FBI: Most Wanted (2020) s06e09 Episode Script
Moving On
1
Boy, oh, boy, am I ready for lunch.
You're on your way, right?
[LAUGHS] Well, I've got an appetite.
The corner house left their
beagle out in the yard again.
I swear, I was running for my life.
[LAUGHS]
What in the heck?
Hold on, Dad.
Something's spilled in my seat.
It's all wet.
It smells like gasoline.
[SCREAMING]
Call 911!
Somebody help!
Call 911!
[SCREAMING]
♪
[PHONE RINGING]
Hi, sis.
If you're calling to try to convince me
to talk to Dad again,
it's a lost cause, so let it go.
It's not why I'm calling.
I need some advice.
Is everything OK?
Are the kids all right?
No, no, no.
The kids are great. I just, uh
I just dropped them off at school.
Um
it's Brett.
Oh, OK.
Um, how are his interviews going?
There was no interview.
I just found out
he's been lying to me
for the last six months
about looking for a job.
I'm sorry. What?
All those supposed interviews,
and he's just been hanging out at bars.
OK, well, who the hell
is paying his bar tab?
I'm keeping us afloat.
I'm working overtime at Dad's
shop, doing the accounting.
But between work and the kids,
I can't do this anymore.
And to find out he's been
lying on top of all this, I
You're not supposed to be
doing this alone, Tink.
You have a partner who was
supposed to be getting a job.
I don't blame him. I never did.
He's had it rough.
Tink, I'm sorry, OK?
I'm I'm so sorry
that this is happening.
And I know that
he hasn't had it easy.
But he still has to take
accountability for this, OK?
You need to talk
to your husband, all right?
You need to tell him
that you know and
I'm really sorry.
Work is calling, so I need to go.
But I want you to sit down
and have a come-to-Jesus talk
with your husband.
Promise?
OK.
OK, I will.
Thank you for listening, Nina.
I love you.
Mean it.
I love you more.
Victim's a postal worker
named Vicky Collins.
She was halfway through her
daily route when her truck caught fire.
And she suffered third-degree burns.
She was DOA when I got here.
- Who's our witness?
- A guy named Conrad Wong.
He was over there with his baby
when he saw a Black male,
medium build, put a package
wrapped in duct tape in the truck.
Figured it was just
a neighbor dropping off
some last-minute mail till he heard
Vicky screaming, and saw the fire.
When he ran to help,
he saw that same Black male
taking off headed that way.
And what's this from?
Part of the blanket Mr. Wong
used to try to save Vicky.
Burned both his hands pretty bad.
He's at the hospital
getting treated now.
Any other witnesses?
Not so far.
Going to be hard to find
any usable evidence.
That truck had half a day's
worth of mail in it.
Mr. Wong said it burned up really fast.
That's why we have the ATF
sending out their arson specialists.
Can you check on his status?
Yeah.
Remy, this is the victim's
father, Caleb Collins.
He's a retired firefighter
from Philadelphia.
Special Agent Scott.
Sorry for your loss.
Just tell me what happened.
We think somebody might have planted
an incendiary device in the vehicle.
Is this a case of a crazy person
going after postal workers
because the letter took too long?
We're looking into it, OK?
We got a full team working on this
FBI,
ATF, U.S. postal inspector.
Was Vicky working her
regular route this morning?
Yeah, she was on her way
to pick me up for lunch
like we do every day.
We were on the phone,
talking about where.
When this happened?
Did she say she saw
anyone near her truck?
No.
All she said was her seat was wet
and it smelled like gasoline,
and then hearing her scream
and not being able to help
my little girl.
I want to help.
Well, if you want to help,
you can start by telling us,
had she received any threats recently?
You think this could have been personal?
She was seeing this guy, Anthony
real piece of work.
Is he African American, medium build?
Yeah.
Sir, if you'd come with me,
I'd like to get some more info.
ATF is 20 minutes out.
Ray is stuck in traffic,
but right behind them.
Hana is looking into an ex-boyfriend
who might be good for this.
Send it to Ray.
Barnes and I will canvass
the neighborhood
while we wait for ATF to show up.
[HORN HONKS]
Robert Jimenez?
Yeah, that's me.
What do we got so far?
The char depth and burn pattern say
the fire originated
right behind the driver's seat.
There's traces of an accelerant as well.
That's right gasoline.
Our victim was on the phone to
her father when it happened.
She said she smelled it.
A witness saw a guy dropping off
a package wrapped in duct tape.
Is that what the bomb was in?
Could be.
I found silver fibers under the
remnants of a crude fire starter.
Crude. What do you mean, crude?
The device is on a time delay,
not remotely operated.
He probably stuffed
a shoe box with paper
or some flammable material,
tied a lit cigarette
to a bunch of matches,
and dropped it in.
I found the match heads
simple, but lethal.
Matches and cigarettes.
Why does that ring a bell?
You're thinking of John Leonard Orr.
Who's that?
He was a California fire
captain who set about 2,000 fires.
Same deal he tied a lit
cigarette to a few matches.
He left a fingerprint
on a piece of paper that didn't burn.
That's how they caught
the son of a bitch.
We're not that lucky.
No prints.
But the match heads were
embedded in something.
Any idea what?
Water-gel explosive would be my guess.
Something like Tovarc.
It's like dynamite,
except a lot more stable to transport,
and safer to handle.
Adding Tovarc to gasoline
and a basic fire starter
your guy wanted to make sure
this fire burned hard and long.
How do you get your hands on Tovarc?
You have to have
a license to purchase it.
But it's not for laymen.
And I bet your arsonist is a layman.
What makes you say that?
You use an explosive
to make things explode, right?
But Tovarc needs
a secondary charge to go off.
Without that, it burns up
instead of exploding.
You think our fugitive
was looking for a big bang,
and all he got was a big fire.
Any updates,
I want to be the first to know.
Thank you.
Any news on Vicky's ex?
It wasn't him.
He's been at the dentist
getting his wisdom teeth pulled.
He's still there.
OK. So far, we got a Black male fugitive
with access to a water-gel
explosive, maybe Tovarc.
There's a million ways
to make something explode.
This joker has a signature.
I'll check with ViCAP
and BATS for past arsons
involving explosives, see
if they can find me a match.
I want to nail this piece
of garbage to the wall.
You come after one federal employee,
you come after all of us.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CHATTER ON TELEVISION]
♪
[GLASS SHATTERING]
♪
William, you back already?
William?
William, that you?
[BEEPING]
Ugh, dang it.
[GRUNTING]
Help me.
I need help!
[COUGHING]
♪
Oh, help!
[COUGHING]
♪
[SIREN WAILING]
Mr. Rayson didn't make it?
Smoke inhalation.
Sorry to hear that.
I tell people all the time,
smoke can be way more
dangerous than fire.
You find anything?
Yeah, we got lucky.
The arsonist left the package
at the kitchen back door.
And this time, it didn't
completely burn up.
Can you confirm that
this is the same arsonist
that hit the postal truck this morning?
Not 100% sure, but there were
more traces of the water gel.
I'll compare it to what
I found on the truck.
Remy, a neighbor walking her dog
noticed a gray Corolla with a
Black male driver circling the block.
The driver looked lost.
NYPD is canvassing to see if
any cameras picked him up.
Is that a witness?
Victim's son.
Agent Scott and Barnes, FBI.
We're very sorry about your father.
I should have stayed at home today.
I never should have left him alone.
Were you his primary caretaker?
No, he had a nurse
who came four times a week.
I work at a cement plant near here.
Is that where you were today?
No.
It was my day off.
My buddy had an extra pass to Ridgeland.
That's a golf club for members only.
I jumped at the chance,
but I wish I hadn't.
Did your father know this woman?
I doubt it.
I wished he would have got
out more, made friends.
But with his health issues,
it just made everything so tough on him.
I think he missed his partner.
He had a partner?
No, not that kind of partner.
He was a cop for 30 years
before turning in his badge.
Was he a cop here?
No, Philadelphia.
He was head of the aviation unit.
OK. Thank you, Mr. Rayson.
We appreciate your father's service.
Hey, Remy. What's up?
Our latest victim is a cop
from Philly named Finn Rayson.
And Vicky's dad, Caleb Collins,
was with the Philadelphia
Fire Department.
OK, so Finn is a cop.
And Collins is a firefighter.
They often respond to calls together.
Well, depending on the precinct
and the fire station they were at,
they could have responded
to dozens of calls together.
We need to figure out
what the hell connected them.
According to employee records,
they had an overlap in Philadelphia
between 1984 and 1989.
I'm going to start digging into that.
[NOTIFICATION CHIMES]
Looks like our gel substance is Tovarc,
but our arsonist had the
foresight to remove its cartridge.
What does that mean?
We can't track down where
our fugitive purchased it.
But Robert can see if
he can salvage the taggant.
And taggant is?
It's a microscopic fingerprint.
It's a unique physical marker
they put in products
to authenticate them.
If he can find it, we'll know
where the Tovarc came from.
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Why the hell are you following me?
Who are you?
♪
It's pretty brave of you to
confront a stranger like that.
You never know what people
are capable of these days.
That's why I got my gun.
Well, they say, "Don't
bring a knife to a gunfight."
You brought a gun to confront
a potential bomber.
What do you mean?
The guy killed two people using arson.
He uses explosives to start the fires.
We think that he was
driving a gray Corolla
like the one that you reported seeing.
No kidding.
I thought he was some psycho driver
I accidentally cut off on my run.
I got a look at his plates
before he drove off.
RY65C4JXM.
That's a good eye.
We'll run these numbers,
see if we can ID the guy.
Do you, by chance, have any
connection to Philadelphia?
You're kidding, right?
My granddad was Eric Raymond, Sr.
He was the mayor of
Philadelphia in the '80s.
All right. So what about you personally?
From Brooklyn, born and raised.
My folks left Philly as soon as
my grandfather's term was up.
They wanted to get away
from the bad memories.
What bad memories?
He was the Philly mayor in 1985,
when the MOVE bombing happened.
What happened again?
MOVE is a communal Black liberation
and environmentalist organization
founded in the 1970s by a man
who renamed himself John Africa.
Yeah, my dad wasn't a member of MOVE,
but he liked parts of their cause.
They're a religious,
pro-nature community.
Well, apparently
they rejected modern life
and dependence on technology.
This "Guardian" article says
that they were a mix
of Black power and flower power.
That's what got them
in trouble with the cops.
Yeah, Philly PD
and the mayor didn't like
the demonstrations of protest
that they were putting on.
In the late '70s, there were
several violent clashes
between MOVE and the police,
which led to what happened next.
In May, 1985,
Philly PD dropped a C4 bomb
on one of the homes occupied by MOVE.
Police bombed American
citizens on American soil?
I saw the news coverage.
That neighborhood was totally decimated.
That's a lot of destruction.
I mean, how big was this bomb?
Big enough to clear three city blocks.
There was a gas-powered
generator in one of the homes.
The founder of MOVE was killed
along with five adults and five kids.
That's got to be our connection.
I bet Caleb Collins was
a firefighter at the scene.
And Eric Sr. was the mayor at the time,
so he signed off on the bombing.
And get this.
Finn Rayson flew the helicopter
that dropped the bomb.
The bomb was a mixture
of C-4 and Tovarc.
Maybe our arsonist is a MOVE member.
Starting these fires could be his
way of retaliating, for the bombing.
I mean, is MOVE still around today?
I can't seem to find
much about it online.
They used to have a website,
but it's a broken link now.
But the domain still exists,
so someone's paying for it.
That would be Gretchen Smith.
She's a violin teacher in Manhattan.
All right, it's late. Let's pack up,
go see Gretchen in the morning.
I thought MOVE was supposed
to be anti-technology.
How does having a website fit into that?
MOVE was founded before the
personal computer was invented.
- We had to evolve to survive.
- We?
You weren't even born
when MOVE was active.
Same crap, different decade.
We peace-loving folks are still dealing
with police brutality and oppression.
That's why I'm trying
to keep MOVE alive.
What does MOVE look like today?
Some of us meet informally now and then,
but there's no main group
spearheading events or anything.
Given what happened before, I
I think that's for the best.
You're like everyone else who wants
to make us go away permanently.
And they tried before.
Let's not forget
that the U.S. government
bombed its own citizens
and killed five kids.
We believe a MOVE member might
be trying to avenge that
tragedy by setting these fires.
He's already killed two people.
I don't know anything about that.
We want a list of all MOVE
affiliates you've been in touch with.
As if I'd hand that over
without a warrant.
Yeah.
It's the FBI who supplied
the bomb to the Philly PD
in the first place.
And when they dropped the bomb,
the police shot at folks
trying to flee the burning building.
Allegedly.
There are some accounts that say that
MOVE shot at the cops first.
Allegedly.
Whose side are you on?
The innocent.
How does your dad feel about MOVE now?
Probably the same way I do.
It's important we don't just gloss over
- everything that happened.
- [PHONE RINGING]
History cannot repeat itself.
Hey, Hana. What's up?
I'm sending you a list
of MOVE affiliates in the area.
How'd you get your hands on that?
I tracked the IP address of every device
that visited the MOVE website
when it was still up.
Do any of these people own
a gray Corolla?
Unfortunately, no.
The license plate came back
as stolen from a Honda Accord.
The car is a dead lead.
And there are over
20 names on the list.
Who would you start with?
Ayo Parsons in Queens.
She was one of the original
members of MOVE
and one of the founder's relatives.
She might have insight
into our unsub.
Have Ray and Nina head over there now.
So this is Ayo Parsons.
She's formerly known as Ayo Africa.
She was arrested in 1978
for taking part in a riot
that left one police officer dead.
- She's out on parole?
- Yeah.
She was released last year.
She changed her maiden name back,
and has been laying low ever since.
You think that's our guy?
I don't know.
Well, what makes you think that's him?
Gut feeling.
Yep, that's him. Hey.
Come here. Hey!
FBI. Come here.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[GRUNTS]
- Hey!
- Hey!
- Move!
- Watch out!
- Hey!
- I'm trying to go!
♪
[GRUNTS]
- Hey!
- What the hell?
- What are you doing?
- Hey, watch it!
Hey, look out! Hey, move!
- Move, move!
- Look out!
Watch out. Watch out.
Hey, stop the car!
Hey, hey!
Get down.
Damn it.
I've been reviewing the security footage
from the café, but I haven't been
able to get a good look at his face.
Well, I did get a good look
in this guy's car.
It was a mess,
like he's living out of it.
Yeah. We think he might be homeless.
Depending how long this whack
job has been on the street,
it's going to be tough to ID
him without a home address.
Is that a work shirt?
Can we zoom in on that?
Mm-hmm.
Barco Security.
I've got a Barcolo Security.
It's the same logo.
They provide services
nationwide to businesses
like malls and banks.
I'm going to start looking
through their employee database.
[PHONE RINGING]
It's Robert from ATF.
All right.
So this guy was targeting MOVE members.
Safe to say that he's probably
not down for the cause.
What if he was on his way to meet her,
and she's covering for him?
Well, we spoke with Ayo,
and she put MOVE behind her.
Ever since she got out on parole,
she just wants to be with family,
and catch up on lost time.
Maybe this guy isn't part of MOVE.
But the threads keep
connecting him to the bombing.
Who else was impacted by this?
Along with 11 MOVE members,
the fire spread to 60 other row houses.
Yeah. 200 people lost their homes.
That makes for a lot
of potential suspects.
OK, so Robert zeroed in on the taggant
from the Rayson crime scene.
It's part of a bulk order purchased by
a construction company
that does road work
up and down the Eastern seaboard.
That gets us closer,
but not close enough.
Can we see if that construction company
used Barcolo for their security?
I'll do you one better.
I think I may have the guy.
Yeah, that's him.
Gerald Colworth of Long Island City.
He was a security guard
up until six months ago,
when he was fired.
He registered a gray
Toyota Corolla with Barcolo
to get a parking pass for work.
But the car was actually
registered to his ex-wife,
Leticia Colworth.
They had two kids together
before they divorced last year.
Let's go talk to the ex.
Get a handle on how this dude
went from married father of two
to homeless arsonist.
I'm going to talk
to his boss at Barcolo.
I'll work on finding out
exactly how Colworth is
connected to the MOVE bombing.
I want to know how much
Tovarc this guy's got in his arsenal.
If he figures out how to make
this bomb blow up right,
we're all in serious trouble.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Gerald worked for you for five years
before you suddenly fired him.
What happened?
It wasn't sudden.
I liked Gerry.
Even when he started coming in
late, I cut him some slack.
I've been divorced.
I know how it rips you open
and tears you up inside.
But a few months later,
he ran out of slack?
Just missed too many shifts.
I couldn't depend on him at all.
Management has me taking shifts now.
I need reliable guys.
I fired Gerry last July.
That's right when he stopped
his mortgage payments.
He lost his house to
foreclosure a couple months later.
That's the wheel of capitalism for you.
It'll grind you into the dust
before it stops.
But, hey, look, I'm sorry about Gerry.
He seemed like a good guy, a family man.
When he worked here,
did the company report
any thefts from any of your inventory?
We think he might have
stolen some of the explosives
they use here, like Tovarc.
We run inventory every week.
Nothing has been reported stolen
- definitely not Tovarc.
- OK.
Well, triple check that inventory.
And if you come short on
anything, even a tiny amount,
call us right away, OK?
I don't know what I can tell you.
Gerry and I have been
divorced for a year.
Did he ever talk about
the 1985 MOVE bombing?
A little.
I always wished he'd open up more.
It's what broke us up.
Did Gerry and his family belong to MOVE?
Kids, wait for me.
No, Gerry has nothing to do with that.
But his family lived on that block.
And what happened in 1985,
it destroyed them.
Their house burned down, right?
Yes, but it wasn't about
losing the house.
It was about losing his home.
Gerry's parents never recovered.
They had a really ugly split-up.
When we first met, Gerry
promised he'd never let that happen.
He said we'd never, ever get a divorce.
We all get married thinking
it'll never happen to us.
Until it does, right?
I filed for divorce last year,
but I stayed close by for the kids.
Do you guys share custody?
For now.
But since he lost his job
and then the house
if the kids have nowhere
to stay with him,
I might as well move to Phoenix.
My sister lives out there.
It's so much cheaper.
Does Gerry know you want
custody of the kids?
I'm not trying to blindside him.
I told him a few weeks ago.
And how did he react?
Worse than when I told him
I wanted a divorce.
Back then, I had to hide
all the meds in our house.
I was scared he might do
something he couldn't take back.
He already has.
Two people are dead.
What?
Our kids are Gerry's world.
And they adore him back.
When they find out what
he's done, it'll destroy them.
When's the last time you spoke with him?
A couple weeks ago.
Gerry called me from a number
I didn't recognize.
Let's give it a try.
Brooklyn Men's Emergency Shelter.
Aditi speaking.
Ray and Barnes are back here on speaker.
Gerry was eight when
they lost their family home.
His family was involved in a lawsuit
against the city of Philadelphia,
and the police department.
Since Gerry can't provide a stable home,
his wife is suing him for
full custody of their kids.
That kind of mirrors what
happened to him when he was little.
Yeah, look, the police bombed
MOVE headquarters.
Gerry loses his childhood home.
Then he loses his family.
So it's happening again
to him 40 years later.
That must be what triggered him.
After his house was foreclosed,
Gerry stayed at a men's shelter.
We just spoke to the director.
Yeah, you think he's going
after the shelter next?
They've been alerted.
Gerry even brought his
kids there and pretended
it was a weekend excursion.
The shelter has a strict no-kids policy,
so they had to ask Gerry to leave.
And he hasn't been back since.
Hmm. That's harsh.
All right. So no family, no home.
This guy's got nothing to lose.
Where's he going next?
The shelter director
said that Gerry was friendly
with a guy named Trent who comes around
for a hot meal, but also keeps a spot
at an encampment in Astoria.
Sending you the cross streets.
Meet us there.
All right.
[PHONE RINGING]
Oh, Hana. Ethan's calling you.
Here.
You're not going to answer it?
Nope.
[SIGHS] We broke up two weeks ago.
Oh, Hana, I'm so sorry.
There were signs.
- I missed them.
- What kind of signs?
I don't want to talk about it.
Yeah, of course.
Have you seen this guy?
Have you seen this man?
OK. Thank you.
Nobody recognizes him.
At least that's what they say.
Half of them won't even talk.
They don't trust the badge.
I mean, every major city,
cops are constantly
harassing them, making them move around,
set up camps in different places.
That's why MOVE didn't trust the cops
the constant harassment.
- [PHONE RINGING]
- It's Horus, Gerry's old boss.
All right.
Remy's found Trent.
Oh, great.
How well do you know Gerry?
You know, about as well as
you get to know the guy
who's stuck in the same
sinking boat with you.
[LOUD BANG]
It must be pretty hard
to get a decent night's
sleep around here.
Why do you stay?
Yeah, it's just noise, you know.
Better than camping out
someplace quiet and residential.
And you always got the cops on your ass.
OK, so you're here because
the neighbors don't complain.
Out of sight, out of mind,
which is exactly
how the public likes
their homeless, right?
Oh, I'm sorry, the unhoused,
as though semantics
are going to put a freaking
roof over our heads.
Is that what you and Gerry talked about?
Yeah, I mean, I'm over it, man.
But Gerry
[LAUGHS]
He would get all riled up.
He talks about how
the police and politicians,
they don't want to do their
jobs, yada, yada, you know.
You talking about the housing crisis?
I'm talking about any crisis, man.
Not like we elected them to put out
these kind of fires or anything.
Though, if you ask Gerry,
he'd say they wouldn't put out a fire
even if that was exactly their job.
What do you mean by that?
His house burned down when he was a kid.
He said the firefighters,
they showed up.
They just stood around
and watched that baby
burn to the ground.
So that was Gerry's old boss.
He said all of the Tovarc
is accounted for.
However, a spool of det cord
went missing in the last day.
They never changed the locks
after Gerry got fired,
so he could have used
his key to steal it.
What's det cord?
It's a detonation cord.
Yeah, that's uh
it's a tiny little tube
filled with explosives.
We used to use that back in Afghan
to blow up expired ordnance.
The arson investigator said that Tovarc
needs a secondary explosive
to be triggered.
Would det cord work?
It's exactly what det cord's for.
Turn a little kaboom into a big kaboom.
No big deal.
That whole blast you heard earlier
I mean, you got those
construction crews.
They're running det cord
and Tovarc every damn day.
OK. So Gerry could have
gotten the Tovarc from anywhere,
including that construction site.
Yeah, but he didn't know
he needed the det cord
to make it explode.
Until he saw the first two
arsons were fires, not explosions.
Now that he has these two ingredients,
it's only a matter of time
before the big kaboom.
Gerry told a friend that
when his house burned down,
the fire department just
stood by and did nothing.
Is that true?
You don't understand.
You're asking me about something
that happened 40 years ago.
I don't remember the details.
We're not passing judgment.
We just need to know
what really happened.
It was my second year on the job.
I was following orders.
What were your orders?
To stand down.
No one expected the fire
to get so out of control.
It got out of control because
you didn't do anything to stop it.
It was a mess.
My lieutenant called it a war zone.
And this is the guy that
did two tours in Vietnam.
Bullets were flying.
Who started the shooting?
Depends on who you ask.
Some folks say the cops were
shooting at the MOVE folks
trying to escape the fire.
And the cops say
MOVE fired at them first.
Now, what were we supposed to do?
We couldn't disobey
the fire commissioner.
Is he the one who gave the order?
As far as I know, he was given
that order by the police commissioner.
Is this why my daughter was killed?
Over something I did four decades ago?
No.
It's over what you didn't do.
Gerry went after a firefighter
at the scene
the helicopter pilot who dropped
the bomb, then the mayor.
He's working his way
up the chain of command.
Contact the fire
and police commissioners.
We got to warn them.
The Philadelphia police
commissioner in 1985
was Victor Kipling.
He lives in a senior community
in New Rochelle.
Fire commissioner is in New York now.
His last known is in Brooklyn.
You and Ray go see the fire
commissioner. The rest of you, with me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Damn incident derailed my career.
By incident, you mean
the bomb you ordered
that killed 11 people?
It wasn't just any person.
They were disrupting the city
and endangering the police.
What about the five kids?
How were they endangering the police?
I mean, those five kids weren't
the only collateral damage.
200 homes burnt that day.
This is Gerry Colworth.
He lost his childhood home.
Do you recognize him?
No.
But I do remember the Colworth name.
His parents were part
of a lawsuit against the city
and your police department.
That's right.
First time I saw her in court,
Loretta Colworth was pregnant.
They told me she had
a miscarriage later.
Family blamed it on the stress
from losing their house.
Look, we never meant to hurt any kids,
but they shouldn't have been in
that house in the first place.
If I was their parents,
I would never forgive myself
for putting my kids in danger's way.
There's nothing worse
than seeing somebody you love get hurt,
especially if it's your fault.
♪
You know, we've assumed that
Gerry was going after the people
who were responsible for the bombing.
But what if he's actually
going after their loved ones?
Collateral damage.
That's a worse punishment than
going after people themselves.
We thought he was going after the dad,
but maybe he was going
after Vicki all along.
He didn't mix up Eric Junior,
by the way.
He was stalking the mayor's
grandson on purpose.
And Finn Rayson's son
was supposed to be home
when Gerry set that fire.
[PHONE RINGING]
What's up, Ray?
We got a BOLO hit on
Gerald's car in the Bronx.
We're headed there now.
I'll drop you a location pin.
Bring around the Tahoe.
Isn't that where
the fire commissioner lives?
House sitter said he's out of town.
He and his wife are in Florida.
Does he have relatives in the Bronx?
We think Gerry's going
after the family members
of the people responsible
for the bombing.
His car is parked in
a dense residential area.
If we have to account for relatives,
it will take time
to figure out who he's after.
They found our fugitive's
car in the Bronx.
Where in the Bronx?
My granddaughter lives there.
♪
[KNOCKING]
Maya Kipling?
FBI.
Can I help you?
I'm Special Agent Remy Scott.
Is somebody already in there?
We're fine.
It's all we have, Billy.
Let's go upstairs.
Are there kids in there?
Um
We think you might be in danger.
This is my cousin Terry.
She helps me out sometimes.
Helps you out with what?
Are you running
a daycare from your house?
I'm going to get a license.
I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
We're the FBI, not the IRS.
We don't care about that.
Are you in trouble?
It's fine.
Go help Angela start quiet hour, OK?
Just let me talk to them.
So what's going on?
A serial arsonist might be
targeting your home.
What?
How many kids do you have here?
We have six today.
Angela and Terry are with them upstairs.
OK. I need you to contact their parents
and have them pick them up now.
- Are you sure?
- Get them out.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
♪
[COUGHING]
Angela?
Angela, bring the kids down. Come on.
Come on. Come on, honey. Yes.
Yeah, come on. Come on.
It's OK. Let's head outside, all right?
We got a fire in here.
- Get them out.
- We're going to head out.
Head out. There's a fire.
Let's go, all right?
Come on, guys, we gotta get out.
Come on, come on.
Keep going down the stairs.
What happened? Whose kids are these?
She runs a daycare in there.
We got to get them out of here.
I got them.
- Come on.
- Where's Terry?
- What?
- I don't know.
- I just grabbed the kids.
- OK.
I got her. Go, go.
- Nina.
- I got her.
We got two inside.
One's an FBI agent.
Fire in the back.
[GUNSHOT]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
He's on the roof!
♪
Hey.
Hey[COUGHS] Terry.
Terry, wake up.
Come on.
[COUGHS] Come on.
I'm going to get you out of here.
Get down!
[GUNSHOTS]
Guys, where is he?
Across the street on the roof.
Cover us.
OK.
Stay with me. I'm right here.
[COUGHS] Cover your mouth.
Cover your mouth.
[COUGHS]
Guys, we gotta get out of here.
[COUGHS]
♪
They're firing at us!
♪
You guys go that way.
I'll circle around.
Nina, you're clear.
Get out of there.
Come on, come on.
Come on.
[BOTH COUGHING]
Come on. Come on, come on, come on.
I got you. I got you.
We need help medical assistance!
FBI.
You're stuck between a rock
and a hard place, Gerry.
How does it feel?
Like any other day in the life.
We don't want to shoot you, Gerry.
Don't give us a reason to.
Put the gun down.
Enough people have been hurt.
All right?
This ain't '85 back in Philly.
They took a lot from you.
Never made things right. They never do.
But you can make things
right for your kids now.
Do you have any idea how it feels
not being able to give them
a home, keep them safe,
keep our family together?
No, but I know four walls
and a roof don't make a home.
Showing up for them does.
I did everything for my family!
That doesn't concern me.
Drop your weapon.
And then what?
I'm drowning, man.
All my life has been
one thing after the other,
like everyone is at the pool party,
and I'm underwater in the deep end.
And by the time anyone thinks of me,
I'll be nothing but an air bubble.
You got our attention.
But you got to think about your kids.
I don't want to have to explain
to them why my partner shot you.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
♪
Come on, Gerry.
Break the cycle.
Put the gun down.
Man, I'm not letting you
go out like this.
Put the gun down.
Hands behind your head. Let's go.
♪
Thank you for staying so late.
I appreciate it.
Of course.
Dougie's an easy-going kid.
Yeah, he gets that one from his dad.
- Good night.
- Night.
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
[PHONE RINGING]
Hi. How'd it go with Brett?
Marina Nina, it's me.
- Dad?
- Listen, don't hang up.
Oh, no, you do not get
to call me from Tink's phone.
You want to talk?
Have the balls to call me
from your own phone.
Just listen, please.
I'm at the hospital.
Tink and Brett got into it.
And evidently, he knocked
her around quite a bit.
What? What?
What do you mean he knocked her around?
He hit her?
How bad is it?
Bad enough that even though
she's not going to press charges,
the boys down at the station
are going to keep him locked up
in the drunk tank overnight
for his own safety.
Yeah, because we're really
concerned with his safety.
Come on.
- Hey, can you stay?
- Yeah.
I always said about Brett,
he's got two brain cells,
and they're both fighting
for third place.
A reasonable man would
have gotten a job.
Yeah. Well, he's not reasonable.
I mean, we knew that he was
never going to get a job.
I don't know why
I told her to talk to him.
Yeah. Well, I'm going to give
him a dose of his own medicine
next time I see him.
Yeah, not if I beat you to it.
You're going to need a long reach.
I'm getting on the next
flight to Houston.
I'm coming home, Dad.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]
Boy, oh, boy, am I ready for lunch.
You're on your way, right?
[LAUGHS] Well, I've got an appetite.
The corner house left their
beagle out in the yard again.
I swear, I was running for my life.
[LAUGHS]
What in the heck?
Hold on, Dad.
Something's spilled in my seat.
It's all wet.
It smells like gasoline.
[SCREAMING]
Call 911!
Somebody help!
Call 911!
[SCREAMING]
♪
[PHONE RINGING]
Hi, sis.
If you're calling to try to convince me
to talk to Dad again,
it's a lost cause, so let it go.
It's not why I'm calling.
I need some advice.
Is everything OK?
Are the kids all right?
No, no, no.
The kids are great. I just, uh
I just dropped them off at school.
Um
it's Brett.
Oh, OK.
Um, how are his interviews going?
There was no interview.
I just found out
he's been lying to me
for the last six months
about looking for a job.
I'm sorry. What?
All those supposed interviews,
and he's just been hanging out at bars.
OK, well, who the hell
is paying his bar tab?
I'm keeping us afloat.
I'm working overtime at Dad's
shop, doing the accounting.
But between work and the kids,
I can't do this anymore.
And to find out he's been
lying on top of all this, I
You're not supposed to be
doing this alone, Tink.
You have a partner who was
supposed to be getting a job.
I don't blame him. I never did.
He's had it rough.
Tink, I'm sorry, OK?
I'm I'm so sorry
that this is happening.
And I know that
he hasn't had it easy.
But he still has to take
accountability for this, OK?
You need to talk
to your husband, all right?
You need to tell him
that you know and
I'm really sorry.
Work is calling, so I need to go.
But I want you to sit down
and have a come-to-Jesus talk
with your husband.
Promise?
OK.
OK, I will.
Thank you for listening, Nina.
I love you.
Mean it.
I love you more.
Victim's a postal worker
named Vicky Collins.
She was halfway through her
daily route when her truck caught fire.
And she suffered third-degree burns.
She was DOA when I got here.
- Who's our witness?
- A guy named Conrad Wong.
He was over there with his baby
when he saw a Black male,
medium build, put a package
wrapped in duct tape in the truck.
Figured it was just
a neighbor dropping off
some last-minute mail till he heard
Vicky screaming, and saw the fire.
When he ran to help,
he saw that same Black male
taking off headed that way.
And what's this from?
Part of the blanket Mr. Wong
used to try to save Vicky.
Burned both his hands pretty bad.
He's at the hospital
getting treated now.
Any other witnesses?
Not so far.
Going to be hard to find
any usable evidence.
That truck had half a day's
worth of mail in it.
Mr. Wong said it burned up really fast.
That's why we have the ATF
sending out their arson specialists.
Can you check on his status?
Yeah.
Remy, this is the victim's
father, Caleb Collins.
He's a retired firefighter
from Philadelphia.
Special Agent Scott.
Sorry for your loss.
Just tell me what happened.
We think somebody might have planted
an incendiary device in the vehicle.
Is this a case of a crazy person
going after postal workers
because the letter took too long?
We're looking into it, OK?
We got a full team working on this
FBI,
ATF, U.S. postal inspector.
Was Vicky working her
regular route this morning?
Yeah, she was on her way
to pick me up for lunch
like we do every day.
We were on the phone,
talking about where.
When this happened?
Did she say she saw
anyone near her truck?
No.
All she said was her seat was wet
and it smelled like gasoline,
and then hearing her scream
and not being able to help
my little girl.
I want to help.
Well, if you want to help,
you can start by telling us,
had she received any threats recently?
You think this could have been personal?
She was seeing this guy, Anthony
real piece of work.
Is he African American, medium build?
Yeah.
Sir, if you'd come with me,
I'd like to get some more info.
ATF is 20 minutes out.
Ray is stuck in traffic,
but right behind them.
Hana is looking into an ex-boyfriend
who might be good for this.
Send it to Ray.
Barnes and I will canvass
the neighborhood
while we wait for ATF to show up.
[HORN HONKS]
Robert Jimenez?
Yeah, that's me.
What do we got so far?
The char depth and burn pattern say
the fire originated
right behind the driver's seat.
There's traces of an accelerant as well.
That's right gasoline.
Our victim was on the phone to
her father when it happened.
She said she smelled it.
A witness saw a guy dropping off
a package wrapped in duct tape.
Is that what the bomb was in?
Could be.
I found silver fibers under the
remnants of a crude fire starter.
Crude. What do you mean, crude?
The device is on a time delay,
not remotely operated.
He probably stuffed
a shoe box with paper
or some flammable material,
tied a lit cigarette
to a bunch of matches,
and dropped it in.
I found the match heads
simple, but lethal.
Matches and cigarettes.
Why does that ring a bell?
You're thinking of John Leonard Orr.
Who's that?
He was a California fire
captain who set about 2,000 fires.
Same deal he tied a lit
cigarette to a few matches.
He left a fingerprint
on a piece of paper that didn't burn.
That's how they caught
the son of a bitch.
We're not that lucky.
No prints.
But the match heads were
embedded in something.
Any idea what?
Water-gel explosive would be my guess.
Something like Tovarc.
It's like dynamite,
except a lot more stable to transport,
and safer to handle.
Adding Tovarc to gasoline
and a basic fire starter
your guy wanted to make sure
this fire burned hard and long.
How do you get your hands on Tovarc?
You have to have
a license to purchase it.
But it's not for laymen.
And I bet your arsonist is a layman.
What makes you say that?
You use an explosive
to make things explode, right?
But Tovarc needs
a secondary charge to go off.
Without that, it burns up
instead of exploding.
You think our fugitive
was looking for a big bang,
and all he got was a big fire.
Any updates,
I want to be the first to know.
Thank you.
Any news on Vicky's ex?
It wasn't him.
He's been at the dentist
getting his wisdom teeth pulled.
He's still there.
OK. So far, we got a Black male fugitive
with access to a water-gel
explosive, maybe Tovarc.
There's a million ways
to make something explode.
This joker has a signature.
I'll check with ViCAP
and BATS for past arsons
involving explosives, see
if they can find me a match.
I want to nail this piece
of garbage to the wall.
You come after one federal employee,
you come after all of us.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CHATTER ON TELEVISION]
♪
[GLASS SHATTERING]
♪
William, you back already?
William?
William, that you?
[BEEPING]
Ugh, dang it.
[GRUNTING]
Help me.
I need help!
[COUGHING]
♪
Oh, help!
[COUGHING]
♪
[SIREN WAILING]
Mr. Rayson didn't make it?
Smoke inhalation.
Sorry to hear that.
I tell people all the time,
smoke can be way more
dangerous than fire.
You find anything?
Yeah, we got lucky.
The arsonist left the package
at the kitchen back door.
And this time, it didn't
completely burn up.
Can you confirm that
this is the same arsonist
that hit the postal truck this morning?
Not 100% sure, but there were
more traces of the water gel.
I'll compare it to what
I found on the truck.
Remy, a neighbor walking her dog
noticed a gray Corolla with a
Black male driver circling the block.
The driver looked lost.
NYPD is canvassing to see if
any cameras picked him up.
Is that a witness?
Victim's son.
Agent Scott and Barnes, FBI.
We're very sorry about your father.
I should have stayed at home today.
I never should have left him alone.
Were you his primary caretaker?
No, he had a nurse
who came four times a week.
I work at a cement plant near here.
Is that where you were today?
No.
It was my day off.
My buddy had an extra pass to Ridgeland.
That's a golf club for members only.
I jumped at the chance,
but I wish I hadn't.
Did your father know this woman?
I doubt it.
I wished he would have got
out more, made friends.
But with his health issues,
it just made everything so tough on him.
I think he missed his partner.
He had a partner?
No, not that kind of partner.
He was a cop for 30 years
before turning in his badge.
Was he a cop here?
No, Philadelphia.
He was head of the aviation unit.
OK. Thank you, Mr. Rayson.
We appreciate your father's service.
Hey, Remy. What's up?
Our latest victim is a cop
from Philly named Finn Rayson.
And Vicky's dad, Caleb Collins,
was with the Philadelphia
Fire Department.
OK, so Finn is a cop.
And Collins is a firefighter.
They often respond to calls together.
Well, depending on the precinct
and the fire station they were at,
they could have responded
to dozens of calls together.
We need to figure out
what the hell connected them.
According to employee records,
they had an overlap in Philadelphia
between 1984 and 1989.
I'm going to start digging into that.
[NOTIFICATION CHIMES]
Looks like our gel substance is Tovarc,
but our arsonist had the
foresight to remove its cartridge.
What does that mean?
We can't track down where
our fugitive purchased it.
But Robert can see if
he can salvage the taggant.
And taggant is?
It's a microscopic fingerprint.
It's a unique physical marker
they put in products
to authenticate them.
If he can find it, we'll know
where the Tovarc came from.
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Why the hell are you following me?
Who are you?
♪
It's pretty brave of you to
confront a stranger like that.
You never know what people
are capable of these days.
That's why I got my gun.
Well, they say, "Don't
bring a knife to a gunfight."
You brought a gun to confront
a potential bomber.
What do you mean?
The guy killed two people using arson.
He uses explosives to start the fires.
We think that he was
driving a gray Corolla
like the one that you reported seeing.
No kidding.
I thought he was some psycho driver
I accidentally cut off on my run.
I got a look at his plates
before he drove off.
RY65C4JXM.
That's a good eye.
We'll run these numbers,
see if we can ID the guy.
Do you, by chance, have any
connection to Philadelphia?
You're kidding, right?
My granddad was Eric Raymond, Sr.
He was the mayor of
Philadelphia in the '80s.
All right. So what about you personally?
From Brooklyn, born and raised.
My folks left Philly as soon as
my grandfather's term was up.
They wanted to get away
from the bad memories.
What bad memories?
He was the Philly mayor in 1985,
when the MOVE bombing happened.
What happened again?
MOVE is a communal Black liberation
and environmentalist organization
founded in the 1970s by a man
who renamed himself John Africa.
Yeah, my dad wasn't a member of MOVE,
but he liked parts of their cause.
They're a religious,
pro-nature community.
Well, apparently
they rejected modern life
and dependence on technology.
This "Guardian" article says
that they were a mix
of Black power and flower power.
That's what got them
in trouble with the cops.
Yeah, Philly PD
and the mayor didn't like
the demonstrations of protest
that they were putting on.
In the late '70s, there were
several violent clashes
between MOVE and the police,
which led to what happened next.
In May, 1985,
Philly PD dropped a C4 bomb
on one of the homes occupied by MOVE.
Police bombed American
citizens on American soil?
I saw the news coverage.
That neighborhood was totally decimated.
That's a lot of destruction.
I mean, how big was this bomb?
Big enough to clear three city blocks.
There was a gas-powered
generator in one of the homes.
The founder of MOVE was killed
along with five adults and five kids.
That's got to be our connection.
I bet Caleb Collins was
a firefighter at the scene.
And Eric Sr. was the mayor at the time,
so he signed off on the bombing.
And get this.
Finn Rayson flew the helicopter
that dropped the bomb.
The bomb was a mixture
of C-4 and Tovarc.
Maybe our arsonist is a MOVE member.
Starting these fires could be his
way of retaliating, for the bombing.
I mean, is MOVE still around today?
I can't seem to find
much about it online.
They used to have a website,
but it's a broken link now.
But the domain still exists,
so someone's paying for it.
That would be Gretchen Smith.
She's a violin teacher in Manhattan.
All right, it's late. Let's pack up,
go see Gretchen in the morning.
I thought MOVE was supposed
to be anti-technology.
How does having a website fit into that?
MOVE was founded before the
personal computer was invented.
- We had to evolve to survive.
- We?
You weren't even born
when MOVE was active.
Same crap, different decade.
We peace-loving folks are still dealing
with police brutality and oppression.
That's why I'm trying
to keep MOVE alive.
What does MOVE look like today?
Some of us meet informally now and then,
but there's no main group
spearheading events or anything.
Given what happened before, I
I think that's for the best.
You're like everyone else who wants
to make us go away permanently.
And they tried before.
Let's not forget
that the U.S. government
bombed its own citizens
and killed five kids.
We believe a MOVE member might
be trying to avenge that
tragedy by setting these fires.
He's already killed two people.
I don't know anything about that.
We want a list of all MOVE
affiliates you've been in touch with.
As if I'd hand that over
without a warrant.
Yeah.
It's the FBI who supplied
the bomb to the Philly PD
in the first place.
And when they dropped the bomb,
the police shot at folks
trying to flee the burning building.
Allegedly.
There are some accounts that say that
MOVE shot at the cops first.
Allegedly.
Whose side are you on?
The innocent.
How does your dad feel about MOVE now?
Probably the same way I do.
It's important we don't just gloss over
- everything that happened.
- [PHONE RINGING]
History cannot repeat itself.
Hey, Hana. What's up?
I'm sending you a list
of MOVE affiliates in the area.
How'd you get your hands on that?
I tracked the IP address of every device
that visited the MOVE website
when it was still up.
Do any of these people own
a gray Corolla?
Unfortunately, no.
The license plate came back
as stolen from a Honda Accord.
The car is a dead lead.
And there are over
20 names on the list.
Who would you start with?
Ayo Parsons in Queens.
She was one of the original
members of MOVE
and one of the founder's relatives.
She might have insight
into our unsub.
Have Ray and Nina head over there now.
So this is Ayo Parsons.
She's formerly known as Ayo Africa.
She was arrested in 1978
for taking part in a riot
that left one police officer dead.
- She's out on parole?
- Yeah.
She was released last year.
She changed her maiden name back,
and has been laying low ever since.
You think that's our guy?
I don't know.
Well, what makes you think that's him?
Gut feeling.
Yep, that's him. Hey.
Come here. Hey!
FBI. Come here.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[GRUNTS]
- Hey!
- Hey!
- Move!
- Watch out!
- Hey!
- I'm trying to go!
♪
[GRUNTS]
- Hey!
- What the hell?
- What are you doing?
- Hey, watch it!
Hey, look out! Hey, move!
- Move, move!
- Look out!
Watch out. Watch out.
Hey, stop the car!
Hey, hey!
Get down.
Damn it.
I've been reviewing the security footage
from the café, but I haven't been
able to get a good look at his face.
Well, I did get a good look
in this guy's car.
It was a mess,
like he's living out of it.
Yeah. We think he might be homeless.
Depending how long this whack
job has been on the street,
it's going to be tough to ID
him without a home address.
Is that a work shirt?
Can we zoom in on that?
Mm-hmm.
Barco Security.
I've got a Barcolo Security.
It's the same logo.
They provide services
nationwide to businesses
like malls and banks.
I'm going to start looking
through their employee database.
[PHONE RINGING]
It's Robert from ATF.
All right.
So this guy was targeting MOVE members.
Safe to say that he's probably
not down for the cause.
What if he was on his way to meet her,
and she's covering for him?
Well, we spoke with Ayo,
and she put MOVE behind her.
Ever since she got out on parole,
she just wants to be with family,
and catch up on lost time.
Maybe this guy isn't part of MOVE.
But the threads keep
connecting him to the bombing.
Who else was impacted by this?
Along with 11 MOVE members,
the fire spread to 60 other row houses.
Yeah. 200 people lost their homes.
That makes for a lot
of potential suspects.
OK, so Robert zeroed in on the taggant
from the Rayson crime scene.
It's part of a bulk order purchased by
a construction company
that does road work
up and down the Eastern seaboard.
That gets us closer,
but not close enough.
Can we see if that construction company
used Barcolo for their security?
I'll do you one better.
I think I may have the guy.
Yeah, that's him.
Gerald Colworth of Long Island City.
He was a security guard
up until six months ago,
when he was fired.
He registered a gray
Toyota Corolla with Barcolo
to get a parking pass for work.
But the car was actually
registered to his ex-wife,
Leticia Colworth.
They had two kids together
before they divorced last year.
Let's go talk to the ex.
Get a handle on how this dude
went from married father of two
to homeless arsonist.
I'm going to talk
to his boss at Barcolo.
I'll work on finding out
exactly how Colworth is
connected to the MOVE bombing.
I want to know how much
Tovarc this guy's got in his arsenal.
If he figures out how to make
this bomb blow up right,
we're all in serious trouble.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Gerald worked for you for five years
before you suddenly fired him.
What happened?
It wasn't sudden.
I liked Gerry.
Even when he started coming in
late, I cut him some slack.
I've been divorced.
I know how it rips you open
and tears you up inside.
But a few months later,
he ran out of slack?
Just missed too many shifts.
I couldn't depend on him at all.
Management has me taking shifts now.
I need reliable guys.
I fired Gerry last July.
That's right when he stopped
his mortgage payments.
He lost his house to
foreclosure a couple months later.
That's the wheel of capitalism for you.
It'll grind you into the dust
before it stops.
But, hey, look, I'm sorry about Gerry.
He seemed like a good guy, a family man.
When he worked here,
did the company report
any thefts from any of your inventory?
We think he might have
stolen some of the explosives
they use here, like Tovarc.
We run inventory every week.
Nothing has been reported stolen
- definitely not Tovarc.
- OK.
Well, triple check that inventory.
And if you come short on
anything, even a tiny amount,
call us right away, OK?
I don't know what I can tell you.
Gerry and I have been
divorced for a year.
Did he ever talk about
the 1985 MOVE bombing?
A little.
I always wished he'd open up more.
It's what broke us up.
Did Gerry and his family belong to MOVE?
Kids, wait for me.
No, Gerry has nothing to do with that.
But his family lived on that block.
And what happened in 1985,
it destroyed them.
Their house burned down, right?
Yes, but it wasn't about
losing the house.
It was about losing his home.
Gerry's parents never recovered.
They had a really ugly split-up.
When we first met, Gerry
promised he'd never let that happen.
He said we'd never, ever get a divorce.
We all get married thinking
it'll never happen to us.
Until it does, right?
I filed for divorce last year,
but I stayed close by for the kids.
Do you guys share custody?
For now.
But since he lost his job
and then the house
if the kids have nowhere
to stay with him,
I might as well move to Phoenix.
My sister lives out there.
It's so much cheaper.
Does Gerry know you want
custody of the kids?
I'm not trying to blindside him.
I told him a few weeks ago.
And how did he react?
Worse than when I told him
I wanted a divorce.
Back then, I had to hide
all the meds in our house.
I was scared he might do
something he couldn't take back.
He already has.
Two people are dead.
What?
Our kids are Gerry's world.
And they adore him back.
When they find out what
he's done, it'll destroy them.
When's the last time you spoke with him?
A couple weeks ago.
Gerry called me from a number
I didn't recognize.
Let's give it a try.
Brooklyn Men's Emergency Shelter.
Aditi speaking.
Ray and Barnes are back here on speaker.
Gerry was eight when
they lost their family home.
His family was involved in a lawsuit
against the city of Philadelphia,
and the police department.
Since Gerry can't provide a stable home,
his wife is suing him for
full custody of their kids.
That kind of mirrors what
happened to him when he was little.
Yeah, look, the police bombed
MOVE headquarters.
Gerry loses his childhood home.
Then he loses his family.
So it's happening again
to him 40 years later.
That must be what triggered him.
After his house was foreclosed,
Gerry stayed at a men's shelter.
We just spoke to the director.
Yeah, you think he's going
after the shelter next?
They've been alerted.
Gerry even brought his
kids there and pretended
it was a weekend excursion.
The shelter has a strict no-kids policy,
so they had to ask Gerry to leave.
And he hasn't been back since.
Hmm. That's harsh.
All right. So no family, no home.
This guy's got nothing to lose.
Where's he going next?
The shelter director
said that Gerry was friendly
with a guy named Trent who comes around
for a hot meal, but also keeps a spot
at an encampment in Astoria.
Sending you the cross streets.
Meet us there.
All right.
[PHONE RINGING]
Oh, Hana. Ethan's calling you.
Here.
You're not going to answer it?
Nope.
[SIGHS] We broke up two weeks ago.
Oh, Hana, I'm so sorry.
There were signs.
- I missed them.
- What kind of signs?
I don't want to talk about it.
Yeah, of course.
Have you seen this guy?
Have you seen this man?
OK. Thank you.
Nobody recognizes him.
At least that's what they say.
Half of them won't even talk.
They don't trust the badge.
I mean, every major city,
cops are constantly
harassing them, making them move around,
set up camps in different places.
That's why MOVE didn't trust the cops
the constant harassment.
- [PHONE RINGING]
- It's Horus, Gerry's old boss.
All right.
Remy's found Trent.
Oh, great.
How well do you know Gerry?
You know, about as well as
you get to know the guy
who's stuck in the same
sinking boat with you.
[LOUD BANG]
It must be pretty hard
to get a decent night's
sleep around here.
Why do you stay?
Yeah, it's just noise, you know.
Better than camping out
someplace quiet and residential.
And you always got the cops on your ass.
OK, so you're here because
the neighbors don't complain.
Out of sight, out of mind,
which is exactly
how the public likes
their homeless, right?
Oh, I'm sorry, the unhoused,
as though semantics
are going to put a freaking
roof over our heads.
Is that what you and Gerry talked about?
Yeah, I mean, I'm over it, man.
But Gerry
[LAUGHS]
He would get all riled up.
He talks about how
the police and politicians,
they don't want to do their
jobs, yada, yada, you know.
You talking about the housing crisis?
I'm talking about any crisis, man.
Not like we elected them to put out
these kind of fires or anything.
Though, if you ask Gerry,
he'd say they wouldn't put out a fire
even if that was exactly their job.
What do you mean by that?
His house burned down when he was a kid.
He said the firefighters,
they showed up.
They just stood around
and watched that baby
burn to the ground.
So that was Gerry's old boss.
He said all of the Tovarc
is accounted for.
However, a spool of det cord
went missing in the last day.
They never changed the locks
after Gerry got fired,
so he could have used
his key to steal it.
What's det cord?
It's a detonation cord.
Yeah, that's uh
it's a tiny little tube
filled with explosives.
We used to use that back in Afghan
to blow up expired ordnance.
The arson investigator said that Tovarc
needs a secondary explosive
to be triggered.
Would det cord work?
It's exactly what det cord's for.
Turn a little kaboom into a big kaboom.
No big deal.
That whole blast you heard earlier
I mean, you got those
construction crews.
They're running det cord
and Tovarc every damn day.
OK. So Gerry could have
gotten the Tovarc from anywhere,
including that construction site.
Yeah, but he didn't know
he needed the det cord
to make it explode.
Until he saw the first two
arsons were fires, not explosions.
Now that he has these two ingredients,
it's only a matter of time
before the big kaboom.
Gerry told a friend that
when his house burned down,
the fire department just
stood by and did nothing.
Is that true?
You don't understand.
You're asking me about something
that happened 40 years ago.
I don't remember the details.
We're not passing judgment.
We just need to know
what really happened.
It was my second year on the job.
I was following orders.
What were your orders?
To stand down.
No one expected the fire
to get so out of control.
It got out of control because
you didn't do anything to stop it.
It was a mess.
My lieutenant called it a war zone.
And this is the guy that
did two tours in Vietnam.
Bullets were flying.
Who started the shooting?
Depends on who you ask.
Some folks say the cops were
shooting at the MOVE folks
trying to escape the fire.
And the cops say
MOVE fired at them first.
Now, what were we supposed to do?
We couldn't disobey
the fire commissioner.
Is he the one who gave the order?
As far as I know, he was given
that order by the police commissioner.
Is this why my daughter was killed?
Over something I did four decades ago?
No.
It's over what you didn't do.
Gerry went after a firefighter
at the scene
the helicopter pilot who dropped
the bomb, then the mayor.
He's working his way
up the chain of command.
Contact the fire
and police commissioners.
We got to warn them.
The Philadelphia police
commissioner in 1985
was Victor Kipling.
He lives in a senior community
in New Rochelle.
Fire commissioner is in New York now.
His last known is in Brooklyn.
You and Ray go see the fire
commissioner. The rest of you, with me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Damn incident derailed my career.
By incident, you mean
the bomb you ordered
that killed 11 people?
It wasn't just any person.
They were disrupting the city
and endangering the police.
What about the five kids?
How were they endangering the police?
I mean, those five kids weren't
the only collateral damage.
200 homes burnt that day.
This is Gerry Colworth.
He lost his childhood home.
Do you recognize him?
No.
But I do remember the Colworth name.
His parents were part
of a lawsuit against the city
and your police department.
That's right.
First time I saw her in court,
Loretta Colworth was pregnant.
They told me she had
a miscarriage later.
Family blamed it on the stress
from losing their house.
Look, we never meant to hurt any kids,
but they shouldn't have been in
that house in the first place.
If I was their parents,
I would never forgive myself
for putting my kids in danger's way.
There's nothing worse
than seeing somebody you love get hurt,
especially if it's your fault.
♪
You know, we've assumed that
Gerry was going after the people
who were responsible for the bombing.
But what if he's actually
going after their loved ones?
Collateral damage.
That's a worse punishment than
going after people themselves.
We thought he was going after the dad,
but maybe he was going
after Vicki all along.
He didn't mix up Eric Junior,
by the way.
He was stalking the mayor's
grandson on purpose.
And Finn Rayson's son
was supposed to be home
when Gerry set that fire.
[PHONE RINGING]
What's up, Ray?
We got a BOLO hit on
Gerald's car in the Bronx.
We're headed there now.
I'll drop you a location pin.
Bring around the Tahoe.
Isn't that where
the fire commissioner lives?
House sitter said he's out of town.
He and his wife are in Florida.
Does he have relatives in the Bronx?
We think Gerry's going
after the family members
of the people responsible
for the bombing.
His car is parked in
a dense residential area.
If we have to account for relatives,
it will take time
to figure out who he's after.
They found our fugitive's
car in the Bronx.
Where in the Bronx?
My granddaughter lives there.
♪
[KNOCKING]
Maya Kipling?
FBI.
Can I help you?
I'm Special Agent Remy Scott.
Is somebody already in there?
We're fine.
It's all we have, Billy.
Let's go upstairs.
Are there kids in there?
Um
We think you might be in danger.
This is my cousin Terry.
She helps me out sometimes.
Helps you out with what?
Are you running
a daycare from your house?
I'm going to get a license.
I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
We're the FBI, not the IRS.
We don't care about that.
Are you in trouble?
It's fine.
Go help Angela start quiet hour, OK?
Just let me talk to them.
So what's going on?
A serial arsonist might be
targeting your home.
What?
How many kids do you have here?
We have six today.
Angela and Terry are with them upstairs.
OK. I need you to contact their parents
and have them pick them up now.
- Are you sure?
- Get them out.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
♪
[COUGHING]
Angela?
Angela, bring the kids down. Come on.
Come on. Come on, honey. Yes.
Yeah, come on. Come on.
It's OK. Let's head outside, all right?
We got a fire in here.
- Get them out.
- We're going to head out.
Head out. There's a fire.
Let's go, all right?
Come on, guys, we gotta get out.
Come on, come on.
Keep going down the stairs.
What happened? Whose kids are these?
She runs a daycare in there.
We got to get them out of here.
I got them.
- Come on.
- Where's Terry?
- What?
- I don't know.
- I just grabbed the kids.
- OK.
I got her. Go, go.
- Nina.
- I got her.
We got two inside.
One's an FBI agent.
Fire in the back.
[GUNSHOT]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
He's on the roof!
♪
Hey.
Hey[COUGHS] Terry.
Terry, wake up.
Come on.
[COUGHS] Come on.
I'm going to get you out of here.
Get down!
[GUNSHOTS]
Guys, where is he?
Across the street on the roof.
Cover us.
OK.
Stay with me. I'm right here.
[COUGHS] Cover your mouth.
Cover your mouth.
[COUGHS]
Guys, we gotta get out of here.
[COUGHS]
♪
They're firing at us!
♪
You guys go that way.
I'll circle around.
Nina, you're clear.
Get out of there.
Come on, come on.
Come on.
[BOTH COUGHING]
Come on. Come on, come on, come on.
I got you. I got you.
We need help medical assistance!
FBI.
You're stuck between a rock
and a hard place, Gerry.
How does it feel?
Like any other day in the life.
We don't want to shoot you, Gerry.
Don't give us a reason to.
Put the gun down.
Enough people have been hurt.
All right?
This ain't '85 back in Philly.
They took a lot from you.
Never made things right. They never do.
But you can make things
right for your kids now.
Do you have any idea how it feels
not being able to give them
a home, keep them safe,
keep our family together?
No, but I know four walls
and a roof don't make a home.
Showing up for them does.
I did everything for my family!
That doesn't concern me.
Drop your weapon.
And then what?
I'm drowning, man.
All my life has been
one thing after the other,
like everyone is at the pool party,
and I'm underwater in the deep end.
And by the time anyone thinks of me,
I'll be nothing but an air bubble.
You got our attention.
But you got to think about your kids.
I don't want to have to explain
to them why my partner shot you.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
♪
Come on, Gerry.
Break the cycle.
Put the gun down.
Man, I'm not letting you
go out like this.
Put the gun down.
Hands behind your head. Let's go.
♪
Thank you for staying so late.
I appreciate it.
Of course.
Dougie's an easy-going kid.
Yeah, he gets that one from his dad.
- Good night.
- Night.
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
[PHONE RINGING]
Hi. How'd it go with Brett?
Marina Nina, it's me.
- Dad?
- Listen, don't hang up.
Oh, no, you do not get
to call me from Tink's phone.
You want to talk?
Have the balls to call me
from your own phone.
Just listen, please.
I'm at the hospital.
Tink and Brett got into it.
And evidently, he knocked
her around quite a bit.
What? What?
What do you mean he knocked her around?
He hit her?
How bad is it?
Bad enough that even though
she's not going to press charges,
the boys down at the station
are going to keep him locked up
in the drunk tank overnight
for his own safety.
Yeah, because we're really
concerned with his safety.
Come on.
- Hey, can you stay?
- Yeah.
I always said about Brett,
he's got two brain cells,
and they're both fighting
for third place.
A reasonable man would
have gotten a job.
Yeah. Well, he's not reasonable.
I mean, we knew that he was
never going to get a job.
I don't know why
I told her to talk to him.
Yeah. Well, I'm going to give
him a dose of his own medicine
next time I see him.
Yeah, not if I beat you to it.
You're going to need a long reach.
I'm getting on the next
flight to Houston.
I'm coming home, Dad.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]