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Hudson And Rex S08E12 (2026)
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00:01you know this is the life fresh air stiff breeze and you know they say the best thing about fishing
00:11isn't what you catch right right it's uh it's keeping good company yeah yeah and rec certainly
00:17is the best company oh well at least one of us caught something right buddy
00:25he looks hungry yeah so am i what do you say burger and a pint yeah i'm down let's do
00:32it
00:32all right let's go
00:52things haven't been going your way but you don't have to let me go one thing busting after another
00:58winch motor bilge pump then the fuel leaks just no sense in it well you always sell the old tub
01:04to
01:04me right my family could lend me the cash if the price is right i'm never selling the rusty runner
01:11declan it was my dad's boat he left it to me trusted me with it and when i find out
01:17who's
01:17messing with me everything's gonna turn around i get it for sure no problem one more run together
01:25then i'll find other work gary dad i'll catch whoever's doing this to your boat
01:56sunny side fish plant how can i direct your call
02:06excuse me sorry excuse me
02:10hey there brianna chuck you heard from gary the last few days
02:14she's got out of the hospital yesterday ticker's been giving me trouble again he took the rusty
02:18runner out days ago he's not returning my calls where's your brother brianna he's not your kid
02:23maybe leave the grown man alone
02:28let me know if you hear from him will do
02:34i'm gonna be opening the water before the sun gets up
02:38something's tangled in this net help me out will you yeah
02:44dang it what is that
03:09well bit of an early one this morning
03:11like sierra to get you woken up reminds me of when i was a kid heading out on the water
03:16at first
03:16light yeah i'm more of a coffee while i scroll sort of person
03:19what are we looking at a fisherman found a body tangled in a net young male no signs of foul
03:24play
03:24sarah fill you in on the details
03:26any idea how long he's been on the water
03:28yeah based on visual decomposition time of death was approximately 48 hours ago
03:33ultimate cause may have been drowning but the victim had a serious skull fracture
03:36you sure he didn't strike his head in the fall land in the sea not with the addition of defensive
03:40wounds on both arms
03:41appear to be from the same weapon so he fought back
03:44and lost
03:45jerry francis 32 years old
03:47yeah he's a commercial fisherman owns a boat called the rusty runner
03:51wait so he didn't work for a larger company
03:54midshore vessels like this are almost always family run little independent businesses
03:57making their living off the sea one run at a time
04:00i thought you were a military man
04:01well my grandfather worked his own boat out of halifax his whole life
04:04fishing whatever was in season from lobster to cod
04:07but not without the captain
04:09so uh
04:10if gary was killed right here two days ago
04:13where's his boat
04:15yeah
04:15you know i'll contact the coast guard to see if the rusty runner had a gps
04:24what have you found there rex
04:27something in his ear
04:28here
04:30yeah
04:33oh
04:37what is that a stone
04:39not sure
04:42it's covered in an oily substance a whole bunch
04:49that's curious
04:50i'll have a closer look back at the lab
04:52gary
04:58where travels fast in the fishing community
05:00this is never easy
05:03i haven't heard from him since friday
05:06i was asking around
05:07is that unusual for your brother to be out of touch
05:11for that long
05:12yeah
05:14gary's out of cell range on the water
05:16and uh
05:16i took a temp gig in gander
05:18so i
05:19i haven't been around
05:20but you were
05:21concerned enough to
05:22come back and look for him
05:24my brother had been having a hard time lately
05:26i started to worry when he
05:27he didn't even text
05:28he'd always let me know when he was back
05:31what do you mean by a hard time
05:33some money trouble
05:35the boat
05:36was breaking down a lot
05:37just
05:37just little things
05:39that added up
05:40broken pumps
05:41clogged filters
05:44gary seemed to think that
05:46someone was messing with him somehow
05:48messing with him
05:49he thought the things going wrong weren't
05:51accidents
05:53he never laid it out
05:55and i thought he was just
05:56getting in his own head
05:58like paranoid
05:59but now i
06:01i wish i'd listened
06:04i know this is hard
06:06rihanna but
06:07can you tell me who might have wanted to harm your brother
06:10someone who might
06:11take the rusty runner
06:12the boat's gone too
06:14that was my dad's boat
06:18listen anything you can tell us might
06:20might help
06:23there was this guy
06:25Declan
06:27and uh
06:28gary mentioned he kept
06:29trying to buy the boat
06:38Declan Terry
06:41what are you at
06:42this is it
06:43just got back from my uncle's boat
06:45up on the northern peninsula
06:46the past few days
06:47heard the news this morning
06:48so the boat's gone too
06:49that's right
06:50word is you were interested in buying the rusty runner
06:52it's just all talk
06:54can't afford to pay my own rent as is
06:56and a tub like that's not worth going over
07:00when was the last time you saw gary
07:02six days ago
07:03friday
07:04we went for a pint after our last run
07:06he bought since he was letting me go
07:08and then we both headed home
07:10gary cut you loose
07:12it happens rish
07:14not the first job i lost
07:18can you think of anyone who may have had a grudge against him
07:21you know
07:22messing with his boat maybe
07:24gary could get crazy that way
07:26reading into things
07:27but there was this one guy
07:29who's that
07:30wayne somebody
07:32baggins
07:32need an extra hand today gary
07:34earrings running
07:36i got it wayne
07:38hangs around the harbor trading odd jobs
07:40or cash or fish
07:41heard two of them in a screaming match a couple weeks ago
07:44know where i can find wayne
07:45hangs out at the fog and fleet a lot
07:47a lot of young fishers do
07:49cheapest fish and chips in town
07:52thanks for the tip
07:53come on rex
07:56what's up with your dog
07:57you mean the uh
07:58highly trained police canine
08:00it seems he's interested in whatever's in your
08:02fish pan here
08:03do you mind opening it up
08:04sure
08:05no problem
08:11you said you were fishing in the northern peninsula
08:13isn't cod season closed up there
08:15depends what area
08:16what kind of license
08:17what kind of boat
08:19these are legit
08:20well rex is alerting to something
08:22so we'll take a closer look
08:24and our pathologist will figure out what it is
08:29so you're just gonna take them
08:41you found a microchip in declin's cod
08:44not the kind you put in pets
08:46the department of fisheries sometimes implants acoustic tags in cods so they can track their migration and survival rates
08:52and rex has been trained to alert to the triphenylphosphine oxide in any microchip
08:56yeah i'm still kind of shocked that he was able to detect that over the smell of the fish itself
09:00could you use that to investigate declin's alibi
09:04says he was up in the northern peninsula over the last few days
09:06absolutely i'll reach out to the department of fisheries
09:09get their tracking info
09:10okay
09:11meanwhile i have the results of the autopsy
09:15time of death remains two days ago
09:16so sometime tuesday
09:18but as you can see cerebral hemorrhage
09:21was deemed the sole cause of death
09:22sir gary wasn't breathing by the time he hit the water
09:25exactly
09:26also organic fibers were found embedded in his scalp
09:29from the murder weapon
09:30uh presumably i'm having them analyzed
09:32that might help identify the object that caused the death blow and the defensive wounds
09:36okay what about the uh rock that rex found in the victim's ear
09:40that is a bit of a puzzler
09:42it turns out it's a piece of crystallized salt covered in fish oils
09:45sea salt from being in the ocean
09:47but no no it's just common rock salt
09:49we've got lodged in the canal before gary's body ever entered the water
09:53and how did a guy end up with oily rock salt in his ear while fighting off an assailant
09:57i have no idea
10:00it's also not the only puzzling thing
10:02something's bothering you
10:04well i've seen many many bodies that have been submerged in water for varying degrees of time
10:10but there's something different about this one
10:12different how
10:13well that's the problem i can't put my finger on it
10:17i'll just have to keep fishing for answers
10:22i know
10:23clearly been hanging around jesse too much
10:25uh yeah
10:27so our victim was having trouble with his boat
10:29thought someone was undermining him
10:31and then wound up floating in the harbor
10:33dead
10:33with a piece of salt in his ear
10:35plus his boat's gone
10:36yeah it has been for a while
10:37the harbor authority logged the rusty runner coming in last friday
10:40gary's last run with declan
10:42yeah but the thing is it was never logged going back out again
10:44so we need to find out exactly when the rusty runner left
10:46and where it is right now
10:48in the meantime coast guard confirmed that the vessel did not have a gps
10:51so they put the equivalent of a bolo out
10:53meanwhile the pub should be open by now
10:55come on rex
10:57seems a little bit early for a cold one there mark
10:59yeah not to mention that you're on a homicide investigation
11:02okay
11:02decal in the deckhand said he witnessed an argument between gary
11:05and a regular named wayne
11:06i'm gonna see if there's any truth to that
11:08sure
11:11come on
11:16you and that boat
11:18you held it against him
11:19you never let it go
11:20just calm down brianna
11:21you're overwrought
11:22i didn't mean to upset you
11:23one more word from you wayne
11:24and i swear
11:25step back
11:27sjpd what's going on here
11:28uh we're uh having a little dispute
11:31she's just upset about her brother
11:32i don't take it serious
11:36think wayne here has something to do with your brother's death
11:41it's like he said i'm
11:43i'm just upset
11:43come on dear
11:44let's get you inside
11:46fish and chips is on me
11:49what do you got rex
11:50it's your truck wayne with all the rock salt in the back
11:55yeah
11:56what of it
12:02because it seems to be spattered with blood
12:17i swear the blood is from cleaning fish
12:20what's the big deal with salt
12:21i salt my own cod sometimes
12:23is that a crime
12:24we found a piece of rock salt in the victim's body wayne
12:28did gary get that when you threw him in the back of your truck
12:31i swear i had nothing to do with gary's death
12:34we've known each other our whole lives
12:35gary's dick hand says he saw the two of you arguing
12:38recently
12:38need an extra hand today gary
12:40herring's running
12:42i got it wayne
12:43heard two of them in screaming match a couple weeks ago
12:45declan said that
12:47uh-huh
12:48uh-oh
12:49that guy says a lot of stuff that you can't take to the bank
12:51what about brianna
12:52that boat
12:54you held it against him
12:55you never let it go
12:56just calm down brianna you're overriding
12:59me and brianna
13:01um
13:03we were engaged years ago
13:06the dream was that we would be running the boat together
13:08two of us raising kids
13:10and uh
13:12then her dad died suddenly
13:14and left the rusty runner to her brother
13:17alone
13:18was brianna bitter about that
13:20being cut out
13:21no
13:22ancient history
13:24brianna loved gary and
13:26she wouldn't hurt anybody
13:27let alone her brother
13:29that still doesn't explain why she was angry at you
13:32you're barking up the wrong tree detective
13:35declan
13:36is the guy you should be looking at
13:38he's a real sleeve eating if you ask me
13:40but declan has an alibi
13:42and so does brianna
13:44where were you two days ago we
13:45i was fixing an engine on a trawler
13:48in witless bay
13:51go ahead and check
13:54okay
13:57hey
13:58how was the pub
14:00lively
14:00it seems that wayne and brianna are old flames
14:03one time they wanted her dad's boat for themselves
14:06he claims that that's all ancient history now
14:08yeah but where was he on tuesday when gary was killed
14:10well he says he was working on a trawler up in witless bay
14:13but he and brianna are hiding something
14:15i mean she was screaming at him when i found him at the pub
14:17all right so brianna claims that she was in gander on tuesday right
14:21and then declan says that he was in the northern peninsula
14:23and wayne says that he was in witless bay
14:26do we have any suspect who was near the scene of the crime
14:28when our victim was killed
14:29well a local fisher claims he saw the rusty runner
14:32leave foxtrap harbor friday night
14:34the day of gary's last run
14:36uh-huh and another fisherman says he saw that the boat never came back
14:39and hasn't been seen since
14:40so the boat left the harbor six days ago
14:42but gary was killed two days ago
14:44where was he in between
14:45somewhere else on the boat
14:46yeah i feel like i'm channeling sarah here
14:48there's something off about this case
14:49but i can't put my finger on it
14:51okay let's start by taking a closer look
14:53at the last day that gary was seen alive
14:54okay so we know that gary and declan went out onto the water
14:57and then came back and went to the pub
14:59yeah what about in between
15:01between work and a pint
15:02fishers stop on the way home to sell their catch at a fish plant
15:05can you call his sister to see where that might be
15:07yeah yeah
15:12something is definitely off
15:17at sunnyside we buy directly from the fishers fresh off our wharf
15:20process it inside and sell it wholesale
15:22it's quite the operation
15:24and i'm in charge of keeping it running smoothly
15:26so what does this have to do with a man found dead in foxtrap harbor
15:30so gary francis now his sister believes he sold you a load of fish here last friday
15:34the last day that he was seen alive
15:36can't say i recognize him
15:38really even though he sold fish right here
15:41i'm rarely on the dock
15:43chained to my desk
15:44but i can check our records for you
15:45perfect what about these two
15:47that's declan he worked with gary and uh
15:49wayne had in the past
15:50wayne i know
15:51he works here at the plant on and off
15:53last time would have been uh
15:55about a week ago
15:56can you send me the exact date
15:57of course
15:57uh tanya my partner seems to be alerting to that man
16:03uh may i
16:04go ahead
16:06is that salt
16:07yes
16:08we go through thousands of pounds a year
16:10use it for everything from de-icing the wharf
16:13to seasoning a can of salmon
16:16what about surveillance footage
16:18can you uh send that over to me
16:20absolutely
16:20amazing
16:21once i check with the owners
16:22i'm just the manager
16:23i don't want to lose my job in this economy
16:26of course
16:27do your thing
16:35donovan what do you got
16:36well i've got good news and bad news
16:38the lab confirmed that the blood in wayne's truck was in fact fish blood
16:41so if i had to cut him loose
16:42okay and the good news
16:44the coast guard found the rusty runner adrift about 30 miles offshore
16:47they're towing it back to foxtrap harbor as we speak
16:50we're on our way
16:59coming aboard
17:01hey
17:02we're just getting started here
17:04no evidence of a struggle
17:06but after being adrift at sea
17:07any blood on the deck would likely have been washed away
17:10so we can't rule out the rusty runner as the place where gary may have been killed
17:13oh
17:15here
17:16oh what is this
17:17salt from a sunny side fish plant
17:19okay well i'll see if it's a match to the crystal found on the victim
17:22but that won't prove the salt was from there
17:24i mean common salt is
17:25common
17:27where's jesse
17:28checking the hold
17:30that's been stewing at sea for days and days
17:32that's a fun job
17:33okay guys i just want you to know
17:36that the hold is clear of fish
17:38but it's teeming with stench
17:39i'll head back down holding my nose this time
17:42oh that's disgusting
17:43oh it stinks
17:44smells like a foot
17:46rex seems interested in something over here
17:48oh yeah so the fibers we found in gary's head wound
17:50turn out to be wood
17:52deeply suffused with various aquatic flora and fauna
17:55okay so a buoy could have been the murder one
17:57well the triangular shape fits the wound pattern
17:59but look he's not alerting to anything
18:01well i think i know why
18:02you see that last high
18:04no last buoy
18:05likely floating out at sea
18:06never to be found
18:08so maybe gary was killed on his own vessel
18:10but then
18:11how did he end up in the harbor
18:12when the boat's 30 miles out to sea
18:15let's uh
18:16let's check the bridge
18:17okay
18:18come on reps
18:20you okay down there jesse
18:22no
18:24throttle's engaged
18:26boat's still in gear
18:27okay so the boat was in motion
18:28until it ran out of fuel
18:32so
18:32what happened to the person driving it
18:34well maybe someone pointed it out to sea
18:36and just let her go
18:37didn't care if the boat just sank out there
18:38or maybe wanted her to
18:40i mean evidence at the bottom of the ocean
18:42is usually no evidence at all
18:48how does it wreck
18:55what's written on it
18:55it looks like dates and numbers
18:59gary told people that he thought someone was messing with him
19:02could he have been tracking something
19:05see what jesse makes of these
19:06okay
19:07okay i'm gonna go back to the pub
19:08and see how brianna reacts
19:10to the return of the rusty runner
19:12seems the old girl
19:13seems the old girl is carrying a lot of other people's baggage
19:25i'm just so glad the rusty runner's back safe and sound
19:27here you go folks
19:28on the house
19:29chuck
19:30you didn't have to do that
19:31nah it's fine
19:32you both deserve it
19:33just give me a shout if you need anything else
19:38i was uh
19:38i was kind of surprised
19:39that you wanted to meet here
19:40uh considering
19:42it's a tight community
19:44we're all intertwined
19:45yeah
19:46i've known chuck forever
19:47he used to fish with my dad back in the day
19:49on the rusty runner
19:51before gary got old enough to help
19:53and took over for him
19:55that's when chuck bought this place
19:57between you and me
19:59i don't think he's happy here
20:00well my grandfather was never happy at short either
20:04eyes always on the horizon
20:06what about you um
20:07any regrets
20:09what do you mean
20:10wayne said there's uh history between you two
20:13and the boat
20:14that you were upset when your father left it to gary
20:18at the time
20:20but we worked it out
20:21oh
20:22how's that
20:23gary gave me part ownership
20:25for good or ill
20:27but there's a
20:28downside to that
20:30profits aren't big
20:32but responsibilities are
20:35is there something you're not telling me
20:37brianna
20:37what did wayne say to you earlier
20:40that upset you
20:41wayne doesn't know what he's talking about
20:43but it was about gary
20:47we've got evidence that rusty runner
20:49leaving harbor unregistered in the middle of the night
20:52as part owner
20:54what do you know about that
20:57gary would never do anything outside the law
21:00if that's what you're implying
21:01it wasn't
21:03but you think he could have
21:05i'm starting to think i need a lawyer
21:14second thought i think i'll bring you a check
21:23i had a look at those numbers that sarah sent me last night
21:26now the first column they're dates
21:28but the second they seem to be a log of engine hours
21:31engine hours
21:32that's a that's a boat's equivalent of the odometer in a car
21:34oh your grandfather taught you well
21:36seems like gary was tracking a discrepancy
21:39now the boat it had more clicks than it should have on those specific days
21:42it'd be that wasn't the first time the rusty runner left the harbor in the night undocumented
21:46brianna sure planned up the mention of midnight runs
21:49still more questions than answers
21:51someone's got a break soon
21:52yeah
21:59oh i knew it looked off
22:04wow
22:04someone was in early
22:06yeah i couldn't sleep
22:07insomnia
22:08alibis
22:10everybody's got one
22:11yeah i think that's the problem
22:14all our suspects have motive but no opportunity
22:17somewhere in witless bay
22:19gander
22:20in the northern peninsula at the time of gary's death
22:23there's something off about this case
22:27i think i figured it out
22:28the answer to everything
22:31ruptured membranes
22:33excuse me
22:33even i don't get that
22:35it means that gary didn't die on tuesday like we thought
22:37he died much earlier
22:38maybe even as early as the previous friday
22:40how is that possible
22:41because gary's body was frozen
22:43frozen
22:45specifically flash frozen
22:56i'm still trying to wrap my head around it
22:58gary was frozen
23:00how could they miss that on the autopsy
23:02well flash freezing
23:03the process of solidifying something almost instantly
23:06is designed to limit cellular damage
23:08right so that fish
23:09or any food's texture and appearance
23:11remain very close to fresh when thawed
23:13same held true for gary's remains
23:14he looked fresher than he was
23:15right which led you in the corner
23:17to conclude that his time of death was tuesday
23:19i mean tuesday was actually time of defrost
23:21exactly
23:22gary most likely died days earlier
23:24probably soon after he was last seen alive
23:27last friday
23:28the night his boat was secreted out of the harbor
23:30any chance the sunnyside fish plant
23:32has one of these flash freezing facilities
23:34even better
23:35it looks like they have a process
23:37that lowers the freezing solution far below zero
23:39with the addition of salt
23:40just like the piece rex found
23:42lodged in gary's ear covered in fish oil
23:43right okay contact the owners of sunnyside
23:46let's bring tanya in for questioning
23:48yeah let's see what else we can dig up on her
23:50she claimed that she didn't recognize gary
23:52but he'd sold there for years
23:53i'll send a forensics team to their freezing facility
23:56oh but
23:58the inside of a fish plant is kept as sterile as an operating room
24:01sorry rex
24:03no dogs allowed
24:05i know
24:07okay so it looks like the flash freezing melted away all the alibis
24:10get down to the pub jesse
24:11see what you can find out
24:12okay
24:13let's start with wayne
24:18so now you want to know where i was last friday
24:20yeah
24:21case is evolving
24:23where were you the last time you saw gary leave the pub
24:27i went home i slept
24:28i worked a shift at sunnyside the next day
24:31other than that i was here
24:32the usual
24:33okay well sunnyside is seeming more and more connected to the crime now
24:37wayne
24:37and you had access to it
24:38and you had an argument with gary and another one with his sister
24:42i mean i know you say it's ancient history
24:44but from what i'm hearing
24:46these emotions seem pretty raw
24:48i said something i shouldn't have said that's all
24:50what was that
24:53look wayne the guy you've known your whole life has been cut down in his prime
24:58do we really need to bring you in again
25:03one night a couple weeks ago
25:05i saw the rusty runner heading out in the middle of the night
25:09and i know that gary was having some problems
25:13okay you thought he was up to something
25:15cod quotas are strict
25:17every trip has limits
25:20inspectors they log everything
25:22but if a boat slips out in the dark
25:25has a buyer doesn't ask questions
25:29you do them out
25:30so you think he was poaching and you confronted him on it
25:33yeah he wouldn't give me a straight answer
25:34he told me i was talking garbage
25:35what'd you say to that
25:39i reminded him
25:40what happens to fishers in this town who take what they're not supposed to take
25:45he almost ripped my head off
25:47i wouldn't have said anything normally but i was just trying to look out for brianna
25:49yeah
25:50and how's that
25:52the department of fisheries
25:53can fine you for poaching
25:55put you in jail
25:56and take your boat
25:58and that boat is partly brianna's
26:00even now
26:01if they prove that the rusty runner was involved
26:03brianna loses everything
26:05okay
26:06is that why she was so angry with you
26:08i told her
26:09what
26:10i thought
26:12was going on with her brother
26:16thing is
26:17how can i be so sure
26:18that it wasn't you taking that boat out
26:20and covering your tracks
26:21by blaming a dead man
26:25because i would take my own life
26:26before i harmed brianna
26:30how come you never mentioned
26:31you work part-time with sunnyside
26:33i work part-time everywhere
26:34doesn't everybody
26:37money's tight all over
26:42the owners have instructed me
26:44to do whatever i can
26:46to assist in your investigation
26:48but the idea
26:49that someone was frozen
26:51at our plant
26:53is preposterous
26:54but you don't deny that
26:55uh...
26:55gary francis and the rusty runner
26:57were at sunnyside
26:58the last day that he was seen alive
26:59well in fact i can confirm it
27:01our records show that gary sold
27:03sunnyside fish on many occasions
27:05what about the surveillance footage i requested
27:07over 24 hours ago
27:09delivered as we speak
27:10but
27:12i
27:13have the pertinent footage
27:14right here
27:19gary
27:20and his boat
27:21in one piece
27:22sailing off
27:24for foxtrap harbor
27:26but you have a flash freezing facility
27:29that uses the saltwater method
27:30and your forensic team
27:32is there right now
27:32but i have no doubt
27:34they will find nothing
27:36linking your unfortunate victim
27:38or his remains
27:39to the inside
27:40of our facilities
27:42well perhaps you can answer
27:44this question
27:44um
27:45does the plant operate at night
27:46no not for years
27:48we've been down to one day shift
27:49since the cod stocks collapsed
27:51in the 90s
27:51so if somebody wanted to sneak in
27:53after hours
27:54there'd be no one to interfere
27:55assuming that person had
27:58access
27:59of course
28:00what are you implying
28:04we looked into your financial situation
28:06tanya
28:07you had a six-figure debt
28:09six months ago
28:09spread across half a dozen
28:11online gambling sites
28:13and now it's gone
28:15can you explain that
28:18if you're implying
28:19that i'm involved in some sort of
28:22illegal activity
28:23then i'm afraid this interview
28:25is done
28:27i think i'll let the company's lawyers
28:29assist you
28:30from here on out
28:43it's okay rex
28:44she's free to go
28:50so wayne claims
28:51he saw the rusty runner
28:53going out at midnight
28:54thought that gary was poaching
28:56yeah and then he told brianna
28:57and she flew off the handle at him
28:58she got pretty defensive of me too
29:00said that gary would never do
29:01anything illegal
29:02yeah but could it be that he was
29:03selling tanya an illegal catch
29:05under the table after hours
29:06and then somehow something went wrong
29:07but what if it wasn't him
29:09i mean gary was tracking
29:11a discrepancy in his engine hours
29:13maybe he caught on to the fact
29:14that someone was using his boat
29:15without his knowledge
29:17heading out at midnight
29:18to poach fish
29:20okay
29:21okay
29:21okay
29:23but look i mean
29:25could tanya really pay off
29:26for gambling debts
29:27by
29:28selling black market cod
29:30actually i think it's more than that
29:31i want to show you something
29:33okay
29:33what's what's with all these trays
29:35well
29:35it was bothering me that rex
29:37was somehow
29:37able to smell the microchip
29:39buried inside the codfish
29:40you got from declin
29:42what's up with your dog
29:43i mean don't
29:44don't get me wrong
29:45rex is amazing
29:46but
29:47to pick out a
29:48trace that faint
29:49over the smell of fish
29:50yeah it surprised me too
29:51yeah
29:52so
29:53i thought i'd try it out
29:54for myself
29:55rex
29:56come here
29:57check
30:01that's an alert
30:02okay
30:04so
30:05this
30:06is a microchip
30:07just by itself
30:09so he can detect it
30:10now
30:13rex
30:16check
30:18codfish from the grocery store
30:20he didn't alert
30:21with a chip
30:22inside it
30:23he couldn't even smell it at all
30:27okay so why was he alerting to the cod found at declin's
30:30this is my point
30:32just wait
30:35rex
30:35track
30:42and this time he alerts
30:45this is the cod
30:47mark you got from declin
30:49complete with the original microchip inside
30:51so if he couldn't smell the chip through the fish
30:54why is he alerting now
30:55exactly
30:56a mystery
30:57until
30:58i swabbed the surface of the cod
30:59and found trace amounts of fentanyl
31:01fentanyl on a fish
31:02yeah it's not so crazy actually
31:04it's a decent way to hide drugs from the inspectors
31:07so the rusty runner wasn't bringing in illegal fish at night
31:10he was bringing in illegal drugs
31:11why not both
31:13i just heard back from the department of fisheries this morning
31:15this cod
31:16was taken from a closed area
31:18just 30 miles offshore of st john's
31:19not the north peninsula like declin said
31:23okay
31:23all roads seem to lead to declin
31:25bring him in
31:26you got it
31:39hey declin
31:44declin stop
31:48fjpd
31:56caught in your own net
31:58seems fitting
32:11so declin ran
32:13and climbed
32:14and almost slipped the net
32:16so maybe he knew that we'd found the traces of fentanyl on the confiscated cod fish
32:20or heard his manufactured alibi had taken on water
32:23that trip to the northern peninsula looks pretty convenient
32:25yeah
32:25but the bottom line is he lied about where he found that cod
32:28he wanted to buy gary's boat
32:30maybe using it to poach was a way to raise the cash
32:32well who else knows the way around the rusty runner better than him
32:35but how does the fentanyl play into this
32:37yeah not to mention murder and flash freezing
32:40wayne said that you couldn't take much of whatever declin says at face value
32:43yeah well it looks like you better start fishing for the truth
32:47now you too
32:51i know i shouldn't have run but i heard you yelling police
32:53and people at the pub were talking about how gary may be poaching
32:56we know you were poaching
32:57well never in my life
32:58i'm way beyond that
32:59the fish that my canine alerted to at your place
33:02has tested positive for drugs
33:03what
33:04gary suspected that someone was sneaking that rusty runner out at night
33:07did he figure out that it was you
33:09did he hide in the hole to catch you right handed
33:11no you got this all wrong
33:12did he surprise you when you were offloading at sunnyside
33:14where you killed him with a buoy rather than face charges
33:17then froze him and got yourself an alibi
33:19this is insane
33:20i got no idea how you found drugs on that fish
33:23i just bought it cheap is all
33:25i didn't ask questions
33:26bought it cheap from who
33:29chuck sells it under the table
33:32i don't know where he gets it
33:33here you go folks
33:34out in the house
33:36chuck you didn't have to do that
33:37no it's fine you both deserve it
33:39just give me a shot if you need anything else
33:41but he's got the cheapest fish and chips in town
33:47okay
33:47so i asked the department of fisheries
33:49to track the microchip found in the cod
33:52after it left the water
33:53they thought it was a pretty weird request
33:54i bet
33:55what did they say
33:56they sent me this
33:58okay so the cod
34:00confiscated from declan
34:01covered in fentanyl
34:01was caught offshore illegally
34:03then transferred to the sunnyside fish plant
34:05then onto the foggin fleet
34:06so chuck took the rusty runner on trebrins
34:08and picked up a load of cod on the way
34:10to freeze along with it
34:11and brianna mentioned that he'd worked the boat with her dad
34:14and hated working the bar
34:15so he found a way out
34:16but he needs someone with access to the fish plant
34:20send uniforms for tanya
34:21and let's bring this chuck character in
34:23you got it
34:41rex
34:42back again
34:44got new ways to smear my late brother
34:47i'm looking for chuck
34:48he's not here
34:49i had to go back to the hospital
34:52did me the favor of throwing me a few shifts
34:54back to the hospital
34:55yeah he was there about a week ago
34:57around when gary went missing
34:59well i bet they didn't find anything wrong
35:01though it makes for a great alibi
35:03what did chuck need an alibi for
35:05to freeze the body and shift the time of death
35:08they froze my brother
35:17what is it
35:20is this chuck's truck
35:21yeah he uses it when he buys fish
35:31what's going on
35:32what's he found
35:33if i'm right
35:35the reason your brother was killed
35:45thanks
35:46the hospital confirms they admitted chuck three days ago
35:49he was claiming chest pains
35:51it was a manufactured alibi
35:52while he shifted gary's time of death
35:54yeah well he's not there now
35:55okay
35:55uniforms at sunnyside
35:57tanya disappeared mid-shift
35:58but the office confirmed that
36:00chuck's bought fish from her for years
36:01and there's also this
36:03surveillance footage from sunnyside wharf
36:05against the dates from gary's engine
36:06hours list
36:10nothing
36:10i'll check the time stamp
36:15hours have been deleted
36:17yeah
36:17to hide the rusty runners unloading presumably
36:19on every one of those same nights
36:21but look at this
36:22they missed one frame from over a month ago
36:25tanya and chuck headed for his truck
36:27full of frozen fish and drugs no doubt
36:30and following the pattern of the dates that gary had written down
36:32next drug runs tonight
36:34i mean they'll be expecting someone in the rusty runner to come rendezvous with them offshore
36:37now if only we could get the lab results on chuck's truck it would be a full circle
36:40fish oil seawater and fentanyl
36:46okay let's go to bolo on tanya and chuck
36:48okay i'll get the ferries and airports covered
36:50do that
36:51but there's another surefire way off this island
36:53my money's on chuck heading to the rusty runner
36:55let's go rex
37:02there's chuck headed for the boat
37:05rex hold on wait for me
37:10chuck stay where you are
37:37rusty runner is in the s.j.p.d. return to the war
37:40ghost guard has been notified you have nowhere to go
37:42repeat nowhere to go
37:55canine officer on board chuck
37:57be smart about this
38:21this is the coast guard
38:24the rusty runner has throttled down
38:28good job partner
38:30now hold him until uniforms can get on the boat
38:48next time wait for me
38:49okay i notified the coast guard gave the exact location the illegal cod was harvested from
38:57so they'll be able to find the drug suppliers
39:04nothing to say for yourself
39:17it was really chuck
39:19yeah
39:20i can't believe it
39:22lucky i didn't get word of it before you did
39:24say for where he's going
39:25you know we should be able to release the rusty runner back to you later this week i guess
39:29this boat meant everything to gary and my dad
39:33my brother died defending it
39:35i'm here to work it for you
39:36anytime
39:38it's your call
39:40i'd like that
39:43i think gary would too
40:00hey so we picked up tanya 20 minutes ago it was called in by a car rental company
40:05and she confessed to using the fish plant to offload the rusty runner and transfer cargo to chuck's truck
40:11now chuck kept the fish and he shipped the drugs off island and she swears that chuck killed gary
40:18not her
40:18how did she get mixed up in all this
40:21she was contacted through a gambling site now they found out about her debt and they promised to pay it
40:26off
40:26she brought in chuck because she knew how much she wanted to get away from the fog and fleet
40:30what about the fentanyl suppliers
40:32well chuck's escape route led the coast guard to exactly where they were stationed
40:37and all of those who are responsible are now in the custody of border services
40:40and sunnyside had no knowledge about the drug operation happening at the plant so it's business as usual
40:47okay well here we go i don't know about you guys but i'm starving so how about some fish and
40:52chips
40:53oh you know suddenly i feel more like pizza
40:55yeah me too me too yeah ditto
41:00come on you
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