Saving Grace s03e13 Episode Script
You Can't Save Them All, Grace
Here.
- Where'd you get those? - My mom's purse.
Grace Hanadarko, your mother's going to kill you.
Only if she finds out.
She gonna find out, Rhetta? Not from me.
But she always does.
No, thanks.
- Go fetch, four-eyes.
- Thanks a lot, Caroline.
I'll get 'em.
- Shit! - What? Ow.
Ow.
Ow.
It hurts.
Oh.
Rhetta, the flowers down by the river large purple ones with the big ball in the middle I need the roots.
Go! - Stay calm.
- Running into those bushes, it was a dumb thing to do.
Dumb don't mean dead.
Just Just hang on.
- Promise? - Promise.
Echinacea an old Native American remedy for a snakebite.
Eat it.
Now what? - We get her to the hospital.
- How? You girls need some help? #So pretty and, oh, so bold # # Got a heart full of gold on a Ionely road # - # She said, "I don't even think that God can save me"# - # Save me # # Am I gaining ground Am I losing face # # Have I lost and found my saving grace # # Thankful for the gift my angels gave me ## That was Earl.
You remember what the guy looked like? Well, no, but I thought that was 'cause it was 30 years ago.
What if Earl's been with me my whole life? Night I stalled on the tracks, we almost got hit by that train.
Last second, I popped the clutch, it rolled off the tracks.
Was that Earl? He pushed us off? Time you cramped up in the lake and that guy pulled you to shore.
Time I stopped to get gas, I was 18, drunk.
Started to hook up with the attendant in the back room.
He got weird.
I tried to leave.
Guy wouldn't let me.
Customer pounded on the door.
- Guy let me go.
- Hmm.
Hmm! Ask him.
Yeah.
He's off with Neely somewhere.
Well, when he gets back, ask him why you're dreaming about Caroline when we barely knew her.
But we had that summer that one magic summer between That was a great summer.
It's like we went around the world but never left our backyards.
Then Caroline and her family moved.
That was weird.
One day, she was just gone.
Yeah.
I always wondered about that how she could leave without telling us good-bye.
If Earl put Caroline in your head it means something's gonna happen to her.
Yeah, sure.
I'll take care of it.
One pint can save up to three lives.
You gotta gain weight to give.
Hey, I'm on a kidney donor list.
Does that count, sucker? I'd rather have your blood than some diabetic's.
Long as my insulin's in check my blood is as good as anybody's.
I got a rare condition.
I can't give blood.
- Oh.
- My veins are too thin.
Longhorn's scared.
He's scared of the needle.
Look at him.
He's sweating.
- Okay, who wants to give blood? - Butch.
- Butchy.
- All right.
I will.
- Come on, Benny.
- Be right there.
- Pussy! Hey, you want me to come with you, hold your hand? - Those tiny little veins.
- It's called nestipygmiosis.
It's genetic.
- N-E-S-T-l - P-Y-G - "Nestipygmosis"? That sound right? - Nestipygmy-bullshit.
"Did not match any documents"! Got something for you, Hanadarko.
- My lucky day.
- Working patrol, beautiful morning.
I respond to a possible abduction, Magnolia Park.
Meet Sarah Cullen.
Find out she lost her big sister, Melissa age 30, special needs.
We've been looking for an hour.
She had these flyers made up.
One hour? Some ladies at the park got frustrated decided to bring Sarah down to the chief's office to demand better service.
Sergeant made me get here first.
Figured I'd bring it to the best cop I know.
- Hmm.
- You kiss-ass.
- I ain't stupid.
- You got a feeling, Luke? While we were looking for her sister Miss Cullen was on her cell phone having a fight with her boyfriend.
Yeah, I got a feeling.
We were at Magnolia Park, and she disappeared.
She just disappeared.
What were you doing at the park? Melissa likes to watch the kids play.
I went to the car to get my phone.
I was gone two minutes.
l I came back and she'd she'd disappeared.
Melissa have friends at the park? Anybody she talks to? Queenie and Bobo, these two pugs.
We We used to have a pug, so - Did Melissa ever wander off before? - No.
Was she upset about anything? You want to get that, Sarah? - Might be something about Melissa.
- It's my boyfriend.
Well, you don't want to turn off your phone in case Melissa calls.
What What'd you ask me? I said, "Was Melissa upset about anything?" No.
She l I mean, she's grumpy in the mornings.
That's why we get out of the house, go to the park.
But she wouldn't just walk away.
She knows better than that.
She She knows what happens if she does.
- What happens? - She can't find her way back home.
Write down Melissa's friends and your friends.
Anybody who knows your sister.
- Including your boyfriend.
- Why? He doesn't know where she is.
Neither do my friends.
Sometimes people don't even know the stuff they know.
Tell us about Melissa.
She's got a great smile.
She trusts everybody.
You could tell her it's safe to walk across the highway, she'd believe you.
And she knows every stat to every OU football game ever played.
- What? Like Rain Man? - Kinda.
But she's social.
She likes people.
She loves animals and Uh, when she was two, her stroller rolled off the front porch and she fell out, hit her head on the sidewalk.
My dad said she changed after that.
- Where are your parents? - My dad died two years ago.
Our mom died when I was six.
- Do you have any other family? - No.
It's just me and Melissa.
That's gotta be tough.
You have a job? I work at Foley's.
You get assistance from the state.
Yeah, yeah.
It's It's not enough.
Tony, can you watch her a few minutes? Thanks, man.
We gotta find Sarah's boyfriend.
We gotta dump Sarah's phone.
- Yeah.
She's just a kid.
- Yeah, a kid with a boyfriend.
- Kid with big responsibility.
- Mmm.
Let's see if Melissa has a life insurance policy.
- Check their financials.
- You get a feeling, Hanadarko? - Yeah, yeah.
- Scale of one to 10.
- Eh Five.
- Five? - Yeah.
- Girl, you need a tune-up.
Might be the boyfriend.
Might be an accident.
Might be some truth in what she's telling us.
Doesn't matter.
We gotta find Melissa.
Any witnesses at the park? Anybody see anything? No.
We interviewed all the parents and nannies.
Kids too.
Nobody remembers seeing Melissa or Sarah, just remember Sarah screaming.
- So she could've gone for a walk.
- But we still gotta find her.
Agreed, but it's not a major crime.
What kind of calls you been getting at the park lately? At night, the normal boozing, loving, doping.
Daylight bringing out the freaks couple of weenie-waggers.
Other reports of an old man with a three-legged cat talking to some kids.
- Yeah.
But Melissa's not a kid.
- But she loves animals.
Melissa's got no sense of space.
She gets lost easy.
She talks to the wrong guy, somebody looking to take advantage of her she's in trouble.
Let's also just talk to Sarah's boyfriend.
And let's talk to the man with the three-legged cat.
He turns out to be a perv, that cat is going home with me.
I need you out at Magnolia Park.
We might have an abduction.
- I found Caroline.
- Who'd you find? An old friend of ours.
Is she okay? Where is she? At a federal transfer annex here in Oklahoma City.
She murdered her husband a year ago.
The three of you were close? - For one summer, right before high school.
- I was lookout while they were up to no good.
- Accomplice.
How many times I gotta tell you? You were an accomplice.
Says Caroline's husband was in the legislature on their tribal government.
History of heart trouble, dies at work of a heart attack.
M.
E.
discovers his sublingual nitrate pills had been replaced with an over-the-counter low-dose generic aspirin.
- Sublingual? - Place under the tongue every five minutes until chest pain subsides.
Each pill was hand carved, almost identical to the original.
- Takes a lot of skill and time to do that.
- Takes a lot of hate too.
They never connected Caroline with the carvings never proved she bought the aspirin, never found the missing nitrates.
- So how'd they prosecute her? - From the day tribal police first came to interview her all the way through her trial in federal court, Caroline never said a word.
She shut down completely.
Wouldn't even talk to her attorney.
Jury found her guilty.
She got life, no possibility for parole.
Caroline starts serving her sentence tomorrow at a federal prison in California.
- She leaves this afternoon.
- I gotta go see her.
Caroline I knew kills her husband you sure as shit gotta know why.
I always thought I would be the one visiting you in prison.
So did my mother.
She was positive I was gonna make Oklahoma's most wanted by 16.
- Did you? - Eleven's as close as I got.
- So you do it? - Same old Grace.
Why go around the back when there's a perfectly good door in front of you? I looked at your case file, Caroline.
- Why would you do that? - I'm a cop.
You're a cop? You always did protect those that couldn't protect themselves.
I don't think you killed your husband.
Why do you think I'm innocent? Dying bullfrog at sunset, hottest day of the summer.
We'd run out of water least you said we did.
Till we saw that sorry-Iooking bullfrog trying to cross asphalt hot enough to cook an egg on.
You picked up that bullfrog, poured water on it, saved its life.
- That's why.
- Bullfrog.
Bullshit.
Want me to say I did it, Grace? Would that make you feel better? You say you did it, I'll ask why.
You don't want to answer that, I'll respect it.
But you tell me you got caught up in something or that you're innocent I'll have the federal prosecutor down here in an hour to reopen the case.
How do you know I won't just lie to you, Grace? We never lied to each other.
Thanks for coming to see me.
That's it? You're gonna walk out of here, not tell me what's going on? Say hi to Rhetta for me.
Her sister says Melissa goes to the pizza place on May sometimes.
All right.
Get a car up there and check it out.
- Where's your sticker, Benny? - He's got nestipygmiosis.
Means he's full of shit and afraid of needles.
I don't care if needles terrify you.
We gotta make goal this year.
- I need every pint I can get.
- I see a needle, I go out stone cold.
Okay.
Just warning you.
What do we got? Talked to the woman who runs the program at Hanson Recreation Center.
She said Melissa goes there every day during the week.
It's about a half mile from Magnolia Park.
Melissa was present and happy on Monday.
She didn't show up Tuesday.
She didn't show up today.
- Is that unusual? - They've missed before, but never two days in a row.
A bus picks up Melissa in the morning, Sarah brings her home.
I used to do the same thing with Nell.
- You know this place? - Hanson has a good reputation, great staff.
One red flag.
They let an adviser go last week.
Trevor Dunker.
They found out he was seeing some of the clients.
- Seeing as in dating? - Half the women we talked to thought they were dating him.
- Melissa one of 'em? - Yeah.
They go to movies, out for pizza.
Then he videotapes them.
Two of the women said they were dancing.
Three of the women wouldn't say anything at all.
Folks at Hanson didn't know anything about it.
We went to his apartment.
Roommate said he was in Amarillo for a job interview, will be home this afternoon.
- You find any tapes? - No.
Roommate let us look.
He said Trevor wouldn't hurt anyone, we were way off base.
Let's find out.
What about those guys? Mug shots are sex offenders who live near the park.
Sketch is the guy with the three-legged cat.
Get patrols widening their search.
What about Sarah's boyfriend? Melissa's tough.
24-7, man.
You know what I'm saying? She's, uh She's like a kid.
That makes you like a dad.
How long have you and Sarah been dating? I don't know.
A while.
Look, there's five places Melissa goes to all the time.
- If she's not there, I don't know where she is.
- We got those.
We're looking.
- Melissa make it tough on you and Sarah? - That's why we broke up.
- When did you break up? - Monday.
Look, I care about Sarah.
I do.
It's just Shit, man.
A pizza.
All right, I can't even order the pizza I like.
We gotta get Canadian bacon or Melissa throws a fit.
It wears on Sarah.
- Two weeks ago, she cried for 24 hours straight.
- Why? Um, she was cleaning the bathroom.
You ever see someone cry over that? What did Sarah say when she called you this morning? - Exact words.
- Uh She was hysterical.
You know, uh, "I can't find Melissa.
We're at the park.
I can't find her.
" - Shit like that.
- What did you do? Nothing.
I was at work.
Dude, you don't get it.
All right? It's too much.
You know? It's just too much.
I gotta live.
I just I gotta be able to freakin' live.
Well, Melissa out of the way, you and Sarah can start living.
When's the last time you saw Melissa? Uh, Monday, same time I saw Sarah.
- Anybody see you at work this morning? - Yeah.
Lots of people.
- Can I go? - Hey, we're just talking, Nick.
It doesn't feel like that anymore.
Yeah.
Just don't go too far.
- Were you watching? - Nick hasn't seen Sarah in two days.
Hanson Rec Center hasn't seen Melissa in two days.
Maybe Melissa's been missing two days instead of six hours.
I gotta help my friend.
I talked to Perry.
She's cool.
Okay, I'm cool.
Just call me, you need anything.
When's your plane leave? We're taking the scenic route.
Keep your mouth shut, prisoner.
Thank you.
Open.
Name's Detective Grace Hanadarko.
I'll be your escort for the next 36 hours.
We stop when I say we stop.
We eat when I say we eat.
You pee when I let you pee.
Give me any problems, I will shoot you.
Understood? Good.
Let's go.
What's the rundown for the trip, Deputy? Interstate driving rules apply.
Neither of us spends more than 10 hours behind the wheel.
- Our overnight's in Albuquerque.
- Sounds good.
You settled in back there? This is the last time I will ever see Oklahoma with my own two eyes.
- What are you doing? - Uh, a friend of mine whittles.
Thought I might pass the time.
You want to try it? Steady hand is all it takes.
No, thanks.
Your husband, John? - He worked in tribal government? - Don't want to talk about my husband.
You know what it's costing me to be in this van with you? - I didn't invite you.
- You know, plus 20 bucks a day for my nephew to feed my dog.
That ain't worth a little polite conversation? He was in the legislature.
Loved his job.
Loved helping people.
So he loved politics? Politics is the same on our land as it is in the big city.
The good comes with the bad.
- Tell me about David Brownfeather.
- What about him? He ran against your husband.
Got pretty ugly.
John was pushing legislation to ban liquor sales on our land.
There have been some needless deaths over the years because of it.
David wasn't a fan.
David was more worried about outside interests than our community.
- He ever threaten your husband? - No.
You're chasing a dead end.
Stop the van.
I gotta pee.
- Like the sign.
- Thought you might.
Never driven through the desert before.
Must be nice taking in his creation one mile at a time.
- Was it you? - Who? when I got bit by a rattlesnake.
Wasn't me.
I spent most of '77 in Taos, Guatemala and, uh, Moscow.
What about pushing my car off the train tracks? - When was that? - '83.
- Nope.
- OU-Kansas game, '85.
Jayhawk pulled a gun on me, we beat 'em so bad.
He pulled the trigger, gun jammed.
You can turn around now.
- Nope.
- This dream about Caroline.
Yup.
Now, that was from me.
Well, through me.
- God wanted you and Caroline to connect.
- To save her? - I don't know.
- He's pulling the strings.
Yeah.
I'm making the moves.
You moved because of your past with your friend.
That was your choice.
- The dream wasn't.
- The dream was from God.
- What god? - You decide.
You okay with that? Maybe.
I need you to dust this for fingerprints.
I found it at the park.
It's Melissa's.
- Where? I didn't see this.
- Lost and found.
One of the moms turned it in last week.
She remembers, uh, Melissa offering it to a guy in overalls, with a rake.
Yeah? Yeah, Sarah has a checking account.
Melissa doesn't.
No.
There's been no bank activity at all.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, I've been investigating Caroline's case.
- Okay.
- She filed for divorce eight years ago.
Three days later, she withdrew the petition.
- Don't you think that's interesting? - Yeah, maybe.
Okay.
What have we got on David Brownfeather? I'm running him now.
- Ha.
It's Grace.
- Queenie and Bobo? Yeah.
I'm trying to find a guy with two pugs named Queenie and Bobo.
- Hey.
- Hey, Clay.
Hey.
Rhetta, let me know if you get a name.
- Can I talk to you for a minute? - Yeah.
I'm supposed to feed Gus until Aunt Grace gets back on Friday.
- Is there a problem? - Yeah.
I want to go camping.
- Ah.
- Mae said she could do it, but she said I had to ask you.
Because I will be the one taking Mae there to feed him.
- She'll make 10 bucks a day.
- Yeah.
It's okay with me.
Did you ask Grace? Not yet.
I just wanted to get it all lined up.
Thanks, Mrs.
Rodriguez.
Mm-hmm.
Melissa disappeared from the park.
What are you doing searching here? Shouldn't you be out looking for her, putting up a-a roadblock or something? More we know about Melissa, more we know where to look.
What about the media? Can't you put her photo on TV? Yeah.
I know a reporter who'll do a story.
I'll set it up.
I have a sister.
She's got Down syndrome.
Your sister ever disappear on you? Once at a football game.
I know how fast it can happen.
- But you found her? - We found her.
We're gonna find Melissa too.
I know how rough it can be.
Sometimes you just want peace a day without the responsibility.
- You must have a lot of strength.
- Uh No, I got nothing to be proud of.
Tell me what you did with Melissa.
I didn't do anything.
She was always there, taking up your time, breaking up you and your boyfriend.
No one else wanted her.
Only one thing left to do with someone no one wants.
l I didn't kill Melissa.
She's my sister.
I love her.
I just l-I just I just want to find her.
Tell me what happened.
Tell me.
- What's your sister's name? - Nell.
Nell.
Does Nell ever start screaming, just just screaming, get really violent? Sometimes.
I don't know what happened.
I, uh I had a fight with my boyfriend and I started drinking.
Then I just I just kept drinking and went out with my friends.
I didn't care about anything.
I didn't care about Melissa.
I was just I was just having fun.
And when I woke up this morning, she was gone.
So you lost her? When was the last time you saw her? I don't know.
Um, Monday.
Monday, uh, night.
l I don't remember.
l-I looked everywhere for her.
l-l-I just couldn't find her.
So you faked a missing person lied about how long she was gone, because you thought it would help.
I thought you would find her.
I just I just want you to find her.
I'm so I'm sorry.
l Nell would kick your ass, she heard you talking about her like that.
Shit, man.
We gotta rethink this thing.
Maybe not.
Mrs.
Becker hated me.
- Hated me more.
- She suspended me for no reason.
You put a box of locusts in her desk.
As a present.
You know how long it took me to collect those locusts? Thanks.
John ever hit you? - What? - I was just wondering what went wrong between you and him.
Something must have, he ended up dead.
John never raised a hand to me.
What happened then? When you get married, you're filled with love.
You can work through almost anything.
Then one day, it's just gone.
Like turning off the water on a faucet, I guess.
You ever heard of divorce? I committed myself to both him and my community.
It was my duty to stand by him no matter who he chooses to stand by.
What's that mean? That means things weren't perfect, Grace.
All you need to know.
That's bullshit, Caroline.
Marriage goes bad, you leave.
People do it every day.
And become a pariah in my own community? My place was by his side.
You miss your husband, Caroline? Yes, I do.
You still love him? Yes, I do.
- He deserve to die? - No.
But sometimes "deserve" has nothing to do with it.
- Where'd you find that? - You're a busy guy, Trevor.
What do you got five, six girlfriends? - They're not my girlfriends.
- Not what they say.
- You make a video with each one of them.
- Why are you using these women? - I'm not using anybody.
- You selling the tapes? Creating a little niche market for yourself in the porn business? Does that look like pornography to you? Haven't seen your other work yet, asshole.
I make the videos for them to have.
You expect us to believe that? You can believe whatever you want.
These women get treated like they're from another planet most of the time.
The videos show them that they have beauty, value, joy.
There's nothing sexual about it.
- Why am I here? - Melissa's missing.
I know.
I saw it on the news.
Wait.
You think I had something to do with that? I was in Amarillo for a job interview, okay? Call the guy and ask him.
Uh Actually, please don't call the guy, okay, 'cause I really need the job.
- When did you leave for Amarillo? - Yesterday, around noon.
Where were you Monday night till noon Tuesday? I don't know.
Uh, home, McDonald's.
Guys, I would never hurt Melissa.
Why aren't you talking to someone that actually hates people like her? - Like who? - There's a guy, works at the park got into a big fight with Melissa.
Yelled at her, pushed her, told her to stay the hell away from him.
- When was this? - It was before I got fired.
Uh, about a week ago.
- How am I supposed to know which of my guys was involved? - You don't have a schedule? Course I got a schedule, but you know how many different people work in a park on any given day? - I'm gonna need a list of those people.
- It's gonna take a day.
I don't have a day.
Any way you can track his vehicle? Well, some of the newer trucks have G.
P.
S.
systems on them.
What did the guy drive? - Red Chevy truck.
- That's gonna be a problem.
- Why? - Parks and Recreation doesn't have red trucks.
I appreciate you coming in, sir.
What? He still sick? Yeah.
Feel bad for him.
Maybe we shouldn't needle him too much.
He's gotta get his butt in here.
We got someone impersonating a parks worker.
- Think I got his name.
- Rhetta got a print off Melissa's water bottle? No, she got blood.
Andrew Wells, paroled sex offender.
Home address near the park, but it's bogus.
He moved three months ago.
I'm so proud of you, Rhetta.
A big-time criminalist.
You and Grace both.
- Oh, it's so good to talk to you.
- You too.
Take care of yourself and your family.
- Appreciate them.
- I will.
Good-bye, four-eyes.
- Okay.
- What's our next move? I think John was having an affair.
You gonna be able to handle this? Yes.
And it doesn't surprise me.
What do you need me to find out? Well, there wasn't anything in his file about another woman.
But the fact that John Runningspring was a respected man in the community I know where you're going.
It means it might not have made it into the file.
- Right.
- I need to talk to tribal police.
- Chief of police.
- No.
You and Ham need to talk to the chief of police.
Call me as soon as you get something.
Um, you okay with Mae feeding Gus so Clay can go camping? She's excited about the 10 bucks.
I'm paying Clay 20 bucks a day.
That little shit.
Kick his ass, Rhetta.
- Ready to go? - You know, why don't we spend the night here? There's a motel right next door.
Prisoners are boarded at sheriff stations along the route.
- Albuquerque's expecting us.
- You know, this is her last night in the real world.
Don't you think she deserves a decent set of sheets? You know, maybe a nice breakfast to start out a real shitty day? What I think doesn't matter.
It's against procedure, all right? We can't just stay at a motel.
All right, the only reason we stay here is if there's a circumstance beyond our control.
- Like? - Mechanical difficulty would be one.
We got a spare.
Wesley Lawrence.
Oh, closed mouth, over the shirt.
Carson Hicks.
Tongue, under the shirt, over the bra.
- Doug Miller? - Ooh! Tongue, under the bra.
Doug Miller! Uh, tongue, under the bra was invited to the promised land.
Man whore! Do they have whiskey in prison, Grace? Please tell me they do.
You can make your own jailhouse wine.
You just put fruit and some yeast and as much sugar as you can get in a bag.
You puncture it and you drop it into a toilet bowl full of warm water.
In about a week, you'll have something tastes like cough syrup but it will get the job done.
You You have everything? You got everything taken care of? You need help with anything? John's sister's taking care of the horses.
Don't really care about anything else.
Yes, you do.
Are you sure? I am sure.
Thank you for asking.
He's dead.
Who? Father Murphy.
You ever tell anyone about him? Rhetta, you, a few others.
- You tell anybody besides your mom? - Nah.
Didn't need anyone else blaming me for what happened.
How come you moved away without saying good-bye? Church moved us away to Nebraska.
And I had a baby boy.
Put him up for adoption.
To dead priests.
To dead priests.
You kill your husband, Caroline? What if I said yes? We are not social workers.
I tell you what.
If I'd have been alone and taking care of Nell when I was 25 She'd probably still be lost.
I get it.
But we still don't know if a crime has been committed.
We have a high-functioning woman with special needs, right? She could be trying to teach her little sister a lesson.
We got two eyewitnesses put Melissa with a known criminal, Andrew Wells, at the park.
- Got his blood on her water bottle.
- Blood of a convicted pedophile.
What's a pedophile want with Melissa? She's 30 years old.
Maybe Melissa caught him with a kid, saw something Andrew didn't want her to see.
He got scared, decided to silence the witness.
And take on a murder charge.
- This morning, 200 bucks was taken out of Sarah's A.
T.
M.
- You talk to Sarah? She said it wasn't her.
Waiting on video from the bank.
Gonna take a couple hours.
- Sounds like a crime to me.
- Yeah.
Still not our gig.
We want to stay on this, Captain, find out what happened to Melissa.
Thing is, so do I.
Let's put out a BOLO on Mr.
Wells.
Let me know what's on that bank video.
What about the old guy with the three-legged cat? Sweet guy who lives in the neighborhood.
Not of interest.
- Cat okay? - Cat's okay.
I don't understand why your department is concerned about a murder that occurred on Indian land.
It's not your jurisdiction.
We're doing research on a similar case where a knife was used to whittle tablets out of rat poison.
This isn't my first rodeo, Mrs.
Rodriguez.
- You be straight with me, I'll be straight with you.
- Yes, sir.
Before you ask me any more questions explain your relationship with Caroline.
She was good friends with both Mrs.
Rodriguez and Detective Hanadarko.
Why isn't Detective Hanadarko here? Because she's escorting her to prison.
Caroline Runningspring is a good woman.
I wish she had told us what happened between her and John.
Could've saved her some years.
- May I ask a question now? - Yes? Did you find evidence that John Runningspring was having an affair? There weren't any signs of an extramarital affair.
Doesn't necessarily have to be signs for there to be an affair.
John Runningspring was a good man.
- He did a lot for our community.
- We understand, Chief Maize.
We just want to know if you ever considered anyone outside Caroline in the investigation.
John worked a lot of late nights.
A clerk, Erin Walters, was always by his side.
We know he worked hard.
He probably worked very hard.
- This is not about his work ethic.
- You talk to Miss Walters? No.
She died two weeks after John.
Terminal lymphoma.
No one in the legislature's office even knew she was sick.
Is there anyone we can talk to about Miss Walters? She has a brother in Yukon.
I'll get you his number.
- Go ahead.
- You trust me? Where you gonna go? We're in the middle of nowhere.
What'd you find out? John Runningspring was having an affair with a clerk named Erin Walters, who is now dead.
- What? - She's dead.
She died of lymphoma two weeks after John had his heart attack.
We talked to her brother, who knew she was having an affair.
The guy broke it off with her when he found out she was sick.
It broke her heart.
- Brother say who Erin was having the affair with? - He didn't know.
But he did know that Erin had whittled him a sailboat.
Ham and I went to the brother's house.
Ham is so smart.
He asked him if he had any of Erin's tools, and he did! And I found residue on it! Residue that matches the chemical composition of the aspirin that was used to kill John Runningspring.
- Caroline is innocent.
- Yes.
Caroline is innocent.
You run? We come all this way and you decide to run now? I can't do this, Grace.
I'm scared.
I'm really scared, Grace.
I know John was having an affair.
She's the one who switched the pills.
Tell me why you're taking the blame.
Tell me.
You don't have to go to prison.
- I deserve to go to prison.
- You didn't do this! I knew! I knew she switched the pills! I gave him everything.
I gave him my heart, my soul and he has an affair.
And not the first, not the last.
I wanted him to die.
I let him die.
- Show Mr.
Wells over to booking.
- All right.
Let's go.
It's the best alibi I've heard in a long time.
"Just got out of the hospital from having my left arm amputated.
" Andrew Wells is not supposed to be around kids.
We bust his parole for being in that park.
There's one less freak on the street.
- That's good.
- What about the bank footage? May be good news too.
It's Melissa.
She's happy.
She's smiling.
Look, Melissa could have a gun to her back, she'd smile.
Bobby and Butch are checking the motels around the bank and the bus station down the street.
Now, if they don't find her, this case is going to Missing Persons.
Sarah says that Melissa doesn't know how to use an A.
T.
M.
That's why she doesn't have a phone.
She's bad with numbers.
Then how come she knows every stat to every OU game ever played? Now, maybe Melissa knows a lot more than Sarah's This is Melissa.
Melissa, this is Captain Perry, Detective Dewey.
Well, uh, we sure are glad you're okay.
Me too.
Hi.
Hi, everyone.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Hi.
Thank God.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
You okay? Yeah? Let me look at you.
You okay? - Drunk Sarah, mean to me.
- I was? Oh.
I'm so sorry.
I was drunk.
And that will never happen again.
Melissa got herself a motel room.
She was watching movies.
That's why she didn't see herself on TV, know we were looking for her.
- Mad at Sarah.
Mad.
- No.
No, please don't be mad at me.
- Okay.
- Okay.
We start hugging and crying, it's just gonna ruin this.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
If you need anything I mean anything just let me know.
Whiskey.
I'll see what I can do.
You sure you want to do this? Manslaughter conviction can knock your time down.
You'd probably be out of here six years.
I owe this to John.
What I did was dumb.
Dumb don't mean dead.
Just hang on.
- Promise? - Promise.
English - US - SDH
- Where'd you get those? - My mom's purse.
Grace Hanadarko, your mother's going to kill you.
Only if she finds out.
She gonna find out, Rhetta? Not from me.
But she always does.
No, thanks.
- Go fetch, four-eyes.
- Thanks a lot, Caroline.
I'll get 'em.
- Shit! - What? Ow.
Ow.
Ow.
It hurts.
Oh.
Rhetta, the flowers down by the river large purple ones with the big ball in the middle I need the roots.
Go! - Stay calm.
- Running into those bushes, it was a dumb thing to do.
Dumb don't mean dead.
Just Just hang on.
- Promise? - Promise.
Echinacea an old Native American remedy for a snakebite.
Eat it.
Now what? - We get her to the hospital.
- How? You girls need some help? #So pretty and, oh, so bold # # Got a heart full of gold on a Ionely road # - # She said, "I don't even think that God can save me"# - # Save me # # Am I gaining ground Am I losing face # # Have I lost and found my saving grace # # Thankful for the gift my angels gave me ## That was Earl.
You remember what the guy looked like? Well, no, but I thought that was 'cause it was 30 years ago.
What if Earl's been with me my whole life? Night I stalled on the tracks, we almost got hit by that train.
Last second, I popped the clutch, it rolled off the tracks.
Was that Earl? He pushed us off? Time you cramped up in the lake and that guy pulled you to shore.
Time I stopped to get gas, I was 18, drunk.
Started to hook up with the attendant in the back room.
He got weird.
I tried to leave.
Guy wouldn't let me.
Customer pounded on the door.
- Guy let me go.
- Hmm.
Hmm! Ask him.
Yeah.
He's off with Neely somewhere.
Well, when he gets back, ask him why you're dreaming about Caroline when we barely knew her.
But we had that summer that one magic summer between That was a great summer.
It's like we went around the world but never left our backyards.
Then Caroline and her family moved.
That was weird.
One day, she was just gone.
Yeah.
I always wondered about that how she could leave without telling us good-bye.
If Earl put Caroline in your head it means something's gonna happen to her.
Yeah, sure.
I'll take care of it.
One pint can save up to three lives.
You gotta gain weight to give.
Hey, I'm on a kidney donor list.
Does that count, sucker? I'd rather have your blood than some diabetic's.
Long as my insulin's in check my blood is as good as anybody's.
I got a rare condition.
I can't give blood.
- Oh.
- My veins are too thin.
Longhorn's scared.
He's scared of the needle.
Look at him.
He's sweating.
- Okay, who wants to give blood? - Butch.
- Butchy.
- All right.
I will.
- Come on, Benny.
- Be right there.
- Pussy! Hey, you want me to come with you, hold your hand? - Those tiny little veins.
- It's called nestipygmiosis.
It's genetic.
- N-E-S-T-l - P-Y-G - "Nestipygmosis"? That sound right? - Nestipygmy-bullshit.
"Did not match any documents"! Got something for you, Hanadarko.
- My lucky day.
- Working patrol, beautiful morning.
I respond to a possible abduction, Magnolia Park.
Meet Sarah Cullen.
Find out she lost her big sister, Melissa age 30, special needs.
We've been looking for an hour.
She had these flyers made up.
One hour? Some ladies at the park got frustrated decided to bring Sarah down to the chief's office to demand better service.
Sergeant made me get here first.
Figured I'd bring it to the best cop I know.
- Hmm.
- You kiss-ass.
- I ain't stupid.
- You got a feeling, Luke? While we were looking for her sister Miss Cullen was on her cell phone having a fight with her boyfriend.
Yeah, I got a feeling.
We were at Magnolia Park, and she disappeared.
She just disappeared.
What were you doing at the park? Melissa likes to watch the kids play.
I went to the car to get my phone.
I was gone two minutes.
l I came back and she'd she'd disappeared.
Melissa have friends at the park? Anybody she talks to? Queenie and Bobo, these two pugs.
We We used to have a pug, so - Did Melissa ever wander off before? - No.
Was she upset about anything? You want to get that, Sarah? - Might be something about Melissa.
- It's my boyfriend.
Well, you don't want to turn off your phone in case Melissa calls.
What What'd you ask me? I said, "Was Melissa upset about anything?" No.
She l I mean, she's grumpy in the mornings.
That's why we get out of the house, go to the park.
But she wouldn't just walk away.
She knows better than that.
She She knows what happens if she does.
- What happens? - She can't find her way back home.
Write down Melissa's friends and your friends.
Anybody who knows your sister.
- Including your boyfriend.
- Why? He doesn't know where she is.
Neither do my friends.
Sometimes people don't even know the stuff they know.
Tell us about Melissa.
She's got a great smile.
She trusts everybody.
You could tell her it's safe to walk across the highway, she'd believe you.
And she knows every stat to every OU football game ever played.
- What? Like Rain Man? - Kinda.
But she's social.
She likes people.
She loves animals and Uh, when she was two, her stroller rolled off the front porch and she fell out, hit her head on the sidewalk.
My dad said she changed after that.
- Where are your parents? - My dad died two years ago.
Our mom died when I was six.
- Do you have any other family? - No.
It's just me and Melissa.
That's gotta be tough.
You have a job? I work at Foley's.
You get assistance from the state.
Yeah, yeah.
It's It's not enough.
Tony, can you watch her a few minutes? Thanks, man.
We gotta find Sarah's boyfriend.
We gotta dump Sarah's phone.
- Yeah.
She's just a kid.
- Yeah, a kid with a boyfriend.
- Kid with big responsibility.
- Mmm.
Let's see if Melissa has a life insurance policy.
- Check their financials.
- You get a feeling, Hanadarko? - Yeah, yeah.
- Scale of one to 10.
- Eh Five.
- Five? - Yeah.
- Girl, you need a tune-up.
Might be the boyfriend.
Might be an accident.
Might be some truth in what she's telling us.
Doesn't matter.
We gotta find Melissa.
Any witnesses at the park? Anybody see anything? No.
We interviewed all the parents and nannies.
Kids too.
Nobody remembers seeing Melissa or Sarah, just remember Sarah screaming.
- So she could've gone for a walk.
- But we still gotta find her.
Agreed, but it's not a major crime.
What kind of calls you been getting at the park lately? At night, the normal boozing, loving, doping.
Daylight bringing out the freaks couple of weenie-waggers.
Other reports of an old man with a three-legged cat talking to some kids.
- Yeah.
But Melissa's not a kid.
- But she loves animals.
Melissa's got no sense of space.
She gets lost easy.
She talks to the wrong guy, somebody looking to take advantage of her she's in trouble.
Let's also just talk to Sarah's boyfriend.
And let's talk to the man with the three-legged cat.
He turns out to be a perv, that cat is going home with me.
I need you out at Magnolia Park.
We might have an abduction.
- I found Caroline.
- Who'd you find? An old friend of ours.
Is she okay? Where is she? At a federal transfer annex here in Oklahoma City.
She murdered her husband a year ago.
The three of you were close? - For one summer, right before high school.
- I was lookout while they were up to no good.
- Accomplice.
How many times I gotta tell you? You were an accomplice.
Says Caroline's husband was in the legislature on their tribal government.
History of heart trouble, dies at work of a heart attack.
M.
E.
discovers his sublingual nitrate pills had been replaced with an over-the-counter low-dose generic aspirin.
- Sublingual? - Place under the tongue every five minutes until chest pain subsides.
Each pill was hand carved, almost identical to the original.
- Takes a lot of skill and time to do that.
- Takes a lot of hate too.
They never connected Caroline with the carvings never proved she bought the aspirin, never found the missing nitrates.
- So how'd they prosecute her? - From the day tribal police first came to interview her all the way through her trial in federal court, Caroline never said a word.
She shut down completely.
Wouldn't even talk to her attorney.
Jury found her guilty.
She got life, no possibility for parole.
Caroline starts serving her sentence tomorrow at a federal prison in California.
- She leaves this afternoon.
- I gotta go see her.
Caroline I knew kills her husband you sure as shit gotta know why.
I always thought I would be the one visiting you in prison.
So did my mother.
She was positive I was gonna make Oklahoma's most wanted by 16.
- Did you? - Eleven's as close as I got.
- So you do it? - Same old Grace.
Why go around the back when there's a perfectly good door in front of you? I looked at your case file, Caroline.
- Why would you do that? - I'm a cop.
You're a cop? You always did protect those that couldn't protect themselves.
I don't think you killed your husband.
Why do you think I'm innocent? Dying bullfrog at sunset, hottest day of the summer.
We'd run out of water least you said we did.
Till we saw that sorry-Iooking bullfrog trying to cross asphalt hot enough to cook an egg on.
You picked up that bullfrog, poured water on it, saved its life.
- That's why.
- Bullfrog.
Bullshit.
Want me to say I did it, Grace? Would that make you feel better? You say you did it, I'll ask why.
You don't want to answer that, I'll respect it.
But you tell me you got caught up in something or that you're innocent I'll have the federal prosecutor down here in an hour to reopen the case.
How do you know I won't just lie to you, Grace? We never lied to each other.
Thanks for coming to see me.
That's it? You're gonna walk out of here, not tell me what's going on? Say hi to Rhetta for me.
Her sister says Melissa goes to the pizza place on May sometimes.
All right.
Get a car up there and check it out.
- Where's your sticker, Benny? - He's got nestipygmiosis.
Means he's full of shit and afraid of needles.
I don't care if needles terrify you.
We gotta make goal this year.
- I need every pint I can get.
- I see a needle, I go out stone cold.
Okay.
Just warning you.
What do we got? Talked to the woman who runs the program at Hanson Recreation Center.
She said Melissa goes there every day during the week.
It's about a half mile from Magnolia Park.
Melissa was present and happy on Monday.
She didn't show up Tuesday.
She didn't show up today.
- Is that unusual? - They've missed before, but never two days in a row.
A bus picks up Melissa in the morning, Sarah brings her home.
I used to do the same thing with Nell.
- You know this place? - Hanson has a good reputation, great staff.
One red flag.
They let an adviser go last week.
Trevor Dunker.
They found out he was seeing some of the clients.
- Seeing as in dating? - Half the women we talked to thought they were dating him.
- Melissa one of 'em? - Yeah.
They go to movies, out for pizza.
Then he videotapes them.
Two of the women said they were dancing.
Three of the women wouldn't say anything at all.
Folks at Hanson didn't know anything about it.
We went to his apartment.
Roommate said he was in Amarillo for a job interview, will be home this afternoon.
- You find any tapes? - No.
Roommate let us look.
He said Trevor wouldn't hurt anyone, we were way off base.
Let's find out.
What about those guys? Mug shots are sex offenders who live near the park.
Sketch is the guy with the three-legged cat.
Get patrols widening their search.
What about Sarah's boyfriend? Melissa's tough.
24-7, man.
You know what I'm saying? She's, uh She's like a kid.
That makes you like a dad.
How long have you and Sarah been dating? I don't know.
A while.
Look, there's five places Melissa goes to all the time.
- If she's not there, I don't know where she is.
- We got those.
We're looking.
- Melissa make it tough on you and Sarah? - That's why we broke up.
- When did you break up? - Monday.
Look, I care about Sarah.
I do.
It's just Shit, man.
A pizza.
All right, I can't even order the pizza I like.
We gotta get Canadian bacon or Melissa throws a fit.
It wears on Sarah.
- Two weeks ago, she cried for 24 hours straight.
- Why? Um, she was cleaning the bathroom.
You ever see someone cry over that? What did Sarah say when she called you this morning? - Exact words.
- Uh She was hysterical.
You know, uh, "I can't find Melissa.
We're at the park.
I can't find her.
" - Shit like that.
- What did you do? Nothing.
I was at work.
Dude, you don't get it.
All right? It's too much.
You know? It's just too much.
I gotta live.
I just I gotta be able to freakin' live.
Well, Melissa out of the way, you and Sarah can start living.
When's the last time you saw Melissa? Uh, Monday, same time I saw Sarah.
- Anybody see you at work this morning? - Yeah.
Lots of people.
- Can I go? - Hey, we're just talking, Nick.
It doesn't feel like that anymore.
Yeah.
Just don't go too far.
- Were you watching? - Nick hasn't seen Sarah in two days.
Hanson Rec Center hasn't seen Melissa in two days.
Maybe Melissa's been missing two days instead of six hours.
I gotta help my friend.
I talked to Perry.
She's cool.
Okay, I'm cool.
Just call me, you need anything.
When's your plane leave? We're taking the scenic route.
Keep your mouth shut, prisoner.
Thank you.
Open.
Name's Detective Grace Hanadarko.
I'll be your escort for the next 36 hours.
We stop when I say we stop.
We eat when I say we eat.
You pee when I let you pee.
Give me any problems, I will shoot you.
Understood? Good.
Let's go.
What's the rundown for the trip, Deputy? Interstate driving rules apply.
Neither of us spends more than 10 hours behind the wheel.
- Our overnight's in Albuquerque.
- Sounds good.
You settled in back there? This is the last time I will ever see Oklahoma with my own two eyes.
- What are you doing? - Uh, a friend of mine whittles.
Thought I might pass the time.
You want to try it? Steady hand is all it takes.
No, thanks.
Your husband, John? - He worked in tribal government? - Don't want to talk about my husband.
You know what it's costing me to be in this van with you? - I didn't invite you.
- You know, plus 20 bucks a day for my nephew to feed my dog.
That ain't worth a little polite conversation? He was in the legislature.
Loved his job.
Loved helping people.
So he loved politics? Politics is the same on our land as it is in the big city.
The good comes with the bad.
- Tell me about David Brownfeather.
- What about him? He ran against your husband.
Got pretty ugly.
John was pushing legislation to ban liquor sales on our land.
There have been some needless deaths over the years because of it.
David wasn't a fan.
David was more worried about outside interests than our community.
- He ever threaten your husband? - No.
You're chasing a dead end.
Stop the van.
I gotta pee.
- Like the sign.
- Thought you might.
Never driven through the desert before.
Must be nice taking in his creation one mile at a time.
- Was it you? - Who? when I got bit by a rattlesnake.
Wasn't me.
I spent most of '77 in Taos, Guatemala and, uh, Moscow.
What about pushing my car off the train tracks? - When was that? - '83.
- Nope.
- OU-Kansas game, '85.
Jayhawk pulled a gun on me, we beat 'em so bad.
He pulled the trigger, gun jammed.
You can turn around now.
- Nope.
- This dream about Caroline.
Yup.
Now, that was from me.
Well, through me.
- God wanted you and Caroline to connect.
- To save her? - I don't know.
- He's pulling the strings.
Yeah.
I'm making the moves.
You moved because of your past with your friend.
That was your choice.
- The dream wasn't.
- The dream was from God.
- What god? - You decide.
You okay with that? Maybe.
I need you to dust this for fingerprints.
I found it at the park.
It's Melissa's.
- Where? I didn't see this.
- Lost and found.
One of the moms turned it in last week.
She remembers, uh, Melissa offering it to a guy in overalls, with a rake.
Yeah? Yeah, Sarah has a checking account.
Melissa doesn't.
No.
There's been no bank activity at all.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, I've been investigating Caroline's case.
- Okay.
- She filed for divorce eight years ago.
Three days later, she withdrew the petition.
- Don't you think that's interesting? - Yeah, maybe.
Okay.
What have we got on David Brownfeather? I'm running him now.
- Ha.
It's Grace.
- Queenie and Bobo? Yeah.
I'm trying to find a guy with two pugs named Queenie and Bobo.
- Hey.
- Hey, Clay.
Hey.
Rhetta, let me know if you get a name.
- Can I talk to you for a minute? - Yeah.
I'm supposed to feed Gus until Aunt Grace gets back on Friday.
- Is there a problem? - Yeah.
I want to go camping.
- Ah.
- Mae said she could do it, but she said I had to ask you.
Because I will be the one taking Mae there to feed him.
- She'll make 10 bucks a day.
- Yeah.
It's okay with me.
Did you ask Grace? Not yet.
I just wanted to get it all lined up.
Thanks, Mrs.
Rodriguez.
Mm-hmm.
Melissa disappeared from the park.
What are you doing searching here? Shouldn't you be out looking for her, putting up a-a roadblock or something? More we know about Melissa, more we know where to look.
What about the media? Can't you put her photo on TV? Yeah.
I know a reporter who'll do a story.
I'll set it up.
I have a sister.
She's got Down syndrome.
Your sister ever disappear on you? Once at a football game.
I know how fast it can happen.
- But you found her? - We found her.
We're gonna find Melissa too.
I know how rough it can be.
Sometimes you just want peace a day without the responsibility.
- You must have a lot of strength.
- Uh No, I got nothing to be proud of.
Tell me what you did with Melissa.
I didn't do anything.
She was always there, taking up your time, breaking up you and your boyfriend.
No one else wanted her.
Only one thing left to do with someone no one wants.
l I didn't kill Melissa.
She's my sister.
I love her.
I just l-I just I just want to find her.
Tell me what happened.
Tell me.
- What's your sister's name? - Nell.
Nell.
Does Nell ever start screaming, just just screaming, get really violent? Sometimes.
I don't know what happened.
I, uh I had a fight with my boyfriend and I started drinking.
Then I just I just kept drinking and went out with my friends.
I didn't care about anything.
I didn't care about Melissa.
I was just I was just having fun.
And when I woke up this morning, she was gone.
So you lost her? When was the last time you saw her? I don't know.
Um, Monday.
Monday, uh, night.
l I don't remember.
l-I looked everywhere for her.
l-l-I just couldn't find her.
So you faked a missing person lied about how long she was gone, because you thought it would help.
I thought you would find her.
I just I just want you to find her.
I'm so I'm sorry.
l Nell would kick your ass, she heard you talking about her like that.
Shit, man.
We gotta rethink this thing.
Maybe not.
Mrs.
Becker hated me.
- Hated me more.
- She suspended me for no reason.
You put a box of locusts in her desk.
As a present.
You know how long it took me to collect those locusts? Thanks.
John ever hit you? - What? - I was just wondering what went wrong between you and him.
Something must have, he ended up dead.
John never raised a hand to me.
What happened then? When you get married, you're filled with love.
You can work through almost anything.
Then one day, it's just gone.
Like turning off the water on a faucet, I guess.
You ever heard of divorce? I committed myself to both him and my community.
It was my duty to stand by him no matter who he chooses to stand by.
What's that mean? That means things weren't perfect, Grace.
All you need to know.
That's bullshit, Caroline.
Marriage goes bad, you leave.
People do it every day.
And become a pariah in my own community? My place was by his side.
You miss your husband, Caroline? Yes, I do.
You still love him? Yes, I do.
- He deserve to die? - No.
But sometimes "deserve" has nothing to do with it.
- Where'd you find that? - You're a busy guy, Trevor.
What do you got five, six girlfriends? - They're not my girlfriends.
- Not what they say.
- You make a video with each one of them.
- Why are you using these women? - I'm not using anybody.
- You selling the tapes? Creating a little niche market for yourself in the porn business? Does that look like pornography to you? Haven't seen your other work yet, asshole.
I make the videos for them to have.
You expect us to believe that? You can believe whatever you want.
These women get treated like they're from another planet most of the time.
The videos show them that they have beauty, value, joy.
There's nothing sexual about it.
- Why am I here? - Melissa's missing.
I know.
I saw it on the news.
Wait.
You think I had something to do with that? I was in Amarillo for a job interview, okay? Call the guy and ask him.
Uh Actually, please don't call the guy, okay, 'cause I really need the job.
- When did you leave for Amarillo? - Yesterday, around noon.
Where were you Monday night till noon Tuesday? I don't know.
Uh, home, McDonald's.
Guys, I would never hurt Melissa.
Why aren't you talking to someone that actually hates people like her? - Like who? - There's a guy, works at the park got into a big fight with Melissa.
Yelled at her, pushed her, told her to stay the hell away from him.
- When was this? - It was before I got fired.
Uh, about a week ago.
- How am I supposed to know which of my guys was involved? - You don't have a schedule? Course I got a schedule, but you know how many different people work in a park on any given day? - I'm gonna need a list of those people.
- It's gonna take a day.
I don't have a day.
Any way you can track his vehicle? Well, some of the newer trucks have G.
P.
S.
systems on them.
What did the guy drive? - Red Chevy truck.
- That's gonna be a problem.
- Why? - Parks and Recreation doesn't have red trucks.
I appreciate you coming in, sir.
What? He still sick? Yeah.
Feel bad for him.
Maybe we shouldn't needle him too much.
He's gotta get his butt in here.
We got someone impersonating a parks worker.
- Think I got his name.
- Rhetta got a print off Melissa's water bottle? No, she got blood.
Andrew Wells, paroled sex offender.
Home address near the park, but it's bogus.
He moved three months ago.
I'm so proud of you, Rhetta.
A big-time criminalist.
You and Grace both.
- Oh, it's so good to talk to you.
- You too.
Take care of yourself and your family.
- Appreciate them.
- I will.
Good-bye, four-eyes.
- Okay.
- What's our next move? I think John was having an affair.
You gonna be able to handle this? Yes.
And it doesn't surprise me.
What do you need me to find out? Well, there wasn't anything in his file about another woman.
But the fact that John Runningspring was a respected man in the community I know where you're going.
It means it might not have made it into the file.
- Right.
- I need to talk to tribal police.
- Chief of police.
- No.
You and Ham need to talk to the chief of police.
Call me as soon as you get something.
Um, you okay with Mae feeding Gus so Clay can go camping? She's excited about the 10 bucks.
I'm paying Clay 20 bucks a day.
That little shit.
Kick his ass, Rhetta.
- Ready to go? - You know, why don't we spend the night here? There's a motel right next door.
Prisoners are boarded at sheriff stations along the route.
- Albuquerque's expecting us.
- You know, this is her last night in the real world.
Don't you think she deserves a decent set of sheets? You know, maybe a nice breakfast to start out a real shitty day? What I think doesn't matter.
It's against procedure, all right? We can't just stay at a motel.
All right, the only reason we stay here is if there's a circumstance beyond our control.
- Like? - Mechanical difficulty would be one.
We got a spare.
Wesley Lawrence.
Oh, closed mouth, over the shirt.
Carson Hicks.
Tongue, under the shirt, over the bra.
- Doug Miller? - Ooh! Tongue, under the bra.
Doug Miller! Uh, tongue, under the bra was invited to the promised land.
Man whore! Do they have whiskey in prison, Grace? Please tell me they do.
You can make your own jailhouse wine.
You just put fruit and some yeast and as much sugar as you can get in a bag.
You puncture it and you drop it into a toilet bowl full of warm water.
In about a week, you'll have something tastes like cough syrup but it will get the job done.
You You have everything? You got everything taken care of? You need help with anything? John's sister's taking care of the horses.
Don't really care about anything else.
Yes, you do.
Are you sure? I am sure.
Thank you for asking.
He's dead.
Who? Father Murphy.
You ever tell anyone about him? Rhetta, you, a few others.
- You tell anybody besides your mom? - Nah.
Didn't need anyone else blaming me for what happened.
How come you moved away without saying good-bye? Church moved us away to Nebraska.
And I had a baby boy.
Put him up for adoption.
To dead priests.
To dead priests.
You kill your husband, Caroline? What if I said yes? We are not social workers.
I tell you what.
If I'd have been alone and taking care of Nell when I was 25 She'd probably still be lost.
I get it.
But we still don't know if a crime has been committed.
We have a high-functioning woman with special needs, right? She could be trying to teach her little sister a lesson.
We got two eyewitnesses put Melissa with a known criminal, Andrew Wells, at the park.
- Got his blood on her water bottle.
- Blood of a convicted pedophile.
What's a pedophile want with Melissa? She's 30 years old.
Maybe Melissa caught him with a kid, saw something Andrew didn't want her to see.
He got scared, decided to silence the witness.
And take on a murder charge.
- This morning, 200 bucks was taken out of Sarah's A.
T.
M.
- You talk to Sarah? She said it wasn't her.
Waiting on video from the bank.
Gonna take a couple hours.
- Sounds like a crime to me.
- Yeah.
Still not our gig.
We want to stay on this, Captain, find out what happened to Melissa.
Thing is, so do I.
Let's put out a BOLO on Mr.
Wells.
Let me know what's on that bank video.
What about the old guy with the three-legged cat? Sweet guy who lives in the neighborhood.
Not of interest.
- Cat okay? - Cat's okay.
I don't understand why your department is concerned about a murder that occurred on Indian land.
It's not your jurisdiction.
We're doing research on a similar case where a knife was used to whittle tablets out of rat poison.
This isn't my first rodeo, Mrs.
Rodriguez.
- You be straight with me, I'll be straight with you.
- Yes, sir.
Before you ask me any more questions explain your relationship with Caroline.
She was good friends with both Mrs.
Rodriguez and Detective Hanadarko.
Why isn't Detective Hanadarko here? Because she's escorting her to prison.
Caroline Runningspring is a good woman.
I wish she had told us what happened between her and John.
Could've saved her some years.
- May I ask a question now? - Yes? Did you find evidence that John Runningspring was having an affair? There weren't any signs of an extramarital affair.
Doesn't necessarily have to be signs for there to be an affair.
John Runningspring was a good man.
- He did a lot for our community.
- We understand, Chief Maize.
We just want to know if you ever considered anyone outside Caroline in the investigation.
John worked a lot of late nights.
A clerk, Erin Walters, was always by his side.
We know he worked hard.
He probably worked very hard.
- This is not about his work ethic.
- You talk to Miss Walters? No.
She died two weeks after John.
Terminal lymphoma.
No one in the legislature's office even knew she was sick.
Is there anyone we can talk to about Miss Walters? She has a brother in Yukon.
I'll get you his number.
- Go ahead.
- You trust me? Where you gonna go? We're in the middle of nowhere.
What'd you find out? John Runningspring was having an affair with a clerk named Erin Walters, who is now dead.
- What? - She's dead.
She died of lymphoma two weeks after John had his heart attack.
We talked to her brother, who knew she was having an affair.
The guy broke it off with her when he found out she was sick.
It broke her heart.
- Brother say who Erin was having the affair with? - He didn't know.
But he did know that Erin had whittled him a sailboat.
Ham and I went to the brother's house.
Ham is so smart.
He asked him if he had any of Erin's tools, and he did! And I found residue on it! Residue that matches the chemical composition of the aspirin that was used to kill John Runningspring.
- Caroline is innocent.
- Yes.
Caroline is innocent.
You run? We come all this way and you decide to run now? I can't do this, Grace.
I'm scared.
I'm really scared, Grace.
I know John was having an affair.
She's the one who switched the pills.
Tell me why you're taking the blame.
Tell me.
You don't have to go to prison.
- I deserve to go to prison.
- You didn't do this! I knew! I knew she switched the pills! I gave him everything.
I gave him my heart, my soul and he has an affair.
And not the first, not the last.
I wanted him to die.
I let him die.
- Show Mr.
Wells over to booking.
- All right.
Let's go.
It's the best alibi I've heard in a long time.
"Just got out of the hospital from having my left arm amputated.
" Andrew Wells is not supposed to be around kids.
We bust his parole for being in that park.
There's one less freak on the street.
- That's good.
- What about the bank footage? May be good news too.
It's Melissa.
She's happy.
She's smiling.
Look, Melissa could have a gun to her back, she'd smile.
Bobby and Butch are checking the motels around the bank and the bus station down the street.
Now, if they don't find her, this case is going to Missing Persons.
Sarah says that Melissa doesn't know how to use an A.
T.
M.
That's why she doesn't have a phone.
She's bad with numbers.
Then how come she knows every stat to every OU game ever played? Now, maybe Melissa knows a lot more than Sarah's This is Melissa.
Melissa, this is Captain Perry, Detective Dewey.
Well, uh, we sure are glad you're okay.
Me too.
Hi.
Hi, everyone.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Hi.
Thank God.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
You okay? Yeah? Let me look at you.
You okay? - Drunk Sarah, mean to me.
- I was? Oh.
I'm so sorry.
I was drunk.
And that will never happen again.
Melissa got herself a motel room.
She was watching movies.
That's why she didn't see herself on TV, know we were looking for her.
- Mad at Sarah.
Mad.
- No.
No, please don't be mad at me.
- Okay.
- Okay.
We start hugging and crying, it's just gonna ruin this.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
If you need anything I mean anything just let me know.
Whiskey.
I'll see what I can do.
You sure you want to do this? Manslaughter conviction can knock your time down.
You'd probably be out of here six years.
I owe this to John.
What I did was dumb.
Dumb don't mean dead.
Just hang on.
- Promise? - Promise.
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