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00:23You
00:23Your timing is incredible remember when I thought this job would be cool and sexy having second thoughts not really
00:29Two days ago, we landed on an aircraft carrier in the high seas, but today is it not that day.
00:35How are you? Good
00:35Just waking up after a blissful night of sleep uninterrupted by your snoring
00:40I am not the one who snores. Oh, yeah, that's right. So no aircraft carriers today
00:45No, today is back-to-back meetings about the technical specifications for the next-gen tactical triage kits
00:51Very funny. You call me later. Yeah, I sure will. It's a date. Love you. I love you, too
01:20You don't have clearance to be here Carl likes me Carl's gonna be writing parking tickets in hell after this
01:25be mad at me
01:25Don't take it out on Carl. You don't get to tell me how to process this Luna. You have a
01:30hots for another guy
01:31That is reductionist. What's that? SAT word? We've been married 20 years
01:34You cannot tell me that in all that time your eye never wandered not in a way that will result
01:39in you moving into a hotel
01:40L.A.'s full of pretty girls, but none of them are you
01:46I'm trying to figure out what to do quit your job never see him again. Say you're sorry. I got
01:51more if you need them
01:51I am sorry, but it's not that simple and I will not quit this job
02:00Then I don't know what there is to talk about
02:06All right, let's get started so here's I have to report from the overnight watch nothing here's I have to
02:11report from the brass
02:13Nothing, and here's what I have to report about today's forecast
02:16Nothing, okay. I'm sorry. I mean if that's the case, then why are we still having roll call?
02:19Because the nothingness of it is alarming
02:21Yeah, saying things are too quiet is a cliche
02:24But like most cliches there's a little bit of truth to it chen's right the odds of getting no instructions
02:28from up the food chain
02:29No activity from overnight that requires follow-up nothing actionable in today's forecast feels abnormal and we hate abnormal
02:35This is all I have for you today. Keep your heads on a damn swivel and stay safe. That's it
02:40Oh
02:43Thank you
02:44There he is. Thank you. Hey, sorry. Just drop by shouldn't you be in school school is a state of
02:50mind today?
02:51I want to go to the school of John Nolan
02:53It's a professional development day
02:54Can I go on a ride along because you're thinking of becoming a police officer that and I'm making a
02:58short film and I need some dynamic police footage
03:00Ah
03:01Because you saved my life
03:02I'm gonna say yes, but I'm gonna warn you patrol work can be unpredictable. Honestly
03:06We could be watching grass grow at the edge of a crime scene all day or you could be involved
03:09in an epic car chase
03:10throughout the streets of los angeles with a gritty french connection vibe hopefully at or near sunset or something equally
03:15cinematic
03:16Careful what you wish for dash. Where's the fun in that?
03:18You take this
03:21It's heavy. Yep
03:22Off we go
03:25It's gonna go great by all accounts ryan dearborn has turned his life around
03:29He's on the right medications and he's been clear and consistent about what glasser did to him
03:33He's a hail mary and we both know what the guy was arrested hiding under the floors of his rv
03:37He confessed to glasser's murders any new details only the killer could know because glasser groomed him inside westview
03:41Yeah, but at the end of the day
03:43It's still gonna come down to whether the jury believes a man who has struggled with severe mental illness over
03:46a family man
03:47A model citizen they'll believe because you'll make them believe that's sweet, but I do not have the upper hand
03:53here
03:55Sorry to interrupt just wanted to tell you both good morning someone's in high spirits. Are you not?
03:59I guess I'm just a morning person or maybe I'm anticipating your latest star witness being another dud
04:04I just really love watching somebody else's train wreck. Well see you in there
04:13Hey, how are you fine is the only answer I have time for wonder if you can do me a
04:17bit of an odd favor
04:19Are you gonna ask me do something classified?
04:20No, literally
04:21I'm gonna ask you to knock on the door until you open it
04:24Remember the criminal nolan and garza flew back from vegas everett right the military
04:29Contractor who forced the aircraft to crash and escaped briefly escaped, but yes something's come up as we've been digging
04:35deeper into his criminal
04:36Operation an unexplained connection inside the pentagon literally it's an office number that we can't get clarity on
04:43Without making it known that we're interested and you want me to wander down the hall and see who's in
04:47it
04:47Obviously act like it's the wrong office if someone opens the door. Okay, I'll do that after my next meeting
04:53What is the office number?
04:57I
04:57Am not in your movie right sorry
05:00It's just you have a jawline that screams leading man
05:02Uh-huh
05:03So what time do things usually get crazy? I feel like most criminals sleep in
05:06Well every day is different, but most of the people we deal with are not career criminals
05:10They're just ordinary citizens who make a bad choice in a high stress situation and it sounds like my mom's
05:14dating history
05:15Although she got better after she divorced my dad now. They're all just losers not podcast ads for toxic masculinity
05:21I'm sorry that can't be easy
05:23It's fine sarcasm heals most wounds just wanted to be happy, you know
05:27Seven Lincoln 15 are you available for a wellness check out at the old west view hospital facility?
05:32Oh, that sounds boring maybe pass on that. Okay. I thought west view shut down last year
05:36It did they've had a remediation crew working there for the last six months to make it safe for demolition
05:40According to the supervisor they haven't had contact with the crew since yesterday
05:44They sent another truck this morning and haven't heard back from them either
05:47This is 7 atom 11 radio and cell traffic at that site are spotty on a good day
05:51It was a real issue for us during the glasser investigation
05:54Yeah, I can go check it out. No reason for you to go back there
05:57You heard bradford. We are being extra vigilant today. It's a huge campus. It's better for two units to respond
06:02All right, I'll see you there. Hey, you know, we don't have to respond. There's zero judgment from this seat
06:07I appreciate that you think I care about your judgment of me
06:12I was trying to be nice and yet that is the one thing that I am not evaluating you on
06:18You got something else to say no ma'am. Oh, so now you're lying to me. No ma'am
06:24It's just when you're in the mood you can start a fight in the empty house
06:35What is this place what remains of the westview hospital back in the 1940s and 50s it housed hundreds of
06:42patients
06:42Many of them stricken with polio that's not even to mention the massive mental hospital complex that was recently condemned.
06:47Is it haunted?
06:49No, is that like a hard no, or is that like I don't believe in that sort of thing so
06:57Is that a dead body control we got a db
07:04Control this is seven Lincoln 15. Do you copy?
07:08Check your phone
07:10My service stay in the car, but this is the perfect stay in the car
07:22Oh
07:23Is anybody else in your drive-in no, it's a ghost town according to dispatch the original crew is 20
07:27people this could be the guy
07:28They sent in to check on them. I think they sent more than him the passenger doors are wide open
07:36You're selling radio out to yeah
07:40Is that drone kid in your car yeah dash he wanted to go on a ride-along and you chose
07:45today
07:47You're in uniform. I thought you were detective the story for another time stay in the car having a ham
07:55What the hell was that take the kid and drop back until you find a signal call for backup. We'll
07:59stay with the body, right?
08:00We will I mean yeah, we will
08:02Look out
08:10Easy easy
08:17What do we do
08:18Oh
08:27What do we do
08:28Do we shoot him?
08:29No
08:33Fall back
08:39Let's go
08:49Oh
09:02Where's dash
09:24Don't you?
09:26What?
09:26What?
09:44Oh
09:45Oh, my God!
10:23Let's go.
10:51I-I gotta go find him.
10:52I have to guess.
10:53These guys got exposed to something causing some kind of acute neurotoxicity,
10:56turning them into homicidal maniacs?
10:57Which makes them victims no matter their current psychological state.
10:59That's all well and good.
11:00Well, are you saying we let them kill us and we end up in a fight for our lives?
11:03No, no.
11:04Just that lethal force cannot be our first option.
11:07Right now, we have two priorities.
11:08Find them, protect the kid, and get a call out for backup.
11:11All right, I'm going after Dash.
11:12We should split up.
11:13Increase the odds of one of us finding a cell or radio signal.
11:15All right, let's get going.
11:22Oh, Mr. Dearborn.
11:25Thanks for coming in.
11:26I-I wasn't sure what to wear.
11:27You look great.
11:29This is Malcolm Walsh.
11:30He represents Liam Glasser.
11:32Oh, I-I didn't realize-
11:33The law allows me to access evidence prior to trial in order to provide an adequate defense,
11:37which means I can participate in your deposition.
11:40Okay.
11:41No problem.
11:43But you're not going to get mad if I tell the truth about your client, right?
11:47I promise.
11:48Only if you promise not to get mad at me for questioning that truth with vigor.
11:52Deal.
11:52All right.
11:53Do you recall confessing to the murders attributed to Liam Glasser?
11:56Yes.
11:56I was at the police station.
11:58And do you recall why you confessed?
12:00I was unmedicated at the time in the midst of a mental breakdown.
12:04A part of me believed that I did those horrible things.
12:06But now I know I didn't.
12:07So why did a part of you believe that you committed those murders?
12:10I was coerced into thinking that I hurt people during psychotic moments when I lost time.
12:15Coerced by who?
12:16Liam Glasser.
12:16Over the course of the next two years, he began to fill my head with details of murders he said
12:22I committed.
12:23Whenever I would waver, he'd threaten me.
12:25Are you saying that you made a false confession because he made you believe that you committed those crimes?
12:29Or because you were afraid of what he would do if you didn't?
12:33A bit of both.
12:34You have to understand, the voices I hear, the faces I see, they can be scary.
12:41But nothing terrified me as much as Liam Glasser.
12:49The look in his eyes when he told me what he did, as he described in minute detail what it
12:56felt like to carve a person up.
13:02It made my own demons pale in comparison.
13:05We should take a break.
13:08It's creepy in here.
13:10We have none of this in Shookaland.
13:16Hello.
13:18Hello.
13:19Can you hear me?
13:23Oh, that is not okay.
13:26Not today, playboy.
13:57No, I'll be there.
14:06Hello, testing, testing.
14:12Come on, signal.
14:51Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
15:01Oh, come on.
15:36Oh, come on.
16:26Oh, come on.
16:52Oh, come on.
16:53Oh, come on.
17:02That was badass.
17:04And I got it on camera.
17:06Here.
17:08Sweet.
17:09Thanks.
17:10Here.
17:11Cuff him.
17:18You okay?
17:19Wish I'd stretch first, but not bad.
17:21From now on, try to stay with the group.
17:23Well, it wasn't exactly on purpose, but I'll do my best.
17:27Where's everybody else?
17:28Exactly.
17:30Come on.
17:30Okay.
17:45Here.
18:12Come on, come on.
18:15Come on, come on.
18:46Thank God.
18:47Are you hurt?
18:48No, just terrified.
18:50Were you in the truck that came to check on the main crew?
18:52Yeah, with Hank and Gail.
18:54The crazies caught him the second he got out of the truck.
18:56Just kept beating and tearing at him.
18:58I don't know what happened to Gail.
18:59I started running.
19:00But I'm safe now.
19:01Yeah, safe-ish.
19:03Thanks.
19:03There's not many of us here, and we can't get a signal out to call for backup.
19:06How is that safe at all?
19:07Because when the LAPD doesn't hear from us, they will send more people.
19:10I just have to keep you safe until then.
19:33I got it.
19:44Let's get out of here.
19:47Let's get out of here.
19:52Bye.
20:00Come on.
20:01Green section!
20:04This is the old messenger!
20:07Our calls are coming!
20:10I'm coming for you.
20:13You won't come with that!
20:16Take what it will!
20:26Get out of here.
20:49You're not in me, but still come around.
21:35Can I help you?
21:36Oh, hi.
21:37Yeah, I was looking for a Colonel Ratcliffe.
21:39I was told his office was here.
21:41No.
21:42OK, there's no name on the signage, so who exactly are you?
21:47Sorry.
21:48Um, I'm just looking for a little help here.
21:50Have you been in the office long?
21:51Maybe he used to be here?
21:53I can't help you.
21:55OK.
21:56No problem.
22:08What happened then?
22:10Something overloaded their limbic systems, forcing their bodies to produce massive amounts
22:13of stress chemistry, cortisol, histamine, cytokines.
22:15They're wearing hazmat suits.
22:16Yeah, at the clean-up site where we've been remediating the Project Ultra Chemicals,
22:19but I heard they just discovered it wasn't the only area on campus that was contaminated.
22:22Where our crew was staging was also compromised, possibly with thallium and iophetamine.
22:26They were exposed to both of those in high doses over time?
22:29You managed to get a call out.
22:30I got a brief signal next door, but my phone got smashed.
22:33Where's Miles?
22:35I don't know.
22:36I hope he got out.
22:38Let's move.
22:42Okay, no.
22:51No.
22:57agreements
22:58Alright.
23:03That's cool.
23:03Do it.
23:03Okay...
23:03Ah...
23:03There...
23:06There...
23:07There...
23:08There...
23:15Move.
23:38Oh, jeez.
23:43No, I got you back.
23:56He managed to get a call out?
23:58No, but by this point, dispatch would have started a different unit
24:00when we didn't check in, right?
24:03Right.
24:09The show is the 7 Adam 300 arriving at Westview Hospital Campus.
24:14No sign of resounding units.
24:16Who's missing?
24:16I've been in meetings.
24:17Or Miles and Nolan.
24:21Repeat, you're breaking up.
24:22Oh.
24:24Hold on, we got movement.
24:26Did you see the brush?
24:27Yeah.
24:28We're close to 6 to investigate.
24:29Something's going on here.
24:44We got a dead body.
24:46We need backup.
24:48Hey, look up.
24:49Stay right there, sir.
24:50Just stay where you are.
24:51Hey, sir.
24:55Code Alpha, Westview Hospital.
24:57Repeat, all units.
24:58Code Alpha, Westview Hospital.
25:13Code Alpha, Westview Hospital.
25:52Code Alpha, Westview Hospital.
25:59Ah!
26:34Oh, my God.
27:23Oh, my God.
27:35Oh, my God.
28:21Oh, my God.
28:29Where's Lucy?
28:34Lucy?
28:39I'm over here.
28:41Are you hurt?
28:43Lucy.
28:44No.
28:47He's dead.
28:48I couldn't.
28:49I know.
28:52Officer Chen, I'm going to have to ask you a few questions, and then we will get you to
28:56the hospital, okay?
28:59Did you fire any shots?
29:00No.
29:01No.
29:02Did you use deadly force against anyone else?
29:05Is there anyone still outstanding?
29:06No, it's just him.
29:08We got separated.
29:10Stop.
29:10This isn't a conversation, okay?
29:11I have to do this by the book.
29:13Because you use deadly force, I'm going to have to take your duty belt and any other weapons
29:16you might have on you and book them into evidence.
29:18I wouldn't speak to anyone until you've spoken to your attorney and your union rep.
29:23Do you understand?
29:24Yeah.
29:24Yeah.
29:26Oh.
29:27It's...
29:28It's Nolan at heart.
29:29I don't think.
29:30No.
29:30They're banged up, but they're fine.
29:32Campus is secured.
29:33We're code four.
29:34Okay.
29:34Now I put you into an ambulance, we'll get you to the hospital so you can get checked
29:37out before I take you to the station where your clothes will be bagged and be photographed
29:40from front and back.
29:41I know all of this.
29:42But you've never been through this before.
29:44You're in shock.
29:47Come on.
29:52Hey.
29:53It's gonna be okay.
29:55Okay.
29:56Sorry.
29:57It's gonna be okay.
30:01I know.
30:02I know.
30:02It's late.
30:03I'm finishing up now.
30:03You're not in trouble.
30:04It's crazy over here, too.
30:05There was some kind of riot at Westview earlier.
30:08Harper was involved, but she's okay.
30:09A riot?
30:10Not gonna be a riot.
30:11It's closed.
30:11I don't know.
30:12I don't have all the facts yet.
30:13Something to do with the cleanup crew that got poisoned, but that's not why I'm calling.
30:17What could be more pressing than that?
30:18Dispatch alerted me to a call that came in.
30:20A caregiver from Hillwood Supportive Housing called 911 half an hour ago.
30:24Ryan Dearborn had an incident.
30:26What kind of incident?
30:28It's not clear.
30:29His room was trashed.
30:30There was blood.
30:31He might have hurt himself during some kind of episode.
30:33And now he's missing.
30:35Angela.
30:35I know.
30:36Look, he was doing so well.
30:37His testimony was strong.
30:38I mean, the deposition today was the first time that I felt hope since I learned what Harper
30:42said to Glasser.
30:42I know, but try not to panic.
30:44We don't know what happened yet.
30:45Look, whatever happened, Malcolm Walsh will use it to undermine Ryan's testimony on the stand,
30:48and I will be back at square one on this case.
30:53Wesley?
30:56What's wrong?
31:00Wesley?
31:01He's here.
31:02Who?
31:04Ryan?
31:06Are you in danger?
31:12I don't know what to do.
31:17That's okay with me.
31:18You don't have to do anything.
31:19Wesley, get out of there.
31:20Hey, Ryan.
31:21Ryan.
31:23You're safe here, Ryan, so why don't you put the broken glass down?
31:25No!
31:26No!
31:26No!
31:27I need every available unit to the DA's office, sixth floor, code three.
31:30I'm never safe.
31:31Okay.
31:32They're in my head.
31:33I thought they were gone.
31:35But they're back.
31:37They're back.
31:38Okay, I can't imagine how you feel, Ryan.
31:40The nightmare that you've gone through, that you're still going through.
31:43I needed to stop.
31:45Okay.
31:45I understand.
31:46I want to help you.
31:47Nobody can help me.
31:50Nobody!
31:54I know you must feel that way right now.
31:59And I know how exhausted you must be.
32:04But you deserve more than this.
32:06You can have more than this.
32:08You are more than this.
32:11But I need you to put that broken glass down and let me help you, please.
32:18Just put it down.
32:21It's okay.
32:33Hey, it's okay.
32:35We're okay.
32:47Are you okay?
32:48Yeah.
32:49Good, because I'm going to kill you.
32:50Angela.
32:50You don't try to reason with someone who's in the throes of a psychotic episode, and when
32:54your wife says, get out of there, you get out of there.
32:56I'll do better next time.
32:58It's not funny.
32:59I was scared.
33:01Do they know what happened to him?
33:02Not fully.
33:03Doctor said that Ryan's pupils are massively dilated, like he did a huge dose of amphetamines,
33:06which would induce psychosis in a healthy patient.
33:08For a schizophrenic, it's like sending a wrecking ball through their brain.
33:11It doesn't make sense.
33:12He's in a managed care situation at the halfway house.
33:14A nurse administers his meds.
33:15And they could have made a mistake?
33:16And gave him speed?
33:18No way.
33:20Wesley, you okay?
33:21I came as soon as I heard.
33:22I'm fine.
33:23Thanks.
33:24It's tragic.
33:25I mean, he was doing so well today.
33:26Which wasn't good for your client.
33:28I don't know why that's relevant right now.
33:30Sure you do.
33:31Angela.
33:31All I'm saying is that Ryan Dearborn's misfortune is Liam Glasser's blessing.
33:36If you're implying I had something to do with this.
33:37I'm not implying anything.
33:38I'm putting you on notice.
33:39I will find out exactly what happened with Ryan.
33:41And if you had anything to do with it.
33:43I didn't.
33:44And I'd advise your wife to be very careful about making wild accusations in these litigious times.
33:51And I would advise you that the quickest way to end up in one of these beds is to disrespect
33:55her.
33:58Thanks for coming by.
34:00Of course.
34:01And again, I'm glad you're doing okay.
34:04Even if your case isn't.
34:09He did this.
34:10Maybe.
34:11But he's not wrong.
34:12We need ironclad evidence or he will sue us into poverty.
34:14If it exists, I will find it.
34:16I have no doubt.
34:18So, what exactly happened at Westview?
34:20Zombies, apparently.
34:22Oh.
34:29Thank you very much.
34:36Well, I hope you were satisfied with your ride along.
34:40No offense, but I can't exactly give you five stars.
34:42That's fair.
34:42You sure you don't want me to call your mom?
34:44I'd spoil the look on her face when I show her this footage.
34:47Listen, what you went through today could haunt you for a bit.
34:49I'm happy to recommend a trauma therapist if you need one.
34:51I appreciate that.
34:52And hey, thanks for putting my life in jeopardy and then immediately saving it.
34:56Yeah, I guess that makes us even.
34:57Totally.
34:58I'll check on you tomorrow.
34:59Looking forward to it.
35:00And hey, man, I'm telling you, jawline.
35:05Detective Harper said that I proved myself today.
35:08Really?
35:09I did not.
35:09I said that he did not embarrass himself.
35:12Ah, well, it was almost six months before she told me that.
35:15You, um, heard about Lucy?
35:17Yeah.
35:18Lopez said she saw her at the hospital, said she's still pretty out of it.
35:20She's on her way here.
35:22She's going to need her union rep to look out for her.
35:24I'll have her back.
35:25Everyone all right?
35:26In the most basic sense, yes.
35:29Your wife is calling me.
35:31I asked her to do a thing.
35:32No need to tell her about my day.
35:33I don't want to worry her.
35:34No problem.
35:34Go get cleaned up.
35:35Chin should be here in 20.
35:36Right.
35:39Hey, what'd you find out?
35:40Honestly, I don't know.
35:42The office has no occupants listed.
35:43A very unfriendly woman answered the door, which set off my spidey sense.
35:47I couldn't get a name, but I did see a special operations tattoo with the phrase ego in numicus.
35:53It's Latin for I am the enemy.
35:56I made a drawing.
35:57I'll send it to you.
35:57Great.
35:58I owe you.
35:58No, you don't.
35:59I hope things are okay with Luna.
36:02Yeah, thanks.
36:03Okay.
36:04Bye.
36:05Bye.
36:16Bye.
36:39Ah!
36:41Ah!
36:44Ah!
36:52I'm sorry did you say something I did but it's okay we can go over it again
36:58later I was doing fine things I know it did that for me too it'll get better
37:06when you get some sleep
37:10wait John um do you know his name I don't know his name it's Martin his name was Martin
37:30tea's ready thank you yeah you're ready for bed
37:38yeah no I think I'm just gonna stay up for a little bit all right
37:46hey listen Selena's right it's gonna be okay
37:51I know I'll be in a bit
38:16you
38:24you
38:25you
38:26you
38:26you
38:29you
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