This is Oliver Crane coming to you live
from the Crescent City, where, as promised,
Im meeting an anonymous source whos gonna blow the lid off
this sordid case of murder, deception and conspiracy.
Tonight Im gonna shine a light into the darkness.
Im going to expose the criminals
behind this heinous killing spree,
and youre gonna be there while I do it.
Im gonna meet the one witness who can confirm everything
that local law enforcement officials
have repeatedly denied.
Tonight, with her help, everythings gonna change.
WOMAN: Mr. Crane.
(gunshot)
Oh! Oh, my God. Oh, my God, they shot her!
Theyre-theyre trying to silence us.
(gunshot)
Oh, my God! If you get this...
if you get this, send help!
Send help right now. No! Oh!
(gunshot)
Aah!
♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom
♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang
♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom
♪ How, how, how, how
♪ Hey, hey
♪ You gotta come on.
Mom?
Mm-hmm?
Mom?
Mm-hmm?
Dont tell Dad, but you make the lunches
way better than him.
Aw.
Its all in the presentation.
(laughs softly)
Its all in the presentation.
(laughs softly)
And your secrets safe with me.
I like this house better, too.
Mm-hmm.
Its cozy, you know?
Mm-hmm.
Just needs more stuff.
We can go shopping this weekend.
Okay, go brush. Wheels up in five.
Mom?
Mm-hmm?
I think Dad
would like this house better, too.
(sighs)
(knocking)
Move.
We got to go.
Liam.
(quietly): Come in.
Uh, relax, Hannah.
Its just a social call.
Im in New Orleans.
Just wanted to stop by and say hi.
Howd you find me?
Uh,
Im a spy, you know?
Its kind of my thing.
Not calling kind of your thing, too?
Um, youre right.
Im sorry. Old habits.
I was just eager to see...
a friendly face.
But clearly, youre not happy to see me.
No, Im... (laughs)
Im happy. Im just, Im surprised, and...
Liam!
Princess!
Look at you! Oh!
Oh, youre all grown up.
(laughs)
I cant believe it.
Can I skip school and hang out with you guys?
No.
You have a math test today, and I have to go to work.
Ill tell you what, Princess,
you get an "A" on that test, and Ill take you
to Carousel Gardens for all the junk food you can eat.
Its just fractions. Piece of cake.
Ooh. Well have some of that, too.
Okay, go get
your backpack. We got to go.
(chuckles): Bye.
Wow.
I know.
I get it. I-I should go.
Okay.
Ill text you.
Okay.
Liam?
Everything okay?
Yeah. Yeah. Never better.
Talk to you later.
Okay.
Oh, my God!
This was live-vlogged last night at 11:08.
Oh, my God!
This was live-vlogged last night at 11:08.
Oh, my God, they shot her!
Looks like Crane got too close to a story,
broadcast his own murder.
Oliver Crane was a journalist?
Thats a word for it.
(gunshot over video)
He preferred sound bites and sensationalism over facts.
Crane may have been a handful, but...
...his heart was in the right place.
Yeah, well,
he did try to ruin your career.
Oh. And he did get you arrested. But then
he helped us take down the men responsible.
Which is why were gonna help find his killer.
Isnt this NOPDs jurisdiction?
I spoke to the chief,
explained our history with Crane.
NOPDll run point but welcome any help we can offer.
First we need to find Cranes body.
Divers are searching the river.
CSU is working the crime scene. No luck, no leads.
Why dont you go pick up Sebastian,
head to the crime scene so you can lend a hand?
You got it, Hannah.
What we do have is the other victim at the scene:
Assistant District Attorney Lydia Davenport.
I met her once.
Smart prosecutor.
Crane did say he was gonna meet someone
with information about a murder investigation.
Davenport could have been sharing details
on one of her cases.
Lets find out which one.
Contact the D.A.s office.
Check on any threats
or issues related to Davenports most recent prosecutions.
Okay.
Thanks.
Crane claims he was working on a huge story.
We just dont know what that story was.
He teased his vlog audience with it
but didnt give any significant details.
Lets go to Cranes house.
Any reporter worth their salt
keeps notes on investigations.
(siren wailing in distance)
PRIDE: Everything okay?
Yeah. I think so.
I, um, had an unexpected visitor this morning.
Old colleague.
NCIS?
Old colleague.
NCIS?
CIA. We worked together in Oman
on my last long-term assignment,
taking down Victor Zelko.
The arms dealer?
Whatd this guy want?
Absolutely nothing.
Just saying hi.
And hes not the "saying hi" type?
Liam lives in Delaware.
He shows up in New Orleans...
at
my
door without calling.
Doesnt say a word.
Somethings up.
(whispers): Door.
Somebody searched this place.
(sighs)
Ill have Sebastian head over and dust the place for prints.
Maybe just...
dust the place in general.
This loft hasnt been cleaned in months.
Crane was eccentric.
Obsessed with his website, BreakingNOLA.
Nothing else mattered.
Final notice.
Hes past due on everything.
Last time I was here, this place was filled with...
computers, servers,
people.
Maybe the killer wanted to get rid of the notes, too.
people.
Maybe the killer wanted to get rid of the notes, too.
You know, the team made him out to be a hack, but...
the Nexus is one of the highest honors in journalism.
This guy was the real deal.
Crane was a lot of things,
but he never won a journalism honor
in his life.
PATTON: Its a digital key. Its encrypted
with the password to access Cranes cloud drive.
Thousands of files.
Any of them connect to his murder?
Well, I started with the file labeled:
"In the event of my untimely demise."
Well, I would say hes being dramatic,
but in light of current circumstances...
He was prophetic.
Lets see the video.
If you are watching this,
it means that I am dead.
There is no time to mourn my loss.
In 2017,
a local defense attorney was killed during a carjacking.
Police arrested an ex-con
and former client who had threatened the victim.
PATTON: This is spooky.
Its like hes solving his own murder
from the grave.
Then, six months ago,
that same ex-con was killed in the exact same location
and in the exact same way as the attorney.
You might say coincidence.
I say, connect the dots, people.
This is just one example of the conspiracy
that I have uncovered.
The cops dont want you to know,
but I keep pushing.
Or I
did,
because now Im dead.
You know, Crane goes on to talk about two other cases.
The suspects were released by the cops.
Then they were killed in the same manner
as their alleged murders.
Cranes suggesting
law enforcement was involved in these vigilante murders?
Convinced of it.
Well, crime scene was a bust.
No trace, no shell casings.
Suspect even went so far as to dig the slugs
out of the concrete.
Were looking for someone
with advanced training and knowledge
of forensic protocols.
Possibly a cop, like Crane was theorizing.
Any sign of Cranes body?
No, not yet. We cant find his phone, either.
Lasalles sticking around just in case, but, I mean,
you know how strong those currents can be.
Hed be 50 miles downriver by now.
That means we got nothing to go on.
But were not the only one looking.
Someone just accessed Cranes cloud drive.
Can you identify the user I.D.?
No, but their terminals
being used in the Mercer Library.
The librarys closed.
Yeah. Lets go.
PATTON (over comm): The connection to Cranes cloud is still active.
Computers are just ahead.
Stay on comms.
NCIS!
MAN: Aah! Wait! Wait! Dont shoot!
Okay, okay.
Okay.
Oh.
PRIDE: Crane.
Hey, Dwayne.
Youre looking pretty good for a dead man.
GREGORIO: So, let me get this straight.
You threw yourself in the Mississippi River
to play dead?
Lydia Davenport had just been shot
right in front of me, and I thought I was next.
And youre actually, youre not out of the woods yet, either,
cause the Mississippis pretty toxic.
You could have a flesh-eating bacterial infection
and, like, not even know it.
Did you get a look at the suspect?
I dont know, dodging bullets
sort of took up all my concentration.
Who else knew you were meeting with A.D.A. Davenport?
No one. I always protect my sources.
All evidence to the contrary.
So Davenport was assigned to one of the murder cases
that you were investigating?
Well, she was
involved in one of the cases.
Her boyfriend was the victim.
The lawyer killed
in the carjacking?
Yeah. When I found out
in the carjacking?
Yeah. When I found out
they dated, I requested an interview.
She told me to go to hell the first nine times.
Yeah, I bet you get that a lot.
Yeah. But ten is my lucky number.
And exposing the truth is my motto.
Focus, Crane.
HANNAH: If you had evidence of a vigilante,
why didnt you go to the police? I did.
They werent particularly concerned
with the deaths of some scumbag ex-cons
who probably got what they deserved.
Its a direct quote, by the way.
Any idea what information Davenport
was about to share with you?
No. All she said on the phone was that she had
a new murder case for me to look into.
I never found out what.
I might have that answer.
I looked into A.D.A. Davenports recent activities.
She spoke to a detective in Baton Rouge regarding
an investigation that matches Cranes pattern.
Ooh, another accused killer who was acquitted and then murdered?
Well, this victim wasnt charged with a crime,
he was a person of interest in a robbery gone wrong.
Suggests our killer has access to internal police files.
Yeah, and it supports the theory that the vigilantes
former law enforcement.
Or still on the job.
CRANE: Or all of the above.
Because I believe this is a conspiracy.
Any evidence?
Just history.
It wouldnt be the first time some cops tried
to fix a broken system by crossing the line.
Thats
Magnum Force, thats
The Star Chamber.
Those are movies.
Yeah, and no evidence.
Those are movies.
Yeah, and no evidence.
Multiple jurisdictions, multiple victims, multiple M.O.s.
Open your eyes, people.
HANNAH: We need to do a deep dive.
Open your eyes, people.
HANNAH: We need to do a deep dive.
Cross-reference all these cases.
Find the common threads, intersections.
You mean do actual police work.
HANNAH: Yeah.
Ill get with Patton and well get to it.
Loop Loretta in.
(phone beeps)
Have her review the case files.
See what she can find.
Sure.
(Hannah sighs)
Whats up?
HANNAH: Um, its your brother.
Just texted. You know that friend I told you about?
Hes at the Trutone, hes causing trouble.
Can you, um, hold down the fort?
Sure.
This is exciting, right?
We got the whole band back together.
What can I do?
Roll over and play dead.
What? No. Thats a terrible idea.
Shes right. As long as
the suspect thinks that youre dead,
he wont try to kill you again.
Okay, when you explain it like that,
I actually sort of love that plan. Mm-hmm.
Thats good. So... whose house am I sleeping at tonight?
LIAM: Trust me, my friend.
You do not want to mess with me.
You got no argument here, my man.
I could break your neck with my thumb.
Okay, color me impressed,
I could break your neck with my thumb.
Okay, color me impressed,
but add that to the list of reasons why youre cut off.
You know... (scoffs) I cant tell you who I am,
Okay. but if you knew...
HANNAH: Hey, Liam.
If you knew...
No one cares who you are.
Why dont you go sit down?
Because Im trying to get drunk.
Yeah, well, mission accomplished.
Go. Sit.
Okay. Im sitting.
Can I have two coffees?
Please.
(sighs) I am so sorry, Jimmy.
Thanks for reaching out.
We were getting along like gangbusters two drinks ago.
Yeah.
Then Dr. Jekyll became Mr. Hyde.
Brown or clear?
Whiskey or gin? I just want to know
what Hyde Im dealing with.
Whiskey.
That means hostile but just so sloppy.
Guess youve been through this before with him.
More than once.
(exhales sharply)
Three years sober.
You worked hard for that.
Sobrietys for quitters, right?
Is that what youre doing in New Orleans?
Jumping off the wagon, come over here
to embarrass me at my bosss bar?
Yeah, thats exactly why Im here.
You got something to say, you can say it, Liam.
The raid on Victor Zelko--
the crown jewel of both our careers--
wasnt quite as surgical as we thought.
No, that was as clean an operation as they come.
Special ops killed Zelko and two bodyguards at his compound.
Thats the official story, Hannah.
The truth is far messier.
Victors family was there, too.
No. No, they were in Istanbul.
I heard it from...
Our intel confir...
I heard it from the horses mouth...
the commander who led the raid.
Zelko, his wife...
and his 15-year-old son... were all there.
And all killed.
And our bosses covered it up.
Youre so good, Hannah.
Youre so even-keeled.
I cant tell if youre actually surprised
or you really didnt know.
Of course I didnt know.
(footsteps approaching)
Our intel confirmed...
Your intel. Your source.
Are you trying to accuse me of something here?
Im saying we should have waited.
We waited over a year to find Zelko.
He tried to kill my family.
Everyone on our team signed off on that raid.
And two innocent people died because of it.
Thousands of people died because of the weapons
that Zelko was selling.
It doesnt make what we did right.
We did what we had to do, Liam,
with the best information that we had available.
(sighs)
Well, Im drinkin.
And youre rationalizing.
Which is the worse sin?
SEBASTIAN: Q-Anon?
Q-Anons like a-a right-wing marketing gimmick. Now it is.
All Im saying is that doesnt
necessarily mean that he wasnt real. (sighs)
Oh, man, Pizzagate, all right?
CRANE: Yeah, Pizzagate.
Seriously?
Were you guys up all night talking nerd?
Well, I mean, he thinks that Qs posts were legit,
and Im saying theyre propaganda,
but he wants...
First of all, shut it up.
but he wants...
First of all, shut it up.
Secondly, one of you mentions Area 51 or a grassy knoll
before I finish my coffee... youre gonna get punched.
(quietly): Is she always this much of a grump in the morning?
You wanna see a grump?
Hey, hey, hey. L-Listen, hold on, hold on.
Hold on. Listen.
While you were sleeping,
Crane and I may have figured out
how the suspects been picking his victims.
Look, all four names appeared on this website.
GREGORIO: Whats The Murder Index?
Its actually, its kind of brilliant.
I mean, its obviously,
its awful, too.
Explain.
Somebody created
a "murder algorithm." It predicts the likelihood
that a suspected killer actually committed a crime.
Based on what?
Stats and figures gleaned
from FBI and police databases.
They take the data, they plug it into a program
and then the program assigns every suspect a score.
Yeah, the creator of this site
is like the Bill James of crime stats.
Yeah, well, random numbers dont prove anything,
but false accusations can ruin someones life.
Yeah, or even get them killed.
All right. We got to find this murder algorithm idiot.
Well, thats done and done. Patton already hacked
the IP address, got a name.
Steve Betros. Runs an online marketing firm in town.
That was also while you were sleeping.
Look, Pride and Hannah
are on their way to talk to Betros right now.
It also looks like Wade found something in the forensic files,
so Ill head over to the morgue, see whats up.
All right.
Well, looks like its just you and me, kid.
Uh-uh. Nope.
Youre gonna take him with you,
or somebody in this house is gonna die.
Geez.
Im gonna be in the car. Yeah.
Betros Data Solutions is a leader in digital marketing.
We mine social media and other sites
to target our clients online marketing needs.
By using websites with incessant pop-ups
and aggressive advertising?
Guilty as charged, but... its a living.
Were not here to talk about online marketing.
We want to know about your Murder Index.
Thats more of a pastime than anything else.
I wouldnt call laying odds on prospective killers a pastime.
Id call it dangerous.
Id call it a public service,
and theres nothing unlawful about it.
Well, there is
if youre using illegally mined records
from law enforcement databases.
Is that an accusation? PRIDE: More of a theory.
Based on what weve seen on the Index.
My site doesnt state anyones guilty.
It just interprets the data and predicts an outcome.
Thats a job for the justice system.
Well, if that were true, then my nieces
would still have their mother.
My sister was, uh,
beaten to death three years ago in her own living room.
And the cops... they knew who did it.
His name was Ed Lang.
And he walked because of an illegal search conducted
by a rookie officer.
The system isnt perfect.
The system is a joke.
Ed Lang. I know that name.
He was a victim in one of the murder cases
that Crane researched.
Murdered in his living room about six months back.
You gonna accuse me of that, too?
You have a strong motive, Mr. Betros.
An even stronger alibi.
I mean, you guys can check
with the NOPD detectives who grilled me
for six hours straight.
That doesnt sound like a denial.
(laughs): Okay.
Then let me be clear.
I didnt kill Ed Lang.
But I havent lost a moments sleep since he died.
You may not have pulled any triggers,
but you have wittingly put a crosshair
on every name on your website.
BETROS: Yeah, I dont lose sleep over that, either.
Because out of the three of us in this room,
Im the only one trying to make this city a safer place.
Ill call the D.A., have an injunction filed
to shut the Murder Index down.
Yeah. Lets confirm Betross alibi
for Ed Langs murder.
He checks every box for a revenge killing.
Its hard to blame him.
Im-Im not saying that its okay,
just, he was trying to right a wrong.
Its still vigilante justice.
Its... complicated, thats all.
Ill get cracking on that alibi.
(car alarm chirps)
We are currently walking the halls of the JPSO Morgue,
sanctum sanctorum of Dr. Loretta Wade.
I reviewed the forensic and autopsy files
on both the original victims
and the suspects accused of killing them.
Im hoping you found a connection to our vigilante.
Dr. Wade is a crackerjack medical examiner
and one of the best pathologists in the South.
What I found was that the vigilante killed
at least one wrongly accused man.
We are gonna blow the lid off this vigilante case.
You are not gonna blow the lid off anything.
Freedom of the press is a cornerstone
of democracy, Dr. Wade.
My morgue is not a democracy.
CRANE: Right. But if it wasnt for me,
you wouldnt even really have this case, right?
So you kind of owe me the exclusive.
I dont owe you anything, Mr. Crane.
Now, if you will stay in the hallway,
Sebastian and I will continue our consultation alone.
This is blatant censorship.
Call a cop.
Can I...?
Uh, uh...
Can I...?
Uh, uh...
(Crane groans)
(Sebastian sighs)
This is Dr. Arthur Wyndham.
(Sebastian sighs)
This is Dr. Arthur Wyndham.
He was found in an alley with his throat cut last year.
NOPD suspected a drug addict named Charlie Reese.
Right. But before they were able to build a case,
he was found with his own throat cut in the same alley.
Yeah. It was tragic, considering Reese was completely innocent.
Well, how do you know?
Oh, I wouldve ruled him out by weight and height alone.
Dr. Wyndham had four inches on him,
and Reese suffered from myasthenia gravis,
severely weakens the skeletal muscles.
So theres no way he would have had the strength
or the motor skills to inflict such lethal damage.
Wait. Charlie Reese was innocent?
I was convinced that he killed Dr. Wyndham.
I did a two-part vlog about it.
Police incompetence and the mishandling of justice.
Its what led me
to this vigilante story in the first place.
Man, I hate when Im wrong.
Imagine youd grown used to it by now.
If I agree with you, can I please stay in here?
Yes. Dont touch anything. No camera.
Okay.
(Sebastian sighs)
Okay, so, Reese was executed by a vigilante
for a crime that he never committed?
Yeah, but not necessarily the same vigilante
for the other three cases.
Wait, so you agree
that theres at least two of them out there, right?
We could be looking at as many as four.
This is exactly what Ive been saying.
Right? We have
a bona fide conspiracy on our hands here.
Oh, my God, Im gonna win a Pulitzer for this.
God have mercy on us all.
All right. These are the original murder victims
that Crane was investigating.
All of them from different walks of life,
all of them from different jurisdictions.
GREGORIO: Thats James Ferrington, Jr.
Sophomore at LSU killed in a robbery gone wrong.
Thats what A.D.A. Davenport wanted to share
with Crane before she was killed.
Yeah. Now, over here are the four men
suspected of killing them.
They themselves were murdered
by vigilantes in nearly identical ways.
All four of these dead suspects were listed on the Murder Index
created by Steve Betros.
Yeah. His sister was killed by an Ed Lang,
and then Lang was killed in the exact same way.
But Steve Betros
has a rock-solid alibi for the Lang murder.
Right. But what if somebody else killed Lang on Betross behalf,
and then in return,
Betros killed one of our other suspects.
Well, thats the plot for
Strangers on a Train.
Yeah, exactly.
Our vigilantes are exchanging murders
to avoid suspicion.
Okay. Interesting theory.
It was Cranes idea.
One of his less annoying contributions.
Okay, but who else is involved,
and how do all these people know each other?
Victims United.
Support group for survivors of violent crimes.
Davenport and Steve Betros were members.
The founder...
is a man named James Ferrington, Sr.
Father of the murdered LSU student.
Ex-state police detective who quit after his sons death.
HANNAH: Former cop, access to law enforcement databases.
That makes Victims United
ground zero.
WOMAN: He was our baby!
And you killed him, you monster!
You have to purge that anger.
(crying)
Embrace it.
Use it.
If youre living with fear,
if youre holding on to pain...
youre just another victim.
And victims get no respect.
Just ask our guests from law enforcement.
Theyll tell you.
Sorry to interrupt. We need to speak with you
and, uh, Mr. Betros, please.
Go right ahead.
This is an open forum.
Its a sensitive matter.
Are you here to arrest us?
No, sir. Just to talk.
Then go ahead and talk.
Were investigating a string of murders.
All connected to this group.
Since youre a former cop, we were hoping
for cooperation and understanding.
Well, Im sorry to disappoint.
But, see, theres a reason why Im a former cop.
See, the system you serve doesnt serve the victims.
Innocent people die, and the guilty
escape the punishment that they deserve.
Charlie Reese get what he deserved?
He murdered a doctor while trying to steal money for drugs.
No, he didnt. He was innocent.
Your website got him killed.
Thats crap. I ran the data.
Its irrefutable.
Steve, stop talking.
No. We need to continue this conversation,
but in private.
Theres nothing left to say.
If you have any more questions,
you can ask them through our lawyers.
Thought you said this was an open forum.
Its just been closed.
Lets take five. Grab a coffee.
Some cake.
Lets go, Christopher.
What are we doing?
We could take both of them in right now.
Betros, hes dying to talk.
Lets just keep an eye on them.
See what they do next.
CRANE (over video): NOPD should be ashamed
for letting a cold-blooded killer back on the streets.
Charlie Reese is a predator,
plain and simple.
Is that your report on Charlie Reese?
plain and simple.
Is that your report on Charlie Reese?
(video stops)
Yeah, I was convinced this was
some terrible miscarriage of justice. You know?
Cops sleeping on the job.
You made a mistake.
Yeah, a mistake I can live with. I make them on the regular.
But no, this...
I tracked this guy down to his halfway house.
I harassed him with questions.
I vilified him, and I got him killed.
All right, all right. Relax.
Maybe youre being too hard on yourself.
Oh.
You being nice just makes it worse.
Thats just pity.
No, Im not nice. I dont even like you.
I think that youre shifty and actually annoying.
Oh. Okay. Is that supposed to make me feel better?
But I dont pity you.
And as much as it pains me to say this,
I kind of respect you for working so hard
to try to get the truth.
(chuckles) You respect me?
Kind of.
Dont make this weird.
Okay.
And drop the "poor me" crap
Okay.
And drop the "poor me" crap
and come in the other room and help us solve this case already.
Okay. Yeah. Lets go, partner.
Come on.
I dont think embracing your anger really helps.
Well, I think
survivors are looking for anything
to guide them through the pain.
LASALLE: In this case, they took it too far.
Yeah.
(car alarm chirps)
Got eyes on Betros.
(car alarm chirps)
Got eyes on Betros.
LASALLE: Oh.
Dude doesnt look too happy.
Lets see where they go.
LASALLE: All right.
♪
Hey, Jimmy.
(exhales)
Hows he doing tonight?
A regular Boy Scout.
Maybe its cause he ordered gin.
Great.
Gin makes him sad and sentimental.
Ive seen that look in his eyes before.
Mostly in the mirror.
Your friends lost his way.
Ill see if I can do something about that.
Thanks for meeting me here.
Well, youre the only person I know in Louisiana,
so I didnt have much of a choice for a drinking companion.
Yeah, well, Im not here to drink with you, but...
I would like to know why the CIA suspended you.
(exhales)
Well, I could tell you, but then...
Youd have to kill me.
Well, I could tell you, but then...
Youd have to kill me.
Yeah, I know. That joke was never that funny.
What happened, Liam?
Bosses found out
I was digging into the Zelko raid.
Asking questions.
They told me to stand down,
so I told them to screw off.
Brilliant move. Whats next?
The New York Times?
You cant.
We have blood on our hands.
All of us.
And someone on our team tried to cover it up.
Who?
I dont know.
Who?
I dont know.
But Ill find out.
Itd go a lot faster if I had some help.
Cant.
Cause youre afraid of finding out the truth?
No, because the world
Cause youre afraid of finding out the truth?
No, because the world
is a better place without Zelko in it is why.
We made mistakes, yeah.
But we did the best we could.
Somebody drank the Kool-Aid.
Zelko tried to kill my family.
And in exchange, we killed his.
Ah, its a regular fairy tale ending.
Its just not that simple for me.
Well, there you have it.
Im on my own.
Liam. Liam, wait.
Just wait.
This is a lot to process
for me, okay?
I know.
for me, okay?
I know.
I want to hear you out. I do.
Tomorrow.
Okay? You come sober.
Ill come with an open mind.
Okay.
Its a plan.
Okay.
Little late for a staff meeting.
BETROS: Dont do this.
MAN: I have to.
BETROS: Dont do this.
MAN: I have to.
(indistinct chatter)
This is the last time.
Or I swear Ill call the cops.
(banging nearby)
PRIDE: Gun!
BETROS: In here!
Oh!
Betros, hang in there.
Shooters in the wind.
Call 911.
Hes still alive.
(sighs) Steve Betros is out of surgery,
but hes still sedated in ICU.
Well, hopefully hell I.D. the shooter as he wakes up.
Any idea what information
he was giving the suspect at his office?
Well, Pattons still trying to access the Murder Index server.
Smart money says theyre picking their next victim.
Yeah.
CRANE: Flag on the play.
We dont think Betros is involved.
We dont?
Cranes actually sort of helpful.
Even compliments from you come off as snarky.
Its a gift. Crane and I established a timeline.
Turns out Steve Betros
and A.D.A. Davenport have alibis for all four murders.
Kind of blows our
Strangers on a Train
theory, though.
Kind of blows our
Strangers on a Train
theory, though.
Okay, well, if Davenport and Steve Betros
arent involved, that leaves...
James Ferrington.
Pride and Lasalle have him in Interrogation now.
LASALLE: This may have started
as some warped idea of justice,
but innocent people are dying now.
I didnt kill any of them.
But you know who did, dont you?
Okay.
Why dont you tell us about your son
instead?
He was gonna major in criminal justice.
He wanted to be like me.
Must have been proud.
When he was a kid,
he told all his friends
that I was a real-life superhero.
But when it mattered the most, I wasnt there to help him.
(exhales) A fathers not supposed to bury his son.
LASALLE: Charlie Reeses father
buried him, too.
Now Lydia Davenports mother will do the same.
Be the superhero your son looked up to.
Help us stop the killing.
About a year ago,
Steve told everybody
about his idea for the Murder Index.
But he needed raw data from law enforcement agencies.
Which you and Lydia Davenport could provide.
We just wanted to expose the murderers,
not kill anybody.
Someone else had different plans?
His name is Guy DeWalt.
Instead of finding solace in the group sessions,
they just fueled his rage.
They made him angrier, more extreme.
Did he tell you what he was doing?
No.
But we figured it out pretty quick,
especially when he started asking about police procedure.
He became obsessed with forensic protocol.
How to clean up after himself.
Leave no trace.
With enough knowledge, he could manipulate crime scenes
to make it look like there were different killers.
We knew we had
to stop him.
Just didnt know how.
You should have gone to the police.
And be let down by the system?
Again?
But Lydia-- she agreed to speak with that reporter.
Crane.
He mustve figured out what she was planning.
He killed her, too.
All I wanted was justice for my boy.
PATTON: Guy DeWalt is a former Green Beret.
Dishonorable discharge for insubordination.
And he has a long history of anger problems.
Have any specific connections to these vigilante cases?
Oh, yeah. DeWalt and Wyndham served in the--
in the Army together. They were BFFs.
He even spoke at his funeral.
Sorry, was it not my turn to speak?
So we got a clear motive for going after Wyndhams murderer.
Yeah, except he killed Charlie Reese,
who was innocent.
Which is why I think DeWalt is looking
for Wyndhams real killer now.
You know, the last thing
Betros did before he got shot
was run his murder algorithms on Wyndhams case again.
PRIDE: DeWalt forced Betros to find him
the next most likely suspect.
Wallace Fanning.
PATTON: Pulling his address up right now.
Send the details to my phone. Christopher, lets go.
Can I help you?
Is that the data that Betros used
to run Wyndhams murder algorithm?
Yeah. Why?
Because the date of the murders wrong.
It was in June, not July.
Faulty data, faulty results.
Which means Wallace Fanning is probably innocent, too.
Betross algorithm may not be ethical,
but it is effective.
If we were to plug in the correct data...
We could probably I.D. the real killer.
(siren wailing)
NCIS.
Looking for Wallace Fanning,
the man who lives here.
Youre not the only one.
Place is empty.
Got reports of shots fired.
Looks like there was some kind of struggle inside.
All right. Thank you.
DeWalt must already have Fanning.
Taking him back to that alley, finish what he started?
Guy DeWalt went after the wrong man.
How do you know?
Because Patton and I just found the right one.
Come on.
Where are you going?
To catch a killer and save an innocent mans life.
(sighs)
I guess we should go?
Yeah.
(tires screeching)
Ill circle round back.
Yeah.
(phone vibrating)
FANNING: Please.
I dont know what youre talking about.
I-I didnt-- I didnt kill anyone.
You think lyings going to save you?
I got
no idea what youre talking about!
I swear!
Federal agent! Drop the weapon!
(grunting)
Or what?
Drop it!
You want to shoot me,
yeah, thats fine.
You can do anything you want to me.
Just as soon as this man pays for what he did!
This isnt justice, DeWalt.
Wyndhams memory deserves better than this.
Wyndhams throat was slit in this alley.
No one gave a crap about his memory then.
I cant answer for that.
But I can tell you that this man
did not kill your friend.
Dont. Dont you try
and play me here.
Im not playing you.
Im just giving you the facts.
Youre about to kill another
innocent man.
Not another step!
This man killed Arthur!
(grunting)
(panting)
Hold still!
(grunting)
(panting)
Wallace Fanning didnt kill Dr. Wyndham.
CRANE: NOPD officers have just arrested Johnny Nolan,
the man responsible for the brutal murder
of Dr. Arthur Wyndham.
Nolan had been previously convicted
for selling drugs in the same alley
where Dr. Wyndhams body was found.
Personal items belonging to the doctor were also recovered,
including a commemorative knife
honoring his service in the Special Forces.
So theres finally an end to this tragic story
of twisted justice.
As always, we here at the BreakingNOLA team
will continue looking into the darkest corners of this city
to bring you the truth.
(chuckles): Oh. Check it out. I went viral.
PRIDE: Glad to see you back
on track, Crane.
Yeah.
Means I dont have to play dead anymore.
Unless thats why I went viral.
Is that your way of thanking us for keeping you alive
and giving you the story of the year?
We really do work very well together, dont you think?
Oh?
Maybe we could make this a regular thing.
Oliver Crane,
NCIS special investigative consultant.
Its got a nice ring to it.
PRIDE: Well, you know what they say
about too much of a good thing...
Yeah. Its even better.
Yeah. (laughs): Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. (laughs): Yeah.
Yeah.
Just take care of yourself, Crane.
All right.
Try not to get shot at again.
Yeah.
(exhales)
You want to go finish that game of
Risk
we started?
Oh, my God, yes. I thought you were never gonna ask.
Nerds.
♪
♪ My troubles are behind me
♪ And my glass is full of wine
♪ My troubles are behind me
HANNAH: Jimmy!
Im guessing youre here for business, not pleasure.
You seen Liam?
He hasnt been by tonight.
I was supposed
to meet him at his hotel, but he checked out.
Hes not answering his phone either.
That doesnt sound promising, does it?
No, it really doesnt. Damn it.
You two have a falling out?
Yeah. Sort of.
I came here to... fix it.
Explain myself. But...
I guess he doesnt want to hear it.
Well, one thing Im sure of:
I guess he doesnt want to hear it.
Well, one thing Im sure of:
youre trying to be a friend to a man whos clearly suffering.
Its not on you.
Thats really nice of you to say, Jimmy,
but its not necessarily true.
♪ Oh, now, come on, baby
♪
Come on, baby
♪
♪ Come on, baby
♪
Come on, baby
♪
♪ Come on, baby
♪
Come on, baby
♪
Come on, baby
♪
♪ Come on, baby...
♪ Ooh, forget about it
♪ I hear the music...
LIAM (recorded): Hey, Hannah. Its Liam.
Uh, got your messages.
Sorry I missed you at the hotel, but some,
uh, interesting business turned up overseas
and I had to catch a plane.
Um, I cant get into details over the phone, but, uh,
yeah, Ill-Ill fill you in the next time Im in town.
(sighs) Listen, I-I put too much on you, Hannah.
I just dont have anyone else I can talk to
about this thing.
Um...
Hey, give the princess a hug for me.
Tell her, uh,
Ill have to take a rain check on all that junk food.
(chuckles) All right, well,
(door opens)
talk soon.
Hey, Mom!
Hey, baby.
Hey.
Like I said,
piece of cake.
Oh, my God, you got an A-plus on your math test!
Mm-hmm.
Come here.
(chuckles)
Everything okay, Mom?
Yeah.
It will be, baby.
(sniffles)
It will be.
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