FBI: Most Wanted (2020) s06e16 Episode Script
Toxic Behavior
1
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Bao Liu?
No way!
I've been here two hours
and my side is killing me.
Sir, patients are seen
in the order of severity.
When my appendix bursts,
I'm gonna sue this hospital,
- and you personally.
- Sir, sir.
Don't "sir" me! And get out of my face.
Hey, hey.
Help!
- Help me!
- Wait.
- Maisy!
- Let's go, let's go.
- [COUGHING]
- My wife, she's dying.
- We need a gurney!
- Help me. Maisy!
Dr. Reid! We need Dr. Reid!
Help me. Help. Help her, please.
- Oh, my God.
- Keep moving. Keep moving.
- Maisy?
- Resus room 1 right now.
You got it. Let's go.
- I need a full workup, stat.
- I'm her husband.
She's pregnant.
OK? You have to be careful.
Sir, back up so we can help her.
- Saline?
- It's in.
Maisy. Maisy, I'm right here.
OK, I love you.
- I need him out of here.
- Please.
Hang in there, sweetie!
It's gonna be OK.
You need to go back to the waiting room.
That's my wife.
- Let go of me, you prick!
- Sir, you're not helping.
- One, two, three, go.
- Maisy!
I need a lab run.
- Copy, I'm on it.
- Maisy!
And someone get him
the hell out of here.
Please. Please.
Sir, you need to wait
in the waiting room.
- OK, you got this?
- OK, I got it.
No, she's my wife.
- No, I am not going anywhere.
- Please.
What the hell is causing this?
We're flying blind, people.
BP is dropping, 90 over 50.
- Pulse 130.
- Hey.
[MONITOR BEEPING]
Her liver's shutting down.
I'll be right back.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
- There's another one.
- Are you sure?
Symptoms are similar to the
guy that came in this morning.
Liver function is almost zero.
Someone's poisoning people.
Did we hear from toxicology?
They don't know what it is.
We need to call the CDC.
- Code blue. Code Blue.
- Dr. Reid? Dr. Reid?
Is that is that for Maisy?
She's flatlining.
Pulse check.
[PADDLES WHIRRING]
Everybody clear?
Pulse check.
[FLATLINING]
Start compressions.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
[PADDLES WHIRRING]
Everyone clear.
♪
[LINE TRILLS]
Good morning.
Did I wake you?
No, no.
I, uh, was trying to read, but I was
I was thinking about Tuscany.
[CHUCKLES]
Maybe we should start
an exchange program.
Francesca and Claudio come here,
and you and I move to Tuscany
and run the villa.
Hmm, if I were them,
I would not take that trade.
The food is too good.
The espresso, the vino.
The biscotti.
[CHUCKLES]
I died a thousand deaths with each bite.
Can you imagine living like that?
Like, just serving
amazing food and drinks and,
I don't know, making people happy?
I wish.
You know, when people talk
about vacations,
it's always the big things like museums.
But for me, it was the little things
how you held my hand
when we walked to breakfast,
sitting in the cathedral.
Hmm, yeah, that choir was stunning.
Remember that street
that smelled like sweet basil?
I do, yes.
[LAUGHS]
You know, I have to say that, uh,
being with you full-time,
I wasn't really sure how that would go.
But it wasn't as horrible
as I thought it would be.
Oh, good.
I'm glad you didn't have
to activate your escape plan.
Oh, I would have.
I just, you know, was too full of pasta,
so it was just easier to stay.
[CHUCKLES]
You're still coming to New York
on Friday, right?
[SOFT MUSIC]
Yeah. I can't wait.
Same.
♪
Sheryll, have you heard from Hana?
Yeah, she said
Ethan's doing a lot better.
- That's positive.
- Yeah, that's great.
So, uh, you think they'll make it?
I don't know. You know Hana.
She's never gonna be giggling,
running around,
picking wildflowers.
But he brings her mozzarella sticks
while she does her coding.
OK, so he gets her, then.
That's good. [LAUGHTER]
He gets her indeed.
Exactly.
Got an interesting one.
Two people dead
of a suspected poisoning.
NYPD asked for our help.
Our two victims,
Carlos Hernandez and Maisy Durst,
were admitted to St. Michaels yesterday
with zero liver function,
bleeding from their eyes and ears.
That sounds horrific.
Do we know what poisoned them?
No, it could have been something
they touched, ate, drank.
Field's wide open.
All right, so they went
to the hospital yesterday.
And are we to believe
that's when they were poisoned?
Another question
we don't have an answer to.
Carlos was admitted yesterday morning,
Maisy ten hours later.
But apparently, poison affects
people differently.
So in theory, they could have
been poisoned at the same time.
Did we rule out terrorism?
Figuring out if these two were targeted
or maybe it was random
is where we're starting.
Barnes, you're on keyboard duty.
Cross-reference
the victims' phone locations,
credit cards, social media.
See how these two are connected.
Ray, Nina, let's talk to the families.
Let's roll.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Can I get you something to drink?
If I can find any glasses.
Not for me, thanks.
I'm OK.
Are you doing some renovations?
Just new cabinets.
Carlos
He loved his projects.
We're in the early stages
of our investigation,
so we're exploring everything.
Can you tell us where Carlos
was over the past few days?
Like, every place he went?
If you remember anything
that he ate or drank,
that would be really helpful.
I don't know.
I work in Midtown,
and he worked from home.
He was probably here mostly,
but he was always running errands.
I think he met a friend
for lunch a few days ago.
There's another person with symptoms
similar to your husband's, Maisy Durst.
Do you know who she is?
No.
Are you sure?
I'm positive.
I've never seen him,
and Maisy never mentioned a Carlos.
Do you know where Maisy's been
over the past couple of days?
She was three months pregnant, and
I don't know, we were so excited.
Maisy was already
picking out paint colors
for the baby's room.
- [SOMBER MUSIC]
- And
I'm sorry for your loss.
Her morning sickness, it was pretty bad.
She was probably here in the morning,
but I don't I can't be sure.
I leave for work at 7:00.
OK, well, did she have
any favorite restaurants?
Maybe friends that she might have seen?
She loved Sprites Bakery, um
I don't know, she had tons of friends,
but she didn't mention hanging
out with anybody recently.
You don't know of anyone
who would want to hurt her?
No. No.
No, God.
Honestly, she was one of
the best people in the world.
She was always going out of her way
to be to be nice to people.
How could this happen?
[SOBBING]
♪
I'll be in touch.
♪
[FOREBODING MUSIC]
♪
Those boxes are getting a little tiring.
I'll, uh I'll move them.
When do you expect to hear
back from the co-op board?
Um, they well, they, um
they they they didn't
they didn't think
it was gonna work out.
What?
They said no. But but they're idiots.
What?
They asked the stupidest questions, Dad.
- Cormac.
- It was so ridiculous.
What's your plan?
Are you guys gonna live with me forever?
How did you how did we get here?
Dad, Dad, look, I'm gonna
I'm gonna fix it.
[SCOFFS]
In the 40-whatever years
you've been alive,
I haven't seen you do much of anything.
In fact, I've seen more
of what you can't do.
You can't get promoted past orderly.
Can't get an apartment.
- Can't get a girlfriend.
- OK.
Well, that's no, that's not accurate,
although I don't know if
I'd call a one-night stand
Ugh.
Where you knock up some random woman
who then dumps the kid and runs
a girlfriend.
Hey. Hey, buddy.
What?
We didn't get the apartment?
Oh, no, come here, come here.
It's gonna be fine.
[SERIOUS MUSIC]
I got something going.
It's big.
I'm gonna buy us a house
with a huge backyard.
We can get a dog.
Everything's gonna change.
That'd be cool, but
it's fine if it doesn't work out.
I'd sort of rather be able
to hang with you more.
I know, buddy, I know.
Listen, come here. Yeah, we will.
Everything's gonna be all right, OK?
All right.
No. Sorry.
My my throat's been
a little scratchy,
so I might be getting sick.
I don't
The lab just finished
with the tissue samples.
Whatever the poison is,
it metabolizes quickly.
- They couldn't ID it?
- No.
Maybe if we would have found it
before it was ingested.
Ingested so we think
it's something they ate?
Inconclusive, but they're leaning
away from it being airborne.
- How's the digital trail?
- Dead ending.
Carlos and Maisy didn't shop
at the same places,
they didn't have the same friends,
and they don't work in the same field.
Well, I've been doing
some disturbing reading.
Poisoners are rare.
It's an unusual way to kill folks.
There was that case in Chicago
where someone put
potassium cyanide in Tylenol.
Some people make it random.
They don't want to see
the effects on their victims.
On the other hand,
some people like to watch.
They want to see the suffering.
So how did they catch
the Tylenol person?
They didn't.
[DOOR CLOSES]
We got four more victims in the ER,
all with the same symptoms.
Wow.
So we have no idea what the poison is
or how it's being administered,
no connection
between our victims,
and no idea if our unsub
likes to watch or is 100 miles away.
How the hell are we gonna stop this?
The hospital sent over
the names of the new victims.
Yep, I have it. I'll dive in.
We got to move
credit cards, social media.
We're on it.
Did the victims say where they've been?
Uh, no, but apparently,
they were in pretty bad shape.
You said the hospital
sent over the names.
Did they all go to the same hospital?
Uh, yeah, St. Michaels.
Two victims at the same hospital
could be a coincidence, but six isn't.
If our poisoner likes to watch,
they could work there
or be passing themselves off
as a patient.
Let's cover our bases.
Send an alert to area hospitals
and flag patients with similar symptoms.
Hey, guys, two of our latest victims
have credit card charges
at the same hardware store.
Carlos was renovating.
Yeah, he could have been
to that hardware store.
Silas and Maisy were talking
about painting the baby's room.
So maybe she was looking for paint.
Nina, you're with me.
Barnes, Ray, hit the hospital.
Interview employees.
Pull security footage.
Look for anyone paying special
attention to the victims.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Yeah.
She said she loved the lemonade.
I thought it was funny
because it's just a mix.
What lemonade?
It's my wife's thing.
I thought she was nuts.
People come to a hardware store
to buy hammers, not to eat popcorn.
But damned if she wasn't right.
- People love free stuff.
- People love free stuff.
Do you remember
if the woman had any popcorn?
She couldn't have.
Uh, I lent the machine out
to my church for a fundraiser.
Got it back this morning.
It definitely can't be airborne,
because people would be sick.
It's got to be that damn lemonade.
Is that the same jug from yesterday?
No, some kids knocked that one over.
When did parents decide
to stop parenting
and just let their children
run through stores?
You said it was a mix?
Yeah, I add the packet to the water jug.
Can you tell me what's going on?
Do you still have
the jug from yesterday?
Over here.
Well, that's the jug,
and the packet's in the can.
And no other water bottles around here?
No.
You see that puncture here?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
How many people would you say
had the lemonade yesterday?
I don't know.
We weren't open that long
before the peewee tackle
football game started
in the paint aisle.
I'll have ERT check the bottle.
And it was delivered from that company?
Yeah, Dazzling Water.
They deliver once a week on Wednesday.
Thank you.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Ah!
And one, dude.
What are you talking about?
Nobody even touched you.
Bro, you hacked me.
- I hacked you?
- Yeah.
John, be for real, bro.
- Nobody even touched you.
- You didn't start.
- I never touched you.
- [INDISTINCT ARGUING]
Bro, I can't sit out one game
without y'all arguing?
- Are you for real?
- Shut up.
You can't play a game in general.
[INDISTINCT ARGUING]
- [BELL RINGS]
- Thank you.
Dazzling Water's stopping all
of their trucks and deliveries.
What about the customers
they already delivered to?
Yes, they told them
not to drink their water,
and they're sending agents
to pick up the bottles now.
ERT is on the way. Barnes?
Hey, Remy.
The poison in the jugs was
delivered by Dazzling Water.
Do you get deliveries
from Dazzling Water?
- No.
- OK.
I just got a location for
the truck that delivered here.
- It's a couple miles away.
- Call you back.
It's possible
the person doing this likes
to watch the victim suffer.
You think they hacked into our cameras?
Well, we're checking into that,
though we believe that they may
have watched in person.
Are you saying they work here?
Can you think of anyone
who might have done this?
I can't believe there's someone on Earth
who'd force people to die
the way these people are dying,
let alone that it's someone here.
Yeah, well, they would have
to have expertise in poisons
know how much they use
to be fatal but not traceable.
They'd also have to be
involved with the patients.
We put together a poison response team
with toxicologists, pulmonologists,
and hepatologists.
How many people are on that team?
Eight or nine.
But if you're looking for people
who'd witness the effects,
how close are we talking?
There's staff in janitorial, admitting,
orderlies, food service.
All of them have access to the patients.
Would they know how to mix poisons?
Toxins are everywhere,
and poisons are
surprisingly easy to make.
And with the internet,
anyone can find anything.
Yeah, you're right.
How many patients went through the ER
when the victims came in?
Between yesterday and today?
We're looking at about
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
- Any cameras on your truck?
- I wish.
My wife doesn't believe half
the shenanigans I see out here.
Do the grates stay open during delivery?
No, I lock them after every stop.
It seems like that would slow you down.
It's company policy.
So if someone wanted to put something
in one of these bottles,
they'd need to do it
while you were standing here
or have a key to your truck.
Sometimes it gets hectic.
I'm double-parked.
I got to get out as fast as I can.
So you don't always lock them.
It's water, not nuclear missiles.
What are they gonna do?
Run away with a five-gallon jug
of water in their pocket?
Take a look at this.
Yep. I'm calling ERT.
You stay put, OK?
Great.
Marone.
Unbelievable.
Dr. Clay to Proctology.
Dr. Clay to Proctology.
Anyone with a grudge?
I've been a doctor for ten years,
and I've never seen this much anger.
Anger from who?
Patients, doctors, everyone.
All right, so anyone angry
enough to kill somebody?
If you'd asked me a year ago,
I'd say no way.
- But things are changing.
- Changing how?
Doctors can't get patients treatment
because the insurance won't cover it.
Patients are dying in the waiting room
because we don't have enough staff.
The wheels are coming off the bus.
All right, so do you think
that someone would
Help! I need some help over here.
- [GASPING]
- We need some help!
Hey, hey, hey, stay with me.
Stay with me, all right?
I need you to move.
Where's the last place you drank water?
Agent Cannon, I need to do my job
- And I need to do my job.
- Get a gurney.
[RETCHES]
Get the gurney over here.
We have a lead.
The bottle from the hardware store?
ERT couldn't find anything.
What about the basketball player?
His name was John,
and he didn't make it.
Neither did the other three.
We found the nexus, though.
They all played basketball
at Fletcher Park
and drank from the same cooler.
Do we know where the water came from?
His wife said he used tap water
to mix his powdered sports drink.
I got something.
Remember the jug
from the Dazzling Water truck?
The lab tested it,
and the poison inside it
is a liquid called dimethylnitrosamine,
a.k.a. DMN.
It's fatal after a few hours,
and there's no antidote.
Hey, Isobel.
What?
Send it to Ray.
Open your email.
Our unsub sent a letter
to Channel 61 News.
"Ten dead, more to come,
"unless you pay me
ten millions of dollars.
You have until 5:00 PM tomorrow."
Some kind of banking info.
"You morons will never find me.
Maybe this will make it interesting."
What will make it interesting?
[INTENSE MUSIC]
Looks like a code.
I cannot remember the last time
I saw you this focused.
Chances are I had a gun pointed at me.
- What?
- Nothing.
You just don't strike me
as a puzzle person.
I do solve puzzles for a living.
Yeah.
What's a puzzle person look like?
- My mom.
- Oh.
The lab have anything helpful?
They're still running it
through their computers.
So I went through the
Dazzling Water employees list.
Couple DUIs, parking tickets,
missed child support,
nothing that looks like our guy.
Yeah, it feels like
the poisoning at the park
takes it off the water company.
Let's shift gears
and focus on who has access
to the DMN poison.
What's going on?
Well, since the tap water is safe,
most likely, our unsub added
the DMN to the cooler
when the players were distracted.
There's a school
and an apartment building
at the edge of the park.
You know, chances of us
getting our unsub on video,
it's got to be better
than you solving that puzzle.
Oh, thanks for the vote of confidence.
These four basketball players who died,
this was a regular group?
There's about eight to ten of them
that play at the same time every day.
So it could have been targeted.
Well, I don't know.
I spoke to one of their regulars.
He wasn't there today,
but he said it's inconsistent
as to who shows up or how many.
The park feels like the hardware store,
spiking a bottle with no idea
where it's going.
They knew they were gonna kill people,
and they didn't care who.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Is the mayor seriously considering
putting up the ransom?
Officially, the city doesn't
negotiate with terrorists.
Unofficially, people are panicking.
♪
Hey, Jason.
What are you doing up so early?
Had a bad dream.
Was it the one where you're
getting out of the pool
and Ariana's watching
Dad, I'm serious.
All right, I'm sorry
you had a bad dream,
but everything's OK.
I gotta I gotta go to work.
Somebody's poisoning people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw that.
You know, if you're reading
the news, that's
that's probably why you had a bad dream.
He sent a cipher.
Is it you?
What? No.
Yesterday you talked about getting rich.
And you wouldn't let me drink
out of your water bottle.
You write all my lunch notes in ciphers.
You love them.
A lot of people like puzzles.
When Mom left, you told me she died.
But when I turned ten,
you took me to Joe's Pizza
and told me the truth,
that she left us.
Yeah, I did. So?
You said that it was
you and me from now on.
- And
- That you'd never leave me.
That you wouldn't lie to me again.
I know.
[STAMMERS] Come here, come here.
Sorry. You'll see.
Do not say anything to anyone.
Why are you doing it?
Because somebody had to.
Listen, you're too young to see it,
but the world is crumbling.
People are mean,
self-centered, entitled.
Bad guys win.
Good guys get screwed.
Last night, some guy blocked
the door in the subway,
and I missed my train.
That bitch at my work,
I do her job, and she got promoted.
Then you should quit.
And go where? Where am I gonna go?
No matter how hard you work,
how nice you try to be,
you get punched in the face.
Did those people who died hurt you?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
No.
But they're all part of the problem.
How does this fix things?
That's what I realized, kiddo.
It can't be fixed.
But if it's unavoidable
that we get screwed by the system,
they can at least buy us dinner.
♪
Right?
♪
You want to help?
Hmm?
Morning.
Guess I'm not the only one
who couldn't sleep last night.
How's that going?
Nothing's working.
Without the key, it's like
trying to read a book
- Thank you.
- Without knowing the language.
At least we're not
on a ticking clock, right?
See, if they just wanted
to poison people,
then why send the letter?
They're trying to prove
that they're smarter than us.
They think we can't crack the code.
But without the key, they would know
cracking the code would be impossible.
Which is why they sent the key.
It was here all along.
We've been working through
the school's video footage.
It's nothing but foot traffic.
- What about the apartment?
- I'm still looking.
The cameras are higher up,
so it's a wider view.
DMN poison?
Actually, I did some digging last night.
So DMN is mostly used in research labs
to give rats cancer.
It's also a byproduct
from manufacturing plants.
Any connection between the research lab
and St. Michaels?
No, the hospital doesn't have
any record of DMN.
[SIGHS]
Do you know where they got
the water for this coffee?
No.
I think I'll just have
something in a can.
Yeah.
Hold on, guys, I think I got something.
All right.
Check this guy out right here.
He's just staring
at the basketball court.
Could be just hanging out.
What makes you think it's our guy?
Yeah, well, hold on a second.
Right there.
It's a water bottle?
It's a perfect way to carry DMN.
Yeah, he never drinks from it.
Get over there. See what you can find.
Yeah.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
All right, so our guy
was standing right here.
OK, wait.
Him.
Maybe he would have seen our unsub?
- Yeah.
- Excuse me.
FBI, Agents Chase and Cannon.
Are you guys kidding me with this?
Kidding you with what?
You're gonna hassle me about a permit,
but the community center hired me.
Well, congrats. It's not about that.
Yesterday, did you see this guy
hanging out over there?
Oh.
Yeah.
He's been here a few times
watching the guys play.
Can you, uh, describe him to us?
Yeah.
Actually, I could do you
one better than that.
Would you know if the DMN was missing?
Even if it says
it's full on your computer,
could someone have tampered
with it, maybe replaced it
with something else?
OK, thanks.
I got it.
It's a columnar transposition cipher,
and you were right.
The key was in the original letter.
I thought "ten millions" was
a typo or a translation error,
but it's part of the key.
With acrostics, you either take
the first letter
or the last letter of each sentence,
then you put them together.
Once you know the key is five letters,
then you make five columns.
OK, Remy, you're great, but my mom's
the puzzle person, not me.
What does it say?
"I wear many hats, but none on my head.
The FBI tried to help,
but the players are dead."
Players as in basketball players
or players as in they were all involved?
"The FBI tried to help."
I'm thinking that it's got
to be the basketball players.
Well, Ray and I tried to help John.
Is he screwing with us, or was
he at the hospital watching?
Hey.
Remy, we've got a sketch of our guy.
Sketch?
Yeah, there was an artist
who was painting a mural nearby,
and he drew it for us.
Ray's sending it over now.
We're thinking he was
at the hospital yesterday.
Based on what?
We cracked the cipher.
It says, "I wear many hats,
but none on my head.
The FBI tried to help,
but the players are dead."
He was watching me and Barnes.
Getting pictures
of the visitors or patients
is gonna take forever.
Do we have access
to the hospital's HR files?
They let us in when we were
looking for staff
who might be familiar with poison.
Cross-check the sketch with hospital IDs
for everyone that was there yesterday
white male, early 40s.
- OK.
- [KEYBOARD CLACKING]
There's 32 hits
four administrators, seven doctors.
Yeah, but who wears many hats?
Doctor, that's specific. Janitor too.
Orderly?
What the hell does an orderly do?
What doesn't an orderly do?
Cormac McClure.
That's our freak. Track his phone.
It's off.
Ray, Nina, hit the hospital.
Barnes and I will take his house.
- All right.
- On it.
Is this his childhood room?
Yes.
You mind if we take a look around?
- No.
- Thank you.
When did he move back?
He never left.
Could the victims be people
he knew in his childhood?
I was a surgeon. I worked constantly.
Which is my way of saying,
I don't know my son.
It's possible,
but I wouldn't be surprised
if he picked them randomly.
He dislikes everyone.
He lives and breathes
a victim mentality.
Could you elaborate on that?
8 million people walking around outside,
and occasionally one bumps into another.
For Cormac, the trivial inconveniences
that every human endures are magnified.
He would take something
as innocuous as a bump personally.
Sounds like a lot of anger.
He assumes the worst in everyone,
and it's self-fulfilling.
He's rejected by women, apartments,
employers, friends, everyone.
And when you saw him yesterday,
did he say anything that, in retrospect,
strikes you as unusual?
- No.
- Grandpa?
That's his son Jason. In here.
Can you help me with
These are FBI agents.
They're looking for your father.
Why? Is he OK?
Did you talk to him today?
No.
I thought I heard you two this morning.
[TENSE MUSIC]
I haven't seen him since yesterday.
What happened?
I'll explain later.
What'd you need help with?
My biology project.
But it can wait.
No, no, no, you should do your work.
Come.
We'll be in the study if you need us.
♪
You believe that kid?
Not a word.
We have less than seven hours.
♪
Wait.
How big was the cooler in the park?
5 gallons, 20-something inches.
Why?
This says 12.
A 12-inch water cooler?
It's not inches. It's feet.
It's a water tower.
This crackpot is gonna dump poison
into a building somewhere.
Remy thinks he's gonna poison
a building's water tower.
He's gonna need a lot of DMN.
We need to stop him before he gets it.
Agents Cannon and Chase,
Cormac isn't scheduled
to work until tonight,
and his badge hasn't been used
since yesterday.
Anything in the reports about DMN?
No. I checked every department
and every purchase order.
We contract with labs,
and sometimes not everything
gets logged, so I wanted to make sure
it didn't slip through.
Well, this is a lot of chemicals.
I mean, could any of these
be used together to make DMN?
Yes.
Where do you keep them?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Let's see. He'd need
♪
What?
A bottle's missing.
Wait.
We're missing three bottles.
Mixing those together,
he'd have about a gallon of DMN.
And how many people could that kill?
Thousands.
Nope, nothing.
Cormac has no online presence
no social media,
no posts on message boards.
It's like this guy doesn't exist.
Well, that's not surprising.
He's completely disconnected
from people.
I wonder how much
his isolation contributed
to him hating the world.
[TABLET CHIMES]
What's that?
Went up on Jason's cell phone.
Jason's on the move.
♪
Ray and Nina just left St. Michaels.
They're about ten minutes out.
Where's Jason now?
He just turned onto Fifth Avenue.
♪
Yo, dude,
thanks for the heads-up on the FBI.
Dad.
Hey, wait, wait, wait, here.
Turn your phone off.
I got you this.
I don't want it.
I shouldn't have helped you
this morning.
Hey.
We're almost home free.
- [PHONE BEEPS]
- [SIGHS]
Can't we just leave
and start over someplace?
Wha we'd
we'd be walking away from $10 million.
Did they say they're gonna pay?
Not yet.
But if they don't, people die.
Either way, we win.
That's not right, Dad.
The FBI, they told me about your plan.
These these people,
they never hurt you.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, we're the real victims.
We are.
What's wrong?
Jason's cell signal just disappeared.
- What? Why?
- I don't know.
He could have gone into the subway
or maybe turned his phone off.
What was his last location?
We're doing something great here.
We're tilting
the scales of justice today.
It doesn't make it equal, OK?
You're just killing people.
OK.
It's OK.
I got it.
Someday you're gonna see the world,
not the way you wish it was,
but for the hard truth
of how it really is.
♪
I'm sorry.
I won't tell anyone, but
I can't do this.
Just just wait.
Hold on. Hold on.
Just hold on, man.
Um
take this.
Just take it.
When I get set up,
maybe you come meet me.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
We got him.
- Where's the kid?
- Can't wait.
[TIRES SQUEAL]
FBI! Stop!
♪
Show me your hands, Cormac!
[GUNSHOTS]
Dad!
♪
Where the hell is he?
Damn it.
Remy, we're about five minutes out.
You want us to cordon off the alley?
NYPD is handling.
We lost the kid.
There was no DMN in Cormac's bag.
It's possible Jason has it.
Are we thinking
Jason's gonna follow through
with his father's plan?
We have to consider it.
He and his dad were on foot,
so we think the building
they're gonna hit is nearby.
All right, well, we're on our way.
- Hey, hey, hey, watch it.
- Yeah, I see.
[HORN BLARES]
His dad said he was rejected
from a bunch of apartments.
Anything close?
Let me call him.
Not being able to move
out of his dad's place
was a huge blow.
It symbolized his ability
to become a successful adult.
Hello?
Dr. McClure, this is Agent Barnes.
Have you found my son?
We think Cormac might be trying
to target one of the apartment
buildings that rejected him.
Do you have any idea
which one that might be?
There were half a dozen.
Any of them in Midtown?
I can't remember.
Oh, hang on.
I have co-op application here.
- Hang on.
- Come on.
OK, 63 Cannery Avenue.
That's that's Midtown.
Now, is my son OK?
I have to call you back.
Have NYPD close down that street.
- You hear that?
- Cannery Avenue. We got it.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
This better be it.
Otherwise hundreds of people
are gonna die.
I'll find the super,
tell them to shut off the water.
Do it.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
♪
Remy, we're here.
Head to the roof.
♪
Don't move.
Don't come near me.
You killed my dad.
Slow down, son.
You don't want to kill a bunch
of innocent people, now.
My dad was right.
The world's unfair.
Everybody says if you do
the right thing, it'll be OK.
But it's not true.
You're right, Jason, it isn't fair.
But isn't the best way to fix it
by being a part of the good?
Look, you're only 13.
You have your whole life ahead of you.
The world's never gonna change.
It probably won't.
But it doesn't mean
you become part of the problem.
It doesn't matter.
Everything we do in life matters.
The choices you make matter.
So I'm gonna give you one right now.
Give me the bottle.
No.
It is over.
OK, we're trying to help you, kid.
But trust me, a life behind bars
is not something your dad
would have wanted for you.
No matter what happens, he loved you.
So I'm asking, please,
give me the bottle.
♪
It's gonna be all right.
- OK?
- [CRYING]
I know you're angry,
but it's gonna be all right, OK?
You're gonna be fine.
[SOBBING]
This is your friend
Blake's place, isn't it?
- Yep.
- Huh.
I think we might be
a little early for drinks.
Well, actually
You know, I don't
I don't think he would love you,
like, walking around
like you own the place, hon.
Except I do.
[BANGING]
There we go.
[THE WAR AND TREATY'S
"THAT'S HOW LOVE IS MADE"]
I mean, I technically
don't own the place,
but he needed an investor.
I know it's not much to look at,
but use your imagination.
See it for what it could be.
Um
I'm thinking a bank of TVs over there,
dartboard and pool table.
- No.
- Oh. [LAUGHS]
No, it's terrible.
That's a terrible idea.
No, no, you need to lean
into the original fixtures.
I mean, look at this ceiling.
I think this is a real stamped copper.
Mm-hmm.
[LAUGHS]
What are you smiling at?
I knew you would be into it.
I just knew.
What if we do it together,
renovate and make a big splash?
- Like Francesca and Claudio?
- Mm.
- Mm-hmm.
- Exactly.
OK.
It's very audacious,
but, I mean, you know, this
I think this is real mahogany,
and if you refinished it,
it would be really quite beautiful.
Mm-hmm.
And there's a stained glass
window back there,
somewhere, under all of that stuff.
BOTH: 'Cause that ain't how
love is made ♪
I want all or nothing ♪
Oh, gotta give
to get something ♪
That's what it takes ♪
BOTH: That's how love ♪
I love it here. I really do.
BOTH: That's how love is made ♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Bao Liu?
No way!
I've been here two hours
and my side is killing me.
Sir, patients are seen
in the order of severity.
When my appendix bursts,
I'm gonna sue this hospital,
- and you personally.
- Sir, sir.
Don't "sir" me! And get out of my face.
Hey, hey.
Help!
- Help me!
- Wait.
- Maisy!
- Let's go, let's go.
- [COUGHING]
- My wife, she's dying.
- We need a gurney!
- Help me. Maisy!
Dr. Reid! We need Dr. Reid!
Help me. Help. Help her, please.
- Oh, my God.
- Keep moving. Keep moving.
- Maisy?
- Resus room 1 right now.
You got it. Let's go.
- I need a full workup, stat.
- I'm her husband.
She's pregnant.
OK? You have to be careful.
Sir, back up so we can help her.
- Saline?
- It's in.
Maisy. Maisy, I'm right here.
OK, I love you.
- I need him out of here.
- Please.
Hang in there, sweetie!
It's gonna be OK.
You need to go back to the waiting room.
That's my wife.
- Let go of me, you prick!
- Sir, you're not helping.
- One, two, three, go.
- Maisy!
I need a lab run.
- Copy, I'm on it.
- Maisy!
And someone get him
the hell out of here.
Please. Please.
Sir, you need to wait
in the waiting room.
- OK, you got this?
- OK, I got it.
No, she's my wife.
- No, I am not going anywhere.
- Please.
What the hell is causing this?
We're flying blind, people.
BP is dropping, 90 over 50.
- Pulse 130.
- Hey.
[MONITOR BEEPING]
Her liver's shutting down.
I'll be right back.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
- There's another one.
- Are you sure?
Symptoms are similar to the
guy that came in this morning.
Liver function is almost zero.
Someone's poisoning people.
Did we hear from toxicology?
They don't know what it is.
We need to call the CDC.
- Code blue. Code Blue.
- Dr. Reid? Dr. Reid?
Is that is that for Maisy?
She's flatlining.
Pulse check.
[PADDLES WHIRRING]
Everybody clear?
Pulse check.
[FLATLINING]
Start compressions.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
[PADDLES WHIRRING]
Everyone clear.
♪
[LINE TRILLS]
Good morning.
Did I wake you?
No, no.
I, uh, was trying to read, but I was
I was thinking about Tuscany.
[CHUCKLES]
Maybe we should start
an exchange program.
Francesca and Claudio come here,
and you and I move to Tuscany
and run the villa.
Hmm, if I were them,
I would not take that trade.
The food is too good.
The espresso, the vino.
The biscotti.
[CHUCKLES]
I died a thousand deaths with each bite.
Can you imagine living like that?
Like, just serving
amazing food and drinks and,
I don't know, making people happy?
I wish.
You know, when people talk
about vacations,
it's always the big things like museums.
But for me, it was the little things
how you held my hand
when we walked to breakfast,
sitting in the cathedral.
Hmm, yeah, that choir was stunning.
Remember that street
that smelled like sweet basil?
I do, yes.
[LAUGHS]
You know, I have to say that, uh,
being with you full-time,
I wasn't really sure how that would go.
But it wasn't as horrible
as I thought it would be.
Oh, good.
I'm glad you didn't have
to activate your escape plan.
Oh, I would have.
I just, you know, was too full of pasta,
so it was just easier to stay.
[CHUCKLES]
You're still coming to New York
on Friday, right?
[SOFT MUSIC]
Yeah. I can't wait.
Same.
♪
Sheryll, have you heard from Hana?
Yeah, she said
Ethan's doing a lot better.
- That's positive.
- Yeah, that's great.
So, uh, you think they'll make it?
I don't know. You know Hana.
She's never gonna be giggling,
running around,
picking wildflowers.
But he brings her mozzarella sticks
while she does her coding.
OK, so he gets her, then.
That's good. [LAUGHTER]
He gets her indeed.
Exactly.
Got an interesting one.
Two people dead
of a suspected poisoning.
NYPD asked for our help.
Our two victims,
Carlos Hernandez and Maisy Durst,
were admitted to St. Michaels yesterday
with zero liver function,
bleeding from their eyes and ears.
That sounds horrific.
Do we know what poisoned them?
No, it could have been something
they touched, ate, drank.
Field's wide open.
All right, so they went
to the hospital yesterday.
And are we to believe
that's when they were poisoned?
Another question
we don't have an answer to.
Carlos was admitted yesterday morning,
Maisy ten hours later.
But apparently, poison affects
people differently.
So in theory, they could have
been poisoned at the same time.
Did we rule out terrorism?
Figuring out if these two were targeted
or maybe it was random
is where we're starting.
Barnes, you're on keyboard duty.
Cross-reference
the victims' phone locations,
credit cards, social media.
See how these two are connected.
Ray, Nina, let's talk to the families.
Let's roll.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Can I get you something to drink?
If I can find any glasses.
Not for me, thanks.
I'm OK.
Are you doing some renovations?
Just new cabinets.
Carlos
He loved his projects.
We're in the early stages
of our investigation,
so we're exploring everything.
Can you tell us where Carlos
was over the past few days?
Like, every place he went?
If you remember anything
that he ate or drank,
that would be really helpful.
I don't know.
I work in Midtown,
and he worked from home.
He was probably here mostly,
but he was always running errands.
I think he met a friend
for lunch a few days ago.
There's another person with symptoms
similar to your husband's, Maisy Durst.
Do you know who she is?
No.
Are you sure?
I'm positive.
I've never seen him,
and Maisy never mentioned a Carlos.
Do you know where Maisy's been
over the past couple of days?
She was three months pregnant, and
I don't know, we were so excited.
Maisy was already
picking out paint colors
for the baby's room.
- [SOMBER MUSIC]
- And
I'm sorry for your loss.
Her morning sickness, it was pretty bad.
She was probably here in the morning,
but I don't I can't be sure.
I leave for work at 7:00.
OK, well, did she have
any favorite restaurants?
Maybe friends that she might have seen?
She loved Sprites Bakery, um
I don't know, she had tons of friends,
but she didn't mention hanging
out with anybody recently.
You don't know of anyone
who would want to hurt her?
No. No.
No, God.
Honestly, she was one of
the best people in the world.
She was always going out of her way
to be to be nice to people.
How could this happen?
[SOBBING]
♪
I'll be in touch.
♪
[FOREBODING MUSIC]
♪
Those boxes are getting a little tiring.
I'll, uh I'll move them.
When do you expect to hear
back from the co-op board?
Um, they well, they, um
they they they didn't
they didn't think
it was gonna work out.
What?
They said no. But but they're idiots.
What?
They asked the stupidest questions, Dad.
- Cormac.
- It was so ridiculous.
What's your plan?
Are you guys gonna live with me forever?
How did you how did we get here?
Dad, Dad, look, I'm gonna
I'm gonna fix it.
[SCOFFS]
In the 40-whatever years
you've been alive,
I haven't seen you do much of anything.
In fact, I've seen more
of what you can't do.
You can't get promoted past orderly.
Can't get an apartment.
- Can't get a girlfriend.
- OK.
Well, that's no, that's not accurate,
although I don't know if
I'd call a one-night stand
Ugh.
Where you knock up some random woman
who then dumps the kid and runs
a girlfriend.
Hey. Hey, buddy.
What?
We didn't get the apartment?
Oh, no, come here, come here.
It's gonna be fine.
[SERIOUS MUSIC]
I got something going.
It's big.
I'm gonna buy us a house
with a huge backyard.
We can get a dog.
Everything's gonna change.
That'd be cool, but
it's fine if it doesn't work out.
I'd sort of rather be able
to hang with you more.
I know, buddy, I know.
Listen, come here. Yeah, we will.
Everything's gonna be all right, OK?
All right.
No. Sorry.
My my throat's been
a little scratchy,
so I might be getting sick.
I don't
The lab just finished
with the tissue samples.
Whatever the poison is,
it metabolizes quickly.
- They couldn't ID it?
- No.
Maybe if we would have found it
before it was ingested.
Ingested so we think
it's something they ate?
Inconclusive, but they're leaning
away from it being airborne.
- How's the digital trail?
- Dead ending.
Carlos and Maisy didn't shop
at the same places,
they didn't have the same friends,
and they don't work in the same field.
Well, I've been doing
some disturbing reading.
Poisoners are rare.
It's an unusual way to kill folks.
There was that case in Chicago
where someone put
potassium cyanide in Tylenol.
Some people make it random.
They don't want to see
the effects on their victims.
On the other hand,
some people like to watch.
They want to see the suffering.
So how did they catch
the Tylenol person?
They didn't.
[DOOR CLOSES]
We got four more victims in the ER,
all with the same symptoms.
Wow.
So we have no idea what the poison is
or how it's being administered,
no connection
between our victims,
and no idea if our unsub
likes to watch or is 100 miles away.
How the hell are we gonna stop this?
The hospital sent over
the names of the new victims.
Yep, I have it. I'll dive in.
We got to move
credit cards, social media.
We're on it.
Did the victims say where they've been?
Uh, no, but apparently,
they were in pretty bad shape.
You said the hospital
sent over the names.
Did they all go to the same hospital?
Uh, yeah, St. Michaels.
Two victims at the same hospital
could be a coincidence, but six isn't.
If our poisoner likes to watch,
they could work there
or be passing themselves off
as a patient.
Let's cover our bases.
Send an alert to area hospitals
and flag patients with similar symptoms.
Hey, guys, two of our latest victims
have credit card charges
at the same hardware store.
Carlos was renovating.
Yeah, he could have been
to that hardware store.
Silas and Maisy were talking
about painting the baby's room.
So maybe she was looking for paint.
Nina, you're with me.
Barnes, Ray, hit the hospital.
Interview employees.
Pull security footage.
Look for anyone paying special
attention to the victims.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Yeah.
She said she loved the lemonade.
I thought it was funny
because it's just a mix.
What lemonade?
It's my wife's thing.
I thought she was nuts.
People come to a hardware store
to buy hammers, not to eat popcorn.
But damned if she wasn't right.
- People love free stuff.
- People love free stuff.
Do you remember
if the woman had any popcorn?
She couldn't have.
Uh, I lent the machine out
to my church for a fundraiser.
Got it back this morning.
It definitely can't be airborne,
because people would be sick.
It's got to be that damn lemonade.
Is that the same jug from yesterday?
No, some kids knocked that one over.
When did parents decide
to stop parenting
and just let their children
run through stores?
You said it was a mix?
Yeah, I add the packet to the water jug.
Can you tell me what's going on?
Do you still have
the jug from yesterday?
Over here.
Well, that's the jug,
and the packet's in the can.
And no other water bottles around here?
No.
You see that puncture here?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
How many people would you say
had the lemonade yesterday?
I don't know.
We weren't open that long
before the peewee tackle
football game started
in the paint aisle.
I'll have ERT check the bottle.
And it was delivered from that company?
Yeah, Dazzling Water.
They deliver once a week on Wednesday.
Thank you.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Ah!
And one, dude.
What are you talking about?
Nobody even touched you.
Bro, you hacked me.
- I hacked you?
- Yeah.
John, be for real, bro.
- Nobody even touched you.
- You didn't start.
- I never touched you.
- [INDISTINCT ARGUING]
Bro, I can't sit out one game
without y'all arguing?
- Are you for real?
- Shut up.
You can't play a game in general.
[INDISTINCT ARGUING]
- [BELL RINGS]
- Thank you.
Dazzling Water's stopping all
of their trucks and deliveries.
What about the customers
they already delivered to?
Yes, they told them
not to drink their water,
and they're sending agents
to pick up the bottles now.
ERT is on the way. Barnes?
Hey, Remy.
The poison in the jugs was
delivered by Dazzling Water.
Do you get deliveries
from Dazzling Water?
- No.
- OK.
I just got a location for
the truck that delivered here.
- It's a couple miles away.
- Call you back.
It's possible
the person doing this likes
to watch the victim suffer.
You think they hacked into our cameras?
Well, we're checking into that,
though we believe that they may
have watched in person.
Are you saying they work here?
Can you think of anyone
who might have done this?
I can't believe there's someone on Earth
who'd force people to die
the way these people are dying,
let alone that it's someone here.
Yeah, well, they would have
to have expertise in poisons
know how much they use
to be fatal but not traceable.
They'd also have to be
involved with the patients.
We put together a poison response team
with toxicologists, pulmonologists,
and hepatologists.
How many people are on that team?
Eight or nine.
But if you're looking for people
who'd witness the effects,
how close are we talking?
There's staff in janitorial, admitting,
orderlies, food service.
All of them have access to the patients.
Would they know how to mix poisons?
Toxins are everywhere,
and poisons are
surprisingly easy to make.
And with the internet,
anyone can find anything.
Yeah, you're right.
How many patients went through the ER
when the victims came in?
Between yesterday and today?
We're looking at about
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
- Any cameras on your truck?
- I wish.
My wife doesn't believe half
the shenanigans I see out here.
Do the grates stay open during delivery?
No, I lock them after every stop.
It seems like that would slow you down.
It's company policy.
So if someone wanted to put something
in one of these bottles,
they'd need to do it
while you were standing here
or have a key to your truck.
Sometimes it gets hectic.
I'm double-parked.
I got to get out as fast as I can.
So you don't always lock them.
It's water, not nuclear missiles.
What are they gonna do?
Run away with a five-gallon jug
of water in their pocket?
Take a look at this.
Yep. I'm calling ERT.
You stay put, OK?
Great.
Marone.
Unbelievable.
Dr. Clay to Proctology.
Dr. Clay to Proctology.
Anyone with a grudge?
I've been a doctor for ten years,
and I've never seen this much anger.
Anger from who?
Patients, doctors, everyone.
All right, so anyone angry
enough to kill somebody?
If you'd asked me a year ago,
I'd say no way.
- But things are changing.
- Changing how?
Doctors can't get patients treatment
because the insurance won't cover it.
Patients are dying in the waiting room
because we don't have enough staff.
The wheels are coming off the bus.
All right, so do you think
that someone would
Help! I need some help over here.
- [GASPING]
- We need some help!
Hey, hey, hey, stay with me.
Stay with me, all right?
I need you to move.
Where's the last place you drank water?
Agent Cannon, I need to do my job
- And I need to do my job.
- Get a gurney.
[RETCHES]
Get the gurney over here.
We have a lead.
The bottle from the hardware store?
ERT couldn't find anything.
What about the basketball player?
His name was John,
and he didn't make it.
Neither did the other three.
We found the nexus, though.
They all played basketball
at Fletcher Park
and drank from the same cooler.
Do we know where the water came from?
His wife said he used tap water
to mix his powdered sports drink.
I got something.
Remember the jug
from the Dazzling Water truck?
The lab tested it,
and the poison inside it
is a liquid called dimethylnitrosamine,
a.k.a. DMN.
It's fatal after a few hours,
and there's no antidote.
Hey, Isobel.
What?
Send it to Ray.
Open your email.
Our unsub sent a letter
to Channel 61 News.
"Ten dead, more to come,
"unless you pay me
ten millions of dollars.
You have until 5:00 PM tomorrow."
Some kind of banking info.
"You morons will never find me.
Maybe this will make it interesting."
What will make it interesting?
[INTENSE MUSIC]
Looks like a code.
I cannot remember the last time
I saw you this focused.
Chances are I had a gun pointed at me.
- What?
- Nothing.
You just don't strike me
as a puzzle person.
I do solve puzzles for a living.
Yeah.
What's a puzzle person look like?
- My mom.
- Oh.
The lab have anything helpful?
They're still running it
through their computers.
So I went through the
Dazzling Water employees list.
Couple DUIs, parking tickets,
missed child support,
nothing that looks like our guy.
Yeah, it feels like
the poisoning at the park
takes it off the water company.
Let's shift gears
and focus on who has access
to the DMN poison.
What's going on?
Well, since the tap water is safe,
most likely, our unsub added
the DMN to the cooler
when the players were distracted.
There's a school
and an apartment building
at the edge of the park.
You know, chances of us
getting our unsub on video,
it's got to be better
than you solving that puzzle.
Oh, thanks for the vote of confidence.
These four basketball players who died,
this was a regular group?
There's about eight to ten of them
that play at the same time every day.
So it could have been targeted.
Well, I don't know.
I spoke to one of their regulars.
He wasn't there today,
but he said it's inconsistent
as to who shows up or how many.
The park feels like the hardware store,
spiking a bottle with no idea
where it's going.
They knew they were gonna kill people,
and they didn't care who.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Is the mayor seriously considering
putting up the ransom?
Officially, the city doesn't
negotiate with terrorists.
Unofficially, people are panicking.
♪
Hey, Jason.
What are you doing up so early?
Had a bad dream.
Was it the one where you're
getting out of the pool
and Ariana's watching
Dad, I'm serious.
All right, I'm sorry
you had a bad dream,
but everything's OK.
I gotta I gotta go to work.
Somebody's poisoning people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw that.
You know, if you're reading
the news, that's
that's probably why you had a bad dream.
He sent a cipher.
Is it you?
What? No.
Yesterday you talked about getting rich.
And you wouldn't let me drink
out of your water bottle.
You write all my lunch notes in ciphers.
You love them.
A lot of people like puzzles.
When Mom left, you told me she died.
But when I turned ten,
you took me to Joe's Pizza
and told me the truth,
that she left us.
Yeah, I did. So?
You said that it was
you and me from now on.
- And
- That you'd never leave me.
That you wouldn't lie to me again.
I know.
[STAMMERS] Come here, come here.
Sorry. You'll see.
Do not say anything to anyone.
Why are you doing it?
Because somebody had to.
Listen, you're too young to see it,
but the world is crumbling.
People are mean,
self-centered, entitled.
Bad guys win.
Good guys get screwed.
Last night, some guy blocked
the door in the subway,
and I missed my train.
That bitch at my work,
I do her job, and she got promoted.
Then you should quit.
And go where? Where am I gonna go?
No matter how hard you work,
how nice you try to be,
you get punched in the face.
Did those people who died hurt you?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
No.
But they're all part of the problem.
How does this fix things?
That's what I realized, kiddo.
It can't be fixed.
But if it's unavoidable
that we get screwed by the system,
they can at least buy us dinner.
♪
Right?
♪
You want to help?
Hmm?
Morning.
Guess I'm not the only one
who couldn't sleep last night.
How's that going?
Nothing's working.
Without the key, it's like
trying to read a book
- Thank you.
- Without knowing the language.
At least we're not
on a ticking clock, right?
See, if they just wanted
to poison people,
then why send the letter?
They're trying to prove
that they're smarter than us.
They think we can't crack the code.
But without the key, they would know
cracking the code would be impossible.
Which is why they sent the key.
It was here all along.
We've been working through
the school's video footage.
It's nothing but foot traffic.
- What about the apartment?
- I'm still looking.
The cameras are higher up,
so it's a wider view.
DMN poison?
Actually, I did some digging last night.
So DMN is mostly used in research labs
to give rats cancer.
It's also a byproduct
from manufacturing plants.
Any connection between the research lab
and St. Michaels?
No, the hospital doesn't have
any record of DMN.
[SIGHS]
Do you know where they got
the water for this coffee?
No.
I think I'll just have
something in a can.
Yeah.
Hold on, guys, I think I got something.
All right.
Check this guy out right here.
He's just staring
at the basketball court.
Could be just hanging out.
What makes you think it's our guy?
Yeah, well, hold on a second.
Right there.
It's a water bottle?
It's a perfect way to carry DMN.
Yeah, he never drinks from it.
Get over there. See what you can find.
Yeah.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
All right, so our guy
was standing right here.
OK, wait.
Him.
Maybe he would have seen our unsub?
- Yeah.
- Excuse me.
FBI, Agents Chase and Cannon.
Are you guys kidding me with this?
Kidding you with what?
You're gonna hassle me about a permit,
but the community center hired me.
Well, congrats. It's not about that.
Yesterday, did you see this guy
hanging out over there?
Oh.
Yeah.
He's been here a few times
watching the guys play.
Can you, uh, describe him to us?
Yeah.
Actually, I could do you
one better than that.
Would you know if the DMN was missing?
Even if it says
it's full on your computer,
could someone have tampered
with it, maybe replaced it
with something else?
OK, thanks.
I got it.
It's a columnar transposition cipher,
and you were right.
The key was in the original letter.
I thought "ten millions" was
a typo or a translation error,
but it's part of the key.
With acrostics, you either take
the first letter
or the last letter of each sentence,
then you put them together.
Once you know the key is five letters,
then you make five columns.
OK, Remy, you're great, but my mom's
the puzzle person, not me.
What does it say?
"I wear many hats, but none on my head.
The FBI tried to help,
but the players are dead."
Players as in basketball players
or players as in they were all involved?
"The FBI tried to help."
I'm thinking that it's got
to be the basketball players.
Well, Ray and I tried to help John.
Is he screwing with us, or was
he at the hospital watching?
Hey.
Remy, we've got a sketch of our guy.
Sketch?
Yeah, there was an artist
who was painting a mural nearby,
and he drew it for us.
Ray's sending it over now.
We're thinking he was
at the hospital yesterday.
Based on what?
We cracked the cipher.
It says, "I wear many hats,
but none on my head.
The FBI tried to help,
but the players are dead."
He was watching me and Barnes.
Getting pictures
of the visitors or patients
is gonna take forever.
Do we have access
to the hospital's HR files?
They let us in when we were
looking for staff
who might be familiar with poison.
Cross-check the sketch with hospital IDs
for everyone that was there yesterday
white male, early 40s.
- OK.
- [KEYBOARD CLACKING]
There's 32 hits
four administrators, seven doctors.
Yeah, but who wears many hats?
Doctor, that's specific. Janitor too.
Orderly?
What the hell does an orderly do?
What doesn't an orderly do?
Cormac McClure.
That's our freak. Track his phone.
It's off.
Ray, Nina, hit the hospital.
Barnes and I will take his house.
- All right.
- On it.
Is this his childhood room?
Yes.
You mind if we take a look around?
- No.
- Thank you.
When did he move back?
He never left.
Could the victims be people
he knew in his childhood?
I was a surgeon. I worked constantly.
Which is my way of saying,
I don't know my son.
It's possible,
but I wouldn't be surprised
if he picked them randomly.
He dislikes everyone.
He lives and breathes
a victim mentality.
Could you elaborate on that?
8 million people walking around outside,
and occasionally one bumps into another.
For Cormac, the trivial inconveniences
that every human endures are magnified.
He would take something
as innocuous as a bump personally.
Sounds like a lot of anger.
He assumes the worst in everyone,
and it's self-fulfilling.
He's rejected by women, apartments,
employers, friends, everyone.
And when you saw him yesterday,
did he say anything that, in retrospect,
strikes you as unusual?
- No.
- Grandpa?
That's his son Jason. In here.
Can you help me with
These are FBI agents.
They're looking for your father.
Why? Is he OK?
Did you talk to him today?
No.
I thought I heard you two this morning.
[TENSE MUSIC]
I haven't seen him since yesterday.
What happened?
I'll explain later.
What'd you need help with?
My biology project.
But it can wait.
No, no, no, you should do your work.
Come.
We'll be in the study if you need us.
♪
You believe that kid?
Not a word.
We have less than seven hours.
♪
Wait.
How big was the cooler in the park?
5 gallons, 20-something inches.
Why?
This says 12.
A 12-inch water cooler?
It's not inches. It's feet.
It's a water tower.
This crackpot is gonna dump poison
into a building somewhere.
Remy thinks he's gonna poison
a building's water tower.
He's gonna need a lot of DMN.
We need to stop him before he gets it.
Agents Cannon and Chase,
Cormac isn't scheduled
to work until tonight,
and his badge hasn't been used
since yesterday.
Anything in the reports about DMN?
No. I checked every department
and every purchase order.
We contract with labs,
and sometimes not everything
gets logged, so I wanted to make sure
it didn't slip through.
Well, this is a lot of chemicals.
I mean, could any of these
be used together to make DMN?
Yes.
Where do you keep them?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Let's see. He'd need
♪
What?
A bottle's missing.
Wait.
We're missing three bottles.
Mixing those together,
he'd have about a gallon of DMN.
And how many people could that kill?
Thousands.
Nope, nothing.
Cormac has no online presence
no social media,
no posts on message boards.
It's like this guy doesn't exist.
Well, that's not surprising.
He's completely disconnected
from people.
I wonder how much
his isolation contributed
to him hating the world.
[TABLET CHIMES]
What's that?
Went up on Jason's cell phone.
Jason's on the move.
♪
Ray and Nina just left St. Michaels.
They're about ten minutes out.
Where's Jason now?
He just turned onto Fifth Avenue.
♪
Yo, dude,
thanks for the heads-up on the FBI.
Dad.
Hey, wait, wait, wait, here.
Turn your phone off.
I got you this.
I don't want it.
I shouldn't have helped you
this morning.
Hey.
We're almost home free.
- [PHONE BEEPS]
- [SIGHS]
Can't we just leave
and start over someplace?
Wha we'd
we'd be walking away from $10 million.
Did they say they're gonna pay?
Not yet.
But if they don't, people die.
Either way, we win.
That's not right, Dad.
The FBI, they told me about your plan.
These these people,
they never hurt you.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, we're the real victims.
We are.
What's wrong?
Jason's cell signal just disappeared.
- What? Why?
- I don't know.
He could have gone into the subway
or maybe turned his phone off.
What was his last location?
We're doing something great here.
We're tilting
the scales of justice today.
It doesn't make it equal, OK?
You're just killing people.
OK.
It's OK.
I got it.
Someday you're gonna see the world,
not the way you wish it was,
but for the hard truth
of how it really is.
♪
I'm sorry.
I won't tell anyone, but
I can't do this.
Just just wait.
Hold on. Hold on.
Just hold on, man.
Um
take this.
Just take it.
When I get set up,
maybe you come meet me.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
We got him.
- Where's the kid?
- Can't wait.
[TIRES SQUEAL]
FBI! Stop!
♪
Show me your hands, Cormac!
[GUNSHOTS]
Dad!
♪
Where the hell is he?
Damn it.
Remy, we're about five minutes out.
You want us to cordon off the alley?
NYPD is handling.
We lost the kid.
There was no DMN in Cormac's bag.
It's possible Jason has it.
Are we thinking
Jason's gonna follow through
with his father's plan?
We have to consider it.
He and his dad were on foot,
so we think the building
they're gonna hit is nearby.
All right, well, we're on our way.
- Hey, hey, hey, watch it.
- Yeah, I see.
[HORN BLARES]
His dad said he was rejected
from a bunch of apartments.
Anything close?
Let me call him.
Not being able to move
out of his dad's place
was a huge blow.
It symbolized his ability
to become a successful adult.
Hello?
Dr. McClure, this is Agent Barnes.
Have you found my son?
We think Cormac might be trying
to target one of the apartment
buildings that rejected him.
Do you have any idea
which one that might be?
There were half a dozen.
Any of them in Midtown?
I can't remember.
Oh, hang on.
I have co-op application here.
- Hang on.
- Come on.
OK, 63 Cannery Avenue.
That's that's Midtown.
Now, is my son OK?
I have to call you back.
Have NYPD close down that street.
- You hear that?
- Cannery Avenue. We got it.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
This better be it.
Otherwise hundreds of people
are gonna die.
I'll find the super,
tell them to shut off the water.
Do it.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
♪
Remy, we're here.
Head to the roof.
♪
Don't move.
Don't come near me.
You killed my dad.
Slow down, son.
You don't want to kill a bunch
of innocent people, now.
My dad was right.
The world's unfair.
Everybody says if you do
the right thing, it'll be OK.
But it's not true.
You're right, Jason, it isn't fair.
But isn't the best way to fix it
by being a part of the good?
Look, you're only 13.
You have your whole life ahead of you.
The world's never gonna change.
It probably won't.
But it doesn't mean
you become part of the problem.
It doesn't matter.
Everything we do in life matters.
The choices you make matter.
So I'm gonna give you one right now.
Give me the bottle.
No.
It is over.
OK, we're trying to help you, kid.
But trust me, a life behind bars
is not something your dad
would have wanted for you.
No matter what happens, he loved you.
So I'm asking, please,
give me the bottle.
♪
It's gonna be all right.
- OK?
- [CRYING]
I know you're angry,
but it's gonna be all right, OK?
You're gonna be fine.
[SOBBING]
This is your friend
Blake's place, isn't it?
- Yep.
- Huh.
I think we might be
a little early for drinks.
Well, actually
You know, I don't
I don't think he would love you,
like, walking around
like you own the place, hon.
Except I do.
[BANGING]
There we go.
[THE WAR AND TREATY'S
"THAT'S HOW LOVE IS MADE"]
I mean, I technically
don't own the place,
but he needed an investor.
I know it's not much to look at,
but use your imagination.
See it for what it could be.
Um
I'm thinking a bank of TVs over there,
dartboard and pool table.
- No.
- Oh. [LAUGHS]
No, it's terrible.
That's a terrible idea.
No, no, you need to lean
into the original fixtures.
I mean, look at this ceiling.
I think this is a real stamped copper.
Mm-hmm.
[LAUGHS]
What are you smiling at?
I knew you would be into it.
I just knew.
What if we do it together,
renovate and make a big splash?
- Like Francesca and Claudio?
- Mm.
- Mm-hmm.
- Exactly.
OK.
It's very audacious,
but, I mean, you know, this
I think this is real mahogany,
and if you refinished it,
it would be really quite beautiful.
Mm-hmm.
And there's a stained glass
window back there,
somewhere, under all of that stuff.
BOTH: 'Cause that ain't how
love is made ♪
I want all or nothing ♪
Oh, gotta give
to get something ♪
That's what it takes ♪
BOTH: That's how love ♪
I love it here. I really do.
BOTH: That's how love is made ♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]