Alert: Missing Persons Unit (2023) s02e06 Episode Script

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[HORSE SNORTING]
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[SCREECHING]
[WHINNYING]
[WHINNYING]
You frightened my horse!
What are you doing here?
[CRYING OUT]
[BLOW LANDING]
Okay, if you don't have the tools
to get through whatever it is
you're going through,
then your sister Kemi will provide, yes?
[MIKE] You really making me do this?
I am not sending you
into a state of holy matrimony
without some communication techniques.
We communicate all day.
About work. That's easy!
You have to learn how
to do the hard stuff, okay?
Look, I do not perform weddings
unless I am damn sure
there's not gonna be divorce.
Okay, that's a little bit
dramatic, don't you think?
Like you storming out last night
and not coming home for two hours?
Jay kicked me out of my own office
to have a private conversation.
Here we go
Okay, okay.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Let's, um, let's try
moving closer together,
knees touching.
Come on! Knees touching! Let's go!
All right, no need to wait
for the wedding night.
[MIKE] That's what people
do on their wedding night?
[KEMI] Okay, you're being funny.
Now hold hands.
Now look at each other,
and I want you to say
what you're most afraid of
in this relationship.
We're doing this? All right, fine.
Look, me and Jay have gotten
close. All right?
I like him, he's my partner,
but this you-and-Jay thing
There is no "me and Jay" thing.
I'm just trying to keep you out
of the Inspector Braun mess.
Don't you think
that should be my choice?
[TEXT ALERT CHIMING]
It's Helen.
It's urgent. I gotta go.
It's your day off!
- [FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]
- There you go.
And he's gone.
- [DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
- You wanna talk about
what just happened there?
About Mike walking out again?
About why.
I let Jason chase a theory,
and kept it from Mike.
What was the theory?
It's about Logan Barlowe.
The man who confessed to the car bomb?
Jay thinks that he took
the fall for someone.
[SIGHING]
- Will you do me a favor?
- Yeah.
Will you look into Barlowe's
financials for me, discreetly?
Sure, but Nikki
Mike was just telling you how he felt.
You and Jason
it is a thing,
and I'm not saying it's a bad thing,
I'm just saying
that maybe you need to own it,
because it keeps getting in the way.
Right.
- Hey.
- Hey!
I am so sorry to interrupt your day.
I'm sure you were doing something fun.
Not that much. What do you got?
The thing is,
C and I were at rehearsal, and
Rehearsal?
For our forensic a capella group,
- Clues Traveler.
- Clues Traveler, huh?
Yeah. Yeah, it's a play
on, uh never mind.
Anyway, he wanted you to see this,
but he had to take Rachel
to the airport,
and there was this problem
with her suitcase, and
Yeah, I gotcha, I gotcha.
What, uh, what'd you need me to see?
Right! Uh
[TAPPING KEYBOARD]
Murder victim. Apparently
the cranial morphology
means he's white.
Partial closure of the skull sutures
says he was in his early 20s
at time of death,
about seven years ago.
Did C get that from the bones?
No. There was some garbage
under the remains,
a receipt from 2017.
Trace evidence strikes again!
Hmm. Early 20s.
That's a little young to start
losing your teeth, huh?
Exactly. Between that
and mineral deposits in his bones,
C thinks well-water consumption,
which means he's Amish.
A lot of them wear dentures
from a young age.
A young Amish kid from seven years ago?
- Yeah.
- Is that Jedidiah Lapp?
That's why it's so urgent.
They need DNA to confirm,
but your name was on the file,
so C wanted you to know right away.
Yeah, um
it's my first case with MPU.
His wife, Lucy, thought
that he came to Philadelphia.
I mean, I did what I could,
but her community stonewalled me.
Couple days later, my boss,
he gives the case to Lancaster PD.
He didn't want to mess up
our closure rate.
- It's been bothering me ever since.
- I'm sorry.
Where were the remains found?
Construction site at Center City,
near the Delaware.
All right. I'll contact Lucy.
- I owe her that.
- Okay.
[JASON] It's like the beginning
of every bad horror movie.
Fiancé takes ex-husband
out into the woods
two go in, one come out.
Will you calm down?
Okay, it just confuses me,
'cause last time I checked,
when a missing person ends up dead,
Homicide takes over,
and then we go about
our business other business.
- Oh! Really?
- Yeah.
'Cause last I checked,
that's the exact opposite
of what you're doing
with that car bomb case.
Right. That's different.
Because I know
that Braun delivered a patsy
to get me to stop digging, okay?
- [SCOFFING]
- And I well, I know that
because last night, I called the prison
and I set up an interview
with Logan Barlowe.
An interview about what?
Who cares? I made something up.
What difference does it make?
The point is, that was last night.
This morning,
I get an official reprimand.
Wait. Braun dinged your jacket?
Some crap about insubordination.
Eh, it just lets me know
that I'm onto something.
You wanna know what it lets me know?
Is that Braun is setting up
a case to fire you.
Reprimand is strike one,
then it'll be a suspension,
and when you hit strike three,
and we both know you will do something
to hit strike three you're out.
I think it's very sweet
that you're concerned
about losing your partner.
That touches me. Thank you.
I'm concerned
that you keep putting Nikki
in the middle of it.
Anyway, tell me about the case,
please, before I kill myself.
[MIKE] That's Penn Poultry Farms.
It's a factory chicken operation.
Huh. [CHUCKLING]
So we're talking fowl play here.
Are you done?
He's an Amish guy.
His name's Jedidiah Lapp.
Came into a ton of land
when his parents died,
but then he disappeared.
Buggy was abandoned.
Horse was miles away, but no Jed.
Okay, so how does
Penn Poultry Farms fit in?
His wife told me they were
interested in buying the land.
Said they were aggressive about it.
Big Agriculture's not really
your usual murder suspect.
Well, it's a theory.
There's no time to prove it.
Couldn't even prove foul play.
- [JASON INHALES]
- Don't say it.
Shut up. Don't. Don't.
Daed. These are officers
from the Philadelphia Police Department.
Do you remember Michael?
He tried to help us
when Jedidiah went missing.
I don't care who they are.
They don't belong.
O okay, uh, Mr. Miller
[MIKE AND LUCY] "Deacon."
[JASON] Deacon
uh, w we're just here
to offer you and your family
some closure.
- Closure?
- Mm.
Did you find Jedidiah?
Remains were found last week
at a Center City construction site.
- We think it may be Jedidiah.
- Oh
[SHE CRIES]
[MIKE] I'm sorry, Lucy.
I know it's a tough ask,
but we're gonna need
a DNA sample to confirm.
Um, d do you have
anything that he owned?
Um, I mean, hair brush,
or a piece of clothing?
Something like that?
How have you been, Michael?
I'm good, thanks.
He's really good.
H he's about to get married.
- To my ex-wife.
- Unimportant.
[FOOTSTEPS RETURN]
I braided this for Jed.
It's a summer hat he loved.
No one has worn it since.
That's perfect, Lucy. Thanks.
[AMOS] You have what you need.
Leave.
I think, just my opinion,
you should give yourself a break. Okay?
You came out here to
Her family shut me out again.
All right? I probably
never mentioned that,
but it's a little bit
of a trigger for me.
A-ha. This about last night?
Oh, look at you picking up on nuance.
[STAIRS CREAKING]
[KNOCKING]
Lucy? Liebchen?
I understand
you're grieving all over again,
but we won't eat supper without you.
Lucy?
Amos! Lucy's gone! Amos!
[MUTTERING TO SELF]
Jason, you're killing me.
[KNOCKING]
Hey. Everything okay?
Yeah, I'm fine.
But forget what I said about
looking into Logan Barlowe.
I'm afraid someone's watching.
I assure you
that Kemi Adebayo
isn't looking into anything.
Okay. So this information that
Kemi Adebayo didn't look into,
where are we?
Barlowe got two large wire transfers,
one just after
the car bomb he confessed to,
and the source of the money is unclear,
but I'd have to be
a little less discreet
to get the information on the wires.
So Jason's right? It's a setup?
Yeah. He's right to be curious. Yeah.
Put a pin in it for now.
[MIRIAM] Thank you.
The Elders, including my husband,
were against my coming here.
I don't care how they punish me.
I just want to bring my Lucy home.
She never leaves our community, Captain.
She's a simple girl,
but has a a stubborn spirit.
I'm afraid for her.
Is there anywhere
that she might have gone
that you know of?
[EXHALING DEEPLY]
I know that God's ways
cannot be understood
and must be accepted,
but I can not bear
the thought of losing her
the way we lost Jed.
Do you have a photograph of Lucy?
It would help our search.
Photographs are a vanity,
a violation of the second Commandment.
Right. I understand.
Does that mean you can not help?
Photograph or not, we will find her.
Yeah. Yeah, thanks anyway.
What was that?
Lancaster PD's got nothing.
Lucy only left the community once,
when she reported Jed missing.
Now I show up again and give bad news,
and she disappears? I don't like it.
[NIKKI] Well, her mother
said the same thing.
But you said the father
was a piece of work.
Maybe she had enough and ran?
[MIKE] No, Lucy's not impulsive.
So either I opened up
an old can of worms
and she didn't feel safe,
or I made someone else nervous,
and they grabbed her.
You worked up about the case,
or or us?
I don't know. Both?
This case messed me up bad last time.
It cost me a relationship.
Just everything fell apart.
Hey. We're gonna be fine, Mike.
Even if Lucy left voluntarily,
I'm the reason why someone
who barely knows the world
around their home
ran away.
She needs our help, Nik.
[KNOCKING]
Hey, I pulled a screen grab
from your interview, uh,
when Lucy reported Jed missing in 2017.
That's all we need.
- Issue the alert, statewide.
- Got you.
Ta-da!
"Ta-da." What what does that mean?
[HELEN] I went through Jed's pockets.
Mostly what you'd expect,
crushed seeds, sawdust
but are you ready for this?
A wad of paper.
- Okay. What's on it?
- No idea.
That's that's your big update?
I mean, it's a thing
pulling an impression
off decomposed paper,
but pull, I will.
All right. Well
if Jed had this on him the night
that he was killed, then
Maybe we can get the one that got away.
Yeah.
- Hey, uh
- Yeah?
We got a hit on the Alert?
Uh, dozens. She's everywhere.
We basically have sightings
of every Amish woman in Philadelphia.
Turns out, most people
don't see past the clothing
to the woman who wears them.
- So we got nothing?
- No, we have a big something.
I ran facial recognition,
and I got a match to
CCTV from a bus station
in Center City from last night.
- So she's here in Philly?
- Yeah.
[NIKKI] Doesn't look like she was taken.
[KEMI] No, but she does looks scared.
I mean, clearly she came
all this way for a reason.
The question is, what?
will fall upon thy name ♪
Stay, Frederic, stay! ♪
Nay, Mabel, nay! ♪
Tonight I quit these walls ♪
The thought my soul appalls ♪
But when stern duty calls
I must obey! ♪
- Stay, Frederic, stay! ♪
- Nay, Mabel, nay! ♪
They have no claim ♪
Hey, hey, Helen! Hel
Hey, can you turn that down?
[TURNS MUSIC OFF]
Not a Pirates of Penzance fan?
I get it.
Gilbert and Sullivan isn't for everyone.
But this one is so romantic.
I love a saucy tenor.
[SHUTTER SNAPPING]
I'm sorry. I'm just, you know,
I'm stressed about the case,
wedding stuff
Oh! The wedding! Of course.
By the way, congrats.
I mean, not that I'm invited,
but I'm really excited for you.
Yeah, that. Um
well, you know, we made the guest list
before you came on the team, so
[CHUCKLING AWKWARDLY]
But, uh, you reconstitute that paper,
consider yourself invited.
Challenge accepted!
Oh! I love weddings.
And a workplace romance.
[HELEN] Honestly
I can't imagine working with my S.O.
Seems like a minefield.
Don't get me started.
So, what do you make of it?
Check, please! Oh, uh
Looks like this was a check.
[MIKE] Boy, that is a lot of zeroes.
What would an Amish farmer be
doing with that kind of money?
That's a good question.
- Can you zoom in on the name?
- Mm-hmm.
- "Agritex Signa"
- Agritex.
Penn Poultry Farms' parent company.
Why would they give
an Amish guy this much money?
I mean, that's a lot of quilts.
Yeah, well, Lucy was right.
They really wanted that land.
Question is
bad enough to kill for it?
[SHE SIGHS]
[TYPING]
8th and Market.
That's just a few blocks
from the bus station
- where Lucy was last seen.
- Yes, it is.
[SECURITY] I'm sorry. Without a warrant,
you need a prior authorization.
I can't believe this is happening again.
Mike, we're gonna have
to reconsider our investment.
I investment? But I
I thought you were detectives.
[JASON] We are detectives.
Well, it's technically
"Detective Sergeant," but
H Here's the point.
We represent the Police Pension Fund,
and if our money is not good enough
for your supervisor's time
I mean, you know, then,
we'll have to take our money elsewhere.
You why don't you
go tell your boss that?
Wait. Give me one second.
- I'll double-check.
- Great!
Why you gotta lie to everybody?
Let me ask you a question.
When's the last time
telling the truth got you
what you actually wanted?
My batting average was pretty good
before you started messing around.
[JASON] Oh, your batting average?
Did you know that Hall
of Fame batting average
means you miss the ball 70% of the time?
So your analogy proves
[MIKE] You're gonna talk baseball
- with the guy who played baseball?
- [JASON] I'm just telling you.
Are we having a problem, gentlemen?
No, no, no problem.
Just a philosophical discussion.
I'm Tilda Harvey, CEO of Agritex.
Sergeant Mike Sherman,
Detective Jason Grant.
- How do you do?
- I understand
your union is looking to invest.
It's a little odd that you guys
would come to us directly.
Usually we're approached
through equity funds.
Right, well, we are looking
for direct investments
in, uh, in growth markets.
In fact, do you have, um,
any time for us in private, maybe?
Anything for the boys
in blue. Follow me.
[SLAPPING HIM ON THE BACK]
I hate him. So much.
Have you, or any of your colleagues,
come into contact
with a woman named Lucy Lapp?
I thought we were gonna discuss
the F.O.P. Pension Fund.
Yeah, but you said "anything
for the boys in blue,"
and right now, the boys in blue
wanna know where Lucy Lapp is.
[SIGHING]
What makes you think I know who this is?
Well well, because your subsidiary,
Penn Poultry Farms,
tried to buy her husband's
land back in 2017.
[MIKE] A sale he was against.
We think that he was gonna
return the check to you,
and then, he conveniently disappeared.
Turns out he was murdered.
[JASON] His widow, Lucy,
um, she was just seen around here,
presumably coming to see you,
and now she's disappeared,
so maybe you can help us explain that.
I have no idea about any of this.
[CLICKING]
Here we are.
According to the file,
when Mr. Lapp disappeared,
and with his parents already deceased,
the land went back to the community,
as is their custom.
We cut a second check
because their deacon sold their land
- to Penn Poultry Farms.
- Really?
Uh, would that be a Deacon Amos Miller?
That's the one.
He signed the paperwork
and cashed the check.
I'm sorry you came all this way,
but if the woman you're looking for
had a problem with the sale,
she's about seven years too late.
[MIKE, OVER SPEAKER] Now, in 2017,
when I investigated Jed's disappearance,
you didn't mention that control
of his family's land
was passed on to you.
That thought was far away from my mind.
And it did not pass to me.
It passed to the community.
As deacon, it is my duty
to manage transactions like this,
but that is all.
[MIKE] Okay. Let me be direct.
Jed was killed for a reason
and about two million of those reasons
were in a check that you deposited.
See, I think there's a connection
between Jed's death
and Lucy's disappearance,
and that connection is you.
I want to speak to my wife.
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
Uh, his honor the deacon
isn't giving up anything.
Speaking of giving up
Oh, you were cc'd on the reprimand?
What am I gonna do?
Braun's coming after me.
I know that it's a warning, and
I know that you don't care, okay?
That scares me, Jay. You keep pushing,
I'm not gonna be able to save you.
Well, I I didn't ask you to save me.
That's not what I'm asking for, okay?
If there's a target on my back,
there's a target on my back.
What if it puts a target
on all of our backs?
Then we can do the right thing,
or we can do the easy thing.
- It's your call.
- Is it?
No, I was being polite. Did it work out?
Yep, he knows something,
but he only wants to talk to his wife.
Probably scold her
for coming here in the first place.
What do we do? Let him stew?
No, bring in wifey,
let 'em get into a fight,
and maybe we'll hear something
we want to hear.
Yeah, he's right.
Give the deacon what he wants.
[DOOR OPENS]
All right. Your wife's here.
You got what you wanted. Okay?
Now we need answers. Okay?
We need to try to find Lucy.
Before you came to our home,
Lucy was fine.
Is always this way for us.
The English come, and we suffer
just like those poor children
at the schoolhouse.
Yeah, I remember that case.
Five children dead,
community attended
the shooter's funeral.
Our worlds are different.
We may forgive,
but we do not forget.
Okay, well, don't forget
that I'm just trying
to help your daughter.
- Amos.
- I will take care of my own family.
Listen. It's too late for that.
Your wife already reported Lucy missing.
Now, we know she's in Philadelphia.
If she wasn't running from somebody,
maybe she was running to someone.
Is there somebody in Philly she knows?
Somebody she would come to see?
- No.
- Please, Amos!
Michael is trying to help.
[SPEAKING IN PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH]
[RESPONDING IN PENNSYLVANIA
DUTCH] Ezekiel.
Lucy [CONTINUING
IN PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH]
Nee! Ezekiel [CONTINUING
IN PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH]
[SPEAKING IN PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH]
Lucy iss.
[SPEAKING IN PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH]
[MIKE] Hey, Deacon Miller.
Lucy might be in trouble, okay?
I'm just trying to help.
We're going home.
Well, I'm glad
you figured something out,
because there is no way in hell
that anybody in this office
speaks Pennsylvania Dutch.
I've always wanted to learn it.
It's a Palatine German dialect,
and, you know, your girl
took a little bit of German.
Hey, you thinking of breakin' Amish?
[CHUCKLING] No,
but contrary to popular belief,
there are some Black Amish, thank you.
But I did build a translate function
into our platform.
Take a look at this.
[SPEAKING IN PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH]
[KEMI] All right, so it looks like
Miriam thinks
that Lucy came out
to see someone named Ezekiel.
Apparently, he was
excommunicated at some point.
[NIKKI] So how do we find Ezekiel?
[KNOCKING]
[EXHALING]
Lucy. Guder Daag.
Wow. It's you.
I don't understand the addresses.
I've been searching
for your home for hours.
May I come inside?
Oh! Of course.
Uh please. Uh, sit.
Can I can I get you something?
Uh water?
[LUCY] No. Thank you.
[HE CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY]
I'm sorry I haven't written in a while.
[HE CHUCKLES]
Your letters got me through dark times.
I should have sent more.
I read each one a thousand times.
And now you're here. All the better.
- What's wrong?
- Zeke
I came to tell you that they found him.
Jed?
They found Jed?
They found his body.
[PAPER RUSTLING]
Blessed be the Father of mercies
who comforts us in all our affliction
That we may comfort those
who are in any affliction
Through which we, ourselves,
are comforted by God.
Excuse me, please.
[MIKE] Anything?
Um, since the Amish keep
their own birth records,
and they don't have driver's licenses,
there's only
one government record available.
Social Security?
Sort of. It's Form 4029.
So, no one's actually obligated
to get a Social Security Number,
so Old-Order Amish usually decline them,
uh, but to do that,
they have to submit
a Waiver of Benefits,
so at least we have
a haystack to look for our needle.
[MIKE] There's gotta be a dozen
Ezekiels in Lancaster County.
[KEMI] Yeah. Any approximate age?
[MIKE] According to C,
he was 22 at the age of death,
which means he'd be about 29 today,
same age as Lucy.
Maybe they grew up together.
Um, let's try forms submitted
from 1992
to 2000, for a little bit of a buffer.
Let's see. Mike?
[MIKE] What?
There's an Ezekiel Lapp
that was submitted August 1995
by Leonard and Elizabeth Lapp,
Jed's parents.
Son of a bitch. They lied to me.
They didn't tell me Jed had a brother.
It was that same officer I spoke to
when Jed disappeared.
You spoke to the police?
To Michael Sherman.
He told me they found Jed's body.
What do they know?
What do you mean?
[ZEKE] Who are they after?
Did they say?
[LUCY] "After"?
Zeke, why are you
Do they know you're here?
I'm sorry I upset you.
Maybe I should go.
Do the police know that you are here?
Nobody knows I'm here.
Oh, I'm not gonna hurt you.
Lucy, I I love you.
[HE GASPS]
I never stopped loving you.
[MACHINE TRILLS AND BEEPS]
Hey, what do you got?
[HELEN] Great timing.
Looks like I may have something for you.
VMD forever! ♪
VMD? What is that?
Vacuum metal deposition, baby,
Helen Park style, supercharged!
Anyway, because there was
blood on Jed's clothing,
I was able to pull a partial print.
All right, great.
Can you run it through the database?
Already on it.
And bingo.
The print matches an Ezekiel Lapp.
Jed's brother.
He's in the system
for a 2019 assault charge.
All right.
We gotta find this guy, quick.
[TYPING]
He got a driver's license
in January 2017.
Are you sure?
I mean, these Amish are old-school,
so he probably wouldn't drive.
Says he got it right here in Lawndale.
That's months before Jed was murdered.
He must've left the community.
That's why they didn't mention him.
What if Lucy came here
to see the man who killed her husband?
Okay, so Patrol checked the address
on Ezekiel's license.
He moved out two years ago.
Which means he could be anywhere,
- and he probably has Lucy.
- Hey!
This is just a peace offering.
Um, I might have somebody
who can help us find Zeke.
Lady named Leah.
She's an Amish gal,
and, uh, I I might have dated her.
Oh, an Amish woman, Jay? Seriously?
Well, I didn't know
she was Amish at the time,
at first, you know?
She was doing her, um
what do you call it?
The thing with the rump
rumpshaker, rump?
- "Rumspringa."
- [JASON] Rumspringa. That's right.
Sow your oats, see the world,
uh, decide if you wanna go back.
Um, it's like
a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Yeah, okay,
but you're usually a teenager
when you do that.
Right, but she wasn't a teenager, Mike.
She was 23 years old.
- Oh, that's better.
- All right, all right,
all right, all right!
For the love of God,
just get to the point.
Right, um, I ran into her recently,
and she's running this group
for, um, the ex-Amish,
whatever that means,
and, um, she she can help us.
I, just, I don't think she's
gonna be very happy to see me.
- Might be a little awkward.
- Yeah. Just do it.
- I'm doing it.
- Okay.
Sure you don't want to wait in the car?
Oh, there is a zero-percent
chance I'm missing this.
It's really not that big a deal.
We went on a couple dates.
- You broke an Amish heart. Admit it.
- Shh.
[JASON] Hi.
Oh. Hello, Jason.
Very good to see you.
Thanks for having us.
This is my partner, Mike.
Hey. Yeah, unlike some people,
when I make an appointment, I keep it.
[CHUCKLING]
Well, uh, thanks for helping us out.
We think that somebody
from your former community
- might be in danger.
- And not from him?
I like you. I like her.
Actually, you were
the perfect introduction
- to the real world.
- You see?
Yeah, I learned what "ghosting" meant.
I didn't ghost you.
All right, now that we got
the awkwardness out of the way,
we were wondering
if you know who this was.
His name's Ezekiel Lapp.
That's his driver's license.
Guys, there's 87,000
Amish people in Pennsylvania.
That's a lot of felt hats.
It's a joke!
Nobody's got a sense of humor?
I'm kidding.
Look, I'm sorry, I don't know him,
but I take it from the driver's license
he left the community,
which, by the way, isn't easy,
even if you don't happen
to meet Jason Grant.
[SIGHS]
- So, I guess we're out of luck?
- Maybe
I have a friend
who helps a lot of us
find jobs, apartments.
Could you maybe, uh, reach out to him,
'cause we really gotta find
this guy. Please, please?
Did he do something,
or did someone do something to him?
I don't know.
Which answer gets us
the info we're looking for?
I'll do it. But only because
you were my first.
Really?
First phone number.
[MIKE] Oh
You never forget your first.
Oh, what, husband? I've noticed.
Okay, just speak on it, please, already.
Look, I know that you and Nikki
are up to something, okay?
And I've repeatedly
asked you to not do what?
I don't know.
If you want to sabotage yourself
with Braun, be my guest. Okay?
But I'm asking you for the last time
leave Nikki out of it.
Gotcha. You done?
- Yeah.
- Hey!
Zeke. Your guy, Ezekiel, goes by "Zeke."
My friend does know him.
He got him a job at Penn Poultry Farms.
He also put him in touch
with the landlord at this place.
Thank you very much.
It's very good to see you. I will
- Call me? Don't.
- Gotcha.
You look great.
- Ezekiel Lapp!
- [KNOCKING LOUDLY]
Philly PD!
[QUIETLY] Here we go.
- Ready?
- Yeah.
Clear.
Clear. He's gone.
Hmm. Lucy was here.
- [MIKE] How do you know that?
- [JASON] 'Cause this blanket right here,
it's only done in one spot,
like she was messing with it,
and it's the same weave
from the hat that she made for Jed.
Check this out.
He's obsessed with her.
Got a whole box of these.
Hmm. Imagine he wasn't too thrilled
when she married his brother.
[MIKE] Sure as hell gives us
a motive for the murder.
Right. So, she walks
through this door
tells a murderer
that we found the victim,
- what does that tell you?
- She's in trouble.
We gotta find her, quick.
[LUCY HUMMING NERVOUSLY]
[ZEKE] We'll go some place
some place where we can be together.
Maybe Canada?
Hey? You'd like that, wouldn't you?
I like you, Zeke,
but I'm not ready to
It was a mistake, Lucy!
What was a mistake?
Jed! He waited until
my Rumspringa to propose.
That's why I stayed away,
because I couldn't come back,
and then when
and then when you got married,
I was I was angry,
but I wanted to look him in the eye,
and see why he did that,
when he knew how I felt about you!
What happened, Zeke?
I went to see him after work,
but all that anger,
there was no talking.
There was
pushing, and
he fell, and he hit his head.
Look, I didn't mean to hurt him. I
I'd lost you already!
And my home! I
panicked, and I hid the body.
You sinned.
And then you lied about it.
If I had turned myself in,
you never would have forgiven me!
[BREATH SHAKING] I would have.
I do forgive you, Zeke.
Do you remember
how we used to sit across
from each other at singing?
Of course.
I will meet ♪
You in the morning ♪
[HE EXHALES]
I'll be waiting ♪
For you there ♪
[TOGETHER] I will meet you ♪
Yes, I'll meet you ♪
I will meet you over there ♪
It's good to hear you sing again.
Maybe we can start over.
Be together.
- You mean it?
- I do.
But we would need money,
and we both know where to find it
my father.
- [OPENING GLOVE BOX]
- [GASPING]
[GLOVE BOX CLOSES]
Ezekiel was in love with Lucy,
but she chose his brother?
It's all very Francesca da Rimini.
[NIKKI] Huh?
Um, she was betrothed to this noble,
Gianciotto di Malatesta,
fell in love with his brother,
and then Gianciotto killed them both.
Luckily, not one of my past lives.
[NIKKI] That doesn't really help, Kemi.
- We have an expired license.
- Yeah.
He never registered
a vehicle with the DMV.
But
you can't get too far
in Pennsylvania without an
- What?
- EZ-Pass.
- [BEEPING]
- Jackpot.
Uh, we have an active account
registered under Zeke's old license.
Come on. We need a break.
Mike needs a break here. Come on.
Wait a minute, wait a minute,
wait a minute.
It was used ten minutes ago
on the westbound I-76 toll road.
They're headed back to Amish Country.
Call Jason.
[KEMI] He's driving a blue hatchback.
[JASON] Got it. Thanks, Kemi.
Well, this is obviously
a rhetorical question,
but why would Zeke be going back
to the people who shunned him?
Right? He kills his own brother.
What, do you think he's just
dropping Lucy off at home?
Best case, Lucy got
in his head, she's buying time.
Uh-huh. And worst case,
she doesn't make it
out of this thing alive.
Look. There's the hatchback.
[SIREN CHIRPING]
Go easy. Don't get too close.
We need confirmation
that Lucy's in the car.
All right, someone's definitely
in the passenger seat.
Is it her?
[JASON] It's her! Pull over!
[TIRES SCREECH]
Whoa!
[LUCY YELPS]
How many cars
you been through this year?
You're not helping!
- Let me out!
- Stop!
Please, Zeke. You're scaring me.
Nikki! Hey, we need Lancaster PD.
- He's getting away.
- [HORSE WHINNYING]
No, he's not!
- I'm on it!
- [HOOFBEATS]
Seriously?
[HORSE HUFFING]
Ho.
Ho.
- [PHONE RINGING]
- Yeah?
Well, they abandoned the car.
The only thing around here is a barn.
Yeah, all right. I see it.
I'm coming as fast as I can.
Don't wait for me!
All right.
[ZEKE] It's the police!
You knew they'd find us here.
- You tricked me!
- I didn't! I swear.
Please, Zeke. Don't do this.
You said you wanted to be together!
[SOBS] I was scared!
[HORSE SNORTS]
[LUCY] Zeke, don't do this!
[ZEKE] I've waited seven years.
Zeke! Hey! Philly PD.
I need you to come down, nice and calm.
I won't hurt her. Just let us go.
[MIKE] Can't do that.
Look.
Why don't you drop the weapon, okay?
I know you love her.
That's not what you do
to people you love.
Put it down.
[LUCY GASPS]
[GRUNTING]
[GASPING AND WHEEZING]
- [KICKING THE GUN]
- No!
[MIKE] Hands behind your back.
You're under arrest for
the murder of Jedidiah Lapp.
Don't move.
[JASON] Hey.
The, uh, the horse
that was for you.
I know you needed a win.
We good now?
Yeah. We're good.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Heard you're vying
for the mounted patrol.
Yeah, yeah. I think
that was a one-time thing.
- My ass is killing me.
- [SHE CHUCKLES]
What's the matter? You okay?
Nikki had me dig into Logan Barlowe.
- And?
- He has a life insurance policy
a massive payout for his family.
That's convenient.
Uh, what's convenient is that
the policy was taken out
two days before his confession.
- Right.
- [KEMI] Mm-hmm.
- The guy's terminally ill.
- Yep.
No insurance company
is writing that policy.
Not without the pressure
of someone powerful.
- Uh-huh.
- Yeah.
Like maybe a, um,
well-connected Police Inspector?
[QUIETLY] Yeah.
What else is bugging you?
[UNFOLDING PAPER]
"Unauthorized use
of Department resources
for personal matters."
Personal matters?
You know, I've worked law enforcement
for over a decade, and not one blemish.
I'm sorry.
Yeah. I'm a big girl.
I made a choice, so
Look, um this hunt?
We better get it right, Jason,
or Braun is gonna burn us all down.
Thank you both again.
We won't forget your kindness.
I can't believe the deacon invited us.
I thought he hated MPU.
Well, these people
are experts at forgiveness.
[SHE CHUCKLES]
Maybe we could learn something.
Yeah, I want to apologize
for how I've been acting.
You let me bring Lucy the news,
you put out the Alert
when we weren't sure
you had my back the whole way.
You were right.
Well, I didn't know that.
It was just my gut.
Like Jay and the Braun thing.
And what's between me and Jay,
that's for life.
I gotta own that.
But it doesn't mean I love you any less.
[MIKE] I know.
But from now on, we communicate.
- Deal?
- Deal.
Mm. [SHE CHUCKLES]
You know, I don't want
to be too forward, but
I think our knees just touched.
Mm. You better save some
for the wedding night,
- you animal.
- [THEY LAUGH]
You wanna stop for a pretzel?
I'd rather go home.