Almost Human (2013–2014): Season 1, Episode 10 - Perception - full transcript
When Kennex and Dorian investigate the simultaneous and sudden deaths of two genetically-enhanced - or "chrome" - children, a fatal dose of the perfect designer drug appears to be the cause. As the investigation unfolds and a recent drowning victim is mysteriously connected, the case takes an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Kennex endures painful flashes from the past and pays a visit to the recollectionist.
The year is 2048.
Evolving technologies
can no longer be regulated.
Dangerous advancements forever
alter the criminal landscape.
Police are not prepared.
Law enforcement combats
this corruption
with a new line of defense.
But not all are created equal.
The idea behind the DRNs
was to be as human as possible.
They were based on a program
called Synthetic Soul.
That's one of the crazy ones.
- I'll lead you in?
- Let's go.
Now all cops...
human and manmade together...
take on the battle
to watch over us all.
John?
Come here for a sec.
I want to show you something.
Kennex.
I got a case for you.
Two girls died within minutes
of each other,
separate locations.
One was brought into the morgue.
The other is still on scene
at Sinclair Park.
What's the connection?
They were both students
at Mendel Academy.
And it wasn't something
they were exposed to on campus.
School pathogen sensors...
all green.
I'm on my way.
No, Dorian says
you're still at home.
Well, look who it is.
Benedict Android.
Good morning to you, too, John.
Look, don't ever tell
anybody where I am,
where I was, what time
I arrived or what time I left.
Captain Maldonado is
our commanding officer.
She's on a need-to-know basis.
Protect, serve, cover.
You want me to cover for you,
why don't you tell me
why you turned off
your locator chip
for two hours this morning?
What you don't know
can't hurt me.
It's my job to know about you.
You're not just a badge number
and a questionable haircut.
Ha-ha.
What do we got?
Was she stung?
No bee stings on her.
Coroner didn't see any signs
of an allergic reaction.
Stahl, Kennex.
Captain says we might be
working the same case.
Yeah, maybe so.
You got a cause of death?
They're calling it
cardiac arrest.
Which means they don't know.
My girl's pupils are fixed
and abnormally dilated.
How about yours?
They're huge, I've never
seen anything like it.
You thinking O.D.?
Yeah, but from what
I don't know.
The hospital ran
a standard drug panel.
It assays over 300 substances.
Elinor came up clean.
Well, something
stopped their hearts.
There's always something new and
exciting hitting the streets.
I sent a blood sample
to our lab.
If there's something in this
girl, we'll figure it out.
I just found
some kind of container
in her pocket.
It's sealed.
You got your vic's personals?
Just got them.
There's not much here.
John?
You still there?
You okay?
Yeah, yeah, keep going.
The container has
a biometric lock circuit.
It's activated
by an individual's DNA.
I have one, too.
It's empty.
Mine, too.
Well, we better find out
what was inside...
before we find
any more dead kids.
The parents don't know
anything about drugs.
At least nothing they'll admit.
The kids were chromes.
Genetically engineered.
I need you to liaison
with the parents.
They'll respond better
to one of their own.
I don't think that's
a good idea.
I-I tend to rub them
the wrong way.
You know their world.
All right.
Accessing victim profiles.
We were right, this is new.
What is it?
The drug found
in the blood of our victims
contains a metabolite,
a breakdown compound
that indicates the presence
of a drug or toxin.
Like what? Upper? Downer?
Euphoric? Tremble stim?
Hallucinogen?
What are we talking about?
Good question.
I thought chromes
didn't do drugs.
Generally they don't.
But that doesn't mean
they don't experiment.
They just don't have
addiction issues.
Those genetic defects
get corrected in the womb.
Well, these two girls
definitely experimented.
Apparently three girls did.
The same compound
was also found in the blood
of a girl
who died seven months ago.
Lila Hoving, age 15.
Also a student
at Mendel Academy.
I'll look into it,
see if the girls were friends.
This one's different.
She didn't O.D., she drowned.
She could've been
on her way to an O.D.,
and drowned
before her heart stopped.
The original investigation
couldn't find
any conclusive evidence
of drug use.
Well, we've got more bodies
than they do.
There's a ton of chatter
between these girls
on social networks.
They were definitely friends.
Take a team to the school
and see what you can find out.
We'll meet you there
after we talk to the mother
- of the girl who drowned.
- Okay.
I know you've been
taking Membliss, John.
I'm required to give updates
on your mental and physical
condition every 72 hours.
You thought
I wouldn't detect it?
Are you seeing a
recollectionist?
Look, I got it under control.
Prolonged use of Membliss
may result in paranoia,
visual distortions
- Uh-huh.
- Short-term memory loss,
- migraines, heart palpitations,
- Yeah, mm-hmm.
- Increased risk of aneurysms,
- Mm-hmm.
- Right.
- Blackouts and diarrhea.
Diarrhea? Oh, I thought
it was the burrito.
Just wanted to make sure
you were listening.
Look, I need those pills
to remember things.
They open up memory clusters
so I can remember...
- About the ambush.
- Right.
I've got it under control.
I could never have afforded
Mendel on my own.
But Lila was special.
And they let
in a couple of naturals
every year on scholarship.
So she wasn't a chrome?
Lila wasn't
genetically modified?
No, she was born gifted.
She worked really, really hard.
- Straight A's all the way.
- Is there anything
you can remember
about your daughter's death?
Anything that might've come
to you in retrospect?
In your report, you said
that Lila was a strong swimmer,
that she never would've drowned.
And that if she did have
drugs in her system,
that she wouldn't have
done them alone.
That's right.
If those drugs helped kill Lila,
somewhere knew
where she got them.
But none of her friends
would say anything.
So I hired a private detective
to find out more about
what happened that night.
But they denied
being her friends.
He got recordings
of some conversations
that proved
they knew each other.
What was on them?
Talking about being
with Lila that night.
Like I thought.
Did they say anything
about drugs?
No.
Which friends?
Elinor Church
and Scarlett Davis.
What is this about?
We found those two girls
dead this morning.
They had the same unknown drug
in their system as Lila did.
But a lot more of it.
What did you do
with the recordings?
I gave everything to the police.
There's no record of that.
I know,
when I followed up on it,
they said the recordings
were blank.
What do you mean?
You were told they were erased?
That's what I was told.
They blamed it on
a magnetic surge.
They say that happens sometimes.
Doesn't it?
Well, it can,
but it's unlikely.
Are you suggesting
someone made it disappear?
Anything's possible.
Do you have the contact details
of the private detective?
Let me get my phone.
Who was the cop that
originally investigated
the case?
Detective Geary, 23rd precinct.
Okay, well, let's find out
what type of cop he was.
Dirty? Clean?
Put on a request.
You and Lila were the
only naturals in your grade.
I would think you would
hang out together.
You'd think.
You're one?
You're a chrome?
How did you know that?
I can tell by now.
I've never seen a chrome
as a police officer, though.
I'm a detective.
And stranger things
have happened.
We want to know if the
drug that killed Lila,
Elinor and Scarlett
is being sold here.
It's very important
you let us in on
what you know.
Or maybe what you've heard.
I don't know about drugs.
I know Lila.
Knew.
I didn't know the
other girls very well.
Lila had aspirations.
To get along.
I don't know,
this place is weird.
Chromes can be...
kind of weird, sometimes.
No offense.
Lila really wanted
to be up there
competing with the chromes.
And who wouldn't want to?
I have the grades
to be here, but...
I just, I don't
feel I belong here.
I'm just not sure I have
what it takes to stay.
I-If it wasn't so
important to my parents,
I-I'd transfer.
I bet you fit in
better than you know.
You knew Scarlett and Elinor.
Did you have any
classes with them?
Computer science. Advanced.
We were wondering if...
There are no illegal
drugs at Mendel.
You didn't let her
finish the question.
Was she gonna say
something else?
How can you be so sure
there are no illegal
drugs at Mendel?
- Just am.
- Your friends are dead.
Aren't you afraid
that whatever happened to them
is gonna happen to you?
I don't do illegal drugs.
Oh, that's smart...
"illegal" drugs.
What about legal drugs?
Or new drugs that haven't
been made illegal yet?
You wouldn't understand.
Come on, Marshall.
Why don't you try
and explain it?
I mean, what are you
trying to protect?
What did he say?
He said we wouldn't understand.
John, I found this
in Scarlett's dorm room.
- You have her DNA on file?
- I do.
Open it.
Whatever they took,
I think this is it.
The tox lab said they've
never seen a drug quite like it.
There were snippets
of Scarlett's DNA
attached to the molecule.
It was made
specifically for her.
The ultimate designer drug.
- What does it do?
- It's hard to say.
There are some
hallucinogenic elements,
but also things
we just don't understand yet.
It targets at least
a dozen different
neurotransmitter groups.
This is not
something the average
metal meth head can
cook up in their basement.
Definitely not.
The chemical layers
are 1.5 microns thick
and extremely uniform.
Oh!
I know what made this.
This pill was printed.
Rudy says that a pharmaceutical
grade ChemPrinter
was used to make this pill.
Based on the pill's structure,
it had to be one
of three models.
ChemPrinters are pricey
and highly regulated...
they require a license.
Let's find the ones in the city.
Let's go.
John...
A Chemulon-6 ChemPrinter was
licensed at a private residence
in Grey Harbor,
less than three miles
from Mendel Academy.
The owner is Edgar Wollenberg.
He's been dead
for seven months.
But his son Julian
was expelled from
Mendel last year.
The Chemulon-6 has a very
interesting safety feature:
it automatically
backs up a history
of every drug
it prints to a cloud.
I've found the DNA
of all of our victims
in the log... this is
definitely the machine
that
supplied them with the drug.
John.
Are you listening to me?
Did you just have
another flash?
Maybe I should drive.
I told you, I've got
it under control.
Go on.
Lila Hoving only took
one dose, one time:
the night she died.
Scarlett and Elinor had been
taking the drug a while.
How long?
Roughly a year.
But their fatal doses
were 1,000 times stronger
than their previous ones.
It looks as if this dealer
intentionally overdosed them.
John!
Watch out!
Yeah.
You've got it totally
under control.
It doesn't look that bad.
I'm sorry, could you
speak up, please?
I bet that's
an interesting story.
Detective Kennex.
Julian.
Wollenberg.
We have some questions
we'd like you to answer.
We have permission
to search the house.
These are, uh...
police officers, Ma.
They are here to ask
me some questions,
but don't worry.
They chromed me late.
The machine's downstairs.
My father got it
to make his own pills...
his own, uh...
drug regimen.
At the end,
his doctors were trying
all sorts of different
treatment avenues.
How long have you been dealing?
We found the DNA profile
of the girls who died
on the backup log
of your ChemPrinter...
along with every customer
you ever printed a pill for.
Bet you didn't know
it had that feature.
So when did you...
You don't believe me.
Now you know
why I didn't come forward.
Come again?
You don't believe me.
Now you know why
I didn't come forward.
I didn't ask you why
you didn't come forward.
Not yet.
This conversation
happened already.
Can't you see them?
Our words?
They're all here.
Your answers...
are in the air.
So there's no point in us
having this conversation, right?
You're on the drug right now.
I am.
Well, we're gonna have
this conversation anyway.
What does the drug do?
It's called Vero.
It expands the mind,
it opens it up to
things that are here
that we can't normally see.
It enables you to realize
your full potential.
The next Einstein,
or Macgregor.
Scarlett and Elinor
were deliberately O.D.'d.
Did you kill them?
No.
I didn't.
If I was gonna
kill someone...
I wouldn't get caught.
Certainly not with
the machine in my own house.
Unless that's exactly what
you wanted us to think.
Committing a crime
so carelessly
that we'd assume it wasn't you.
"How could some one
so smart be so dumb?"
That'd be smart, I guess.
And you knew the
machine had a backup,
so it was pointless
getting rid of it.
So many roads.
Is that how she drowned?
Did you kill her?
Was it unintentional?
You wouldn't understand.
Yeah, I've heard
that a lot lately.
Did the other girls find out?
They were gonna rat, so you
O.D.'d them to shut them up?
I'm trying to tell you...
the Chemulon printer was hacked.
Somebody messed with the doses.
Hacked?
- Mm-hmm.
- So you're telling us
that you didn't
kill these girls
even though your machine
made the drugs?
That their deaths
had nothing to do
with Lila Hoving?
And you got hacked?
I don't believe you.
Now you understand...
why I didn't come forward.
There was a kid we interviewed
today at Mendel
named Marsha, studies
advanced computer science.
Same class as all three girls.
So if there is a hacker,
you're thinking it'd be him.
Let's look closer at him.
Julian...
You know a kid named Marshall?
Everybody knows Marshall.
Yeah?
What do you know about him?
D, you drive.
Can't be any worse
than me blacking out.
You got something?
Ugh, not that kid again.
Julian said his
ChemPrinter was hacked.
Is it bad I want it
to be him no matter what?
What about motive?
- No, not yet.
- All right,
put that on hold for a second.
I think I have something better.
I've been looking for
communication between the kids
around the time of Lila's death.
Nothing really popped up,
but then I found this.
It's an exchange between
Scarlett and her father.
It's a couple of weeks
after Lila's death.
That's the last transmission...
till she died.
He reached out to her several times
after that, but she never responded.
Yeah, they talked all the time,
and then all of a sudden,
they didn't.
It'd have to be
a very good reason
for a daughter
to write off her father.
So what'd he "take care of"
to get her so upset?
Well, let's find him,
let's ask him.
Hey.
Hey. I took the liberty
of ordering.
Oh, thanks.
- Cheers.
- Mm-hmm.
So, how you feeling?
You sound like Dorian.
Are you using
alternative therapies
to help you remember things?
Because you seem
a little unsteady to me.
Unsteady?
Tell me what's going on.
I'm remembering some things.
Things before the ambush.
They said this would happen.
You should let it
happen naturally.
This is dangerous, John.
What are you remembering?
Things about Anna, but
nothing significant yet.
You need to focus on
the successes you've just had.
That's how you rebuild.
You saved the precinct
the first week you were back.
It doesn't make up
for who we lost.
Those were my men, too.
You're not the only one
who's responsible.
I let her in.
She has answers.
Now that this is all
coming back to me,
I'm consumed by it.
Look, John, I know you are.
And I care enough about you
to tell you the truth.
If you obsess about revenge,
it'll take you down.
Now that you
are remembering things,
we're gonna have to talk
to Internal Affairs again.
I wasn't expecting you
until tomorrow.
You've been here
five days straight.
Give your mind a rest.
You're a recollectionist,
so let's recollect.
I want to get in the chair...
tonight.
I've got something for you.
I hope you like it.
It's kind of silly.
I got something...
I got something for you.
It's just something small.
I just saw it...
So, what did you see?
- McGinnis.
- No.
I need you to check something out.
It's got to do with...
...the Insyndicate ambush.
Yeah. I need you to run these
for DNA, tech, fingerprints.
Anything we can trace
back to a suspect.
And you want it off the books
like the others?
- It's important. - I'm
sure it is, Detective,
and I want to help you. I've
been helping you, but I would
also like to keep my job.
And I can't keep
logging overtime
on an unspecified case.
Look, I'll sign off
on it myself.
If I get any heat for this,
I'm saying you threatened me.
You're in luck.
They'll believe that.
- You're the best.
- Yeah, tell a friend.
Do I need an attorney?
That's your prerogative.
Just a moment, please.
Hey, Avery, I'm
just in a meeting.
You've got to be here.
I'm with the police.
Christopher Corella.
I represent Mr. Davis.
May I see your credentials?
Thank you.
What's this about?
It's about Scarlett's overdose.
We're just gonna ask
a few questions.
You sent a message
to your daughter,
saying you "took care of it."
What did you take
care of, Mr. Davis?
Don't answer that.
Did you kill Lila Hoving?
What?
No. I would remind
you, Detective,
my client is grieving.
This is grounds for harassment.
It is not harassment.
We're questioning
your client in relation
to a triple homicide.
Homi...?
What do you mean, homicide?
Scarlett didn't die from an
accidental overdose, Mr. Davis.
We have evidence that someone
deliberately spiked
the doses meant for
Scarlett and Elinor.
Are you sure?
Positive.
You had a problem
with your daughter.
You weren't talking
at the time she died.
Something you did upset her.
What did you do,
Mr. Davis?
Avery, I suggest that we discuss
this in private,
and when we're ready, we'll
get back to the detectives.
Scarlett was with Lila
that night, yes.
Elinor, too.
They took the drugs together.
But when the girls went back to
the school, Lila stayed behind.
Why not just say that?
Scarlett wanted to,
but I wouldn't let her.
There was nothing anyone could
do to bring that girl back.
I did not want my daughter's
life ruined.
What happened wasn't her fault.
Why should it follow her around?
The recordings
of the girls talking?
Do you have anything
to do with that?
I heard Mrs. Hoving hired
a private investigator.
I paid money to make him
and the evidence disappear.
So, you "took care of it."
I was trying to protect her.
But she didn't want
your protection, did she?
She was always very honest.
You know, she said
I'd pay for it.
That we all would.
And now we have.
All of us.
Your daughter?
No, Mrs. Hoving.
It's incriminating that
Mrs. Hoving never told us
she contacted
any of the parents.
Yeah, and when she told us
the recordings were erased,
she acted like she had
no idea who did it.
Kennex.
I got something
from Julian's bedroom.
Found another one of those vials
hidden behind a picture of Lila.
This one opened
with Julian's DNA.
Yeah? What was in it?
Well, it's more than a pill.
This image stick is encrypted.
You want to tell us
what's on it?
Not really.
Here's a theory.
Ms. Hoving discovered that you
were selling drugs to everybody,
including her daughter.
So she threatened
to tell the cops
unless you were willing
to do what she wanted.
Give lethal doses
to those two girls.
This thing's locked up pretty
good, must be important to you.
Is it an insurance policy?
Did you record her
threatening you?
You're a minor.
We can cut you a deal,
call it coercion.
What's on the stick, Julian?
It's the last thing
that Lila ever said to me.
She was special.
Such a good person.
She was under so much pressure.
What kind of pressure?
All her mother's
hopes and dreams?
That weighed on her.
Nothing was ever good enough.
Her mom rode her so hard.
She didn't know
how to manage it all.
She always felt
she wasn't good enough.
But I loved her.
I just wanted her to be her.
When you're surrounded
by perfect things,
you learn to appreciate
the beauty in flaws.
I could never get her
to believe that.
I didn't want her to take Vero.
It's the only thing
we ever fought about.
What happened?
The drug opens up a world
of possibilities for chromes.
But for naturals? Well...
I'll let her tell you.
I know you said
I shouldn't take it.
But I did.
Out of all the people
in the world, Julian,
I love you.
And I want you to understand.
I see now
why I shouldn't have done it.
Taken the drug.
I'm limited.
I'm not good enough.
I'll never get to where
I need to be, it's true.
And I can see that now.
That's why you didn't
want me to take it.
You see something in me
that isn't there.
Like my mother.
She sees it, too.
And what you think you see
will never be there.
There's no way you can feel
what I'm feeling
because you're
not born that way.
You're my best friend.
You're going to do
amazing things, Julian.
No.
Lila?
Lila?
The drug didn't
kill your daughter.
That's not true.
You heard her.
She saw things she wasn't
supposed to see.
And that drug helped her do it.
Mrs. Hoving?
Did you hire the hacker
to up the doses
of those two girls?
They acted
like she didn't count.
Like she was nothing.
I tried to do it the right way.
They destroyed evidence.
They didn't care
what I was going through.
Their money and influence
took my justice
and I wanted them
to feel what I felt.
They don't know what it's like.
The rage.
It overtakes you.
The fury.
You try to let it go.
I prayed for it.
But it consumes you.
That's all there is.
There's no peace.
There's just noise.
Like static, constant and loud.
You can't eat, you can't sleep.
You can't look
at other people's children.
You f-feel like your insides
are on fire.
You stop living.
She was just as good
as any chrome.
That is Officer Reynolds
from Internal Affairs.
I'll be right back.
How long have you been
getting these flashes?
About a week.
When you first met Anna Moore,
did she approach you
or did you approach her?
She approached me,
like I said in my report.
Mm-hmm.
Right, she rear-ended
your personal vehicle
on your way home,
obviously a setup.
It wasn't obvious at the time.
People meet each other
in all kinds of different ways.
Where you in a relationship
at the time?
What's that got
to do with anything?
Did you check her out?
New girl coming out of nowhere?
What cop wouldn't, right?
Of course I checked her out.
I did a full background.
- She was clean.
- Mm-hmm.
You and Anna were moving
along pretty quickly, huh?
So?
Would you consider
yourself a romantic?
What are you saying?
Just through events and faith
that maybe someday
you might meet the person
that you're supposed to be with.
Because if that's the way
you look at things,
then maybe that type of thinking
might've prevented you
from seeing something
you might not have seen
if you didn't want it
to happen so badly.
She infiltrated you.
Gave Insyndicate
precinct files.
And there were consequences.
Look, I did everything
by the book.
I don't know
how she got my files.
I know, of course you did.
I mean, it says right here.
You wrote it down.
You were in a coma, huh?
You have trouble
remembering things.
Isn't it possible that
maybe you forgot
to follow protocol
and now you just can't remember?
You mean,
conveniently can't remember.
I don't know.
Look at your file though.
You sure you don't
remember anything else?
We're done.
Hey, Detective,
we found something.
What do you got?
The department did
a high-level sweep of your place
before you were reinstated,
but we missed this.
The doll is a listening device.
Within the pigment
of the doll is nano-circuitry.
It's a radio transmitter.
Someone's been listening to you.
The last upload was
seven hours ago.
Evolving technologies
can no longer be regulated.
Dangerous advancements forever
alter the criminal landscape.
Police are not prepared.
Law enforcement combats
this corruption
with a new line of defense.
But not all are created equal.
The idea behind the DRNs
was to be as human as possible.
They were based on a program
called Synthetic Soul.
That's one of the crazy ones.
- I'll lead you in?
- Let's go.
Now all cops...
human and manmade together...
take on the battle
to watch over us all.
John?
Come here for a sec.
I want to show you something.
Kennex.
I got a case for you.
Two girls died within minutes
of each other,
separate locations.
One was brought into the morgue.
The other is still on scene
at Sinclair Park.
What's the connection?
They were both students
at Mendel Academy.
And it wasn't something
they were exposed to on campus.
School pathogen sensors...
all green.
I'm on my way.
No, Dorian says
you're still at home.
Well, look who it is.
Benedict Android.
Good morning to you, too, John.
Look, don't ever tell
anybody where I am,
where I was, what time
I arrived or what time I left.
Captain Maldonado is
our commanding officer.
She's on a need-to-know basis.
Protect, serve, cover.
You want me to cover for you,
why don't you tell me
why you turned off
your locator chip
for two hours this morning?
What you don't know
can't hurt me.
It's my job to know about you.
You're not just a badge number
and a questionable haircut.
Ha-ha.
What do we got?
Was she stung?
No bee stings on her.
Coroner didn't see any signs
of an allergic reaction.
Stahl, Kennex.
Captain says we might be
working the same case.
Yeah, maybe so.
You got a cause of death?
They're calling it
cardiac arrest.
Which means they don't know.
My girl's pupils are fixed
and abnormally dilated.
How about yours?
They're huge, I've never
seen anything like it.
You thinking O.D.?
Yeah, but from what
I don't know.
The hospital ran
a standard drug panel.
It assays over 300 substances.
Elinor came up clean.
Well, something
stopped their hearts.
There's always something new and
exciting hitting the streets.
I sent a blood sample
to our lab.
If there's something in this
girl, we'll figure it out.
I just found
some kind of container
in her pocket.
It's sealed.
You got your vic's personals?
Just got them.
There's not much here.
John?
You still there?
You okay?
Yeah, yeah, keep going.
The container has
a biometric lock circuit.
It's activated
by an individual's DNA.
I have one, too.
It's empty.
Mine, too.
Well, we better find out
what was inside...
before we find
any more dead kids.
The parents don't know
anything about drugs.
At least nothing they'll admit.
The kids were chromes.
Genetically engineered.
I need you to liaison
with the parents.
They'll respond better
to one of their own.
I don't think that's
a good idea.
I-I tend to rub them
the wrong way.
You know their world.
All right.
Accessing victim profiles.
We were right, this is new.
What is it?
The drug found
in the blood of our victims
contains a metabolite,
a breakdown compound
that indicates the presence
of a drug or toxin.
Like what? Upper? Downer?
Euphoric? Tremble stim?
Hallucinogen?
What are we talking about?
Good question.
I thought chromes
didn't do drugs.
Generally they don't.
But that doesn't mean
they don't experiment.
They just don't have
addiction issues.
Those genetic defects
get corrected in the womb.
Well, these two girls
definitely experimented.
Apparently three girls did.
The same compound
was also found in the blood
of a girl
who died seven months ago.
Lila Hoving, age 15.
Also a student
at Mendel Academy.
I'll look into it,
see if the girls were friends.
This one's different.
She didn't O.D., she drowned.
She could've been
on her way to an O.D.,
and drowned
before her heart stopped.
The original investigation
couldn't find
any conclusive evidence
of drug use.
Well, we've got more bodies
than they do.
There's a ton of chatter
between these girls
on social networks.
They were definitely friends.
Take a team to the school
and see what you can find out.
We'll meet you there
after we talk to the mother
- of the girl who drowned.
- Okay.
I know you've been
taking Membliss, John.
I'm required to give updates
on your mental and physical
condition every 72 hours.
You thought
I wouldn't detect it?
Are you seeing a
recollectionist?
Look, I got it under control.
Prolonged use of Membliss
may result in paranoia,
visual distortions
- Uh-huh.
- Short-term memory loss,
- migraines, heart palpitations,
- Yeah, mm-hmm.
- Increased risk of aneurysms,
- Mm-hmm.
- Right.
- Blackouts and diarrhea.
Diarrhea? Oh, I thought
it was the burrito.
Just wanted to make sure
you were listening.
Look, I need those pills
to remember things.
They open up memory clusters
so I can remember...
- About the ambush.
- Right.
I've got it under control.
I could never have afforded
Mendel on my own.
But Lila was special.
And they let
in a couple of naturals
every year on scholarship.
So she wasn't a chrome?
Lila wasn't
genetically modified?
No, she was born gifted.
She worked really, really hard.
- Straight A's all the way.
- Is there anything
you can remember
about your daughter's death?
Anything that might've come
to you in retrospect?
In your report, you said
that Lila was a strong swimmer,
that she never would've drowned.
And that if she did have
drugs in her system,
that she wouldn't have
done them alone.
That's right.
If those drugs helped kill Lila,
somewhere knew
where she got them.
But none of her friends
would say anything.
So I hired a private detective
to find out more about
what happened that night.
But they denied
being her friends.
He got recordings
of some conversations
that proved
they knew each other.
What was on them?
Talking about being
with Lila that night.
Like I thought.
Did they say anything
about drugs?
No.
Which friends?
Elinor Church
and Scarlett Davis.
What is this about?
We found those two girls
dead this morning.
They had the same unknown drug
in their system as Lila did.
But a lot more of it.
What did you do
with the recordings?
I gave everything to the police.
There's no record of that.
I know,
when I followed up on it,
they said the recordings
were blank.
What do you mean?
You were told they were erased?
That's what I was told.
They blamed it on
a magnetic surge.
They say that happens sometimes.
Doesn't it?
Well, it can,
but it's unlikely.
Are you suggesting
someone made it disappear?
Anything's possible.
Do you have the contact details
of the private detective?
Let me get my phone.
Who was the cop that
originally investigated
the case?
Detective Geary, 23rd precinct.
Okay, well, let's find out
what type of cop he was.
Dirty? Clean?
Put on a request.
You and Lila were the
only naturals in your grade.
I would think you would
hang out together.
You'd think.
You're one?
You're a chrome?
How did you know that?
I can tell by now.
I've never seen a chrome
as a police officer, though.
I'm a detective.
And stranger things
have happened.
We want to know if the
drug that killed Lila,
Elinor and Scarlett
is being sold here.
It's very important
you let us in on
what you know.
Or maybe what you've heard.
I don't know about drugs.
I know Lila.
Knew.
I didn't know the
other girls very well.
Lila had aspirations.
To get along.
I don't know,
this place is weird.
Chromes can be...
kind of weird, sometimes.
No offense.
Lila really wanted
to be up there
competing with the chromes.
And who wouldn't want to?
I have the grades
to be here, but...
I just, I don't
feel I belong here.
I'm just not sure I have
what it takes to stay.
I-If it wasn't so
important to my parents,
I-I'd transfer.
I bet you fit in
better than you know.
You knew Scarlett and Elinor.
Did you have any
classes with them?
Computer science. Advanced.
We were wondering if...
There are no illegal
drugs at Mendel.
You didn't let her
finish the question.
Was she gonna say
something else?
How can you be so sure
there are no illegal
drugs at Mendel?
- Just am.
- Your friends are dead.
Aren't you afraid
that whatever happened to them
is gonna happen to you?
I don't do illegal drugs.
Oh, that's smart...
"illegal" drugs.
What about legal drugs?
Or new drugs that haven't
been made illegal yet?
You wouldn't understand.
Come on, Marshall.
Why don't you try
and explain it?
I mean, what are you
trying to protect?
What did he say?
He said we wouldn't understand.
John, I found this
in Scarlett's dorm room.
- You have her DNA on file?
- I do.
Open it.
Whatever they took,
I think this is it.
The tox lab said they've
never seen a drug quite like it.
There were snippets
of Scarlett's DNA
attached to the molecule.
It was made
specifically for her.
The ultimate designer drug.
- What does it do?
- It's hard to say.
There are some
hallucinogenic elements,
but also things
we just don't understand yet.
It targets at least
a dozen different
neurotransmitter groups.
This is not
something the average
metal meth head can
cook up in their basement.
Definitely not.
The chemical layers
are 1.5 microns thick
and extremely uniform.
Oh!
I know what made this.
This pill was printed.
Rudy says that a pharmaceutical
grade ChemPrinter
was used to make this pill.
Based on the pill's structure,
it had to be one
of three models.
ChemPrinters are pricey
and highly regulated...
they require a license.
Let's find the ones in the city.
Let's go.
John...
A Chemulon-6 ChemPrinter was
licensed at a private residence
in Grey Harbor,
less than three miles
from Mendel Academy.
The owner is Edgar Wollenberg.
He's been dead
for seven months.
But his son Julian
was expelled from
Mendel last year.
The Chemulon-6 has a very
interesting safety feature:
it automatically
backs up a history
of every drug
it prints to a cloud.
I've found the DNA
of all of our victims
in the log... this is
definitely the machine
that
supplied them with the drug.
John.
Are you listening to me?
Did you just have
another flash?
Maybe I should drive.
I told you, I've got
it under control.
Go on.
Lila Hoving only took
one dose, one time:
the night she died.
Scarlett and Elinor had been
taking the drug a while.
How long?
Roughly a year.
But their fatal doses
were 1,000 times stronger
than their previous ones.
It looks as if this dealer
intentionally overdosed them.
John!
Watch out!
Yeah.
You've got it totally
under control.
It doesn't look that bad.
I'm sorry, could you
speak up, please?
I bet that's
an interesting story.
Detective Kennex.
Julian.
Wollenberg.
We have some questions
we'd like you to answer.
We have permission
to search the house.
These are, uh...
police officers, Ma.
They are here to ask
me some questions,
but don't worry.
They chromed me late.
The machine's downstairs.
My father got it
to make his own pills...
his own, uh...
drug regimen.
At the end,
his doctors were trying
all sorts of different
treatment avenues.
How long have you been dealing?
We found the DNA profile
of the girls who died
on the backup log
of your ChemPrinter...
along with every customer
you ever printed a pill for.
Bet you didn't know
it had that feature.
So when did you...
You don't believe me.
Now you know
why I didn't come forward.
Come again?
You don't believe me.
Now you know why
I didn't come forward.
I didn't ask you why
you didn't come forward.
Not yet.
This conversation
happened already.
Can't you see them?
Our words?
They're all here.
Your answers...
are in the air.
So there's no point in us
having this conversation, right?
You're on the drug right now.
I am.
Well, we're gonna have
this conversation anyway.
What does the drug do?
It's called Vero.
It expands the mind,
it opens it up to
things that are here
that we can't normally see.
It enables you to realize
your full potential.
The next Einstein,
or Macgregor.
Scarlett and Elinor
were deliberately O.D.'d.
Did you kill them?
No.
I didn't.
If I was gonna
kill someone...
I wouldn't get caught.
Certainly not with
the machine in my own house.
Unless that's exactly what
you wanted us to think.
Committing a crime
so carelessly
that we'd assume it wasn't you.
"How could some one
so smart be so dumb?"
That'd be smart, I guess.
And you knew the
machine had a backup,
so it was pointless
getting rid of it.
So many roads.
Is that how she drowned?
Did you kill her?
Was it unintentional?
You wouldn't understand.
Yeah, I've heard
that a lot lately.
Did the other girls find out?
They were gonna rat, so you
O.D.'d them to shut them up?
I'm trying to tell you...
the Chemulon printer was hacked.
Somebody messed with the doses.
Hacked?
- Mm-hmm.
- So you're telling us
that you didn't
kill these girls
even though your machine
made the drugs?
That their deaths
had nothing to do
with Lila Hoving?
And you got hacked?
I don't believe you.
Now you understand...
why I didn't come forward.
There was a kid we interviewed
today at Mendel
named Marsha, studies
advanced computer science.
Same class as all three girls.
So if there is a hacker,
you're thinking it'd be him.
Let's look closer at him.
Julian...
You know a kid named Marshall?
Everybody knows Marshall.
Yeah?
What do you know about him?
D, you drive.
Can't be any worse
than me blacking out.
You got something?
Ugh, not that kid again.
Julian said his
ChemPrinter was hacked.
Is it bad I want it
to be him no matter what?
What about motive?
- No, not yet.
- All right,
put that on hold for a second.
I think I have something better.
I've been looking for
communication between the kids
around the time of Lila's death.
Nothing really popped up,
but then I found this.
It's an exchange between
Scarlett and her father.
It's a couple of weeks
after Lila's death.
That's the last transmission...
till she died.
He reached out to her several times
after that, but she never responded.
Yeah, they talked all the time,
and then all of a sudden,
they didn't.
It'd have to be
a very good reason
for a daughter
to write off her father.
So what'd he "take care of"
to get her so upset?
Well, let's find him,
let's ask him.
Hey.
Hey. I took the liberty
of ordering.
Oh, thanks.
- Cheers.
- Mm-hmm.
So, how you feeling?
You sound like Dorian.
Are you using
alternative therapies
to help you remember things?
Because you seem
a little unsteady to me.
Unsteady?
Tell me what's going on.
I'm remembering some things.
Things before the ambush.
They said this would happen.
You should let it
happen naturally.
This is dangerous, John.
What are you remembering?
Things about Anna, but
nothing significant yet.
You need to focus on
the successes you've just had.
That's how you rebuild.
You saved the precinct
the first week you were back.
It doesn't make up
for who we lost.
Those were my men, too.
You're not the only one
who's responsible.
I let her in.
She has answers.
Now that this is all
coming back to me,
I'm consumed by it.
Look, John, I know you are.
And I care enough about you
to tell you the truth.
If you obsess about revenge,
it'll take you down.
Now that you
are remembering things,
we're gonna have to talk
to Internal Affairs again.
I wasn't expecting you
until tomorrow.
You've been here
five days straight.
Give your mind a rest.
You're a recollectionist,
so let's recollect.
I want to get in the chair...
tonight.
I've got something for you.
I hope you like it.
It's kind of silly.
I got something...
I got something for you.
It's just something small.
I just saw it...
So, what did you see?
- McGinnis.
- No.
I need you to check something out.
It's got to do with...
...the Insyndicate ambush.
Yeah. I need you to run these
for DNA, tech, fingerprints.
Anything we can trace
back to a suspect.
And you want it off the books
like the others?
- It's important. - I'm
sure it is, Detective,
and I want to help you. I've
been helping you, but I would
also like to keep my job.
And I can't keep
logging overtime
on an unspecified case.
Look, I'll sign off
on it myself.
If I get any heat for this,
I'm saying you threatened me.
You're in luck.
They'll believe that.
- You're the best.
- Yeah, tell a friend.
Do I need an attorney?
That's your prerogative.
Just a moment, please.
Hey, Avery, I'm
just in a meeting.
You've got to be here.
I'm with the police.
Christopher Corella.
I represent Mr. Davis.
May I see your credentials?
Thank you.
What's this about?
It's about Scarlett's overdose.
We're just gonna ask
a few questions.
You sent a message
to your daughter,
saying you "took care of it."
What did you take
care of, Mr. Davis?
Don't answer that.
Did you kill Lila Hoving?
What?
No. I would remind
you, Detective,
my client is grieving.
This is grounds for harassment.
It is not harassment.
We're questioning
your client in relation
to a triple homicide.
Homi...?
What do you mean, homicide?
Scarlett didn't die from an
accidental overdose, Mr. Davis.
We have evidence that someone
deliberately spiked
the doses meant for
Scarlett and Elinor.
Are you sure?
Positive.
You had a problem
with your daughter.
You weren't talking
at the time she died.
Something you did upset her.
What did you do,
Mr. Davis?
Avery, I suggest that we discuss
this in private,
and when we're ready, we'll
get back to the detectives.
Scarlett was with Lila
that night, yes.
Elinor, too.
They took the drugs together.
But when the girls went back to
the school, Lila stayed behind.
Why not just say that?
Scarlett wanted to,
but I wouldn't let her.
There was nothing anyone could
do to bring that girl back.
I did not want my daughter's
life ruined.
What happened wasn't her fault.
Why should it follow her around?
The recordings
of the girls talking?
Do you have anything
to do with that?
I heard Mrs. Hoving hired
a private investigator.
I paid money to make him
and the evidence disappear.
So, you "took care of it."
I was trying to protect her.
But she didn't want
your protection, did she?
She was always very honest.
You know, she said
I'd pay for it.
That we all would.
And now we have.
All of us.
Your daughter?
No, Mrs. Hoving.
It's incriminating that
Mrs. Hoving never told us
she contacted
any of the parents.
Yeah, and when she told us
the recordings were erased,
she acted like she had
no idea who did it.
Kennex.
I got something
from Julian's bedroom.
Found another one of those vials
hidden behind a picture of Lila.
This one opened
with Julian's DNA.
Yeah? What was in it?
Well, it's more than a pill.
This image stick is encrypted.
You want to tell us
what's on it?
Not really.
Here's a theory.
Ms. Hoving discovered that you
were selling drugs to everybody,
including her daughter.
So she threatened
to tell the cops
unless you were willing
to do what she wanted.
Give lethal doses
to those two girls.
This thing's locked up pretty
good, must be important to you.
Is it an insurance policy?
Did you record her
threatening you?
You're a minor.
We can cut you a deal,
call it coercion.
What's on the stick, Julian?
It's the last thing
that Lila ever said to me.
She was special.
Such a good person.
She was under so much pressure.
What kind of pressure?
All her mother's
hopes and dreams?
That weighed on her.
Nothing was ever good enough.
Her mom rode her so hard.
She didn't know
how to manage it all.
She always felt
she wasn't good enough.
But I loved her.
I just wanted her to be her.
When you're surrounded
by perfect things,
you learn to appreciate
the beauty in flaws.
I could never get her
to believe that.
I didn't want her to take Vero.
It's the only thing
we ever fought about.
What happened?
The drug opens up a world
of possibilities for chromes.
But for naturals? Well...
I'll let her tell you.
I know you said
I shouldn't take it.
But I did.
Out of all the people
in the world, Julian,
I love you.
And I want you to understand.
I see now
why I shouldn't have done it.
Taken the drug.
I'm limited.
I'm not good enough.
I'll never get to where
I need to be, it's true.
And I can see that now.
That's why you didn't
want me to take it.
You see something in me
that isn't there.
Like my mother.
She sees it, too.
And what you think you see
will never be there.
There's no way you can feel
what I'm feeling
because you're
not born that way.
You're my best friend.
You're going to do
amazing things, Julian.
No.
Lila?
Lila?
The drug didn't
kill your daughter.
That's not true.
You heard her.
She saw things she wasn't
supposed to see.
And that drug helped her do it.
Mrs. Hoving?
Did you hire the hacker
to up the doses
of those two girls?
They acted
like she didn't count.
Like she was nothing.
I tried to do it the right way.
They destroyed evidence.
They didn't care
what I was going through.
Their money and influence
took my justice
and I wanted them
to feel what I felt.
They don't know what it's like.
The rage.
It overtakes you.
The fury.
You try to let it go.
I prayed for it.
But it consumes you.
That's all there is.
There's no peace.
There's just noise.
Like static, constant and loud.
You can't eat, you can't sleep.
You can't look
at other people's children.
You f-feel like your insides
are on fire.
You stop living.
She was just as good
as any chrome.
That is Officer Reynolds
from Internal Affairs.
I'll be right back.
How long have you been
getting these flashes?
About a week.
When you first met Anna Moore,
did she approach you
or did you approach her?
She approached me,
like I said in my report.
Mm-hmm.
Right, she rear-ended
your personal vehicle
on your way home,
obviously a setup.
It wasn't obvious at the time.
People meet each other
in all kinds of different ways.
Where you in a relationship
at the time?
What's that got
to do with anything?
Did you check her out?
New girl coming out of nowhere?
What cop wouldn't, right?
Of course I checked her out.
I did a full background.
- She was clean.
- Mm-hmm.
You and Anna were moving
along pretty quickly, huh?
So?
Would you consider
yourself a romantic?
What are you saying?
Just through events and faith
that maybe someday
you might meet the person
that you're supposed to be with.
Because if that's the way
you look at things,
then maybe that type of thinking
might've prevented you
from seeing something
you might not have seen
if you didn't want it
to happen so badly.
She infiltrated you.
Gave Insyndicate
precinct files.
And there were consequences.
Look, I did everything
by the book.
I don't know
how she got my files.
I know, of course you did.
I mean, it says right here.
You wrote it down.
You were in a coma, huh?
You have trouble
remembering things.
Isn't it possible that
maybe you forgot
to follow protocol
and now you just can't remember?
You mean,
conveniently can't remember.
I don't know.
Look at your file though.
You sure you don't
remember anything else?
We're done.
Hey, Detective,
we found something.
What do you got?
The department did
a high-level sweep of your place
before you were reinstated,
but we missed this.
The doll is a listening device.
Within the pigment
of the doll is nano-circuitry.
It's a radio transmitter.
Someone's been listening to you.
The last upload was
seven hours ago.