Alert (2023–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Andy - full transcript
- You got this.
Here you go!
- Woah!
- Keep your balance!
- Woah! Oh!
- Okay.
- Steady?
There we go.
Pedal! Pedal!
- Way to go, Andy,
you're doing it!
He's actually doing it!
- Oh, he's fast.
Andy!
- Andy?
- Andy!
- Andy!
- He must have gone all the
way around to the house.
- Excuse me, um... Um,
I'm looking for my son.
He's riding a red bike.
He's wearing a camo helmet.
- Andy?
- Have you seen him?
- No.
- Have you seen him?
Sir! Sir! Sir! This is my boy.
This little boy,
have you seen him?
I'm sorry.
- Anything?
- No...
- I'm sorry, please.
Our boy, have you seen
him? His name's Andy.
- Did you get it? Please
tell me you got it.
- You know that I used to
handle security for the Sixers.
- You didn't get it.
- They were out of stock,
but the owner's son, he has one.
He has a test tomorrow, but
for a pair of floor seats...
- You can get floor seats?
- Not unless I moonlight
for like a month,
but seeing as my nights have
been pretty free lately...
You got it!
- I got it! I don't know what
a graphing calculator does,
but I got one.
- I know that I
could've ordered one,
but I really wanted him to
have everything he needs
for his first day of school.
- Sidney told me that
you're running his DNA?
- This is to do
differential calculus.
Which means that he can
do differential calculus.
Our son, who could
barely do long division.
- When he was away,
he was given books.
He said he studied.
He said studying was
the only thing that he could do.
- I know. And that's all I need.
But Sidney, she needs more. I
really hope that she gets it
when the results come back.
- You don't have to hope.
It's him.
- There he is!
Ready for your
first day of school?
- I think so.
- Hey, tonight,
we celebrate your first day.
- Sounds great.
- You're not going
anywhere, mister.
It's a school night and
I'm making meatloaf.
- Meatloaf. House specialty.
What's the occasion?
- Finally! Come on,
you're gonna be late.
You gotta go.
- Aren't you
forgetting something?
First day of school photos.
Come on, by the fridge.
Say, "I'm back"!
I'm back!
- Sidney, you're
in a lovely mood.
- Yeah, I am. I feel like
today's gonna be an A+ day.
Mm-mmm.
- Look who's famous.
Valuable too.
- Neighborhood's
being canvassed.
So far, there's no
witnesses and no video.
- And the parents?
- In your office.
There's no work history on
Mom, but Dad is a doctor
who just had a patent
on a cancer drug
that just went into production.
We're running the financials,
but it looks like he stands
to make a fortune on it.
- Hey. Andy's six.
And he's very cute,
so if you could put some extra mo
in your mojo, that would be great.
- I need you to
paint these candles.
- Why?
- Because I don't do dark magic.
And if I did, I'd
use animal blood.
- Oh, I'm sure there's
a pig smiling somewhere,
but why me, I meant?
- Because this isn't for
Andy. It's for Sidney.
I had a bad dream about her.
I need to cleanse her.
- Soap and water's no good?
- Can you take the
candles? Just paint them.
- Sure.
- Thank you.
- The answer is no.
- I know it's hard to imagine...
- It's not someone we know.
- Somebody you work with, then?
You're about to
make a lot of money.
- Yes, from helping people.
- Pat, honey.
We know that Steve adopted Andy.
Can you talk to us about
his biological father?
- Fairy tales.
He can't sleep until
I've read him one.
- I need you to stay with me.
- His bedtime is 8:00.
He needs to be back by then.
- His dad.
Tell us about his dad.
- There's nothing
to tell. He's dead.
Anything?
Pat, who is it?
- It was Lynn.
Sending us prayers.
- Like I said, it's
no one we know.
- Whoever it is,
they might reach out.
Ask for money, a ransom.
And if they do, you need
to tell us about it.
- Of course.
Whatever you tell
us to do we'll do.
- Are you okay?
- Can I use your bathroom?
- Where is he?
Is he okay?
- 200 grand.
Today. I'll text the
where and the when.
- Who are you?
- Ghost of Christmas past.
Do what I say and the 718
won't come back to haunt you.
Pat?
Hey...
Listen, I...
I can't promise you that
Andy'll be back by 8:00.
But I can say that he will
have his fairy tale ending.
Okay? We get our babies back.
It's what we do.
- We got a hit.
Clark and Webster.
- Let's do it.
I saw you and Nicole
came to work together.
- Yeah, it's Keith's
first day at school.
- I know. There's
times like this,
a dad's gotta be there.
You have to be there.
Even after tonight.
- What's tonight?
- Nicole and I are telling
the kids about the engagement.
She didn't tell you, did she?
- The meatloaf.
- I'm told it's the
house specialty.
- How old are you?
- I mean it. You're their dad,
this doesn't change that.
- Were you born in the '90s?
You know what,
don't answer that...
It could incriminate
you. Let's go.
- There he is.
- Go.
- What are you gonna do?
You're gonna go
around or something?
- No, I'm giving
you a head start.
I figured at your
age, you could use it.
- He's getting away.
- From you, maybe.
- Do not expose my children
to Wilson Phillips.
Hey!
- I got it, old man.
Hey, where is he?
Where's the boy?
- I don't know about a boy!
- The boy you stole from.
- I didn't steal nothing, man!
- Hey! This boy.
- If you didn't steal nothing,
then where did you get this?
- I'll show you.
- Let's go.
- This is where I found
it. I didn't see no boy.
- Okay. Whoever took
Andy was definitely here.
We get a security
camera, we get an ID.
- Hey, I need you to
run a plate for me.
4-8-Delta-2-Kilo-3-Papa.
Yeah, call me back. Thanks.
- You heard me, right? I
said a security camera.
- Yeah, the car is
a security camera.
It has a feature on
it called Sentry Mode
that records
suspicious activity.
It also alerts the owner
when it's being vandalized.
So, we'll run the plates, we'll get
a name and then, we'll make a call.
- Well, we don't
have time for that.
- What, you got a better idea?
- You're saying that if
this car gets vandalized,
the driver gets
notified immediately?
- Yeah, it's an
app on his phone.
- Then yeah, I
got a better idea.
- Look who the cat dragged in.
- Hi, Andy. I'm Vicki.
I know you're scared right now.
But I'm gonna take
real good care of you.
- I wanna go home.
- I know, honey. I do.
And here's the
thing... You are home.
- So you skipped a grade, and
now, we've got classes together.
This is not a buddy system.
I'm not your lifeguard.
We walk through that
door and you drown,
I'm not giving you CPR. Got it?
- Got it. No CPR.
- Good. Welcome
to high school.
- Hey.
- Detective Adebayo.
Yeah, I asked for
their financials.
- You did what?
- We shot a car.
- No, no, he shot a car.
- A parked car.
With no one in it?
- Just to be clear, he...
- We shot the car
to let the driver know
that it'd been vandalized.
- Okay, let me get this
straight. So you vandalized it
so the driver would know
that it was vandalized.
- We vandalized the car so
that the driver would show up,
access the sentry
system and give us this.
- The beater's registered to a
Brad Skinner at a Bronx address.
We've added it to the alert
and then contacted NYPD.
They have him on three priors:
possession, assault
and armed robbery.
- And now, as a kidnapper.
- And that's Andy.
Any connection to
Andy's parents?
- Not that we can find.
- I found one.
An hour ago, Steve made
a $200,000 withdrawal.
Unless he had a sudden urge
to join a country club,
I'd say it's a ransom payment.
- Didn't we tell them to contact
us if there was a demand?
- Clearly, he didn't.
We need to find out why.
And Skinner, if he left a trail,
we need to find it.
- That's us.
- About Keith. What...
What about the DNA?
- I haven't heard, but I'll
let you know once I do.
- Like you'll let me know about
the engagement party, or...
- It's not a party. And I just
didn't want to say anything
in front of the kids. Keith's
back, Jay. He's settling in.
It's time to move on.
- So you and June have
something in common now.
- She wants a child.
You raise great ones,
and now you're ready
to have one with her.
She'd be an idiot
not to come back.
I just wouldn't shoot up any
more cars until she does.
- I'm not giving him back.
- Chillax. I'm just bringing
him so that they think we are.
- Ransom wasn't the plan.
- Let's go.
Having a kid's expensive.
This way, they cover his nut.
Hey! I said we're going.
- I'll call the cops.
Swear to God I will.
- Yeah? And tell them what?
- The truth about Andy.
I got that to protect me.
What's your excuse?
- You ain't calling no one.
Let's go!
- Is this him?
Did he take Andy?
- We were hoping
you could tell us.
- I told you, I don't
know who took him.
- You did. And an hour later,
you made a $200,000 withdrawal.
- Did this man take my son?
Do you know where he is?
- We understand why people
keep ransom demands a secret.
But you should not.
- I'm not.
There hasn't been a demand.
I don't know who this is, and
I didn't withdraw any money.
- Pat, where is she?
- She's with a friend, Lynn.
- You need to get
her on the phone,
because we gotta ask
her some questions.
- Like why she took
out that money.
Because it was withdrawn, and if
you didn't do it, who else could?
- This is ridiculous.
She did nothing.
She's with a friend.
Lynn.
I was calling for Pat...
No, no updates...
Just have her call me
when she gets back?
She went for a walk.
- Um. And left her phone?
Risk missing a
call about her son?
- What other
explanation is there?
- That the kidnapper told
her not to bring the phone.
So that we couldn't trace
it to the ransom drop.
- I found it. Skinner's trail.
Credit card payment
on a motel on 6th.
- Alright, well,
I'll notify SWAT.
- Hey, been there
done that. Let's go.
Police!
- The desk clerk said that
there was three of them.
Andy, Skinner and a woman. I
got a description, but no ID.
So we're pulling CCTV
and dusting the room.
- Find out who they are to
find out where they are.
That's what we always
say. But with a child...
I promised a fairy tale ending.
Because that's all
I know about Andy.
That he's a child who
likes children's stories.
- Fairy tales are a particular
type of children's story.
- My point is that we know
nothing. We've got nothing.
Except that Andy likes
terrifying stories.
- Fairy tales are
terrifying for a reason.
They teach children no
matter what to persevere.
That the world is
a dangerous place
and no one is going to save you,
so you have to save yourself.
- There were gummies
in the room, right?
- Yeah, on the floor, why?
- Because maybe
knowing who Andy is
will help us find him after all.
- So, M.E. is still
determining the cause of death.
But it looks like a
gunshot wound to the chest,
but there are lacerations
around his neck.
- That lines up with
our witness testimony.
She observed Brad on the
ground, Pat kneeling over him.
And then she claims she saw
Pat stab him in the neck.
- If Pat was here,
she's fled the scene.
PPD finished a
search of the park
and no sign of her or Andy.
- What about the 200k in cash?
- It's unaccounted for.
- And those?
- These were in
Skinner's jacket.
One is his and the
other, it's unclear.
We'll have to run a IMEI.
- Alright, we'll call
it in on the way back.
- Um, are you familiar
with Egungun-Oya?
- Definitely not.
- Okay, she's the
Mother of the dead.
She guides the destinies
of the deceased.
And in Sidney's
case, the living.
- Sidney?
- There's a darkness
in her eyes.
I believe she's haunted.
- She's been having trouble
processing Keith's return.
Let's just say she's
a tad overwhelmed.
- Do you mind if
I pray with her?
- Um... I'll leave it up to her.
If she's open to it, you
know, you have my blessing.
- Thank you.
- Target acquired, 11 o'clock.
- Um.
I almost feel bad for him.
- Do you think we should
let him sit with us?
- I said almost.
- Hey, Keith!
- Oh my God, is he
friends with Bianca?
- He wasn't.
- Your brother is
sitting at Mount Olympus
with Bianca Delvain
and the other gods.
He's not my
brother.
- How's it going?
- Hey, um... I'm Keith.
- Yeah, I know.
- Perfection.
This is perfection.
Just let it suck.
Once the DNA test comes
back, it'll be over.
- Will it?
After what happened, I didn't
sleep for a whole night
for like almost three years.
Every time I closed my
eyes, I could see him.
His face... The way
he looked at me.
The surprise. The terror.
- Sid, we were 12.
- Yes. But you didn't have to look
your parents in the eye every morning
and lie to them,
watching their hopes
fade day-by-day,
thinking that they
might see Keith again.
And then watch their
marriage fall apart
because of the
horrible thing you did.
And then this... guy shows
up, looking like Keith.
And acting like Keith.
For God knows what reason.
And...
It just took so long to move on.
And now, it feels like it's
happening all over again.
And since I didn't
say anything then,
I can't say anything now.
So I'm... I'm trapped.
- The Medical
Examiner's report is in.
Brad Skinner died
almost instantly
from a gunshot to the chest.
I say almost instantly
because he survived
a few minutes longer due
to medical intervention.
- A medical intervention?
- Turns out Pat wasn't
stabbing Brad in the neck,
she was performing
a field tracheotomy.
The gunshot made his
tongue "edematous".
I had to look that one up too;
it means fluid-filled
or swollen.
So, it looks like she was
trying to create an airway
for him to breathe.
- So if Pat tried to save him,
who tried to kill him?
- Yeah, about that...
I checked out the two phones
you found on the deceased.
One did belong to Brad Skinner.
The other... a woman
named Vicki Parsons.
30. Also from the Bronx.
I'm pulling her history now.
- A possible accomplice?
- That would be my guess.
She matches the description of the woman
who checked into the motel with Brad.
- So what's our theory here?
That Brad and Vicki
Parsons take Andy,
ransom him to the mother.
Vicki turns on Brad and
runs off with the money?
- Possibly. But
why would Pat try
to save her son's
kidnapper? And who has Andy?
- So, we're looking
for two women,
Pat Wells and Vicki Parsons.
We find them, we find
our missing child.
- Hey, TSA got a
hit on Pat Wells.
She just bought a train ticket.
- Let me guess, to the Bronx?
- That's right.
- This whole thing goes back
to the Bronx.
How many tickets?
- One ticket, traveling alone.
Hey. It's a very
good-looking kid.
It would be a shame if
something happened to him
because you didn't cooperate
with the authorities.
- We know they
contacted you, Pat.
They made demands.
You tried to get Andy
back on your own.
Something went wrong.
You got scared.
So you ran. We get it.
But it's time to
let us help you.
Let us help Andy.
Where is your son?
Who has him?
- Well, would you look at that.
I'm a new woman.
- Andy's not being trafficked,
he's not being ransomed.
Not by Vicki Parsons.
Check it out.
- Okay, the Parsons
abducted him. Ransomed him.
Murdered Brad Skinner. What, do you
think, she's out there getting him a pony?
- So, listen... Vicki
Parsons, four years ago,
she filed a missing
person's report.
Four years ago, Andy was two.
The report she filed, it
was about the abduction
of her two-year-old son.
- You wanna hear
something weird?
- Whatever it is, we just
heard something weirder.
- Pat Wells... is
four years old.
- You know what's
weird about that?
I mean, aside from everything,
what's weird about that is
that makes perfect sense.
Oh, it's Sidney.
- You know what's really weird?
Is that our daughter's
eggs are being read.
- Makes perfect sense to me.
- Have you found Andy? Please
tell me you've found him.
- Baby, did you
withdraw $200,000?
- I was trying to get Andy back.
- From Brad Skinner.
Who's now in a body bag.
- All I care about
is finding Andy.
- Which explains the body bag.
- I didn't kill him.
He was dead when I got there.
- Why don't you talk to
me about Vicki Parsons?
- I don't know who that is.
- Well, four years ago,
Vicki filed a missing
person's report
after her son had been abducted.
Coincidentally, four
years ago, you were born.
Yeah, um...
Driver's license,
social security card,
passport...
Every single one of them
issued four years ago.
Either you dated the
Unabomber before that,
or you teleported in from Mars,
or you changed your identity
after stealing
someone else's kid.
So, yeah, when I said
it was a coincidence,
I... I was being ironic.
Talk to us, baby.
That'll make finding
Andy a whole lot easier.
- I want you to close your
eyes and open your hands.
I want you to put all your
bad energy into those objects.
Once you do, I'll be able to
read them and know if it worked.
Focus.
There you go.
I want you to pay
very close attention.
- Pat Wells, she had a
train ticket to New York.
Vicki Parsons,
Bronx phone number.
- Which gave NYPD an
address to stake out.
- She got a rap
sheet a mile long.
Possession of coke,
PCP, heroin, meth.
She's an equal
opportunity offender.
- Now, we're just waiting
on the financials.
- What about medical records?
What are her eating habits?
I once had a client
had a stalker.
Found that guy based on his
obsession with kielbasa.
- I bet your client
was very happy.
- Yeah, with the result.
With me, not so much.
We had a misunderstanding
about a word.
- One word? What does that mean?
Ex. As in ex-wife.
I thought she was.
Turns out she was not.
- Pat, honey, the
longer you wait,
the harder it will be
for us to find Andy.
- I was a neonatal nurse.
Working at a NICU in the Bronx.
We got preemies.
Kids who'd lost oxygen
during delivery.
And some of whose mothers
were drug addicts.
- Like Vicki Parsons.
- She never visited.
Andy was fighting for his life
because of her and
she never came.
Not one time in two months.
And in those two months?
I cared for him.
I changed him. I fed him.
I read him fairy tales.
Then she sobered up
and she took him away.
Until she started using again.
Ten months old and
he's back in the ICU.
Dehydrated.
Malnourished.
And yet, he remembered me.
We had a connection.
He was like this
little sunflower
and I was the sun that he
instinctively knew to turn to.
It happened two more times.
Child Protective Services
did nothing to stop it.
She got better. I lost him.
She got worse. I got him back.
The last time, I couldn't.
I wouldn't let him go.
I looked in her records,
I got her address and I watched.
I didn't have a plan.
- It's okay.
- I just knew that
sooner or later
something bad was gonna happen
and I needed to be
there when it did.
It was a Saturday afternoon.
Blazing hot.
She was high or drunk or both.
She parked.
And just left Andy in the car.
He would've died if I
hadn't done something.
I couldn't give him back.
Not to her.
So I left the Bronx.
I moved to Philly.
Changed my name.
Met Steven.
- And told him Andy's
father had died.
- He doesn't know any of it.
I didn't want my past haunting him
like it's come back to haunt me.
- Someone tried to
help Brad Skinner.
Someone with medical expertise.
That was you, wasn't it?
- I thought if I
could keep him alive,
he could tell me
how to find my son.
My son.
Not hers.
- Yeah, okay. Thanks.
The financials were a dead end.
There's no activity on Vicki's
bank account or credit.
Mostly because she doesn't have
a bank account or credit cards.
- Cash only, then, probably.
- Yeah, but not by choice.
She filed for
medical bankruptcy.
So she's drowning in debt.
She's also got chronic
health problems
because of the drug thing.
And she had a pacemaker
implanted last year.
So, long story short, there's
no financial trail to follow.
- You can't follow the money,
you can't follow the kielbasa...
Follow the heart, right?
Hmm.
- No, okay.
I know that look.
That's a bad look.
- No, it's good. Let's
go for a ride. Come on.
Come, come, come.
- Good.
Now crack the eggs in a
glass and I'll read them.
So now, we'll let them soak
and then I'll read them.
And the candles,
once they burn out.
And the limes, take those home.
Squeeze those into
12 cups of water.
Pour it on your body
and don't wash it off.
- Okay. The lime juice,
don't wash it off.
- It'll protect you.
- From what?
You still haven't said.
- If you do as I say,
God willing...
you'll be okay.
This seems on the up-and-up.
- This guy's a miracle
worker. Trust me.
Reni!
- What the hell
are you doing here?
- Well, I need you to
track a pacemaker for me.
But where's the
southern hospitality?
- One, I'm from Cleveland.
Two, June told me what you did.
So why don't you go home
and dip your chachis
in a pot of boiling
water, you faker!
You're not welcome here.
- I must've blinked.
Did I miss the miracle?
- I got a warrant! You want me
to break the door down? Open up.
- There's no way you have a
warrant. Does he have a warrant?
- I don't think he would lie.
- Let me see it. Let me see it.
This is a dry-cleaning receipt.
- I know!
- What do you want?
- I want you to...
Will you relax?
Hey, I know you and June
share an alpaca fetish
and that you guys bond over
hypoallergenic fleeces,
whatever, but there's a
child, he's been abducted.
His name's Andy. And right
now, the person who took Andy,
he's getting further
and further away
while you scream spittle
at me all over the place.
- What does that
have to do with me?
- Well, the kidnapper has a
pacemaker and it's in the cloud.
You can hack anything
because you're brilliant.
I told him that you love kids.
There's nothing you
wouldn't do for children.
You're extremely compassionate.
- And noble. He
used the word noble.
- Nah... I'm just
a regular dude.
- He says you're
a miracle worker.
- That's right. You
are a miracle worker.
Can you make a miracle
happen for Andy?
Can you do that?
- Of course I will.
- Great.
- It's gonna cost you.
- That's fine. How much?
- Apologize to June.
- Alright, that's
none of your business.
For the record, I
did apologize to her.
She doesn't want to talk to me.
- Because you made excuses.
Did you try, without
qualifiers, or justifications,
like K-Stew after Rupertgate,
to just apologize?
Yeah. I didn't think so.
- Okay. Alright.
I'll beg for forgiveness
next time I see her.
- No. Not next time.
Now time, dude.
- Hello?
- Hey! It's Renwick.
I got someone here that
wants to talk to you.
- A kid is missing, dude. I don't have time for this.
- Lord...
- Hi, June.
I know that I'm the
last person on Earth
that you wanna
speak to right now.
But I need you to
know that I'm sorry.
I never should've lied to
you, I should've been honest
about the fact that I wasn't
ready to have a child.
I'm so sorry, from the
bottom of my heart.
I am genuinely, genuinely sorry.
- So am I...
that you're only calling me
because Ren put you up to it.
- That's fair.
But truth be told,
you won't take my calls.
I wanna speak to you.
I'm ready to speak to you.
- Well, there is something
I wanna tell you,
but I don't want to
do it over the phone.
How about we meet tonight?
- Great. I'll be there.
- For the record,
I'm rooting for you two.
- Oh yeah?
- Yeah.
- That's really
nice. Pacemaker?
- Do you know the manufacturer?
- Lugenix.
- Lugenix? Their cloud
security's a joke!
They rolled their own encryption
and used a faulty
cipher feedback.
- Can you find the
pacemaker in the next hour?
- Bro... Five minutes. Tops.
- Okay. Five minutes,
that's pretty good.
- I told you, he's
a miracle worker.
Hey. Any luck?
- I've got a track
on Vicki Parsons.
She's headed north on route 611,
heading towards Warrington.
- I'll coordinate with P.S.P.
to set up a roadblock
at Danboro Bridge.
I'll meet you there.
- Are you thirsty?
Okay, baby.
Lemme know if you
change your mind.
No...
- Step out of the vehicle
with your hands up!
- No! No! No! No!
Andy, listen to me.
I know you're scared.
I'm sorry I wasn't
there for you.
Mommy was sick.
And I tried to get
better for you.
So I could find you.
I searched for so long, baby.
So I could finally
be a mother to you.
Do you understand?
None of this is your fault.
But I need you to take my hand.
I need you to trust me.
Everything's gonna
be okay from now on.
Mama's finally gonna
take care of you.
- No one approaches the vehicle.
We got it from here, okay?
- Come with me. Block out
this road. Nobody in or out.
- Ms. Parsons.
Vicki...
Vicki, I'm gonna need
you to put down the gun
and let Andy go, okay?
- If I drop this gun, I
know what happens next.
I go to jail and you give
my child back to that woman.
- We know the truth, Vicki.
We know that Andy is your son.
- What about Brad?
- Why don't we go down to the station?
We'll talk about Brad, okay?
- He said he loved me...
He said that we'd get Andy back.
That we would all be together.
I was stupid enough
to believe him.
He just wanted
Andy for a payout.
- And that's when you
found him at the park,
you confronted him. Right?
- We got into an argument.
I wasn't gonna let
him give my son away.
He pulled the gun on me.
We struggled for it...
And I shot him.
To protect Andy.
- Sounds to me
like self-defense.
Maybe a judge will
see it the same way.
- They'll charge me with
kidnapping my own son.
My own child!
I wasn't gonna let
Brad give my child back
to the monster that
took him from me.
And I sure as hell
won't let you.
- Vicki, come on, baby, please.
No!
- No, Nick, hey!
- Andy?
- He's fine. He's here.
Sergeant Schultz
will take you to him.
- Oh! You did it!
You gave us a fairy tale ending.
Thank you.
- Of course. Now go.
This isn't about
the bridge, is it?
- I apologized to June.
She's gonna meet me later.
- I'm not surprised.
When you want to,
you can be very not un-charming.
- Ah. You're telling
the kids about Mike.
I'm gonna have kids with
someone who's not their mother.
Is that a fairy tale ending?
- I want to see my family.
- You can see Andy.
- I want to see them both.
- I've already
explained the situation.
- The situation?
That you're treating my
wife like a criminal.
- No.
- Steve.
- It's okay. You
can see them both.
- I don't blame her
for not telling me.
After what happened, I
don't think anyone could.
She kept what she did a
secret to protect Andy.
- And herself.
She took him from his mother.
- And because she did,
Andy has a stable home,
two parents who love him and
an incredibly bright future.
- We're going to
write a case report.
And when we do, we're gonna
have to include all the facts.
What Vicki Parsons did.
And what Pat did, too.
Taking Andy.
- Hey, why don't you
go be with your family.
Alright? Go ahead.
- You know if he's
taken from us,
he has no one.
Not even his crazy mother.
Without us, he's alone.
- He's right. If
we tell the truth,
and nothing but the truth,
the DCFS will take
Andy from him.
He'll end up in foster care.
- As opposed to ending up with
a woman who changed her identity
to hide the fact that
she kidnapped a baby?
- Well, she saved
that baby's life!
- All I'm saying is
she committed a felony
and we can't cover that up.
- You know what, the report,
feel free to not assign it to me.
- I'll do it.
- You sure? I can help you if...
- It's okay. I got it.
- Hey, I need you to take these.
The candles and the yolks.
- Oh, we're not doing
breakfast for dinner?
- Give those to Sidney.
It contains bad energy.
Tell her to bury it as
far away as possible.
- How bad is the energy?
- It's something...
primal.
- But you got them. Or it.
- I won this battle, but...
It's definitely a war.
- Hey, J.
This just came for
Captain Batista.
- I'll give it to
her. Thank you.
- That's it? Outlaw
couple tries to abduct
wealthy family's
child for ransom.
One kills the other,
then commits suicide.
End of story.
- I know how you feel about this.
- This is not about how I
feel. This is about the facts.
The ones any report issued from this
office are obligated to include.
- Are we obligated to
destroy Andy's life?
Because that is what including
all the facts will do.
- You don't know that.
- Kemi's right.
If the DCFS finds
out all the facts,
they will take Andy away.
- This is not about
what the DCFS will do.
This is about you
doing your job.
Which last time I checked
did not include playing God.
- That's not what I'm doing.
- You're right.
Presumably, God would be
an excellent social worker,
like, I don't know,
the people at DCFS
who are actually equipped to
decide the fate of a child.
- I feel perfectly equipped
to decide this child's fate.
- I know you do.
That's what frightens me.
Are you really going
to send this in?
- I already did.
- I know we were supposed to tell
the kids about us at dinner, but...
I don't think I can
be with you tonight.
- I understand.
- It's him. It's Keith.
DNA confirms, that's our boy.
- I don't understand.
- We took DNA from
his toothbrush
and from his baby hair,
from before he was taken and
then, after he came back.
They match.
- He's your brother, butter.
- Is that from
Kemi? How'd I do?
- Apparently, you're
a work in progress.
But this is a good first start
if you can bury
this far, far away.
I say the garbage
disposal is good enough.
- You owe Kemi more
respect than that.
You need to respect her,
respect her process.
- Okay. That's fair.
But this process, this DNA,
okay, this is
undeniable, verifiable,
no egg yolk necessary,
super mo in the mojo.
- You're right. About Kemi.
I need to respect her.
- This is good news.
- Yeah, Keith,
he's got good mojo.
Me, I've got candle
wax and runny eggs.
And limes... to protect me.
- You do not need protection.
- Yeah, I do.
We all do.
- Sid. Sidney. Sid...
Well, I guess, the good news is
no one has to eat
your meatloaf. Huh?
- I thought you
loved my meatloaf.
Then again, June thought that
you were trying to
get her pregnant.
You know, I am
sensing a theme here.
- The report...
You did the right thing.
- Thank you. What can I say,
I love a fairy tale ending.
- You'll get your own fairy
tale ending with Mike too.
You also can be not
un-charming when you wanna be.
- Why is this so hard?
- Well, I think, because...
grief is the price
we pay for love.
- Go. Be with June.
- You sure?
- Yeah. Positive. Positive. Yes.
This day has to end with a
fairy tale ending for someone.
- You didn't believe me?
- Oh...
You heard us talking.
- I can't believe you
thought I was an imposter.
- Baby... Keith!
- Thanks for having me over.
How's Carol?
- Upstairs.
Which is why we're meeting here.
Your sister hates me that much?
- I'm 42, and because of
you, I'm living here, so...
You do the math.
- I've done the math.
And I want us to get pregnant.
The sooner the better.
Okay? What is it?
You don't believe me?
- No, I... Oh, my God.
I do believe you, it's just...
There is someone else.
- There's... Wow.
You moved out a week ago.
- Yeah, he's amazing.
He's a neurosurgeon.
Uh, and...
He likes to cook.
And he backpacks.
- Okay.
Are you dating him or are
you building a monument?
No, no. I'm not dating him.
I've actually never met him.
And I'm never going to meet him.
But I am going to
have his child.
- Immaculate conception.
Cue the wise men.
- Or in this case
the sperm bank.
- No, June, don't do
that. I'm right here.
I want this. Okay?
Look at me, I want this.
- I want to thank you for
being incredibly irresponsible,
because you taught me
to look out for myself.
So...
that's what I did.
- He rigged it.
- A DNA test?
That's impossible.
- So is the result.
And before you say
that maybe we're wrong,
please don't.
Because the alternative is
too horrible to contemplate.
- So what're you gonna do?
- Well, I'm gonna
protect myself.
And then I'm gonna
tell the truth.
- 911, what's the nature
of your emergency?
- There was a drowning.
- Is the person under water?
Are you unable to see them?
- Yeah. That's right.
There's a body at the
bottom of Union Lake.
Difuze
Here you go!
- Woah!
- Keep your balance!
- Woah! Oh!
- Okay.
- Steady?
There we go.
Pedal! Pedal!
- Way to go, Andy,
you're doing it!
He's actually doing it!
- Oh, he's fast.
Andy!
- Andy?
- Andy!
- Andy!
- He must have gone all the
way around to the house.
- Excuse me, um... Um,
I'm looking for my son.
He's riding a red bike.
He's wearing a camo helmet.
- Andy?
- Have you seen him?
- No.
- Have you seen him?
Sir! Sir! Sir! This is my boy.
This little boy,
have you seen him?
I'm sorry.
- Anything?
- No...
- I'm sorry, please.
Our boy, have you seen
him? His name's Andy.
- Did you get it? Please
tell me you got it.
- You know that I used to
handle security for the Sixers.
- You didn't get it.
- They were out of stock,
but the owner's son, he has one.
He has a test tomorrow, but
for a pair of floor seats...
- You can get floor seats?
- Not unless I moonlight
for like a month,
but seeing as my nights have
been pretty free lately...
You got it!
- I got it! I don't know what
a graphing calculator does,
but I got one.
- I know that I
could've ordered one,
but I really wanted him to
have everything he needs
for his first day of school.
- Sidney told me that
you're running his DNA?
- This is to do
differential calculus.
Which means that he can
do differential calculus.
Our son, who could
barely do long division.
- When he was away,
he was given books.
He said he studied.
He said studying was
the only thing that he could do.
- I know. And that's all I need.
But Sidney, she needs more. I
really hope that she gets it
when the results come back.
- You don't have to hope.
It's him.
- There he is!
Ready for your
first day of school?
- I think so.
- Hey, tonight,
we celebrate your first day.
- Sounds great.
- You're not going
anywhere, mister.
It's a school night and
I'm making meatloaf.
- Meatloaf. House specialty.
What's the occasion?
- Finally! Come on,
you're gonna be late.
You gotta go.
- Aren't you
forgetting something?
First day of school photos.
Come on, by the fridge.
Say, "I'm back"!
I'm back!
- Sidney, you're
in a lovely mood.
- Yeah, I am. I feel like
today's gonna be an A+ day.
Mm-mmm.
- Look who's famous.
Valuable too.
- Neighborhood's
being canvassed.
So far, there's no
witnesses and no video.
- And the parents?
- In your office.
There's no work history on
Mom, but Dad is a doctor
who just had a patent
on a cancer drug
that just went into production.
We're running the financials,
but it looks like he stands
to make a fortune on it.
- Hey. Andy's six.
And he's very cute,
so if you could put some extra mo
in your mojo, that would be great.
- I need you to
paint these candles.
- Why?
- Because I don't do dark magic.
And if I did, I'd
use animal blood.
- Oh, I'm sure there's
a pig smiling somewhere,
but why me, I meant?
- Because this isn't for
Andy. It's for Sidney.
I had a bad dream about her.
I need to cleanse her.
- Soap and water's no good?
- Can you take the
candles? Just paint them.
- Sure.
- Thank you.
- The answer is no.
- I know it's hard to imagine...
- It's not someone we know.
- Somebody you work with, then?
You're about to
make a lot of money.
- Yes, from helping people.
- Pat, honey.
We know that Steve adopted Andy.
Can you talk to us about
his biological father?
- Fairy tales.
He can't sleep until
I've read him one.
- I need you to stay with me.
- His bedtime is 8:00.
He needs to be back by then.
- His dad.
Tell us about his dad.
- There's nothing
to tell. He's dead.
Anything?
Pat, who is it?
- It was Lynn.
Sending us prayers.
- Like I said, it's
no one we know.
- Whoever it is,
they might reach out.
Ask for money, a ransom.
And if they do, you need
to tell us about it.
- Of course.
Whatever you tell
us to do we'll do.
- Are you okay?
- Can I use your bathroom?
- Where is he?
Is he okay?
- 200 grand.
Today. I'll text the
where and the when.
- Who are you?
- Ghost of Christmas past.
Do what I say and the 718
won't come back to haunt you.
Pat?
Hey...
Listen, I...
I can't promise you that
Andy'll be back by 8:00.
But I can say that he will
have his fairy tale ending.
Okay? We get our babies back.
It's what we do.
- We got a hit.
Clark and Webster.
- Let's do it.
I saw you and Nicole
came to work together.
- Yeah, it's Keith's
first day at school.
- I know. There's
times like this,
a dad's gotta be there.
You have to be there.
Even after tonight.
- What's tonight?
- Nicole and I are telling
the kids about the engagement.
She didn't tell you, did she?
- The meatloaf.
- I'm told it's the
house specialty.
- How old are you?
- I mean it. You're their dad,
this doesn't change that.
- Were you born in the '90s?
You know what,
don't answer that...
It could incriminate
you. Let's go.
- There he is.
- Go.
- What are you gonna do?
You're gonna go
around or something?
- No, I'm giving
you a head start.
I figured at your
age, you could use it.
- He's getting away.
- From you, maybe.
- Do not expose my children
to Wilson Phillips.
Hey!
- I got it, old man.
Hey, where is he?
Where's the boy?
- I don't know about a boy!
- The boy you stole from.
- I didn't steal nothing, man!
- Hey! This boy.
- If you didn't steal nothing,
then where did you get this?
- I'll show you.
- Let's go.
- This is where I found
it. I didn't see no boy.
- Okay. Whoever took
Andy was definitely here.
We get a security
camera, we get an ID.
- Hey, I need you to
run a plate for me.
4-8-Delta-2-Kilo-3-Papa.
Yeah, call me back. Thanks.
- You heard me, right? I
said a security camera.
- Yeah, the car is
a security camera.
It has a feature on
it called Sentry Mode
that records
suspicious activity.
It also alerts the owner
when it's being vandalized.
So, we'll run the plates, we'll get
a name and then, we'll make a call.
- Well, we don't
have time for that.
- What, you got a better idea?
- You're saying that if
this car gets vandalized,
the driver gets
notified immediately?
- Yeah, it's an
app on his phone.
- Then yeah, I
got a better idea.
- Look who the cat dragged in.
- Hi, Andy. I'm Vicki.
I know you're scared right now.
But I'm gonna take
real good care of you.
- I wanna go home.
- I know, honey. I do.
And here's the
thing... You are home.
- So you skipped a grade, and
now, we've got classes together.
This is not a buddy system.
I'm not your lifeguard.
We walk through that
door and you drown,
I'm not giving you CPR. Got it?
- Got it. No CPR.
- Good. Welcome
to high school.
- Hey.
- Detective Adebayo.
Yeah, I asked for
their financials.
- You did what?
- We shot a car.
- No, no, he shot a car.
- A parked car.
With no one in it?
- Just to be clear, he...
- We shot the car
to let the driver know
that it'd been vandalized.
- Okay, let me get this
straight. So you vandalized it
so the driver would know
that it was vandalized.
- We vandalized the car so
that the driver would show up,
access the sentry
system and give us this.
- The beater's registered to a
Brad Skinner at a Bronx address.
We've added it to the alert
and then contacted NYPD.
They have him on three priors:
possession, assault
and armed robbery.
- And now, as a kidnapper.
- And that's Andy.
Any connection to
Andy's parents?
- Not that we can find.
- I found one.
An hour ago, Steve made
a $200,000 withdrawal.
Unless he had a sudden urge
to join a country club,
I'd say it's a ransom payment.
- Didn't we tell them to contact
us if there was a demand?
- Clearly, he didn't.
We need to find out why.
And Skinner, if he left a trail,
we need to find it.
- That's us.
- About Keith. What...
What about the DNA?
- I haven't heard, but I'll
let you know once I do.
- Like you'll let me know about
the engagement party, or...
- It's not a party. And I just
didn't want to say anything
in front of the kids. Keith's
back, Jay. He's settling in.
It's time to move on.
- So you and June have
something in common now.
- She wants a child.
You raise great ones,
and now you're ready
to have one with her.
She'd be an idiot
not to come back.
I just wouldn't shoot up any
more cars until she does.
- I'm not giving him back.
- Chillax. I'm just bringing
him so that they think we are.
- Ransom wasn't the plan.
- Let's go.
Having a kid's expensive.
This way, they cover his nut.
Hey! I said we're going.
- I'll call the cops.
Swear to God I will.
- Yeah? And tell them what?
- The truth about Andy.
I got that to protect me.
What's your excuse?
- You ain't calling no one.
Let's go!
- Is this him?
Did he take Andy?
- We were hoping
you could tell us.
- I told you, I don't
know who took him.
- You did. And an hour later,
you made a $200,000 withdrawal.
- Did this man take my son?
Do you know where he is?
- We understand why people
keep ransom demands a secret.
But you should not.
- I'm not.
There hasn't been a demand.
I don't know who this is, and
I didn't withdraw any money.
- Pat, where is she?
- She's with a friend, Lynn.
- You need to get
her on the phone,
because we gotta ask
her some questions.
- Like why she took
out that money.
Because it was withdrawn, and if
you didn't do it, who else could?
- This is ridiculous.
She did nothing.
She's with a friend.
Lynn.
I was calling for Pat...
No, no updates...
Just have her call me
when she gets back?
She went for a walk.
- Um. And left her phone?
Risk missing a
call about her son?
- What other
explanation is there?
- That the kidnapper told
her not to bring the phone.
So that we couldn't trace
it to the ransom drop.
- I found it. Skinner's trail.
Credit card payment
on a motel on 6th.
- Alright, well,
I'll notify SWAT.
- Hey, been there
done that. Let's go.
Police!
- The desk clerk said that
there was three of them.
Andy, Skinner and a woman. I
got a description, but no ID.
So we're pulling CCTV
and dusting the room.
- Find out who they are to
find out where they are.
That's what we always
say. But with a child...
I promised a fairy tale ending.
Because that's all
I know about Andy.
That he's a child who
likes children's stories.
- Fairy tales are a particular
type of children's story.
- My point is that we know
nothing. We've got nothing.
Except that Andy likes
terrifying stories.
- Fairy tales are
terrifying for a reason.
They teach children no
matter what to persevere.
That the world is
a dangerous place
and no one is going to save you,
so you have to save yourself.
- There were gummies
in the room, right?
- Yeah, on the floor, why?
- Because maybe
knowing who Andy is
will help us find him after all.
- So, M.E. is still
determining the cause of death.
But it looks like a
gunshot wound to the chest,
but there are lacerations
around his neck.
- That lines up with
our witness testimony.
She observed Brad on the
ground, Pat kneeling over him.
And then she claims she saw
Pat stab him in the neck.
- If Pat was here,
she's fled the scene.
PPD finished a
search of the park
and no sign of her or Andy.
- What about the 200k in cash?
- It's unaccounted for.
- And those?
- These were in
Skinner's jacket.
One is his and the
other, it's unclear.
We'll have to run a IMEI.
- Alright, we'll call
it in on the way back.
- Um, are you familiar
with Egungun-Oya?
- Definitely not.
- Okay, she's the
Mother of the dead.
She guides the destinies
of the deceased.
And in Sidney's
case, the living.
- Sidney?
- There's a darkness
in her eyes.
I believe she's haunted.
- She's been having trouble
processing Keith's return.
Let's just say she's
a tad overwhelmed.
- Do you mind if
I pray with her?
- Um... I'll leave it up to her.
If she's open to it, you
know, you have my blessing.
- Thank you.
- Target acquired, 11 o'clock.
- Um.
I almost feel bad for him.
- Do you think we should
let him sit with us?
- I said almost.
- Hey, Keith!
- Oh my God, is he
friends with Bianca?
- He wasn't.
- Your brother is
sitting at Mount Olympus
with Bianca Delvain
and the other gods.
He's not my
brother.
- How's it going?
- Hey, um... I'm Keith.
- Yeah, I know.
- Perfection.
This is perfection.
Just let it suck.
Once the DNA test comes
back, it'll be over.
- Will it?
After what happened, I didn't
sleep for a whole night
for like almost three years.
Every time I closed my
eyes, I could see him.
His face... The way
he looked at me.
The surprise. The terror.
- Sid, we were 12.
- Yes. But you didn't have to look
your parents in the eye every morning
and lie to them,
watching their hopes
fade day-by-day,
thinking that they
might see Keith again.
And then watch their
marriage fall apart
because of the
horrible thing you did.
And then this... guy shows
up, looking like Keith.
And acting like Keith.
For God knows what reason.
And...
It just took so long to move on.
And now, it feels like it's
happening all over again.
And since I didn't
say anything then,
I can't say anything now.
So I'm... I'm trapped.
- The Medical
Examiner's report is in.
Brad Skinner died
almost instantly
from a gunshot to the chest.
I say almost instantly
because he survived
a few minutes longer due
to medical intervention.
- A medical intervention?
- Turns out Pat wasn't
stabbing Brad in the neck,
she was performing
a field tracheotomy.
The gunshot made his
tongue "edematous".
I had to look that one up too;
it means fluid-filled
or swollen.
So, it looks like she was
trying to create an airway
for him to breathe.
- So if Pat tried to save him,
who tried to kill him?
- Yeah, about that...
I checked out the two phones
you found on the deceased.
One did belong to Brad Skinner.
The other... a woman
named Vicki Parsons.
30. Also from the Bronx.
I'm pulling her history now.
- A possible accomplice?
- That would be my guess.
She matches the description of the woman
who checked into the motel with Brad.
- So what's our theory here?
That Brad and Vicki
Parsons take Andy,
ransom him to the mother.
Vicki turns on Brad and
runs off with the money?
- Possibly. But
why would Pat try
to save her son's
kidnapper? And who has Andy?
- So, we're looking
for two women,
Pat Wells and Vicki Parsons.
We find them, we find
our missing child.
- Hey, TSA got a
hit on Pat Wells.
She just bought a train ticket.
- Let me guess, to the Bronx?
- That's right.
- This whole thing goes back
to the Bronx.
How many tickets?
- One ticket, traveling alone.
Hey. It's a very
good-looking kid.
It would be a shame if
something happened to him
because you didn't cooperate
with the authorities.
- We know they
contacted you, Pat.
They made demands.
You tried to get Andy
back on your own.
Something went wrong.
You got scared.
So you ran. We get it.
But it's time to
let us help you.
Let us help Andy.
Where is your son?
Who has him?
- Well, would you look at that.
I'm a new woman.
- Andy's not being trafficked,
he's not being ransomed.
Not by Vicki Parsons.
Check it out.
- Okay, the Parsons
abducted him. Ransomed him.
Murdered Brad Skinner. What, do you
think, she's out there getting him a pony?
- So, listen... Vicki
Parsons, four years ago,
she filed a missing
person's report.
Four years ago, Andy was two.
The report she filed, it
was about the abduction
of her two-year-old son.
- You wanna hear
something weird?
- Whatever it is, we just
heard something weirder.
- Pat Wells... is
four years old.
- You know what's
weird about that?
I mean, aside from everything,
what's weird about that is
that makes perfect sense.
Oh, it's Sidney.
- You know what's really weird?
Is that our daughter's
eggs are being read.
- Makes perfect sense to me.
- Have you found Andy? Please
tell me you've found him.
- Baby, did you
withdraw $200,000?
- I was trying to get Andy back.
- From Brad Skinner.
Who's now in a body bag.
- All I care about
is finding Andy.
- Which explains the body bag.
- I didn't kill him.
He was dead when I got there.
- Why don't you talk to
me about Vicki Parsons?
- I don't know who that is.
- Well, four years ago,
Vicki filed a missing
person's report
after her son had been abducted.
Coincidentally, four
years ago, you were born.
Yeah, um...
Driver's license,
social security card,
passport...
Every single one of them
issued four years ago.
Either you dated the
Unabomber before that,
or you teleported in from Mars,
or you changed your identity
after stealing
someone else's kid.
So, yeah, when I said
it was a coincidence,
I... I was being ironic.
Talk to us, baby.
That'll make finding
Andy a whole lot easier.
- I want you to close your
eyes and open your hands.
I want you to put all your
bad energy into those objects.
Once you do, I'll be able to
read them and know if it worked.
Focus.
There you go.
I want you to pay
very close attention.
- Pat Wells, she had a
train ticket to New York.
Vicki Parsons,
Bronx phone number.
- Which gave NYPD an
address to stake out.
- She got a rap
sheet a mile long.
Possession of coke,
PCP, heroin, meth.
She's an equal
opportunity offender.
- Now, we're just waiting
on the financials.
- What about medical records?
What are her eating habits?
I once had a client
had a stalker.
Found that guy based on his
obsession with kielbasa.
- I bet your client
was very happy.
- Yeah, with the result.
With me, not so much.
We had a misunderstanding
about a word.
- One word? What does that mean?
Ex. As in ex-wife.
I thought she was.
Turns out she was not.
- Pat, honey, the
longer you wait,
the harder it will be
for us to find Andy.
- I was a neonatal nurse.
Working at a NICU in the Bronx.
We got preemies.
Kids who'd lost oxygen
during delivery.
And some of whose mothers
were drug addicts.
- Like Vicki Parsons.
- She never visited.
Andy was fighting for his life
because of her and
she never came.
Not one time in two months.
And in those two months?
I cared for him.
I changed him. I fed him.
I read him fairy tales.
Then she sobered up
and she took him away.
Until she started using again.
Ten months old and
he's back in the ICU.
Dehydrated.
Malnourished.
And yet, he remembered me.
We had a connection.
He was like this
little sunflower
and I was the sun that he
instinctively knew to turn to.
It happened two more times.
Child Protective Services
did nothing to stop it.
She got better. I lost him.
She got worse. I got him back.
The last time, I couldn't.
I wouldn't let him go.
I looked in her records,
I got her address and I watched.
I didn't have a plan.
- It's okay.
- I just knew that
sooner or later
something bad was gonna happen
and I needed to be
there when it did.
It was a Saturday afternoon.
Blazing hot.
She was high or drunk or both.
She parked.
And just left Andy in the car.
He would've died if I
hadn't done something.
I couldn't give him back.
Not to her.
So I left the Bronx.
I moved to Philly.
Changed my name.
Met Steven.
- And told him Andy's
father had died.
- He doesn't know any of it.
I didn't want my past haunting him
like it's come back to haunt me.
- Someone tried to
help Brad Skinner.
Someone with medical expertise.
That was you, wasn't it?
- I thought if I
could keep him alive,
he could tell me
how to find my son.
My son.
Not hers.
- Yeah, okay. Thanks.
The financials were a dead end.
There's no activity on Vicki's
bank account or credit.
Mostly because she doesn't have
a bank account or credit cards.
- Cash only, then, probably.
- Yeah, but not by choice.
She filed for
medical bankruptcy.
So she's drowning in debt.
She's also got chronic
health problems
because of the drug thing.
And she had a pacemaker
implanted last year.
So, long story short, there's
no financial trail to follow.
- You can't follow the money,
you can't follow the kielbasa...
Follow the heart, right?
Hmm.
- No, okay.
I know that look.
That's a bad look.
- No, it's good. Let's
go for a ride. Come on.
Come, come, come.
- Good.
Now crack the eggs in a
glass and I'll read them.
So now, we'll let them soak
and then I'll read them.
And the candles,
once they burn out.
And the limes, take those home.
Squeeze those into
12 cups of water.
Pour it on your body
and don't wash it off.
- Okay. The lime juice,
don't wash it off.
- It'll protect you.
- From what?
You still haven't said.
- If you do as I say,
God willing...
you'll be okay.
This seems on the up-and-up.
- This guy's a miracle
worker. Trust me.
Reni!
- What the hell
are you doing here?
- Well, I need you to
track a pacemaker for me.
But where's the
southern hospitality?
- One, I'm from Cleveland.
Two, June told me what you did.
So why don't you go home
and dip your chachis
in a pot of boiling
water, you faker!
You're not welcome here.
- I must've blinked.
Did I miss the miracle?
- I got a warrant! You want me
to break the door down? Open up.
- There's no way you have a
warrant. Does he have a warrant?
- I don't think he would lie.
- Let me see it. Let me see it.
This is a dry-cleaning receipt.
- I know!
- What do you want?
- I want you to...
Will you relax?
Hey, I know you and June
share an alpaca fetish
and that you guys bond over
hypoallergenic fleeces,
whatever, but there's a
child, he's been abducted.
His name's Andy. And right
now, the person who took Andy,
he's getting further
and further away
while you scream spittle
at me all over the place.
- What does that
have to do with me?
- Well, the kidnapper has a
pacemaker and it's in the cloud.
You can hack anything
because you're brilliant.
I told him that you love kids.
There's nothing you
wouldn't do for children.
You're extremely compassionate.
- And noble. He
used the word noble.
- Nah... I'm just
a regular dude.
- He says you're
a miracle worker.
- That's right. You
are a miracle worker.
Can you make a miracle
happen for Andy?
Can you do that?
- Of course I will.
- Great.
- It's gonna cost you.
- That's fine. How much?
- Apologize to June.
- Alright, that's
none of your business.
For the record, I
did apologize to her.
She doesn't want to talk to me.
- Because you made excuses.
Did you try, without
qualifiers, or justifications,
like K-Stew after Rupertgate,
to just apologize?
Yeah. I didn't think so.
- Okay. Alright.
I'll beg for forgiveness
next time I see her.
- No. Not next time.
Now time, dude.
- Hello?
- Hey! It's Renwick.
I got someone here that
wants to talk to you.
- A kid is missing, dude. I don't have time for this.
- Lord...
- Hi, June.
I know that I'm the
last person on Earth
that you wanna
speak to right now.
But I need you to
know that I'm sorry.
I never should've lied to
you, I should've been honest
about the fact that I wasn't
ready to have a child.
I'm so sorry, from the
bottom of my heart.
I am genuinely, genuinely sorry.
- So am I...
that you're only calling me
because Ren put you up to it.
- That's fair.
But truth be told,
you won't take my calls.
I wanna speak to you.
I'm ready to speak to you.
- Well, there is something
I wanna tell you,
but I don't want to
do it over the phone.
How about we meet tonight?
- Great. I'll be there.
- For the record,
I'm rooting for you two.
- Oh yeah?
- Yeah.
- That's really
nice. Pacemaker?
- Do you know the manufacturer?
- Lugenix.
- Lugenix? Their cloud
security's a joke!
They rolled their own encryption
and used a faulty
cipher feedback.
- Can you find the
pacemaker in the next hour?
- Bro... Five minutes. Tops.
- Okay. Five minutes,
that's pretty good.
- I told you, he's
a miracle worker.
Hey. Any luck?
- I've got a track
on Vicki Parsons.
She's headed north on route 611,
heading towards Warrington.
- I'll coordinate with P.S.P.
to set up a roadblock
at Danboro Bridge.
I'll meet you there.
- Are you thirsty?
Okay, baby.
Lemme know if you
change your mind.
No...
- Step out of the vehicle
with your hands up!
- No! No! No! No!
Andy, listen to me.
I know you're scared.
I'm sorry I wasn't
there for you.
Mommy was sick.
And I tried to get
better for you.
So I could find you.
I searched for so long, baby.
So I could finally
be a mother to you.
Do you understand?
None of this is your fault.
But I need you to take my hand.
I need you to trust me.
Everything's gonna
be okay from now on.
Mama's finally gonna
take care of you.
- No one approaches the vehicle.
We got it from here, okay?
- Come with me. Block out
this road. Nobody in or out.
- Ms. Parsons.
Vicki...
Vicki, I'm gonna need
you to put down the gun
and let Andy go, okay?
- If I drop this gun, I
know what happens next.
I go to jail and you give
my child back to that woman.
- We know the truth, Vicki.
We know that Andy is your son.
- What about Brad?
- Why don't we go down to the station?
We'll talk about Brad, okay?
- He said he loved me...
He said that we'd get Andy back.
That we would all be together.
I was stupid enough
to believe him.
He just wanted
Andy for a payout.
- And that's when you
found him at the park,
you confronted him. Right?
- We got into an argument.
I wasn't gonna let
him give my son away.
He pulled the gun on me.
We struggled for it...
And I shot him.
To protect Andy.
- Sounds to me
like self-defense.
Maybe a judge will
see it the same way.
- They'll charge me with
kidnapping my own son.
My own child!
I wasn't gonna let
Brad give my child back
to the monster that
took him from me.
And I sure as hell
won't let you.
- Vicki, come on, baby, please.
No!
- No, Nick, hey!
- Andy?
- He's fine. He's here.
Sergeant Schultz
will take you to him.
- Oh! You did it!
You gave us a fairy tale ending.
Thank you.
- Of course. Now go.
This isn't about
the bridge, is it?
- I apologized to June.
She's gonna meet me later.
- I'm not surprised.
When you want to,
you can be very not un-charming.
- Ah. You're telling
the kids about Mike.
I'm gonna have kids with
someone who's not their mother.
Is that a fairy tale ending?
- I want to see my family.
- You can see Andy.
- I want to see them both.
- I've already
explained the situation.
- The situation?
That you're treating my
wife like a criminal.
- No.
- Steve.
- It's okay. You
can see them both.
- I don't blame her
for not telling me.
After what happened, I
don't think anyone could.
She kept what she did a
secret to protect Andy.
- And herself.
She took him from his mother.
- And because she did,
Andy has a stable home,
two parents who love him and
an incredibly bright future.
- We're going to
write a case report.
And when we do, we're gonna
have to include all the facts.
What Vicki Parsons did.
And what Pat did, too.
Taking Andy.
- Hey, why don't you
go be with your family.
Alright? Go ahead.
- You know if he's
taken from us,
he has no one.
Not even his crazy mother.
Without us, he's alone.
- He's right. If
we tell the truth,
and nothing but the truth,
the DCFS will take
Andy from him.
He'll end up in foster care.
- As opposed to ending up with
a woman who changed her identity
to hide the fact that
she kidnapped a baby?
- Well, she saved
that baby's life!
- All I'm saying is
she committed a felony
and we can't cover that up.
- You know what, the report,
feel free to not assign it to me.
- I'll do it.
- You sure? I can help you if...
- It's okay. I got it.
- Hey, I need you to take these.
The candles and the yolks.
- Oh, we're not doing
breakfast for dinner?
- Give those to Sidney.
It contains bad energy.
Tell her to bury it as
far away as possible.
- How bad is the energy?
- It's something...
primal.
- But you got them. Or it.
- I won this battle, but...
It's definitely a war.
- Hey, J.
This just came for
Captain Batista.
- I'll give it to
her. Thank you.
- That's it? Outlaw
couple tries to abduct
wealthy family's
child for ransom.
One kills the other,
then commits suicide.
End of story.
- I know how you feel about this.
- This is not about how I
feel. This is about the facts.
The ones any report issued from this
office are obligated to include.
- Are we obligated to
destroy Andy's life?
Because that is what including
all the facts will do.
- You don't know that.
- Kemi's right.
If the DCFS finds
out all the facts,
they will take Andy away.
- This is not about
what the DCFS will do.
This is about you
doing your job.
Which last time I checked
did not include playing God.
- That's not what I'm doing.
- You're right.
Presumably, God would be
an excellent social worker,
like, I don't know,
the people at DCFS
who are actually equipped to
decide the fate of a child.
- I feel perfectly equipped
to decide this child's fate.
- I know you do.
That's what frightens me.
Are you really going
to send this in?
- I already did.
- I know we were supposed to tell
the kids about us at dinner, but...
I don't think I can
be with you tonight.
- I understand.
- It's him. It's Keith.
DNA confirms, that's our boy.
- I don't understand.
- We took DNA from
his toothbrush
and from his baby hair,
from before he was taken and
then, after he came back.
They match.
- He's your brother, butter.
- Is that from
Kemi? How'd I do?
- Apparently, you're
a work in progress.
But this is a good first start
if you can bury
this far, far away.
I say the garbage
disposal is good enough.
- You owe Kemi more
respect than that.
You need to respect her,
respect her process.
- Okay. That's fair.
But this process, this DNA,
okay, this is
undeniable, verifiable,
no egg yolk necessary,
super mo in the mojo.
- You're right. About Kemi.
I need to respect her.
- This is good news.
- Yeah, Keith,
he's got good mojo.
Me, I've got candle
wax and runny eggs.
And limes... to protect me.
- You do not need protection.
- Yeah, I do.
We all do.
- Sid. Sidney. Sid...
Well, I guess, the good news is
no one has to eat
your meatloaf. Huh?
- I thought you
loved my meatloaf.
Then again, June thought that
you were trying to
get her pregnant.
You know, I am
sensing a theme here.
- The report...
You did the right thing.
- Thank you. What can I say,
I love a fairy tale ending.
- You'll get your own fairy
tale ending with Mike too.
You also can be not
un-charming when you wanna be.
- Why is this so hard?
- Well, I think, because...
grief is the price
we pay for love.
- Go. Be with June.
- You sure?
- Yeah. Positive. Positive. Yes.
This day has to end with a
fairy tale ending for someone.
- You didn't believe me?
- Oh...
You heard us talking.
- I can't believe you
thought I was an imposter.
- Baby... Keith!
- Thanks for having me over.
How's Carol?
- Upstairs.
Which is why we're meeting here.
Your sister hates me that much?
- I'm 42, and because of
you, I'm living here, so...
You do the math.
- I've done the math.
And I want us to get pregnant.
The sooner the better.
Okay? What is it?
You don't believe me?
- No, I... Oh, my God.
I do believe you, it's just...
There is someone else.
- There's... Wow.
You moved out a week ago.
- Yeah, he's amazing.
He's a neurosurgeon.
Uh, and...
He likes to cook.
And he backpacks.
- Okay.
Are you dating him or are
you building a monument?
No, no. I'm not dating him.
I've actually never met him.
And I'm never going to meet him.
But I am going to
have his child.
- Immaculate conception.
Cue the wise men.
- Or in this case
the sperm bank.
- No, June, don't do
that. I'm right here.
I want this. Okay?
Look at me, I want this.
- I want to thank you for
being incredibly irresponsible,
because you taught me
to look out for myself.
So...
that's what I did.
- He rigged it.
- A DNA test?
That's impossible.
- So is the result.
And before you say
that maybe we're wrong,
please don't.
Because the alternative is
too horrible to contemplate.
- So what're you gonna do?
- Well, I'm gonna
protect myself.
And then I'm gonna
tell the truth.
- 911, what's the nature
of your emergency?
- There was a drowning.
- Is the person under water?
Are you unable to see them?
- Yeah. That's right.
There's a body at the
bottom of Union Lake.
Difuze