Hudson and Rex (2019) s02e07 Episode Script
The Woods Have Eyes
1 (WATER AND WIND) - - (SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) - - (SOFT FEMALE VOCALS) (CAMERA SNAPS) (CAMERA SNAPS) (CAMERA SNAPS) - - (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) (CAMERA SNAPS) (MEN'S VOICES) (CAMERA SNAPS) (GUNSHOT) You never gonna keep me down You never gonna keep me down - CHARLIE: Good job, partner.
- No no no You never gonna keep me down You never gonna keep me down No no no Be lucky if I stick around - Maybe foolish - (CELL PHONE BUZZING) But I ain't a clown No no no no Time for work, partner.
Rex, let's go.
- (REX BARKS) - Down down down Come on, pal.
CHARLIE: Joe! Hey.
I got a message.
What's up? DONOVAN: Detective Hudson.
This is Deena Roy.
- (REX WHIMPERS) - DEENA: Is this the dog I read about in the paper? The one who can find anything? Yeah, his name is Rex.
What can we do to help? It's my daughter.
She's disappeared.
- - (THEME MUSIC) My daughter Alia is a photographer.
She just won the Elsie Holloway Prize for photographic excellence.
The ceremony was at City Hall this morning.
But she never showed.
I keep calling and calling.
But her phone just goes straight to voicemail, which is not like her at all.
And her last text message was that she would see me at the awards ceremony.
Is there any reason why Alia might choose to skip the awards? My daughter doesn't care about prizes.
The only reason she accepted was because I made her promise to take me.
I was just so proud.
CHARLIE: Can you think of anyone who might not be as big a fan of Alia's work as her mother? Alia is, well, an activist to some crusader to others.
She photographs industrial pollution.
Shows the world how big companies are destroying the planet.
And when people see my daughter's pictures- companies get fined millions to clean up their mess.
Maybe something on her laptop can show you who was bullying my baby.
Well, if there's something on here, Jesse will sniff it out.
And the rest is up to Rex.
(REX BARKS) I brought one of Alia's favourite hoodies so he'd have her scent.
Thank you.
It was her brother's.
Hassan was accepted to Heritage University, full scholarship, before he got sick.
After he died, Alia wouldn't take it off for weeks.
(REX WHIMPERS) I'm very sorry for your loss.
That's why Alia is so driven.
She thinks Hassan got cancer because big companies are poisoning the planet.
She was finally being recognized for her work.
And this happens.
I just can't lose another child.
We're going to do everything in our power to bring her back home, Ms.
Roy.
You have our word.
Right, Rex? (REX WHIMPERS) (DEENA CRYING SOFTLY) JESSE: This is our missing person.
Alia Roy.
She's a photographer specializing in pollution's impact on the environment.
Wow, who knew pollution could look so beautiful? Well, they say one man's trash, another man's treasure.
Well, I found a lot of treasure in Alia's trash bin, you know.
Mostly letters from your basic evil multinationals pertaining to this.
This is a typical one that has to do with Alia's most recent photo essay on the effects of palm oil farming in Guatemala on the Pacific Ocean.
She got big love from the treehuggers.
But big time hate - from the local government.
- Mm-hmm.
Have you had any luck tracking her phone? Well, here's where the weird kick in.
Okay, her phone last pinged at 5 AM.
But the signal kept bouncing between cell towers.
I couldn't get a lock on it.
Well, luckily her rental car was just found.
Apparently, big business wasn't the only ones trying to cap her lens.
Let's get to it, folks.
Meet you there? (REX BARKS) Let's go.
CHARLIE: Well! Looks like we're looking for - a very lazy speller.
- Oh.
You're going to need a shower after this.
Maybe a couple of showers.
- Yeah.
- Find anything yet? No fingerprints yet.
Isolating any DNA will be tough.
With all this household garbage, it's basically DNA soup.
Any good news? Here, have a look.
Hey.
Notice anything? Red punch-buggy, no punch-backs? Haha.
The car seat has been pushed back.
At Alia's height, she never could've reached the pedals.
So someone else was driving.
But when she left her mom's home this morning, she was alone.
- That's interesting.
- (CELL PHONE BUZZING) - Hudson.
- JESSE: Hey.
I'm still going through security footage from City Hall.
But get this.
Alia won an Elsie for a recent photo essay on a garbage dumping scam here in St.
John's.
Was that the thing with the deputy mayor and his cousin? Yeah.
Bingo.
Councilor Harris contracted his cousin's company to pick up household recycling.
But- they ended up just dumping it in the ocean.
I'm guessing they weren't on the guest list.
Yeah.
Councilor Harris left the province after he stepped down.
But his cousin, Gordon, is still in St.
John's.
Picked up a couple of shifts hauling garbage for a temp company after his went bankrupt.
Well, I guess I'm going to have to see if Gordon's alibi is bankrupt too.
Hey, Sarah.
You're cool to take out the garbage on your own? You're very funny! - Rex! - (REX BARKS) (REX BARKING) GORDON: Whoah! Get your dog off of my property! CHARLIE: Just doing his job, Gordo! Unlike you, who does not have such a great - track record.
- (REX BARKS) What the hell you talking about? Well, I'm talking about Alia Roy.
And how she busted you for dumping the garbage.
Which makes me think that you know something about her disappearing this morning.
Am I right? Yeah, he's running.
Rex! (REX BARKING) (REX BARKING) (REX BARKING) Control your damn dog! Well, you should ask him nicely.
Rex is real particular about manners.
(REX BARKING) But first Why don't you and I have a real chat, about littering? (REX BARKS) His alibi checks out.
Gordon completed his route this morning.
Alia left her mom's at 4:30 this morning.
His pickups didn't start until 6:30.
He had motive and he ran.
Which makes him guilty of- of something.
Alia's been gone for over eight hours now.
And we have no idea where she went.
(REX PANTING) Thanks, partner.
(DOOR CLOSES) So, my alibi checked out, huh? Well, if your alibi was so airtight, then why did you run, Gordo? I don't like dogs.
Or photographers.
I told you already.
I don't know where Alia is! Okay, well let me tell you what I know.
Alia's photos made you lose your business, your work and your reputation.
And now you haul garbage for the competition.
That is a hell of a promotion, isn't it? It's honest work.
But too bad you're not honest.
You know, it must have really stung to have her rewarded for your crimes.
She gets to shake hands with the mayor.
Her picture in the newspaper.
I can get over it.
Well, here's the thing that's going to be harder to get over is that the junk mail that we found in Alia's rental it came from your garbage route.
So if anything did happen to Alia, we can place you in her car.
And things get real bad from there, Gordo.
- (BANG) - Talk! I stole her car, okay? That's it.
Where did you take it from? The woods outside the city.
I sent her a bogus tip about animal poaching.
I followed her out there this morning.
When she went in the woods, I jacked the car.
I just wanted her to miss the ceremony.
She was getting an award for ruining my life! You did that all on your own.
(DOOR CLOSES) CHARLIE: Sarah says the tire tracks are consistent with the rental.
DONOVAN: The Blackwood Reserve is almost fifteen hundred square kilometers.
Hmm.
That's a lot of ground to cover.
Well as soon (HISS) as Rex picks (HISS) up Alia's we'll be able to track (HISS) quickly.
Joe? Hello? The cell service is bad up here.
It's like when I tried tracking Alia's phone.
Something about that area cuts out cell phone signals.
Get on that.
CHARLIE: Alright, Rex.
Track it.
(REX SNIFFING) Atta boy.
SARAH: Only six hours of daylight left.
It'll be hard to track Alia once it's dark.
And night brings nocturnal predators.
Ha.
You know an awful lot about the outdoors for an art lover.
And I was also a Pathfinder in Junior High.
I'm surprised you weren't a Boy Scout.
Well, I'm a city boy.
The wilderness is where all the horror movies happen.
You're afraid of a little masked killer in the woods? No, spiders.
- I hate spiders.
- (REX BARKS) What have you got, buddy? Think Alia was leaving a marker to try and find her way back? That's smart.
With the hinky reception in the woods her phone's GPS would have cut out.
Alright, pal.
Track it.
(REX BARKS) CHARLIE: What do you see, pal? That's strange.
This is Crown Land.
Come on.
What's that building doing here? And why is there a wall? (REX BARKING) VALENTINE: To keep trespassers like you out.
(REX BARKING) Keep the dog in line.
(REX BARKING) Or what? (COCKING GUN) Or we'll do it for you.
(REX WHIMPERS) They can't keep us here for long.
We're cops.
Yeah, well until our phones start working we're guests.
- (DOOR BEEPING) - (DOOR OPENING) LORI: Your phones will work once you clear the woods.
We jam the signals.
The wilderness takes care of the rest.
Lori Schiff.
Managing Director of X/L Vault.
You've already met my Chief of Operations- - Valentine Anson.
- And this is Rex.
An angry canine looking for an excuse not to bring you down to the station.
(REX BARKS) Well, we protect very sensitive material, here.
We needed to verify that you are who you say you are.
You didn't have to do that with the guns.
We have permits for all our firearms.
We'd be more than happy to send copies to the station.
What is it you protect at X/L Vault? We're a data storage facility.
In the middle of a wildlife reserve? On Crown land? Discretion is our first line of defense.
What were you doing on our campus? We're searching for a missing woman.
She disappeared this morning.
Maybe you picked something up on your security cameras? Or one of the fine people who escorted us saw something? LORI: We'll be sure to let you know if we find anything.
Right.
Well, how about I come back with a warrant? I wouldn't waste your time.
Valentine will escort you off campus.
(REX YELPS) CHARLIE: Cell signal dampeners and armed guards feel like overkill for data storage.
These guys came to play.
See what you can dig up on X/L Vault.
I'll work on getting a warrant.
SARAH: We need to hurry.
Light's running out.
They've got way too much ground to cover.
We need more eyes in the woods.
I think I can help with that.
Come on, pal.
(REX BARKS) I know that bark.
Rexie! Come here, boy! Hi! Hi Rexie! Hi big boy! Come here! - Hi! - (REX BARKS) How's my Rexie? Hi! You keep leading him on.
Charlie Hudson! What's a big city boy like you doing in my corner of the woodpile, huh? Well, a young woman named Alia Roy went missing in them this morning.
- The environmental photographer? - Yeah, you know her? Yeah, I'm a huge fan of her work.
Her photos have made a real impact on global climate policy.
Well, Alia's trail led us to a data storage company.
But they stonewalled us.
X/L Vault.
What do you know about them? They got a special lease for the land from the feds themselves.
They're super connected.
Super private.
And they get real twitchy when anyone plays on their side of the fence.
So we've learned Well, we lost Alia's trail on their campus and can't pick it up without a warrant.
Anything you can do to help us out? For Rexie? Anything.
Come on, boy.
Come on.
Please, step into my office.
Let me show you what I got in here.
I've got some new toys.
- Nice digs.
- Thanks! This is my crow, Bob.
I've been nursing him back to health for a little while.
Bob, meet Charles.
And Rex.
(REX BARKS) (BOB CAWS) Alright.
Let's see what we've got.
How can you still be a cat lover when you know Rex? (REX WHINES) It's the 21st century, Charlie.
You don't have to choose anymore.
So, we have a webcam system that keeps tabs on all of our wildlife populations in all of the parks and forests.
There's wolves in Newfoundland? Well One or two make it down from Labrador when prey is scarce.
How hungry is this one? I'd keep an extra steak in your pocket.
Uhh.
Just kidding.
The stars of this channel are lynxes, foxes, moose, bears- Bears! That's much better than wolves.
- Right buddy? - (REX BARKING) Right.
Okay, I can take you through the camera zones of the forest.
Where do you want to start? How about just north of Highway 11? Highway 11, you got it.
Bringing it up.
A man in black staring over his shoulder? That's not sketchy at all.
CHARLIE: That's 5:15 AM.
- Want to turn that up? - Yeah.
CHARLIE: And this one's 5:25 AM.
From the same park camera.
JESSE: Who's that? Drunk Big Bird? CHARLIE: No, I think it was Alia on a zip line.
She went into the woods on a false tip looking for poachers.
And ended up coming across a real story.
With creepy guy in the woods? There's always a creepy guy in the woods.
DONOVAN: I tried to fast track a warrant on X/L Vault.
But it got stopped- by the Department of Defense.
JESSE: Why's the military getting involved? Well, it doesn't matter.
We don't need a warrant.
This footage came from Newfoundland Parks territory.
Rex can just pick up the trail from wherever this webcam was recording footage.
You better move fast.
The sun's going down.
And the wolves get hungry.
- (REX WHINES) - CHARLIE: Sounds great.
Always the bad news.
Huh? Let's go, Rex.
Come on, Rex.
I'll give Sarah the coordinates.
Who? Here.
Here you go.
Mm-hmm.
Here you go.
Hey.
Hey, sniff this.
Go find her, Rexie.
Go find her, Rexie.
Off you go.
Off you go.
Good boy, Rexie.
Rexie.
Uh-they have a little-thing.
Hey! - You got it! - CHARLIE: Eh! SARAH: Oh-ho! So did you and Kendra have a thing? Well, like a schoolyard thing.
Yeah, but you didn't have Rex when you were in the schoolyard.
Well, I mean, you know you have a divorce and then you get-you know- reacquainted with old friends.
- KENDRA: Hey guys? - Yeah? KENDRA: We've got some broken branches.
Looks like someone fell here.
See how the impact has disturbed the ground? And we've got a track.
Small tread, probably a woman's.
Alia's.
I think she fell from the zipline and unhooked herself.
Or she was shot out of the sky.
Sarah.
I'll see if I can dig it out.
It's small.
Looks like a .
22.
(REX BARKING) (REX SNIFFING) (REX BARKING) (REX BARKING) SARAH: It's the creepy guy from the webcam feed.
Why just leave the body here? CHARLIE: They probably expected to be long gone by the time he was found.
Good job, partner.
Whoever he was, he worked for X/L Vault.
CHARLIE: Whatever happened here- Alia could have seen it from the zipline.
(REX BARKING) I know, buddy.
Brought you a triple shot.
Figured you could use it after pulling an all-nighter.
What gave me away? Yesterday's clothes? The fetching bags under my eyes? You find out who our X/L Vault John Doe is? Joe set up a meeting with Lori-to identify the body.
Anything you can tell me? We found some blood on the ground that we traced back to Alia.
So it looks like she was wounded.
But this bullet we pulled from the tree killed our John Doe.
And it's quite the bullet.
It comes from a custom pistol.
Most North American handguns have six groove twist barrels.
Whatever shot this was a seven twist.
Now it's pretty hard to get a low caliber high accuracy pistol into the country.
Unless you have the kind of access that gets you a secret base in the middle of a protected forest.
Yeah.
DONOVAN: Yesterday, we found a dead man in the woods with one of your security badges.
His body was found near the blood of Alia Roy, missing now for over 24 hours.
We believe she witnessed a murder and was shot for it.
So if you don't want to be slapped with an obstruction charge- I suggest we start cooperating.
We're all on the same team here.
Are we? Because I think Alia came across whatever killed this man and you stopped her from exposing it.
DONOVAN: Because whatever you're doing on this reserve it sure as hell isn't data storage.
You're right.
Data storage is a cover.
X/L Vault is part of the Canadian Bureau of Special Police Cyber-intelligence Branch.
Yesterday we discovered a security breach when we caught you trespassing.
And I'm sorry for stonewalling.
But your timing was extremely suspect.
The body in the woods was John Gore, one of our IT Specialists.
The breach was traced back to him.
John actually stole plans for a remote data cloner.
Our investigation shows that he was meeting a buyer in the woods.
But he was double-crossed.
Our evidence points to John being betrayed by one single buyer.
This one.
LORI: Because of the rising tensions over climate change, these activists are becoming more and more aggressive in their tactics.
Hold on.
You're saying that Alia is an ecoterrorist? She's the perfect recruit, athletic, multilingual, extremist.
LORI: And because of her recent work in South America, it put her in close proximity to a number of radical cells all of which fit the profile of the buyer.
No, this is This is crazy, okay? Alia She was here to accept an award with her mother.
Perfect cover story.
No one wants to believe that a talented young woman like Alia could be involved in something like this.
But I think we need to open our eyes to the fact that she might be.
Our goal is to find Alia and recover the missing tech.
Yeah, well our goal is to bring Alia home safely.
Like Lori said, we're all on the same team.
Okay, but if Alia is part of a terrorist cell then she would have stayed in the woods until safely extracted.
Gunshot wounds draw way too much attention at hospitals.
You've been watching Homeland again? Yeah, for research.
But what about Alia's mother, okay? I mean, is there any chance that she could have used Deena to help her get out of the country? Are you saying her mom is a mule? No, everything we know about Alia is that she's not that kind of a person.
DONOVAN: Yeah, well, Valentine just gave me a file that might change your mind on that.
Apparently, they've been doing some digging into Alia's finances.
And found a large cash transaction that was diverted through Deena's account.
A mom will do anything to protect her kids.
Let's hope that doesn't also mean transferring funds to a terrorists organization.
CHARLIE: Deena, thanks for coming.
- Did the laptop help? - It did.
I'm going to hang on to the hoodie until we find Alia.
Superintendent Donovan said Newfoundland Parks is helping with the Search and Rescue effort? Yeah.
They're sending us their best trackers.
And we'll see if they can keep up with Rex.
(REX BARKS) I know you'll find her.
(REX WHIMPERS) Deena, I need to ask you a question.
Do you know who Alia's been working with recently? It changes all the time.
Alia's freelance.
Sometimes it's magazines.
Sometimes galleries, websites.
Why? Well there's a cash payment that sticks out.
To the tune of 20 thousand.
Why are you looking into my daughter's finances? Because it's my job.
After Hassan died, I couldn't work.
My son's death threw me into a deep depression.
I got behind on my mortgage.
I needed money and Alia sold some pictures to help me.
20 thousand is a lot of pictures.
Do you think Alia's missing has something to do with the pictures she took for that money? It's something we have to consider.
No, my Alia is innocent.
She would never do anything to break the law.
That's not how I raised her.
Okay, well Look, Deena.
I promise you, we're going to do our best to bring her home safe, okay? Okay.
(REX BARKS) Rex, let's get to work.
(THUNDER) JESSE: Okay, Alpha team? Do you copy? CHARLIE: Copy, Alpha team.
Beta team, good to go? VALENTINE: You know this is wrong, right? Clearly, I'm the Alpha.
Tell that to Rex.
Omega team, how are you doing? Okay, everyone in position? DONOVAN: Alright, then.
Let's bring Alia home.
VALENTINE: Remember.
Even though she's wounded we're dealing with a highly-skilled - and dangerous operative.
- The difference is I'm looking for a missing photo journalist.
And you're looking for an enemy spy in the woods.
KENDRA: If you boys don't get along I'm going to put you both in corners.
Alright, Parks.
This is your woodpile.
Where do we start? We left Alia's trail at the water.
So I divided her possible exit into three zones.
We're going to each start at the river's edge.
And we're going to work towards each other.
And we're going to pick up her trail along the way, alright? She can't have gone far.
Her injuries will be slowing her down.
Look for signs of dried blood as a marker.
JESSE: Once you confirm Alia's exit point I can localize the park cameras so we can have more eyes.
Okay, let's get started.
Track, Rex! Track it.
Hey, Hudson.
- You there? - CHARLIE: Yeah, I'm here.
We all want Alia to be innocent.
But sometimes people get in their own way.
Make a wrong turn.
CHARLIE: We don't know Alia is one of those yet.
VALENTINE: How much more evidence? If you guys can put a pin in your bromance for a sec, I think I found Alia's exit point.
I've got a bloody T-Shirt.
Looks like our clever girl cleaned and bound a wound.
So haul tooshie to me as fast as you can, okay? CHARLIE: Roger that! I'm on my way, Kendra.
Jesse, can you pull up Zone 46 for me on the feed? I think that's our best shot for spotting Alia.
Okay, bringing up the feeds now.
(STATIC) (FEEDBACK) Ahhh! Jesse? - (STATIC) - Chief, you okay? Yeah yeah yeah.
We're okay.
It's just someone's interfering with our access to the Newfoundland Parks wildlife feed.
We're sitting blind until Jesse can get it up and running again.
CHARLIE: Roger that.
Rex, let's go.
Come on, pal.
Kendra, we're on our way! - I'll get the satellite.
- Yeah.
(PHONE CHIMES) Hey, Jesse.
You got this? I got this.
Shouldn't take long.
Alright.
(CAR STARTING) Kendra, I'm at your location.
CHARLIE: Where's Kendra? I don't know.
I just got here myself.
(REX BARKING) CHARLIE: Ken! Kendra! - (REX WHIMPERS) - Hey.
Hey.
Hey, Kendra.
You okay? She's breathing.
She's got a nasty bump on her head.
Someone must've hit her from behind.
(REX BARKS) (REX BARKING) VALENTINE: With this.
KENDRA: Oh, that hurts.
VALENTINE: Even you have to admit, Hudson.
Alia's picture came into focus.
(REX BARKING) Stop be so stubborn! Okay? Let me take a look.
- You're sure you're okay? - I'm fine.
- What happened? - I was tracking her along here.
And then last thing I remember, I radioed Valentine.
And then that's when she must've brained me.
Well, Alia must've been hiding up here somewhere.
And when you turned your back- she hit you on the head to buy time to escape.
Stay with Kendra.
Tell Lori to call a medic.
Rex comes with me.
No, Rex goes where I go.
(REX BARKS) Suit yourself.
But Hudson.
I think it's time for you to accept that the Alia in your head is not the same Alia in these woods.
Here.
Hold this for me.
We can't take a chance she's tracking or listening to our conversation.
Relax, Hudson.
This is what I was trained for.
Okay? - (COCKING GUN) - Good boy.
Good boy.
You guys be safe.
Do me a favour? - Hold this? - You got it.
Rex.
Stay with Kendra.
Good boy, Rexie.
Good boy, Rexie.
Good boy.
Hey, Jesse.
How are those repairs coming? JESSE: Okay, we are almost there.
- How's Kendra? - Yeah, she'll be fine.
Kendra's as tough as they come.
I guess we were wrong about Alia, huh? Yeah, but why did she leave Kendra alive when she shot John in cold blood? I don't know, I mean- all this spy stuff has got my head spinning around.
Yeah, I hear you.
Sometimes it's hard to trust your own instincts.
KENDRA: You should.
You're the best cop I've ever known.
And I'm the best ranger you've ever known.
And together, we're going to figure this out.
Jesse, when you get that signal up, you let us know.
JESSE: Copy that.
How do we have all these cameras and still not know the full picture? We're putting too much faith in tech.
We need to go old school.
You need to case the scene like a cop.
And I'm going to track the signs like a ranger.
Alright, country girl.
How about we start back from where Alia attacked you - with that camera? - Alright.
You think you can learn anything from these tracks? The depression here is slightly deeper than at the water, but that's because of the impact from jumping off this rock.
Hold on.
(REX WHINES) These aren't a small woman's tracks.
These are at least a size 12.
So Alia's camera suddenly shows up.
And an ID badge gets traced back to X/L Vault.
It's almost like the breadcrumbs are conveniently coming together.
Like we're being fed a story.
- Yeah.
- Hey Jess? I need you to get Sarah to do me a favour.
DONOVAN: You said we're on the same team.
So why is your agent taking over my investigation? Because I didn't realize how dangerous Alia is.
My agents have specialized military training to De-escalate this type of situation.
I won't put any more innocents in danger.
Do those innocents include Alia? I can't risk her getting out of the woods with that tech.
Even if it means killing her? My job is to make the hard call when the security of the nation is at stake.
And my job is to make sure that we are not convicting innocent citizens without all the evidence.
Otherwise, it's not a nation worth protecting.
What do you want from me? I want all of X/L Vault's security data from the last forty-eight hours.
Parks Newfoundland uses these chips to track wildlife migration.
It'll allow us to catch up with Rex so he can get to Alia first.
Okay, pal.
You find Alia.
And you keep her safe, okay? We're right behind you.
Go on.
Hurry, Rexie.
She needs you.
(REX BARKS) JESSE: Charlie, I just heard from Donovan and Sarah.
And as you suspected- Sarah found no gunshot residue on John's hands.
And also, the X/L security footage tells the same story as the Newfoundland Parks's.
All the cameras recorded Kendra, Alia, John, Charlie- Rex, Sarah.
Everybody but CHARLIE: Valentine.
The one person who knew exactly where the cameras were so he could avoid them.
- - (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) VALENTINE: Alia! Alia! The more you make me hunt, the worse it'll be for you! Alia! (WOLF GROWLING) (WOLF SNARLING) (WOLF GROWLING) (WOLF GROWLING) (REX BARKING) (WOLF GROWLING) (REX BARKING) (WOLF GROWLING) (REX BARKING) (REX BARKING) (WOLF GROWLING) - (REX BARKING) - (WOLF GROWLING) (WOLF GROWLING) (REX BARKS) (REX BARKING) (WOLF GROWLING) (REX BARKING) (REX BARKING) (REX BARKS) (REX WHIMPERS) Okay.
Charlie, you're almost there.
You're only a few hundred metres from Rex now.
(BEEP BEEP BEEP) Hey, how did you figure Valentine was our guy? Kind of running here, Jesse Well if I put on my Charlie hat, can I guess? CHARLIE: Yeah, knock yourself out.
Okay, one: Valentine has been feeding us all the evidence against Alia when we know she went to the forest on a false poaching tip from Gordon.
CHARLIE: Point, Jesse! And two: Alia's camera used to assault Kendra to justify Lori letting Valentine use deadly force to bring down Alia, when Alia would have never left behind her camera.
Valentine was right there.
He was obviously the attacker.
And the only one with clearance to jam the Parks network was X/L Vault.
You're on a roll here! Hey, do you think Alia saw Valentine shoot John? Yeah, and I think she has proof, too.
If Valentine saw her in the trees, he shot her, and figured she'd die in the woods.
Now he's just backfilling his whole story that he knows that Alia is still alive.
Yeah, well, let's hope she stays that way until Valentine's behind bars.
That's the plan.
(COCKING GUN) I let you get away the first time.
I won't make that mistake again.
(REX GROWLING) (WOLF GROWLING) (WOLF SNARLING) (WOLF GROWLING) - (GUNSHOT) - (HOWLING) Rex! JESSE: No no, Charlie.
It wasn't Rex.
I'm still seeing him moving on the Newfoundland Parks' tracker.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) (GUNSHOT) (GUNSHOT) (GUNSHOT) (GUNSHOTS) - (GUNSHOT) - (REX BARKS) CHARLIE: Hey partner! Get Alia to Jesse! I'll cover you! Alia, keep close to Rex! You'll be safe with him! - (GUNSHOT) - (GUNSHOT) (GUNSHOT) (GUNSHOTS) Damn it! CHARLIE: Drop the gun, Valentine! There's no way you're walking out of here! She's a very dangerous fugitive, Hudson! Just let me do my job! Don't you mean finish the job? - Just like you finished John? - (LOADING GUN) (LOADING GUN) Were you followed? You really think there's a leak in my department? Mm-hmm.
You're the only one I can trust - (GUNSHOTS) - (CAMERA SNAP) To be dumb enough to fall for that.
(HARNESS RATTLING) (GUNSHOT) Ahh! Ugh! - Ahh! - (CRASH) CHARLIE: You should've made sure she was dead! VALENTINE: I couldn't risk being caught by the cameras.
(GUNSHOTS) (GUNSHOT) Alright.
(GUNSHOTS) (GUNSHOTS) (GUNSHOTS) VALENTINE: Put the gun down.
Hey.
Alia's the traitor.
I'm going to pin your death on her.
And plant the tech on her body.
And be a hero.
(REX BARKS) (REX BARKING) Then I'm going to put down your partner.
- (REX WHINES) - (REX BARKS) - Which one? - (SHOT) (REX WHINES) That's how you catch a predator.
Nice shot.
Don't worry, my tranqs are for taking out bears.
Snoozy beauty here is going to be asleep for a few hours.
Good boy, Rexie.
Just to be safe.
(HANDCUFFS) (REX WHINES) CHARLIE: Rex Rex! Stay back! That's a wolf! Hey! (WOLF WHINES) KENDRA: Shhh.
Hey, what happened to you, boy? Valentine shot him.
You got room for another animal? My baby crow is not going to love his new room-mate, but I can make some space.
(REX WHINES) Shhh.
And you say you're not a dog person.
(REX GROANS) (REX WHINES) What's wrong, pal? You still worried about your wolf buddy? (REX BARKS) No, I talked to Kendra.
And she said that you know- he's going to be back on his paws in no time.
I thought it would be nice to go back out there.
So we can go see him after I finish my paperwork.
(REX WHINES) Detective Hudson? Alia! Well you look like you're feeling a lot better.
Oh.
Thanks to you and Rex.
DEENA: I want you to know, Detective Hudson, I made Alia tell me where she got the money for my mortgage.
I may or may not have sold some pregnancy shots of Meghan Markle to some online magazines and tabloids.
What can I say? These trashy mags pay more for baby bumps than they do for still-lifes of trash.
DEENA: You can be sure I made her write a letter of apology to the Duchess.
That is not why I sent my daughter to art school.
ALIA: Which brings me to why we're here.
Mom and I wanted to thank you and Rex for saving my life.
Oh.
ALIA: And since I missed the ceremony I thought it might be nice to do something in the spirit of Elsie Holloway.
Yeah, don't tell Sarah this, but I don't know who that is.
ALIA: Elsie was one of Newfoundland's most famous photographers.
She took the shots of Amelia Earhart's departure from Harbour Grace.
She was a trailblazer just like you.
Uh Big shoes to fill.
Elsie's specialty was portraiture.
And so in the spirit of her work, I would like to offer you a family portrait! Oh, that's generous but it's just me and Rex.
I think you might have some more family than you realize.
And what would you do if I told you Three Two - it could be this way? - (CAMERA SNAPS) And what would you say if I told you that I'd keep you safe? And how many times must I tell you of another day When you can be mine? I'm with you Next time on Hudson & Rex LARPers create characters to play in a fantasy world You ruined my reputation Stabbed in the back so much for honor among Vikings His attitude pissed off a lot of people Miles kept saying the key was hidden in the earth These LARPers, It's more than just a game He thought he had discovered a new Norse settlement A fantasy that might have got him killed A sword as rare as the Lothbrok would have fetched millions This is awesome (BARK)
- No no no You never gonna keep me down You never gonna keep me down No no no Be lucky if I stick around - Maybe foolish - (CELL PHONE BUZZING) But I ain't a clown No no no no Time for work, partner.
Rex, let's go.
- (REX BARKS) - Down down down Come on, pal.
CHARLIE: Joe! Hey.
I got a message.
What's up? DONOVAN: Detective Hudson.
This is Deena Roy.
- (REX WHIMPERS) - DEENA: Is this the dog I read about in the paper? The one who can find anything? Yeah, his name is Rex.
What can we do to help? It's my daughter.
She's disappeared.
- - (THEME MUSIC) My daughter Alia is a photographer.
She just won the Elsie Holloway Prize for photographic excellence.
The ceremony was at City Hall this morning.
But she never showed.
I keep calling and calling.
But her phone just goes straight to voicemail, which is not like her at all.
And her last text message was that she would see me at the awards ceremony.
Is there any reason why Alia might choose to skip the awards? My daughter doesn't care about prizes.
The only reason she accepted was because I made her promise to take me.
I was just so proud.
CHARLIE: Can you think of anyone who might not be as big a fan of Alia's work as her mother? Alia is, well, an activist to some crusader to others.
She photographs industrial pollution.
Shows the world how big companies are destroying the planet.
And when people see my daughter's pictures- companies get fined millions to clean up their mess.
Maybe something on her laptop can show you who was bullying my baby.
Well, if there's something on here, Jesse will sniff it out.
And the rest is up to Rex.
(REX BARKS) I brought one of Alia's favourite hoodies so he'd have her scent.
Thank you.
It was her brother's.
Hassan was accepted to Heritage University, full scholarship, before he got sick.
After he died, Alia wouldn't take it off for weeks.
(REX WHIMPERS) I'm very sorry for your loss.
That's why Alia is so driven.
She thinks Hassan got cancer because big companies are poisoning the planet.
She was finally being recognized for her work.
And this happens.
I just can't lose another child.
We're going to do everything in our power to bring her back home, Ms.
Roy.
You have our word.
Right, Rex? (REX WHIMPERS) (DEENA CRYING SOFTLY) JESSE: This is our missing person.
Alia Roy.
She's a photographer specializing in pollution's impact on the environment.
Wow, who knew pollution could look so beautiful? Well, they say one man's trash, another man's treasure.
Well, I found a lot of treasure in Alia's trash bin, you know.
Mostly letters from your basic evil multinationals pertaining to this.
This is a typical one that has to do with Alia's most recent photo essay on the effects of palm oil farming in Guatemala on the Pacific Ocean.
She got big love from the treehuggers.
But big time hate - from the local government.
- Mm-hmm.
Have you had any luck tracking her phone? Well, here's where the weird kick in.
Okay, her phone last pinged at 5 AM.
But the signal kept bouncing between cell towers.
I couldn't get a lock on it.
Well, luckily her rental car was just found.
Apparently, big business wasn't the only ones trying to cap her lens.
Let's get to it, folks.
Meet you there? (REX BARKS) Let's go.
CHARLIE: Well! Looks like we're looking for - a very lazy speller.
- Oh.
You're going to need a shower after this.
Maybe a couple of showers.
- Yeah.
- Find anything yet? No fingerprints yet.
Isolating any DNA will be tough.
With all this household garbage, it's basically DNA soup.
Any good news? Here, have a look.
Hey.
Notice anything? Red punch-buggy, no punch-backs? Haha.
The car seat has been pushed back.
At Alia's height, she never could've reached the pedals.
So someone else was driving.
But when she left her mom's home this morning, she was alone.
- That's interesting.
- (CELL PHONE BUZZING) - Hudson.
- JESSE: Hey.
I'm still going through security footage from City Hall.
But get this.
Alia won an Elsie for a recent photo essay on a garbage dumping scam here in St.
John's.
Was that the thing with the deputy mayor and his cousin? Yeah.
Bingo.
Councilor Harris contracted his cousin's company to pick up household recycling.
But- they ended up just dumping it in the ocean.
I'm guessing they weren't on the guest list.
Yeah.
Councilor Harris left the province after he stepped down.
But his cousin, Gordon, is still in St.
John's.
Picked up a couple of shifts hauling garbage for a temp company after his went bankrupt.
Well, I guess I'm going to have to see if Gordon's alibi is bankrupt too.
Hey, Sarah.
You're cool to take out the garbage on your own? You're very funny! - Rex! - (REX BARKS) (REX BARKING) GORDON: Whoah! Get your dog off of my property! CHARLIE: Just doing his job, Gordo! Unlike you, who does not have such a great - track record.
- (REX BARKS) What the hell you talking about? Well, I'm talking about Alia Roy.
And how she busted you for dumping the garbage.
Which makes me think that you know something about her disappearing this morning.
Am I right? Yeah, he's running.
Rex! (REX BARKING) (REX BARKING) (REX BARKING) Control your damn dog! Well, you should ask him nicely.
Rex is real particular about manners.
(REX BARKING) But first Why don't you and I have a real chat, about littering? (REX BARKS) His alibi checks out.
Gordon completed his route this morning.
Alia left her mom's at 4:30 this morning.
His pickups didn't start until 6:30.
He had motive and he ran.
Which makes him guilty of- of something.
Alia's been gone for over eight hours now.
And we have no idea where she went.
(REX PANTING) Thanks, partner.
(DOOR CLOSES) So, my alibi checked out, huh? Well, if your alibi was so airtight, then why did you run, Gordo? I don't like dogs.
Or photographers.
I told you already.
I don't know where Alia is! Okay, well let me tell you what I know.
Alia's photos made you lose your business, your work and your reputation.
And now you haul garbage for the competition.
That is a hell of a promotion, isn't it? It's honest work.
But too bad you're not honest.
You know, it must have really stung to have her rewarded for your crimes.
She gets to shake hands with the mayor.
Her picture in the newspaper.
I can get over it.
Well, here's the thing that's going to be harder to get over is that the junk mail that we found in Alia's rental it came from your garbage route.
So if anything did happen to Alia, we can place you in her car.
And things get real bad from there, Gordo.
- (BANG) - Talk! I stole her car, okay? That's it.
Where did you take it from? The woods outside the city.
I sent her a bogus tip about animal poaching.
I followed her out there this morning.
When she went in the woods, I jacked the car.
I just wanted her to miss the ceremony.
She was getting an award for ruining my life! You did that all on your own.
(DOOR CLOSES) CHARLIE: Sarah says the tire tracks are consistent with the rental.
DONOVAN: The Blackwood Reserve is almost fifteen hundred square kilometers.
Hmm.
That's a lot of ground to cover.
Well as soon (HISS) as Rex picks (HISS) up Alia's we'll be able to track (HISS) quickly.
Joe? Hello? The cell service is bad up here.
It's like when I tried tracking Alia's phone.
Something about that area cuts out cell phone signals.
Get on that.
CHARLIE: Alright, Rex.
Track it.
(REX SNIFFING) Atta boy.
SARAH: Only six hours of daylight left.
It'll be hard to track Alia once it's dark.
And night brings nocturnal predators.
Ha.
You know an awful lot about the outdoors for an art lover.
And I was also a Pathfinder in Junior High.
I'm surprised you weren't a Boy Scout.
Well, I'm a city boy.
The wilderness is where all the horror movies happen.
You're afraid of a little masked killer in the woods? No, spiders.
- I hate spiders.
- (REX BARKS) What have you got, buddy? Think Alia was leaving a marker to try and find her way back? That's smart.
With the hinky reception in the woods her phone's GPS would have cut out.
Alright, pal.
Track it.
(REX BARKS) CHARLIE: What do you see, pal? That's strange.
This is Crown Land.
Come on.
What's that building doing here? And why is there a wall? (REX BARKING) VALENTINE: To keep trespassers like you out.
(REX BARKING) Keep the dog in line.
(REX BARKING) Or what? (COCKING GUN) Or we'll do it for you.
(REX WHIMPERS) They can't keep us here for long.
We're cops.
Yeah, well until our phones start working we're guests.
- (DOOR BEEPING) - (DOOR OPENING) LORI: Your phones will work once you clear the woods.
We jam the signals.
The wilderness takes care of the rest.
Lori Schiff.
Managing Director of X/L Vault.
You've already met my Chief of Operations- - Valentine Anson.
- And this is Rex.
An angry canine looking for an excuse not to bring you down to the station.
(REX BARKS) Well, we protect very sensitive material, here.
We needed to verify that you are who you say you are.
You didn't have to do that with the guns.
We have permits for all our firearms.
We'd be more than happy to send copies to the station.
What is it you protect at X/L Vault? We're a data storage facility.
In the middle of a wildlife reserve? On Crown land? Discretion is our first line of defense.
What were you doing on our campus? We're searching for a missing woman.
She disappeared this morning.
Maybe you picked something up on your security cameras? Or one of the fine people who escorted us saw something? LORI: We'll be sure to let you know if we find anything.
Right.
Well, how about I come back with a warrant? I wouldn't waste your time.
Valentine will escort you off campus.
(REX YELPS) CHARLIE: Cell signal dampeners and armed guards feel like overkill for data storage.
These guys came to play.
See what you can dig up on X/L Vault.
I'll work on getting a warrant.
SARAH: We need to hurry.
Light's running out.
They've got way too much ground to cover.
We need more eyes in the woods.
I think I can help with that.
Come on, pal.
(REX BARKS) I know that bark.
Rexie! Come here, boy! Hi! Hi Rexie! Hi big boy! Come here! - Hi! - (REX BARKS) How's my Rexie? Hi! You keep leading him on.
Charlie Hudson! What's a big city boy like you doing in my corner of the woodpile, huh? Well, a young woman named Alia Roy went missing in them this morning.
- The environmental photographer? - Yeah, you know her? Yeah, I'm a huge fan of her work.
Her photos have made a real impact on global climate policy.
Well, Alia's trail led us to a data storage company.
But they stonewalled us.
X/L Vault.
What do you know about them? They got a special lease for the land from the feds themselves.
They're super connected.
Super private.
And they get real twitchy when anyone plays on their side of the fence.
So we've learned Well, we lost Alia's trail on their campus and can't pick it up without a warrant.
Anything you can do to help us out? For Rexie? Anything.
Come on, boy.
Come on.
Please, step into my office.
Let me show you what I got in here.
I've got some new toys.
- Nice digs.
- Thanks! This is my crow, Bob.
I've been nursing him back to health for a little while.
Bob, meet Charles.
And Rex.
(REX BARKS) (BOB CAWS) Alright.
Let's see what we've got.
How can you still be a cat lover when you know Rex? (REX WHINES) It's the 21st century, Charlie.
You don't have to choose anymore.
So, we have a webcam system that keeps tabs on all of our wildlife populations in all of the parks and forests.
There's wolves in Newfoundland? Well One or two make it down from Labrador when prey is scarce.
How hungry is this one? I'd keep an extra steak in your pocket.
Uhh.
Just kidding.
The stars of this channel are lynxes, foxes, moose, bears- Bears! That's much better than wolves.
- Right buddy? - (REX BARKING) Right.
Okay, I can take you through the camera zones of the forest.
Where do you want to start? How about just north of Highway 11? Highway 11, you got it.
Bringing it up.
A man in black staring over his shoulder? That's not sketchy at all.
CHARLIE: That's 5:15 AM.
- Want to turn that up? - Yeah.
CHARLIE: And this one's 5:25 AM.
From the same park camera.
JESSE: Who's that? Drunk Big Bird? CHARLIE: No, I think it was Alia on a zip line.
She went into the woods on a false tip looking for poachers.
And ended up coming across a real story.
With creepy guy in the woods? There's always a creepy guy in the woods.
DONOVAN: I tried to fast track a warrant on X/L Vault.
But it got stopped- by the Department of Defense.
JESSE: Why's the military getting involved? Well, it doesn't matter.
We don't need a warrant.
This footage came from Newfoundland Parks territory.
Rex can just pick up the trail from wherever this webcam was recording footage.
You better move fast.
The sun's going down.
And the wolves get hungry.
- (REX WHINES) - CHARLIE: Sounds great.
Always the bad news.
Huh? Let's go, Rex.
Come on, Rex.
I'll give Sarah the coordinates.
Who? Here.
Here you go.
Mm-hmm.
Here you go.
Hey.
Hey, sniff this.
Go find her, Rexie.
Go find her, Rexie.
Off you go.
Off you go.
Good boy, Rexie.
Rexie.
Uh-they have a little-thing.
Hey! - You got it! - CHARLIE: Eh! SARAH: Oh-ho! So did you and Kendra have a thing? Well, like a schoolyard thing.
Yeah, but you didn't have Rex when you were in the schoolyard.
Well, I mean, you know you have a divorce and then you get-you know- reacquainted with old friends.
- KENDRA: Hey guys? - Yeah? KENDRA: We've got some broken branches.
Looks like someone fell here.
See how the impact has disturbed the ground? And we've got a track.
Small tread, probably a woman's.
Alia's.
I think she fell from the zipline and unhooked herself.
Or she was shot out of the sky.
Sarah.
I'll see if I can dig it out.
It's small.
Looks like a .
22.
(REX BARKING) (REX SNIFFING) (REX BARKING) (REX BARKING) SARAH: It's the creepy guy from the webcam feed.
Why just leave the body here? CHARLIE: They probably expected to be long gone by the time he was found.
Good job, partner.
Whoever he was, he worked for X/L Vault.
CHARLIE: Whatever happened here- Alia could have seen it from the zipline.
(REX BARKING) I know, buddy.
Brought you a triple shot.
Figured you could use it after pulling an all-nighter.
What gave me away? Yesterday's clothes? The fetching bags under my eyes? You find out who our X/L Vault John Doe is? Joe set up a meeting with Lori-to identify the body.
Anything you can tell me? We found some blood on the ground that we traced back to Alia.
So it looks like she was wounded.
But this bullet we pulled from the tree killed our John Doe.
And it's quite the bullet.
It comes from a custom pistol.
Most North American handguns have six groove twist barrels.
Whatever shot this was a seven twist.
Now it's pretty hard to get a low caliber high accuracy pistol into the country.
Unless you have the kind of access that gets you a secret base in the middle of a protected forest.
Yeah.
DONOVAN: Yesterday, we found a dead man in the woods with one of your security badges.
His body was found near the blood of Alia Roy, missing now for over 24 hours.
We believe she witnessed a murder and was shot for it.
So if you don't want to be slapped with an obstruction charge- I suggest we start cooperating.
We're all on the same team here.
Are we? Because I think Alia came across whatever killed this man and you stopped her from exposing it.
DONOVAN: Because whatever you're doing on this reserve it sure as hell isn't data storage.
You're right.
Data storage is a cover.
X/L Vault is part of the Canadian Bureau of Special Police Cyber-intelligence Branch.
Yesterday we discovered a security breach when we caught you trespassing.
And I'm sorry for stonewalling.
But your timing was extremely suspect.
The body in the woods was John Gore, one of our IT Specialists.
The breach was traced back to him.
John actually stole plans for a remote data cloner.
Our investigation shows that he was meeting a buyer in the woods.
But he was double-crossed.
Our evidence points to John being betrayed by one single buyer.
This one.
LORI: Because of the rising tensions over climate change, these activists are becoming more and more aggressive in their tactics.
Hold on.
You're saying that Alia is an ecoterrorist? She's the perfect recruit, athletic, multilingual, extremist.
LORI: And because of her recent work in South America, it put her in close proximity to a number of radical cells all of which fit the profile of the buyer.
No, this is This is crazy, okay? Alia She was here to accept an award with her mother.
Perfect cover story.
No one wants to believe that a talented young woman like Alia could be involved in something like this.
But I think we need to open our eyes to the fact that she might be.
Our goal is to find Alia and recover the missing tech.
Yeah, well our goal is to bring Alia home safely.
Like Lori said, we're all on the same team.
Okay, but if Alia is part of a terrorist cell then she would have stayed in the woods until safely extracted.
Gunshot wounds draw way too much attention at hospitals.
You've been watching Homeland again? Yeah, for research.
But what about Alia's mother, okay? I mean, is there any chance that she could have used Deena to help her get out of the country? Are you saying her mom is a mule? No, everything we know about Alia is that she's not that kind of a person.
DONOVAN: Yeah, well, Valentine just gave me a file that might change your mind on that.
Apparently, they've been doing some digging into Alia's finances.
And found a large cash transaction that was diverted through Deena's account.
A mom will do anything to protect her kids.
Let's hope that doesn't also mean transferring funds to a terrorists organization.
CHARLIE: Deena, thanks for coming.
- Did the laptop help? - It did.
I'm going to hang on to the hoodie until we find Alia.
Superintendent Donovan said Newfoundland Parks is helping with the Search and Rescue effort? Yeah.
They're sending us their best trackers.
And we'll see if they can keep up with Rex.
(REX BARKS) I know you'll find her.
(REX WHIMPERS) Deena, I need to ask you a question.
Do you know who Alia's been working with recently? It changes all the time.
Alia's freelance.
Sometimes it's magazines.
Sometimes galleries, websites.
Why? Well there's a cash payment that sticks out.
To the tune of 20 thousand.
Why are you looking into my daughter's finances? Because it's my job.
After Hassan died, I couldn't work.
My son's death threw me into a deep depression.
I got behind on my mortgage.
I needed money and Alia sold some pictures to help me.
20 thousand is a lot of pictures.
Do you think Alia's missing has something to do with the pictures she took for that money? It's something we have to consider.
No, my Alia is innocent.
She would never do anything to break the law.
That's not how I raised her.
Okay, well Look, Deena.
I promise you, we're going to do our best to bring her home safe, okay? Okay.
(REX BARKS) Rex, let's get to work.
(THUNDER) JESSE: Okay, Alpha team? Do you copy? CHARLIE: Copy, Alpha team.
Beta team, good to go? VALENTINE: You know this is wrong, right? Clearly, I'm the Alpha.
Tell that to Rex.
Omega team, how are you doing? Okay, everyone in position? DONOVAN: Alright, then.
Let's bring Alia home.
VALENTINE: Remember.
Even though she's wounded we're dealing with a highly-skilled - and dangerous operative.
- The difference is I'm looking for a missing photo journalist.
And you're looking for an enemy spy in the woods.
KENDRA: If you boys don't get along I'm going to put you both in corners.
Alright, Parks.
This is your woodpile.
Where do we start? We left Alia's trail at the water.
So I divided her possible exit into three zones.
We're going to each start at the river's edge.
And we're going to work towards each other.
And we're going to pick up her trail along the way, alright? She can't have gone far.
Her injuries will be slowing her down.
Look for signs of dried blood as a marker.
JESSE: Once you confirm Alia's exit point I can localize the park cameras so we can have more eyes.
Okay, let's get started.
Track, Rex! Track it.
Hey, Hudson.
- You there? - CHARLIE: Yeah, I'm here.
We all want Alia to be innocent.
But sometimes people get in their own way.
Make a wrong turn.
CHARLIE: We don't know Alia is one of those yet.
VALENTINE: How much more evidence? If you guys can put a pin in your bromance for a sec, I think I found Alia's exit point.
I've got a bloody T-Shirt.
Looks like our clever girl cleaned and bound a wound.
So haul tooshie to me as fast as you can, okay? CHARLIE: Roger that! I'm on my way, Kendra.
Jesse, can you pull up Zone 46 for me on the feed? I think that's our best shot for spotting Alia.
Okay, bringing up the feeds now.
(STATIC) (FEEDBACK) Ahhh! Jesse? - (STATIC) - Chief, you okay? Yeah yeah yeah.
We're okay.
It's just someone's interfering with our access to the Newfoundland Parks wildlife feed.
We're sitting blind until Jesse can get it up and running again.
CHARLIE: Roger that.
Rex, let's go.
Come on, pal.
Kendra, we're on our way! - I'll get the satellite.
- Yeah.
(PHONE CHIMES) Hey, Jesse.
You got this? I got this.
Shouldn't take long.
Alright.
(CAR STARTING) Kendra, I'm at your location.
CHARLIE: Where's Kendra? I don't know.
I just got here myself.
(REX BARKING) CHARLIE: Ken! Kendra! - (REX WHIMPERS) - Hey.
Hey.
Hey, Kendra.
You okay? She's breathing.
She's got a nasty bump on her head.
Someone must've hit her from behind.
(REX BARKS) (REX BARKING) VALENTINE: With this.
KENDRA: Oh, that hurts.
VALENTINE: Even you have to admit, Hudson.
Alia's picture came into focus.
(REX BARKING) Stop be so stubborn! Okay? Let me take a look.
- You're sure you're okay? - I'm fine.
- What happened? - I was tracking her along here.
And then last thing I remember, I radioed Valentine.
And then that's when she must've brained me.
Well, Alia must've been hiding up here somewhere.
And when you turned your back- she hit you on the head to buy time to escape.
Stay with Kendra.
Tell Lori to call a medic.
Rex comes with me.
No, Rex goes where I go.
(REX BARKS) Suit yourself.
But Hudson.
I think it's time for you to accept that the Alia in your head is not the same Alia in these woods.
Here.
Hold this for me.
We can't take a chance she's tracking or listening to our conversation.
Relax, Hudson.
This is what I was trained for.
Okay? - (COCKING GUN) - Good boy.
Good boy.
You guys be safe.
Do me a favour? - Hold this? - You got it.
Rex.
Stay with Kendra.
Good boy, Rexie.
Good boy, Rexie.
Good boy.
Hey, Jesse.
How are those repairs coming? JESSE: Okay, we are almost there.
- How's Kendra? - Yeah, she'll be fine.
Kendra's as tough as they come.
I guess we were wrong about Alia, huh? Yeah, but why did she leave Kendra alive when she shot John in cold blood? I don't know, I mean- all this spy stuff has got my head spinning around.
Yeah, I hear you.
Sometimes it's hard to trust your own instincts.
KENDRA: You should.
You're the best cop I've ever known.
And I'm the best ranger you've ever known.
And together, we're going to figure this out.
Jesse, when you get that signal up, you let us know.
JESSE: Copy that.
How do we have all these cameras and still not know the full picture? We're putting too much faith in tech.
We need to go old school.
You need to case the scene like a cop.
And I'm going to track the signs like a ranger.
Alright, country girl.
How about we start back from where Alia attacked you - with that camera? - Alright.
You think you can learn anything from these tracks? The depression here is slightly deeper than at the water, but that's because of the impact from jumping off this rock.
Hold on.
(REX WHINES) These aren't a small woman's tracks.
These are at least a size 12.
So Alia's camera suddenly shows up.
And an ID badge gets traced back to X/L Vault.
It's almost like the breadcrumbs are conveniently coming together.
Like we're being fed a story.
- Yeah.
- Hey Jess? I need you to get Sarah to do me a favour.
DONOVAN: You said we're on the same team.
So why is your agent taking over my investigation? Because I didn't realize how dangerous Alia is.
My agents have specialized military training to De-escalate this type of situation.
I won't put any more innocents in danger.
Do those innocents include Alia? I can't risk her getting out of the woods with that tech.
Even if it means killing her? My job is to make the hard call when the security of the nation is at stake.
And my job is to make sure that we are not convicting innocent citizens without all the evidence.
Otherwise, it's not a nation worth protecting.
What do you want from me? I want all of X/L Vault's security data from the last forty-eight hours.
Parks Newfoundland uses these chips to track wildlife migration.
It'll allow us to catch up with Rex so he can get to Alia first.
Okay, pal.
You find Alia.
And you keep her safe, okay? We're right behind you.
Go on.
Hurry, Rexie.
She needs you.
(REX BARKS) JESSE: Charlie, I just heard from Donovan and Sarah.
And as you suspected- Sarah found no gunshot residue on John's hands.
And also, the X/L security footage tells the same story as the Newfoundland Parks's.
All the cameras recorded Kendra, Alia, John, Charlie- Rex, Sarah.
Everybody but CHARLIE: Valentine.
The one person who knew exactly where the cameras were so he could avoid them.
- - (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) VALENTINE: Alia! Alia! The more you make me hunt, the worse it'll be for you! Alia! (WOLF GROWLING) (WOLF SNARLING) (WOLF GROWLING) (WOLF GROWLING) (REX BARKING) (WOLF GROWLING) (REX BARKING) (WOLF GROWLING) (REX BARKING) (REX BARKING) (WOLF GROWLING) - (REX BARKING) - (WOLF GROWLING) (WOLF GROWLING) (REX BARKS) (REX BARKING) (WOLF GROWLING) (REX BARKING) (REX BARKING) (REX BARKS) (REX WHIMPERS) Okay.
Charlie, you're almost there.
You're only a few hundred metres from Rex now.
(BEEP BEEP BEEP) Hey, how did you figure Valentine was our guy? Kind of running here, Jesse Well if I put on my Charlie hat, can I guess? CHARLIE: Yeah, knock yourself out.
Okay, one: Valentine has been feeding us all the evidence against Alia when we know she went to the forest on a false poaching tip from Gordon.
CHARLIE: Point, Jesse! And two: Alia's camera used to assault Kendra to justify Lori letting Valentine use deadly force to bring down Alia, when Alia would have never left behind her camera.
Valentine was right there.
He was obviously the attacker.
And the only one with clearance to jam the Parks network was X/L Vault.
You're on a roll here! Hey, do you think Alia saw Valentine shoot John? Yeah, and I think she has proof, too.
If Valentine saw her in the trees, he shot her, and figured she'd die in the woods.
Now he's just backfilling his whole story that he knows that Alia is still alive.
Yeah, well, let's hope she stays that way until Valentine's behind bars.
That's the plan.
(COCKING GUN) I let you get away the first time.
I won't make that mistake again.
(REX GROWLING) (WOLF GROWLING) (WOLF SNARLING) (WOLF GROWLING) - (GUNSHOT) - (HOWLING) Rex! JESSE: No no, Charlie.
It wasn't Rex.
I'm still seeing him moving on the Newfoundland Parks' tracker.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) (GUNSHOT) (GUNSHOT) (GUNSHOT) (GUNSHOTS) - (GUNSHOT) - (REX BARKS) CHARLIE: Hey partner! Get Alia to Jesse! I'll cover you! Alia, keep close to Rex! You'll be safe with him! - (GUNSHOT) - (GUNSHOT) (GUNSHOT) (GUNSHOTS) Damn it! CHARLIE: Drop the gun, Valentine! There's no way you're walking out of here! She's a very dangerous fugitive, Hudson! Just let me do my job! Don't you mean finish the job? - Just like you finished John? - (LOADING GUN) (LOADING GUN) Were you followed? You really think there's a leak in my department? Mm-hmm.
You're the only one I can trust - (GUNSHOTS) - (CAMERA SNAP) To be dumb enough to fall for that.
(HARNESS RATTLING) (GUNSHOT) Ahh! Ugh! - Ahh! - (CRASH) CHARLIE: You should've made sure she was dead! VALENTINE: I couldn't risk being caught by the cameras.
(GUNSHOTS) (GUNSHOT) Alright.
(GUNSHOTS) (GUNSHOTS) (GUNSHOTS) VALENTINE: Put the gun down.
Hey.
Alia's the traitor.
I'm going to pin your death on her.
And plant the tech on her body.
And be a hero.
(REX BARKS) (REX BARKING) Then I'm going to put down your partner.
- (REX WHINES) - (REX BARKS) - Which one? - (SHOT) (REX WHINES) That's how you catch a predator.
Nice shot.
Don't worry, my tranqs are for taking out bears.
Snoozy beauty here is going to be asleep for a few hours.
Good boy, Rexie.
Just to be safe.
(HANDCUFFS) (REX WHINES) CHARLIE: Rex Rex! Stay back! That's a wolf! Hey! (WOLF WHINES) KENDRA: Shhh.
Hey, what happened to you, boy? Valentine shot him.
You got room for another animal? My baby crow is not going to love his new room-mate, but I can make some space.
(REX WHINES) Shhh.
And you say you're not a dog person.
(REX GROANS) (REX WHINES) What's wrong, pal? You still worried about your wolf buddy? (REX BARKS) No, I talked to Kendra.
And she said that you know- he's going to be back on his paws in no time.
I thought it would be nice to go back out there.
So we can go see him after I finish my paperwork.
(REX WHINES) Detective Hudson? Alia! Well you look like you're feeling a lot better.
Oh.
Thanks to you and Rex.
DEENA: I want you to know, Detective Hudson, I made Alia tell me where she got the money for my mortgage.
I may or may not have sold some pregnancy shots of Meghan Markle to some online magazines and tabloids.
What can I say? These trashy mags pay more for baby bumps than they do for still-lifes of trash.
DEENA: You can be sure I made her write a letter of apology to the Duchess.
That is not why I sent my daughter to art school.
ALIA: Which brings me to why we're here.
Mom and I wanted to thank you and Rex for saving my life.
Oh.
ALIA: And since I missed the ceremony I thought it might be nice to do something in the spirit of Elsie Holloway.
Yeah, don't tell Sarah this, but I don't know who that is.
ALIA: Elsie was one of Newfoundland's most famous photographers.
She took the shots of Amelia Earhart's departure from Harbour Grace.
She was a trailblazer just like you.
Uh Big shoes to fill.
Elsie's specialty was portraiture.
And so in the spirit of her work, I would like to offer you a family portrait! Oh, that's generous but it's just me and Rex.
I think you might have some more family than you realize.
And what would you do if I told you Three Two - it could be this way? - (CAMERA SNAPS) And what would you say if I told you that I'd keep you safe? And how many times must I tell you of another day When you can be mine? I'm with you Next time on Hudson & Rex LARPers create characters to play in a fantasy world You ruined my reputation Stabbed in the back so much for honor among Vikings His attitude pissed off a lot of people Miles kept saying the key was hidden in the earth These LARPers, It's more than just a game He thought he had discovered a new Norse settlement A fantasy that might have got him killed A sword as rare as the Lothbrok would have fetched millions This is awesome (BARK)