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00:01Previously on R.J. Decker.
00:03R.J. freaking Decker.
00:04They let you out already?
00:05I'm a PI now.
00:06Detective DeBrayu, hello, how are you?
00:08How is everything at the trailer park?
00:09You making new friends?
00:10I'm on trial.
00:12Good luck today.
00:14Thanks.
00:15Would you please state your name and relationship to the victim?
00:17I'm Emmy Ochoa, Lucas is my stepbrother,
00:19and that's the man who almost killed him.
00:21If I hadn't lied to protect Lucas, there would have been consequences.
00:24But it was still wrong, and I'm sorry.
00:27A sinkhole opened up outside your window three weeks ago,
00:30and you didn't come to stay with us then?
00:31You wanted to see me.
00:33You can stay here one week, and then you go.
00:36I was exonerated.
00:37The very first thing I did was I bought a scratcher,
00:40and that scratcher paid out a million bucks.
00:42I'm not released this day instead of the next.
00:44Who knows what comes of me?
01:06I went back.
01:16It's hard to see me isn't going to be a mistake.
01:17You are out of my mind.
01:18Didn't let the devil make you toss this letter?
01:22I am.
01:23What?
01:24I am.
01:25I will get you back.
01:26I am.
01:27I will get you back.
01:27Family trouble, man trouble, woman trouble, no knife is a rubble.
01:31You're looking for a true friend, or a true lover, or if you've been livin' undercover.
01:35Well, I'm coming to you down, I'll break it all down.
01:38Go, go, go, go!
01:39Let's go, stop the work.
01:41So check out the lab.
01:42Contact me, yes.
01:43Don't move, enter the air.
01:47Go to the corner.
01:49I'm here to tear all the walls down.
01:53I'm here to tear all the walls down.
01:56Hot damn!
01:57That's a lot of weed.
01:59In case you were wondering which of your pals tipped us off,
02:01it's an old lady who wants her dog around here.
02:04Kept reporting suspicious activity like she was trying to win a radio contest.
02:08Karens, am I right?
02:10It's not cannabis, it's carnivorous.
02:13I said it's not cannabis, it's carnivorous.
02:16They're not marijuana plants, they're Venus flytraps.
02:27Hey, detective, over here.
02:29Let's go.
02:35Is that a meat grinder?
02:40You gotta see this.
02:48Question for you, son.
02:51Who exactly have you been feeding to your plants?
03:02You're real bad at this, bro.
03:05Okay.
03:05Seriously, if breaking into cars with baseball, you'd be the Rockies.
03:09Well, maybe if I had a better teacher.
03:11You got the best in full of love.
03:13Don't blame me for your old man, Finney.
03:14Whoa!
03:15I think you mean you were the best, right?
03:17Because you know what happens if I find out you're unretired?
03:20Sell my mom.
03:20Yes.
03:21She's worse than telling the cops.
03:23That's right.
03:23Ain't happening.
03:24I am D-O-N-E.
03:26Done, son.
03:29Stupid pick is broken or something.
03:38Why'd you do that?
03:40What are you doing in my car?
03:41Oh, hey, Kath, this is Darius.
03:43He's helping me out with this new skill I might need as a P.I.
03:48It's 9 a.m. on a Monday.
03:49Is it?
03:50Shouldn't Darius be in school?
03:51No, ma'am.
03:52Some dude lives in the school lost his bowl.
03:55We're all supposed to stay home until animal control finds him.
03:58Thanks.
04:01I found the key to the file drawers.
04:03Unless you'd like to pick that lock, too.
04:15Okay.
04:16This is great.
04:18I have a place to put all my files.
04:24I take it things are still a little slow?
04:27Yeah.
04:27Yeah, they're a bit slow.
04:28They're picking up.
04:29Wish texted me last night.
04:30Said he had a new client for me.
04:33Oh, shoot.
04:33Actually, I've got to meet the guy in 20 minutes.
04:36Will he be older than 12?
04:41Hey, where's the client?
04:45Oh, God.
04:46Wish.
04:46Wish.
04:48I mean, we've been over this.
04:49I need work.
04:51I don't need charity.
04:53This is a genuine case, Arch.
04:54Genuine case?
04:55Really?
04:56Like the case of the missing deep fryer?
04:57You remember that one?
04:58You told me it was stolen, but that was bull.
05:00It was just out for repairs.
05:02Then there was the time you wanted a list of names, background checks, so they could work here.
05:05Only they turned out to be the starting O-line for the 84 Dolphins.
05:08I swear, had any of those gentlemen been interested, I'd have hired them.
05:12Wish.
05:16You remember me telling you about Waylon Abernathy?
05:20Yeah.
05:21Yeah, of course.
05:22He was your Sally the first time you got locked up.
05:26Showed you the ropes, just like you did for me.
05:29Prison being prison, where the wrong look at the wrong time can get you a sharpened toothbrush
05:34through the old Adams apple, I think you'll agree.
05:37It's the sort of kindness you don't soon forget.
05:40Hence why I want to hire you to get Waylon's son Marcus out of a spot of trouble.
05:46What's trouble?
05:48Swear it's real?
05:49Oh, it's real.
05:52He even made the paper.
06:31Marcus, how you doing?
06:32My name's RJ Decker.
06:33I'm a private investigator.
06:34Yeah, I know the guards told me, but if you're looking for work, I'm sorry, I can't afford
06:38you.
06:39Not much I already paid for.
06:40I'm a friend of Wish Aikens.
06:42Mr. Aikens sent you?
06:43Yeah, he sure did.
06:45He tells me there's no way you could have done what they're saying.
06:47No, no, no, sir.
06:48Not in a million years.
06:50So far, all I know is what I've read in the papers.
06:52The police were expecting to find marijuana in your grow house.
06:56It wasn't my grow house.
06:58It was Clem's.
06:59Clem Crayshaw.
07:00He's the one who hired me.
07:01He's a fly trap poacher.
07:03He's a what now?
07:04Fly traps are rare.
07:06That's what makes him valuable.
07:08The only place to grow naturally in the whole world is the southeast corner of North Carolina.
07:12That's where he would steal his.
07:14So you and this Clem guy, you guys were, what, partners?
07:17Clem was good at poaching.
07:18He'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
07:26and watered right.
07:27And I knew it was wrong.
07:28And I just, my girlfriend, Kelly Lynn, she just told me she was pregnant and I just.
07:33Don't worry about that.
07:34That's fine.
07:36But I gotta ask, how was it you didn't notice a freezer full of body parts?
07:43The freezer was in a storeroom that Clem kept locked.
07:45Before he hired me, he told me he was feeding the plants a ground-up roadkill.
07:48I said that was no good.
07:49That the best thing for fly traps was mealworms.
07:52And so, then whenever I got there, there was a big bag of mealworms waiting for me.
07:57Well, according to the paper, the police found it with a big old bag of John Doe.
08:03Clem and I, we barely saw each other.
08:05And we spoke mostly over Snapchat.
08:08I'd tell him what I needed, he'd make sure I got it.
08:10And then a couple days ago, he sent me a message and said that he forgot to order the mealworms.
08:17And fly traps would have to go back to roadkill for a while.
08:24I don't, don't you get it?
08:26Clem killed John Doe.
08:28And he was using me and the plants to get rid of the body.
08:30The cops, they want me to tell them who the dead guy is, but I can't.
08:33I don't, I don't know.
08:35Right, since the app deletes the messages after you read them, you can't prove Clem told you to do anything.
08:40You know, the night they arrested me, they made me look in the freezer.
08:45It was their torso, and their two arms and two legs, and the head and the hands were missing.
08:51But Clem didn't just cut the guy up, he carved him up too.
08:54What do you mean?
08:55The dead guy?
08:57His biceps and buttcheeks were missing.
09:00His biceps and buttcheeks were missing?
09:02But they have to be in that bag of meat that Clem gave me.
09:05Okay, them and the head and the hands all ground up.
09:07Clem, please, I just want to go home to Kelly Lynn.
09:11I just want to help with the pregnancy.
09:14You have to find Clem.
09:25Yeah, look at those priors.
09:26She's not the one we're looking for.
09:29Print that for me, would you?
09:30It's just in the neighborhood.
09:31You want something?
09:33Well, can't a guy living in his ex-wife's pool house pay her new wife a visit without...
09:37Wanting something?
09:38I mean, please.
09:39If you didn't, you wouldn't be holding a bag of what I assume are pastelitos from my favorite bakery.
09:46All right.
09:47I caught a new case.
09:48Marcus Abernathy, he's accused of...
09:50Oh, yeah, turning some John Doe into plant food.
09:52Yes.
09:53Not my case.
09:53Can't help you.
09:54Okay, well, even if it is in your case, you could give me a wee peek at the case file.
09:58I got a lead on a new suspect I'd like for it.
10:00Clem Crayshaw.
10:01I just...
10:02I want to know who's on your radar.
10:03That's all I want to know.
10:06Uh, meet me outside in ten minutes.
10:09I'll bring you the files.
10:10Really?
10:11No, idiot.
10:12Also, the house.
10:14Stop leaving the seat up.
10:15You live with three women.
10:17Three, RJ.
10:24Kelly Lynn, it's Aloysius Aiken.
10:27I believe Marcus' public defender told you to expect me.
10:32So, um, Marcus' attorney said that you were friends with Marcus' dad or something?
10:37Yeah, Waylon.
10:39Yeah, me and him did a stretch together at Zephyril's Correctional about 20 years ago.
10:43Yeah, Waylon took me under his wing, helped me understand what it took to survive.
10:49Taught you how to make shivs and stuff like that?
10:51No, um, the opposite.
10:54You know, he taught me how to keep a low profile, avoid confrontations.
10:58If it weren't for old Waylon, a, uh, decent and thoughtful man, despite his penchant for
11:04cloning credit cards, ain't no way I'd have made it through.
11:08Marcus never really talked about him.
11:11Yeah, well, Marcus never got to know him.
11:14Yeah, Waylon was already serving his sentence when Marcus was born.
11:18And a couple of years later, Waylon was diagnosed with leukemia.
11:25Before he died, in the infirmary, he made me promise to, uh, keep an eye on his boy.
11:31Make sure he didn't line up where we had.
11:34How's that going?
11:39Well, um, need anything else?
11:42Let me know.
11:49Darla Sims?
11:50Hi.
11:51Uh, my name's R.J. Decker.
11:52I'm a private investigator.
11:54I-I was hoping I could ask you a-a few questions about your ex-husband, Clem Crayshaw.
11:58Uh, can you come back at five?
12:01That's when I close.
12:03I'll answer any question you like.
12:07I mean, is there any reason why we can't talk right now?
12:10I'm at work.
12:12When I'm at work, talk is for customers.
12:16No.
12:17No.
12:18Clem is a crook.
12:19And a so-so lay.
12:20But, no way could he kill anyone.
12:23Let alone cut him in pieces.
12:24Ah!
12:26Well, there is a John Doe in the morrow, you might say otherwise.
12:30Frame up.
12:31Frame up.
12:31It has to be.
12:32The Clem I know wouldn't hurt a fly.
12:34Uh, I take that back.
12:35He must have hurt flies with all the damn fly traps.
12:38Okay, so you knew about them?
12:40Sure.
12:41Did you-you know he was a poacher?
12:42I even went on a few expeditions with him and his pal Gary to North Carolina.
12:47Sorry, who's Gary?
12:48Is Gary a business partner?
12:49Drinking buddy.
12:49He has that flower shop on Cordova, Gary's Flowers.
12:53He would help Clem keep the little buggers alive and drive back to Fort Lauderdale.
12:58Have you heard from Clem lately?
13:01Last time was about a year ago.
13:03I texted him that he was late on an alimony payment, and he replies with this.
13:12Oh.
13:13Hey, Moondue.
13:15Okay.
13:17What are these?
13:18Are these tattoos?
13:19Clem is a big Doors fan.
13:22The one on the left cheek is supposed to be Jim Morrison.
13:24I see that, yes.
13:26And on the right, you got most of the lyrics to the end.
13:28Ah.
13:28I didn't think it was funny, but he sure did.
13:35Does Clem have any other tattoos?
13:40Hey.
13:41Hey, Wish.
13:42We got a problem.
13:45All right.
13:46Is that someone's rear you're showing me?
13:47Yeah, it's the rear of the guy Marcus was working for, Clem Cresha.
13:52The one he said had to be the real killer?
13:54Get the tattoo.
13:58In the end, oh, that's pretty good.
14:01Actually, it's bad.
14:02According to his ex-wife, the only other tattoos he had were on his arms.
14:06Stick a dynamite on each bicep.
14:08So?
14:09So the body the police found in the freezer, it wasn't just missing his head and hands.
14:13It was missing his butt and biceps, too.
14:15Because if I'm right, it's because the killer wanted to get rid of all of John Doe's identifying features.
14:19Teeth, fingerprints, and tattoos.
14:23I don't think Clem put the body in the freezer.
14:26I think Clem was the body in the freezer.
14:30Marcus told you this Clem guy had to be the killer.
14:33Finding him was how you were going to clear Marcus of John Doe's murder.
14:37But if Clem is John Doe, who the hell was sending instructions to Marcus over Snapchat?
14:44Well, you're assuming somebody was.
14:49Which, in this case, it's not about a payday for me.
14:51You know that I want to do right by you as badly as you want to do right by Waylon.
14:56But?
14:57But...
15:00You sure Marcus couldn't have done this?
15:03Hell, you mad him, what do you think?
15:04Look, hear me out.
15:06Marcus found out he was having a baby.
15:07Maybe he realized he needed to make more money.
15:10So what?
15:11Kills his boss to take over his flytrap business?
15:14Uh-huh.
15:27No, uh-uh.
15:29Marcus didn't do this.
15:30You stay in the course, find a way to figure it out.
15:32But if the police don't already know Clem is John Doe, they're going to know soon.
15:35And they're going to turn up the heat on Marcus.
15:37Well, then you're going to have to work fast now, won't you?
15:41Okay.
15:43Okay.
15:51Morning.
15:53Sorry.
15:54I tried your office.
15:55It wasn't open yet.
15:56So you figured you'd wait out here like a stalker?
15:58I thought seeing me in a parking garage might bring back some pleasant memories.
16:04What do you want?
16:06Well, I have a new client.
16:08Marcus Abernathy.
16:09The police and the DA's office like him for murder, I don't.
16:13So?
16:14So the district attorney is a political ally of your dad's.
16:17I repeat, so?
16:20Listen, I'm flying a little blind here, okay?
16:23I want to know if the police have anything on Marcus other than him being in the vicinity of the
16:26body.
16:28I want to know if they looked at any other suspects.
16:30So you want me to flex a little Ochoan muscle, find out what the DA's office knows that you don't?
16:36Mm-hmm.
16:38So this is how we square things between us.
16:40Me doing you favors so you can make your 50 bucks an hour plus expenses.
16:45Oh, yeah.
16:46You know, you could go to prison for 18 months.
16:51Mm-hmm.
16:53What's your client's name?
17:02Knock, knock.
17:04I just wanted to come and say thanks for coming to see me yesterday.
17:09Brownies.
17:11Homemade.
17:13But...
17:14Aren't you sweet?
17:16Oh, please.
17:17For all you're doing, it isn't enough.
17:24Oh.
17:26I can't believe that Marcus never told me that he knew an honest-to-goodness lottery winner.
17:33I did, um, Google you after you left.
17:37Saw your whole story.
17:38Oh.
17:39You know, I confess, I will never understand how so much good fortune landed on someone like me.
17:44But the Lord, like the Florida State Lottery Commission, works in mysterious...
17:52Like I said,
17:54But the brownies aren't enough.
17:57No.
17:57No, no, no, ma'am.
17:59Uh-uh.
17:59Nope, nope, nope.
18:00Tell me that you don't like what you see?
18:04So, all I see, all I saw was a woman carrying the child of a young man who I care
18:11about like family.
18:12I'm not pregnant.
18:14I just told Marcus that to kick his butt into high gear.
18:19Get him making some real money.
18:24Did it ever occur to you that if you hadn't, then maybe he wouldn't have taken the job that ended
18:29up landing him in jail?
18:31I will close back on.
18:34I will scream.
18:40I know that you care about Marcus, but he's a terrible provider.
18:45He promised me two years ago that we would move to Nashville, and now every time it comes up, it's
18:51just, oh, sorry, babe, can't afford it.
18:53And last month, when my car got impounded, and I said that I needed it back, like, yesterday, oh, sorry,
19:00babe, can't afford it.
19:01Okay, so that's why you're here, because you think I got real money.
19:05No, it's because you're so good looking.
19:09If you're going to get Marcus out of jail, do it fast.
19:12You got bills piling up.
19:24Hey, how much for one of these?
19:26Big ones are 50, small ones are 30.
19:29You know, it's funny, I didn't know fly traps were native to Florida.
19:33They're not.
19:36Oh.
19:37Let me guess, you have a guy.
19:39Uh, something like that.
19:41Is his name Clemy Cresha?
19:43By any chance?
19:44Hi, I'm R.J. Decker.
19:45I'm a private investigator.
19:47Probably should have started with that.
19:48You're Gary, correct?
19:50I got your name from Clem's ex-wife, Darla.
19:53Am I in some sort of trouble?
19:54Well, Gary, that depends.
19:57You didn't happen to chop Clem's head off so you could steal all his fly traps, did you?
20:03You really think that body they found was Clem's?
20:07I do.
20:08Oh.
20:10Oh.
20:12You know those fly traps in there?
20:14Clem didn't charge me for them.
20:16He would just come in sometimes and leave a few.
20:20And as far as killing him, for more?
20:22No.
20:23No, the ones inside, they've been there for weeks.
20:25Not really big sellers.
20:27Well, that's something I don't get.
20:29I mean, Clem had thousands of them and his girl had thousands.
20:32I mean, there must be a market for them.
20:34I don't know who Clem's all of his plans, too.
20:37I told him I didn't want to know.
20:38If what you're saying is true, if Clem really is...
20:42gone.
20:44Well, I'm not the one who did it.
20:56Hello.
20:57So tell me, what does a P.I. get up to while other people are out there doing his work
21:02for him?
21:02Well, this one's been looking up.
21:04People arrested for a fly trap poaching in North Carolina to see if any of them may have drifted south
21:09to take over Clem Creshaw's business.
21:11And?
21:12Well, I'm hoping you had better luck at the DA's office.
21:15Okay, I learned two things.
21:17First, you were right.
21:18The police do know John Doe as Clem Creshaw.
21:21They were just waiting on DNA to confirm it.
21:23Second, Clem had a brother-in-law, Brody Weller.
21:27Last year, they got in a fight.
21:28Brody beat Clem, stupid.
21:30Clem's sister, Brody's wife, called the police.
21:33But when they got there, Clem declined to press charges.
21:37Now, look, I don't have your keen investigative mind,
21:39but I'd say that's a pretty good alternate suspect, wouldn't you?
21:43Any idea where I can find him?
21:45All I got was a work address, but if you're going to go there,
21:48you should probably bring some singles.
22:10You like what you see?
22:11Sorry, what?
22:12I said, do you like what you see?
22:14For a hundred bucks, Hanson, he'll dance just for you.
22:17Oh, well, yeah, hey, good to know.
22:19Good to know.
22:20Actually, no, I'm looking for an old buddy of mine, Brody Weller.
22:23Don't tell me.
22:24You two used to dance together.
22:26Very good, very good.
22:27Little place down in Orlando.
22:28Yeah.
22:29You're not looking for more work, are you?
22:30Because I could always use another course in the state world.
22:34Uh, you know, sadly, I blew up my knee years ago, so...
22:39Well, take it from an expert, you've still got it where it counts.
22:43Whoa!
22:44Oh, my goodness.
22:45Uh, is Brody around, buddy, Chase?
22:48I'm used to taking the stage at this very moment.
22:50Look at you!
22:53If you're going to stick around, it's a $20 cover charge
22:56and a two-drink minimum, even for old buddies.
23:00Okay.
23:16Yes, what's up?
23:18You know, I get detective work isn't cheap,
23:20but I'm looking at this tab I'm running,
23:22and I had to ask,
23:24are you really trying to expense a pedicure?
23:27One, yeah, I am.
23:28Two, I'm kind of in the middle of something.
23:30Oh, well, a massage and a little aromatherapy, perhaps?
23:34No, I'm waiting to talk to a new suspect,
23:36Crayshaw's brother-in-law.
23:38He doesn't get off work for a few hours,
23:39so I thought I'd take a peek inside his car.
23:41If he is the one that chopped up Clem,
23:42there might be blood evidence.
23:44You planning on getting inside his car how exactly?
23:48You really want to know?
23:49Need I remind you,
23:51you're on conditional release.
23:52You get caught breaking into a car,
23:54they'll violate you back to prison.
23:56Oh, that's a good thing I'm not very good at picking locks.
23:58Arge?
23:59Look, I knew when I got into this line of work
24:00that might be the occasional bend of the law.
24:03This isn't a bend, okay?
24:04This is a break, as in breaking and entering.
24:07Would you rather Marcus go to prison instead?
24:10Right, that's what I thought.
24:11Okay, I gotta go.
24:11I'll call you if I find something.
24:12Okay, but...
24:14Arge?
24:16Arge?
24:17I did it.
24:19Yeah, you did.
24:25I don't get why we don't just call the cops.
24:27Oh, really, Stevie?
24:28Well, I can think of plenty of reasons.
24:30Like you having more HGH in your locker than,
24:32I don't know, 100 pharmacies, for example?
24:34Listen, she's right, guys.
24:36You don't need to call the cops.
24:37I'm not a car thief.
24:38I'm a private investigator.
24:40Yeah, right, right.
24:41And Ramone here?
24:42Ramone's a real boxer.
24:44I only came to ask Brody here
24:45a few questions about his brother-in-law.
24:47Clem?
24:48Why the hell do you want to talk about Clem?
24:51Well, because he's dead.
24:53Clem's dead?
24:55I still can't believe Clem's gone.
24:58First Lacey, now him.
24:59Who's Lacey?
25:02My wife.
25:03Clem's sister.
25:04She passed a few months ago.
25:06Hodgkin's lymphoma.
25:08I'm truly sorry about that.
25:10You came here because you thought
25:11maybe I killed Clem, right?
25:13Well, yeah, you did beat him up
25:15pretty bad last year.
25:16Once upon a time,
25:17we were pals.
25:19That all changed.
25:20After Lacey got diagnosed,
25:22I wanted her to do every little thing
25:23the doctors told her.
25:25But Clem was so damn sure
25:26that his stupid fly traps
25:28were the answer.
25:29I'm sorry.
25:30How would Clem's fly traps
25:32have helped with Lacey's cancer?
25:33I don't get that.
25:34You know who he was selling them to, right?
25:35I mean, I assumed it was people
25:36that collect exotic plants.
25:39A buddy of his made it sound like
25:41that wouldn't explain
25:42the volume of his crops,
25:43so I don't know.
25:44There's this holistic medicine company,
25:46Venutian Health.
25:47They would buy Clem's fly traps in bulk
25:50and then, I don't know,
25:52grind them up or something,
25:53sell what's left as an extract.
25:55Here in the U.S.,
25:56they're allowed to promote it
25:58as an immunity modulator,
26:00but that's only because
26:01that's all the FDA will allow.
26:02Now, in other countries,
26:04places with looser standards,
26:06they're allowed to say
26:07that it can do a whole lot more.
26:08What, they treated cancer?
26:09Something about how the extract
26:11can eliminate abnormal cells
26:12without harming the normal ones.
26:14Clemden used to be all holistic.
26:15Over the years,
26:16the more Venutian Health
26:17bought from him,
26:18the more he started to buy
26:19what they were selling.
26:20The idea that fly trap extract
26:22could help or even save
26:23people like Lacey.
26:24That's why I kicked him
26:25out of our house that night.
26:26I just couldn't listen to it anymore.
26:29Man, the thing is, though,
26:31after Lacey passed,
26:32Clem did a 180.
26:34He said he was going to do,
26:35like, a deep dive
26:36into all things Venutian Health.
26:37Can I tell you
26:38what he meant by that?
26:39No.
26:42But last week,
26:43he left me this voicemail.
26:45Brody,
26:46I just,
26:47I just wanted to say
26:48I'm sorry.
26:49All the false hope
26:50I gave Lacey,
26:51all the false hope
26:52Venutian gave me,
26:54I want you to know
26:55they're not going to get away with it.
26:56I love you, brother.
26:59Last Tuesday.
27:00Is that important?
27:02Well,
27:03as far as I've been able to tell,
27:04that's right around
27:05the last time
27:06anyone saw Clem alive.
27:11Is that you, RJ,
27:12or does my wife
27:13need to get her a gun?
27:14It's me.
27:15No need for gunplay.
27:16Well,
27:17matter of opinion.
27:23Hey.
27:24Oh.
27:24Oh, my God.
27:25What happened to your face?
27:25No, forget the face.
27:26Why do you smell like stripper?
27:29The answer to both questions
27:30is it's complicated.
27:31Uh,
27:32are you free tomorrow morning?
27:34Why?
27:35Oh,
27:35he needs a favor.
27:36I can smell that on him, too.
27:38Actually,
27:39I'd be the one doing the favor.
27:40Uh,
27:40I may have a story
27:41for you and the Herald.
27:43A big one.
27:45One thing that never ceases
27:46to amaze me
27:47is the number of people
27:48who think the idea
27:49of treating disease
27:50with carnivorous plants
27:51is just some
27:52passing fad.
27:54The fluid from
27:55unopened monkey pitchers
27:56has been used
27:57to treat incontinence
27:58for centuries.
27:59In Renaissance Italy,
28:01the best,
28:02most effective
28:03aphrodisiac
28:05was a cordial water
28:06made from
28:07drossera
28:08or tandafolia.
28:10Uh,
28:11do you need me
28:11to spell that?
28:13No, thanks.
28:14I'll look it up.
28:15Not most
28:16in the mainstream media
28:17tend to look down
28:17their noses
28:18at alternative medicine.
28:19I commend
28:20the Broward County
28:21Herald
28:21for exploring
28:22what we do
28:22instead of trying
28:23to tear it down.
28:24Well,
28:25like I said
28:25on the phone,
28:25I guarantee you
28:26the piece I'm writing
28:27isn't about
28:27the efficacy
28:28of your product,
28:29but I couldn't help
28:30noticing that
28:31in other countries
28:31it's advertised
28:32as treatment
28:33for cancer.
28:34Here in the U.S.,
28:35it's only ever described
28:36as an immunity booster.
28:39My lawyers,
28:40they're very good.
28:41They'd probably tell me
28:42I shouldn't even
28:42dignify that question
28:43and they would
28:44definitely tell me
28:45it would be wrong
28:46to suggest
28:47that the American FDA
28:48is deep in the pocket
28:50of big pharma.
28:52I think your photographer
28:52is a little lost.
28:54Hey,
28:54not much for you
28:55to see back there.
28:56Oh, yeah.
28:56Do you want to get
28:57one of me near the logo?
28:58Great.
29:04Here?
29:05That was great, yeah.
29:06Yeah, that's good.
29:08Yeah, right there.
29:09Good.
29:10Hydrogen peroxide,
29:11I don't suppose
29:11that's one of your
29:12secret ingredients?
29:13Why would it be?
29:14Based on my research,
29:15some homeopathic
29:16practitioners say
29:16it can treat dementia
29:18and enhance
29:18immune system function.
29:20This despite the fact
29:21that toxicity
29:21from the stuff
29:22can lead to
29:23hemorrhagic gastritis
29:24and organ rupture.
29:25You're forgetting
29:26mucosal blistering.
29:27That's why our
29:28hydrogen peroxide
29:29is just to clean
29:30the floors around here.
29:31The fly traps
29:33you use to make
29:34your extracts,
29:35they come from
29:35a grower named
29:35Clem Crayshaw.
29:37Is that right?
29:40The name rings a bell,
29:42but I'd have to go back
29:42and check on that.
29:43Why is he asking me questions?
29:45Clem Crayshaw
29:46was murdered last week.
29:47The police think
29:48he was killed
29:49by a kid who worked for him,
29:50but an anonymous source
29:51left me with the impression
29:52it might be someone else.
29:54There was a break-in
29:54here last week, yeah?
29:56Your assistant called it in,
29:57told the police
29:58your computer was missing,
29:59then you showed up,
29:59said it wasn't,
30:00you just took it home
30:00to do some work?
30:01Point being.
30:02Well, I just,
30:03I don't know,
30:03I just, I can't help
30:04but wondering.
30:06Was it Clem
30:07that broke in here?
30:08It was.
30:10Did he take your computer?
30:12And if he did,
30:15what do you find?
30:16I found rumors
30:18that the approvals
30:19you received
30:19to promote your extract
30:20as a cancer treatment
30:21in Belgium,
30:22Hungary, and Portugal
30:23could only have been
30:23the result of bribes.
30:25Okay.
30:25If the rumors are true,
30:26maybe there was some record
30:27of those payouts
30:28on your computer.
30:29This interview's over.
30:31But please,
30:32don't forget what I said.
30:34My lawyers are very good.
30:42So is he your guy?
30:43No.
30:44No, not a guy.
30:50George.
30:51Thanks for coming.
30:52My pleasure.
30:53Detective Abreu.
30:54But it's still Georgiana.
30:56So you said in your email
30:56that you wanted to talk
30:57about the Marcus Abernathy case,
30:59but if memory serves,
31:00it isn't yours to discuss.
31:02You got me, Georgiana.
31:04Or do you prefer
31:05ADA Ballard?
31:06Either will do.
31:07The case is Detective Canty's,
31:09but he and I spoke,
31:10and he agreed you should hear
31:11what my associate
31:13has to tell you.
31:15Why do I recognize that man?
31:18Probably because your office
31:19prosecuted him for assault
31:21a couple years ago.
31:24So if I'm following,
31:25you believe that
31:26Marcus Abernathy
31:27is innocent.
31:28You think the more likely
31:30perpetrator is
31:30this man,
31:32Remington Aubrey?
31:33Like we said,
31:33there's been rumors
31:34of bribes in other countries.
31:35Rumors don't tend
31:36to mean much
31:37in a courtroom.
31:38Look, give us some time
31:39to dig up more evidence
31:40on Aubrey.
31:41That's all we're asking.
31:42Clem Crayshaw was sending
31:43instructions to Marcus
31:44over Snapchat.
31:45Somehow that correspondence
31:46continued after he was dead.
31:48If we're right,
31:49it's because Aubrey
31:49took his phone
31:50after he killed him.
31:51He's the one
31:51who told Marcus
31:52to feed the plants
31:53that bag of Clem's remains.
31:55If it hadn't been
31:55for the raid,
31:56Aubrey would have kept
31:57using Marcus
31:58until every last bit
31:59of Clem was gone.
31:59Get a subpoena.
32:01Search Aubrey's home,
32:02search his business.
32:03Who knows?
32:03Maybe we find Clem's phone.
32:04There's no point.
32:06How could you look
32:06at all this
32:07and say there's no point?
32:08Because Marcus Abernathy
32:10took a plea deal
32:10this morning.
32:11He confessed to everything.
32:13He's our killer.
32:16Sorry, guys.
32:17I don't want to talk
32:18with my lawyer
32:19with my lawyer.
32:19But this way,
32:20they'd take the death penalty
32:22off the table.
32:23No more murder charge.
32:28Just aggravated manslaughter.
32:30Just 30 years.
32:32But with good behavior,
32:34I could be out in 20.
32:36And you know I'm going to be
32:37well-behaving,
32:38Mr. Aiken.
32:41You didn't do it, Marcus.
32:43Yeah, I mean,
32:43of course I didn't.
32:45Come on, guys.
32:47I got a good woman at home.
32:49I got a kid on the way.
32:50It's too much to live for
32:51to take a chance
32:52on a trial.
32:53Right?
32:56Hey, I could get him
32:58a new lawyer.
32:58Tell him Marcus changed
32:59his mind.
33:00He wants to plead not guilty.
33:02Well, you can do that,
33:02but that won't make
33:03the confession go away.
33:05The DA's office
33:06will still be able
33:07to use it to try.
33:08Guys, hey.
33:10I'm right here.
33:14And I told you,
33:15I'm okay.
33:17It's not going to be okay.
33:21Do you guys know
33:22who's taking care
33:22of the plants now?
33:24What's that?
33:25They're fly traps.
33:26I was thinking
33:27about them yesterday.
33:28Do you know
33:28if the police
33:29are tending to them
33:30or if...
33:30Uh, well,
33:32I can look into that
33:34for you.
33:34Yeah, just make sure
33:35they're not overfeeding
33:35the little guys.
33:37I mean, last count,
33:37there were 24,338 plants.
33:39That works out
33:39to 10.2 pounds
33:40of food per feeding,
33:41one feeding per week.
33:42Anything more
33:42and you're going
33:43to lose a few.
33:44Hey,
33:45you work all
33:48that math out yourself?
33:50Huh?
33:51Yeah.
33:52At the end of the day,
33:52Clem told me
33:53he was going to bring me
33:54that bag of meat.
33:55I had to tell him
33:56more than once.
33:5810.2 pounds, Clem,
33:59nothing more.
34:01And, uh,
34:01I guess it wasn't
34:03actually Clem,
34:04it was the other guy.
34:06But, uh,
34:06still, I mean,
34:07he listened.
34:07Next time I weighed the bag,
34:08it was just right.
34:11Did you know
34:11the human head
34:12weighs eight pounds?
34:15the, uh,
34:17Jerry Maguire,
34:17the cute little kid
34:18with glasses
34:18of blonde hair.
34:20Remember him?
34:20Uh, yeah.
34:21I didn't see that one.
34:22Hold on,
34:23there we go.
34:27The average human head
34:28actually weighs 11 pounds.
34:29Oh, that's great.
34:30Well, next,
34:30maybe you can tell us
34:31the, uh,
34:31airspeed and velocity
34:32of an unleashed swallow.
34:34No, no, no, no, no.
34:34If you add up
34:35all of Clem's body parts,
34:37head, hands,
34:38butt cheeks, biceps,
34:39all of his missing parts,
34:40it must weigh, what,
34:4120 pounds, more?
34:42Marcus just said
34:43the bag that Aubrey left
34:44for him weighed
34:45exactly 10.2 pounds.
34:46If that was the case,
34:49then where's the rest of Clem?
34:51Why hasn't it turned up yet?
34:56Hey.
35:00How's the family here?
35:05Hey.
35:06As much fun as it was
35:07to meet ADA Ballard today,
35:09do you know anyone else
35:10that can get us a warrant
35:10to search Remington Aubrey's warehouse?
35:12Why?
35:14Pretty sure I know
35:15how we can prove
35:15he killed Clem Crayshaw.
35:23Mr. Aubrey.
35:25Detective Aubrey, you?
35:26I believe you already met
35:27Mr. Decker.
35:28Hello.
35:29I was asked to be here by 9.
35:31It's almost 11.
35:32Is it?
35:33If the lack of common courtesy
35:34isn't on the list of reasons
35:35to defund you people,
35:37it should be.
35:39Well, I'm not a cop.
35:40I'm a PI.
35:41But if it makes it feel any better,
35:43I am pretty defunded.
35:44Reason we're late
35:45is my colleagues
35:46needed a little time
35:47to execute a search warrant
35:48at your warehouse.
35:51What could the police
35:52possibly have been looking for
35:53at my warehouse?
35:55The rest of Clem Crayshaw?
35:57When you were using his phone
35:58to pretend to be him,
36:00Marcus Abernathy told you
36:01that Clem's flytraps
36:02could only take 10.2 pounds
36:03of food per feeding.
36:04Problem was,
36:05you had at least twice that,
36:07didn't you?
36:07Most of Clem was found
36:08in his freezer.
36:09A little more was in the bag
36:10Marcus was holding
36:11when he was arrested,
36:12but some of Clem
36:13was still out there.
36:15And the question was,
36:16where and why?
36:18Part of the why
36:18was Marcus' insistence
36:20in only feeding the plants
36:2110.2 pounds of meat.
36:23But I think the rest of it
36:24had to do with
36:24how damn hard it would have been
36:26to get a human head
36:27inside of a meat grinder.
36:28Clem was my sole supplier
36:30of Venus flytraps.
36:31Why would I kill him?
36:33Why would I hurt
36:34my own business?
36:35Probably because he was
36:36about to hurt a lot more.
36:37He stole your computer.
36:39And there was something on it
36:40that would have proven
36:41your company isn't on the level.
36:43So you killed him.
36:47Hey.
36:48You ever heard
36:49of a piranha solution?
36:51No?
36:51It's basically
36:52sulfuric acid on crack.
36:54I learned about this stuff
36:55when they did time
36:56with a guy that tried
36:56to use it to burn
36:57through the top of a safe
36:58he was breaking into.
36:59Did he just say
37:00he was an ex-convict?
37:01This guy's plan
37:01did not work out so well.
37:03All he made to do
37:03was start a fire.
37:05See, piranha solution
37:06can be a little unpredictable
37:07when it comes to metal.
37:08But what it's really good at,
37:10almost 100% of the time,
37:12is turning bone
37:13and flesh into soup.
37:16Piranha solution
37:16only has two ingredients.
37:18One, Mr. Decker
37:19already mentioned,
37:20sulfuric acid.
37:21And the other
37:22is hydrogen peroxide.
37:23Yesterday you said
37:24you had a barrel
37:25of that stuff
37:25to clean the floors,
37:26but see this one here?
37:27See this barrel here?
37:28See where it's all
37:28turned to the wall
37:29and you can just
37:29make out the SUL
37:31and that got me thinking,
37:32what if it's filled
37:33with sulfuric acid?
37:34After you realized
37:35you couldn't use Marcus
37:36and the fly traps
37:37to get rid of a human skull,
37:39you ordered both
37:40of these barrels
37:40through your company,
37:41you mixed their contents
37:42in the sink
37:43at your warehouse
37:43and then
37:45in went Mr. Crayshaw's head.
37:51Or was there
37:52some of the reason
37:52you didn't want me
37:53taking pictures of them?
37:55These are two
37:56partially dissolved
37:57heat CSU found
37:59in the sink's drain trap
38:00a little while ago.
38:01And this
38:04is the bullet
38:04for a 9mm pistol.
38:07You're the registered
38:08owner of the 9mm pistol,
38:10aren't you?
38:19Scott, your message.
38:22But if you ask me
38:24to come here
38:24because you're having
38:25second thoughts
38:26about us getting together...
38:27I most assuredly am not.
38:31Okay.
38:31Then why am I here?
38:33Our boy Marcus
38:33is about to be released
38:34from jail.
38:36Police finally realized
38:37he isn't a killer.
38:38You could have just
38:39said so in your text.
38:40Hey, hey.
38:42How's my timing?
38:43In the nick of, buddy.
38:45You know,
38:45this goes on my bill, right?
38:51Anything else?
38:52Uh, yeah,
38:53I'm throwing Marcus
38:55a little welcome home party
38:57on the beach tonight.
38:58The reason I wanted
38:59to tell you in person
39:00is I wanted to make sure
39:02you weren't there.
39:06Well, last time I checked
39:07this is American,
39:08I can go where I want.
39:09Well, it is,
39:10and you can.
39:13Actually,
39:14it's the other reason
39:14why I wanted you
39:15to stop by.
39:22My car?
39:27You got it out
39:28of impound?
39:29I paid,
39:31a friend handled
39:31the transport.
39:33You know,
39:34the other day
39:35said you'd rather
39:36be living in Nashville,
39:38but you didn't say why.
39:43My sister lives there.
39:45It's not like we're
39:46close or anything,
39:47but she writes me
39:48sometimes and makes it
39:49sound...
39:53I don't know.
39:55Nice.
39:58Go there.
39:59Try to find nice.
40:01So whatever you're
40:02looking for right now,
40:04it ain't here
40:04in Fort Lauderdale.
40:06It ain't with Marcus.
40:11All I've been
40:12is bad to you.
40:13Why are you
40:14being so good to me?
40:16You remind me
40:17of someone.
40:21I loved her,
40:22and yet,
40:23had someone
40:24sent her off
40:25to Nashville
40:25way back when?
40:28Well,
40:29things would've
40:30ended up better
40:30for the both of us.
40:38Drive safe now.
41:02Would you believe
41:03this is my first
41:04glad-you're-not-going-to-prison
41:06party?
41:07Well,
41:08no one knew
41:08who your dad is.
41:09No.
41:10No, I would not.
41:11What happened
41:12to your eye?
41:13This?
41:15Misunderstanding.
41:19You want a beer?
41:20No.
41:21No?
41:21I'm not staying.
41:22You're not staying?
41:24Mostly just came
41:24to see if we're
41:25even now.
41:26You gave me a name.
41:27You gave me
41:28one name.
41:29One name.
41:30Turned out
41:31the guy didn't
41:31even do it.
41:32What's your obsession
41:33with us getting even?
41:34What is that?
41:34If we get even
41:35too fast,
41:36there won't be
41:36any reason for me
41:37to call you anymore.
41:38No, I mean,
41:40is that what you want?
41:42Getting too close
41:43to a family like mine
41:44could earn you
41:45a return trip
41:46to Appalachia.
41:47Is that what you want?
41:48I don't know
41:49what I want.
41:53Not yet.
41:56Well, then,
41:57for tonight,
41:57it's probably best
41:58to just celebrate
42:00what we've got.
42:01In my case,
42:02an 8 o'clock
42:02reservation staccato.
42:05You and the other
42:05dirtbags have fun.
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