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What happens when a routine day turns anything but ordinary? From unexpected professional development to the thrill of a ride-along, this episode dives headfirst into the unpredictable world of law enforcement. Witness the behind-the-scenes of complex investigations, intense interrogations, and the unwavering dedication of officers on the front lines.

Join the team as they navigate high-stakes cases, facing down powerful adversaries and questioning the very nature of justice. Explore the personal lives of these officers as they balance intense professional challenges with their own complex relationships and aspirations. It's a gripping look at the everyday heroism and the emotional toll of keeping the peace in a city that never sleeps.

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00:00Not really. Two days ago we landed on an aircraft carrier in the high seas, but today is not that
00:06day.
00:07How are you?
00:07Good. Just waking up after a blissful night of sleep, uninterrupted by your snoring.
00:13Uh, I am not the one who snores.
00:15Oh yeah, that's right. So, no aircraft carriers today?
00:17No. Today is back-to-back meetings about the technical specifications for the next-gen tactical triage kits.
00:25Very funny.
00:26You call me later?
00:27Yeah, I sure will. It's a date. Love you.
00:29Love you, too.
00:54You don't have clearance to be here.
00:56Carl likes me.
00:57Carl's gonna be writing parking tickets in hell after this.
00:59Be mad at me. Don't take it out on Carl.
01:01You don't get to tell me how to process this, Luna. You have a hots for another guy.
01:06That is reductionist.
01:07What's that, S-A-T word?
01:08We've been married 20 years. You cannot tell me that in all that time, your eye never wandered.
01:12Not in a way that will result in you moving into a hotel.
01:15L.A.'s full of pretty girls, but none of them are you, Luna.
01:22I'm trying to figure out what to do.
01:24I'm trying to figure out what to do.
01:49Glass. Nothing.
01:50Nothing.
01:51And here's what I have to report about today's forecast.
01:53Nothing.
01:54Okay, I'm sorry. If that's the case, then why are we still having roll call?
01:56Because the nothingness of it is alarming.
01:59Yeah.
02:00Saying things are too quiet is a cliche, but like most cliches, there's a little bit of
02:03truth to it.
02:04Chen's right. The odds are getting no instructions from up the food chain, no activity from overnight
02:08that requires follow-up, nothing actionable in today's forecast feels abnormal, and we hate
02:12abnormal.
02:13This is all I have for you today. Keep your heads on a damn swivel and stay safe. That's
02:18it.
02:22There he is. Thank you.
02:24Hey.
02:25Sorry to just drop by.
02:27Shouldn't you be in school?
02:28School is a state of mind. Today I want to go to the school of John Nolan. It's a professional
02:32development day. And I go on a ride-along?
02:34Because you're thinking of becoming a police officer?
02:36That, and I'm making a short film, and I need some dynamic police footage.
02:39Ah. Because you saved my life. I'm going to say yes, but I'm going to
02:43warn you, patrol work can be unpredictable. Honestly, we could be watching grass grow
02:47at the edge of a crime scene all day.
02:48Or you could be involved in an epic car chase throughout the streets of Los Angeles with
02:51a gritty French connection vibe, hopefully at or near sunset, or something equally cinematic.
02:56Careful what you wish for, Dash.
02:57Where's the fun in that?
02:58You take this.
03:01Savvy.
03:02Yep.
03:02Off we go.
03:03Yep.
03:06It's going to go great. By all accounts, Ryan Dearborn has turned his life around.
03:10He's on the right medications, and he's been clear and consistent about what glass
03:13did to him.
03:14He's a Hail Mary, and we both know it. The guy was arrested hiding under the floors of
03:17his RV. He confessed to glass there's murders any new details only the killer could know.
03:20Because glass you're groomed him inside Westview.
03:22Yeah, but at the end of the day, it's still going to come down to whether the jury believes
03:25a man who has struggled with severe mental illness over a family man, a model citizen.
03:29They'll believe, because you'll make them believe.
03:32That's sweet, but I do not have the upper hand here.
03:35Sorry to interrupt. Just wanted to tell you both good morning.
03:39Someone's in high spirits?
03:40Are you not? I guess I'm just a morning person. Or maybe I'm anticipating your latest star
03:44witness being another dud. I just really love watching somebody else's train wreck.
03:48Well, see you now.
03:54Hey, how are you?
03:56Fine is the only answer I have time for. I wonder if you can do me a bit of an
03:59odd favor.
04:00Are you going to ask me to do something classified?
04:01No. Literally, I'm going to ask you to knock on the door and see who opens it.
04:05Remember the criminal Nolan and Garza flew back from Vegas?
04:09Everett, right? The military contractor who forced the aircraft to crash and escape?
04:13Briefly escaped, but yes.
04:15Something's come up. As we've been digging deeper into his criminal operation,
04:18an unexplained connection inside the Pentagon.
04:21Literally, it's an office number that we can't get clarity on without making it known that we're interested.
04:26And you want me to wander down the hall and see who's in it?
04:28Obviously, act like it's the wrong office if someone opens the door.
04:31Okay, I'll do that after my next meeting.
04:34What is the, uh, office number?
04:38I am not in your movie.
04:40Right, sorry. It's just you have a jawline that screams leading man.
04:43Uh-huh.
04:44So what time do things usually get crazy? I feel like most criminals sleep in.
04:48Well, every day is different, but most of the people we deal with are not career criminals.
04:52They're just ordinary citizens who make a bad choice in a high-stress situation.
04:55That sounds like my mom's dating history. Although, she got better after she divorced my dad.
04:59Now they're all just losers, not podcast ads for toxic masculinity.
05:02I'm sorry, that can't be easy.
05:04It's fine. Sarcasm heals most wounds. Just wanted to be happy, you know?
05:097-Lincoln-15, are you available for a wellness check out at the old Westview Hospital facility?
05:14Oh, that sounds boring. Maybe pass on that? Okay.
05:16I thought Westview shut down last year.
05:18It did. They've had a remediation crew working there for the last six months to make it safe for demolition.
05:22And according to the supervisor, they haven't had contact with the crew since yesterday.
05:26They sent another truck this morning. They haven't heard back from them either.
05:29This is 7 Adam 11 radio, and cell traffic at that site are spotty on a good day.
05:33It was a real issue for us during the Glasser investigation.
05:37Yeah, I can go check it out. No reason for you to go back there.
05:39You heard, Bradford. We are being extra vigilant today.
05:42It's a huge campus. It's better for two units to respond.
05:44All right. I'll see you there.
05:46Hey, you know, we don't have to respond. There's zero judgment from the seat.
05:49I appreciate that you think I care about your judgment of me.
05:54I was trying to be nice.
05:55And yet that is the one thing that I am not evaluating you on.
06:01You got something else to say?
06:02No, ma'am.
06:03Oh, so now you're lying to me.
06:04No, ma'am.
06:06It's just, when you're in the mood, you can start a fight in the empty house.
06:18What is this place?
06:19What remains of the Westview Hospital.
06:21Back in the 1940s and 50s, it housed hundreds of patients, many of them stricken with polio.
06:26That's not even to mention the massive mental hospital complex that was recently condemned.
06:30Is it haunted?
06:31No.
06:32Is it like a hard no, or is that like I don't believe in that sort of thing, so?
06:39Is that a dead body?
06:42Control, we got a DB.
06:46Control, this is 7 Lincoln, 15. Do you copy?
06:51Check your phone.
06:53No service.
06:54All right. Stay in the car.
06:56But this is the perfect...
06:57Stay in the car.
06:57Okay.
07:05Is anybody else in your drive-in?
07:07No. It's a ghost town.
07:08According to dispatch, the original crew is 20 people.
07:11This could be the guy they sent in to check on them.
07:12I think they sent more than him.
07:14The passenger doors are wide open.
07:19You're selling radio out, too?
07:21Yeah.
07:23Is that drone paid in your car?
07:25Yeah, Dash. He wanted to go on a ride-along.
07:27And you chose today?
07:29Today.
07:30You're in uniform? I thought you were a detective.
07:32A story for another time.
07:33Stay in the car.
07:34What happened to him?
07:38What the hell was that?
07:39Take the kid and drop back until you find a signal.
07:41Call for backup. We'll stay with the body.
07:43Right.
07:44We will?
07:45I mean, yeah, we will.
07:46Look out!
07:55Easy.
07:55Easy.
07:59Easy.
08:02Easy.
08:02Easy.
08:03Easy.
08:03Easy.
08:04Easy.
08:06Easy.
08:06Easy.
08:07Easy.
08:08Easy.
08:08Easy.
08:09Easy.
08:10Easy.
08:11Easy.
08:12Easy.
08:13What do we do?
08:13Easy.
08:16Easy.
08:18Fall back!
08:24Let's go!
08:48Where's Dash?
09:11Who's that?
09:29What's your name?
09:31Oh, yeah...
09:32Not for you!
09:37I like it!
09:43Get out of here.
10:21Get out of here.
10:41I gotta go find him.
10:42I have to guess.
10:43These guys got exposed to something, causing some kind of acute neurotoxicity, turning
10:46them into homicidal maniacs?
10:47Which makes them victims, no matter their current psychological state.
10:50That's all well and good.
10:51Well, are you saying we let them kill us and we end up in a fight for our lives?
10:53No, no.
10:54Just the lethal force cannot be our first option.
10:58Right now, we have two priorities.
10:59Find them, protect the kid, and get a call out for backup.
11:02All right, I'm going after Dash.
11:03We should split up, increase the odds of one of us finding a cell or radio signal.
11:06All right, let's get going.
11:14Oh, Mr. Dearborn.
11:16Thanks for coming in.
11:17I wasn't sure what to wear.
11:19You look great.
11:21This is Malcolm Walsh.
11:22He represents Liam Glasser.
11:23Oh.
11:24I didn't realize...
11:25Well, the law allows me to access evidence prior to trial in order to provide an adequate
11:28defense, which means I can participate in your deposition.
11:32Okay.
11:33No problem.
11:34But you're not going to get mad if I tell the truth about your client, right?
11:39I promise.
11:40Only if you promise not to get mad at me for questioning that truth with vigor.
11:44Deal.
11:44All right.
11:45Do you recall confessing to the murders attributed to Liam Glasser?
11:48Yes.
11:48I was at the police station.
11:50And do you recall why you confessed?
11:52I was unmedicated at the time in the midst of a mental breakdown.
11:56A part of me believed that I did those horrible things.
11:58But now I know I didn't.
12:00So why did a part of you believe that you committed those murders?
12:02I was coerced into thinking that I hurt people during psychotic moments when I lost time.
12:07Coerced by who?
12:08Liam Glasser.
12:09Over the course of the next two years, he began to fill my head with details of murders
12:13he said I committed.
12:15Whenever I would waver, he'd threaten me.
12:17Are you saying that you made a false confession because he made you believe that you committed
12:21those crimes?
12:22Or because you were afraid of what he would do if you didn't?
12:25A bit of both?
12:27You have to understand.
12:28The voices I hear, the faces I see, they can be scary.
12:34But nothing terrified me as much as Liam Glasser.
12:41The look in his eyes when he told me what he did, as he described in minute detail what it
12:49felt
12:49like to carve a person up.
12:55It made my own demons pale in comparison.
12:58We should take a break.
13:01It's creepy in here.
13:03We have none of this in sugar, man.
13:09Hello?
13:10Hello?
13:12Can you hear me?
13:15Oh, that is not okay.
13:19Not today, playboy.
13:24Playboy.
13:29Oh, man.
14:00Hello, testing, testing.
14:05Come on, signal.
14:08Come on, signal.
14:14Come on, signal.
14:45Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
14:55Oh, come on.
14:56Oh, come on.
15:03Oh, come on.
15:31Oh, come on.
15:56Oh, come on.
15:58Oh, come on.
16:03Oh, come on.
16:10Oh, come on.
16:27Oh, come on.
16:36Oh, come on.
16:49Oh, come on.
16:51Oh, come on.
17:17Oh, come on.
17:20Oh, come on.
17:27Oh, come on.
17:38Oh, come on.
17:55Oh, come on.
18:11Oh, come on.
18:13Oh, come on.
18:13Oh, come on.
18:21Oh, come on.
18:28Oh, come on.
18:30Oh, come on.
18:39Oh, come on.
18:51Oh, come on.
18:59Oh, come on.
19:08Oh, come on.
19:10Oh, come on.
19:20Oh, come on.
19:23Oh, come on.
19:34Oh, come on.
19:40Oh, come on.
19:59Let's go.
20:21Hey!
20:32Hey!
20:45This way!
20:46There you go!
20:50Oh, no!
20:52Oh, no!
21:39Can I help you?
21:40Oh, hi! Yeah, I was looking for a Colonel Ratcliffe. I was told his office was here.
21:45No.
21:46Okay, there's no name on the signage. So, who exactly are you?
21:51Sorry. Um, I'm just looking for a little help here.
21:54Have you been in the office long? Maybe he used to be here?
21:57I can't help you.
21:59Okay. No problem.
22:11What happened there?
22:12Something overloaded their limbic systems, forcing their bodies to produce massive amounts of stress chemistry, cortisol, histamine, cytokines.
22:18But, they're wearing hazmat suits.
22:19Yeah, at the cleanup site where we've been remediating the Project Ultra Chemicals, but I heard they just discovered it
22:23wasn't the only area on campus that was contaminated.
22:25Where our crew was staging was also compromised, possibly the thallium and iophetamine.
22:29They were exposed to both of those in high doses over time?
22:32You managed to get a call out.
22:33I got a brief signal next door, but my phone got smashed.
22:37Where's Miles?
22:38I don't know. I hope he got out.
22:41Let's move.
23:19Move.
23:21Move.
23:33Move.
23:34Move.
23:44Move.
24:02He managed to get a call out?
24:03No, but by this point, dispatch would have started
24:05at this from units, but we didn't check in, right?
24:08Right.
24:19No sign of responding to them.
24:22Who's missing? I've been in meetings.
24:23Or Miles and Nolan.
24:27Pete, you're breaking up.
24:28Oh.
24:30Hold on, we got movement.
24:32Did you see the breath?
24:33Yeah.
24:35Something's going on here.
24:50We got a dead body.
24:52Get back up.
24:54Hey, look up. Stay right there, sir.
24:56Just stay where you are.
24:58Hey, sir.
25:01Code Alpha, Westview Hospital.
25:03Repeat all unit. Code Alpha, Westview Hospital.
25:12Get back up.
25:22Get back up.
25:23Get back up.
25:25Get back up.
25:28Get back up.
25:30Get back up.
25:32Get back up.
25:34Get back up.
25:35Get back up.
25:36Get back up.
25:36Get back up.
25:37Get back up.
25:38Get back up.
25:49Oh, my God.
26:15Oh, my God.
26:39Oh, my God.
27:09Oh, my God.
27:12Oh, my God.
27:44Oh, my God.
27:46Oh, my God.
28:28Oh, my God.
28:57Oh, my God.
28:59Oh, my God.
29:01Okay, Officer Chen, I'm going to have to ask you a few questions, and then we will get you to
29:05the hospital, okay?
29:06Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
29:07Did you fire any shots?
29:09No.
29:10No.
29:11Did you use deadly force against anyone else?
29:13Is there anyone still outstanding?
29:15It's just him.
29:17We got separated.
29:18We got separated.
29:21We got separated.
29:46Before I take you before I take you to the station where I take you to the station where your
29:48clothes will be bagged, you'll be photographed from front and back.
29:50I know all of them.
29:51I know all of this.
29:51I know all of it.
29:51But you've never been through this before.
29:53I know.
30:11I know.
30:11It's late finishing up now. You're not in trouble. It's crazy over here, too
30:14There was some kind of riot a rescue earlier Harper was involved, but she's okay a riot. There'd be a
30:20riot. It's closed
30:20I don't know. I don't have all the facts yet
30:22Something to do with the cleanup crew that got poisoned, but that's not why I'm calling what could be more
30:26impressing than that
30:28Dispatch alerted me to a call that came in a caregiver from Hillwood supportive housing called 911 half an hour
30:33ago
30:33Brian Dearborn had an incident
30:36What kind of incident it's not clear his room was trashed there was blood
30:40He might have hurt himself during some kind of episode and now he's missing Angela
30:45I know but he was doing so well his testimony was strong
30:48I mean the deposition today was the first time that I felt hope since I learned what Harper said at
30:52Glasser
30:52I know but try not to panic. We don't know what happened yet
30:54But whatever happened Malcolm Walsh will use it to undermine Ryan's testimony on the stand and I will be back
30:59at square one on this case
31:03Wesley
31:06What's wrong
31:11Wesley he's here who
31:14Brian
31:16Are you in danger?
31:22I don't know what to do
31:27That's okay with me you don't have to do anything Wesley get out of there. Hey, right right
31:33You see here Ryan's old. Why don't you put the broken glass down? No, no
31:36I need every available unit to the day's office six floor code three ever say
31:41Okay
31:42They're in my head. I thought they were gone
31:44But they're back
31:47They're back
31:48Okay, I can't imagine how you feel Ryan the nightmare that you've gone through that you're still going through
31:53I needed to stop
31:55Okay, I understand. I want to help you
31:58Nobody can help me
32:00Nobody
32:05I know you must feel that way right now
32:09And I know how exhausted we must be
32:14But you deserve more than this
32:16You can have more than this
32:18You are more than this
32:22But I need you to put that broken glass down and let me help you please
32:28Just put it down
32:31It's okay
32:44Hey, it's okay. We're okay
32:56Are you okay?
32:57Yeah
32:58Good because I'm gonna kill you
32:59Angela
33:00You don't try to reason with someone who's in the throes of a psychotic episode
33:03And when your wife says get out of there you get out of there
33:06I'll do better next time
33:07It's not funny. I was scared
33:10Do they know what happened to him?
33:11Not fully
33:12Doctor said that Ryan's pupils are massively dilated like he did a huge dose of amphetamines
33:16Which would induce psychosis in a healthy patient
33:18For schizophrenic, it's like sending a wrecking ball through their brain
33:20It doesn't make sense. He's in a managed care situation at the halfway house
33:23A nurse administers his meds
33:25And it could have been a mistake
33:26And gave him speed
33:27No way
33:29Wesley, you okay? I came as soon as I heard
33:32I'm fine. Thanks
33:33It's tragic
33:34He was doing so well today
33:35Which wasn't good for your client
33:38I don't know why that's relevant right now
33:39Sure you do
33:40Angela
33:40All I'm saying is that Ryan Dearborn's misfortune is Liam Glasser's blessing
33:45If you're implying I had something to do with this
33:47I'm not implying anything I'm putting you on notice
33:49I will find out exactly what happened with Ryan
33:51And if you had anything to do with it
33:53I didn't
33:54And I'd advise your wife to be very careful about making wild accusations in these litigious times
34:00And I would advise you that the quickest way to end up in one of these beds
34:04Is to disrespect her
34:08Thanks for coming by
34:10Of course
34:11And again
34:13I'm glad you're doing okay
34:14Even if your case isn't
34:19He did this
34:20Maybe, but he's not wrong
34:22We need ironclad evidence or he will sue us into poverty
34:24If it exists, I will find it
34:26I have no doubt
34:28So, what exactly happened at Westview?
34:30Zombies, apparently
34:32Oh
34:39Thank you very much
34:46Well
34:46I hope you were satisfied with your ride along
34:50No offense
34:51But I can't exactly give you five stars
34:52That's fair
34:53You sure you don't want me to call your mom?
34:54It's where the look on her face when I show this footage
34:57Listen what you went through today could haunt you for a bit
35:00I'm happy to recommend a drama therapist to be equal
35:02I appreciate that
35:03And hey
35:03Thanks for putting my life in jeopardy and then immediately saving it
35:06I guess that makes a seat
35:07Totally
35:08I'll check on you tomorrow
35:09Looking forward to it
35:10And hey man, I'm telling you
35:11Jawline
35:16Detective Harper said that I proved myself today
35:18Really?
35:19I did not
35:20I said that he did not embarrass himself
35:23Ah, well it was almost six months before she told me that
35:26You, um, heard about Lucy?
35:28Yeah, Lopez said she saw her at the hospital
35:30Said she's still pretty out of it
35:31She's on her way here
35:32She's gonna need her union rep to look out for her
35:35I'll have her back
35:36Everyone all right?
35:37In the most basic sense, yes
35:40Your wife is calling me
35:41I asked her to do a thing
35:42No need to tell her about my day
35:44I don't want to worry
35:44No problem
35:45Go get cleaned up
35:46Chin should be here in 20
35:50Hey, what'd you find out?
35:51Honestly, I don't know
35:52The office has no occupants listed
35:54A very unfriendly woman answered the door
35:56Which set off my spidey sense
35:58I couldn't get a name
35:59But I did see a special operations tattoo
36:02With the phrase
36:02Ego in numicus
36:04It's Latin for I am the enemy
36:07I made a drawing
36:08I'll send it to you
36:08Great, I owe you
36:09No you don't
36:10I hope things are okay with Luna
36:13Thanks
36:14Okay, bye
36:28Why won't you reach me?
36:35No...
36:36No...
36:37Oh, no...
36:40No...
36:40Yup, you're not talking about anyone
36:40I like to do actually
36:42O too many people
36:43No, look
36:47You don't talk to someone
36:47No, no
36:51Paula
36:52You don't ask me
36:53Why do people
36:53Oh, no
36:54Why are you doing here?
36:54That's not
37:04I'm sorry, did you say something?
37:06I did, but it's okay.
37:09We can go over it again later.
37:12I was doing fine things.
37:13I know.
37:14It did that for me, too.
37:17It'll get better when you get some sleep.
37:22Wait, John.
37:23Um, do you know his name, Marty?
37:26I don't know his name.
37:30It's Martin.
37:32His name was Martin.
37:42Tea's ready.
37:45Yeah.
37:47You ready for bed?
37:49Yeah.
37:51No.
37:52I think I'm just going to stay up for a little bit.
37:55All right.
37:58Hey, listen.
38:00Selena's right.
38:01It's going to be okay.
38:03I know.
38:05I'll be in a bit.
38:07All right.
38:07I'll be in a bit.
38:20I'll be in a bit.
38:22I'll be in a bit.
38:22All right.
38:23Let's go.
38:27All right.
38:45Olivia Munn and Leslie Odom Jr.
38:49on a new Jimmy Kimmel Live
38:50later tonight.
38:52Do you think Lucy's okay?
38:54You know, everyone handles
38:55taking a life in the line differently.
38:58Lassar is on the verge of going free.
39:00What? He's a serial killer.
39:01Wesley will find a way to stop it.
39:03He has to.
39:04Where's the body?
39:05I covered him with a towel.
39:06You're a family establishment.
39:08Manson family, maybe.
39:10Officer John Nolan.
39:11Randy.
39:11What are you doing here?
39:12I'm on the trail of a devious con man.
39:14The man in 212 will not escape my grasp.
39:16The man in 212 is dead.
39:18I don't know.
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