Hudson and Rex (2019) s04e04 Episode Script

Thirty-five minutes.
Great work! That's the longest anyone's lasted at pursuit so far! - Not by much.
- Longer than you.
- What? I'm just saying.
- Be nice you two.
- You did so great.
- Oh, thanks! I wasn't expecting this retreat to be quite so intense! Bet you didn't expect a sharp shooter like me either.
I feel you though.
My body's already begging for a bath.
Well self-care is an important part of being a good leader but not this weekend, Madelyn.
I'm here to push you all to your limits.
Now come on.
Get together.
Now, smile and say What doesn't kill you makes you stronger! Yeah, I know it's strange not having Sarah here, huh, bud? When the Deputy Chief suggests that you take a leadership retreat, you don't have much of a choice, do you? She'll be back soon.
What have we got? Imran Abas.
Neighbour found him this morning after seeing exhaust coming from the garage.
Looks like suicide by carbon monoxide.
Fresh wound on the back of the neck.
What have you got, pal? Pop the trunk.
Who buys fresh produce if they're planning to kill themselves? No one.
I think this was a murder.
Hey, guys.
The detail in that is amazing.
Yeah, I mean it must have been shot with at least a three to one macro lens.
Yeah, Imran was an amateur photographer.
Wait, you knew the victim? No, not really.
I just met him once.
He was a prof at the university in the Department of Biology.
I didn't know you were back at school.
Oh no, not really.
I just have a friend in the Faculty of Science.
A friend? Is this a lady friend? Do tell! Fine.
I want deets later though.
So what else we got, Charlie? No sign of a struggle.
I think Imran knew the killer.
Guys.
Guys, I might have something.
A separation agreement dated late last year but never signed.
That tracks.
What's the name of the ex? - Michael Rattan.
- He owns an art gallery.
We don't believe it was suicide.
You you think Imran was murdered? I'm afraid so.
God.
I loved him.
I mean I know we were getting a divorce, but, I still loved him.
Mr.
Rattan, when was the last time you saw your ex-husband? Imran and I mostly speak through lawyers these days.
Sounds difficult.
Why were you two splitting? Imran was a workaholic.
It's like he traded me in for his laptop.
Was there a reason that the divorce wasn't finalized? We couldn't agree on alimony.
And yes, before you ask, I was suing him for it.
- Where were you last night? - Here.
Can anyone confirm that? No.
No, I had to lay off all my staff this year.
This damn economy You know, fine art purchases are the first to go.
But I didn't kill him, Detective.
Well if you think of anything.
Yeah? What have you got, pal? That's one of Imran's.
Oh, I don't know! Come on, Kelly! Go! You got this girl! That was amazing! Great work, Kelly! And you said you couldn't do it! I know! My goddess, I so want to call my sister.
She is never going to believe that I just did that! Forget your sister, Kelly.
If there's one lesson, I want to impart on all of you this weekend, it's that the only person you have to prove your worth to, is yourself, okay? Yes! I am so tired of feeling like I have to prove myself to my clients.
I hear you, girl.
People-pleasing is such a hard thing to let go of.
I just feel this desperate need - to make everything perfect for them.
- Yes! That is me! Every P&L report.
Every single quarter.
I learned early on in my political career that people-pleasing is an impossible pursuit.
That's an important lesson.
What about you? What's holding you back from stepping into your power at work? Uh, I've never really considered that.
Um I moved into a new role with the St.
John's police recently.
Oh! You're a cop? But you're so nice! Yeah, my team is really supportive.
I love having a new challenge.
I can hear that but coming from a mile away.
No no! There's no but! Well, how come you're on a leadership retreat then? Well, um I've spent my career in a lab, analytically assessing things but my new job has me in the field more.
So I guess I was looking for something to help me think on my feet a bit.
You know? To trust my instincts.
Ah.
Well As my own coaching guru once said: Your brain may play tricks.
Your heart can be blind.
But your gut - is always right.
- So true.
Hey! Hey, buddy! - Are you hungry? - I think he actually misses Sarah.
Yeah, well he's not the only one.
Forensics won't even give me a hint as to what to expect in Imran's autopsy.
Lucky you still have me.
Take a look at this.
Imran's cell phone.
Check the texts.
Why would you do this to me? I thought we were friends.
Looks like someone was upset with Imran.
- Who sent these? - A woman named Justina.
They've been working on some sort of project together but he ghosted her a few weeks ago.
What else did you learn about him? Well, just that he came to St.
John's from Pakistan to seek asylum ten years ago.
Asylum? On what grounds? Persecution based on his private life.
Same-sex relationships are illegal in Pakistan.
- Mmmm.
- Didn't even have family in Canada but carved out a pretty good life for himself.
He just got tenure last year.
What was this project that he was working on with Justina? There are no specifics on his phone.
What about his computer? There wasn't one at the house.
That's strange for a professor.
Maybe he kept it at the university? You know? Why don't I just swing by there and see what I can come up with? Tell your lady friend we say hi.
I'm going to act like you never said that.
Sorry to startle you, ladies.
Just not used to having cyclists this far out into the woods.
I like being off the beaten path.
My bike, not so much.
Any chance you all have a pump I can borrow? There's one in the side pocket of the gear pack.
- Help yourself.
- Much appreciated.
You know, I was worried I'd be bored without my cell this weekend but I gotta say - Ain't mad about the eye candy? - Exactly.
You ladies all alone out here? Yeah.
And we intend to stay that way.
How was the university? No sign of Imran's laptop.
I've got to tell you Charlie, people are truly devastated.
Yeah, it's pretty shocking to lose a colleague so suddenly.
No, it's more than that.
Imran was gaining international attention for his research on how to preserve the natural environment while still fostering economic growth.
That's pretty important work.
Maybe Justina can fill us in on it.
Anything else? Yeah.
My friend mentioned that Imran was quietly working on a freelance project to help pay for his divorce.
- Why quietly? - Apparently, it's gauche for a tenured professor to take on outside work.
Huh.
Who knew? Maybe she did.
Rex.
Use your instincts.
Dead? That's not possible.
I just saw him yesterday.
- What time yesterday? - Six-ish? Right after I got home from my shift at the dog rescue.
Can you tell me what this is about? From these text messages to Dr.
Abas, all I can tell is you were angry.
He fired me three weeks ago.
I just wanted to know why.
So you were working together.
Yeah, I was doing data entry.
I'm applying to grad school and being his research assistant was going to look really good on my CV.
What was he working on? I don't know.
- You don't know? - I was just inputting the numbers for him.
I don't know what they represented.
That way the results are guaranteed to be without bias.
Sorry.
I just can't believe he's gone.
Dr.
Abas was the whole reason I decided to apply to grad school in the first place.
One last question, Justina.
- Yeah? - Did he have a laptop with him yesterday? I never saw him without it.
Imran had his laptop when he went to visit Justina.
And it was gone when they found his body.
So the killer took it.
Yeah maybe there was something on it they wanted.
Yeah.
You might be right about that.
Imran's phone had died.
So I charged it, restarted it and a bunch of recently deleted apps started downloading.
- I hate it when that happens.
- Me too! Anyway, one was a cloud-based storage app that Imran shares with his ex.
You know, photos, music.
Is there a point coming here at all Jesse? Yeah.
A big one.
Imran had set it up so his entire laptop would back up weekly.
Well, that's great.
- Right? - It would be, except, all the backups have been erased.
Would that not have happened when he deleted the app? No, something like that would've had to happen manually by someone who knew the password.
Someone like Michael Rattan.
There you go.
Breathe.
The rope is there to support you.
All you have to do is lean into it.
Don't look down.
Ahh! Feet wide.
There you go.
Breathe.
You can do this, Madelyn! You got this! I don't know what she's so afraid of.
Come on Madelyn! So you're So you're really a cop? - That must be so exciting! - Oh, TV shows make it look that way but it's mostly protocol and paperwork.
Still, it is so much more interesting than my job.
Problem-solving and writing press releases for picky clients.
- Gets old fast.
- Scandal always made that kind of thing seem exciting.
Like you said, TV tends not to show you the boring bits.
So what exactly do you do? Are you like a detective, or ? Oh! Ahh! Ohh! Oh! Kelly! Step up! Get that belaying rope under control! Oh! Oh! Ughh! Wow.
- I'm so sorry! - So that's what she was afraid of.
Madelyn! Are you okay? I just wrenched my ankle.
- I can walk it off.
- No no, here.
- Let me have a look at it.
- Sure, thanks.
Let me take this off.
That was quick thinking, Sarah.
Your instincts are sharper than you think.
You got a minute? Got a million.
I'm closing down.
Why did you erase Imran's laptop backups? What are you talking about? Well, I know you two shared a password.
So give me a good reason why you erased his backups.
All right, fine.
I took advantage of Imran not changing our password to poke around.
I just wanted to know what was holding up my alimony.
- But you didn't erase anything? - Of course not.
Imran would have had my head.
Did anyone else have the password to your online storage? I doubt it.
I never gave it to anyone and it took Imran years before he even trusted me - with that kind of stuff.
- So what did you find, when you were poking around? Just that he hadn't been paid by the energy company he was working for.
That energy company got a name? Penndale Oil and Gas.
You ever heard of them? I sure have.
My broker wants me to get in with them.
They're waiting for approval on a huge fracking project.
They think there's about a half a billion barrels of crude oil in the ground near Gros Morne.
I thought the government closed the door on fracking a few years ago.
One sec.
Yes.
No no, actually.
They said that more research was required on its environmental effects.
Maybe Imran was doing that research.
You know what Charlie? I think I'm going to bring in someone from Penndale.
Sounds good.
We'll be back in fifteen minutes.
I thought we were going to share that, huh? Thank you for coming in today, Mr.
Johnson.
It's okay.
Penndale's fracking project is really special.
- Some would even say it's revolutionary.
- Why is that? Well, we've patented a new extraction process that completely eliminates the environmental risks.
How did Imran Abas's death affect the project? Well, it's a terrible tragedy, of course but he had completed his work for us.
It's an environmental assessment of the land we'd like to develop for hydraulic fracking.
Dr.
Abas authored it.
I thought you had in-house people to do that sort of thing? Well, we do.
But fracking's got a bit of a bad rap.
So the government wanted an independent researcher to weigh in on a proposal before making a decision and we're more than happy to do our part in facilitating that.
- Imran signed off on your proposal.
- Yes.
His report's in line with our scientists in finding the land ideal for Newfoundland's first fracking site.
So your project is still a go? Well, only the Minister of Industry can say for sure, but, between us, yeah, I feel pretty confident.
I don't want to frighten anyone but I don't think Madelyn's fall was an accident.
I've been looking at her harness and I think it was tampered with.
Any one of us could have been using that.
Meaning any one of us could have fallen? We checked all the equipment before we left - and it was fine.
- Who could've tampered with it out here? Oh my goddess.
Okay what is this, some sort of like surprise leadership challenge? Absolutely not.
This retreat is about pushing you to your optimum level of discomfort but no one should get hurt.
That mountain biker! He is the only person we've seen but that's circumstantial at best.
Dina did just let him root around in our supplies.
He could've tampered with anything! We're lucky nothing worse has happened! - Yet.
- What if he put a tracker in the pack?! He could be following us right now! Look, we don't know where the threat came from or why but we can't risk this happening again.
- I think we should call for help.
- You know, I never thought I'd be happy to have a cop around but, you're right.
That's weird.
There's no reception.
Oh! - Maybe it's the tree cover.
- Could be.
Keep trying.
Okay, this is really scary, you guys.
I know, right? I'm trying to stay Zen.
But if somebody's after us and this is our only link to the outside world - and it's not working - We just have to be vigilant.
And we could do a few deep cleansing breaths to you know, shake off the bad vibe.
I'm not sure it's the right time for that right now, Dina.
Yeah and how do we stay vigilant while we're sleeping? I'll stay up and keep watch.
You can't stay up all night.
We have another big day tomorrow heading to the trailhead.
What if we all took shifts? That's only fair.
Okay.
Thanks, everyone.
Two hours each? Rotating shifts? I'll go first.
We're going to be fine.
It's good.
It's all good.
So if Imran signed off on Penndale's proposal, I can't see why they'd want to destroy his research.
- So we're back to square one.
- Maybe square one and a half? I just got the autopsy report.
Rex, can you get the door? See, Imran died of carbon monoxide poisoning but that's not all.
Take a look at the blood results.
The coroner found ketamine in his system? Yeah, and an injection site on the back of his shoulder.
Look where it is.
I mean, unless Imran's a contortionist, you can't really Right.
He couldn't inject himself.
Somebody drugged him.
Which would make it easier to get him in the car.
What about the head wound? The killer could have done that when they moved Imran's body.
Maybe they didn't even notice.
Wait, did Imran's ex have access to ketamine? No, no.
But I know somebody who does.
Rex.
Ketamine? - Wait, you don't think that ? - You work at a dog rescue.
It's a common pharmaceutical.
Yeah, I don't even have access to it.
And even if I did, I would never hurt Imran.
He was my mentor.
What have you got, pal? I've never seen that before.
Maybe Dr.
Abas left it when he was here the other day.
You mind? Keep this somewhere safe.
What's that supposed to mean? Your guess is as good as mine.
What exactly were you two working on? I told you.
I just collated the data.
I don't know! If Imran gave this to you he must have thought that you would understand whatever was on it.
Keep your phone on you.
We might need your help decrypting whatever is on this key.
Rex.
Let's go, buddy.
What are you doing? Oh, just a little forensic work.
This way if anyone tries to enter our camp, they'll leave footprints.
That is so smart.
We're so blessed to have you.
Here.
Stay warm.
Sleep okay? Not great.
Any luck with the phone? Maybe once we get onto higher ground.
Are we going ? Do you hear that? Hear what? I don't know.
It's like Madelyn? Dina, I need a hand! - Oh! - Get her out! She needs fresh air! What is going on? What on earth happened? - The propane! Turn it off! - Okay! Madelyn.
Madelyn.
Hey, wake up.
Come on.
- Is she dead? - No, she's got a pulse.
Hey, wake up! Come on! Come on! - Why isn't she waking up then? - She's got propane poisoning.
Come on.
Madeline? Come on.
Well, I guess we know who the target is.
Guys, guys! I thought you'd never get here! It's barely eight o'clock.
Yeah.
We've been up all night.
They were all out of Boston cream.
So I went for vanilla sprinkle.
Oh, hey! - Thank you.
- Hi! Sorry, I only got two.
Oh.
I called Justina in as soon as I decrypted the first batch of files.
What've you got there, Rex? I think he nicked Sarah's sweater from her office.
Does someone have a crush? Huh? How are you doing on those files? Oh! I'm glad you asked.
Here's all the data from Imran's environmental assessment analyzed.
And what is the analysis telling you, Justina? That the ecosystem he was studying was extremely fragile.
That doesn't track with the report that Imran gave.
It doesn't track with the report that you saw.
But there's an earlier draft on the USB that's pretty harsh.
Yeah.
Dr.
Abas was clear.
Fracking absolutely shouldn't be permitted - on the land he was assessing.
- That means the report that Stuart Johnson gave us was doctored.
But Imran still wanted the truth out there.
And the keep this safe note that he left for Justina on the USB That means that he knew that he was putting himself at risk to do it.
That must be why he fired me, so I wouldn't get any blowback.
But we need more proof before we do anything.
Listen, Jesse, did you decrypt the entire USB? Well, there's a couple of what look like audio files left.
Keep at it and let us know - the minute you come up with anything.
- Sounds good.
How are you feeling? Physically, fine.
Mentally? It's a lot to take on board.
Yeah, I can only imagine.
Careful.
When you run for office, you expect scrutiny.
Hell, you even expect people to hate you.
But for someone to stalk me through the woods to try and kill me? It's Is there anyone you can think of who could be behind this? How much time do you have? Guys! Guys! You have to hear this.
It's a little echoey but it sounded like Imran - was recording a phone call.
- Let's hear it.
So you're saying you want me to bury the real results of my study? You signed an NDA! Some things are more important! I've already scheduled a meeting with the minister.
- You should know! - You are going to regret that.
That's a clear threat.
Do you recognize that voice Justina? No.
I don't.
I never actually met any of the people Dr.
Abas was working for.
Stuart Johnson, he said that the decision on Penndale's proposal was going to be made by the Minister of Industry and this mystery woman, she knew that Imran was going to whistle-blow to them.
Then the minister might be in danger too.
- Where are you going? - To talk to that minister.
I'm going with you.
Rex.
Hey.
This should help with the walk back to the trailhead.
- Thanks.
- Yeah.
Hey, Dina, can I borrow that camera of yours? Sure.
- Here you go.
- Thanks.
There are no footprints, which means - Hey, Sarah.
- Hey, Olive.
What's up? This could be nothing, but A SIM card? And it's destroyed.
- Where did you find this? - By Dina's tent.
Look I know you're the cop but maybe this is why the sat phone isn't working.
Thanks.
The minister's on vacation but if there's something I can do for you? We have a few questions we'd like to ask you about a proposal that was made to your office by Penndale Oil and Gas.
Oh, it's a very exciting opportunity for the province.
So the ministry plans to sign off on the project? If it were up to me, absolutely.
- What about your boss? - She's on the fence.
That's why she demanded an independent assessment.
Speaking of that assessment did your boss, the minister, speak to the author, Imran Abas? - Funny you should ask.
- Why's that? Madelyn and I were on the phone the morning she left on vacation.
She cut the call short when Dr.
Abas showed up at her door unannounced.
We're going to need a contact number for your boss.
There's a very real chance she's in danger.
That's not possible.
She's on a tech-free leadership retreat.
What's that retreat called? Uh, um Wilderness - No, wait.
- Not Women in the Wild? That's it, yeah! Uh, sorry.
All the W's in the name.
I always get it mixed up.
Thank you for your time.
Yeah, thank you.
What is it Charlie? The minister is on the same retreat as Sarah.
Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Maybe it's possible that our killer didn't know that Imran had already met with the minister.
I don't think we can take that chance.
Jesse, Sarah's retreat.
I need a location.
Madelyn.
You're not being targeted by a stalker in the woods.
- What? - It's someone in the group.
I'll explain later.
But right now, we need to get you away from the group.
I know you're in pain but we've got to move fast.
Hey, Jesse.
We're at the trailhead now.
Okay.
Sarah's group should be walking towards you about five kilometres ahead.
Okay, well, let's hope they stayed on course.
Call me if you find anything on the woman after Madelyn.
Okay, pal.
Let's find her.
This barely feels like a trail.
Are you sure about this? If we cross to the opposite side of the river here, there's a path that runs parallel to the retreat route.
We can get to the trailhead in a few hours.
I don't mean directions.
Are you sure we should have left the group? There were no new boot prints around the camp this morning.
Madelyn.
One of those women was trying to kill you.
I know.
But at least it wasn't just the two of us.
We had support.
This just feels so isolated.
Yeah.
No, my gut is telling me this is safer.
I'm asking you to just trust me.
Okay.
Now, will your ankle be okay on the rocks? I'll live.
Hopefully.
- Ooh! - Oh, careful.
You okay? Get back! Get away from us! Stop okay? Stop! - Get away from us! - It's okay! It's okay! We're not going to hurt you.
We're police.
Okay? Are you part of the leadership retreat? We were, until people started disappearing on us.
What do you mean disappearing? Somebody's picking us off one by one! First Sarah and Madelyn went off.
Then Dina went! - And then Olive went! - When did Sarah and Madelyn split? Usually my sense of timing is really good.
But out here, in nature, my internal clock is really - Oh gosh, I don't know.
- Are we talking hours or days? It was about two hours ago.
Thank you.
Wait wait wait.
Where are you going? Keep going.
I'll send an officer to meet you.
Okay.
Okay, let's go.
If we keep good pace, we should make it to the trailhead - within a couple of hours.
- Great, good.
I'm just going to I'm exhausted.
It's been an intense few days.
Come on.
I know you've been through a lot.
I keep wracking my brain but I don't know why one of those women would want to kill me.
Unless Unless what? The morning we left on the retreat, a scientist showed up at my house.
Imran Abas.
What did he want? For me to know the truth about a report he'd written related to a fracking project I'm set to decide on.
He intimated that a woman had been threatening him.
- I wonder if she was one - Shhhh! We need to keep moving.
This way.
I've got you.
What do you hear, pal? Here, put your weight on me.
Is it Sarah? I'm not sure I understand.
It's very simple.
Did someone at Penndale make threats against Imran Abas when his research didn't align with your interests? We were very happy with Dr.
Abas's report.
You've seen it.
You know.
What we know is that someone doctored his report.
I think that someone was you.
- I never touched that report.
- So you admit it was doctored? Look, unless you want me to charge you with accessory to murder On my life, I don't know anything about Dr.
Abas's death.
So what do you know? You need to start telling me right now.
A week ago, I was made aware that there might be a problem with Dr.
Abas's report, that it wouldn't that it wouldn't look good on Penndale.
Who was it that made you aware? The head of the consulting firm that we hired to hire and liaise with Dr.
Abas.
Penndale needed to be totally hands-off.
I bet hands-off went out the window the moment you found out that his report would sink a project worth over a billion dollars.
No, I never went near him.
But? I may have intimated that the consulting firm do whatever it took to get a positive report and to make sure that the proposal was approved.
Whatever it took was his life.
Who was your contact at the consulting firm? Olive Chambers.
I think I need a minute for my ankle.
Okay, here.
Let's I'll rewrap it when we get to the trailhead, okay? - I can't.
I can't! - Keep going.
Okay, I know, I know you're in pain, Madelyn, but we're almost at the zip line okay? We're almost safe.
That depends on your definition of safe! - You two were hard to catch.
- I thought you might be tracking us.
You knew it was her? You overplayed your hand with the SIM card.
If it was Dina, she could have sabotaged the phone before we left St.
John's.
Why did there have to be a freaking cop on this freaking retreat?! You're the woman who was threatening Imran Abas.
I just needed him to keep his mouth shut.
But no, he had to show up at your house - and ruin everything! - How did you know he was ? You were there? Spying on me? This was never supposed to be about you at all! Okay, Olive.
Olive, why don't you tell us what it is about then? My client said he would fire my firm if I didn't make sure that report was positive.
And I wasn't about to lose two million in commission.
That sounds like a lot of pressure.
You have no idea! I revised the report and everything would have been fine if that scientist hadn't insisted on blabbing about it! And now you both know! So God, what a mess! I'm sure we can figure this out.
Will you sign off on the fracking proposal? - Then there's nothing to figure out.
- Olive, nobody needs to get hurt.
- It's way too late for that.
- Stand back! Ughh! Aghh! Olive Chambers.
She runs the consulting firm that hired Imran.
I'll send you her - What was that? - I think we found them.
Is everything okay? Is Sarah safe? Jesse, just call for backup! Now! Okay.
Ugghhh! I need something to restrain her with! Grab your tent's guy lines! What did you mean when you said it's too late to stop people from getting hurt? I did whatever it took, just like that Penndale exec told me to.
Did you hurt someone? Olive! Did you hurt Imran Abas? Uhh! I had to make sure the proposal would get approved.
I did what I had to do.
- Olive, what have you done? - There's only one thing left.
Ugh! Rex! I guess we're taking the shortcut! Aghh! Uhh! Aghh! Are you okay? Deep breaths.
Take deep breaths! Okay, good! That's it! - Uhh! - Rex! Ugh! Don't move.
Rex, what are you doing here? How did you know? Well, it's a long story.
We can talk about it on the ride home.
But how did you figure out that she was after Madelyn? I trusted my instincts! Let's find a spot to talk about how the last few days has impacted our self-perception as leaders.
Enough with the woo woo crap, Dina! - I just need a drink.
- You know Kelly I think that shows real growth! Hey, uh Rex He, uh he really missed you the last couple of days.
I think he was pretty anxious that you were out here with a killer.
That sounds like a tough few days.
Yeah, it was.
I think he might have been worried that he might lose you.
Well, I guess I should make sure he knows that I'm not going anywhere then, shouldn't I? I think he'd appreciate that.
Hmm.
Come on, pal.
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