Truth Be Told (2019) s03e09 Episode Script

- [FOOTSTEPS ECHOING]
- [FINNEY CHUCKLES]
[FINNEY] You have me
confused with someone else.
Sounds like someone really hurt you.
[POPPY] A secret is a weapon.
A knife of insight to be used by you
or against you.
But using a weapon not
only changes the victim,
but the one who wields it.
- [PHONE RINGING]
- [OFFICERS CHATTERING]
One thing we know is that
former mayoral candidate
Andrew Finney was killed.
All right, listen up!
Finney is the priority.
[POPPY] To believe his colleagues,
Finney was a champion for Oakland,
but he had a dark secret.
He was a sex trafficker.
We know he made payments to law
enforcement to hide his crimes,
but someone was blackmailing him
and clearly wanted to harm him
when they realized he might talk.
Often those closest to you are the
custodians of your deepest secrets.
The fear is, one day after they've
quietly slipped out the back door,
they'll weaponize those
precious truths against you.
What I wanna know is,
what other secrets did Finney
take with him to his grave?
Whatever they are and who killed him
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[THUDS]
hold the key to stopping whoever
is behind this trafficking ring,
once and for all.
[POPPY GASPS]
I am going to chalk this lapse in
judgment up to you drinking again.
Hello?
Oh, I'm sorry, baby. Um, what,
uh What were you saying again?
What is going on with you?
You've been like a zombie
for, like, two days.
It's just stress. I
haven't been sleeping well.
Well, perk up, drink your caffeine,
whatever you gotta
do. Today's a big day.
[MARKUS] Yes, it is.
- [ZARINA] Morning, honey!
- Hi.
You ready for school?
Uh, yeah, I think so.
[ZARINA] All right.
I'm so proud of you.
I think getting back to normal
is gonna be good for you.
- It's gonna be good for us as a family.
- [MARKUS] Mm-hmm.
First, let's go over
the rules one more time
so we're all on the same page.
Text check-ins every hour.
Location tracking on.
No going off campus.
And you carpool to crew.
Don't you think that's
a little bit overkill?
No. If anything, it's underkill.
- [ZARINA] Can't homeschool her.
- Why not?
We could teach her the same
thing they're teaching there.
I agree with the need for safety,
but how we implement
that, that is a discussion.
Yeah, maybe one day. But not today.
She needs her independence, babe.
Sure. Listen, what time is crew
over? 'Cause I'ma come pick you up
- and make sure that you get home
- No.
- Trini.
- [STAMMERS] Look, I'll, um, carpool home.
Okay, it's fine. I just
I wanna go to school.
- Okay? I'm ready.
- [MARKUS SIGHS]
If it's too soon, it's too soon.
You said it was my choice,
so do you trust me or not?
Of course, of course.
But you know you can
talk to us if you need to.
The more we communicate as a family,
the better off we're gonna be. Yeah?
[REPORTER] As we know, the body
of Oakland mayoral
candidate Andrew Finney
was found by an office worker
who discovered the body
in the parking garage.
All right, so what's up?
Finney was killed at the site of
his campaign office by an un
Look [SIGHS] there's
something I need to tell you both.
I think we need to investigate Eva.
What? Why?
Because Andrew Finney trafficked
her when she was just a teenager.
[MARKUS] Holy shit. [SIGHS]
We don't know that she killed him,
but she obviously had a motive.
[MARKUS] Yeah, I felt something was off
when she and I tailed Finney that day.
You're pretty quiet, Aames.
I think Eva was the last person
to see Andrew Finney alive.
She had opportunity.
I found footage of her in the
parking garage at Finney's office
13 minutes before he died.
Okay, hold on. [CHUCKLES] Hold up.
You know, all due respect, Aames,
I mean, that means that
there's still a window.
I mean, the last person
to see Finney alive
was the one who was driving that car.
Right. Which could've been Eva.
Or that window means it
could've been Bill Ochoa.
If he was afraid that
Finney could out him,
that's gotta be one
hell of a motive, right?
Agreed. Yeah, we need to
figure out who was in that car.
Listen, I gotta go back to the station.
But what are we gonna do about Eva?
Well, we need to find out what she
did after she left Finney's office.
You stay away from her, Poppy.
I know she's been through hell,
but she is a person of interest now.
[SIGHS]
Hey, Pop. Um
can I talk to you for a minute?
No. Not right now, Markus.
I wanna commend you all for stepping
up so soon after the Mills case.
I know you're tired. I am too.
Quick reminder to avoid the
reporters outside, or elsewhere.
The department has no
comment at this time.
We tracked down the servers
that backed up the camera footage
from the mixer house we raided.
The cameras are owned and operated
by one of the johns, Bill Ochoa.
On his servers, we found video of
guys having sex with underage girls
at these mixers over the years.
One of the videos showed
Finney with an underage girl.
[OFFICER SIGHS]
[FOSTOKOWSKI] I've dispatched
officers to arrest Ochoa
for possible extortion and blackmail.
In the meantime,
everyone keep pulling Finney's emails,
contacts, call logs, bank
statements, witnesses.
Finney's killer is still at large,
and the DA wants somebody
in custody yesterday.
Let's get it done.
- Did you get anything from the coworkers?
- No, sir.
[FOSTOKOWSKI] Then hit 'em again.
Let me take a shot at Ochoa.
- Why?
- 'Cause I can get to him.
It's personal for me, sir.
Fine. But we got a partial
plate on the car that hit Finney.
After you're done questioning
Ochoa, run it down.
Traced it to a car dealer in
the East Bay run by a Nico Zebka.
Check it out and let
me know what you find.
It's been 48 hours since
the murder of Andrew Finney.
Much of the Bay Area is still in shock
over what some are
calling an assassination.
Police are mystified as
to who killed him and why.
Several suspects have
been brought into custody,
- but as of this broadcast, no charges
- [EXCLAIMS, SIGHS] Girl, you scared me.
Just watching the news. [SIGHS]
[INHALES DEEPLY] I'm glad you came.
I You know, I keep thinking
about all those other johns
and just feeling like we
should take 'em down ourselves.
Forget OPD.
Yeah, yeah, maybe.
But listen, I-I just saw some
shady guys in the parking lot.
- I-I tried to scatter 'em, but
- [GROANS] It's always something.
- One sec.
- Yeah. Okay.
[EVA] Yeah, let's just push
the budget meeting to 4:00.
Looking for something?
[SIGHS] A-A pen.
[CHUCKLES] Thanks.
- Did you see 'em?
- Mm-mmm.
I'm just trying to
remember the license plate.
No. No. I missed 'em.
So, when are we gonna focus on
bringing down the other johns?
Oh. I-I can handle that. I-I
think you should focus on healing.
But this is helping me heal.
Now what?
Well, I, uh [INHALES SHARPLY]
was gonna go back through
the videos we got from Ochoa.
Good. I'll join you.
I want a full list of
your contacts in tech.
Is this a witch hunt, Detective?
Oh, no, no, no. This is a manhunt.
See, I'm trying to find out why
a mayoral candidate was murdered
and why a company owned by Bill here
had videos of men with underage girls,
including one of a young Andrew Finney.
So what was the deal, Bill?
Finney becomes mayor. He greases
the wheels of your businesses.
But then the truth about your
trafficking was gonna get exposed,
so you silenced him.
You don't have to answer that.
I'm an investor. I
have a lot of contacts.
I'm not implicated in any of this.
No, you're a rapist, Bill.
And you may also be a
trafficker. Maybe even a killer.
And I'm gonna find the truth,
whether you cooperate or not.
Listen, my client will
beat the statutory charge
because the accuser's
an unreliable witness.
She's a runaway who
had drugs in her system.
The child pornography
charge is laughable.
My client had no
knowledge of those videos.
Do you have any other witnesses?
No one's going to testify that I
assaulted anyone, because I didn't.
I don't need another
witness. I already got one.
And when she comes forward,
she's gonna bury you.
[VICTIM ON VIDEO MOANING, PANTING]
Well, that's enough of that.
It's starting to give me hives.
"AF." Is that one of Finney?
Yeah.
Put it on.
- Eva.
- Put it on, Poppy.
[SIGHS]
[FINNEY] One sec. Just
gonna use the bathroom.
[VICTIM] Take your time.
[SIGHS]
[EVA] Oh, my God.
- [POPPY] What?
- That's Nadia.
The girl you told me
about? From your interview?
- Yeah.
- [POPPY] Holy shit.
She knew there was a camera
there. Did she trap Finney?
Oh, we gotta find her.
She could be the key to figuring out
how the tape ended up with Bill Ochoa
and who else has seen it,
which might lead us to
Finney's blackmailer.
Okay. Just Just hold
on, okay? Slow down.
Why are you trying to slow-walk me?
I'm not trying to slow-walk you, Eva.
Things are tense. I'm
just trying to be cautious.
For whom? For me or for you?
[SIGHS] Eva.
You know what? Let me cut to the
chase. I do know Nadia's last name.
You wanna find her, you'll need my help.
Oh. Yeah.
Ain't no fun when the
rabbit got the gun, huh?
I gotta go to school, but
I'll call you when I find her.
- [FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
- [DOOR OPENS]
[SIGHS]
- [SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
- [CHATTERING]
["HYPHY" PLAYING]
- [STUDENT] Hey.
- [MELANIE] Hey. [CHUCKLES]
- [MELANIE] Hey.
- Hey.
Ooh. It is wild being back in school.
I never thought I'd miss the
smell of cafeteria mac and cheese,
but it hits different when
you haven't had it in so long.
- [CHUCKLES]
- [CHUCKLES]
I met this girl in history class
who said we'd hang
later. You wanna come?
Uh, no, no. I have a lot
of studying to catch up on.
I'm kind of stressed
that I'm falling behind.
- Okay.
- Hey, Trini. How's it going?
- Fine.
- That's good.
So, when is Aubrey getting out of juvie?
I heard he's, like, in a ton of trouble.
But wait, how did it work with
you not getting into trouble?
And Melanie, genuine question,
but shouldn't you be in trouble too
since you were, like, a
legit prostitute or something?
[LAUGHING]
[CATIE] What a slut.
You know,
I'd say some stupid shit too
if I was as fucking
ugly as you are, Catie.
Screw you both.
I don't need you to fight for me. Okay?
[STAMMERS]
[SIGHS]
- [POPPY] Hey, Daddy.
- [SHREVE] Hey.
What are you doing here?
Well, we haven't
talked since we saw Bug.
I'm just still trying to
figure out how I feel about it.
About Mama.
I don't know if her sacrifice
was noble or selfish.
We just knew pieces of her.
The whole time I thought
she stepped out on me.
I feel disgusted with myself
for thinking I wasn't enough.
I had no idea what
she was going through,
'cause if I had, I would've
killed Alexander that day.
It's hard to accept that I
didn't know that piece of her.
[SIGHS]
Made me wonder what I don't
know about my daughters.
- What are you talking about?
- I didn't know about you and Shirley.
[POPPY SIGHS]
Maybe Des and Cydie are
carrying a secret pain too.
I j
I just wanna know that you all
are okay when I'm no longer around.
Daddy, you know I hate it
when you say stuff like that.
I'm not gonna always be
here to protect the family.
That responsibility will
one day belong to you.
Are you gonna tell your
sisters what Bug said?
[SIGHS]
Well, whatever you decide,
the last thing this family needs
is something to tear us apart.
[EMPLOYEE] Nico's customer
service center, line 2.
Hey, thanks for giving me the call.
You know, helps get my mind off things.
Listen, Markus [STAMMERS, SIGHS]
I called you 'cause there's
something I need from you.
[SCOFFS, CHUCKLES] What is this?
You giving me the okey doke?
I'm just trying to be straight with you.
All right. Well, then go
ahead. Spit it out. [SIGHS]
I need Trini to testify against
Bill Ochoa in a preliminary hearing.
The initial ID isn't enough.
[MARKUS SIGHS]
The longer we wait,
the more Ochoa's lawyers are
gonna poke holes in her story.
Now, with Trini's help,
I think we can get him for her
assault and possibly Finney's murder.
Uh, well, I'll ask her.
You know You know, if it means
finally getting his ass into prison,
I [STAMMERS] I'm sure
she'll do it. I hope.
All right. Keep me posted.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm not really
sure how I can help.
Really? 'Cause the car that
came from your dealership
was used in the murder of Andrew Finney.
Which makes you an accessory.
Well, not to mention
conspiracy to murder.
I didn't even think about
that. Yeah, that's a good call.
- And that's just what we know, right?
- Right. Exactly.
Hold on. I had no idea what
that car was being used for.
But you knew it was being used.
I get requests t-to send
cars to events all the time.
What kind of events?
I don't know. I'm not
fucking invited to them.
I receive the request and I fill it.
I swear. My buddy,
Kevin Sun, hooked me up.
Look, I screenshot every one.
[AAMES] These are in Questeur, but
I've never seen the app like this.
- When did you get these?
- I don't know. I get a bunch of 'em.
You got one on the 11th.
It's the same night as the mixer.
Who sends you these messages?
They're anonymous. I I just
I get the info and I do it.
And you don't respond?
You can't. It's kind of a
one-way thing. [BREATHES SHAKILY]
[AAMES] That's not how
the app is known to work.
I'm gonna need copies of these.
You're sure Aames thinks this
is the best way to charge Ochoa?
Not just the best way. It may
be the key to the whole thing.
[STAMMERS, EXHALES SHARPLY]
- [ZARINA] Hey.
- [MARKUS] Hey.
[ZARINA] Well, how'd school go?
What's going on?
[SIGHS] Sweetheart, Aames thinks that
Bill Ochoa could've
been Finney's killer.
And they wanna stack charges
against him, including assault.
- [TRINI SIGHS]
- [MARKUS] But he needs you to testify.
That means talking about
what happened. Naming him.
This is what you guys want?
- Only if you're up to it.
- [MARKUS SIGHS]
Okay. Yeah.
[INHALES DEEPLY] I've
got homework. Good night.
- [PHONE RINGS]
- [STAFF CHATTERING]
Eva?
[EVA] I knew it.
I knew you were sneaking
around the other day.
[SIGHS DEEPLY] What do you want, Poppy?
The truth, for once.
The truth?
Why don't you tell me
what you think happened?
What you've got all figured out?
You lied to me, Eva.
You used me to get closer to Finney.
And when you thought
you couldn't get justice,
you went to see him.
We saw you on camera.
You think I killed Finney?
- I didn't kill him.
- Then why were you there?
Oh, my God. I'll tell you the
same thing I just told the cops.
So, they questioned you?
Yeah, Poppy. Thanks for that.
I'll repeat myself
because that's clearly
the only way to get through to you.
All I did was talk to him.
Why wouldn't you just tell me that?
Because you would've told me not to go,
that I was jeopardizing the case.
And trust me [INHALES SHARPLY]
I wish I was driving that car.
I wish I could trust you.
[SCOFFS] Did you ever?
- [PATRONS CHATTERING]
- [BLUES SONG PLAYING]
I can tell you are losing
a little bit of weight
from all these salads and stuff.
- Your neck look real good.
- I'm trying. Oh, my neck looks good?
[CYDIE] Yeah. That's the
part that you really
When you're losing weight,
the neck goes first.
- [BOTH LAUGHING]
- [CYDIE] Yes, because you have
[SHREVE] Hey, girls. Come see me.
Did he just summon us?
Yeah. What did you do?
I ain't do shit.
- Poppy.
- Poppy. Oh, geez.
Hey, Daddy. What's going on?
- You need some help with something?
- No, no, I'm fine. Have a seat.
I've been meaning to ask both of you.
What do you wanna do with your lives?
Is that a a real question?
Yeah, Daddy, what's this about?
Look, I'm just trying to
I'm just
I've made decisions for you
girls that have shaped your lives.
Yeah, well, that's how
it's supposed to be.
And I've been thinking a lot
about what we leave behind.
The MC, The Knock.
You girls are my most precious legacy.
Did something happen at the doctor's?
- Did they tell you
- Des
No, no, no, no. This has
nothing to do with the CTE.
I'm just trying to tell you girls
if there's anything you wanted to
do with your lives that you didn't,
because you were afraid
of how I might react,
or you felt like you
had to hide from me,
I don't wanna stop you from doing
those things, saying those things.
I never wanted to be
I never wanted The Knock to be a burden.
[SIGHING] Yeah.
You sure this is where Nico said
he was told to drop off the car?
Yeah. I'm not seeing any cameras.
Listen, I was gonna ask you
did you miss OPD when you left?
You thinking about stepping away?
Ah, this whole Emily Mills thing,
the way they treated Drea, Trini
I'm I'm just not sure I belong there.
The private sector's not bad.
The pension is obviously not that great,
but the work can be better
with the right people.
- That's what I was thinking.
- [CHUCKLES]
[AAMES] Hey, excuse
me. I'm with the OPD.
Just wondering if you might've
seen a black Chevy Impala
parked around here the last few days?
[MARKUS] This is what it looks like.
Oh, yeah. That car was parked here
a while back. Right over there.
Did you see who drove it off?
I sure did. Pretty little thing.
A woman?
Black girl. Young.
[MARKUS SIGHS]
- [AAMES] Is that her?
- Nope. Younger than her.
[AAMES] Any of these girls?
No, not her either.
The girl who drove that car
off isn't in them pictures.
Listen, I'm gonna get someone down here,
and you can describe the girl to her.
- Do I get paid?
- Yeah, we'll work something out.
Thanks.
- [AAMES] Thank you.
- [MARKUS SIGHS]
So Nico was told by a user on
Questeur to drop off the car?
- Uh-huh.
- And there's this one-way
messaging function
hidden within Questeur?
Exactly. But according to Nico,
the messages were encrypted, so
there's no way to know who sent them.
[SIGHS]
What?
I think we might've both been wrong.
I'm gonna need you [CHUCKLES]
to be a little more specific.
I'm talking about Eva and Bill Ochoa.
- How so?
- Look. [SIGHS]
Aames has a sketch artist
who's working with a guy
who might be able to ID the
person who was driving the car.
Now, he says it was a young
woman, but he ruled Eva out.
- He could be wrong.
- Maybe.
[SIGHS] But then that would mean
Bill Ochoa didn't kill Finney either.
But it doesn't mean he can't be the
head of the sex trafficking ring.
But, yeah, he's not our killer.
Do you think he could have
built the messaging function?
No, but he has enough money
to pay someone to do it.
Then it's probably only
accessible by whoever created it.
Yeah, but if that isn't
Bill, then who is it?
I need to talk to Lee Hackman.
["THE WOLF" PLAYING]
- [CHATTERING]
- [PHONES RINGING]
[SYBIL] Poppy?
- [POPPY] Sybil.
- [CHUCKLES] Yes.
- So good to see you again.
- Oh, likewise.
I had a really nice lunch
with your father the other day.
- Is that right?
- Mm-hmm.
- So what are you doing here?
- Actually, I came to see Lee.
Oh. Is everything okay?
Honestly, I don't know, but it's
urgent. It's about your company.
I don't think Lee is
being honest with me.
[SIGHS] I'm sorry.
He tends to do things his way,
and his boys' club needs to be
brought into the 21st century.
Come on.
And the grid will be
fully disconnected, but
- Sybil, I'm in the middle of a meeting.
- I know.
Finalizing plans for the big
groundbreaking ceremony next week.
- [SYBIL] That can wait.
- [LEE] Okay.
You guys wanna give us a minute?
- [EMPLOYEE] Yeah, sure.
- Thank you.
Well
Okay, you have my attention.
[POPPY] There's something
suspicious about your Questeur app.
We found a hidden messaging
function within the app.
- [LEE] How did you find this?
- Lee.
No. This isn't me. I've
never seen it before.
Well, whoever built it has been using it
to send private anonymous messages.
And I think those
messages are being used
to operate a sex trafficking ring.
Well, I have hundreds of
engineers who work here.
Any one of them could
have planted that, right?
According to my research,
that same messaging function
could have been used to
orchestrate Finney's murder.
[LEE] Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I am not involved in sex
trafficking or murder. That's insane.
And if you wanna pursue this absurd
claim, have fun wasting your time.
- [PHONE RINGS]
- I actually have work to do.
[KNOCKS]
Ezra.
- You deleted a podcast testimony of a survivor?
- What?
I get a call that says that you
intentionally sabotaged the story.
That a survivor who was one of
Finney's victims came forward.
I didn't sabotage the story.
- Then what did you do?
- I made a call.
I didn't think it needed
to be included in the cut.
Well, clearly it might've had
major implications on the case
because it happened before
he was fucking killed, Poppy.
You can't penalize me for that.
I don't have a crystal ball.
So it's all true then?
[STAMMERS] Just listen. Just calm down
and hear me out. Let's talk this out.
No. No. You have been
lying to me, Poppy.
[SCOFFS] I don't work with liars.
What does that mean?
It means I might take
legal action against you
to have you remunerate the
entire deal back to Boisterous.
- What
- That's what it means.
- Wait. What? Ezra.
- No.
- Listen, we can talk about this Ezr
- No. We're done. We're done.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
- Hello?
- Are you fucking kidding me?
What? You don't like when
the truth is used against you?
- You're fucking with my livelihood.
- And you fucked with my life.
You didn't have to work with me.
You could have walked away at any time.
Bullshit. You would have chased me
to the ends of the earth
to get your fucking story.
Like you didn't show up at
my house asking for help.
Look, I'm sorry I accused
you of killing Finney.
All I ever wanted to do was
help you. Help all those girls.
You know what your problem is?
You don't like being the bad guy.
Even when you are.
Eva, Boisterous just threatened
to have me pay back my entire deal.
I could lose my house.
I could lose everything.
I told the truth.
Oh, f "Truth."
Got the artist's rendering of
the suspect who drove the car.
- That's Rochelle.
- Who?
Rochelle Johnson.
[FOSTOKOWSKI] Let's go get her.
[WHISPERING] Okay.
[CLOCK TICKING, DISTORTED]
- [AUBREY] I got you something. Yeah.
- [TRINI CHUCKLES]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SCREAMS]
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [TICKING CONTINUES]
- Your turn.
- [TRINI WHISPERING] No, no, no, no, no.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[GASPS] No.
[WHIMPERING]
Mom! Dad! [BREATHING HEAVILY]
Wait. Wait, wait, wait,
please! Wait! Wait!
[STUDENTS MURMURING]
[STUDENT] Yo, why is she scared?
- [MURMURING CONTINUES]
- [BREATHING SHAKILY]
- Oh. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- [SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
[PANTING] Sorry, sorry.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay.
- Come to my office.
- [TRINI SIGHS]
You don't have to pretend to be okay.
Yes, I do.
Why?
[INHALES DEEPLY]
Because if I'm not perfect,
then everything will fall apart.
- What makes you think that?
- 'Cause it already has.
My dad [SIGHS]
This is a safe space.
Everything you say in
here is confidential.
My parents do better when I do better.
So I have to be okay.
I have to be good again.
Which is why I have to focus on
school and testifying against my
Do your parents know how you feel?
I know how hard this feels right now.
No, you don't.
Look at me.
When I was your age,
I was in the exact same
position you're in right now.
The exact same position.
I made mistakes.
Some weren't my fault, but some were.
I'm just afraid to tell them how I feel.
Especially my dad. He
[INHALES SHAKILY]
He He's not He's not well.
I'll tell you what.
How about we make a pact?
If you do the thing you're
afraid of, I [SIGHS]
will commit to being
accountable for my mistakes.
And if you testify
against your attacker,
I will be right there with
you every step of the way.
I promise.
["FEET DON'T FAIL ME NOW" PLAYING]
[FOG HORN BLOWS]
I'm surprised you came.
Surprised you called.
I'm sorry I reacted the way I did.
Is everything gonna be
okay with Boisterous?
I don't know yet.
I'll figure it out.
[INHALES SHARPLY] Look.
I never wanted you to feel
like I I didn't believe you,
or or that I was
trying to control you.
I wasn't.
I just
[SIGHS] I needed to protect those girls
because I could have
been one of them too.
[EVA SIGHS]
Rochelle was driving
the car that hit Finney.
- Do you trust me now?
- [CHUCKLES]
Aames is looking for her.
But
But I still don't understand
why Rochelle, of all people,
was the one to pick up the car.
Maybe she had nothing to lose.
But what did she stand to gain?
There's no way she's been
orchestrating this ring.
I think I know someone that can help us.
I found Nadia.
I got her address a while ago, actually,
but I was too afraid
to face her. [CHUCKLES]
Funny enough, I got strength from Trini.
Trini. She's a brave one.
With her help, we may finally
get justice. For all of you.
Mmm.
[ZARINA] How was school today, honey?
- Work okay?
- Uh, you know. Is what it is.
Okay, what's going on with you two?
Nothing, baby. You
know, just tired is all.
[SCOFFS] And I'm not?
Listen, you've been absent for days.
I don't know what's going
on with you, babe, but
It's because he's drinking.
I saw him drinking in his office.
[MARKUS SIGHS] Look, I [SIGHS]
- I know, okay? I know. Listen.
- No. No.
- You can't do this to me, Markus.
- It hasn't been easy.
- You can't do this to us.
- I've been trying, all right?
- Really?
- [MARKUS] I know.
- I thought we'd been through this.
- Can I talk?
Right now? You're
gonna do this right now?
- Allow me to talk!
- How are you doing this to me
Stop! Stop! Just stop fighting, please.
Do you wanna know how
school was? It was terrible.
Because your perfect girl failed.
Okay? I failed.
It's okay, honey. It's okay.
No. No, it's not okay.
- He's drinking because of me.
- No. Okay, baby? No. All right?
It's not your fault.
It never has been, and
it it never will be.
I have to take
responsibility for what I did.
And I know I put pressure on you,
but my love for you is not
conditional on you getting good grades.
- Anything like that. It never was.
- [TRINI BREATHING SHAKILY]
I'm sorry I made you feel that way.
We both love you very much, baby girl.
And I never meant to
put that burden on you.
- Okay?
- Yeah.
[BREATHES SHAKILY, SNIFFLES]
[MARKUS SIGHS]
Sure you wanna do this?
[EVA EXHALES HEAVILY]
Hi. I'm Poppy Scoville.
I know who you are. What do you want?
[EVA] Hi.
I'm sorry to come here like this.
It's so good to see you.
Nadia, I have so much shame
around everything that happened.
But I just wanted you
to know that I'm trying.
I'm trying to make amends
for what I did.
You don't have to forgive me, but
I want you to know how sorry I am.
You're the reason I was trafficked.
The reason I was branded.
The reason my life changed forever.
But I'm a different person now.
Done a lot of healing since then.
- I forgive you.
- [SOBS]
Thank you.
[NADIA] So if you know
that Rochelle killed Finney,
what do you need me for?
I don't think Rochelle
is operating the ring.
Somebody else was blackmailing Finney.
- It wasn't me.
- No. No, n That's not what we're saying.
But there is an old
video of you and him.
When that video was made, did
he know you were recording him?
No.
He sent me to one of his friends,
but his friend wasn't interested.
And a couple of days later, I got
an anonymous message from the friend.
- Anonymous?
- Yeah.
He must've had some beef with Finney
because he messaged me to set
up this camera to get revenge.
What was in it for you?
I just wanted enough to pay for
college and start a new life.
And I made him promise to pull
strings to get me into Stanford.
Who was he? The The friend.
Was it Lee Hackman?
H How did you know?
I think Lee Hackman has been
lying to us this entire time.
- You think he had Finney killed?
- I don't know.
But I think he might be the
head of this trafficking ring.
- [POPPY] Hey, Daddy.
- Hey.
- [LIQUID POURING]
- [GLASSES CLINKING]
Thank you.
[BOTH SIGH]
[SIGHS] All my life, I
needed Mama to be perfect
because all my life
I've been grieving her.
What she sacrificed to keep
her pain from us, it's
overwhelming me, Daddy.
I know, sweetheart. I know.
I think Mama's suffering, keeping
her secrets, is what hurt us.
Hurt our family for so long.
You might be right, Popsicle.
I saw two people come together
today after a lifetime of secrets.
Saw how it healed them.
I'm done keeping mine from
Des and Cydie. I'm done.
Your sisters are strong.
They'll understand.
We're family.
Always will be.
[SIGHS]
["GOD BLESS THE CHILD" PLAYING]
The hardest part about secrets
is the carnage left in their wake.
Secrets isolate you from
everything you cherish,
everything that defines you, until
you lose all sense of yourself.
And it is precisely at that moment
that you are most
vulnerable to exploitation.
This ring of traffickers
was only possible
- [CELL PHONE CHIMES]
- because so many people were willing
to keep secrets.
So many people were willing
to silo young women until
they were obliterated.
A young woman deep in
the life, named Rochelle,
has been identified as
Andrew Finney's killer.
So far, she's evaded capture.
One could only assume her act
was yet another desperate attempt
to keep secrets buried.
But to be frank, I'm done with secrets.
I'm done with the people
who use them to hurt others.
So I wanna make a promise to you.
Whoever was or is running this
trafficking ring is still at large.
And I will find them.
And I promise to never
keep the truth from you.
My name is Poppy Scoville,
and I'd like you to reconsider.
I can't believe Mama and this man.
That's obviously why Daddy was
acting so weird the other day.
I've been [SIGHS] wanting
to tell y'all for a while,
but I was afraid
that you'd hate me.
Hate y Why?
That I was tearing us apart.
No, no.
No, never. Never.
You are our sister, Poppy,
but this man, Alexander, it
makes me think about Melanie.
If she left me for her
biological parents, it
[STAMMERS] It would kill me.
Oh, nothing is gonna change
how she feels about you.
Biology isn't the only thing
that makes you a parent.
Okay?
Is it hella corny to
say that I love you?
- [CHUCKLES] - And I love
this weird-ass family.
- It is
- [DESIREE EXCLAIMS]
but I'll allow it.
[ALL LAUGHING]
I love y'all. [CHUCKLES]
[STAMMERS]
- [DESIREE CHUCKLES]
- What happened to our sister?
- [CYDIE] I don't know her.
- [POPPY] Hey.
This family is so fucked up.
What's going on? I
mean, is it our birthday?
- Say it again. Say it again.
- Did hell freeze over?
You love us.
[TRINI, ZARINA, MARKUS CHATTERING]
[POPPY] Hey, y'all.
- [MARKUS] Hey.
- [ZARINA] Hi.
How you doing, Trini?
Better. Thank you.
- [ZARINA] And Aames is on the way.
- Good.
Well, anybody want
anything from the cart?
- Honey?
- I'm okay.
- I'm good.
- You sure?
- Yeah. Thank you.
- I'm just gonna pick something up.
[ZARINA] Okay.
- Hey. How're you doing?
- Hey. I'm really good.
Hey, Principal Pierre.
- Hi. How are you?
- [TRINI] Mmm. Thank you for coming.
[SIGHS]
They know about the drinking.
Trini saw me. Outed me last night.
But it was good though. You
know, in a fucked-up kind of way,
it was like the first time
we felt like a family again.
Oh [CHUCKLES] believe
me, I know what you mean.
Hey, listen.
I'm real sorry about the kiss.
For putting you in
that position, you know?
- We should probably get something.
- Yeah.
Can I get two coffees, please?
[BARISTA] Two coffees coming up.
- [CAR DOOR OPENS]
- Oh. There he is.
- Hey.
- Hey.
[MARKUS] Where you been?
[SIGHS] Thought I had a lead on
Rochelle. Turned out to be a no-go.
Maybe whoever's calling the
shots paid her to get lost.
You're gonna do great. I'll be
right there with you the whole time.
And remember what the attorney
said. Ochoa won't be there,
so you can answer the questions freely.
- Okay, honey?
- Okay. Yeah.
[SIGHS] I'm sweating. Does
anyone have a hair band?
- Uh, or something?
- No, sorry.
- Hmm. Let me check.
- Thank you.
- [HORN HONKING]
- [PEDESTRIANS EXCLAIM]
Gosh.
- [TRINI] Mmm.
- [ZARINA] Maybe right here.
- No, I don't think so.
- [ZARINA] Nothing?
[EVA] Get down!
- [GROANS]
- [ALL SCREAMING, CLAMORING]
Shots fired. Alameda
Superior Courthouse.
- We need backup now.
- Zarina!
- [ZARINA] We're okay.
- Are you okay?
We're okay. We're okay. Yeah.
- You sure? All right, all right.
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- [MARKUS] Oh, shit.
- [ZARINA] Babe, pressure.
Principal Pierre!
Oh, my God. Eva.
- [MARKUS] Eva, can you hear me?
- [TRINI] Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Anyone see the shooter?
- [MARKUS] Aames! She's been hit.
- [ZARINA] Pressure, pressure.
- Don't let go. Hard pressure.
- [MARKUS] All right.
- [POPPY] Eva?
- [ZARINA] Baby, stay with us.
[POPPY, ECHOING] Eva?
["THE LAST GOODBYE" PLAYING]