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00:17You
00:25Your 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
00:43Uninterrupted by your snoring. I am not the one who snores. Oh, yeah, that's right
00:48So 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
00:58You 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
01:30Carl 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
01:50L.A.'s 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
02:02more 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 I have to report from the overnight watch nothing
02:24Here's I have to report from the brass
02:26Nothing, and here's what I have to report about today's forecast
02:30Nothing, okay, I'm sorry if that's the case then why are we still having roll call?
02:33Because the nothingness of it is alarming
02:36Yeah, 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
03:01Thank you. Hey, sorry, you just dropped by shouldn't you be in school school is a 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
03:15And 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 the 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 you take this
03:41Savvy yep off we go
03:46It's gonna go great by all accounts ryan dearborn has turned his life around he's on the right medications
03:51And 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
04:07who has struggled with severe mental illness over
04:09A family man a model citizen they'll believe because you'll make them believe that's sweet, but i do not have
04:16the 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
04:39Hey how are you fine is the only answer i have time for
04:42Wonder if you can do me a bit of an odd favor are you gonna ask me to do something
04:46classified
04:47No literally i'm gonna ask you to knock on the door and see who opens it remember the criminal nolan
04:52and garza flew back from vegas
04:54Everett right the military contractor who forced the aircraft to crash and escaped briefly escape but yes something's come up
05:02as we've been digging deeper into his criminal operation an unexplained connection inside the pentagon
05:08Literally 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
05:19Okay i'll do that after my next meeting
05:22What is the uh office number
05:27I am not in your movie right sorry
05:30It's just you have a jawline that screams leading man uh-huh
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 they're just ordinary
05:42citizens
05:43To make a bad choice in a high stress situation kind of sounds like my mom's dating history
05:47Although 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 it's fine sarcasm heals most wounds just wanted to be happy you know
06:007 lincoln 15 are you available for a wellness check out at the old west view hospital facility
06:05Oh that sounds boring maybe pass on that okay
06:08I thought west view shut down last year it did they've had a remediation crew working there for the last
06:13six months to make it safe for demolition
06:15According 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
06:22This is 7 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
06:33You heard bradford we are being extra vigilant today it's a huge campus it's better for two units to respond
06:39All right i'll see you there hey you know we don't have to respond there's zero judgment from this seat
06:43I appreciate that you think i care about your judgment 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 many of them stricken with polio
07:24That's not even to mention the massive mental hospital complex that was recently condemned is 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 seven lincoln 15 do you copy
07:51Check your phone
07:53My service stay in the car but this is the perfect stay in the car
08:07Is 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
08:34You're in uniform i thought you were a detective the story for another time stay in the car what happened
08:38to him
08:42What the hell was that take the kid and drop back until you find a signal call for backup we'll
08:47stay with the body right
08:48We will i mean yeah we will
08:51Look out
09:00Easy easy
09:07What do we do
09:18What do we do do we shoot him
09:20No
09:25Fall back
09:31Let's go
09:57Where's dash
09:58Where's dash
10:01Where's dash
10:29Where's dash
10:45I don't know.
11:16I don't know.
11:56I got to go find him.
11:57If I had to guess, these guys got exposed to something causing some kind of acute neurotoxicity, turning them into
12:02homicidal maniacs?
12:03Which makes them victims no matter their current psychological state.
12:05That's all well and good.
12:07Well, 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.
12:14Right 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.
12:23Let's get gone.
12:31Oh, Mr. Dearborn, thanks for coming in.
12:35I wasn't sure what to wear.
12:36You look great.
12:38This is Malcolm Walsh.
12:40He represents Liam Glasser.
12:41Oh.
12:42I didn't realize...
12:43The law allows me to access evidence prior to trial in order to provide an adequate defense, which means I
12:48can participate in your deposition.
12:50Okay.
12:51No problem.
12:53But you're not going to get mad if I tell the truth about your client, right?
12:58I promise.
12:59Only if you promise not to get mad at me for questioning that truth with vigor.
13:03Deal.
13:04All 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?
13:13I 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?
13:45Or because you were afraid of what he would do if you didn't?
13:48A bit of both.
13:50You have to understand, the 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, as he described in minute detail what it
14:14felt like to carve a person up.
14:20It made my own demons pale in comparison.
14:24We should take a break.
14:27It's creepy in here.
14:29And we have none of this in sugar land.
14:36Hello?
14:37Hello?
14:39Can you hear me?
14:43Oh, that is not okay.
14:47Not today, playboy.
14:50Okay.
15:31Hello?
15:32Testing, testing.
15:37Come on, signal.
15:43Oh, my God.
16:20Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
16:32Oh, come on.
17:19Oh, come on.
17:49Oh, come on.
18:19Oh, come on.
18:33Oh, come on.
18:35Oh, come on.
18:44That was badass.
18:46And I got it on camera.
18:48Here.
18:51Sweet.
18:52Thanks.
18:53Here.
18:54Coffee him.
19:01You okay?
19:02Wish I'd stretch first, but not bad.
19:06From now on, try to stay with the group.
19:08Well, it wasn't exactly on purpose, but I'll do my best.
19:12Where's everybody else?
19:13Exactly.
19:15Exactly.
19:15Come on.
19:16Okay.
19:32Here.
20:01Come on.
20:02Come on.
20:04Come on.
20:05Come on.
20:06Come on.
20:08Come on.
20:19Come on.
20:39Thank God.
20:40Are you hurt?
20:41No, just terrified.
20:43Were 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.
20:50I just kept beating and tearing at him.
20:52I don't know what happened to Gail.
20:53I started running.
20:55But I'm safe now.
20:56Yeah, safe-ish.
20:57That's... thanks.
20:58There's not many of us here,
20:59and 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,
21:04they will send more people.
21:06I just have to keep you safe until then.
21:08No!
21:43Let's get out of here.
22:43Get away!
22:47This way!
22:49There you go, there you go.
22:50Faster, faster, faster, faster.
22:54Oh no, I didn't win, but still comes around.
23:22Okay.
23:45Can I help you?
23:46Oh, hi, yeah, I was looking for a Colonel Ratcliffe.
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?
23:59Sorry, I'm just looking for a little help here.
24:01Have you been in the office long?
24:03Maybe he used to be here?
24:04I can't help you.
24:08Okay, no problem.
24:21What happened, ma'am?
24:23Something overloaded their limbic systems, forcing their bodies to produce massive amounts of
24:26stress chemistry, cortisol, histamine, cytokines.
24:28But they're wearing hazmat suits.
24:30Yeah, at the clean-up site where we've been remediating the project Ultra Chemicals, but
24:33I heard they just discovered it wasn't the only area on campus that was contaminated.
24:37Where our crew was staging was also compromised, possibly with thallium and iophetamine.
24:41They were exposed to both of those in high doses over time?
24:44You managed to get a call out.
24:45I got a brief signal next door, but my phone got smashed.
24:49Where's Miles?
24:50I don't know.
24:52I hope he got out.
24:54Let's move.
25:35Move.
25:36Move.
26:06Move.
26:09I got you back.
26:11Move.
26:13Move.
26:13Move.
26:15Move.
26:16Move.
26:20He managed to get a call out?
26:22No, but by this point dispatch would have started additional units when we didn't check
26:25in, right?
26:27Right.
26:27All right.
26:34Officials 7, Adam 300, arriving at Westview Hospital campus.
26:39No sign of responding units.
26:42Who's missing?
26:42I've been in meetings.
26:43It's hard work.
26:44Myles and Nolan.
26:47Repeat.
26:48You're breaking up.
26:49Oh.
26:50Hold on.
26:51We got movement.
26:53Did you see the butt?
26:54Yeah.
26:55We're going 6 to investigate.
26:56Something's going on here.
26:57Okay.
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.
27:21Hey, sir.
27:21Theroot quit the rocket.
27:22Hey!
27:25Hey!
27:25Code Alpha.
27:26Westview hospital.
27:27Repeat all units.
27:28Code Alpha.
27:28Westview hospital.
27:30Yeah, mÃlle !
27:32wiederee!
27:36Get in!
27:37Get in!
27:38Get in!
27:39Get in!
27:40Get in!
27:41Oh!
27:43Hey, man!
27:47Oh!
27:50Hey!
27:50with blood!!
27:51Come on, get it!
27:53Get it!
27:54Get it!
27:57Get it!
28:00Get it!
28:06Get it!
28:09Get it!
28:36Oh, my God.
28:58I don't know.
29:25I don't know.
29:28I don't know.
30:11I don't know.
30:33I don't know.
30:57I don't know.
31:00I don't know.
31:31I don't know.
31:32I'm over here.
31:33Are you hurt?
31:36Lucy.
31:37No.
31:39He's...
31:40He's dead.
31:41I couldn't...
31:42I know.
31:43Oh!
31:45He's...
31:46Officer Chen.
31:47I'm gonna have to ask you a few questions and then we will get you to the hospital.
31:51Okay?
31:53Did you fire any shots?
31:55No.
31:56No.
31:57Did you use deadly force against anyone else?
31:59Is there anyone still outstanding?
32:01No, it's just him.
32:02It's just him.
32:03We got separated.
32:05Stop.
32:05This isn't the conversation.
32:07Okay?
32:07I have to do this by the book.
32:08Because you use deadly force, I'm gonna have to take your duty belt and any other weapons
32:12you might have on you and book them into evidence.
32:14I wouldn't speak to anyone until you've spoken to your attorney and your union rep.
32:19Do you understand?
32:20Yeah.
32:21Yeah.
32:22He...
32:23Oh.
32:25Is...
32:25Is Nolan at heart?
32:26Okay.
32:27They're...
32:27They're banged up, but they're fine.
32:29Campus is secured.
32:30We're code four.
32:31Okay.
32:32Now when I put you into an ambulance, we'll get you to the hospital so you can get checked
32:35out before I take you to the station where your clothes will be bagged and be photographed
32:39from front and back.
32:40I know all of this.
32:41But you've never been through this before.
32:42You're in shock.
32:46Come on.
32:52Okay.
32:53It's gonna be okay.
32:54Okay.
32:56Sorry.
32:57It's gonna be okay.
33:02I know.
33:02I know.
33:03It's late.
33:03I'm finishing up now.
33:04You're not in trouble.
33:05It's crazy over here, too.
33:06There was some kind of riot at Westview earlier.
33:08Harper was involved, but she's okay.
33:11A riot?
33:11How could there be a riot?
33:12It's closed.
33:13I don't know.
33:13I don't have all the facts yet.
33:14It's got something to do with the cleanup crew that got poisoned, but that's not why
33:18I'm calling.
33:18What could be more pressing than that?
33:20Dispatch alerted me to a call that came in.
33:23A caregiver from Hillwood Supportive Housing called 911 half an hour ago.
33:27Ryan Dearborn had an incident.
33:29What kind of incident?
33:30It's not clear.
33:32His room was trashed.
33:33There was blood.
33:34He might have hurt himself during some kind of episode.
33:37And now he's missing.
33:38Angela.
33:39I know.
33:40Look, he was doing so well.
33:41His testimony was strong.
33:42I mean, the deposition today was the first time that I have felt hope since I learned
33:46what Harper said to Glasser.
33:47I know, but try not to panic.
33:48We don't know what happened yet.
33:50Look, whatever happened, Malcolm Walsh will use it to undermine Ryan's testimony on the
33:53stand and I will be back at square one on this case.
33:58Wesley?
34:01What's wrong?
34:07Wesley?
34:08He's here.
34:09Who?
34:10Ryan?
34:12Are you in danger?
34:20I don't know what to do.
34:25That's okay with me.
34:26You don't have to do anything.
34:27Wesley, get out of there.
34:28Hey, Ryan.
34:29Ryan.
34:32You're safe here, Ryan, so why don't you put the broken glass down?
34:34No!
34:35No!
34:35No!
34:36I need every available unit to the DA's office, 6th floor, code 3.
34:40I'm never safe.
34:41Okay.
34:41They're in my head.
34:43I thought they were gone.
34:44But they're back!
34:47They're back.
34:48Okay.
34:48I can't imagine how you feel, Ryan.
34:50The nightmare that you've gone through, that you're still going through.
34:54I needed to stop.
34:55Okay.
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.
35:19You 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.
35:35It's okay.
35:48It's okay.
35:49It's okay.
35:50We're okay.
36:04Are you okay?
36:05Yeah.
36:06Good.
36:06Because 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.
36:16It's not funny.
36:17I was scared.
36:19Do they know what happened to him?
36:20Not fully.
36:21The doctor 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 a 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?
36:38No way.
36:40Wesley.
36:41You okay?
36:41I came as soon as I heard.
36:43I'm fine.
36:44Thanks.
36:44It's tragic.
36:45He's doing so well today.
36:47Which 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.
37:04And 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
37:11times.
37:14And I would advise you that the quickest way to end up in one of these beds is to disrespect
37:19her.
37:22Thanks for coming by.
37:24Of course.
37:26And again, I'm glad you're doing okay.
37:29Even if your case isn't.
37:34He did this.
37:36Maybe.
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.
37:44So, what exactly happened at Westview?
37:47Zombies, apparently.
37:49Oh.
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?
38:12And spoil the look on her face when I show her this footage?
38:16Listen, what you went through today could haunt you for a bit.
38:19I'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 and then immediately saving it.
38:26I 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, jawline.
38:36Detective Harper said that I proved myself today.
38:39Really?
38:40I did not.
38:41I said that he did not embarrass himself.
38:44Ah, well, it's 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, said she's still pretty out of it.
38:53She's on her way here.
38:54She's gonna 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.
39:03Your wife is calling me.
39:04I asked her to do a thing.
39:05No need to tell her about my day.
39:07I don't want to worry her.
39:07No problem.
39:08Go get cleaned up.
39:09Chin should be here in 20.
39:10Right.
39:12Hey.
39:13What'd you find out?
39:15Honestly, I don't know.
39:16The office has no occupants listed.
39:18A very unfriendly woman answered the door, which set off my spidey sense.
39:22I couldn't get a name, but I did see a special operations tattoo with the phrase,
39:27Ego in Mimicus.
39:29It's Latin for I am the enemy.
39:32I made a drawing.
39:33I'll send it to you.
39:33Great.
39:34I owe you.
39:35No you don't.
39:35I hope things are okay with Luna.
39:38Yeah, thanks.
39:39Okay.
39:40Bye.
39:54Bye.
39:56Bye.
39:56Bye.
40:03Bye.
40:06Bye.
40:33I'm sorry.
40:34I'm sorry.
40:35Did you say something?
40:36I did, but it's okay.
40:39We can go over it again later.
40:42I was doing funny things.
40:44I know. It did that for me, too.
40:48It'll get better when you get some sleep.
40:54Wait, John, um, do you know his name?
40:57I... I don't know his name.
41:02It's Marden.
41:04His name was Marden.
41:16Tea's ready.
41:19Yeah.
41:21You ready for bed?
41:23Yeah.
41:25No.
41:26I think I'm just gonna stay up for a little bit.
41:30All right.
41:33Hey, listen.
41:34Selena's right.
41:36It's gonna be okay.
41:38I know.
41:40I'll be in a bit.
41:42All right.
42:00Sean, I got a little bit wind.
42:02I got to learn more.
42:02Sorry it was.
42:03Come in.
42:03I, you, you.
42:07Are you ready?
42:08I'm ready.
42:08I'm ready.
42:15I don't know.
42:39I don't know.
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