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00:00Previously on R.J. Decker.
00:02R.J. Freakin' Decker, they let you out already?
00:04I'm a P.I. now.
00:05Detective Ebreu, hello, how are you?
00:07How is everything at the trailer park?
00:08You making new friends?
00:09I'm on trial.
00:11Good luck today.
00:13Mm-hmm, thanks.
00:14Would you please state your name and relationship to the victim?
00:16I'm Emmy Ochoa, Lucas is my step-brother,
00:19and that's the man who almost killed him.
00:20If I hadn't lied to protect Lucas, there would have been consequences.
00:23But it was still wrong, and I'm sorry.
00:26A sinkhole opened up outside your window three weeks ago,
00:29and you didn't come to stay with us then?
00:30You wanted to see me.
00:32You can stay here one week, and then you go.
00:35I was exonerated.
00:36The very first thing I did was I bought a scratcher,
00:39and that scratcher paid out a million bucks.
00:41I'm not released this day instead of the next.
00:43Who knows what comes of me?
01:16Dear friend, if you wanna feel better,
01:18don't let the devil make you toss this letter.
01:21If you've been crossed up by who-do, who-do, a wizard or a wizard
01:25You got family trouble, man trouble, woman trouble, no nice, just a brother
01:30You're looking for a true friend, or a true lover, or if you've been living undercover
01:34Well, I'm coming to your town to break it all down
01:37Go, go, go, go, shut the top door
01:39I'm looking at helping my list
01:41Contact me in the past, don't move, enter the air
01:48I'm here to tear all the walls down
01:55Hot damn, that's a lot of weed
01:57In case you were wondering which of your pals tipped us off
02:00It's an old lady, wants her dog around here
02:02Kept reporting suspicious activity like she was trying to win a radio contest
02:07Karens, am I right?
02:09It's not cannabis, it's carnivorous
02:13He said it's not cannabis, it's carnivorous
02:15They're not marijuana plants, they're venous fly traps
02:26Hey detective, over here
02:28Let's go
02:34Is that a meat grinder?
02:39You gotta see this
02:47Question for you, son
02:50Who exactly have you been feeding to your plants?
03:01You're real bad at this, bro
03:03Okay
03:04Seriously, if breaking into cars and baseball, you'd be the Rockies
03:08Well, maybe if I had a better teacher
03:09You got the best in four labs
03:11Don't blame me for your old man finish
03:13Whoa
03:14I think you mean you were the best, right?
03:16Because you know what happens if I find out you're unretired?
03:18Tell my mom
03:19Yes
03:19Which is worse than telling the cops
03:21That's right
03:22Ain't happening
03:23I am D-O-N-E
03:25Done, son
03:28Stupid picket's broken or something
03:37Why'd you do that?
03:39What are you doing in my car?
03:40Oh, hey, Kath, this is Darius
03:42He's helping me out with this new skill I might need as a PI
03:47It's 9 a.m. on a Monday
03:48Shouldn't Darius be in school?
03:50No, ma'am
03:50Some dude lived near the school lost his bowl constrictor
03:54We're all supposed to stay home until animal control finds him
03:58Thanks
04:00Found the key to the file drawers
04:02Unless you'd like to pick that lock, too
04:14Okay
04:15This is great
04:16I have a place to, uh, put all my files
04:23I take it things are still a little slow?
04:25Yeah
04:26Yeah, they're a bit slow
04:27They're picking up
04:28Wish texted me last night and said he had a new client for me
04:31Oh, shoot
04:32Actually, I gotta meet the guy in 20 minutes
04:35Will he be older than 12?
04:40Hey, where's the client?
04:44Oh, God
04:45Wish
04:46I mean, we've been over this
04:48I, I, I need work
04:50I don't need charity
04:51This is a genuine case, Arch
04:53Genuine case? Really?
04:55Like, like the case of the missing deep fryer?
04:56You remember that one?
04:57He told me he was stolen, but that was bull
04:59It was just out for repairs
05:00Then there was the time you wanted a list of names
05:02Background checks so they could work here
05:04Only they turned out to be the starting O-line for the 84 Dolphins
05:07I swear, had any of those gentlemen been interested
05:09I'd have hired him
05:12Wish I...
05:15You remember me telling you about Waylon Abernathy?
05:19Yeah
05:20Yeah, of course
05:21He was your Sally the first time you got left up
05:25Showed you the ropes
05:26Just like you did for me
05:28Prison being prison
05:29Where the wrong look at the wrong time
05:31Can get you a sharpened toothbrush
05:33Through the old Adams apple
05:34I think you'll agree
05:36It's the sort of kindness you don't soon forget
05:39Hence why I want to hire you
05:41To get Waylon's son Marcus out of a spot of trouble
05:45What's trouble?
05:47Swear it's real?
05:48Always real
05:51He even made the paper
06:04Answering
06:06Answering
06:09Answering
06:10Answering
06:12Answering
06:16Answeringroller
06:17Answering
06:19Music
06:30Marcus, how you doing?
06:31My name's R.J. Decker.
06:32I'm a private investigator.
06:34Yeah, I know the guards told me,
06:35but if you're looking for work, I'm sorry.
06:36I can't afford you.
06:37Not much I already paid for.
06:39I'm a friend of Wish Aikens.
06:41Mr. Aikens sent you?
06:42Yeah, he sure did.
06:43He tells me there's no way you could have done what they're saying.
06:46No, no, no, sir.
06:47Not in a million years.
06:49So far, all I know is what I've read in the papers.
06:51The police were expecting to find marijuana in your grow house.
06:55It wasn't my grow house.
06:57It was Clem's.
06:58Clem Crayshaw.
06:59He's the one who hired me.
07:00He's a fly trap poacher.
07:02He's a what now?
07:03Fly traps are rare.
07:05That's what makes him valuable.
07:07The only place to grow naturally in the whole world
07:09is the southeast corner of North Carolina.
07:11That's where he would steal his.
07:13So you and this Clem guy, you guys were, what, partners?
07:16Clem was good at poaching.
07:17He's terrible with plants.
07:19He hired me out of the garden center I was working at.
07:21Just to make sure his plants were fed and watered right.
07:26And I knew it was wrong.
07:27And I just, my girlfriend Kelly Lynn, she just told me she was pregnant.
07:31And I just thought, don't worry about that.
07:33That's fine.
07:35But I got to ask, how was it you didn't notice a freezer full of body parts?
07:42The freezer was in a storeroom that Clem kept locked.
07:44Before he hired me, he told me he was feeding the plants, ground-up roadkill.
07:47I said that was no good.
07:48That the best thing for fly traps was mealworms.
07:51And so then whenever I got there, there was a big bag of mealworms waiting for me.
07:55Well, according to the paper, the police found it with a big old bag of John Doe.
08:01Clem and I, we barely saw each other.
08:04And we spoke mostly over Snapchat.
08:07I'd tell him what I needed, he'd make sure I got it.
08:09And then a couple days ago, he sent me a message and said that he forgot to order the mealworms.
08:16And the fly traps would have to go back to roadkill for a while.
08:23Don't you get it?
08:25Clem killed John Doe.
08:27And he was using me and the plants to get rid of the body.
08:29The cops, they want me to tell them who the dead guy is, but I can't.
08:32I don't, I don't know.
08:34Right, and since they have to lead some messages after you read them, you can't prove Clem told you to
08:39do anything.
08:40You know, the night they arrested me, they made me look in the freezer.
08:44It was a torso, and two arms and two legs, and the head and the hands were missing.
08:50But Clem didn't just cut the guy up, he carved him up too.
08:53What do you mean?
08:54The dead guy?
08:56His biceps and butt cheeks were missing.
08:58His biceps and butt cheeks were missing?
09:01They have to be in that bag of meat that Clem gave me.
09:04Okay, them and the head and the hands all ground up.
09:06Please, I just want to go home to Kelly Lynn.
09:10I just want to help with the pregnancy.
09:13You have to find Clem.
09:24Yeah, look at those priors.
09:25She's not the one we're looking for.
09:27Print that for me, would you?
09:29It's just in the neighborhood.
09:30You want something?
09:31Well, can't a guy living in his ex-wife's pool house pay her new wife a visit without wanting something?
09:37I mean, please.
09:38If you didn't, you wouldn't be holding a bag of what I assume are pastelitos from my favorite bakery.
09:44All right.
09:46I caught a new case.
09:47Marcus Abernathy, he's accused of...
09:49Oh, yeah, turning some John Doe into plant food.
09:51Yes.
09:52Not my case.
09:52Can't help people.
09:53Okay, well, even if it isn't your case, you could give me a wee peek at the case file.
09:57I got a lead on a new suspect I'd like for it.
09:59Clem Crayshaw.
10:00I just, I want to know if he's on your radar.
10:02That's all I want to know.
10:05Uh, meet me outside in ten minutes.
10:08I'll bring you the files.
10:09Really?
10:10No, idiot.
10:11Also, the house.
10:12Stop leaving the seat up.
10:14You leave with three women.
10:16Three.
10:17RJ.
10:23Kelly Lynn?
10:24It's, uh, Aloysius Aiken.
10:26I believe Marcus' public defender told you to expect me.
10:31So, um, Marcus' attorney said that you were friends with Marcus' dad or something?
10:36Yeah, Waylon.
10:38Yeah, me and him, uh, did a stretch together at Zephyril's Correctional about 20 years ago.
10:43Yeah, Waylon took me under his wing, helped me understand what it took to survive.
10:48Taught you how to make shivs and stuff like that?
10:50No.
10:51Um, opposite.
10:52You know, he taught me how to keep a low profile, avoid confidentiality.
10:57If it weren't for old Waylon, a, uh, decent and thoughtful man who spied his penchant for
11:03cloning credit cards, ain't no way I'd have made it through.
11:07Marcus never really talked about him.
11:10Yeah, well, Marcus never got to know him.
11:13Yeah, Waylon was already serving his sentence when Marcus was born.
11:17And a couple of years later, Waylon was diagnosed with leukemia.
11:22Uh, before he died in the infirmary, he made me promise to, uh, keep an eye on his boy.
11:30Make sure he didn't line up where we had.
11:33How's that going?
11:38Well, um, need anything else?
11:41Let me know.
11:47Darla Sims?
11:49Hi.
11:49Uh, my name's RJ Decker.
11:51I'm a private investigator.
11:53I-I was hoping I could ask you a-a few questions about your ex-husband, Clem Crayshaw.
11:58Can you come back at five?
12:00That's when I close.
12:02I'll answer any question you like.
12:06I mean, is there any reason why we can't talk right now?
12:08I'm at work.
12:11When I'm at work, talk is for customers.
12:15No.
12:16No.
12:17Clem is a crook.
12:18And a so-so lay.
12:20But no way could he kill anyone.
12:22Let alone cut him in pieces.
12:25Well, there is a John Doe in the morrow, you might say, otherwise.
12:29Frame up.
12:29Frame up.
12:30It has to be.
12:31The Clem I know wouldn't hurt a fly.
12:33Uh, I take that back.
12:34He must have hurt flies with all the damn fly traps.
12:37Okay, so you knew about them?
12:39Sure.
12:40Did you-you know he was a poacher?
12:41I even went on a few expeditions with him and his pal Gary to North Carolina.
12:46Sorry, who's Gary?
12:47Is Gary a business partner?
12:48Drinking buddy.
12:48He has that flower shop on Cordova, Gary's Flowers.
12:52He would help Clem keep the little buggers alive and drive back to Fort Lauderdale.
12:57Have you heard from Clem lately?
12:59The last time was about a year ago.
13:02I texted him that he was late on an alimony payment, and he replies with this.
13:18Clem is a big Doors fan.
13:21The one on the left cheek is supposed to be Jim Morrison.
13:23I see that, yes.
13:25And on the right, you got most of the lyrics to the end.
13:27Ah.
13:27I didn't think it was funny, but he sure did.
13:33Does Clem have any other tattoos?
13:39Hey, hey.
13:40Wish.
13:41We got a problem.
13:44All right.
13:45Is that someone's rear you're showing me?
13:46Yeah, it's the rear of the guy Marcus was working for, Clem Crayshaw.
13:51The one he said had to be the real killer?
13:53Get the tattoo.
13:57In the end.
13:58Oh, that's pretty good.
14:00Actually, it's bad.
14:01According to his ex-wife, the only other tattoos he had were on his arms.
14:05Stick a dynamite on each bicep.
14:07So?
14:08So the body the police found in the freezer, it wasn't just missing his head and hands.
14:12It was missing his butt and biceps, too.
14:14Because if I'm right, it's because the killer wanted to get rid of all of John Doe's identifying features.
14:19Teeth, fingerprints, and tattoos.
14:22I don't think Clem put the body in the freezer.
14:24I think Clem was the body in the freezer.
14:28Marcus told you this Clem guy had to be the killer.
14:31Finding him was how you were going to clear Marcus of John Doe's murder.
14:35But if Clem is John Doe, who the hell was sending instructions to Marcus over Snapchat?
14:42Well, you're assuming somebody was.
14:46Which, in this case, it's not about a payday for me.
14:49You know, that I want to do right by you as badly as you want to do right by Waylon.
14:53But?
14:55But...
14:58You sure Marcus couldn't have done this?
15:00Hell, you mad him. What do you think?
15:02Look, hear me out.
15:03Marcus found out he was having a baby.
15:05And maybe he realized he needed to make more money.
15:08So what?
15:09He kills his boss to take over his flytrap business?
15:12Uh-huh.
15:24No.
15:25Uh-uh.
15:26Marcus didn't do this.
15:27You stay the course, find a way to figure it out.
15:30But if the police don't already know Clem is John Doe, they're going to know soon.
15:33And they're going to turn up the heat on Marcus.
15:35Well, then, you're going to have to work fast now, won't you?
15:39Okay.
15:49Morning.
15:50Truth.
15:50Sorry.
15:51I tried your office.
15:52It wasn't open yet.
15:53So you figured you'd wait out here like a stalker?
15:56I thought seeing me in a parking garage might bring back some pleasant memories.
16:02What do you want?
16:04Well, I have a new client.
16:06Marcus Abernathy.
16:07The police and the DA's office like him for murder, I don't.
16:10So?
16:11So the district attorney is a political ally of your dad's.
16:15I repeat, so?
16:17Listen, I'm flying a little blind here, okay?
16:20I want to know if the police have anything on Marcus other than him being in the vicinity of the
16:24body.
16:25I want to know if they looked at any other suspects.
16:28So you want me to flex a little Ochoan muscle, find out what the DA's office knows that you don't?
16:34Mm-hmm.
16:35So this is how we square things between us?
16:38Me doing you favors so you can make your 50 bucks an hour plus expenses?
16:43Oh, yeah.
16:44You know, you could go to prison for 18 months.
16:48Mm-hmm.
16:51What's your client's name?
17:00Knock, knock.
17:00Knock, I just wanted to come and say thanks for coming to see me yesterday.
17:07Brownies.
17:09Homemade.
17:12Well, aren't you sweet?
17:14Oh, please.
17:15For all you're doing, it isn't enough.
17:21Oh.
17:24I can't believe that Marcus never told me that he knew an honors-to-goodness lottery winner.
17:31I did, um, Google you after you left.
17:34Saw your whole story.
17:36Oh.
17:37You know, I-
17:37I confess, I will never understand how so much good fortune landed on someone like me.
17:42But the Lord, like the Florida State Lottery Commission, works in mysterious...
17:49Like I said,
17:51the Brownies aren't enough.
17:54No.
17:55No, no, no, ma'am.
17:57Uh-uh.
17:57Nope, nope, nope.
17:58Tell me that you don't like what you see.
18:02So, all I see, all I saw was a woman carrying the child of a young man who I care
18:09about like family.
18:10I'm not pregnant.
18:12I just told Marcus that to kick his butt into high gear.
18:16Get him making some real money.
18:22Did it ever occur to you that if you hadn't, then maybe he wouldn't have taken the job that ended
18:27up landing him in jail?
18:30Clothes back on.
18:32I will scream.
18:37I know that you care about Marcus, but he's a terrible provider.
18:43He promised me two years ago that we would move to Nashville, and now every time it comes up, it's
18:48just,
18:49Oh, sorry, babe.
18:50Can't afford it.
18:51And last month, when my car got impounded, and I said that I needed it back, like, yesterday.
18:57Oh, sorry, babe.
18:58Can't afford it.
18:59Okay, so that's why you're here.
19:01Because you think I got real money.
19:03No.
19:03It's because you're so good looking.
19:07If you're going to get Marcus out of jail, do it fast.
19:09We've got bills piling up.
19:22Hey, how much for one of these?
19:23Big ones are 50.
19:25Small ones are 30.
19:27You know, it's funny.
19:27I didn't know fly traps were native to Florida.
19:31They're not.
19:34Oh.
19:35Let me guess.
19:36You have a guy.
19:37Uh, something like that.
19:39Is his name Clemy Cresha?
19:41By any chance?
19:42Hi, I'm R.J. Decker.
19:43I'm a private investigator.
19:45Probably should have started with that.
19:46You're Gary, correct?
19:48I got your name from Clem's ex-wife, Darla.
19:51Am I in some sort of trouble?
19:52Well, Gary, that depends.
19:55You didn't happen to chop Clem's head off so you could steal all his fly traps, did you?
20:01You really think that body they found was Clem's?
20:05I do.
20:06Oh.
20:07Oh.
20:10You know those fly traps in there?
20:12Clem didn't charge me for them.
20:13He would just come in sometimes and leave a few.
20:17And as far as killing him, for more?
20:20No.
20:21No, the ones inside, they've been there for weeks.
20:23They're not really big sellers.
20:25Well, that's something I don't get.
20:26I mean, Clem had thousands of them and his girl had thousands.
20:29I mean, there must be a market for them.
20:32I don't know who Clem's all of his plans, too.
20:34I told him I didn't want to know.
20:36If what you're saying is true, if Clem really is gone, I'm not the one who did it.
20:54Hello.
20:54So tell me, what does a P.I. get up to while other people are out there doing his work
20:59for him?
21:00Well, this one's been looking up.
21:02People arrested for a fly trap poaching in North Carolina to see if any of them may have drifted south
21:07to take over Clem Creshaw's business.
21:09And?
21:10Well, I'm hoping you had better luck at the DA's office.
21:13Okay, I learned two things.
21:15First, you were right.
21:16The police do know John Doe is Clem Creshaw.
21:18They were just waiting on DNA to confirm it.
21:21Second, Clem had a brother-in-law, Brody Weller.
21:24Last year, they got in a fight.
21:26Brody beat Clem, stupid.
21:28Clem's sister, Brody's wife, called the police.
21:30But when they got there, Clem declined to press charges.
21:34Now, look, I don't have your keen investigative mind, but I'd say that's a pretty good alternate suspect, wouldn't you?
21:41Any idea where I can find him?
21:42All I got was a work address, but if you're gonna go there, you should probably bring some singles.
21:49Welcome to the world, right?
21:52Come on.
21:53Bless you, welcome.
21:53Put you to the test.
21:55Everything I do are flex.
21:56Come on.
21:57Drop your head to deck.
21:59I'm gonna rock it just a little.
22:02Hands up and I'm rolling.
22:04I'm gonna stop.
22:06Let me see.
22:07Flex.
22:08Do you like what you see?
22:09Sorry, what?
22:10I said, do you like what you see?
22:12For $100,000, he'll dance just for you.
22:14Oh, well, yeah, hey, good to know, good to know.
22:17Actually, no, I'm looking for an old buddy of mine, Brody Weller.
22:20Don't tell me.
22:22You two used to dance together.
22:23Very good, very good.
22:24Little place down in Orlando.
22:26You're not looking for more work, are you?
22:28Because I could always use another corset in the stable.
22:33You know, sadly, I blew up my knee years ago, so.
22:37Well, take it from an expert, you've still got it where it counts.
22:41Whoa.
22:42Oh, my goodness.
22:42Uh, is Brody around by any chance?
22:46Well, we're just taking the stage at this very moment.
22:48Okay, yes!
22:51If you're gonna stick around, it's a $20 cover charge and a two-drink minimum, even for old buddies.
22:58Okay.
23:14Yes, what's up?
23:15You know, I get detective work isn't cheap, but I'm looking at this tab I'm running, and
23:20I had to ask, are you really trying to expense a pedicure?
23:24One, yeah, I am.
23:26Two, I'm kind of in the middle of something.
23:28Oh, what, a massage and a little bit of therapy, perhaps?
23:31No, I'm waiting to talk to a new suspect, Crayshaw's brother-in-law.
23:35He doesn't get off work for a few hours, so I thought I'd take a peek inside his car.
23:39If he is the one that chopped up Clem, there might be blood evidence.
23:42You planning on getting inside his car?
23:44How?
23:45Exactly.
23:46You really want to know?
23:47Need I remind you, you're on conditional release.
23:50You get caught breaking into a car, they'll violate you back to prison.
23:53Oh, that's a good thing I'm not very good at picking locks.
23:56Arge?
23:56Look, I knew when I got into this line of work, there might be the occasional bend of the law.
24:00This isn't a bend, okay?
24:02This is a break, as in breaking and entering.
24:05Would you rather Marcus go to prison instead?
24:07Right, that's what I thought.
24:08Okay, I gotta go.
24:09I'll call you if I find something.
24:10Okay, but Arge?
24:15I did it.
24:16Yeah, you did.
24:21I don't get why we don't just call the cops.
24:24Oh, really, Stevie?
24:25Well, I can think of plenty of reasons.
24:27Like you having more HGH in your locker than, I don't know, 100 pharmacies, for example.
24:31Listen, she's right, guys.
24:32You don't need to call the cops.
24:34I'm not a car thief.
24:35I'm a private investigator.
24:37Yeah, right, right.
24:38And Ramon here?
24:39Ramon's a real boxer.
24:40I only came to ask Brody here a few questions about his brother-in-law.
24:44Clem?
24:45Why the hell do you want to talk about Clem?
24:47Well, because he's dead.
24:50Clem's dead?
24:52I still can't believe Clem's gone.
24:54First Lacey, now him.
24:56Who's Lacey?
24:59My wife.
25:00Clem's sister.
25:01She passed a few months ago.
25:03Notchkin's lymphoma.
25:04I'm truly sorry about that.
25:06You came here because you thought maybe I killed Clem, right?
25:10Well, yeah, you did beat him up pretty bad last year.
25:12Once upon a time, we were pals.
25:15That all changed after Lacey got diagnosed.
25:18I wanted her to do every little thing the doctors told her.
25:21But Clem was so damn sure that his stupid fly traps were the answer.
25:26I'm sorry.
25:27How would Clem's fly traps have helped with Lacey's cancer?
25:30I don't get that.
25:30You know who he was selling them to, right?
25:32I mean, I assumed it was people that collect exotic plants.
25:36But then a buddy of his made it sound like that wouldn't explain the volume of his crop.
25:39So I don't know.
25:41There's this holistic medicine company, Venusian Health.
25:44They would buy Clem's fly traps in bulk and then, I don't know, grind them up or something.
25:49Sell what's left as an extract.
25:52Here in the U.S., they're allowed to promote it as an immunity modulator.
25:57But that's only because that's all the FDA will allow.
25:59In other countries, places with looser standards, they're allowed to say that it can do a whole lot more.
26:05Like treating cancer?
26:06Something about how the extract can eliminate abnormal cells without harming the normal ones.
26:11Clemden used to be all holistic.
26:12Over the years, the more Venusian Health bought from him, the more he started to buy what they were selling.
26:17The idea that fly trap extract could help or even save people like Lacey.
26:21That's why I kicked him out of our house that night.
26:22I just couldn't listen to it anymore.
26:25And the thing is, though, after Lacey passed, Clem did a 180.
26:30He said he was going to do like a deep dive into all things Venusian Health.
26:34Can he tell you what he meant by that?
26:35No.
26:38But last week, he left me this voicemail.
26:42Brody, I just wanted to say I'm sorry.
26:46All the false hope I gave Lacey, all the false hope Venusian gave me,
26:50I want you to know they're not going to get away with it.
26:53I love you, brother.
26:56Last Tuesday.
26:57Is that important?
26:58Well, as far as I've been able to tell, that's right around the last time anyone saw Clem alive.
27:08Is that you, RJ, or does my wife need to get her gun?
27:11It's me.
27:11No need for gunplay.
27:13Well, matter of opinion.
27:20Hey.
27:20Oh.
27:21Oh, my God.
27:21What happened to your face?
27:22No, forget the face.
27:23Why do you smile like stripper?
27:25The answer to both questions is it's complicated.
27:28Uh, are you free tomorrow morning?
27:30Why?
27:31Oh, he needs a favor.
27:33I can smell that on him, too.
27:35Actually, I'd be the one doing the favor.
27:37Uh, I may have a story for you and the Herald.
27:39A big one.
27:41One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the number of people who think the idea of treating disease
27:46with carnivorous plants is just some passing fad.
27:51The fluid from unopened monkey pitchers has been used to treat incontinence for centuries.
27:55In renaissance, Italy, the best, most effective aphrodisiac was a cordial water made from drossera botanofolia.
28:07Do you need me to spell that?
28:09No, thanks.
28:10I'll look it up.
28:12And that most in the mainstream media tend to look down their noses at alternative medicine.
28:16I commend the Broward County Herald for exploring what we do instead of trying to tear it down.
28:21Well, like I said on the phone, I guarantee the piece I'm writing isn't about the efficacy of your product.
28:25But I couldn't help noticing that in other countries it's advertised as treatment for cancer.
28:30Here in the U.S. it's only ever described as an immunity booster.
28:35Uh, my lawyers, they're very good.
28:37They'd probably tell me I shouldn't even dignify that question.
28:40And they would definitely tell me it would be wrong to suggest that the American FDA is deep in the
28:46pocket of Big Pharma.
28:48I think your photographer's a little lost.
28:50Hey, not much for you to see back there.
28:52Oh, yeah.
28:53Do you want to get one of me near the logo?
28:55Great.
29:01Here?
29:01Uh, that would be great, yeah.
29:03Yeah, that looks good.
29:05Yeah, right there.
29:06Good.
29:07Hydrogen peroxide, I don't suppose that's one of your secret ingredients?
29:10Why would it be?
29:10Based on my research, some homeopathic practitioners say it can treat dementia and enhance immune system function.
29:16This despite the fact that toxicity from the stuff can lead to hemorrhagic gastritis and organ rupture.
29:22You're forgetting mucosal blistering.
29:23That's why our hydrogen peroxide is just to clean the floors around here.
29:28The fly traps you use to make your extracts, they come from a grower named Clem Crayshaw.
29:34Is that right?
29:37Well, the name rings a bell, but I'd have to go back and check on that.
29:39Why is he asking me questions?
29:41Clem Crayshaw was murdered last week.
29:44The police think he was killed by a kid who worked for him, but an anonymous source left me with
29:48the impression it might be someone else.
29:50There was a break in here last week, yeah?
29:52Your assistant called it in, told the police your computer was missing, then you showed up, said it wasn't, you
29:57just took it home to do some work?
29:58Point being?
29:59Well, I just, I don't know, I just, I can't help but wondering.
30:03Was it Clem that broke in here?
30:05It was.
30:06Did he take your computer?
30:09If he did, what do you find?
30:13I found rumors that the approvals you received to promote your extract as a cancer treatment in Belgium, Hungary, and
30:19Portugal could only have been the result of bribes.
30:21Okay.
30:22If the rumors are true, maybe there was some record of those payoffs on your computer.
30:26This interview's over.
30:27But please, don't forget what I said.
30:31My lawyers are very good.
30:39So, is he our guy?
30:40Oh, no doubt about it.
30:46George, thanks for coming.
30:48My pleasure.
30:49Detective Abreu, but it's still Georgiana.
30:52So you said in your email that you wanted to talk about the Marcus Abernathy case, but if memory serves,
30:56it isn't yours to discuss.
30:58You got me, Georgiana.
31:00Or do you prefer ADA Ballard?
31:02Either will do.
31:02The case is Detective Canty's, but he and I spoke, and he agreed you should hear what my associate has
31:09to tell you.
31:11Why do I recognize that man?
31:14Probably because your office prosecuted him for assault a couple years ago.
31:19So, if I'm following, you believe that Marcus Abernathy is innocent.
31:24Mm-hmm.
31:24You think the more likely perpetrator is this man, Remington Aubrey.
31:29Like we said, there's been rumors of bribes in other countries.
31:31Rumors don't tend to mean much in a courtroom.
31:34Look, give us some time to dig up more evidence on Aubrey.
31:37That's all we're asking.
31:38Clem Crayshaw was sending instructions to Marcus over Snapchat.
31:41Somehow that correspondence continued after he was dead.
31:44If we're right, it's because Aubrey took his phone after he killed him.
31:47He's the one who told Marcus to feed the plants that bag of Clem's remains.
31:51If it hadn't have been for the raid, Aubrey would have kept using Marcus until every last bit of Clem
31:55was gone.
31:55Get a subpoena.
31:57Search Aubrey's home, search his business.
31:58Who knows?
31:59Maybe we find Clem's phone.
32:00There's no point.
32:01How could you look at all this and say there's no point?
32:04Because Marcus Abernathy took a plea deal this morning.
32:07He confessed to everything.
32:08He's our killer.
32:12Sorry, guys.
32:13I don't want to talk with my lawyer.
32:15This way they take the death penalty off the table.
32:19No more murder charge.
32:21Just aggravated manslaughter.
32:26Just 30 years.
32:28But with good behavior, I could be out in 20.
32:32And you know I'm going to be well-behaved, Mr. Aiken.
32:37You didn't do it, Marcus.
32:39Yeah, I mean, of course I didn't.
32:41But come on, guys.
32:43I got a good woman at home.
32:45I got a kid on the way.
32:46It's too much to live for to take a chance on a trial.
32:49Right?
32:52Hey, I could get him a new lawyer.
32:54Tell him Marcus changed his mind.
32:56He wants to plead not guilty.
32:57Well, you can do that, but that won't make the confession go away.
33:01The DA's office will still be able to use it at trial.
33:04Guys.
33:05Hey.
33:06I'm right here.
33:10And I told you.
33:11I'm okay.
33:13It's not going to be okay.
33:17Do you guys know who's taking care of the plants now?
33:20What's that?
33:21They're fly traps.
33:22I was thinking about them yesterday.
33:24Do you know if the police are tending to them or if...
33:26Uh, well, I can look into that for you.
33:30Yeah.
33:30Just make sure they're not overfeeding the little guys.
33:32I mean, last count, there were 24,338 plants.
33:35That works out to 10.2 pounds of food per feeding, one feeding per week.
33:38Anything more, and you're going to lose a few.
33:40Jane.
33:43Do you work all that math out yourself?
33:46Huh.
33:46Yeah.
33:48The day Clem told me he was going to bring me that bag of meat, I had to tell him
33:52more
33:52than once.
33:5410.2 pounds, Clem.
33:55Nothing more.
33:56And, uh, I guess it wasn't actually Clem.
34:00It was the other guy.
34:01But, uh, still, I mean, he listened.
34:03Next time I weighed the bag, it was just right.
34:07Did you know the human head weighs eight pounds?
34:11Uh, Jay McGuire, the cute little kid with glasses, blonde hair.
34:15Remember him?
34:16Uh, yeah.
34:17I didn't see that one.
34:18Hold on a second.
34:22The average human head actually weighs 11 pounds.
34:25Oh, that's great.
34:26Well, next, maybe you can tell us the, uh, airspeed and velocity of an unleaned swallow.
34:29No, no, no, no.
34:31If you add up all of Clem's body parts, head, hands, buttcheeks, biceps, all of his missing
34:36parts, it must weigh, what, 20 pounds, more?
34:38Marcus just said the bag that Aubrey left for him weighed exactly 10.2 pounds.
34:42If that was the case, then where's the rest of Clem?
34:46Why hasn't it turned up yet?
34:52Hey.
35:01As much fun as it was to meet A.D.A. Ballard today, do you know anyone else that can
35:06get
35:06us a warrant to search Remington Aubrey's warehouse?
35:08Why?
35:10Pretty sure I know how we can prove he killed Clem Crayshaw.
35:19Mr. Aubrey, Detective Evere, you, I believe you already met Mr. Decker.
35:23Hello.
35:24I was asked to be here by 9.
35:26It's almost 11.
35:27Is it?
35:28If a lack of common courtesy isn't on the list of reasons to defund you people, it should
35:32be.
35:34Well, I'm not a cop, I'm a P.I., but if it makes it feel any better, I am pretty
35:39defunded.
35:39The reason we're late is my colleagues needed a little time to execute a search warrant at
35:44your warehouse.
35:46What could the police possibly have been looking for at my warehouse?
35:49Uh, the rest of Clem Crayshaw?
35:52When you were using his phone to pretend to be him, Marcus Abernathy told you that Clem's
35:56flat traps could only take 10.2 pounds of food per feeding.
35:59Problem was, you had at least twice that, didn't you?
36:02Most of Clem was found in his freezer.
36:04A little more was in the bag Marcus was holding when he was arrested, but some of Clem was still
36:09out there.
36:10And the question was where and why?
36:13Part of the why was Marcus' insistence in only feeding the plants 10.2 pounds of meat.
36:18But I think the rest of it had to do with how damn hard it would have been to get
36:21a human
36:22head inside of a meat grinder.
36:24Clem was my sole supplier of Venus flytraps.
36:27Why would I kill him?
36:28Why would I hurt my own business?
36:30Probably because he was about to hurt a lot more.
36:32He stole your computer.
36:34And there was something on it that would have proven your company isn't on the level.
36:38So you killed him.
36:42Hey.
36:43You ever heard of Piranha Solution?
36:46No.
36:47It's basically sulfuric acid on crack.
36:49I learned about this stuff when they did time with a guy that tried to use it to burn
36:52through the top of a safe he was breaking into.
36:54Did he just say he was an ex-convict?
36:56This guy's plan did not work out so well.
36:58All he made to do was start a fire.
37:00See, Piranha Solution can be a little unpredictable when it comes to metal.
37:03But what it's really good at, almost 100% of the time, is turning bone and flesh into soup.
37:11Piranha Solution only has two ingredients.
37:13One, Mr. Decker already mentioned, sulfuric acid.
37:16And the other is hydrogen peroxide.
37:18Yesterday you said you had a barrel of that stuff to clean the floors.
37:21But see this one here?
37:22See this barrel here?
37:23See what's your turn to the wall?
37:24And you can just make out the S.U.L.
37:26And that got me thinking.
37:27What if it's filled with sulfuric acid?
37:29After you realized you couldn't use Marcus and the fly traps to get rid of a human skull,
37:34you ordered both of these barrels through your company,
37:36you mixed their contents in the sink at your warehouse,
37:39and then in went Mr. Crayshaw's head.
37:46Or was there some of the reason you didn't want me taking pictures of it?
37:50These are two partially dissolved teeth CSU found in the sink's drain trap a little while ago.
37:56And this is the bullet for a 9mm pistol.
38:02You're the registered owner of a 9mm pistol, aren't you?
38:14Scott, your message, but if you ask me to come here because you're having second thoughts about us getting together...
38:22I most assuredly am not.
38:26Okay, and why am I here?
38:28Our boy Marcus is about to be released from jail.
38:31Police finally realized he isn't a killer.
38:33You could have just said so in your text.
38:35Hey, hey.
38:37How's my timing?
38:38In the nick of, buddy.
38:40You know, this goes on my bill, right?
38:46Anything else?
38:47Uh, yeah, I'm throwing Marcus a little welcome home party on the beach tonight.
38:53The reason I wanted to tell you in person is I wanted to make sure you weren't there.
39:01Well, last time I checked, this is America, and I can go where I want.
39:04No, it is, and you can.
39:08Actually, it's the other reason why I wanted you to stop by.
39:17My car?
39:22You got it out of impound?
39:24I paid.
39:26A friend handled the transport.
39:28You know, the other day, you said you'd rather be living in Nashville, but you didn't say why.
39:38My sister lives there.
39:40It's not like we're close or anything, but she writes me sometimes and makes it sound...
39:48I don't know.
39:50Nice.
39:53Go there.
39:54Try to find nice.
39:56So whatever you're looking for right now, it ain't here in Fort Lauderdale.
40:01It ain't with Marcus.
40:06All I've been is bad to you.
40:08Why are you being so good to me?
40:11You remind me of someone.
40:13Someone.
40:16I loved her, and yet, had someone sent her off to Nashville way back when?
40:24Well, things would have ended up better for the both of us.
40:33Drive safe now.
40:57Would you believe this is my first glad-you're-not-going-to-prison party?
41:02Well, knowing who your dad is, no.
41:05No, I would not.
41:06What happened to your eye?
41:08This?
41:10I must understand him.
41:14You want a beer?
41:15No.
41:16No?
41:16I'm not staying.
41:17You're not staying?
41:19Mostly just came to see if we're even now.
41:21You gave me a name.
41:22You gave me one name.
41:24One name.
41:25Turned out the guy didn't even do it.
41:27What's your obsession with us getting even?
41:29What is that?
41:29If we get even too fast, there won't be any reason for me to call you anymore.
41:33No, I mean, is that what you want?
41:37Getting too close to a family like mine could earn you a return trip to Appalachee.
41:42Is that what you want?
41:43I don't know what I want.
41:48Not yet.
41:51Well, then, for tonight, it's probably best to just celebrate what we've got.
41:56In my case, an 8 o'clock reservation staccato.
42:00You and the other dirtbags have fun.
42:27You and the other dirtbags have fun.
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