Hudson and Rex (2019) s09e05 Episode Script

[UPBEAT MUSIC]
- [INDISTINCT NEIGHBOURHOOD CHATTER]
- [CAR DOOR CLOSING]
[DOG BARKS]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR] Hello!
Can you hear me?
Officer O'Neill here!
I'm with the St. John's
Police Department!
I'm here for a wellness
check, Miss Fanning!
Place could use a bit of clean.
[KNOCKING]
Miss Fanning!
I'm coming in!
[TAYLOR GASPS]
[PANICKY BREATHING]
Dispatch, this is Constable O'Neill.
I'm here at, uh
There's a woman
She's dead.
In her house.
I can't I can't breathe.
DISPATCH: Stay put, Constable.
We'll send someone over right away.
[UPBEAT THEME MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO]
Let's go.
Constable O'Neill.
You want to tell me what happened?
Hey. Yes, sir.
Uh, Detective Mills is already inside
and forensics.
She was deceased when
I arrived. I didn't
I, uh sorry.
I think I've got the stomach flu.
You know, it
never gets easy finding a dead body.
Especially one that's been sitting
around for a couple of days.
She was so grey.
And her eyes were open.
[REX WHINES]
- Stop! Get back!
- CHARLIE: Rex!
- Hey, back up!
- [REX GRUNTS]
- Back up! Back.
- He's being aggressive!
He's not being aggressive.
He's trying to comfort you.
He snuck up on me.
He showed his teeth!
Okay, okay.
Why don't you just take a break?
Go get some food and
everything is going to be okay.
- Hey, it's me.
- [REX WHINES]
Rex. Look, I know, buddy.
I know you weren't
trying to scare her, okay?
So, let's get back to work.
Come on. Let's go.
JESSE: Edna Fanning. 84 years old.
Never married, no children. Lived alone.
They estimate she's been
dead at least 72 hours.
Oh, it took that long to be found.
- Some kind of a recluse?
- And a hoarder, apparently.
- [REX SNIFFING]
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Forensics deemed the death a murder.
JESSE: Yeah, yeah. A single stab wound.
Short, sharp.
I'm guessing a typical knife
but nothing's been found yet.
Big money.
Big family.
Huh.
Charlie, look at the size of this house.
Yet she,
died here alone.
- [REX SNIFFING]
- The question is why.
Something's got Rex's attention.
Yeah, it must be a powerful scent.
What is it, pal?
No idea.
Maybe some type of chemical.
Well,
Rex is definitely
interested in something.
Why don't we bag up the
carpet and get it tested?
[REX SNIFFING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Who called in the wellness check?
Her name is Olivia Bragg.
Lives down the street.
Okay.
Where's Rex?
Hmm.
Oh, what a big fella!
Ohhh.
That's so good, hey?
Oh, what a boy!
Who are you, Mr. Busy Nose?
Excuse me.
Hi. Detective Charlie Hudson.
This is my partner, Rex,
who's getting a head scratch.
I'm Olivia Bragg.
You're the neighbour who
called in the wellness check.
It's, uh
It's heartbreaking. Her
passing, it's like,
- the end of an era.
- Hmm.
Would you mind if I, um
asked you a couple of
questions about the victim?
Victim?
Oh, I'm sorry
We're treating Edna's
death as a homicide.
Oh, no!
I should have called sooner
when I first noticed that strange light.
[OLIVIA SIGHS]
- Chief Sullivan!
- Joe!
Need a hand with that?
No.
No, the doctor says I've got
to, you know rebuild my strength.
More cold cases, smart.
Staying engaged while
Sarah keeps your seat warm.
Keeping an eye on things
while you heal. Nice!
Well, I think Sarah's doing
a great job on her own.
She doesn't really need any eyes on her
- if you ask me.
- Great.
New blood in the role is good.
Fresh ideas are what we need.
Well, uh, let's not forget that
there's merit in experience, right?
- Hmm?
- Oh, uh
- And me!
- [BOTH LAUGH]
Yeah.
- I'm going to give your coffee a try.
- Okay.
What is Sullivan doing here?
She dropped by asking for a report
that I could've emailed to her.
And she's still hanging around?
While I print out the 500 pages, yeah.
[DONOVAN SIGHS]
CHARLIE: Can you tell
me a little bit more
about this light that
you saw at Edna's house?
Upstairs, at the back of
the house, late at night.
I saw it once weeks ago and
didn't think much of it, but,
then again, a few days back.
Was that unusual?
Edna would be up in the night
sometimes but never upstairs.
I'm not sure she ever went up there.
The stairs were steep
and filled with junk.
Would you ever check on Edna yourself?
I knocked, but she didn't answer.
She was a very private person.
I didn't want to intrude, but
Huh.
Were you and Miss Fanning close?
I only moved here a year ago,
but let me put it this way.
A while after I met Edna,
I asked her who her closest friend was.
And her response
EDNA: My dear. If
it isn't you, it's nobody.
Edna was a real character.
And she kept everything. She
wouldn't toss a broken dish.
She loved the flowers in her garden
as much as anything in the house.
EDNA: Now don't tell the tulips,
but these roses have
always been my favourites.
Everything holds a memory for me.
For good. Or ill.
I was so touched when she shared
a few of her things with me.
EDNA: I want to give you something.
The true secret to living
well is found inside.
The secret to living well.
What do you think she meant by that?
I don't know.
She grew her own vegetables.
She lived on practically nothing.
Much like myself, honestly.
Hmm.
What was in the journal?
Nothing personal. Just gardening stuff,
plant inventory.
I don't get why anyone
would want to harm her.
Did she have any friends or family?
Anybody she might have
had a disagreement with?
Well
She was a Fanning.
As in the old powerful merchant family
that used to run all of Brigus.
- Oh.
- But the rest of them
moved away years ago.
As far as I know, no one
darkens her door anymore.
Well, somebody came to visit.
Mm-hmm, yeah.
Chief.
Here's that report you wanted.
- There's an index at the front.
- Great.
I'll drop it back once I've
gone through it and made notes.
Or we can pick it up.
I'm sure you're busy.
Well, I'd rather take the walk.
We can't let a management job keep us
stuck behind a desk, Truong. Unless,
you'd rather I didn't come around?
[PHONE RINGING]
I should take that.
- Hey, Charlie. Any updates?
- Yeah, I got a tip
from a neighbour about a strange light
in an upper bedroom recently.
You think someone was sneaking in?
Well, unless Edna was more agile
than she was letting on. But, uh
the team is working their way
up there now through the debris.
Edna's lawyer reached out when
they heard the news. They, um
confirmed that she was part
of a pretty powerful family.
- You know about them?
- Yeah. The Fannings.
They're an old merchant family
from back in the early 1800s.
They sold goods on credit to
the fishermen in the spring
in return for their
cod catch in the fall
- but the prices were rigged.
- Right, so,
the fishermen stayed poor
while the merchants gathered the wealth.
I don't know, maybe someone
figured it was time to cash in.
You know, I wanted
to run by the law firm
to take a look at Edna's will
to see who inherits the house
but Rex is still helping Jesse
to try and find the murder weapon.
Do you think I could ask
Joe to run down there?
I can do it.
You sure?
Well, I need to get out from
behind the desk apparently.
Uh, yeah. I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
WILSON: Wilson Benson.
You must be Superintendent Truong.
Acting superintendent, yes.
Thank you for contacting us Mr. Benson.
Now, did you represent
Edna Fanning personally?
Uh, well, we never officially met.
I inherited the file from my
late father, Arthur Benson.
He represented the Fannings for decades.
This is my father's former
executive assistant, Beverly Thomas.
We didn't use fancy
words like that back then.
I was his secretary.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Beverly dealt with Edna directly.
Whenever I could get to see her.
I would like to get a copy of the will.
BEVERLEY: Oh, me
too. I've been searching.
Yeah, my father was old school.
Bit of a Luddite.
I'll be digitizing my
way into retirement.
Yeah.
Do you know who's named
as her beneficiary?
Not until we find the
documents, I'm afraid.
But I don't expect there
to be any other assets
- other than the house.
- BEVERLEY: Mmm.
Cod stock depletion.
Confederation with Canada.
It all led to the end of the
fishocracy as it was called.
And over time, the merchant
wealth disappeared along with it.
JESSE: While searching
for the murder weapon,
Rex alerted to a stack of books
and found 200 dollars.
Well, it's common for people
to have an emergency
stash in their house.
I think we're past a rainy-day fund.
Because we kept looking
and found $52,000 in the
cookbook section alone.
So, Edna was hoarding cash
along with everything else.
[REX BARKS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[REX GROWLS]
[REX SNIFFING]
[REX BARKS]
More hidden cash.
So, the question is, who knew?
And is that what got her killed.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
SARAH: Fifty grand?
And counting. Rex found another
ten without even lifting a paw.
Yeah, and I ran serial numbers
on a sample of the bills.
None of them are newer
than four decades ago.
So Edna stashed it a long time ago.
Think someone came looking for it?
JESSE: Well, it could
explain why there was
a strange light on night after night
if Edna caught someone in the act.
Who knew she was hoarding money?
Well, that's the thing.
She didn't really have
many close relationships.
No doctor, dentist. No priest.
I did narrow it down to three people.
There was her neighbour, Olivia.
CHARLIE: Yes. She
called in the wellness check
and she seemed legitimately
heartbroken by it.
JESSE: Yeah, then we
have her nephew, Nathan.
He lives in Halifax, totally estranged.
But he's her last living family member
and probably the one most
likely to inherit the estate.
Anyway, he's flying in as we speak.
The question is, was
he here four days ago?
I'm still looking into that.
And the only other person
is her supposed best friend.
Edna was maid of honour at
Rowena Philpott's wedding,
another member of a
powerful merchant family.
- Is Rowena still around?
- JESSE: She is.
She lives in Philpott
Manor on Philpott Circle
- near Philpott Memorial Gardens.
- Hmm.
JESSE: Yeah, I'll see if she
can spill the tea on Edna.
I called ahead and the nurse
said she's a bit of a curmudgeon
but I have a way with
the old ladies, so
Did the lab ever identify
what Rex detected at Edna's?
- A flooring adhesive.
- [PHONE PINGS]
Industrial strength used to
install vinyl plank flooring.
We didn't see any of
that at Edna's house.
Yeah, okay. Well,
Nathan Fanning is here.
Can you guys keep me posted on that?
- Yup.
- CHARLIE: Okay, great.
- Floor adhesive?
- CHARLIE: Rex, let's go.
SARAH: Yeah.
NATHAN: I can't believe
my aunt was murdered.
Were you two close, Nathan?
Not at all.
Last time I saw her, I was a
kid at my grandfather's funeral.
- Hmm.
- She was kind of the black sheep
of the family.
So why the hurry to get back here?
Sense of duty, I guess.
I'm still a Fanning.
Plus, you might be due
to inherit the house.
That house sounds like more
of a huge responsibility
than a windfall.
Well, there was quite
a bit of cash hidden in there.
So far, I think we
found close to $300,000.
No kidding?
Huh.
Wait.
Are you suggesting I'd harm
my aunt for a meager 300K?
That amount sounds meagre to you?
I'm not trying to sound like a snob.
But implying I'm a gold digger?
I don't think I was implying that.
I think you just jumped there yourself.
I have things to take care of.
Please keep me informed
about the investigation.
Yeah, we'll be in touch.
- [REX BARKS]
- Yeah, I know, pal.
I'm not sure I buy it either.
[LIQUID POURING]
Chief Sullivan!
You're back.
Turns out Major Crimes has better
coffee than the admin office.
You think so, huh? I've always
been partial to the Mugshot downstairs.
- That's the real deal.
- But
Mugshot's not free.
Okay.
Allison.
You can't fool me.
You're fishing.
The question is what for?
[SULLIVAN LAUGHS]
Sue me! I like it here.
[SULLIVAN SIGHS]
Have you spent much time
downstairs with the execs?
Oh, wait. No. No, you haven't.
So, let me paint it for you.
It's stuffy. It's serious.
Forced-air heat. Dusty carpets.
And everyone is sucking up to you,
trying to pretend they're
so happy to see you,
when they're not. Oh.
Ohhhh.
And a million questions to answer.
Questions, questions.
Relax, Joe. I'm getting
to know your team.
Don't have anything to hide, do you?
Not at all.
Yeah, make yourself at home.
Thanks.
I will.
[IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC]
[CHINA CLATTERING]
ROWENA: Things changed, Detective.
It's been a long time since Edna
Fanning was any friend of mine.
Mmm.
Mmm.
What's wrong? You
haven't touched a jam-jam.
Oh. Those are for me.
Thank you.
Mmm.
So,
why did you guys have a falling out?
- [JESSE COUGHS]
- Ughh.
She was right contrary. You know?
The rest of us were raised
to go along to get along.
And Edna, oh my God.
She wouldn't pay any mind
to anyone but herself.
Hmm. Why so rebellious do you think?
Oh, I think she wanted the attention.
She turned on her own crowd.
She'd say that the merchant family money
was ill-gotten gains
taken from the common man.
My God. Well, it was families like ours
that built this province.
So you're proud of your legacy.
Yes. I think we'd
still be in charge today
if the fools hadn't
voted to join Canada.
[JESSE CHUCKLES] What?
So, okay.
You have zero thought on
who'd want to harm her?
Well, I guess it would be somebody
who wanted a bit of that money
she had squirreled away over there.
You knew about the hidden cash?
Well, I'm just presuming.
I mean, the old bag,
she outlived everyone
and she inherited over and over again.
And she never spent a cent.
And never used a bank.
Even though the Fannings owned
Newfoundland National at one point.
So, you'd have to imagine
she might have millions
tucked away in that house.
You certainly could have
used some of that money too.
Couldn't you?
Are you suggesting that I
had something to do this?
Ms. Philpott, I looked at your finances.
Things are looking grim.
No savings, reverse mortgage.
Nothing for the next generation.
Detective Mills.
I will freely admit
that I will shed no tears
when Edna Fanning's house
is bulldozed into the ground.
It's a disgrace to the merchant legacy.
As was she!
But the idea that a Philpott
would go poking around in
that haunted mold hut of hers
looking for a bit of cash!
Of course not. You'd hire someone.
If there are no more
questions, Detective,
I'd like to have my afternoon back.
You can show yourself out.
[QUIRKY MUSIC]
Okay.
Bye.
I'm just gonna
Bye.
Oh!
So, Rowena figured out
there was cash in the house.
Yeah, and she's as bitter as her tea.
Well, would she risk the
family's name being damaged
if whoever she hired got caught?
Well, it could explain
how it ended in murder.
Yeah, maybe. I still think that
Nathan has the most solid motive.
He didn't have any
connection to the woman
and he also believed
that the estate was his.
I did look into the
history of the merchants.
Did you know that Olivia's
family is originally from Brigus?
Olivia, the neighbour?
No, she told me that she
moved there last year.
That's true, yeah. She
grew up in St. John's
but the Bragg family have been
fishing in Brigus for generations.
And a few years ago,
Olivia circulated a petition
in support of merchant
family reparations.
So she was trying to force a
redistribution of the wealth.
The petition went
nowhere, so I don't know.
She could have taken
matters into her hands.
Can't be easy looking at
that big old house every day
knowing who put their blood
sweat and tears into building it.
So, a mysterious light.
The wellness check.
That could just be Olivia
trying to throw us off.
- [REX BARKS]
- CHARLIE: Yeah. I know, pal.
I know that you like her but we've
got to keep an open mind. Okay?
Come on.
- See you, Jesse.
- Yeah.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
Rex! Sweet boy, ahh!
There you are!
Should have known we'd find you here.
Weeds don't take a day
off, unfortunately.
Rex.
- What's up?
- We need to talk.
You didn't mention your
family connection to Edna.
Mmm?
Fishers and merchants,
they don't exactly,
get along.
Well, that was before I was born.
Yeah, but that didn't
stop you from starting a movement
to try and reclaim some of that wealth.
We found the petition that you started.
I was in college.
Thought I could change the world.
Unfortunately,
the world didn't care.
Did you know there
was money in the house?
What are you talking about?
- Of course I didn't!
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Why would I know that?
Well, that would be motive.
There's a lot of cash in that house.
Absolutely not!
- You sure about that?
- No!
[REX SNIFFING]
You're not suggesting I killed Edna?
I'm the only one who cared about her!
Including her so-called family.
Those are the people you
should be investigating!
So there is some resentment.
Against the people that turned
their back on her? Yes!
I can't even believe you'd suggest that!
It's my job.
[REX BARKS]
Rex seems interested in your shed.
Do you mind if I take a look?
I have nothing to hide.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Is this the journal that Edna gave you?
Yes.
That's not what it looks like.
I can explain.
[REX GROWLS]
What's that?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
That's not mine!
I don't know where that came from!
[REX BARKS]
I'm telling the truth!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
CHARLIE: We confirmed the
blood on the knife is Edna's.
I have never seen it before.
What about the journal?
When you brought it
up, you didn't mention
there was a thousand
dollars cash inside.
Edna was trying to be nice.
I wanted to give the
money back, but she refused
and even then, I never touched it
in case she ever changed her mind.
Yeah, but this was the secret of life
that Edna was talking to you about
and you claimed to not
know what she meant.
It was a thousand dollars.
You must have suspected there
was more money in the house.
- I didn't.
- Did you think that that money
really belonged to your family?
Did you tell me about
the strange light upstairs
to deflect suspicion from yourself?
No, but I will regret to my dying day
that I didn't save her! [OLIVIA CRIES]
What about this rose?
This was in the journal too.
Does it mean anything to you?
Roses were Edna's favourite.
[OLIVIA CRIES SOFTLY]
I think I know the answer to this.
But did Edna ever redo her floors?
I would be surprised if
anything has changed in years.
That's what I thought too.
[OLIVIA SIGHS]
[REX SIGHS]
DONOVAN: Hey!
What's with Rex?
He and Charlie found the
murder weapon in Olivia's shed.
And he had really taken a liking to her.
Are we thinking she killed Edna?
It's hard to say. She
gave a DNA test willingly.
And refused an attorney.
Yeah, but the evidence
is the evidence, right?
[REX WHINES]
Hey, bud.
Yeah, I know.
Sometimes we just get played, huh?
I hate it too.
Where's Jesse, by the way?
Chief Sullivan invited him to, um
join her for a breakfast sandwich.
I'm sorry, what?
Something's on her mind
but I don't know what.
A breakfast meeting at
two in the afternoon?
SULLIVAN: I hope I
didn't interrupt you
from important work?
No, no. I'm I'm I'm in no rush.
- Except to get back to work of course.
- Hmm.
I've been um, looking
over your contributions
- to investigations over past months.
- Oh?
- Great.
- You've uh
successfully tracked criminals using
ooh, financial records,
social media accounts,
CCTV and dashcams
- to track their movements.
- Mmm.
Exactly. Yeah, no.
Anything and everything
computer-related is my forte.
So to speak.
So it, just made me wonder,
why you can't be replaced with AI.
Oh! Well, uh, that
I guess that that is a question.
[SULLIVAN LAUGHS] I'm kidding.
Of course you're better than AI.
For one,
AI isn't really that
great at the gossip.
Do you like gossip, Detective Mills?
Because I'm looking for
information on your colleagues.
You don't seem thrilled
about solving the case.
Well, I know we need
to follow the evidence
but Olivia seems genuine.
Even though she held things back?
CHARLIE: A lot of people do stupid
things when they're frightened.
SARAH: Jesse? How
did it go with the chief?
JESSE: Oh, it was
awesome. She wanted to know
what sort of protocols
were in place to discipline
- the dog.
- [REX YELPS]
Discipline him for what?
She said there were reports
that Rex's behaviour was unpredictable.
Where is all of this coming from?
Oh, I know. Rex gave
Taylor a scare yesterday.
She probably must
have called her mother.
- [REX WHINES]
- He knows we're talking about him.
Buddy, I think you're gonna have
to make friends with the rookie.
- [DOOR LOCK BEEPS]
- [REX BARKS]
Speak of the devil.
- TAYLOR: Acting Superintendent.
- Hey.
- Detectives.
- Hi.
This is Mr. Benson.
Edna Fanning's lawyer.
We are aware, thank you.
What can we do for you, Mr. Benson?
- Beverley found the will.
- SARAH: Oh.
- Thank you for bringing it over.
- Oh, my pleasure.
Don't mind the outfit.
I like to do a ride in
every once in a while.
- It keeps me sane.
- Mmm.
Nathan Fanning inherits everything.
JESSE: Okay. I'll
bring him in for another chat.
WILSON: You don't suspect him, do you?
SARAH: It's just routine.
[REX BARKS]
[REX BARKS]
- [REX BARKS]
- He's doing it again!
- He's being aggressive!
- No, he's not.
- Rex, sit.
- [REX BARKS]
- Is there anything wrong with him?
- He's a dog.
Charlie, do you want to
put Rex somewhere quiet?
- [REX BARKS]
- JESSE: It's okay. I'll take him.
Rex, come on. Let's go, buddy.
We need to talk.
JESSE: Okay. Let's have a chat.
Officer Taylor getting
under your fur, hey buddy?
I know the feeling.
- [REX WHINES]
- I know it's hard, bud.
But sometimes we just have
to rally and be professional.
Even when we don't like someone.
Yeah. Here, take this.
No?
Okay, well I'm going to leave
this right here for you.
Just have a little cool down
and I'll be back for you
in a little bit, okay?
It's okay, pal.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
DONOVAN: We'll have
allocated about 20 man hours.
Okay, well we'll get
Sullivan to look at that.
[ELEVATOR PINGS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
JESSE: Nathan is on his way in.
Seems pretty relieved to
be inheriting everything.
Even when everything is a tear down
and the cash is something
he claims not to need.
- Give him a closer look.
- Okay.
DONOVAN: Hey. Chief's gone.
What did she say?
I've assured her that
things are fine. Uh
She wants a written report from Charlie
about the incident at the
crime scene with Taylor.
I'm sorry, they're
calling it an incident?
Just an HR incident, but yes.
DONOVAN: Alright.
Let's not stress out about it.
Rex is the most predictable
out of all of us.
- That's what I told her.
- CHARLIE: Hey.
- Have you seen Rex?
- Yeah, I left him in the kitchen, why?
Well, that's what I thought
too, but all I found was this.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[MUSIC BUILDS]
I checked everywhere.
He's not in the building.
No surprise there. Surveillance
footage from the parking lot.
- CHARLIE: Rex has left the building.
- [PHONE PINGS]
Where is he going and why?
Nathan Fanning is back.
Charlie, I looked into him for you.
He's not as rich as he lets on.
He's about to lose his house.
So maybe $300,000 isn't
as meager after all.
And I can confirm Nathan was
in St. John's two weeks ago.
You talk with Nathan. Jesse
start checking CCTV cameras
- in the neighbourhood.
- JESSE: Yup.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[MUSIC STOPS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC RESUMES]
I'm so glad you found the will.
But I'm next of kin. Why
is that suspicious?
Well, I learned that you
could really use the money.
Three car loans.
Double mortgage on a monster
home that's about to go into default.
I have a certain lifestyle.
And you were in St. John's
a couple of weeks ago.
Never said I wasn't.
Came for a quick getaway.
It's where I'm from.
And the GPS on your rental car
tracked you to your great
aunt's house in Brigus.
And you said that you hadn't
seen her since you were a kid.
Okay.
So I visited my aunt.
And why was that?
To ask for an advance on my inheritance.
Hmm.
And she said no.
Or you got sick and tired
of waiting for the money?
No.
Did you hire somebody to
search for the cash at night?
No. I just got another loan
to hold me over until she died.
She was in her 80s. She was
going to leave me millions.
Millions?
You didn't mention that before.
Well, I didn't want to give
you extra reasons to suspect me.
Well, there's no mention of anything
except for the house in the will.
And even with all of
the cash that we found
What are you talking about?
My mother told me that
Edna inherited shares
in the Newfoundland National
Bank. That's not listed?
- There's no mention of any bank shares.
- Then where are they?
Well, I'm sure that the bank
would have record of her ownership.
No, no, no, these are
these are bearer certificates.
They're not registered to anyone.
Whoever holds the paper owns the shares.
If they were stolen then
then the wealth passes to them!
What?
What is this?
- This can't be happening.
- Missing bank shares?
But if the killer
tries to sell them now,
they'll reveal themselves
as the murderer.
- They must have had a plan in place.
- JESSE: Guys.
Check this out.
DONOVAN: What did you find?
JESSE: Look who I got on camera.
SARAH: That's Wilson.
He must be heading
back to the law office.
Wait for it.
There.
Rex is tracking him.
So Rex wasn't just barking.
He was alerting to something he
detected and we didn't listen.
DONOVAN: Do you think
that Rex suspects Wilson?
Jesse, call the law office. See if
they replaced their flooring recently.
- Okay, want me to get Charlie?
- No, there's no time.
- He's still with Nathan. I'll go.
- Okay.
JESSE: Hi, Detective Mills, SJPD.
- WILSON: Hey.
- Hey.
- How was the ride in?
- WILSON: Are they here yet?
BEVERLEY: No, they're not.
WILSON: Okay, good.
I need to get changed.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
WILSON: No no, we'll
just do it in my office.
BEVERLEY: You sure? Because
I can move them out, you know.
- Rex!
- BEVERLEY: Alright.
WILSON: The Johnson
files, did we get those?
BEVERLEY: Yeah, courier
just dropped them in.
WILSON: Okay, great.
Hey.
Listen. We will follow up, okay?
But not just yet.
- CHARLIE: Hey, Sarah.
- Hey, Charlie.
- I found him.
- That's great.
Okay. Rex, come on.
Let's go, come on!
CHARLIE: He smelled
something on Wilson, huh?
Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't listen to you.
Foot.
Yeah, buddy.
Yup, I trust you.
We just need to find
a way to catch him now.
The law office confirmed
they redid the vinyl floors
in the storage area a week ago.
That's why all their boxes
were stacked in the boardroom.
So, that scent permeated
into Wilson's boots
and then he tracked it
over to Edna's house.
We wouldn't even have suspected
him if it wasn't for Rex.
The chief should put
that in her analysis.
So Wilson must have found out
about the stock certificates
after he inherited it in his file.
Yeah, it would be in the original will
but then he removed any mention of it
in the copy that he brought to us.
JESSE: Guys.
We have a problem.
It's not Wilson.
What?
Okay, so Wilson was in a week-long
deposition in Clarenville,
and was out of office until the
day before they found Edna's body.
Now, they were laying down the
new floors while he was gone.
So yes, he does have
the flooring adhesive
on his shoes because they hadn't
finished laying down the floor.
But he is not the one who
tracked it into Edna's.
So, who was?
It's Beverley.
The executive assistant.
She's the one who found the will.
She's the one who was dealing with Edna.
She would have known about her hoarding.
So, Rex was right about the smell
but he was wrong about
which pair of shoes.
SARAH: But how does she expect
to sell the certificates?
Now, we've only put out the alerts.
Well, maybe she's planning
on cutting somebody in.
You mean Nathan?
- CHARLIE: It's not a bad idea.
- [REX BARKS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
I'm not sure I understand
what you're saying.
I have something that will
be of benefit to both of us.
But having someone with the Fanning name
would make things a lot easier.
You have the missing stock certificates.
And there's plenty more
where that came from.
- I'll just call the police.
- [BEVERLEY SIGHS]
- Nathan.
- They'll get them back for me.
Don't be greedy, Nathan.
She was never going to
leave them to you anyway.
Edna told me she was going
to write a whole new will
and she was gonna cut you
off after you came begging.
She wouldn't do that.
- I'm family.
- [BEVERLEY CHUCKLES]
She did do it.
I don't know where the will is.
She never trusted me to give it to me.
It's in that house somewhere.
- A new will?
- Mmm.
And just pray that the police
never find it in all that junk.
I wish I'd never agreed to do this.
Do what? Meet with me?
No.
Wear this wire.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[REX GROWLS]
[REX BARKS]
[BEVERLEY SIGHS]
I never meant to hurt her.
She came out of nowhere!
Yelling and running for the door.
And then you killed her.
It was self defense!
I panicked! I grabbed
the first thing I saw.
A knife.
Which you then hid in a neighbour's
shed trying to pin it on her.
I didn't want to get caught! I
I spent my whole life
working for people who
pissed away their money.
Vacations.
Second homes. Third homes!
I got paid a steady salary but
I've never known luxury.
Or wealth.
I just wanted a taste of it!
You don't understand.
You know what I do understand?
Is that you tried to frame
the only person
who really cared for Edna.
There's my hero!
Oh, we caught Edna's killer!
All because of you!
Hey, Olivia.
Listen, I've been thinking about
what Edna said to you about the journal.
How The secret to living
well could be found inside.
I've told you everything I know.
But the dried rose,
with the cash That
doesn't mean anything to you?
Edna did say something else
about her roses that day.
EDNA: Olivia. Before you go,
promise me,
you'll take my roses after I'm gone.
You swear to me you'll dig
them up and you take them.
CHARLIE: Olivia, did she leave something
buried under her rose bushes?
[REX BARKS]
[REX SNIFFS]
He's found something.
Great job.
Yup, it's the will.
Written about a couple of weeks ago.
Lists you as the only beneficiary.
[SOFT MUSIC]
But
why did she hide it?
She stopped trusting the law firm.
Just like she stopped
trusting everyone else.
Except for you.
I can't accept this.
If you want her to rest in peace, maybe,
you should respect her wishes.
[SOFT MUSIC]
Rex. Catch.
- [REX GROWLS]
- [TOY SQUEAKS]
Aw, new toy.
Cute.
From Olivia.
Yeah, courtesy of her inheritance.
Yeah, even though she is donating
a big portion of it to charity.
Playing on the job, are we, Rex?
It was a gift from Olivia Bragg.
SULLIVAN: I'm not sure we should be
accepting gifts from
people we investigate.
Just kidding. Relax.
Very impressed with
how Rex solved the case.
He's our greatest asset.
SULLIVAN: I'll admit I was concerned
when Constable O'Neill
shared the complaint.
Yes. It was my daughter
but that does not mean
I cannot be objective.
With due respect, I think
Taylor's fear of dogs
caused her to misread the situation.
Perhaps.
Or perhaps your love of dogs,
of this dog in particular,
caused you to misread it.
Either way,
this is a great team.
Some officers yell.
Some officers bark.
It might not be intentionally rude
but we need to be mindful.
People may not like being barked at.
- [REX BARKS]
- Oh!
- [REX GRUMBLES]
- [TOY SQUEAKS]
Have a good night, everyone.
JESSE: Good night.
Okay.
It's, uh it's gonna to be fine.
Yeah. Of course it will.
[DONOVAN SIGHS]
- [REX YELPS]
- [TOY SQUEAKS]
[CLOSING THEME MUSIC]