FBI (2018) s07e07 Episode Script
Monumental
1
Hey, everybody, meet me by the tree.
Let's meet me by the tree.
All right.
OK. All good? OK.
Right here is my favorite
tree in the whole grove.
This red oak is over 300 years old.
Yeah, write that down.
That's older than our country, right?
This tree was just an acorn
for over 40 years
before George Washington was even born.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
And now it's home to a variety
of birds and bugs
that live up in the beautiful canopy.
Everybody look up.
Look up at the beautiful canopy.
♪
Uh, you know what?
OK, everyone, let's go and see
if we can find those sheep.
Yeah, they do important work,
eating invasive species.
Ranger Cole to Base.
I'm reporting suspicious man
in the Hammock Grove area.
Yeah, he was in a mask.
Same as the guy the other day.
Well, maybe it was the same guy.
Oh, what do you think I did?
Got the kids away from him.
I called it in,
but they couldn't find him.
[CHUCKLES] Coward.
Didn't even show his face.
Yeah, anyway, I'll see you at the bar.
- OK.
- [GUN CLICKS]
[GUNSHOT]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
Hey, Isobel.
Hey.
So, look, you were right.
I was, uh, I was out of line.
Listen, you are needed,
and I don't want to ever be
in that position again.
- Yeah, well, it's
- [PHONE BUZZES]
It's nice to be back.
A park ranger on Governors
Island was shot and killed.
I'll send a team.
- Yeah, hey, Jubal.
- Yeah.
It's good to have you back.
Investigative Services Branch
does not catch a lot of homicides.
She ran children's programs,
for Pete's sake.
Her name was Desiree Cole.
She was stationed here
on Governors Island,
plus Greenwich National Monument.
You mean the monument at Greenwich Inn?
That's right, commemorating
the gay rights movement.
Mm-hmm.
She was supposed to meet
her friend after work.
Never showed.
Visitors found her body
early this morning.
- Any witnesses?
- None.
She did call in a suspicious
individual wearing a mask
while she was on a youth hike.
She say what kind of mask?
She said it looked like a snake.
Single gunshot wound to the neck,
shell casings found on
the leaves, 9 millimeter.
Ground looks disturbed here.
Killer must have been set up
for a while watching her.
Meaning this was premeditated.
Assuming there's no camera coverage.
Afraid not, 10 acres of trees.
Any other day, I'd say that's
the beauty of this place.
You find her like this?
It's her uniform jacket.
Killer must've covered her face.
♪
Any idea why they'd do that?
Shame.
Regret, reverence.
Any of her personal belongings missing?
No.
Wallet, phone, cash, all here.
So it wasn't a robbery.
Looks like this might be personal,
or a hate crime.
All right, folks, we have
a member of the extended team,
a National Park Service Ranger
who was murdered on Governors Island.
Desiree Cole was 30 years old.
So we have a suspect with a mask.
We have a 9-millimeter bullet.
What else?
We're scrubbing NYC ferry cam,
still waiting on private
ferry lane footage.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fingers crossed on that.
Now, this was not a robbery, right?
So if it was personal,
means we got to get personal,
get to know Desiree a bit.
Does she have any debts, any enemies?
Well, credit history is clean.
No debts on the books, anyways.
No obvious enemies at work.
Performance reviews were positive.
Well, not so in her personal life.
There's a litany of angry posts
on her social media about
an ex-girlfriend, Drew Ambrie.
Looks like a messy break-up.
Drew Ambrie, bartender
at the Greenwich Inn.
She and Desiree shared an
address up until last February.
Desiree kicked her out,
posted, "Pro tip and simple life advice,
don't try to live with your ex."
So a possible crime of passion.
Does Ms. Drew Ambrie have a record?
Misdemeanor assault in Indiana, 2015.
She's got a gun license.
It's for a 9-millimeter.
Same caliber as our murder weapon?
Get her new address
over to Maggie and OA.
Why would I kill Des?
When I left Indiana, she took me in.
She was my family.
We saw the text that you
sent her after you moved out.
It was a bad break-up.
She cheated on you,
and you threatened her, no?
We moved on and became friends.
OK, well, this is the same caliber
weapon used to kill your friend.
My dad sent me that to protect me.
It is so stupid,
and I would never actually use it.
And the assault, 2015?
It was a fight with my dad.
The neighbors called the cops.
I was a kid.
Are you guys kidding?
I can't believe this. [EXHALES SHARPLY]
♪
Where are you from in Indiana?
I'm a fellow Hoosier from Muncie.
Cool.
I've never been.
It's kind of all the same there.
♪
It's just my dad.
What's this?
Special Agent Bell.
This is Special Agent Zidan.
The FBI?
Is that is that my daughter's gun?
- Do you have a warrant for that?
- Dad, it' fine.
It's about Desiree, my ex-girlfriend.
Somebody shot her.
Somebody killed her.
My daughter would never hurt anyone.
Would you mind waiting
in the other room for us?
- This is ridiculous.
- Dad, it's fine.
Just leave the stuff in the kitchen.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
I'm here if you need me.
♪
Desiree have any issues with anyone?
D was a lot.
People either loved her or hated her.
You know? Loud.
I'd rather, like, fly
under the radar, you know?
But not D.
There's comfort in passing.
I know what it's like to be
targeted for who you are.
♪
All right, folks,
where are we at with ballistics?
Yeah, they just ruled out
Drew Ambrie's gun.
Her alibi checks out too.
Friends confirmed she was out all night.
But she did give up information
about Desiree's online life.
Check this out.
A handle Desiree used to
fight online hatred comments.
Yeah, never backed down
from a fight, right?
She really didn't.
She was beefing with one
commenter in particular,
username ScrollLord.
They go back and forth
until he flat out writes,
"Somebody ought to put a bullet in you."
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, can we ID this guy?
Yeah, got him.
Name is Brandon Halford,
Pennsylvania-based orthodontist.
No record, but looks like
a very, very active
social media where he broadcasts hatred
against any number of minorities.
All right, so he was feuding
with the victim online.
He said someone should
put a bullet in her.
So where is this guy now?
GPS has his vehicle on West 11th Street
outside number 43.
Engine's been idling for about an hour.
Really? I wonder what he's up to.
Jubal, 43 West 11th
is owned by the director
of the Greenwich National Monument.
That that's where Desiree Cole,
our park ranger, worked.
We could have another shooting
on our hands.
NYPD, let's get some units
over there right now.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
We're too late.
Brandon Halford's already in there.
Are you sure it's him?
Well, witness said
he saw a man with a snake mask
lock himself in there
about 20 minutes ago.
- Seems like our guy.
- Is he armed?
Well, he says he is.
What's his state of mind?
Hostile with a side of shouting.
NYPD deployed a throw phone,
but he won't use it.
- Hostages?
- Unknown.
And NYPD doesn't believe so,
and the homeowner lives alone.
All right, that means we have time
to try to negotiate him out.
We're swapping out NYPD's
assault team with FBI SWAT.
They should be in place shortly.
OK.
Hold on the entry, but make
sure the perimeter is still locked.
Let's go.
♪
Brandon, this is the FBI.
We understand you're inside.
We just need to talk.
The NYPD gave you a phone.
If you could pick that up
[PHONE RINGING]
That was quick.
Thanks.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
This is Special Agent Maggie Bell.
- You're the FBI?
- I am.
Who am I speaking with?
You should know
there are children in here.
OK, he's got hostages.
Prep the team for entry.
Brandon, where are the children now?
It's too late for them.
That's a threat. We gotta go now.
♪
- FBI!
- Federal agents!
♪
Where are the kids?
Why don't you tell me?
♪
You said there were kids in here.
There are no kids down here.
♪
This place is empty.
Where are the kids?
I don't consent
to being videotaped.
I don't answer questions.
Can we can we mute him, please?
Yeah.
So we know Brandon Halford
was bashing our victim online.
We just pulled him out
of her boss's house.
So what else do we know about him?
Well, a lot.
We think that he's hunting
employees of the Greenwich
- National Monument.
- What? What do you mean?
Two nights ago, a security
guard from the Monument Museum
was shot and killed outside
of his home in New Jersey.
Clarence Myron, married,
two kids, former Army Ranger.
And our park ranger, Desiree Cole,
was also assigned
to work at that monument.
So that's two employees
for the same national monument
murdered in two days.
And there's one more connection.
Our security guard,
Clarence Myron, his husband
reported someone in a strange
mask fleeing the scene.
Dollars to donuts, it's
the same image, the snake logo.
So we've got two murders, one break-in.
Let's talk about motive.
This this monument is like
a gay rights landmark, right,
like Stonewall, across from
the oldest gay bar in the city.
So he's fixated on this location.
So it's possible it's a hate crime,
but we don't know that for sure.
Let's make sure Maggie and OA
are updated before they interview him.
[TENSE MUSIC]
I don't recognize your authority.
Desiree Cole, murdered
yesterday at Governor's Island;
Clarence Myron, ambushed
and murdered two nights ago;
then today's home invasion.
You are targeting people affiliated with
the Greenwich National Monument. Why?
I don't recognize your authority.
You don't have to believe
in gravity either.
But the ground is going
to have an opinion.
[SCOFFS]
What about the townhouse?
You said there were kids in there.
They must have moved them
before I got there.
Who who moved them?
Are you guys even
looking for the children?
The house was empty.
Brandon, there are no kids.
None of this makes any sense.
This is clearly you trying
to break into the monument.
Clarence Myron caught you,
and he kicked you out.
- Video can be deepfaked.
- He was at work.
You followed him and killed him,
just like Desiree.
You have no idea
who these people really are.
I mean, they're sickos, perverts.
You're looking at a double homicide.
You might want to stop
disparaging your victims.
The truth is online.
It's on the forums,
message boards, everywhere.
Calvin showed us all.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Who is Calvin?
♪
Calvin is an anonymous
online conspiracy theorist.
Think Q, but somehow more extreme.
He's on the Bureau's radar, claims to be
a high-level FBI official with
access to top secret information.
Wow. This
this guy thinks Calvin is the real deal?
Not just him.
Millions of other followers do too.
Calvin posts mysterious drops online,
and then they decode them.
It's like a puzzle, a community.
What, for the angry
and isolated, I would assume?
What's this ad that keeps showing up
at the top of every page?
"The Path"?
7 million strong
and still counting.
That's how many Warriors
we have marching
shoulder to shoulder with Calvin,
knocking down the door
on these deep state bastards
wherever they hide.
I'm Duke Ducoyle,
and this is "The Path."
Jed "Duke" Ducoyle is
an extremist pundit
with millions of followers, charismatic,
the loudest voice in the room.
And if you believe the rumors,
he's Calvin.
Duke built his brand
decoding Calvin's drops
and selling his merch
to his followers online,
hence the snake mask
that our suspect was wearing.
$49.99 plus shipping and handling.
So so basically,
Duke targeted our victims
and sicced his followers on them.
One of them was loyal enough
to murders on his behalf.
OK, so walk me through it.
How does it work?
So last week, Calvin posted,
"Child sex trafficking is monumental."
All caps. Duke decoded it.
He said that the National Park Service
is a front for
a child sex trafficking ring,
being run out of the Greenwich Inn.
So Calvin posts five words.
Duke decodes it, and then Brendan
kills two innocent New Yorkers.
His followers have always been rabid.
They usually keep their activity online,
but something's changed this week.
Duke's rhetoric has become
far more aggressive,
specifically about the Park Service.
He is local.
His studio is over in Staten Island.
So he's directing people
to kill in the real world.
Let's bring him in.
Mr. Ducoyle, thank you for coming in.
Everybody calls me Duke.
You posted this photo
on a Calvin message board.
That's Park Ranger Desiree Cole
taking a group of kids on a tour.
And you wrote,
"Where is she taking them?"
I post a lot of photos.
This one puts you
on the hook for solicitation
to commit a crime of violence.
Good luck to the man
who has to argue that in court.
You see, Calvin posted all the intel.
Calvin? Really?
He's the ultimate insider.
You know this conversation would go
a lot smoother if you would
just admit that you are Calvin.
I couldn't begin to fill Calvin's shoes,
but I do contribute to the conversation.
Let's pretend that
Calvin is a real person.
You turned five of his words
into a lethal conspiracy theory.
Can you prove that Desiree Cole
wasn't trafficking kids?
Because she's just one
of many sexual deviants
they have burrowed into that agency.
Agency?
The National Pride Service.
Clarence Myron, a security guard
for the Greenwich National Monument,
murdered, a hate crime.
The perpetrator was wearing
a mask you sold him.
An army of law-abiding citizens
spent their hard-earned cash
on my website.
You need to tell them to stand down
before anybody else gets hurt.
- They listen to you.
- They listen to Calvin,
whoever he really is.
The only way to stop this
is to admit the truth.
Enlighten me. What is the truth?
That you can't prove
kids aren't being trafficked
through the National Park Service.
I don't have to prove it.
If that was happening,
we would round up everybody involved.
But you and I both know that you are
making it up to sell your crap.
Then get prepared,
'cause a war is coming,
and Calvin's ready to fight.
Are you?
♪
Why now?
Why come into our house
and make a threat like that?
Oh, he is being sued for defamation
for spreading false rumors
about a plane crash in Montana,
so he's broke, probably needs the press.
Maybe, which also means he's desperate,
and he will slip up, and when he does,
we will prove he's Calvin
and use that leverage
to get him offline.
So he gave you a choice, right?
Admit his harebrained theory
has merit or what?
He's obsessed with Park Service.
They have offices in this building.
I'm going to alert the FBI police.
Can we get an injunction,
keep him from posting?
I'm already into it with the AUSA.
The First Amendment
is not our friend here.
More people are gonna get hurt.
I will handle Duke.
Here are your marching orders.
You solve those murders,
I will drop those cases
on his head and shut him down.
If he thinks
Hey, we have a situation.
- What? where?
- Here.
Out front.
[CROWD CHANTING, SHOUTING]
FBI lie! The FBI lie!
The FBI lie! The FBI lie!
They just started showing up.
More on foot coming from
Lafayette and Broadway.
[CROWD CHANTING, SHOUTING]
The FBI lie! The FBI lie!
Calvin sent them.
Well, there is no Calvin.
It's just Duke.
He's making good on his threat.
He thinks he can intimidate the FBI.
♪
Yeah, well, good luck with that.
[CROWD CHANTING, SHOUTING]
The FBI lies! The FBI lies!
The FBI lies!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TENSE MUSIC]
- So Calvin is Duke.
- Duke is Calvin.
We just can't prove it yet.
He called his followers
to assemble here,
which they have a legal right to do,
though, I don't think
the Founding Fathers
were picturing this.
All right, Isobel's working
to shut Duke down.
Let's let's focus on our suspect.
- Jubal?
- Yeah, what?
Good news, bad news.
Ballistics connected the two murders.
The bullets found in both bodies
were fired by the same gun.
Bad news, it's not
Brandon Halford's gun.
♪
All right, so if Brandon
is not our killer
Yeah, could be any
one of these Calvinites.
We're calling them Calvinites now?
Hm, he is.
♪
I don't recognize your authority.
Thank you. We heard.
Um, we're currently putting
together a list of accomplices, OK?
These are people that we think
might have helped you
to commit these murders.
What accomplices? I'm my own man.
Oh, I doubt that.
How would you know?
Oh, she just she knows. Trust me.
You were following orders, right?
Duke's orders?
He named the targets.
No, I cracked the code myself.
You know, you don't have to do this.
Why are you protecting Duke?
He led you to do what you did.
You don't get it.
He's not in control.
No one is.
What's going to happen,
it's already written.
What the hell are you talking about?
Everybody plays their part,
even you guys.
You just don't know it.
But you can't stop us.
We are going to save these children.
♪
You're saying more violence is coming?
♪
It's in the drops.
♪
The threat is coming from within
more often than without.
What is that old horror movie?
"The the call is coming
from inside the house."
Calvin has nailed this.
The call is coming from
inside your own house, people.
I don't even know
what clue to look for here.
I mean, how anyone falls
for this stuff is beyond me.
Well, he gives them something
they desperately need.
OK. What do you think that is?
Community.
Brandon Halford said whatever
is going to happen next
is in the drops.
Five days ago, Calvin dropped this.
"40 demands of the Marked One.
For the kids below Greenwich."
OK, now, what does that even mean?
That's what his followers
have been asking too.
A couple days ago, this dropped.
It's a series of numbers,
a mathematical equation.
Oh, an equation, huh?
Let me guess. You solved that one?
Today's date.
This afternoon.
OK.
Um, so what are we supposed to do here?
See, if we can just get
the internet turned off?
Is that a thing?
Who was the 40th president
of the United States?
I think we know where they're going.
What, Calvin's followers? Talk to me.
I just sent you a Calvin drop.
OK.
Uh, OK, "40 demands of the Marked One.
For the kids below Greenwich."
That's Greenwich National Monument.
"40 demands of the Marked One"
is Reagan, the 40th president,
to Mikhail Gorbachev.
Referring to Reagan's speech
in Berlin in 1987.
What, "Tear down this wall"?
Calvin has named the target.
He's inciting them to tear it down.
It's an attack.
When?
Today, 3:20 p.m.
Then we'll be there first.
Listen up, folks, NYPD,
we have an imminent threat at
the Greenwich National Monument.
Go.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
They're already here.
Everybody get back.
Stand down.
This is an unlawful gathering.
- You need to disband
- Tear it down!
- Right now.
- Tear it down!
Get back! Get back!
This isn't going to end peacefully.
Guys, I am not liking our numbers here.
Hey, you're going to need more units.
All right, there's at least 200 people
coming up from Lower Manhattan.
- Tear it down!
- Tear it down!
Tear it down!
Keep your eyes up and
just give them space.
Tear it down!
Back off. Stay back.
Tear it down!
We have proof they're in there.
Back off.
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey!
Hey, no!
Gun.
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Hey, hey, hey, guys, calm down.
Please, get back. Get back.
♪
Hey!
- Come on, come on.
- FBI, stop!
♪
FBI! Stop!
♪
[TIRES SCREECH]
♪
Oh! Oh, my God!
♪
Wha [GRUNTS]
♪
Split.
♪
Whoa, whoa!
[GRUNTS]
Don't move.
Phil Ambrie?
Phil Ambrie, you're under arrest,
for assaulting a federal agent.
♪
You and 200 others
were trying to bust into
the basement of Greenwich Inn
to stop child sex traffickers.
Do I have that right?
Well, someone has to save the children.
Tell me, Ricky,
do you really believe that
there are kids being held
hostage in the basement
of a national monument?
Do you reject reality?
Come on, man, we've we've
already been through this.
You know what?
The truth will blow your mind.
You commented on a photo of Desiree
Cole the day before she was shot.
You said you can find her
because you knew who she was.
She was your daughter's ex-girlfriend.
It's not a crime to post online.
No, it is not, but it is a crime
to bring a gun to an unlawful assembly.
So please tell me, were you
planning on killing someone else?
It's my Second Amendment right.
We are going to connect you
to these crimes.
So if you're innocent,
you better tell me now.
Because someone is
going down for murder.
Do you understand?
I don't recognize your authority.
I don't recognize your authority.
I don't recognize your authority.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Tell me we have something
more on our suspect.
The ME report indicates that our suspect
fought with Clarence Myron. Makes sense.
Myron was a Army Ranger.
Yeah, defensive wounds on his body
show signs of an intense struggle.
So our killer may be bruised.
Yeah, we just searched
Brandon Halford no bruises on him.
Ricky Del Rio, the guy who brought a gun
to the monument, is next to be examined.
And Maggie and OA are still
working on Phil Ambrie,
the guy with the personal
connection via his daughter.
What about Duke?
He's leaving as we speak,
not cooperating.
We know that he played a role
in inciting these murders,
but we don't have enough
probable cause to arrest him.
Well, we'll just have to find the killer
and get him to name Duke
as the guy who sent him,
just like any other conspiracy case.
- Boss?
- Yeah?
We've got something.
Combing through
the thousands of comments
on Duke's 8chan page, there was one user
who posted "mission accomplished"
yesterday just after 4:00 p.m.
The username matches Phil Ambrie's.
Really?
That lines up with
the ME's estimated time
of death for Desiree Cole.
Could be our connection
between Duke and the killer.
Mission accomplished.
Not yet.
♪
Mr. Ducoyle.
Duke.
I'm going to have to ask you
to stick around.
I can't. I really enjoyed
our conversation though.
That was not a request.
It's called investigative detention.
- You can't.
- I can.
We have reason to believe
you've been in contact
with the suspect responsible
for killing Desiree Cole
and Clarence Myron.
Everybody knows you need cash fast.
I'm doing fine.
You've been ordered
to pay victims' families
for spreading false rumors
about a plane crash in Montana.
They never proved what I said was false.
But it was defamatory.
You are broke,
looking to pump up your brand.
So you drop these clues
and spread violence.
For what?
To make a buck, for attention?
You want to be famous?
You are about to be,
but not like you planned it.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Hey.
♪
My dad's alibi?
Why?
He said he was with you
between 4:00 and 10:00 p.m. yesterday.
Is that true?
Do you think he killed Desiree? No.
Drew, do you know
his whereabouts yesterday?
Uh, he went out.
He didn't come back till late,
said he was with friends.
I I was surprised
he had friends in New York.
- Did he say who?
- No.
- Has his behavior changed recently?
- I don't know!
I moved out as soon as I could.
I haven't spoken to him in years.
I do know that he took it
pretty hard when my mom died.
He got fired, lost the house.
Well, that sounds like
that'd be tough on him.
So what?
He lost his wife. I lost my mom,
and I still figured it out.
I found a community of love and support,
and I chose to grow.
And he chose fear.
♪
You really think he did this?
You killed Desiree Cole, Phil.
I don't recognize your authority.
Please stop with that.
Your daughter has refuted your alibi.
I just need to know where the gun is,
the gun you used to kill
Desiree and the Army Ranger.
Army Ranger?
Calvin didn't tell you
that part, did he?
You killed a vet,
Sergeant Clarence Myron,
Third Ranger Battalion,
two tours in Afghanistan.
He was a patriot.
No.
- You don't know.
- I do know.
No, he was a trafficker and a pedophile.
I would never kill a vet,
and Calvin would never
put a target on a vet's back.
What about Duke, hmm?
You think Duke would do it
if he could make an extra buck?
I don't answer questions.
That's OK.
This is a warrant for us to
examine your body for bruises.
Our evidence response team
will be in shortly.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
He can't outrun the evidence.
He's the only suspect with bruises.
He murdered them both.
Yeah, but even if Phil fired the gun,
it was Calvin who put it in his hand.
But if there is no Calvin,
then this is on Duke, right?
We have our marching orders from Isobel.
We have our shooter.
Now we just have to prove
Duke drove him to kill them.
Yeah.
We can't hold Duke for long.
We need to implicate him and fast.
So how do we get Phil's fever to break.
By showing that everything
Duke's claiming is a lie,
so he rolls on his hero.
Conspiracists tend to possess
a positive schizotypy
that leaves them open
to misinformation and delusion.
Phil believes because it's who he is.
We can't just destroy that.
So we replace it with
something he cares about more.
Or someone.
I don't know if I can do this.
I haven't had a real conversation
with my dad in, like, five years.
OK, I'm not asking you to make amends.
I just want you to get justice
for your friends, OK?
I don't even know what I'm going to say.
It'll come to you.
Just remember everything
we talked about,
and I'm going to be right here.
You still think this is a long shot?
Shame is a powerful emotion.
He can't feel judged
if this is going to work.
I just feel for her, you know,
having to look her dad
in the eye after what he did.
[SIGHS]
- Why are we here?
- For the truth.
I've worked human trafficking
cases before.
It's an awful crime
that we need to confront
head on without hesitation. OK?
Why did you bring her here?
It's where I work, Dad.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
It's where I met Desiree.
This place is depraved.
They do evil things here.
It's just a bar.
You don't understand.
♪
I know this wasn't your fault
and that you needed
you were confused.
[EXHALES SHARPLY] [CLEARS THROAT]
Phil, we need your help.
If it's true that the children are here,
can you show us where?
I need to see the basement.
OK.
♪
Let's go.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
I don't
I don't understand.
This is not possible.
There were never any kids here, Dad.
I I need to go back upstairs.
They moved the kids.
From where, Dad?
Where would they keep kids in here?
- Honey.
- I'm your daughter.
Why don't you believe me?
I think you've been
living here too long,
so you just don't see clearly.
When I saw that
you started working here,
I saw that security guard.
He was grooming you.
That's not what was happening.
And it's not only that.
Calvin, he proved
that your park ranger friend
is a pedophile.
I wasn't going to let her hurt you.
I I loved her, Dad.
You you said this place is evil.
You said it's depraved.
Is that is that what you think of me?
No, of course, not, honey.
I love you.
My friends, they were
no different from me, OK?
They had people who loved them too.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
And we know that the only
reason you attacked them
is because Duke told
his followers to do so.
♪
[GASPS]
♪
Yeah.
Yeah, he wasn't going to leave anything
that important to chance, was he?
What are you saying, Phil?
He just he trusted that
I could get the job done.
That's why he reached out to me,
because he knew I wasn't a coward.
But now can you see that he was wrong?
I just
♪
He's never been wrong before, and I
♪
None of it was real, Dad.
My friends were.
♪
Oh, no. No, no, no.
We have to go.
- We need to go right now.
- Hold on, hold on.
- No.
- What?
No, no, no.
We I there was a plan
that we were going to
come into this building, no matter what.
And I need to call it off.
- I I just need to tell him.
- Tell who?
Kyle, my friend. I met him online.
- I don't know what his name is.
- OK, Phil.
[GUNSHOTS, GLASS SHATTERING]
Get down, get down, get down, get down!
He's here.
- [SCREAMS]
- [SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Active shooter is 50 yards
from the front door.
OK, you stay here. I'll go.
[GUNSHOTS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Go, go, go.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[GUNSHOTS]
I'm here. Talk to me.
[GRUNTS]
Lone shooter. Gray sedan.
[GUNSHOTS]
Come on.
Copy that.
♪
- Calvin knows the truth.
- Cover me.
- Covering!
- [GUNSHOTS]
♪
Hey!
♪
Shooter's down, Maggie.
Shooter's down.
It's over.
I'm so sorry.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I think I'll be moving on.
Fourth Amendment and all.
You're not going anywhere.
Fourth Amendment, lady,
protects against undue detention.
But provides just enough time
to find probable cause.
What probable cause?
Jed Ducoyle, you are under arrest
for solicitation to incite
a crime of violence.
How?
One of your followers
said the magic words.
They were obeying your orders
even sent us your text messages.
People are dead because of you.
The jury will understand that.
I have very good lawyers.
You'll need them.
Hate crime statutes apply. That's life.
I'll be out by the end of the day.
On bond, maybe, the terms of which
I will make sure
bar you from the internet.
You will lose more followers,
especially now
that you are exposed
for exactly who you are.
No, because I give them
something that you can't,
that the government can't,
not anymore
something to believe in.
You know what I believe?
This is a grift
all of it, a big grift.
Do I believe children are
being held in the basement
of some gay national monument? No.
No rational person would.
But Calvin does, and that works for me.
Not anymore.
You've accomplished nothing
by arresting me today.
♪
Be safe, Agent Castille.
Is that a threat?
Just good advice, is all.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
You OK, lady?
- Yeah.
- Did you see a ghost?
No, no.
I'm I'm good.
Thank you.
Have a good night.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]
Hey, everybody, meet me by the tree.
Let's meet me by the tree.
All right.
OK. All good? OK.
Right here is my favorite
tree in the whole grove.
This red oak is over 300 years old.
Yeah, write that down.
That's older than our country, right?
This tree was just an acorn
for over 40 years
before George Washington was even born.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
And now it's home to a variety
of birds and bugs
that live up in the beautiful canopy.
Everybody look up.
Look up at the beautiful canopy.
♪
Uh, you know what?
OK, everyone, let's go and see
if we can find those sheep.
Yeah, they do important work,
eating invasive species.
Ranger Cole to Base.
I'm reporting suspicious man
in the Hammock Grove area.
Yeah, he was in a mask.
Same as the guy the other day.
Well, maybe it was the same guy.
Oh, what do you think I did?
Got the kids away from him.
I called it in,
but they couldn't find him.
[CHUCKLES] Coward.
Didn't even show his face.
Yeah, anyway, I'll see you at the bar.
- OK.
- [GUN CLICKS]
[GUNSHOT]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
Hey, Isobel.
Hey.
So, look, you were right.
I was, uh, I was out of line.
Listen, you are needed,
and I don't want to ever be
in that position again.
- Yeah, well, it's
- [PHONE BUZZES]
It's nice to be back.
A park ranger on Governors
Island was shot and killed.
I'll send a team.
- Yeah, hey, Jubal.
- Yeah.
It's good to have you back.
Investigative Services Branch
does not catch a lot of homicides.
She ran children's programs,
for Pete's sake.
Her name was Desiree Cole.
She was stationed here
on Governors Island,
plus Greenwich National Monument.
You mean the monument at Greenwich Inn?
That's right, commemorating
the gay rights movement.
Mm-hmm.
She was supposed to meet
her friend after work.
Never showed.
Visitors found her body
early this morning.
- Any witnesses?
- None.
She did call in a suspicious
individual wearing a mask
while she was on a youth hike.
She say what kind of mask?
She said it looked like a snake.
Single gunshot wound to the neck,
shell casings found on
the leaves, 9 millimeter.
Ground looks disturbed here.
Killer must have been set up
for a while watching her.
Meaning this was premeditated.
Assuming there's no camera coverage.
Afraid not, 10 acres of trees.
Any other day, I'd say that's
the beauty of this place.
You find her like this?
It's her uniform jacket.
Killer must've covered her face.
♪
Any idea why they'd do that?
Shame.
Regret, reverence.
Any of her personal belongings missing?
No.
Wallet, phone, cash, all here.
So it wasn't a robbery.
Looks like this might be personal,
or a hate crime.
All right, folks, we have
a member of the extended team,
a National Park Service Ranger
who was murdered on Governors Island.
Desiree Cole was 30 years old.
So we have a suspect with a mask.
We have a 9-millimeter bullet.
What else?
We're scrubbing NYC ferry cam,
still waiting on private
ferry lane footage.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fingers crossed on that.
Now, this was not a robbery, right?
So if it was personal,
means we got to get personal,
get to know Desiree a bit.
Does she have any debts, any enemies?
Well, credit history is clean.
No debts on the books, anyways.
No obvious enemies at work.
Performance reviews were positive.
Well, not so in her personal life.
There's a litany of angry posts
on her social media about
an ex-girlfriend, Drew Ambrie.
Looks like a messy break-up.
Drew Ambrie, bartender
at the Greenwich Inn.
She and Desiree shared an
address up until last February.
Desiree kicked her out,
posted, "Pro tip and simple life advice,
don't try to live with your ex."
So a possible crime of passion.
Does Ms. Drew Ambrie have a record?
Misdemeanor assault in Indiana, 2015.
She's got a gun license.
It's for a 9-millimeter.
Same caliber as our murder weapon?
Get her new address
over to Maggie and OA.
Why would I kill Des?
When I left Indiana, she took me in.
She was my family.
We saw the text that you
sent her after you moved out.
It was a bad break-up.
She cheated on you,
and you threatened her, no?
We moved on and became friends.
OK, well, this is the same caliber
weapon used to kill your friend.
My dad sent me that to protect me.
It is so stupid,
and I would never actually use it.
And the assault, 2015?
It was a fight with my dad.
The neighbors called the cops.
I was a kid.
Are you guys kidding?
I can't believe this. [EXHALES SHARPLY]
♪
Where are you from in Indiana?
I'm a fellow Hoosier from Muncie.
Cool.
I've never been.
It's kind of all the same there.
♪
It's just my dad.
What's this?
Special Agent Bell.
This is Special Agent Zidan.
The FBI?
Is that is that my daughter's gun?
- Do you have a warrant for that?
- Dad, it' fine.
It's about Desiree, my ex-girlfriend.
Somebody shot her.
Somebody killed her.
My daughter would never hurt anyone.
Would you mind waiting
in the other room for us?
- This is ridiculous.
- Dad, it's fine.
Just leave the stuff in the kitchen.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
I'm here if you need me.
♪
Desiree have any issues with anyone?
D was a lot.
People either loved her or hated her.
You know? Loud.
I'd rather, like, fly
under the radar, you know?
But not D.
There's comfort in passing.
I know what it's like to be
targeted for who you are.
♪
All right, folks,
where are we at with ballistics?
Yeah, they just ruled out
Drew Ambrie's gun.
Her alibi checks out too.
Friends confirmed she was out all night.
But she did give up information
about Desiree's online life.
Check this out.
A handle Desiree used to
fight online hatred comments.
Yeah, never backed down
from a fight, right?
She really didn't.
She was beefing with one
commenter in particular,
username ScrollLord.
They go back and forth
until he flat out writes,
"Somebody ought to put a bullet in you."
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, can we ID this guy?
Yeah, got him.
Name is Brandon Halford,
Pennsylvania-based orthodontist.
No record, but looks like
a very, very active
social media where he broadcasts hatred
against any number of minorities.
All right, so he was feuding
with the victim online.
He said someone should
put a bullet in her.
So where is this guy now?
GPS has his vehicle on West 11th Street
outside number 43.
Engine's been idling for about an hour.
Really? I wonder what he's up to.
Jubal, 43 West 11th
is owned by the director
of the Greenwich National Monument.
That that's where Desiree Cole,
our park ranger, worked.
We could have another shooting
on our hands.
NYPD, let's get some units
over there right now.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
We're too late.
Brandon Halford's already in there.
Are you sure it's him?
Well, witness said
he saw a man with a snake mask
lock himself in there
about 20 minutes ago.
- Seems like our guy.
- Is he armed?
Well, he says he is.
What's his state of mind?
Hostile with a side of shouting.
NYPD deployed a throw phone,
but he won't use it.
- Hostages?
- Unknown.
And NYPD doesn't believe so,
and the homeowner lives alone.
All right, that means we have time
to try to negotiate him out.
We're swapping out NYPD's
assault team with FBI SWAT.
They should be in place shortly.
OK.
Hold on the entry, but make
sure the perimeter is still locked.
Let's go.
♪
Brandon, this is the FBI.
We understand you're inside.
We just need to talk.
The NYPD gave you a phone.
If you could pick that up
[PHONE RINGING]
That was quick.
Thanks.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
This is Special Agent Maggie Bell.
- You're the FBI?
- I am.
Who am I speaking with?
You should know
there are children in here.
OK, he's got hostages.
Prep the team for entry.
Brandon, where are the children now?
It's too late for them.
That's a threat. We gotta go now.
♪
- FBI!
- Federal agents!
♪
Where are the kids?
Why don't you tell me?
♪
You said there were kids in here.
There are no kids down here.
♪
This place is empty.
Where are the kids?
I don't consent
to being videotaped.
I don't answer questions.
Can we can we mute him, please?
Yeah.
So we know Brandon Halford
was bashing our victim online.
We just pulled him out
of her boss's house.
So what else do we know about him?
Well, a lot.
We think that he's hunting
employees of the Greenwich
- National Monument.
- What? What do you mean?
Two nights ago, a security
guard from the Monument Museum
was shot and killed outside
of his home in New Jersey.
Clarence Myron, married,
two kids, former Army Ranger.
And our park ranger, Desiree Cole,
was also assigned
to work at that monument.
So that's two employees
for the same national monument
murdered in two days.
And there's one more connection.
Our security guard,
Clarence Myron, his husband
reported someone in a strange
mask fleeing the scene.
Dollars to donuts, it's
the same image, the snake logo.
So we've got two murders, one break-in.
Let's talk about motive.
This this monument is like
a gay rights landmark, right,
like Stonewall, across from
the oldest gay bar in the city.
So he's fixated on this location.
So it's possible it's a hate crime,
but we don't know that for sure.
Let's make sure Maggie and OA
are updated before they interview him.
[TENSE MUSIC]
I don't recognize your authority.
Desiree Cole, murdered
yesterday at Governor's Island;
Clarence Myron, ambushed
and murdered two nights ago;
then today's home invasion.
You are targeting people affiliated with
the Greenwich National Monument. Why?
I don't recognize your authority.
You don't have to believe
in gravity either.
But the ground is going
to have an opinion.
[SCOFFS]
What about the townhouse?
You said there were kids in there.
They must have moved them
before I got there.
Who who moved them?
Are you guys even
looking for the children?
The house was empty.
Brandon, there are no kids.
None of this makes any sense.
This is clearly you trying
to break into the monument.
Clarence Myron caught you,
and he kicked you out.
- Video can be deepfaked.
- He was at work.
You followed him and killed him,
just like Desiree.
You have no idea
who these people really are.
I mean, they're sickos, perverts.
You're looking at a double homicide.
You might want to stop
disparaging your victims.
The truth is online.
It's on the forums,
message boards, everywhere.
Calvin showed us all.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Who is Calvin?
♪
Calvin is an anonymous
online conspiracy theorist.
Think Q, but somehow more extreme.
He's on the Bureau's radar, claims to be
a high-level FBI official with
access to top secret information.
Wow. This
this guy thinks Calvin is the real deal?
Not just him.
Millions of other followers do too.
Calvin posts mysterious drops online,
and then they decode them.
It's like a puzzle, a community.
What, for the angry
and isolated, I would assume?
What's this ad that keeps showing up
at the top of every page?
"The Path"?
7 million strong
and still counting.
That's how many Warriors
we have marching
shoulder to shoulder with Calvin,
knocking down the door
on these deep state bastards
wherever they hide.
I'm Duke Ducoyle,
and this is "The Path."
Jed "Duke" Ducoyle is
an extremist pundit
with millions of followers, charismatic,
the loudest voice in the room.
And if you believe the rumors,
he's Calvin.
Duke built his brand
decoding Calvin's drops
and selling his merch
to his followers online,
hence the snake mask
that our suspect was wearing.
$49.99 plus shipping and handling.
So so basically,
Duke targeted our victims
and sicced his followers on them.
One of them was loyal enough
to murders on his behalf.
OK, so walk me through it.
How does it work?
So last week, Calvin posted,
"Child sex trafficking is monumental."
All caps. Duke decoded it.
He said that the National Park Service
is a front for
a child sex trafficking ring,
being run out of the Greenwich Inn.
So Calvin posts five words.
Duke decodes it, and then Brendan
kills two innocent New Yorkers.
His followers have always been rabid.
They usually keep their activity online,
but something's changed this week.
Duke's rhetoric has become
far more aggressive,
specifically about the Park Service.
He is local.
His studio is over in Staten Island.
So he's directing people
to kill in the real world.
Let's bring him in.
Mr. Ducoyle, thank you for coming in.
Everybody calls me Duke.
You posted this photo
on a Calvin message board.
That's Park Ranger Desiree Cole
taking a group of kids on a tour.
And you wrote,
"Where is she taking them?"
I post a lot of photos.
This one puts you
on the hook for solicitation
to commit a crime of violence.
Good luck to the man
who has to argue that in court.
You see, Calvin posted all the intel.
Calvin? Really?
He's the ultimate insider.
You know this conversation would go
a lot smoother if you would
just admit that you are Calvin.
I couldn't begin to fill Calvin's shoes,
but I do contribute to the conversation.
Let's pretend that
Calvin is a real person.
You turned five of his words
into a lethal conspiracy theory.
Can you prove that Desiree Cole
wasn't trafficking kids?
Because she's just one
of many sexual deviants
they have burrowed into that agency.
Agency?
The National Pride Service.
Clarence Myron, a security guard
for the Greenwich National Monument,
murdered, a hate crime.
The perpetrator was wearing
a mask you sold him.
An army of law-abiding citizens
spent their hard-earned cash
on my website.
You need to tell them to stand down
before anybody else gets hurt.
- They listen to you.
- They listen to Calvin,
whoever he really is.
The only way to stop this
is to admit the truth.
Enlighten me. What is the truth?
That you can't prove
kids aren't being trafficked
through the National Park Service.
I don't have to prove it.
If that was happening,
we would round up everybody involved.
But you and I both know that you are
making it up to sell your crap.
Then get prepared,
'cause a war is coming,
and Calvin's ready to fight.
Are you?
♪
Why now?
Why come into our house
and make a threat like that?
Oh, he is being sued for defamation
for spreading false rumors
about a plane crash in Montana,
so he's broke, probably needs the press.
Maybe, which also means he's desperate,
and he will slip up, and when he does,
we will prove he's Calvin
and use that leverage
to get him offline.
So he gave you a choice, right?
Admit his harebrained theory
has merit or what?
He's obsessed with Park Service.
They have offices in this building.
I'm going to alert the FBI police.
Can we get an injunction,
keep him from posting?
I'm already into it with the AUSA.
The First Amendment
is not our friend here.
More people are gonna get hurt.
I will handle Duke.
Here are your marching orders.
You solve those murders,
I will drop those cases
on his head and shut him down.
If he thinks
Hey, we have a situation.
- What? where?
- Here.
Out front.
[CROWD CHANTING, SHOUTING]
FBI lie! The FBI lie!
The FBI lie! The FBI lie!
They just started showing up.
More on foot coming from
Lafayette and Broadway.
[CROWD CHANTING, SHOUTING]
The FBI lie! The FBI lie!
Calvin sent them.
Well, there is no Calvin.
It's just Duke.
He's making good on his threat.
He thinks he can intimidate the FBI.
♪
Yeah, well, good luck with that.
[CROWD CHANTING, SHOUTING]
The FBI lies! The FBI lies!
The FBI lies!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TENSE MUSIC]
- So Calvin is Duke.
- Duke is Calvin.
We just can't prove it yet.
He called his followers
to assemble here,
which they have a legal right to do,
though, I don't think
the Founding Fathers
were picturing this.
All right, Isobel's working
to shut Duke down.
Let's let's focus on our suspect.
- Jubal?
- Yeah, what?
Good news, bad news.
Ballistics connected the two murders.
The bullets found in both bodies
were fired by the same gun.
Bad news, it's not
Brandon Halford's gun.
♪
All right, so if Brandon
is not our killer
Yeah, could be any
one of these Calvinites.
We're calling them Calvinites now?
Hm, he is.
♪
I don't recognize your authority.
Thank you. We heard.
Um, we're currently putting
together a list of accomplices, OK?
These are people that we think
might have helped you
to commit these murders.
What accomplices? I'm my own man.
Oh, I doubt that.
How would you know?
Oh, she just she knows. Trust me.
You were following orders, right?
Duke's orders?
He named the targets.
No, I cracked the code myself.
You know, you don't have to do this.
Why are you protecting Duke?
He led you to do what you did.
You don't get it.
He's not in control.
No one is.
What's going to happen,
it's already written.
What the hell are you talking about?
Everybody plays their part,
even you guys.
You just don't know it.
But you can't stop us.
We are going to save these children.
♪
You're saying more violence is coming?
♪
It's in the drops.
♪
The threat is coming from within
more often than without.
What is that old horror movie?
"The the call is coming
from inside the house."
Calvin has nailed this.
The call is coming from
inside your own house, people.
I don't even know
what clue to look for here.
I mean, how anyone falls
for this stuff is beyond me.
Well, he gives them something
they desperately need.
OK. What do you think that is?
Community.
Brandon Halford said whatever
is going to happen next
is in the drops.
Five days ago, Calvin dropped this.
"40 demands of the Marked One.
For the kids below Greenwich."
OK, now, what does that even mean?
That's what his followers
have been asking too.
A couple days ago, this dropped.
It's a series of numbers,
a mathematical equation.
Oh, an equation, huh?
Let me guess. You solved that one?
Today's date.
This afternoon.
OK.
Um, so what are we supposed to do here?
See, if we can just get
the internet turned off?
Is that a thing?
Who was the 40th president
of the United States?
I think we know where they're going.
What, Calvin's followers? Talk to me.
I just sent you a Calvin drop.
OK.
Uh, OK, "40 demands of the Marked One.
For the kids below Greenwich."
That's Greenwich National Monument.
"40 demands of the Marked One"
is Reagan, the 40th president,
to Mikhail Gorbachev.
Referring to Reagan's speech
in Berlin in 1987.
What, "Tear down this wall"?
Calvin has named the target.
He's inciting them to tear it down.
It's an attack.
When?
Today, 3:20 p.m.
Then we'll be there first.
Listen up, folks, NYPD,
we have an imminent threat at
the Greenwich National Monument.
Go.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
They're already here.
Everybody get back.
Stand down.
This is an unlawful gathering.
- You need to disband
- Tear it down!
- Right now.
- Tear it down!
Get back! Get back!
This isn't going to end peacefully.
Guys, I am not liking our numbers here.
Hey, you're going to need more units.
All right, there's at least 200 people
coming up from Lower Manhattan.
- Tear it down!
- Tear it down!
Tear it down!
Keep your eyes up and
just give them space.
Tear it down!
Back off. Stay back.
Tear it down!
We have proof they're in there.
Back off.
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey!
Hey, no!
Gun.
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Hey, hey, hey, guys, calm down.
Please, get back. Get back.
♪
Hey!
- Come on, come on.
- FBI, stop!
♪
FBI! Stop!
♪
[TIRES SCREECH]
♪
Oh! Oh, my God!
♪
Wha [GRUNTS]
♪
Split.
♪
Whoa, whoa!
[GRUNTS]
Don't move.
Phil Ambrie?
Phil Ambrie, you're under arrest,
for assaulting a federal agent.
♪
You and 200 others
were trying to bust into
the basement of Greenwich Inn
to stop child sex traffickers.
Do I have that right?
Well, someone has to save the children.
Tell me, Ricky,
do you really believe that
there are kids being held
hostage in the basement
of a national monument?
Do you reject reality?
Come on, man, we've we've
already been through this.
You know what?
The truth will blow your mind.
You commented on a photo of Desiree
Cole the day before she was shot.
You said you can find her
because you knew who she was.
She was your daughter's ex-girlfriend.
It's not a crime to post online.
No, it is not, but it is a crime
to bring a gun to an unlawful assembly.
So please tell me, were you
planning on killing someone else?
It's my Second Amendment right.
We are going to connect you
to these crimes.
So if you're innocent,
you better tell me now.
Because someone is
going down for murder.
Do you understand?
I don't recognize your authority.
I don't recognize your authority.
I don't recognize your authority.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Tell me we have something
more on our suspect.
The ME report indicates that our suspect
fought with Clarence Myron. Makes sense.
Myron was a Army Ranger.
Yeah, defensive wounds on his body
show signs of an intense struggle.
So our killer may be bruised.
Yeah, we just searched
Brandon Halford no bruises on him.
Ricky Del Rio, the guy who brought a gun
to the monument, is next to be examined.
And Maggie and OA are still
working on Phil Ambrie,
the guy with the personal
connection via his daughter.
What about Duke?
He's leaving as we speak,
not cooperating.
We know that he played a role
in inciting these murders,
but we don't have enough
probable cause to arrest him.
Well, we'll just have to find the killer
and get him to name Duke
as the guy who sent him,
just like any other conspiracy case.
- Boss?
- Yeah?
We've got something.
Combing through
the thousands of comments
on Duke's 8chan page, there was one user
who posted "mission accomplished"
yesterday just after 4:00 p.m.
The username matches Phil Ambrie's.
Really?
That lines up with
the ME's estimated time
of death for Desiree Cole.
Could be our connection
between Duke and the killer.
Mission accomplished.
Not yet.
♪
Mr. Ducoyle.
Duke.
I'm going to have to ask you
to stick around.
I can't. I really enjoyed
our conversation though.
That was not a request.
It's called investigative detention.
- You can't.
- I can.
We have reason to believe
you've been in contact
with the suspect responsible
for killing Desiree Cole
and Clarence Myron.
Everybody knows you need cash fast.
I'm doing fine.
You've been ordered
to pay victims' families
for spreading false rumors
about a plane crash in Montana.
They never proved what I said was false.
But it was defamatory.
You are broke,
looking to pump up your brand.
So you drop these clues
and spread violence.
For what?
To make a buck, for attention?
You want to be famous?
You are about to be,
but not like you planned it.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Hey.
♪
My dad's alibi?
Why?
He said he was with you
between 4:00 and 10:00 p.m. yesterday.
Is that true?
Do you think he killed Desiree? No.
Drew, do you know
his whereabouts yesterday?
Uh, he went out.
He didn't come back till late,
said he was with friends.
I I was surprised
he had friends in New York.
- Did he say who?
- No.
- Has his behavior changed recently?
- I don't know!
I moved out as soon as I could.
I haven't spoken to him in years.
I do know that he took it
pretty hard when my mom died.
He got fired, lost the house.
Well, that sounds like
that'd be tough on him.
So what?
He lost his wife. I lost my mom,
and I still figured it out.
I found a community of love and support,
and I chose to grow.
And he chose fear.
♪
You really think he did this?
You killed Desiree Cole, Phil.
I don't recognize your authority.
Please stop with that.
Your daughter has refuted your alibi.
I just need to know where the gun is,
the gun you used to kill
Desiree and the Army Ranger.
Army Ranger?
Calvin didn't tell you
that part, did he?
You killed a vet,
Sergeant Clarence Myron,
Third Ranger Battalion,
two tours in Afghanistan.
He was a patriot.
No.
- You don't know.
- I do know.
No, he was a trafficker and a pedophile.
I would never kill a vet,
and Calvin would never
put a target on a vet's back.
What about Duke, hmm?
You think Duke would do it
if he could make an extra buck?
I don't answer questions.
That's OK.
This is a warrant for us to
examine your body for bruises.
Our evidence response team
will be in shortly.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
He can't outrun the evidence.
He's the only suspect with bruises.
He murdered them both.
Yeah, but even if Phil fired the gun,
it was Calvin who put it in his hand.
But if there is no Calvin,
then this is on Duke, right?
We have our marching orders from Isobel.
We have our shooter.
Now we just have to prove
Duke drove him to kill them.
Yeah.
We can't hold Duke for long.
We need to implicate him and fast.
So how do we get Phil's fever to break.
By showing that everything
Duke's claiming is a lie,
so he rolls on his hero.
Conspiracists tend to possess
a positive schizotypy
that leaves them open
to misinformation and delusion.
Phil believes because it's who he is.
We can't just destroy that.
So we replace it with
something he cares about more.
Or someone.
I don't know if I can do this.
I haven't had a real conversation
with my dad in, like, five years.
OK, I'm not asking you to make amends.
I just want you to get justice
for your friends, OK?
I don't even know what I'm going to say.
It'll come to you.
Just remember everything
we talked about,
and I'm going to be right here.
You still think this is a long shot?
Shame is a powerful emotion.
He can't feel judged
if this is going to work.
I just feel for her, you know,
having to look her dad
in the eye after what he did.
[SIGHS]
- Why are we here?
- For the truth.
I've worked human trafficking
cases before.
It's an awful crime
that we need to confront
head on without hesitation. OK?
Why did you bring her here?
It's where I work, Dad.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
It's where I met Desiree.
This place is depraved.
They do evil things here.
It's just a bar.
You don't understand.
♪
I know this wasn't your fault
and that you needed
you were confused.
[EXHALES SHARPLY] [CLEARS THROAT]
Phil, we need your help.
If it's true that the children are here,
can you show us where?
I need to see the basement.
OK.
♪
Let's go.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
I don't
I don't understand.
This is not possible.
There were never any kids here, Dad.
I I need to go back upstairs.
They moved the kids.
From where, Dad?
Where would they keep kids in here?
- Honey.
- I'm your daughter.
Why don't you believe me?
I think you've been
living here too long,
so you just don't see clearly.
When I saw that
you started working here,
I saw that security guard.
He was grooming you.
That's not what was happening.
And it's not only that.
Calvin, he proved
that your park ranger friend
is a pedophile.
I wasn't going to let her hurt you.
I I loved her, Dad.
You you said this place is evil.
You said it's depraved.
Is that is that what you think of me?
No, of course, not, honey.
I love you.
My friends, they were
no different from me, OK?
They had people who loved them too.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
And we know that the only
reason you attacked them
is because Duke told
his followers to do so.
♪
[GASPS]
♪
Yeah.
Yeah, he wasn't going to leave anything
that important to chance, was he?
What are you saying, Phil?
He just he trusted that
I could get the job done.
That's why he reached out to me,
because he knew I wasn't a coward.
But now can you see that he was wrong?
I just
♪
He's never been wrong before, and I
♪
None of it was real, Dad.
My friends were.
♪
Oh, no. No, no, no.
We have to go.
- We need to go right now.
- Hold on, hold on.
- No.
- What?
No, no, no.
We I there was a plan
that we were going to
come into this building, no matter what.
And I need to call it off.
- I I just need to tell him.
- Tell who?
Kyle, my friend. I met him online.
- I don't know what his name is.
- OK, Phil.
[GUNSHOTS, GLASS SHATTERING]
Get down, get down, get down, get down!
He's here.
- [SCREAMS]
- [SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Active shooter is 50 yards
from the front door.
OK, you stay here. I'll go.
[GUNSHOTS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Go, go, go.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[GUNSHOTS]
I'm here. Talk to me.
[GRUNTS]
Lone shooter. Gray sedan.
[GUNSHOTS]
Come on.
Copy that.
♪
- Calvin knows the truth.
- Cover me.
- Covering!
- [GUNSHOTS]
♪
Hey!
♪
Shooter's down, Maggie.
Shooter's down.
It's over.
I'm so sorry.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I think I'll be moving on.
Fourth Amendment and all.
You're not going anywhere.
Fourth Amendment, lady,
protects against undue detention.
But provides just enough time
to find probable cause.
What probable cause?
Jed Ducoyle, you are under arrest
for solicitation to incite
a crime of violence.
How?
One of your followers
said the magic words.
They were obeying your orders
even sent us your text messages.
People are dead because of you.
The jury will understand that.
I have very good lawyers.
You'll need them.
Hate crime statutes apply. That's life.
I'll be out by the end of the day.
On bond, maybe, the terms of which
I will make sure
bar you from the internet.
You will lose more followers,
especially now
that you are exposed
for exactly who you are.
No, because I give them
something that you can't,
that the government can't,
not anymore
something to believe in.
You know what I believe?
This is a grift
all of it, a big grift.
Do I believe children are
being held in the basement
of some gay national monument? No.
No rational person would.
But Calvin does, and that works for me.
Not anymore.
You've accomplished nothing
by arresting me today.
♪
Be safe, Agent Castille.
Is that a threat?
Just good advice, is all.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
You OK, lady?
- Yeah.
- Did you see a ghost?
No, no.
I'm I'm good.
Thank you.
Have a good night.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]