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High Potential - Season 2 Episode 15 -Pie In The Sky
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00:04I can't remember if you asked or not, but I've been feeling like an astronaut.
00:10That's him, that's him!
00:12Mr. Borough, you got time for a picture?
00:15Teddy.
00:19Sure.
00:21What's your name?
00:22Joanna.
00:23Joanna, it's good to meet you.
00:24She wants to be an astronaut.
00:26Oh yeah?
00:26And after you go to space, I want a picture with you.
00:29Deal?
00:30Deal.
00:32Go on, honey.
00:36What's it like up there?
00:39Well, um, I'll tell you.
00:41You never get tired of the view.
00:4416 sunrises, 16 sunsets every day.
00:47And it has its challenges.
00:50I hope you get to see it someday.
00:53Thanks for this.
00:54You folks have a good day.
00:55Me too.
00:56That was so cool!
00:58Now we're running late.
00:59Come on, we can cut through it this way.
01:01Excuse us.
01:04You alright?
01:05Yeah, I'm good.
01:06Just a little nervous about giving a speech.
01:11Hey!
01:12What the hell?
01:13What is wrong with people?
01:15Teddy, are you okay?
01:17Teddy?
01:18Oh my God.
01:21What is happening?
01:22What is happening?
01:23Oh my God.
01:24Get out!
01:25Get out!
01:26Somebody help!
01:27Help!
01:29Help!
01:38So you're just gonna fly to New York and knock on Willa Quinn's door?
01:41I've gone through all the proper channels.
01:44So far I've been ghosted and shut down by a receptionist named Cleo.
01:48So I'm just gonna go.
01:49I'm tired of waiting.
01:51Yeah.
01:51Me too.
01:52Alright, well Ludo can watch the kids.
01:54I just gotta run-
01:54Absolutely not, Morgan.
01:55Don't do this, okay?
01:56I'm going with you, alright?
01:58I need to talk to this woman.
01:59Soto is right.
02:01It's too risky, Morgan.
02:02Willa's too much of an unknown and what we do know worries me.
02:05She erases problems for billionaires, her clients are senators and CEOs, half the people who make the rules we enforce.
02:10I understand and the other half-
02:12Enough.
02:14I'm going alone.
02:16Going where?
02:22New York City.
02:25I'm looking for a woman named Willa Quinn.
02:26Her name was given to us by-
02:28Eric Hayworth.
02:29Yeah, I know about him.
02:32And Arthur.
02:34All of it.
02:38So you understand why I need to keep the circle small?
02:42Sure.
02:43You're leaving now?
02:44I got a plane to catch.
02:46Okay, if I go with you-
02:47Stop.
02:48And if it gets messy with Willa?
02:49Then it'll be my ass on the line, not yours.
02:52I'm sure you have other things to take care of, Captain.
02:55Oh, just dinner with my old man.
02:57Trust me.
02:58I'd rather go with you.
03:00But I'm sure you'll keep us all posted.
03:02Feel free to use my office.
03:09Looks like you two are on the way to Biltmore Hotel.
03:12We've got a high-profile murder on our hands.
03:15Who is it?
03:16Teddy Barrow.
03:17Former astronaut.
03:18Who says he's a big deal.
03:19Yeah, he's a big deal.
03:21680 days on the International Space Station.
03:24Everything okay?
03:25Yeah, I'm just glad Elliot's stuck at school.
03:28I'm gonna have detectives Osdill and Forrester meet you there.
03:33So I'm just glad you could have time for this.
03:36That's me!
03:37I know all this world is a bizarre fight.
03:44I don't want your love.
03:47I just want to fight.
03:49I just want a fight.
03:50Matt Barrow is on his way to give a keynote speech at a business symposium.
03:56We're questioning all the attendants, but the event was publicized online,
04:00so anyone in the world could have known he'd be here.
04:02How do you kill someone with a pie?
04:03Must have been laced with some kind of toxin.
04:05Bystanders seem to be okay.
04:06Hazmat cleaned and cleared the area, so it's not airborne.
04:08And the woman who did this?
04:10Teddy's aide chased her, but she got away.
04:13This was taken right before it happened.
04:16You can see the attacker in the background.
04:18Anyone else get a look at her?
04:19Victim's fiancée was next to him when it happened.
04:21Heidi Choi.
04:23Paramedics are checking her out right now, but it looks like she'll be okay.
04:25Morgan and I will talk to her.
04:26You guys get any footage the hotel has of the attack,
04:28and push forensics to rush labs on the pie.
04:30Find out what the hell we're dealing with.
04:32Teddy and I, we worked together for 12 years.
04:36Me on the ISS ground team and him going up.
04:39We always had feelings for each other, but we agreed to keep it professional.
04:43Then, about a month ago, he changed his mind on a dime.
04:47We went on a few dates, things moved really fast, and...
04:53Before you knew it, he was asking me to marry him.
04:59I'm so sorry.
05:00At first, I thought that woman was pulling some sort of terrible prank,
05:05and then...
05:07I saw that Teddy, he couldn't breathe, and...
05:10It's okay.
05:12I'll take your time.
05:13I'm sorry.
05:14We got the hotel security footage.
05:16You do not need to watch this.
05:18It's all right.
05:19I want to help.
05:26Do you recognize her?
05:28No, I...
05:28I don't...
05:29I'm sorry.
05:30It's okay.
05:31If we have any other questions, we'll let you know.
05:38We checked every angle.
05:40None give a good look at the woman's face.
05:41Well, we could still run it through facial recognition.
05:43Maybe we'll get lucky.
05:44I think we just did.
05:46You said this woman outran everyone, right?
05:48Mm-hmm.
05:49Okay, check out this footwork.
05:51She is really booking it.
05:54This woman is a serious runner.
05:59Look at these impressions.
06:02She was wearing track spikes,
06:04and since the spikes are all clustered up at the front,
06:06our killer was also a sprinter.
06:09And based on her speed and how much ground she covered,
06:11I'm guessing 11 seconds in the 100, give or take?
06:14D1 speed.
06:15No wonder no one caught her.
06:16Yeah, and look at this.
06:18Her shoes are custom colors.
06:20Yeah, red with a black heel stripe.
06:22That's St. Emily's Women's College.
06:24They have a D1 track and field team.
06:27My ex went there.
06:29She was a big runner.
06:30Ran far away from commitment.
06:32Yeah, I just checked their roster.
06:34Only one sprinter there clocks on 11 second 100,
06:37Arden Prescott.
06:37Let's pay a little visit to St. Emily,
06:39see if we can track her down.
06:40Track her down?
06:42You can do this all day?
06:43I'll stop.
06:43I think that's for the best.
06:45Which time is it?
06:46Yeah, I'll have to meet you there.
06:48She had the bolt.
06:56Hey, can I come in?
07:04You heard about Teddy Barrow, huh?
07:06I have a news alert.
07:07When did you find out?
07:09Well, actually, I just got assigned to his case.
07:13Really?
07:13Yep.
07:15Wow.
07:18I'm really sorry.
07:20I know how important he was to you.
07:22I still can't believe he wrote me back
07:23about how he was fixing the solar array wing
07:25on the STS-126 mission.
07:28I really wanted to meet him.
07:30I know you did.
07:32And I wish you could have,
07:33because I bet you two have a lot in common.
07:38Do you know what happened?
07:40We're working on it.
07:42I don't understand.
07:44Teddy was so nice to everyone,
07:45and everyone loved him.
07:47I don't know why anyone would want to hurt him.
07:49That's what I'm going to find out.
08:00I mean, I pretty much promised him
08:02that we'd figure out what happened to Teddy.
08:03You know, losing our heroes can be tough,
08:05even if we never met him.
08:07Yeah, and he basically inherited my brain,
08:09so unless he gets some answers,
08:10he's never going to stop thinking about it.
08:13Let's get him some.
08:19LAPD, I'm assuming you're Christine?
08:22Yeah.
08:22We're looking for your roommate,
08:24Arden Prescott.
08:25Okay.
08:28Uh, she's not answering her cell phone,
08:30and we spoke to her parents.
08:31They don't know where she is, either.
08:32She's not here.
08:34You mind if we come in?
08:40Christine, when's the last time you saw Arden?
08:42Um, maybe, like, yesterday.
08:45So did she sleep here last night?
08:47I don't know.
08:48Maybe.
08:49Any idea where she might be now?
08:51Look, she's just, like, my assigned roommate.
08:53I don't really know her that well,
08:54and I've got to get to class, so...
08:55Mind if we keep looking around?
08:58Knock yourselves out.
09:02Well, this place is gross.
09:03She's going to grab one of those hazmat suits
09:05from the crime scene.
09:06Christine could be hiding somebody.
09:08Nobody can be that oblivious.
09:09I don't know.
09:10Well, teenagers are pretty good at ignoring things.
09:13Judging by this room,
09:15the two are polar opposites,
09:16so I wouldn't be surprised if they never speak at all.
09:18How can you tell whose stuff is whose?
09:20Because of what we know about them already.
09:23Christine can't be bothered.
09:25She keeps to herself.
09:26So those are her noise-canceling headphones.
09:29Plus, you saw her sense of fashion.
09:30She's into anime.
09:31She loves fake nails.
09:33And then there's Arden, the performer.
09:35She works out.
09:37She posts online.
09:39And she sings.
09:43Which tells us that this is Arden's desk.
09:48Well, Morgan, keep your distance.
09:50There's an empty pie box in here.
09:51We'll get it over to forensics.
09:53You see anything else around here
09:55that would indicate why Arden might do this?
09:57No.
09:58But maybe she can.
09:59I recognize her from one of Arden's posts.
10:01That's Sister Lucy.
10:02She's her track and field coach.
10:04Yeah, also her choir director.
10:07Two of Arden's worlds in one.
10:08Hopefully, she's more helpful than their roommate.
10:12Singing, jogging, none?
10:13That's what I should have been.
10:25This meal is almost over,
10:26and I still don't know how you're going to fix this.
10:29I have two kids,
10:30and every time they turn on the TV...
10:32They hear their father's a crook.
10:34I know, it's awful.
10:36We will just go door to door
10:38and smash every television their friends own.
10:40Problem solved.
10:42Larry, don't lose your sense of humor.
10:45A bigger scandal's coming.
10:46You'll disappear.
10:49Willaquin, I'm Lieutenant Salina Soto with the LAPD.
10:53And yet here you are.
10:54Well, we're in the middle of a private...
10:56I'll be quick.
10:57I just need your help clearing some things up.
10:59Oh.
11:01Well, you have to try this.
11:02It's a truffle moose.
11:04They train dogs in Alba
11:07to go and find the truffles,
11:09and then they wrap them in linen
11:12and ship them overnight.
11:14I'm good.
11:15Thank you, Larry.
11:16Tell her it's a clean spoon.
11:17It's a clean spoon.
11:18I've already eaten.
11:21Well, I suppose you could have grabbed something quick
11:25when you changed planes in...
11:27Dallas?
11:30Okay, what did you want to clear up?
11:32Sit.
11:33I think we should speak in private.
11:35Oh, honey.
11:36With the amount that I know about this one,
11:38he's not barking unless I tell him to.
11:41You already interrupted our lunch.
11:43Sit down.
11:49We've been investigating the disappearance
11:51of a man named Momin Sinquera.
11:53Your name came up.
11:54There's a woman in Florida, 27,
11:57with the same name.
11:58I'd start with her.
11:59I'm starting with you.
12:01Okay.
12:04Call my office
12:05and have them set up an appointment.
12:07Cleo hasn't returned my calls.
12:08Marvin, that's who you want to call.
12:10I've already taken care of the check.
12:11I figured I needed to buy some time with you.
12:14It's pricey.
12:16But hopefully it'll be worth it.
12:22Now that is a strategic type of generosity.
12:27It's very New York.
12:29Let me guess.
12:32Brooklyn?
12:33Sunset Park?
12:34Staten Island?
12:36Wrong bridge.
12:37Queens.
12:39I grew up in Corona.
12:40And now you're LAPD.
12:44We're a bit out of your jurisdiction.
12:50We already have someone in custody
12:52who's willing to talk.
12:54Eric Hayworth?
12:56So, if you're willing to tell us what you know,
13:00give me a call later tonight.
13:02I'm staying at the Wheaton.
13:05Enjoy the dog food.
13:10All right.
13:11We'll talk later.
13:13Wait.
13:14You said another scandal was going to...
13:16Check your phone, Larry.
13:22Wow.
13:24Uh, miss?
13:27The check?
13:29Check?
13:40The talk screen's in.
13:42The pie contained VX nerve agent.
13:44No way.
13:45Mm-hmm.
13:46Like in The Rock?
13:48Nick Cage, Ed Harris.
13:50VX was a big part of that.
13:51Have you ever seen a movie?
13:54All I know is it's lethal.
13:55Exposure comes through inhalation of the skin,
13:57causes immediate paralysis and death.
13:59Not exactly the kind of thing you can buy on the street.
14:03Well, the nun's here.
14:04Maybe she can tell us where Arden got it.
14:06This is a weird case.
14:07Hm.
14:09None of this makes any sense.
14:11I've known Arden since her freshman year.
14:14She's a bit vain, but she'd never hurt a fly.
14:16She never mentioned anything about a teddy bar?
14:19Never.
14:21Any idea where Arden is now?
14:22No.
14:23You're a good nun, sister.
14:24Because you're a pretty bad liar.
14:26What's your hands doing right now, covering your neck like that?
14:29It's something people, mostly women, do when they're uncomfortable.
14:31You know more than you're telling us, don't you?
14:33And it's killing you.
14:36On our way in here, we learned that a rare nerve agent was used to kill teddy bar.
14:40If Arden was approached by foreign actors, maybe at an international track and field event,
14:45there are ways that we can help her.
14:46But only if she comes in.
14:49You have to tell us where she is.
15:00Arden.
15:04These people are from the police.
15:06Wait.
15:07You're turning me in?
15:10You said that you'd help me.
15:11She is helping you.
15:13Trust me.
15:13It's going to go better this way.
15:16Hang on a second.
15:17Is this your backpack?
15:19Yeah.
15:21If I'm going on the run, I'm not exactly filling my go bag with textbooks.
15:26You didn't know you were going to be on the run when you left the room this morning.
15:29Sister Lucy says you didn't know what was in the pie.
15:31Is that true?
15:34Okay, no, I swear I didn't know.
15:36We still have to bring you in.
15:37Technically, you did kill Teddy Barrow.
15:39But I think somebody set you up.
15:47I've been trying to gain more followers.
15:50Maybe a sponsor.
15:51So I started posting my training routine.
15:54Diet.
15:56Sometimes songs.
15:57Then I got this DM from a big viral video producer, Folly Box,
16:01saying he loved my stuff and he wanted me to do a video for his channel.
16:05He's got hundreds of prank videos.
16:07They get millions of views.
16:08Did you meet this Folly Box in person?
16:11No, just DMs.
16:12That's how it works.
16:13You know, Folly Box sends you a box.
16:15Like, with instructions, whatever outfit you have to wear.
16:19And you do it.
16:20No questions asked.
16:22Never checked if the person you were DMing with really was who they said they were.
16:26Detectives, I'm going to advise my client to stop talking.
16:28Counsel, we're trying to help your client,
16:29and the best way for her to help us do that is to cooperate.
16:35I think we can all assume at this point that it wasn't really the producer who contacted you.
16:40What was in the box you got?
16:43A pie, mask, gloves, a photo of the guy, and instructions weren't when to do it.
16:48It said hidden cameras would pick everything up.
16:51I didn't know the pie was poison.
16:53I'd never even heard of Teddy Barrow until it was all over the news.
16:56I didn't think anyone would believe me except for Sister Lucy.
17:01We need to hold you for a little while longer,
17:03but if your story checks out and you give us access to your accounts
17:06so we can track down this prank producer,
17:08I'll let the DA know you're being helpful.
17:12Sound good?
17:17She said my flight connected in Dallas,
17:19but that wasn't a guess.
17:20That lady knew I was coming.
17:23How?
17:23I'm not really sure.
17:24But I am telling you, we cannot underestimate her.
17:26Okay, here's what we're going to do.
17:28First, you are ordering a bottle of wine.
17:30On me.
17:31Cheapest one is 110 bucks.
17:33First, you are cracking open those mixed nuts.
17:35On me.
17:37How is it I just met this woman
17:39and it already feels like she's one step ahead?
17:44Don't let her get in your head.
17:45She got lucky, that's all.
17:47You'll find a way to get her to talk.
17:49You always do.
18:01Oh, Soto, how are things going in New York?
18:05Pretty good, from as far as I could tell.
18:10Look, I get why you're not thrilled about me
18:13being in the Roman investigation,
18:15but the more I know, the more useful I can be to you.
18:20Yeah, I gotta say, I'm having a hard time buying that
18:24based on everything you've done since you've been here.
18:30Yeah, that's fair.
18:33I like to be honest about it,
18:35but I'm not sure how little I am.
18:37You want to take a crack at it?
18:41I come from a family
18:42where truth was something you negotiated.
18:47Okay.
18:48My dad used to say politicians and cops
18:50are the same animal in different collars.
18:52Both were good at smiling while they pocket the knife.
18:55You grow up around that, you develop some habits.
18:57So your dad was also super confusing
18:59when he spoke to people.
19:00Cool.
19:01Morgan, when I got here,
19:02I didn't know who to trust.
19:04I didn't know who was going to let me in
19:06or who was going to cut me out.
19:07Soto, Karadek, the whole pen, really.
19:09So I tested them.
19:11I rattled some cages to see what would give.
19:15You certainly did.
19:19And what'd you find?
19:21They're good people.
19:23I forgot some cops can be honest.
19:28Morgan, I did my own digging on Quinn.
19:32You need somebody who spent their whole life
19:35spotting the lie inside the lie.
19:44I've got to get back to work.
19:47Reached out to the FBI for some background.
19:49This isn't the first time VX has been used
19:50to kill someone like this.
19:532017.
19:54North Korean refugee, two women,
19:55splashed him in the face.
19:56They thought it was a prank show.
19:58No one ever figured out who pulled the strings.
20:01Such a weird way to kill someone.
20:02Think it's the same person?
20:03More likely, it's where our killer got the idea.
20:06Bureau had more to share.
20:07Turn the page.
20:09Teddy borrowed a lot of time in Russia with cosmonauts.
20:12It's normal for astronauts,
20:13but some folks thought he was getting too comfortable.
20:16Maybe hearing and sharing some things he shouldn't.
20:21Are you okay?
20:22Yeah, yeah, I'm okay.
20:24I'm just hoping I don't have to tell my kid
20:26his dead astronaut hero is shady.
20:29It's too late right now, but...
20:31What are you thinking?
20:33I'm thinking we need to talk to Teddy's fiancée,
20:35Heidi, again in the morning.
20:37See if she was engaged to a spy.
20:45See if she was engaged to a spy.
21:08How's the dress fit?
21:09Fine.
21:10Good.
21:11Don't remove the tag.
21:13It's because I need you to return it
21:14on your way to the airport.
21:16Why am I here?
21:17Miss Quinn, a photo, please.
21:22I hate it when they do that.
21:24You have to be so careful who you're seeing with these days.
21:28Come, let's get a drink.
21:32Tonight is Lyme.
21:33Next month, pediatrics.
21:35Cancer in the wetland.
21:37Each cause fighting for every dollar.
21:41None of which is why I'm here.
21:44Right.
21:44Why are you here again?
21:46To look into Roman Sinchera's abduction.
21:50Don't mistake my silence for guilt, Lieutenant.
21:54Silence is a language for people
21:56who can afford not to explain themselves.
21:58Well, I got 25 years on the force.
22:00That says otherwise.
22:03I have zero to offer you.
22:05But I'm sure you didn't come all this way without doing your homework.
22:11Well, let's see.
22:12I know that you grew up in North Jersey.
22:15Oldest child of Meredith, a public school teacher, and Ray, who worked for an industrial
22:20laundry service.
22:21That's cute.
22:23Did you get that online?
22:25Did it also say that my dad believed in the value of labor and his word and the American dream?
22:34Not you?
22:36He was on the job for 30 years.
22:38They cut back his hours.
22:39He lost his insurance.
22:41Then his union slow walked into the grave.
22:44He died at 51 from a heart attack, shoveling snow in front of the house we were about to lose.
22:50My mom taught public school for 40 years, and she was devout.
22:56Never missed a mass.
22:58She prayed through my brother's leukemia.
23:02Then she prayed through her own cancer, lighting candles for a God that never answered.
23:06Why are you telling me this?
23:10Because my parents believed in rules that don't exist and systems that failed them.
23:17Justice doesn't show up because you deserve it.
23:22It's doled out by people in rooms like this.
23:31Well, if you've done this to impress me or scare me, then you didn't do your homework.
23:39I didn't come all this way to leave empty-handed.
23:42I will call Marvin and get some time on your schedule.
23:48Enjoy your party.
24:01And this is a flashlight from Apollo 13.
24:05Teddy said that it kept him humble.
24:07The biggest emergency he faced on the ISS was some broken plumbing, which isn't nothing, but those guys nearly died.
24:16Well, he certainly sounds like a wonderful man.
24:20And you're right, he was.
24:24Do you have any idea who could have done this?
24:26Not yet, but we wanted to ask you some questions about Teddy.
24:30Sure. Go ahead.
24:31It's early days, and we're just following leads, but the toxin that killed Teddy is a highly restricted nerve agent.
24:36The kind of thing that spies use on other spies.
24:39And you've heard about the suspicions from a few years ago?
24:42Yeah, that he was having secret meetings with the Russians.
24:44Is it true?
24:45I had the same worry, so I asked him about it.
24:48He told me that all he did was have dinner with some of his Russian counterparts.
24:52You think that's why he got killed?
24:55I could explain why things happened the way they did and how whoever killed him had access to the nerve
24:59agent.
25:00Is this the speech he was planning on giving?
25:03Uh, I forgot I even had it.
25:05Who is Astro Mullis?
25:07They're an aerospace contractor.
25:09Why, did he mention them?
25:10Yeah, did you not read that?
25:11Oh, he does more than mention them.
25:13This speech basically endorses them to build the first commercial space station.
25:17How much do you think that contract would have been worth?
25:19Billions, I'm sure.
25:20And Teddy had Washington's ear, right?
25:22Weren't there some people floating in for Congress?
25:24They definitely listened to anything he had to say on space.
25:26So coming from him, this could highly influence whoever gets that contract.
25:30And who didn't?
25:30I don't think the timing of this attack was a coincidence at all.
25:33Someone did not want Teddy giving that speech.
25:36It's called the low-Earth orbit economy.
25:38They're saying it's the next gold rush.
25:40The ISS is going to be retired in a few years,
25:42and private companies are falling over each other to build replacements.
25:45Zero-G manufacturing.
25:47It's the new frontier.
25:48Everything from drugs to computers.
25:50It's a trillion-dollar industry.
25:52So you think somebody killed Teddy Barrow to stop him from backing one player?
25:55That's our current theory, yeah.
25:58Well, who was on the losing end of that speech?
26:00Daphne and I was putting together a list.
26:02I'll keep you posted.
26:04Detective Karadik, before you go,
26:09I told Guillory I want to help with the Roman case.
26:12Hmm.
26:12I'm sorry I missed that.
26:16How do I get her to let me in?
26:18To the case?
26:21You don't get Morgan Guillory to do anything.
26:25I'm surprised you didn't know that by now.
26:35Lieutenant, you are persistent.
26:39That's it.
26:41Thank you, Cleo.
26:44I like you.
26:46You don't wait for permission.
26:48You get what you want.
26:49You get results.
26:50You are unapologetic, decisive.
26:54And you know how the city works under the surface,
26:57and not a lot of people do these days.
26:59I could use someone like you.
27:02Triple the pay.
27:03No red tape.
27:04No politics.
27:07You work fast.
27:09Things move with you.
27:11More reach, more change.
27:13We're not here to be recruited.
27:15I'm here because 16 years ago,
27:17an FBI agent was murdered.
27:20Days later, a father disappeared,
27:21and a little girl grew up without him.
27:24And every step I've taken has led me here.
27:27To you.
27:32Well, I'm afraid you're on the wrong trail.
27:39We found this in a woman's backpack.
27:43Our techs have been working overtime extracting the data,
27:46but the day Roman was abducted,
27:48Hayworth was carrying this phone.
27:50And I'm guessing the information we extract from it
27:53will prove I'm on the right trail.
27:58I've been carrying that thing around with you this whole time.
28:03Now I have something to offer you.
28:06Come clean.
28:08Before we extract the data,
28:10the courts will see it as cooperation.
28:12Might treat you differently.
28:14And you think that would matter to me.
28:17It should.
28:34I've got to be honest,
28:35I don't know anything about space stations, Mr. Boshayenne,
28:38but these designs look very impressive.
28:40I mean, I know I'm biased,
28:42but I think they're the best in the business.
28:43How did it make you feel
28:45knowing Teddy Burrell disagreed?
28:48Did he?
28:49I didn't know.
28:50Yeah, he was about to endorse Astromolus.
28:52You're not Astromolus.
28:54You're Galaxy Ark.
28:55I would have given a leg up on building the next space station.
28:58And driven investments away from you.
29:01So when you asked me to come in,
29:02saying you had questions about Teddy,
29:04you meant you think I had him killed.
29:09The trouble with your theory is until just now,
29:11I didn't know Teddy was planning to endorse anyone.
29:14Well, the speech he was about to give was publicly promoted.
29:17True.
29:18But did anyone see the content of his speech?
29:22As far as I know, no one did.
29:23And I promise you, I would have heard.
29:25Speaking as someone who knows how bad this can be, detectives,
29:28I think your theory has a hole in it.
29:41How are we doing?
29:44I'm fine.
29:44I don't know how you're doing.
29:47I just got off the phone with the organizers
29:49from the symposium Teddy Burrell was supposed to speak at.
29:52They backed what the guy Galaxy Ark said.
29:54Teddy didn't share his speech ahead of time with them,
29:56and as far as they know, not anyone else.
29:57When you spoke to Heidi,
29:59she said she didn't know Teddy planned that endorsement either, right?
30:02Any chance she was lying?
30:03Maybe she's in a rival bidder's pocket.
30:05If anyone knew, it had to be her.
30:07We considered that, checked her financials,
30:09but weren't able to find any connections
30:10between her and those companies.
30:11Also, I just got a call from Heidi.
30:13She wanted us to know that tomorrow
30:14she's going to be giving Teddy's speech.
30:16Why?
30:17What, she wants to continue his work,
30:19tell the world who he planned on endorsing?
30:21That's the idea.
30:22Well, that probably rules her out as a suspect,
30:24least on financial motive.
30:25Why kill him only to deliver it herself?
30:28Yeah, but hold on a second.
30:29Teddy got killed
30:30because he was planning on giving this speech.
30:32If she wants to tell the world
30:33she's going to deliver it too,
30:35that paints a target on her back.
30:48You think that if I give this speech,
30:49it'll put me in danger?
30:50We certainly think it's possible,
30:52which is why we'd like you to hold off,
30:53at least until we find Teddy's killer.
30:56So you don't want to do that?
30:58No.
30:59I want to honor Teddy's memory
31:00and share with the world what he believed in.
31:03It's my decision, right?
31:04Then we'll do everything we can to protect you.
31:06But you understand the risks.
31:08Neither of you ever met Teddy, did you?
31:11I didn't, but I do have to admit
31:14my son might be his biggest fan,
31:16so I kind of feel like I knew him.
31:19I told you that he finally proposed to me,
31:22but I don't think I told you how.
31:24He drove us all night
31:26to find my favorite constellation.
31:29You can only see it a few times a year,
31:31and there are really only a few places
31:33that you can see it.
31:34He, of course, had a million things
31:36that he should have been doing,
31:37but that was Teddy.
31:39Once he set his mind to something,
31:40there was no stopping him.
31:43I don't want this to stop the work
31:45that he believed in, either.
31:46Then you're delivering his speech verbatim.
31:49Yeah.
31:49I did a little cleanup
31:51and added a statement of my own at the end.
31:53You mind if we get a copy of your latest draft?
31:55That'll help us plan your protection,
31:57follow along.
31:58Sure.
31:59Wait here.
31:59There's something else I want to give you, too.
32:06You want to see if she changed his speech?
32:08No, if she's really reading his words,
32:10and she's not the one who wanted to stop it.
32:12I don't have a full take on this lady yet,
32:14but she does seem like she really loved the guy.
32:20Here's the speech.
32:23And this is for your son.
32:27That toy shares Teddy's record number of hours in space.
32:30You brought it with him on every mission.
32:32No way.
32:33Yeah, he called it his zero-gravity indicator.
32:36The second he saw that lion
32:38floating around in front of him,
32:39he knew that the launch was a success.
32:43He'd want your son to have it.
32:46This is...
32:47This is really incredible.
32:55Oh, my God, it's Ziggy.
32:57Ziggy?
32:57ZGI.
32:58Teddy borrows zero-gravity indicator.
33:00Okay, so you've heard of it, apparently.
33:01Yeah, I mean, he boasted about it all the time.
33:03Uh, here.
33:07This thing's been in space.
33:08Yeah, a whole lot, apparently.
33:10I need to find a special spot for this.
33:14No, I'm still gonna try and figure out what happened to him.
33:16I know.
33:17You'll do it.
33:26What's with the pen?
33:28What pen?
33:28He's holding a pen in his hand,
33:30in the same hand in every picture for, like, a month.
33:37And he was holding it on the day he died.
33:39Maybe it was his back-to-gravity indicator?
33:42Or maybe it was an indicator of something else.
33:47Oh, I didn't expect to see you back.
33:51I heard Elliot got a special gift.
33:53How's he like it?
33:54It's his new favorite thing,
33:55and I think he got a present for us.
33:57Can I see both versions of Teddy's speech?
33:59Uh, sure.
34:00This is the one that Teddy was gonna give,
34:02and, uh, this is Heidi's edited draft.
34:04Okay, and Heidi said she wanted to make
34:06a couple of corrections, right?
34:08Yeah, odd words here and there.
34:09Spear, where it should say it's spacecraft.
34:10Cabinet, or it should say capsule.
34:12We circled them.
34:13But everything that matters is the same.
34:15What do we think those were?
34:16Autocorrect errors?
34:17Autocoded message?
34:18Maybe Teddy was a spy after all.
34:20No, I think it was something else.
34:23See, there's a pattern to the swapped words.
34:25Three, two, one.
34:29Spacecraft becoming sphere.
34:32Capsule becoming cabinet.
34:34Helmet becoming hard hat.
34:36They all sound familiar, but it's more than that.
34:38They're objects with similar shapes and functions,
34:40like someone playing some sort of word association
34:42without even knowing it.
34:44And if I'm right, Heidi is perfectly safe
34:47to give this speech.
34:50I swear I didn't know.
34:52I want to honor Teddy's memory
34:54and share with the world what people need to.
34:56Why?
34:57What makes you think that?
34:58Because I know what this murder was about.
35:07We just want to go over the security plan
35:09before heading over so you know what to expect.
35:11Of course.
35:12And again, I appreciate it.
35:13Please, have a seat.
35:15We read your added statement at the end,
35:17how Teddy dedicated his life to exploration
35:19and how not even death should be able to stop his mission.
35:22It was beautiful.
35:24Thanks.
35:25I mean, you can really feel how important it is
35:27to you to continue Teddy's legacy.
35:28It is.
35:29Yep.
35:30Important enough that you killed him to protect it.
35:33As soon as you left to come here,
35:35we executed a search warrant at your home.
35:37We found a different speech on Teddy's computer
35:39than the one you were about to read,
35:41the speech he'd actually decided to give.
35:43Teddy was going to tell the world
35:44that he'd recently been diagnosed with brain cancer,
35:47most likely from radiation he was exposed to in space.
35:51Obviously, he couldn't be sure if that was the cause,
35:54but regardless, he felt the responsibility
35:56to reverse his position publicly,
35:58put a freeze on private development
36:00and stop sending people into space
36:01without greater safety measures.
36:03Yeah, the clues were all there.
36:05I just didn't know what they meant at first.
36:07About a month ago,
36:08Teddy started holding a pen in his hand all the time.
36:10Now, people who develop a tremor
36:12sometimes do that to help stop the hand from shaking.
36:14And all those wrong words in his speech,
36:16that's a symptom of anomic aphasia,
36:18an erosion of his language skills.
36:20It took us a minute to understand
36:22why you chose to kill him the way you did
36:23and how you got the VX nerve agent.
36:26Then those two questions answered each other.
36:28Our captain knows someone who works at NASA.
36:30It turns out they are researching an antidote to VX
36:34and zero gravity,
36:36sending up samples to the International Space Station.
36:39So as a member of the ground team,
36:41you would have had access to steal some.
36:43Teddy must have told you about the new speech
36:45a few weeks back.
36:46Figured you tried to talk him out of it,
36:48but once...
36:48He set his mind to something,
36:49there was no stopping him.
36:50Those are your words, not mine.
36:52You picked Arden because she was desperate enough for views
36:54and athletic enough to pull it off.
36:56You copied the profile of a prank video producer,
36:59you bought a bunch of followers,
37:01and you made Arden think that she was signing up
37:03to create content
37:04when really she was committing a crime.
37:06She's being released, by the way.
37:08Her parents are taking her home
37:09and her name will be cleared.
37:15The diagnosis changed Teddy.
37:17He only had a few months to live.
37:20In some ways, that made him embrace life more.
37:22That's why he suddenly proposed to you, right?
37:27But then, his new stance on space research,
37:31that wasn't the Teddy I knew.
37:35That speech would have undone everything
37:37that he'd accomplished.
37:38And if he were still himself,
37:40then he'd never have made it.
37:43Pushing space exploration forward
37:46was his life's mission.
37:49He was dying anyway,
37:51and he was going to ruin his legacy.
37:56I loved him so much.
38:00He needed me to save him from himself.
38:05Heidi Troy,
38:06you are under arrest for the murder of Teddy Barrow.
38:11Let's go, man.
38:24Good night, Morgan.
38:26Hey.
38:28I'm submitting a warrant to the DA
38:29to look into Quinn International.
38:32You talked to Soto?
38:33I did.
38:33She's on her way back to L.A.
38:35Willa didn't give her much.
38:36Not surprised.
38:37But if we don't do something big like this,
38:40I don't think you're ever going to find out
38:41what really happened to Roman.
38:43If it gets us what we want, great.
38:45And if it doesn't,
38:46we'll think of something else.
38:50Why are you doing this?
38:51Because it's the right thing to do.
38:56And I want to help.
39:04You getting on?
39:06No, I need to finish some things up.
39:10Have a good night, Morgan.
39:13Good night, Captain.
39:25We've got movement.
39:26DAs on both coasts are reviewing everything.
39:29Perfect.
39:30Let me know what they find.
39:31And prep Eric Hayworth for another interview at...
39:38Lieutenant.
39:42Lieutenant.
39:43Lieutenant?
39:46I'm not your friend
39:49With anything, man
39:51You think that you're the man
39:54I think that's for him
39:59Watch an all-new episode of R.J. Decker
40:02next on ABC.
40:05Updates on Willa Quinn.
40:06Still keeping a low profile
40:07since she landed in L.A.
40:08Hello, Selena.
40:10Catch her at a bad time.
40:12Body spotted on a building in Mid-City.
40:14You mean in a building?
40:15No.
40:16On.
40:17The victim was a tagger.
40:19Hired to deface the building.
40:20Uh, Karadak?
40:21Because of your propane torch.
40:23Karadak, wait!
40:23There's gasoline in that glove
40:24The whole place is gonna blow up.
40:25Morgan, get out of here.
40:26I'm right behind you.
40:27Go.