THUNDER CONTINUES RUMBLING IN DISTANCE.]
[BRAKES SCREECH.]
["HELL IS FOR CHILDREN" PLAYING.]
Wayne Bertram Williams.
Do you know why we pulled you over, Mr.
Williams? I guess it must be about all those boys.
They cry in the dark So you can't see their tears They hide in the light So you can't see their fears Forgive and forget All the while Love and pain become one and the same In the eyes of a wounded child Because hell Hell is for children And you know that their little lives Can become such a mess Hell Hell is for children And you shouldn't have to pay For your love With your bones and your flesh It's all so confusing This brutal abusing They blacken your eyes And then apologize Be daddy's good girl And don't tell mommy a thing Be a good little boy And you'll get a new toy Tell grandma you fell off the swing Because hell Hell is for children And you shouldn't have to pay For your love With your bones and your flesh No! Hell is for children
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
[SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
- This is $100,000.
- [STEAM HISSING.]
And it's all yours if you'll help us identify the person or persons behind the murders of our children in Atlanta.
Somebody out there knows something, has seen something.
Please, come forward if you have any information.
Thank you.
[WOMAN.]
According to Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, the task force investigating the murders is costing taxpayers $150,000 per week.
In an effort to help Atlanta foot the bill, entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
has announced that he and pal Frank Sinatra will throw a charity concert here in Atlanta.
All proceeds will go toward the investigation.
- [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING.]
[GARLAND.]
Light it up, buddy.
That's it.
Well, these may be for shit.
It's so dark out here.
But unless he steps way out of bounds, possession may be all we got to squeeze him with if we get the chance.
Well Well, that [SIGHS.]
may have been the highlight of our entire evenin'.
Wow.
- And just nine hours to go.
- [SIGHS.]
Reboot? Ah I've been watchin' the Sanders do less than nothin' all my adult life.
They excel at it.
Missed most of my kids' birthdays watchin' 'em.
How many kids you got? Three.
[EXHALES.]
But they're popular, and it's a lot of fuckin' birthdays.
You want a snort? No, thank you.
These guys seem awfully quiet to be the operational arm of the Klan.
Well, Charles here is mainly a foot soldier, but his older brother, Don, is an officer in the local.
The big achiever in the family.
Uh, together, they got about as many brain cells as teeth.
Mostly they're into car theft, larceny, pot.
So, you think this is a waste of time? Every second I spend staring at a Sanders is a waste of time.
[SIGHS.]
They may be too ignorant to organize this crime wave, like some folks wanna believe, but there's a strong possibility they're involved in some of them.
See, one of these idiots may have figured, "This is an opportunity.
So many dead, hey, one more might get lost in the mix.
" Sadly, they're probably right.
- [SIPS.]
- [TENCH.]
We should've been lookin' at them from the start.
With a black mayor, you'd think [GARLAND.]
Oh, Maynard knows this city's a powder keg, underneath all that kum ba yah.
He's been looking hard at the Klan.
But he's smart enough to keep that under wraps until we bring back something undeniable.
[TAKES A DEEP BREATH.]
- [PHONE DIALING ON RADIO.]
- [SUCKS TEETH.]
Well, here we go - [LINE RINGING.]
- another scintillating conversation.
- [RECEIVER CLICKS.]
- [DON.]
Hello? [CHARLES.]
Hey, what's going on? [DON.]
Eh What are you up to? - That's the overachiever, Donnie.
- [CHARLES.]
Nothing.
Might just, you know, might go out and get me another kid.
[DON.]
See they found that Geter kid? [CHARLES.]
Yeah, fucked up my truck with that go-kart.
I told him I was gonna fucking kill his ass.
[DON CHUCKLES.]
Might go get another? [CHARLES.]
Just doin' the Lord's work.
Or I might just hit the hay.
[DON.]
All right.
Me too.
- See you tomorrow.
- [CHARLES.]
Yeah.
[LINE DISCONNECTS.]
- That enough for a warrant? - Even in Georgia.
Listen, after that plumber fiasco, the DA might not be that sympathetic to me.
I'll make a call in the mornin'.
[HOLDEN.]
We've been reduced to reacting to him.
The idea is to be proactive.
Exploit his compulsions, force him to reveal himself.
Sorry to interrupt, sir.
We got something last night.
Garland's putting in for a warrant.
Is it solid? 'Cause those boys have been hauled in so many times, they don't even call their lawyers.
Know the drill themselves.
It's not an admission, but the younger Sanders brother definitely knew Lubie and threatened to kill him.
The older brother confirmed it.
Get me transcripts.
Let's get anything corroborative we can, get 'em in here.
- Yes, sir.
- We were just presenting something to the chief.
[TENCH.]
Okay.
The benefit concert: Sammy Davis Jr.
and Frank Sinatra.
Gonna be a nightmare for us.
Half Atlanta'll be there.
[HOLDEN.]
Our guy will be too.
- [REDDING.]
How do you figure that? - He's going to volunteer.
For what? We put out a call for additional security.
In his mind, he'll be working directly with the investigation.
He won't be able to resist.
We work the profile on the applicants So we'll end up with a sizable group of black males between the ages of 20 and 30.
Exactly.
But are we narrowing the field too much? What if one of the Sanders brothers applied for your security job? Would we just ignore that? You're going to question your white supremacist, so there's no need to screen for him.
This is designed specifically to find men who fit our parameters.
It doesn't eliminate other evidence.
There'll be hundreds of applicants.
Free evening with Sinatra? And Sammy.
- Love Sammy.
He's the best.
- We interview the most likely.
Get their make of vehicle, education.
Maybe even their whereabouts for some of our timeline.
It shouldn't be difficult.
We know he's a talker.
How do we know that? How else is he getting kids into his car? You'll have to get permission from the commissioner for this one.
African-American? Drives a police-type vehicle.
Lives with parents or a close relative.
Owns a dog.
I have communities organizing vigilante patrols because of the Klan.
It's not the Klan.
It's statistically rare for serial killers to cross racial lines, sir.
It's also statistically significant that the Klan kills black people.
Do you know what will happen if word gets out that we're ignoring other leads to focus on a black suspect? [HOLDEN.]
The victimology is clear.
Aside from perception issues, this brings about questions of legality, - entrapment.
- Everything would be voluntary.
There'd be a real job, no false pretenses.
We have security firms that already have arrangements with the city.
Minority-owned businesses that the mayor and I have spent two terms working into the municipal contracting process.
I won't allow what amounts to be a fishing expedition to jeopardize that.
[BARNEY.]
Commissioner, we have no intention of undercutting those relationships, but we have 19 dead children and no suspect.
We do this, or we wait for more bodies.
[BROWN SIGHS.]
I want your assurance that your criteria is not spoken about outside of this room.
I don't want to hear from any quarter that we're looking for a black suspect.
Yes, sir.
[TAPS LOUDLY.]
Agent Ford? Sergeant Stokes.
Chief asked me to help you with the logistics for this whole security plan you got going on.
Yes, thank you.
[STOKES.]
Ah, so, what you need? Flyers? Advertising for volunteer security positions.
Concert night only.
Okay.
That sounds like a simple print job.
[HOLDEN.]
We'll need to get them placed You got your PO number? No.
How do I get that? You gotta get that off your work order.
See, this comes out of the city budget, and I can't do anything without a signed work order.
Okay.
Try to get one from someone we already have an account with for printing the flyers.
Makes it easier.
[HOLDEN.]
You aren't printing the flyers? No, sir.
We don't handle that in-house.
You need to talk to community relations, and they'll give you a list of outside vendors.
Well, let's assume I have a signed work order, a PO number, and a community relations vendor is printing the flyers.
What I need is distribution.
No problem.
Hit me.
Everywhere a body was recovered.
DeKalb, Fulton, Cobb, Rock What? You want all six counties? [HOLDEN.]
Yes.
[SIGHS.]
I hate to keep throwing you curveballs, but you need to get individual approval from each jurisdiction.
Now, I can't so much as distribute a Post-it without proper authority.
As soon as you get that, we'll get those flyers out.
- I promise you that.
- [TAPS PEN.]
[STOKES WHISTLING UPBEAT TUNE.]
[SMOOTH JAZZ PLAYING ON RADIO.]
[QUIETLY.]
They're running long today.
[NANCY.]
Mm.
[MAGAZINE RUSTLES.]
[QUIETLY.]
Do you like our house? - What? - It doesn't feel small? You're always going on about a workshop.
[SIGHS.]
I've been looking at comps.
- We could sell for a profit.
- [AT NORMAL VOLUME.]
Sell our house? Afford some more square footage.
Maybe a two-story.
I was thinking about something closer to Alexandria.
A little more cultured.
The schools would be better.
An opportunity to meet new people.
It could be an adventure.
[QUIETLY.]
Where is this coming from? We could do a short escrow.
Be out in six weeks.
Nance did something happen? I am thinking of Brian.
Is this really the right time for him? Could there be a better time? Let's talk about it when I finish in Atlanta.
And when will that be? I just don't think we should move him out of his routine.
If that's what's best for him.
What about what's best for us? [DOOR OPENS.]
[MORITZ.]
Okay.
Let's go find your parents.
- Oh, hi, sweetie.
- [MORITZ.]
Here they are.
Thank you.
Hey, honey.
- [KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
- Door's open! - ["DANCING BAREFOOT" PLAYING ON RADIO.]
- She is Addicted to thee [KAY.]
Almost ready! Give me two minutes! Take your time.
I'm early.
[KAY.]
I called the restaurant.
They don't take reservations.
Okay.
Here I go, and I don't know why I flow so ceaselessly Could it be he's taking over me Hello, gorgeous.
- Hi.
- May I? [CARR.]
Must you? I'm practically wearing flats.
Now I have to rethink everything.
You still want to try Chinese? I can't vouch for this place one way or another.
Yeah.
I think we should be adventurous.
[KAY.]
Chinese in suburban Virginia.
Pretty adventurous.
[RADIO CLICKS OFF.]
Ready.
[CARR.]
I'd like to talk before we go.
Okay.
I've had a lot of time and a lot of reasons to think.
You're right.
I need to be more forthright in asking for what I want.
And I want you, Kay.
I don't care how, where.
We can do this at our own pace.
I just want to be [CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
- Mm.
- We can't be late if they don't take reservations.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
Well, do you think that they'll deliver? [CHUCKLES.]
[DOORBELL RINGING.]
Shit.
Oh, I swapped weekends.
I forgot.
- [CARR.]
What? - Fuck.
Just wait here, okay? - Who is it? - [KAY.]
Just wait for a minute.
[FOOTSTEPS.]
- [DOOR OPENS.]
- [BOY.]
Hi, Mom.
[KAY, IN HIGH-PITCHED TONE.]
Nicky! Hi, kiddo! Tom, good to see you.
Hi, Mandy! [TOM.]
You remember we're not picking him up till Monday night, right? - We're out of town.
- [KAY.]
Of course.
We finally get some sleeps together.
- [TOM.]
Were you on your way out? - [KAY.]
No.
I was just No.
[TOM.]
He has to be in homeroom by the 8:20 bell.
[KAY.]
Not a problem.
We'll be early.
Right, buddy? [TOM.]
So, you still working at that bar? [KAY.]
Don't start.
It's not so bad.
[TOM.]
That was supposed to be temporary.
[KAY.]
And I'm still looking for something permanent.
[TOM.]
And this apartment was just for a few months.
- Remember? - [KAY.]
I'm working on it.
I'm thinking about Edgewood.
It's really nice over there.
Hey, whoa! Nicky.
You wanna go double-check the car? Make sure you didn't forget anything? [NICKY, SLOWLY.]
Okay.
[KAY.]
Whoa! Enough with the attitude, Little League.
[TOM.]
Can I come up for a minute? [KAY.]
It's not really a great time right now.
- [TOM.]
Is there someone here? - [KAY.]
No, no.
[TOM.]
Um, okay.
[KAY.]
Actually, Tom, I might introduce Nick to a friend this weekend.
[TOM.]
Kay, we already talked about that.
- [KAY.]
I know.
I just - [TOM.]
He needs structure.
Stability.
Nothing about the divorce was easy for him.
[KAY.]
Of course.
Sure.
You're absolutely right.
It's fine.
[TOM.]
Is it someone important? [KAY.]
No, no.
It's nothing like that.
It's nothing.
Whoa, buddy, got your backpack with your homework? - [NICKY.]
I don't have any.
- [KAY.]
So say goodbye.
Thanks, Tom.
Come on, buddy.
Everything's right where you left it.
I found your baseball bat.
It was in the trunk.
Now, we've got bigger spaces, the ballroom.
[HOLDEN.]
No, this is perfect.
We'll set up an interview area.
Do a sign-in desk here: names, addresses.
[TENCH.]
We should include their consent and videotape them.
May I ask why the FBI is holding job interviews? The city is holding interviews.
We're just facilitating them.
You think he's going to apply? There's a possibility.
Well, I'll block the room out.
I'll call it a non-profit event, so there's just a facility charge.
- We appreciate it.
- [TANYA.]
Of course.
- [RECEIVERS CLATTERING.]
- [BOY.]
Hey! Get off of me, man! Excuse me.
Freeze! Calvin, what is wrong with y'all? This is my place of business.
You better not be running through here like that.
You get thrown out of here, where you gonna go? Huh? The streets? - Yes, ma'am.
- [TANYA.]
Uh-uh, look at me.
If either one of y'all end up on the side of a road, I will kill you.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- [TANYA.]
Now go on back to the arcade.
We ain't got nothin' to do there.
[PURSE UNZIPS.]
[GASPS.]
[TANYA.]
Twenty dollars is all I got today.
Uh-uh! Now, I'd tell you to bring me change, but y'all split it.
- You staying at your aunt's now? - Mm-hmm.
[TANYA.]
Then y'all make it last till you can go straight there.
- Y'all hear me? - [CALVIN.]
Yes, ma'am.
[BOYS LAUGHING AND CHATTING EXCITEDLY.]
[TENCH.]
Twenty dollars is a lot of Atari.
It's the only thing that keeps them inside.
Do you get a lot of kids hanging out unsupervised? Well, they like the arcade.
It's open till ten.
Might be the safest place they can be.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[OVERLAPPING SOUND EFFECTS PLAYING ON ARCADE GAMES.]
[HOLDEN.]
We should put flyers in here too.
- Yeah.
- Hunting ground.
[TENCH.]
I imagine you've been following what's been going on in Atlanta? Braves are shit.
Ought to fire Bobby Cox.
- Garland here agrees with me.
- About the only thing we agree on.
I believe Agent Tench is referring to the 19 murdered children.
Well, now, that there is just frustratin'.
Frustratin'? All them searches tying up traffic.
Ever met a boy named Lubie Geter? No.
[SNIFFLES.]
- [CLICKS.]
- [CHARLES ON RECORDING.]
You know, might go out and get me another kid.
[DON.]
See they found that Geter kid? [CHARLES.]
Yeah, fucked up my truck with that go-kart.
I told him I was gonna fucking kill his ass.
- [DON CHUCKLES.]
Might go get - [PLAYER CLICKS.]
Ring any bells? Remember him now.
Fucked up a brand-new paint job.
[GARLAND.]
We have a witness.
Works the parking lot where Lubie disappeared.
He remembers the incident.
Said you were real fired up about it.
- I do love my truck.
- And you hate blacks.
That's not what I call 'em.
But yeah, amongst some other folks, I hate niggers.
But hate ain't a crime.
I'm allowed to hate whoever I want.
It's in the Constitution.
We found Lubie Geter strangled to death shortly after that incident.
Okay.
Okay? What did you mean by "go out and get me another one"? I reckon, uh you're tappin' my phone, you must be watching me too, so did I go out and get me another one? See, that's in the Constitution too.
I can feel anything I want, and I can say anything I want.
Don't hurt nobody.
Y'all ought to be thanking me.
At least I'm trying to protect our way of life.
Through lawful gatherin' and free speech.
[GARLAND.]
By "way of life," you mean burglary, drug trafficking, - a little larceny on the side? - [CHARLES.]
What you got, Garland? Bag of weed in my closet? Maybe a new muffler? Go ahead.
I get a lawyer down here, I'll be out in two hours.
How about you? This ain't worth your time? Don't look like it much as you checking that watch.
[SCOFFS.]
How about we cut to the chase.
Y'all give me a lie detector test, and I can be on my way.
[SUCKS TEETH.]
Third pass.
Do it again.
Unless he comes out as a total fail, we can't use it as leverage, and that doesn't seem likely.
Probably knows how to beat the machine.
Brother Donnie passed too.
[SIGHS.]
Forensics got nothin' at the house or from the truck.
We're stuck.
For now.
[DOOR OPENS.]
Always nice to see you, Garland.
Agent.
Pure class.
- We start with breaking news - [HOLDEN.]
He passed, huh? - Authorities tell us - We both know that means nothing.
And while we were questioning the Hayseed brothers, DeKalb PD pulled number 20 out of the woods.
- It's believed to be that of - Goddamn it.
12-year-old Patrick Baltazar who disappeared only one week ago.
A source confirmed to Channel Five that police have found fiber evidence on the body.
Shit.
Fibers.
The lab has found carpet fibers on six so far.
But we've never released that information.
Now he knows we can retrieve evidence from the bodies.
He'll change his MO.
[TENCH.]
Yeah.
How is the question.
Nancy? [NANCY.]
Out back.
Hey, Nance.
I was thinking about the couch.
The couch? There's not much point in keeping it.
[EXHALES.]
Do we need a new couch? We got it when we moved in.
There's no point in paying movers for something like that.
[TENCH CLEARS THROAT.]
I thought we talked about that.
We decided to wait until the school year's over.
You decided.
He was in the bath today.
And for a minute, it was just like it used to be.
I was washing his hair, he was playing with that stupid boat of his.
I forgot what he'd done.
And for a minute, it was just me and my beautiful boy.
I got him out.
[EXHALES.]
Wrapped him in a towel.
Started brushing his hair.
And I saw us.
In the mirror.
The two of us.
Bath time.
And I was so relieved.
[EXHALES.]
Relieved? Relieved that he wasn't really mine.
His body didn't come from my body.
None of it was my fault.
You need to pick him up today.
- Okay.
- [TAPS ASHTRAY.]
Make him dinner, put him to bed.
I can do that.
I'm going out.
Where? [NANCY.]
To the mall, maybe.
I'm not sure.
- Will you be home for dinner? - [NANCY.]
I don't know, Bill.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[TAPS LOUDLY.]
Good to go.
I've got a conference room at the Omni.
A signed work order, a PO number, a vendor's bid.
- Agent Ford.
- [HOLDEN.]
Yes.
The concert's in less than four days.
Even on a rush, we'd barely get these printed in time.
- What? - [STOKES.]
We're looking at another three business days just to canvass the jurisdictions.
I'm sorry, but you're too late.
You're saying there's no possibility of Nope.
Not in this time frame.
Sorry.
If I can help with anything else, though [CHILDREN LAUGHING AND CLAMORING.]
[MAN 1.]
Come on, girls! Come on! [BOY.]
Here, catch.
[MAN 2.]
All right, guys.
Come on.
[WOMAN.]
Let's go! How was school? Same old, same old, huh? You have any homework? Okay.
How about you and I take a little adventure? - ["ARTHUR'S THEME" PLAYING.]
- When you get caught between the Moon - And New York City - [TENCH.]
How is it? [SMACKS LIPS.]
Mm! My dad used to take me for ice cream.
Right after we'd go fishin'.
- I ever tell you that? - [LIGHTER CLICKS.]
[TENCH.]
How my dad took me fishin'? [EXHALES.]
There was a lake about an hour from our house.
We'd get up early, around 5:00 a.
m.
I remember the first fish I caught.
Must have been about your age.
I'd never caught anything before.
He was just flappin' away.
Did the fish die? Eventually.
- ["ARTHUR'S THEME" FADES.]
- [EERIE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
Brian you and I have never talked about what happened.
So I can only guess how confusing and strange this all must be for you.
But I don't know because you won't talk to me.
I don't know if you're mad or sad.
I need to know that you're okay.
Or whatever it is, I just need to know.
Because this scares the shit out of me, Brian.
And I don't want to be afraid.
[PATRONS CHATTING AND LAUGHING.]
[SAXOPHONE SOLO PLAYING ON RADIO.]
When you get caught between the Moon - And New York City - [DAVIS.]
The Candy Man can 'Cause he mixes it with love And makes the world taste good [SINGERS.]
Makes the world taste good Oh, Candy Man, oh, Candy Man Oh, Candy Man - [SINGERS.]
Makes the world taste good - [DAVIS.]
Oh, Candy Man Oh, Candy Man - Oh, Candy Man - [AUDIENCE APPLAUDING AND CHEERING.]
Thank you.
Thank you, Atlanta.
[SINATRA.]
We love you, Atlanta.
[QUIETLY.]
He's here.
He has to be.
[SINATRA.]
We'd like to take a moment to recognize some very special members of our audience.
From all around the world, we've prayed for them, anguished with them.
Join us in showing them how much the world supports and loves them.
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING.]
[DAVIS.]
To these wonderful, strong mothers.
- It's like Sisyphus.
- [DAVIS.]
To lose a child Push the ball up the hill, watch it roll back down.
[DAVIS.]
We cannot let this go unheeded - or unanswered.
- [SIGHS.]
- [DAVIS CONTINUES SPEAKING.]
- How are we supposed to do anything? We advise, we consult, but we can't actually do anything.
We're just watching kids get butchered and thrown into the woods.
- [QUIETLY.]
Holden.
- What? - [DAVIS.]
your incredible strength.
- Shut up.
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS.]
I know he's here, in this building.
And we didn't do a goddamn thing.
- [SINATRA.]
Justice will prevail.
- [BARNEY.]
We tried.
- I'm sick of trying.
- [SINATRA.]
Honorable people will triumph over evil.
[HOLDEN.]
He's learned.
No more fibers.
Any ID? Not confirmed, but they think it's Curtis Walker.
Missing about three weeks.
- [HOLDEN.]
Where have you been? - [TENCH.]
Just landed.
- We got people working on his timeline? - Yeah.
We're all over that.
We should re-canvass where he was last seen.
Let's check boat ramps upstream.
Someone may have seen a vehicle.
We've all watched Dragnet, Bill.
Can I talk to you for a minute? Twenty-one victims.
No suspects.
And the guy I'm supposed to lean on, if he's even around, has to be brought up to speed? Holden, this is not the time or place.
You're only half here when you are here, and you're only here half the time.
I'm asking you nicely I'm sorry that you're having family issues, but you're either in or you're out.
I'm doing the absolute best I can.
Well, it's not enough.
First of all, you may lean on me, but I don't work for you.
And the family issue I'm dealing with happens to be that my seven-year-old son watched three other children murder a toddler.
So when I'm not in Atlanta, I'm taking him to a child psychiatrist, dealing with the commonwealth attorney, enduring visits from social services, and trying to keep a marriage to the woman I love from crashing and burning.
Bill, I'm sorry I don't need your sympathy.
And you're right.
I should be out, taking care of my issues.
But Ted Gunn sent me down here to make sure you don't do anything stupid to jeopardize our debut on the big stage.
So you want to help me? Show some fucking professionalism so we don't look like we got off a plane with a suspect we're tailoring all of our insights to support.
And you look anxious.
Take a fucking Valium.
The ME says he's been in the water more than ten days.
Could have floated downstream from Johnson Ferry, Morgan Falls, anywhere.
We have to stake out the rivers.
Do you have any idea how many access points there are - on these rivers? - [TENCH.]
He's right.
This is what he's gonna do now.
So how do we cover hundreds of miles of riverbank? [BARNEY.]
I grew up on these rivers.
If you want something to go with the current, drop it in the middle.
We cover the bridges.
Fourteen bridges.
Set up scouts under the bridges on either side.
Constant surveillance from sundown to sunrise.
Two cars per bridge, two officers per car.
At least one agent at each location.
- How long? - It could be days, weeks.
But we know where to look.
And are we stopping every car? What What's the plan here? We're looking for a very specific person.
Black male, early 20s to early 30s.
And regardless of race or age, he would be stopping, maybe driving across several times, slowing down, assessing the dump site.
We may even get lucky and catch him in the act.
That's a lot of manpower.
And we'd be putting all our eggs in one basket.
What if I got all our men crouched by the Chattahoochee, and he doesn't dump them in the river? [TENCH.]
Sir, we've made no progress.
If Holden says this is the way to find the guy, I think it's time we listen.
[REDDING.]
Use recruits.
Can't carry a weapon, but they can be eyes and ears.
[TENCH.]
Thank you, sir.
Four weeks.
If it takes longer, we'll just, uh figure that out when we get there.
- Thank you.
- I do hope this works, gentlemen.
[CRICKETS CHIRPING.]
- Cube truck.
- [RADIO BEEPS.]
[FROGS CROAKING.]
Tonight's box score: one vehicle every 20 minutes.
- Someplace you'd rather be? - [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
Watching Boston bring it to the Sixers.
- Celtics fan? - I love to watch a white man jump.
[CHUCKLES.]
[GRUNTS, EXHALES.]
[CAR APPROACHES.]
[HOLDEN.]
Finally.
- Thank you, Lewis.
- [LEWIS.]
No problem.
I'd rather be running coffee than sitting out here in the weeds all night.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- [LEWIS.]
Can't stay awake no more.
Nights are rough.
When we get him, it'll be worth it.
We don't even know who we looking for.
- We have some pretty good ideas.
- [LEWIS.]
God's truth? Profile's bullshit.
Some black guy's running around killing black kids? No way.
This is the South.
White folks kill black folks down here.
No psychological mumbo jumbo's gonna change that.
When we catch him, it's gonna be some cracker with half his teeth missing.
All right.
I didn't make it up.
[REPORTER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV.]
What? I ran experiments.
Inner-city kids would not get into a car, even for the money, unless the driver was black.
"Inner-city"? That's a fairly general term.
What neighborhood were you in? Gilmor Homes.
In Sandtown.
Sandtown.
Baltimore? [SCOFFS.]
Atlanta's not Baltimore.
Those projects are rough.
Most of these neighborhoods are families.
They're just poor.
But you agree we'd have witnesses if it was a white perpetrator - picking up these kids.
- Not necessarily.
A lot of these places are mixed.
Lakewood area, mall parking lots.
[SIGHS.]
Look, I think the theory has some common sense.
But we see someone dump a body off a bridge, profile's not gonna matter much.
It'll matter to me.
Reports are filed.
Your turn tomorrow.
One Irish whiskey, please.
Thanks.
Can you turn that up? last spotted at a rally that was held on the Morehouse College campus.
- [LIGHTER CLICKS.]
- Anyone having information on his whereabouts is encouraged to call the Atlanta task force tip line.
[MAN.]
Hill is a resident of the southwest Atlanta neighborhood Techwood Homes, which last night was the scene of a police raid on the so-called "Bat Patrol.
" The group was founded to provide protection to children in a neighborhood plagued by the murders of several young people.
Police arrested two members who are accused of weapons violations including possessing baseball bats wrapped with barbed wire.
That's what the commissioner meant by vigilantes.
It won't help.
Most of these kids disappeared in broad daylight.
What if they were your kids? [TENCH.]
If it was my kid, I'd be out there with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.
[CAMILLE.]
This city is persecuting a community that has already suffered in the deepest way.
Timothy Hill is missing from that very neighborhood.
And we know what missing means.
Missing, in Atlanta, means dead.
[FEMALE REPORTER.]
As we've been reporting, the investigation - What if he doesn't show? - He has to.
[FEMALE REPORTER.]
has put a serious crunch on the city's budget.
- [ENGINE REVS.]
- [RADIO BLARING.]
And ME, I eat dust We're all so run down I'd call it my death But I'll only fade away And I hate to fade alone Now there's only ME We were so sure We were so wrong Now it's over But there's no one left to see - And there's no one left to die - [MOSQUITO BUZZES.]
There's only ME [MOSQUITO BUZZES.]
[MOSQUITO BUZZES.]
[MOSQUITOES BUZZING.]
[SONG CONTINUES PLAYING.]
[MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
[SIGHS.]
[PLATES CLATTERING IN TIME WITH SYNTH BEAT.]
[FEEDBACK WHINES.]
[BANGS.]
[SIGHS.]
[URINATING.]
[REDDING.]
Five weeks of surveillance.
Twenty-eight cars a night.
Overtime for 42 officers per day, camped out on every bridge in Metropolitan Atlanta.
Food.
Gas.
And all we got is more bodies.
[HOLDEN.]
Timothy Hill, Jo-Jo Bell, Eddie Duncan, the last five have exclusively been in the rivers.
We're not out there to find more bodies.
We're out there to find a suspect.
I was telling Jim Surveillance is the only actionable course we have right now.
Otherwise, we're just re-treading old leads.
I can't move the numbers around anymore.
I was tellin' Jim, the city's looking at overages I can't hide, and they can't cover.
Even working the recruits at intern wages.
I have to shut it down.
- This is our last week.
- You can't do that.
We're out of money.
No two ways about it.
Sorry.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
Hello, you've reached Dr.
Wendy Carr.
Please - [MACHINE WHIRRING.]
- [PHONE RINGING.]
[MACHINE CLICKS.]
[WOMAN ON RECORDING.]
Hello.
The person you are calling is not available.
You may leave a message at the beep.
[ANSWERING MACHINE BEEPS.]
[KAY.]
Wen? Are you there? When did you get a machine? It It's me.
I don't know what's going on.
I I just want to talk.
I'm downstairs, if you're there.
I just need to know what's happening.
Please call me.
- God, I hope this is you.
- I'm coming down.
- You are there.
- [RECEIVER CLATTERS.]
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
- Can we talk? - Of course.
- Upstairs? - Here's fine.
- You're not returning my calls.
- I wasn't sure who was calling.
- What is that supposed to mean? - Please.
I didn't know your voice went that high.
With your husband.
Ex-husband.
And I told you that relationship was complicated.
- Why are you judging me? - I find it a little unnerving that someone who places honesty over everything else can lie quite so - Lie? - Looking for another job? Somewhere in Edgewood? You were a completely different person.
Oh, and you're always who you are? Yes, I manipulate my ex so that I can have some sort of relationship with my son.
- An inauthentic relationship.
- That is not your place to say.
You know, if you had even a modicum of the honesty that you're endlessly hocking [FOOTSTEPS PASSING.]
To think that you actually made me feel bad about myself.
[CLICKS TONGUE, SCOFFS.]
- This is not about me.
- [CARR.]
This is entirely about you.
- Lecturing me to be one way, while you - [KAY.]
I have never lectured you.
And if I have to change the tone of my voice when I talk to my son, that is light-years from a person who can't admit who they are.
This is about you.
You're right.
This is about me.
- [KEYPAD BEEPS.]
- [DOOR BUZZES.]
You want honesty? You're not who you think you are.
You're not free.
And you're not some enlightened being who's living her life to a higher standard.
You're a bartender who takes relationship advice from bus stop magazines.
I hope things work out for you.
[SIGHS.]
I'm feeling these nights more than I used to.
Only one more.
Unfortunately.
Breakfast? Can't do another French toast combo.
- Gonna go straight to bed.
- [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
See you tonight.
[SIGHS.]
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Hey.
It's okay.
Remember me? I'm Tanya's friend.
Arcade will be open in a little bit.
Here you go.
I don't do that.
What do you mean? I know what ten dollars buys.
A lot of Asteroids.
Here, you can have it.
Just stay inside.
Wait, what does ten dollars normally buy? Well, five for a picture.
Like a Polaroid? Yeah.
Did you know any of the kids who have gone missing? I knew some of 'em.
- [HOLDEN.]
Any of them take money? - A couple of 'em did.
Did they go to a brick house in Lakewood? Nah, the brown house by the stadium.
[TAKES A DEEP BREATH.]
Listen.
I'm with the FBI.
[REPORTER ON RADIO.]
for tonight.
Elsewhere today, Atlanta police say there's still no progress in the murder of 17-year-old William Barrett.
His body was found fully clothed in a wooded area off Winthrop Drive.
That breaks with the recent pattern of victims found in Atlanta's rivers.
Barrett is the 28th victim of the Atlanta Child Murderer.
After ten months of task force investigation, there have been no official suspects and no charges filed in any of the cases.
[HOLDEN.]
He's a minor, I couldn't press him for names.
[TENCH.]
Any chance his parents will let him talk to us? [HOLDEN.]
Finding the parents, getting cooperation, - it might be a challenge.
- [BARNEY.]
Guys, one second.
Annie Rogers just said Patrick never mentioned any house near the stadium.
But look at this.
She said he knew Curtis Walker from the neighborhood.
He was best friends with Timothy Hill's brother.
- He knew Eddie Duncan - [HOLDEN.]
Number 24.
And Jimmy Ray Payne.
Number 27.
Wait a minute.
Weren't Hill and Duncan's bodies found in almost the same spot? Within a few feet, less than 24 hours apart.
So we have some sort of personal or geographic connection between one, three, eight 15 of the 28 victims.
No shit.
[REDDING.]
All right, gentlemen, five o'clock.
Time to get to your rendezvous points.
Come on, boys.
Last ride.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[BARNEY.]
JD, you on desk tonight? - [JD.]
Yes, sir.
- [BARNEY.]
A project for you.
Known pedophiles.
See if any of them live near Fulton County Stadium, and if they have any connection to this house in Lakewood.
There's another box under my desk.
- Will do.
- [BARNEY.]
Thank you.
[RIVER FLOWING.]
[HOLDEN SIGHS.]
[THUNDER RUMBLING.]
[HOLDEN.]
Wake up.
[HOLDEN EXHALES.]
Everyone's falling asleep out there.
Everyone's falling asleep in here.
[HOLDEN HUFFS.]
[TENCH.]
So, these kids are vulnerable.
They're hustling to survive.
Some sell deodorizers, a few are in the trade.
A lot of them know each other.
Which means they tell each other which parking lots to work.
And somebody knows exactly where to find them.
It's not completely random.
- Some kids may know him.
- He may not even have to hunt.
If they're going to different houses There could be more than one "him.
" - Maybe I've been too - Myopic? [HOLDEN.]
Yeah.
[RIVER FLOWING.]
Everybody awake out there? [OVER RADIO.]
Campbell, Jacobs.
You guys there? - [CAMPBELL.]
Yes, we're here.
- [JACOBS.]
Awake here.
- [OFFICER 1.]
We're here.
- [CAMPBELL.]
I just heard a splash.
You got anybody on the bridge up there? I just heard a loud splash.
- [OFFICER 2.]
Side of the bridge.
- [OFFICER 3.]
Checking it out now.
[ENGINE REVVING.]
- [OFFICER 4.]
We have a white car.
- [BARNEY.]
Clear this channel.
- We have a car.
- [OFFICER 5.]
Copy that.
Lights just came on.
Looks like he could have been stopped.
[OFFICER 6.]
You're on.
Here we go.
[SIREN WAILS.]
We got a white station wagon coming across the Cobb Parkway Bridge.
East side.
[INDISTINCT, OVERLAPPING RADIO CHATTER.]
He's coming back across.
I'm pulling out.
[OFFICER 7.]
Cut him off at the other end.
Boys, let's get those lights on.
Let's go.
[SIREN WAILING.]
[THUNDER CONTINUES RUMBLING IN DISTANCE.]
[BRAKES SCREECH.]
["HELL IS FOR CHILDREN" PLAYING.]
Wayne Bertram Williams.
Do you know why we pulled you over, Mr.
Williams? I guess it must be about all those boys.
They cry in the dark So you can't see their tears They hide in the light So you can't see their fears Forgive and forget All the while Love and pain become one and the same In the eyes of a wounded child Because hell Hell is for children And you know that their little lives Can become such a mess Hell Hell is for children And you shouldn't have to pay For your love With your bones and your flesh It's all so confusing This brutal abusing They blacken your eyes And then apologize Be daddy's good girl And don't tell mommy a thing Be a good little boy And you'll get a new toy Tell grandma you fell off the swing Because hell Hell is for children And you shouldn't have to pay For your love With your bones and your flesh No! Hell is for children