9-1-1 Nashville (2025) s02e02 Episode Script

1
There's a baby crying on your wall?
- [CALLER] No, "in." In my wall.
- Right.
[SIREN WAILS]
113 on scene at the Maple Apartments.
Where are we headed?
[CAMMIE] Fourth floor.
Caller is Bruce Block.
Just a heads up,
he sounds a little disoriented.
"Disoriented" how?
Well, he says there's a baby
crying inside his wall.
It might be the neighbors.
You checked with them?
That's the thing.
Nobody lives next door.
Should be fun.
Yeah, I was gonna try to take a
nap, but that baby
wouldn't stop crying.
I got this problem with my legs.
[GROANS] I was awake
for half the night last night.
Okay, well, I'm not
hearing anything now.
Well, it was nonstop
until two minutes ago.
Could be a trapped rat, maybe.
Y'all got rats?
It ain't a damned rat, okay?
Sir, do you take any medication
for that restless leg?
Yeah, so?
Sometimes dopamine agonists
can cause hallucinations.
[BABY CRYING]
- Oh.
- Oh!
- Tell me you don't hear that.
- [DON] I do hear that.
[BRUCE] I told you. It's in the wall.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Yeah, he's right, he's in there.
- I'll be damned. How in the hell?
- Oh, my God.
Oh, oh! This is just like that rescue,
uh, Buck was telling us about.
At the bar after the firefighter games.
They had a call about a baby
stuck in a wall just like this?
- Yes.
- [DON] And they got it out?
- Yes.
- And the baby survived?
- Yes.
- How the hell did they do it?
- He, uh… They went…
- Uh, uh… Uh…
Oh, we had a lot to drink that night.
Anybody got his number?
[PHONE RINGING]
Uh, hey. Hey, Ryan.
Kind of busy right now.
Hey, Buck. Yeah, the, uh, volcano thing?
Yeah, yeah, the volcano thing.
Hey, listen, unless this is a matter
of life and death, I really have to
No, no, it is. Listen, we, uh…
we got a baby stuck in a wall.
We're trying to figure out
how to get it out.
You're kidding me.
I wish I was.
Okay, yeah, so-so chances are,
baby's in the plumbing system.
First thing you have to do is shut
off the water supply to the building,
- and make sure
- Nobody flushes.
Nowak, shut off the water main.
Blue, grab the thermal gun, will you?
Dispatch? You need to contact all
the residents on
the 5th and 6th floor.
Make sure no one flushes their toilet
or runs their dishwasher.
On it, Cap. Deanna, Laurel,
I need y'all to start making some calls.
- Buck, are you seriously on the phone?
- Well, Cap, it's important.
We've got literal lava
approaching down Broadway.
- What could be more important?
- It's the 113 in Nashville.
They have a newborn in a wall.
Another pipe baby? No way.
Yeah. Hey, 113, this is Captain Han.
- [CHIM] Hey, guys.
- [ALL] Hi.
Just walking them through
how Bobby had us do it.
As you were.
Good luck, 113.
Okay, next up,
you're gonna have to open the wall.
Whatever you do, don't use an ax.
Who would use an ax
to try to save a baby?
Well, I-I almost did.
Bobby stopped me.
In my defense, I was still new.
- [BEEPING]
- Okay, here's baby. Taylor,
- let's mark it here and down here.
- [TAYLOR] Yeah, Cap.
[BABY CONTINUES CRYING]
Blue, grab a pipefall.
Ry, where's that saw?
- Let's get this baby out of here.
- [RYAN] We got it here.
And hey, guys. If what happened to us
is anything to go on,
somebody better find that mom.
I need all available PD
to search the building.
We're looking for
an unidentified postpartum female
in connection to a possible 39-12-101.
[TIRES SCREECH]
Dispatch. 3-126 responding.
I'm just down the block on a 10-24.
[CAMMIE] Copy, 3-126.
Firefighters are on the 4th floor now
opening the pipe.
[ROGUE] On my way.
[ENGINE REVVING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DON] All right, be careful now. Easy.
All right, good. That's the main drain
from the sewage stack.
[BABY CONTINUES CRYING]
- [TAYLOR] Uh…
- [BEEPING]
Right in here.
It's a miracle the baby didn't drown.
Dive reflexes must
have protected the baby
from inhaling too much water
on the way down.
How does a baby fit in a pipe?
[ROXIE] Chances are
this one's very premature.
- Yeah, or a pipe Here we go. Thanks, Ry.
- [RYAN] Yeah.
Captain, I need a firefighter
to help me search for the mother.
Oh, I got it. If that's okay with you.
[DON] Yeah, it's good.
Bring a LIFEPAK.
- Bring that battering ram too.
- Why do we need a battering ram?
Attempted murder suspects
don't always answer the door.
- [DON] That should do it.
- [BABY CONTINUES CRYING]
- Easy, easy, easy.
- Put it on the table.
Hey, you're okay.
Stuck in there pretty good.
How are we gonna get
this baby out of here?
[BUCK] Well, lube worked for us.
- [TAYLOR] I forgot you were there.
- [ROXIE] Good call, Buck.
Lube is what I was gonna say.
Blue, can you pass me the lube?
[CAMMIE]
[CAMMIE]
Firefighters are helping the baby now.
Captain Hart, what's the status?
We got the baby out of the wall. We're
just trying to get it out of the pipe.
Good news, ma'am. They
rescued the baby up on the 4th floor.
No, you don't understand.
I hear him crying in my walls right now.
- Right now?
- Listen.
[BABY CRYING]
What floor are you on?
- The second. Apartment 212.
- Oh, no.
Captain Hart, I need you to send
a second team to unit 212.
- Why?
- Because I think whoever this mother is,
she had twins.
Okay, all sewage lines
feed into a main drain stack,
so the mom's got to be
on one of the top two floors.
Nashville Fire. Nashville FD.
Open the door. Metro police.
- Hi.
- Is there a fire?
No. Um, does a pregnant woman live here?
- What? No. Why?
- Okay.
Don't worry about it.
And, uh, don't flush your toilet.
- [ROGUE] Metro Police. Open the door.
- What's going on?
Do any young…er women live here?
No, it's only me and the cats.
We're looking for a pregnant woman,
probably a teenager
with two strict religious parents.
Nashville Fire.
I know every family on this floor.
There's no one like that on six.
Ryan, forget the rest.
Let's go down to five.
And don't flush your john.
The wall is this way.
[BABY CRYING]
Hi. It's probably best if you move
your boy to another room. Blue?
[CALLER] Let's go watch Bluey. Come on.
[TAYLOR] I can hear you, baby.
- [BEEPING]
- [BABY CONTINUES CRYING]
- Where are you?
- [BEEPING RAPIDLY]
Here. Mark it, B.
[ROXIE] All right, Cap,
I'm gonna slide him out.
- [BABY CRYING]
- [DON] Okay, keep going, keep going.
Here comes the Oh, my God, we got
the head. I got the head. Keep going.
- A little more, a little more.
- There we go.
Hi. I think we have a little baby boy.
Oh, yeah.
[ROXIE] Hey, little guy.
- Hey, little guy. Hey.
- [DON] How's he looking?
Guess he's about 28 weeks, give or take.
He's dehydrated and cold,
but he's breathing on his own
and his heartbeat's stable.
Let's hope the same goes for his twin.
Go.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
It's okay, buddy,
we're here now. We got you.
He's so tiny, I think
I can slide him out.
Let's get a towel ready, please?
- Gentle, B. Careful. Gentle.
- You got him?
Come on.
Hi, sweetpea. Let's
Okay, lay it down.
Stethoscope.
He's barely breathing. I think
he's got something blocking his airway.
Meconium.
He probably got a mouthful during
birth and aspirated it in the pipe.
Can I get a bulb, please? Thank you.
- [CRYING]
- [TAYLOR] Come on.
There we go. Okay. All right.
[CHUCKLES]
Roxie, second baby is stable and secure.
That's great to hear. So is ours.
Hear that, little guy?
Great. Now I'm crying.
Good job, guys.
- [ROXIE] Thanks for your help, Buck.
- Hey, Ry.
- Any luck finding the baby's mom?
- [RYAN] We're working on it.
- Nashville Fire.
- Police, open the door.
- Nashville Fire!
- Metro Police, open up.
[RYAN] We're going door to door,
but nobody's answering.
[DON] All right, well, keep looking.
[RYAN] Nashville Fire!
[ROGUE] Police. Open up!
Nashville Fire!
- What?
- Does a young woman live here?
- [RESIDENT] I wish.
- [RYAN] Okay.
Metro Police, open up.
Ryan, get over here.
This is the one.
Take the door. Do it. Breach.
- This one? Why?
- A hunch.
- I can't smash in a door on a hunch.
- But I can.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
Police! We're coming in.
Rogue.
Lydia. You here?
Lydia?
Ryan! Get in here.
Doc, we got the mom. It's unit 520.
She's hemorrhaging pretty bad.
We're gonna need a gurney up here
and I'm gonna start a line now.
Give her methylergonovine and run
oxytocin with a line
to stop the bleed.
We're on our way with whole blood.
Taylor, meet us at 520.
On it.
Okay, we're okay. Take this?
Got you.
Squeeze it.
Hey. Hey.
Hey, can you hear me?
Hi. Hi. Hey.
Please don't tell my parents.
I didn't know I was pregnant.
You had no idea?
I mean, I haven't been feeling well,
but I never thought…
We only did it once and my ex-boyfriend
said that everyone was doing
We're not here to judge you.
God already judged me.
They were both stillborn.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
No.
They're alive.
What?
They're alive?
The firefighters saved them both.
- [RYAN] They're miracles.
- [SOFTLY] Oh, my God…
[SOBBING] Tell them I'm so sorry.
I really didn't think
they were gonna make it.
Tell them…
[RYAN] Hey, Lydia, Lydia?
Lydia?
[BEEPING]
Hey, Lydia. No, Lydia,
stay with us, okay?
- What's going on?
- She's hemorrhaging a lot.
Doc? We need you up here now
with that whole blood.
We're gonna hang another bag of saline.
[ROXIE] We're coming up now.
["YOU" PLAYING]
I've got whole blood!
In here.
Just keep holding that bag for me.
Okay, she's tachycardic. BP's 60/40.
We're having trouble finding a pulse
and she's still hemorrhaging a lot.
[MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY]
It's not working.
She's still hemorrhaging.
Let's bring them in.
- [DON] Where do you want them?
- Put them on her chest.
All right.
[ROXIE] We want
lots of skin-to-skin contact.
It'll release oxytocin, contract
her uterus and stop the bleeding.
Come on. Wake up, Mama. Wake up.
[BABIES CRYING]
You are ♪
[MONITOR BEEPS]
You are… ♪
It's working. It's working.
Yeah, we got a pulse.
Come on, kid. Come on.
[DON] That's your boys.
Look at that.
Meet the boys.
Meet your boys, Lydia.
Meet your boys.
Your vitals look good, Lydia.
Do you really think they'll be okay?
They'll need to spend
some time in the NICU,
but they're fighters,
just like their mom.
- [LYDIA'S MOM] Lydia? Lydia!
- Mom?
- Dad?
- You were pregnant?
- I swear I didn't know. I'm sorry.
- [LYDIA'S MOM] Oh, honey.
[SOFTLY] Please don't hate me.
Oh, my gosh, we could never.
We love you so much.
[LYDIA'S DAD] Oh, so much.
[TENDER MUSIC PLAYING]
[LYDIA'S MOM] Okay,
we have a lot to figure out.
But first, look at
these precious angels.
Folks, probably best to discuss this
on the way to the hospital.
- You can ride with them.
- Thank you so much.
You're very welcome.
Some cases get to you, don't they?
[RYAN] Oh, yeah.
Especially when they hit close to home.
[RYAN] You think she'll face charges?
Nah, she had no mens rea.
That's a guilty mind,
which is necessary
for it to be considered a crime.
Hey, nice work up there.
- You're good under pressure.
- You too.
How'd you know it was her apartment?
Glitter in the welcome mat.
Where there's glitter,
there's teenage girls.
Or a stripper.
[CHUCKLES]
Glitter.
That's genius.
Look, I know this is
gonna sound strange,
but I'm curious
if you've had any other unexplained
or unusual 911 calls recently.
[CAMMIE] You mean, besides twin babies
stuck in a wall?
That was pretty unusual.
Yeah, I was thinking something
a little more… [SIGHS] …biblical.
Oh, you're wondering
if we've had any more calls
related to that mysterious criminal
behind the murder hornets
and the blood flood.
Yeah. I just can't shake the feeling
he's gonna strike again soon.
Ryan? Hello?
- Aunt Cammie, can I call you back?
- Yeah, sure, honey, call me back.
[DON] Need I remind you, Son,
that you are a lieutenant with
the fire department, not the police?
Yes, sir. I just…
I can't stop thinking about the unsub
leaving Bible pages
at the crime scene.
- Unsub?
- It means "unknown subject."
I know what it means.
When did you start using it?
I'm listening to the Staten Island
Strangler podcast, and it's amazing.
Do you know how Rogue
busted this whole thing open?
No, and I don't care,
'cause I got a hose
on my apparatus bay floor
because you're too busy
playing amateur sleuth to load it.
Get your head on straight,
all right, Lieutenant?
Yes, sir.
Blue, you missed a spot.
Blue!
Sorry.
I've been listening to that
Staten Island Killer podcast.
- It's got me on edge.
- [ROXIE] Oh, my God.
It really captures the fear we felt in
New York back when
he was on the prowl.
Did you guys get to the part
when Rogue figures out
that the strangler called the victims
from inside their own homes?
Oh, it gives me chills.
- Shush! No spoilers.
- No!
I hadn't gotten to that part yet.
Are all y'all listening
to this stupid podcast?
- Yeah.
- Yes, you gotta.
No, thank you.
No, but, like, it's really good.
Hello! I'm home from group.
Don?
- [DON EXCLAIMS]
- Oh.
Don't-Don't sneak up on me like that.
Sorry. What are you listening to?
Oh, this podcast everyone at work's
obsessed with.
Oh, yeah? What's it about?
Staten Island Strangler.
It's a case that, uh…
Oh, that Rogue solved.
Yeah, I love that one.
- You already listened to it?
- Yeah, yeah. Um, Ryan told me about it.
Of course he did.
- Everything okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
Donnie, I've known you a long time,
and your jaw is as
tight as a steel trap.
All right, let's have a nightcap
and, uh, we can talk about it.
I'm actually cutting back on the wine,
but I'm always happy
to speak with you.
Oh. Look at you, Mr. Health Kick.
Did you decide to go
on that GLP-1 after all?
No, I'm doing it the old-fashioned way.
- With discipline.
- I respect that.
What's bugging you?
It's Ryan. He just, uh…
He hasn't been focused
at work, you know?
He just seems distracted,
like he's just not all there lately.
That doesn't sound like our son.
No, it doesn't. [SIGHS]
Suddenly, being a firefighter
isn't enough to him. It's…
Ever since the-the murder hornet case,
he's more concerned with being, uh,
you know, Detective Columbo.
Ooh. Detective Columbo
or Detective Rogue?
You think I'm jealous?
- [SCOFFS] I'm not jealous.
- Hmm?
- [DON CHUCKLES]
- Hmm?
Right, well, maybe I'm a little jealous,
but it's only because he fanboys
over him to the point where it's…
I mean, it-it-it's too much.
Yeah.
It hurts, doesn't it?
When someone else catches
the eye of someone that you love.
Yes. It does.
It's human for it to sting.
And the truth is that Rogue is stylish
and new and charming…
- Okay. You made your point.
- …and smart and handsome.
I… No, my point is that Rogue
can be all of those things,
but he's not Ryan's daddy.
I mean, his head might be turned
that way at the moment, but come on.
No one will come
close to you in his eyes.
Thank you for saying that.
And no one will ever
come close to you in mine.
Thank you for saying that.
- Um, well, uh…
- Well, hey.
Do you maybe wanna…
Good night, Don.
Good night. [SIGHS]
[CAMMIE]
[VOICE MODULATED]
Excuse me?
During the last exodus,
the plagues were sent to destroy me.
This time, I send them back to you.
This is my revenge.
You're him, aren't you?
I am the Pharaoh.
Nashville is the new Gomorrah.
A boil that needs to be lanced.
I command the city to renounce
its greed, its lust, its pride.
I'm just a 911 operator.
I can't change the course of the city.
But you can forbid
all the first responders
from interfering with my mission.
This is your first and final warning.
Wait. They're saying you're a genius.
No one can figure out
how you pulled off those attacks.
How'd you do it?
- Hello?
- I am divinely inspired.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[CALL DISCONNECTS]
[CAMMIE, ON RECORDING] Wait,
they're saying you're a genius.
No one can figure out
how you pulled off those attacks.
How'd you do it?
Hello?
[PHARAOH] I am divinely inspired.
[THREE PIANO NOTES PLAY]
That was excellent, by the way.
Maintaining your cool
even while he threatened you,
but playing to his ego
to keep him on the line.
Thank you. I was just trying to buy
time for our system to trace the call.
Were you a cop
before you became a dispatcher?
Record producer.
- [CHUCKLES] Nashville.
- Yeah.
Any luck with the trace?
No, and we use CyberSight.
I can't remember the last time
it was unable to trace a call.
His technical abilities are only
matched by his delusions of grandeur.
Well, he's clearly planning
to strike again.
- We gotta stop this guy.
- That's the idea.
- But he's always a step ahead.
- Mm-hmm.
- You said you used CyberSight.
- Yeah.
Were you able to remove
the audio filters from his voice?
No, the layers are too sophisticated,
so could be a 40-year-old man
or a 15-year-old girl.
What about isolating the ambient sounds
on his side of the call?
Maybe there's a clue to his location?
Yeah, there's nothing that tells us
where he is, but I
did catch something.
Listen to what happens
right before he hangs up.
I am divinely inspired.
[THREE PIANO NOTES PLAY]
There. Did you hear it?
Yeah.
Do you recognize it?
No, it's three notes.
Of an iconic song.
- Not all of us were record producers.
- [SCOFFS]
- What is it?
- Fine. Listen, listen. Put the…
["YOU'RE SO VAIN" PLAYING]
You're so vain ♪
"You're So Vain"?
You probably think
This song is about you… ♪
You think it means something?
- Oh, yeah. Definitely.
- What?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
We're about to find out.
["YOU'RE SO VAIN" PLAYING]
Hey, Maxx Nation,
it's Zion of the Four Horse Maxxers.
This is our Stairway to Ten series
where we teach you
- to become the ultimate looksmaxxer.
- [SONG ENDS]
To do anything you can
to achieve physical perfection,
break jaws to make them square,
style your hair to maximize
your features like a Terachad,
and glow that skin.
Today, our lucky contest winner
is gonna join us in our daily routine,
and spend the night in the Maxx House.
Come on in.
- [APPLAUSE]
- [CO-HOST] Let's go, dude. Let's go.
Why are you calling me a contest winner?
[BEEPS]
Because it's less embarrassing
than saying you're my uggo cousin.
- Do you want to ascend or not?
- Yes.
If it'll make people like me.
When we're done with you,
they're gonna love you.
Okay, let's do it.
[BEEPS]
Apologies for the technical
difficulties. We are back.
- What's your name, kid?
- Uh, Jasper.
[CO-HOST] No, no, that's not gonna work.
No female's gonna want
to slaymaxx a Jasper.
You need something
that exudes prowess and dominance.
Sal's right.
You are now…
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- Bricks?
- Not "Bricks."
Brixx! With two X's.
What'd you say your name was?
- Brixx.
- [LAUGHING] Let's go, Brixx!
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["SATISFACTION" PLAYING]
[ZION] This face cream is from Serum.
Made with medical-grade tretinoin,
it smooths out rough skin.
The first thing chicks notice
about a man is his jawline.
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Then you gotta Masticmaxx.
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You gotta stay lean, Brixx.
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[PHONE CHIMES]
This is why we do it, bro.
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You keep that jaw hardened,
you get DMs like this.
[DISTORTED VOICE]
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for the reveal of the new Brixx.
Good night.
[SONG CONTINUES]
Good night, handsome.
[SONG ENDS]
[PHONE ALARM RINGING]
[ZION] Good morning, handsome.
[SCREAMS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [SCREAMING]
- [BOTH SCREAMING]
[SCREAMING]
[CAMMIE]
[ZION]
[SIRENS WAILING]
Through this way.
I don't know what happened.
I think they might be dead.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
I know this place.
This is the Maxx House.
I follow these guys.
Blue, get an atmospheric reading.
They all came out this morning
covered in, like, sores.
Rox, let's check them all out.
Everybody glove up.
Let's get them all on LIFEPAKs.
[TAYLOR] He's not breathing
and there's no pulse.
He's gone, Doc.
[ROXIE] Mine's a black tag too.
No. Oh, my God, Sal.
Blue, what's the reading?
Four gasses clean.
Nothing's in the air.
- Well, something's causing it.
- These are boils.
[ZION GROANS]
Sir? Hey. Sir, can you hear me?
Wake up for me, sir.
Doc, this one's breathing.
He's got a temperature of 105.
He's burning up.
All right, give him a cold compress
and 30 milligrams of Toradol
to attack the fever.
Rox, any idea what this could be?
I'm not sure.
Some kind of infection that leads
to extreme fever, then organ failure.
- Hey, where did you sleep last night?
- With him.
Did you have skin-to-skin contact?
Yes.
Lots.
Oh, God, am-am I gonna die?
No, no, I don't think
this is contagious.
How do you know?
See the red base on the boils?
If they were communicable, they'd have
yellow or white pus,
but these are watery.
Do you know what they ate
or if they took any drugs or substances?
No. I-I met Sal
for the first time last night.
I… I slid into his DMs.
I should have never come. [SOBS]
Taylor, why don't you take her out
for an evaluation?
Come on. Come on now. It's all right.
Cold compresses are working.
Fever's down to 103.
Come on, sir, wake up.
All right, let's get him started
on saline and dexamethasone.
Sir, we need to know what you took
so we can best treat you.
[GROANING]
- Brixx.
- [RYAN] He say, "Bricks"?
"Bricks." Is that some kind of drug?
[ZION] He… He… He…
He's my cousin.
Brixx… Brixx is a person? Where is he?
- [ZION] We made him sleep outside.
- Get him ready for travel.
Rest of y'all, let's go find this Brixx.
[ROXIE SHOUTING] Brixx?
Brixx?
Blue, he's out here.
Kid, can you hear me?
[JASPER GASPING]
[ROXIE] Get him on the LIFEPAK.
[WHEEZING] Help me.
We're gonna help you,
but we need to know everything you took.
[JASPER GASPING]
[WHEEZING, CHOKING]
- Did you take any drugs, substances?
- [COUGHS]
- [BLUE] O2's at 70. Temp's 104.
- [ROXIE] All right.
We need to get that down.
Here, give him a cold compress.
- Pushing 30 milliliters of Toradol.
- [GASPING, WHEEZING]
I don't get it. If he's sick,
why doesn't he have boils too?
[BEEPING RAPIDLY]
[WHEEZING]
I'm hearing stridor. There's
something obstructing his airway.
[GROANS] I can't breathe.
[GROANING, GASPING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Open your mouth for me?
He does have boils.
They're just on the inside.
They're all over his mouth
and his windpipe.
There's a huge buildup of fluid in them.
That's why he can't breathe.
- We need to lance them now.
- Won't that flood his airway?
That's where you come in.
[GASPING, CHOKING]
[BEEPING RAPIDLY]
Just hold on for me, kid.
I know it hurts.
- Blue, get ready.
- I'm ready.
[ROXIE] Lancing the boil.
- [JASPER CHOKING]
- Blue, suction?
[ROXIE] We're almost there.
We're almost there.
Just keep holding on.
Need to drain a little bit more.
Lancing another one.
- Keep still.
- [JASPER CHOKING, GASPING]
[ROXIE] You're almost there, Brixx.
You're almost there.
A little more.
All right, remove suction.
- [JASPER GASPS]
- [MONITOR BEEPS]
How's that?
[BREATHING HEAVILY] Much, much better.
Thank you.
So you must be Brixx.
No.
Not anymore.
I'm Jasper.
He's set for travel, Rox.
We'll see y'all back at the house.
Nice work, gang. Y'all stay safe.
[SIREN CHIRPS, WAILS]
Hey, Cap?
I was thinking I would radio dispatch.
Make sure that they get Rogue
out to the scene.
Why? Metro just landed.
- The plagues in the Bible, the boils.
- So?
So my gut is telling me
that this could be our guy.
Ryan, we're firefighters,
we're not detectives.
There's… [CHUCKLES]
There's no such thing as "our guy."
Our job is to neutralize hazards,
render aid, and move on.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
We didn't neutralize any hazards, Dad.
We don't know what
made those people sick.
If we missed any
evidence, I don't want
some plain old cop walking in there.
All right. Stop, please.
We're not in the evidence business.
- Son, do I need to be concerned about you?
- About what?
About your sudden
fascination with police work,
your… [SCOFFS] …obsession with Rogue?
I am not obsessed with Rogue.
Eh…
- Blue?
- Huh?
Am I obsessed with Rogue?
- I mean, you do talk about him a fair bit.
- Thank you.
But the guy is cool.
- And a genius. And he's ripped.
- [RYAN SIGHS]
He's got to be on TRT, right?
No. I… I asked Rogue.
He says he's on peptides
and the rest is just diet and exercise.
No kidding? So Rogue just must
naturally have a high T count.
The next person to
mention Rogue is gonna
have latrine duty all week, all right?
What are we talking about?
Rogue.
I didn't realize dispatch
had called you in.
They didn't, but I heard something
about mysterious boils over the radio.
Figured it might be our guy.
Oh!
- Great minds.
- [DON CHUCKLES]
You guys coming or what?
Can we?
Fine.
- Blue, finish loading up, will you?
- [GROANS]
I mean, on it, Captain.
Thank you.
- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
"Nashville is a boil
that needs to be lanced."
That's what an anonymous caller
told 911 dispatch 48 hours ago.
You're kidding.
He even played the first few notes of
"You're So Vain" before he hung up.
- Now three looksmaxxers are dead.
- So it is him.
He said the plagues are his revenge.
So the question now is,
what was the murder weapon?
Well, it had to be
some kind of fast-acting pathogen.
You said these guys take
every supplement known to man.
Maybe they just got a bad batch.
My thoughts exactly, Captain.
So what do you think?
He spike their stash?
In an influencer hype house? No way.
They got cameras everywhere.
The last thing he'd want
is to risk ending up on a live stream.
[RYAN] So how'd he do it?
He'd send them a freebie.
We're gonna need
all of these bagged and tested.
[OFFICER] Yes, sir. Right away.
Skin cream from some
company called Serum.
Face mask from Lustrous Labs.
Vitality Drip from ECSO2.
That's it.
That's the one that killed them.
Yeah.
It's a Bible page.
How did you know?
- [DON] Yeah?
- Um, ECSO2.
ECSO-dos. Exodus.
It's the Bible.
Exodus 9:10.
"They took ashes of the furnace
and stood before Pharaoh.
Moses sprinkled it up towards the air.
And it became boils and blisters
on man and on animal."
Boils.
You got good instincts, kid.
Captain.
We got to get back to the station.
There's just one more thing
I want to tell you.
So the city's sending out an
alert tonight to all first responders.
Pharaoh told 911
that anyone who interfered with his work
would suffer his wrath.
By my count, your team just
saved two more of his victims.
So you're saying
he may be coming after us.
I'm saying watch your six.
Because this guy is brilliant, bold,
and clearly carries a grudge.
- [DON] Hey.
- Hey.
- You getting ready to turn in?
- Yeah, I'm beat. [STAMMERS] Did you…
You didn't take my eye drops, did you?
Crap, I did. I… My eyes were
killing from all that pollen.
- I totally forgot to put it back.
- No, no, it's okay. It's okay.
But now that we're sleeping
in separate rooms,
I think that we should have our own
stuff, you know?
Keep that separate too.
Yeah, that's actually what I want
to talk to you about. Uh… [SIGHS]
I think we need to pause
this bedroom divorce for the time being.
Donnie, you know that we have
so much more work to do. I
It's not about intimacy.
It is about safety.
Apparently, there is a killer
on the loose in Nashville.
What kind of killer?
The criminal Rogue was
talking about at brunch last week
that released all the murder hornets.
- So Rogue was right. He's real.
- Apparently.
[SIGHS] The guy calls himself,
uh, the Pharaoh.
The guy called 911,
said he would go after any
first responders that tried to stop him.
Now, I think we have to assume
that includes families.
Well, let him break in here.
He'll meet my friend Smith and Wesson.
Blythe, he's sophisticated
and he's sadistic.
At least until he's caught,
I think that we need to stick together,
especially at night.
Thank you. I… I can protect myself.
If you need me…
I know where to find you.
["GET ON THE FLOOR" PLAYING]
See, the night's young
And I wanna mingle with someone ♪
DJ, keep the beat bumpin'
Leaving with someone ♪
- We're gonna party like… ♪
- [KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[MUSIC STOPS]
- Ryan.
- Hey.
Come on in.
[RYAN] Wow.
Uh, this is, uh…
This is really nice.
I didn't know you could afford
a place like this on a cop's salary.
You can. You just have to sell
your apartment in SoHo first.
- Something to drink?
- Whatever you're having.
Protein shake it is.
[CHUCKLES]
Well, uh, thanks for letting me stop by.
Just want to pick your brain
for a little bit.
You help me find a lead on a case,
you're welcome anytime.
Yeah, have you, uh, been able to
figure anything out
about our unsub yet?
Yeah, but I need you to understand,
there are some things I can share,
some things I can't.
I get it.
Tell me whatever you can.
He calls himself the Pharaoh.
The Pharaoh.
I thought Moses sent the plagues
to punish the Pharaoh.
In his own words, this is his revenge.
His divine mission.
You made a profile on him yet?
I mean, the one you did for
the Staten Island Strangler, man,
that was…
That was crazy.
You nailed him.
Down to him driving
a late-model blue sedan.
[CHUCKLES] You listened to the podcast.
Twice.
Pharaoh has a God complex.
The fact that he uses Bible pages
as his signature
suggests that he was once devout,
but likely had a falling out
with the church.
That explains the rage.
Now he gets off on turning
religious imagery on its head.
Which is why he chose to name himself
after the villain in the story.
Exactly.
His MO indicates that he's got a
background in
engineering, construction.
Also advanced degrees
in chemistry and/or biology.
[BLENDER WHIRRING]
Have you figured out how he got
those looksmaxxers those boils?
The lab found a 200% saturation
of vibrio vulnificus in the IV drip.
It's a, uh, deadly bacteria
found in raw shellfish.
It can cause organ failure.
So this is a high-IQ individual.
Oh, off the charts.
The fact that he can
craft elaborate scenes
and evade all detection
without leaving a trace of DNA?
I've never seen anything like it.
We're looking for a super-nerd
that hates Jesus?
I'm not so sure about the nerd part.
He operates with extreme confidence.
I'd wager he's charismatic.
- Good-looking, even.
- Hmm.
- At least 40, but probably older.
- What makes you say that, man?
I mean, most of these guys
start pretty young, right?
Yeah.
But when he called 911, he told your
aunt that Nashville
is the new Gomorrah.
That indicates
that he romanticizes the city
from before the boom in 2010
when things were smaller,
moved a little bit slower.
That's the Nashville he wants back.
It's brilliant.
It's just a bunch of guesses
glued together with intuition.
Is that everything?
- That I can tell you.
- What about the stuff you can't tell me?
Sorry, pal.
Anything else would
be against the rules.
Oh, come on,
I know you don't care about the rules.
Your name's Rogue, for God's sake.
[ROGUE] I'm gonna show you something,
but you can't tell anyone,
not even your dad.
- It's an ongoing investigation.
- Deal.
[ROGUE] This is the Bible page
from the looksmaxxer scene.
It matches the typeset
and the larger font of the pages
found at the other cases exactly.
- So it's the same Bible?
- It's a personal Bible, I believe.
We did ninhydrin processing
on it this evening.
You pull a print?
More than eight prints.
That's the problem.
- There are dozens.
- [WHISTLES]
All unidentifiable
because they're overlapping.
It's like he's taunting us,
planting so many to try
to get us to chase our own tails.
I don't know.
What?
Maybe he wasn't the first person
to touch the Bible.
You know, like, what if he found it
in a public place, like a…
a library, or a church.
You know, you say something like that,
makes me wonder
if you missed your calling.
["FIREWORKS" PLAYING]
[CHAIR SCRAPES]
[THUD]
I could've sworn I saw fireworks ♪
From your house ♪
Last night… ♪
What are you doing? I told you
I know you said you don't need
protection, but if he's coming for you,
he's gonna have to go through two of us.
You're a fool.
Do you know how
bad it is for your back
to be sleeping in a chair like that?
It's worth it.
You are stubborn. Stubborn.
You are stubborn as a jack mule.
- Better?
- Mm-hmm.
Good night.
It ends ♪
Before ♪
[SIGHS]
It's even begun ♪
I am the only one ♪
At the finish line ♪
- I took a trip out to the frozen lake ♪
- [PHONE CHIMING]
And you felt so ♪
Far away ♪
But I could feel it
washing over me… ♪
[TURNER] Listen, Cam,
I know you're going through it.
Whenever you're scared, just imagine
the Pharaoh's voice sounds like this.
[WACKY VOICE] Do what I say
or I shall unleash the apocalypse.
[CACKLES]
You're such a dork.
[RINGING]
- Hello?
- [SONG FADES]
[PHARAOH] I warned
you what would happen.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
How did you get this number?
There's nowhere to hide from me.
At work. At home.
I see you, Cammie.
Are you threatening me?
Two of those looksmaxxer parasites
survived a punishment they
deserved today because you sent help.
And I always will,
because that's the oath I took
to help in whatever way I can.
We'll see how brave you are
after my next plague,
my biggest yet.
What are you planning?
Pharaoh, what are you gonna do?
"God said, 'Let there be light',
and there was light."
I say, "Let there be darkness,"
and there will be darkness.
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