Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (2024) s04e02 Episode Script
The Scorpion and the Tortoise
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[NARRATOR]: In Toronto's war
on crime, the worst offenders
are pursued by the detectives
of the Specialized Criminal
Investigations Unit.
These are their stories.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Yeah, man, I got it.
Hey, Sean!
You got any spares?
Yeah, second drawer on the right.
[RADIO PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND]
[DRAWER SQUEAKS]
Oh, tidy.
What are you, a Boy Scout?
Nah, I just like
everything in its place.
Whoa!
[LAUGHING]
Malik!
How many times do I have to tell
you that crap isn't funny, man?
I know, I know. Come on, come on.
- Boss, life drags on pretty hard.
- Hey, easy.
It's a bit easier with a little laugh.
That is the last time that
you are gonna pull that crap.
Okay, Clint, easy. He's just joking.
[JACKHAMMER POUNDING]
Listen, you mess around up here, kid?
Somebody's gonna break their neck.
Drop it.
[ROPE CLATTERS ON THE GROUND]
[TOOLS CLANGING]
Careful, careful.
Dad, I can't cut anything
if you make me use a butter knife.
You could cut butter.
Mm-hmm, yum, a butter salad.
[CHUCKLING]
[DOG BARKING AND WHIMPERING]
Oh, can I let Louie out?
Yeah.
[DOG BARKING AND WHIMPERING]
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
Can we change Louie's name?
No, sweetie, we can't.
- Why?
- Well, Mom named him.
But I don't like his name.
Well, I think we should
keep it the way it is.
It's what Mom would've wanted, yeah?
[DOG BARKING IN THE DISTANCE]
Why doesn't Louie live outside?
He really likes it out there.
Well, because it gets cold at night
and it's not super safe
for dogs with coyotes about.
[HOWLS]
That was a terrible coyote.
Oh yeah? Let's hear yours.
[HOWLS]
[BOTH HOWLING]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[TRUCK BACKING UP]
[CHATTERING]
[SEAN]: Malik!
You want anything from the coffee truck?
Yeah. I'll take a double-double.
Got it. Clint!
Nah, I'm good, thanks.
[MACHINERY HUMMING]
Need help?
Yeah. Stick to your own side.
[SCOFFS]
[STAMMERS]
[YELLING]
[THUD]
[CHATTERING]
[BYSTANDER]: Did he fall?
[COUGHING]
Hey. It's okay, Malik, just stay calm.
Don't panic. It's only
gonna make things worse.
Somebody call 911!
[MAN]: Accident at Capstone
Buildings, Jarvis site.
One of our workers had a fall!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
Louie!
Louie!
Come on.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Louie.
Louie?
Dinnertime.
Come on, boy!
[DOG WHIMPERING]
Louie!
[GROANING]
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE]
Want me to watch your truck?
[MALIK CHUCKLES]
Now why would I need that?
Brand new wheels, a place like this,
who knows what will happen?
Alright, little man.
I respect the hustle.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC CONTINUES]
Hey, Malik.
What up, man.
- It's been a minute.
- Yeah, well, I've been busy.
Hmm.
[MALIK GROANS]
You good?
Yeah, you should have
seen me a month ago.
I busted three ribs.
- So, listen
- Ah, ah.
First things first.
You really gotta be like that?
No wire, no problem.
[SIRENS BLARING IN THE DISTANCE]
You been working out?
[CHUCKLES]
Come in, man. Sit down.
What's up?
- I need a favour, man.
- Talk to me.
[RAIN PATTERING SOFTLY]
[SCRAPING METAL]
[HINGES SQUEAK]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[DOOR SQUEAKS]
[GUN CLICKING]
[DOOR OPENING]
[DOOR SHUTTING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[MECHANICAL WHIRRING]
[CHATTERING]
[ZEV]: These trucks are
coming in from Sarnia,
- Halton Hills, Caledon
- Zev?
[ZEV]: the loading bays
down there are for the East End.
Zev, I found another
one. No address, no postage.
That's the 19th package today.
Okay, you know the drill. Photograph it.
No, I think you need to see this one.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
[THEME MUSIC]
Thanks for coming down so quick.
Detective Fabiano, 44 Division.
I'm Detective Bateman. This is
my partner, Detective Darcy.
We've set aside a package
for you. No address, no postage.
Inside
Mail laws are pretty
strict. Why was it opened?
Protocol is to alert authorities
if a suspicious package is leaking.
Plastic wrap likely tore in transit.
Blood soaked through the cardboard.
Only a matter of time.
We heard you found more than just this.
Yeah, we found a lot more.
[RADIO CHATTER]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
26 segments, each in its own parcel.
Same skin tone.
Could all belong to one victim.
These nine over here?
Just the torso cut up into small pieces.
We found pieces of legs and arms
in sorting stations six and four.
No address or postage.
All just under the size
of a mailbox opening.
Whoever sent these could avoid
going to post offices with surveillance.
Are we able to track which
mailboxes they came from?
Manager here says all
mailbox pickups are combined
before being sent to sorting.
They can't trace it backwards.
All we know is these were
dropped off yesterday.
So our killer's smart enough
to send packages undetected.
Without postage or an address?
They knew they would end up here.
Which goes against the
whole point of dismemberment.
Why cut up a body
just to have all the pieces
found in the same place?
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
What if it's this? Us. Here.
The news crews circling outside.
Someone's trying to send a message.
So who's the messenger?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
DNA tests confirmed
all 27 pieces belonged
to the same male victim.
Dismemberment occurred post-mortem.
The killer removed all the organs
and segmented the body
by major muscle groups.
Like a hunter.
Hope you didn't have
a big lunch, new guy.
This one's a bit macabre, even for me.
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Sort of like Frankenstein's creature.
[DA SILVA]: Without the head.
Victim's around 30 years old.
Cause of death is actually
six bullets to the chest, 9mm.
Killed approximately
two to three days ago.
We also found fractures in
the right ribs and wrist,
injuries sustained a month ago.
Tell me about these scars.
They're actually burns. Severe ones.
They'd have to be third degree.
A couple of years old.
We also found traces
of ink beneath the skin.
That's a gnarly way
to get rid of a tattoo.
Might not have had a choice.
Gang tattoos.
Leave the club under bad circumstances,
lose the branding.
You're thinking this is gang?
Dismemberment reads more
cartel, but it's hard to say.
How was this done?
Reciprocating saw.
In terms of ID, no head,
no teeth for dental,
but we do have a hand for fingerprints.
Well, if he was in a gang,
chances are his prints
are in the system.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Victim is Malik Chambers. 27 years old.
Fingerprints wound up in
our system back in 2016
when he was charged
with a string of B&Es
and one count of aggravated assault.
Checked with GangNet.
No known associates.
So he's a solo act, no gang.
Perhaps. Or he was loyal.
Just because he didn't snitch
doesn't mean he wasn't a member.
What about this
injury, the cracked ribs?
This predates the murder?
Malik was admitted to
St. Mike's a month ago.
He fell two storeys off a platform,
told doctors he messed up at work,
forgot to tie off properly.
He was a labourer at Capstone Buildings,
worked there for the past five years.
Syncs up with the
burned-off gang tattoo.
Let's say Malik runs
with a crew for a while,
then he decides to get
out, earn an honest living.
Leadership doesn't like that,
so they take a hot
iron to his gang tattoo.
I'm just saying we shouldn't
take gang off the table.
Alright. Anything else
you'd like to add to the table,
Detective Bateman?
Actually, yes.
A week ago, Malik
registered a brand new truck.
Officers didn't find it at his home.
Mark just tracked the GPS
to its last destination
right by Finch and Birchmount.
What's the exact address?
Uh 168 Norcap Ave?
168 Norcap,
that's right across the
street from 165 Norcap.
That's the headquarters
of the Glendower Boys.
So, last known location,
steps away from a gang's HQ?
That begs the question
Did Malik pay his old crew a visit?
- So Malik goes to see his ex
-gang. Why?
Maybe they lured him.
Maybe to silence an
ex-member who knew too much.
Maybe he needed something from them?
That's a lot of maybes.
Maybe we should talk to them.
Are you familiar with
the Glendower Boys?
I know the team, not the players.
Their leader, Andre Miller,
is linked to multiple homicides.
But chopping up bodies
into little pieces
I take it Andre's smart
enough to not want to talk to us.
Unless he has to.
Last I heard, Guns and Gangs
had a pile of search warrants
locked and loaded against
the Glendower Boys.
But they were saving them
for an opportune time.
What, like now?
If only I knew someone who had sway.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
[INTENSE MUSIC]
[MAGAZINE LOADING CLICK]
Police!
[CRASHING]
Police! Hands up!
Miss the action?
I do. But suits can't
do dynamic entries.
Division policy.
It's too bad, they were fun.
And this isn't fun?
Five guns, a couple of
scales, half a kilo of cocaine.
That's quite the collection.
Come on, man. I know the drill.
You snoop around,
we do a little dance and make a deal.
So why don't you just hurry up
and tell me what you want so
I can back to business.
When was the last time
you saw Malik Chambers?
Years.
You sure about that?
It's just that's a strange
coincidence because his truck
is parked right outside.
Oh, you think I'm dumb enough
to kill him and leave his truck outside?
You were dumb enough to
leave five guns in your house.
But okay, let's set that
aside for a minute. Alright?
[SIGHS]
Thing is, it's kinda
hard to set it aside.
Not because the triggers are taped
or because the serial
numbers are filed off.
But because they're Glock 17s, 9mm.
Same calibre of bullet
we found in Malik's torso.
Well, pieces of his torso.
But what do you know?
Small world.
Okay, let's reset. I'll
start with a softball.
When was Malik here?
[SIGHS]
Sunday.
Oh, that was the last day
that Malik was seen alive,
- that is not very
- Hey, come on.
Nobody here would touch Malik.
Alright? He's like family.
Okay, then tell us what happened.
Come on, Andre, you
tell us what happened,
all this stuff goes to
the bottom of the pile.
Well, I mean, we're gonna have
to confiscate everything, but
still a win for you.
Was he here for money?
- Was he here for a job?
- Neither.
He wanted a Glock.
- Why'd he need a gun?
- I don't know.
Maybe he wanted to
buy some peace of mind.
Okay.
If we're believing this guy,
Malik came here to buy a gun.
A gun that can't be traced back to him.
You buy a gun for either
protection or attack,
so which one?
Well, if you're defending yourself,
you go home, you bolt the door.
Yeah, but he didn't go home.
According to Andre,
he walked out the door
and went down the street,
leaving his truck here on purpose.
He knew it could be tracked. GPS, right?
Okay, so he leaves his truck here,
he goes out on his own with a gun.
Eliminating the defence narrative.
So he's on the offence.
What, to kill somebody?
Seeing as he ended up in little pieces,
that plan didn't go so well.
So if we're to take a
gang leader at his word,
the night of the murder,
Malik buys a gun and
goes to kill someone.
We believe that Malik's
target became his killer.
Overpowered him, shot
him with his own gun.
But then why the dismemberment?
Okay, say I'm Malik's target,
he comes to kill me, I
overpower and then I kill him.
That's self-defence. Why
not just go to the police?
Well, when we find him,
we will be sure to ask.
So who you got?
Malik's been out of
the game for a while.
If he's going on the offence,
we're thinking that he was provoked.
Someone else threw the first punch.
Or push off a ledge, two-storey drop.
The fall? No. That's
That was a workplace accident.
But what if it wasn't? What if he
was pushed and he wanted payback?
But then why would he tell the hospital
that it was his fault?
Why not press charges?
Well, because maybe he
was paid for his silence.
Mark dug into Malik's truck.
It's registered in his name,
but it was purchased
by Capstone Building,
- his employer.
- Hush money.
To keep him quiet about being pushed.
Alright. Find out just how
accidental this fall really was.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
I saw it on the news.
What happened to Malik
He came to Capstone to leave
a life of violence behind.
The fact that it
followed him is terrible.
You knew he was in a gang?
Yeah, he told me in his interview.
But I believe everyone
deserves a second chance.
And I was right. Malik, he was
a loyal employee for five years.
And in that time, was Malik involved
in any other workplace accidents?
No, I don't think so.
Listen, we have protocols and training,
but the odd time, accidents happen.
- Rosa?
- I was assigned to Malik's
fall and I can assure you
there is no foul play involved.
Shortly after the accident,
your company bought Malik a truck.
Is that also part of your
protocol, Mr. Zechner?
No. Malik was an exception.
After the accident,
WSIB investigated the fall.
They ruled the cause as employee
negligence on Malik's part.
Meaning Malik was ineligible
for workers' insurance.
The man gives half a decade to Capstone,
gets injured on my site, and gets zilch?
After I saw what happened to
him, I had to make him whole.
And you were on site when Malik fell?
No, I traded my steel-toed
boots in a while ago.
But we compiled footage of the accident.
[COMPUTER KEYS CLICKING]
This is from our security camera.
[ROSA]: And this one from
a worker's cell phone.
Stay calm, don't panic.
It's only gonna make things
worse. Somebody call 911!
He definitely wasn't pushed.
Show me the fall again.
[COMPUTER CLICK]
But it looks like we was
expecting the rope to hold him.
He was.
In Malik's statement, he admitted
that he couldn't remember
if he clipped in or not.
Maybe someone unclipped his harness.
Was this the only other
person on the floor when he fell?
Clint Vetro. Head ironworker.
Yeah, I wasn't surprised
that Malik forgot to tie off, you know?
He's always more concerned
with getting a laugh
than working safe.
He was a bit of a prankster?
Is that why you requested he be
removed from the site several times?
Yeah. I mean, he wasn't safe.
He didn't understand that if
you make a mistake up there,
you could really hurt yourself.
Like fall two storeys
and break three ribs.
Well, you did the right thing.
Requested that he get
taken off your team.
But when that didn't work
Whoa, no, no, no, no.
No, I didn't unclip him, okay?
Like, I didn't see anything.
Okay, well, maybe
somebody else saw something?
Sean Carson?
He was working with you
and Malik up there that day?
Sean, he came down to get a coffee
- before any of that happened.
- Where can we find him?
Uh, Sean, he's not
the most reliable source.
- Why's that?
- The guy's a booze bag.
A couple of days after the fall,
super smelled of vodka in
his water bottle. Fired him.
So you're saying the only
other person up on the platform
with you that day was fired?
That's convenient.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Vodka? Come on. I don't
even touch the stuff.
The super planted it on
me. Capstone wanted me gone
because I knew Clint
had it out for Malik.
You thought he was behind the fall?
Yeah. I started asking
questions and what do you know?
The next day, they plant booze on me.
Because I knew what Clint did
to Malik was willful misconduct.
Willful misconduct,
that's a legal term, yeah?
My dad was a lawyer.
- This was his home.
- Huh.
I've tried to keep it
the way he had it, you know?
To honour his memory.
Do you mind if I take off my shoes?
Is there any reason you can think of,
any reason why Clint
would've wanted to hurt Malik?
Malik was a prankster.
Clint was old school.
He didn't get the joke.
What kind of prankster we talking?
Oh, hiding somebody's measuring tape
or super-gluing a thermos shut.
Yeah, that sounds like a hoot.
Or this one time,
when this guy went into
a porta-potty, uh
Malik parked a forklift
up against the door.
Poor guy was trapped inside
[LAUGHING]
He's banging and banging
and screaming to get out,
but Malik just laughs.
[SEAN LAUGHS]
He says He says, uh,
"Don't panic, it's only
gonna make things worse."
[SEAN LAUGHS]
After two hours, he lets him out.
[BATEMAN]: Would you just
say that again, please?
He let him out after a couple hours?
"Don't panic, it's only
gonna make things worse."
That's exactly what you said
to Malik when you found him
after the fall, word for word.
[CHUCKLES SLIGHTLY]
Strange.
Where were you Sunday night?
Here. Alone.
I'm a bit of a homebody.
Any more questions?
Yes.
Why'd you replace the carpet?
This house is a time capsule.
Nothing's been replaced in decades
except this piece of carpet.
Why? You did a great
job, but I feel the seam.
It starts here, so
all this is new.
I spilled wine.
Luckily, Dad had an extra
roll in the basement.
That's the perils
of wall-to-wall carpet.
You stain one spot,
you have to cut it out.
But this piece goes long.
Did you drag the wine bottle outside?
What's outside?
My workshop.
The house is all my dad,
but this space, this is mine.
I love spending time in here.
Building things, breaking them down.
It's pretty clean.
You have to stay organized.
What use is having a tool if
you don't know where to find it?
Like a reciprocating saw.
[SEAN]: Oh, those are great
at cutting through bone.
My dad was an excellent hunter.
He used it all the
time to break down deer.
Can you step away from that?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Do I have permission to open this?
Sure.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Like I said,
great for breaking down deer.
[THUDDING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Is Sean still in interview?
- He's running out the clock.
The guy is good. He's impossibly good.
The report from CFS came
back on the reciprocating saw.
- It's clean.
- And the lab found traces
of hydrogen peroxide and
peracetic acid on the blade.
Same compounds they use to
sterilize their equipment.
Theo, we can prove
that Sean sterilized the saw
he used to dismember Malik.
Just because you can prove
he washed his hands doesn't mean
they were covered in blood.
If we can get a search
warrant, we can find evidence
- that places Malik at the house.
- I'm sure you will.
But as is, you have no
grounds for a search warrant.
You only have that saw because
he allowed you to take it.
What about all the
things that Sean said?
The horror story of Malik
trapping him in the porta-potty?
Technically, that was a story
about an unnamed third party.
Look, he's displacing his
experience onto someone else.
You should've seen how he said
it, his fists were clenched.
He lived through that trauma, that rage.
He basically told us he hated Malik.
He indicated and
suggested he hated Malik.
But he never admitted to anything.
He's a pro at suggesting what he means
without actually incriminating himself.
I'll tell you what he means.
"I killed Malik Chambers.
Come and get me."
[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
You can leave.
Oh, I almost forgot.
Can I get my saw back?
I'd lose my head if it
wasn't attached to my body.
So we let a killer walk out those doors
and we're sure it's him,
but we have no proof.
What do we have on Sean Carson?
A timeline and motive.
Sean intentionally causes Malik to fall.
Because Malik pranked him.
That's a bit of an outsized reaction.
Malik buys a gun to go and kill Sean.
Yet another outsized reaction.
Sean overpowers and kills Malik.
And in the most outsized
reaction of them all,
he cuts him up into little
pieces and puts him in the mail.
It's as if he's having fun.
- What's our way in?
- His psychology.
Yeah. So we started at the beginning.
Turns out Sean has a file at CAS.
I'll take the abridged version.
Right. Uh
Mom died when he was six.
He's left with a
brutally abusive father.
A few years later, taken by
CAS, bounces around foster homes.
He drops out of high school,
struggles to hold down a job,
fired multiple times for getting
into fights with his co-workers.
It's all a bit trite.
Who wasn't hugged long enough as a kid?
What's your way in?
We don't actually, eh
we don't exactly know yet.
If we can unlock why he is who he is,
we might stand a chance at
pushing the right buttons
to get a confession out of him.
Unlock a man's trauma,
unlock a man's soul.
What did
If we're going to start
armchair analyzing a killer,
we should probably go to
a professional for help.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Frankie's told me about the case,
but what's your take
on this Sean fellow?
Developmental trauma seemed
like the natural place to start.
To borrow your words,
"Unlock a man's trauma,
unlock his soul."
Actually, it's, "Unearth
the trauma, unlock the man."
But
I'll forgive your misquote.
Well, to err is human.
We focused on childhood.
Sean's mom died when he was
six. His father was abusive.
The loss of his mother so early,
coupled with his father's abuse
could have stunted
Sean's moral development,
freezing him at the
pre-conventional stage.
Hmm. Sounds like someone's
been reading his Kohlberg.
And some Bandura.
What if Sean's father imprinted
a skewed sense of morality
and justice on his son
in his formative years?
Now, if we can just get
through to that hurt child
Normally, I'd love nothing better
than to plumb the
depths of a man's psyche,
but from everything Frankie's told me?
That hurt boy is long gone.
- Then what's left?
- You've got a man who exhibits
both sociopathic and
psychopathic behaviour.
Traumatic childhood, that's
a point for sociopath.
But callous dismemberment of a body?
That points to psychopath.
So what's your analysis?
You're dealing with a black hole.
Sometimes there really
is no there, there.
Just anger. Fury.
Some people just like
to watch things squirm.
[WATCH BEEPS]
Um Now if you'll excuse me,
I have a paying patient.
Um Frankie?
Sunday night we're making
schnitzel. Rowan's favourite.
You're really gonna use
my daughter as incentive?
Whatever it takes to
get you over for dinner.
Well, she will be there,
and I'll try my best.
Okay. [SMOOCHING]
- Thanks, Dad.
- Sure, honey. Okay.
[SIGHS]
[NOTIFICATION ALERT]
Hmm. Mark just got the results
from the occurrence check on Sean.
He's the subject of a harassment report.
Oh, filed by Malik?
No. By Nate Zechner.
From Capstone Buildings.
What's their boss have to do with this?
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Your murder victim
told Nate Zechner that this
Sean Carson unclipped him.
But Nate had no proof.
He couldn't fire him without cause,
so he found a new reason to fire Sean.
Drinking on the job.
It was a ploy, Detective Strauss?
Nate had a super put some
vodka in a water bottle.
He felt awful about it,
but he needed to get a
dangerous man off his site.
But then, the harassment started.
Nate came down to see
me to file a complaint.
Sean was never arrested.
Oh, let me guess, he never
legally crossed the line.
He, uh
texted Nate videos of him
shooting a hunting rifle.
Intimidation.
Well, technically he's
just sharing target practice.
Yeah. But then things escalated.
Nate found his dog's
mangled body in the backyard.
Jesus.
But who's to say it wasn't a coyote.
He bent the law to his will
to torment Nate in plain sight.
That's not even the worst part.
Last I heard from Nate was
just over two weeks ago.
He got this in the mail.
No return address, no card, no prints.
His daughter?
Alice.
I'll be back in a minute.
[KNOCKING AT THE DOOR]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
We're worried about your safety,
about your family's safety.
We're doing everything we
can to put Sean behind bars,
but until then, we want to assign
a security detail on you
None of that will be necessary.
What are you talking about?
This was a big misunderstanding.
Sean isn't a threat.
To me or anyone else.
- Did we not make ourselves clear?
- [ROCK SONG STARTS]
We believe that Sean murdered
Malik. He holds a grudge,
and given that you planted
alcohol to get him fired
Who told you that?
Okay, well, that was
a huge mistake, and I
I should have never tried
to fire Sean like that.
- He didn't deserve it.
- Deserve it?
You knew that he sent Malik
off a two-storey ledge.
No, I told them there's no proof.
You filed a harassment complaint, Nate.
I was paranoid. And
in a moment of weakness,
I blew everything out of proportion.
Sean was just joking.
What about your dog?
[ROCK SONG CONTINUES]
A tragedy.
But we live on a ravine.
There are animals.
We know Sean has intimidated you
and that it's hard to turn against him.
We can help you if you let us.
for how long ♪
Whatcha gonna do when I'm gone? ♪
No help needed.
Jesus, that's annoying.
- It doesn't bother me.
- You're gonna have a good time ♪
[STAMMERS] We can continue
the interview in here.
What can I say? ♪
Put that by the wall.
Carefully.
What are you doing here?
- My job.
- Your job?
- [SONG STOPS]
- Yeah, I work here now.
Chief project consultant.
You see, Nate finally
recognized my business acumen
so he gave me the respect
I deserve and, uh
a job and a paycheque that
reflects that. Isn't that right?
It's true.
He's giving you business advice?
I have a lot of great ideas.
Okay, let's dispense with the charade.
What are you doing here? Really?
I'm here to work.
You see, I prefer the corner
office over the job site.
It's so dangerous out there.
Sean, I think that's enough for now.
We can finish this in my office.
Why, is there something
you'd like to say, Nate?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
There isn't anything you can't
say in front of me, is there?
You see, Nate and I, we don't
keep secrets from each other.
Most people like to sweep
their secrets under the rug
or bury them in the backyard.
But not Nate and me.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Yeah, cadaver dogs searched
the front and backyards.
Nothing. But they picked up a scent
just beyond the property
line, in the ravine.
Stay here.
The grass was chewed up.
Soil recently disturbed.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Da Silva confirmed the
severed head is Malik's.
I take it you brought
both Nate and Sean in for questioning?
We did. But they both
claimed to know nothing,
so we had to release them.
We're focused on Sean,
the psycho-sociopath unicorn.
But that head was buried
in Nate's backyard.
Did Nate kill Malik?
Yeah, we considered that.
But it didn't take long
to see that Nate attended
a conference in Montréal
on the day of the murder.
Lots of photos, 300 attendees.
Nate's not the killer.
Sean plants the head.
Points us to it, but Nate
doesn't say a word. Why?
I don't think Nate knew about the head.
When forensics dug it up,
it looked like he was gonna puke.
Does Nate think that
Sean might come after him?
Sean doesn't want to kill Nate.
He's having too much fun torturing him.
It's like a kid picking
legs off of a bug.
Yeah, but to be safe, we
assigned a security detail
to keep eyes on Sean,
make sure he doesn't
harm Nate or his daughter.
What about the spouse?
No. No, the wife died
of cancer last year.
The detail helps,
but it is a short-term solution.
- [NOTIFICATION ALERT]
- I keep them on for, what,
a week, a month before I have
to remove them. What then?
We may actually not need to
wait that long for an answer.
This is from the detail,
"Guess where Sean is right now?"
[RADIO CHATTER]
[CHILDREN CHATTERING IN THE DISTANCE]
Good afternoon, officer.
If you don't leave
here in five seconds,
I'm arresting you for watch and beset.
[SIGHS]
Easy. Easy, it's only a phone.
Five. Four. Three.
You should know I'm welcome here.
Two. One. Out of the car. Now.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Officer?
This isn't necessary, is it?
I told you.
I'm welcome here.
[CAR DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING]
Sean shot Malik six times.
Even if he cleaned the walls,
luminol would reveal blood spatter.
Or we'll find trace fibres on the floor
from when he dragged him outside.
A forensic sweep of Sean's
house will find Malik's DNA.
All true.
But you know that for a warrant,
you need to place Malik at Sean's home
at the time of the murder.
Theo, the man is outside
Nate's house right now
and we can't do anything.
- Help us out here.
- Listen.
Best you can do is ask Sean to
come in for questioning again.
There is no point.
He's stonewalling us.
Nate must know something.
Nate's not gonna talk either.
In fact, he's paying our
killer a handsome salary.
Why pay off the man
who killed your employee,
who's tormenting you?
Can we use that?
Argue that Nate is paying
a killer to spare his life.
Arrest Sean for extortion
You said accounting
went through the books.
Nate's paying Sean through
the company. All above board.
The money's not gonna make
Sean go away. Not for good.
Wait.
What if this isn't the first time
Nate tried to buy his safety?
- Nice to meet you, Alice.
- Nice to meet you too.
Alice, can you go pack
your clothes with Jackie?
She's in your room.
Okay.
Nate. If you're
planning a trip somewhere,
- you gotta let us know.
- I'm not going anywhere,
I'm just dropping Alice off
at my sister's for a while.
She lives in Oakville.
He's still out there.
Do you really think
leaving her at your sister's
will make him go away?
What do you want me to do?
Keep her here with
me, with him out there?
Look, I get it, you'd
do anything to protect her.
That's why we're here.
We're here to help you.
We can promise you that Sean
will never harm your daughter.
You just need to tell us the truth.
The truth about what?
You fired Sean. He threatened you.
You called the cops. He
escalates. He kills your dog.
He escalates again.
He sends photos of your
daughter in the mail.
It's pretty clear
where he's headed next.
So you had a choice to
make. Kill or be killed.
You turned to Malik, who
hates Sean for good reason,
has a history of
crime, he's out of work.
Malik was my employee.
- I never
- Four days before
Malik went to kill Sean,
Capstone gifted him a
brand new truck. $80,000.
I have to hand it to you.
I've seen a lot of ways to hire a hit,
but making it tax-deductible?
I told you, I gave him that truck
because I felt awful about his injury.
Yeah.
That's exactly what
your accountants said.
And as far as we can
prove it, that's correct.
We have no evidence that
you hired Malik to kill Sean.
And that's why you're
gonna give it to us.
I have no idea what
you're talking about.
You both need to leave. Now.
Look, Nate, as it is,
we do not have what we need
to arrest Sean for murder.
But that could change.
We believe Sean killed
Malik inside his home.
If we search his house,
we will find the evidence
we need to put him away.
[NATE]: Then what's stopping you?
[BATEMAN]: Proof that Malik
went to Sean's house with a gun
with intent to kill.
It took me a while to see it.
This moment, right here.
With him out there and
you unable to ask for help.
He has you cornered, doesn't he?
We want to help you.
All he wants is to torture you.
All he wants is to watch
you squirm under his force.
That's why he chopped up your
hitman and sent him in the mail.
He wanted Malik to be found.
He wanted it on the news.
To send you a message that your
plan failed, that he owns you,
that he owns Alice.
But you won't let us help you, why?
He has something over you.
He has proof that you hired
Malik to kill him, doesn't he?
He has Malik's phone.
It was a burner.
You saw it in the office.
There are messages on it.
Messages that incriminate you?
If
And I'm not saying I did it,
but if I did what you're describing
I'd go to jail?
Yeah. You'd be charged with
conspiracy to commit murder,
but we'd have enough to
arrest Sean right now,
right this minute.
We could keep him in
holding indefinitely
while we search his house.
And you have our word,
we will do all we can to
get you a reduced sentence
and the Crown will do all it
can to put Sean away for life.
What about Alice?
I cannot imagine the
pain of leaving your child.
[SNIFFLES]
But look at where you are.
You're the only parent she has
and you're sending her away.
You're not gonna be
there to say good night.
You're not gonna be there when
she wakes up in the morning.
And it will break your heart every day.
And you'll do it because
you want to keep her safe.
It's not gonna work, Nate.
It's not gonna stop Sean.
If you tell us the truth,
you guarantee that he
will never harm her.
It's the only way.
The monster's outside your door.
The only question is how much
longer do you let it go on for?
Or do you make a sacrifice
and she can finally be safe?
Round-the-clock protection
for Alice until he's put behind bars.
Of course.
You don't know what it was like.
I tried to go to you,
to the police.
But no one could help me.
They said when he crossed
the line, they'd arrest him.
But by that point, we'd be dead.
I couldn't just wait for it to happen.
I couldn't just do nothing.
I hired Malik to take care of him.
I just wanted Sean to go away.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You need to get him
rid of him right away
and he never goes
near my daughter again.
With pleasure.
[CAR APPROACHING]
You are under arrest for murder.
- Did he tell you the truth?
- You have the right to
- What he did?
- instruct council
Getting me fired, wanting me dead?
You may choose any lawyer
you wish. Do you understand?
Oh, my God, he did tell you!
I can't believe you had it in you, Nate!
Nate!
Nate!
I see you, Nate!
I can see you! I see you!
I can't believe it!
[YELLING]
I see you!
[LAUGHING]
Be careful when
you're fighting monsters.
In case you become one.
What does that say about us?
[END THEME PLAYS]
[NARRATOR]: In Toronto's war
on crime, the worst offenders
are pursued by the detectives
of the Specialized Criminal
Investigations Unit.
These are their stories.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Yeah, man, I got it.
Hey, Sean!
You got any spares?
Yeah, second drawer on the right.
[RADIO PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND]
[DRAWER SQUEAKS]
Oh, tidy.
What are you, a Boy Scout?
Nah, I just like
everything in its place.
Whoa!
[LAUGHING]
Malik!
How many times do I have to tell
you that crap isn't funny, man?
I know, I know. Come on, come on.
- Boss, life drags on pretty hard.
- Hey, easy.
It's a bit easier with a little laugh.
That is the last time that
you are gonna pull that crap.
Okay, Clint, easy. He's just joking.
[JACKHAMMER POUNDING]
Listen, you mess around up here, kid?
Somebody's gonna break their neck.
Drop it.
[ROPE CLATTERS ON THE GROUND]
[TOOLS CLANGING]
Careful, careful.
Dad, I can't cut anything
if you make me use a butter knife.
You could cut butter.
Mm-hmm, yum, a butter salad.
[CHUCKLING]
[DOG BARKING AND WHIMPERING]
Oh, can I let Louie out?
Yeah.
[DOG BARKING AND WHIMPERING]
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
Can we change Louie's name?
No, sweetie, we can't.
- Why?
- Well, Mom named him.
But I don't like his name.
Well, I think we should
keep it the way it is.
It's what Mom would've wanted, yeah?
[DOG BARKING IN THE DISTANCE]
Why doesn't Louie live outside?
He really likes it out there.
Well, because it gets cold at night
and it's not super safe
for dogs with coyotes about.
[HOWLS]
That was a terrible coyote.
Oh yeah? Let's hear yours.
[HOWLS]
[BOTH HOWLING]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[TRUCK BACKING UP]
[CHATTERING]
[SEAN]: Malik!
You want anything from the coffee truck?
Yeah. I'll take a double-double.
Got it. Clint!
Nah, I'm good, thanks.
[MACHINERY HUMMING]
Need help?
Yeah. Stick to your own side.
[SCOFFS]
[STAMMERS]
[YELLING]
[THUD]
[CHATTERING]
[BYSTANDER]: Did he fall?
[COUGHING]
Hey. It's okay, Malik, just stay calm.
Don't panic. It's only
gonna make things worse.
Somebody call 911!
[MAN]: Accident at Capstone
Buildings, Jarvis site.
One of our workers had a fall!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
Louie!
Louie!
Come on.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Louie.
Louie?
Dinnertime.
Come on, boy!
[DOG WHIMPERING]
Louie!
[GROANING]
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE]
Want me to watch your truck?
[MALIK CHUCKLES]
Now why would I need that?
Brand new wheels, a place like this,
who knows what will happen?
Alright, little man.
I respect the hustle.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC CONTINUES]
Hey, Malik.
What up, man.
- It's been a minute.
- Yeah, well, I've been busy.
Hmm.
[MALIK GROANS]
You good?
Yeah, you should have
seen me a month ago.
I busted three ribs.
- So, listen
- Ah, ah.
First things first.
You really gotta be like that?
No wire, no problem.
[SIRENS BLARING IN THE DISTANCE]
You been working out?
[CHUCKLES]
Come in, man. Sit down.
What's up?
- I need a favour, man.
- Talk to me.
[RAIN PATTERING SOFTLY]
[SCRAPING METAL]
[HINGES SQUEAK]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[DOOR SQUEAKS]
[GUN CLICKING]
[DOOR OPENING]
[DOOR SHUTTING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[MECHANICAL WHIRRING]
[CHATTERING]
[ZEV]: These trucks are
coming in from Sarnia,
- Halton Hills, Caledon
- Zev?
[ZEV]: the loading bays
down there are for the East End.
Zev, I found another
one. No address, no postage.
That's the 19th package today.
Okay, you know the drill. Photograph it.
No, I think you need to see this one.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
[THEME MUSIC]
Thanks for coming down so quick.
Detective Fabiano, 44 Division.
I'm Detective Bateman. This is
my partner, Detective Darcy.
We've set aside a package
for you. No address, no postage.
Inside
Mail laws are pretty
strict. Why was it opened?
Protocol is to alert authorities
if a suspicious package is leaking.
Plastic wrap likely tore in transit.
Blood soaked through the cardboard.
Only a matter of time.
We heard you found more than just this.
Yeah, we found a lot more.
[RADIO CHATTER]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
26 segments, each in its own parcel.
Same skin tone.
Could all belong to one victim.
These nine over here?
Just the torso cut up into small pieces.
We found pieces of legs and arms
in sorting stations six and four.
No address or postage.
All just under the size
of a mailbox opening.
Whoever sent these could avoid
going to post offices with surveillance.
Are we able to track which
mailboxes they came from?
Manager here says all
mailbox pickups are combined
before being sent to sorting.
They can't trace it backwards.
All we know is these were
dropped off yesterday.
So our killer's smart enough
to send packages undetected.
Without postage or an address?
They knew they would end up here.
Which goes against the
whole point of dismemberment.
Why cut up a body
just to have all the pieces
found in the same place?
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
What if it's this? Us. Here.
The news crews circling outside.
Someone's trying to send a message.
So who's the messenger?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
DNA tests confirmed
all 27 pieces belonged
to the same male victim.
Dismemberment occurred post-mortem.
The killer removed all the organs
and segmented the body
by major muscle groups.
Like a hunter.
Hope you didn't have
a big lunch, new guy.
This one's a bit macabre, even for me.
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Sort of like Frankenstein's creature.
[DA SILVA]: Without the head.
Victim's around 30 years old.
Cause of death is actually
six bullets to the chest, 9mm.
Killed approximately
two to three days ago.
We also found fractures in
the right ribs and wrist,
injuries sustained a month ago.
Tell me about these scars.
They're actually burns. Severe ones.
They'd have to be third degree.
A couple of years old.
We also found traces
of ink beneath the skin.
That's a gnarly way
to get rid of a tattoo.
Might not have had a choice.
Gang tattoos.
Leave the club under bad circumstances,
lose the branding.
You're thinking this is gang?
Dismemberment reads more
cartel, but it's hard to say.
How was this done?
Reciprocating saw.
In terms of ID, no head,
no teeth for dental,
but we do have a hand for fingerprints.
Well, if he was in a gang,
chances are his prints
are in the system.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Victim is Malik Chambers. 27 years old.
Fingerprints wound up in
our system back in 2016
when he was charged
with a string of B&Es
and one count of aggravated assault.
Checked with GangNet.
No known associates.
So he's a solo act, no gang.
Perhaps. Or he was loyal.
Just because he didn't snitch
doesn't mean he wasn't a member.
What about this
injury, the cracked ribs?
This predates the murder?
Malik was admitted to
St. Mike's a month ago.
He fell two storeys off a platform,
told doctors he messed up at work,
forgot to tie off properly.
He was a labourer at Capstone Buildings,
worked there for the past five years.
Syncs up with the
burned-off gang tattoo.
Let's say Malik runs
with a crew for a while,
then he decides to get
out, earn an honest living.
Leadership doesn't like that,
so they take a hot
iron to his gang tattoo.
I'm just saying we shouldn't
take gang off the table.
Alright. Anything else
you'd like to add to the table,
Detective Bateman?
Actually, yes.
A week ago, Malik
registered a brand new truck.
Officers didn't find it at his home.
Mark just tracked the GPS
to its last destination
right by Finch and Birchmount.
What's the exact address?
Uh 168 Norcap Ave?
168 Norcap,
that's right across the
street from 165 Norcap.
That's the headquarters
of the Glendower Boys.
So, last known location,
steps away from a gang's HQ?
That begs the question
Did Malik pay his old crew a visit?
- So Malik goes to see his ex
-gang. Why?
Maybe they lured him.
Maybe to silence an
ex-member who knew too much.
Maybe he needed something from them?
That's a lot of maybes.
Maybe we should talk to them.
Are you familiar with
the Glendower Boys?
I know the team, not the players.
Their leader, Andre Miller,
is linked to multiple homicides.
But chopping up bodies
into little pieces
I take it Andre's smart
enough to not want to talk to us.
Unless he has to.
Last I heard, Guns and Gangs
had a pile of search warrants
locked and loaded against
the Glendower Boys.
But they were saving them
for an opportune time.
What, like now?
If only I knew someone who had sway.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
[INTENSE MUSIC]
[MAGAZINE LOADING CLICK]
Police!
[CRASHING]
Police! Hands up!
Miss the action?
I do. But suits can't
do dynamic entries.
Division policy.
It's too bad, they were fun.
And this isn't fun?
Five guns, a couple of
scales, half a kilo of cocaine.
That's quite the collection.
Come on, man. I know the drill.
You snoop around,
we do a little dance and make a deal.
So why don't you just hurry up
and tell me what you want so
I can back to business.
When was the last time
you saw Malik Chambers?
Years.
You sure about that?
It's just that's a strange
coincidence because his truck
is parked right outside.
Oh, you think I'm dumb enough
to kill him and leave his truck outside?
You were dumb enough to
leave five guns in your house.
But okay, let's set that
aside for a minute. Alright?
[SIGHS]
Thing is, it's kinda
hard to set it aside.
Not because the triggers are taped
or because the serial
numbers are filed off.
But because they're Glock 17s, 9mm.
Same calibre of bullet
we found in Malik's torso.
Well, pieces of his torso.
But what do you know?
Small world.
Okay, let's reset. I'll
start with a softball.
When was Malik here?
[SIGHS]
Sunday.
Oh, that was the last day
that Malik was seen alive,
- that is not very
- Hey, come on.
Nobody here would touch Malik.
Alright? He's like family.
Okay, then tell us what happened.
Come on, Andre, you
tell us what happened,
all this stuff goes to
the bottom of the pile.
Well, I mean, we're gonna have
to confiscate everything, but
still a win for you.
Was he here for money?
- Was he here for a job?
- Neither.
He wanted a Glock.
- Why'd he need a gun?
- I don't know.
Maybe he wanted to
buy some peace of mind.
Okay.
If we're believing this guy,
Malik came here to buy a gun.
A gun that can't be traced back to him.
You buy a gun for either
protection or attack,
so which one?
Well, if you're defending yourself,
you go home, you bolt the door.
Yeah, but he didn't go home.
According to Andre,
he walked out the door
and went down the street,
leaving his truck here on purpose.
He knew it could be tracked. GPS, right?
Okay, so he leaves his truck here,
he goes out on his own with a gun.
Eliminating the defence narrative.
So he's on the offence.
What, to kill somebody?
Seeing as he ended up in little pieces,
that plan didn't go so well.
So if we're to take a
gang leader at his word,
the night of the murder,
Malik buys a gun and
goes to kill someone.
We believe that Malik's
target became his killer.
Overpowered him, shot
him with his own gun.
But then why the dismemberment?
Okay, say I'm Malik's target,
he comes to kill me, I
overpower and then I kill him.
That's self-defence. Why
not just go to the police?
Well, when we find him,
we will be sure to ask.
So who you got?
Malik's been out of
the game for a while.
If he's going on the offence,
we're thinking that he was provoked.
Someone else threw the first punch.
Or push off a ledge, two-storey drop.
The fall? No. That's
That was a workplace accident.
But what if it wasn't? What if he
was pushed and he wanted payback?
But then why would he tell the hospital
that it was his fault?
Why not press charges?
Well, because maybe he
was paid for his silence.
Mark dug into Malik's truck.
It's registered in his name,
but it was purchased
by Capstone Building,
- his employer.
- Hush money.
To keep him quiet about being pushed.
Alright. Find out just how
accidental this fall really was.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
I saw it on the news.
What happened to Malik
He came to Capstone to leave
a life of violence behind.
The fact that it
followed him is terrible.
You knew he was in a gang?
Yeah, he told me in his interview.
But I believe everyone
deserves a second chance.
And I was right. Malik, he was
a loyal employee for five years.
And in that time, was Malik involved
in any other workplace accidents?
No, I don't think so.
Listen, we have protocols and training,
but the odd time, accidents happen.
- Rosa?
- I was assigned to Malik's
fall and I can assure you
there is no foul play involved.
Shortly after the accident,
your company bought Malik a truck.
Is that also part of your
protocol, Mr. Zechner?
No. Malik was an exception.
After the accident,
WSIB investigated the fall.
They ruled the cause as employee
negligence on Malik's part.
Meaning Malik was ineligible
for workers' insurance.
The man gives half a decade to Capstone,
gets injured on my site, and gets zilch?
After I saw what happened to
him, I had to make him whole.
And you were on site when Malik fell?
No, I traded my steel-toed
boots in a while ago.
But we compiled footage of the accident.
[COMPUTER KEYS CLICKING]
This is from our security camera.
[ROSA]: And this one from
a worker's cell phone.
Stay calm, don't panic.
It's only gonna make things
worse. Somebody call 911!
He definitely wasn't pushed.
Show me the fall again.
[COMPUTER CLICK]
But it looks like we was
expecting the rope to hold him.
He was.
In Malik's statement, he admitted
that he couldn't remember
if he clipped in or not.
Maybe someone unclipped his harness.
Was this the only other
person on the floor when he fell?
Clint Vetro. Head ironworker.
Yeah, I wasn't surprised
that Malik forgot to tie off, you know?
He's always more concerned
with getting a laugh
than working safe.
He was a bit of a prankster?
Is that why you requested he be
removed from the site several times?
Yeah. I mean, he wasn't safe.
He didn't understand that if
you make a mistake up there,
you could really hurt yourself.
Like fall two storeys
and break three ribs.
Well, you did the right thing.
Requested that he get
taken off your team.
But when that didn't work
Whoa, no, no, no, no.
No, I didn't unclip him, okay?
Like, I didn't see anything.
Okay, well, maybe
somebody else saw something?
Sean Carson?
He was working with you
and Malik up there that day?
Sean, he came down to get a coffee
- before any of that happened.
- Where can we find him?
Uh, Sean, he's not
the most reliable source.
- Why's that?
- The guy's a booze bag.
A couple of days after the fall,
super smelled of vodka in
his water bottle. Fired him.
So you're saying the only
other person up on the platform
with you that day was fired?
That's convenient.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Vodka? Come on. I don't
even touch the stuff.
The super planted it on
me. Capstone wanted me gone
because I knew Clint
had it out for Malik.
You thought he was behind the fall?
Yeah. I started asking
questions and what do you know?
The next day, they plant booze on me.
Because I knew what Clint did
to Malik was willful misconduct.
Willful misconduct,
that's a legal term, yeah?
My dad was a lawyer.
- This was his home.
- Huh.
I've tried to keep it
the way he had it, you know?
To honour his memory.
Do you mind if I take off my shoes?
Is there any reason you can think of,
any reason why Clint
would've wanted to hurt Malik?
Malik was a prankster.
Clint was old school.
He didn't get the joke.
What kind of prankster we talking?
Oh, hiding somebody's measuring tape
or super-gluing a thermos shut.
Yeah, that sounds like a hoot.
Or this one time,
when this guy went into
a porta-potty, uh
Malik parked a forklift
up against the door.
Poor guy was trapped inside
[LAUGHING]
He's banging and banging
and screaming to get out,
but Malik just laughs.
[SEAN LAUGHS]
He says He says, uh,
"Don't panic, it's only
gonna make things worse."
[SEAN LAUGHS]
After two hours, he lets him out.
[BATEMAN]: Would you just
say that again, please?
He let him out after a couple hours?
"Don't panic, it's only
gonna make things worse."
That's exactly what you said
to Malik when you found him
after the fall, word for word.
[CHUCKLES SLIGHTLY]
Strange.
Where were you Sunday night?
Here. Alone.
I'm a bit of a homebody.
Any more questions?
Yes.
Why'd you replace the carpet?
This house is a time capsule.
Nothing's been replaced in decades
except this piece of carpet.
Why? You did a great
job, but I feel the seam.
It starts here, so
all this is new.
I spilled wine.
Luckily, Dad had an extra
roll in the basement.
That's the perils
of wall-to-wall carpet.
You stain one spot,
you have to cut it out.
But this piece goes long.
Did you drag the wine bottle outside?
What's outside?
My workshop.
The house is all my dad,
but this space, this is mine.
I love spending time in here.
Building things, breaking them down.
It's pretty clean.
You have to stay organized.
What use is having a tool if
you don't know where to find it?
Like a reciprocating saw.
[SEAN]: Oh, those are great
at cutting through bone.
My dad was an excellent hunter.
He used it all the
time to break down deer.
Can you step away from that?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Do I have permission to open this?
Sure.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Like I said,
great for breaking down deer.
[THUDDING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Is Sean still in interview?
- He's running out the clock.
The guy is good. He's impossibly good.
The report from CFS came
back on the reciprocating saw.
- It's clean.
- And the lab found traces
of hydrogen peroxide and
peracetic acid on the blade.
Same compounds they use to
sterilize their equipment.
Theo, we can prove
that Sean sterilized the saw
he used to dismember Malik.
Just because you can prove
he washed his hands doesn't mean
they were covered in blood.
If we can get a search
warrant, we can find evidence
- that places Malik at the house.
- I'm sure you will.
But as is, you have no
grounds for a search warrant.
You only have that saw because
he allowed you to take it.
What about all the
things that Sean said?
The horror story of Malik
trapping him in the porta-potty?
Technically, that was a story
about an unnamed third party.
Look, he's displacing his
experience onto someone else.
You should've seen how he said
it, his fists were clenched.
He lived through that trauma, that rage.
He basically told us he hated Malik.
He indicated and
suggested he hated Malik.
But he never admitted to anything.
He's a pro at suggesting what he means
without actually incriminating himself.
I'll tell you what he means.
"I killed Malik Chambers.
Come and get me."
[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
You can leave.
Oh, I almost forgot.
Can I get my saw back?
I'd lose my head if it
wasn't attached to my body.
So we let a killer walk out those doors
and we're sure it's him,
but we have no proof.
What do we have on Sean Carson?
A timeline and motive.
Sean intentionally causes Malik to fall.
Because Malik pranked him.
That's a bit of an outsized reaction.
Malik buys a gun to go and kill Sean.
Yet another outsized reaction.
Sean overpowers and kills Malik.
And in the most outsized
reaction of them all,
he cuts him up into little
pieces and puts him in the mail.
It's as if he's having fun.
- What's our way in?
- His psychology.
Yeah. So we started at the beginning.
Turns out Sean has a file at CAS.
I'll take the abridged version.
Right. Uh
Mom died when he was six.
He's left with a
brutally abusive father.
A few years later, taken by
CAS, bounces around foster homes.
He drops out of high school,
struggles to hold down a job,
fired multiple times for getting
into fights with his co-workers.
It's all a bit trite.
Who wasn't hugged long enough as a kid?
What's your way in?
We don't actually, eh
we don't exactly know yet.
If we can unlock why he is who he is,
we might stand a chance at
pushing the right buttons
to get a confession out of him.
Unlock a man's trauma,
unlock a man's soul.
What did
If we're going to start
armchair analyzing a killer,
we should probably go to
a professional for help.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Frankie's told me about the case,
but what's your take
on this Sean fellow?
Developmental trauma seemed
like the natural place to start.
To borrow your words,
"Unlock a man's trauma,
unlock his soul."
Actually, it's, "Unearth
the trauma, unlock the man."
But
I'll forgive your misquote.
Well, to err is human.
We focused on childhood.
Sean's mom died when he was
six. His father was abusive.
The loss of his mother so early,
coupled with his father's abuse
could have stunted
Sean's moral development,
freezing him at the
pre-conventional stage.
Hmm. Sounds like someone's
been reading his Kohlberg.
And some Bandura.
What if Sean's father imprinted
a skewed sense of morality
and justice on his son
in his formative years?
Now, if we can just get
through to that hurt child
Normally, I'd love nothing better
than to plumb the
depths of a man's psyche,
but from everything Frankie's told me?
That hurt boy is long gone.
- Then what's left?
- You've got a man who exhibits
both sociopathic and
psychopathic behaviour.
Traumatic childhood, that's
a point for sociopath.
But callous dismemberment of a body?
That points to psychopath.
So what's your analysis?
You're dealing with a black hole.
Sometimes there really
is no there, there.
Just anger. Fury.
Some people just like
to watch things squirm.
[WATCH BEEPS]
Um Now if you'll excuse me,
I have a paying patient.
Um Frankie?
Sunday night we're making
schnitzel. Rowan's favourite.
You're really gonna use
my daughter as incentive?
Whatever it takes to
get you over for dinner.
Well, she will be there,
and I'll try my best.
Okay. [SMOOCHING]
- Thanks, Dad.
- Sure, honey. Okay.
[SIGHS]
[NOTIFICATION ALERT]
Hmm. Mark just got the results
from the occurrence check on Sean.
He's the subject of a harassment report.
Oh, filed by Malik?
No. By Nate Zechner.
From Capstone Buildings.
What's their boss have to do with this?
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Your murder victim
told Nate Zechner that this
Sean Carson unclipped him.
But Nate had no proof.
He couldn't fire him without cause,
so he found a new reason to fire Sean.
Drinking on the job.
It was a ploy, Detective Strauss?
Nate had a super put some
vodka in a water bottle.
He felt awful about it,
but he needed to get a
dangerous man off his site.
But then, the harassment started.
Nate came down to see
me to file a complaint.
Sean was never arrested.
Oh, let me guess, he never
legally crossed the line.
He, uh
texted Nate videos of him
shooting a hunting rifle.
Intimidation.
Well, technically he's
just sharing target practice.
Yeah. But then things escalated.
Nate found his dog's
mangled body in the backyard.
Jesus.
But who's to say it wasn't a coyote.
He bent the law to his will
to torment Nate in plain sight.
That's not even the worst part.
Last I heard from Nate was
just over two weeks ago.
He got this in the mail.
No return address, no card, no prints.
His daughter?
Alice.
I'll be back in a minute.
[KNOCKING AT THE DOOR]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
We're worried about your safety,
about your family's safety.
We're doing everything we
can to put Sean behind bars,
but until then, we want to assign
a security detail on you
None of that will be necessary.
What are you talking about?
This was a big misunderstanding.
Sean isn't a threat.
To me or anyone else.
- Did we not make ourselves clear?
- [ROCK SONG STARTS]
We believe that Sean murdered
Malik. He holds a grudge,
and given that you planted
alcohol to get him fired
Who told you that?
Okay, well, that was
a huge mistake, and I
I should have never tried
to fire Sean like that.
- He didn't deserve it.
- Deserve it?
You knew that he sent Malik
off a two-storey ledge.
No, I told them there's no proof.
You filed a harassment complaint, Nate.
I was paranoid. And
in a moment of weakness,
I blew everything out of proportion.
Sean was just joking.
What about your dog?
[ROCK SONG CONTINUES]
A tragedy.
But we live on a ravine.
There are animals.
We know Sean has intimidated you
and that it's hard to turn against him.
We can help you if you let us.
for how long ♪
Whatcha gonna do when I'm gone? ♪
No help needed.
Jesus, that's annoying.
- It doesn't bother me.
- You're gonna have a good time ♪
[STAMMERS] We can continue
the interview in here.
What can I say? ♪
Put that by the wall.
Carefully.
What are you doing here?
- My job.
- Your job?
- [SONG STOPS]
- Yeah, I work here now.
Chief project consultant.
You see, Nate finally
recognized my business acumen
so he gave me the respect
I deserve and, uh
a job and a paycheque that
reflects that. Isn't that right?
It's true.
He's giving you business advice?
I have a lot of great ideas.
Okay, let's dispense with the charade.
What are you doing here? Really?
I'm here to work.
You see, I prefer the corner
office over the job site.
It's so dangerous out there.
Sean, I think that's enough for now.
We can finish this in my office.
Why, is there something
you'd like to say, Nate?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
There isn't anything you can't
say in front of me, is there?
You see, Nate and I, we don't
keep secrets from each other.
Most people like to sweep
their secrets under the rug
or bury them in the backyard.
But not Nate and me.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Yeah, cadaver dogs searched
the front and backyards.
Nothing. But they picked up a scent
just beyond the property
line, in the ravine.
Stay here.
The grass was chewed up.
Soil recently disturbed.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Da Silva confirmed the
severed head is Malik's.
I take it you brought
both Nate and Sean in for questioning?
We did. But they both
claimed to know nothing,
so we had to release them.
We're focused on Sean,
the psycho-sociopath unicorn.
But that head was buried
in Nate's backyard.
Did Nate kill Malik?
Yeah, we considered that.
But it didn't take long
to see that Nate attended
a conference in Montréal
on the day of the murder.
Lots of photos, 300 attendees.
Nate's not the killer.
Sean plants the head.
Points us to it, but Nate
doesn't say a word. Why?
I don't think Nate knew about the head.
When forensics dug it up,
it looked like he was gonna puke.
Does Nate think that
Sean might come after him?
Sean doesn't want to kill Nate.
He's having too much fun torturing him.
It's like a kid picking
legs off of a bug.
Yeah, but to be safe, we
assigned a security detail
to keep eyes on Sean,
make sure he doesn't
harm Nate or his daughter.
What about the spouse?
No. No, the wife died
of cancer last year.
The detail helps,
but it is a short-term solution.
- [NOTIFICATION ALERT]
- I keep them on for, what,
a week, a month before I have
to remove them. What then?
We may actually not need to
wait that long for an answer.
This is from the detail,
"Guess where Sean is right now?"
[RADIO CHATTER]
[CHILDREN CHATTERING IN THE DISTANCE]
Good afternoon, officer.
If you don't leave
here in five seconds,
I'm arresting you for watch and beset.
[SIGHS]
Easy. Easy, it's only a phone.
Five. Four. Three.
You should know I'm welcome here.
Two. One. Out of the car. Now.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Officer?
This isn't necessary, is it?
I told you.
I'm welcome here.
[CAR DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING]
Sean shot Malik six times.
Even if he cleaned the walls,
luminol would reveal blood spatter.
Or we'll find trace fibres on the floor
from when he dragged him outside.
A forensic sweep of Sean's
house will find Malik's DNA.
All true.
But you know that for a warrant,
you need to place Malik at Sean's home
at the time of the murder.
Theo, the man is outside
Nate's house right now
and we can't do anything.
- Help us out here.
- Listen.
Best you can do is ask Sean to
come in for questioning again.
There is no point.
He's stonewalling us.
Nate must know something.
Nate's not gonna talk either.
In fact, he's paying our
killer a handsome salary.
Why pay off the man
who killed your employee,
who's tormenting you?
Can we use that?
Argue that Nate is paying
a killer to spare his life.
Arrest Sean for extortion
You said accounting
went through the books.
Nate's paying Sean through
the company. All above board.
The money's not gonna make
Sean go away. Not for good.
Wait.
What if this isn't the first time
Nate tried to buy his safety?
- Nice to meet you, Alice.
- Nice to meet you too.
Alice, can you go pack
your clothes with Jackie?
She's in your room.
Okay.
Nate. If you're
planning a trip somewhere,
- you gotta let us know.
- I'm not going anywhere,
I'm just dropping Alice off
at my sister's for a while.
She lives in Oakville.
He's still out there.
Do you really think
leaving her at your sister's
will make him go away?
What do you want me to do?
Keep her here with
me, with him out there?
Look, I get it, you'd
do anything to protect her.
That's why we're here.
We're here to help you.
We can promise you that Sean
will never harm your daughter.
You just need to tell us the truth.
The truth about what?
You fired Sean. He threatened you.
You called the cops. He
escalates. He kills your dog.
He escalates again.
He sends photos of your
daughter in the mail.
It's pretty clear
where he's headed next.
So you had a choice to
make. Kill or be killed.
You turned to Malik, who
hates Sean for good reason,
has a history of
crime, he's out of work.
Malik was my employee.
- I never
- Four days before
Malik went to kill Sean,
Capstone gifted him a
brand new truck. $80,000.
I have to hand it to you.
I've seen a lot of ways to hire a hit,
but making it tax-deductible?
I told you, I gave him that truck
because I felt awful about his injury.
Yeah.
That's exactly what
your accountants said.
And as far as we can
prove it, that's correct.
We have no evidence that
you hired Malik to kill Sean.
And that's why you're
gonna give it to us.
I have no idea what
you're talking about.
You both need to leave. Now.
Look, Nate, as it is,
we do not have what we need
to arrest Sean for murder.
But that could change.
We believe Sean killed
Malik inside his home.
If we search his house,
we will find the evidence
we need to put him away.
[NATE]: Then what's stopping you?
[BATEMAN]: Proof that Malik
went to Sean's house with a gun
with intent to kill.
It took me a while to see it.
This moment, right here.
With him out there and
you unable to ask for help.
He has you cornered, doesn't he?
We want to help you.
All he wants is to torture you.
All he wants is to watch
you squirm under his force.
That's why he chopped up your
hitman and sent him in the mail.
He wanted Malik to be found.
He wanted it on the news.
To send you a message that your
plan failed, that he owns you,
that he owns Alice.
But you won't let us help you, why?
He has something over you.
He has proof that you hired
Malik to kill him, doesn't he?
He has Malik's phone.
It was a burner.
You saw it in the office.
There are messages on it.
Messages that incriminate you?
If
And I'm not saying I did it,
but if I did what you're describing
I'd go to jail?
Yeah. You'd be charged with
conspiracy to commit murder,
but we'd have enough to
arrest Sean right now,
right this minute.
We could keep him in
holding indefinitely
while we search his house.
And you have our word,
we will do all we can to
get you a reduced sentence
and the Crown will do all it
can to put Sean away for life.
What about Alice?
I cannot imagine the
pain of leaving your child.
[SNIFFLES]
But look at where you are.
You're the only parent she has
and you're sending her away.
You're not gonna be
there to say good night.
You're not gonna be there when
she wakes up in the morning.
And it will break your heart every day.
And you'll do it because
you want to keep her safe.
It's not gonna work, Nate.
It's not gonna stop Sean.
If you tell us the truth,
you guarantee that he
will never harm her.
It's the only way.
The monster's outside your door.
The only question is how much
longer do you let it go on for?
Or do you make a sacrifice
and she can finally be safe?
Round-the-clock protection
for Alice until he's put behind bars.
Of course.
You don't know what it was like.
I tried to go to you,
to the police.
But no one could help me.
They said when he crossed
the line, they'd arrest him.
But by that point, we'd be dead.
I couldn't just wait for it to happen.
I couldn't just do nothing.
I hired Malik to take care of him.
I just wanted Sean to go away.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You need to get him
rid of him right away
and he never goes
near my daughter again.
With pleasure.
[CAR APPROACHING]
You are under arrest for murder.
- Did he tell you the truth?
- You have the right to
- What he did?
- instruct council
Getting me fired, wanting me dead?
You may choose any lawyer
you wish. Do you understand?
Oh, my God, he did tell you!
I can't believe you had it in you, Nate!
Nate!
Nate!
I see you, Nate!
I can see you! I see you!
I can't believe it!
[YELLING]
I see you!
[LAUGHING]
Be careful when
you're fighting monsters.
In case you become one.
What does that say about us?
[END THEME PLAYS]