Alert: Missing Persons Unit (2023) s03e02 Episode Script

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[DOG BARKING, SIREN WAILING]
[GUARD] Cell block 321 opening.
[DOOR OPENING BUZZER SOUNDS]
Breathing free air today, Raina?
Bit early for your stretch.
Lawyer did me a solid.
Nick of time, too.
It's creamed beef down at chow today.
You be a stranger.
Don't come visit us again.
[DOOR THUDS CLOSED]
Escort! One con walking!
- [GUARD] Con walking.
- [DOOR OPENING BUZZER SOUNDS]
[CAR HORNS BLARING]
[GEENA] Been counting the hours
till you get to see me?
Baby, I'm counting the minutes.
After today,
it's gonna be you, me,
and the world at our fingertips.
["WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD"
BY JOEY RAMONE PLAYING]
[RAINA, ON PHONE]
No, Officer Mason. No trouble.
You won't have to worry about me.
I am officially a law-abiding citizen.
As a matter of fact, sir, I
do have something lined up.
Mm-hmm.
Bye, now.
And I say to myself ♪
What a wonderful world ♪
I see skies of blue ♪
And clouds of white ♪
Bright sunny days ♪
Dark sacred nights ♪
And I think to myself ♪
What a wonderful world ♪
The colors of the
rainbow are so pretty ♪
In the skies ♪
Are also on the faces
of people walkin' by ♪
[TRUNK THUDS]
I see friends shakin' hands ♪
Sayin' "How do you do?" ♪
[DOOR THUDS]
They're really sayin' ♪
"I love you" ♪
[NIKKI SCREAMING]
I see babies cry ♪
I watch them grow ♪
- They'll learn much more ♪
- [CAR HORN BLARING]
Than I'll ever know ♪
And I think to myself ♪
What a wonderful world ♪
[JASON] Vegas? What are you doing?
You're playing with
fire just to stay warm?
Uh, Wayne, these are
my Vegas rules, okay?
No no slots, no
strippers, and no shellfish.
I gotta go. I'll call you later. Bye.
Chief Inspector Houston.
What's going on?
You, uh, got lost on the
way to the golf course?
[CHUCKLES] My five-iron's in the shop,
so I thought I'd do
some police work instead.
Lucky us.
Listen, Grant.
We're gonna start over, all right?
- Okay.
- I know you don't like me.
No, no, I like you just fine.
I just don't like the recommendation
to get me off MPU.
Yeah, well, last year was last year.
Okay. What, uh, what does that mean?
Let's just say
that I've learned to take
the good with the bad.
Conditionally.
Is that Is that half a compliment?
Let's not get ahead
of ourselves, Detective.
Maybe you don't destroy
any public property this week,
and you get the other half.
- Okay.
- Where's Batista?
I need to see her.
Hey, Inspector Chief.
It's good to see you.
What up? Where's Nikki?
Uh, looks like she's
running a little bit late.
- Why? What's up?
- Okay, we need to find her. It's urgent.
"Urgent" like I need to be
worried in "husband" mode,
or "cop" mode?
Have you talked to her
in the last hour or so?
[KEMI] I mean, I did.
She texted me to meet her downstairs,
but she never showed up.
I figured something came up.
And w what time was that text?
Um
43 minutes ago?
Y You're freaking
us out a little bit.
- What's going on?
- Does the name "Raina Stefanos"
mean anything to you?
- No.
- No.
Stefanos was serving 15 to
20 at Muncy for felony assault.
"Was"?
Yeah, she got released
this morning early parole.
Now, we should've been notified,
but somebody dropped the ball,
and Captain Batista needs to know.
Okay, but why?
Ten years ago, Nikki was
Raina's arresting officer.
She also testified at the trial.
We have reason to believe
that Stefanos is holding a grudge.
Okay, how dangerous is this woman?
Dangerous enough
that I came straight here.
Nikki's phone's going
straight to voicemail.
Stefanos was released
this morning, at what time?
I was told 6:15 a.m.
Okay, that's plenty of time
for her to get down to the city.
No, I'm not saying to worry yet.
I'm just saying
that I would feel better
if we could locate Nikki.
Okay, uh, if she's in her car,
I can track her, using the
motor pool GPS system.
Thanks, Kemi.
I'm gonna call Sid and see
if she heard from her mom,
- all right?
- All right. Chief?
All right, Raina Stefanos, I
want to know everything
criminal history, known associates.
Raina was a freelance enforcer.
You name the scum, she worked for them.
And she was good at her job.
Yeah, because nobody sees
a female leg-breaker coming
until they need an orthopedic surgeon.
All right, looks like she
worked with her brother, Cyril.
Yeah, he was the hustle,
she was the muscle.
[CLACK]
[MIKE] Says that Nikki
was running down a lead for Homicide.
There was a chase, an altercation.
Shots were fired.
She never mentioned this.
She probably wanted to forget.
She fatally hit Cyril
as he was trying to take a hostage.
I mean, it must've been a clean kill,
or she would've bought a suspension.
Oh, it wasn't just clean
that bust put her career in overdrive.
[MIKE] And Raina lost a
brother and rotted behind bars.
[HOUSTON] And now she's out.
Okay, I I need to speak
to Raina's parole officer.
I already did.
Raina was staying in
a motel in Allentown.
I dispatched units,
but she's in the wind.
Hey.
I ran Nikki's GPS, and
it was weird.
Um, her car was completely stopped.
Okay, she's parked somewhere.
Totally stopped on
the side of Route 352,
outside of the city.
Um, I got a Statie who was nearby
to do a drive-by and
he sent this back.
He said that the car was empty,
and there are no bodies, okay?
Nikki is still out there, Mike.
Hey, brother, if you need to
take a breather or take a walk
No. No, okay? This is my wife.
Where's Helen? You get her out there.
I need everything bagged and tagged.
Yeah, of course.
I want an alert issued
for Captain Batista,
and put out a B.O.L.O.
for Raina Stefanos.
- All hands on deck.
- Of course.
[MISSING ALERT BEGINS BLARING]
[OVERLAPPING ALERTS BLARING]
[SIREN YELPS]
[SIREN YELPS REPEATEDLY]
[OFFICER] Pull the vehicle over.
[MUTTERING] What the hell did I do?
[DOOR SHUTS]
Morning, ma'am.
Is there a problem?
Was I driving too fast?
- I didn't even see
- Do you know
you have a tail light out?
It is?
Oh, uh pfft.
Yeah, I got this car used,
and it has been a total pain.
Maybe it's a bulb, or a fuse?
No. I mean, like, it's out
it's hanging off the
back of the vehicle.
Did you hit something today?
You know I bet someone hit me.
That grocery store parking
lot is a total madhouse,
and I get so distracted when I'm getting
the kids off to school,
that I didn't even notice.
I It's okay. Not a big deal.
It's not permitted to be
on the road like that, okay?
I'm telling you go get it repaired.
Next trooper might not be so kind, okay?
[RELIEVED CHUCKLE]
That's very sweet of you. Thank you.
I will get it fixed A.S.A.P.
All right.
Have a good day. Careful
in those parking lots.
- [NIKKI CRIES OUT]
- What the hell?
[GUNSHOTS BLASTING]
[OFFICER GROANING]
You're lucky I can't
afford a body count today.
[SHOT FIRES]
That's to keep you down.
[OFFICER GROANING]
You crafty bitch!
You keep trying to attract attention,
but the next one, I kill.
- [NIKKI CRYING OUT]
- [FIXTURE CLICKS IN PLACE]
[DOOR THUDS]
Jason's on hold
with the Burn Unit at
Logan Square Memorial.
Look, after seeing
Nikki's car like that, Mike
All right, look, let's deal with facts.
Nikki's missing.
Her car has been destroyed.
We presume she's been taken.
Now we need to figure out when,
and from where.
All right, I I left the gym 7:30.
I offered to swing back, pick her up,
but she said she had errands.
She didn't say what. I should've asked.
- Hey.
- Playing "shoulda/coulda"
is not gonna help us, Mike. All right?
Let's deal with the errands.
All right, maybe the post office,
the pharmacy.
She could've stopped to get coffee.
Coffee?
Nikki's text.
Okay, so she, uh, she
messaged me at 8:52.
She wanted to meet 20 minutes from then.
Let's say it takes five minutes
to park, get into the building,
so that means that she was
15 or so away from here?
And what kind of
radius are we looking at,
in that time frame?
Um, with, uh, traffic in the morning,
I would say
three to four blocks a minute.
[MIKE] Well, 15 minutes,
that puts us 60 blocks out.
[KEMI] Okay, um
I will take a perimeter as far north
as Temple University
and as far south as Point Breeze.
That's a massive search area.
We got a hit on the Stefanos B.O.L.O.
She shot a state
trooper west of the city,
about 30 minutes ago.
[KEMI MURMURS, INDISTINCT]
[KEYS CLACK]
[KEMI] The incident report says
Raina was stopped
for a broken tail light.
Nikki was trying to get
someone's attention.
That's a good sign.
Means Stefanos didn't just kill her.
All right, the trooper
has four broken ribs,
but he's still breathing,
and he confirmed that it was Stefanos.
Yeah, she was aiming for his vest.
[HOUSTON] Raina's smart
too damn smart.
Have a unit secure the area.
Okay.
No detective should have to investigate
the disappearance of his own wife.
Stefanos was a Major Crimes case.
I will call them, have them step in.
- MPU can take a
- Chief, Chief.
I would appreciate it if you
did not finish that sentence.
Mike, it's too close to home.
It is home!
And Nikki is my home.
She's one of ours.
MPU will get her back.
All right.
All right, you go out there,
and you find us something to go on.
Yes, sir.
What are you thinking, Detective?
I think Stefanos is armed
now, and dangerous
and I think Nikki's running out of time.
How the hell does a monster like that
- get early parole?
- I don't know,
and I don't care, okay?
We'll get Nikki back.
Just that's it. Everything
else is white noise.
Yeah, well, you know
what she wants, right?
Revenge for her dead brother.
A life for a life, right?
No, if that's what she wanted,
we would've found a body already,
and we have not, okay?
Just have faith, please.
You know what I have?
Years of crime scene images
floating through my head,
and all the bad things that can be done
to a human body,
and Stefanos knows all of them.
Don't think like that, please!
You gotta chill!
You ever You ever read
Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance?
What? No. You?
Yeah, yeah. I can read. I
A lot of flight time between
here and Afghanistan.
Anyway, there's a
quote that I really like.
"It's having the right
attitude that's hard."
Okay? You gotta do that.
You've gotta tell yourself,
nobody is better at this than we are.
- We are going to find her.
- [TEXT ALERT CHIMES]
It's from Kemi.
"Troopers found this
at the site of the Stefanos shooting."
It's a receipt from Nikki's dry cleaner.
She was at the
dry-cleaning spot at 8:49 a.m.
All right, Nikki's leaving
us a breadcrumb,
telling us where she was.
She knows how people get grabbed,
and she knows how people get found.
Let's go do some dry cleaning. Come on.
[SIREN WAILING]
[DOORBELL CHIMES]
[JASON, MUTTERING] Today sucks.
Why Why would
anybody have any cameras?
[COMPARTMENT DOOR THUDS]
Hey, buddy.
Philly PD.
You, uh, you been here all morning?
All morning.
Yeah, and this dash cam's
been recording the whole time?
- Oh, yeah, 100%.
- Great.
Uh, we're gonna need the footage.
[MIKE] All right, we already know this.
The dry cleaners told us
the same thing the receipt did.
Nikki paid and left at 8:49.
Right before she texted me.
Fast forward.
It looks like Raina was waiting for her
in the backseat.
- [HITTING KEYS]
- [SIGHING]
She's not dead, Mike.
We don't know that.
Some things you know,
and some things you feel.
What would you do
right now if you were me?
I would have faith.
You're the second
person to tell me that today.
Sometimes, in a situation
that is uncontrollable,
our faith is the only thing
that we can still feel in charge of.
I got none, Kem. None.
All right, well, then,
how about I have enough
for all three people?
You, me, and Nikki.
[HOUSTON] I spoke to
Raina's warden in Muncy.
She had a cellmate
a car thief named Geena Fernon.
They were in a relationship.
Yeah, that name came up
in the prison visitors' log for Raina.
Fernon was released a few months ago,
but she's visited a
a dozen times since.
Well, these are parole
reports from her P.O.
There's an address
on there in Kensington.
I'm on it.
Text me the address.
How far out did SWAT say they were?
Too far, and we're not waiting.
Okay, here we go, clean and fast.
Listen to me.
You see something
shoot at it, don't miss.
Let's get Nikki back, all right?
Got it, Coach.
[DOOR BANGS OPEN]
[GEENA] Hey, Rain?
Did you hear that?
- Geena, get on the ground!
- Don't you touch me!
[RAINA SCREAMING]
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[RAINA AND JASON GRUNTING]
- [MIKE] Jay!
- [CRACK]
[JASON WHEEZING]
Thanks.
Yeah.
If I need a tetanus shot, lady,
you and I are gonna have words.
[THUD]
Nik!
Give me that knife.
[KNIFE CLATTERS]
No, don't move.
Don't move.
She's not here, Jay.
Sorry about all the metal, Raina,
but we're getting a feral vibe from you.
How's your face, cop?
It's
[LAUGHS] It's okay.
I don't think I'll miss
any beauty pageants.
It'll heal. Thanks for asking, though.
All right, let's make this quick,
because I'm sick to my stomach
even being in the same room with you.
Besides your knife-wielding ass,
you know what else we found?
$500,000 in cash, two plane tickets
for you and your girlfriend to Morocco.
It's a non-extradition country.
Yeah, and no sign of Captain Batista.
So let's just start with the easy one.
Where is she, Raina?
What the hell did you do with Nikki?
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Jay
- I know, I know.
I ain't telling you a damn thing.
Get me a lawyer.
[KNOCKING]
Come on. Come on.
This is not a great time, Helen.
It'll only take a minute.
There wasn't a whole
lot left after the fire,
but I went through the
Captain's vehicle top to bottom.
There's a couple of items
from the trunk over here.
Everything looks like something
that should be here, right?
Then I found this
what's weird is,
the rest of Nikki's
key ring was missing.
Perp must've tossed it at some point.
This little guy was all by his lonesome.
I found it in the
driver's side footwell.
What are you thinking?
Nikki left it on purpose?
In my experience,
when something isn't where it should be,
there's a good reason.
Anybody know what it goes to?
No, I've never seen that before.
O Okay. Okay.
Don't even worry. It's It's a puzzle!
I'm good at those.
I'll let you know when I figure it out.
All right, thanks. Come on.
Okay.
This woman's a pro.
She's never gonna fold.
[JASON SIGHS]
You know, I once sat in
on an interrogation of
a suspected terrorist,
for so many days, I grew a beard.
They got him to talk.
No water jugs, no
fingernails pulled back.
They just hammered this
guy, whittled him down,
until he broke.
Yeah, well, we don't
have that kind of time.
Everybody cracks. Everybody cracks.
We just got to find her pressure point.
I can't go back in there, Jay.
Look, I'm I'm trying
to keep the faith,
but we're running out of time.
Then I see the wedding dress,
and if getting answers about Nikki
means I got to put my
hand around her throat,
I'm not sure I'm gonna
stop squeezing, okay?
I If I go back in
there, I'm gonna kill her.
Okay, I got it. So you
don't go back in there.
I'll take care of it, all right?
You just sit this one out.
An idea the, uh,
girl we busted with her,
she in lockup already?
Or is she in the building still?
I don't know. Why?
[DOOR THUDS SHUT]
You know what this is?
This, right here,
is the Pennsylvania State Penal Code.
I asked for a lawyer.
I'm done talking to you.
Okay, you don't have to talk.
I'll do all the talking.
What I want to talk
about is parole violations.
[CHUCKLES]
I can take whatever
you and that little book
can dish out.
You know what 10
years in Muncy looks like?
Hell.
And I've done it. So try me, cop.
Okay. Well, actually, I wasn't, um,
I wasn't talking about
parole violations for you.
- Thanks, Kemi.
- Yeah.
[CLEARS THROAT] Okay.
[DOOR THUDS SHUT]
So, in this state,
a parole violation
carries a minimum
six-month reincarceration.
That's per offense.
Okay? Right now, we've
got your girl, Geena,
on contact with a convicted felon,
the plane tickets
that's attempting to
leave the country
but
we also have her aiding
and abetting your crime
kidnapping.
Yeah.
And that's an F-1 felony.
Now, felonies,
they they they are like a
whole big bag of headaches
for the parole board,
and when it comes to sentencing,
what the parole board likes to do
is take their cue from
the arresting officer.
In this case, the arresting
officer is my partner.
Okay? And the woman that you took,
that's that's his wife
[RAINA GASPS]
All right? Now, we both agree
he should not come back in this room,
because if he does, he might kill you.
What do you think he's
gonna do to your girl?
I mean, what what do
you think he's gonna do?
My money says
that he is going to send her
back to the deepest, darkest
miserable hole he can find.
Yeah. I mean, her next parole papers
are gonna come with an AARP card.
You can't do that!
Yeah, no, I I can do that.
I'm gonna do that. Try me.
Try Is that what you said? "Try me"?
[RAINA THUMPS TABLE]
Look, it was just a job, I swear.
What job?
A lawyer came to see me.
Nice suit, silk tie.
He said he'd get me paroled early
and promised me half-a-million bucks
and clean passports for me and Geena
to get out of the country.
So I say, "What's the job?"
And then he shows me a photo
of that bitch that killed my brother.
And that was a job I would do for free,
and here he is, sitting
there, promising me the world.
Who did that lawyer work for?
I don't know.
[THUMPS TABLE]
Raina, don't don't
don't test me, okay?
I am rabid.
[TAKES A DEEP BREATH, SIGHS]
I don't know. I swear.
I took the cop, like I was told,
and I dropped her off outside the city.
Where did you drop her off?
This old roofing factory building,
out near Gradyville.
[CLICK]
Met up with a few guys. No names.
I didn't know their faces.
[KNOCKS]
[WINDOW WHIRS]
One of them paid me, and I split.
That's it.
Okay, the guy who paid
you, what did he look like?
I don't know! A guy!
I haven't been around very many of them
for the last 10 years,
so I don't pay a lot of
attention, you know?
Eye color? What did his hair look like?
What kind of a car he was driving?
Any of that can help
your life depends on this, Raina, okay?
Um
a tattoo
on his wrist, a Celtic knot.
What?
You know that tattoo?
Yeah, I do.
I I know that guy.
[RAINA] So who's got your girl?
[JASON] Charlie McGannon.
[MIKE] Charlie McGannon
paid to have my wife taken.
All we have to go on
is the word of a convicted felon
who kidnapped Nikki
and is now trying to lay the blame
on an Irish mob boss.
It's a long walk.
I may have confirmation.
Uh, uh
Stefanos told Jason
that "a fancy lawyer," um,
advanced her parole
date and got her released,
acted as a liaison between Stefanos
and the person who
was paying her, right?
Yeah.
So, from the Muncy records,
I was able to find the
name of that lawyer
Arthur Hodister.
He is a senior partner
at this law firm downtown,
so I searched court records
to see who else they represent.
Um, you ready for this?
Four years ago,
the same firm
represented a businessman
on tax evasion charges. Okay?
So the guy got off
with a slap on the wrist,
paid some fines, went free.
Guess who?
[CLACK]
Charles McGannon.
Yeah, the same law firm.
Looks like that walk got a lot shorter.
I see the connection,
but it could still be a coincidence.
[MIKE] No. No, it's not.
Okay? Charlie McGannon
got her out of prison early.
He paid her to grab Nikki,
and now there is no trail
between her disappearance
and his doorstep.
This is how this guy operates.
Charlie McGannon is a dangerous man
he's not reckless.
And why would he grab a police captain?
What don't I know?
McGannon and Nikki have history.
Would he hurt her?
- Possibly.
- Definitely.
Okay, are you sure about this?
Nikki's life is betting on it.
If you waste time on the wrong lead
It's our only lead.
And yes, we're sure.
Okay.
Then I guess I have
a phone call to make.
[MIKE] For what?
To find out where Charles
McGannon has lunch.
- [AMBIENT CHATTER]
- [QUIET BACKGROUND MUSIC]
How's the market, McGannon?
Got a large-cap equity
fund here just won't behave.
Did I ask you to sit?
Well, it seems lonely
sitting here, eating by yourself.
Who said I was by myself?
Well, the Michelin men
over there don't count.
Look, Inspector
"Chief inspector," right?
I'm a private citizen,
sitting here having a meal,
so unless you've got
some legally justified reason
for interrupting my beautiful steak
Where is she?
Sorry?
You want to fill in the gaps for me?
Grant and Sherman told me
about your relationship
to Nikki Batista.
I also know they told you to end it,
and I know
breakups can be messy.
You know what the most successful
symbiotic relationship
in the natural world is?
Hmm?
It's the relationship
between ocean coral and saltwater algae.
They got a partnership so prosperous,
they built the Great Barrier Reef.
Kind of the way Nikki
rose up in the police ranks
and you got a chair at
the head of the Irish table.
Let's not speak in arraignable terms.
The walls have ears, you know?
It's an agenda
to a meeting Nikki set
with the special agent in
charge of the FBI field office
a meeting that was set for next week.
Let me guess.
Nikki wasn't the only
cop on your payroll.
I don't kiss and tell.
Someone tipped you
off about that meeting,
because the meeting was about you.
S.A.C. told me that,
if Nikki delivered what
she promised to deliver,
they were gonna issue
an arrest warrant for you
immediately.
I get it.
I mean, you couldn't let
Nikki make that meeting,
now, could you?
I have no idea what
you're talking about.
Nikki saved your
daughter, for God's sake.
Just let me know where she is,
so I can get my cop back.
If you're gonna stay much longer,
I should probably buy you a drink.
[SIGHING HEAVILY]
I'm on duty.
All the more reason.
You enjoy that meal, McGannon.
Mm-hmm.
Extension 1414.
Hey, Ritter, it's Bill.
McGannon has her, but he won't blink
[CLOSES DOOR]
so what I'm about to tell
you does not leave this room.
I called a friend of
mine who works for
let's just say an "alphabet agency",
and his agency has an
unwarranted tracking device
on McGannon's vehicle.
You trust this guy?
We wore the same Greek
letters at Notre Dame,
so yes, I trust him.
And the tracker has been active?
All day.
Coordinates,
and the length of time
he's been at each of them.
If anyone asks,
you've never seen that piece of paper.
[NOTE RUSTLING]
[KEYS CLACKING]
All right, his car sat
at this location for an hour
before he went to lunch.
- Where is it?
- It's, um
near a trailhead at
Ridley Creek State Park,
and if you leave now, you
can get there in 38 minutes.
Mike
go get your wife back.
[DOORS THUDDING]
[MIKE, SHOUTING] Nik!
[JASON] Nikki!
Go that way.
Nik!
Can you hear me?
Nik?
Nikki!
Nik!
Nikki!
[MIKE] Nik!
Nikki?
Nik!
[BREATH SHAKING]
What?
What's wrong?
What do you What do you got?
Nothing.
- What do you mean?
- Nothing.
What are you talking about?
Stand back.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Stand back!
Is it her?
- Uh-uh.
- Is it her? Look at me.
Jay! Jay. Hey, hey, hey
No, it's all right. It's all right.
Hey, buddy, look at me.
- It's all right.
- Is it her?
- [SOBS]
- It's all right. It's all right.
- Let me see her.
- No, no.
- Let me see her, Jay.
- No, no.
- Jay!
- Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Come on, just stay here. Stay here.
Is she okay?
Uh-uh.
- Jay
- Uh-uh.
[MIKE BEGINS SOBBING]
[WEEPING]
[JASON] It's all right.
It's all right. It's all right.
[POLICE RADIO CRACKLING INDISTINCTLY]
Single gunshot wound
to the cranial base.
For what it's worth it was quick.
Thank you.
Let's get outta here. Come on. Come on.
Just
I need to be alone.
That's a bad idea, Mike.
Mike.
[SIGHING] That brother is in
for the longest,
darkest night of his life.
In case nobody asks
you okay?
Point me in the
direction of "okay," huh?
For my 30th birthday
[KEMI TAKES A BREATH]
Nikki and I took
horseback-riding lessons
at the stables in the Fairmont Parks
[SNIFFLES AND CHUCKLES]
and they they, like,
they pick your horse for you
based on, you know, your experience,
which neither of us had.
[CHUCKLES]
Somehow [LAUGHS]
Nikki ends up
with, you know, a Missouri trotter,
who wanted nothing
to do with her, of course,
and halfway through
our ride, this horse, like
it just takes off with
Nikki on its back,
and it's, like, bucking and galloping,
and, like, she's screaming
at the top of her lungs,
and I I am just, like,
watching her fly over this hill.
And, at the time, I was so scared
but in the end, she was fine.
She was safe
and we went back to the stables.
I like to keep that image of her
Nikki on a wild horse
hair in the wind
[BREATH CATCHES]
taking off over a hill,
into the afternoon sun.
[SOB CATCHES]
[WEEPING]
I know I haven't worked here long,
but
I thought I'd have so
much more time with her.
Ahem. You would've
had a friend for life.
That was Nikki.
[SNIFFLING]
What's this?
I found it in the Captain's car.
I never did figure out what it's for.
Can I use your computer?
Yeah, of course.
[SETS TRAY DOWN]
[KEYS START CLACKING]
[HELEN] What are we looking at?
[KEMI] We're looking at footage
of Nikki being taken this morning.
So, we watched the part
where she was grabbed,
because that was the
relevant information,
but we never looked to see
if she stopped anywhere else.
[HELEN] The mailbox place!
Oh, my god, that's the key!
[DIALING, LINE RINGING]
Yeah, Jason?
Yeah, um I think I found something.
[MURMURING] "Evidence."
[RUSTLING]
"If you're reading
this, I'm already dead.
You've found the contents
of my secret mailbox."
Oh, Nikki.
[DIALING]
Hey, listen to this.
"If you're reading
this, I'm already dead."
You have found the
contents of my secret mailbox.
I've been adding to
this mailbox for years.
Call it my insurance policy.
I'm gonna give Kemi
the key for safekeeping.
Let me tell you
"what you have in your hands."
It goes on and on and on.
Uh, the clerk said that, uh,
she she's had it for
the last eight years.
So she only used it as a drop box?
I guess so. Where's Mike? Give me Mike.
- Jason, we don't know.
- What do you mean, you don't know?
He didn't come back to the office?
You gotta find him, Kemi.
Find his car right now, please.
Okay. Um
[KEYS CLACKING]
All right, I got him,
Jay. He's on the move.
It looks like he's in Bryn Mawr.
About three blocks from
Charlie McGannon's house.
He's going for Charlie.
Grant! Listen to me.
I can cover for the two of
you, but only to a point
and not if he kills Charlie McGannon!
- You hear me?
- [ZIPPING BAG]
All right, uh, I'm on my way.
I'm bringing him home, okay?
[METAL CRUNCHING]
- [CRASHING]
- [GLASS SHATTERING]
[CHARLIE, GROANING] Oh
[GROGGILY] What was that? What was that?
What are you doin'? Hey
You can't do this, man.
Nobody's stopping me.
You're a police officer,
Mike. Think about it.
Big mistake. Big
[DOOR SLAMS]
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF]
[DOOR SLAMS]
Let's go.
[DOOR THUDS]
Get down on your knees.
[CHARLIE GASPS AND GRUNTS]
Did you say goodbye to her, Charlie?
Did you say goodbye to
my wife before she died?
See, Nikki knew what you did
to your accountant
and the men who took your daughter
and she told you, a long time ago
no bodies.
Murder was always her line,
and you crossed it.
See, some people they're
just they're just born broken
and you're one of 'em.
Yeah.
Now I'm just another dead
body buried under the city
just like her.
- [MIKE GRUNTS]
- [BLOW THUDS]
[CHARLIE STIFLES A GROAN]
Nikki knew it was a risk
taking that meeting with the FBI
after all these years.
She knew she had to do the right thing,
even if it cost her.
It cost her!
It cost me!
Round and round we
go in the circle game.
I was just taking care of business,
- lookin' after my interests.
- [HAMMER COCKS]
If you see Nikki on the other side,
tell her Mike sent you.
Oh, I will.
I'll do more than that.
Hey!
I'm alone. I'm unarmed.
I wasn't worried.
Mike, what are you doing?
A bullet ain't gonna fix this.
It's a start.
No, it's not, okay? He
doesn't deserve that.
He's a cop killer.
He's gonna spend the
rest of his life in prison.
Let the law deal with him, okay?
No, no, no. Jay.
I'm done with the law.
He's just gonna get away with it,
like he always does.
Mike, listen
- Jay!
- [SOFTLY] Okay, listen to me.
He's not getting away with it
not this time.
He's done.
Nikki had a drop box, okay?
That's what the key was for.
She kept everything on this guy
notes, recordings,
photographs, everything!
Every body he ever buried,
every dollar he ever stole
she's got it, all of it.
He's done, Mike. I promise you, okay?
Let Nikki have this win, okay?
Put the gun down, please.
Just put the put the gun down, okay?
Come on, Mike.
[JASON] Come on please?
[CHARLIE SIGHS SOFTLY]
Good.
I'm gonna tell your
daughter what you did
personally.
[JASON] Ahem.
I don't know about you, Chuck,
but
I think I gotta check my
shorts, you know what I mean?
Get up. Get up! Get up!
Get up. Walk.
[CHARLIE WINCES]
[THUD]
[SIGHS] How's he doing?
[JASON SIGHS]
He's standin' up.
Nobody else died today.
That's the best I can do
for you, Chief Inspector.
I'll get Nikki's evidence in
the right hands, all right?
You two take off.
You were never here.
Yes, sir.
You know, I never paid you
the other half of that compliment.
Maybe someday I will.
[JASON] "To my MPU team"
you were my family.
Go out there every day,
every single day,
and save people.
"Save as many as you can."
[PAINED SIGH]
[SNIFFLES]
"To both my husbands, Mike and Jason
take care of each other."
[CLEARS THROAT]
"Sidney needs you,
and you need each other.
I'll be watching over
you somewhere close by.
Con todo mi amor.
"Goodbye."
[NOTE RUSTLING]
[KEMI SNIFFLES]
If no one wants to speak,
I can speak for all of us.
[SIGHS]
In my faith
[SNIFFLING]
growing up,
we were told that
death isn't the end of a life.
That it marks the passage
from one realm of existence to the next.
And so, our loved ones
exist
as a part of a sacred place,
a place that we can't see,
that we can't touch,
but they go on.
The spirits have more
business to finish
more journeys to undertake.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
[KEMI] The Yoruba, my people,
think of the world as
two halves of a gourd
the one we live in,
and the other side,
where our ancestors continue.
It's a place of
great spirits and deities.
Oh, oh, oh ♪
So I keep moving ♪
[KEMI] It's a place of gods.
This death will not
be the end of our team.
Will you wait for me ♪
[KEMI] It will not be the end
of the work we have to do.
We will rise tomorrow,
hold each other up
and keep breathing
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
and we will go on.
Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪