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00:00This is the body of a woman who died just 28 minutes ago.
00:03There's a clear wound on her head caused by a blunt object.
00:07But Morgan only needed to lightly touch her pulse to immediately spot a big mistake by the police.
00:12She held the face of her watch near the victim's nose,
00:14and she was shocked to see a thin layer of mist appear on the glass.
00:20It turns out the woman was still alive.
00:23Now, the victim's identity has been confirmed.
00:26She has a fractured skull, but if the surgery goes well, she might wake up in a few days.
00:32Also, there are metal traces at the wound, so the weapon could be a hammer or a metal tool.
00:37Adam looked up missing persons records and found that the victim was a graduate student
00:40at the University of California named Heather Wallace.
00:43A year ago, her boyfriend Morris reported her missing to the police.
00:47Surprisingly, Morris is 17 years older than her.
00:51Even though they only dated for a few months, when talking about the past,
00:54her ex-boyfriend couldn't hold back his tears.
00:57When asked where he was on the night of the incident,
00:59Morris calmly said he was at home, busy choosing floor tiles.
01:03What's even stranger is that the University of California has no record of a student named Heather.
01:08But when they checked her fingerprints, the victim's real name turned out to be Penny Hall.
01:12Could it be that Morris found out he was being lied to,
01:15so he attacked her on the beach out of revenge?
01:17It's clear that figuring out the victim's true identity will make it easier to find the killer.
01:21Morgan and Adam went to Penny's apartment.
01:25According to the landlord, Penny's boyfriend was killed two years ago.
01:28But it seems Morris had no idea about this.
01:31What secret is hidden behind this case?
01:34At that moment, Morgan noticed a designer bag on the sofa.
01:37It wasn't cheap.
01:38She found lots of expensive high heels in the closet,
01:41which didn't match the modest apartment Penny was renting.
01:44Even more surprising, Penny's credit card statements showed no big purchases.
01:48But the most shocking thing was that she was spending $2,500 a month to rent a billboard.
01:54When Morgan looked through the pile of luxury clothes, she found a clue hidden behind them.
01:58It turns out the victim had a close connection to her dead boyfriend, Lucas Phillips.
02:03Could have something to do with that.
02:05Penny had done everything she could to investigate Lucas's death,
02:08even renting a billboard to gather leads.
02:10It was an unsolved case.
02:12Lucas was suspected of being robbed and murdered on the beach.
02:15The cause of death was also a hard blow to the back of his head with a blunt object.
02:20But oddly, Penny's diamond necklace was still untouched,
02:23which might prove Lucas wasn't killed in a robbery.
02:26It's even possible that the person who killed him was the same one who attacked Penny.
02:30On Lucas's hair, there were tiny grains of rice.
02:33But this detail wasn't mentioned in the case file.
02:35This could only mean two things.
02:37Either the victim had just been to a wedding, or he liked sifting rice for fun.
02:41Also, Lucas used to be a tennis coach at a beach club.
02:44The killer might be one of the club's members.
02:47Clearly, Penny didn't have enough money to join the club as a member.
02:51So, she came up with a plan to use a fake identity and date Morris.
02:55That way, she could sneak into the club and investigate her boyfriend's death.
02:59Morgan and Adam went to the club to meet two brothers who inherited their grandfather's business.
03:04The younger brother admitted he knew Penny because she was Morris's girlfriend.
03:08As for Lucas, they said he used to be a tennis coach there.
03:11Everything seemed normal, with nothing suspicious.
03:15But two things caught Morgan's attention.
03:17First, the younger brother didn't want to cooperate with the police.
03:20Second, the club manager had a bruised eye.
03:23Morgan learned that the day before, a stranger was trying to sell drugs.
03:27The manager tried to stop him but got beaten up and left with a black eye.
03:31If this person was kicked out of the beach before Penny was attacked,
03:34he could be the killer, or at least an important witness.
03:36Luckily, the manager still remembered the guy's name.
03:40Cameron Smith, also known as Swizz.
03:42They happened to notice the name on a surfboard matched the one the manager mentioned.
03:46After questioning him, they learned that this man had indeed talked to Penny the previous night.
03:51But he only warned her to stop following him, as if he were the one who killed her boyfriend.
03:56The meeting happened around 9pm, before he went into the club.
04:00Plus, he wasn't selling anything illegal.
04:03He was there to collect money from the club owner.
04:05Right then, Adam got news that Penny had woken up.
04:08Morgan and Adam rushed to the hospital.
04:11Morris was still by her bedside, not caring about the past, continuing to look after Penny.
04:16They learned that the night before, Penny had received a call with a lead.
04:20The caller said he had witnessed her boyfriend's death.
04:23But when Penny arrived at the beach, someone knocked her out from behind.
04:27Now, the only thing she had left was the necklace,
04:29a keepsake Lucas gave her a week before he died.
04:32More importantly, Lucas had a conflict with the younger brother of the club owner,
04:36and he was suspended from his job afterward.
04:38But getting close to this younger brother wasn't easy since he was heavily protected by the club owner.
04:43Morgan and Adam returned to the club.
04:46But the older brother made an excuse, saying his younger brother was busy negotiating with a sponsor.
04:51Morgan noticed that the brother's office was full of souvenirs.
04:55Soon after, they met a beautiful woman.
04:57Surprisingly, she was wearing a necklace identical to the one Penny had.
05:02But Morgan realized the diamond on this woman's necklace was actually just cheap moissanite.
05:06Moissanite is a natural silicon carbide, discovered by French scientists in a meteor crater.
05:12It's hard for most people to tell it apart from a real diamond.
05:15The woman didn't know who Penny was, but she knew Lucas.
05:18It turns out this woman was having an affair with the customer service manager.
05:27The younger brother of the club owner, Blaine Wilson.
05:30Even more shocking, her husband was a city council member.
05:33If this affair came to light, the club could lose its liquor license.
05:37Lucas had discovered this secret.
05:39To keep him quiet, the woman gave him an expensive necklace.
05:43To avoid her husband noticing, she bought a fake necklace to wear in front of him.
05:47Putting everything together, the motive for the murder might be that the younger brother
05:50was afraid of the affair being exposed, so he killed Lucas.
05:54But what about the rice grains found in the victim's hair?
05:57Morgan noticed that the victim's shorts were wet, but his hair was dry.
06:01If he was killed at 10 p.m., his body should have been on the beach all night.
06:05The tide comes in twice a day.
06:07Once in the afternoon and once around 1 or 2 a.m.
06:11So, when the body was found the next morning, it should have been completely soaked by the sea.
06:15Clearly, the beach wasn't the original crime scene.
06:19The killer put the body in a suitcase, waited for the tide to go out,
06:22and then secretly moved it to the beach to fake the scene.
06:25Now, the suspect pointed back to the person Penny had suspected from the start.
06:29But since the crime happened two years ago, finding evidence was incredibly difficult.
06:34They spent a whole day investigating but still couldn't find any solid clues.
06:38However, as Morgan left Adam's house, the flashing lights outside sparked an idea.
06:43She immediately turned back and knocked on her colleague's door.
06:47It turns out the killer was the club owner himself.
06:49Back in the late 1870s, someone tried to invent a bright light for surgery but accidentally created
06:54a snow globe as a souvenir.
06:56And that snow globe was the murder weapon.
06:58The inventor tested many materials.
07:00And rice grains turned out to be the best floating material.
07:03Also, there were traces of glycol in the victim's nasal cavity,
07:07a chemical used in antifreeze, which is the liquid inside snow globes.
07:10Plus, in the club owner's office, there were souvenirs from Mediterranean trips.
07:15But the one from Greece was missing.
07:17Morgan figured that the victim had discovered the younger brother was involved in drug dealing
07:21and fraud.
07:22So, he gave the club owner an ultimatum.
07:24Fix it, or he'd go to the police.
07:26To protect his brother and the club's reputation,
07:29the older brother killed him by grabbing the snow globe and hitting him hard on the back of the head.
07:33Not expecting Penny to keep investigating, he decided to attack her to cover his tracks.
07:38However, these theories still lacked solid proof.
07:41They needed to make the club owner confess.
07:44So, Morgan came up with a plan.
07:46The police suddenly stormed into the club, and the owner panicked,
07:50immediately looking at the security cameras.
07:52But when they burst into his office, he was already gone.
07:56Morgan remembered a photo of the two brothers,
07:58along with the locations in the pictures Penny had stored in her closet.
08:02I think I know where he's heading.
08:04They raced to the beach, where the older brother was standing on a cliff.
08:07He wanted to end it all.
08:09It was his younger brother's advice that stopped him from taking his secrets to the grave.
08:13Both cases were finally solved, and Penny got the answers she'd been searching for.
08:18That night, Morgan had planned to go on a date.
08:21But the police chief called her.
08:22It turns out there was new progress in the disappearance of her first husband,
08:26Roman.
08:27Before he went missing, Roman had met several times with a man named Gio Conforth,
08:31but Morgan had never heard of him.
08:33Though Gio had no criminal record,
08:35After some digging, they found he was a very shady individual,
08:38operating on the edge of the law,
08:40specializing in helping people fight over certain assets.
08:43So we're working on a plan to get him here.
08:45Set up an interview.
08:46Get some answers.
08:48This Gio sounds like a hard guy to find.
08:50He is.
08:51But you found him, didn't you?
08:53I did.
08:54At a glance,
08:55Morgan sizes up the accident scene
08:57and helps the police pinpoint the vehicle involved.
08:59She doesn't just deduce the brand and color.
09:02She even narrows down the year of manufacture.
09:05A witness claims the engine roared like an airplane,
09:08which instantly reminds her of the author behind the 007 spy novels.
09:12Her colleagues stand there, stunned.
09:14Morgan finally delivers her answer.
09:17Bond felt he was in a low-flying plane rather than an automobile as he accelerated the Jensen.
09:22The Jensen Interceptor had a Chrysler V8 engine,
09:25loud as hell,
09:26like a plane taking off.
09:27The paint scrape on the victim's watch matches the distinct blue undercoat of a Jensen.
09:32The wheelbase is only 69 inches.
09:35Way too short for a typical American sports car.
09:38So, the hit-and-run vehicle has to be a Jensen Interceptor,
09:41and its color is a deep majolica blue.
09:43If Morgan is right,
09:45the car is likely stashed in the parking lot of the apartment complex across the street.
09:49To avoid getting caught,
09:50the culprit likely hit it close by.
09:52After some searching,
09:54a covered vehicle in the lot catches their eye.
09:56Ta-da!
09:57That's a Jensen Interceptor.
09:59The front bumper is dented,
10:01paint chipped,
10:02but the license plate is missing.
10:04The victim,
10:04a famous sports commentator,
10:06draws heavy media attention to the case.
10:08A witness even suggests it was murder,
10:11since the driver didn't just hit the victim
10:12but circled back to run them over multiple times.
10:15Surprisingly,
10:16the victim's son shows up at the station.
10:18He is convinced the killer is his father's young mistress.
10:22Last year,
10:22his dad fell hard for her,
10:24even changing his will to make her the sole heir.
10:27Coincidentally,
10:27when the accident happened,
10:29the victim was on a call with his son,
10:30about to discuss revising the will,
10:32only to be struck and killed moments later.
10:35Morgan and Adam head straight to the victim's mansion.
10:38A young black woman greets them.
10:40While grabbing water from the fridge,
10:42Morgan scans the house's interior.
10:44She never misses a detail,
10:45knowing the key to cracking a case often hides in the smallest things.
10:49Back in the living room,
10:50she deliberately bumps Adam toward the other side of the sofa,
10:53using the moment to secretly pocket something.
10:56From their conversation,
10:57they learn the woman was like an adopted daughter to the victim.
11:00Their relationship seems murky but lacked any physical intimacy.
11:04She didn't push for the will change
11:05and doesn't care if she is cut out of it.
11:08More importantly,
11:09she never learned to drive.
11:10So how can she commit the crime?
11:12A typical man ready for intimacy has blood flowing in a certain pattern,
11:15but the victim's desk holds blood thinners and antidepressants,
11:19drugs that reduce circulation to key areas.
11:21A 70-year-old like him was probably just grumbling, not acting.
11:25Still, the woman seems to genuinely care for him.
11:28In the fridge,
11:29his lunch bag has a little heart drawn on it by her.
11:32Then,
11:33a phone rings out of nowhere.
11:35The item Morgan swipes is a cell phone.
11:37Under Adam's firm insistence,
11:39she returns it to its owner.
11:41Back at the station,
11:42they learn the victim's neighbor,
11:43who had a feud with him,
11:45has a solid alibi.
11:46Digging deeper into the car,
11:48they discover the neighbor's company owned a vehicle matching the description.
11:51The police move to arrest him,
11:53but the neighbor is thrilled,
11:54not nervous.
11:56A classic car collector with four vintage rides,
11:58he said his Majolica Blue Jensen Interceptor was stolen the previous week.
12:02Then he recalls something crucial.
12:04The victim often went on car club trips.
12:07During those,
12:08the neighbor noticed a motorcyclist sneaking into the victim's garage.
12:11On one trip,
12:13the victim stayed home,
12:14and two minutes later,
12:15the neighbor saw the biker speeding out of the garage,
12:18half-dressed.
12:19Morgan reviews the surveillance footage,
12:20and realizes this is their killer.
12:22Though his face is masked,
12:24a quick phone search reveals his identity.
12:26The killer's name is Olivier Dubois,
12:29and he works at Hollywood Auto.
12:31The woman's missed call comes from an auto shop,
12:33and Morgan knows mechanics can be smooth talkers.
12:36Plus,
12:36the suspect's shoes sport a bold logo from a famous French brand,
12:40hinting at his fashion sense.
12:42Most telling,
12:43he stands 6 feet 5 inches tall.
12:45Each brick in the footage is 20 centimeters,
12:47and he measures about 9.5 bricks,
12:50roughly 193 centimeters or 6 feet 5 inches.
12:54Auto shops post their mechanics photos online,
12:56and Morgan,
12:57with her keen eye,
12:58figures a guy wearing those shoes isn't a greasy mechanic.
13:01That leaves one young,
13:02handsome guy.
13:03And who would the woman date?
13:05Naturally,
13:06the tall,
13:076 foot 5 guy.
13:09The motive is shockingly simple.
13:11When the victim caught his girlfriend cheating,
13:13he flew into a rage and kicked the mechanic out.
13:16Burning with resentment,
13:17the mechanic knew about the victim's legal spat with the neighbor.
13:20He stole the neighbor's vintage car to stage the murder as a hit-and-run,
13:23framing the unlucky neighbor.
13:25He fled the scene,
13:26leaving the police to point fingers at the wrong guy.
13:29Morgan and Adam head to the auto shop to confront him,
13:31but the suspect bolts at the sight of them.
13:34Adam springs into action,
13:36tackling him with a slick move,
13:37ensuring he can't escape.
13:39The truth comes to light.
13:41Why does the woman lie?
13:42She knows the police will eventually track down the mechanic,
13:45and if caught,
13:46he'll be deported to France over visa issues.
13:48She genuinely loves both men but never expects things to end this way.
13:52To ease her guilt,
13:54she gives up her inheritance.
13:55This allows the victim's son to fund a school transfer for his autistic adopted sister.
14:00At the press conference after the case,
14:02Morgan, as a police consultant,
14:04earns public recognition for the first time.
14:06But what thrills her more is news about her missing husband.
14:10The police chief tracks down a mysterious broker tied to her husband for the past 15 years.
14:15That night,
14:16Morgan tails a stranger to a church.
14:18She watches him enter,
14:19a strange unease stirring in her chest.
14:22She feels adrift,
14:23unsure of what awaits her.
14:25At a park,
14:26kids play on the slide.
14:27One child goes down the slide but disappears.
14:31The second child follows,
14:32and soon all the kids scream inside the slide.
14:35A man rushes over to check and pulls out the body of a woman.
14:39Morgan unlocks the victim's phone and finds a key clue the police overlooked.
14:43There are eight unread messages,
14:45enough to confirm the victim worked as a hired nanny.
14:47Oddly,
14:48her contacts list has no emergency numbers or anyone saved as a parent or relative.
14:53The coroner concludes the victim died from a heavy blow to the head.
14:56But why did she die inside a park slide?
14:59Morgan and Detective Adam jump into action.
15:02Their first stop is the home of the family who sent the urgent messages pushing the nanny
15:06to get to work.
15:07The husband suddenly recalls that recently,
15:09the nanny noticed something strange.
15:12She kept complaining that everywhere she went,
15:14a man seemed to follow her.
15:16That man often reads a French newspaper and,
15:18most notably,
15:19walks with a limp.
15:20Morgan instantly thinks of the only French newsstand in Los Angeles.
15:24Across from it sits a restaurant.
15:26A perfect spot to watch someone.
15:28Soon enough,
15:29both spot a well-dressed man walking by.
15:32They follow him and discover he's not just a private investigator,
15:35but also a former cop Adam knows well.
15:37He followed the victim for a long time and even took hundreds of photos of her.
15:41The biggest shock comes when they learn the family the nanny worked for hired him to spy on her.
15:46It turns out the couple suspected the nanny of mistreating their kids.
15:50Morgan and Adam head back to the family's house.
15:52The husband acts completely unaware of the situation,
15:56but the wife admits everything.
15:58She explains that six months ago,
15:59a post in a parent's chat group terrified her.
16:02Due to the previous nanny's negligence,
16:04her child ran into the street alone.
16:06Furious,
16:07she fired that nanny and hired a new one.
16:10Since then,
16:11things slowly got back to normal.
16:13But not long after,
16:14she read an even scarier post.
16:16It claimed a nanny threatened the kids' lives,
16:19yet the kids adored her.
16:20Worried the same could happen to her child,
16:22she hired the private investigator to keep tabs.
16:25In the end,
16:26he found nothing unusual.
16:28Morgan glances at the post,
16:29snaps a screenshot,
16:31and sends it to her phone.
16:32Morgan and Adam immediately track down the parent who posted the message.
16:36But she denies everything and doesn't recall what she said earlier.
16:40She only remembers that six months ago,
16:42they saw their child in danger and posted a warning.
16:45When it comes to getting the nanny fired,
16:47she didn't think that far ahead and just acted in a panic.
16:49Besides,
16:51her husband mainly took care of the kids,
16:53so she doesn't know much about the local nannies.
16:55Seeing a child left unattended,
16:57she simply posts to alert other parents.
17:00Since then,
17:01she hasn't even logged back into her account.
17:03The investigation stalls.
17:05At that moment,
17:06the police uncover a new lead.
17:08The victim's phone holds affectionate messages showing someone pursued her intensely.
17:13Next,
17:14Morgan and Adam visit the victim's home.
17:15Morgan quickly spots a cross necklace,
17:18suggesting the victim had religious faith.
17:21A printed paper on the table reveals she knew someone harassed her online.
17:25A pepper spray canister sits by the bed,
17:27showing she genuinely fears for her safety.
17:30A lawyer's phone number hangs on the wall.
17:32But when they call,
17:33they learn this lawyer only handles immigration cases.
17:36A schedule on the calendar shows that on the night she was killed,
17:39the victim planned to go to church.
17:41Still,
17:42no evidence yet points to the family or the poster as the killer.
17:45So they shift their focus to the person pursuing the victim.
17:48In the trash,
17:49they find a flyer advertising him.
17:52Even more surprising,
17:53when they meet,
17:54the guy flat out says he knows who the killer is.
17:57It turns out the victim once nannied for his kids.
18:00He stood outside her house,
18:01singing love songs through a loudspeaker to win her over.
18:04But at that moment,
18:05a married man named Mark showed up and stopped him from pursuing her.
18:09After a harsh rejection,
18:10he believes Mark killed the victim out of jealousy.
18:13At the same time,
18:14while reviewing the private investigator's photos,
18:17Morgan and Adam notice a key detail.
18:19The victim shared a close bond with Mark,
18:21and he holds a baseball bat that matches the murder weapon's shape.
18:24Even more,
18:25Morgan notices the nanny wears Mark's sports jacket.
18:28Could this be a secret romance?
18:30And could that be the real reason behind the murder?
18:33It turns out Mark plays for a baseball team from Seattle.
18:37Plus,
18:37he knows the family of the woman who posted the accusation against the nanny.
18:41But after digging deeper,
18:43they find the nanny simply borrowed Mark's jacket because it was cold.
18:46The suspicious-looking baseball bat is actually just a plastic toy for the kids.
18:51The two only met by chance while taking kids to the park.
18:54At most,
18:55they're casual acquaintances.
18:57Now,
18:57the investigation hits another dead end.
19:00Luckily,
19:00they uncover a crucial clue in the private investigator's photos.
19:04It turns out the local nannies are very close,
19:07spending nearly every day caring for kids together.
19:09Plus,
19:10the coroner finds no defensive wounds on the victim's body.
19:14This suggests the killer is likely someone she knew.
19:17So Morgan and Adam return to the park and question the group of nannies again.
19:21This time,
19:22Morgan notices all their lunchboxes have color-coded labels.
19:25But suspiciously,
19:26they all insist the victim only had one friend,
19:29Mark.
19:30Yet one day,
19:31Mark's wife showed up,
19:32yelling at both the victim and Mark,
19:34leading to a huge fight.
19:35These scattered clues still don't fully connect.
19:38Especially since all the suspects have alibis.
19:41Right then,
19:42the police receive an unexpected call,
19:44turning the case in an unpredictable direction.
19:47It turns out the account that posted the negative claims about the victim
19:50used fake personal info.
19:52They immediately go back to the woman who posted the claims,
19:55Mark's wife.
19:56But when questioned,
19:57she just gives a bitter smile,
19:59saying her argument with her husband was only about their home's flooring.
20:02That answer clearly doesn't help the case.
20:04However,
20:05Morgan spots something suspicious.
20:08All the negative posts about the nanny appear between noon and 1pm.
20:12This is exactly when the nannies usually take their break.
20:15If they think the other way around,
20:17who could infiltrate a parents group full of complaints about nannies?
20:20It can only be the nannies themselves,
20:22faking the account.
20:24They impersonated the woman who posted,
20:26spreading false rumors about their colleague.
20:28The victim faced false criminal accusations from a baseless claim.
20:31Worse,
20:32she lowered the standard pay rate and,
20:34most importantly,
20:35replaced their friend.
20:37Each child's lunchbox has a Spice Girls sticker,
20:39showing the five nannies formed a tight-knit group.
20:42Morgan uncovers a key detail at the employer's house.
20:45The lunchbox of the previously fired nanny still sits in the kitchen cabinet.
20:49This proves the victim didn't want to use that lunchbox and was isolated from the nanny group.
20:54In the group,
20:55the Russian nanny is the killer.
20:57In Russian,
20:57the days of the week don't use capitalization,
21:00and the writing style has a unique flair.
21:03Plus,
21:03the way they make the sign of the cross differs.
21:06Catholics use all five fingers,
21:08moving from left to right across the chest.
21:10Eastern Orthodox Christians use three fingers,
21:13moving from right shoulder to left.
21:15The killer belongs to the latter group,
21:17while the victim was a devout Catholic.
21:19Also,
21:20the two denominations follow different calendars.
21:23The day the victim marked the cross on her calendar,
21:25September 27th,
21:26shows it wasn't a day for church prayer but a visit to the killer's house.
21:30She discovered the other nanny was the one spreading bad rumors about her online.
21:34Earlier,
21:35she consulted a lawyer and planned to sue the killer for identity theft.
21:38The park sits just a street away from the church,
21:41and the victim confronted the killer right there.
21:43But as she turned away,
21:45the killer struck her hard on the head.
21:47Though she didn't die on the spot,
21:48in her panic and fear of being chased,
21:50the victim tried to escape and hid in the slide.
21:52But due to massive blood loss,
21:55she didn't survive.
21:56After the interrogation,
21:58the other nannies finally confess everything to protect themselves.
22:01The killer is arrested shortly after,
22:03and this tangled murder case officially closes.
22:06Ten years ago,
22:07an old man killed his son-in-law,
22:09but only confesses to his family on his deathbed.
22:12I killed Barry.
22:13The children and grandchildren present can't believe their ears.
22:16But the old man recorded the entire crime in a video,
22:20with shocking evidence.
22:21News quickly spreads to the police station,
22:23and the two officers who handled the case back then
22:25open champagne to celebrate.
22:27Selena, however, fumes with anger,
22:30feeling challenged that a case unsolved for ten years ends this way.
22:33The Bucket Lane murder.
22:35It turns out this case is one of the ten most famous unsolved mysteries in Los Angeles.
22:39Back then, the female police chief, still a detective,
22:43directly investigated the case.
22:45But the suspect was acquitted due to lack of evidence.
22:47The murder happened on the Monday after Thanksgiving.
22:51The son-in-law was killed in the family's sauna.
22:54Early that morning, the housekeeper found the body, charred black.
22:58At first, it looks like an accident,
23:00but the autopsy report reveals the cause of death as a broken neck.
23:03Police theorize that the killer pushed the victim down the stairs,
23:06breaking his neck, then moved him to the sauna to cover it up.
23:10But the mother-in-law of the house claims that at midnight,
23:12she saw her son-in-law in a bathrobe,
23:14heading to the basement on his own.
23:15At that time, the whole family already went to bed,
23:19and she didn't hear any strange noises.
23:21However, a bloodstain from the victim appears on a shirt in the laundry basket.
23:26The shirt belongs to the old man who just passed away.
23:29So he immediately became the prime suspect.
23:32Surprisingly, at the same time,
23:34police arrested a dealer of illegal substances in a parking lot just five blocks from the crime scene.
23:39Among the victim's belongings, they also found traces of a substance.
23:42The defense lawyer argued this could be a killing tied to a deal gone wrong.
23:47Plus, the criminal had visited the house on the night of the murder.
23:51Not to mention, the old man was a philanthropist
23:53and the president of a prestigious local trade association.
23:56Most importantly, he had a hip replacement surgery,
23:59making it impossible for him to drag a body into the sauna.
24:02So the jury unanimously declared him not guilty.
24:05And just like that, the mysterious case, unsolved for ten years,
24:09became an unending obsession for the police chief.
24:12Every cop has that one case they can't get out of their head.
24:15This one's mine.
24:16To ease her regret, Selena hands the cold case file to Morgan.
24:20Just by glancing at the crime scene photos,
24:22Morgan spots a small detail the police overlooked back then.
24:26After an all-night study,
24:27Morgan even recreates the entire murder process in detail.
24:31George Donovan did not push his son-in-law down the stairs.
24:35In fact, no one did.
24:37It turns out the killer hears the victim showering in the hallway bathroom
24:41and sneaks in quietly.
24:42He finds a hairdryer,
24:44which matches the autopsy report showing the victim suffered a heart attack.
24:48The killer knows this well,
24:49plugs the hairdryer into the outlet,
24:51and throws it straight into the tub.
24:53The victim dies instantly from the electric shock,
24:56but at that moment, the outlet catches fire.
24:58The killer quickly puts out the fire but can't avoid leaving traces of a murder.
25:02The more pressing issue now is moving the victim's body up to the laundry chute on the upper floor.
25:07This action broke the victim's neck and left a bloodstain on the old man's shirt.
25:12Then the killer pushes the body into the sauna,
25:14positioning the victim as if relaxing in the heat.
25:17Finally, he places an empty wine bottle nearby,
25:20staging the scene as a drunken accident.
25:22And that is how Barry Johnson met his maker.
25:26Her colleagues stand there, stunned.
25:28A case unsolved for 10 years gets cracked by a consultant in just one night.
25:33No one expects Morgan to also find solid evidence.
25:36It turns out the burned outlet in the room was replaced with a different electrical panel.
25:40Not only that,
25:41the killer deliberately replaced several wallpaper sections to cleverly hide the burn marks.
25:46But here's the thing.
25:47Modern hairdryers have a safety feature to prevent electrical leaks,
25:50so how could it kill someone?
25:52In reality,
25:53the Consumer Product Safety Commission set manufacturing standards in 1990.
25:58But the hairdryer in this house is a vintage model from the 80s,
26:01before those rules existed.
26:03As for the mother-in-law saying she saw her son-in-law heading downstairs,
26:06she likely had too much to drink and saw wrong.
26:09However,
26:10if the victim was indeed killed before midnight,
26:12any family member could be the killer.
26:14Right after,
26:15Selena takes Morgan and Adam to meet the family.
26:18Unexpectedly,
26:19just as they leave,
26:20a reporter shows up at the station for an interview.
26:23Hi,
26:24I'd like to speak to your detectives about the Bucket Lane murder.
26:28The reporter brings a documentary poster,
26:30claiming she knows the recently deceased man gave a false confession.
26:33It turns out she's the old man's eldest daughter-in-law.
26:37Her father-in-law signed a deal to film a documentary about the murder,
26:40but canceled it weeks ago.
26:42The reason he gave was not wanting the family to suffer more.
26:45If so,
26:46why did he confess to the murder right before dying?
26:49This documentary is her big project,
26:51so she wants to gather more material about the investigation at the station.
26:55But the reporter's flashy actions catch the eye of a lieutenant who worked on the case years ago.
26:59That means Selena doesn't have much time.
27:02If she can't reopen the case,
27:04her superiors will face a lot of trouble.
27:06Meanwhile,
27:07the three of them gain permission to enter the mansion to verify the case details.
27:10When they open the bathroom outlet,
27:13they find burn marks in shock.
27:15Next,
27:15they move the double bed in the victim's bedroom,
27:18immediately revealing a charred wall panel.
27:20Then Morgan stuffs a dummy into the laundry chute
27:22while Selena and Adam stand in the basement,
27:25testing their theory.
27:26That'd break a neck.
27:27She was right.
27:28When the family returns to the mansion,
27:30the three start the interrogation.
27:32Five family members are still alive.
27:35On the left is the victim's wife.
27:37In the middle is the victim's son.
27:38On the right is the victim's mother-in-law.
27:41Behind them are the wife's younger sister and the wife's older brother.
27:44As the interrogation unfolds,
27:46the truth about the murder night ten years ago slowly comes to light.
27:50First,
27:50the whole family took a group photo,
27:52then started dinner.
27:54Soon after,
27:54the victim began throwing insults at everyone.
27:57The father-in-law grew extremely annoyed.
28:00The youngest son felt disgusted and left the dining room.
28:03But at that moment,
28:04the wife's sleeve suddenly caught fire from a candle on the table.
28:07After putting out the fire,
28:09everyone was horrified to see bruises on her body.
28:12Clear signs of abuse.
28:13The father-in-law flew into a rage.
28:16But the son-in-law stubbornly denied everything.
28:19The wife's older brother,
28:20furious,
28:21lunged at him to attack.
28:23Yet the victim showed a dismissive attitude and casually went upstairs.
28:26Dinner ended in tension.
28:28That night,
28:29no one agreed to let the couple sleep in the same room.
28:32The eldest daughter-in-law went to help clean up.
28:34At that time,
28:36the victim was watching TV and shamelessly threw pajamas in her face.
28:40After that,
28:40the family started playing a card game.
28:43The son happily went downstairs to join.
28:45But strangely,
28:46the TV sound from the victim's room upstairs echoed loudly,
28:50disturbing the floor below.
28:51So the wife's younger brother and the wife's older brother volunteer to go upstairs to stop the victim.
28:56The mother also asked them to clean up the Christmas decorations while they were at it.
29:01However,
29:01when they got there,
29:02no one saw the victim.
29:04They knocked on the door,
29:05but no one answered,
29:06so they eventually left.
29:08After that,
29:09the wife's older brother went to the attic as his mother asked.
29:12At the same time,
29:13the eldest daughter-in-law saw the wife's younger brother,
29:16struggling with addiction,
29:17meeting a dealer of illegal substances right outside the house.
29:20After everyone went to bed,
29:22the mother-in-law was the last to finish cleaning the living room.
29:25She drank a glass of wine,
29:27turned around,
29:27and suddenly saw her son-in-law in a bathrobe,
29:30heading to the basement alone.
29:32With events overlapping,
29:33Morgan still can't figure out who the real killer is.
29:36At that moment,
29:37the former police chief arrives with a detective who once handled the case.
29:41He can't accept the huge risk of reopening a case only to fail again.
29:45If that happens,
29:46the entire police station will face a storm of public backlash.
29:50Right then,
29:50Morgan gets a sudden idea.
29:52Looking at the remote control,
29:54she suddenly figures out the killer's true identity.
29:56Lieutenant.
29:58Yeah?
29:58I know who did it.
30:00Then,
30:00in front of the police station leaders and the victim's family,
30:04Morgan finally reveals the answer.
30:06It turns out the mother-in-law truly saw wrong.
30:09The person in the bathrobe heading to the basement wasn't the son-in-law,
30:12because the victim was killed before midnight.
30:14The real killer is the son,
30:16the one who seemed the most harmless.
30:18Having long known his father abused his mother,
30:20he decided to end it once and for all.
30:22While hiding upstairs,
30:24he overheard his father showering in the bathroom.
30:27Seeing this as the perfect chance,
30:29he quietly grabbed the hairdryer,
30:30plugged it in,
30:31and threw it into the tub.
30:33He expected his father to die instantly,
30:35but what he didn't anticipate was the outlet catching fire.
30:38So he quickly changed his plan.
30:40First,
30:41he dragged his father's body to the laundry chute and threw it down.
30:44Then he went back to clean up all traces of the fire.
30:48Next,
30:48he calmly went downstairs and joined the family car game.
30:51This created a perfect alibi.
30:54At midnight,
30:55under his grandmother's watch,
30:56he sneaked to the basement.
30:58The mother-in-law only saw the bathrobe
31:00and didn't realize it wasn't her son-in-law wearing it.
31:03Then he moved the body and staged the scene
31:05as someone relaxing in the sauna.
31:07He even placed an empty wine bottle nearby.
31:10Finally,
31:10he adjusted the sauna's temperature setting,
31:12thinking everything was perfect.
31:14He didn't forget to hang the bathrobe on the rack outside.
31:17But he didn't expect that the fall from the chute
31:19would break his father's neck.
31:21This caused a drop of blood to splatter on his grandfather's shirt.
31:25With such airtight reasoning,
31:27can he still deny it?
31:28The son's mother immediately protests,
31:30saying her son played games all night.
31:33Plus,
31:33her husband was still watching TV so loudly back then.
31:37But Morgan's next explanation completely breaks the son's mental defense.
31:41It turns out the TV remote in the house uses radio frequency,
31:44with a wider and more flexible range.
31:47While playing cards with the family,
31:48he kept changing the TV channels upstairs,
31:51making everyone think his father was still there.
31:53At this point,
31:54the son finally lowers his head and admits his crime.
31:57He long wanted to tell the truth,
31:59but his grandfather spent his whole life protecting him.
32:02This left him living in guilt and self-blame,
32:04to the point of becoming a failure.
32:06But he didn't know that back then,
32:08he was still a minor.
32:09With a good lawyer,
32:10he might have only faced three years in jail.
32:13And so,
32:14the case that lingered for ten years is finally solved.
32:17Morgan's skills also earn recognition from the police chief.
32:20This further proves that Selena's project to recruit special consultants
32:24is absolutely the right move.
32:26That evening,
32:27after work,
32:28Morgan suddenly notices a five-star badge on her jacket.
32:31A man on a plane sips wine while his pet dog jumps into his lap for a pet.
32:35Right after landing,
32:36the man suddenly struggles to breathe,
32:38foams at the mouth,
32:39and passes away.
32:41A tech mogul was poisoned right on the plane.
32:43But as soon as the police start investigating,
32:45the FBI jumps in to take over the case.
32:48Their reasoning is that all crimes in U.S. airspace fall under FBI jurisdiction.
32:53Morgan, however,
32:54stresses that determining jurisdiction right now seems a bit rushed.
32:58The victim's blood vessels burst,
32:59and that cause simply couldn't happen on the plane.
33:02FBI agent Ronnie questions her.
33:04Who are you?
33:05Morgan.
33:06She's a consultant.
33:07The two sides quickly form separate investigation teams.
33:11Adam insists on bringing the body back for examination,
33:13while Morgan wants to board the plane to check the scene,
33:16but the FBI firmly blocks her.
33:18Adam doesn't want to escalate tensions,
33:20so he reluctantly leads Morgan away from the scene.
33:23Still,
33:23they don't give up on the investigation.
33:26The victim founded an internet company,
33:28and the social media platform he created always stirred controversy,
33:31even impacting politics with statements made on it.
33:33At that moment,
33:35FBI agent Ronnie unexpectedly approaches them.
33:38It turns out he used to be a colleague when he worked here,
33:41and now he wants the police's initial findings.
33:43With the shared goal of solving the case,
33:45the three head to the coroner's office.
33:47There,
33:48the coroner finds a small mark on the victim's neck,
33:51like a needle prick.
33:52Based on the manner of death,
33:54it's highly likely the victim was poisoned with a type of toxin from the anthrax family.
33:58To identify the exact toxin,
34:00they need to transfer the body to the FBI lab for further testing.
34:04Next,
34:04the team moves to question the victim's security team.
34:07On the surface,
34:08they don't seem suspicious,
34:10but a detailed schedule reveals a key lead.
34:12It turns out they didn't shadow the victim 24-7 like everyone assumed.
34:17Once,
34:17the victim went to Orange County and stayed in a hotel for two hours for a secret meeting,
34:21leaving his security team to wait outside in the car.
34:24Morgan suddenly finds a USB in the victim's jacket pocket.
34:28And oddly,
34:29it definitely doesn't belong to him.
34:31Back in high school,
34:32the victim made his first tech breakthrough,
34:34designing a high-capacity flash drive.
34:36Plus,
34:37his company still produces this device.
34:39So logically,
34:40he wouldn't use a competitor's product.
34:42Morgan immediately wants to check the USB's contents.
34:45But as soon as she plugs it into the office computer,
34:47the entire system gets infected with a virus.
34:51This further proves the USB's owner had close contact with the victim
34:54and is likely the prime suspect.
34:56When it comes to tracking people,
34:58this is the FBI's specialty.
35:00Morgan and Adam quickly head to their analysis department.
35:03Surprisingly,
35:04the FBI's crime data expert makes a bold claim.
35:07The killer is likely a white,
35:09single,
35:10unemployed man.
35:11Most importantly,
35:12he has the skills to easily approach the victim.
35:15Doesn't that mean the killer is a professional assassin?
35:17Do you have something you want to add?
35:19Well,
35:19I don't have any formal training and profiling.
35:22We know.
35:23The atmosphere grows tense,
35:25but Morgan doesn't back down.
35:27Considering the victim's controversial stance on tech,
35:30she believes the killer must deeply hate him,
35:32a tech-hating nerd.
35:33He might be an extremist against advanced tech,
35:36furious at what the victim's company has done.
35:38This case feels more like a personal grudge.
35:41Morgan's gut instinct completely contradicts
35:43the FBI's professional analysis.
35:46Surprisingly,
35:47results come in quickly.
35:48The tech team just found a suspicious man
35:51in the surveillance footage.
35:52He secretly slipped the USB into the victim's pocket.
35:56Facial recognition identifies him
35:58as an unemployed young drifter.
36:00But after questioning,
36:01the guy with glasses admits
36:02he just wanted the victim's attention.
36:04He found a security flaw in the victim's company system,
36:07so he deliberately planted the USB virus
36:09to prove his skills,
36:11hoping to pitch cybersecurity services
36:12and make money.
36:13He's just a hacker looking for a job,
36:15completely unaware that the victim was poisoned.
36:18Still,
36:19his statement isn't enough to convince the FBI.
36:22As the vehicle carrying the body
36:23reaches a red-light intersection,
36:25a man in black,
36:26holding a gun,
36:27approach,
36:28taps on the window
36:29and pulls the driver onto the road.
36:31He's masked,
36:32quickly checks the body,
36:33then plants a remote-controlled bomb in the car.
36:38The case hasn't even been solved,
36:40and the victim's body explodes into pieces.
36:43The FBI nearly loses it,
36:45tensions rising to the point of a near brawl at the station.
36:48Luckily,
36:48Morgan steps in,
36:50reminding everyone to focus on more important clues.
36:53The victim's two-hour secret meeting before his death.
36:55And who could create such a deadly poison?
36:58To research the toxin,
36:59they need to use the FBI's database.
37:02But Ronnie still doubts Morgan's abilities.
37:04At that moment,
37:05Adam,
37:06fed up,
37:06suggests a bet.
37:08And if we come up empty,
37:10we'll back off the case.
37:11The sooner they cut ties,
37:13the better for solving the case.
37:14So Ronnie and Piliagres.
37:16Over a dozen toxicology experts could have made this poison.
37:20Plus,
37:20the data to sift through amounts to several terabytes.
37:24This is no small challenge for Morgan.
37:26She works tirelessly through the night,
37:28and finally finds a breakthrough.
37:30She discovers a toxicologist named Kenneth Sutton,
37:32who resigned three years ago after his daughter passed away.
37:35Since then,
37:36he lives in seclusion,
37:38completely cut off from the outside world.
37:40The reason his daughter passed away was online harassment.
37:43And coincidentally,
37:44it happened on the social platform the victim developed.
37:47Clearly,
37:48this is the motive for the crime.
37:50The key detail is that Kenneth only left his house once last week,
37:53just to visit the cemetery and lay flowers for his loved one.
37:56But when reviewing surveillance footage,
37:58Morgan notices Sutton wears gloves while placing flowers on his daughter's grave,
38:02but not on others' graves.
38:03This event aligns with the timing of the crime,
38:06just two days before the victim was killed.
38:09This suggests the poison was likely hidden cleverly in the flower bouquet,
38:12and the killer could have retrieved it to commit the crime.
38:15Right away,
38:16the two rush to the suspect's house.
38:18They catch Kenneth just as he returns home.
38:21Realizing he's been exposed,
38:22he panics and bolts down the stairs.
38:25Adam and Morgan immediately chase after him.
38:28An unexpected accident happens.
38:30Kenneth,
38:30in his panic,
38:31slips over the railing.
38:33And just like that,
38:34the poison maker they worked so hard to find dies on the spot from the accident.
38:38Afterward,
38:39the two head to his residence,
38:40hoping to find any remaining clues.
38:43Sure enough,
38:43Morgan's analysis is spot on.
38:45The suspect is indeed a reclusive old man who despises social media.
38:49But what she didn't expect is that
38:51Kenneth also has the personality of a butterfly,
38:53meaning someone with a volatile mindset,
38:55calm one moment,
38:56and explosive the next.
38:57Everyone's got a different organizing style.
39:00Like,
39:00ladybugs prefer to have lots of storage to hide their mess.
39:04Bees,
39:04bees build their hives very structured and efficient,
39:08so the bee organizing style is much more methodical.
39:10Whereas,
39:11crickets like to have things very neat and orderly,
39:14with just a couple of sentimental items front and center.
39:17Butterflies like to have everything out in the open,
39:20so there's quick and easy access to everything.
39:23Much like Kenneth does.
39:24So everything here is arranged with a purpose.
39:27No TV,
39:28no computer,
39:29not even any tech devices at all.
39:31But who really used the poison?
39:33Right then,
39:34Ronnie calls.
39:35Luckily,
39:36Adam kept his cool,
39:38turning a pointless argument into necessary cooperation.
39:41Back at the station,
39:42Adam realizes a key detail.
39:44If the victim had a security team,
39:46the mark on his body couldn't be from a struggle with someone else.
39:49This means during the two-hour secret meeting,
39:51the victim had some sort of physical contact.
39:54Fortunately,
39:55Ronnie tracks down the person the victim met.
39:57It's a young,
39:58beautiful woman who booked a hotel in Orange County right before the incident.
40:02Soon after,
40:03they bring her in for questioning.
40:05They discover that during the meeting,
40:07a heated argument broke out.
40:09This caused a slight bruise on the victim's wrist.
40:12As for the needle-like mark on his neck,
40:14it's actually just a scratch from her earring.
40:16Further checking phone GPS data,
40:18they confirm that neither the woman nor the glasses-wearing hacker ever went near the cemetery.
40:23That means the person who took the poison is the real killer.
40:26But who is the person in that infrared photo?
40:29Morgan remembers seeing some books on the shelf,
40:31tightly sealed in plastic bags.
40:33At that moment,
40:34Morgan suddenly has a realization.
40:36She looks at the book titles and spots an important message.
40:40In one book,
40:41there's a famous quote.
40:42Two flints to make a fire.
40:44Yeah, I think those books belong to Kenneth's daughter.
40:47Parker had a flint hanging on his keychain,
40:49most likely a gift from Julie.
40:50It turns out Parker and Kenneth's daughter were a couple before she passed away.
40:54Kenneth crafted the complex poison,
40:56coated it onto a dog collar,
40:58hid it in the flower bouquet,
40:59and placed it on his daughter's grave.
41:01Parker picked up the collar and secretly put it on the victim's pet dog.
41:05During the flight,
41:06the victim had close contact with the dog,
41:08unaware that the poison was slowly seeping through his skin.
41:10But when the FBI moves in to arrest him,
41:13a major problem arises.
41:15As the task force reaches the hotel,
41:17they find Parker already fled.
41:19Satellite data shows he's heading to Valley Airport,
41:22preparing to steal the victim's private plane.
41:24Adam immediately calls his team,
41:26ordering the hacker to breach the aviation system.
41:29Meanwhile,
41:30the team races after him in their cars.
41:32At that moment,
41:33the plane's engine suddenly loses power.
41:36Parker,
41:37helpless,
41:37bolts outside but gets surrounded on all sides.
41:40With no way out,
41:41Parker finally drops his gun and surrenders.
41:44The case of the tech mogul's poisoning is successfully solved.
41:48Adam and FBI agent Ronnie also make amends after their tense standoff.
41:52But most surprisingly,
41:54Adam turns down an attractive offer from the FBI.
41:57Because now,
41:58he has a better partner.
41:59Morgan.
41:59The police station receives an anonymous email with a photo of a tied-up man inside.
42:19At first,
42:20Adam and his team think it's just a prank.
42:22But to be safe,
42:23they use facial recognition technology.
42:26They identify the victim's home address and decide to investigate in person.
42:30Right at the victim's doorstep,
42:32they place a mysterious box,
42:33challenging the police to solve a puzzle to find the hostage's location.
42:37They only have two hours.
42:39Morgan, though,
42:40stays completely calm.
42:42Even though the puzzle is totally scrambled,
42:44she solves it in just 30 minutes.
42:46Once completed,
42:47the image reveals a map,
42:48but one piece is missing.
42:50Clearly,
42:51this is a clue the culprit left on purpose.
42:53With no other choice,
42:55to save the hostage,
42:56Morgan and Adam head straight to the park marked on the map.
42:59Another game awaits them,
43:00with playing cards hanging all over a tree.
43:03It's Loco Ocho,
43:04a game where they must match colors or numbers.
43:07They need to finish the game to choose between path 1 or path 2.
43:11Adam suggests splitting up to cover both paths,
43:13but Morgan immediately refuses.
43:15Luckily,
43:16the rules are pretty simple.
43:18In no time,
43:19they find the correct path,
43:20which is path 2.
43:22At the end of the path,
43:23another children's game appears.
43:25While Adam struggles to figure out how to play,
43:28Morgan quickly spots a clue hidden inside it.
43:30It's addition and multiplication.
43:33It's either hopscotch for hikers,
43:35or hopscotch for second grade algebra teachers.
43:46It's azimuth and elevation.
43:49Telling us where to go?
43:50No, telling us where to look.
43:51They just need to adjust the horizontal direction,
43:54vertical angle,
43:55and height correctly.
43:56This leads them to the next clue left by the kidnapper.
43:59The Valley Days storage facility.
44:01Remember the photo of the tied-up hostage?
44:04It's pitch black around him,
44:05with only the camera flash providing light.
44:08The hostage is clearly being held in a storage unit.
44:11Using the rental records,
44:12they quickly find the severely injured man among a row of small rooms.
44:16After being rushed to the hospital,
44:18the man says he never saw the kidnapper's face.
44:21The kidnapper just kept forcing him to play all sorts of games.
44:25But he was so terrified that he couldn't even hold the cards.
44:28In the end,
44:29the kidnapper bluntly turned him into a pawn in a deadly game with the police.
44:33Morgan feels a headache coming on with this case.
44:36The culprit leaves no obvious gaps and has no clear motive.
44:39With the case still stalled,
44:41Selena suggests everyone take a break.
44:43Since no one died,
44:44the team can attend the police awards party tomorrow night.
44:48But before Morgan can even shop for a dress,
44:50the police get a report from the hotel hosting the event.
44:53Someone placed three dolls in the hotel hallway.
44:56They have provocative messages written on them.
44:58Clearly another riddle set by the culprit.
45:01The fun has just begun.
45:03Since this area is outside the surveillance cameras range and the crowd is too large,
45:07the police can't identify the suspect.
45:09Morgan carefully examines each doll,
45:11even checking the saws of their shoes,
45:13but finds no clues.
45:15There's no way this is just a simple threat.
45:18At that moment,
45:19Oz,
45:19standing behind,
45:20hesitantly speaks up.
45:22It turns out he knows the victim from the previous case.
45:25They both attended a support group for people who lost loved ones.
45:29The victim only mentioned the storage unit during a meeting,
45:32meaning the kidnapper is likely a member of the group too.
45:34But since Oz rarely attended,
45:36he can't recall everyone's faces.
45:38He and Daphne meet with the group leader,
45:40who reveals a man named David once talked about childhood games he played with his sister.
45:45But since his sister passed away,
45:47he had no one to play with anymore.
45:49A few days ago,
45:50David invited the group to a bar to play games.
45:52But no one accepted.
45:54It's likely that,
45:55after being rejected,
45:56David took out his frustration on the support group members.
45:59As the suspect emerges,
46:01Oz plans to call a sketch artist to draw David's face.
46:03But the group leader suddenly mentions something odd.
46:06A girl named Sierra,
46:07who never missed the meeting,
46:09suddenly go silent today.
46:10She doesn't answer her phone or reply to messages.
46:14Oz immediately senses something's wrong and alerts the police.
46:18Upon receiving the news,
46:19Morgan rushes to Sierra's house.
46:21But when she steps inside,
46:23she finds the room in complete chaos.
46:25Clearly, before being kidnapped,
46:27Sierra fought back hard.
46:29Why would someone place a bookshelf right in front of the door?
46:32The only explanation is that someone moved it on purpose.
46:36Morgan turns off all the lights in the room
46:37and pulls the curtains shut.
46:45Morgan recalls that Sierra is a sign language interpreter.
46:48Plus, the word tell doesn't just mean to speak.
46:51It can also mean to direct or reveal something.
46:54Sierra's an ASL interpreter.
46:56Maybe that's why he chose her.
46:57You can't tell in the dark means you can't talk in the dark, right?
47:00You know who can't talk in the dark?
47:02People who are deaf
47:03because you have to be able to see sign language in order to use it.
47:05The dolls.
47:06You see their hands?
47:08They're all telling us something in sign language.
47:11Each hand gesture on the dolls represents a letter.
47:14Morgan quickly tries different arrangements in her head
47:16and finally cracks the correct answer.
47:19Pico X1.
47:20That's the name of an art gallery
47:21that announced its closure a few days ago
47:23and is now up for rent.
47:24The police team springs into action
47:26and quickly finds Sierra locked in the gallery's safe.
47:29But due to the safe sealing mechanism,
47:31the oxygen inside is nearly gone.
47:34Luckily, the clue for the password is pretty clear,
47:37hidden in a children's game painting on the wall.
47:39Game has different names all over the world.
47:40The oldest one here being knuckle bones in Central Asia.
47:43They used goat and sheep bones as the game pieces, 10 total.
47:47Next in South Asia, it's called unjeweled cow, meaning five stones.
47:50And finally in Japan, they use bags filled with beans,
47:52specifically seven bags of beans.
47:54So, by arranging them in chronological order,
47:57the sequence 1057 is the code to unlock the safe.
48:01As the safe door swings open, Sierra is rescued safely.
48:04Though Morgan wins again, she knows one thing for sure.
48:07The culprit is obsessed with games.
48:10After losing two rounds in a row,
48:11he'll definitely want to turn the tables.
48:14She hopes the police will cancel tonight's awards ceremony.
48:17But Selena firmly refuses.
48:19It only happens once every four years.
48:21How can they cancel it over a kidnapper?
48:24Morgan at Zoom, feeling helpless.
48:26The only comfort is that her ex-husband and kids,
48:29knowing how hard she works,
48:30specially bought her a dress for the party.
48:33That night, when Morgan shows up at the event looking stunning,
48:36Adam can't help but admire her.
48:38Turns out his colleague cleans up pretty nicely.
48:40But as darkness falls, a masked figure stalks Oz.
48:44Oz puts his key in the car,
48:46and the airbag suddenly deploys, knocking him out.
48:48Daphne is the first to notice Oz is missing.
48:52She goes to his building to search but only finds a silk tie on his car,
48:55along with an hourglass.
48:57On it, a note reads Marco.
48:59Clearly, this is David's third game.
49:02But this time, the clues are too scarce.
49:05Even with Morgan's brilliance,
49:06she can only deduce from Marco and the silk tie,
49:09linking it to Marco Polo,
49:10where Polo could also mean warrior.
49:12But in Los Angeles,
49:14there are thousands of clubs named warrior.
49:15Finding someone hidden so well is nearly impossible.
49:19Luckily, Daphne makes a major breakthrough.
49:22From the first game until now,
49:24David always uses different fonts for his messages.
49:27By taking the first letter of each font name
49:29and arranging them chronologically,
49:31they form a new word.
49:32Roka, yes!
49:33The person named Roka is actually a famous architect.
49:37Though he designed many houses in Los Angeles,
49:39only one has a pool.
49:41The team races to the scene.
49:42They find Oz on the verge of suffocating under the pool.
49:46Since both female officers are in formal dresses,
49:49Adam steps in.
49:50He dives in,
49:51struggles to unlock the chains on Oz,
49:53and finally pulls him to safety.
49:55After a tense resuscitation,
49:57Oz finally regains his breathing.
50:00This means the police win the final game.
50:02But a few days later,
50:03Oz looks up the property records and tracks down David.
50:06Oddly, that person was arrested and jailed months ago.
50:10He couldn't possibly have committed the crimes.
50:12It turns out the kidnapper used a fake identity
50:15to lure the police into his orchestrated game.
50:17As the case hits another dead end,
50:19Morgan bumps into a kind man at the grocery store.
50:22He not only helps her carry her bags,
50:24but also wins over her kids with his charm.
50:27At first,
50:28Morgan thinks it's just a normal encounter.
50:30But when she gets home,
50:31her second son hands her a board game,
50:33saying he's not into old-fashioned games like that.
50:36She never bought this game for her kids.
50:38When she examines the text on the box,
50:41a face suddenly flashes in her mind.
50:43The culprit always lurks in the shadows,
50:45quietly watching her solve his riddles.
50:48Now, with just a slight change in appearance,
50:50he manages to deliver a game invitation directly to her.
50:53Right then,
50:54Morgan's phone rings.
50:55It's Adam calling.
50:57He just looked up some information.
50:59Morgan S. Usband,
51:00Roman,
51:00might still be alive.
51:02It's Adam's phone rings.
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