NCIS: Origins (2024) s02e09 Episode Script

1
I see you're still prepping
for your big interrogation.
Franks doesn't think I'm ready.
There are two churches.
- What are you doing at mine?
- Are you following me?
- Who was that?
- It's a guy I've been seeing.
He drives off on you
like that again,
- I'll break his legs.
- I'll let him know.
You got someone for me?
Noah Oakley would serve you well.
We have worked together
for years,
and I've seen him grow
into an outstanding leader.
Something came to mind, actually.
This place I think
you might like.
Guy named Abe Pruitt runs it.
We take in
anyone who needs a job.
Whoa, whoa.
- You okay?
- Got a little overzealous.
Wife's guilty of encouraging him.
You ever feel like that?
Like the planet's got a rope
around your neck?
Kid gives me the creeps.
I know long distance is for idiots.
I don't want to break up.
I pronounce you husband and wife.
It was the
worst hangover of my life.
When I woke up, I couldn't even
remember where I was.
The guy in the picture,
the guy that was running around
like an idiot the night before,
I couldn't believe that was me.
Leroy?
I woke up in the bathtub.
Why are you wearing my shoes?
I have no idea.
I have, like, really clear
pieces of last night,
then there's also
blank spaces, but the clear pieces
Yeah.
- Was it my idea?
- Uh
Guy at the craps table
with the gold tooth,
pretty sure it was his idea.
You want to order breakfast, then
get it annulled?
I don't know.
About the breakfast or the annulling?
Uh
I mean, I know you gave
a big speech last night
about picking me up and
running off together,
I remember that,
but you haven't met my father yet,
we haven't said "I love you,"
you don't know the full story
of my college years. I mean,
we got to get it annulled.
- Right?
- Yeah.
Is that inside my head or outside?
No, that's my pager.
You seen it?
Do you remember where you had it last?
I feel like it's buzzing
from somewhere by the plant.
Oh. Found it.
What are you watching?
Wait, there was an explosion?
Authorities are confirming
the suspect is still at large.
As many as ten people have been
transported via ambulance,
- with two people in critical condition.
- Oh, my God.
I got to get back.
How fast can we get
to the airport? I'll call.
Oh, where are my pants?
Are they over there?
- Here, here, here.
- Damn it.
I'll get us on the next flight out.
Where the hell are my pants?
We're now getting word
that 11 were injured,
two confirmed dead,
after a bomb exploded
in the Oceanside MovieDome
late last night.
The bomber's motive and identity?
Both unclear at this time.
Police encourage anyone with
information about the bombing
to contact their local station.
Rando, what's the word?
ATF swept the building.
We're clearing the surrounding area.
- Where's probie?
- Circus.
What?
Gail said he was gonna be late.
Apparently,
he called in
and said he was at the circus.
All right, I explained to them all
that three miles from Pendleton
is considered a threat to the base.
ATF didn't want to hear it,
I tore them a new one,
it's fine. Good morning. Good morning.
What'd they say about the bomb?
Made from fertilizer and aviation gas.
Okay, FBI is, uh,
sorting through CCTV footage
in the theater.
You should get in there. You're
working with Agent Swanson.
Swanson? What happened to Oakley?
Uh, he's gone.
Uh, promoted to the Joint Criminal
Intelligence Team in D.C.
Isn't that the thing Vera
was trying to get on?
That's sad. You and Oakley have worked
together forever, haven't you?
You should get in there,
and fair warning,
Joey Swanson's a little, uh,
particular, newly promoted.
Agent Swanson. Mike Franks, NIS.
Josephine Swanson. Pleasure.
Randolf. Congrats on the promotion.
Oh.
These community?
Sorry, could you not smoke in here?
I'm asthmatic.
- We getting anything off the tapes?
- There's just the one angle.
Thankfully, it was a midnight showing.
Theater was mostly empty.
Oh, let me do it.
It needs to be rewound to 15.8 seconds,
and people keep
only taking it back to 15.
Circus, like, lions and clowns?
- What?
- You said Gibbs went to the circus.
Oh, um, yeah,
that-that's what Gail said.
Who goes to the circus
first thing in the morning?
Here we go.
Unsub walks in at 12:32 a.m.
Sets the bomb down,
flips a switch,
and exits the theater.
Roll it back.
- No, that's too far. Let me do it.
- I got it.
- I know what I'm looking for.
- I got it. I got it.
- I can work my own controls, woman.
- I said I
Please do not address me as "woman."
Oh, we got him here,
looking towards the camera.
Freeze it right there.
Yeah.
Image is a bit grainy,
but we get it out to the local news,
engage the public, who knows?
You got something, boss?
You know this guy?
Agent Franks, switching off your radio
while I'm speaking to you
is not acceptable.
As I was saying,
your brother being on-site
- is an acute conflict of interest.
- Abe!
I received authorization
from FBI Director Harlan
and Agent Wheeler to run point
on this raid.
Abe, I will knock this gate down!
Where's my brother?
Agent Franks?
- Where is Stanley Turner?
- Where's Mason? He okay?
I don't know. What's going on?
Bedrooms are this way, let's go.
Is Stanley Turner here? Who's in charge?
My husband's in charge,
but we haven't seen Stanley
since yesterday.
What?
- Mason Franks. Where is he?
- I don't know.
- Where is he?
- I don't know.
Go.
- Clear it.
- Yes, ma'am. Need you to move.
Bravo Team
Let's go.
Line up here, please.
Can anyone tell me,
is Stanley Turner on the premises?
- With me.
- Abe!
Hey!
The hell's my brother?
I heard Stanley's name on the scanner.
They said what he did.
Are you sure it was him?
- Where's Mason?
- Boss!
Boss. Found this in Stanley's room.
It's a manifesto.
Last page has a sketch
of the movie theater.
FBI's taking the rest of the stuff
from his room to our lab.
- Mikey.
- Mason!
The hell's all this?
Kid Stanley blew up a movie theater.
- What?
- Where were you?
I was back with the horses.
Is the kid back there?
No. I haven't seen him since yesterday.
Look at me.
You don't know nothing
about this, do you?
Mikey, no.
- All right, listen now
- Franks.
No sign of Turner.
We did find fertilizer in the nursery,
likely match the
bomb remnants in the theater.
I'm bringing everyone in for questioning
on the whereabouts of Stanley Turner.
- Is that your brother?
- He's coming with me.
I was given authorization
by both FBI Director Harlan
- and Special Agent Wheeler
- Said he's coming with me.
And I said it's
an acute conflict of interest.
Now, if you would like me to make a call
and report your conduct
to our superiors,
I can certainly do that.
Wheeler says you've worked
with Pruitt in the past.
You bring him in, I'm taking the rest.
Mr. Franks, let's go. Over here
with the others.
- Mr. Pruitt
- Whoa.
You'll be traveling with Agent Franks.
Don't let 'em get you talking,
get you in trouble
for something you didn't do.
- All right.
- Like you said,
you don't know nothing. Hold to that.
Yeah.
Oceanside bombing tip line, please hold.
Okay, but was it a blond mullet?
Okay. What's your tip?
Yeah, no, the mullet
we're looking for is blond.
Mary Jo, where is everybody?
They still at The Range?
Look at you, sunglasses.
Were they giving those away
at the circus?
What?
I passed along
your message that you were at
the Barnum & Bailey this morning.
No, I wasn't at the circus,
Gail, I was in Vegas.
Oh, at the Circus Circus Hotel?
I've had a couple of
insane nights there for sure.
I almost got arrested.
Gibbs, you better get in there.
Franks has been asking me all morning,
"What time does the circus end?"
Mary Jo! Is that Gibbs?
Glad you could make it.
You get an elephant ride?
Circus isn't interactive, Mike.
What's with the sunglasses?
Uh, Woody says an ANFO bomb
that would fit in a backpack needs about
20 pounds of fertilizer
and a gallon of aviation gas.
Fertilizer came from the nursery
at Abe's compound,
but where'd he get the AVGAS?
Some interesting philosophies
in this manifesto, but nothing
about where the bomb parts came from.
Rando, these tacks up to date?
Uh, yeah, boss.
Not sure how credible the sources are,
but looks like most of them
are in the Gaslamp District.
What about FBI Swanson?
We're updating her on the tips.
And?
She wouldn't tell me anything
about Mason. I only know
he's still in custody.
Roy, you've spent a lot of
time alone in your room, haven't you?
What's your take on this manifesto?
Oh.
Did you booze it up at the circus?
We were in Vegas. Circus Circus Casino.
You mean you and Diane?
You guys are back together?
Yeah.
We got married.
Yeah.
You go to one of those
little white chapels where Elvis
does the ceremony?
I think he's still drunk.
He's only funny when he's drunk.
It was a regular guy
who did the ceremony.
Elvis already clocked out.
Uh, congratulations.
When's the annulment?
Let's go.
We can't let probie's
drunken life mistakes
keep us from hunting down our yahoos.
Y'all got anything else
I can grill Abe Pruitt on?
Uh, Stanley Turner came up
through the foster care system.
We contacted his last guardians.
They said they didn't know anything,
but I think they're holding back.
Probie, pop in a stick of Doublemint.
You're with me.
Where we going?
Showed up on time like the rest of us,
you'd know Abe Pruitt's waiting
in the conference room.
Where are the rest of my people?
They ain't in harm's way.
Your brother still with them?
Mason didn't know anything about this.
Did you?
No.
Kid never talked about doing
this sort of thing?
Never got any bad ideas put in his head?
He seemed like he'd be easy
to lead astray.
Well, I mean,
Stanley spent
a lot of time alone, but
I never thought he was capable of this.
You know any reason why he'd be
in the Gaslight District?
Gaslamp.
Uh, outside of the compound,
Stanley didn't have any friends.
What about his foster folks?
He close with them?
I mean, Steven and Lynn,
they're good people.
Stanley was a lot to handle.
He cut ties with them
when he moved in with us
but they still call me
to check in on him.
So they trust you?
Yeah, I never gave them a reason not to.
Foster folks ain't talking
to us, but they trust Abe.
I'm gonna head to their house,
take him with.
Smart.
Wasn't asking for an opinion.
You're a mess.
Stay here. You help Mary Jo
and the girls with the tip line.
You want me to answer phones?
Kowalski, set probie up
with your magic phone
so he can help the girls
with the tip line.
There you go.
- How you doing, kid?
- Yeah, peachy.
So, I heard you got hitched, huh?
We're getting an annulment.
You got my interrogation tapes?
Oh, you forgot they were due today?
Hey, look, I know you've been
studying different techniques
to try to learn how not
to embarrass yourself in there,
but my due dates are not a suggestion.
Yeah, I know.
I'll bring the interrogation
tapes back tomorrow.
Now, where's this magic phone?
Meet the Merlin.
I ordered it out of
a Japanese catalogue.
It's got 24 lines
and auto-hold capabilities,
so it'll never drop a call.
Think you can handle it?
I know how hard this is.
You took Stanley in
when he had nowhere else to go.
You showed him love,
and he lost his way,
but that is not your fault.
The best we can do
is bring him in safely,
which is what we are trying to do.
All of us.
- Right, Agent Franks?
- That's right.
Steven
Okay.
He, uh
He come by for supper last week,
with another guy. Cowboy-looking fella.
We got to talking
'cause he's from Texas like me.
Guy named Mason?
Yeah. You know him?
While I was in here talking to him,
Stanley went out to the garage
to tune up my old racing motorcycle.
I followed him out. I thought
it'd give us a chance to visit,
- but he was talking strange.
- That type of bike,
engine's modified,
takes a special kind of gasoline.
AVGAS?
Yeah.
After the boys left
I realized some of it was missing.
And Mason helped him take it?
He was a hell of a distraction.
Boy likes to talk.
"You're not gonna love me anymore,"
that's what Stanley kept saying
before he went into the garage.
He said I wouldn't love him
after the next two days.
How much gas did he take?
Two gallons.
Oh, we're sorry.
We should've called someone. We just
We were scared.
Sorry. Mike
it doesn't mean that Mason was involved.
It could be he didn't know
what Stanley was doing.
That bomb only used one gallon of gas.
Boy's got enough to make another one.
Director Harlan has been briefed
on the threat of the second bomb.
He asked me to get you
up to speed on our end.
I appreciate that. Where are we?
I would prefer to speak in private,
since we've established there
is an acute conflict of interest.
I told you Abe Pruitt's
back at the compound,
I told you everything
we heard at the folks' house.
I'm not saying you didn't.
Now, you owe me your side.
Give and take, that's how
this joint thing works.
Oh, I'm aware of how
a joint investigation works.
Give and take.
Tell her, Cliff, give and take.
Cliff, tell her, dammit.
Agent Swanson, I'll absorb the blowback
for conflict of interest.
What do you have?
We are confident
none of the compound residents
had prior knowledge of the bombing,
with the exception of Mason Franks.
We are holding him
for further questioning.
I told you, Stanley Turner
used Mason as a distraction.
His dad is from Texas, Mason's a talker.
Stanley brought him along
to keep his parents busy
while he swiped the AVGAS
from the garage.
So Mason didn't know
that Stanley took the gas?
- No.
- Unclear.
Did you ask him?
Well, he claimed he didn't know
anything about it,
but you know as well as I do
a denial is not enough.
Hook him up to the lie detector then.
Agent Franks, I intend to be
as thorough as possible
- for everyone's sake.
- Hook him up to the detector.
- Okay
- Come on, Cliff,
get on the phone and get us Oakley back.
She don't know her ass
from a hole in the ground.
Excuse me, sir,
I heard yelling, but I figured,
since it was just Franks,
it was okay to interrupt.
Vera Strickland.
I spent some time at the FBI
in profiling courses.
Strickland, what do you have?
Uh, I am pitching in on trying
to thwart the second bombing.
Last page of Stanley Turner's manifesto.
He wrote something, then
he erased it, and I was able to
shade over it and make it out.
"Fiat justitia ruat caelum."
Kid speaks Spanish?
It's Latin.
- What does it mean?
- Meh.
You read Latin,
but you don't understand it?
I was sounding it out phonetically.
Sir, I need to get back to HQ.
- I will keep you in the loop.
- Hey.
You hook my brother up
to that lie detector,
and you call me as soon as it's done.
Agent Franks, I intend to be thorough.
And I am not compelled
to take orders from you.
She's not.
Okay, big fella,
I know you're overstimulated,
but you need to put your brain
on this Latin thing with me. Let's go.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Got it. Franklin High.
Stanley Turner seemed weird
to you in art class.
Well, if you see him
or think of anything else,
give us a call back. Thanks.
How the hell do you switch lines
- on this damn thing? It's
- Here.
It's all right.
Yeah. I need to go help
look into this second bomb.
I'd like to have a minute
with you before you go.
Look, Kowalski, I'll return
your other interrogation tapes
- tomorrow, okay?
- Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen.
This is the only tape
that you didn't check out.
Which is ironic,
because it's the only one
you should be studying
to become a better interrogator.
Let's watch.
to push him.
He drowned
- Why would I want to watch myself?
- Wait for it.
what happened, I swear.
What did happen?
He was about to break, and then
What did you do?
I didn't do anything.
You punched the table like a dumbass.
Yeah. I got to get back to the case.
Hey.
I just got a call on the tip line.
Guy says Stanley Turner
has a connection with Flaco Navarro.
What kind of connection?
Caller wouldn't identify himself,
but he said Stanley and Flaco
are "righteous homies."
- You tell Lala about this?
- Yeah.
She found out where Flaco is.
She needs someone to drive her
over there, but, so you know,
she doesn't seem interested
in talking about
your drunk wedding on the way over.
Get moving, honey,
she's waiting in the car.
Kid's really a work in progress, huh?
Mm-hmm.
¿Qué pasó, mama?
Look at you, rolling up all glowy.
You want next game?
Manny's got a big heart.
He might let your boy win one.
Nah, Flaco, we got business.
You hear about that
movie theater getting bombed?
Yeah, you know, I keep abreast.
Tip came in, said that the
bomber has a connection to you.
You know, at first,
I thought she was glowing,
but it's just
she look sharp compared to you.
Why you looking all busted, man?
He's hungover.
He got married in Vegas last night.
Hey, congrats.
How long you two been together?
They started dating, what,
three months ago?
Thought you didn't want
to talk about this.
Hey, moving a bit fast, ain't it?
Her pops give you his blessing?
What, you didn't ask? Wow, bro.
Me and Manny think
you bucking tradition.
That ain't right.
How do you know Stanley Turner?
Stanley.
I'll tell you what,
me and Stanley,
we righteous homies.
You think I'm out here running
around with some unstable white dude?
- Come on now.
- You called in a fake tip?
Yeah, 'cause I wanted to get
some time with my girl.
See if she had any new thoughts
on Rico Luna.
You know Rico Luna?
Bad dude.
- He offed quite a few people.
- Flaco.
She doesn't have
any new thoughts on Luna.
What do you know about her thoughts?
Nothing.
Let's go.
You know something about her?
You shouldn't have made
them come here, that's all I'm saying.
- What the hell was that?
- What?
That's the Impala
that's been following you.
What, that's the guy you're seeing?
- You're seeing Flaco's guy?
- I'm not seeing him.
You said you were seeing the Impala guy.
I lied to get you off my back.
Then why's he acting like he knows you?
Because sometimes I see him around.
- So, you are seeing him.
- That's not what I'm saying.
Then what are you saying?
I'm saying, sometimes,
I see that gangbanger at church
and we talk about our day, okay?
You're the one who got
drunk-married in Vegas.
I need him to call me now.
Yes, this is in reference
to a bomb threat.
That's what I said, now.
Thank you.
Latin professor at
USD should be calling us back shortly.
They didn't want to interrupt his class,
but I went bulldog phone voice,
so should be good.
Mary Jo, did Swanson call Wheeler,
say something about a lie detector?
Mary Jo!
Damn intercom ain't working.
She's probably just in the bathroom.
Ah, you're gonna break it.
That's why we'll never get
approved for Merlins in here.
- FBI found Stanley's car here.
- Uh-huh.
He sets the bomb
at the theater, then what?
Public transportation to where?
We check with the cab companies?
Yep, and buses. No reported sightings.
"Let justice be done
though the heavens may fall."
- That's what the Latin means.
- What? How'd you find out?
I ran into M.J. in the bathroom,
she told me Kowalski
speaks Latin from his holy days.
It's a legal phrase.
Courthouse is here.
Block away from the movie theater.
No, that couldn't be his
second target. It doesn't make sense.
Why bomb a movie theater,
then a courthouse
in the same four-block radius?
Rando, call up the courthouse,
see if they evacuated
when the bomb went off
- at the movie theater.
- Copy.
They evacuated all
the buildings in the area,
but they let everybody
back in around noon.
Bomb goes off at the movie theater here.
Night court folk
evacuate through
this emergency exit door.
Doors open,
people run out of the courthouse.
You could slip in
through a door that's usually locked,
bypass security.
Blows up the movie theater
to get a second bomb
into the courthouse.
That was his real target.
No, that is a theory, sure,
but is it sound?
Got confirmation
that the emergency exit door
was used to evac
the courthouse last night,
and the same Latin phrase is on
the seal hanging in the lobby.
Yes, the theory is sound.
Out this way please, ma'am. Thank you.
NIS.
Mike.
Second floor's clear.
You think he's still inside?
He didn't set off the bomb yet,
possible he's waiting on something.
Split up, clear it, comb the crowd.
Everyone down.
Everyone get down.
Get down.
Hey, get down. Hey! Get down!
Suspect exiting with the crowd.
Southwest emergency exit door.
Hey.
- Heard your bomber got away.
- Yeah.
Everybody's back at the courthouse,
locking it down, searching the area.
What are you doing here now?
Woody says he's onto something,
requested all the photos of The Range
from the first time we went
there on the Meyers case.
Franks sent you
back 'cause you're hungover, huh?
- Weak link gets the grunt work.
- Yeah, I told him,
it's not on me Turner got away.
There was people in the way,
a ton of them.
Never mind.
Hey, Gibbs.
I'm-I'm feeling I got to come clean.
Those interrogation tapes
weren't due back to me until next week.
One crazy night, everybody's
got to bust my balls.
I'm not busting your balls.
I just felt,
given your decisions last night,
it might the most ideal time
for you to watch yourself on that tape.
I thought it would be clear
after you watched it,
but apparently not.
You thought what would be clear?
1951 to 1953.
I was a POW at Pak's Palace in North
Korea.
And I was interrogated
each and every day.
So, I know a little bit about
what works and what doesn't.
I see you study
these interrogation tapes.
You look at Franks,
you look at Lala, Randy.
Then you wonder what you can copy.
That's all good.
You should take something
from all of them.
They all have strengths.
But what comes first, huh?
What has to live underneath any of that?
I don't know.
You.
You got great instincts, kid.
You do.
You got to be thinking
what would you do,
not what would Franks do.
And every time
you step foot in that box,
you got to listen to your gut.
And when you're outside of that box,
you got to listen to your gut, too.
Nobody goes to Vegas
and gets drunk-hitched
without needing a gut check.
That's the real takeaway from all this.
You got me?
Yeah.
Excuse me.
Gibbs, uh, Vera's looking for you.
You give me the pictures,
and I'll have them
couriered over to Woody for you.
Thanks, Kowalski.
I, uh, I made this for you.
It's the best cure for a hangover,
and believe me, I've tried them all.
You have?
Yeah,
just throw it back like a giant shot.
Oh, and if you need any help
with the annulment paperwork,
I-I have experience.
- You've had an annulment?
- Two.
But don't tell Gail,
'cause she gets judgy.
Uh, Vera said to come right up
to the conference room.
Abe Pruitt's ex-wife showed up,
and she wants to talk.
Batter up, dude, pound it.
Mm.
Ugh. What, is there pickles in here?
Abe and I got married ten years ago.
He was the head of this law firm.
I was a paralegal.
Before he became a lawyer,
he wanted to be a priest,
did you know that?
But then he realized
priests have way too many rules,
- so he went to law school, but
- Ms. Pruitt.
- Tracy.
- Tracy,
is there something specific
you wanted to share with us
about your ex-husband?
Husband, technically.
The divorce isn't final yet.
I saw the bomber kid on the news.
They said he lives on Abe's compound.
Abe tried to get everyone
in the law firm to follow him,
like worship him.
I mean, it kind of worked.
I married the guy.
The people who worked at his law firm
are the same people living
on The Range with him now?
No, no. The people
at the law firm got wise to him.
He wanted to be king,
they didn't want a king.
They wanted to live their own lives,
so he started gathering other people.
They were defendants
from this lawsuit we had.
Oh, the people who got
their land taken away?
Exactly.
These poor people.
Now, he's out there
trying to be king of them.
Not even king. God.
He wants to be worshipped.
Can you imagine?
What are you saying?
Abe had some kind of control
over Stanley Turner?
Who is Stanley Turner?
The guy who bombed the theater.
Oh, right. I don't know him.
But I'm wondering,
is there any documentation
you all can give me that might
help me, you know
get a bigger settlement
in my divorce?
I mean, I'll take whatever you have.
Swanson. Swanson,
the courthouse is secure,
the sheriff put up a road block,
but Turner's long gone.
He left the area.
Yeah, I do got to yell,
'cause you ain't listening!
What the heck is that about?
FBI Swanson is the new Oakley.
She's holding Franks' brother
for questioning.
Yeah, she's refusing to release him,
so Franks is getting surly with her,
but actually,
he pretty much hated her
for no reason from the get-go.
I didn't even know Franks had a brother.
That ain't what I said.
I swear to God, woman.
Courier dropped off these photos
we were waiting on.
Swanson
Great. Why don't you
get to work on those, will you?
- That's not what I said.
- So, listen, Gail faxed over
a bulletin earlier
that said Gibbs got hammered
and married Diane.
Wow, Gail did a whole bulletin, huh?
Yeah, last thing we heard,
Gibbs and Diane
broke up. Next thing you know,
fax says that he's making her
his Sin City bride.
What?
I guess we just wanted
to get your reaction.
- I don't know, get his reaction.
- It's just that
it's not as interesting because
- he doesn't have sexual tension with Gibbs.
- What?
Yeah, well, you're a damn disgrace
to the FBI,
and that is saying something.
Talk about sexual tension, huh?
She won't tell me nothing about Mason.
I told her, do the lie detector,
she keeps talking about being thorough.
I think she's using this whole
thing to get a leg up on her career.
Woodrow, get over here,
we're frickin' unbelievable.
No way, we were right?
Hell yeah we were. All this stuff
was confiscated
from Stanley Turner's room.
Grown man with a pet rat.
That should've been
Abe's first clue something was off.
It's a hamster, boss.
Don't that make it worse?
Found a powdery substance caked
on the bottom of the cage here.
Found that same powdery
substance on the bottom
of Mr. Elertson's feet, too.
Transferred to his wheel and everything.
We named him after Phil's dad.
- Their personalities are very similar.
- Yeah.
- What was the powder?
- Concrete dust.
Likely from the surface layer
of an old floor breaking down.
Called the FBI,
said they didn't encounter
any floors like that
in their sweep of the compound.
Photos seem to back that up.
But we did notice something
a little odd in one of them.
See these flowers on the edge?
- We thought they looked very uniform.
- Yeah.
Now, this shot
you took on your first trip to The Range
showed more of them.
Now, back me up on this, Woody.
- See the, uh, uniformity?
- Yeah.
The uniformity is super apparent.
- Yeah.
- These periwinkles are fake.
Phil and I did it again.
The streak continues.
Psh.
Why would you put fake flowers
in a plant nursery?
You just can't come in here.
This is unlawful.
Rando, keep him there.
- This isn't fair to my people.
- M-Mr. Pruitt.
Mr. Pruitt, stay back.
I need to see the warrant.
Show me a warrant.
- Stand back.
- They're fake.
Yeah.
Hey.
Mike.
Body.
- It's Turner.
- What is going on?
- Mr. Pruitt.
- What is going on?
- Tell me what's down there.
- Stand back
or I will cuff you.
Listen up, Abe Pruitt's
in holding saying he don't know
nothing about nothing.
We buying that or not?
Bullet to the head killed Stanley,
but Tango can't say
if it was homicide or suicide.
Pruitt's ex told me he has
a history of controlling people.
God complex.
Stanley seem like
he could be manipulated, boss?
Tango say homicide or suicide?
Inconclusive.
Question is,
did Pruitt have motive
to pull the trigger?
Let's go. Let's roll it out.
There was a hearing set
for this afternoon at the courthouse.
Pruitt's last shot
to stop Wilson & Barnes
from buying The Range's land.
Pruitt was gonna lose, and he knew it.
If a bomb goes off at
that hearing, that buys him time.
He was breaking them wild horses.
He was waiting on a contract
with the Bureau of Land Management.
He needed time for it to go through.
Deal with BLM would stop anyone
from coming after his land ever again.
He manipulates Stanley Turner
into targeting the courthouse.
Plan goes sideways,
Stanley comes back home,
Pruitt shoots him to tie up loose ends.
If that's what happened,
we have zero hard evidence
to tie him to any of this.
Pruitt is a frickin' mastermind.
What about his shoes?
If he shot Stanley
in that basement room
Woody's double-checking,
but there was
no concrete powder on them.
There was nothing on them.
Pruitt wiped 'em clean.
He used my brother to break them horses.
Rando, toss me my Walkman.
I need to pre-game
before I get in the box
with this son of a bitch.
Franks.
I'm sorry, boss.
I thought you were looking.
- With my back?
- Franks.
I just got off the phone
with FBI Agent Swanson.
She is on her way over
to talk to Wheeler.
'Bout my brother?
No idea. I take the message,
I deliver the message.
- Cliff!
- He's not up there.
He's at Daly's. I told them
to let Swanson know.
The hell is he doing at Daly's?
Tough day, you know?
You work with a guy longer
than your marriage lasted.
That-That-That's a lot of years.
Talking about the FBI guy?
Noah Oakley, yeah.
You two were close, huh?
I don't know.
I spent my day
trying to set troubled youth on a path.
Who knows if it'll take.
Had me thinking about Korea again.
Some things never get easier,
I'll tell you.
Life, man. Ugh.
Cliff.
Cliff, FBI Swanson come here yet?
We can't get Oakley back.
Quit bringing it up. It's over.
I have reached my limit
with that woman, Cliff.
When she gets here, I want you
to let me do the talking.
God help us.
Agent Wheeler.
Listen here, Swanson.
I see you. Going around
swinging your pretend johnson,
get up that ladder real quick.
"Oh, look at me. I'm being thorough."
You are done putting my brother
in the middle of your BS.
You're gonna turn around,
you're gonna order that lie detector,
and you're gonna release him,
or I'm about to report your misconduct
to anyone at the FBI who got ears.
I will commit my complaint
to a paper trail
so long it'll follow you
the rest of your sorry career.
Agent Wheeler,
in order to protect your Agent Franks
from any accusations
of conflict of interest,
I had three polygraph tests
administered to Mason Franks.
He passed all three,
and I dropped him off
at Agent Franks' residence.
I came here to request that,
due to adverse working conditions,
I be paired with
someone other than Franks
for any future joint investigations.
Granted.
Thank you, sir.
She's, uh
That's good news about Mason.
I, uh
Have a drink, Mike.
You look tense.
We think Abe Pruitt's in on the bombing.
Possible that he offed Stanley Turner
- to tie up loose ends.
- What's he saying?
I got to get back to interrogate him.
Why don't you let Gibbs do it?
What?
I spent time with him,
set him on the path.
Plus, he spent time with the ex-wife,
and you're off your game.
I ain't off nothing.
Kid's hungover as hell,
stripped down to his very core.
Prime conditions for him
to listen to his gut, Mike.
Today's the day. Come on.
Hello, Mr. Pruitt.
- Ooh!
- Nice.
Hello, Mr. Pruitt.
Sorry, baby, he's hard to stay mad at.
I'm not mad at him.
I had no idea that room existed.
Stanley built it without you knowing?
Place was a nursery before we got there.
Room was probably there all along,
but I never knew it.
You didn't know you had
a bed of fake flowers?
The flowers in that planter
were always dying,
so we put in a fake bed
for some advertising photos.
Now I know why the real flowers
weren't thriving.
- Pardon me.
- Is that a glass from Daly's?
Yeah, Smitty knows we'll bring 'em back.
How's the kid doing?
Better than last time.
You think he was the only one
who knew about that room?
Stanley, uh,
must've discovered the room
and kept it to himself.
He always, uh
had pets in cages.
He wanted to let them out
in his bedroom,
but we asked him not to.
So he must've done it down in that room.
Stanley was like a son to me.
I would never hurt him,
and I didn't influence him
to do anything.
Why do you think he did it, then?
You said that he targeted
the courthouse.
Mm-hmm.
We had a hearing scheduled.
My guess is that he was trying
to stop Wilson & Barnes
from taking our land.
He loved those animals.
He would do anything
to protect them.
- Guy's a damn pro.
- Former lawyer,
master manipulator.
There's no way this dude breaks.
- We can't just let him out.
- She's right.
He goes back on the street,
what's he gonna do next?
- I'm going in.
- No, no, no. Leave him be.
Leave him be. Look at him.
He's thinking.
He's listening.
How does Mason fit into this?
Mason Franks?
He was like any of us.
We were happy to have him.
And he was good with Stanley.
They were close.
That's why I'm asking.
Did Stanley say something to him?
Pushed him off-kilter.
Whatever he said,
Stanley was unstable.
You can verify that
with the other residents.
My wife even took him
to the emergency room once
when he, uh
tried to hurt himself.
Your wife?
Yes. Beth.
Hmm.
You met her the first time you came out.
No, Mr. Pruitt.
I met your wife today.
Tracy.
She came in to talk.
Said the divorce wasn't final.
She's after my money.
What's your point?
You know, I got drunk last night.
Ended up getting married in Vegas.
Yeah.
The form I had to sign
said that if you marry
two people at once
that's a federal crime.
Bigamy. Wait, that's bigamy.
- He got him on a technicality.
- Yeah!
You see that, Cliff?
Probie just Al Capone'd his ass.
Woo-hoo!
Who knew you had it in you, kid?
Well done.
You did good in there.
Start of an era.
Master interrogator.
Hmm. Hope so.
If you're getting it annulled
why bother telling us
it happened at all?
You love her?
Never mind.
None of my business.
See you tomorrow.
Turner lived on a compound
known as "The Range,"
where he helped run a plant
nursery with other residents.
Look, I know you were really
getting to love that place,
horses.
This one's on me for bringing you there.
reputation for its radical
libertarian philosophies
What now?
attracting residents
with similar beliefs.
I think I'll head out to Nevada.
See if I can't make myself useful
breaking in some of them wild mustangs.
The FBI found a manifesto
in Turner's room that
That new way you taught me
worked pretty good.
that suggest Turner was
planning the bombing for weeks.
You want to stay a couple days
before you ship out?
Yeah.
Yeah, it'd be nice.
Though Pruitt was arrested
on charges of bigamy,
his involvement in the bombing,
if any, remains unclear.
Authorities are searching
You had quite the day, huh?
Oh, good news.
We don't have to go back to Nevada.
We can file all
of the annulment stuff here.
Is your hangover as bad as mine?
What?
My gut's telling me
I'm not the kind of guy
who gets an annulment.
It's also telling me
I love you.
I love you, too.
I wasn't
lying when I said I loved her.
Sometimes, a person shows up,
right place, right time.
It's easy.
It's simple.
It's exactly what you need.
I waited for you at church.
What are you doing here?
Wanted to apologize.
I didn't know Flaco
called in that fake tip.
He shouldn't have done that to you.
Right place, right time,
exactly what you need.
That's one kind of love.
But it only complicates
the kind of love
that lasts forever.