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High Potential S02 - Episode 5
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00:12Let me do it.
00:13Come on! It's okay. Stop!
00:15You're gonna make me crack!
00:16No!
00:24Look, it's still filming.
00:27Is that a car?
00:33Oh!
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00:59How'd you find me?
01:00Well, when you wouldn't take my calls, I had to stock your reviews.
01:03Turns out Steve from Pentech, very satisfied with his Thursday lawn care. Five stars.
01:09What can I help you with?
01:10What can I help you with, Morgan?
01:11I was just wondering why you'd give me your business card and then ghost me.
01:14Roman asked me to check on you and his kid.
01:17I told him you were good.
01:18The job is done.
01:20So you and Roman are what, pen pals?
01:22Before I got the call, I hadn't spoken to the man in 15 years.
01:26So someone you haven't spoken with in over a decade calls and you drop everything to go pick up a
01:31backpack in Nevada and then spy on my daughter and me?
01:34Yeah, well, sure seems that way.
01:37Do you know where Roman is?
01:39Roman called me from a burner, all right? I didn't even see him when I got out there, so...
01:45I want that backpack.
01:47Then why don't you ask some of your cop friends about that? They can help you with it.
01:51Yeah, you're right. I am friends with some people in the LAPD.
01:54Mm-hmm.
01:55Including the Financial Crimes Division.
01:57I wonder if they would peek into your business from it.
02:00You know what? You probably have nothing to worry about.
02:03I'm sure you've reported every single dollar of your cash-only business to the IRS, right?
02:07Good. I'll be in touch with a time and a place.
02:10Keep up the five-star work, Arthur.
02:15One of the things I'm most proud of as your lieutenant is this team's commitment to its duty.
02:20Every day, you tackle the toughest crimes the city throws at you with honor and tenacity.
02:26Tenacious is also how I would describe Captain Wagner.
02:30His track record speaks for itself. Welcome, Captain Nick Wagner.
02:38Thank you, Lieutenant Soto.
02:40I know what it's like to have a change in command and all the uncertainties that come with it,
02:45which is why I want to be clear up front. I'm not here to step on toes.
02:49My job is to support you so you can do yours.
02:53I'm looking forward to getting to know you better.
03:01And to start that process, I'm going to be meeting with you individually.
03:05It's nothing formal, just some talk.
03:07And since my office is on three, I was hoping Lieutenant Soto wouldn't mind if I used hers as home
03:12base for a few days.
03:14Whatever you need, Captain.
03:16Great. Thank you, everyone.
03:21Detective Osdill, free for a chat?
03:24Sure.
03:30Hey.
03:32You okay with all this?
03:34Are you referring to getting kicked out of my own office or Captain Wagner in general?
03:38Yes.
03:41I'm fine.
03:42Really, first few days of new command is always a little bumpy.
03:49Daphne.
03:50What do we know about Wagner?
03:52Well, I know he's one of the Wagners.
03:54What does that mean?
03:55The Wagners are an LAPD dynasty.
03:57Grandfather, father, uncle, all made captain.
04:00His dad retired a decade ago and went into politics.
04:02I heard his dad put some strings to get his son into command.
04:04Must be nice to have that kind of in.
04:06Hey, guys.
04:07I just got a call.
04:08Dead body found at Shea Ranch Pond.
04:10Go check it out.
04:27What are we looking at?
04:28The victim was shot in the chest.
04:29No ID.
04:30The car is registered to a Tori Nolan 31.
04:33We pulled the pick from the DMV.
04:35You think the car might have been stolen by the Vic?
04:41No.
04:42She didn't steal Tori Nolan's car.
04:44She is Tori Nolan.
04:46Looks like Tori had some work done recently.
04:50Botox, microplaning, threads, cheek fillers, eyelash extensions.
04:53She chopped her hair off and dyed it brown.
04:56Sounds like she went through a lot of trouble to change her appearance.
04:58Yeah.
04:59Either she succumbed to the pressures of being a woman in L.A.
05:02Or she was hiding from someone.
05:04Hmm.
05:04Many of these bullet ones.
05:06Definitely came from a small caliber.
05:07Maybe a .380.
05:08Well, those are steam burns.
05:09But look, these seem chemical.
05:10There's red staining on her clothes and skin, too.
05:12Not even looks like blood.
05:13Some kind of dye?
05:17All the windows are missing.
05:19Might have been shot out.
05:27Looks like Tori had a storage on it.
05:29Hold on.
05:30Why is this still dripping?
05:31The rest of the dash is dry.
05:34Okay.
05:36So Tori Nolan changed her face, carried a gun, only to get shot, burned, and dumped into a pond.
05:45Well, whoever she was hiding from, it looks like they found her.
05:53Hula Hound.
05:54And you know about this place because...
05:56I know all the bars in L.A. with trivia nights.
05:59Don't judge me.
06:00Knowing random facts is the whole point of a pub quiz.
06:03They love it.
06:03Hmm.
06:05Maybe they don't love it because, you know, I'm banned from most of them.
06:08But that's not why we're here.
06:09We're here because you said Tori had a storage unit, right?
06:12Yeah.
06:12Okay.
06:14Ta-da!
06:17Nobody's popping into the Hula Hound for no reason,
06:19and I'm thinking Tori's reason was proximity.
06:21Yeah, it's as good a place to start as any.
06:23Tori's last known address was in Koreatown, but landlord said she hasn't lived there for years.
06:27Let's go see what she was storing.
06:29That's...
06:41What do these mean?
06:43I don't know yet.
06:47There was no laptop in Tori's car.
06:49Maybe the killer took it.
06:59Whoa.
07:01Look at these.
07:07Huh.
07:08All these match up with the places on the filing cabinets.
07:12Tori was traveling the world under assumed identities.
07:14Who was this girl?
07:15Carmen Sandiego?
07:22Gonna take days to piece all that back together.
07:28We might not have to.
07:30Okay, so everywhere Tori traveled, there was some sort of big scandal.
07:34Crystal Lake had this massive E. coli outbreak from faulty water pipes in July of 2018.
07:39Late 2023, an American au pair agency was running a human trafficking ring out of Cambodia.
07:44And do you see these red symbols right here?
07:47Those are editing marks.
07:49And these numbers, they're dates and issue numbers from a magazine.
07:54Tori wasn't an international woman of mystery.
07:56She was an investigative reporter.
07:58Well, whatever story she was covering now might have gotten her killed.
08:02Find anything in Tori Nolan's financials?
08:05Oz.
08:07Oz.
08:09Uh, sorry.
08:10Okay, you've been acting weird ever since your meeting with the captain.
08:14I thought you said it went well.
08:15Yeah, I did.
08:16I think.
08:17I don't know.
08:19You'll see when you meet with him.
08:24Daphne, what'd you find out?
08:26Okay, I cross-referenced the location, dates, and issue numbers you sent.
08:30Morgan was right.
08:31Tori was a journalist for Takedown Magazine, an online publication known for his exposés.
08:35According to her editor, Tori always wrote under a pseudonym.
08:39Apparently she got doxed after an article she published in her college newspaper.
08:43Having her private information blasted all over the internet was so traumatic she dropped out of school.
08:47Did the editor know what Tori was currently investigating?
08:50No.
08:50But that wasn't unusual.
08:51She said Tori would drop off the grid when following a story.
08:54Good news is, they insisted on getting proof of life from her whenever she was undercover,
08:58so I'm sending that to you now.
09:03This is recent.
09:04She had the same nails on when she died.
09:07There's no grow out around the cuticles.
09:09Yeah, but this picture could have been taken anywhere, Morgan.
09:10There's no landmarks or anything else in the background we can use.
09:14Not true.
09:15We got a poodle dog.
09:19There's literally no poodle.
09:26Okay, I get it. We're looking for poodle dog plants.
09:29But how do you know this is the right area?
09:31Because there was a fire in these hills just a few months ago.
09:34Poodle dog bushes are pyrophytes.
09:37Fire followers.
09:38Their seeds lie dormant until the intense heat of a fire wakes them up.
09:42Based on the size of the plant in this picture she took, this location fits the timeline.
09:47Yeah, yeah, yeah, look.
09:49Look, we're getting close. See?
09:50Okay, stop.
09:51Check it out.
09:52She took the picture right here.
09:55Okay, if I am Tori, I am not taking no trespassing for an answer.
10:00If you're Tori.
10:03Well, why would I? Any bozo can buy a sign tacket to a fence.
10:05Morgan, whoever put up that sign, they might mean it.
10:08Tori's embedded herself in some dangerous situations with some dangerous people,
10:11so we don't know what we might be walking into here.
10:22What is this place?
10:24Oh, you don't have a teenager.
10:26This is a content house.
10:30It's all its potentials and we swish up the way we do.
10:33Yeah, we turn up the tempo.
10:35All the serotonin that we got in at your dinner.
10:39No, we get...
10:42These guys all live here and shoot videos for their screaming platforms.
10:46Could explain Tori's enhancements.
10:48She'd have to be camera ready 24-7 if she was going undercover as an influencer.
10:52Hmm, yeah.
10:54This isn't really on par with the other stories she went after.
10:56What was she investigating here?
10:58Can I help you?
11:00I'm Detective Karadek.
11:01This is Morgan Guillory, LAPD.
11:03Do you recognize this woman?
11:06That's Darla.
11:08She lives here.
11:11Is she okay?
11:13No, unfortunately she's not.
11:15She's dead.
11:17Hey!
11:18Anyone else want to take a dip in the gel koozie?
11:25Uh, that's a no?
11:27Darla.
11:28Well, Tori, I guess.
11:29She'd only been in the house a few weeks, but everyone liked her.
11:32What kind of content did she make?
11:33ASMR videos.
11:35Her channel wasn't doing great, but it was growing.
11:37When's the last time you saw Tori?
11:38A day ago.
11:39Maybe two.
11:40When everyone's filming, we tend to lose track of time.
11:44Do you know of anyone who would want to hurt her?
11:45No.
11:45We've all had creeps in our comments, but Tori never mentioned anything she was concerned
11:49about.
11:50Do you think one of her followers killed her?
11:52Well, we're not ruling anything out.
11:53Thanks.
11:54We'll be in touch.
11:56No one claims to know what happened.
11:58You got anything?
11:59Just that these kids are under a crazy amount of pressure.
12:02You know that bit that Pranks was doing?
12:05A six ounce box of gelatin makes two cups.
12:08A standard kiddie pool is about 400 gallons.
12:11That's 3,360 boxes just to fill it up.
12:14I'm guessing from set up to clean up, that's what, 30 hours of work for a 30 second video?
12:20That's barely gonna move the needle on his goal chart.
12:22This guy Phineas is running this place like a sweatshop.
12:30Okay.
12:31Looks like we found Pranks' lair.
12:38Red dye?
12:39Like the red dye that was all over Tori's body?
12:41What are you gonna say?
12:42You don't even know what happened.
12:43I don't care.
12:43What?
12:44Just talk.
12:46Something you guys want to tell us?
12:49We did it.
12:50We did it.
12:51We killed her.
12:51It was an accident.
12:52One of you shot Tori.
12:54She was shot?
12:55How do you think you killed her?
12:57Like that.
12:59Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
13:01You might want to walk her back.
13:02Oh!
13:03Oh!
13:04Oh!
13:17Darla and Tori leaves the house every Wednesday afternoon to do errands.
13:21Since we knew she'd be in her car, Pranks' and I set up a situation in her backseat.
13:27What kind of a situation?
13:29The devil's toothpaste.
13:31Exactly what happened to Detective Karadak except bigger.
13:37Show me.
13:42Get ready.
13:43It's freaking so many hits.
13:45I'm sorry, Darla, but you asked for this.
13:50Oh, my God.
13:52What did we do?
13:53I don't know.
13:53Hurry.
13:54The car's still rolling.
13:55We need to get out of here.
13:56Stop filming, Pranks!
13:58Did you check on her?
13:59Well, we freaked out, so we called Phineas.
14:01He runs Cloud House.
14:03Phineas said Darla was fine, but really mad.
14:05She was just gonna go for a drive and cool off.
14:06No.
14:07With a force like that, Tori was definitely concussed.
14:09She wasn't driving anywhere.
14:11You guys, that was a really dangerous prank.
14:13I know.
14:14I didn't think it'd be that big of an explosion.
14:16All right.
14:16What was in it?
14:18Just dye, soap, yeast, and peroxide.
14:21How much peroxide?
14:22A lot.
14:23A lot.
14:23Okay.
14:23Well, that explains the steam burns.
14:25When hydrogen peroxide meets yeast, it produces a lot of oxygen and a lot of heat.
14:31The oxygen forms a fabulous foam.
14:34And the higher the peroxide percentage, the bigger the boomer.
14:42It also explains the lack of blood in Tori's car.
14:44The peroxide would have cleaned it up.
14:46In the video, you said Tori asked for it.
14:48Why?
14:49She stole my L3 protein powder.
14:52Live, laugh, lift.
14:53I was supposed to do an exclusive promo for them.
14:55I'm the only content creator in the country to get L3 before the launch.
14:58She's gonna bring a ton of traffic to my channel, but...
15:01Tori stole the powder before I could film it.
15:03Why would she do that?
15:04Probably because her own channel wasn't doing so well, so she wanted to sabotage mine.
15:09Those morons could have killed Tori with that dumb prank, but I don't think they shot her.
15:13I think someone else did.
15:15Look.
15:16Red dye and tire tracks.
15:18Extend down into those weeds.
15:20I think this is where Tori was shot.
15:28I wonder who would have wanted to do that.
15:37Let's get back to the car.
15:38I'll put out a bolo.
15:39Hold on a second.
15:41Did you just try and chase after a sports car?
15:43It was an instinct.
15:43Your instinct was that you could catch up to a twin-turbo V8?
15:47Morgan.
15:48This might be the best day of my life.
15:50Uh-huh.
15:51I just wanna thank you for that beautiful gift.
15:53Okay.
15:59We didn't know you'd be home early.
16:02Clearly.
16:03What is this?
16:04Oh, a PB&J.
16:05Cookies are not bread.
16:07Ugh.
16:08Air Patrol's out looking for a guy, so I got a little time.
16:10That's so cool.
16:11You should've asked for a fly along.
16:12Mmm.
16:13I prefer to do my barfing on land.
16:16Hey, uh, Elliot, can you go grab your sister?
16:18I thought you were hiring a babysitter.
16:20Can you just go get her?
16:21Please, you're her favorite person in the whole wide world.
16:24I know you're just saying that to manipulate me.
16:26Is it working?
16:27Yes.
16:28But only because it's true.
16:30She's a big Elliot fan.
16:31Aren't we all?
16:32Mmm, he's alright.
16:35Ugh.
16:36Gross.
16:40The other reason I wanted to swing by home was to let you know that I tracked down Arthur
16:44this morning.
16:45The guy who knows my dad?
16:46Mm-hmm.
16:47Does he know where he is?
16:48No, but he did agree to give me his backpack.
16:51Okay, let's go get it.
16:52Hold on a second.
16:53We haven't figured out a time or a place yet, but when we do, I will get the backpack.
16:58I can't go with you?
16:59No!
17:00Why not?
17:02We don't even know who this guy is.
17:03I'm not letting him anywhere near you.
17:04No.
17:05But, Mom, what if he has information or...
17:06Hey, about...
17:07It's not a negotiation.
17:10Okay.
17:12I'll keep you posted.
17:21Phineas' orange Lamborghini wasn't hard to find.
17:23Highway Patrol picked him up in Ventura an hour ago.
17:26So far, he's had nothing to say.
17:28Keeping his mouth shut is probably the smartest thing he's done in a while.
17:31Mm-hmm.
17:32I'm not interrupting, am I?
17:34No.
17:35Detectives Oz and Karatek are letting Phineas sweat a bit before starting their interrogation.
17:40Good.
17:41So, Detective Forrester has a minute.
17:43I hope you don't mind, but I stopped at your desk and I couldn't resist.
17:46No, that's what they're there for.
17:48I never had a sweet tooth until I joined the force.
17:51Now I can't go a day without having sugar.
17:53No, well, there was worse habits.
17:55True.
17:56And there are some habits that serve you well on your job.
17:59I saw your file, Detective.
18:01Have you ever considered sitting for the sergeant's exam?
18:05Uh...
18:06Yeah, I thought about it, but nothing serious.
18:09You should.
18:09I have a friend that used to be a test assessor.
18:12He can give you tips, get you the right study materials.
18:15That's great.
18:17But, you know, I'm really happy here.
18:18No, of course you are, but it never hurts to be curious about broadening your horizons.
18:24I'm sure Lieutenant Soto would agree.
18:27I do.
18:28I'd love to hear it.
18:29I'll set it up.
18:36What'd I miss?
18:37Nothing.
18:38They haven't started the interrogation yet, but I'm glad you popped in, Morgan.
18:41I was hoping we could sit down and have that talk.
18:43Oh, you know what?
18:45I...
18:46I...
18:47I can't, though, because I've got to give this my attention, so...
18:49Later?
18:51Maybe.
18:52Of course.
18:54Let's talk about Tori Nolan.
18:56Who?
18:57The reporter you shot and then dumped in a pond.
18:59We're thinking you found out she was embedded at your house,
19:01you were worried about the story she'd run, and so you got rid of her.
19:04You mean Darla?
19:05So the details are familiar, but not the name.
19:07I didn't know that was Darla.
19:09I definitely didn't know that she was a reporter.
19:11Why was she at Cloud House?
19:13We were wondering the same thing.
19:14But then we had a look at your financials.
19:16$200,000 sports car.
19:18Mm.
19:18Several stays at the Ibiza Four Seasons.
19:21You work the kids hard, pay them way less than their earning,
19:23and then skim all the profits for yourself.
19:25That sounds like a story to me.
19:26Any money that I take from the creators is for their room and board.
19:29Right.
19:2950K a month.
19:31Each.
19:31Seems a bit steep, doesn't it, Phineas?
19:33Even by Los Angeles standards.
19:36I gotta do a quick mic pop.
19:38A what?
19:39You need to see his watch.
19:41Watch, please.
19:46Check out the joints.
19:47There's corrosion in there, you see that?
19:49That's what happens when titanium comes in contact with concentrated peroxide.
19:54Oh.
19:55You see, after the explosion, Tori was covered in that, Phineas,
19:57and you must have gotten a good bit of it on yourself, too,
19:59when you moved her body from the driver's seat.
20:02You were in Tori's car after Raquel, and Pranks foamed it.
20:05You're the one who shot her and then moved the car.
20:10I moved the body, but I swear I did not kill her.
20:14There was so much foam everywhere, I had no idea that she was shot until I got to the pond.
20:18If you didn't kill her, why'd you move the body?
20:21Because I'd lose the lease on the house.
20:23Landlord's been trying to evict Cloud House for months.
20:26The neighbors hate us, and if they kick us out, I'd have to shut the entire thing down.
20:30Can you prove that you didn't kill her?
20:31I can.
20:32Do you guys know what bots are?
20:34Fake account holders on social networks.
20:36People use them to pad their followers, yeah.
20:37Exactly.
20:38Darla's number, Tori's numbers, were terrible.
20:42And right before Pranks and Raquel came running up,
20:45I was in my office buying bots to pump up Tori's channel.
20:49Which you never would have done if you were planning on getting rid of her a minute later.
20:53Exactly.
20:56Damn it.
21:04We booked Phineas for evidence tampering and illegal transport.
21:08He offered up Tori's bag as a bargaining chip for leniency.
21:11Say he took it to keep anyone from ID'ing her.
21:14Somebody who loves cars didn't think we could find her through her VIN number?
21:17Come on.
21:19Great.
21:19Tori has state-of-the-art encryption on here.
21:22Not surprising for someone with her job.
21:25Raquel was right.
21:27Tori did steal the protein powder.
21:29But why?
21:29I checked Tori's Cloudhouse channel.
21:30She never advertised it.
21:31Yeah, well why would she?
21:32She didn't actually care about her numbers, which means she wouldn't sabotage somebody else's.
21:36Morgan, how about this?
21:38You recognize anything in these lab results?
21:41Yeah.
21:42Nothing super interesting.
21:43Except castoreum.
21:44What's that?
21:45Beaver butt secretion.
21:46It's a flavoring agent.
21:48So is ethylmethylphenylglycinate.
21:51Artificial strawberry.
21:52I know that from my weekly fight with my kids in the cereal aisle.
21:57Yep.
21:58Strawberry.
21:59Okay.
22:00So Tori wasn't investigating the content house.
22:02She was investigating the protein powder.
22:04Why?
22:04Yeah, the woman made a career out of exposing major scandals.
22:09She covered corruption.
22:10She saved animals from abuse.
22:13She took on big oil and then protein powder?
22:16Going after a small time product doesn't make any sense.
22:22We said she was doxxed, right?
22:23Yeah.
22:24She wrote an article about a classmate who was running a test taker for her business.
22:27He cyberbullied her for revenge.
22:29His name was, um, Robert Romano.
22:33Well, I think he goes by Bobby now.
22:45Robert Romano?
22:47Whoa.
22:48My full name?
22:49That's what my mom calls me when I'm in trouble.
22:54Wait, am I in trouble?
22:55Well, we just want to talk.
22:56It's an impressive operation you got here.
22:58Thanks, man.
22:59Yeah, it's exciting times at L3.
23:01Yeah, our pre-orders are flying.
23:03I'm trying to stay humble, but I got a feeling Live Laugh Lift is going to revolutionize the fitness industry.
23:09Really?
23:10Oh.
23:11Because it kind of looks like you're just repackaging a bunch of bulk protein powder from China and slapping your
23:16label on it.
23:17Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
23:18It's way more than that.
23:19Is it?
23:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:20L3 is a movement.
23:22Okay?
23:23This guy gets it.
23:23Bobby.
23:24I can tell.
23:25San Dimas delivery is going to be late.
23:26The truck got a flat.
23:28If you two are from the health department, our certification's out in compliance.
23:31Don't worry.
23:32They're not health inspectors.
23:32They're just cops.
23:35Guys, this is Lamar Vulpes.
23:36He's my operations manager.
23:38Can we help you with something?
23:40Yeah, we were hoping to take a look around, Lamar.
23:42Sure.
23:42You got a warrant?
23:43I don't know.
23:44Is there something here that warrants a warrant?
23:45Whoa, no, no.
23:47They don't need a warrant, dude.
23:49We're just talking, right?
23:50That's right.
23:51Yeah.
23:51Look, Lamar, I'll call San Dimas.
23:53You got it, boss.
23:54Okay.
23:58I know, he seems pretty tough, right?
24:00It's just his job.
24:01I couldn't run the place without him.
24:02Hmm.
24:03Yeah, I don't doubt it.
24:04I mean, your other businesses were all scams, right?
24:06Designer shoe company that turned out to be low-end knockoffs.
24:08The concert app that was kicking out fraudulent tickets.
24:11Oh, yeah.
24:11That one got your pinch for wirefrog.
24:13You did two years in prison, right?
24:14Mm-hmm.
24:14Yeah, the feds got interested in you because of an anonymous tip,
24:17but she wasn't so anonymous for you, was she?
24:21Yeah, you're talking about Tori Nolan.
24:23She just has it out for me.
24:24Oh, yeah?
24:25You think it had anything to do with the time you doxxed her so bad
24:27she had to drop out of school?
24:29I really regret that.
24:31I was a stupid kid, and I did stupid things.
24:39Please.
24:42So why are you asking about Tori?
24:44Well, Bobby, um, she's dead.
24:50That's heavy.
24:51Mm-hmm.
24:53Well, you don't think I had something to do with it?
24:56Strong and smart.
24:57He's the whole package.
24:58Thanks.
24:59When's the last time you had contact with Tori?
25:01Well, she called me a week ago.
25:02She told me she was this big reporter now,
25:04and she was gonna take me down for good this time.
25:06But how was she gonna do that?
25:07I had no idea.
25:08I hung up on her.
25:10The kind of negative energy is not what Live Laugh Lift is all about.
25:12And it's nonsense anyway, because L3 is legit.
25:16Okay, so that must have really pissed you off that she was trying to take it down.
25:19I wouldn't hurt anyone.
25:21You can look around all you want.
25:22I'm an open book.
25:26Morgan.
25:27Garadeck, he's an open book.
25:29I'm cool with it.
25:29He's cool with it.
25:32He was at a gym across town when Tori was shot.
25:35Yeah.
25:36Because I never skip leg day.
25:38Can you verify that?
25:39Yes.
25:47Oh, you meant like an alibi.
25:49Yeah.
25:49My pump partner can vouch for me.
25:51Oh.
25:52This kid's getting better.
25:54I'll check out Bobby's alibi.
25:56See if the gym had cameras.
25:57You're saying you don't trust the word of his pump partner?
26:00No.
26:00Even if his story is true, it doesn't mean he had nothing to do with Tori's death.
26:03He could have hired someone to kill her.
26:05Yeah, maybe.
26:06His NADVAP doesn't have him going to Cloud House ever.
26:08It does say that he stops by a place called Serenity Arms at least once a week.
26:12Hmm.
26:12Sounds like a cult.
26:13No, actually it's a halfway house for ex-cons.
26:15Maybe Bobby stayed there after he got out of prison.
26:17Might be a good place to get some confirmation as to how reformed he actually is.
26:23Great.
26:23I'm being summoned from my meeting with the captain.
26:26No, thank you.
26:27It's good timing though.
26:28I gotta grab my car from the station and deal with the family thing.
26:30Everything okay?
26:31Well, yeah.
26:32Never any drama in the Guillory household.
26:35Oh, never.
26:42Detective Kerida, come in.
26:46Don't worry, it's not yours.
26:47I wasn't worried.
26:48Nor should you be.
26:49I didn't even read your file.
26:51Your reputation precedes you.
26:52Please.
27:06Morgan Guillory.
27:07Tell me about her.
27:08I thought this meeting was about me.
27:10It is, but she's your partner.
27:12And I think we can both admit that it's unconventional.
27:15And really not your style, Detective.
27:18So you have read my file.
27:19I don't need to read anything to know that you're a badge and oath kind of guy.
27:22But Morgan, she doesn't strike me as somebody who stays in her lane.
27:27Hmm.
27:28Well, we work well together if that's what you're getting at.
27:30You certainly do.
27:31Your case rate has increased ever since you two teamed up.
27:35You were smart to claim her as your partner.
27:39You don't know Morgan if you think anyone can claim her.
27:43Hmm.
27:51Was there something else you needed, Detective?
27:55No.
27:58Hey, heard back from the guy that runs Serenity Arms.
28:01Gavin Tillman.
28:02He's available to meet.
28:03Cool.
28:03Let's go.
28:22I think you forgot something.
28:24I wanna talk first.
28:25About what?
28:25This is very simple.
28:26You've got the backpack.
28:28You give me the backpack.
28:29End of transaction.
28:33So you really think that whatever's in that bag will give you answers and not just more
28:39questions?
28:42You didn't look in it, did you?
28:46Why?
28:47I don't know.
28:48I thought about it.
28:50You know?
28:51But I know Roman, okay?
28:53The dude is solid.
28:54And he wouldn't just up and disappear from his people for no reason.
28:58So I keep asking myself, what the hell happened 15 years ago that was bad enough to make a good
29:04man run?
29:05And to be quite honest, I'm not sure if I wanna know the answer to that.
29:08Do you?
29:10Yes.
29:11So give us the bag.
29:12What are you...
29:13How did you know where I was?
29:15It's the family tracker app.
29:17You can see my location and I can see yours.
29:18No!
29:18We're not doing this!
29:19Okay, stop!
29:20We didn't get the bag yet.
29:21You can go, but I'm not leaving here without it.
29:26No, it's...
29:28You look just like your dad when he's about to start digging into something.
29:36You really knew my dad?
29:38Oh yeah.
29:39You know, him and me, we went way back.
29:41I mean, we came up together.
29:43We were practically inseparable.
29:45You know, he spent so much time at my house, ate so many meals that my mom started calling
29:49him plates.
29:56We need your help.
29:59I don't understand why my dad left me, but I need to.
30:11All right, look, I get it.
30:13Okay?
30:14When I heard his voice, it was like time hadn't passed.
30:18But it had.
30:19I mean, 15 years is a long time to disappear.
30:22Yeah.
30:26And I miss him.
30:28My mom's like ridiculously smart.
30:30So if there's a clue in that bag, she'll find it.
30:32And then maybe we'll find him.
30:40Liz?
30:44All right.
30:46Okay.
30:47I'll get it to you.
30:49Wonderful.
30:50Ready?
30:55I know you didn't want me.
30:56Not another word.
30:57No, do you see, I helped.
30:58He must stop it.
30:59He wouldn't have, like, get rid of it.
31:00We will talk about this later.
31:02Right now, I am so angry, I don't trust anything that would come out of my mouth.
31:13What can you tell us about Bobby Romano?
31:16I've run this place 22 years, and I can honestly say I've never met anyone like Bobby.
31:22Is that a good thing?
31:23Oh, yeah.
31:24See, a lot of people land here, they're fresh out of prison, they're mad at the world,
31:27they want to burn it all down.
31:28But not Bobby.
31:30He dusted himself off and decided to make the world better.
31:33With protein powder.
31:35Okay, yeah, I know it sounds silly.
31:37But Bobby believes in it.
31:39What's the harm?
31:41If Bobby felt so strongly about his business, how far do you think he'd go to protect it?
31:48What are you asking?
31:49A woman's been murdered.
31:51Tori Nolan.
31:53She and Bobby had a bit of a past.
31:55Do you know that name?
31:55Bobby mentioned Tori a few times when he first got here.
31:58Said that she actually helped put him in prison.
32:01But he wasn't angry about it.
32:03Like I said, Bobby left all that behind when he got out.
32:06But then she threatened him.
32:09He told her she called him.
32:10Oh, she did more than that.
32:11She showed up at his warehouse.
32:13She said not only would she ruin his launch, but she'd see to it that he went back to prison
32:18for life.
32:18What did Tori find out?
32:22Bobby wouldn't say.
32:23But when he missed his last group session that morning, I called him.
32:27He was frantic.
32:29He said, I should have taken care of this ten years ago.
32:35Look, I thought he meant to get a restraining order or something.
32:39I didn't think he'd hurt her.
32:46LAPD.
32:47Bobby, open the door.
33:01How long has Bobby been dead?
33:02Emmy says a few hours.
33:04An employee told us that Bobby was very upset after we spoke with him.
33:08Sent everyone home early and locked himself in his office.
33:10And we're guessing that's where he swallowed enough pills to overdose?
33:13Mm-hmm.
33:14What'd he take?
33:14It's a new party drug called Dazzle Kitty.
33:17It's a euphoria-inducing stimulant, like ecstasy, but five times more potent.
33:21In large quantities, it can cause cardiac arrest, which we believe is what happened to Bobby.
33:26The L3 was a cover for shipping the drugs.
33:28We found bags of it hidden in the powder canisters.
33:31Now, most of these are real companies just purchasing protein powder,
33:34but this code, 44889, corresponds to the orders that had bags of drugs in the powder.
33:38We assumed they were being trafficked to distributors around the country.
33:40We also found a .380 pistol in his desk that matches the gunshot wounds on Tori.
33:44We're sending you to Ballistics for testing.
33:46Beef and barley soup!
33:51Beef and barley soup.
33:53Saying it again doesn't make it any clearer, Morgan.
33:55Somebody wants us to think that Bobby killed Tori and then OD'd.
33:58But you don't buy it.
33:59No! When we were here earlier, Bobby couldn't wait to show us around.
34:02Now, he's not the brightest bulb, but even he's smart enough to not want cops digging around in a place
34:06where there's drugs.
34:08Plus the soup.
34:09Soup?
34:10I opened his mouth and I smell inside of it, and it definitely smells like beef and barley soup.
34:13And he dribbled a little bit on his t-shirt. You can see it right there. That wasn't there before.
34:17This guy ate the soup and died right around the same time.
34:20Okay.
34:21There's no soup container.
34:22We checked all the trash cans. Nothing.
34:24We also checked the sink drain.
34:30Is that...
34:30A carrot?
34:32Mm-hmm.
34:32And a half-melted capsule of Dazzle Kitty.
34:35So either Bobby drugged his own soup, ate it, and then high as a kite dumped the rest down the
34:41drain,
34:42magicked the container away before passing out...
34:46Or...
34:46Or someone else put the drug in the soup.
34:48And that someone wants us to think that the drug operation and Tori's murder were all Bobby's doing.
34:52And now that he's dead, it's a closed case.
34:54Yes. I think whoever killed Bobby also killed Tori and masterminded the whole thing.
34:59Then who's the brains?
35:21Hands up!
35:22Gavin, gentlemen, get out of the vehicle with your hands up.
35:38I hope you're curious how we found out about this, because I've been pretty excited to tell you.
35:42At first we thought, oh, for sure it's Lamar.
35:44Yeah, we brought him in for questioning, but he wouldn't give anything up.
35:47He's loyal, isn't he? I'll give him that.
35:49But Bobby didn't get the same courtesy.
35:51Lamar was very quick to tell us that he met Bobby in prison,
35:54and Bobby brought him in to his L3 drug operation.
35:57See, the problem there is that neither of those things are true.
36:00A, Bobby had no idea there was a drug operation,
36:03and B, they weren't in prison at the same time.
36:05They sure weren't.
36:05After they got out, they spent time at your halfway house, Serenity Arms.
36:11Once we made that connection, Lamar was much more cooperative.
36:13Oh, yeah. He gave you right up.
36:15Yeah. But Lamar insisted he had nothing to do with Tori and Bobby's deaths,
36:18and he had the alibis to prove it.
36:19He sure did. Now, that was all you.
36:21But you were honest with Karadek and Oz.
36:24Bobby did tell you about Tori and his sessions,
36:26and Bobby did talk to you about Tori's threats.
36:28Bobby had no idea what Tori was talking about, but you did.
36:32Tori reaching out to Bobby blew her cover.
36:34You knew exactly where to find her.
36:35So you waited at Cloud House,
36:37and when Tori's car came into view, you shot her.
36:41You couldn't have predicted the state she'd be in,
36:42but you just used it to your advantage.
36:44At that point, Bobby was a liability.
36:46Lamar said he called you right after we showed up to the warehouse.
36:49You needed to tie up loose ends.
36:52When we talked to you at the halfway house, Bobby was already dead.
36:56I want a lawyer.
36:57Oh, I bet you do.
36:58Maybe more than one.
37:00Go deep on that bench.
37:04I spoke to the editor of Takedown Magazine.
37:07They're gonna finish Tori's last article and put out a tribute issue.
37:10Oh, yeah?
37:10Yeah.
37:11Oh, I like that.
37:12The world needs more Tories in it.
37:15Yeah.
37:16I'm gonna get out of here before the captain ambushes me.
37:18You know, you can't avoid him forever.
37:20Um, I have owed the Culver City Public Library $3.50 since the 90s,
37:26so I'm gonna beg to differ.
37:29Well, there's always some growing pains when a new person joins a team.
37:32There is?
37:33I remember nothing but absolute delight when I came on board.
37:38Oh.
37:40See ya.
37:53Hey.
37:53Need some help?
37:54No, I'm good.
37:56She just needs some coolin' or she gets cranky.
37:59Not cranky.
38:00Assertive.
38:01I thought you were gonna come by for a chat today.
38:04No, I made that up to buy some time so I could get out of it.
38:06Plus I was busy, you know, doing my job.
38:09Yeah, you like workin' here.
38:12Is that a question?
38:13No, it's a surprised observation.
38:15Why surprised?
38:16I just heard some rumors you don't respond positively to authority.
38:22I don't respond positively to authority that abuses their power.
38:26Is that how you see me?
38:28I don't know.
38:30I haven't decided on that yet.
38:32Well, what have you decided on?
38:36Um, I've decided I'd like you to get your car out of my way so I can go home to
38:41my kids.
38:42Alright, Guillory.
38:44Let me have it.
38:50Alright.
38:52Let's see.
38:53You're from a legacy family, right?
38:56So, that tells me you could take the easy road, but you choose not to because you want to prove
39:00to everybody that you can.
39:01And that's admirable, but it also makes you smug.
39:05You like being captain.
39:07You like the respect.
39:08You like the authority.
39:10Love the boots.
39:11But you also miss being in the field a little bit more than you thought you would.
39:14You like to be in the action, right?
39:15Because that makes you feel important.
39:18Anything else?
39:22You like to keep people guessing if your interest in them is real or just a way to get something
39:27you want.
39:29Pretty good.
39:32You got two out of the three.
39:34Yeah?
39:34Which one did I get wrong?
39:35No.
39:41I'm not as good at this game as you are.
39:47But I've learned one thing for sure.
39:50You gave Morgan Guillory a puzzle.
39:52She won't stop thinking about it until it's solved.
40:01Good night, Morgan.
40:04Good night, Morgan.
40:18Hey.
40:20Hey.
40:24You're so mad.
40:28Yeah.
40:30I am.
40:32I love you more than anything in this world.
40:34So I'm gonna do whatever I need to do to keep you safe.
40:37If I say no to you, I expect you to listen.
40:40But nothing bad happened.
40:42That's not the point.
40:43I told you no, and you went off and did whatever you wanted to do anyway.
40:46Sounds familiar.
40:47Excuse me?
40:49If you don't agree with someone, you never listen to them.
40:51What would you have done if you were me?
40:54Yeah, exactly.
40:55Ava, you're not wrong.
40:58Okay?
41:00The difference is, I am an adult.
41:02I get to make those choices.
41:03You don't.
41:04You're such a hypocrite.
41:05Okay.
41:05I'm glad the SAT prep is paying off, but let's watch the tone, please.
41:08I'm serious.
41:09You're being unfair.
41:10I'm being your mom.
41:11Ava, I make mistakes all the time.
41:13This isn't one of them, okay?
41:14And actions have consequences.
41:16What does that mean?
41:16It means I need to think about how much I want to involve you in the stuff with your dad
41:20until I can trust you again.
41:21You're never gonna trust me enough because you don't want to.
41:23I'm sorry.
41:24Trust is something that you earn from a-
41:25No, stop.
41:26You think you're some cool mom or something, but you're really just embarrassing.
41:35Hey, little child, pick up the pieces, pick up the pieces.
41:42Oh, I don't know, cause I've seen everything.
41:50Oh, I know, cause I've seen everything.
42:07Oh, I know, cause I've seen everything.
42:15Oh, I know, cause I've seen everything.
42:22Oh, I know, cause I've seen everything.
42:22I know, cause I've ever been the only one day.
42:23Hey.
42:29Uh-
42:31Hey.
42:55So faster.
42:58Ha!
43:01Ha!
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