Truth Be Told (2019) s03e07 Episode Script

I've never told anybody
this, except Vince.
In my desperation to, um, prove myself,
I became just as bad as him.
What does that mean?
Andrew insisted that in order to
work on my mom's case, he needed more.
So
Nice to see you again, Lev.
Mind if I introduce you to a
couple of my new girlfriends?
This is Cha-Cha and Peaches.
Nice to meet you, lovely ladies.
Shall we?
["CRUSH" PLAYING]
[FINNEY] Tamara.
Lev is the richest fucker in our class,
and we have him eating out
of the palm of our hands.
He's gonna be a huge
asset to my career, Tamara.
[SIGHS] What would I do without you?
You gave me two stars.
All to be my main girl.
[POPPY] So, you were a bottom?
[INHALES SHARPLY] The girls
where'd you find them?
[EVA] Just girls I knew.
Ones with bad home
situations, kinda like mine.
Most of them just needed money
and didn't know how to get it.
I remember thinking at the
time, "Maybe I am helping them."
I'm having a hell of a time
tracking this Marv Lanelle guy.
He's had no more contact
with Emily's stepdad,
and his last known address is a dud.
He's a low-level dealer, right?
Could hit up Dimitri in Vice,
get some of his contacts
who deal the same shit.
- Is something up?
- [FOSTOKOWSKI] Get up.
Is this a joke?
Detective Sun, you're under arrest
for tampering with evidence
and obstruction of justice.
Dead man walking.
[TRINI] No! No! [PANTING]
- Hey, hey. It's okay, it's okay, baby.
- [HYPERVENTILATING]
Look, just We're here, all right?
[GASPING, GRUNTING]
- Baby.
- I can't take it.
- I can't take it.
- [STAMMERS] Everything's okay.
It was just a bad dream.
- [TRINI] No. No. No. [PANTING, WHEEZING]
- It was just a bad dream. Shh.
[WHISPERING] Everything's okay.
[SIGHS]
- Hey.
- Congratulations, Detective.
You found our CUBO.
Thank you.
We have Sun in custody,
but, uh, he's lawyered up.
He's not saying a word.
The officer at the evidence cage
remembers Sun checking
out the needle and floss.
Oh, and we found
something on Sun's desk.
That's info on Alameda
County Juvenile Hall.
- Where they're holding Aubrey.
- Mm-hmm.
- Maybe Aubrey knows something.
- And Sun was pressuring him to keep quiet.
Maybe now that Sun's gone
- Think we can trust him?
- I don't know.
I mean, he's a predator.
And a victim.
But he still has a
perspective in all this,
and I think we should hear it.
Especially if he knows
anything about Finney.
All right.
Poppy, there's, uh
There's one other thing.
Uh
Sun had a copy of, uh,
Shreve's arrest records.
I'm thinking he was gonna
leak 'em to the press,
make the Capstones look bad.
[POPPY] Mmm.
Yeah, that'd be my guess.
He had one specific file flagged
that's, uh [INHALES SHARPLY]
an incident of assault
that sent your father to prison
for a year in the '80s.
Yeah.
That's what landed me at Miss Shirley's.
Right. [SWALLOWS]
Well, Shreve must've
been one hell of a boxer
based on what he did to this,
uh, Alexander Michael Troy guy.
What?
Well, that's the guy's name that
your pops nearly beat to death.
["GET DOWN" PLAYING ON SPEAKERS]
I know you hated the fundraising
stunt, but Finney's got me in a bind.
The Caps are still in jail, and
now he's coming for The Knock.
[STAMMERS] I'm sorry,
Shreve. I really am.
Then put a leash on Finney and
the rest of his attack dogs.
With all due respect,
I thought it was you who owed me
a favor after your last request.
You put Sybil and myself, and our
company, in a very tough position.
Why would I wanna help you again?
Follow me.
Proof of trust.
You're serious?
I never joke about my bikes.
I, uh, appreciate you coming, Leona.
The timing worked [SWALLOWS]
with my trip back.
Since our last visit, I've been
thinking a lot more about my mom
and that time in her life
before she met my father.
You mean the majority of her life?
[POPPY CHUCKLES, SWALLOWS]
I'm just curious about
what she was like back then.
Like, what did she wanna be?
Did she Did she have any major
boyfriends before she met my father?
- Don't like thinking about him.
- Why?
Because [INHALES DEEPLY]
then I get mad at Elinor,
and I don't like
speaking ill of the dead.
Oh, come on. It's not speaking
ill of the dead if it's the truth.
- I just wanna kn
- She should have married Alexander.
- Alexander?
- Yeah.
I mean, he was basically
already part of the family.
He used to treat my girls to ice cream.
[CHUCKLES, SCOFFS]
Girls cried for weeks
when Elinor ended it.
Why did she end it?
Because Shreve came rolling
in and knocked up your mother.
Okay. This This Alexander
person, what was he like?
Hmm. He was interested in everything.
I mean, he could rival you
in your knowledge of world
politics and current events.
Mmm. Seems like we'd
have a lot in common.
Shared interests.
[SIPS, SWALLOWS]
Trini, how often have you been
having these night terrors?
Uh, every night since she's been home.
- But she doesn't always remember
- [MARKUS SIGHS]
the details once she's awake.
[CHHENG] Trauma can manifest in
a body in a lot of different ways.
I urge you not to push Trini
- to try and recover these memories.
- [MARKUS SIGHS]
If it happens, it'll
happen in its own time.
I understand what you're saying, Doc,
but this is a very unique situation.
All right?
We need more specifics on Trini's
assault so that we can press char
How soon should we be getting
her back into her old routine?
Maybe we can start
introducing a schedule
[MARKUS] Zarina. [SIGHS]
I really wish you
wouldn't cut me off, okay?
- Like I said, we need to press charges
- Markus, Trini said she doesn't remember.
Why don't you just drop it
and be grateful that your
daughter is sitting here with us?
I know you both wanna help Trini
[SIGHS, SMACKS LIPS] Yeah.
but at this juncture,
we really need to let
Trini lead her own healing.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[CHHENG] Do you have
anything you wanna say?
My nightmare wasn't about the assault.
It
It was about Aubrey.
I can't stand the thought of
him in jail, or juvie, whatever.
[INHALES SHAKILY, SIGHS] It makes
me sick just thinking about it.
[BREATHING SHAKILY] I'm so worried.
And I just
I love him.
[SIGHS]
As the money started rolling in
Finney leased this
tricked-out apartment for us.
Started spending a lot of time there.
You know, my mom was so overworked,
she accepted whatever lie I
told her about where I was.
[INHALES SHARPLY] Did Finney send
you to particular recruiting spots?
I mean, what was his strategy?
Oh, I did that shit all on my own.
[CHURCH BELL TOLLING]
[CHURCHGOERS CHATTERING]
That dress really brings
out the color of your eyes.
You know, when I said that I didn't
feel pretty in my old clothes,
I really didn't expect you to
I wanted to help.
I want you to have nice things.
Here. Look at this ring I got myself.
You paid for that yourself?
That's what I've been
saying. I live for myself now.
- Try it on.
- Jasmine, go wait in the car. Now.
- Vince, this is
- I said now, Jasmine. We gotta go.
I know what you and your
"friends" have been doing here,
and it's disgusting.
Preying on girls? Here of all places?
You should be ashamed.
You stay away from my cousin
and this church, you hear me?
[EVA] I'd never seen anyone care enough
about these girls to protect one of 'em.
Vince saw how young
I was. I was just 17.
He offered to help me get out.
Gave me his card.
Told me to call anytime.
Mmm. That's when you left?
No.
[INHALES SHARPLY] No, I thought
I could still trust Finney.
And I figured, you know,
he's made enough money and connections
to secure our future together.
I was still so in love with him.
I fucking wish I would've left then.
[AAMES] What were your
interactions like with Sun?
[AUBREY] He was someone Trey
would threaten me with. Sort of.
Like, let me know the
law was in his pocket.
You know, if I ever
walked out or snitched.
Made me feel like I had no choice
but to go along with
the plan he had for us
and for Trini.
I did, though, have a choice.
And I made the wrong one.
Did you ever see Detective
Sun at the mixer house?
No, sir.
What about this guy?
Did you see him there?
No, I I've never seen him.
I mean, except on TV, signs and stuff.
There was this one time.
I-I was with Trey when he met
up with Sun over at the blade.
It It was this motel
right off the Boulevard.
I got the feeling he
spent a lot of time there,
'cause the motel staff
let him walk around
like he was the boss or something.
When was this?
Right around the time I went to
Mr. and Mrs. Killebrew's for dinner.
[SIGHS] I was feeling stressed
'cause Trey was telling
me he was short a girl.
[POPPY] I remember Markus
telling me about that dinner.
It was just a couple of
days after Drea was killed.
Trini must have been Drea's replacement.
[AUBREY] I'm so sorry, Ms. Scoville.
Please, I-I just need
to know. How is Trini?
[PEOPLE OUTSIDE MOTEL CHATTERING]
So, Sun had Mr. Motel out there
on a leash this whole time.
Mutual beneficial criminality.
Sun kept other cops
from hassling the motel.
He got a free off-the-record room.
[POPPY GROANS]
Aames.
Whoa.
I think we just found the
Pulp Fiction briefcase.
Mmm. But do you have
a guy who can open it?
I may have one better. [GRUNTS]
Yeah, you sit next to
someone in a cramped car
while they unlock their
phone enough times
you pick up a few details.
Okay, we're driving home separately.
Yeah. Serial number's filed off.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
Oh. Cage officer was right.
The needle and floss Sun
took from Drea's evidence.
That's not the only
one. These are unused.
All this time, we've been assuming
it was Trey who was tattooing the girls.
What if it was Sun?
That's a stretch.
Is it?
That's gotta be Bruno Pascal's tie.
Right. Yeah, Drea's john,
he left a tie behind.
And when he went back to get it, he
overheard Trey and Drea's argument.
You know, it never made
sense why Trey killed Drea.
Pimps rely on the girls for income.
Maybe [INHALES SHARPLY]
Maybe Sun was in the room
with Trey, or he came in after.
Fuck.
Yeah. So, how's our girl holding up?
You know, any more talk about
visiting that little snake Aubrey?
[ZARINA] No, but she's pretty pissed.
Hasn't left her room in
hours. Where are you?
Um, I'm at the bank.
But listen, I'm at the teller,
so I'm gonna have to
call you back, all right?
Talk to you later.
["NATURAL BLUES (REPRISE
VERSION)" PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
[SHUTTER CLICKS]
[MUTTERS]
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Detective.
Now, we already told
Fostokowski and the DA
you're not gonna get anything out of us
on this trumped-up obstruction
of justice bullshit.
Well, I disagree. [INHALES DEEPLY]
You know, I talked to the, uh
to the officer at the evidence cage.
[SIGHS]
He remembers Sun checking
out the needle and floss.
You don't have shit, Aames.
We both know that floss and
needle broke chain of custody.
It'll never stand up in court.
No, I I have shit.
Yeah, I got shit.
- [SLAMMING]
- All this shit.
All this from that
roach-infested office of yours.
- You see [SMACKS LIPS]
- [SUN SIGHS]
See, I think you're the muscle
behind this, uh this
trafficking operation.
Yeah, you drug the girls
[STAMMERS] you brand them,
maybe even put a bullet in
someone who steps out of line.
[INHALES SHARPLY]
You wanna explain to me
what you had to do with
the murder of Drea Spivey?
Oh, that must've pissed your boss off.
Depleting his inventory
like that, right?
Who is he?
You better start flippin' and
talking like a fucking show dolphin,
'cause I got you for murder.
See, now you wildin' out.
No. One of the blade
girls gave your ass up.
Hooker's word against mine.
Oh, we don't just have her word.
No, Sun.
We spoke to one of Drea's johns,
and what he said, in conjunction
with what we know from Drea,
well, this all points to you.
So here's what I think happened
the night Drea was murdered.
[PEOPLE OUTSIDE MOTEL CHATTERING]
I'm tired.
Get you some more blow
then. You ain't done.
Come on, man.
You stop when I say so.
You owe me, girl.
Not anymore.
That should be enough right there.
I don't wanna keep going, Trey.
I already made payout. Why would I do
[GRUNTING, BREATHING HEAVILY]
I take a leak and all hell breaks loose?
What the fuck's going on out here?
Bitch don't wanna work.
But we straight now.
Go on. I'll get her right for the mixer.
Get on the bed.
I ain't going to no mixer.
I heard what happens there.
Oh, you going. [SIGHS]
Right after you break me off some.
Lie down.
- No.
- [ZIPPER CLOSES]
- What'd you say?
- I wanna go home.
That's not happening.
- Get off of me. No
- [GRUNTS]
[PANTING] Get off of
me! You No! St
[GRUNTS] Please stop.
[AAMES] You tried to
fuck her, didn't you?
- She wasn't having it.
- [GRUNTS] Get off me!
- [DETECTIVE SUN] No.
- Kevin.
A child.
She was a child.
And you held her down.
You forced yourself on her.
Right?
She was a child.
Sixteen years old.
- I don't do that shit.
- [LAWYER] Okay.
Kevin.
You're an ex-cop, and you're
going in. You're going in.
You're gonna to be
known as a child rapist.
- That's the lowest of the low.
- I didn't rape her!
She was outta line. She taunted me.
How?
[SUN] I was just trying
to ink her for the mixer.
[PANTS] I know you got kids.
I seen your screen saver.
Two little girls.
What the hell kind of
father does this shit?
Shut the fuck up!
How'd you like it if your
girls had to take it up the butt
with some dirty old fuck
- Do not talk about my kids!
- [CHOKING, STRUGGLING] Please!
[CHOKING, STRUGGLING CONTINUES]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[STRUGGLING STOPS]
[KNOCKING]
[ROCHELLE] Girl, let's
go. You got a john waiting.
[SUN BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [KNOCKING]
- [ROCHELLE] Hello?
[KNOCKING]
Hey, what you doing here?
Came to ink her for the
mixer, but she's lights out.
Oh, shit. For real?
Yeah.
What? She don't need it now.
Is there anything [GULPS]
on the table here, Detective?
I'm sure the, uh
the DA's office would consider
shaving time off his sentence
if he tells us who he's working for.
And?
[SIGHS]
You better watch your
back, CUBO. [SIGHS]
[PEOPLE ON THE STREET CHATTERING]
What if it was a mistake talking?
What if she's never able to
see me the same way again?
Is it her you're really concerned about?
[GRUNTS] Seriously, how are
you even here with me right now?
I'm here to help with the moment
after this little fit passes.
You shouldn't put up with me.
You know what I was
planning to do to Jasmine.
- Mmm.
- How close I was.
[INHALES DEEPLY, SIGHS]
I forgave you for what you did
as that motherfucker's
instrument a long time ago.
Hey. But hear me, Eva.
None of it matters if you
won't forgive yourself.
[SIGHS]
Check this out.
I had an associate hack into it.
Get what you pay for with
these gas station throwaways.
What am I looking at?
[SMACKS LIPS] You're
looking at the call log.
You see right there?
Ochoa, he placed a call
as soon as the place was raided.
He must've been warning
someone or-or calling for help.
I haven't been able to identify who yet.
That phone number looks familiar.
[MARKUS SIGHS]
There it is. Finney's private cell.
[CHUCKLES] Ochoa called Finney
after the mixer was raided.
Well, that's the whole game, isn't it?
Sure.
Let us know we're on
the right path, but
[MARKUS SCOFFS]
This wasn't exactly
collected legally, right?
[MARKUS SIGHING]
But
if our theory is right,
Ochoa is a john at the mixers
that Andrew Finney organizes,
Sun is the muscle who inks the girls,
and these are the pimps.
But is this the whole ring?
I don't know.
But these cases need
to move forward, Poppy.
We have to be careful, though.
- If Sun is scared to talk
- [SIGHS]
the players must be heavy hitters.
I don't give a fuck, Pop. All right?
Finney. Ochoa. They have to pay.
I mean, that's all I've got.
Are you okay, Markus?
I haven't seen you like this in a while.
[SIGHS]
[SCOFFS] Am I okay?
[SIGHS] Well, uh,
my daughter, she hasn't
slept through the night
ever since she was
kidnapped and sex trafficked.
Not that she would
allow me to comfort her.
But you know who she
does wanna get a hug from?
The boy who set her up to be raped.
So, no, Poppy, I'm not okay.
I'm sorry.
[SIGHS]
[AAMES] I can't believe Sun was
doing this right under my nose.
[POPPY ON PHONE, SIGHS] It's not
your fault. But Eva was right.
Ochoa leads back to Finney.
We have to stop him, Aames.
Well, I am trying to find something
in Sun's financial records.
But so far, every road
dead-ends at Questeur.
He was using the app?
[AAMES] Daily.
Transactions incoming and outgoing.
I can't believe I'm up
against this shit again.
How so?
I got proof that Emily
Mills's stepdad made contact
with a guy we believe is his dealer.
My working theory is that
Peter owes money to this guy.
- And he used his daughter as collateral.
- Yeah.
We need to find the dealer,
but Questeur is stymieing me.
Mmm. You're so close, but [CHUCKLES]
why do you sound so defeated?
Fostokowski's got us working
overtime on this case.
And, uh, in the meantime,
I find out after the fact that
that Max walked for the first time.
Mm-hmm. You're a great father.
Don't be so hard on yourself.
Well, look, I [SIGHS]
may have an angle on
how to pierce Questeur.
I just [CHUCKLES] Ooh,
I really don't wanna use it.
Well, it's a good thing
you like me so much.
Oh, you're okay.
- ["CLAIM JUMPIN'" PLAYING ON SPEAKERS]
- [POOL BALLS CLACKING]
What's the good word, Pop?
I'll let you know when I hear it.
- Hey, Daddy.
- Hey.
Case got you busy, Popsicle?
Well [SIGHS] that's, uh
That's actually why I'm here.
[SHREVE CLEARS THROAT]
I was hoping that you would facilitate
a meeting for me with Lee Hackman.
I need to access some
private Questeur accounts.
- He won't like that.
- So, you won't even try?
Whoa. Where's that bass coming from?
[SIGHS]
When Aames arrested Detective Sun,
he found some information on
you Sun was preparing to leak.
About your arrest.
After Mom died.
Keep trying to paint me
as some kind of monster.
I just
I never spared a thought for
the actual victim in that fight.
A man you nearly beat to death.
[SIGHS]
Look, after your mother
passed, Alexander came calling.
He wanted custody.
- He wanted me?
- He had no right.
- To at least meet me? Why not?
- Because I'm your father.
I could've stayed with
him when you went away
- instead of being abused by Miss Shirley.
- I made a holy pact with Elinor
on her deathbed to never
let that man into your life.
- Why?
- I didn't ask.
I didn't need to. Her word was enough.
- So y-you just you just turned him away?
- He said he wouldn't leave without you.
- Shit got heated. I did what I had to do.
- You could've killed my father, Daddy.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
I was protecting you.
Protecting me? Protecting me from what?
Leona thinks Alexander's great.
You spoke to her? Before me?
Don't worry.
I didn't tell her anything.
I guess that's something
I learned from you.
Just set the meeting
with Hackman, please.
[SIGHS]
Okay. So, did Finney contain himself
to just trafficking women,
or was his operation into other things?
- Like?
- Like drugs. Gambling.
I'm just looking for hard data
or anything with a paper trail
that we can use to
corroborate your story.
It's the truth, not a story.
[INHALES SHARPLY] That
goes without saying, Eva.
Finney never stepped into
the drug game. Too much risk.
Drugs you can only sell once.
Women, you can sell
over and over, and over.
It's remarkable that you
were able to stay clean.
Some of my girls weren't so lucky.
- [EVA] Tuesday! Wake up! [PANTING]
- [PERSON 1] Oh, my God.
Go get some water. [PANTS]
Nadia, call 911. Tell them
she's overdosing. [PANTING]
[NADIA CRYING] All right.
- Should we turn her on her side?
- [EVA PANTING]
- Put the phone down.
- Huh?
[EVA PANTING]
We cannot afford this scrutiny.
But [PANTS] I'm
responsible for her.
Then you should've
taken better care of her.
[PERSON 1] What do we do?
[BREATHING HEAVILY, PANTS]
Uh, we have an emergency. [PANTING]
[POPPY] You protected her.
She didn't make it.
Finney slipped out, and they rounded
us up like we were the criminals.
How did you get out?
Once they realized I was underage,
they got in touch with my mom.
She came down to the
station and bailed me out.
I hadn't seen her in weeks.
I'm sure she was relieved to see you.
I'm not sure if she wanted
to hug me or smack me.
Then one of the officers
started asking questions
about me being a minor in
an apartment with drugs.
INS eventually took her into
custody and deported her.
She was dead within the year.
I never got to say goodbye.
I'm so sorry.
It took me losing everything
to realize the truth.
He never planned on helping me.
[SIGHS, BREATHING DEEPLY]
[KISSES]
- Hey, Vince. [SIGHS]
- I'm so glad you called.
[EVA STAMMERS] And that's why there's
no proof of my time with Finney.
I had to leave it all behind so
he wouldn't realize I was leaving.
[POPPY] Did he ever try to find you?
Vince set me up with his
family in another county.
I changed my name, my look.
Enrolled back in high school.
You moved forward.
It's fucked up.
Sometimes I miss him.
All that manipulation just made
me forget that he was my pimp
not my boyfriend.
[INHALES SHARPLY]
What happened to Nadia?
I haven't seen her since
the day I walked out.
I don't even know her last name.
- But you tried to contact her?
- No, I I couldn't.
I mean, what if Finney used her
to pull me back into the life?
But you brought that girl into the life.
You didn't care enough
to help her get out of it?
I'm sorry. I I-I'll strike that.
No. Leave it in.
I'm a coward.
And it would be a relief to
stop pretending otherwise.
- I'll see you next week.
- Okay, thanks.
[CHILDREN CHATTERING]
- [MARKUS SIGHS]
- Ugh.
[MARKUS] Need a little
bit of help there?
[PERSON] Oh. [CHUCKLES] It
happens every time. [CHUCKLES]
Thank you [STAMMERS] uh
Markus. Killebrew.
Sounds familiar. Have we met?
No, not exactly, Olivia.
My daughter, Trini, she was, uh,
rescued the night your
husband Bill was arrested.
I have nothing to say to you.
Please, just-just list just
listen. You seem like a good person.
Okay? And [SIGHS]
you can't possibly
support what your husband did.
So, please help me find
peace for my daughter.
You would want the same
thing for your children.
[SCOFFS] My children would
never end up as hookers.
Excuse me?
Your husband raped my daughter.
[LAUGHS] Please. He went to a party.
He didn't know anything
- about any underage girls.
- Oh, my God.
- And he didn't sleep with anyone.
- Open your goddamn eyes!
You're crazy.
You need to stay away
from me and my family.
[SIGHS]
Okay, baby, come on.
[TRINI GROANING]
Out of bed. Let's go.
[GROANING, SIGHS]
- Not until you let me see Aubrey.
- Oh, no.
I can't do that, baby.
That boy hurt you.
Hurt people hurt people.
You have to move on, Trini.
Not wait around for people
who don't deserve your love.
You mean like you did with Dad?
There is no comparison
between your father and Aubrey.
Do you think I don't remember what
he was like when he was drinking?
Before he left?
What about the time he threw
a hammer through the wall
because the fire alarm
wouldn't stop beeping?
You tried to play it off the
next day like it was some joke,
but I remember you crying.
I'm sorry I didn't protect
you from that better.
But that doesn't change my decision.
Your father has a disease,
a disease that he worked on for
years before I took him back.
And in that time, I learned
how to properly value myself,
separate and apart from any man.
You need to learn how to
put yourself first right now.
So, why don't you tell me
how you're gonna do that?
Maybe I could go for a
run this afternoon outside?
- Really?
- Yeah.
It's about time I start getting
back into shape for crew.
[CHUCKLES] I miss the water.
Of course.
All right.
- Text me as you go. Okay?
- Yep, course.
[ZARINA] Mmm. All right.
[SIGHS]
- [PEOPLE ON THE STREET CHATTERING]
- I can tell you're off the wagon.
[SCOFFS]
- You tell Rina about it?
- That's not my business.
[SIGHS, GROANS]
I don't want her to see me like
this, you know? [BREATHES SHAKILY]
Nothing worse than
where you are right now.
[SCOFFS]
When you're in that place, you
can't see no way out but destruction.
[SIGHS]
You know, Poppy told me
about the tape you made
with Joshua.
How you handled Elinor's death.
You ever regret that shit?
I held a man's life in my
hands and nearly snuffed it out.
[SIGHS]
I still feel the
reverberations of my actions.
And I don't know if that means
that I shouldn't have done it
or I should've killed
him when I had the chance.
Let me take you to a meeting.
[SCOFFS]
No, there's one close by.
I-I'll just walk there.
Markus, listen to me.
No matter how dark the shadows gets
around you, you keep talking to me.
- All right?
- All right.
Love you, brother.
I love you too.
[TRAIN PASSING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
Hey, Cooper. Thank you for meeting me.
Hey.
Hey, um
Look, I I'm-I'm
sorry for what happened.
You know, I tried to
help out that podcast lady
and Principal Pierre, but
[SIGHS] maybe I could've done more.
Do you still wanna help out?
What you need?
I wanna get a message to Aubrey.
[KEY TAPS]
[POPPY, ON RECORDING]
So, you were a bottom?
The girls, where'd you find them?
[EVA] Just girls I knew. Ones
with bad home situations,
kinda like mine.
[POPPY] Did Finney send you to
particular recruiting spots?
I mean, what was his strategy?
[EVA] Oh, I did that shit all on my own.
- [KEY TAPS]
- Damn it.
[POPPY] What happened to Nadia?
[EVA] I haven't seen her
since the day I walked out.
I don't even know her last name.
[POPPY] But you tried to contact her?
[EVA] No, I-I couldn't.
What if Finney used her to
pull me back into the life?
- [KEY TAPS]
- Damn it.
Damn it.
[INHALES DEEPLY, SIGHS] I can't use it.
They'll crucify her.
- [KEY TAPS]
- [INHALES DEEPLY, SIGHS]
Thanks again for coming, Mr. Hackman.
Well, don't thank me yet. [CHUCKLES]
I'm here as a favor to Shreve
and I don't know what I
can actually do to help you.
And [SCOFFS] privacy is one
of the core tenets of my company.
W-What you're asking me to do,
to to violate, it's unprecedented.
Hmm. Maybe for Questeur.
But not Noveur, your first company.
Oh, now, there's a name I
haven't heard in a while.
Yeah. You started it at Stanford, right?
The first company to be
in the message board space.
I started it with my
engineering school bursar money.
It was, uh, mostly X-Files
recaps and local sports.
I was very cool.
[CHUCKLES] Yeah, as I recall,
a few of your female
users were being harassed,
sent death threats.
They asked for protections, for
restrictions against hate speech,
but the majority of your
users voted against it.
They wanted to keep the status quo,
a mecca of unregulated privilege.
But you stood up for your
most marginalized members.
I did.
But now, finish the story.
Noveur went under shortly thereafter.
But do you regret it?
[SMACKS LIPS] Not for a minute.
[GROANING, SIGHS DEEPLY] Okay.
I'll do it, but you cannot
breathe a word of this to anyone.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
No one knows I'm here, not
even my wife Sybil. [STAMMERS]
So if anything ever gets out,
I will have to deny ever
having given you access.
- We understand.
- Thank you, sir.
Yeah, well, thank her father.
Shreve's an extraordinary man.
[SIGHS] It seems like
you have his gift in you.
[CHUCKLES]
[INHALES DEEPLY] All right.
So, these are transactions.
So, for example,
this is a payment from Andrew Finney
to [STAMMERS] Kevin Sun.
Look, there's there's
Trey. Roger Errons.
Payments from the arrested johns.
[AAMES] The transactions
are the day before the mixer.
They were buying their way in.
We need to find a way to
make this stick legally.
Okay, if they were buying their way in,
why is Finney paying Bill Ochoa?
There are payments to him
going back months, maybe more.
Maybe Ochoa isn't just a john.
What if he's a part of the ring?
Well, doing what? I mean,
wasn't he a-a VC or something?
Huh. [GASPS] Oh, uh, M-Mr. Hackman,
there's-there's one more name.
A Marv Lanelle.
He may be connected to
the Emily Mills case.
Okay. So, y-y-you're going to
be receiving an anonymous message
containing a plain text
doc of the unlocked accounts
of Finney [STAMMERS]
and this Marv Lanelle guy.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
But there'll be identifying features
so that you cannot trace
it back to Questeur.
[INHALES DEEPLY, SMACKS LIPS]
And remember, not a word.
- [CLICKS TONGUE] Not a word.
- Thank you, sir.
Mm-hmm. [SIGHS]
Thanks again for coming.
Oh [STAMMERS]
you're very welcome.
And, uh, say hi to Shreve.
I will.
[WHOOPS, CHUCKLES, SIGHS]
What?
I meant what I said about Emily Mills.
She deserves to be found.
Yeah, she does.
- [KNOCKING]
- [DOG BARKING]
Marv Lanelle?
I got a warrant to search the apartment.
[BARKING CONTINUES]
Get control of your dog
or we're gonna tase it.
Gage, go.
- [BARKS]
- Gage, go!
- All right, let's go.
- Oh, hey [STAMMERS, BREATHING HEAVILY]
Oh, Marv, what have we got here?
[BREATHING HEAVILY, STAMMERS]
I had There was a You know?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [STAMMERING] Fuck. [GRUNTS]
- [AAMES] Farran!
- Stop! Don't move!
- [GRUNTING]
- Get on the ground!
- No, no.
Get on the ground!
- [GRUNTING] Ow, ow, ow.
- [RATTLING]
[SHUSHES] Shut up.
- Cuff him.
- [GRUNTING, STRAINING]
[THUDDING]
Emily Mills?
[PERSON] Please help me. Please.
[PERSON PANTING] Please.
Please.
Please. Please help me. Please.
Please help me.
[PERSON PANTING]
- [SHUSHES] Okay. It's okay.
- Please help me. Please.
Please let me out. Please.
- [PANTING]
- Are you hurt?
- Thank you. [CRYING]
- It's okay. You're safe.
You're safe.
- We got you.
- [SOBS]