Chicago P.D. (2014) s03e07 Episode Script
A Dead Kid, a Notebook and a Lot of Maybes
Deputy Crowley.
Chicago PD, put your hands up! Been reviewing your team over the past six months.
You certainly have an aggressive unit.
Thank you.
There's a young girl, and she's my daughter.
If you have any hope of keeping us together, you better get a paternity test.
The results are in.
The other night was a one-time deal.
Everybody knows.
So why are we still trying to hide it? - We should get out of here.
- Mm-hmm.
And, you know, really don't know what he thinks of me.
I mean I got bumped up a year ago.
I still don't know where I'm at.
I mean, you know Voight little better than me.
You think he thinks I'm good police? I think Voight thinks everyone's got room for improvement.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I feel you.
Is that James Whitaker? Oh, he's the captain of the 31st, right? Like the Black Pope of Chicago.
Does a big card game.
All the powerful brothers in the city are there.
If you're in that game, you made it.
Hmm.
You know, the way you've got to handle Voight is you Oh, hold on.
Good talk.
Captain Whitaker? Kevin Atwater out of Intelligence.
Just wanted to come over here and introduce myself.
Atwater.
Yes, sir.
See, um, I'm a little new.
You know, still kinda settling in my bones.
But, you know, 20 years ago, you were where I am, and 20 years down the road, you know, I'm hoping that I can be where you are.
And, you know, being a brother Officer Atwater, you just made two mistakes.
First, our shared skin color is irrelevant to me.
Good police is good police.
And secondly, I get one half hour of peace each day, by myself, which is my breakfast, and you have disturbed that.
Yeah, so I should probably just Yes.
Actually, no, I didn't realize he was missing until this morning.
That's not like Colin.
He's very responsible.
- How old is your son? - 15.
- You called his school? - I called everybody.
I called his cell phone a million times.
Has he ever run away before? - Never.
- Okay.
We can get the ball rolling on a missing person's report, but I'll need a recent photo.
- I found this under his bed.
- His diary? You need to look at it.
He's not just missing.
"I want to kill.
" I swear to you, I had no idea.
Colin has been pretty agitated.
I thought it was just normal teenage stuff.
"Today I will have my revenge at WCD.
" WCD? Webster Country Day, his school.
Does your son have access to a gun? Right this way.
Colin Blake.
Went missing yesterday with a loaded pistol taken from his house.
We checked with the headmaster.
Colin was marked absent, but his Mom recognized his bike outside the school, so we think he's here.
Well, get very uniform a picture of this kid and start sweeping the campus.
Got it.
Hey.
- Atta boy.
- Sarge.
Just got word.
Patrol found a body behind the school.
By the fence.
What do we got? It's him.
Well, body's cool.
He's been here a while.
He's still holding onto the gun, and there's a muzzle flash by the entry wound.
It looks like a suicide.
It's a .
22 caliber.
No wonder nobody heard the shot.
All right, Burgess, I want you to hand deliver that pistol to forensics.
Tell them I need a rush order to confirm ballistics.
- Got it.
- And keep sweeping the school.
We don't know if this kid was operating alone.
Guys, nobody move! Don't key your radios.
Just back up slow.
We got a bomb.
It's a very crude pipe bomb.
Thanks, Sully.
Crude bomb in the right place will do a lot of damage.
Just doesn't make any sense.
I don't know what happened to him.
He was always such a happy kid.
I can't imagine how difficult this is, but I have to ask these questions.
Colin went missing yesterday, but you didn't report it until this morning.
Is that right? Oh, I I got home late.
I fell asleep.
Just assumed he was here.
How was he able to get his hands on a gun? My ex left it for my protection.
Did your son have any activities outside of the swim team? Um video games.
Lots lots of video games.
So he was basically unsupervised? It's hard when you work two jobs.
It's not like I can afford a nanny.
- That wasn't an accusation, Ms.
Blake.
- _ Who was Colin's friend, EJ? I'm not really sure.
He, uh he was an only child.
He was used to being alone.
So he didn't have one close companion? I wish I could tell you.
I _ I never knew that he was in so much pain.
Yo, O, I heard you know James Whitaker.
Yeah, we both worked in the Wild Bunch back in the day.
Good police, great poker player.
Just don't interrupt his breakfast.
Alvin, you got a second? Yeah.
Over here.
Over here.
It's about Michelle.
There's kind of a problem.
What do you mean? I got a courtesy call from my friend, Beatrice Mulaney.
She's the director of juvenile hall.
- Huh.
- It turns out Michelle's release was only contingent.
On what? She's still a minor.
So unless one of her parents officially claims guardianship, she has to be put back into the system.
Beatrice sent over the paperwork just in case.
I figured you'd want to talk it over with Meredith before you sign it.
Or not.
Colin Blake.
Apparent suicide outside of his school.
We're waiting on the ballistics, but the gun that was recovered at the scene is registered to Colin's father.
I questioned the headmaster.
He said Colin was a loner.
Scholarship student, swim team.
He was the kind of kid who you saw around but never noticed.
I checked Colin's phone.
There's a few texts and phone calls, but nothing jumps out.
You know, he didn't post much on social media.
No manifestos.
Except that in Colin's journal, he always draws his revenge fantasies with a partner.
He talks a lot about a kid named EJ.
"Talked to EJ at practice.
He's the only one who gets it.
I have to do this no matter what.
I hope EJ is with me.
" So maybe EJ wasn't with Colin.
Something happened.
He didn't show up.
Colin got cold feet and decided he couldn't go through with it alone, and he took himself out instead of his classmates.
If EJ is in fact a real person and they were in this together, he could still be planning to carry out the attack on the school.
Well, there's no EJ at Webster, but there are four boys with those initials, and one of 'em is on the swim team.
Ethan Jones.
Find him.
Get expedited search warrants, talk to teachers, students, anybody who knew Colin.
I need to know if there's an ongoing threat at Webster Country Day.
You're sure Ethan's at school? Yeah.
They're doing grief councils.
EJ wanted to go.
Did Ethan and Colin spend a lot of time together? They were on the swim team.
Colin came over here sometimes to play video games.
Was he in trouble at school? Is my son in danger? Antonio, you got to have a look at this.
I did a search history check on Ethan's computer.
That's from four days ago.
"How to build a homemade bomb.
" It's a difficult day.
Colin was a good teammate, but there was a lot going on we couldn't see.
The grief counselors are here to help you process everything.
Coach Sanders, can we have a word? - Hey.
- Hi.
Which of these boys is Ethan Jones? He's not here.
His mother said he was with you.
I dismissed Ethan from the team last month.
Is it true that Colin was planning to bomb the school? We're collecting information.
Cops all over the campus.
The students are freaked out.
We're supposed to be grieving, but if you think about what could have happened, maybe we should be celebrating.
Hey! - Get off me! - Out of the way! Out of the way! You, stand back! Move away! Get back! Get out! Get out of the way! Move away! You, move back! You, move back! Are you okay? Loner, bunch of fights at school, arguments with teachers, violent video games on his computer.
Guys, this is Detective McCabe from the youth division.
Since Ethan's a minor, he has to be in there with us.
As an observer.
He's a minor who hasn't been charged with a crime.
Let's play nice.
- You and me.
- Sarge, let me do this.
I used to be this kid.
Get it.
Hey, Ethan.
I'm Detective Erin Lindsay.
I'm Detective Jay Halstead.
And I'm Detective McCabe.
I'm with the youth division.
I'm here on your behalf.
Why am I here? I'm the one who got beat up.
Ethan, I think the kids at school were just scared.
Not just about Colin.
They're scared about you.
Did you know that Colin kept a notebook? It's pretty interesting.
"Talked to EJ at practice today.
He's the only one who gets it.
" EJ is you, right? "I want revenge.
I want to kill.
" Is there something funny to you in there? If you knew what it was like, you wouldn't be too happy about it either.
You're at a school with a lot of rich kids, and you didn't fit in, like Colin.
The rich kids, they look down on you, bully you.
You and Colin, you decide to take your revenge.
You really don't get it.
I wasn't planning to kill bullies.
Then what were you planning? What am I not seeing? Nothing.
Hey, Ethan, I'm here.
All right? Tell me.
Um EJ.
Oh, baby, look at you.
I'm all right.
All right, Ethan, stay with me.
Hey, stay with me.
What were you and Colin planning? You don't have any idea what you're talking about.
All that stuff about Colin, that was his thing.
You're just gonna let this kid walk? I can't arrest him for something he might do.
I can't even hold him.
He's a minor.
Since when did Hank Voight become such a stickler for the rules? Oh, so now you're taking the leash off? Is this coming from you or the superintendent? So I can tell people if it goes sideways.
If this kid is a monster and we set him Deputy, can I please just get back to doing my job? Please.
Just tell me you have a handle on this.
I don't, actually.
Yet.
Deputy.
What's up? Ran all the criminal complaints, and I got a hit on Ethan.
He was a suspect in a vandalism report.
Somebody put a rag in the gas tank of a motorcycle and blew it up.
The owner tried to accuse Ethan, but he couldn't prove it.
Kirby Peterson.
Yeah, senior class president of Webster Country Day.
Hmm.
And what are we hoping to learn from Mr.
Peterson? I feel like we got a beef on our hands and we need to see how big it is.
Good.
Kirby Peterson? Yeah.
I knew it was Ethan because he told me he was going to get back at me, and he laughed about it afterwards.
- What provoked him? - Who knows? Ethan's a freak.
We're talking about a totally deranged loser.
I mean, weren't they going to blow up our school? I'll ask it again.
What provoked him? We were on the swim team together.
Ethan was one of the newbies.
Colin too.
Yeah.
So we have this tradition.
After one of the practices, while the freshmen are in the showers, varsity comes in and takes their towels and their clothes, so when they come out, you know - Fun times.
- It's initiation.
Happens to everybody.
But Ethan went nuts.
He came after me with a fire extinguisher.
I swear, he was trying to kill me.
By extinguishing you? He had it over his head ready to crush my skull.
And after he threatened you, you and your buddies didn't take the ballgame back to him to save face? No.
Kirby, if you know something about what Ethan might be up to next I would tell you.
And at this point, I'm gonna need my dad here if we're gonna talk about this any more.
You threw away the paternity test without even seeing the results? If I don't step up, it'll go bad for Michelle.
What about Lexi? How's it gonna go for her? I can be a father to them both.
We'll make it work.
We? The daughter of a woman that you had an affair with comes to live with us.
We can make that work? Meredith.
Okay, look, Al Meredith, Meredith, Meredith - Al, this is what we do.
- Baby, baby, baby No, it's simple.
We just find this girl a foster home.
Hey, I can't just toss her to the wolves.
Michelle needs a father.
She deserves that.
I hear you, Al.
I really do.
Hey, stay stay with me.
I'm gonna put your stuff out on the lawn.
If it's not gone by tomorrow, I'm gonna burn it.
Hey.
Hey, what's up? We got two paper jobs in the queue.
I know.
I'll see you in the parking lot.
Okay.
- Hey, bro.
- Hey, what's up? How you doing, man? Come here, I got a genius idea.
Yeah.
What? Come over for dinner tonight.
I can't.
I have to see my sister.
- Her cat's touch and go.
- Oh, again? Come on, that cat, he's faking it for sympathy.
I'm telling you.
Come on over.
- I'm gonna cook for you.
- Since when do you cook? You ever had fettuccine Alfredo? Not since high school.
I've got a secret recipe.
Okay.
Extra cream.
Mm.
See, I like that smile.
- Yummy.
- I'm just trying to You coming over? Oh, the cat.
- I'll call you.
- The cat? Don't call.
Just come over.
Jay, yo, I got a ping on Ethan's phone.
It was moving, but now it has stopped.
It's at 313 Bristol Street.
I'll run the owner.
- Darren Sanders.
- Ethan's swim coach.
Get Burgess and Roman to check it out.
Okay.
What's going on? We're looking for Ethan Jones.
Is he here? No.
Why would he be? I'll get the back.
Mind if I take a look inside? Of course not.
Come on in.
Roman! I got something.
_ This your car? Yeah.
Pedophile.
Pretty nasty allegation.
You can write anything on a car.
It doesn't make it true.
You know we thought Ethan was planning on going after the bullies at his school.
Turns out his coach was the bully.
Or worse.
The only thing I'm guilty of is looking after a troubled kid.
Took him under your wing.
Spent extra time with him.
I did.
I made sure he got rides.
His mom worked late.
Sometimes he'd come for dinner after practice.
My wife well, she's a more-the-merrier type.
Let me ask you something.
You do the same favors for Colin Blake? As a coach, you do what you can.
But Colin he was definitely under Ethan's influence.
He may have turned him against me.
You did something to him.
Yeah, I set boundaries.
Because Ethan he started showing up out of the blue looking for favors.
He wanted too much.
It's hard.
He lost his father in Afghanistan.
But finally I told Ethan, "I can't be your father.
" He didn't like that.
Hmm.
Snail brought this for you.
It's from Captain Whitaker.
You in trouble? No.
Why? You heard something? I'd rather get a call from my gynecologist - than a formal letter from Captain Whitaker.
- _ Why are you making me come here? I could arrest you for vandalism.
We're just gonna have a conversation.
Ethan.
I don't know what game you're playing here, but please, you need to stop this now.
You need to leave.
I cut him from the team.
Now he's trying to get back at me.
Go.
Yeah, come on.
You heard the guy.
Let's go.
Ethan, you got to help me understand.
Why'd you spray-paint "pedophile" on his car? Maybe it's too hard to say out loud.
So you spray-painted it knowing you'd get caught.
Knowing that this whole thing would just blow up.
And that is fine.
That's fine.
Sometimes things like this, you just got to take a sledgehammer to 'em first.
But now here we are.
Tell me what's been going on.
I swear to you, I'm gonna do everything I can to make it right.
It's okay.
My dad told me I was supposed to be a man.
We just kicked a pedophile.
We don't let Sanders out of our sight.
Got it.
Ethan, what else can you tell me? He recruited me in public school.
He promised he'd get me a scholarship to Webster.
That's when it started.
And then when Colin told me the same thing happened to him we wanted to hurt Coach.
To get back at him.
But I didn't want anybody to know what he did to me.
There was another boy.
Another boy that Sanders abused? His name was Jeff.
He contacted Colin.
He said he went to a school in Milwaukee where Coach used to teach and said the same things happened to him.
What did Colin say Jeff wanted to do, go public? No.
Revenge.
We were gonna meet up with Jeff that day, me and Colin, to blow up Coach's car.
But I backed out.
I couldn't go through with it.
Maybe that's why Colin killed himself.
How do I find Jeff? I don't know.
Where did you guys say you were gonna meet? At the Emerald City Cafe.
All right, Sanders did coach at a small prep school in Milwaukee, but he never had a Jeff on any of his teams.
There was one Jeffrey at the school, but he's black and he lives in London.
I spoke to Milwaukee police.
Never any charges filed against Sanders, no victim reports.
M.
E.
came back on Colin's death.
Muzzle burn is consistent with suicide, but there wasn't enough gun powder residue on his hand, and the angle of entry doesn't make sense.
Colin was murdered.
It's looking like it.
Time of death between We know where Sanders was then? He was at the school with an airtight alibi for when Colin disappeared.
Uh, guys? Guys, I just pulled the surveillance footage from the cameras around the Emerald City Cafe on the afternoon that Colin died.
There's one next door.
There we go, so there's Colin.
And that's Jeff.
I know it's not much, but, you know, he's 5'10", white, he's got a tattoo on the neck.
They left around 1:15.
So this Jeff lured Colin out pretending to be another victim and then killed him.
Sanders has to be the one pulling the strings.
I accessed Coach Sanders's bank records.
He liquidated a college fund a week ago for $3,200.
Where's he gonna hire a hit man for that? He volunteered at a juvenile detention center last year as a conditioning coach.
You throw a rock in there, you're gonna hit somebody willing to pull a trigger for that price.
Find this guy.
Ethan, um I got to go, but your mom's on her way in.
Okay? Can I ask you something? Sure.
Does my mom need to know? Yeah, man.
She does.
Can you be the one who tells her? If that's what you really want.
Are you okay? Do me a favor and don't leave me alone with the swim coach, 'cause Hey, I got you.
All right.
I've got 96 offenders who participated in Coach Sanders's conditioning classes.
How many released in the last six months? No, looking for a white male.
Got 22 of those.
Well, he's got tattoos.
That doesn't narrow it down.
One on his neck.
Let's see.
Three of those.
That's him.
Jessie Mandel, released three weeks ago.
Okay, I need an address.
Thank you.
Excuse me.
Got a Jessie Mandel living here? I did.
He blew out of here 20 minutes ago.
What was he wearing? He had a green backpack.
Any idea where he was going? He's not coming back.
Said he came into some money.
Did he have a car? Not that I know of.
It's called a halfway house for a reason.
You only know half the stuff that's going on.
Mouse, looks like Jessie's on his way out of town.
Circulate his photo to the airports, train, bus stations.
Yeah.
And tap into the security cameras at every El Station within a two-mile radius.
Yes, sir.
Oh.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Sir, a copper from mass transit just called.
They have a possible sighting outside the Washington and Wells Station.
I got him! Jessie Mandel's approaching the Washington and Wells Station.
He's got a green backpack.
Jessie Mandel! Police, move, move! Police! Get out of the way! Aah! Chicago Police, move! Police! Move, move! Everybody move! Chicago Police! He dropped the bag.
He's in that car, go! Everybody, stay back, stay back.
Chicago Police, stay back! Shut down L platform at Washington and Wells.
Police! Out of the way! Move, move, move! Move, move! Police, don't move! Don't move! Jessie, freeze! Sergeant, we got rush hour coming.
Are you gonna move the body, or do I have to shut the whole thing down? We'll let you know.
Backpack's clean.
Just a bunch of clothes.
Yeah, we searched his pockets.
There's nothing to tie him to Sanders.
Money just says the kid had money.
- This guy got off easy.
- Yeah? Our only connection to Sanders just died with that kid.
I don't want any cameras near here.
You understand? No media.
Right now, we're the only people in this city who know Jessie's dead.
Let's keep it that way.
What is this? Darren Sanders, you're under arrest.
For what? Crimes against children.
Look, I'm not going anywhere until I talk to my lawyer.
Yeah? Turn around.
Put your hands there.
You know I'll drag you out of here face first across the ground in front of all your guests.
Give me a reason.
Please.
No? Move.
Call my lawyer.
Now.
Okay.
Sanders's lawyer is on his way.
Well, hold him off.
Just let me set the hook.
- Sarge.
- Hmm? I want to do this.
Maybe a little too much.
Hey, come on.
I'm confused.
See, I got I got Jessie Mandel in the other room, and he's spinning a version that, I don't know, doesn't add up.
I mean, Jessie's saying you paid him to kill Colin.
I don't know who Jessie Mandel is, and I don't have anything Darren, Darren, Darren.
We're way past that, okay? We know.
We know you met Jessie when you were volunteering at juvie.
We know you drained your kid's college fund to pay him.
We know, okay? I'm here I mean, I'm trying to help you, and you're insulting my intelligence.
I just want to know the truth.
I mean, did you pay Jessie to scare the piss out of Colin so he'd keep his mouth shut? I mean, that's That's the only thing makes sense to me based on the amount of money that I want to talk to my lawyer.
Oh, yeah? You want to talk to your lawyer? That's your right.
Let me tell you something.
If I walk out of this room and I go back over to Jessie his version gets carved in stone, and you take the ride.
All of it.
You understand? It's fine.
Jessie wasn't supposed to kill Colin! He was just supposed to scare him! Jessie wasn't supposed to kill Colin.
He was just supposed to scare him to keep him quiet.
That is all I told Jessie to do.
Uh-huh.
So Colin's death, that is on Jessie.
Right? Hey.
Hey.
Hey, listen, I don't like cases like this one, but I'm grateful when you guys do catch 'em.
That's for sure.
Hm, yeah, I guess, huh? Hey, Sean, I'm I'm really sorry to hear about your friend.
You know, we all heard about what you were doing for that boy, and I'm just sorry he passed, man.
Thanks.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Listen.
When Nadia died, I wasn't exactly in a hurry to talk to anybody about it.
That didn't go so well for me.
You're gonna go through whatever you got to go through, but I'm around, man.
Everybody's here for you.
I just haven't gotten my head around it yet, you know? Still pretty angry.
Yeah.
I appreciate you reaching out.
- Good evening.
- Hey.
- Through there.
- Right there? Yeah.
- You look nice.
- Thank you.
Gentlemen? Uh I got an invite.
This is Kevin Atwater from the 21st.
Alvin Olinsky said he's all right.
Thought we could use some new blood.
What we could use is some new money.
Uh how much new money? How much you got? That's your spot.
Oh.
How you feeling, Chief? Oh.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Yeah! Hello, beautiful lady.
- Adam.
- Oh, hey, Al.
I need a place to crash just for a few days.
Oh.
Uh - Hey, thanks, man.
- Yeah.
- Hi.
- Hi.
So where do I sleep? Uh, well How about Michelle takes the bedroom? You and me can rough it on the couches.
Yeah, there's only one couch.
We'll figure it out.
Is this fettuccine Alfredo? Yeah.
I love fettuccine Alfredo.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
Oh.
Hey, baby.
Hi.
You look just like him.
That's what my mom says sometimes.
I was a soldier too.
Yeah? Yeah, man.
I've known some heroes.
But what you did, going public, telling the truth about what happened, that might just be the bravest thing I've ever seen.
I miss him.
I know.
Did you lose friends? Many, yeah.
How do you deal with it? When I get down, I I try to remind myself that they made a sacrifice so that I could come home and live my life.
I just try to honor that.
Your dad would be so happy for you right now.
Yeah? Yeah.
Not just because of what you did, because it's over.
Chicago PD, put your hands up! Been reviewing your team over the past six months.
You certainly have an aggressive unit.
Thank you.
There's a young girl, and she's my daughter.
If you have any hope of keeping us together, you better get a paternity test.
The results are in.
The other night was a one-time deal.
Everybody knows.
So why are we still trying to hide it? - We should get out of here.
- Mm-hmm.
And, you know, really don't know what he thinks of me.
I mean I got bumped up a year ago.
I still don't know where I'm at.
I mean, you know Voight little better than me.
You think he thinks I'm good police? I think Voight thinks everyone's got room for improvement.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I feel you.
Is that James Whitaker? Oh, he's the captain of the 31st, right? Like the Black Pope of Chicago.
Does a big card game.
All the powerful brothers in the city are there.
If you're in that game, you made it.
Hmm.
You know, the way you've got to handle Voight is you Oh, hold on.
Good talk.
Captain Whitaker? Kevin Atwater out of Intelligence.
Just wanted to come over here and introduce myself.
Atwater.
Yes, sir.
See, um, I'm a little new.
You know, still kinda settling in my bones.
But, you know, 20 years ago, you were where I am, and 20 years down the road, you know, I'm hoping that I can be where you are.
And, you know, being a brother Officer Atwater, you just made two mistakes.
First, our shared skin color is irrelevant to me.
Good police is good police.
And secondly, I get one half hour of peace each day, by myself, which is my breakfast, and you have disturbed that.
Yeah, so I should probably just Yes.
Actually, no, I didn't realize he was missing until this morning.
That's not like Colin.
He's very responsible.
- How old is your son? - 15.
- You called his school? - I called everybody.
I called his cell phone a million times.
Has he ever run away before? - Never.
- Okay.
We can get the ball rolling on a missing person's report, but I'll need a recent photo.
- I found this under his bed.
- His diary? You need to look at it.
He's not just missing.
"I want to kill.
" I swear to you, I had no idea.
Colin has been pretty agitated.
I thought it was just normal teenage stuff.
"Today I will have my revenge at WCD.
" WCD? Webster Country Day, his school.
Does your son have access to a gun? Right this way.
Colin Blake.
Went missing yesterday with a loaded pistol taken from his house.
We checked with the headmaster.
Colin was marked absent, but his Mom recognized his bike outside the school, so we think he's here.
Well, get very uniform a picture of this kid and start sweeping the campus.
Got it.
Hey.
- Atta boy.
- Sarge.
Just got word.
Patrol found a body behind the school.
By the fence.
What do we got? It's him.
Well, body's cool.
He's been here a while.
He's still holding onto the gun, and there's a muzzle flash by the entry wound.
It looks like a suicide.
It's a .
22 caliber.
No wonder nobody heard the shot.
All right, Burgess, I want you to hand deliver that pistol to forensics.
Tell them I need a rush order to confirm ballistics.
- Got it.
- And keep sweeping the school.
We don't know if this kid was operating alone.
Guys, nobody move! Don't key your radios.
Just back up slow.
We got a bomb.
It's a very crude pipe bomb.
Thanks, Sully.
Crude bomb in the right place will do a lot of damage.
Just doesn't make any sense.
I don't know what happened to him.
He was always such a happy kid.
I can't imagine how difficult this is, but I have to ask these questions.
Colin went missing yesterday, but you didn't report it until this morning.
Is that right? Oh, I I got home late.
I fell asleep.
Just assumed he was here.
How was he able to get his hands on a gun? My ex left it for my protection.
Did your son have any activities outside of the swim team? Um video games.
Lots lots of video games.
So he was basically unsupervised? It's hard when you work two jobs.
It's not like I can afford a nanny.
- That wasn't an accusation, Ms.
Blake.
- _ Who was Colin's friend, EJ? I'm not really sure.
He, uh he was an only child.
He was used to being alone.
So he didn't have one close companion? I wish I could tell you.
I _ I never knew that he was in so much pain.
Yo, O, I heard you know James Whitaker.
Yeah, we both worked in the Wild Bunch back in the day.
Good police, great poker player.
Just don't interrupt his breakfast.
Alvin, you got a second? Yeah.
Over here.
Over here.
It's about Michelle.
There's kind of a problem.
What do you mean? I got a courtesy call from my friend, Beatrice Mulaney.
She's the director of juvenile hall.
- Huh.
- It turns out Michelle's release was only contingent.
On what? She's still a minor.
So unless one of her parents officially claims guardianship, she has to be put back into the system.
Beatrice sent over the paperwork just in case.
I figured you'd want to talk it over with Meredith before you sign it.
Or not.
Colin Blake.
Apparent suicide outside of his school.
We're waiting on the ballistics, but the gun that was recovered at the scene is registered to Colin's father.
I questioned the headmaster.
He said Colin was a loner.
Scholarship student, swim team.
He was the kind of kid who you saw around but never noticed.
I checked Colin's phone.
There's a few texts and phone calls, but nothing jumps out.
You know, he didn't post much on social media.
No manifestos.
Except that in Colin's journal, he always draws his revenge fantasies with a partner.
He talks a lot about a kid named EJ.
"Talked to EJ at practice.
He's the only one who gets it.
I have to do this no matter what.
I hope EJ is with me.
" So maybe EJ wasn't with Colin.
Something happened.
He didn't show up.
Colin got cold feet and decided he couldn't go through with it alone, and he took himself out instead of his classmates.
If EJ is in fact a real person and they were in this together, he could still be planning to carry out the attack on the school.
Well, there's no EJ at Webster, but there are four boys with those initials, and one of 'em is on the swim team.
Ethan Jones.
Find him.
Get expedited search warrants, talk to teachers, students, anybody who knew Colin.
I need to know if there's an ongoing threat at Webster Country Day.
You're sure Ethan's at school? Yeah.
They're doing grief councils.
EJ wanted to go.
Did Ethan and Colin spend a lot of time together? They were on the swim team.
Colin came over here sometimes to play video games.
Was he in trouble at school? Is my son in danger? Antonio, you got to have a look at this.
I did a search history check on Ethan's computer.
That's from four days ago.
"How to build a homemade bomb.
" It's a difficult day.
Colin was a good teammate, but there was a lot going on we couldn't see.
The grief counselors are here to help you process everything.
Coach Sanders, can we have a word? - Hey.
- Hi.
Which of these boys is Ethan Jones? He's not here.
His mother said he was with you.
I dismissed Ethan from the team last month.
Is it true that Colin was planning to bomb the school? We're collecting information.
Cops all over the campus.
The students are freaked out.
We're supposed to be grieving, but if you think about what could have happened, maybe we should be celebrating.
Hey! - Get off me! - Out of the way! Out of the way! You, stand back! Move away! Get back! Get out! Get out of the way! Move away! You, move back! You, move back! Are you okay? Loner, bunch of fights at school, arguments with teachers, violent video games on his computer.
Guys, this is Detective McCabe from the youth division.
Since Ethan's a minor, he has to be in there with us.
As an observer.
He's a minor who hasn't been charged with a crime.
Let's play nice.
- You and me.
- Sarge, let me do this.
I used to be this kid.
Get it.
Hey, Ethan.
I'm Detective Erin Lindsay.
I'm Detective Jay Halstead.
And I'm Detective McCabe.
I'm with the youth division.
I'm here on your behalf.
Why am I here? I'm the one who got beat up.
Ethan, I think the kids at school were just scared.
Not just about Colin.
They're scared about you.
Did you know that Colin kept a notebook? It's pretty interesting.
"Talked to EJ at practice today.
He's the only one who gets it.
" EJ is you, right? "I want revenge.
I want to kill.
" Is there something funny to you in there? If you knew what it was like, you wouldn't be too happy about it either.
You're at a school with a lot of rich kids, and you didn't fit in, like Colin.
The rich kids, they look down on you, bully you.
You and Colin, you decide to take your revenge.
You really don't get it.
I wasn't planning to kill bullies.
Then what were you planning? What am I not seeing? Nothing.
Hey, Ethan, I'm here.
All right? Tell me.
Um EJ.
Oh, baby, look at you.
I'm all right.
All right, Ethan, stay with me.
Hey, stay with me.
What were you and Colin planning? You don't have any idea what you're talking about.
All that stuff about Colin, that was his thing.
You're just gonna let this kid walk? I can't arrest him for something he might do.
I can't even hold him.
He's a minor.
Since when did Hank Voight become such a stickler for the rules? Oh, so now you're taking the leash off? Is this coming from you or the superintendent? So I can tell people if it goes sideways.
If this kid is a monster and we set him Deputy, can I please just get back to doing my job? Please.
Just tell me you have a handle on this.
I don't, actually.
Yet.
Deputy.
What's up? Ran all the criminal complaints, and I got a hit on Ethan.
He was a suspect in a vandalism report.
Somebody put a rag in the gas tank of a motorcycle and blew it up.
The owner tried to accuse Ethan, but he couldn't prove it.
Kirby Peterson.
Yeah, senior class president of Webster Country Day.
Hmm.
And what are we hoping to learn from Mr.
Peterson? I feel like we got a beef on our hands and we need to see how big it is.
Good.
Kirby Peterson? Yeah.
I knew it was Ethan because he told me he was going to get back at me, and he laughed about it afterwards.
- What provoked him? - Who knows? Ethan's a freak.
We're talking about a totally deranged loser.
I mean, weren't they going to blow up our school? I'll ask it again.
What provoked him? We were on the swim team together.
Ethan was one of the newbies.
Colin too.
Yeah.
So we have this tradition.
After one of the practices, while the freshmen are in the showers, varsity comes in and takes their towels and their clothes, so when they come out, you know - Fun times.
- It's initiation.
Happens to everybody.
But Ethan went nuts.
He came after me with a fire extinguisher.
I swear, he was trying to kill me.
By extinguishing you? He had it over his head ready to crush my skull.
And after he threatened you, you and your buddies didn't take the ballgame back to him to save face? No.
Kirby, if you know something about what Ethan might be up to next I would tell you.
And at this point, I'm gonna need my dad here if we're gonna talk about this any more.
You threw away the paternity test without even seeing the results? If I don't step up, it'll go bad for Michelle.
What about Lexi? How's it gonna go for her? I can be a father to them both.
We'll make it work.
We? The daughter of a woman that you had an affair with comes to live with us.
We can make that work? Meredith.
Okay, look, Al Meredith, Meredith, Meredith - Al, this is what we do.
- Baby, baby, baby No, it's simple.
We just find this girl a foster home.
Hey, I can't just toss her to the wolves.
Michelle needs a father.
She deserves that.
I hear you, Al.
I really do.
Hey, stay stay with me.
I'm gonna put your stuff out on the lawn.
If it's not gone by tomorrow, I'm gonna burn it.
Hey.
Hey, what's up? We got two paper jobs in the queue.
I know.
I'll see you in the parking lot.
Okay.
- Hey, bro.
- Hey, what's up? How you doing, man? Come here, I got a genius idea.
Yeah.
What? Come over for dinner tonight.
I can't.
I have to see my sister.
- Her cat's touch and go.
- Oh, again? Come on, that cat, he's faking it for sympathy.
I'm telling you.
Come on over.
- I'm gonna cook for you.
- Since when do you cook? You ever had fettuccine Alfredo? Not since high school.
I've got a secret recipe.
Okay.
Extra cream.
Mm.
See, I like that smile.
- Yummy.
- I'm just trying to You coming over? Oh, the cat.
- I'll call you.
- The cat? Don't call.
Just come over.
Jay, yo, I got a ping on Ethan's phone.
It was moving, but now it has stopped.
It's at 313 Bristol Street.
I'll run the owner.
- Darren Sanders.
- Ethan's swim coach.
Get Burgess and Roman to check it out.
Okay.
What's going on? We're looking for Ethan Jones.
Is he here? No.
Why would he be? I'll get the back.
Mind if I take a look inside? Of course not.
Come on in.
Roman! I got something.
_ This your car? Yeah.
Pedophile.
Pretty nasty allegation.
You can write anything on a car.
It doesn't make it true.
You know we thought Ethan was planning on going after the bullies at his school.
Turns out his coach was the bully.
Or worse.
The only thing I'm guilty of is looking after a troubled kid.
Took him under your wing.
Spent extra time with him.
I did.
I made sure he got rides.
His mom worked late.
Sometimes he'd come for dinner after practice.
My wife well, she's a more-the-merrier type.
Let me ask you something.
You do the same favors for Colin Blake? As a coach, you do what you can.
But Colin he was definitely under Ethan's influence.
He may have turned him against me.
You did something to him.
Yeah, I set boundaries.
Because Ethan he started showing up out of the blue looking for favors.
He wanted too much.
It's hard.
He lost his father in Afghanistan.
But finally I told Ethan, "I can't be your father.
" He didn't like that.
Hmm.
Snail brought this for you.
It's from Captain Whitaker.
You in trouble? No.
Why? You heard something? I'd rather get a call from my gynecologist - than a formal letter from Captain Whitaker.
- _ Why are you making me come here? I could arrest you for vandalism.
We're just gonna have a conversation.
Ethan.
I don't know what game you're playing here, but please, you need to stop this now.
You need to leave.
I cut him from the team.
Now he's trying to get back at me.
Go.
Yeah, come on.
You heard the guy.
Let's go.
Ethan, you got to help me understand.
Why'd you spray-paint "pedophile" on his car? Maybe it's too hard to say out loud.
So you spray-painted it knowing you'd get caught.
Knowing that this whole thing would just blow up.
And that is fine.
That's fine.
Sometimes things like this, you just got to take a sledgehammer to 'em first.
But now here we are.
Tell me what's been going on.
I swear to you, I'm gonna do everything I can to make it right.
It's okay.
My dad told me I was supposed to be a man.
We just kicked a pedophile.
We don't let Sanders out of our sight.
Got it.
Ethan, what else can you tell me? He recruited me in public school.
He promised he'd get me a scholarship to Webster.
That's when it started.
And then when Colin told me the same thing happened to him we wanted to hurt Coach.
To get back at him.
But I didn't want anybody to know what he did to me.
There was another boy.
Another boy that Sanders abused? His name was Jeff.
He contacted Colin.
He said he went to a school in Milwaukee where Coach used to teach and said the same things happened to him.
What did Colin say Jeff wanted to do, go public? No.
Revenge.
We were gonna meet up with Jeff that day, me and Colin, to blow up Coach's car.
But I backed out.
I couldn't go through with it.
Maybe that's why Colin killed himself.
How do I find Jeff? I don't know.
Where did you guys say you were gonna meet? At the Emerald City Cafe.
All right, Sanders did coach at a small prep school in Milwaukee, but he never had a Jeff on any of his teams.
There was one Jeffrey at the school, but he's black and he lives in London.
I spoke to Milwaukee police.
Never any charges filed against Sanders, no victim reports.
M.
E.
came back on Colin's death.
Muzzle burn is consistent with suicide, but there wasn't enough gun powder residue on his hand, and the angle of entry doesn't make sense.
Colin was murdered.
It's looking like it.
Time of death between We know where Sanders was then? He was at the school with an airtight alibi for when Colin disappeared.
Uh, guys? Guys, I just pulled the surveillance footage from the cameras around the Emerald City Cafe on the afternoon that Colin died.
There's one next door.
There we go, so there's Colin.
And that's Jeff.
I know it's not much, but, you know, he's 5'10", white, he's got a tattoo on the neck.
They left around 1:15.
So this Jeff lured Colin out pretending to be another victim and then killed him.
Sanders has to be the one pulling the strings.
I accessed Coach Sanders's bank records.
He liquidated a college fund a week ago for $3,200.
Where's he gonna hire a hit man for that? He volunteered at a juvenile detention center last year as a conditioning coach.
You throw a rock in there, you're gonna hit somebody willing to pull a trigger for that price.
Find this guy.
Ethan, um I got to go, but your mom's on her way in.
Okay? Can I ask you something? Sure.
Does my mom need to know? Yeah, man.
She does.
Can you be the one who tells her? If that's what you really want.
Are you okay? Do me a favor and don't leave me alone with the swim coach, 'cause Hey, I got you.
All right.
I've got 96 offenders who participated in Coach Sanders's conditioning classes.
How many released in the last six months? No, looking for a white male.
Got 22 of those.
Well, he's got tattoos.
That doesn't narrow it down.
One on his neck.
Let's see.
Three of those.
That's him.
Jessie Mandel, released three weeks ago.
Okay, I need an address.
Thank you.
Excuse me.
Got a Jessie Mandel living here? I did.
He blew out of here 20 minutes ago.
What was he wearing? He had a green backpack.
Any idea where he was going? He's not coming back.
Said he came into some money.
Did he have a car? Not that I know of.
It's called a halfway house for a reason.
You only know half the stuff that's going on.
Mouse, looks like Jessie's on his way out of town.
Circulate his photo to the airports, train, bus stations.
Yeah.
And tap into the security cameras at every El Station within a two-mile radius.
Yes, sir.
Oh.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Sir, a copper from mass transit just called.
They have a possible sighting outside the Washington and Wells Station.
I got him! Jessie Mandel's approaching the Washington and Wells Station.
He's got a green backpack.
Jessie Mandel! Police, move, move! Police! Get out of the way! Aah! Chicago Police, move! Police! Move, move! Everybody move! Chicago Police! He dropped the bag.
He's in that car, go! Everybody, stay back, stay back.
Chicago Police, stay back! Shut down L platform at Washington and Wells.
Police! Out of the way! Move, move, move! Move, move! Police, don't move! Don't move! Jessie, freeze! Sergeant, we got rush hour coming.
Are you gonna move the body, or do I have to shut the whole thing down? We'll let you know.
Backpack's clean.
Just a bunch of clothes.
Yeah, we searched his pockets.
There's nothing to tie him to Sanders.
Money just says the kid had money.
- This guy got off easy.
- Yeah? Our only connection to Sanders just died with that kid.
I don't want any cameras near here.
You understand? No media.
Right now, we're the only people in this city who know Jessie's dead.
Let's keep it that way.
What is this? Darren Sanders, you're under arrest.
For what? Crimes against children.
Look, I'm not going anywhere until I talk to my lawyer.
Yeah? Turn around.
Put your hands there.
You know I'll drag you out of here face first across the ground in front of all your guests.
Give me a reason.
Please.
No? Move.
Call my lawyer.
Now.
Okay.
Sanders's lawyer is on his way.
Well, hold him off.
Just let me set the hook.
- Sarge.
- Hmm? I want to do this.
Maybe a little too much.
Hey, come on.
I'm confused.
See, I got I got Jessie Mandel in the other room, and he's spinning a version that, I don't know, doesn't add up.
I mean, Jessie's saying you paid him to kill Colin.
I don't know who Jessie Mandel is, and I don't have anything Darren, Darren, Darren.
We're way past that, okay? We know.
We know you met Jessie when you were volunteering at juvie.
We know you drained your kid's college fund to pay him.
We know, okay? I'm here I mean, I'm trying to help you, and you're insulting my intelligence.
I just want to know the truth.
I mean, did you pay Jessie to scare the piss out of Colin so he'd keep his mouth shut? I mean, that's That's the only thing makes sense to me based on the amount of money that I want to talk to my lawyer.
Oh, yeah? You want to talk to your lawyer? That's your right.
Let me tell you something.
If I walk out of this room and I go back over to Jessie his version gets carved in stone, and you take the ride.
All of it.
You understand? It's fine.
Jessie wasn't supposed to kill Colin! He was just supposed to scare him! Jessie wasn't supposed to kill Colin.
He was just supposed to scare him to keep him quiet.
That is all I told Jessie to do.
Uh-huh.
So Colin's death, that is on Jessie.
Right? Hey.
Hey.
Hey, listen, I don't like cases like this one, but I'm grateful when you guys do catch 'em.
That's for sure.
Hm, yeah, I guess, huh? Hey, Sean, I'm I'm really sorry to hear about your friend.
You know, we all heard about what you were doing for that boy, and I'm just sorry he passed, man.
Thanks.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Listen.
When Nadia died, I wasn't exactly in a hurry to talk to anybody about it.
That didn't go so well for me.
You're gonna go through whatever you got to go through, but I'm around, man.
Everybody's here for you.
I just haven't gotten my head around it yet, you know? Still pretty angry.
Yeah.
I appreciate you reaching out.
- Good evening.
- Hey.
- Through there.
- Right there? Yeah.
- You look nice.
- Thank you.
Gentlemen? Uh I got an invite.
This is Kevin Atwater from the 21st.
Alvin Olinsky said he's all right.
Thought we could use some new blood.
What we could use is some new money.
Uh how much new money? How much you got? That's your spot.
Oh.
How you feeling, Chief? Oh.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Yeah! Hello, beautiful lady.
- Adam.
- Oh, hey, Al.
I need a place to crash just for a few days.
Oh.
Uh - Hey, thanks, man.
- Yeah.
- Hi.
- Hi.
So where do I sleep? Uh, well How about Michelle takes the bedroom? You and me can rough it on the couches.
Yeah, there's only one couch.
We'll figure it out.
Is this fettuccine Alfredo? Yeah.
I love fettuccine Alfredo.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
Oh.
Hey, baby.
Hi.
You look just like him.
That's what my mom says sometimes.
I was a soldier too.
Yeah? Yeah, man.
I've known some heroes.
But what you did, going public, telling the truth about what happened, that might just be the bravest thing I've ever seen.
I miss him.
I know.
Did you lose friends? Many, yeah.
How do you deal with it? When I get down, I I try to remind myself that they made a sacrifice so that I could come home and live my life.
I just try to honor that.
Your dad would be so happy for you right now.
Yeah? Yeah.
Not just because of what you did, because it's over.