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00:01Previously on RJ Decker.
00:02I'm Emmy Ochoa.
00:04Lucas is my stepbrother.
00:06And that's the man who almost killed him.
00:09He's working on the robbery at Mel and Cass' house.
00:11Is this a suspect?
00:14Getting too close to a family like mine
00:17could earn you a return trip to Appalachia.
00:19Is that what you want?
00:20I don't know what I want.
00:22Pleasure to finally meet you.
00:24But I thought it was time you and I had a chat.
00:27About?
00:27What exactly are your intentions towards my daughter?
00:35Are you sure I can't interest you in a drink?
00:38No. I won't be staying alone.
00:41I asked you what your intentions are towards Emilia.
00:45I'm still waiting for an answer.
00:48Well, obviously we're gonna get married.
00:50Pop out a couple of kids.
00:52And do everything we can to make sure they don't turn out to be terminal narcissists like the grandpa.
00:56I think what you're really asking, Victor.
00:58May I call you Victor?
01:01Is what are my intentions towards you?
01:04Am I coming for you because of what you and your family did to me two years ago?
01:08Am I using Emmy to get back at you somehow?
01:11The answer to both questions is no.
01:13Because the truth is, Victor, I know it's gonna blow your mind.
01:18I haven't really thought about you much since I got out of Appalachia.
01:21I do find that hard to believe.
01:24So I'd like to make you an offer.
01:27Stay away from my family and in exchange, I'll see to it that your criminal record gets expunged.
01:35Given your new profession, the risks you have to take for your clients.
01:40Things like trespassing, invasion of privacy.
01:44To always be skating on such thin ice.
01:47Not wise for a man on conditional release.
01:51When false move, you can find yourself back in prison.
01:56What if I don't want a single damn thing from you?
01:59Oh, then you will definitely find yourself back in prison.
02:03Your conditional release officer was Lucy Penmark, correct?
02:07What do you mean, was?
02:08Oh, you're gonna get notified soon that she's been reassigned.
02:11You have a new CRO.
02:15Someone who, with a single call from me, will violate you back to Appalachia.
02:24Well, that look.
02:26I imagine that's the look you gave my son Lucas right before you assaulted him.
02:30Yeah, I imagine it was.
02:32By all means, Mr. Decker.
02:35Come at me.
02:39See how that goes.
02:42Think about my offer.
02:45Just don't think long.
03:06See, that's me.
03:08I'm that Florida man.
03:09Hey, Selly.
03:10Help me out here.
03:12Got Florida man tries to claim beehive as passenger in HOV lane.
03:18Free drink or no.
03:19I mean, I respect the full tilt weirdness, but all that driving can't be good for the bees, right?
03:27I need to talk to you.
03:28Hey man, what is it?
03:37So, you turn down Mr. State Senator's offer, you go back to prison.
03:42You accept it, then boom, you got yourself a clean sleep.
03:47You ask me, partner, this one's easy.
03:49Take the damn offer.
03:50What he's doing is illegal.
03:52He's the one that should be going to prison.
03:53Right, because politicians with money and power and zero scruples, they go to prison all the time, right?
03:59Yeah.
04:01I don't understand what's going on. Are you mad at me?
04:03Damn straight I'm mad.
04:06I mean, this whole thing you got going on with Emmy Ochoa, it's wrong.
04:09And you know it's wrong.
04:11And would you like to know how I know that you know it's wrong?
04:13Because if you didn't, you'd have told me about it a long time ago.
04:18You'd have told Catherine, Mel, somebody.
04:20We just, uh...
04:21No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
04:23no.
04:23You, you play with fire, now I'm supposed to blame the matches because you got burned?
04:32You love her?
04:34What if we haven't even been on a date?
04:36That's not what I'm asking.
04:40No.
04:43She's my friend.
04:45Then I repeat myself.
04:48Accept the offer.
04:50Because you were built for exactly 18 months in prison, RJ.
04:54Not a day more, not a second.
04:56Because when you see wrongs, you can't stop yourself from trying to ride them.
05:01That ain't sustainable in a place like Appalachee.
05:04It ain't survivable.
05:08You get sent back, uh...
05:11I don't believe you'll ever get out.
05:24Mr. Decker?
05:25Hmm?
05:25We can do this in the kitchen if you'd be more comfortable.
05:27Oh, uh, I'm, uh, I'm good.
05:29Just a bit more of a bird guy, myself.
05:32I'm a goldfish man.
05:33My dad was a little different.
05:34Yeah.
05:35Like I was saying, uh, his body was found about a week ago.
05:38He was dumped in a pile of green waste.
05:40You know, leaves, branches, palm fronds.
05:43Just off the service road out by Seabrake Golf Club.
05:46Did the police know where he was killed?
05:47No, just Hal.
05:49Back of the head.
05:50Killer used a blunt object, something heavy.
05:53In Seabrake?
05:54That's out near Pompano, right?
05:55Yeah.
05:56Unfortunately, Pompano PD is feeling a little JV.
05:59That's why I called you, actually.
06:01You don't think they're on the right track?
06:02They have asked about my dad's criminal record twice.
06:05As if this has something to do with two stolen cars back in 1986.
06:10They're beating the wrong bushes.
06:12He got out of Tomoka three years before I was born.
06:14He did his time, and he learned his lesson.
06:16It is possible to make a mistake and come back from it, you know?
06:20I do.
06:24Terrence, I gotta ask, what's the deal with all the snakes?
06:28These are Burmese pythons.
06:29Yeah.
06:30After Hurricane Andrew, a bunch of them got loose in the Everglades.
06:33Now they are everywhere.
06:34I do mean everywhere.
06:36They'll grow to be 20 feet.
06:37They can crush and swallow gators, pets, even kids.
06:41Yeah, I heard about this.
06:42The state's got its own bounty program, huh?
06:44Mm-hmm.
06:45After he retired, Dad started working for some researchers.
06:47Tagging specimens, logging GPS data, mapping out breeding zones.
06:52And of course, every summer, there's the Python Bounty Blitz.
06:55It's a 10-day contest, open registration, big prizes.
06:58I think that may be what got him killed.
07:00How so?
07:01Winner takes home 50 grand.
07:04And Dad won the last two years running.
07:08This year, he jumped out early again.
07:10He had three snakes on day one.
07:12Topped the leaderboard, and then he was gone.
07:15Yeah, well, Terrence, people have killed for a lot less than $50,000.
07:19That's why I was hoping you could talk to the people who are in the lead now,
07:22before the contest ends and they all, you know, slither away.
07:26Snakes in the grass, you better move fast.
07:30You'll be poisoned or be strangled to death.
07:35Their fangs, they bite deep, and their venom will creep.
07:40You up there?
07:41That's me in third.
07:43Should be tied second.
07:44And you can't get away.
07:45Big Daddy on the hook this morning.
07:48Come up, grab me by the ankle, and...
07:50Well, bye-bye shoe.
07:52Wow, look at that.
07:54Glad they left the foot.
07:57My name's RJ Decker.
07:59I wanted to talk to you about someone that wasn't so lucky.
08:02Curtis Middleton?
08:03He was my dude.
08:04Yeah.
08:05Can you figure out what happened to him yet?
08:06I think it might have something to do with this contest,
08:08but I'm trying to get a sense of where the people in the roundup
08:12were the night of the murder.
08:13Oh.
08:15No telling.
08:17Who else do you think I should be talking to?
08:19Where were you the night of the murder?
08:21I was at night school.
08:23Wrist deep in a dead cartoon.
08:25Hmm?
08:25I'm training to be a taxidermist.
08:28Anyone else can vouch you were there that night?
08:30Suppose anyone at the bingo park.
08:31You and Curtis, you guys got along okay?
08:34Oh, he was Peaches and Crane.
08:35So you were buddies then?
08:36We're talking about the guy with the hook for a hand.
08:38I'm sorry.
08:39Guess it's a different Curtis.
08:40Who else should I be talking to?
08:42Teddy Tran.
08:42Teddy Tran.
08:43Teddy Tran.
08:44Teddy Tran.
08:45Why do you think your name's on the tip of everyone's tongue, Teddy?
08:49Bro.
08:50Envy.
08:51Yeah?
08:51Check the board.
08:52I'm up by four snakes.
08:53Yeah.
08:54Guys start getting a little weird when there's big money on the line.
08:56Yeah.
08:57That's my theory too.
08:58But I'm working off the premise that Curtis would have been ahead of you on the leaderboard
09:00if someone hadn't have killed you.
09:02You're not a cop, sir.
09:03No, I'm not a cop.
09:04Okay.
09:05I just want to know where you were the night of the murder.
09:08I was alone.
09:09Just like half the field.
09:10I was out near Hillsboro Canal.
09:11You know, it's pretty near Pompano where Curtis' body was found.
09:15Listen, man.
09:15You're late to the party.
09:17All right?
09:17I've already been cleared.
09:19Yeah.
09:20Pompano PD grilled me for three hours straight.
09:22Hooked me up to a lie detector and everything.
09:25When you passed?
09:26Even when they tried to rattle me.
09:27Showed me pictures of Curtis.
09:29I mean, it was messed up, man.
09:30Just seeing him like that, his head all caved in and his body all sandy.
09:35Sandy?
09:35What do you mean, Sandy?
09:36Like he was down at the beach.
09:37I told him it didn't make no sense.
09:38What do you mean?
09:40Look, I don't know if he took the night off, but...
09:43Pythons don't go to the beach, bro.
10:04Hey, I just tried to find you at your place.
10:08I need to tell you something.
10:10It's important.
10:12Call me back.
10:23A shot.
10:24You must be Mr. Decker.
10:26Crystal said you were looking for me.
10:28I'm Jeff Gillibrand, the GM here.
10:30I'm happy to chat, but you really can't be out here in denim.
10:34Well, I'm not teeing off.
10:36I'm investigating a murderer.
10:38Just our policy.
10:40Okay.
10:41What's your policy on moving dead bodies?
10:44Curtis, Middleton, your grounds crew said they found him on a green waste pile up the road.
10:48That's right.
10:49Well, I'm told there was a lot of sand stuck to his skin.
10:52We're miles away from a beach, so you know, weird.
10:56Unless, of course, you found him in one of your sand traps.
10:58Is that possible?
11:00Look, all I want to know is where you really found him.
11:03It can be just between us.
11:04I'm not going to go call the cops or anything like that.
11:10Okay, look.
11:11The morning the body turned up, my head groundskeeper called me in a panic.
11:16You have to understand, we were about to host our biggest member guest of the year.
11:21If we call in the police, the tournament would have been dead.
11:24And Curtis was already dead, so really you were just averting another tragedy.
11:29We didn't cover anything up.
11:32I just told him to find the body off property.
11:37Right.
11:37But yes, the man who was killed was originally in the bunker on 16.
11:42When we found him, there were no footprints or any other, I don't know, evidence that anyone else had been
11:49here.
11:50If there had been, we wouldn't have moved the body.
11:53Very considerate.
11:54I just mean there was nothing here that would have helped their investigation.
12:06What?
12:07I don't know, Jeff.
12:10You know, generally, I think cops like to have the murder weapon.
12:16Is that, is that blood on that thing?
12:19Pop it up, please.
12:21Yeah, hi.
12:21Can I talk to whoever's in charge of the Curtis Middleton investigation, please?
12:25Whoa, hey, hey.
12:26You said, you said you weren't gonna call guys.
12:28Yeah, well, I lied.
12:29You moved the body, Jeff.
12:30You're kinda screwed.
12:35It's supposed to be my day off, Mel.
12:37Forrecito.
12:37I'm so sorry that we got handed a huge break on a silver platter.
12:41This murder weapon, you're sure it connects to the Van Allen homicide.
12:45A hundred percent.
12:46Showed up on a golf course nearby.
12:48Eight days we've been looking for that thing.
12:50Whoever found it, I'm gonna kiss him.
12:52Oh, hey.
12:53You here?
12:54Found something you guys were looking for.
12:57Fuck her up.
12:59Ignore that.
13:00Uh, explain.
13:01Yeah, I was working at a case down in Pompano.
13:03My client's father, Curtis Middleton, got his head bashed in.
13:06Pompano PD just didn't know it what.
13:07We heard it was some kind of award.
13:09Yeah, Realtor of the Year Award.
13:11Engraved to a lady whose name I recognized from the paper, the victim in your homicide.
13:15Fiona Van Allen.
13:16So, one weapon, two murders.
13:17We're both looking for the same perp.
13:19I showed you mine.
13:21You want to show me yours?
13:22That's Fiona Van Allen, 55.
13:25She was beaten to death in her home around 10 p.m. last Tuesday.
13:29Nice gated community.
13:30Backs right up to the golf course where you found the murder weapon.
13:33See, 16th hole is just over their back fence.
13:36That's where the grounds crew at the club found my victim, Curtis,
13:40before they moved him to a green waste pile about a half a mile in that direction.
13:43Pompano Beach, Fort Lauderdale, different police departments, and we all thought different cases.
13:49Bodies were found on different days, and the M.O.'s weren't a perfect match.
13:52Blunt object was used on both victims, but ours, Miss Van Allen, got the business end at least a dozen
13:58times.
13:59It was personal.
14:00The murder of your client's dad was, more matter of fact, a single blow, one and done.
14:05So did you guys land on a suspect?
14:07Miss Van Allen's husband?
14:08Why?
14:09Because it's always the husband.
14:11We dug up plenty of actual reasons, too.
14:14We know he had opportunity and motive.
14:16Orlando Van Allen.
14:17He goes by Lando.
14:18He's a total trophy husband.
14:20Even took Fiona's last name.
14:22And now, he's gonna take everything else.
14:25So, he kills his wife.
14:27He flees the scene.
14:28He runs into poor Curtis Middleton looking for pythons.
14:31Curtis sees him holding the murder weapon.
14:33He gets praying for it.
14:34Except now that you told us exactly where you found that award, our theory's out the window.
14:38There's no way Lando could have done this.
14:40The main reason we didn't put cuffs on on night of is the absence of a murder weapon.
14:44Now we never will.
14:45Because of the timeline.
14:48Traffic cams and doorbell footage show Lando coming home at 10.03pm.
14:5210.04, he calls 911.
14:54The neighborhood security guys are on the scene by 10.06.
14:56Our guys, 10.08.
14:58Okay.
15:00So, now we're saying he'd have to kill his wife, hop the fence, run 400 feet, kill Curtis,
15:05get rid of the murder weapon, and make it back in time to open the door for the cops.
15:08All in under two minutes.
15:10Yeah.
15:10Lando looks athletic, but unless he's Usain Bolt's angry cousin.
15:14Okay.
15:15Okay.
15:16Let's focus on the good news.
15:18Now that we can tell Lando he isn't our number one suspect, maybe his lawyers will actually let us talk
15:22to him.
15:23I told you I didn't do it.
15:25I mean, I know what it looked like, but seriously, I can't thank you enough, man.
15:30I feel like I want to give you a hug right now.
15:31I'm sure Mr. Decker would settle for you answering a few more questions about your wife.
15:35It may help us solve that second homicide we told you about.
15:39Yeah, yeah, of course.
15:41I mean, I wanted to help from the beginning.
15:42It's just, he didn't want me talking while I was still a suspect.
15:46Fiona had a showing that afternoon with another realtor.
15:48Her name's Denise Halpern.
15:49I think she might have been the last person to see Fiona alive.
15:52I've been thinking a lot about that question you asked me that night at the house.
15:54Did anyone hate Fiona?
15:56But I just can't picture it.
15:58But some of her dad's family?
16:01There's money there.
16:03Maybe some old grudges.
16:04And I can get you all our online passwords, too.
16:07Fiona and I, we didn't have any secrets.
16:09You know, she had my info.
16:10I had hers.
16:11So, emails, social media, anything you need, man.
16:14Seriously, please, just find out who did this.
16:24You're working today?
16:26I mean, I don't work any day.
16:28Yeah, that's how it is when you do what you love.
16:31The price is a little steep.
16:33What if I just want to sit on the boat for 20 minutes, maybe drink one of your beers?
16:38You're talking about the Ochoa family special.
16:46Where the hell you been hiding, sis?
16:48I've missed you too, Lucas.
16:54This doesn't suck.
16:56Careful.
16:58I'm gonna have to alert the palace if the princess starts employing herself.
17:01Shut up.
17:06So you're gonna tell me what dad's done now, or am I supposed to guess?
17:10He had Ray break into a friend's home.
17:16Freaking Ray.
17:18Is anyone hurt?
17:20This time, no.
17:22I've decided I'm gonna tell my friend the truth.
17:26I just don't know how he's gonna take it.
17:28Are you vulnerable?
17:31Criminally, no.
17:33Personally.
17:38Damn, do I not miss this.
17:39Hm.
17:42When was the last time you heard from dad?
17:48About a year.
17:50And he tried to lure me back with some no-show job at one of his construction sites.
17:54And six figs.
17:56Guess how long I considered it.
17:58Six seconds.
18:00That would've been nice to pay off the boat.
18:02Maybe get my ass back in the will.
18:05But...
18:06Nah.
18:08He's just too toxic.
18:13Speaking of paying off the boat, I gotta go pitch my wish.
18:16Thanks, too.
18:20A word of advice for your friend?
18:22When it comes to Victor Ochoa, the best thing to do is to get away and to stay away.
18:29Tell him you heard that from an expert.
18:38Are you making a penny all about good?
18:43You sound sad.
18:44Yeah.
18:44Mel's gonna kick me out before I can have any.
18:47Nope.
18:48My dinner invited was contingent on me making progress on our two murders and I got nothing.
18:52I thought she thought it was the husband.
18:54He is suspiciously tan.
18:56But turns out he couldn't have done it.
18:57Neither could the last person to see the wife.
18:59The other realtor.
19:00She was recovering from a facelift the night of the murder.
19:04So I'm down to the wife's extended family and I'm having trouble tracking some of them down.
19:08Let me see.
19:09What?
19:10Stir.
19:10I know.
19:12Get to work.
19:13All right.
19:19I can run some of these names at the Herald tomorrow and maybe get you some up-to-date addresses.
19:24Okay.
19:27Here yet, Nicole.
19:29Oh.
19:32You know I cracked your uncrackable code a while ago now?
19:36E-O.
19:37M-E-H-O-A.
19:39Go ahead.
19:39Take it.
19:40There's trouble in paradise?
19:42We're home.
19:43Hey.
19:45Hey, what's all that?
19:47Uh, recipes.
19:48Just some recipes.
19:48Dinner's in 20.
19:50Eww.
19:50Shower.
19:51Hustle.
19:52Hi, baby.
19:52Hi.
19:53And you.
19:54I need you for a minute.
19:55Come on.
19:55Okay.
19:57Stir.
19:58Thanks to Lando, we got into Fiona's email.
20:01Most of her inbox is just real estate contracts and spam.
20:04That woman never learned how to unsubscribe.
20:06It'll...
20:06That's all right.
20:08Turns out, her giraffes folder is where the action is.
20:12Last night was so hot.
20:14Three Ts.
20:15I crave you manana.
20:17Mm-hmm.
20:18Very spicy.
20:20Not saying a name on the recipient there.
20:22No.
20:22No.
20:23Because I don't think she was ever gonna hit send.
20:26Oh, okay.
20:26You think Lando wasn't the only man she was sharing her password with?
20:29Mm-mm.
20:30Trading illicit messages in a shared giraffes folder is a lot safer than actually sending
20:35them.
20:35Spies do it.
20:36Cheaters do it too.
20:37Maybe.
20:38Nope.
20:38Definitely.
20:39Look at what happens when I search her old emails for hot with three Ts.
20:43Hm?
20:43Same dumb spelling and a bunch of ads from a kickboxing coach.
20:46Shane Blanchard.
20:47Mm-hmm.
20:48Fiona was going to this guy twice a week.
20:50I think she was getting her cardio and just not at the gym.
20:52Ooh.
20:54What do you think?
20:55You look capable of a murder to you?
20:57Mm-hmm.
20:59Yeah, he looks capable of two.
21:06Mr. Blanchard.
21:07Thanks for coming in.
21:09I'm Detective Ebreu.
21:11You sure you're comfortable there?
21:14Was I supposed to sit somewhere else?
21:16No, just we call that the hot seat.
21:19We spell it with one T, though.
21:20I know you like three of them, right?
21:22Saw your ass.
21:24Most of my clients are older women.
21:26They think it's fun.
21:29What's this about, anyway?
21:31The call I got said you had, like, background questions about Fiona Van Allen?
21:35Yeah.
21:35I wanted you to take a look at something we found in her drafts folder.
21:41You weren't just Fiona's kickboxing trainer, were you?
21:45You were sleeping with a married woman.
21:49What happened, Shane?
21:50Did she break things off with you?
21:52You killed her, hopped the back fence, ran into poor Curtis Middleton and did this to him?
21:58No.
21:59I didn't kill anyone.
22:01I was with a client that night.
22:03Yeah?
22:04You do a lot of kickboxing at 10 o'clock at night?
22:06Gwen and me weren't.
22:08It wasn't a work thing.
22:10We went to Rocco's bar and then...
22:12Oh, I see.
22:14You and Gwen.
22:17Are you a coach, Shane?
22:18Or a gigolo?
22:20If you have more questions, talk to my attorney.
22:24But talk to Gwen Staley first.
22:26She'll tell you.
22:27I didn't do this.
22:32All right, ladies.
22:33It's Canasta.
22:34Not improv.
22:35Red threes down.
22:36Black threes.
22:37Freeze the pile.
22:39Whose turn is it?
22:40Gwen.
22:40Looks like you have a visitor.
22:42Are you, Gwen?
22:43Uh-huh.
22:44Yeah, hi.
22:44Um, I dinged a car out front and the lady said it might be yours.
22:47I'm sorry.
22:48Can I borrow her for a second, please?
22:50I wish it was my car, hon.
22:51I walked today.
22:53Well, uh, maybe you and I could just talk for a minute anyway.
22:59Did you really have to do this here?
23:01You know how we came to see you?
23:03Shane called me, and I'll tell you what I told him.
23:05I'm not gonna lie for him.
23:07So you weren't with him last Tuesday night?
23:09I have never been with Shane.
23:11At least not in the way you think.
23:13Any idea why he'd think you would vouch for him then?
23:16I don't know.
23:17I-I like Shane.
23:19I've tried to rope in some friends for him as clients.
23:23But this?
23:24I'm done.
23:25I'm out.
23:26Gonna have to take up tennis or something.
23:30I hope you solve your case, but just leave me out of it, alright?
23:34You know, most people don't lie to homicide detectives unless they're guilty, crazy, really drunk.
23:42Well, I think she was just a little buzzed.
23:45Yeah, well, either Shane's full of it or Miss Personality is.
23:48Just gotta figure out which one.
23:56Can I help you, ma'am?
23:58Are you Wish?
24:01I'm a friend of RJ's.
24:02My name is...
24:02Emmy Ochoa.
24:04I'm aware.
24:05Seen you around here once or twice.
24:09Just never put a name to the face.
24:11Not till recently.
24:13You-you haven't seen him today, have you?
24:16He and I need to talk, but I haven't been able to get a hold of him.
24:20Good.
24:22I'm sorry?
24:23No, I mean, good for him.
24:25You know, work must be keeping him busy.
24:27I believe you, me.
24:27Work is just what that boy needs.
24:30It's funny, when RJ talks about you, he makes you sound like the sweetest guy alive.
24:36Gotta say, not seeing it.
24:42You said you're his friend, yeah?
24:46I did.
24:47Mm-hmm.
24:54Well, mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy.
24:59Just a little something my mama used to say.
25:01Said it went double when it came to affairs of the heart.
25:05But seeing as how you and RJ both have insisted you're just friends,
25:10I'm gonna tell you something that I can tell just by looking at you that he didn't.
25:15Him and your daddy?
25:18They made each other's acquaintance the other day.
25:35Hi.
25:35Hey, sorry, I heard the bell. I was in the shower.
25:37No, I'm sorry to drop by like this unannounced.
25:40I wanted to take a look at your place for myself.
25:41How you doing?
25:42Good.
25:42I wanted to talk to you about something.
25:44Something that might not be that easy to hear.
25:46Okay.
25:47Shane Blanchard, Fiona's kickboxing coach.
25:52Were you aware of how close they'd gotten?
26:05Hey.
26:08I don't want to be pissed at her, you know?
26:10I don't even know how to feel right now.
26:13Especially if Shane, if he was the one who did this, I'd just go.
26:15Yeah.
26:16Well, I mean, right now, he's just, he's someone we're looking at.
26:18That's about it.
26:21Did you find anything helpful out here?
26:23Any clues or anything?
26:24No.
26:25Not yet.
26:26I mean, getting on and off your property without being seen on camera is a bit tricky.
26:29You'd have to know the place well.
26:31Now, do you know if Shane ever came here for Fiona's kickboxing lessons?
26:36I don't know, man.
26:37I, uh, I don't think so.
26:41But then again, I didn't know about a lot of things, I guess.
26:47Yeah.
26:48Look, there is one thing I did want to show you, though.
26:50What?
26:53A couple weeks ago, Shane asked Fiona to invest in his business.
26:58I told her I didn't think it was a good idea.
27:00Now, I know you're telling me that they were together.
27:04But, I think she might have listened to me.
27:06Look.
27:07You see?
27:10If she turned him down...
27:13I don't know.
27:15Maybe that's the reason he killed her.
27:19Yeah, maybe.
27:28Not that it isn't nice to see you, Mijan, but what's so important that it couldn't wait till tomorrow?
27:33I remember when there used to be a framed picture of Lucas here.
27:38The one from high school, when he forced that big fumble, got the game ball.
27:42It's been gone, what, a couple years now?
27:46Makes me wonder what's gonna take the place of my pictures when the time comes.
27:50Your friend, Mr. Decker, he told you about the offer I made him?
27:54Actually, no.
27:56I haven't been able to get a hold of him, probably because of the offer you made.
28:00Did you come here thinking I might apologize?
28:02No, of course not. I came here to make you an offer.
28:08I'm about to start lining up investors to buy your majority stake in Ochoa Development.
28:14And I'll have plenty of time to do it, since I'm resigning from my position with your political office effective
28:20immediately.
28:21I mean...
28:21I'm not done.
28:23Take the deal, forget you ever heard the name R.J. Decker, and you'll be richer than ever.
28:30It's not just a good deal for you.
28:33It's a good deal for us.
28:35We take the business out of family business, and...
28:39Who knows, maybe...
28:42Eventually...
28:43We can just be a family again.
28:46And if I say no?
28:48I quit both my positions.
28:50Walk away from your political office, and Ochoa Development.
28:57I saw Lucas yesterday.
29:00It's been almost, what, two years since he got out from under your thumb?
29:06And...
29:06Go figure, he's never looked or sounded better.
29:10Simple minds, mija.
29:12Simple pleasures.
29:12It's not just the boat that makes him happy.
29:15It's...
29:16It's being away from you.
29:18You were molding him to become your next Rey.
29:22A henchman.
29:23A thug.
29:23Because that was his ceiling.
29:27That was all he would ever be.
29:29But it's different with you.
29:31You can go farther.
29:34Even farther than me.
29:35You can make this city, maybe even this state, bend to you.
29:40To this family.
29:42You can have power you can't even comprehend now.
29:46It's almost funny sometimes.
29:52How little you know me.
29:56Think about my offer.
29:59I won't make it a second time.
30:06I won't make it.
30:11So this woman who died...
30:13Fiona Van Allen.
30:14If she didn't report a snake in her yard, then why would my dad have been back there when she
30:18was killed?
30:18Actually, I think he was in this yard, here.
30:22This is on a golf course that reported a Burmese.
30:25Close enough to hear her scream, the killer comes out back, sees your dad curious, looking over the fence.
30:29Since your dad sees him holding the murder weapon, I can't leave a witness, so...
30:33Well, if you're right, at least it wasn't any of his snake buddies.
30:40A few of them have been reaching out, asking about a memorial service.
30:43Be nice to know we aren't hosting the person that killed them.
30:47Michael.
30:48Michael.
30:50We're not talking about your bill getting through.
30:52We're talking about mine.
30:54Get me the votes.
30:55Or maybe the ethics committee hears about you dumping all of a certain company's stock the day before the state
31:01cuts ties with them.
31:05Something must be seriously wrong if you're asking me to meet you at the house.
31:11Something is wrong, Ray.
31:14You're here because someone's about to have an accident.
31:19Hello, Gwen.
31:21You lied to me.
31:23Tonight my two victims were killed in New York Rocco's Bar and Grill.
31:27Seven drinks, two entrees, table side guac.
31:30The waiter remembers you and Shane. I pulled the receipts.
31:34So how was it?
31:36The guac, I mean, not the sex.
31:38I don't know what you're talking about.
31:39Careful.
31:40I get that you didn't want to admit to slumming it with Shane in front of your she-she friends,
31:43but if you lie to me now,
31:45I will have to consider the possibility that you were behind Fiona Van Allen's murder.
31:50What?
31:50Your kickboxing boy toy starts kicking it with somebody else.
31:53You get jealous and you hire someone to get rid of her.
31:55That's ridiculous.
31:57I...
31:58Okay.
31:59Yes.
32:01Shane and I had an arrangement.
32:05But Fiona and me, we knew each other.
32:08And we knew about each other.
32:10I'm sorry. Are you saying you were sharing Shane?
32:14When I found out, I swear, I thought it was funny.
32:16She did too.
32:17So you were friends?
32:19More like acquaintances.
32:23She asked me for my divorce lawyer's info.
32:27She was leaving Lando?
32:28Thinking about it.
32:30But I don't think she ever got the chance to tell him.
32:37Thanks.
32:43Hey.
32:45How bad does your trailer smell these days?
32:47I mean, I'm finding it hard to believe this is a better place for a meeting.
32:49Well, so I'm starting to think Shane Blanchard isn't our guy.
32:52He isn't.
32:53Shane's alibi checked out.
32:54But talk to me.
32:55Tell me how you got there.
32:57Okay.
32:57This is the Emmy's original report on Fiona Van Allen.
33:01CSU thought it was a right-handed attacker with some kind of a club.
33:04A killer wields a bat or a pipe while Fiona reclines on a couch.
33:08Big swings to explain the blood spatter pattern.
33:11That was the theory.
33:11But of course, now we know it wasn't a bat or a pipe.
33:14No, it was her crystal ball.
33:15Right.
33:16So I met with the Emmy today.
33:17Knowing that was a murder weapon, the blood spatter pattern doesn't fit their original theory.
33:22Now they think the killer had to be standing behind her and he had to be left-handed.
33:26Shane wasn't left-handed.
33:27No.
33:27He's not.
33:28But you know who is?
33:30Lando Van Allen?
33:31Yes.
33:32Well, I think so.
33:32I saw him writing yesterday.
33:33You know, he was my favorite suspect day one.
33:36And that was before I knew she was leaving him.
33:38What do you mean?
33:38She was meeting with a divorce attorney, had an ironclad prenup.
33:42Had their marriage ended, Lando would have been broke.
33:44So we're looking for a lefty who had a motive to kill Fiona.
33:47I know.
33:48I know the timeline.
33:48So I know it's impossible.
33:50Lando couldn't have ditched a murder weapon on that golf course and gotten back in time
33:53to be seen by the first responders.
33:55Okay.
33:56I just can't shake it.
33:57He did both murders.
33:59We just haven't figured out how yet.
34:13Well?
34:15Nah.
34:16You're way too slow, man.
34:17You're like two minutes off the pace.
34:19Huh.
34:19Ain't no way.
34:20Uh-uh.
34:21Ain't no way this Lando guy makes it out here, kills Curtis in that sand trap, and then
34:26runs back to his house to let the cops stand in time.
34:29Uh-uh.
34:29Yeah.
34:30I won field day.
34:311986, Carter Elementary.
34:32Look it up.
34:33Well, that was a few thousand beers ago.
34:35Hey.
34:35Let's get you on the clock.
34:36Even if I am a little faster, it's not possible, Wish.
34:39It just is not possible.
34:42Huh.
34:43Well, I guess all we learned is, uh, I gotta get back to the gym and you need a new
34:48suspect.
34:50Huh.
34:52I can't help noticing I've yet to be invited to celebrate Victor Ochoa's wiping the record
34:58clean.
34:58Well, I haven't exactly gotten back to him yet.
35:03Huh.
35:04Huh.
35:04Brother, you are a damn gift horse's dentist.
35:09Hey, tell me, is it harder for you to get over Emmy Ochoa or harder to get over yourself?
35:13I told you, man.
35:15You go back to Appalachie, you're never coming out.
35:18Wish.
35:20I know how he did it.
35:22You couldn't have figured out how he did it for a ring all that way.
35:25You said it yourself.
35:26You need the exercise.
35:29I'm with the Cortana.
35:30That's a point.
35:33You ever seen a highlight before?
35:35No.
35:35Not in person.
35:36My uncle used to tell my mom we were going for ice cream and we would come here instead.
35:39I was covered for his gambling.
35:41I mean, those trips and a Nerf football when I was seven.
35:44The only two positive memories Uncle Timmy left behind.
35:47Yeah, well, now you have a third.
35:49What's that?
35:51He helped you solve a double homicide.
35:53Big bounce off the last wall.
35:59Hey.
36:00What's up, guys?
36:01Nothing, Lando.
36:02We're just big High Life fans.
36:03Crazy seeing you here.
36:05Yeah, you look like you're ready to play.
36:06We're here to play a game, too.
36:07You remember I Spy?
36:09I was going over the photos I took of your place.
36:12I spied a helmet.
36:14But no bicycle.
36:15That's because it's not a bike helmet.
36:17It's a highlight helmet.
36:18This is another shot of your garage.
36:20Taken by police the night of the murder.
36:24Same spot yesterday.
36:27See what's missing?
36:29This wasn't there yesterday.
36:31It's a Sesta.
36:31And you got rid of it after the cops left.
36:34I always thought they were called scoops.
36:35It's crazy what you guys can do with them.
36:37Get away with murder, for example.
36:39Well, what?
36:40Yeah, the night you killed Fiona.
36:41You walked through your front door, smiled for the camera.
36:43Hey, honey, I'm home.
36:44Fiona was laying on the couch.
36:46She never saw it coming.
36:47After that, it was all about timing.
36:49You got your wife's very round award.
36:51You put it in your Sesta, and you hurled it as far as you could.
36:53All so you could call the police and tell them to get there as fast as possible.
36:56Poor Curtis Middleton.
36:58Meanwhile, he's just out there minding his own business, hunting for snakes.
37:01He didn't mean to kill him.
37:03But he did.
37:04Curtis wasn't a witness to anything.
37:05There was no chase.
37:07There was no timeline problem.
37:08There was just physics and bad luck.
37:10This is insane.
37:11That's impossible.
37:12Barely possible.
37:13Took a heck of an arm.
37:15We know you play Club Highline now, but once upon a time, you played pro.
37:18You were on teams in Florida, Spain, the Philippines.
37:22You were the big lefty from Bopo Raton.
37:26You guys are waiting for me to say something stupid, or I'm not gonna do it.
37:30You'll never prove anything.
37:31It's too crazy.
37:32No, you know what's crazy?
37:34We don't need you to say anything.
37:36CSU got up on the roof of the house for nine years, Lando.
37:39That's your wife's blood on their shingles.
37:41Wonder how that got there.
37:47You know what's worse than living under a cloud of suspicion?
37:50Prison food.
37:58The numbers look good.
37:59It's very tempting.
38:02But?
38:05Look, I've known you and your dad a long time.
38:08I've helped finance, what, two dozen Ochoa development projects?
38:13And as much as I love working with the company, I'm just not sure I want to own a piece
38:18of it.
38:20You're not sure you want to own a piece of it without my father.
38:24Mammy, look what you're doing here.
38:27I respect it.
38:29But is it wise?
38:35Would you excuse me, Bruce?
38:37Of course.
38:39Hey, you okay?
38:42Pretty sure Dad sent a message tonight.
38:45But I don't know if it was for me or for you.
38:49Lucas, you're scaring me.
38:51What's going on?
38:54He set fire to my boat.
38:56My whole life.
38:58Your house.
39:10I'll be right back.
39:11You're right.
39:11That's the hell.
39:11Don't let me know how you can get, huh?
39:12Eat them with a lamp.
39:26I'm so scared.
39:27You're right.
39:27I don't think we're gonna have to trap you up.
39:27I'm so terrified, bro.
39:27I'm so scared.
39:31What are you doing here?
39:32I heard you finally met my father.
39:35It's safe to assume that's why you haven't been taking my calls.
39:39It's okay, I wouldn't take my calls either.
39:43Yeah, look, when we talked, I just wanted to make sure I said the right thing.
39:46And?
39:49It still hasn't come to me.
39:51It's this skill he has making you question everything you think you know.
39:59I wish I could tell you he can't actually get you violated back to prison, but he probably can.
40:06And so, this is the last time we're going to see each other.
40:12I just wanted you to know.
40:16I understand.
40:23Well, I think I realized what I wanted to say.
40:26What?
40:28Screw you, Dad.
40:53I think I finally get why you wear these all the time.
40:58It's very comfy.
41:06I didn't find out about what my father said to you until yesterday.
41:12Before that, I was trying to reach you because there was something you needed to know.
41:17The break-in at your ex's house.
41:19Yeah, your dad was behind that, too.
41:23I knew the second I saw him, I know.
41:26Catherine was looking into your family.
41:28She told you she might even write an article.
41:30I tripped the wire.
41:31You wanted to know if she was onto anything.
41:36I thought I'd found a way out, but that was based on the possibility that he could change.
41:44Now, the only way out is to show people what he really is.
41:51You're right, he was behind the break-in, but that's not all he was behind.
42:01Two years ago, when you caught my brother trying to steal your camera equipment, it wasn't just Lucas being a
42:08punk.
42:08It wasn't random.
42:13Lucas was sent to steal your camera.
42:18This time, you found out why.
43:06This time, you found out why.
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