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00:00Previously on R.J. Decker.
00:02R.J. freaking Decker.
00:03They let you out already?
00:04I'm a P.I. now.
00:05Detective Begreyu, hello, how are you?
00:07How is everything at the trailer park?
00:09You making new friends?
00:10I'm on trial.
00:12Good luck today.
00:13Mm-hmm. Thanks.
00:14Would you please state your name and relationship to the victim?
00:16I'm Emmy Ochoa.
00:17Lucas is my stepbrother, and that's the man who almost killed him.
00:20If I hadn't lied to protect Lucas, there would have been consequences.
00:23But it was still wrong, and I'm sorry.
00:26A sinkhole opened up outside your window three weeks ago, and you didn't come to stay with us then?
00:30You wanted to see me.
00:32You can stay here one week, and then you go.
00:35I was exonerated.
00:36The very first thing I did was I bought a scratcher, and that scratcher paid out a million bucks.
00:41I'm not released this day instead of the next.
00:43Who knows what comes of me?
01:16Dear friend, if you want to feel better, don't let the devil make you toss this letter.
01:21If you've been crossed up by hoodoo, hoodoo, a wizard over lizard.
01:25You got family trouble, man trouble, woman trouble, no life's just a brother.
01:30You're looking for a true friend, or a true lover, or if you've been living undercover.
01:34Well, I'm coming to your town to break it all down.
01:37Go, go, go, go.
01:38Shut up, top door.
01:39I'm looking at you.
01:40So check out the left.
01:41Contact me.
01:42Don't move.
01:43Enter the air.
01:46Good morning.
01:48I'm here to channel all the walls down.
01:55Hot damn.
01:56That's a lot of weed.
01:58In case you were wondering which of your pals tipped us off, it's an old lady who wants her
02:02dog around here.
02:03Kept reporting suspicious activity like she was trying to win a radio contest.
02:07Karen's.
02:08Am I right?
02:09It's not cannabis.
02:10It's carnivorous.
02:13Said it's not cannabis.
02:14It's carnivorous.
02:15They're not marijuana plants.
02:16It's their venous fly traps.
02:26Hey, detective.
02:27Over here.
02:28Let's go.
02:34Is that a meat grinder?
02:39You gotta see this.
02:47Question for you, son.
02:50Who exactly have you been feeding to your plants?
03:02You're real bad at this, bro.
03:04Okay.
03:04Seriously.
03:05If breaking into cars and baseball, you'd be the Rockies.
03:08Well, maybe if I had a better teacher.
03:10You got the best in four allowed.
03:12Don't blame me for your old man finies.
03:14Whoa.
03:14I think you mean you were the best, right?
03:16Because you know what happens if I find out you're unretired?
03:18Sell my mom.
03:19Yes.
03:20Which is worse than telling the cops.
03:22That's right.
03:22Ain't happening.
03:23I am D-O-N-E.
03:25Done, son.
03:28Stupid pick is broken or something.
03:37Why did you do that?
03:39What are you doing in my car?
03:40Oh, hey, Kath.
03:41This is Darius.
03:42He's helping me out with this new skill I might need as a P.I.
03:47It's 9 a.m. on a Monday.
03:48Is it?
03:49Shouldn't Darius be in school?
03:50No, ma'am.
03:51Some dude lives near the school lost his bowl constructor.
03:54We're all supposed to stay home until animal control finds him.
03:57I'm still trying.
03:58Thanks.
04:00I found the key to the file drawers.
04:02Unless you'd like to pick that lock, too.
04:14Okay.
04:15This is great.
04:17I have a place to, uh, put all my files.
04:23I take it things are still a little slow?
04:26Yeah.
04:26Yeah, they're a bit slow.
04:27They're picking up.
04:28Wish texted me last night and said he had a new client for me.
04:32Oh, shoot.
04:32Actually, I've got to meet the guy in 20 minutes.
04:35Will he be older than 12?
04:40Hey, where's the client?
04:44Oh, God.
04:45Wish.
04:47I mean, we've been over this.
04:48I, I, I, I need work.
04:50I don't need charity.
04:51This is a genuine case, Arch.
04:53Genuine case?
04:54Really?
04:55Like, like the case of the missing deep fryer?
04:56You remember that one?
04:57He told me he was stolen, but that was bull.
04:59It was just out for repairs.
05:01Then there was the time he wanted a list of names, background checks so they could work here.
05:04Only they turned out to be the starting O-line for the 84 Dolphins.
05:07I swear, had any of those gentlemen been interested, I'd have hired them.
05:11Wish.
05:11I.
05:15You remember me telling you about Waylon Abernathy?
05:19Yeah.
05:20Yeah, of course.
05:21He was your Sally the first time you got locked up.
05:25Showed you the ropes.
05:26Just like you did for me.
05:28Prison being prison, where the wrong look at the wrong time can get you a sharpened toothbrush
05:33through the old Adam's apple, I think you'll agree.
05:36It's the sort of kindness you don't soon forget.
05:39Mm-hmm.
05:39Hence why I want to hire you to get Waylon's son Marcus out of a spot of trouble.
05:45It's trouble.
05:47I swear it's real.
05:48Always real.
05:51He even made the paper.
06:28Marcus.
06:30How you doing?
06:31My name's R.J. Decker.
06:32I'm a private investigator.
06:34Yeah, I know.
06:34The guards told me.
06:35But if you're looking for work, I'm sorry.
06:37I can't afford you.
06:38Not much I already paid for.
06:39I'm a friend of Wish Aikens.
06:41Mr. Aikens sent you?
06:42Yeah, he sure did.
06:44He tells me there's no way you could have done what they're saying.
06:46No, no, no, sir.
06:47Not in a million years.
06:49So far, all I know is what I've read in the papers.
06:51The police were expecting to find marijuana in your grow house.
06:55It wasn't my grow house.
06:57It was Clem's.
06:58Clem Crayshaw.
06:59He's the one who hired me.
07:00He's a fly trap poacher.
07:02He's a what now?
07:03Fly traps are rare.
07:05That's what makes him valuable.
07:07The only place they grow naturally in the whole world is the southeast corner of North Carolina.
07:11And that's where he would steal his.
07:13So you and this Clem guy, you guys were, what, partners?
07:16Clem was good at poaching.
07:17He's terrible with plants.
07:19He hired me out of the garden center I was working at just to make sure his plants were fed
07:25and watered right.
07:26And I knew it was wrong.
07:27And I just, my girlfriend, Kelly Lynn, she just told me she was pregnant.
07:31And I just, don't worry about that.
07:33That's fine.
07:35But I gotta ask, how was it you didn't notice a freezer full of body parts?
07:42The freezer was in a storeroom that Clem kept locked.
07:44Before he hired me, he told me he was feeding the plants, ground up roadkill.
07:47I said that was no good.
07:49That the best thing for fly traps was mealworms.
07:51And so then whenever I got there, there was a big bag of mealworms waiting for me.
07:55Well, according to the paper, the police found it with a big old bag of John Doe.
08:02Clem and I, we barely saw each other.
08:04And we spoke mostly over Snapchat.
08:07I'd tell him what I needed, he'd make sure I got it.
08:09And then a couple days ago, he sent me a message and said that he forgot to order the mealworms.
08:16And the fly traps would have to go back to roadkill for a while.
08:23Don't you get it?
08:25Clem killed John Doe.
08:27And he was using me and the plants to get rid of the body.
08:29The cops, they want me to tell them who the dead guy is, but I can't.
08:32I don't, I don't know.
08:34Right, and since they have to delete some messages after you read them, you can't prove Clem told you to
08:39do anything.
08:40You know, the night they arrested me, they made me look in the freezer.
08:44It was a torso and the two arms and two legs.
08:48And the head and the hands were missing.
08:50But Clem didn't just cut the guy up, he carved him up too.
08:53What do you mean?
08:54The dead guy?
08:56His biceps and butt cheeks were missing.
08:59His biceps and butt cheeks were missing?
09:01They have to be in that bag of meat that Clem gave me.
09:04Okay, them and the head and the hands all ground up.
09:06Please, I just want to go home to Kelly Lynn.
09:10I just want to help with the pregnancy.
09:13You have to find Clem.
09:24Yeah, look at those priors.
09:25She's not the one we're looking for.
09:28Print that for me, would you?
09:29It's just in the neighborhood.
09:30You want something.
09:31Mel, can't a guy living in his ex-wife's pool house pay her new wife a visit without wanting something?
09:37I mean, please.
09:38If you didn't, you wouldn't be holding a bag of what I assume are pastelitos from my favorite bakery.
09:45All right.
09:46I caught a new case.
09:47Marcus Abernathy, he's accused of...
09:49Oh, yeah, turning some John Doe into plant food.
09:51Yes.
09:52Not my case.
09:52Can't help people.
09:53Okay, well, even if it is in your case, you could give me a wee peek at the case file.
09:57I got a lead on a new suspect I'd like for it.
09:59Clem Crayshaw.
10:00I just, I want to know if he's on your radar.
10:02That's all I want to know.
10:05Uh, meet me outside in ten minutes.
10:08I'll bring you the files.
10:09Really?
10:10No, idiot.
10:11Oh.
10:11Also, the house.
10:13Stop leaving the seat up.
10:14You leave with three women.
10:16Three.
10:17RJ.
10:23Kelly Lynn, it's, uh, Aloysius Aiken.
10:26I believe Marcus' public defender told you to expect me.
10:31So, um, Marcus' attorney said that you were friends with Marcus' dad or something?
10:36Yeah, Waylon.
10:38Yeah, me and him, uh, did a stretch together at Zephyril's Correctional about 20 years ago.
10:42Well, yeah, Waylon took me under his wing, helped me understand what it took to survive.
10:48Taught you how to make shivs and stuff like that?
10:50No.
10:51Um, opposite.
10:52You know, he taught me how to keep a low profile, avoid confrontations.
10:57If it weren't for old Waylon, a, uh, decent and thoughtful man, despite his penchant for
11:03cloning credit cards, ain't no way I'd have made it through.
11:07Marcus never really talked about him.
11:10Yeah, well, Marcus never got to know him.
11:13Yeah, Waylon was already serving his sentence when Marcus was born.
11:17And a couple of years later, Waylon was diagnosed with leukemia.
11:24Therefore, he died in the infirmary.
11:26He made me promise to, uh, keep an eye on his boy.
11:30Make sure he didn't wind up where we had.
11:33How's that going?
11:34Come on.
11:38Well, um, need anything else?
11:41Let me know.
11:47Darla Sims?
11:49Hi.
11:50Uh, my name's RJ Decker.
11:51I'm a private investigator.
11:53I was hoping I could ask you a few questions about your ex-husband, Clem Crayshaw.
11:57Uh, can you come back at five?
12:00That's when I close.
12:02I'll answer any question you like.
12:06I mean, is there any reason why we can't talk right now?
12:09I'm at work.
12:11When I'm at work, talk is for customers.
12:15No.
12:16No.
12:17Clem is a crook.
12:18And a so-so lay.
12:19But no way could he kill anyone.
12:22I mean, let alone cut them in pieces.
12:23Ah!
12:25Well, there is a John Doe in the morrow, you might say otherwise.
12:29Frame up.
12:29Frame up.
12:30It has to be.
12:31The Clem I know wouldn't hurt a fly.
12:33Uh, I take that back.
12:34He must have hurt flies with all the damn fly traps.
12:37Okay, so you knew about them?
12:39Sure.
12:40Did you know he was a poacher?
12:41I even went on a few expeditions with him and his pal Gary to North Carolina.
12:46Sorry, who's Gary?
12:47Is Gary a business partner?
12:48Drinking buddy.
12:48He has that flower shop on Cordova, Gary's Flowers.
12:52He would help Clem keep the little buggers alive and drive back to Port Lauderdale.
12:57Have you heard from Clem lately?
13:00Last time was about a year ago.
13:02I texted him that he was late on an alimony payment, and he replies with this.
13:11Oh.
13:12He mooned you.
13:14Okay.
13:16What are these?
13:17Are these tattoos?
13:18Clem is a big Doors fan.
13:21The one on the left cheek is supposed to be Jim Morrison.
13:23I see that, yes.
13:25And on the right, you got most of the lyrics to the end.
13:27Ah.
13:27I didn't think it was funny, but he sure did.
13:33Does Clem have any other tattoos?
13:39Hey.
13:40Hey, Wish.
13:41We got a problem.
13:44Is that someone's rear you're showing me?
13:46Yeah, it's the rear of the guy Marcus was working for, Clem Crayshaw.
13:51The one he said had to be the real killer?
13:53Get the tattoo.
13:54Get the tattoo.
13:55Get the tattoo.
13:57Get the tattoo.
13:58In the end.
13:58Oh, that's pretty good.
13:59Actually, it's bad.
14:01According to his ex-wife, the only other tattoos he had were on his arms.
14:05Stick a dynamite on each bicep.
14:07So?
14:08So the body the police found in the freezer, it wasn't just missing his head and hands.
14:12It was missing his butt and biceps, too.
14:14Because if I'm right, it's because the killer wanted to get rid of all of John Doe's identifying features.
14:18Teeth, fingerprints, and tattoos.
14:22I don't think Clem put the body in the freezer.
14:24I think Clem was the body in the freezer.
14:28Marcus told you this Clem guy had to be the killer.
14:31Finding him was how you were going to clear Marcus of John Doe's murder.
14:35But if Clem is John Doe, who the hell was sending instructions to Marcus over Snapchat?
14:42Well, you're assuming somebody was.
14:46Which, in this case, it's not about a payday for me.
14:49You know, that I want to do right by you as badly as you want to do right by Waylon.
14:53But?
14:55But...
14:58You sure Marcus couldn't have done this?
15:00Hell, you mad him, what do you think?
15:02Look, hear me out.
15:03Marcus found out he was having a baby.
15:05Maybe he realized he needed to make more money.
15:08So what?
15:09He kills his boss to take over his flytrap business?
15:12Uh-huh.
15:24No, uh-uh.
15:26Marcus didn't do this.
15:28You stay the course, find a way to figure it out.
15:30But if the police don't already know Clem is John Doe, they're going to know soon.
15:33And they're going to turn up the heat on Marcus.
15:35Well, then, you're going to have to work fast now, won't you?
15:39Okay.
15:49Good morning.
15:50Shoot.
15:50Sorry.
15:51I tried your office.
15:53It wasn't open yet.
15:53So you figured you'd wait out here like a stalker?
15:56I thought seeing me in a parking garage might bring back some pleasant memories.
16:02What do you want?
16:04Well, I have a new client, Marcus Abernathy.
16:07The police and the DA's office like him for murder, I don't.
16:10So?
16:11So the district attorney is a political ally of your dad's.
16:15I repeat, so?
16:18Listen, I'm flying a little blind here, okay?
16:20I want to know if the police have anything on Marcus other than him being in the vicinity of the
16:24body.
16:25I want to know if they looked at any other suspects.
16:28So you want me to flex a little Ochoan muscle, find out what the DA's office knows that you don't?
16:34Mm-hmm.
16:35So this is how we square things between us.
16:38Me doing you favors so you can make your 50 bucks an hour, plus expenses.
16:43Oh, yeah.
16:44Or, you know, you could go to prison for 18 months.
16:49Mm-hmm.
16:51What's your client's name?
16:59Knock, knock.
17:01I just wanted to come and say thanks for coming to see me yesterday.
17:07Brownies.
17:09Homemade.
17:12Well, aren't you sweet?
17:14Oh, please.
17:15For all you're doing, it isn't enough.
17:23Oh, I can't believe that Marcus never told me that he knew an honest-to-goodness lottery winner.
17:31I did, um, Google you after you left.
17:35Saw your whole story.
17:36Oh.
17:37You know, I confess, I will never understand how so much good fortune landed on someone like me.
17:42But the Lord, like the Florida State Lottery Commission, works in mysterious...
17:49Like I said, the brownies aren't enough.
17:54No.
17:55No, no, no, ma'am.
17:57Uh-uh.
17:57Nope, nope, nope.
17:58Tell me that you don't like what you see?
18:03All I see, all I saw was a woman carrying the child of a young man who I care about
18:09likes family.
18:10I'm not pregnant.
18:12I just told Marcus that to kick his butt into high gear.
18:17Get him making some real money.
18:22Did it ever occur to you that if you hadn't, then maybe he wouldn't have taken the job that ended
18:27up landing him in jail?
18:30Clothes back on.
18:32I will scream.
18:37I know that you care about Marcus.
18:41But he's a terrible provider.
18:43He promised me two years ago that we would move to Nashville.
18:47And now every time it comes up, it's just, oh, sorry, babe, can't afford it.
18:51And last month, when my car got impounded and I said that I needed it back, like, yesterday, oh, sorry,
18:58babe, can't afford it.
18:59Okay, so that's why you're here.
19:01Because you think I got real money.
19:03No.
19:03It's because you're so good looking.
19:07If you're going to get Marcus out of jail, do it fast.
19:10We've got bills piling up.
19:22Hey, how much for one of these?
19:23Big ones are 50, small ones are 30.
19:27You know, it's funny.
19:28I didn't know fly traps were native to Florida.
19:31They're not.
19:34Oh.
19:35Let me guess you have a guy.
19:37Uh, something like that.
19:39Is his name Clem Cresha by any chance?
19:42Hi, I'm R.J. Decker.
19:43I'm a private investigator.
19:45Probably should have started with that.
19:46You're Gary, correct?
19:48I got your name from Clem's ex-wife, Darla.
19:51Am I in some sort of trouble?
19:52Well, Gary, that depends.
19:55You didn't happen to chop Clem's head off
19:57so you could steal all his fly traps, did you?
20:01You really think that body they found was Clem's?
20:05I do.
20:06Oh.
20:07Oh.
20:10You know those fly traps in there?
20:12Clem didn't charge me for them.
20:13He would just come in sometimes and leave a few.
20:17And as far as killing him, for more?
20:20No.
20:21No, the ones inside, they've been there for weeks.
20:23They're not really big sellers.
20:25Well, that's something I don't get.
20:27I mean, Clem had thousands of them,
20:28and his girl had thousands.
20:29I mean, there must be a market for them.
20:32I don't know who Clem's owed his plans, too.
20:34I told him I didn't want to know.
20:36If what you're saying is true,
20:37if Clem really is...
20:40gone.
20:42I'm not the one who did it.
20:54Hello.
20:54So tell me,
20:56what does a P.I. get up to
20:58while other people are out there doing his work for him?
21:00Well, this one's been looking up
21:02people arrested for a fly trap poaching in North Carolina
21:05to see if any of them may have drifted south
21:07to take over Clem Creshaw's business.
21:09And?
21:10Well, I'm hoping you had better luck at the D.A.'s office.
21:12Okay, I learned two things.
21:15First, you were right.
21:16The police do know John Doe as Clem Creshaw.
21:18They were just waiting on DNA to confirm it.
21:21Second, Clem had a brother-in-law, Brody Weller.
21:24Last year, they got in a fight.
21:26Brody beat Clem, stupid.
21:28Clem's sister, Brody's wife, called the police.
21:31But when they got there,
21:32Clem declined to press charges.
21:34Now, look, I don't have your keen investigative mind,
21:37but I'd say that's a pretty good alternate suspect.
21:40Wouldn't you?
21:41Any idea where I can find him?
21:42All I got was a work address,
21:44but if you're gonna go there,
21:46you should probably bring some singles.
21:50Welcome to the world, right?
21:52Come on, bless you.
21:53Come on, put you to the castle.
21:55Everything I do in the world, flex.
21:56Come on, drop my headaches.
21:59Come on, rock it just a little.
22:02Hands up and I'm low.
22:04Let me start.
22:06Let me see you.
22:07Flex, flex.
22:08Do you like what you see?
22:09Sorry, what?
22:10I said, do you like what you see?
22:12For a hundred bucks, Hanson, he'll dance just for you.
22:15Oh, well, yeah, hey, good to know.
22:17Good to know.
22:17Actually, no, I'm looking for an old buddy of mine, Brody Weller.
22:21Don't tell me.
22:22You two used to dance together.
22:23Very good, very good.
22:24A little place down in Orlando.
22:26You're not looking for more work, are you?
22:28Because I could always use another course in the stable.
22:33You know, sadly, I blew up my knee years ago.
22:37Well, take it from an expert,
22:38you still got it where it counts.
22:41Whoa, my goodness.
22:43Is Brody around for any chance?
22:46We've taken the stage at this very moment.
22:48Look at you!
22:51If you're gonna stick around,
22:53it's a $20 cover charge
22:54and a two-drink minimum,
22:56even for old buddies.
22:58Okay.
23:00Okay, okay, okay.
23:14Yes, what's up?
23:15I get detective work isn't cheap,
23:17but I'm looking at this tab I'm running,
23:20and I had to ask,
23:21are you really trying to expense a pedicure?
23:24One, yeah, I am.
23:26Two, I'm kind of in the middle of something.
23:28Oh, what?
23:29A massage and a little aroma therapy, perhaps?
23:32No, I'm waiting to talk to a new suspect,
23:34Crayshaw's brother-in-law.
23:35He doesn't get off work for a few hours,
23:37so I thought I'd take a peek inside his car.
23:39If he is the one that chopped up Clem,
23:40there might be blood evidence.
23:42You planning on getting inside his car?
23:44How?
23:45Exactly.
23:46You really want to know?
23:47Need I remind you,
23:49you're on conditional release.
23:50You get caught breaking into a car,
23:52they'll violate you back to prison.
23:53Oh, that's a good thing.
23:54I'm not very good at picking locks.
23:56Arge?
23:57Look, I knew when I got into this line of work
23:58there might be the occasional bend of the law.
24:00This isn't a bend, okay?
24:02This is a break,
24:03as in breaking and interning.
24:05Would you rather Marcus go to prison instead?
24:07Right, that's what I thought.
24:08Okay, I gotta go.
24:09I'll call you if I find something.
24:10Okay, but Arge?
24:15I did it.
24:16Yeah, you did.
24:22I don't get why we don't just call the cops.
24:24Oh, really, Stevie?
24:25Well, I can think of plenty of reasons.
24:27Like you having more HGH in your locker
24:29than, I don't know,
24:29a hundred pharmacies, for example.
24:31Listen, she's right, guys.
24:32You don't need to call the cops.
24:34I'm not a car thief.
24:35I'm a private investigator.
24:37Yeah, right, right.
24:38And Ramon here, Ramon's a real boxer.
24:40I only came to ask Brody here
24:42a few questions about his brother-in-law.
24:44Clem?
24:45Why the hell do you want to talk about Clem?
24:47Well, because he's dead.
24:50Clem's dead?
24:52Still can't believe Clem's gone.
24:54First Lacey, now him.
24:56Who's Lacey?
24:59My wife.
25:00Clem's sister.
25:01She passed a few months ago.
25:03Notchkins lymphoma.
25:05I'm truly sorry about that.
25:07You came here because you thought
25:08maybe I killed Clem, right?
25:10Well, yeah, you did beat him up
25:12pretty bad last year.
25:13Once upon a time,
25:14we were pals.
25:16That all changed.
25:17After Lacey got diagnosed,
25:18I wanted her to do every little thing
25:20the doctors told her.
25:21But Clem was so damn sure
25:23that his stupid fly traps
25:24were the answer.
25:26I'm sorry.
25:27How would Clem's fly traps
25:28have helped with Lacey's cancer?
25:30I don't get that.
25:30You know who he was selling them to, right?
25:32I mean, I assumed it was people
25:33that collect exotic plants.
25:36But then a buddy of his
25:37made it sound like that
25:38wouldn't explain the volume of his crop.
25:39So I don't know.
25:41There's this holistic medicine company,
25:43Venusian Health.
25:44They would buy Clem's fly traps in bulk
25:46and then, I don't know,
25:48grind them up or something,
25:50sell what's left as an extract.
25:52Here in the U.S.,
25:53they're allowed to promote it
25:54as an immunity modulator.
25:57But that's only because
25:58that's all the FDA will allow.
26:00In other countries,
26:01places with looser standards,
26:03they're allowed to say
26:04that it can do a whole lot more.
26:05What, like treating cancer?
26:06Something about how the extract
26:07can eliminate abnormal cells
26:09without harming the normal ones.
26:11Clemden used to be all holistic.
26:12Over the years,
26:13the more Venusian Health bought from him,
26:15the more he started to buy
26:16what they were selling.
26:17The idea that fly trap extract
26:19could help or even save people like Lacey.
26:21That's why I kicked him
26:22out of our house that night.
26:23I just couldn't listen to it anymore.
26:25And the thing is, though,
26:28after Lacey passed,
26:29Clem did a 180.
26:30He said he was gonna do, like,
26:32a deep dive into all things Venusian Health.
26:34He'll tell you what he meant by that?
26:35No.
26:38But last week,
26:40he left me this voicemail.
26:42Brody,
26:43I just, I just wanted to say
26:44I'm sorry.
26:46All the false hope I gave Lacey,
26:48all the false hope Venusian gave me,
26:50I want you to know
26:51they're not gonna get away with it.
26:53I love you, brother.
26:56Last Tuesday.
26:57Is that important?
26:59Well,
26:59as far as I've been able to tell,
27:01that's right around the last time
27:03anyone saw Clem alive.
27:08Is that you, RJ,
27:09or does my wife need to get her gun?
27:11It's me.
27:12No need for gunplay.
27:13Well,
27:13matter of opinion.
27:20Hey.
27:20Oh.
27:21Oh, my God.
27:21What happened to your face?
27:22No, forget the face.
27:23Why do you smell like stripper?
27:25The answer to both questions
27:27is it's complicated.
27:28Uh,
27:29are you free tomorrow morning?
27:30Why?
27:31Oh,
27:32he needs a favor.
27:33I can smell that on him, too.
27:35Actually,
27:35I'd be the one doing the favor.
27:36Uh,
27:37I may have a story for you
27:38and the Herald.
27:39Big one.
27:41One thing that never ceases
27:42to amaze me
27:43is the number of people
27:44who think the idea
27:45of treating disease
27:46with carnivorous plants
27:48is just some
27:49passing fat.
27:51The fluid from
27:52unopened monkey pitchers
27:53has been used to treat
27:54incontinence
27:55for centuries.
27:56In renaissance Italy,
27:58the best,
27:58most effective
28:00aphrodisiac
28:01was a cordial water
28:03made from
28:04drossera
28:05or tandafolia.
28:07Do you need me
28:08to spell that?
28:10No, thanks.
28:10I'll look it up.
28:12Not most
28:13in the mainstream media
28:13tend to look down
28:14their noses
28:15at alternative medicine.
28:16I commend
28:17the Broward County Herald
28:18for exploring what we do
28:19instead of trying
28:19to tear it down.
28:21Well,
28:21like I said on the phone,
28:22I guarantee
28:23the piece I'm writing
28:23isn't about the efficacy
28:25of your product,
28:26but I couldn't help
28:27noticing that
28:27in other countries
28:28it's advertised
28:29as treatment for cancer.
28:30Here in the U.S.,
28:31it's only ever described
28:32as an immunity booster.
28:35My lawyers,
28:36they're very good.
28:38They'd probably tell me
28:38I shouldn't even
28:39dignify that question,
28:40and they would
28:41definitely tell me
28:42it would be wrong
28:43to suggest
28:44that the American FDA
28:45is deep in the pocket
28:46of big pharma.
28:48I think your photographer
28:49is a little lost.
28:50Hey,
28:51not much for you
28:51to see back there.
28:52Oh, yeah.
28:52Do you want to get
28:53one of me near the logo?
28:55Great.
29:01Here?
29:02Uh, that was great, yeah.
29:03Yeah, that looks good.
29:05Yeah, right there.
29:06Good.
29:07Hydrogen peroxide,
29:08I don't suppose
29:08that's one of your
29:09secret ingredients?
29:10Why would it be?
29:11Based on my research,
29:11some homeopathic practitioners
29:13say it can treat dementia
29:14and enhance immune system function.
29:16This despite the fact
29:17that toxicity from the stuff
29:19can lead to hemorrhagic gastritis
29:21and organ rupture.
29:22You're forgetting
29:22mucosal blistering.
29:24That's why our hydrogen peroxide
29:25is just to clean
29:27the floors around here.
29:28The, uh,
29:29the fly traps you use
29:30to make your extracts,
29:31they come from a grower
29:32named Clem Crayshaw.
29:34Is that right?
29:37The name rings a bell,
29:38but I'd have to go back
29:39and check on that.
29:40Why is he asking me questions?
29:41Clem Crayshaw was murdered
29:43last week.
29:44The police think he was killed
29:45by a kid who worked for him,
29:46but an anonymous source
29:48left me with the impression
29:49it might be someone else.
29:50There was a break in here
29:51last week, yeah?
29:53Your assistant called it in,
29:54told the police
29:55your computer was missing,
29:56then you showed up,
29:56said it wasn't,
29:57you just took it home
29:57to do some work.
29:58Point being.
29:59Well, I just, I don't know,
30:00I just, I can't help
30:01but wondering.
30:03Was it Clem
30:03that broke in here?
30:05It was.
30:06Did he take your computer?
30:09And if he did,
30:12what do you find?
30:13I found rumors
30:14that the approvals
30:15you received
30:16to promote your extract
30:17as a cancer treatment
30:18in Belgium,
30:19Hungary, and Portugal
30:19could only have been
30:20the result of bribes.
30:21Okay.
30:22If the rumors are true,
30:23maybe there was some record
30:24of those payoffs
30:25on your computer.
30:26This interview's over.
30:27But please,
30:29don't forget what I said.
30:31My lawyers are very good.
30:39So, is he our guy?
30:40Oh, no doubt about it.
30:46George.
30:47Thanks for coming.
30:48My pleasure.
30:49Detective Abreu.
30:50But it's still Georgiana.
30:52So you said in your email
30:52that you wanted to talk
30:53about the Marcus Abernathy case,
30:55but if memory serves,
30:56it isn't yours to discuss.
30:58You got me, Georgiana.
31:00Or do you prefer ADA Ballard?
31:02Either will do.
31:03The case is Detective Canty's,
31:05but he and I spoke,
31:06and he agreed you should hear
31:07what my associate
31:09has to tell you.
31:11Why do I recognize that man?
31:14Probably because your office
31:15prosecuted him for assault
31:17a couple years ago.
31:20So, if I'm following,
31:21you believe that Marcus Abernathy
31:23is innocent.
31:24You think the more likely perpetrator
31:26is this man,
31:28Remington Aubrey.
31:29Like we said,
31:29there's been rumors of bribes
31:31in other countries.
31:31Rumors don't tend to mean much
31:33in a courtroom.
31:34Look, give us some time
31:35to dig up more evidence
31:36on Aubrey.
31:37That's all we're asking.
31:38Clem Crayshaw was sending instructions
31:39to Marcus over Snapchat.
31:41Somehow that correspondence
31:42continued after he was dead.
31:44If we're right,
31:44it's because Aubrey took his phone
31:46after he killed him.
31:47He's the one who told Marcus
31:48to feed the plants
31:49that bag of Clem's remains.
31:51If it hadn't been for the raid,
31:52Aubrey would have kept using Marcus
31:54until every last bit of Clem was gone.
31:56Get a subpoena.
31:57Search Aubrey's home,
31:58search his business.
31:58Who knows?
31:59Maybe we find Clem's phone.
32:00There's no point.
32:01How could you look at all this
32:03and say there's no point?
32:04Because Marcus Abernathy
32:06took a plea deal this morning.
32:07He confessed to everything.
32:09He's our killer.
32:12Sorry, guys.
32:13I had a long talk with my lawyer.
32:15But, uh, this way they
32:17take the death penalty off the table.
32:19No more murder charge.
32:21Just
32:25aggravated manslaughter.
32:26Just 30 years.
32:29But with good behavior,
32:30I could be out in 20.
32:32And you know I'm gonna be
32:33well-behaved, Mr. Akin.
32:37You didn't do it, Marcus.
32:39Yeah, I mean, of course I didn't.
32:41But, come on, guys.
32:43I got a good woman at home.
32:45I got a kid on the way.
32:46It's too much to live for
32:47to take a chance on a trial.
32:49Right?
32:52Hey.
32:53I could get him a new lawyer.
32:55Tell him Marcus changed his mind.
32:56He wants to plead not guilty.
32:58Well, you can do that,
32:58but that won't make
32:59the confession go away.
33:01The DA's office
33:02will still be able
33:03to use it to trial.
33:04Guys.
33:05Hey.
33:06I'm right here.
33:10And I told you.
33:11I'm okay.
33:13It's all gonna be okay.
33:17Do you guys know
33:18who's taking care
33:18of the plants now?
33:20What's that?
33:21They're fly traps.
33:22I was thinking about them yesterday.
33:24Do you know if the police
33:25are tending to them,
33:26or if...
33:26Uh, well, I can...
33:28I can look into that for you.
33:30Yeah.
33:30Just make sure
33:31they're not overfeeding
33:31the little guys.
33:32I mean, last count,
33:33there were 24,338 plants.
33:35That works out to 10.2 pounds
33:36of food per feeding,
33:37one feeding per week.
33:38Anything more,
33:38and you're gonna lose a few.
33:40Jane.
33:43Do you work all
33:44that math out yourself?
33:46Huh.
33:47Yeah.
33:48The day Clem
33:49told me he was gonna
33:49bring me that bag of meat,
33:51I, uh,
33:51I had to tell him
33:52more than once.
33:5410.2 pounds, Clem.
33:55Nothing more.
33:57And, uh,
33:57I guess it wasn't
33:59actually Clem.
34:00It was the other guy.
34:02But, uh,
34:02still, I mean,
34:03he listened.
34:03Next time I weighed the bag,
34:04it was...
34:05it was just right.
34:07Did you know
34:07the human head
34:08weighs 8 pounds?
34:11Look.
34:13Jerry Maguire,
34:13the cute little kid
34:14with glasses,
34:15blonde hair.
34:16Remember him?
34:16Uh, yeah.
34:17I didn't see that one.
34:18Hold on,
34:19just a second.
34:20I'll...
34:23The average human head
34:24actually weighs 11 pounds.
34:25Oh, that's great.
34:26Well, next,
34:26maybe you can tell us
34:27the, uh,
34:27airspeed and velocity
34:28of an unling swallow.
34:30No, no, no, no, no.
34:30If you add up
34:31all of Clem's body parts,
34:33head, hands,
34:34butt cheeks, biceps,
34:35all of his missing parts,
34:36it must weigh, what,
34:3720 pounds, more?
34:38Marcus just said
34:39the bag that Aubrey
34:40left for him
34:40weighed exactly 10.2 pounds.
34:42If that was the case,
34:45then where's the rest of Clem?
34:47Why hasn't it turned up yet?
34:52Hey.
34:56How's the food here?
35:01Hey.
35:02As much fun as it was
35:03to meet ADA Ballard today,
35:05do you know anyone else
35:06that can get us a warrant
35:06to search Remington Aubrey's warehouse?
35:08Why?
35:10Pretty sure I know
35:11how we can prove
35:11he killed Clem Creshawn.
35:18Mr. Aubrey.
35:20Detective Aubrey, you.
35:22I believe you already met
35:23Mr. Decker.
35:23Hello.
35:24I was asked to be here by 9.
35:26It's almost 11.
35:27Is it?
35:28For lack of common courtesy
35:29isn't on the list
35:30of reasons to defund you people,
35:32it should be.
35:34Well, I'm not a cop.
35:35I'm a PI.
35:36But if it makes it feel any better,
35:38I am pretty defunded.
35:39Reason we're late
35:40is my colleagues
35:41needed a little time
35:42to execute a search warrant
35:44at your warehouse.
35:46What could the police
35:47possibly have been looking for
35:48at my warehouse?
35:50The rest of Clem Creshawn?
35:52When you were using his phone
35:53to pretend to be him,
35:55Marcus Abernathy told you
35:56that Clem's flat traps
35:57could only take 10.2 pounds
35:58of food for feeding.
35:59Problem was,
36:00you had at least twice that,
36:02didn't you?
36:02Most of Clem
36:03was found in his freezer.
36:04A little more was in the bag
36:05Marcus was holding
36:06when he was arrested,
36:07but some of Clem
36:09was still out there.
36:10And the question was where
36:12and why?
36:13Part of the why
36:13was Marcus' insistence
36:15on only feeding the plants
36:1610.2 pounds of meat.
36:18But I think the rest of it
36:19had to do with
36:20how damn hard it would have been
36:21to get a human head
36:22inside of a meat grinder.
36:23Clem was my sole supplier
36:25of Venus flytraps.
36:27Why would I kill him?
36:28Why would I hurt
36:29my own business?
36:30Probably because he was
36:31about to hurt a lot more.
36:32He stole your computer.
36:34And there was something on it
36:35that would have proven
36:36your company isn't on the level.
36:38So you killed him.
36:42Hey.
36:43You ever heard of
36:44Piranha Solution?
36:46No?
36:47It's basically
36:47sulfuric acid on crack.
36:49I learned about this stuff
36:50when they did time
36:51with a guy that tried
36:52to use it to burn
36:52through the top of a safe
36:53he was breaking into.
36:55Did he just say
36:55he was an ex-convict?
36:56This guy's plan
36:56did not work out so well.
36:58All he made to do
36:58was start a fire.
37:00See, Piranha Solution
37:01can be a little unpredictable
37:02when it comes to metal.
37:04But what he's really good at
37:05almost 100% of the time
37:07is turning bone
37:08and flesh into soup.
37:11Piranha Solution
37:12only has two ingredients.
37:13One, Mr. Decker
37:14already mentioned,
37:15sulfuric acid.
37:16And the other
37:17is hydrogen peroxide.
37:18Yesterday you said
37:19you had a barrel
37:20of that stuff
37:20to clean the floors
37:21but see this one here?
37:22See this barrel here?
37:23See where it's all
37:23turned to the wall
37:24and you can just make
37:25out the SUL
37:26and that got me thinking
37:27what if it's filled
37:28with sulfuric acid?
37:29After you realized
37:30you couldn't use Marcus
37:31and the fly traps
37:32to get rid of a human skull
37:33you ordered both
37:35of these barrels
37:35through your company
37:36you mixed their contents
37:37in the sink
37:38at your warehouse
37:39and then
37:40in went Mr. Crayshaw's head.
37:46Or was there
37:47some of the reason
37:48you didn't want me
37:48taking pictures of it?
37:50These are two
37:51partially dissolved
37:52teeth CSU found
37:54in the sink's drain trap
37:55a little while ago
37:56and this
37:59is the bullet
38:00for a 9mm pistol.
38:02You're the registered
38:03owner of a 9mm pistol
38:05aren't you?
38:14Got your message
38:17but if you ask me
38:19to come here
38:19because you're having
38:20second thoughts
38:21about us getting together
38:22I most assuredly am not.
38:26Okay
38:26and why am I here?
38:28Our boy Marcus
38:29is about to be
38:29released from jail.
38:31Police finally realize
38:32he isn't a killer.
38:33You could have just
38:34said so in your text.
38:35Hey, hey
38:37How's my timing?
38:38In the nick of, buddy.
38:40You know,
38:40this goes on my bill, right?
38:46Anything else?
38:47Uh, yeah
38:48I'm throwing Marcus
38:50a little welcome home party
38:52on the beach tonight.
38:53The reason I wanted
38:54to tell you in person
38:55is
38:55so I wanted
38:56to make sure
38:57you weren't there.
39:01Well,
39:02last time I checked
39:02this is American
39:03I can go where I want.
39:04Well, it is
39:05and you can.
39:08Actually,
39:09it's the other reason
39:10why I wanted you
39:10to stop by.
39:17My car?
39:22You got it out of impound?
39:25I paid.
39:26My friend handled
39:26the transport.
39:28You know,
39:29the other day
39:30said you'd rather
39:31be living in Nashville
39:33but she didn't say why.
39:38My sister lives there.
39:40It's not like we're
39:41close or anything
39:42but she writes me
39:44sometimes and makes it sound...
39:48I don't know.
39:50nice.
39:53Go there.
39:54Try to find nice.
39:56So whatever you're
39:57looking for right now,
39:59it ain't here
40:00in Fort Lauderdale
40:00and it ain't with Marcus.
40:06All I've been
40:07is bad to you.
40:08Why are you being
40:09so good to me?
40:11You remind me
40:12of someone.
40:16I loved her
40:17and yet
40:18had someone
40:19sent her off
40:20to Nashville
40:20way back when?
40:23Well,
40:24things would have
40:25ended up better
40:25for the both of us.
40:33Drive safe now.
40:57Would you believe
40:58this is my first
41:00glad you're not
41:01going to prison party?
41:02Well,
41:03knowing who your dad is,
41:04no.
41:05No, I would not.
41:06What happened
41:07to your eye?
41:08This?
41:10Misunderstanding.
41:14You want a beer?
41:15No.
41:16No?
41:16I'm not staying.
41:17You're not staying?
41:19Mostly just came
41:19to see if we're even now.
41:21You gave me a name.
41:23You gave me one name.
41:24One name.
41:25Turned out
41:26the guy didn't even do it.
41:27What's your obsession
41:28with us getting even?
41:29What is that?
41:29If we get even too fast,
41:31there won't be any reason
41:32for me to call you anymore.
41:33No, I mean,
41:35is that what you want?
41:37Getting too close
41:38to a family like mine
41:39could earn you
41:40a return trip to Appalachee.
41:42Is that what you want?
41:43I don't know what I want.
41:48Not yet.
41:51Well, then,
41:52for tonight,
41:52it's probably best
41:53to celebrate
41:55what we've got.
41:56In my case,
41:57an 8 o'clock reservation
41:58staccato.
42:00You and the other dirtbags
42:01have fun.
42:03in my case in thoseã‚’
42:05need you to pray.
42:06Let's do it.
42:07What's up?
42:25I'm going to pay
42:25a dream,
42:25some sort of
42:25time.
42:25I know what you want
42:26I love you.
42:31I've been a pin
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