FBI (2018) s08e06 Episode Script
Parental
1
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[LOCK CLICKS]
[LOCK CLICKS]
♪
[GLASS SHATTERS]
[GASPS]
♪
[DOOR THUDS]
[OBJECTS CLATTERING]
[SNIFFS]
Really? Right now?
Chill out, all right?
It keeps me steady.
♪
[PANTING]
[OBJECT CLATTERS]
[GASPS]
[WHISPERS] Someone's here.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Quiet as a mouse, aren't you?
Please.
No. No!
No!
Wait. Rowan, you don't have to do that.
Well, I I I asked you to meet,
and you know Dad's best practices.
Hard to shake.
[CHUCKLES] Well, he misses you.
I keep telling him
that you're a freshman
and you're supposed to be busy,
but listen, if you wanted to
join us for brunch on Sunday,
it might be nice to surprise
him and your sisters.
Yeah.
Look, I've kind of
been avoiding you guys,
ever since Dad told me
that he asked you to
legally adopt Amelia and Paige.
Oh, I am guessing
you don't love that idea.
Well, I have no issue with you, Isobel.
I'm glad my dad is happy or whatever,
but you're his wife, not our mom.
Rowan, I know that.
I would never try
and replace your mother, ever.
Cool.
So we're on the same page then.
Right, Rowan, that being said,
your father asked me
to adopt your sisters,
so that if, God forbid,
something happened to him,
you girls were safe.
You've been around for,
like, a year and a half.
You're still a stranger.
[PHONE RINGING]
[SIGHS]
No offense.
OK, listen, I have to take this,
but we can talk more later.
I gotta get to class.
[PHONE RINGING]
[PHONE BEEPS]
Acting ADIC Castille.
Dr. Rusk, we're here as part
of a RICO investigation
into a new drug trafficking crew.
They've been stealing
Schedule II narcotics
from community clinics all over Jersey,
but this is the first time
they've killed anyone.
Silvana.
She didn't deserve this.
We opened this place with
a 330 grant 25 years ago.
She was my first hire.
She was more than an office manager.
She worked miracles.
She wasn't supposed to be
working late last night.
Most likely, she surprised them,
and they panicked.
Do you have any security
cameras that might help us ID them?
No, even if we had the funding
and believe me, we don't
the kind of people
that come to us for help
are not the kind of people
that want to be on camera.
Hmm.
What kind of people would that be?
We run a free clinic, so we
cater to low-income families,
the unhoused, illegal immigrants.
Do you see any drug-seeking
patients, addicts?
We see everything.
We don't turn anyone away,
but we don't prescribe irresponsibly.
Do you keep any drugs in these cabinets?
No, all drugs are kept in there.
Silvana was in charge of our drug store.
She was a rule follower.
It was just old patient files in there.
We'll figure out who did this,
but we are gonna need to see a
full pharmaceutical inventory.
♪
All right, everybody, listen up.
If this robbery at the
Rusk Clinic of Mott Haven
is the latest work of the crew that
has been ripping its way through Jersey,
they have now escalated to murder.
We will not let them strike again.
Now, we are down one
Jubal Valentine today,
so you will be bringing me up to speed.
Silvana Morales's
estimated time of death
suggests the robbery
happened around 10:45 last night.
We are combing traffic and street cams
in a 10-block radius of
the clinic around that time,
still running plates,
but no red flags yet.
All right. Keep running them.
If we can't track down the crew,
let's follow the score.
Do we know what was stolen
from Mott Haven?
Yes, the clinic owner, Dr. Rusk,
provided his pharmaceutical inventory.
Like the crew's previous robberies,
cleaned out the entire narcotics stock,
largely pills.
Once they hit the streets,
they're impossible to track.
Pills, maybe, but it
looks like Mott Haven also
carried ketamine nasal spray.
It's used in psychotherapy to treat
depression, anxiety, PTSD,
harder to repackage for street sales.
It comes in a unique bottle
stamped with serial numbers.
It's a Schedule III narcotic.
And according to the DEA's
National Drug Threat Assessment,
ket spray has become
popular on the club scene.
All right, tap your CI,
see if they've clocked anyone
selling this new party drug.
Hey, DA's got something.
A CI reported a cruise selling
ket spray at day raves.
It says there's one up
right now in Bushwick.
If the pattern holds, we'll probably
have someone there selling.
Well, then we will be there buying.
[DANCE MUSIC]
♪
Eva, you seen anybody that
looks like they're dealing?
Not yet.
Just a bunch of 20-somethings rolling.
It must be nice not to have to
work in the middle of the day.
Hey, now, spending mom and
dad's money can be hard work.
Yeah, well, I've never had the pleasure.
- It's 100.
- [INDISTINCT SPEECH]
Hold up.
Fanny pack boy at the bar
just made a sale.
♪
I got him. All right.
I'm going to go to his 3:00.
You're good to move in
for the controlled buy.
Just remember that all we need is
visual confirmation of that ket spray,
and we can tie him
to the murder/robbery.
How much you want to bet this clown
falsely claims entrapment?
You sound like a prosecutor.
Maybe unleash your inner
trust fund party girl
a little bit. Yeah?
♪
[SIGHS]
Hey.
What's up?
Can I buy some of that?
Some of what?
You know, I want to party.
Lady, I don't know
what you're talking about.
I just saw you sell to those two dudes.
All right.
Take this and then we can talk.
What is it?
You said you wanted a party.
Yeah, but I wanna float.
So you got anything for that?
Is this is good enough
for you, princess?
Take a hit or get lost.
I just want some ket spray, man.
Can you help me or not?
♪
[GRUNTS]
FBI. Stop!
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
- Ugh.
- Hey!
[GRUNTS]
Don't you know
it's rude to shove a lady?
Uh-oh.
Sucks to be you right now.
♪
Entrapment.
That's what this is.
Not quite, but it is
assaulting a federal officer,
eight years.
Resisting arrest, one year.
Trafficking Schedule II and III
narcotics and controlled substances,
20 years.
She's just talking about
today's crimes, Mr. Luttrell.
Now, looking at your file,
you already have priors,
and the ketamine we found on you
traced back to the Mott Haven Clinic.
And for the rest of
the goodies in your bag,
yeah, I don't know.
Scola, you think we could
get him for this robbery,
- plus the five in Jersey?
- I think I'd take that bet.
Yo, that isn't me, man.
And I also haven't been
to Jersey in, like,
five years, dude, for real.
So I'm guessing it wasn't
you that killed the woman
- at the Mott Haven Clinic?
- Oh, whoa. Killed?
Yo, I definitely have not killed anyone.
If it was someone else in your crew,
I'd suggest you give up a name
because someone is gonna go down for the
murder of Silvana Morales.
Oh, my
yo, I have never seen
that lady before in my life.
And I don't have a crew, OK?
I'm nobody, man.
I just happened to buy some
ket spray off of some guy.
"Some guy"? What guy?
So you want my help now?
Man, tell this chick to drop all
the charges she just spat at me.
[PAPERS THUD]
Yeah, I'll tell you what.
You prove yourself real useful,
and this chick
won't pin you down with
second-degree murder.
OK, OK.
It was some dude named Greg.
I don't know his last name.
Come on, stop playing with us.
You've got to know something
about your supplier.
No, he's not my supplier, OK?
He's just he's just some pill head
I sell to sometimes,
and he showed up early this morning,
trying to dump a bunch of ket.
And you didn't have any questions about
why one of your customers would
want to sell you product?
Yeah, I'm an idiot, OK?
Don't buy drugs from
the people you sell drugs to.
But, man, he was way undercharging.
I thought I was getting lucky.
OK, Jesse Luttrell claims he bought
the stolen ketamine spray from
a guy named Greg in Isham Park
around 6:00 a.m. this morning.
OK, pulling this morning's pole
cam footage from Isham Park.
All right. If Jesse is telling the
truth, that means this guy, Greg,
could be our murderer.
OK, here is Jesse Luttrell.
♪
And he's got company.
Can we find out who this car belongs
to and get a GPS location on it?
That model Jeep isn't equipped with GPS.
Too old. But running the plates.
Zooming in.
That's ket spray, so that must be Greg.
Well, the car's registered
to a Greg Werrick, to be specific.
Bronx local, Werrick's mostly
unemployed the last five years.
Some short gigs in fast food service,
multiple stints in court-mandated rehab
after charges of possession
and petty theft.
That doesn't sound like
someone who's part of
a highly organized robbery crew.
Does he have any connection to Jersey?
Negative and no known associates.
So either he joined up with
a different amateur crew
Or he acted alone.
He went into that clinic
to score some drugs.
Things went bad.
Either way,
an innocent woman was killed.
All right, Kelly,
I want you to dig up everything you can
on Greg Werrick. Ian, ping his phone.
I want to know where he is right now.
♪
Greg Werrick's phone stopped
moving somewhere around here.
There's the green Jeep.
Maggie, that's the doctor
from the clinic.
FBI. Let him go!
Help! Help me!
Drop your weapons!
[GUNFIRE]
Shots fired. Shots fired.
Go, go, go, go!
[TIRES SQUEALING]
Get in.
Go, go, go, go, go!
[GROANS] The engine's fried.
Ah.
OpCen, send backup
and medical to our location.
Dr. Franklin Rusk has been
abducted by two suspects
into Werrick's Jeep Cherokee.
We're unable to pursue.
[GUN CLATTERS]
Tell me you have found that
Jeep and whoever's driving it.
The Jeep's no help now.
Traffic cams lost it a couple
blocks from Rusk's house.
No pings on the plates.
They might have ditched it.
We need to understand why these people
would abduct a highly respected doctor
from a clinic they just robbed.
There is a nexus here we are missing.
What about Greg Werrick's phone?
Is that still in play?
No, when Maggie and OA took him down,
his phone was on him.
ERT is bringing it in right now.
Hey, uh, we found a connection here.
Uh, we cross-referenced
Greg Werrick's history
to see if he's ever been
to Dr. Rusk Mott Haven Clinic
before the robbery.
It turns out that he petitioned to file
a medical malpractice suit
against Dr. Rusk
a few months ago. He got denied.
It was beyond
the statute of limitations.
So this could be a personal grudge.
What was the malpractice claim?
Well, his wife, Mimi,
delivered their baby
at Dr. Rusk's clinic three years ago.
The baby died shortly after birth.
Greg Werrick wasn't just
part of a robbery crew.
He blames this doctor
for his child's death.
This is about revenge.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
All right. It looks like Greg
Werrick's baby died at the hands
of Dr. Franklin Rusk three years ago,
allegedly due to malpractice.
We think that's what's fueling this.
OK, well, the driver
of the Jeep was a woman.
Maybe Werrick's wife.
They would have the same motive.
Yeah, Mimi Werrick.
We're looking into her.
So you think that Greg
maybe incited his own justice
against Dr. Rusk and the clinic,
drugs were just a bonus, and the manager
was wrong place at the wrong time?
Well, that's our working theory.
Well, unfortunately,
it doesn't look like
Mimi Werrick was
the driver of that Jeep.
Her phone's been pinging all
morning at Hudson University.
She's a continuing education student.
Well, she's got to know something.
Bring her in.
I'm sorry Greg's gone,
and I hope you find Dr. Rusk,
I do, but I don't know
anything about this.
You don't seem too surprised to hear
about your husband's death.
I'm not.
Greg has OD'd four times
since I met him.
You think I'm a terrible person.
No, my sister's an addict.
And loving someone with that disease,
you kind of expect to hear
bad news all the time.
Greg and I used together
for a long time,
then I bottomed out. I got clean.
He didn't, so we separated.
We haven't talked in months.
So you weren't aware that Greg
tried to sue Dr. Rusk for malpractice,
for the death of your baby?
I was, but that was
the last time we spoke.
I didn't want any part of it.
OK, and why is that?
It wouldn't bring my daughter back.
I've worked hard to accept
what really happened that day,
to be honest.
Greg couldn't do that.
He blamed Dr. Rusk.
I blamed myself.
You said that you got clean.
When was that?
After our daughter, um
after she died.
I'm sorry.
We just want to know what happened.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
I was high during childbirth.
I was in and out.
When I came to in recovery, Dr. Rusk
told me my daughter was gone.
I was so high,
I don't even remember holding her.
Greg wasn't acting alone.
Dr. Rusk is still in danger.
Is there anyone in Greg's life
that you think
could be tied up in this?
Greg pushed everyone away,
but if he confided in anyone,
I might know where he met them.
According to Mimi Werrick,
Greg attended meetings
at the Hope Alliance religiously.
What do we know?
It's a national organization
for grieving parents,
1,300 chapters, 5 in the city alone.
I pulled up their social media page,
and I got Greg right here.
Barbecues, toy drives.
He seems pretty involved.
Well, who is that couple?
They're with Greg in almost every photo.
Let's see.
Facial rec processes them
as Amy and Lyle Brewer,
Yonkers residents. Amy worked in sales.
Lyle was a commercial freight driver.
Past tense noted.
Lyle caught possession
charges a few years back,
lost his job.
Amy was laid off shortly after.
Well, that sounds familiar,
grieving parents
struggling with addiction.
So Greg could relate to the Brewers.
In more ways than one.
Amy and Lyle Brewer also lost
a child 12 years ago.
At the Mott Haven Clinic, and
Dr. Rusk was their physician.
[TENSE MUSIC]
All right, let's get
a team to their home now.
♪
[BATTERING RAM SLAMS]
- FBI!
- Federal agents!
♪
We need an ambo, now. Cover me.
Hey, hey!
Dr. Rusk.
[SIGHS]
Dead.
Hands where I can see them now!
- [WHIMPERING]
- All right, we got it. Thank you.
Sit up. Hey, look at me.
Hey, where's your husband?
Where's Lyle?
Amy, there's a dead man in your house.
Do you understand that?
Look, we know that you blame
Dr. Rusk for the death of your child.
No, no, you have it all wrong.
- What do I have wrong?
- Our babies.
They're still alive.
Dr. Rusk stole them.
♪
I told you, I don't know
where my husband is.
You're not listening to me.
Dr. Rusk lied.
He told us our babies were dead
so he could steal them.
Amy, we are listening to you.
But according to medical records,
your son died 12 years ago
due to complications
from maternal drug use.
No, I was sober during my pregnancy,
but my labor was 14 hours.
Lyle was out of town on a job,
so I was all alone.
And I caved, and I took the epidural
and passed out while I was pushing.
When I came to, Dr. Rusk
said my son was dead.
- Amy
- I'm not done.
Two weeks ago,
I saw my son on the subway,
12 years old, handsome, my big eyes,
Lyle's goofy smile.
I lost him in the crowd, but he's alive.
Amy, forgive me,
but how can you be so sure?
You're not a mother, are you?
- I'm a stepmother.
- It's different.
A mother can tell.
Did you ever go to the police?
We did. They didn't believe us.
We had no choice.
We have to find him.
He's still our son.
You had a choice.
You chose to kill Dr. Rusk
and the head of his clinic,
Silvana Morales.
Who?
No, I didn't go into the clinic.
It was just Lyle and Greg.
I didn't know that they killed anyone.
They they were just supposed
to steal the files
to help find the children.
Well, was there anything in
the files that supports your story?
No, just our babies' death certificates.
But that doesn't mean
that it isn't true.
Lyle thought we could grab Dr. Rusk,
get him to tell us
where he sent our son,
but then the FBI was there,
and Greg died, and we panicked
and brought him back home.
And that's when you killed Dr. Rusk?
We questioned him,
but he denied everything,
and Lyle was amped up on meth,
and he got so violent.
I begged him to stop,
but he kicked me out of the room.
But then Lyle came out
and said Dr. Rusk confessed.
He confessed and told us
where to find our son.
All right. Where's Lyle now?
I don't know. OK?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Even if I wanted to,
I can't help you find him.
♪
I mean, trafficking schemes
like this do exist.
The Hicks Clinic in Georgia
stole and sold
over 200 newborns in the '50s and '60s.
And there were hundreds
of adoptees out of China
and South Korea who were stolen
from their birth parents,
sold to unsuspecting Americans.
So while Amy's story
does feel far-fetched
I mean, either way, she believes it,
and so does Lyle Brewer.
He thinks he's gonna find his
son alive based on something
Dr. Rusk told him.
If we want to figure out
where he's headed,
we've got to look into Amy's story,
live in their reality,
or other people are going to get hurt.
Do you believe her?
Does it matter?
I don't know, but a grieving couple
could come up with a conspiracy
theory like this to help them cope.
I mean, Amy's an addict.
That makes her unreliable
but also incredibly vulnerable.
She was an easy target for Dr. Rusk.
We need to step into
Lyle Brewer's shoes.
Lyle believes that Dr. Rusk
stole his infant child.
Is it at all possible that he's right?
Well, Dr. Rusk is
a respectable physician.
He graduated UPenn, M.D.
from Johns Hopkins.
He's got no criminal history.
I mean, he and his Mott Haven
Clinic are community pillars.
So he'd stand to lose
a lot with a criminal scheme.
But plenty of financial gain.
Couples have always been willing to pay
a premium for newborns.
OK, let's say Dr. Rusk
was selling children.
Kelly, what's on the money trail?
We checked his bank accounts.
They're clean.
What about the clinic's financials?
Well, the clinic operates
as a nonprofit,
mostly small donations,
thousands over the years.
There are some higher value donations.
Huh.
Different sources but all
the exact same amount, $40,000.
Now, that sounds like a price point.
One of these donations
was made three days
after Dr. Rusk signed
the death certificate
for Amy and Lyle's baby.
Same for the Werrick baby.
They all come from
different adoption agencies.
Ian, I want a rundown
on all those adoption agents.
Elise, when was the
first $40,000 donation?
2010, with the most recent
one being just six months ago.
I mean, is it actually possible Dr. Rusk
was stealing and selling
babies for 15 years?
[TENSE MUSIC]
We're gonna have to find out
how many potential victims
we're looking at here.
He'd have to have a broker
that helps him with the sales,
- adoption agents.
- Adoption agent, singular.
The different agencies all seem
to be owned by the same man,
Barry Catania.
Yeah, got him right here,
a Dix Hills resident,
been in the adoption field
for 20 years, and, hey,
he went to business school
at Hopkins at the same time
Rusk was there for med school.
This man might know
where Lyle's son was sent.
If Dr. Rusk gave up Catania's
name after being tortured,
that's Lyle's next target.
This killing spree ends now.
♪
Oh, God. OA, hurry!
Here. Go get him!
We need medical!
[GASPING]
Hold, I got him. Got him.
[GROANING]
- [GASPING]
- [COUGHING]
Sit down.
Hey, hey, hey. Here.
Look at me. Hey, look at me. Breathe.
Hey, hey, breathe.
No, no. Why did you save me?
What happened here?
[PANTING] They found me.
Who found you, this guy?
I I don't know.
Wh wh what are you doing here?
We know you did, Barry.
We know about the kids.
[PANTING]
You stole 24 newborns, and
you destroyed their families.
I I took those children from addicts,
parents who weren't fit to conceive,
let alone raise a child.
I I saved those kids,
put them in stable homes,
gave them a future.
That wasn't your choice to make,
and don't play it off like
you weren't making a profit.
Now, do you know that man?
Is he the one who came through here?
I I don't know.
I I-'ve never seen that man.
My my place was tossed
when I came in here.
We knew we'd been caught.
This is Lyle Brewer.
He is one of the birth fathers.
He is looking for his son
that you stole 12 years ago.
We need to know where you placed him.
I I don't know.
I I've handled a lot of adoptions.
Well, you must have some files,
a way of knowing where they are?
I I did, but whoever broke in here,
they they took everything.
Lyle might be the only
who knows where his son is.
He's not going to stop
till he finds him.
♪
Amy, we verified your story.
Dr. Rusk was seemingly
involved in a scheme
to traffic newborns,
and your son may not have died at birth.
It's quite possible that he was stolen
and placed with another family.
Who? Where is he?
We're narrowing that down,
but we're not sure.
However, we do believe
that your husband knows
and that he's headed there.
So we're running out of time here.
These are holiday cards
from the adoption agent
where your son was placed.
They're sent from adoptive
parents as a thank you.
See if you can recognize
the boy from the subway.
Lyle's gonna find our son.
I won't help you stop him.
Amy, you said no one believes you.
We believe you.
We just have to prove
that your story is true.
Amy, you can stop someone
else from getting hurt.
We have to find your husband first.
You said that he's on meth, Amy.
What happens if he finds
your son in that state?
Lyle would never hurt our child.
What about his adoptive parents?
They've got nothing to do with this.
You want to risk Lyle
hurting them or killing them?
Please.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
No, he's not here.
♪
That's him
with the Lawsons.
♪
That's my son.
Look at him.
So big, so happy.
[SIGHS]
Sorry.
[GASPS SOFTLY]
Thank you.
Listen, you did the right thing.
I didn't do it for you or the Lawsons.
I did it for him.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR THUDS]
Tell me about the Lawsons.
Corinne and Bill, adopted son, Topher,
live on West 88th Street.
And Topher's birthday aligns
with the death certificate
- of Amy and Lyle's son?
- Yes.
Topher's birth certificate
was issued three days
after the death certificate,
the same day Catania
made the donation to Rusk.
So Amy's maternal instinct was right.
All right, let's get mom, dad, and son
into protective custody.
Send Scola and Eva to their home
- and to the son's school.
- OK.
Uh, Topher attends the Forney School.
I'll get the address to Maggie and OA.
Good.
Lyle is under the influence and violent.
We are not gonna let him
get near that child.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Our school's doors are always locked,
armed security at every entrance.
Every guard has a copy
of the photo you sent us.
That man is not getting
in this building.
Where's Topher Lawson now?
Just here with the guidance counselor.
Thank you.
♪
Has anyone else been
let inside the school?
No, security would have radioed.
Uh, Topher was just here.
I don't know, uh
Sorry, I I forgot my violin.
Hi, Topher.
My name is Maggie.
This is OA. We're with the FBI.
We'd like you to come with us.
What happened?
I'll explain.
We have Topher.
Have we made contact with the Lawsons?
♪
No, we haven't able
to get a hold of 'em,
but we're just rolling up now.
- [GUNFIRE]
- [SCREAMS]
Oh, my God!
- Get down.
- Get back!
♪
Lyle Brewer, my name
is Special Agent Scola.
I'm with the FBI.
I need you to put the weapon down
and step out of the building
with your hands in the air.
You don't tell me what to do!
I've got two hostages up here.
All right, so what do you
want out of this situation?
We speak on the phone, talk it out.
All right, I want to get you
what you need.
You can't give me what I need!
Isobel, well, we got shots fired,
and we have a hostage situation
here at the Lawson residence.
Lyle Brewer is inside.
OK, I'll send a negotiator now.
I need someone with real authority!
Negotiator might not cut it.
No, he needs to feel like he
can walk out of there with his son.
That is all he wants.
I'm on my way.
- Eva.
- Hey.
So we've got SWAT that's
establishing the perimeter
and two sniper
teams getting into position.
No visual on our suspect.
All we know is,
he's on the second floor.
- Has he made further contact?
- No.
Been trying
the landline in the residence.
He just lets it ring.
OK, how are we getting eyes inside?
We just got the building plans
for their latest renovation.
[SIGHS]
The brownstone has a garden apartment.
Are you seeing what I'm seeing
with this HVAC system?
Yep. Let's do it.
Hey, get your kit.
You're coming with us.
♪
[DOORBELL RINGS]
[SIGHS]
FBI.
We need access to the basement
through your apartment.
Oh, yeah? What do I get for it?
How about the gratitude of the FBI?
Huh.
♪
What's the suspect's mental state,
- as far as you can tell?
- Volatile.
We believe he's still
under the influence
and fixated on talking
to the guy or gal in charge.
You want to avoid a tactical resolution.
Always.
I want to see a deliberate
assault plan in the event
that Lyle Brewer refuses to stand down.
Yes, ma'am.
Does he have access to a phone?
Landline, if you can
get him to pick it up.
You asked to speak to someone in charge.
That's me.
My name is Isobel Castille.
I am the assistant director in
charge of the New York field office.
[PHONE BEEPING]
I'm dialing now.
Pick up the phone so we can talk.
OK, go ahead. It's live.
The last hostage situation
we had like this was what,
two years ago?
A former Mexican police officer
holding the man
he thought kidnapped his daughter.
Oh, yeah.
And you traded places
with that pregnant wife.
No, I remember. Why?
'Cause it was crazy
and he wasn't high out of his mind
- like Lyle.
- I know.
That's why we need to get eyes
in there right now.
Hello?
Thank you for picking up, Lyle.
Can I call you that?
Yeah.
- Yeah, Lyle works.
- Good.
Lyle, you asked to speak
to someone with authority.
You got it, so now I need you
to do something for me.
- You want something from me?
- I do.
That's how this is gonna work.
I don't want to hurt anyone, but I will.
I don't want anyone to get hurt either,
so let's start with this.
Give me something to let me know
the people inside are OK.
Lyle?
Lyle, can you do that for me?
♪
Lyle, is that gonna be a problem?
No, no, it's OK.
Just hang on.
Get up. Get up.
[BOTH WHIMPERING]
Don't do anything stupid.
You just tell them you're OK.
Please, whatever you do,
don't let him near our son.
He's not your son!
[GRUNTS]
Isobel's gotta hurry.
Isobel, the Deliberate
Assault Team still isn't ready,
but Emergency Assault is standing by,
ready for your call.
Listen, Lyle, we don't
want anyone to get hurt.
- Stop talking.
- Lyle.
- Stop talking.
- Lyle?
Stop talking!
Lyle, are you still there?
Are you still with me?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Let's focus on you.
Let's focus on what you need.
All I need is to see my son.
That is why I am here!
Lyle, I'm gonna work on that. All right?
But right now, I need you to
release one of the hostages.
- They're innocent.
- They are not innocent.
They bought my son!
They stole him from me!
[GRUNTS]
Lyle, OK, listen. Listen to me.
They believed they were part
of a legal adoption.
Don't take your anger out on them.
♪
Can you see me?
Do you got a camera in here?
Listen, I heard a scuffle,
and I want to make sure
everyone inside stays safe.
♪
No. No, no, no, no, no.
♪
[STATIC BUZZES]
Damn it. Let's go.
I'm done. I can't trust you.
Bring me my son now, or they both die!
♪
[PHONE CLATTERS]
♪
Get the team in position.
Initiate emergency assault.
Copy.
♪
[DEVICE WHIRRING]
Damn it.
They barricaded the second floor.
We can't get eyes on 'em.
Stay down!
I should kill them just 'cause
you're screwing around.
Bring me my son now!
♪
Sierra 2, in position
in the southeast building.
I've got a view on the Lawsons
tied up on the floor.
No clear angle of the suspect.
Sierra 2, confirm when you have a shot.
Copy.
Every second we waste,
the Lawsons are in more danger.
I'm going in to talk to him.
♪
Lyle, my name is Isobel Castille.
I'm the woman you've been speaking with.
You are gonna bring me my son,
and I am leaving with him!
Your son doesn't know that
he was stolen from you and Amy.
All he knows is
the family that has loved
and raised him his whole life.
They're not his parents.
He he's my child!
Yes, but, Lyle,
you are a stranger to him.
And if you harm the people
who have raised him,
you will break his heart.
No!
I have done all of this for him!
Lyle, there is no outcome
here that takes away your pain.
But right now, you have a choice,
the choice to protect
your son from terrible grief.
[PANTING]
I just want
I just want to know him.
I understand.
Your son needs his parents,
the ones he knows.
But he's my son!
That will always be true.
♪
Lyle?
♪
This is Sierra 2. I've got a shot.
Request clearance.
♪
Hold, Sierra 2.
Lyle, think about what your son needs.
♪
Suspect is extremely agitated.
Sierra 2, hold.
♪
Suspect has dropped the gun.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[WHIMPERS]
[SCREAMING]
[SOBBING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪
Mom, Dad!
- Topher!
- Oh, God.
Oh!
[SOBBING]
Oh!
♪
This is a mess.
ERT is recovering Catania's files,
but we've got to dig in,
identify the remaining
23 stolen children,
notify birth parents, adoptive parents.
- Not easy calls to make.
- No. The poor kids.
It's going to be confusing really quick.
I think confusing is
the best-case scenario.
The potential custody battles
Amy Brewer did the
right thing for her son.
And in the end, so did Lyle.
I'd just like to think
that every parents will do
the right thing for the kids.
[SIRENS BLARING]
I'm right outside. I just got here.
The line at Zitomer's
was humongous, but
yeah, well, I got your stuff.
Uh-huh.
I, um I'm gonna see you
in a second, promise.
Hey. Fair warning, I'm armed.
I just want to see my family.
We don't have to get into all of it.
No, I I have something to say.
- No, it's OK, Isobel.
- Rowan, please.
You came.
You made a sacrifice, so here's mine.
We can go by your timeline, all right?
And when your father
and I found each other,
things changed fast for all of us.
We don't have to make it official until
you and your sisters are ready.
What if I'm never ready?
Well, then I have failed
to earn your trust.
♪
My mom hated this place.
[CHUCKLES] Yeah.
I, um I also hate this place.
It's bad. Your dad
I know. He says it's a classic.
It's not. It's just old.
[LAUGHS]
After you.
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[LOCK CLICKS]
[LOCK CLICKS]
♪
[GLASS SHATTERS]
[GASPS]
♪
[DOOR THUDS]
[OBJECTS CLATTERING]
[SNIFFS]
Really? Right now?
Chill out, all right?
It keeps me steady.
♪
[PANTING]
[OBJECT CLATTERS]
[GASPS]
[WHISPERS] Someone's here.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Quiet as a mouse, aren't you?
Please.
No. No!
No!
Wait. Rowan, you don't have to do that.
Well, I I I asked you to meet,
and you know Dad's best practices.
Hard to shake.
[CHUCKLES] Well, he misses you.
I keep telling him
that you're a freshman
and you're supposed to be busy,
but listen, if you wanted to
join us for brunch on Sunday,
it might be nice to surprise
him and your sisters.
Yeah.
Look, I've kind of
been avoiding you guys,
ever since Dad told me
that he asked you to
legally adopt Amelia and Paige.
Oh, I am guessing
you don't love that idea.
Well, I have no issue with you, Isobel.
I'm glad my dad is happy or whatever,
but you're his wife, not our mom.
Rowan, I know that.
I would never try
and replace your mother, ever.
Cool.
So we're on the same page then.
Right, Rowan, that being said,
your father asked me
to adopt your sisters,
so that if, God forbid,
something happened to him,
you girls were safe.
You've been around for,
like, a year and a half.
You're still a stranger.
[PHONE RINGING]
[SIGHS]
No offense.
OK, listen, I have to take this,
but we can talk more later.
I gotta get to class.
[PHONE RINGING]
[PHONE BEEPS]
Acting ADIC Castille.
Dr. Rusk, we're here as part
of a RICO investigation
into a new drug trafficking crew.
They've been stealing
Schedule II narcotics
from community clinics all over Jersey,
but this is the first time
they've killed anyone.
Silvana.
She didn't deserve this.
We opened this place with
a 330 grant 25 years ago.
She was my first hire.
She was more than an office manager.
She worked miracles.
She wasn't supposed to be
working late last night.
Most likely, she surprised them,
and they panicked.
Do you have any security
cameras that might help us ID them?
No, even if we had the funding
and believe me, we don't
the kind of people
that come to us for help
are not the kind of people
that want to be on camera.
Hmm.
What kind of people would that be?
We run a free clinic, so we
cater to low-income families,
the unhoused, illegal immigrants.
Do you see any drug-seeking
patients, addicts?
We see everything.
We don't turn anyone away,
but we don't prescribe irresponsibly.
Do you keep any drugs in these cabinets?
No, all drugs are kept in there.
Silvana was in charge of our drug store.
She was a rule follower.
It was just old patient files in there.
We'll figure out who did this,
but we are gonna need to see a
full pharmaceutical inventory.
♪
All right, everybody, listen up.
If this robbery at the
Rusk Clinic of Mott Haven
is the latest work of the crew that
has been ripping its way through Jersey,
they have now escalated to murder.
We will not let them strike again.
Now, we are down one
Jubal Valentine today,
so you will be bringing me up to speed.
Silvana Morales's
estimated time of death
suggests the robbery
happened around 10:45 last night.
We are combing traffic and street cams
in a 10-block radius of
the clinic around that time,
still running plates,
but no red flags yet.
All right. Keep running them.
If we can't track down the crew,
let's follow the score.
Do we know what was stolen
from Mott Haven?
Yes, the clinic owner, Dr. Rusk,
provided his pharmaceutical inventory.
Like the crew's previous robberies,
cleaned out the entire narcotics stock,
largely pills.
Once they hit the streets,
they're impossible to track.
Pills, maybe, but it
looks like Mott Haven also
carried ketamine nasal spray.
It's used in psychotherapy to treat
depression, anxiety, PTSD,
harder to repackage for street sales.
It comes in a unique bottle
stamped with serial numbers.
It's a Schedule III narcotic.
And according to the DEA's
National Drug Threat Assessment,
ket spray has become
popular on the club scene.
All right, tap your CI,
see if they've clocked anyone
selling this new party drug.
Hey, DA's got something.
A CI reported a cruise selling
ket spray at day raves.
It says there's one up
right now in Bushwick.
If the pattern holds, we'll probably
have someone there selling.
Well, then we will be there buying.
[DANCE MUSIC]
♪
Eva, you seen anybody that
looks like they're dealing?
Not yet.
Just a bunch of 20-somethings rolling.
It must be nice not to have to
work in the middle of the day.
Hey, now, spending mom and
dad's money can be hard work.
Yeah, well, I've never had the pleasure.
- It's 100.
- [INDISTINCT SPEECH]
Hold up.
Fanny pack boy at the bar
just made a sale.
♪
I got him. All right.
I'm going to go to his 3:00.
You're good to move in
for the controlled buy.
Just remember that all we need is
visual confirmation of that ket spray,
and we can tie him
to the murder/robbery.
How much you want to bet this clown
falsely claims entrapment?
You sound like a prosecutor.
Maybe unleash your inner
trust fund party girl
a little bit. Yeah?
♪
[SIGHS]
Hey.
What's up?
Can I buy some of that?
Some of what?
You know, I want to party.
Lady, I don't know
what you're talking about.
I just saw you sell to those two dudes.
All right.
Take this and then we can talk.
What is it?
You said you wanted a party.
Yeah, but I wanna float.
So you got anything for that?
Is this is good enough
for you, princess?
Take a hit or get lost.
I just want some ket spray, man.
Can you help me or not?
♪
[GRUNTS]
FBI. Stop!
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
- Ugh.
- Hey!
[GRUNTS]
Don't you know
it's rude to shove a lady?
Uh-oh.
Sucks to be you right now.
♪
Entrapment.
That's what this is.
Not quite, but it is
assaulting a federal officer,
eight years.
Resisting arrest, one year.
Trafficking Schedule II and III
narcotics and controlled substances,
20 years.
She's just talking about
today's crimes, Mr. Luttrell.
Now, looking at your file,
you already have priors,
and the ketamine we found on you
traced back to the Mott Haven Clinic.
And for the rest of
the goodies in your bag,
yeah, I don't know.
Scola, you think we could
get him for this robbery,
- plus the five in Jersey?
- I think I'd take that bet.
Yo, that isn't me, man.
And I also haven't been
to Jersey in, like,
five years, dude, for real.
So I'm guessing it wasn't
you that killed the woman
- at the Mott Haven Clinic?
- Oh, whoa. Killed?
Yo, I definitely have not killed anyone.
If it was someone else in your crew,
I'd suggest you give up a name
because someone is gonna go down for the
murder of Silvana Morales.
Oh, my
yo, I have never seen
that lady before in my life.
And I don't have a crew, OK?
I'm nobody, man.
I just happened to buy some
ket spray off of some guy.
"Some guy"? What guy?
So you want my help now?
Man, tell this chick to drop all
the charges she just spat at me.
[PAPERS THUD]
Yeah, I'll tell you what.
You prove yourself real useful,
and this chick
won't pin you down with
second-degree murder.
OK, OK.
It was some dude named Greg.
I don't know his last name.
Come on, stop playing with us.
You've got to know something
about your supplier.
No, he's not my supplier, OK?
He's just he's just some pill head
I sell to sometimes,
and he showed up early this morning,
trying to dump a bunch of ket.
And you didn't have any questions about
why one of your customers would
want to sell you product?
Yeah, I'm an idiot, OK?
Don't buy drugs from
the people you sell drugs to.
But, man, he was way undercharging.
I thought I was getting lucky.
OK, Jesse Luttrell claims he bought
the stolen ketamine spray from
a guy named Greg in Isham Park
around 6:00 a.m. this morning.
OK, pulling this morning's pole
cam footage from Isham Park.
All right. If Jesse is telling the
truth, that means this guy, Greg,
could be our murderer.
OK, here is Jesse Luttrell.
♪
And he's got company.
Can we find out who this car belongs
to and get a GPS location on it?
That model Jeep isn't equipped with GPS.
Too old. But running the plates.
Zooming in.
That's ket spray, so that must be Greg.
Well, the car's registered
to a Greg Werrick, to be specific.
Bronx local, Werrick's mostly
unemployed the last five years.
Some short gigs in fast food service,
multiple stints in court-mandated rehab
after charges of possession
and petty theft.
That doesn't sound like
someone who's part of
a highly organized robbery crew.
Does he have any connection to Jersey?
Negative and no known associates.
So either he joined up with
a different amateur crew
Or he acted alone.
He went into that clinic
to score some drugs.
Things went bad.
Either way,
an innocent woman was killed.
All right, Kelly,
I want you to dig up everything you can
on Greg Werrick. Ian, ping his phone.
I want to know where he is right now.
♪
Greg Werrick's phone stopped
moving somewhere around here.
There's the green Jeep.
Maggie, that's the doctor
from the clinic.
FBI. Let him go!
Help! Help me!
Drop your weapons!
[GUNFIRE]
Shots fired. Shots fired.
Go, go, go, go!
[TIRES SQUEALING]
Get in.
Go, go, go, go, go!
[GROANS] The engine's fried.
Ah.
OpCen, send backup
and medical to our location.
Dr. Franklin Rusk has been
abducted by two suspects
into Werrick's Jeep Cherokee.
We're unable to pursue.
[GUN CLATTERS]
Tell me you have found that
Jeep and whoever's driving it.
The Jeep's no help now.
Traffic cams lost it a couple
blocks from Rusk's house.
No pings on the plates.
They might have ditched it.
We need to understand why these people
would abduct a highly respected doctor
from a clinic they just robbed.
There is a nexus here we are missing.
What about Greg Werrick's phone?
Is that still in play?
No, when Maggie and OA took him down,
his phone was on him.
ERT is bringing it in right now.
Hey, uh, we found a connection here.
Uh, we cross-referenced
Greg Werrick's history
to see if he's ever been
to Dr. Rusk Mott Haven Clinic
before the robbery.
It turns out that he petitioned to file
a medical malpractice suit
against Dr. Rusk
a few months ago. He got denied.
It was beyond
the statute of limitations.
So this could be a personal grudge.
What was the malpractice claim?
Well, his wife, Mimi,
delivered their baby
at Dr. Rusk's clinic three years ago.
The baby died shortly after birth.
Greg Werrick wasn't just
part of a robbery crew.
He blames this doctor
for his child's death.
This is about revenge.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
All right. It looks like Greg
Werrick's baby died at the hands
of Dr. Franklin Rusk three years ago,
allegedly due to malpractice.
We think that's what's fueling this.
OK, well, the driver
of the Jeep was a woman.
Maybe Werrick's wife.
They would have the same motive.
Yeah, Mimi Werrick.
We're looking into her.
So you think that Greg
maybe incited his own justice
against Dr. Rusk and the clinic,
drugs were just a bonus, and the manager
was wrong place at the wrong time?
Well, that's our working theory.
Well, unfortunately,
it doesn't look like
Mimi Werrick was
the driver of that Jeep.
Her phone's been pinging all
morning at Hudson University.
She's a continuing education student.
Well, she's got to know something.
Bring her in.
I'm sorry Greg's gone,
and I hope you find Dr. Rusk,
I do, but I don't know
anything about this.
You don't seem too surprised to hear
about your husband's death.
I'm not.
Greg has OD'd four times
since I met him.
You think I'm a terrible person.
No, my sister's an addict.
And loving someone with that disease,
you kind of expect to hear
bad news all the time.
Greg and I used together
for a long time,
then I bottomed out. I got clean.
He didn't, so we separated.
We haven't talked in months.
So you weren't aware that Greg
tried to sue Dr. Rusk for malpractice,
for the death of your baby?
I was, but that was
the last time we spoke.
I didn't want any part of it.
OK, and why is that?
It wouldn't bring my daughter back.
I've worked hard to accept
what really happened that day,
to be honest.
Greg couldn't do that.
He blamed Dr. Rusk.
I blamed myself.
You said that you got clean.
When was that?
After our daughter, um
after she died.
I'm sorry.
We just want to know what happened.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
I was high during childbirth.
I was in and out.
When I came to in recovery, Dr. Rusk
told me my daughter was gone.
I was so high,
I don't even remember holding her.
Greg wasn't acting alone.
Dr. Rusk is still in danger.
Is there anyone in Greg's life
that you think
could be tied up in this?
Greg pushed everyone away,
but if he confided in anyone,
I might know where he met them.
According to Mimi Werrick,
Greg attended meetings
at the Hope Alliance religiously.
What do we know?
It's a national organization
for grieving parents,
1,300 chapters, 5 in the city alone.
I pulled up their social media page,
and I got Greg right here.
Barbecues, toy drives.
He seems pretty involved.
Well, who is that couple?
They're with Greg in almost every photo.
Let's see.
Facial rec processes them
as Amy and Lyle Brewer,
Yonkers residents. Amy worked in sales.
Lyle was a commercial freight driver.
Past tense noted.
Lyle caught possession
charges a few years back,
lost his job.
Amy was laid off shortly after.
Well, that sounds familiar,
grieving parents
struggling with addiction.
So Greg could relate to the Brewers.
In more ways than one.
Amy and Lyle Brewer also lost
a child 12 years ago.
At the Mott Haven Clinic, and
Dr. Rusk was their physician.
[TENSE MUSIC]
All right, let's get
a team to their home now.
♪
[BATTERING RAM SLAMS]
- FBI!
- Federal agents!
♪
We need an ambo, now. Cover me.
Hey, hey!
Dr. Rusk.
[SIGHS]
Dead.
Hands where I can see them now!
- [WHIMPERING]
- All right, we got it. Thank you.
Sit up. Hey, look at me.
Hey, where's your husband?
Where's Lyle?
Amy, there's a dead man in your house.
Do you understand that?
Look, we know that you blame
Dr. Rusk for the death of your child.
No, no, you have it all wrong.
- What do I have wrong?
- Our babies.
They're still alive.
Dr. Rusk stole them.
♪
I told you, I don't know
where my husband is.
You're not listening to me.
Dr. Rusk lied.
He told us our babies were dead
so he could steal them.
Amy, we are listening to you.
But according to medical records,
your son died 12 years ago
due to complications
from maternal drug use.
No, I was sober during my pregnancy,
but my labor was 14 hours.
Lyle was out of town on a job,
so I was all alone.
And I caved, and I took the epidural
and passed out while I was pushing.
When I came to, Dr. Rusk
said my son was dead.
- Amy
- I'm not done.
Two weeks ago,
I saw my son on the subway,
12 years old, handsome, my big eyes,
Lyle's goofy smile.
I lost him in the crowd, but he's alive.
Amy, forgive me,
but how can you be so sure?
You're not a mother, are you?
- I'm a stepmother.
- It's different.
A mother can tell.
Did you ever go to the police?
We did. They didn't believe us.
We had no choice.
We have to find him.
He's still our son.
You had a choice.
You chose to kill Dr. Rusk
and the head of his clinic,
Silvana Morales.
Who?
No, I didn't go into the clinic.
It was just Lyle and Greg.
I didn't know that they killed anyone.
They they were just supposed
to steal the files
to help find the children.
Well, was there anything in
the files that supports your story?
No, just our babies' death certificates.
But that doesn't mean
that it isn't true.
Lyle thought we could grab Dr. Rusk,
get him to tell us
where he sent our son,
but then the FBI was there,
and Greg died, and we panicked
and brought him back home.
And that's when you killed Dr. Rusk?
We questioned him,
but he denied everything,
and Lyle was amped up on meth,
and he got so violent.
I begged him to stop,
but he kicked me out of the room.
But then Lyle came out
and said Dr. Rusk confessed.
He confessed and told us
where to find our son.
All right. Where's Lyle now?
I don't know. OK?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Even if I wanted to,
I can't help you find him.
♪
I mean, trafficking schemes
like this do exist.
The Hicks Clinic in Georgia
stole and sold
over 200 newborns in the '50s and '60s.
And there were hundreds
of adoptees out of China
and South Korea who were stolen
from their birth parents,
sold to unsuspecting Americans.
So while Amy's story
does feel far-fetched
I mean, either way, she believes it,
and so does Lyle Brewer.
He thinks he's gonna find his
son alive based on something
Dr. Rusk told him.
If we want to figure out
where he's headed,
we've got to look into Amy's story,
live in their reality,
or other people are going to get hurt.
Do you believe her?
Does it matter?
I don't know, but a grieving couple
could come up with a conspiracy
theory like this to help them cope.
I mean, Amy's an addict.
That makes her unreliable
but also incredibly vulnerable.
She was an easy target for Dr. Rusk.
We need to step into
Lyle Brewer's shoes.
Lyle believes that Dr. Rusk
stole his infant child.
Is it at all possible that he's right?
Well, Dr. Rusk is
a respectable physician.
He graduated UPenn, M.D.
from Johns Hopkins.
He's got no criminal history.
I mean, he and his Mott Haven
Clinic are community pillars.
So he'd stand to lose
a lot with a criminal scheme.
But plenty of financial gain.
Couples have always been willing to pay
a premium for newborns.
OK, let's say Dr. Rusk
was selling children.
Kelly, what's on the money trail?
We checked his bank accounts.
They're clean.
What about the clinic's financials?
Well, the clinic operates
as a nonprofit,
mostly small donations,
thousands over the years.
There are some higher value donations.
Huh.
Different sources but all
the exact same amount, $40,000.
Now, that sounds like a price point.
One of these donations
was made three days
after Dr. Rusk signed
the death certificate
for Amy and Lyle's baby.
Same for the Werrick baby.
They all come from
different adoption agencies.
Ian, I want a rundown
on all those adoption agents.
Elise, when was the
first $40,000 donation?
2010, with the most recent
one being just six months ago.
I mean, is it actually possible Dr. Rusk
was stealing and selling
babies for 15 years?
[TENSE MUSIC]
We're gonna have to find out
how many potential victims
we're looking at here.
He'd have to have a broker
that helps him with the sales,
- adoption agents.
- Adoption agent, singular.
The different agencies all seem
to be owned by the same man,
Barry Catania.
Yeah, got him right here,
a Dix Hills resident,
been in the adoption field
for 20 years, and, hey,
he went to business school
at Hopkins at the same time
Rusk was there for med school.
This man might know
where Lyle's son was sent.
If Dr. Rusk gave up Catania's
name after being tortured,
that's Lyle's next target.
This killing spree ends now.
♪
Oh, God. OA, hurry!
Here. Go get him!
We need medical!
[GASPING]
Hold, I got him. Got him.
[GROANING]
- [GASPING]
- [COUGHING]
Sit down.
Hey, hey, hey. Here.
Look at me. Hey, look at me. Breathe.
Hey, hey, breathe.
No, no. Why did you save me?
What happened here?
[PANTING] They found me.
Who found you, this guy?
I I don't know.
Wh wh what are you doing here?
We know you did, Barry.
We know about the kids.
[PANTING]
You stole 24 newborns, and
you destroyed their families.
I I took those children from addicts,
parents who weren't fit to conceive,
let alone raise a child.
I I saved those kids,
put them in stable homes,
gave them a future.
That wasn't your choice to make,
and don't play it off like
you weren't making a profit.
Now, do you know that man?
Is he the one who came through here?
I I don't know.
I I-'ve never seen that man.
My my place was tossed
when I came in here.
We knew we'd been caught.
This is Lyle Brewer.
He is one of the birth fathers.
He is looking for his son
that you stole 12 years ago.
We need to know where you placed him.
I I don't know.
I I've handled a lot of adoptions.
Well, you must have some files,
a way of knowing where they are?
I I did, but whoever broke in here,
they they took everything.
Lyle might be the only
who knows where his son is.
He's not going to stop
till he finds him.
♪
Amy, we verified your story.
Dr. Rusk was seemingly
involved in a scheme
to traffic newborns,
and your son may not have died at birth.
It's quite possible that he was stolen
and placed with another family.
Who? Where is he?
We're narrowing that down,
but we're not sure.
However, we do believe
that your husband knows
and that he's headed there.
So we're running out of time here.
These are holiday cards
from the adoption agent
where your son was placed.
They're sent from adoptive
parents as a thank you.
See if you can recognize
the boy from the subway.
Lyle's gonna find our son.
I won't help you stop him.
Amy, you said no one believes you.
We believe you.
We just have to prove
that your story is true.
Amy, you can stop someone
else from getting hurt.
We have to find your husband first.
You said that he's on meth, Amy.
What happens if he finds
your son in that state?
Lyle would never hurt our child.
What about his adoptive parents?
They've got nothing to do with this.
You want to risk Lyle
hurting them or killing them?
Please.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
No, he's not here.
♪
That's him
with the Lawsons.
♪
That's my son.
Look at him.
So big, so happy.
[SIGHS]
Sorry.
[GASPS SOFTLY]
Thank you.
Listen, you did the right thing.
I didn't do it for you or the Lawsons.
I did it for him.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR THUDS]
Tell me about the Lawsons.
Corinne and Bill, adopted son, Topher,
live on West 88th Street.
And Topher's birthday aligns
with the death certificate
- of Amy and Lyle's son?
- Yes.
Topher's birth certificate
was issued three days
after the death certificate,
the same day Catania
made the donation to Rusk.
So Amy's maternal instinct was right.
All right, let's get mom, dad, and son
into protective custody.
Send Scola and Eva to their home
- and to the son's school.
- OK.
Uh, Topher attends the Forney School.
I'll get the address to Maggie and OA.
Good.
Lyle is under the influence and violent.
We are not gonna let him
get near that child.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Our school's doors are always locked,
armed security at every entrance.
Every guard has a copy
of the photo you sent us.
That man is not getting
in this building.
Where's Topher Lawson now?
Just here with the guidance counselor.
Thank you.
♪
Has anyone else been
let inside the school?
No, security would have radioed.
Uh, Topher was just here.
I don't know, uh
Sorry, I I forgot my violin.
Hi, Topher.
My name is Maggie.
This is OA. We're with the FBI.
We'd like you to come with us.
What happened?
I'll explain.
We have Topher.
Have we made contact with the Lawsons?
♪
No, we haven't able
to get a hold of 'em,
but we're just rolling up now.
- [GUNFIRE]
- [SCREAMS]
Oh, my God!
- Get down.
- Get back!
♪
Lyle Brewer, my name
is Special Agent Scola.
I'm with the FBI.
I need you to put the weapon down
and step out of the building
with your hands in the air.
You don't tell me what to do!
I've got two hostages up here.
All right, so what do you
want out of this situation?
We speak on the phone, talk it out.
All right, I want to get you
what you need.
You can't give me what I need!
Isobel, well, we got shots fired,
and we have a hostage situation
here at the Lawson residence.
Lyle Brewer is inside.
OK, I'll send a negotiator now.
I need someone with real authority!
Negotiator might not cut it.
No, he needs to feel like he
can walk out of there with his son.
That is all he wants.
I'm on my way.
- Eva.
- Hey.
So we've got SWAT that's
establishing the perimeter
and two sniper
teams getting into position.
No visual on our suspect.
All we know is,
he's on the second floor.
- Has he made further contact?
- No.
Been trying
the landline in the residence.
He just lets it ring.
OK, how are we getting eyes inside?
We just got the building plans
for their latest renovation.
[SIGHS]
The brownstone has a garden apartment.
Are you seeing what I'm seeing
with this HVAC system?
Yep. Let's do it.
Hey, get your kit.
You're coming with us.
♪
[DOORBELL RINGS]
[SIGHS]
FBI.
We need access to the basement
through your apartment.
Oh, yeah? What do I get for it?
How about the gratitude of the FBI?
Huh.
♪
What's the suspect's mental state,
- as far as you can tell?
- Volatile.
We believe he's still
under the influence
and fixated on talking
to the guy or gal in charge.
You want to avoid a tactical resolution.
Always.
I want to see a deliberate
assault plan in the event
that Lyle Brewer refuses to stand down.
Yes, ma'am.
Does he have access to a phone?
Landline, if you can
get him to pick it up.
You asked to speak to someone in charge.
That's me.
My name is Isobel Castille.
I am the assistant director in
charge of the New York field office.
[PHONE BEEPING]
I'm dialing now.
Pick up the phone so we can talk.
OK, go ahead. It's live.
The last hostage situation
we had like this was what,
two years ago?
A former Mexican police officer
holding the man
he thought kidnapped his daughter.
Oh, yeah.
And you traded places
with that pregnant wife.
No, I remember. Why?
'Cause it was crazy
and he wasn't high out of his mind
- like Lyle.
- I know.
That's why we need to get eyes
in there right now.
Hello?
Thank you for picking up, Lyle.
Can I call you that?
Yeah.
- Yeah, Lyle works.
- Good.
Lyle, you asked to speak
to someone with authority.
You got it, so now I need you
to do something for me.
- You want something from me?
- I do.
That's how this is gonna work.
I don't want to hurt anyone, but I will.
I don't want anyone to get hurt either,
so let's start with this.
Give me something to let me know
the people inside are OK.
Lyle?
Lyle, can you do that for me?
♪
Lyle, is that gonna be a problem?
No, no, it's OK.
Just hang on.
Get up. Get up.
[BOTH WHIMPERING]
Don't do anything stupid.
You just tell them you're OK.
Please, whatever you do,
don't let him near our son.
He's not your son!
[GRUNTS]
Isobel's gotta hurry.
Isobel, the Deliberate
Assault Team still isn't ready,
but Emergency Assault is standing by,
ready for your call.
Listen, Lyle, we don't
want anyone to get hurt.
- Stop talking.
- Lyle.
- Stop talking.
- Lyle?
Stop talking!
Lyle, are you still there?
Are you still with me?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Let's focus on you.
Let's focus on what you need.
All I need is to see my son.
That is why I am here!
Lyle, I'm gonna work on that. All right?
But right now, I need you to
release one of the hostages.
- They're innocent.
- They are not innocent.
They bought my son!
They stole him from me!
[GRUNTS]
Lyle, OK, listen. Listen to me.
They believed they were part
of a legal adoption.
Don't take your anger out on them.
♪
Can you see me?
Do you got a camera in here?
Listen, I heard a scuffle,
and I want to make sure
everyone inside stays safe.
♪
No. No, no, no, no, no.
♪
[STATIC BUZZES]
Damn it. Let's go.
I'm done. I can't trust you.
Bring me my son now, or they both die!
♪
[PHONE CLATTERS]
♪
Get the team in position.
Initiate emergency assault.
Copy.
♪
[DEVICE WHIRRING]
Damn it.
They barricaded the second floor.
We can't get eyes on 'em.
Stay down!
I should kill them just 'cause
you're screwing around.
Bring me my son now!
♪
Sierra 2, in position
in the southeast building.
I've got a view on the Lawsons
tied up on the floor.
No clear angle of the suspect.
Sierra 2, confirm when you have a shot.
Copy.
Every second we waste,
the Lawsons are in more danger.
I'm going in to talk to him.
♪
Lyle, my name is Isobel Castille.
I'm the woman you've been speaking with.
You are gonna bring me my son,
and I am leaving with him!
Your son doesn't know that
he was stolen from you and Amy.
All he knows is
the family that has loved
and raised him his whole life.
They're not his parents.
He he's my child!
Yes, but, Lyle,
you are a stranger to him.
And if you harm the people
who have raised him,
you will break his heart.
No!
I have done all of this for him!
Lyle, there is no outcome
here that takes away your pain.
But right now, you have a choice,
the choice to protect
your son from terrible grief.
[PANTING]
I just want
I just want to know him.
I understand.
Your son needs his parents,
the ones he knows.
But he's my son!
That will always be true.
♪
Lyle?
♪
This is Sierra 2. I've got a shot.
Request clearance.
♪
Hold, Sierra 2.
Lyle, think about what your son needs.
♪
Suspect is extremely agitated.
Sierra 2, hold.
♪
Suspect has dropped the gun.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[WHIMPERS]
[SCREAMING]
[SOBBING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪
Mom, Dad!
- Topher!
- Oh, God.
Oh!
[SOBBING]
Oh!
♪
This is a mess.
ERT is recovering Catania's files,
but we've got to dig in,
identify the remaining
23 stolen children,
notify birth parents, adoptive parents.
- Not easy calls to make.
- No. The poor kids.
It's going to be confusing really quick.
I think confusing is
the best-case scenario.
The potential custody battles
Amy Brewer did the
right thing for her son.
And in the end, so did Lyle.
I'd just like to think
that every parents will do
the right thing for the kids.
[SIRENS BLARING]
I'm right outside. I just got here.
The line at Zitomer's
was humongous, but
yeah, well, I got your stuff.
Uh-huh.
I, um I'm gonna see you
in a second, promise.
Hey. Fair warning, I'm armed.
I just want to see my family.
We don't have to get into all of it.
No, I I have something to say.
- No, it's OK, Isobel.
- Rowan, please.
You came.
You made a sacrifice, so here's mine.
We can go by your timeline, all right?
And when your father
and I found each other,
things changed fast for all of us.
We don't have to make it official until
you and your sisters are ready.
What if I'm never ready?
Well, then I have failed
to earn your trust.
♪
My mom hated this place.
[CHUCKLES] Yeah.
I, um I also hate this place.
It's bad. Your dad
I know. He says it's a classic.
It's not. It's just old.
[LAUGHS]
After you.
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]