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00:00Previously on R.J. Decker.
00:01I'm Emmy Ochoa, Lucas is my stepbrother,
00:05and that's the man who almost killed him.
00:08I was working on the robbery at Mel and Cass' house.
00:10Is this a suspect?
00:14Getting too close to a family like mine
00:16could earn you a return trip to Appalachia.
00:18Is that what you want?
00:19I don't know what I want.
00:21Pleasure to finally meet you.
00:23But I thought it was time you and I had a chat.
00:26About?
00:26What exactly are your intentions towards my daughter?
00:34Are you sure I can't interest you in a drink?
00:37No, I won't be staying alone.
00:40I asked you what your intentions are towards Emilia.
00:44I'm still waiting for an answer.
00:47Well, obviously we're gonna get married,
00:49pop out a couple of kids,
00:51and do everything we can to make sure
00:52they don't turn out to be terminal narcissists like the grandpa.
00:55I think what you're really asking, Victor,
00:57or may I call you Victor,
01:00is what are my intentions towards you?
01:03Am I coming for you because of what you and your family did to me two years ago?
01:07Am I using Emmy to get back at you somehow?
01:10The answer to both questions is no.
01:12Because the truth is, Victor,
01:14I know this is gonna blow your mind.
01:17I haven't really thought about you much since I got out of Appalachia.
01:20I do find that hard to believe.
01:23So I'd like to make you an offer.
01:26Stay away from my family, and in exchange,
01:30I'll see to it that your criminal record gets expunged.
01:34Given your new profession, the risks you have to take for your clients.
01:39Things like trespassing, invasion of privacy,
01:43to always be skating on such thin ice,
01:46not wise for a man on conditional release.
01:50One false move, you can find yourself back in prison.
01:55What if I don't want a single damn thing from you?
01:58Well, then you will definitely find yourself back in prison.
02:02Your conditional release officer was Lucy Penmark, correct?
02:06What do you mean, was?
02:07Well, you're gonna get notified soon that she's been reassigned.
02:10You have a new CRO.
02:13Someone who, with a single call from me,
02:17will violate you back to Appalachia.
02:23Well, that look,
02:25I imagine that's the look you gave my son Lucas
02:28right before you assaulted him.
02:29Yeah, I imagine it was.
02:31By all means, Mr. Decker, come at me.
02:38See how that goes.
02:41Think about my offer.
02:44Just don't think long.
03:05See, that's me.
03:07I'm that Florida man.
03:08Hey, Silly!
03:09Help me out here.
03:11Got Florida man tries to claim beehive
03:14as passenger in HOV lane.
03:17Free drink or no.
03:18I mean, I respect the full tilt weirdness,
03:21but all that driving can't be good for the bees, right?
03:26I need to talk to you.
03:27Hey man, what is it?
03:36So, you turn down Mr. State Senator's offer,
03:39you go back to prison.
03:41You accept it, then boom,
03:44you got yourself a clean sleep.
03:46You ask me, partner, this one's easy.
03:48Take the damn offer.
03:50What he's doing is illegal.
03:51He's the one that should be going to prison.
03:52Right, because politicians with money and power
03:55and zero scruples, they go to prison all the time, right?
03:58Yeah.
04:00I don't understand what's going on.
04:01Are you mad at me?
04:02Damn straight I'm mad.
04:05I mean, this whole thing you got going on with Emmy Ochoa,
04:08it's wrong, and you know it's wrong.
04:10And would you like to know how I know that you know it's wrong?
04:12Because if you didn't,
04:14you'd have told me about it a long time ago.
04:17You'd have told Catherine, Mel, somebody.
04:20We're just, uh...
04:20No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
04:23You play with fire,
04:24and now I'm supposed to blame the matches
04:25because you got burned?
04:31You love her?
04:33What if we haven't even been on a date?
04:35That's not what I'm asking.
04:40No.
04:42She's my friend.
04:44Well, then I repeat myself.
04:47Accept the offer.
04:49Because you were built for exactly 18 months in prison, RJ.
04:53Not a day more, not a second.
04:56Because when you see wrongs,
04:57you can't stop yourself from trying to ride them.
05:00That ain't sustainable in a place like Appalachee.
05:03It ain't survivable.
05:07You get sent back, I...
05:10I don't believe you'll ever get help.
05:23Mr. Decker?
05:24Hmm?
05:24We can do this in the kitchen if you'd be more comfortable.
05:27Uh, I'm, uh, I'm good.
05:28Just a bit more of a bird guy, myself.
05:31I'm a goldfish man.
05:32My dad was a little different.
05:34Yeah.
05:34Like I was saying, his body was found about a week ago.
05:37He was dumped in a pile of green waste.
05:39You know, leaves, branches, palm fronds.
05:41Just off the service road, out by Seabrake Golf Club.
05:45Did the police know where he was killed?
05:47No.
05:47Just Hal.
05:48Back of the head.
05:49He'll use the blunt object.
05:51Something heavy.
05:52The Seabrake.
05:53That's out near Pompano, right?
05:54Yeah.
05:55Unfortunately, Pompano PD is feeling a little JV.
05:58That's why I called you, actually.
06:00You don't think they're on the right track?
06:01They have asked about my dad's criminal record twice.
06:05As if this has something to do with two stolen cars back in 1986.
06:09They're beating the wrong bushes.
06:11He got out of Tomoka three years before I was born.
06:13He did his time and he learned his lesson.
06:15It is possible to make a mistake and come back from it, you know?
06:19I do.
06:23Terrence, I gotta ask, what's the deal with all the snakes?
06:27These are Burmese pythons.
06:28Yeah.
06:29After Hurricane Andrew, a bunch of them got loose in the Everglades.
06:32Now they are everywhere.
06:33I do mean everywhere.
06:35They'll grow to be 20 feet.
06:37They can crush and swallow gators, pets, even kids.
06:40Yeah, I heard about this.
06:41The state's got its own bounty program, huh?
06:43Mm-hmm.
06:44After he retired, Dad started working for some researchers.
06:46Tagging specimens, logging GPS data, mapping out breeding zones.
06:51And of course, every summer, there's the Python Bounty Blitz.
06:54It's a 10-day contest, open registration, big prizes.
06:57I think that maybe we got him killed.
06:59How so?
07:00Winter takes home 50 grand.
07:03And Dad won the last two years running.
07:07This year, he jumped out early again.
07:09He had three snakes on day one.
07:11Topped the leaderboard, and then he was gone.
07:14Yeah, well, Terrence, people have killed for a lot less than $50,000.
07:18That's why I was hoping you could talk to the people who are in the lead now, before the contest
07:22ends and they all, you know, slither away.
07:25Snakes in the grass, you better move fast.
07:29You'll be poisoned or be strangled to death.
07:34Their fangs, they bite deep, and their venom will creep.
07:38You up there?
07:40That's me in third.
07:42Should be tied second.
07:44Man, big daddy on the hook this morning.
07:46He come up, grab me by the ankle, and, well, bye-bye shoe.
07:52Wow, look at that.
07:53Glad they left the foot.
07:56My name's RJ Decker.
07:58I wanted to talk to you about someone that wasn't so lucky, that Curtis Middleton.
08:02He was my dude.
08:03Yeah.
08:04Can you figure out what happened to him yet?
08:05I think it might have something to do with this contest, but I'm trying to get a sense of where
08:10the people in the roundup were the night of the murder.
08:13Oh, no telling.
08:16Who else do you think I should be talking to?
08:18Where were you the night of the murder?
08:20I was at night school, wrist-deep in a dead raccoon.
08:23Hmm?
08:24I am training to be a taxidermist.
08:27Anyone else can vouch you were there that night?
08:29Suppose anyone at the bingo park.
08:30You and Curtis.
08:31You guys got along okay?
08:33Oh, he was Peaches and Crane.
08:34So you were buddies there?
08:35We're talking about the guy with the hook for a hand.
08:37I'm sorry.
08:38Guess it's a different Curtis.
08:39Who else should I be talking to?
08:41Teddy Tran.
08:41Teddy Tran.
08:42Teddy Tran.
08:43Teddy Tran.
08:44Why do you think your name's on the tip of everyone's tongue, Teddy?
08:49Bro, Envy.
08:50Yeah?
08:50Let me check the board.
08:51I'm up by four snakes.
08:52Yeah.
08:53You're getting a little weird when there's big money on the line.
08:55Yeah.
08:56That's my theory, too.
08:57But I'm working off the premise that Curtis would have been heading on the leaderboard
08:59if someone hadn't have killed you.
09:01You're not a cop, sir.
09:02No, I'm not a cop.
09:03Okay.
09:04I just want to know where you were the night of the murder.
09:07I was alone.
09:08Just like half the field.
09:09I was out near Hillsboro Canal.
09:11You know, it's pretty near Pompano where Curtis' body was found.
09:14Listen, man.
09:14You're late to the party, all right?
09:16I've already been cleared.
09:18Yeah.
09:19Pompano PD grew up me for three hours straight.
09:21Hooked me up to a lie detector and everything.
09:24And you passed?
09:25Even when they tried to rattle me.
09:26Showed me pictures of Curtis.
09:28I mean, it was messed up, man.
09:29Just seeing him like that, his head all caved in and his body all sandy.
09:34Sammy, what do you mean, Sammy?
09:35He was down at the beach.
09:36I told him it didn't make no sense.
09:38What do you mean?
09:39Look, I don't know if he took the night off, but the Pythons don't go to the beach, bro.
10:03Hey, I just tried to find you at your place.
10:07I need to tell you something.
10:10It's important.
10:11Call me back.
10:22Nice shot.
10:23You must be Mr. Decker.
10:25Crystal said you were looking for me.
10:27I'm Jeff Gillibrand, the GM here.
10:29I'm happy to chat, but you really can't be out here in denim.
10:33Well, I'm not teeing off.
10:35I'm investigating a murder.
10:37Just our policy.
10:39Okay.
10:40What's your policy on moving dead bodies?
10:43Curtis Middleton, your grounds crew said they found him on a green waste pile up the road.
10:47That's right.
10:48Well, I'm told there was a lot of sand stuck to his skin.
10:51We're miles away from a beach, so you know.
10:53Weird.
10:55Unless, of course, you found him in one of your sand traps.
10:57Is that possible?
10:59Look, all I want to know is where you really found him.
11:02It can be just between us.
11:03I'm not going to go call the cops or anything like that.
11:09Okay, look.
11:10The morning the body turned up, my head groundskeeper called me in a panic.
11:15You have to understand, we were about to host our biggest member guest of the year.
11:20If we call in the police, the tournament would have been dead.
11:23And Curtis was already dead, so really you were just averting another tragedy.
11:28We didn't cover anything up.
11:31I just told him to find the body off property.
11:36Right.
11:36But yes, the man who was killed was originally in the bunker on 16.
11:41When we found him, there were no footprints or any other, I don't know, evidence that anyone else had been
11:48here.
11:49If there had been, we wouldn't have moved the body.
11:52Very considerate.
11:53I just mean there was nothing here that would have helped their investigation.
12:05What?
12:06I don't know, Jeff.
12:09You know, generally, I think cops like to have the murder weapon.
12:15Is that, is that blood on that thing?
12:18Pop it up, please.
12:20Yeah, hi.
12:21Can I talk to whoever's in charge of the Curtis Middleton investigation, please?
12:24Whoa, hey, hey.
12:25You said, you said you weren't going to call guys.
12:27Yeah, well, I lied.
12:28You moved the body, Jeff.
12:29You're kind of screwed.
12:32Is it supposed to be my day off, Mel?
12:34Porrecito.
12:35I'm so sorry that we got handed a huge break on a silver platter.
12:38This murder weapon, you're sure it connects to the Van Allen homicide.
12:43100%.
12:43Showed up on a golf course nearby.
12:45Eight days we've been looking for that thing.
12:47Whoever found it, we're gonna kiss him.
12:50Oh, hey.
12:51You here?
12:52Found something you guys were looking for.
12:55Duff her up.
12:56Ignore that.
12:57Uh, explain.
12:58Yeah, I was working at Kate's down in Pompano.
13:00My client's father, Curtis Middleton, got his head bashed in.
13:03Pompano PD just didn't know with what.
13:05We heard it was some kind of award.
13:07Yeah, Realtor of the Year award, engraved to a lady whose name I recognized from the paper,
13:10the victim in your homicide.
13:12Fiona Van Allen.
13:14So, one weapon, two murders.
13:15We're both looking for the same perp.
13:17I showed you mine.
13:18You want to show me yours?
13:20That's Fiona Van Allen, 55.
13:22She was beaten to death in her home around 10 p.m. last Tuesday.
13:26Nice gated community.
13:28Backs right up to the golf course where you found the murder weapon.
13:31See, 16th hole is just over their back fence.
13:33That's where the grounds crew at the club found my victim, Curtis, before they moved him to a green waste
13:39pile about a half a mile in that direction.
13:41Pompano Beach, Fort Lauderdale, different police departments, and we all thought different cases.
13:46Bodies were found on different days, and the ammos weren't a perfect match.
13:50Blunt object was used on both victims, but ours, Ms. Van Allen, got the business end at least a dozen
13:56times.
13:56It was personal.
13:58The murder of your client's dad was, more matter of fact, a single blow, one and done.
14:02So, did you guys land on a suspect?
14:05Ms. Van Allen's husband?
14:06Why?
14:07Because it's always the husband.
14:09We dug up plenty of actual reasons, too.
14:11We know he had opportunity and motive.
14:13Orlando Van Allen.
14:14He goes by Lando, the total trophy husband, even took Fiona's last name.
14:19And now, he's gonna take everything else.
14:23So, he kills his wife, he flees the scene, he runs into poor Curtis Middleton looking for pythons.
14:28Curtis sees him holding the murder weapon, he gets praying for it.
14:31Except now that you told us exactly where you found that award, our theory's out the window.
14:36There's no way Lando could have done this.
14:37The main reason we didn't put cuffs on him night of is the absence of a murder weapon.
14:41Now, we never will, because of the timeline.
14:46Traffic cams and doorbell footage show Lando coming home at 10.03pm.
14:5010.04, he calls 911.
14:51The neighborhood security guys are on the scene by 10.06, our guys, 10.08.
14:55Okay.
14:57So, now we're saying he'd have to kill his wife, hop the fence, run 400 feet, kill Curtis, get rid
15:02of the murder weapon, and make it back in time to open the door for the cops.
15:06All in under two minutes.
15:08Yeah.
15:08Lando looks athletic, but unless he's Usain Bolt's angry cousin.
15:12Okay.
15:12Okay.
15:13Let's focus on the good news.
15:15Now that we can tell Lando he isn't our number one suspect, maybe his lawyers will actually let us talk
15:20to him.
15:21I told you I didn't do it.
15:23I mean, I know what it looked like, but seriously, I can't thank you enough, man.
15:27I feel like I want to give you a hug right now.
15:29I'm sure Mr. Decker would settle for you answering a few more questions about your wife.
15:32It may help us solve that second homicide we told you about.
15:36Yeah.
15:38Yeah.
15:38Yeah, of course.
15:38I mean, I wanted the help from the beginning.
15:40It's just, he didn't want me talking while I was still a suspect.
15:43Fiona had a showing that afternoon with another realtor.
15:46Her name's Denise Halpern.
15:47I think she might have been the last person to see Fiona alive.
15:49I've been thinking a lot about that question you asked me that night at the house.
15:52Did anyone hate Fiona?
15:54I just can't picture it, but some of her dad's family, and there's money there.
16:00Maybe some old grudges.
16:02And I can get you all our online passwords, too.
16:05Fiona and I, we didn't have any secrets.
16:07You know, she had my info, I had hers.
16:09So, emails, social media, anything you need, man.
16:11Seriously, please, just find out who did this.
16:21You're working today?
16:23Ma'am, I don't work any day.
16:25Yeah, that's how it is when you do what you love.
16:28The price is a little steep.
16:30What if I just want to sit on the boat for 20 minutes, maybe drink one of your beers?
16:36You're talking about the Ochoa family special.
16:44Where the hell have you been hiding, sis?
16:46I've missed you too, Lucas.
16:51This doesn't suck.
16:54Careful.
16:55I'm gonna have to alert the palace if the princess starts enjoying herself.
16:59Oh, shut up.
17:03So, you're gonna tell me what dad's done now, or am I supposed to guess?
17:08He had Ray break into a friend's home.
17:14Frickin' Ray.
17:16Is anyone hurt?
17:17This time, no.
17:20I've decided I'm gonna tell my friend the truth.
17:23I just don't know how he's gonna take it.
17:26Are you vulnerable?
17:28Criminally, no.
17:30Personally.
17:35Damn, do I not miss this.
17:37Hmm.
17:40When was the last time you heard from dad?
17:45About a year.
17:48And he tried to lure me back with some no-show job at one of his construction sites.
17:52And six figs.
17:54Guess how long I considered it.
17:55Six seconds.
17:58It would've been nice to pay off the boat.
18:00Maybe get my ass back in the well.
18:03But...
18:03Nah.
18:06He's just too toxic.
18:11Speaking of paying off the boat, I gotta go pitch my wish.
18:17A word of advice for your friend?
18:20When it comes to Victor Ochoa,
18:22the best thing to do is to get away
18:24and to stay away.
18:26Tell him you heard that from an expert.
18:38Are you making a penny, Livaka?
18:40Do you sound sad?
18:42Yeah.
18:42Mel's gonna kick me out before I can have any.
18:45No, my dinner invited was contingent on me making progress on our two murders
18:48and I got nothing.
18:50I thought she thought it was the husband.
18:52He is suspiciously tan.
18:53But turns out he couldn't have done it.
18:55Neither could the last person to see the wife.
18:57The other realtor.
18:58She was recovering from a facelift the night of the murder.
19:02So I'm down to the wife's extended family and I'm having trouble tracking some of them down.
19:06Let me see.
19:07What?
19:08Stir.
19:08No.
19:09No.
19:10Get to work.
19:11All right.
19:17I can run some of these names at the Herald tomorrow.
19:19Maybe get you some up-to-date addresses.
19:22Okay.
19:25Here yet, Nicole.
19:26Oh.
19:30You know I cracked your uncrackable code a while ago now?
19:34E-O.
19:35M-E-H-O-A.
19:36Go ahead.
19:37Take it.
19:37It's fine.
19:38It's trouble in paradise?
19:39We're home.
19:41Hey.
19:43Hey, what's all that?
19:45Recipes.
19:45Just some recipes.
19:46Dinner's in 20.
19:47You.
19:48Shower.
19:49Hustle.
19:49Hi, baby.
19:50And you.
19:51I need you for a minute.
19:52Come on.
19:52Okay.
19:54Stir.
19:56Thanks to Lando, we got into Fiona's email.
19:59Most of her inbox is just real estate contracts and spam.
20:02That woman never learned how to unsubscribe.
20:04It'll...
20:04That's all right.
20:05Turns out, her drafts folder is where the action is.
20:09Last night was so hot.
20:12Three Ts.
20:13I crave you manana.
20:15Mm-hmm.
20:15Very spicy.
20:16But...
20:17Not seeing a name on a recipient there.
20:19No.
20:20No.
20:20Because I don't think she was ever gonna hit send.
20:23Oh, okay.
20:24You think Lando wasn't the only man she was sharing her password with?
20:27Mm-mm.
20:28Trading illicit messages in a shared drafts folder is a lot safer than actually sending them.
20:33Spies do it.
20:34Cheaters do it too.
20:35Maybe.
20:36Nope, definitely.
20:37Look at what happens when I search her old emails for hot with three Ts.
20:40Hm?
20:41Same dumb spelling and a bunch of ads from a kickboxing coach.
20:44Shane Blanchard.
20:45Uh-huh.
20:45Fiona was going to this guy twice a week.
20:47I think she was getting her cardio in, just not at the gym.
20:50Oh.
20:51What do you think?
20:53He look capable of a murder to you?
20:55Mm-hmm.
20:57Yeah, he looks capable of two.
21:02Mr. Blanchard.
21:04Thanks for coming in.
21:05I'm Detective Evere Yu.
21:07You sure you're comfortable there?
21:10Was I supposed to sit somewhere else?
21:12No, just, we call that the hot seat.
21:15Mm-hmm.
21:15We spell it with one T, though.
21:17I know you like three of them, right?
21:19That's all you're asking.
21:20Mm-hmm.
21:21Most of my clients are older women.
21:23They think it's fun.
21:25And what's this about, anyway?
21:27The call I got said you had, like, background questions about Fiona Van Allen?
21:31Yeah.
21:32I wanted you to take a look at something we found in her drafts folder.
21:38You weren't just Fiona's kickboxing trainer, were you?
21:41You were sleeping with a married woman.
21:45What happened, Shane?
21:47Did she break things off with you?
21:48You killed her, hopped the back fence, ran into poor Curtis Middleton and did this to him?
21:55No.
21:56I didn't kill anyone.
21:57I was with a client that night.
21:59Yeah?
22:00You do a lot of kickboxing at 10 o'clock at night?
22:02Gwen and me weren't.
22:05It wasn't a work thing.
22:06We went to Rocco's bar and then...
22:08Oh, I see.
22:10You and Gwen.
22:13Are you a coach, Shane?
22:15Or a gigolo?
22:17If you have more questions, talk to my attorney.
22:20But talk to Gwen Staley first, she'll tell you.
22:23I didn't do this.
22:28All right, ladies, it's Canasta, not improv.
22:32Red threes down, black threes freeze the pile.
22:35Whose turn is it?
22:36Gwen.
22:37Looks like you have a visitor.
22:39Are you Gwen?
22:40Uh-huh.
22:40Yeah, hi.
22:41Um, I dinged a car out front and the lady said it might be yours.
22:44I'm sorry.
22:44Can I borrow her for a second, please?
22:46I wish it was my car, hon.
22:48I walked today.
22:49Well, uh, maybe you and I could just talk for a minute anyway.
22:56Did you really have to do this here?
22:58You know how we came to see you?
22:59Shane called me, and I'll tell you what I told him.
23:02I'm not gonna lie for him.
23:04So you weren't with him last Tuesday night?
23:06I have never been with Shane.
23:08At least not in the way you think.
23:10Any idea why he'd think you would vouch for him then?
23:13I don't know.
23:14I like Shane.
23:15I've tried to rope in some friends for him as clients.
23:19But this?
23:21I'm done.
23:21I'm out.
23:22Gonna have to take up tennis or something.
23:26I hope you solve your case, but just leave me out of it, alright?
23:31You know, most people don't lie to homicide detectives unless they're guilty, crazy, really drunk.
23:38Well, I think she was just a little buzzed.
23:41Yeah, well, either Shane's full of it or Miss Personality is.
23:44Just gotta figure out which one.
23:52Can I help you, ma'am?
23:55Are you Wish?
23:57I'm a friend of RJ's.
23:59My name is...
23:59Emmy Ochoa.
24:00I'm aware.
24:02Seen you around here once or twice.
24:05Just never put a name to the face.
24:08Not till recently.
24:09You haven't seen him today, have you?
24:12He and I need to talk, but I haven't been able to get a hold of him.
24:16Good.
24:18I'm sorry?
24:19No, I mean, good for him.
24:21Work must be keeping him busy.
24:23Believe you me.
24:24Work is just what that boy needs.
24:26It's funny.
24:27When RJ talks about you, he makes you sound like the sweetest guy alive.
24:32I gotta say, not seeing it.
24:39You said you were his friend, yeah?
24:43I did.
24:44Mm-hmm.
24:50Well...
24:51Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy.
24:55Just a little something my mama used to say.
24:58I said it went double when it came to affairs of the heart.
25:02But seeing as how you and RJ both have insisted you're just friends,
25:06I'm gonna tell you something that I can tell just by looking at you that he didn't.
25:11Him and your daddy,
25:14they made each other's acquaintance the other day.
25:31Hi.
25:32Hey, sorry I heard the bell. I was in the shower.
25:34No, I'm sorry to drop by like this unannounced.
25:36I wanted to take a look at your place for myself.
25:38How you doing?
25:38Good.
25:38I wanted to talk to you about something.
25:40Something that might not be that easy to hear.
25:43Okay.
25:44Shane Blanchard.
25:45Fiona's kickboxing coach.
25:48Were you aware of how close they'd gotten?
26:02Hey.
26:04I don't want to be pissed at her, you know?
26:07I don't even know how to feel right now.
26:10Especially if Shane, if he was the one who did this, I'd just go...
26:12Yeah, well, I mean, right now, he's just, he's someone we're looking at. That's about it.
26:18Did you find anything helpful out here? Any clues or anything?
26:20No. Not yet.
26:22I mean, getting on and off your property without being seen on camera is a bit tricky.
26:26You'd have to know the place well.
26:28Do you know if Shane ever came here for Fiona's kickboxing lessons?
26:33I don't know, man. I, uh, I don't think so.
26:38But, then again, I didn't know about a lot of things, I guess.
26:43Yeah.
26:45Look, there is one thing I did want to show you, though.
26:47What?
26:50A couple weeks ago, Shane asked Fiona to invest in his business.
26:54I told her I didn't think it was a good idea.
26:56Now, I know you're telling me that they were together.
27:01But, I think she might have listened to me.
27:03Look, you see?
27:07If she turned him down...
27:09I don't know.
27:12Maybe that's the reason he killed her.
27:15Yeah, maybe.
27:25Not that it isn't nice to see you, Miha, but what's so important that it couldn't wait till tomorrow?
27:30I remember when there used to be a framed picture of Lucas here.
27:34The one from high school, when he forced that big fumble, got the game ball.
27:39It's been gone, what, a couple years now?
27:42Makes me wonder what's gonna take the place of my pictures when the time comes.
27:46Your friend, Mr. Decker, he told you about the offer I made him?
27:51Actually, no.
27:53I haven't been able to get a hold of him, probably because of the offer you made.
27:57Did you come here thinking I might apologize?
27:59No, of course not.
28:00I came here to make you an offer.
28:04I'm about to start lining up investors to buy your majority stake in Ochoa Development, and I'll have plenty of
28:12time to do it since I'm resigning from my position with your political office effective immediately.
28:17I mean?
28:17I'm not done.
28:19Take the deal, forget you ever heard the name R.J. Decker, and you'll be richer than ever.
28:26It's not just a good deal for you, it's a good deal for us.
28:31We take the business out of family business, and who knows, maybe, eventually, we can just be a family again.
28:42And if I say no?
28:44I quit both my positions.
28:46Walk away from your political office and Ochoa Development.
28:54I saw Lucas yesterday.
28:57It's been almost, what, two years since he got out from under your thumb?
29:02And go figure, he's never looked or sounded better.
29:06Simple minds, mija. Simple pleasures.
29:09It's not just the boat that makes him happy.
29:11It's, it's being away from you.
29:14You were molding him to become your next Ray, a henchman, a thug.
29:20Because that was his ceiling.
29:23That was all he would ever be.
29:26But it's different with you.
29:28You can go farther, even farther than me.
29:32You can make this city, maybe even this state, bend to you, to this family.
29:38You can have power you can't even comprehend now.
29:43It's almost funny sometimes.
29:48How little you know me.
29:53Think about my offer.
29:56I won't make it a second time.
30:06So this woman who died.
30:08Fiona Van Allen.
30:09If she didn't report a snake in her yard, then why would my dad have been back there when she
30:13was killed?
30:14Actually, I think he was in this yard here.
30:17This is on a golf course that reported a burn maze.
30:20Close enough to hear her scream.
30:22The killer comes out back.
30:23Sees your dad curious, looking over the fence.
30:25Your dad sees him holding the murder weapon.
30:27I can't leave a witness, so.
30:29Well, if you're right, at least it wasn't any of his snake buddies.
30:35A few of them have been reaching out, asking about a memorial service.
30:38It'd be nice to know we aren't hosting the person that killed them.
30:43Michael.
30:44Michael.
30:45We're not talking about your bill getting through, right?
30:48We're talking about mine.
30:50Get me the votes.
30:51Or maybe the ethics committee hears about you dumping all of a certain company stock the day before the state
30:56cuts ties with them.
31:00Something must be seriously wrong if you're asking me to meet you at the house.
31:06Something is wrong, Ray.
31:10You're here because someone's about to have an accident.
31:14Hello, Gwen.
31:16You lied to me.
31:18The night my two victims were killed, you were at Rocco's Bar and Grill.
31:23Seven drinks, two entrees, table side guac.
31:26The waiter remembers you and Shane. I pulled the receipts.
31:29So how was it?
31:31The guac, I mean, not the sex.
31:33I don't know what you're talking about.
31:34Careful.
31:35I get that you didn't want to admit to slumming it with Shane in front of your she-she friends,
31:39but if you lie to me now, I will have to consider the possibility that you were behind Fiona Van
31:44Allen's murder.
31:45What?
31:45Your kickboxing boy toy starts kicking it with somebody else, you get jealous, and you hire someone to get rid
31:50of her.
31:51That's ridiculous. I...
31:53Okay.
31:54Yes.
31:56Shane and I had an arrangement.
32:00Mm-hmm.
32:01But Fiona and me, we knew each other, and we knew about each other.
32:06I'm sorry. Are you saying you were sharing Shane?
32:09Well, I found out. I swear I thought it was funny.
32:12She did too.
32:13So you were friends?
32:15More like acquaintances.
32:18She asked me for my divorce lawyer's info.
32:22She was leaving Lando?
32:24Thinking about it.
32:26But I don't think she ever got the chance to tell him.
32:33Thanks.
32:38Hey.
32:40How bad does your trailer smell these days?
32:42I mean, I'm finding it hard to believe this is a better place for a meeting.
32:44Well, so I'm starting to think Shane Blanchard isn't our guy.
32:47He isn't.
32:48Shane's alibi checked out, but talk to me. Tell me how you got there.
32:52Okay.
32:53This is the ME's original report on Fiona Van Allen.
32:56CSU thought it was a right-handed attacker with some kind of a club.
33:00A killer wields a bat or a pipe while Fiona reclines on a couch.
33:04Big swings to explain the blood spatter pattern.
33:06That was the theory.
33:07But of course, now we know it wasn't a bat or a pipe.
33:09No, it was her crystal ball.
33:11Right.
33:11So I met with the ME today.
33:13Knowing that was a murder weapon, the blood spatter pattern doesn't fit their original theory.
33:17Now they think the killer had to be standing behind her, and he had to be left-handed.
33:21Shane wasn't left-handed.
33:22No.
33:23He's not.
33:23But you know who is?
33:25Lando Van Allen?
33:26Yes.
33:27Well, I think so.
33:28I saw him riding yesterday.
33:29You know, he was my favorite suspect day one.
33:31And that was before I knew she was leaving him.
33:33What do you mean?
33:34She was meeting with a divorce attorney, had an ironclad prenup.
33:37Had their marriage ended, Lando would have been broke.
33:40So we're looking for a lefty who had a motive to kill Fiona.
33:42I know, I know the timeline, so I know it's impossible.
33:46Lando couldn't have ditched a murder weapon on that golf course and gotten back in time
33:49to be seen by the first responders.
33:50Okay.
33:51I just can't shake it.
33:52He did both murders.
33:54We just haven't figured out how yet.
34:07Well?
34:09No.
34:10Yeah.
34:11You're way too slow, man.
34:12You're like two minutes off the pace.
34:13Huh.
34:14Ain't no way.
34:15Uh-uh.
34:15Ain't no way this Lando guy makes it out here, kills Curtis in that sand trap, and then
34:20runs back to his house to let the cops stay in time.
34:23Uh-uh.
34:24Yeah.
34:24I won field day.
34:261986, Carter Elementary.
34:27Look it up.
34:27Well, that was a few thousand beers ago.
34:29Hey, let's get you on the clock.
34:31Even if I am a little faster, it's not possible, Wish.
34:34It just is not possible.
34:36Huh.
34:37Well, I guess all we learned is, uh, I gotta get back to the gym, and you need a new
34:42suspect.
34:44Huh.
34:47Can't help noticing I've yet to be invited to celebrate Victor Ochoa's wife and your record
34:52clean.
34:53Well, I haven't exactly gotten back to him yet.
34:57Huh.
34:58Brother, you are a damned gift horse's dentist.
35:03Hey, tell me, is it harder for you to get over Emi Ochoa or harder to get over yourself?
35:08I told you, man.
35:09You go back to Appalachee, you're never coming out.
35:13Wish.
35:14I know how he did it.
35:17You couldn't have figured out how he did it for a ring all that way.
35:20You said it yourself.
35:20You need to exercise.
35:23Yeah, I'm with the Cortana, that's important.
35:28You ever seen a highlight before?
35:29No, not in person.
35:31My uncle used to tell my mom we were going for our ice cream and would come here instead.
35:34I was covered for his gambling.
35:36I mean, those trips and a Nerf football when I was seven.
35:39The only two positive memories Uncle Timmy left behind.
35:42Yeah, well, now you have a third.
35:44What's that?
35:45He helped you solve a double homicide.
35:48Big bounce off the last block.
35:54Hey, what's up, guys?
35:55Nothing, Lando.
35:56We're just big High Life fans.
35:58Crazy seeing you here.
35:59Yeah, you look like you're ready to play.
36:01We're here to play a game, too.
36:02You remember I spy?
36:03I was going over the photos that took your place.
36:06I spied a helmet, but no bicycle.
36:10That's because it's not a bike helmet.
36:11It's a highlight helmet.
36:13This is another shot of your garage.
36:15Taken by police the night of the murder.
36:18Same spot.
36:20Yesterday.
36:21See what's missing?
36:24This wasn't there yesterday.
36:25It's a SESTA.
36:26You got rid of it after the cops left.
36:28I always thought they were called scoops.
36:30Crazy what you guys can do with them.
36:32Get away with murder, for example.
36:34Well, what?
36:34Yeah, the night you killed Fiona.
36:35You walked through your front door, smiled through the camera.
36:37Hey, honey, I'm home.
36:38Fiona was laying on the couch.
36:41She never saw it coming.
36:42After that, it was all about timing.
36:43You got your wife's very round award.
36:45You put it in your SESTA, and you hurled it as far as you could.
36:48All so you could call the police and tell them to get there as fast as possible.
36:51Poor Curtis Middleton.
36:52Meanwhile, he's just out there minding his own business, hunting for snakes.
36:56He didn't mean to kill him.
36:57But he did.
36:58Curse was no witness to anything.
37:00There was no chase.
37:01There was no timeline problem.
37:03There was just physics and bad luck.
37:05This is insane.
37:05That's impossible.
37:06It was barely possible.
37:07Took a heck of an arm.
37:09We know you play club highlight now, but once upon a time, you played pro.
37:13You were on teams in Florida, Spain, the Philippines.
37:16You were the big lefty from Boca Raton.
37:20You guys are waiting for me to say something stupid.
37:23I'm not gonna do it.
37:24I'll never prove anything.
37:25It's too crazy.
37:26No, you know what's crazy?
37:28We don't need you to say anything.
37:30CSU got up on the roof of the house behind yours, Lando.
37:33That's your wife's blood on their shingles.
37:35Wonder how that got there.
37:41You know what's worse than living under a cloud of suspicion?
37:45Prison food.
37:52Numbers look good.
37:54It's very tempting.
37:56But?
38:00Look, I've known you and your dad a long time.
38:03I've helped finance, what, two dozen Ochoa development projects?
38:07And as much as I love working with the company, I'm just not sure I want to own a piece
38:13of it.
38:15You're not sure you want to own a piece of it without my father?
38:18Tammy, look what you're doing here.
38:21I respect it.
38:24But is it wise?
38:29Would you excuse me, Bruce?
38:31Of course.
38:33Hey, you okay?
38:36Pretty sure Dad sent a message tonight.
38:39But I don't know if it was for me or for you.
38:43Lucas, you're scaring me.
38:46What's going on?
38:48He set fire to my boat.
38:51My whole life.
39:24What are you doing here?
39:25I heard you finally met my father.
39:29Is it safe to assume that's why you haven't been taking my calls?
39:32It's okay, I wouldn't take my calls either.
39:36Yeah, look, when we talked, I just wanted to make sure I said the right thing.
39:39And?
39:42I'd still have him come to me.
39:44It's this skill he has making you question everything you think you know.
39:52I wish I could tell you he can't actually get you violated back to prison, but he probably can.
39:59And so, this is the last time we're going to see each other.
40:03I...
40:05I...
40:06I just wanted you to know.
40:08I...
40:09I...
40:09I understand.
40:16Well, I think I realized what I wanted to say.
40:19What?
40:21Screw you, Dad.
40:46I think I finally get why you wear these all the time.
40:50I think I finally get why you wear these all the time.
40:51It's very comfy.
40:59I didn't find out about what my father said to you until yesterday.
41:05Before that, I was trying to reach you because there was something you needed to know.
41:10The break-in at your ex's house.
41:12Yeah, your dad was buying that too.
41:16I knew the second I saw him, I know.
41:19Catherine was looking into your family.
41:21She told you she might even write an article.
41:23That tripped a wire.
41:24You wanted to know if she was onto anything.
41:29I thought I'd found a way out, but that was based on the possibility that he could change.
41:37Now, the only way out is to show people what he really is.
41:44You're right.
41:45He was behind the break-in.
41:46But that's not all he was behind.
41:54Two years ago, when you caught my brother trying to steal your camera equipment,
41:59it wasn't just Lucas being a punk.
42:01It wasn't random.
42:06Lucas was sent to steal your camera.
42:11He was sent to steal your camera.
42:11There's no one.
42:11This time you found our way.
42:28He was sent to steal your camera.
42:32He was sent to steal your camera.
42:34He was sent to steal your camera.
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