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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.
10:50Uh?
10:53Uh?
10:55Huh?
10:56Uh?
11:00Uh?
11:02Uh?
11:03Uh?
11:05Uh?
11:14Uh?
11:17Uh?
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,
12:01turning them into homicidal 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.
12:20Increase the odds of one of us finding a cell or radio signal.
12:23All right, let's get gone.
12:30Oh.
12:32Mr. Dearborn.
12:33Thanks for coming in.
12:34I-I wasn't sure what to wear.
12:36You look great.
12:38This is Malcolm Walsh.
12:39He represents Liam Glasser.
12:41Oh.
12:41I-I didn't realize...
12:42The law allows me to access evidence prior to trial in order to provide an adequate defense,
12:46which means I can participate in your deposition.
12:49Okay.
12:51No 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.
13:08I was at the police station.
13:10And do you recall why you confessed?
13:12I was unmedicated at the time in the midst of a mental breakdown.
13:16A part of me believed that I did those horrible things.
13:19But 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.
13:37Whenever 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?
13:44Or because you were afraid of what he would do if you didn't?
13:48A bit of both.
13:50You have to understand.
13:51The voices I hear, the faces I see, they can be scary.
13:57But nothing terrified me as much as Liam Glasser.
14:06The look in his eyes when he told me what he did,
14:10as he described in minute detail what it felt like to carve a person up.
14:20It made my own demons pale in comparison.
14:24We should take a break.
14:27It's creepy in here.
14:29We have none of this in Sugar Land.
14:36Hello.
14:39Can you hear me?
14:43Oh, that is not okay.
14:46Not today, playboy.
14:50Okay.
14:52Okay.
15:31Hello.
15:32Testing.
15:32Testing.
15:33Testing.
15:37Come on, Signal.
16:20Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
16:31Oh, come on.
16:38Oh, come on.
17:10Oh, come on.
17:14Oh, come on.
18:00Oh, come on.
18:02Oh, come on.
18:04Oh, come on.
18:33Oh, come on.
18:35Oh, come on.
18:44Oh, come on.
18:45That was badass.
18:47And I got it on camera.
18:48Here.
18:50Sweet.
18:52Thanks.
18:53Here.
18:54Cuff him.
18:54Oh, come on.
19:01You okay?
19:02Wish I'd stretch first, but not bad.
19:05From now on, try to stay with the group.
19:07Well, it wasn't exactly on purpose, but I'll do my best.
19:12Where's everybody else?
19:13Exactly.
19:14Come on.
19:16Okay.
19:32There he is.
19:39Oh, come on.
20:01Come on, come on.
20:04Come on, come on.
20:40Come on, come on.
20:40Are you hurt?
20:41No, just terrified.
20:42Were you in the truck that came to check on the main crew?
20:45Yeah, with Hank and Gail.
20:48Well, the crazies caught him the second he got out of the truck.
20:50She just kept beating and tearing at him.
20:51I don't know what happened to Gail.
20:53I started running.
20:54But I'm safe now.
20:55Yeah, safe-ish.
20:56That's, thanks.
20:58There's not many of us here, and we can't get a signal out to call for backup.
21:01How is that safe at all?
21:02Because when the LAPD doesn't hear from us, they will send more people.
21:05I just have to keep you safe until then.
21:30I got it.
21:31I got it.
21:43Let's get out of here.
21:47Let's get out of here.
22:01Let's get out of here.
22:29Let's get out of here.
22:41Let's get out of here.
22:48Let's get out of here.
22:56Come around!
23:45Can I help you?
23:46Oh, hi.
23:46Yeah, I was looking for a Colonel Radcliffe.
23:49I was told his office was here.
23:51No.
23:52Okay, there's no name on the signage,
23:54so who exactly are you?
23:58Sorry, I'm just looking for a little help here.
24:01Have you been in the office long?
24:02Maybe 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,
24:24forcing their bodies to produce massive amounts of stress.
24:26Chemistry, cortisol, histamine, cytokines.
24:28But they're wearing hazmat suits.
24:30Yeah, at the clean-up site,
24:31where we've been remediating the Project Ultra Chemicals,
24:32but I heard they just discovered
24:34it wasn't the only area on campus that was contaminated.
24:36Where our crew was staging was also compromised,
24:39possibly with thallium and iophetamine.
24:40They were exposed to both of those in high doses over time?
24:43You managed to get a call out.
24:45I got a brief signal next door,
24:47but my phone got smashed.
24:49Where's Miles?
24:50I don't know.
24:51I hope he got out.
24:53Let's move.
24:56Let's go.
25:35Move.
25:56Move.
25:56Move.
25:59Move.
26:02Move.
26:05Move.
26:08Go.
26:09I got your back.
26:20You managed to get a call out?
26:21No, but by this point dispatch would have started additional units when we didn't check in, right?
26:26You're right.
26:34Officials 7 Adam 300 arriving at Westview Hospital campus.
26:39No sign of responding units.
26:41Who's missing?
26:42I've been in meetings.
26:43Miles and Nolan.
26:47Repeat.
26:47You're breaking up.
26:48Oh.
26:50Hold on.
26:51We got movement.
26:53Did you see the butt?
26:54Yeah.
26:55We're close to 6 to investigate.
26:56Something's going on here.
27:12We got a dead body.
27:14We need backup.
27:17Hey, look up.
27:18Stay right there, sir.
27:19Just stay where you are.
27:20Hey, sir?
27:23Hey.
27:24Code Alpha, Westview Hospital.
27:27Repeat all units.
27:27Code Alpha, Westview Hospital.
27:29Yeah!
27:35Yeah!
27:37Yeah!
27:38Yeah!
27:39Yeah!
27:41Yeah!
27:42No, no, no, no, no, no!
28:16Oh, my God.
28:37Oh, my God.
28:45I don't know.
29:11I don't know.
29:43I don't know.
30:11I don't know.
30:23I don't know.
30:33I don't know.
30:41I don't know.
30:49I don't know.
30:51I don't know.
30:58I don't know.
31:29I don't know.
31:32I don't know.
31:39I don't know.
31:54I don't know.
31:55I don't know.
32:25I don't know.
32:25I don't know.
32:26I don't know.
32:27I don't know.
32:55I don't know.
33:02I don't know.
33:12I don't know.
33:13I don't know.
33:13I don't know.
33:14I don't know.
33:25I don't know.
33:33I don't know.
33:38I don't know.
33:39I don't know.
33:41I don't know.
33:44hope, since I learned what Harper said to Glasser.
33:47I know, but try not to panic.
33:48We don't know what happened yet.
33:49Look, whatever happened, Malcolm Walsh
33:51will use it to undermine Ryan's testimony on the stand,
33:53and I will be back at square one on this case.
33:58Wesley?
34:01What's wrong?
34:07Wesley?
34:07He's here.
34:09Who?
34:10Ryan?
34:12Are you in danger?
34:20I don't know what to do.
34:25That's OK with me.
34:26You don't have to do anything.
34:27Wesley, get out of there.
34:28Hey, Ryan.
34:29Ryan.
34:31You're safe here, Ryan, so why don't you put the broken glass down?
34:34No!
34:34No!
34:35No!
34:35I need every available unit to the DA's office,
34:38sixth floor, code 3.
34:39I'm never safe.
34:40OK.
34:41They're in my head.
34:42I thought they were gone.
34:44But they're back.
34:46They're back.
34:47OK.
34:48I can't imagine how you feel, Ryan.
34:50The nightmare that you've gone through,
34:51that you're still going through.
34:53I needed to stop.
34:55OK.
34:56I understand.
34:57I want to help you.
34:58Nobody can help me.
35:01Nobody!
35:06I know you must feel that way right now.
35:11And I know how exhausted you must be.
35:16But you deserve more than this.
35:18You can have more than this.
35:21You are more than this.
35:24But I need you to put that broken glass down and let me help you, please.
35:32Just put it down.
35:32Just put it down.
35:33I need you.
35:34It's OK.
35:49We're OK.
36:04Are you okay?
36:05Yeah.
36:06Good, because I'm going to kill you.
36:07Angela.
36:08You don't try to reason with someone who's in the throes of a psychotic episode,
36:11and when your wife says, get out of there, you get out of there.
36:14I'll do better next time.
36:15It's not funny.
36:17I was scared.
36:19Do they know what happened to him?
36:20Not fully.
36:21Doctor said that Ryan's pupils are massively dilated, like he did a huge dose of amphetamines,
36:25which would induce psychosis in a healthy patient.
36:27For schizophrenic, it's like sending a wrecking ball through their brain.
36:30It doesn't make sense.
36:31He's in a managed care situation at the halfway house.
36:33A nurse administers his meds.
36:35And they could have made a mistake?
36:36And gave him speed?
36:37No way.
36:40Wesley, you okay?
36:41I came as soon as I heard.
36:42I'm fine.
36:43Thanks.
36:44It's tragic.
36:45I mean, he's doing so well today.
36:46Which wasn't good for your client.
36:49I don't know why that's relevant right now.
36:51Sure you do.
36:52Angela.
36:52All I'm saying is that Ryan Dearborn's misfortune is Liam Glasser's blessing.
36:57If you're implying I had something to do with this.
36:59I'm not implying anything.
37:00I'm putting you on notice.
37:01I will find out exactly what happened with Ryan.
37:03And if you had anything to do with it.
37:05I didn't.
37:07And I'd advise your wife to be very careful about making wild accusations in these litigious times.
37:13And I would advise you that the quickest way to end up in one of these beds is to disrespect
37:18her.
37:22Thanks for coming by.
37:24Of course.
37:25And again, I'm glad you're doing okay.
37:29Even if your case isn't.
37:34He did this.
37:35Maybe.
37:36But he's not wrong.
37:37We need ironclad evidence or he will sue us into poverty.
37:40If it exists, I will find it.
37:42I have no doubt.
37:43So, what exactly happened at Westview?
37:46Zombies, apparently.
37:48Oh.
37:49Oh.
37:51Oh.
37:56Thank you very much.
38:03Well, I hope you were satisfied with your ride along.
38:08No offense, but I can't exactly give you five stars.
38:10That's fair.
38:11You sure you don't want me to call your mom?
38:12I didn't spoil the look on her face when I showed her this footage.
38:15Listen, what you went through today could haunt you for a bit.
38:18I'm happy to recommend a trauma therapist if you need one.
38:21I appreciate that.
38:22And hey, thanks for putting my life in jeopardy.
38:24And then immediately saving it.
38:25Yeah, I guess that makes us even.
38:27Totally.
38:28I'll check on you tomorrow.
38:29Looking forward to it.
38:30And hey, man, I'm telling you.
38:31Jawline.
38:36Detective Harper said that I proved myself today.
38:39Really?
38:39I did not.
38:40I said that he did not embarrass himself.
38:44Ah, well, it was almost six months before she told me that.
38:47You, um, heard about Lucy?
38:49Yeah.
38:50Lopez said she saw her at the hospital.
38:51Said she's still pretty out of it.
38:53She's on her way here.
38:53She's going to need her union rep to look out for her.
38:57I'll have her back.
38:58Everyone all right?
38:59In the most basic sense, yes.
39:02Your wife is calling me.
39:04I asked her to do a thing.
39:05No need to tell her about my day.
39:06I don't want to worry her.
39:07No problem.
39:08Go get cleaned up.
39:09Chin should be here in 20.
39:10Right.
39:13Hey, what'd you find out?
39:14Honestly, I don't know.
39:16The office has no occupants listed.
39:18A very unfriendly woman answered the door, which set off my spidey sins.
39:22I couldn't get a name, but I did see a special operations tattoo with the phrase ego in numicus.
39:29It's Latin for I am the enemy.
39:32I made a drawing.
39:32I'll send it to you.
39:33Great.
39:34I owe you.
39:34No, you don't.
39:35I hope things are okay with Luna.
39:38Yeah, thanks.
39:39Okay.
39:40Bye.
39:42Bye.
39:43Bye.
39:54Bye.
39:55Bye.
40:03Bye.
40:05Bye.
40:11Bye.
40:34I'm sorry did you say something I did but it's okay we can go over it again
40:40later I was doing funny things I know it did that for me too it'll get better when you get
40:49some sleep
40:53wait John um do you know his name I don't know his name
41:02it's Martin his name was Martin
41:16tea's ready thank you yeah you're ready for bed yeah no I think I'm just gonna stay up for a
41:28little bit all right hey listen Selena's right it's gonna be okay I know I'll be in a bit
41:41all right
41:52so
41:54so
42:04I don't know.
42:32I don't know.
42:57Damn it.
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