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High Potential S02 - Episode 6
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00:10Where do I have to put it?
00:27Anywhere you want.
00:29As long as the pumpkin touches the porch.
00:35Maybe we should just go to the party.
00:37Come on, show us the backbone.
00:38We've both done it.
00:39Cog in his catastrophic plane.
00:42Designed and directed by his red right hand.
00:57Come on.
01:15What's he doing to him?
01:20I don't know.
01:39Come on.
01:40Come on.
01:40Come on.
01:41Come on.
01:41Guess who I am?
01:43Uh, a sassy fryer?
01:45Hang on.
01:47Dad ordered this for me on Prime to be sure I got here before Halloween.
01:52How about now?
01:53Okay, uh, a science fryer.
01:56I'm Governicus.
01:57He was the first one to realize the sun is at the center of the solar system.
02:00Oh, yeah.
02:01Okay.
02:02Yeah, I see it.
02:03I love it.
02:03How is it?
02:05Geez.
02:06I fell asleep, huh?
02:07What's that?
02:08Well, this is...
02:11Let's just say it's the reason your sister and I aren't exactly talking right now.
02:15What's she doing?
02:15Is she still up too?
02:16She's barely come out of her room since you grounded her.
02:19I think you should talk to her.
02:20Oh, you do?
02:21Okay, well, thank you for your advice, but I think I'm going to Aristotle this one.
02:26Aristotle, you thought silence was louder than yelling?
02:29Close enough.
02:31Yes, but Aristotle also believed anger must always be within the golden mean, not excessive,
02:35at the right time for the right purpose.
02:37Dead on, kid.
02:38All right, fine.
02:39I'm going to talk to her at some point.
02:41Don't worry about it.
02:44Oh, I got a work thing I got to go to.
02:46You go to bed.
02:47Yeah.
02:47Why are you still even up?
02:48Go.
02:49I love the costume.
03:15This is perfect.
03:17It's our first Halloween together.
03:19Is it?
03:20Yeah.
03:21Hop on in here, buddy.
03:23I'm not eating candy at a crime scene.
03:25Right, right.
03:26Why have fun?
03:27I would have thought Halloween was your favorite holiday.
03:29Why would you think that?
03:30It's like the one day of the year you can let your hair down, throw a costume on, be somebody
03:34other than you for one night.
03:39Take a cheat.
03:42Okay, I was wrong.
03:43Can we focus on our dead man?
03:44Yeah, let's do that.
03:47This is Danny Sternblatt.
03:49Divorce lawyer to the 1%, including the mayor when he split from his wife last year.
03:53What happened to the walls?
03:54Who killed the lights?
03:55The electricity is on in the block.
03:57Just ask the motion-censored werewolf across the street.
04:01No!
04:04He knows.
04:04The power was cut at the main panel.
04:06As in, severed.
04:07Not sure yet by whom or who went at the walls.
04:09Also, the 911 call was unusual.
04:11A group of teens said that they heard a scream through the window and claimed to see something
04:15white and flowy attacking.
04:17White and flowy?
04:18Come on.
04:19As far as I'm concerned, it could have been the curtains.
04:21Yeah, or their imaginations.
04:22Could be Sternblatt just died of natural causes, which is part of what we're here to find out.
04:25Okay, well, he's got marks on his arm.
04:27Looks like somebody grabbed him real hard.
04:29Or Danny grabbed his own arm.
04:30Maybe during a medical event, perhaps a heart attack, shooting pain down the arm.
04:34Certainly simple.
04:35Uh-huh.
04:35His hair is either falling out or he's pulling it out.
04:38That with the dark bags under his eyes.
04:41I don't think Danny was sleeping very well.
04:43Hmm.
04:48Well, we know who murdered the woodwork.
04:50His blisters on Danny's hands say he was the vandal.
04:53Benzos for sleep, which clearly weren't working very well.
04:56And Hartman's nitroblister.
04:57It's another point for natural causes.
05:00You're thinking he was sitting over here working when his heart gave out,
05:03knocked over his plate on his way down, and ended up there.
05:07At least he won't have to read his own handwriting anymore.
05:10Something doesn't make sense here, though.
05:12Imagine you're Danny.
05:13He's having a heart attack.
05:14You know you have a bad heart.
05:16You have life-saving medication over there.
05:17Why would you run away from the bathroom?
05:19He must be going towards something this way.
05:22That?
05:29Either obsidian or black tourmaline?
05:31Why this?
05:32Maybe an ugly gift from a wife?
05:34Could be.
05:34Danny's going through his own divorce.
05:36We contacted the wife, Lorraine.
05:37She's on business in London, catching the first flight back.
05:39So the white flowy thing, not a wife.
05:42Hmm.
05:42Depends which wife.
05:43Lorraine Sternblatt?
05:44Or the ghost of Maddie St. Croix?
05:47Sorry, did you do say ghost?
05:49Mm-hmm.
05:52Oh, wait.
05:52Just to be clear, I am not suggesting a ghost killed Danny Sternblatt.
05:56You're not not suggesting it.
05:57I like true crime podcasts, sometimes ghost stories.
06:00No shame there.
06:01And the Spencer House, where we are now, checks both.
06:03Have you heard of Dash Spencer and Maddie St. Croix?
06:061940s movie stars, screwball comedies, mostly involved a monkey.
06:10Well, they were married in real life, too.
06:11A couple of their day.
06:13And this was their house.
06:13Got that from Spencer House.
06:15They died young, right?
06:16Well, a little after they married, Maddie found out Dash had been cheating on her from day one.
06:20And in a fit of heartbreak, she took her own life with an overdose of seco barbital.
06:24Then, a few months later, on Halloween, Dash fell from that balcony and broke his neck.
06:34Which is called a coincidence.
06:35Police ruled the death accidental.
06:37Yes.
06:38But the ghost story crowd always said Maddie's ghost pushed Dash over the rail.
06:42And that she still haunts the house today.
06:44No.
06:45Look, I am not saying I believe that.
06:47Good.
06:47Because a ghost definitely did not kill Danny Sternblatt.
06:49We have two options.
06:50It's either murder or natural causes.
06:54Lieutenant.
06:55I'm sending you a text.
06:57The kids who called 911 sat with our sketch artist.
06:59Curious to hear your take.
07:03What?
07:04What is it?
07:09Sorry.
07:10You were just saying...
07:22Oh, wow.
07:23They even nailed the scalloped lace on Maddie's veil.
07:28Fine.
07:28Then you explain it.
07:29What did they see?
07:30I don't know, Dad.
07:31You found it online.
07:32They could have too.
07:33It's a Halloween prank.
07:35They did say they came to the house because of its history.
07:37Verbena.
07:38It's calming.
07:41Emmy's prelim is in.
07:42Danny Sternblatt died of a heart attack.
07:44Wasn't his first.
07:45He had one a few years ago.
07:47So, unless we have something that proves otherwise, they're gonna rule natural causes.
07:52Anyone else feel that?
07:54No?
07:55Weird.
08:04Is this salt?
08:08Oh, whoa.
08:09We might want to pump the brakes on the natural causes.
08:13Because?
08:14Because Oz is right.
08:15At first I thought it was just plaster dust, but it's not.
08:18It's salt.
08:19Yeah, look.
08:20The salt leads to fluorite, carnelian, labradorite, obsidian, and I'm thinking...smoky quartz.
08:29Five stones connected by salt.
08:32Danny made a pentacle.
08:33It's a symbol of protection in some cultures.
08:35And so is that bracelet.
08:38Detective Karadek might not believe in ghosts, but our victim did.
08:41Danny thought his house was haunted.
08:43Ghost!
08:44He was hearing and seeing all kinds of crazy things he couldn't pinpoint, so he crashed
08:48this entire place trying to figure out where it was coming from.
08:52Guy had electricians, pest control, plumbers, everyone check this place out.
08:56Okay, Danny was hearing things that go bump in the night, but we know it wasn't a ghost.
09:00I think somebody who knew Danny had a bad heart staged a haunting to scare him to death.
09:05That would be murder.
09:06All this witchy stuff is not Danny's style.
09:09Somebody had to help him set it up.
09:11And someone who could stop a haunt might be able to fake one.
09:14Danny's phone is password protected.
09:15It's gonna take TID some time to crack it.
09:17Oz, any of those invoices over there have something to do with ghost remediation?
09:23Um...
09:26No.
09:27But there is this.
09:33And just from my file, the full name is Calliope?
09:35Just Calliope.
09:37I knew something felt off today.
09:40What was the nature of your relationship with Mr. Sternblatt?
09:42Verbena?
09:43It's good for stress.
09:44Oh, thank you.
09:45We got our fill at the crime scene.
09:48I was Danny's spiritual advisor.
09:50He was raised in a traditional faith and never really connected with it, so when he reached a crossroads in
09:55life, he preferred to ask the universe.
09:57Spiritual, not religious.
09:59Would you mind?
10:01We did a very difficult reading for a client this morning.
10:04We need time to ground.
10:06What sort of crossroads did you talk about with Danny?
10:09Business mostly.
10:10Managing his law firm, sometimes investments.
10:13Investments like buying the Spencer House?
10:14Especially at the Spencer House.
10:16He wouldn't sleep there until I performed a clearing ritual.
10:19But it was his wife's dream of dream houses.
10:22Sadly, the work I performed there didn't last.
10:24After Lorraine left, something dark welled up.
10:27So you're the one who helped him set up all those protective elements, right?
10:30Have you been in the house?
10:32Mm-hmm.
10:32So you felt the cold spot in the basement?
10:35Heard the crying woman?
10:37Mm.
10:37Can't say that we have.
10:38Where was this?
10:39In the butler's pantry.
10:40Well, that's where I heard her.
10:42Danny heard her at the same time in the sitting room across the house.
10:45The energy in that place is very off.
10:47Yeah.
10:48Hey, how much did each of these clearing rituals cost?
10:51Around $5,000.
10:52Dollars?
10:53Yes, why?
10:54I need a minute to ground.
10:56What my partner is saying is it seems you caught yourself a whale.
10:59Danny was terrified and more than willing to shell out.
11:02Yeah, and these rituals didn't work, but you knew that, didn't you?
11:05This green candle over here, you got it just drenched in bergamot and myrtle.
11:09That's an abundance spell, right?
11:11Only typically those are done during a waxing moon, and right now the moon's waning.
11:16You know your stuff.
11:20Ah, my cleaning lady must have flipped that.
11:23Oh, yeah.
11:25Yeah, I think I do know my stuff.
11:26I also know that a woman who refers to herself in her tarot deck as we
11:30doesn't need to consult a calendar to find out the moon phases.
11:35Are you calling me a fraud?
11:36I am.
11:37So, Calliope, what happened?
11:38Did Danny catch on to your scam?
11:39Cut off the funds so you scared him to death?
11:41No, why would I do that?
11:42My entire business would collapse if people found out my clients were dying.
11:46Now, unless I am under arrest, please leave and take your closed hearts with you.
11:50This is a sacred space.
11:52This is a bungalow in El Segundo.
11:54Morgan, let's go.
11:56If you don't believe the Spencer House is haunted, fine.
11:58But the things I told you did happen.
12:00So, perhaps focus less on me and look into what caused them.
12:12What?
12:12She put me in a bad mood.
12:14When were you in a good mood?
12:15I'm a delight.
12:16Well, fraud or no fraud, Calliope made a good point.
12:18Wasn't in her best interest to kill her golden goose.
12:20And she gives specifics we can use.
12:22A cold spot in the basement, a woman crying.
12:24Someone planted those scares to freak Sternblatt out.
12:27Then, maybe they left some evidence behind.
12:58I mean, if you know who you're gonna do,
13:06the most brutal things like this before.
13:07I'm sorry, but youあっ, but you do not.
13:09You Butt and the man are a bad mood.
13:10I mean, you're a bad mood.
13:10You're a bad mood.
13:12You're not a bad mood.
13:13I'm a bad mood.
13:14You're a bad mood.
13:14I'm a bad mood.
13:15You're a bad mood.
13:18I'm a bad mood.
13:19You're a bad mood.
13:23You're a bad mood,
13:28Yeah.
13:29Hey.
13:30How's it going down there?
13:32Uh, great.
13:33I feel like spiders.
13:35Otherwise, not much to report.
13:37You?
13:38Just a rat, cute little guy, or gal.
13:41Not a lot of differentiating characteristics.
13:47Morgan?
13:49Calliope said that they heard a woman crying
13:52in two different parts of the house, right?
13:55Well, my kids used to talk to each other
13:59through the vents in their bedrooms.
14:03Oh, hello.
14:38Good morning.
14:39Mm-hmm.
14:40I think you're going to want to see this.
14:48Good morning.
14:51Mm-hmm.
14:56Morgan, where are you?
14:57What's going on?
14:58Just tell me.
14:59Someone.
15:00Or something.
15:03LAPD, put your hands where I can see them.
15:06Got another runner.
15:08I'll go for it out of this.
15:12I can rise with the time when I go to the top.
15:16Get off!
15:18Not what I was expecting.
15:20Yeah, maybe.
15:21Get off!
15:21Oh!
15:24On your feet.
15:25On your feet.
15:26On your feet.
15:27Let me go.
15:28I didn't do anything.
15:29All right.
15:29Found this in the vent.
15:31Let's see.
15:32Okay.
15:33A couple of iPads.
15:35Some computer stuff.
15:36Just standard things that somebody hiding in a basement
15:38wearing a wedding dress would have.
15:40I'm guessing these are yours.
15:41Come on, let's go to the station.
15:42You can tell me more about how you weren't doing anything.
15:44Easy.
15:45Easy.
15:52Oh, thank goodness.
15:54Hate to think anybody was getting any sunlight.
15:56I've been outside.
15:57Wasn't impressed.
15:59How was work?
15:59Pretty good.
16:00I helped stop a fleeing suspect today.
16:03Mostly by just standing there.
16:05But still, the job got done.
16:07She's being questioned right now, so I had a little time.
16:09I thought I'd come home and get dinner started before Ludo gets here.
16:13Then I gotta head back.
16:14How were your days?
16:15Chloe go down for her nap, okay?
16:17Uh, yeah.
16:18Ava got Chloe down, no problem.
16:20School was the usual.
16:21I'm pretty sure Mr. Cabril doesn't know the difference between mass and weight.
16:25But don't worry, I pulled him aside after class.
16:27Mmm.
16:27I bet he loved that.
16:29So what do you think? Burrito's okay for dinner?
16:33We're still doing this, huh?
16:37Ava was invited to a Halloween party this weekend, and she really wants to go, but I think she's still
16:44upset that she's grounded.
16:46Really?
16:47You think it might be a smart idea to apologize for blatantly disobeying me first, and then we could go
16:53from there?
16:55Ava thinks that she didn't do anything wrong.
16:57Ava, it's not your job to fix this, okay?
16:59We're all right. Why don't you go do something that doesn't involve a screen?
17:02Okay.
17:09Ava?
17:11How long do you want to play this game?
17:12Mom, it's been a week. This is so unfair.
17:17Your children are such a blessing.
17:29Captain Wagner.
17:30Board.
17:31Any time. This case is a weird one, huh?
17:34It is. It's not every day a captain insists on questioning a suspect himself.
17:38Oh, come on. A woman in an antique wedding dress pretending to be a ghost to scare a man to
17:43death? How often do one of those come along?
17:46The mayor's a family friend. Wants updates. Pretty sure he and half his golf buddies want this case closed before
17:52Sternblatt's law practice and all their divorce details get dragged through the mud.
17:57I see.
17:58Shouldn't affect you, though. I provide cover. You work the case as long as it takes.
18:02Well, that's a nice sentiment, only I just got off the phone with the Department of Media. They were fact
18:07-checking a press release about the arrest. The one I assume you're holding right now?
18:12Rushing this out when we don't have the facts yet doesn't seem to me like letting the wheels of justice
18:16turn.
18:17This arrest. Sloppy police work?
18:20No. She's our haunter.
18:23Then you have nothing to worry about.
18:33Shana Kermie. That's K-H-U.
18:40Is the furniture small?
18:42No, you're big.
18:45Guess the world wasn't built for people my size, huh?
18:50Anyway, that's Kermie. K-H-U-R-M-I.
18:5327. Special effects whiz. Electrical engineering.
18:57Oh. Cal Arts grad. Wow.
18:59I've asked for a lawyer. Yes.
19:02I heard. As is your right, it's just that this release is gonna go out before they get here.
19:07So I thought I'd give you a chance...
19:09So it is true. New caps doing the air view.
19:11Mm-hmm.
19:12Mind if I watch?
19:15Knock yourself out.
19:16You know, I won't lie.
19:18Lawyers hate these releases. Court of public opinion.
19:21Once we tell the world you're a killer, good luck convincing a jury otherwise.
19:25But we're just gonna go with what we know.
19:28You applied your skills to stage a high-tech haunt spanning a matter of months.
19:32You used your fancy toys and an inspired cameo as the ghost of Maddie St. Croix that led to the
19:38death of Danny.
19:40You killed him.
19:41And then you saw those kids at the window.
19:43You knew the cops were coming then, right?
19:45At least that's the story now.
19:48But you know, I know you have a lot of student debt.
19:51And I also can't tie you to Sternblatt, which means someone paid you.
19:56Shauna, give me their name.
19:57And this press release disappears.
20:00You don't get labeled a killer and this whole thing comes grinding to a halt.
20:08Help me help you.
20:11I tried to save him, but I don't know CPR and she never told me about his heart condition.
20:14She who?
20:16Danny's wife, Lorraine.
20:23Wow, that's...
20:25It's good.
20:26It's good work.
20:27Sure, but he still could have told us.
20:30Lorraine back in town yet?
20:31She should have just landed.
20:32She did say something about having to stop by her office first before coming to see us.
20:35Well, then have Karatek and Morgan meet her there.
20:37I think she'll squeeze this in.
20:43I'm just trying to make sure you're taken care of.
20:46No, you're not.
20:47You're trying to make sure you're taken care of.
20:49You always love that house more than you love my dad.
20:55Excuse me.
20:57LAPD.
20:59Did you just say Danny Sternblatt was your dad?
21:02Yeah, I'm Paloma Nichols.
21:04I'm really sorry for your loss.
21:05It doesn't sound like Lorraine in there is your mom?
21:08Dad's second wife.
21:09He and my mom split ages ago.
21:11Wait, do you think Lorraine had something to do with his death?
21:14It was too soon to comment.
21:17I wouldn't put it past her.
21:18She invited me here to supposedly make peace.
21:22Really, she wanted to feel out my intentions.
21:24My dad's body isn't even cold yet.
21:27Sorry, Ms. Nichols.
21:28We may have some questions for you, too.
21:30Is there any way we can reach you?
21:31Yeah.
21:32It's Dr. Nichols.
21:34Here's all my info.
21:36When you are ready to comment, we'd love to hear it.
21:39Joanie, I'm Wyatt.
21:40I'm gonna head home.
21:41Hey, if the police call again, let them know I'll go there in the morning.
21:47Saved you the trip.
21:50Ms. Kermie identified you by name.
21:52Says you met when you spoke at a class she took and a few months later you approached her for
21:56help with a haunting and offered her a job at your firm in exchange.
22:00Shauna says she had no idea about Danny's heart and we believe her.
22:03The problem is you did know because he'd had a previous heart attack when you guys were married.
22:09I knew.
22:11His recovery was the last time I can remember us being good to each other.
22:16So it sounds like you did love each other at one point.
22:19Yeah, I mean, I...
22:22He used to write me these letters all the time.
22:27We were one of history's great couples.
22:30Like Dash and Maddie.
22:33Until Danny started acting a little too much like Dash and cheated on you.
22:36I was devastated.
22:39And then when I decided that I had enough, he used every trick against me.
22:45He changed locks while I was traveling, swore I'd never get the house.
22:49It was all about winning.
22:50So you decided to play dirty too and use the superstitions to get what you wanted.
22:55Listen, I know that it went too far.
22:57But I never wanted to kill him.
23:00I just wanted the house.
23:02I mean, I figured if I spooked him enough, he would just sign it over.
23:07Wait, you...
23:08You met his daughter on her way out.
23:11The house was in Danny's name. He left it to her.
23:15She would inherit the house.
23:17You needed him to give it over to you while he was alive.
23:22Yeah, well...
23:23Doesn't change the fact that he's dead and I have to live with that.
23:30Wait, is this Danny's handwriting?
23:33Oh, this doesn't look anything like the letters of the house.
23:37That writing was really messy, shaky, like his hands were weak.
23:41Also, I think he was off balance.
23:44Poor guy was stumbling all over the place like the undead.
23:48Karadek, I think we gotta check those sleeping pills.
23:50I'll have the Emmy fast track his docs report.
23:52Wait, what's going on?
23:54You could have scared Danny to death, but I don't think you did.
24:00I think he was poisoned.
24:04Lab reports are back.
24:07Those weren't sleeping pills.
24:09Danny Sternblatt died from a potassium chloride overdose,
24:12which induced a fatal heart attack.
24:14Emmy said it was a smart way to kill someone.
24:16Potassium chloride spikes naturally in the blood after death.
24:19Autopsy never would have caught it.
24:20Which means if we hadn't tested those pills,
24:22Lorraine Sternblatt would have gone down for a murder she didn't commit.
24:25Solid catch by Morgan.
24:26So, someone knew the wife was gaslighting Danny and piggybacked on that,
24:30making it look like she haunted him to death.
24:32Who?
24:33Had to be someone close to him.
24:34Someone with access to the pills.
24:35You take a closer look at the daughter?
24:37Paloma will get the house, but the money motive feels weak.
24:39I mean, she's an orthopedic surgeon married to another orthopedic surgeon.
24:42She's fine.
24:44What about Sternblatt's practice?
24:46Didn't the wife say he was tough as nails?
24:47Yeah, said he used every nasty trick in the book.
24:49He even came up with some new ones.
24:50Maybe a divorcee he did a number on wanted revenge?
24:53Or maybe a rival lawyer.
24:54We'll head over to his firm.
24:55The guy had enemies over there.
24:56We'll find out.
24:59He was murdered?
25:00Hmm.
25:01Oh, my God.
25:02I figured his heart just gave out.
25:04Were you worried Mr. Sternblatt thought that his house was, uh, haunted?
25:08He made it impossible not to know.
25:11Danny was freaking everyone out.
25:12That woo-woo bracelet, jumping at shadows.
25:15We're wondering if anyone he went up against with in court might have known that too,
25:18and used that knowledge against him.
25:20I wish.
25:22Well, I'm sorry.
25:24That came out wrong.
25:25I just meant that Danny wasn't in court any time recently.
25:28He was too wrapped up in his own divorce and winning that damn house.
25:31He had it off all those other cases months ago.
25:33Stopped coming in at all the last few weeks.
25:37Look, I was worried about my friend.
25:44Wouldn't you be?
25:46I have at it.
25:47I'll have to call my wife.
25:52Ah.
25:53Well, sounds like Sternblatt wasn't making any enemies here.
25:56Took himself completely off the board.
25:58Mm-hmm.
25:59Feels like all roads keep leading back to the Spencer house.
26:02What do you say we give Daphne's ghost theory another run?
26:06I just do not get this guy.
26:09I mean, digging in out of spite, that's one thing.
26:11But Sternblatt hated the house.
26:13He wasn't sleeping.
26:14He knew he had a bad heart.
26:15At a certain point, you would think that the fear of having a heart attack
26:17would override the desire to win a divorce.
26:23You're missing out, Guillory.
26:24Looks like one of your crime boards exploded all over our victim's office.
26:28Only in every direction, it's nothing but house, house, house.
26:31Maybe it is something.
26:33What's that?
26:33Well, I was doing a little digging around in the Sternblatt divorce documents
26:37trying to find something that would pop out as a motive to kill Danny.
26:40And?
26:41Nothing popped.
26:41But then I noticed something weird about the house.
26:43The appraisal when they bought it showed it as 300 square feet smaller
26:47than it was when it was appraised in the 1940s.
26:50I mean, maybe that's a mistake, but...
26:52No.
26:53No, it's here on the blueprints, too.
26:56300 square foot difference between the old and the new.
27:01How could they lose 300 square feet?
27:04But the footprints look exactly the same.
27:07It's like there's a disappearing room.
27:08I don't think we're done there yet, boys.
27:10I think the Spencer house has more secrets to tell.
27:13And I'm sensing you have a way of figuring that out.
27:29He didn't need to straighten that.
27:31Mind if I ask why you pulled half my bullpen down here?
27:34Do you mind if I answer in the form of a story?
27:37Don't answer that. It's happening.
27:38It's starting right now.
27:39Deep in the gloomy glens of ancient Scotland stands Castle Glamz.
27:43Legend has it that the heir of the 11th Earl of Strathmore was hidden away
27:47in a secret room that was walled up, never to be seen again.
27:51But then, a few hundred years later, there was a new lady of the castle,
27:55and she set out to find the infamous hidden chamber.
27:58This lady glams knew that if a room had actually been walled up,
28:02that it would still have a window.
28:03So she asked her ladies-in-waiting to tie a handkerchief
28:06to every window they could find.
28:08And lo and behold, only one window remained
28:11that was hanky-free from the outside.
28:14And that was how she found the secret room.
28:18And there it is.
28:22I'm guessing this was Lorraine's craft room
28:25before Danny booted her out.
28:27Hey, that secret room's gotta be behind these bookshelves.
28:31Oh!
28:32You see it?
28:33Why don't you help us see it?
28:35This panel, it's plain sawn.
28:37It has to do with how they cut the lumber.
28:39These shelves are all quarter sawn, so is the rest of the house,
28:42but this panel is plain sawn.
28:44Maybe Danny broke that panel when he was tearing this place up
28:47and then repaired it, but why only make the one fix?
29:09Hmm, maybe to hide this?
29:16This is Maddy's old boudoir.
29:19Oh, and that hat!
29:20That's the hat that she wore to the premiere of the last film she made with Dash.
29:24Can I try a couple of these things on before they get shipped off to some museum?
29:28They're evidence.
29:29I'll be careful.
29:30So we think this room's been tucked away for 70-plus years?
29:33Oh, well, Maddy took her own life. Dash must have walled it up.
29:37Probably because his conscience couldn't handle any reminders of a woman he'd driven to suicide.
29:40Okay, check out this gem.
29:41This room might have never been found if Lorraine hadn't started haunting Danny.
29:45This room is part of history. Why would Danny want to hide that from the world?
29:49Same reason he didn't leave when he started being haunted.
29:52Gotta be something in here worth sticking around for.
29:54Like this?
29:56Oh, yeah, that would do it.
29:58Speaking of gems...
29:59It's the only thing not covered in dust.
30:00There is a rumor that when Maddy caught Dash with his mistress, he tried to make it up to her
30:04with a diamond necklace.
30:05If those diamonds are real...
30:07They're real.
30:07They'd be worth enough to kill for.
30:17Hey, want some of this?
30:20I figure we deserve a little unwind while we wait to see if that necklace you found is real.
30:26Root beer on an unprotected lip? You're a madman.
30:31I'll take it slow.
30:32Did I shame you into that?
30:33No, no. It was time. All winning streaks have to come to an end.
30:37Is that what we're calling it? It's okay. I'll take the can.
30:41Hey, you a Dash and Maddy fan?
30:44Mm.
30:45Yeah, I was. A little disappointed in all the gory details.
30:49Yeah, this case isn't a ringing endorsement for marriage.
30:52Ever been?
30:53Married? New. No. No. I mean, weddings are great. It's very sweet. I get it. I just, it's good for
31:04people. I just, the whole courthouse and the paperwork and the, the permanence of it, you know, kind of kills
31:12the romance.
31:18Yeah?
31:19Oh, just seeing some things.
31:20I don't think you are.
31:21If this was an interrogation...
31:23It's not, though. It's not an interrogation. So, knock it off.
31:25Well, now I know I'm right.
31:30Okay. Fine. What things are you seeing?
31:32Well, first of all, you're gripping that can so tight, I'm worried you're going to be wearing the soda.
31:37The neck massage, a little self-soothing, fiddling with the candy. Those eyes of yours are jumping around everywhere but
31:43mine.
31:44I think the talk of marriage is making me a little anxious.
31:47Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I don't like it, you know. My brain has a way of making sure relationships don't last
31:57very long. So, let's just leave it at that.
32:00Okay.
32:01What about you?
32:02Me? Oh, I'm into a four-year deal that's working out pretty well.
32:07Really?
32:08Yeah. She understands me. And for the most part, I understand her.
32:16She's gorgeous. Thanks.
32:18Do you have a name? Ingrid.
32:20Well, congratulations. Ingrid seems like a real catch.
32:24What about an actual human woman? Have you ever married one of those?
32:26Mm-hmm. Got real close.
32:31She passed away a few years ago.
32:34I'm sorry.
32:36Yeah, me too.
32:43Looks like they need us.
32:4918-karat white gold waterfall.
32:51102 cushion antique-cut diamonds. 85 French-cut for a grand total of 317 carats.
32:57Designed in Paris by celebrated sisters Ophelia and Josephine Beaumont in 1946.
33:02That's a strong accent.
33:04So it's authentic?
33:05According to our contact. Based on the piece itself, she said it was worth around 10 million.
33:11Add in a sexy providence with a tragic Hollywood ending and he, what, doubled the price?
33:16Sounds about right.
33:17So why was it still there? Sternblatt must the ballpark its worth.
33:20Why didn't he put it in Fort Knox or try to find a tycoon to buy it?
33:23No, the guy was a divorce attorney.
33:24Nobody knew better than him that if Lorraine found out, she could claim half.
33:27So we're thinking he opted to leave it behind the wall until the divorce was final.
33:31Anything else would have been too risky.
33:33Then he could sell it and make up a story about where he found it.
33:35But somebody else knew it was there. And their plan was to kill Danny, steal the necklace.
33:39Until the kids saw Shawna being Maddie's ghost and got us down there so fast,
33:43the killer missed the window to complete the theft.
33:45Well, the good news is this person doesn't know we have the necklace, so that could be a good...
33:54I don't think Danny was sleeping very well.
33:56I just went to the house.
33:57No!
33:58The energy in this place is very awful.
34:02You're trying to make sure you're taking care of.
34:06You know who did it, don't you?
34:09Yeah.
34:10So?
34:11So let's give them their window.
34:18Based on evidence uncovered by detectives in LAPD's major crime squad,
34:23we have arrested Lorraine Sternblatt on suspicion of poisoning her estranged husband,
34:28noted attorney Daniel Sternblatt.
34:32We must be devastated.
34:34If it helps to ease your mind, those who cross over no longer feel the pain we do.
34:40That's what I'm not so sure of. The crossing over.
34:43I went there this morning, the police released the house to me.
34:46Maybe it's all the stress talking, but I felt him there.
34:50Well, energy can linger.
34:52But then he could be in pain. Trapped.
34:55Wait, could you help him?
34:58Of course.
34:59I would recommend a clearing ritual.
35:07All I would need is a few hours to myself in the house.
35:11And then I think we can put him to rest.
35:13We're going home.
35:18Seasons don't fear the reaper.
35:22Under the wind, the sun, or the rain.
35:26We can be like the night.
35:28Come on, baby.
35:32Baby, take my hand.
35:34Come on, baby.
35:37Boo.
35:43Oh, I know that look.
35:46That's the who are you and how'd you guys figure me out look.
35:49Hey, partner, you want to start this one off?
35:50Sure.
35:51Did you know, to get rid of decades of tarnish from a priceless diamond necklace,
35:55all you need is a dab of essential oil.
35:58Now, I would recommend verbena. Supposedly it's good for stress.
36:01Yeah, she's crazy about that verbena.
36:03You see, when I saw a bunch of tarnish-free fingerprints on those links,
36:07that very calming smell led me to believe that you knew about the necklace all along.
36:13I think Danny told you that he was being haunted, and you jumped right on that opportunity.
36:18You knew somebody else was already gaslighting this very gullible man.
36:22How they were doing it didn't really matter. You didn't care.
36:24All you needed to do was draft off of their haunting and collect your paychecks.
36:29Poor Danny trusted you so much that when he found Maddie's necklace, he told you about it, right?
36:33I mean, after all, he never made a move in this house without consulting you.
36:37And you came up with a plan to kill him.
36:38That's right.
36:40You switched out his sleeping pills for potassium chloride,
36:43and you convinced him to check in with you every morning to discuss all of the creepy things that happened
36:48the evening before.
36:49You see, we have a tech team. They cracked Danny's phone, and we saw the texts.
36:52So the day you didn't receive one, you knew that Danny had had his coronary event.
36:56If your plan had worked, you could have just came back here and swiped the necklace.
36:59But the police got here too fast, didn't they? Blew your window.
37:02So we tried to help you out. We staged an arrest for Lorraine.
37:06That way Paloma could lure you back into the house.
37:08Yes, it worked. Happy Halloween. You're under arrest.
37:20Karadek.
37:21Where's the bird?
37:23Bird?
37:24Yeah, that giant awesome black raven that was perched on the clock,
37:27casting a super creepy shadow when we first got here. Do you remember?
37:30I guess I was just focused on the body. Don't know what to tell you.
37:53What do you think it was?
38:01I'm describז in当ni.
38:13hey hey i heard you out here you did it's a very loud sigh how's it
38:22can i go first depends it's all your fault no no no i mean you're mad at a younger you
38:33i'm not like you in a lot of ways but way too much like you and others did you always
38:40listen to your mom i mean of course not it makes me think that the 15 year old you would
38:46have done exactly what i did because me and you and i you and i aren't wired to just sit
38:54by if we want something i mean there's this guy that might be able to tell us about my
38:59dad and i was just supposed to do nothing i know it wasn't the safest thing to do but
39:03when all you guys are going to our favorite diner i just couldn't help myself so i'm sorry i scared
39:09you but i'm not sorry that i went okay i'm done your turn okay i accept your non-apology
39:24and i'm not sorry that i put my foot down
39:27i can't keep looking for your dad if it means you're not going to be safe
39:32i i need you to keep looking for him
39:36so if that means i have to start listening then i guess i will there she is
39:47i love you so much i love you too mom
39:53so am i still grounded why don't you ask me the question you really want to ask me
39:57can i go to emma's halloween party depends how inappropriate is your costume zombie cheerleader
40:02and my skirt's longer than yours that's fair can i show you yes but i want to show you something
40:09first okay come here
40:14is that what's it have you opened it yeah took me a minute but i got there and
40:26i don't know yet i don't know if any of it means anything or if it's gonna help us find
40:31him
40:32can we yeah
40:41i'm gonna give all this stuff to lieutenant soto tomorrow but i just
40:45i wanted to make sure that you saw this
40:55this is from my recital mm-hmm first grade you guys were all sunflowers you remember
41:06how did he know about that
41:12well i think you must have been there
41:25so
41:25i
41:25i
41:26i
41:26i
41:26i
41:54i
41:59So faster!
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