Boston Blue (2025) s02e04 Episode Script

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DISPATCH (over radio): All units,
stabbing suspect.
White male, 20s, jeans, red hoodie.
Escaped patrol custody.
Last seen on foot near
Centre and Seaverns.
See, we should be investigating
that escaped convict
instead of whatever this is.
Disturbance calls can be a crapshoot.
This could be wild.
WOMAN: You're a murderer!
That was a living creature.
That was Jaws, now it's a dead fish.
JONAH: Hey, Boston PD.
Everybody take a step back.
Back up. Back up.
- Finally. Officers, arrest them.
- For what, catching a fish?
For targeting a protected species.
We were targeting swordfish.
Come on. They've
been hunting great whites
ever since the incident at
Carson Beach last month.
- Hey. Hey, man. Please.
- Come on. Stop filming, please.
- Guys. Please step back.
- Sir, did you have any idea
you hooked a great white?
We knew it was huge.
We knew it was awesome.
- We didn't know it was illegal.
- (woman scoffs)
It's your job to know.
Why are you so bent out of shape?
It's a shark, not a goldendoodle.
I swim with great white sharks
for a living. We are more
- dangerous to them than they are to us.
- Oh, you're that crazy shark activist
on TikTok. Hey, tell you what,
you love sharks so much, you can
come visit this one on his wall.
- Sir, that's not necessary.
- Okay.
I'm so sorry. So sorry.
- Hey! Hey!
- Knife! Knife!
Gonna be hard to taxidermy it now,
you sadistic pig.
I told you disturbance
calls can be wild.
MAN: Is that an arm?
WOMAN: Your promotion changes
how other people experience you.
I know.
Nobody wants to be told their
personality's a liability.
Baldisari gets told that every day.
Okay. You're cops.
Jokes come with the territory.
But what if that joke
came from a supervisor?
You might be supervising
friends, partners,
people you confide in,
people who confide in you.
But someone you supervise might
hesitate to be vulnerable
now that you're evaluating
their job performance.
Um, are you saying we shouldn't
be friends with our partners anymore?
I'm saying your rank is
in the relationship now.
And I've seen friendships blow up
when people pretend that's not true.
Oh, w-what do you suggest
we do about that?
Remember that everything you say and do
will be perceived differently
than it used to and go from there.
Huh.
That's really good.
(chuckles) Thanks.
It's just cathartic. I'm not obsessing.
- I just had a couple minutes.
- Oh, I'm just
Actually, you know what?
- It's none of my business.
- Huh.
Well, we just got a call for,
um, get this a human arm
in a shark at the fish pier.
- Well, let's go.
- Danny, I hate sharks.
Pretty sure everyone hates sharks.
Yeah, yeah, they do,
but I really hate them.
You know? Like,
Jaws ruined me for open water,
so want to do me a solid and, uh,
use that shiny new authority to
give this case to somebody else?
I'd love to, but actually,
I-I can't do that.
You're a sergeant now.
You literally can do that.
We caught the case.
Let's go catch a shark.
- Everything okay?
- Chief Lanigan just left.
There's been a rash of B and Es
in B4, and he wants to know
why I personally haven't fixed it yet.
- That doesn't sound like the chief.
- It's like he's looking
for an excuse to break me
back down to lieutenant.
- What's up?
- So, I just got a call
from one of my A.D.A.
s in the parole unit.
Dane Cooper is up for parole
on Jessica Davis' rape case.
- Don't tell me it was granted.
- It was offered, then withdrawn.
Cooper refuses to take responsibility.
He says he's innocent.
- He pled guilty before trial.
- Well, exactly.
They offered him a chance to go home if
he'd just re-admit his guilt. He said no.
That doesn't make any sense.
That's why my office
has to interview him.
I'll let you know how it goes.
I want to be there.
It was my case.
If he says he didn't do it,
I need to look him in the eye.
(indistinct chatter)
Ugh. What are we talking about?
Hey, Lena, don't worry, it doesn't bite.
He's unarmed anyway.
Wow, you really went
out on a limb with that one.
- You two working this case?
- Detectives respond to all calls
involving body parts.
LENA: However, there had been
no visits in the ER for amputated limbs.
There's been no missing person
So it might not be a shark attack.
- Exactly.
- WOMAN: Did you hear that?
I told you that we shouldn't
jump to conclusions.
Oh, please. This isn't a shark attack?
REPORTER: City Councilman Doherty,
should the public avoid Boston beaches?
Of course it's a shark attack.
The second one in a month.
And proof we need to reject the pro-shark
bill standing in the city council.
It's time we declared war
on the great white shark.
Don't do that.
Don't give the green light
for people to exterminate
an entire species.
DANNY: All right,
nobody's declaring war on anyone.
- Detectives, what does Boston PD think?
- JONAH: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
REPORTER: Was this a shark attack?
Should the public avoid Boston beaches?
What the public should
do is let us do our job.
And that includes the media, too, okay?
The Boston police will get
to the bottom of this.
Now, please, this is a
crime scene, everyone.
- Let's step back.
- Thank you.
Should the public be concerned?
MAN: You got it wrong.
I did not rape Jessica Davis.
Mr. Cooper, there was plenty
of evidence against you.
The victim ID'd you.
She made a mistake.
You pled guilty to rape.
Why would an innocent man do that?
Because my lawyer told me
the case was really bad.
He said Ms. Davis was a
sympathetic college student,
and she was very convincing.
SARAH: If you didn't do it
I had a two-year-old daughter.
If I pled guilty, I'd be eligible
for parole in ten years.
I'd be able to see my daughter again
when she was 12 years old, instead of 30.
Mr. Cooper, all of your
appeals are exhausted.
I can't reopen this case on your say-so.
If you don't admit guilt now,
you might never go home.
I'm not gonna say I
committed a crime I didn't.
I did that already ten years ago, and
I haven't been able to live with myself.
I'm not doing it again.
We're done here.
(door opens)
(door closes)
I believe him.
No, the case against him was rock-solid.
The man who raped Jessica Davis
cut the power to her condo
by dismantling the meter.
Dane Cooper was an electrician.
Jessica saw his truck parked in
the neighborhood the day before.
I know all of that, and I know
that he had three prior B and Es,
but there was not really
that much more evidence.
There is the ID.
Jessica Davis picked him out
of a photo array and a lineup.
- Witnesses make mistakes.
- You weren't there.
She started shaking the second
she saw him behind the one-way glass.
She was 100% sure.
Would a guilty man not
take a chance at freedom?
My office needs to reinvestigate.
This DNA from the rapist
the sample was too small to be tested.
- There's new technology.
- I'm gonna send it out to be tested.
I built my career on this case.
What if I sent an innocent man to jail?
(sighs)
OFFICER (over radio): 14-Edward-101.
We've cleared the 1200
block of Hill Street.
No sign of the fugitive stabbing
suspect. We're moving south.
What'd sarge say about
helping with the search?
Ah, they're sending units
from other districts.
- Want us to stay on call.
- Great. So we can deal with
- our ladies of perpetual sorrow.
- Yeah.
What do you think the
complaint is this time, huh?
Garden gnome crossed the property line?
Noise complaint on a wind chime?
Mrs. Rowen, Mrs. Walsh,
how we doing today?
Officer Silver.
Officer Reagan. She stole my vegetables.
Two rows of carrots,
three tomato plants, stripped bare.
Those tomatoes were hanging over
on my side of the fence, Margaret.
So, as far as anyone's concerned,
- those are God's tomatoes.
- There.
- She admitted it.
- Oh, please.
Talk about pot calling kettle.
You know, she stole my chowder recipe
for the parish Chowderfest in 2015.
I adapted that recipe.
- An adaptation is not theft.
- SEAN: Okay, ladies.
Ladies, right now, there is an
escaped prisoner somewhere in Boston.
- Oh, what did he do?
- He stabbed a packie owner.
Oh, well, my ex-husband
stabbed my brother
- at Thanksgiving.
- Oh, my God.
- I mean, life goes on.
- JONAH: Okay.
We're gonna write a report
for the record, but you two,
you need to solve whatever
this is between you, all right?
SEAN: And going forward,
911 is for emergencies only,
okay? It's not for chowder,
not for garden disputes.
Emergencies. Okay?
Sox are gonna lose to the
Yankees today, Connie.
(laughs)
You keep manifesting evil, Margaret,
and see what happens to your zucchinis.
Oh!
Wow.
I signed up to be a cop,
not a social worker.
Sometimes they're the same thing.
So what do you think, doc?
Should we be looking for
somebody walking around
with a missing arm or should we assume
that the rest of the body's
floating around in the Atlantic?
No one survives this kind of amputation
without going to the hospital.
Okay, thank you.
So, Sullivan ran the degraded
partial print from the hand.
We got matches to 56 possible people.
One of them was a shark biologist
from the New England
White Shark Conservancy,
Steve Reynolds.
So a shark biologist got his
arm bitten off by a shark?
- Exactly why I hate sharks.
- Hm.
Mystery solved.
Thank you so much, Dr. Burnside.
- Except
the arm was severed
before the shark ate it.
How do you know this?
Wound edges aren't from shark teeth.
And there are curve marks on the bone,
indicating a cutting tool was used.
Not sure exactly what kind of tool
because of the stomach acid.
And I'm assuming you can't tell
the cause of death from just the arm.
Insightful assumption.
But unless Steve Reynolds
cut his arm off himself,
I would say you have a homicide.
Huh.
Can you tell us anything
about this device?
Acoustic tracking tag.
Pings to receivers anchored
to the ocean floor.
Belongs to the New England
White Shark Conservancy.
The same place Steve Reynolds worked.
- Yeah.
- All right, thank you, Dr. Burnside.
All right, now,
how in the world did a shark scientist
get his arm cut off somehow and then
get eaten by one of his own tagged sharks?
Don't know. But I got a hunch
it's gonna involve more sharks.
DANNY: When's the last time
either of you saw Steve?
Uh, he was here last night.
He was working on my PhD recommendation.
And he never came home?
No. My mom and I waited up for him,
but Steve working at the office
all night wasn't unusual.
He was devoted to the work.
I know they look terrifying, but
the great whites keep the ocean's
whole ecosystem in balance.
Without them,
the entire marine food web falls apart.
Sounds like you shared his passion.
Yeah, we started the
conservancy together.
We weren't just married,
we shared a mission, a purpose.
That sounds amazing.
Do either of you know if Steve
took the boat out last night?
No, I checked the logs.
He didn't sign out,
and the fuel level's the same.
Did Steve have any enemies?
He was pushing a shark protection bill
through city council.
Commercial fishermen hated it, and
some city councilors, too.
And Wave Shaye.
That's the shark activist from the pier.
- Mm-hmm.
She calls herself a biologist, but
she and her partner
her cameraman, Dylan
they just post videos of her
swimming with sharks for views.
WOMAN: She thought Steve's
legislation went too far in places.
She said that our tagging
program was cruel,
and she went after him constantly.
- Is that you and Steve's son?
- Yeah.
He loves sharks, too.
Um, what about the tag
on the shark that took Steve's arm?
- We can pull the GPS data.
- That'd be great.
I got him.
They shared a marriage and a mission.
That's a blessing.
It is.
This got you thinking about Rodgers?
You know what, forget I asked that.
We actually have resources
and people that you can talk to,
if you need to, about the situation.
Did you just cite an
HR pamphlet right now?
I am a walking,
talking HR pamphlet right now.
It's, uh, Pretty Paisley's GPS data.
Uh, that's the shark's name.
She was one of Steve's favorites.
LENA: Oh.
Well, thank you for this, um
Ginny, we're gonna do everything we can
to find out what happened to Steve.
- Thank you.
- DANNY: Thank you.
- We'll be in touch.
- Okay.
You know, Steve could've taken
another boat out on the water.
Mm-hmm.
- Or he could've been killed on land
and taken out to water and dumped.
Either way, we got to
check his phone records.
That's right, and we got to
talk to that sharktivist, Wave.
Oh, yeah.
WOMAN: No, that's not possible.
Dane Cooper is the man who raped me.
I am so sorry, Jessica.
DNA confirmed it wasn't Dane.
So you're saying the man who
hurt me is still out there?
Possibly. The DNA didn't match
anyone in the prison system.
It could be an administrative error.
Or he hasn't been caught.
It took me five years of trauma therapy
to regain control of my life.
I only just started being
able to sleep without pills.
Oh, my God, I sent an
innocent man to prison.
SARAH: No.
Jessica, this is not your fault.
It is my fault. I said it was him.
We are gonna start over.
And I promise you we will do everything
we can to find the man who hurt you.
You said that ten years ago.
How do you trust the
sharks not to attack you?
It's not about trust. It's control.
In the water, I give predator energy.
I convey I'm not a meal.
- Hm.
- Let's look at another video.
WAVE: You know what, you're a sadist.
You don't care about sharks.
You torture them.
Stop with the theatrics, Wave.
She swims with sharks to make money.
Ask her about her sponsorships.
DANNY: Wet suits,
dive watches, flippers.
All these companies pay you.
It's how you make your living.
Now, Steve's bill would
ban the chumming you do
to make the videos that build
your brand, wouldn't it?
My brand raises awareness.
People come for the spectacle and they
leave thinking differently about sharks.
Comment wars.
It's pretty vicious DMs.
You and Steve have quite the history.
That's predator energy, for sure.
I didn't like parts of Steve's bill
or his tagging program, but kill him?
Please.
Our drama drove thousands
of followers to my videos.
You should be talking to whoever
he went out on his boat with.
DANNY: Who would that be?
Dylan and I came in at 6:00,
passed Steve going out.
Here's my dashcam.
That's Marisa, his PhD intern.
(screaming) Get off of me!
SEAN: 12-Jake-101.
Sheriffs responding to a domestic.
Get off
Break it up,
break it up. What's going on here?
Grab her, grab her.
What's going on?
She threw the first punch.
Oh, it was just a shove, Margaret.
Then you went down like you were
auditioning for The Passion.
And that is destruction of property.
I didn't touch your light!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Hey. Hey.
- (shouts)
- Okay, you know what?
- What?
- You're under arrest.
Oh!
- (laughs)
- SEAN: You shoved her.
- That's assault and battery.
- (scoffs)
And what you just did in front of us?
- Attempted assault and battery.
- Oh.
- Finally, just desserts.
- Oh
Also assault and battery.
Hands behind your back.
What?
- (Connie laughing)
- Let's go, ladies.
- JONAH: Coming with us.
- CONNIE: Here we go.
- Sort this out at the station.
- Come on.
(indistinct chatter)
(clears throat) Marisa. A word?
- Hey. Where you going?
- Hey. I got her.
- Hey
- (grunts)
(onlookers exclaim)
What happened?
- What's going on? Is everyone okay?
Get up. Give me your hands.
Turn around and give me your hands.
- You okay?
- No jokes?
Oh, 'cause you're afraid of
sharks and you almost ended up
in a shark's mouth, yeah.
Wasn't sure that was gonna be funny.
You're really starting
to freak me out with
- all this HR stuff, Brooklyn.
- DANNY: Sorry.
Let's get her out of here, Beantown.
LENA: Let's go, Marisa.
- DANNY: That was you.
- I didn't mean to hurt him.
Okay. So what happened?
Someone was stealing the
acoustic receivers anchored offshore.
That data is the spine
of Steve's research.
And you and Steve decided to stake
out the area where the receivers were?
We sat there for a while,
and then we got into an argument.
He told me that he wasn't gonna write
my PhD recommendation for Harvard.
Why not?
I made a mistake on a dataset.
So, he said he-he couldn't
put his name behind me.
Like I was some kind of fraud.
I pushed him.
- He went overboard.
- And was he conscious
- when he went overboard?
- Yes, but
I was so mad, I I left.
But I-I figured he would
just swim back in.
From a mile out?
He's a marine biologist. A diver.
I told myself that it was gonna be okay.
That he was gonna be okay, but
DANNY: Yeah, but he wasn't.
Was he?
I killed him. I killed Steve.
So, Marisa, when exactly
did you cut him up?
What? I didn't cut him up.
What are you-what are you talking about?
DANNY: Steve wasn't eaten by a shark.
He was dismembered and fed to a shark.
What? That's insane.
Check the boat for blood.
Check my clothes.
Check everything.
I pushed him overboard,
but I did not cut him up.
I swear.
More body parts washed up in Hull.
Head, leg, torso.
M.E.'s sending a report soon.
Luminol report just came back. Negative.
No blood on the conservancy boat
and no blood in Marisa's house or car.
And there's no way she could've cut up a
body and then cleaned up that much blood.
So, she didn't kill him.
So, we could charge her with assault or
reckless endangerment, but nothing else.
If that.
Did, uh, Ginny send the
GPS tracking on the boat?
Yes. She did.
Let's take a look.
Okay. So here's the
route from that night.
Receiver's underwater here.
Right where Steve went overboard.
And then this is the path
the shark took that we got from the tag.
- Hmm.
- No overlap. Look at that.
Not even close.
Which means Steve made it to shore
and somebody killed him there
or somebody pulled Steve
aboard a boat, killed him,
and then dumped him back in the water.
Whatever the case, we got to
find out who that someone is.
Well, City Councilor
Doherty has an alibi.
He was at a fundraiser
in Back Bay all night.
Looks like Doherty's not the
only one who hates Steve's bill.
Whole bunch of fishermen do,
including
Lawrence Mortensen,
who said the proposed bill is a
death sentence for working boats.
Let's check out Lawrence.
There he is.
- Hm.
- He'll be at the hearing
tonight, along with a bunch of
other disgruntled fishermen.
Be kind of like shooting
fish in a barrel.
(computer chimes)
Aha! M.E. report just came through.
All right, let's see here.
Cause of death was blunt force trauma
to the head. Single strike
with something heavy,
and vitreous humor in the eyes
puts time of death around 9:00 p.m.
Okay, Marisa said Steve
went overboard at 8:45.
So, 15 minutes, give or take.
No way he made it to shore.
Any progress on what was
used to cut up Steve's body?
A knife with a deeply serrated edge.
Something that might be
found on the boat of a diver
- or a fisherman.
- Yeah.
Something that could easily cut
through mooring lines or rope.
Or even, perhaps
- Steve.
- Steve.
Charges against you both
are assault and battery.
But we got to talk about motive.
For what? The alleged tomato-cide?
Mrs. Rowen, when we inventoried
your wallet, we found this.
SEAN: You two were close once.
What happened?
Help us understand.
What's going on here?
You want motive?
He's right there. My husband Tommy.
He dropped dead in 2006.
And she my best friend
didn't come to the funeral.
No, I did come, Margaret.
I stood outside in the
rain for two hours
'cause I knew something,
and I didn't know what to do.
What are you talking about?
Tommy came to me before he died,
and he said he had
aggressive pancreatic cancer.
Tommy didn't have cancer.
He had a heart attack in his sleep.
No.
- He took some pills.
- (gasps)
He wanted to spend the rest of the time
with you at home with the kids.
He didn't want to spend it in hospitals.
- He wanted to go out on his terms.
- No.
No, my Tommy wouldn't do that.
That's a sin.
No, it's not a sin, Margaret,
if you want to protect
the people that you love
from watching you suffer.
You didn't tell me?
- I was blindsided.
- I wanted to.
But I left.
And I've hated myself for it ever since.
MARGARET: I didn't need protecting
from the truth, Connie.
I needed my friend.
I'm so sorry, Margaret.
We're gonna leave you two alone.
I'm gonna take a look at
dropping those charges.
Oh, you're both good boys.
(door opens)
There's an amendment
on the table to allow
- baited buoys.
- WOMAN: We need limits!
To protect beaches, to protect
MAN: What about the circle hooks?
Those change what we catch,
what we haul,
our income. You pass this bill,
you'll kill our industry.
- All right, I
- WAVE: So you want free rein
to keep killing thousands
of sharks as bycatch.
These folks act like they own the ocean.
- Open up to the camera.
- Man: She's out there
chumming the waters for money.
Who's psychotic?
- LENA: Hey!
- Sit down.
(clamoring, shouting)
Get your hands off me!
Hey! Take it easy, Ahab.
- Ain't that tough, tough guy.
- You, sit down and shut your mouth.
- You know shoving people is assault?
- Yeah, he deserved it.
Oh, yeah? That's not a good defense.
- You got any weapons on you?
- My pocket.
It's for diving.
Are you serious right now?
Danny.
It's a boat knife. I have a boat.
(scoffs) It's got "L.M." on
it for Lawrence Mortensen.
Now, why would you have a knife
that belongs to the
fisherman you just shoved?
LAWRENCE: You're not gonna
find anyone's blood on it.
Except maybe a cod's.
You had motive, okay?
The bill would kill commercial fishing.
Check my boat's GPS log.
- I wasn't on the water that night.
- Then where were you?
LENA: Now, why would
you protect Mortensen?
Neither one of us did it because
we were together somewhere else.
The Sunrise Motel.
Yes, we were hooking up.
So can we go now?
And then Jonah gave
them our business cards.
Oh, they were two lonely, old ladies,
and we helped them.
SEAN: Sure, I'd rather
be getting bad guys
- off the street.
- JONAH: Come on, bro.
They live alone,
they their children moved away
- and their husbands are gone.
- MAE: Not everyone
is as lucky as the people at this table.
- True.
- SEAN: I know that,
but help getting delayed to people who
actually need it because
these two want to bicker over
tomatoes is a problem.
- It's a waste of resources.
- DANNY: Well, Sean's
got a point. His great-
grandfather used to always say,
"The stupid calls aren't a problem
until they get in the way
of the calls that matter."
Yeah, but small calls
also tell you things,
like who lives alone,
who notices things.
You know, they can be data.
Not for nothing, but you've been
kind of quiet over there, boss.
You okay?
Yeah, what's going on?
I'm wondering if I got the
biggest call of my career wrong.
I keep looking for the mistake,
the bad assumption, where I messed up.
I just can't figure it out.
But I did.
- I put an innocent man in jail.
- LENA: Sarah,
- can't think like that.
- SARAH: Eyewitness
IDs aren't always reliable,
we know that.
Shock, fear, trauma they alter memory.
JONAH: What were you supposed to do?
Tell a traumatized woman
she didn't recognize
the face of the man who hurt her?
MAE: And the case didn't
just rest on the ID.
There was other evidence.
It was a judge, a prosecutor,
a defense attorney,
the whole system came
to the same conclusion.
Doesn't make him any less innocent.
LENA: No, it doesn't,
but we cops aren't perfect.
You know, all we can do is our jobs
to the best of our ability,
trust the process to hold.
And when it doesn't hold, we fix it.
Look, we can do everything
absolutely right
and still get it wrong.
Trust me, I've been there.
MAE: Sarah, there's a reason
you were the youngest
superintendent in BPD history.
That's right.
What does your gut tell you?
That the answer lies with Jessica.
- What do you mean?
- SARAH: Jessica said
she did trauma therapy.
Aunt Jill explained this to me once.
A patient safely revisits
their traumatic event to change
the way that it's experienced.
What if Jessica remembered
something else in therapy?
Now, that definitely
sounds like a good shot.
SARAH: Dr. Matthews, please.
I'm not wild about walking Jessica
back through the assault.
I'm not asking for that.
I just need to know if anything new
about the attack came up in therapy.
It's okay. I I want to help.
All right.
There were a few recurring pieces.
A window. Smell of rain.
- Her necklace.
- What necklace?
Uh a week before the attack,
I came home and found my front
door unlocked and my-my fridge open.
- Remember?
- SARAH: Yes.
But nothing was
missing from the condo.
A few weeks after Cooper's arrest,
I realized one of my necklaces was missing.
It was a gold starfish pendant.
You never told me about that.
I told someone.
I think my attacker
took it the week before,
and I started wondering
He was wearing three gold necklaces
the night of the attack.
What if one of them was mine?
D.A.'s office had the case by then.
You told the prosecutor.
It's right there.
- I-I don't understand.
- SARAH: Cooper pled guilty,
so I never did trial prep
with the prosecutors.
There was no way for
me to have known this.
Is the necklace important?
It might be.
CONNIE: You told me to
call if we had a problem.
Listen, Margaret's missing.
Okay? Her car's here,
and her pocketbook's on the kitchen table,
but she's not in the house.
- Maybe she just went for a walk.
- No!
With that hip?
No, she treats a curb
like it's Mount Everest.
Okay, well, she couldn't have gone far.
Listen, there's something wicked wrong.
SEAN: Maybe whoever broke that
floodlight was trying to hide.
JONAH: The fugitive was last
seen in this neighborhood.
Mrs. Rowen, have you seen
anybody in that house recently?
No, it's been abandoned for months.
- MARAGARET: Please
- MAN: I'm not gonna tell you again.
- MARGARET: Please, just let me go.
- MAN: Shut up.
MARGARET: This is not how
decent people behave.
MAN: Shut up. Shut up, shut the
MARGARET: I would've given you
the vegetables from my garden,
MAN: Quiet!
- and I don't even care about the light.
I said stop talking.
MARAGARET: I want to go home.
MAN: I'm gonna put this
- right through your neck.
- MARGARET: Please let me go.
JONAH: Hey, hey!
Put the screwdriver down.
- Put it down.
- Stop. You don't want to do this.
He's right. You already have
one mortal sin to confess.
Young man, I have lived next
to that woman for 43 years,
so if anybody's gonna kill her,
it's gonna be me.
(grunting)
JONAH: Hands behind your back.
Up.
You okay, Mrs. Walsh?
(Margaret crying)
CONNIE: Oh
Don't ever scare me like that again,
Margaret, please.
What if this was the M.O.?
The attacker breaks
in before the assault,
takes a trophy,
leaves things out of place
so the victim wonders
if somebody was there.
Then he comes back
wearing what he stole.
That's terrifying.
It's control.
So you checked other sexual assaults
targeting single women
with a prior break-in?
I did. I didn't find anything.
But what if
What if a woman reported a
break-in but not the rape?
I need to check B and
Es of single women.
Entries one, five,
and seven are the right date range.
Julia Wilson. She lives in the
same neighborhood as Jessica.
William Gordon. In Lancaster for
breaking into Julia Wilson's apartment
two weeks after Jessica's rape.
Neighbor caught him.
Did they catalogue any evidence?
He had a necklace, stolen from
the apartment, in his pocket.
He was also wearing
three gold chains.
A starfish pendant.
Wave and Mortensen's alibi checked out.
They were at the motel.
The M.E. also ruled
out Mortensen's knife
because the serrations on Steve's body
were more consistent
with a six-inch bone saw.
Well, we know that Steve
and Marisa were out there
looking for whoever it was that
was sabotaging the receivers,
and the warrants for
Wave and Mortensen's
boat GPS's came back.
- Okay.
- Take a look at this. The red
is the conservancy boat.
This is where Steve went overboard.
The green is the shark.
Now, this yellow is
Mortensen's day route.
He was miles out. Back in at 5:00.
The light blue is Wave's day route, so
ignore both of those,
Okay.
but take a look at Wave's night route,
this dark blue here.
Her boat passes right by the receiver
at 8:45, when Steve went overboard.
And it crosses the shark at 9:06.
But we know it wasn't
Wave driving the boat
because she was in the
motel with Mortensen.
And it had to be somebody who's comfortable
with diving and swimming with sharks.
There was one other person who
was comfortable swimming with sharks.
Wave's camera operator.
Dylan.
Wave's partner.
Yep.
So why am I here, Superintendent?
SARAH: Jessica Davis.
- That's a pretty name.
- We retested your DNA.
It matches the man who
raped her ten years ago.
It's over.
You're looking for a confession?
Now, why would I do
that when Dane Cooper's
currently serving time for it?
Oh, I know. Poor Dane.
He was here for a
couple years. Nice guy.
Then confess.
He's done ten years for
a crime you committed.
Says you. Dane pled guilty,
which means you'll never convict me.
I'm out of here in six months.
Not really looking for more time.
Guard, I'm done.
What if we granted you immunity?
Serious?
I have a signed agreement
right here in this folder.
And we're being recorded,
so if I were lying
any confession would be inadmissible.
Well, then.
I guess Dane should go home.
So, tell me what happened.
I saw her at the
Lansdowne T station.
I followed her home to Kenmore Square and,
well, you know the rest.
What about her starfish necklace?
Oh, that was the good part.
You see, I broke in the
week before and took it.
Then I wore it the night I came back.
Your DNA also matched three other
unsolved rapes in Arlington.
Two of the women ID'd you,
and you just confessed to the same M.O.
I granted you immunity
for Jessica Davis' rape.
But I can use what you just said
to prosecute you for the others.
You're gonna die in here, you animal.
Hey. Dylan.
(grunts)
(grunting)
- Looks like we caught a fish.
- Catch of the day.
We found the murder weapon
on Wave's boat. We found
Steve's blood in the floorboards and
we found his blood on Wave's dive belt.
No, Wave-Wave had
nothing to do with this.
Her whole soul is devoted to
saving life, not taking it.
Interesting. Because Wave's
boat was at the murder scene,
and she definitely had motive.
- Well, it wasn't Wave!
- LENA: Well, if
the murder weapon was found on her boat,
had to be her.
The only thing we can't
figure out is her alibi, but
maybe she snuck out of
the window of that motel
where she was sleeping
with Lawrence Mortensen.
- Yeah.
- DYLAN: No, no, no.
She wouldn't do that.
Not with Mortensen.
No, no, not after everything
that I have done for her.
What exactly have you
done for her, Dylan?
I was just trying to protect her.
By sabotaging Steve's receivers?
I was just hoping she'd
see how much I care.
Tell us what happened that night.
Wave and I, uh, came back on the boat,
and then Wave left and then
I went-I went back out.
- To where the receivers were.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I took eight receivers.
But-but then I found Steve in the water.
And you pulled Steve up on the boat.
Did he see the stolen receivers?
Yeah, a-and he threatened
he was gonna report us.
And, I mean,
those receivers are ten grand a pop. I
A-And he lunged at me,
and I-I j I panicked.
I-I panicked and
I hit him with the dive belt.
Then what?
Well, he I he was dead.
I-I couldn't just bring him back ashore
and I couldn't dump him.
He would just wash up.
Yeah, so you cut him
up with the same saw
you use for fish,
for chumming the water.
Yeah, I drove out to where the
great whites feed, and I dumped him.
And I didn't think that
anything was gonna be left.
Look, I was just trying to
show Wave that I loved her.
I don't know what that is, Dylan
but it is not love.
Please. Please, please, just
Please.
JONAH: That's when I said,
"You can't park here." You know?
- Oh, this can't be good.
- Oh
We brought you homemade clam chowder.
- Properly made clam chowder.
- Oh
- Make yourself at home.
- Excuse me.
It's perfect.
We need you to settle a disagreement.
- Whose is best?
- Hm.
Uh
I'm really glad you
didn't call 911 about this.
But there is no way we're
adjudicating a clam chowder war.
- Cowards.
- Eh. In uniform, no less.
(scoffs) We wanted to thank you.
I'm really glad I've got my friend back.
Even though her chowder is subpar.
- Hm.
- And even if my friend dresses like
she rummages the
discount bin at Goodwill.
We've still got your cards.
Feel free to use them any time.
You can't insult me when you're
wearing orthopedic shoes.
No arguing in the station, all right?
- Have a good day, ladies.
- CONNIE: They got something,
but it's not dignity.
Look at that, man.
We just settled a 20-year dispute.
- Doesn't that feel good?
- You know what feels good?
Getting a really bad guy off the street.
Which never would've happened
if I hadn't give Connie
our business cards.
And we never would've given
them our business cards
if I didn't insist on arresting
them for abusing 911.
- So
- Look at us.
We're just like Connie and Margaret.
- No. Stop.
- Separately, we're a public disturbance,
but together Ah,
bring it in, big guy.
- Bring it in.
- No. No.
Together, we somehow work.
- Are you gonna try this?
- Are you crazy?
Of course we're gonna try it.
Grab a spoon.
Oh, no, no. I'm more of
a Manhattan chowder guy,
- so this is all you.
- Oh, you're such a baby.
- Enjoy.
- This is official police business.
("Holding onto Something"
by Michael Marcagi playing)
JUDGE: The Commonwealth's
motion for dismissal
on the grounds of actual innocence
is granted. Mr. Cooper,
you are free to go.
(gavel bangs)
Your head never touched the ♪
Pillow when you fell asleep ♪
And I ♪
I wanted the truth, but maybe ♪
Hold back on the honesty ♪
Didn't want to lose it all ♪
Before you say anything,
I know you both just
acted in good faith.
- You thought you had the right man.
- SARAH: Still,
Mr. Cooper, I am so sorry.
I don't know how I'll
ever make this right,
but I'm hoping you'll
let me try, somehow.
Oh, how long ♪
You have to make sure
this never happens again.
We are drafting rules requiring
constant communication between
the D.A.'s office and
arresting officers,
reports shared both ways,
and cases to be reviewed
when new information comes in.
All untested DNA will be
tested with the new technology,
and I'm tightening the process
that allowed Gordon's DNA
to fall through the cracks
after his B and E arrest.
Good.
(sighs) I hope you get some peace.
You too.
- SARAH: I am so sorry, Jessica.
- No.
I
Don't.
You were so compassionate back then,
and you worked so hard to find the
man who hurt me, and you did it again.
So, thank you.
I remember ♪
The night in my car
when you said this ♪
MAE: I told you there's a reason
you're the youngest
superintendent in BPD's history.
Didn't want to lose it
all in the backyard ♪
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Come and meet my family ♪
LENA: Oh.
Wow.
We just wanted to thank you.
Well, you are very welcome.
And thank you.
DANNY: We spoke with Wave Shaye, and
she feels horrible about what Dylan did.
I know. She's actually
setting up a GoFundMe for us.
She's gonna activate her
followers to make sure
the legislation gets puts
through in Steve's name.
Oh.
Maybe she's not so bad.
Maybe.
You ready to go, honey? Mm-hmm?
Thank you again.
- Mm.
- Yeah.
Careful, those bite.
(growls, laughs)
Honestly, I'm actually
very proud of you.
- Why?
- You faced your fear of water and,
- dare I say it, you jumped the shark.
- Oh, my gosh.
What is up with you?
You've been so funny
since that HR meeting.
There are only two letters I
hate more than IA and that is HR.
Guess it's just my way
of facing my own fears.
You don't have to protect me.
Remember, my sister has been
my boss for longer than you.
That hasn't stopped
us from being family.
You and me can stay you and me.
We're good.
That's great. 'Cause I do want to know
how my partner's feeling.
I feel the same way about you.
And, um, to be honest,
I have been feeling
sideswiped by Brian.
Even though I broke up with him.
I'm sure it was disappointing.
I mean, he wasn't willing to
fight for the relationship.
Yeah, and I thought he would
think about it, you know?
- Yeah.
- Like, I thought we could fix it.
Well, there are some
things you can't fix.
And even more things you can't control.
- Especially guys.
- Oh, my gosh.
(both chuckle)
Well
I'm learning to surrender.
Good.
Well, Wave offered to take
you swimming with sharks.
Maybe you should surrender
and give that a try.
- Uh, absolutely not.
- Why not?
Face your fears again.
Jump in the water this time.
- LENA: No way.
- How about if I offer to go with you?
- I'm gonna call HR on you.
- No, I didn't mean it like that.
HR!
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KIDS: The Brandons.