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00:25You
00:26Your timing is incredible
00:27Remember when I thought this job would be cool and sexy having second thoughts not really two days ago
00:33We landed on an aircraft carrier in the high seas, but today is not that day. How are you? Good?
00:39Just waking up after a blissful night of sleep
00:42Uninterrupted by your snoring. I am not the one who snores. Oh, yeah, that's right
00:47So no aircraft carriers today? No today is back-to-back meetings about the technical specifications for the next-gen
00:54tactical triage kits
00:57Very funny you call me later. Yeah, I sure will. It's a date. Love you. I love you, too
01:28You don't have clearance to be here
01:29Carl likes me Carl's gonna be writing parking tickets in hell after this be mad at me
01:34Don't take it out on Carl. You don't get to tell me how to process this Luna
01:38You have a hots for another guy that is reductionist. What's that? SAT word? We've been married 20 years
01:43You cannot tell me that in all that time your eye never wandered not in a way that will result
01:48in you moving into a hotel
01:50LA is full of pretty girls, but none of them are you, Luna
01:57I'm trying to figure out what to do quit your job never see him again. Say you're sorry. I got
02:01more if you need them. I am sorry
02:04But it's not that simple and I will not quit this job
02:12Then I don't know what there is to talk about
02:18All right, let's get started so here's what I have to report from the overnight watch nothing
02:23Here's what I have to report from the brass
02:26Nothing, and here's what I have to report about today's forecast
02:29Nothing. Okay, I'm sorry. I mean if that's the case, then why are we still having roll call?
02:33Because the nothingness of it is alarming
02:35Yeah, saying things are too quiet as a cliche, but like most cliches there's a little bit of truth to
02:40it. Jen's right
02:41The odds of getting no instructions from up the food chain no activity from overnight that requires follow-up nothing
02:46actionable in today's forecast feels abnormal
02:49And we hate abnormal. This is all I have for you today. Keep your heads on a damn swivel and
02:54stay safe. That's it
02:59Thank you. There he is. Thank you. Hey, sorry to just drop by shouldn't you be in school school is
03:06a state of mind today
03:08I want to go to the school of John Nolan
03:10It's a professional development day and I go on a ride along because you're thinking of becoming a police officer
03:14that
03:14And I'm making a short film and I need some dynamic police footage
03:19Because you saved my life. I'm gonna say yes, but I'm gonna warn you patrol work can be unpredictable honestly
03:24We could be watching grass grow at the edge of a crime scene all day
03:27Or you could be involved in an epic car chase throughout the streets of los angeles with a gritty french
03:31connection vibe hopefully at or near sunset
03:33Or something equally cinematic
03:35Careful what you wish for dash. Where's the fun in that?
03:38You take this
03:40It's heavy. Yep. Off we go. Yep
03:46It's gonna go great by all accounts ryan dearborn has turned his life around
03:50He's on the right medications and he's been clear and consistent about what glasser did to him
03:54He's a hail mary and we both know what the guy was arrested hiding under the floors of his rv
03:58He confessed to glasser's murders any new details only the killer could know because glasser groomed him inside westview
04:03Yeah, but at the end of the day, it's still gonna come down to whether the jury believes a man
04:06who has struggled with severe mental illness over
04:08A family man a model citizen they'll believe because you'll make them believe that's sweet, but I do not have
04:15the upper hand here
04:18Sorry to interrupt
04:20Just wanted to tell you both good morning. Someone's in high spirits. Are you not? I guess i'm just a
04:25Morning person or maybe i'm anticipating your latest star witness being another dud
04:29I just really love watching somebody else's train wreck well see you in there
04:38Hey, how are you fine is the only answer i have time for wonder if you can do me a
04:43bit of an odd favor
04:44Are you gonna ask me to do something classified?
04:46No literally i'm gonna ask you to knock on the door until you open it
04:50Remember the criminal nolan and garza flew back from vegas?
04:54Everett right the military contractor who forced the aircraft to crash and escaped briefly escaped, but yes
05:00Something's come up as we've been digging deeper into his criminal operation an unexplained connection inside the pentagon
05:07Literally, it's an office number that we can't get clarity on without making it known that we're interested
05:13And you want me to wander down the hall and see who's in it obviously act like it's the wrong
05:17office if someone opens the door
05:18Okay, i'll do that after my next meeting what is the uh office number
05:26I am not in your movie right sorry
05:29It's just you have a jawline that screams leading man
05:33So what time do things usually get crazy i feel like most criminals sleep in
05:37Well every day is different but most of the people we deal with are not career criminals
05:41They're just ordinary citizens who make a bad choice in a high stress situation and it sounds like my mom's
05:46dating history
05:46Although she got better after she divorced my dad now. They're all just losers not podcast ads for toxic masculinity.
05:53I'm sorry that can't be easy
05:55It's fine
05:56Sarcasm heals most wounds just wanted to be happy, you know
06:00Seven lincoln 15 are you available for a wellness check out at the old west view hospital facility?
06:05That sounds boring maybe pass on that
06:08I thought west view shut down last year
06:09It did they've had a remediation crew working there for the last six months to make it safe for demolition
06:14According to the supervisor they haven't had contact with the crew since yesterday
06:18They sent another truck this morning and haven't heard back from them either
06:21This is seven adam 11 radio and cell traffic at that site are spotty on a good day
06:26It was a real issue for us during the glasser investigation
06:30Yeah, i can go check it out no reason for you to go back there
06:32You heard bradford we are being extra vigilant today
06:35It's a huge campus. It's better for two units to respond. All right. I'll see you there. Hey, you know
06:40We don't have to respond. There's zero judgment from this seat. I appreciate that you think I care about your
06:45judgment of me
06:49I was trying to be nice and yet that is the one thing that I am not evaluating you on
06:56You got something else to say no ma'am. Oh, so now you're lying to me no ma'am
07:02It's just when you're in the mood you can start a fight in the empty house
07:15What is this place what remains of the westview hospital back in the 1940s and 50s it housed hundreds of
07:22patients
07:22Many of them stricken with polio that's not even to mention the massive mental hospital complex that was recently condemned
07:28is it haunted
07:30No, is that like a hard no or is that like I don't believe in that sort of thing so
07:38Is that a dead body control we got a db
07:46Control this is 7 lincoln 15 do you copy
07:51Check your phone
07:53No service
07:55Stay in the car but this is the perfect stay in the car
08:06Is anybody else in your drive-in no it's a ghost sound according to dispatch the original crew is 20
08:12people this could be the guy
08:13They sent in to check on them. I think they sent more than him the passenger doors are wide open
08:22You're selling radio out too. Yeah
08:26Is that drone kid in your car yeah dash he wanted to go on a ride-along and you chose
08:32today
08:33You're in uniform. I thought you were a detective the story for another time stay in the car
08:38What happened to him?
08:42What the hell was that take the kid and drop back until you find a signal call for backup
08:46We'll stay with the body right we will I mean yeah
08:50We will look out
08:59Easy easy
09:07What do we do?
09:18What do we do?
09:19Do we shoot him?
09:20No
09:23No
09:56Where's Dash?
10:21Push down.
10:52Oh, my God.
11:26I don't know.
11:56I-I gotta go find him.
11:57If I had to guess, these guys got exposed to something causing some kind of acute neurotoxicity, turning them into
12:01homicidal maniacs?
12:02Which makes them victims, no matter their current psychological state.
12:05That's all well and good.
12:06Well, are you saying we let them kill us and we end up in a fight for our lives?
12:09No, no.
12:10Just that lethal force cannot be our first option.
12:13Right now, we have two priorities.
12:15Find and protect the kid and get a call out for backup.
12:18All right, I'm going after Dash.
12:19We should split up. Increase the odds of one of us finding a cell or radio signal.
12:23All right, let's get gone.
12:31Oh. Mr. Dearborn. Thanks for coming in.
12:34I-I wasn't sure what to wear.
12:36You look great.
12:38This is Malcolm Walsh. He represents Liam Glasser.
12:41Oh. I-I didn't realize...
12:42The law allows me to access evidence prior to trial in order to provide an adequate defense, which means I
12:47can participate in your deposition.
12:51Okay. No problem.
12:53But you're not going to get mad if I tell the truth about your client, right?
12:57I promise.
12:59Only if you promise not to get mad at me for questioning that truth with vigor.
13:03Deal.
13:03All right.
13:04Do you recall confessing to the murders attributed to Liam Glasser?
13:07Yes. I was at the police station.
13:09And do you recall why you confessed?
13:12I was unmedicated at the time in the midst of a mental breakdown. A part of me believed that I
13:17did those horrible things. But now I know I didn't.
13:20So why did a part of you believe that you committed those murders?
13:23I was coerced into thinking that I hurt people during psychotic moments when I lost time.
13:28Coerced by who?
13:29Liam Glasser.
13:30Over the course of the next two years, he began to fill my head with details of murders he said
13:36I committed. Whenever I would waver, he'd threaten me.
13:39Are you saying that you made a false confession because he made you believe that you committed those crimes? Or
13:45because you were afraid of what he would do if you didn't?
13:48A bit of both.
13:49You have to understand. The voices I hear, the faces I see, they can be scary. But nothing terrified me
14:00as much as Liam Glasser.
14:06The look in his eyes when he told me what he did, as he described in minute detail what it
14:14felt like to carve a person up.
14:20It made my own demons pale in comparison. We should take a break.
14:26It's creepy in here.
14:29We have none of this in sugar land.
14:36Hello. Hello.
14:39Can you hear me?
14:43Oh, that is not okay.
14:46Not today, playboy.
14:49I want to get home.
14:51Oh, that is okay.
15:06I want to take a break.
15:07No, I can't, I just believe it.
15:10Do I die.
15:16I want me to have And I will WIL zaw Marigne.
15:19Why?!
15:31Hello, testing, testing.
15:37Come on, signal.
16:05Come on.
16:20Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
16:31Oh, come on.
17:16Oh, come on.
17:46Oh, come on.
18:16Oh, come on.
18:29Oh, come on.
18:35Oh, come on.
18:38Oh, come on.
18:45that was badass and i got it on camera here sweet thanks here coffee him
19:01you okay wish i'd stretch first but uh not bad from now on try to stay with the group
19:07well it wasn't exactly on purpose but uh i'll do my best where's everybody else exactly come on
20:00come on
20:02come on
20:38oh thank god are you hurt no just terrified were you in the truck that came to check on the
20:44main
20:44crew yeah with hank and gail well the crazies caught him the second he got out of the truck
20:50just kept beating and tearing at him i don't know what happened to gail i started running
20:54but i'm safe now yeah say fish that's thanks there's not many of us here and we can't get a
21:00signal out to call for backup how is that safe at all because when the lapd doesn't hear from us
21:04they will send more people i just have to keep you safe until then
21:12oh
21:30okay
21:43let's get out of here
21:44go
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22:02go
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22:05go
22:05I'll see you all, see you now?
22:08The calls are coming
22:11I'm coming for you
22:14You won't come yet
22:18When you wish it will
22:42You won't come yet
22:43You won't come yet
22:46You won't come yet
22:47This way
22:48Bring your own
22:49Faster, faster, faster
22:51Faster, faster, faster
22:52You won't burn it
22:54When you're in rent
22:55When it's still comes around
22:57Oh, no
22:58Oh, no
23:01Oh, my God.
23:44Can I help you?
23:46Oh, hi. Yeah, I was looking for a Colonel Ratcliffe. I was told his office was here.
23:51No.
23:52Okay, there's no name on the signage, so who exactly are you?
23:58Sorry. I'm just looking for a little help here.
24:00Have you been in the office long? Maybe he used to be here?
24:04I can't help you.
24:07Okay. No problem.
24:21What happened to that?
24:22Something overloaded their limbic systems, forcing their bodies to produce massive amounts of stress chemistry, cortisol, histamine, cytokines.
24:28But they're wearing hazmat suits.
24:30Yeah, at the cleanup site where we've been remediating the Project Ultra Chemicals, but I heard they just discovered it
24:34wasn't the only area on campus that was contaminated.
24:36Where our crew was staging was also compromised, possibly with thallium and iophetamine.
24:40They were exposed to both of those in high doses over time?
24:44You managed to get a call out.
24:45I got a brief signal next door, but my phone got smashed.
24:49Where's Miles?
24:50I don't know.
24:51I hope he got out.
24:53Let's move.
25:35Move.
25:36Move.
25:39Move.
25:50Move.
26:00Oh, jeez.
26:08Go, I got the back.
26:20You managed to get a call out?
26:21No, but by this point dispatch would have started additional units
26:24when we didn't check in, right?
26:27Right.
26:34Officials 7, Adam 300, arriving at Westview Hospital Campus.
26:39No sign of responding units.
26:41Who's missing? I've been in meetings.
26:43Or Miles and Nolan.
26:46Hey, Pete, you're breaking up.
26:48Oh.
26:50Hold on, we got movement.
26:53Did you see the brush?
26:54Yeah.
26:55We're going 6 to investigate. Something's going on here.
27:12We got a dead body.
27:14We need backup.
27:17Hey, look up. Stay right there, sir.
27:19Just stay where you are.
27:20Hey, sir.
27:24Code Alpha, Westview Hospital. Repeat all units.
27:27Code Alpha, Westview Hospital.
27:29Yeah!
27:35Yeah!
27:37Yeah!
27:38Yeah!
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