FBI: Most Wanted (2020) s06e20 Episode Script
Trash Day
1
You know, guys, I've been thinking.
- That can't be good.
- Later for you, man.
No, since the docs have
given me the all clear,
I'd like to make up for lost time.
You've been cleared
for light physical activity,
which means you can walk to the mailbox.
Maybe you can prune your roses.
Yeah, maybe combing my hair.
No, Ray, I'm thinking about something
a little bit more adventurous.
More adventurous than Ray's coq au vin?
- Oh, whoa, hey.
- I'm teasing.
It was delicious.
Ray, do you remember the summer
that we went on that camping trip?
I think it was the summer
after the fifth grade.
Ah, yeah, I remember the mosquitoes.
I remember the ants in my food.
I remember being cold
in that tent all night.
Yo, man up, OK?
- It was not that bad, OK.
- Oh, man.
And it was just the two of us.
So I've been thinking that maybe
if we add a third
warm body to that tent,
you'd be OK.
What do you say, guys?
Camping trip this weekend.
Just us boys.
Oh, that would be awesome.
Can we, Mom?
Weekend all to myself?
I'm not gonna say no to that.
Oh, three to one. What about it, junior?
Come on. We can do a little bonding.
Get ourselves right with nature.
Oh, look, we can bond just
as well in the bowling alley.
All right, it's warm.
We got food, bathrooms, no bugs.
I mean, that is
that is
yeah, we can go.
- We can
- Sweet!
We're going camping, yo.
Oh. Bam.
Oh, man.
You don't think that's insulting?
I am your chief of staff.
I should get a read in
on their new agenda.
It's just politics.
Grow a pair.
What's wrong with you?
Nothing.
Yeah. Something's wrong.
You've been agitated all afternoon.
Did I do something?
You're fine.
Mary.
- I need you, please.
- [DOOR CLICKS]
What now?
It's almost 8:00.
I was ready to go home three hours ago.
You can after you do this.
It's my budget markup
for the planning board.
Ken needs it for their meeting tomorrow.
So send it to him.
Not like this.
It's got my chicken scratches
all over it.
Can you redo the spreadsheet real quick
and run it down to them on your way out?
Real quick? You're delusional.
You know I love you.
Yeah, yeah.
Where are you going?
- I have an appointment.
- Tonight?
See, that's not on your schedule.
I'm allowed to have
a personal life, Drew.
You don't know every single thing I do.
Actually, that's my job.
And you are very good at it.
I'm meeting an old
college friend for dinner.
I think he wants a job,
and I've blown him off,
like, three times already.
Oh, you want me to come with you?
No, I just want to get it over with.
I'll see you in the morning.
You owe me more scotch.
- Good night, Mary.
- Mm-hmm.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
♪
[EXHALES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
- Hey, hey.
- [GASPS]
- You're coming with me, OK?
- Oh, my God.
Just get in the car. Let's go.
- Please, just take my purse!
- No, just get in the car!
Help! Please!
Someone help!
♪
[ENGINE TURNS OVER]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Hey, good morning.
- Good morning.
- What have we got?
Last night, the mayor
of Paterson, New Jersey,
Jocelyn Yang,
was kidnapped off the street
in a section of the city
called Eastside.
Security cam caught the whole thing.
Our unsub was armed, wearing a mask.
White male, medium build.
He stuffs her into this black
Acura stolen from a strip mall
in Passaic yesterday at noon.
What was she doing in that neighborhood?
No idea.
Paterson PD found her car parked nearby.
Says a security guard
checking in for work
that morning saw the footage
and called it in.
- Any leads on a motive?
- Plenty.
Mayor Yang's the current subject
of an FBI investigation.
I spoke to one of our agents,
Agent Chan,
at the Jersey field office,
and they believe
that she's been taking bribes
and kickbacks from this guy,
Peter Dao,
CEO of Cogent Waste Solutions.
His family sanitation business
has contracts in Paterson
and nearly every city in the county.
This is his son, Josh,
and his wife, Lin.
They immigrated from Vietnam.
So we're thinking Dao kidnapped Yang
to silence her in the investigation?
Possibly. Chan and his team raided
Dao's house this morning.
If he knew that was coming,
that might explain
the sloppiness of the kidnap.
Yeah, desperate and scared.
Plus, there's been no ransom demand.
Does Mary Yang have any family?
No. Single with no kids.
And what about Peter?
Does he have a criminal record?
No, but Chan did say that he
thought that he might have been
involved with the Asian gang BTK
when they came here in the '90s.
Born to Kill.
I mean, that's odd.
Scola and I did a deep dive on them
for this investigation once,
but they haven't been around forever.
All right, Barnes, crime scene.
You two cover the mayor's office.
Nina and I will go see this Peter Dao.
You've had a lot of success
with garbage.
Waste management and recycling.
We work hard for our success.
Hmm. Hard work pays off.
So does bribing politicians
for kickbacks and other favors.
People make up these things
because they're jealous
we do good business.
But your family has made major donations
to candidates who end up
rewarding your company
with giant contracts.
So how do you explain?
I invest in people I believe in.
You may not understand, but after living
in a Communist country,
it is a privilege to be part
of the Democratic process.
Do you want us to believe
it's a coincidence
you have a near monopoly
on the county's trash services?
It's waste management.
- Oh.
- Like I taught my son.
Keep your head down, do the work,
and good things come your way.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Thanks, guys. I appreciate that.
[LINE RINGING]
- Any updates?
- Yeah, a couple things.
So last night, Jocelyn made
an 8:15 dinner reservation
for two, a block from here,
but she never showed.
Now, I found a witness
who was taking a smoke break,
said he saw her pull up and park,
said she sat in her car
for at least five minutes,
constantly checking her phone
till eventually she got up,
walked off around 8:30.
Well, that's weird,
especially if she was late
for her reservation.
Remy, what if this
whole thing was staged?
She made the reservation to cover her,
told her accomplice to,
quote unquote, "kidnap her"
at a certain time right in
front of a security cam?
I know it's a reach, but it's one way
to avoid being questioned
in an investigation.
Actually, it's not a reach.
Dao told me he had
nothing to do with this.
And he has a solid alibi
for last night.
It assumes she knew
about the investigation.
Maybe somebody leaked it to her.
Ray and Hana are at her office now.
- I'll circle back in a bit, OK?
- Got it.
So you didn't know the mayor
was under investigation
- for fraud and corruption?
- No.
And I don't think she did either.
This is all a complete shock.
Were they, like, tapping our phones?
Do you know this man?
Peter Dao? Of course.
His companies handled all the city's
trash contracts for years.
Well, we believe that
he was bribing your boss
to get those contracts.
That's not possible.
Jocelyn would never
do something like that.
Mm.
When's the last time you saw her?
Last night.
She left here a little before 8:00,
and everything seemed fine.
- Where was she going?
- I don't know.
She was talking to Drew, but I
didn't hear their conversation.
Who's Drew?
Drew Mason, our chief of staff.
He was here this morning,
but he was so upset, like all of us.
Uh, he left, like, half an hour ago,
said he needed some air.
All right, well,
can you call him, please?
Sure, why?
He was the last person
that talked to Jocelyn.
We just want to know
what they talked about.
Don't tell him that we're here.
Just try and find out
where he is, please.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Your call has been forwarded
Voicemail. He's not answering.
Can I take a look at your phone?
- I'm gonna need that number.
- You gonna track him?
I'm gonna try.
I'm gonna call Agent Chan.
They might already be up on it.
Where's Drew's office?
Right over here.
♪
Why is the safe empty?
I have no idea.
I don't come in here much.
I didn't know that was there.
- Ray.
- Yeah.
Drew's phone just pinged
a block from Peter Dao's office.
I'll call Remy.
I left your phone on the table.
♪
[TIRES SCREECH]
Please tell me you came alone.
I'm alone. You OK?
Josh?
Is that the money?
He's the one who took you?
What the hell are you doing, kid?
I'm not a kid. Just give us the money.
Us?
Jocelyn, what is he talking about?
Just do what he says, Drew.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
I told you, no cops.
I didn't call the cops.
[GUNSHOT]
[GASPS]
Get in the car! Get in the car!
♪
No pulse. Let's go.
♪
They're still counting,
but there's about 200 grand in there.
Cameras at the exit confirmed our driver
is Josh Dao, Peter Dao's son.
Why would he want to kidnap the mayor?
I don't know.
Maybe his dad put him up to it.
Well, what if she
wasn't kidnapped at all?
Like I said, what if
the whole thing was staged
and the two of them
were working together?
Yeah, you know what?
Come to think of it, she didn't run.
Definitely didn't look scared
when they peeled out of here.
Check this out.
It's a text that Drew got an
hour ago from a burner phone.
"We have Jocelyn.
"$250,000 in cash, 30 minutes.
"Parking garage. 86 Kelton.
No cops or she dies."
OK, so there's your ransom demand.
Now we just have to figure out why Drew
and where did he get all that cash?
Oh, well, Hana and I found
a safe in his office.
Unlocked. Nothing in it.
It could be dirty money.
And if so, then Drew knew
that the mayor was corrupt.
Maybe Drew was too.
Think about it.
If Jocelyn knew
she was being investigated,
she'd be looking for a way out.
So she gets with Josh,
fakes her kidnapping,
makes a ransom demand to Drew,
knowing he has access to all that cash,
arranges a drop and kills
two birds with one stone.
Gets the money to go on the run
and eliminate Drew
as a potential witness.
Yeah, but she never got the cash.
Right.
Which means they'll be looking
for another plan.
We need to dig deeper on the mayor
and her relationship with Josh.
Have Chan send over
everything in their files.
Barnes and I will head back
to the Dao house,
see if we can find anything on Josh.
♪
Josh is a good boy.
You are on a witch hunt
against my family.
It's not a witch hunt
when you have probable cause.
He's wanted for the murder
of Mayor Yang's chief of staff.
[SCOFFS] More lies!
Josh is a very smart and talented boy.
He's not a boy.
He's 30 and old enough
to answer our questions.
When's the last time
you talked to your son?
He helps Peter with work.
He probably slept
at the office last night.
Helps out with what?
Waste management,
or the bribes and fraud?
If he reaches out to you
or your husband,
have them contact us right away.
How's your food?
We can swap if you don't like it.
It's fine.
The FBI was already on my ass before.
How do you think it's gonna be
now that you've killed Drew?
I did it to protect you.
He got to see you every day,
work with you, be with you.
I lost control.
Hear me out.
My dad knows people. He can help us.
No. It'll be way worse
if he gets involved.
Leave him out of it.
You're right. We don't need him.
I can do it myself.
I'ma get us way more cash
than Drew was gonna give us.
I'm gonna fix everything, OK?
You can't fix it. It's too late.
Hey, I'm sorry.
You know how much I love you.
Come here.
♪
JCIS just confirmed
there were two sets of prints
on the ransom cash,
Drew Mason's and the mayor's.
Probably dirty bribe money.
Pretty brazen to keep it
around the office.
Jocelyn must have thought
she was untouchable.
What do we know about her?
So she was born and raised in Newark,
went to Rutgers
on a swimming scholarship.
After graduating, she interned
with a Paterson city council member,
and her career took off from there.
What platform did she run on?
The usual anti-crime, anti-drug spiel
with a focus on
providing family services.
Her dad ran out on them
when she was four,
and she's been vocal
about how tough it was
bouncing around shelters while her mom
bounced around boyfriends.
Yeah, it's a lot
of instability for a kid,
and now being mayor
gives her agency and control.
And the money gives her security.
She was the perfect candidate
to fall for Peter's bribes.
How does the son fit into all this?
Clearly, he knows her, too.
Maybe it's love. Check this out.
Now, Josh is an Instagram lurker.
He has zero posts,
but he does post stories.
Of the stories that he's posted,
half of them that I've been through,
the geotag traces back
to a hotel in Paterson,
two blocks from City Hall.
The mayor's office.
Let's contact the hotel and see
if any of the staff know them.
If they were having an affair,
that could been their hook-up spot.
But if these possible
lovebirds are on the run,
they're gonna need money.
That's what scares me about them.
If they only have eyes for each other,
they're not gonna care
who else gets hurt.
All right, just got
a BOLO hit on the Acura
spotted at a nail salon in Paramus.
I know exactly where she keeps it.
I'll be quick.
- Josh?
- Yeah.
Take care of yourself in there.
Hey, you know me.
[SMOOCHES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Oh, my God. Oh, my God!
Shut up and put the phone down!
Call 911, and I'll kill you!
Get Maria. I know she's here today.
- [GEAR CLICKS]
- [TIRES SCREECH]
What's going on?
Let's go.
We're cashless. [GASPS]
Open it!
I don't know the combination.
I know you're lying.
Now open the damn safe!
What are you doing, Josh?
Does your father know about this?
Shut up and open it now!
Your father would never
do something like this.
[GUNSHOT]
- [WOMEN GASP AND SCREAM]
- [KEYPAD BEEPING]
♪
[TIRES SCREECH]
Josh, FBI!
Stop!
♪
He shot her!
- Maria, she's in there!
- Show me.
♪
FBI! Stop!
♪
Hey!
[BOTH GRUNT]
Joshua Dao, you are under arrest.
♪
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
[GRUNTING]
♪
Unlike your mother,
I know what you've been up to
with the dishonorable mayor.
Don't talk about her.
Who?
Mommy dearest,
or your boo?
Jocelyn, she is your girlfriend, right?
Why? You want a piece of me too?
[CHUCKLES] No, thank you.
I already have a child.
We found the gun you dumped
outside Fan's salon,
the same one you used to kill Drew Mason
and Maria Fan.
You can now add human trafficking
to your list of charges.
That's a bunch of BS.
We hired a translator.
They went in and spoke
to the salon workers.
Those poor Vietnamese women,
put to work for slave wages.
Maria even forced them
to hand over all their tips.
Can you believe that?
That's what human trafficking is.
And the only way you could have
known about Maria's secret safe
is if you were in on the operation, too.
You or your dad.
He has his finger
in a lot of illegal pies.
Maria was one of his straw donors
he used to prop up Mayor Yang's
campaign with.
Where's your proof?
If you idiots had any, my dad
would be sitting right here.
Well, I guess he's smarter
than the chump
who's sitting in the hot seat right now.
Right?
[PHONE BUZZING]
You got a lot of tattoos, huh?
[DOOR CLICKS CLOSE]
That one kind of looks like
the Born to Kill
gang members' tattoo.
They haven't been around in decades,
definitely since before you were born.
So did you get it to impress somebody?
Does it make you feel like
a big, bad gangster?
[TENSE MUSIC]
[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
♪
Your mom was just found dead.
♪
She was stabbed to death
with one of her own knives.
- Any prints on it?
- Not yet.
Any signs of forced entry?
Uh, no. Security cam's turned off.
Stabbing's one of
the most common methods
of spousal murder.
Have local PD checked to see
if there's been any domestic calls here.
- You got it.
- Thank you.
Hana just texted.
Peter cell phone's still off.
He can't be located.
Lin's last outgoing call
was to a cab company,
most likely after her time of death.
I'm gonna see if I can find out
where this cab picked up Peter.
Maybe that'll bring us to Jocelyn.
Hey, you probably aren't picking up
because you don't recognize
the number, but it's me,
and I'm on a burner.
It's done.
I got rid of Josh, and I
took care of our other problem.
And I'm ready for you to come get me.
Call me, and I'll tell you where.
And hurry, OK?
I don't like being exposed like this.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Jocelyn.
♪
Bodies are piling up. What have we got?
I dug into old arrest records
for Born to Kill gang members,
and I found the arrest records
for their former leader,
Tom Nguyen.
And here's what a real
BTK tattoo looks like.
Now it's a headstone
inscribed with 10013,
Chinatown zip code,
and candles for each family member.
Josh has this,
but it's slightly different.
Well, as I recall, BTK were busted
for running brothels
and protection rackets in Chinatown.
They made millions
selling counterfeit goods.
[DOOR CREAKS]
Josh refuses to talk.
Staying loyal to his father.
Loyalty is a two-way street,
but fealty is not.
Peter's been paying people off
his whole life
to get what he wants,
especially his family.
So I found the cabbie
that picked up Lin's killer.
- It was Jocelyn Yang.
- [PHONE RINGING]
What?
OK, did he say where he dropped her off?
Clifton right by the train station.
But she'll be long gone by now.
Could Peter and her be working together?
Peter's not the type
to take on a new partner.
You saw how he left his son dangling.
I mean, there's nothing
stopping him from
turning on Jocelyn if she's dead weight.
That was Jersey State Police.
They found a burned female
body in the back
of one of Peter's garbage trucks.
Could be the mayor.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
If this is the mayor,
it's pretty sloppy of Peter
to dump the body where one of
his trucks would pick it up.
He knows we already got him
on a boatload of other charges.
Agents Scott and Cannon.
Sorry your day took a bad turn.
- How'd you find the body?
- The hydraulic line blew out,
so I got the truck to figure
out what was up.
And look, I've dealt with
maggots falling into my boots.
I've picked up
from fish markets in July.
You get used to the smell, but seeing
seeing her charred like that
Where do you think
you picked up the body?
That's the thing. I hadn't even
gotten to my first pickup yet.
- [PHONE PINGS]
- All right, look,
I check my truck weekly to make
sure everything looks good.
All right, it's a pain,
but you got to keep up with maintenance
to avoid something like this happening.
Take the rest of the day off.
Get yourself together.
Coroner's sending over
Yang's dental records
so we can confirm the body's ID.
Someone tampered with
the pressure relief valve.
That's why the truck malfunctioned.
Driver pulls over, sees
what's wrong, finds a body.
Someone wanted her to be found.
Peter. I mean, it's his truck,
his company, his employee.
Yeah, but Marcus
hadn't made a pickup yet,
which means the body
was already in the truck.
It's not easy dragging
a burnt corpse around.
Peter must have killed her nearby.
- Ooh, you smell that?
- Yeah.
If you were gonna burn a body,
this would be the place to do it.
Here charred, melted plastic.
You see that?
What is that, a woman's scarf?
Could be Jocelyn's.
[TENSE MUSIC]
- Excuse me. FBI.
- [GRUNTS]
- Block him off.
- Yep.
♪
- Freeze!
- [GRUNTS]
Hands behind your back!
♪
Please! I do nothing wrong.
- Then why'd you run?
- What's your name?
You got any ID on you?
What were you doing here?
My boss say me to come clean up.
Who's your boss?
It's a fake ID and a really good one.
You know it's a felony
to have a fake ID, right?
Please, no trouble!
I have to do what he say.
I never want to hurt auntie.
Is this the woman you burned?
No.
My boss see her after
he bring auntie here.
He say if I do not do what
he say and make the fire,
he will send me back home.
Is your boss Peter Dao?
And he forced you to burn
your aunt's body?
Not my aunt.
An old woman.
Calling someone an aunt or
an uncle is a term of respect.
I don't think they're actually related.
Can you tell us
what her name was, please?
Whoever he killed wasn't Jocelyn.
[SIGHS]
[GASPS]
Where did you get this?
It pays to invest in the right people.
Oh.
I knew you would take care of us.
A dollar goes a long way
where we're going.
We can live like kings.
And now,
you have a new queen.
It was silly to go back for my wife.
She was nothing.
I know.
But I'm not like you.
I can't stand the thought of sharing.
That's something Josh would say.
You two are so reckless.
I almost didn't come for you.
I was waiting on you.
You told me to do whatever I had to do
to make sure
he wouldn't find out about us
and freak out.
Lin was always too easy on him.
[SIGHS]
It's just the two of us now,
the way it should have been
from the beginning.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
OK, so a tollbooth camera
just picked up Peter and Jocelyn.
They were on the I-78,
driving a Cogent garbage truck.
If we stopped every
garbage truck on the road,
the Garden State would
become one big landfill.
Wait, so you think Jocelyn
ditched Josh for his dad?
Yeah, well, that makes sense.
She never had
a father figure growing up.
Plus, she watched her mom
rotate from man to man.
So she traded up for Daddy Warbucks.
More money, more power.
- [NOTIFICATION BEEPING]
- More problems.
Oh, we just got the autopsy report in
on our burned Jane Doe.
Her name was Yen Ho, 72 years old.
Never married, no surviving family.
She lived in a rent-controlled
apartment in East Rutherford.
What'd she do for work?
No employment history.
She was arrested in 1987
for prostitution in New York.
Have Ray and Nina go to her
house, talk to the neighbors.
Ho's just got staples in her wardrobe.
Nothing flashy, no jewelry.
My college buddy, he's Vietnamese.
He had a setup like this
in his dorm room.
This must be Ho's relatives
that have died.
So, what? We have, like,
mom, maybe sisters, and this guy.
Does he look familiar to you?
Yeah.
Hold on. Let me see.
- Tom Nguyen.
- Wow.
Ho's connected to the BTK mob boss.
Not just connected.
If he's up here at the altar,
that means he's more like
a brother or a husband to her.
This was taken in '88.
That's one year after
Ho's prostitution charge.
I mean, Hana said she was part
of a big raid in Chinatown.
If she worked at a brothel run by BTK,
that's probably how she met Nguyen.
- Yeah.
- [KNOCKS]
Yeah, I just checked the basement.
Yen must have cleaned out
her storage unit recently.
What was in it before?
Just some old suitcases.
I offered to help her
unload them on eBay.
You know, people really eat up
that vintage stuff, so
OK, well, how would she have emptied it?
I mean, she uses a walker, right?
Well, maybe her son.
- You ever meet him?
- A few times.
He came back to the
neighborhood maybe a year ago
to take care of her.
It's a shame the way some folks
treat their aging parents, you know?
But Yen's son, yeah,
he was one of the good guys.
He said he wanted to invest
the time to be with her.
That her son?
Yeah, that's the guy.
Man, he's gonna be so sad
when he hears what happened to his mom.
- I'll hit up Remy. Excuse us.
- Yep.
- Yeah.
- Thanks.
So Tom Nguyen died in prison last year,
and that was around the time
that Peter started showing up.
OK, I may have something.
Peter and his family came here
from Vietnam in 1977.
They stayed at the same
refugee shelter in Queens
as Tom Nguyen and his family.
Did the families know each other?
Well, they must do,
because when Tom's dad
passed away in 2003,
Peter and his dad were pallbearers.
The families were close.
Maybe Peter looked up to Tom
like a big brother.
After Tom died,
it would fall upon Peter
to check up on his widow.
It's a cultural thing
because she was like family.
This dude doesn't care
about anybody but himself.
There needs to be something
in it for him.
BTK made millions selling
fake purses and watches.
When Nguyen was arrested,
only a fraction of that money
was recovered.
You think he stashed his money with Ho?
I sure as hell do.
The landlord told us that she
had a bunch of old suitcases
down in her storage,
and now they're gone.
I can see them robbing Ho to jumpstart
their lives on the run.
My guess is, Peter will be
trying to get back
to Southeast Asia as soon as he can.
I'll alert the airports.
But if that's the case,
they're gonna need fake passports.
Yeah, but fakes that
can fool a CBP scanner
are hard to come by.
She's gonna need to know someone.
Luckily, I do know someone.
You know, it's considered bad luck
to get a tattoo of an empty headstone.
Real BTK members
inscribe their headstone
with their zip code in Chinatown.
Then they tattoo a candle
for each family member.
You don't know anything.
Oh.
You copied your daddy's tattoo.
You want to be a player like him, huh?
I am.
I'm his son.
He doesn't even think about you,
and you're his family.
Probably makes it easier for him
to run around town behind your back
with your girlfriend, right?
Make up what you want. I'm not talking.
I'm not making anything up.
'Cause look around, kid.
They left you here to rot
while they're laughing
over your mother's grave.
♪
Look at it.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
That's your mother.
Look at it!
OK, then why don't you do your job
and find out who killed her?
♪
It wasn't my dad.
Why do you say that?
♪
He wouldn't bother.
Well,
maybe you know him better
than I thought.
But the million dollar question is,
how well do you know Jocelyn?
Because she did it.
You've been sleeping with the
woman who killed your mother,
whose only crime was how
how blind she was
about you and your dad.
She's the one you should have protected,
not this crazy bitch.
You need to help us find them.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You think they're here for us?
Let's keep going.
Wait a second. I have an idea.
Give me those hats.
This is way too much.
That's not all.
This is BTK's old stomping grounds.
According to Josh,
the salon around the corner
has fronted as a forgery lab for years.
Yeah, but would they show up
here together or separately?
Well, they have no idea that
we know Jocelyn's still alive,
so I think we should be on
the lookout for a couple.
Wait a second.
Did we miss the dress code?
This is no coincidence.
They're here covering their tracks.
We'll tip them off
if we try to clear the block.
Spread out and stay alert.
We're just a visiting team here.
They have home field advantage.
Free hats.
Hey, free hats. Free oh, hey.
Free hats. Come on. Put them on.
You're in New York.
You gotta dress the part.
Could you take a picture for us?
See, you're stylin'. Yeah.
I'll take a pic for all your
friends back home to see.
- Thanks. Appreciate it.
- There you go.
Hey, free hats.
Free hats.
Free hat?
Hey, free hats.
What are you doing with those hats?
Oh, I'm giving them away.
Whose idea was that?
It was this couple
that came into the shop
and bought all the hats
and paid me extra
to give them to people
and get them to put them on.
I thought it was for TikTok or
All right. When did you see them?
I don't know, like,
five, ten minutes ago.
Look, the witness just confirmed
Peter and Jocelyn were just here.
This is the forgery place
Josh told us about.
It's definitely a front for something.
A hair salon doesn't
need this much security.
Who's ever inside can have eyes on us.
We're across the road
from the salon.
We can't tell if they're inside.
OK, we got two possible suspects
heading southbound toward us.
Right behind you.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
- Remy, he made you!
- [GUNSHOT]
[YELPS]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Get down!
Stay down.
Hey, hey, hey. Stay down, stay down.
- Don't move.
- [GUNSHOTS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Stay down.
- Hey!
- [GRUNTING]
Go, I got him!
- [SHOUTING]
- Hands up!
[WHIMPERS]
Hands up and stay there!
You're either coming out
in cuffs or a body bag.
Your choice.
Jocelyn, don't believe
what he promised you.
He's using you.
That's who he is.
Only thinks of himself.
No, no, no, no. Look around you.
Every man for himself.
It's human nature!
It's not human nature to screw over
your loved ones to save yourself.
No one was supposed to get hurt.
That wasn't part of the plan.
Tell them, we just fell in love.
Tell them.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You're gonna get us
a good lawyer, right?
We'll work it out.
When we get out,
we can still be together.
♪
We're getting out of this.
- OK.
- Trust me.
- I promise.
- OK.
- Gun!
- [SHOTS FIRING]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[PANTING]
Yeah, so, uh,
it's not getting any better.
Uh, I can just eat it raw.
Look no.
You know what, Pops?
It's too damn cold out here, OK?
And the wood is wet.
Well, the problem is
your structure, Ray.
You need a pyramid, right?
So you get a little air under there.
My structure is fine.
What's that?
This is a little heater for my coffee.
Schnapps liqueur.
You want to try?
- Yeah.
- Have you lost your mind?
What?
The boy can't get into
any trouble out here.
Besides that, it'll put
a little hair on his chest.
Pops.
No.
All right, party pooper.
Look, I give up on this fire, all right?
Let's just jump in the sleeping bags,
and we can tell ghost stories,
all right? Huh?
- Lame.
- Hey, got an idea, all right?
We're gonna play a little poker.
Perfect three-man game for a campfire.
- Oh.
- I got
- oh, damn it.
- No, I got it.
Don't worry about it.
Look, I'll shuffle, OK?
Hey, your hands are cold
as ice, and you're shivering.
It is a little cold out here.
All right, look,
I'm calling it, all right?
- Come on.
- Ray, I am fine.
You are not fine.
All right, we have nothing
to prove out here.
You said we wanted to come out here,
have some fun together, right?
We're having fun.
- I'm having fun.
- Right.
But we can have fun in there. All right?
There's a gas fireplace.
There's a chef's kitchen.
I turned on the hot tub when
I went to the bathroom, OK?
- It's ready.
- Plus a TV.
The Mets are playing
on the West Coast tonight.
And I'm sure the game's
probably still going.
Actually, that don't sound too bad.
Thank you. All right.
Let's just leave this stuff.
No, no, I got this.
All right, we'll take it in
in the morning.
Let's go.
Mercy, it is way too cold out here.
- Come on, I can't believe
- Come on.
Hey, you know what?
Hold on. Hold on one second.
All right?
Let's, uh, let's take
a picture for Cora.
All right, come on. Turn around.
Come on. Get on in here.
All right, here we go.
Camping Cannon style, 2025.
- [SHUTTER CLICKING]
- [ALL CHUCKLE]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]
You know, guys, I've been thinking.
- That can't be good.
- Later for you, man.
No, since the docs have
given me the all clear,
I'd like to make up for lost time.
You've been cleared
for light physical activity,
which means you can walk to the mailbox.
Maybe you can prune your roses.
Yeah, maybe combing my hair.
No, Ray, I'm thinking about something
a little bit more adventurous.
More adventurous than Ray's coq au vin?
- Oh, whoa, hey.
- I'm teasing.
It was delicious.
Ray, do you remember the summer
that we went on that camping trip?
I think it was the summer
after the fifth grade.
Ah, yeah, I remember the mosquitoes.
I remember the ants in my food.
I remember being cold
in that tent all night.
Yo, man up, OK?
- It was not that bad, OK.
- Oh, man.
And it was just the two of us.
So I've been thinking that maybe
if we add a third
warm body to that tent,
you'd be OK.
What do you say, guys?
Camping trip this weekend.
Just us boys.
Oh, that would be awesome.
Can we, Mom?
Weekend all to myself?
I'm not gonna say no to that.
Oh, three to one. What about it, junior?
Come on. We can do a little bonding.
Get ourselves right with nature.
Oh, look, we can bond just
as well in the bowling alley.
All right, it's warm.
We got food, bathrooms, no bugs.
I mean, that is
that is
yeah, we can go.
- We can
- Sweet!
We're going camping, yo.
Oh. Bam.
Oh, man.
You don't think that's insulting?
I am your chief of staff.
I should get a read in
on their new agenda.
It's just politics.
Grow a pair.
What's wrong with you?
Nothing.
Yeah. Something's wrong.
You've been agitated all afternoon.
Did I do something?
You're fine.
Mary.
- I need you, please.
- [DOOR CLICKS]
What now?
It's almost 8:00.
I was ready to go home three hours ago.
You can after you do this.
It's my budget markup
for the planning board.
Ken needs it for their meeting tomorrow.
So send it to him.
Not like this.
It's got my chicken scratches
all over it.
Can you redo the spreadsheet real quick
and run it down to them on your way out?
Real quick? You're delusional.
You know I love you.
Yeah, yeah.
Where are you going?
- I have an appointment.
- Tonight?
See, that's not on your schedule.
I'm allowed to have
a personal life, Drew.
You don't know every single thing I do.
Actually, that's my job.
And you are very good at it.
I'm meeting an old
college friend for dinner.
I think he wants a job,
and I've blown him off,
like, three times already.
Oh, you want me to come with you?
No, I just want to get it over with.
I'll see you in the morning.
You owe me more scotch.
- Good night, Mary.
- Mm-hmm.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
♪
[EXHALES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
- Hey, hey.
- [GASPS]
- You're coming with me, OK?
- Oh, my God.
Just get in the car. Let's go.
- Please, just take my purse!
- No, just get in the car!
Help! Please!
Someone help!
♪
[ENGINE TURNS OVER]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Hey, good morning.
- Good morning.
- What have we got?
Last night, the mayor
of Paterson, New Jersey,
Jocelyn Yang,
was kidnapped off the street
in a section of the city
called Eastside.
Security cam caught the whole thing.
Our unsub was armed, wearing a mask.
White male, medium build.
He stuffs her into this black
Acura stolen from a strip mall
in Passaic yesterday at noon.
What was she doing in that neighborhood?
No idea.
Paterson PD found her car parked nearby.
Says a security guard
checking in for work
that morning saw the footage
and called it in.
- Any leads on a motive?
- Plenty.
Mayor Yang's the current subject
of an FBI investigation.
I spoke to one of our agents,
Agent Chan,
at the Jersey field office,
and they believe
that she's been taking bribes
and kickbacks from this guy,
Peter Dao,
CEO of Cogent Waste Solutions.
His family sanitation business
has contracts in Paterson
and nearly every city in the county.
This is his son, Josh,
and his wife, Lin.
They immigrated from Vietnam.
So we're thinking Dao kidnapped Yang
to silence her in the investigation?
Possibly. Chan and his team raided
Dao's house this morning.
If he knew that was coming,
that might explain
the sloppiness of the kidnap.
Yeah, desperate and scared.
Plus, there's been no ransom demand.
Does Mary Yang have any family?
No. Single with no kids.
And what about Peter?
Does he have a criminal record?
No, but Chan did say that he
thought that he might have been
involved with the Asian gang BTK
when they came here in the '90s.
Born to Kill.
I mean, that's odd.
Scola and I did a deep dive on them
for this investigation once,
but they haven't been around forever.
All right, Barnes, crime scene.
You two cover the mayor's office.
Nina and I will go see this Peter Dao.
You've had a lot of success
with garbage.
Waste management and recycling.
We work hard for our success.
Hmm. Hard work pays off.
So does bribing politicians
for kickbacks and other favors.
People make up these things
because they're jealous
we do good business.
But your family has made major donations
to candidates who end up
rewarding your company
with giant contracts.
So how do you explain?
I invest in people I believe in.
You may not understand, but after living
in a Communist country,
it is a privilege to be part
of the Democratic process.
Do you want us to believe
it's a coincidence
you have a near monopoly
on the county's trash services?
It's waste management.
- Oh.
- Like I taught my son.
Keep your head down, do the work,
and good things come your way.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Thanks, guys. I appreciate that.
[LINE RINGING]
- Any updates?
- Yeah, a couple things.
So last night, Jocelyn made
an 8:15 dinner reservation
for two, a block from here,
but she never showed.
Now, I found a witness
who was taking a smoke break,
said he saw her pull up and park,
said she sat in her car
for at least five minutes,
constantly checking her phone
till eventually she got up,
walked off around 8:30.
Well, that's weird,
especially if she was late
for her reservation.
Remy, what if this
whole thing was staged?
She made the reservation to cover her,
told her accomplice to,
quote unquote, "kidnap her"
at a certain time right in
front of a security cam?
I know it's a reach, but it's one way
to avoid being questioned
in an investigation.
Actually, it's not a reach.
Dao told me he had
nothing to do with this.
And he has a solid alibi
for last night.
It assumes she knew
about the investigation.
Maybe somebody leaked it to her.
Ray and Hana are at her office now.
- I'll circle back in a bit, OK?
- Got it.
So you didn't know the mayor
was under investigation
- for fraud and corruption?
- No.
And I don't think she did either.
This is all a complete shock.
Were they, like, tapping our phones?
Do you know this man?
Peter Dao? Of course.
His companies handled all the city's
trash contracts for years.
Well, we believe that
he was bribing your boss
to get those contracts.
That's not possible.
Jocelyn would never
do something like that.
Mm.
When's the last time you saw her?
Last night.
She left here a little before 8:00,
and everything seemed fine.
- Where was she going?
- I don't know.
She was talking to Drew, but I
didn't hear their conversation.
Who's Drew?
Drew Mason, our chief of staff.
He was here this morning,
but he was so upset, like all of us.
Uh, he left, like, half an hour ago,
said he needed some air.
All right, well,
can you call him, please?
Sure, why?
He was the last person
that talked to Jocelyn.
We just want to know
what they talked about.
Don't tell him that we're here.
Just try and find out
where he is, please.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Your call has been forwarded
Voicemail. He's not answering.
Can I take a look at your phone?
- I'm gonna need that number.
- You gonna track him?
I'm gonna try.
I'm gonna call Agent Chan.
They might already be up on it.
Where's Drew's office?
Right over here.
♪
Why is the safe empty?
I have no idea.
I don't come in here much.
I didn't know that was there.
- Ray.
- Yeah.
Drew's phone just pinged
a block from Peter Dao's office.
I'll call Remy.
I left your phone on the table.
♪
[TIRES SCREECH]
Please tell me you came alone.
I'm alone. You OK?
Josh?
Is that the money?
He's the one who took you?
What the hell are you doing, kid?
I'm not a kid. Just give us the money.
Us?
Jocelyn, what is he talking about?
Just do what he says, Drew.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
I told you, no cops.
I didn't call the cops.
[GUNSHOT]
[GASPS]
Get in the car! Get in the car!
♪
No pulse. Let's go.
♪
They're still counting,
but there's about 200 grand in there.
Cameras at the exit confirmed our driver
is Josh Dao, Peter Dao's son.
Why would he want to kidnap the mayor?
I don't know.
Maybe his dad put him up to it.
Well, what if she
wasn't kidnapped at all?
Like I said, what if
the whole thing was staged
and the two of them
were working together?
Yeah, you know what?
Come to think of it, she didn't run.
Definitely didn't look scared
when they peeled out of here.
Check this out.
It's a text that Drew got an
hour ago from a burner phone.
"We have Jocelyn.
"$250,000 in cash, 30 minutes.
"Parking garage. 86 Kelton.
No cops or she dies."
OK, so there's your ransom demand.
Now we just have to figure out why Drew
and where did he get all that cash?
Oh, well, Hana and I found
a safe in his office.
Unlocked. Nothing in it.
It could be dirty money.
And if so, then Drew knew
that the mayor was corrupt.
Maybe Drew was too.
Think about it.
If Jocelyn knew
she was being investigated,
she'd be looking for a way out.
So she gets with Josh,
fakes her kidnapping,
makes a ransom demand to Drew,
knowing he has access to all that cash,
arranges a drop and kills
two birds with one stone.
Gets the money to go on the run
and eliminate Drew
as a potential witness.
Yeah, but she never got the cash.
Right.
Which means they'll be looking
for another plan.
We need to dig deeper on the mayor
and her relationship with Josh.
Have Chan send over
everything in their files.
Barnes and I will head back
to the Dao house,
see if we can find anything on Josh.
♪
Josh is a good boy.
You are on a witch hunt
against my family.
It's not a witch hunt
when you have probable cause.
He's wanted for the murder
of Mayor Yang's chief of staff.
[SCOFFS] More lies!
Josh is a very smart and talented boy.
He's not a boy.
He's 30 and old enough
to answer our questions.
When's the last time
you talked to your son?
He helps Peter with work.
He probably slept
at the office last night.
Helps out with what?
Waste management,
or the bribes and fraud?
If he reaches out to you
or your husband,
have them contact us right away.
How's your food?
We can swap if you don't like it.
It's fine.
The FBI was already on my ass before.
How do you think it's gonna be
now that you've killed Drew?
I did it to protect you.
He got to see you every day,
work with you, be with you.
I lost control.
Hear me out.
My dad knows people. He can help us.
No. It'll be way worse
if he gets involved.
Leave him out of it.
You're right. We don't need him.
I can do it myself.
I'ma get us way more cash
than Drew was gonna give us.
I'm gonna fix everything, OK?
You can't fix it. It's too late.
Hey, I'm sorry.
You know how much I love you.
Come here.
♪
JCIS just confirmed
there were two sets of prints
on the ransom cash,
Drew Mason's and the mayor's.
Probably dirty bribe money.
Pretty brazen to keep it
around the office.
Jocelyn must have thought
she was untouchable.
What do we know about her?
So she was born and raised in Newark,
went to Rutgers
on a swimming scholarship.
After graduating, she interned
with a Paterson city council member,
and her career took off from there.
What platform did she run on?
The usual anti-crime, anti-drug spiel
with a focus on
providing family services.
Her dad ran out on them
when she was four,
and she's been vocal
about how tough it was
bouncing around shelters while her mom
bounced around boyfriends.
Yeah, it's a lot
of instability for a kid,
and now being mayor
gives her agency and control.
And the money gives her security.
She was the perfect candidate
to fall for Peter's bribes.
How does the son fit into all this?
Clearly, he knows her, too.
Maybe it's love. Check this out.
Now, Josh is an Instagram lurker.
He has zero posts,
but he does post stories.
Of the stories that he's posted,
half of them that I've been through,
the geotag traces back
to a hotel in Paterson,
two blocks from City Hall.
The mayor's office.
Let's contact the hotel and see
if any of the staff know them.
If they were having an affair,
that could been their hook-up spot.
But if these possible
lovebirds are on the run,
they're gonna need money.
That's what scares me about them.
If they only have eyes for each other,
they're not gonna care
who else gets hurt.
All right, just got
a BOLO hit on the Acura
spotted at a nail salon in Paramus.
I know exactly where she keeps it.
I'll be quick.
- Josh?
- Yeah.
Take care of yourself in there.
Hey, you know me.
[SMOOCHES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Oh, my God. Oh, my God!
Shut up and put the phone down!
Call 911, and I'll kill you!
Get Maria. I know she's here today.
- [GEAR CLICKS]
- [TIRES SCREECH]
What's going on?
Let's go.
We're cashless. [GASPS]
Open it!
I don't know the combination.
I know you're lying.
Now open the damn safe!
What are you doing, Josh?
Does your father know about this?
Shut up and open it now!
Your father would never
do something like this.
[GUNSHOT]
- [WOMEN GASP AND SCREAM]
- [KEYPAD BEEPING]
♪
[TIRES SCREECH]
Josh, FBI!
Stop!
♪
He shot her!
- Maria, she's in there!
- Show me.
♪
FBI! Stop!
♪
Hey!
[BOTH GRUNT]
Joshua Dao, you are under arrest.
♪
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
[GRUNTING]
♪
Unlike your mother,
I know what you've been up to
with the dishonorable mayor.
Don't talk about her.
Who?
Mommy dearest,
or your boo?
Jocelyn, she is your girlfriend, right?
Why? You want a piece of me too?
[CHUCKLES] No, thank you.
I already have a child.
We found the gun you dumped
outside Fan's salon,
the same one you used to kill Drew Mason
and Maria Fan.
You can now add human trafficking
to your list of charges.
That's a bunch of BS.
We hired a translator.
They went in and spoke
to the salon workers.
Those poor Vietnamese women,
put to work for slave wages.
Maria even forced them
to hand over all their tips.
Can you believe that?
That's what human trafficking is.
And the only way you could have
known about Maria's secret safe
is if you were in on the operation, too.
You or your dad.
He has his finger
in a lot of illegal pies.
Maria was one of his straw donors
he used to prop up Mayor Yang's
campaign with.
Where's your proof?
If you idiots had any, my dad
would be sitting right here.
Well, I guess he's smarter
than the chump
who's sitting in the hot seat right now.
Right?
[PHONE BUZZING]
You got a lot of tattoos, huh?
[DOOR CLICKS CLOSE]
That one kind of looks like
the Born to Kill
gang members' tattoo.
They haven't been around in decades,
definitely since before you were born.
So did you get it to impress somebody?
Does it make you feel like
a big, bad gangster?
[TENSE MUSIC]
[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
♪
Your mom was just found dead.
♪
She was stabbed to death
with one of her own knives.
- Any prints on it?
- Not yet.
Any signs of forced entry?
Uh, no. Security cam's turned off.
Stabbing's one of
the most common methods
of spousal murder.
Have local PD checked to see
if there's been any domestic calls here.
- You got it.
- Thank you.
Hana just texted.
Peter cell phone's still off.
He can't be located.
Lin's last outgoing call
was to a cab company,
most likely after her time of death.
I'm gonna see if I can find out
where this cab picked up Peter.
Maybe that'll bring us to Jocelyn.
Hey, you probably aren't picking up
because you don't recognize
the number, but it's me,
and I'm on a burner.
It's done.
I got rid of Josh, and I
took care of our other problem.
And I'm ready for you to come get me.
Call me, and I'll tell you where.
And hurry, OK?
I don't like being exposed like this.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Jocelyn.
♪
Bodies are piling up. What have we got?
I dug into old arrest records
for Born to Kill gang members,
and I found the arrest records
for their former leader,
Tom Nguyen.
And here's what a real
BTK tattoo looks like.
Now it's a headstone
inscribed with 10013,
Chinatown zip code,
and candles for each family member.
Josh has this,
but it's slightly different.
Well, as I recall, BTK were busted
for running brothels
and protection rackets in Chinatown.
They made millions
selling counterfeit goods.
[DOOR CREAKS]
Josh refuses to talk.
Staying loyal to his father.
Loyalty is a two-way street,
but fealty is not.
Peter's been paying people off
his whole life
to get what he wants,
especially his family.
So I found the cabbie
that picked up Lin's killer.
- It was Jocelyn Yang.
- [PHONE RINGING]
What?
OK, did he say where he dropped her off?
Clifton right by the train station.
But she'll be long gone by now.
Could Peter and her be working together?
Peter's not the type
to take on a new partner.
You saw how he left his son dangling.
I mean, there's nothing
stopping him from
turning on Jocelyn if she's dead weight.
That was Jersey State Police.
They found a burned female
body in the back
of one of Peter's garbage trucks.
Could be the mayor.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
If this is the mayor,
it's pretty sloppy of Peter
to dump the body where one of
his trucks would pick it up.
He knows we already got him
on a boatload of other charges.
Agents Scott and Cannon.
Sorry your day took a bad turn.
- How'd you find the body?
- The hydraulic line blew out,
so I got the truck to figure
out what was up.
And look, I've dealt with
maggots falling into my boots.
I've picked up
from fish markets in July.
You get used to the smell, but seeing
seeing her charred like that
Where do you think
you picked up the body?
That's the thing. I hadn't even
gotten to my first pickup yet.
- [PHONE PINGS]
- All right, look,
I check my truck weekly to make
sure everything looks good.
All right, it's a pain,
but you got to keep up with maintenance
to avoid something like this happening.
Take the rest of the day off.
Get yourself together.
Coroner's sending over
Yang's dental records
so we can confirm the body's ID.
Someone tampered with
the pressure relief valve.
That's why the truck malfunctioned.
Driver pulls over, sees
what's wrong, finds a body.
Someone wanted her to be found.
Peter. I mean, it's his truck,
his company, his employee.
Yeah, but Marcus
hadn't made a pickup yet,
which means the body
was already in the truck.
It's not easy dragging
a burnt corpse around.
Peter must have killed her nearby.
- Ooh, you smell that?
- Yeah.
If you were gonna burn a body,
this would be the place to do it.
Here charred, melted plastic.
You see that?
What is that, a woman's scarf?
Could be Jocelyn's.
[TENSE MUSIC]
- Excuse me. FBI.
- [GRUNTS]
- Block him off.
- Yep.
♪
- Freeze!
- [GRUNTS]
Hands behind your back!
♪
Please! I do nothing wrong.
- Then why'd you run?
- What's your name?
You got any ID on you?
What were you doing here?
My boss say me to come clean up.
Who's your boss?
It's a fake ID and a really good one.
You know it's a felony
to have a fake ID, right?
Please, no trouble!
I have to do what he say.
I never want to hurt auntie.
Is this the woman you burned?
No.
My boss see her after
he bring auntie here.
He say if I do not do what
he say and make the fire,
he will send me back home.
Is your boss Peter Dao?
And he forced you to burn
your aunt's body?
Not my aunt.
An old woman.
Calling someone an aunt or
an uncle is a term of respect.
I don't think they're actually related.
Can you tell us
what her name was, please?
Whoever he killed wasn't Jocelyn.
[SIGHS]
[GASPS]
Where did you get this?
It pays to invest in the right people.
Oh.
I knew you would take care of us.
A dollar goes a long way
where we're going.
We can live like kings.
And now,
you have a new queen.
It was silly to go back for my wife.
She was nothing.
I know.
But I'm not like you.
I can't stand the thought of sharing.
That's something Josh would say.
You two are so reckless.
I almost didn't come for you.
I was waiting on you.
You told me to do whatever I had to do
to make sure
he wouldn't find out about us
and freak out.
Lin was always too easy on him.
[SIGHS]
It's just the two of us now,
the way it should have been
from the beginning.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
OK, so a tollbooth camera
just picked up Peter and Jocelyn.
They were on the I-78,
driving a Cogent garbage truck.
If we stopped every
garbage truck on the road,
the Garden State would
become one big landfill.
Wait, so you think Jocelyn
ditched Josh for his dad?
Yeah, well, that makes sense.
She never had
a father figure growing up.
Plus, she watched her mom
rotate from man to man.
So she traded up for Daddy Warbucks.
More money, more power.
- [NOTIFICATION BEEPING]
- More problems.
Oh, we just got the autopsy report in
on our burned Jane Doe.
Her name was Yen Ho, 72 years old.
Never married, no surviving family.
She lived in a rent-controlled
apartment in East Rutherford.
What'd she do for work?
No employment history.
She was arrested in 1987
for prostitution in New York.
Have Ray and Nina go to her
house, talk to the neighbors.
Ho's just got staples in her wardrobe.
Nothing flashy, no jewelry.
My college buddy, he's Vietnamese.
He had a setup like this
in his dorm room.
This must be Ho's relatives
that have died.
So, what? We have, like,
mom, maybe sisters, and this guy.
Does he look familiar to you?
Yeah.
Hold on. Let me see.
- Tom Nguyen.
- Wow.
Ho's connected to the BTK mob boss.
Not just connected.
If he's up here at the altar,
that means he's more like
a brother or a husband to her.
This was taken in '88.
That's one year after
Ho's prostitution charge.
I mean, Hana said she was part
of a big raid in Chinatown.
If she worked at a brothel run by BTK,
that's probably how she met Nguyen.
- Yeah.
- [KNOCKS]
Yeah, I just checked the basement.
Yen must have cleaned out
her storage unit recently.
What was in it before?
Just some old suitcases.
I offered to help her
unload them on eBay.
You know, people really eat up
that vintage stuff, so
OK, well, how would she have emptied it?
I mean, she uses a walker, right?
Well, maybe her son.
- You ever meet him?
- A few times.
He came back to the
neighborhood maybe a year ago
to take care of her.
It's a shame the way some folks
treat their aging parents, you know?
But Yen's son, yeah,
he was one of the good guys.
He said he wanted to invest
the time to be with her.
That her son?
Yeah, that's the guy.
Man, he's gonna be so sad
when he hears what happened to his mom.
- I'll hit up Remy. Excuse us.
- Yep.
- Yeah.
- Thanks.
So Tom Nguyen died in prison last year,
and that was around the time
that Peter started showing up.
OK, I may have something.
Peter and his family came here
from Vietnam in 1977.
They stayed at the same
refugee shelter in Queens
as Tom Nguyen and his family.
Did the families know each other?
Well, they must do,
because when Tom's dad
passed away in 2003,
Peter and his dad were pallbearers.
The families were close.
Maybe Peter looked up to Tom
like a big brother.
After Tom died,
it would fall upon Peter
to check up on his widow.
It's a cultural thing
because she was like family.
This dude doesn't care
about anybody but himself.
There needs to be something
in it for him.
BTK made millions selling
fake purses and watches.
When Nguyen was arrested,
only a fraction of that money
was recovered.
You think he stashed his money with Ho?
I sure as hell do.
The landlord told us that she
had a bunch of old suitcases
down in her storage,
and now they're gone.
I can see them robbing Ho to jumpstart
their lives on the run.
My guess is, Peter will be
trying to get back
to Southeast Asia as soon as he can.
I'll alert the airports.
But if that's the case,
they're gonna need fake passports.
Yeah, but fakes that
can fool a CBP scanner
are hard to come by.
She's gonna need to know someone.
Luckily, I do know someone.
You know, it's considered bad luck
to get a tattoo of an empty headstone.
Real BTK members
inscribe their headstone
with their zip code in Chinatown.
Then they tattoo a candle
for each family member.
You don't know anything.
Oh.
You copied your daddy's tattoo.
You want to be a player like him, huh?
I am.
I'm his son.
He doesn't even think about you,
and you're his family.
Probably makes it easier for him
to run around town behind your back
with your girlfriend, right?
Make up what you want. I'm not talking.
I'm not making anything up.
'Cause look around, kid.
They left you here to rot
while they're laughing
over your mother's grave.
♪
Look at it.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
That's your mother.
Look at it!
OK, then why don't you do your job
and find out who killed her?
♪
It wasn't my dad.
Why do you say that?
♪
He wouldn't bother.
Well,
maybe you know him better
than I thought.
But the million dollar question is,
how well do you know Jocelyn?
Because she did it.
You've been sleeping with the
woman who killed your mother,
whose only crime was how
how blind she was
about you and your dad.
She's the one you should have protected,
not this crazy bitch.
You need to help us find them.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You think they're here for us?
Let's keep going.
Wait a second. I have an idea.
Give me those hats.
This is way too much.
That's not all.
This is BTK's old stomping grounds.
According to Josh,
the salon around the corner
has fronted as a forgery lab for years.
Yeah, but would they show up
here together or separately?
Well, they have no idea that
we know Jocelyn's still alive,
so I think we should be on
the lookout for a couple.
Wait a second.
Did we miss the dress code?
This is no coincidence.
They're here covering their tracks.
We'll tip them off
if we try to clear the block.
Spread out and stay alert.
We're just a visiting team here.
They have home field advantage.
Free hats.
Hey, free hats. Free oh, hey.
Free hats. Come on. Put them on.
You're in New York.
You gotta dress the part.
Could you take a picture for us?
See, you're stylin'. Yeah.
I'll take a pic for all your
friends back home to see.
- Thanks. Appreciate it.
- There you go.
Hey, free hats.
Free hats.
Free hat?
Hey, free hats.
What are you doing with those hats?
Oh, I'm giving them away.
Whose idea was that?
It was this couple
that came into the shop
and bought all the hats
and paid me extra
to give them to people
and get them to put them on.
I thought it was for TikTok or
All right. When did you see them?
I don't know, like,
five, ten minutes ago.
Look, the witness just confirmed
Peter and Jocelyn were just here.
This is the forgery place
Josh told us about.
It's definitely a front for something.
A hair salon doesn't
need this much security.
Who's ever inside can have eyes on us.
We're across the road
from the salon.
We can't tell if they're inside.
OK, we got two possible suspects
heading southbound toward us.
Right behind you.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
- Remy, he made you!
- [GUNSHOT]
[YELPS]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Get down!
Stay down.
Hey, hey, hey. Stay down, stay down.
- Don't move.
- [GUNSHOTS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Stay down.
- Hey!
- [GRUNTING]
Go, I got him!
- [SHOUTING]
- Hands up!
[WHIMPERS]
Hands up and stay there!
You're either coming out
in cuffs or a body bag.
Your choice.
Jocelyn, don't believe
what he promised you.
He's using you.
That's who he is.
Only thinks of himself.
No, no, no, no. Look around you.
Every man for himself.
It's human nature!
It's not human nature to screw over
your loved ones to save yourself.
No one was supposed to get hurt.
That wasn't part of the plan.
Tell them, we just fell in love.
Tell them.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You're gonna get us
a good lawyer, right?
We'll work it out.
When we get out,
we can still be together.
♪
We're getting out of this.
- OK.
- Trust me.
- I promise.
- OK.
- Gun!
- [SHOTS FIRING]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[PANTING]
Yeah, so, uh,
it's not getting any better.
Uh, I can just eat it raw.
Look no.
You know what, Pops?
It's too damn cold out here, OK?
And the wood is wet.
Well, the problem is
your structure, Ray.
You need a pyramid, right?
So you get a little air under there.
My structure is fine.
What's that?
This is a little heater for my coffee.
Schnapps liqueur.
You want to try?
- Yeah.
- Have you lost your mind?
What?
The boy can't get into
any trouble out here.
Besides that, it'll put
a little hair on his chest.
Pops.
No.
All right, party pooper.
Look, I give up on this fire, all right?
Let's just jump in the sleeping bags,
and we can tell ghost stories,
all right? Huh?
- Lame.
- Hey, got an idea, all right?
We're gonna play a little poker.
Perfect three-man game for a campfire.
- Oh.
- I got
- oh, damn it.
- No, I got it.
Don't worry about it.
Look, I'll shuffle, OK?
Hey, your hands are cold
as ice, and you're shivering.
It is a little cold out here.
All right, look,
I'm calling it, all right?
- Come on.
- Ray, I am fine.
You are not fine.
All right, we have nothing
to prove out here.
You said we wanted to come out here,
have some fun together, right?
We're having fun.
- I'm having fun.
- Right.
But we can have fun in there. All right?
There's a gas fireplace.
There's a chef's kitchen.
I turned on the hot tub when
I went to the bathroom, OK?
- It's ready.
- Plus a TV.
The Mets are playing
on the West Coast tonight.
And I'm sure the game's
probably still going.
Actually, that don't sound too bad.
Thank you. All right.
Let's just leave this stuff.
No, no, I got this.
All right, we'll take it in
in the morning.
Let's go.
Mercy, it is way too cold out here.
- Come on, I can't believe
- Come on.
Hey, you know what?
Hold on. Hold on one second.
All right?
Let's, uh, let's take
a picture for Cora.
All right, come on. Turn around.
Come on. Get on in here.
All right, here we go.
Camping Cannon style, 2025.
- [SHUTTER CLICKING]
- [ALL CHUCKLE]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]