Body of Proof (2011–2013): Season 2, Episode 14 - Cold Blooded - full transcript

( romantic pop music playing)

(upbeat hip-hop music
playing over earphones)

(hums)

(sighs)

(electricity crackling)

( suspenseful theme playing)

(gasps)

(screaming)

Dead body in a freezer, huh?

Yep. Male, mid 50s. Joe Sanella.

Owner-operator of
Sanella's Family Restaurant.



A Philly institution.
Yeah, so was Joe.

You knew him? My parents
used to bring me here

all the time as a kid.

Joe used to like
to call me Petey.

(Megan chuckles)

So, what's her story, Petey?

Ugh.

Delia Cole, one of
Sanella's employees.

She shocked
herself on a live wire

when she came in for her shift.

She's the one who found Joe.

This is where Delia
shocked herself.

MEGAN: Is it
related to the crime?

Well, we'll know soon enough.



All right, check the
body for electrical burns.

I hope you brought
a warm jacket.

Haven't you heard?
I'm cold-blooded.

So leaving a body in a freezer?
What was the killer thinking?

I mean, the cold
preserves the evidence.

It makes our job easier.

Actually, the damaged tissue
makes the internal exam harder.

I'm just saying, not a genius.

MEGAN: I got
evidence of frostbite

on the cheeks, nose and ears.

Looks like his whole
body is frozen to the core.

In this cold, that would
take a minimum of 36 hours.

So fetal position suggests
that he was alive at some point,

trying to keep warm.

Yeah, this
purplish-red blistering

right there confirms it.

If he was dropped
here when he was dead,

you wouldn't see that coloring.

He must have been
knocked unconscious.

He would've walked out.
There's no lock on the door.

Well, all this blood trickling
down his face confirms that.

And I got blunt force
trauma to the head.

Peter, take a museum's
worth of photos.

Once a frozen body is
removed from the cold,

it starts to decompose
very quickly.

So right now is the best
chance we have to document this.

Whoa. Where are you going?

To find a hot chocolate.

I didn't understand the plight
of the penguin until just now.

Then work up a sweat.

This is a balmy 38 degrees

compared to the
restaurant freezer.

Can we just lift the damn body?

ETHAN: Okay, ready?

One, two, three.

(Curtis & Ethan grunt)

MEGAN: A frozen body
changes all the usual routines.

We're gonna have to
wait at least 48 hours

to do a controlled thaw.

Yeah, the same 48 hours

when a murder has the
best chance of being solved.

Well, let's just stay positive.
We can x-ray the body.

And we can process it

while it thaws
from the outside in.

KATE: The rest
is a waiting game.

Ooh. This must have
been a bloody mess.

Understatement.

Any thoughts on
the murder weapon?

I'd say it was big
enough to knock him out,

but not big enough to kill him.

Based on the shape of the wound

and the fact that your
crime scene's a restaurant,

I'd say you're looking for

an industrial-sized
kitchen utensil.

The good news is I'm
looking at an industrial-grade

meat tenderizer.

KATE (over phone):
What's the bad news?

It's been through
the dishwasher.

Any evidence of the
killer is long gone.

Bag it. Okay.

I just found a dozen
bloody dish rags

in the Dumpster out back.

CSU's bagging and tagging them.

Sounds like somebody
cleaned up after themselves.

Yeah, but where? I photographed
every inch of that freezer.

If there were signs of
cleanup, I would've seen them.

What about the outside?

Hit the lights.

( suspenseful theme playing)

Well, there you have it.

Joe was attacked out here

and then dragged
inside the freezer.

Okay, riddle me this:

Why would you clean up on
the outside and not the inside?

Maybe he ran out of time.

Huh. Oh.

But he definitely
ran out that door.

( suspenseful theme playing)

(faucet handle turning)

(water running)

Gah! Hands where I can see them.

(panting)

( tense theme playing)

I don't understand why I'm here.

Well, let's start with

why you were cleaning
blood off your shoes

and work our way up.

Blood? Heh.

It was tomato sauce.

Okay, I'll bite.

How'd you get tomato
sauce on your shoes?

Someone spilled it
on the kitchen floor,

so I cleaned it up.

And what were you doing in
the kitchen in the first place?

I own Sanella's

with my brother-in-law,
Joe. We're partners.

Just ask Joe. He'll
straighten all this out.

I can't. He's dead.

MEGAN: Mr. Pedroni?

Are you okay?

It was those punk kids

that robbed me and
Joe a few months back.

Waved guns in our faces. We
ID'd them. This was payback.

Great, so there's
a police report.

What are their names?

Ask Joe. He'll remember.

(laughs)

MEGAN: Henry.

Hello, Henry? I'm
Doctor Megan Hunt.

Do you understand
that Joe is dead?

I know that.

Then why did you just tell us

to ask him the
name of those kids?

I didn't. You're wrong.

Okay, sorry.

My mistake.

May I ask you another question?

Have you ever been diagnosed

with any type of dementia?

I don't have Alzheimer's.
You're wrong.

All you doctors are wrong.

I saw this all the time
as a neurosurgeon.

Henry exhibits all the classic
symptoms of early Alzheimer's.

Confusion, short-term
memory loss,

difficulty answering questions.

He seemed fine to me until
we accused him of murder.

We caught him cleaning
blood off his shoes.

And don't you wonder
why he was doing that

two days after the crime?

He heard us coming and panicked.

Or his concept of time is
skewed. Also a symptom.

Look, imagine how
petrified you would be

if you started to forget
the simplest things.

Geography of your neighborhood,

where you parked your
car at the grocery store.

And then one day
you catch yourself

brushing your hair
with your toothbrush.

Well, not you.

And it scares you,
because you are still

lucid enough to know
how crazy that is.

Then you know
what's really scary?

One day it won't
seem crazy at all,

because you are
too far gone to notice.

So you're saying
Henry's innocent?

I'm saying that if he's guilty,

he might not remember
the crime at all.

It's a match. This
meat tenderizer is guilty.

That must have hurt.

Yeah, kind of like how it felt
when you moved in on Dani.

Would you get over it, Ethan?

Okay, that sounds good.

Why don't you tell
me how to feel now?

Okay, I think I'm done
here. Yeah, you are.

How long are you
gonna keep this up?

( tense theme playing)

All right, check this
out, check this out.

The decedent's shirt is
completely soaked in blood,

but there's only one
isolated drop on his pant leg.

Are you thinking
what I'm thinking?

You're petty and immature? Yeah.

No, the blood drop
could belong to the killer.

Heading out? PETER: Hey.

Uh, yeah, Bud's tracked
down Joe Sanella's family,

so we're, um,
meeting them at PD.

So, what did they say?

That my biological father
lives two miles from here.

How poetic.

Maybe you guys stood in line

next to each other
at the coffee shop.

Two strangers totally clueless.

Biological connection.

Well, a stranger's
still a stranger.

Are you gonna call?

When I'm ready, maybe.

I gotta go. Peter.

Call. See you.

WOMAN: When Joe picked
me up for our first date,

my brother Henry made sure
he was there to scare him away.

But it didn't work.

Instead they
became best friends,

even though they
were polar opposites.

Hmm. Maybe that was the
secret to Sanella's success.

Yeah. It was a simple recipe.

Joe was the people person
and Henry kept the books.

They made a hell of a team.

Did that change after
Henry's diagnosis?

Joe had to pick up the slack.

It's been a struggle.

But he let Henry keep working.

He knew Henry needed
something to hold on to.

To still feel useful.

That was my Joe.

He was always concerned
about other people's feelings.

Doctor Hunt, may I
see my husband now?

I'd like to say goodbye.

I'm very sorry,

but that's not possible
yet. Soon, though.

Okay.

Would you like to see Henry?

Do you think he killed Joe?

Do you?

( tense theme playing)

We came as soon as we heard.

The organic farm
gets spotty reception.

Look, I know my
father's a sick man,

but he'd never hurt Uncle Joe.

MORRIS: The
evidence says otherwise.

What did Henry say happened?

Caren, please
let me handle this.

Henry says Joe was
killed by a group of teens

that robbed the place
a few months back,

but I found no
record of the incident.

Yeah, that's because it
happened when I was 12.

You know what? Screw this.

Mr. Ped...?

Mr. Pedroni?

This has been so
hard for Anthony.

We moved back here to help.

Turns out Henry
doesn't want any.

He won't to go to the doctor,
he won't take his meds.

Have you ever seen
Henry get violent?

He once threw a chair at Anthony

for refusing to
give him car keys.

Well, Alzheimer's
patients can get frustrated.

Believe me, I know.

Does Anthony?

He's still looking
for his father.

But Henry's already gone.

( soft theme playing)

(line ringing)

MAN (over phone): Hello?

Hello.

Megan! Hold the doors.

I just got the
preliminary DNA results

on the blood drop Ethan
found on the decedent's pants.

Did it belong to the
decedent? Nope.

Did you get a database hit? No.

Why are you holding me hostage?

Because the donor's
positive for sickle-cell trait.

Which is most common in
people of African descent.

What you looking at me
for? The donor was female.

Where are you going?

We are going back to work.

We have a new suspect.

Oh, hell.

( suspenseful theme playing)

Delia, are you positive for
the sickle-cell gene trait?

Um... Yeah. How
do you know that?

Because we found a drop
of blood on Joe's pants

with that very same gene.

I cut myself on a cheese
grater Sunday night.

Joe patched me up.
He was good like that.

Fussed over me like I
was his own daughter.

How's this for a plan?
You kill your boss,

you come back two
days later, find the body.

Oh, so you think I shocked
myself on purpose too, huh?

No, we'll just chalk
that up to bad karma.

You did have access
and motive. What motive?

Why aren't you manager?

Hmm? You've been
here a long time.

I don't know.

MORRIS: Let me
explain it to you.

The only people who get promoted

at a family business are family.

(cell phone ringing)

Morris. So it must have stung

when Joe hired Anthony back

to help run Sanella's
after Henry got sick.

It's not like that.
Anthony and I are cool.

And besides, he
hates this place.

Why do you think he
moved to California?

Coming home was
his worst nightmare.

I'm out. I got work to do.

I just got a hit on
that live-wire print.

A woman named Annabelle Kip.

Did a two-year stint
for money laundering.

Hmm. I'll run with it.

So, Annabelle, what's your
connection with Joe Sanella?

I'm a restaurateur.

I secure the rights
to existing businesses

and I expand them
into a franchise.

I met with Joe and
Henry last week

to discuss purchasing Sanella's.

Joe did all the talking.
His partner's a nut job.

So, Joe and Henry
build up the business,

you pay them off and get rich.

Bottom line, I can
take it to the next level.

Joe and Henry can't.

That's why I offered
them $2 million.

Now, that's a lot.
Did they take it?

Turned me down flat.

Said his family's
legacy wasn't for sale.

That's called integrity.

(laughs)

What good is integrity
if you're broke?

Or dead, like Joe. Ha-ha-ha.

You're joking, right? No joke.

And your fingerprints
were at the crime scene.

They're in the system because
you have a criminal history.

Which is ancient history.

Old habits die hard.
What happened?

Joe had the guts
to say no to you,

so you had to
teach him a lesson?

Are you calling your lawyer now?

Oh, yeah. To rescind my offer.

If Joe's dead, Sanella's
price just dropped.

There's some sort
of black substance

adhering to the left
palm, but no burns.

I do have a burn
on the right hand.

It's reddish and granular.

I'll confirm microscopically
to know if it's electrical.

Looks pretty minor.

( tense theme playing)

MEGAN: Oh. This is strange.

I've got petechial hemorrhaging
in the eyes and on the eyelids.

Which suggests asphyxia as
cause of death, not hypothermia.

So do these lacerations
on the inner lips and gums.

Somebody forced their
hand over Joe's mouth.

Yeah, he was clearly
fighting to breathe.

But both the fetal
position and frostbite

suggest hypothermia
as cause of death.

If cause of death's
still a mystery,

maybe the answer's
back at the crime scene.

Peter? Yeah.

Jack Cranston.

Hi. Have a seat.

Wow, this is every bit
as awkward as I imagined.

I think it's supposed to be.

I'm really glad you called.

You're just... You're
just not what I imagined.

You're exactly what I pictured.

You look just like her.

My mom?

You know, the, uh, agency
didn't have her current address,

so I was hoping
that you could...

I'm sorry, Peter,

I thought you knew.

She died.

Maybe this isn't the
best place for us to start.

Just...

Just tell me. Okay.

The day after you were
born, there were complications.

She hemorrhaged.

The doctors couldn't
stop the bleeding.

So, what was her name? Katie.

Katie Trammell. Heh.

We started dating
our junior year.

We were 16 when
she got pregnant.

So you decided to give me up?

I wanted you to have a chance.

I just... I wasn't
ready for that.

You know what? I'm
not really ready for this.

Okay, okay. Hey, look.

We can do this any
way you want or not at all.

I just wanted you to have this.

( tender theme playing)

Ain't no way in hell
I'm lying on the ground.

All right. Come on, come on.

Re-creating the crime scene

might help us
determine cause of death.

I'm on a diet.

The last place I should be
is in a freezer full of food,

so don't poke a hungry bear.

A man only has so much strength.

Okay, hungry bear, fine.

We found the victim... Excuse me.
- -like this, right?

We know that Joe
was hit over the head

in the kitchen,
dragged into the freezer.

And after that, things
get a little bit hazy.

What doesn't look
right? The blood pools.

If Joe was on the ground,
bleeding from his head,

why is most of the
blood pooled at his waist?

Excellent question.

ETHAN: Uh, well,

it's a simple matter of gravity.

The head wound had to be
directly above this blood pool.

Which means...
Joe was sitting up.

If he was knocked unconscious,
how does he hold himself up?

He didn't. Somebody
did it for him.

Show me. Why do I...?

Oh.

Oh, boy, cuddle
time? It's cuddle time.

Say that again and we'll have
a whole other crime scene.

Oh, you're warm.

All right, we know that there is

bruising in the
inner lips, gums,

which says that the killer
held his hand over Joe's mouth.

This would be the
ideal position to do that.

I like this part. Shut up.

So, Joe was suffocated to
death? That doesn't make any...

It doesn't make any sense.

We know he was alive
when the frostbite set in.

That takes a while.

Judging by all the blood
pooling around my waist,

Joe was sitting
up for a long time.

That means that the killer
must have gotten frostbite too?

Um...

If they were here for 20
minutes, maybe, maybe not.

Why would he stick around?
I'm freezing my ass off.

He wouldn't have
stayed unless he had to.

Because he heard Henry outside.

Right, that's why the killer
dragged Joe in here and hid.

He was waiting
for Henry to leave.

So, Henry isn't our killer.

No, but he might
be our only witness,

and he doesn't even know it.

I already told you everything.

It helps if you just go through
the events step by step.

You never know what's
gonna trigger a memory.

So just relax, breathe,
start from the beginning.

I...

I walked into the kitchen.

I saw the stuff on the floor.

Was there anything else
on the floor besides blood?

Yeah. I saw a...

What's it called?

A meat tenderizer?

Yes, a sausage. Joe loves them.

A sausage?

Wait, no. Uh...

I don't know.

What is happening to me?

It's okay. It's okay.

I'm afraid. I know you are.

No, you don't know.

I'm afraid that I killed Joe.

I don't want to believe
that I'd hurt him,

but I'm losing my
mind and I don't know.

What if I killed him?

MEGAN: Henry, listen to me.

The evidence says
that you're innocent.

It's much stronger than memory.

Why can't I remember?

( tense theme playing)

I feel like I'm
slowly disappearing.

Henry, I wish that I could stop

this disease that's
in your brain. I do.

But I can't.

But I can promise you this:

You will still have your family.

And when the time comes,
they will remember for you.

(sniffling)

You sound like Joe.

He would've liked you.

Yeah, I think I
would've liked Joe.

Wait.

I do remember.

I saw Alice in the kitchen.

Who's Alice?

She was running out the
back door, covered in blood.

Alice was Henry's wife.

She passed away ten
years ago from cancer.

Hello, Maria.

Henry, Henry.

Let's get you home, okay?

You all right? Yeah, just tired.

You hungry? HENRY: Yeah, yeah.

Soup, I think. MARIA: Yeah.

HENRY: You got any stale bread?

MARIA: Yeah, whatever you want.

I still think part of what
Henry said was true.

Yeah? Which part?

You know that black trace that
Kate found on the vic's hand?

The lab identified it as
industrial printer toner.

A Hewlett-Packard
346 A toner, to be exact.

I'm listening. You
remember that Dumpster

where Pete found
the bloody rags?

Yes. I checked the evidence log.

A CSU tech found crumpled specs

for what could be a
potential Sanella's franchise.

Courtesy of
Annabelle Kip? Exactly.

Now, the ink on the specs
matches the toner on Joe's hand.

So if we match it to
the printer in her office,

it puts her at the scene.

We need a warrant.

No, it's not enough
for a warrant.

Even from my mother.

It is, however, enough
for another chat.

MORRIS: You
sabotage the live wire?

My client would like to invoke
her Fifth Amendment right.

That boat has sailed.
Hypothetically speaking,

someone may have rigged
the wire for a low-amp shock

in the hopes that
an employee injury

would get Sanella's slapped
with an OSHA violation.

You were bullying
them into selling.

Hypothetically.

Annabelle, we found
your franchise specs

in the Dumpster
behind the restaurant.

There's evidence of
matching toner on Joe's hand.

Puts you at the crime scene.

In what universe?

MORRIS: Now, look... I'm sorry.

I didn't give the specs to Joe.

I gave them to his
nephew, Anthony.

Anthony? Why were
you talking to Anthony?

Well, he thought Joe was
crazy to decline my offer,

so he paid me himself
to draw up the specs.

Here's the canceled check.

Why?

Well, he wanted to use the
specs to warm up Joe to the idea.

In fact, he picked them up
from my office on Sunday night.

After which I went out
clubbing with my friends

well into the next morning.

Oh, their names and
numbers are at the bottom

if you wish to confirm.

Any questions?

MEGAN: No, but if
you're lying, you'll be back.

Hypothetically.

MORRIS (over monitor): Annabelle
told us she gave you the franchise specs.

We found trace of those
specs on Joe's fingers,

which puts you at Sanella's
the night of the murder.

Now, you went
there to convince him

to take the offer, didn't you?

No. I never went.

I was driving to the
organic farm with my family.

(chuckles)

Pinocchio, your nose is growing.

I'd never hurt Joe. I loved him.

But you hated the
family business.

Way I hear it, you fled all the
way to California to escape it.

I came home because
my father needed me.

Yeah, you're a good son.

But your dad's only
gonna get sicker.

Then what happens?

You are stuck at
Sanella's forever.

And then in walks Annabelle Kip.

With a golden parachute
for the whole family, 2 million.

But Joe, he's a
stubborn old bastard.

He's not thinking about you.

What choice did you have?

I want a lawyer. I'm
not saying another word.

Fair enough.

Joe's body will do the talking.

I bet it's got a lot to say.

MEGAN: The long
thaw is finally over.

The body is cherry
red from head to toe

which is consistent
with hypothermia.

Same thing on the inside.

All the internal organs

are a beautiful
burgundy discoloration.

They're autolyzing.

The cell membranes
are breaking down.

It's nature's way of putting
us back into the food chain.

Hmm. The right lung
airway is decaying.

Something's lodged inside.

( suspenseful theme playing)

Hmm. Tweezers?

Looks like a chunk of
food covered with bacteria.

Food for thought?

It takes a tough bug to
thrive in the extreme cold.

Henry talked about seeing a
sausage on the kitchen floor

when he was
cleaning up the blood.

And Bud and I both thought
that he was talking nonsense,

but maybe he's more
of a reliable witness

than we realize.

So, Joe's eating,

the killer hits him on the head

with the meat tenderizer,
and Joe chokes.

That's why the killer
was covering his mouth.

Joe was making a racket

that might have drawn
Henry's attention.

The killer was shutting Joe up.

And if Joe inhaled the bacteria
from the killer's hand, then...

Then identifying it
would lead us to the killer.

Get it to the lab.

( mysterious theme playing)

COD was asphyxiation? No.

The food bolus only
partially blocked Joe's airway.

He was still able to get
enough air to breathe.

He ultimately succumbed
to hypothermia.

So the bacteria is
all we've got, then?

We also have a witness.

Who? Henry?

I believe that Henry
saw who killed Joe.

But his dementia
is preventing him

from communicating what he saw.

Megan, a witness with
Alzheimer's isn't a witness.

I'm not so sure that
he has Alzheimer's.

Really? Based on what?

His gait.

He shuffles like his feet
are stuck to the ground.

That's more indicative
of Parkinson's

or some other kind of
neurological disorder,

but not Alzheimer's.

So you think he
was misdiagnosed?

His doctor didn't
even get an MRI.

I really want to figure out
what's going on in his brain.

Why is it that every time
you can't find an answer,

you assume someone
else made a mistake?

Uh... Because I'm right.

Henry's dementia
might be treatable.

He might become lucid
enough to tell us what he saw.

Well, you'll need
the family's consent.

Which might be a
bit of a challenge

now that Anthony
is our prime suspect.

I really think you're
underestimating

my considerable charm.

I think you'll do anything

to get Henry to say
that Anthony killed Joe.

Are you so afraid of the truth

that you would sacrifice
your brother's mind?

Wait, you mean you can cure him?

MEGAN: Yes, it's possible.

And with your permission,

I would like to do
an MRI on Henry.

Test me. I want to help Joe.

MARIA: It's not
up to you, sweetie.

Go back, finish
the napkins. Go, go.

I have power of
attorney over my brother.

And it is my job to protect
him. My answer is no.

PETER: Don't pretend to
care about Henry, okay?

This is about
covering Anthony's ass.

How dare you?
PETER: Listen, lady.

You have a real
shot at helping Henry

and you're pissing that away.

MEGAN: Enough, enough.

We all want the same
thing here, don't we?

To find out who killed Joe?

I can help Henry.

Let me do it. No.

I trusted you once and
you came after my family.

And no promise of a medical
miracle is gonna change that.

Now it's just the four of us.

And we have to
keep this place going.

Make sure that we
don't have to sell

to that barracuda in a dress.

We gotta make this place
work. That's what Joe would want.

Now, you get out.

( tense theme playing)

Bye-bye, Alice.

What is going on with you?

They're circling the wagons.

They know Anthony's
guilty as hell.

No, what is going on with you?

I met my birth father.

Oh.

Yeah, I let Dani
push me into it.

Oh?

Oh. Oh.

You and Dani? Yes, me and Dani.

I'm sorry. I should've
said something...

No, no, it's fine, it's...

No, it's great, it's great.

She's really smart.

And you needed a push
and, well, a shove, actually.

So, hey, you should thank her.

But it was a very bad idea.

Why? What happened?

Long story short, it just wasn't
the happy ending I'd hoped for.

Well, at least you
know the truth.

And believe me, that's
much better than not knowing.

Then why does it feel
like it was a huge mistake?

Because you did
something really hard.

That doesn't make it a mistake.

No luck identifying
the bacteria?

No, not yet.

It's like the
Terminator of bacteria.

And I mean, it's got a
wide range of temperatures,

both hot and cold.

The lab accidentally radiated

one of the cultures
and it still wouldn't die.

It's not a normal
human pathogen.

Sounds like an extremophile.

And if you can't identify
it in the usual ways,

think outside the lab.

DNA sequencing. DNA sequencing.

Yeah, I said it first.

Aren't you brilliant?

What the hell did you
say to Maria Sanella?

I asked for her consent
to test Henry. She said no.

So much for my charm.

Henry's in the emergency room.

Why? What happened?

He overdosed on
his Alzheimer's meds.

Thought it would help
him remember Joe's killer.

Problem is he kept forgetting
how many pills he'd taken.

Oh, God. He did that to help me.

I'm gonna go see him.
Oh, the hell you are.

Maria's threatening
to sue the ME's office.

She says you put
the idea in his head.

Megan, stay away from them.

I'm going.

( tense theme playing)

If you're here to talk me out of
suing your office, don't bother.

Sue away. I'm here for
Henry. I would like you to leave.

Don't be rude, Maria.

It's Alice. Let her stay.

Can you tell me what happened
when Henry had the seizure?

We were in the kitchen.

He just collapsed and
hit his head on the counter

before I could reach him.

Did they do a CT scan?

It'll help us know if there
was any damage from the fall.

Yes.

You look a lot like her.

Alice, I mean.

She could always calm him.

When we're scared, our mind
goes to happier memories.

Soon he won't even have that.

MEGAN: Hmm. He wet his bed.

The CT scan's clean. And
I have some great news.

Henry doesn't have
Alzheimer's disease.

He has normal
pressure hydrocephalus.

DOCTOR: That's right.

It's caused by
excess spinal fluid

putting pressure on the brain.

But how did you know
that? Because I'm a doctor

and he shows the classic three
W's of NPH, weird, wet, wobbly.

Dementia, leaky bladder
and distinct shuffling gait. Ugh.

DOCTOR: NPH is a
very tricky diagnosis.

The dementia's often mistaken

for Alzheimer's, the
gait for Parkinson's.

But Henry has neither.

Wait, what are you saying?

Well, with your
permission, it's treatable

with a 45-minute shunt
procedure to drain the excess fluid.

You mean Henry
could be normal again?

It's certainly possible.

Well, everybody
responds differently,

but let's hope for
the best, okay?

Okay, let's give it a try.

( tender theme playing)

DANI: She's beautiful.
PETER: Her name was Katie.

I see you in her.

Ethan, hey, uh, we're...
It's cool. Um, uh...

DNA sequencing scored huge.

You've identified
the bug? Yes, yes.

A particularly
resilient one too, uh,

Deinococcus radiodurans.

I called it the Terminator,
but in the medical community,

it's known as
Conan the Bacterium.

Uh, it uses rich,
organic materials

like food and feces to grow,

and it's most
commonly found in...

Compost.

That's what gave you away.

What are you talking about?

I found a chunk of
sausage in Joe's upper lung

that was covered
with a kind of bacteria

that thrives on compost.

Joe inhaled it from
the hand of his killer.

MORRIS: So we asked ourselves

who had access to compost,

and the dots
connected back to you.

Well, you were at
that organic farm.

Plenty of compost there.

Yeah, I went. So did
Anthony and Maria.

Yeah, but that was
after the murder.

I called the farm, Caren.

You were the only one there

the day before the
murder, all alone.

You guys are crazy.

MEGAN: Heh. You
know what I think?

I think that you and Anthony

sacrificed a lot by
moving to Philly.

Your jobs, your lives.

But Henry needed
you, so you came.

Yes, to support my husband.

Right, but it wasn't just Henry

that needed Anthony
back in Philly.

It was Joe too, to
help run Sanella's.

And being stuck there
was Anthony's idea of hell.

I bet that Anthony didn't
have the guts to confront Joe,

so you took those
specs and went yourself.

If you want
something done right...

Anthony didn't
kill Joe. You did.

I told Joe that
selling the restaurant

was the best
thing for the family.

We could all have our own lives.

Henry could get better care.

You know what he said to me?

"You will never be part
of this family, Caren."

After all that I had done.

All the sacrifice.

I grabbed the tenderizer
and I just lost it.

Lost it? You cracked him
on the head with it, right?

Yes.

Then you heard Henry

and you dragged
Joe into the freezer.

By the time he
left, Joe was dead.

MEGAN: No, Caren, he wasn't.

It took Joe over two
hours to freeze to death.

You still had time to save him.

(gasps)

( somber theme playing)

My mother told me

you could always
count on your family.

But what if you lose them?

What do you do then?

You go on.

I'm not sure I know how.

I have faith in you, Maria.

Joe would too.

( tender theme playing)

KATE: How are they holding up?

Joe was the heart
and soul of that family

and Caren took
it away from them.

They could use a break.

On the way over here,

"Rocket Man" was
playing on the radio.

It's a good song.

Couldn't listen to it for years.

Why not?

It was playing on
my father's car radio

the day that he drove my
mother and me into New York City.

It was a great trip.

Shopping at Bonwit Teller's,

Russian Tea Room, Broadway.

I was really happy.

It was the last time we
were together as a family.

Next week, my father was dead.

(chuckles)

And every time I hear
that song on the radio,

I am 12 years old again,

(sighs)

and, man, it still hurts.

It's funny how the
brain works, right?

Yeah.

But, you know,

I would never want
to forget that pain.

It makes me who I am, you know?

I can't imagine losing that.

(pants)

MARIA: Henry?

Can you hear us?

Alice.

The confusion's normal.

We'll know more
in a couple of hours.

Doctor Hunt reminds me
so much of your mother.

Dad? Oh, my God.

HENRY: I'm okay, son.

I'm okay.

Listen, the restaurant...

No, don't worry about that, Dad.

I'm gonna stay with you now.

We'll run it together, okay?

No.

Your Uncle Joe
and I built Sanella's.

It was our dream, not yours.

Maria and I will
run it, won't we?

For Joe.

You bet we will.

For Joe.

Doctor Hunt, thank you.

You didn't give up on me.

Wasn't an option.

( suspenseful theme playing)