Cardinal (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Keith - full transcript

Previously on Cardinal...

Just please tell me
why you're doing this.

You should be happy.

You were gonna die tonight.

That's Katie's.

Where did you find it?

On Windigo island,

near the mineshaft.

She promised things
would return to normal

when she's back in Financial.

What do you mean, when
she's back in Financial?



Her transfer to CIS,
it's some assignment.

You didn't know that?

My suspect cashed in
chips four nights ago.

Do you think you could

get your hands on some of the money?

Just some serial numbers.

That's fresh money,
straight from the bank.

Why would you launder new bills?

My wife

has bipolar disorder.

It's hard for Kelly
to see her like this.

Woodrow "Woody" Baldwin.

Our thief follows his targets home

with their new stuff.



Then he hits their house later.

- Untie me! Untie me!
- Shh-shh-shh.

ERIC!

I came for the guitar.

Ugh!

Found his truck.

Edie.

It's okay. Hey.

Nothing changes.

We're still gonna finish Keith.

We just can't do it here.

Why not?

Because of him.

If someone misses him,

if someone

knows where he went last night.

Maybe someone saw his truck out front.

Can't take that chance.

What are you looking at, Keith?

Where will we go?

I know a place. I do my photos there.

It's safe. It's clean.

No one's there.

Eric?

Eric.

Maybe we should just stop.

Maybe we should just be done.

How does that go?

I mean, how-how does that go?

How does that go?

We just wipe the slate clean?

Just keep your head.

It's just a normal day.

You go to work, get the drugs.

I'll get the new place set up.

We'll take Keith there tonight,

after dark, okay?

There's no excuse.

But right when we
decided to start trying,

I got this assignment.

I knew the transfer was coming.

New department.

New partner.

It all felt like too much.

So you started taking them again?

I never stopped.

I know it's wrong.

You could have said
no to the assignment.

It's a delay.

That's all.

Just to get through this.

I'm tired of being the
one fighting for us, Lise.

If this isn't something that you want,

you need to say so.

It is.

I ran the numbers twice.

The money Cardinal used to buy chips

is straight from the bank.

It doesn't come from Corbett.

He's laundering his own money?

Clean money?

Why?

Same reason you'd

launder dirty money.

You disrupt the
connection to the source.

It means he's not getting payoffs.

No, it means he's paying someone,

someone he doesn't want
to be associated with.

So he's covering his tracks.

God, this is good, Delorme.

This is confirmation.

I don't see it.

Look, Cardinal tipped off Corbett.

That part we know.

He got a cop killed.

That's a hell of a secret.

That's the kind of secret

that you pay to keep quiet.

Come on. What is it?

I don't know.

I've worked with Cardinal now.

I wonder if he'd do it.

You said it yourself.

Would he doesn't matter.

Because he did.

You did good work, Delorme.

You find out who this guy is paying off,

we got him.

John.

You know how stupid it is to come here?

How'd you find my house?

Followed you from the station.

Yesterday.

Drove all over this pretty little town.

You even know how to use that thing?

Don't think it's very complicated.

What's this?

Everything I could manage

short of selling my house.

Will you walk out of here with that?

I never want to see you again.

Didn't agree to a buy-out.

Six months ago,

I caught this case.

Katie Pine.

A missing twelve-year-old girl.

It was my job

to find her.

But I didn't ask the right questions,

didn't look in the right corners.

And the man who did that

hasn't stopped.

Are you

trying to put this on me?

I can't do this anymore.

What about the dead cop?

You don't care about him anymore?

More than you'll ever know.

So you'll keep paying.

Or I'll tell the world.

My partner's investigating me.

If we keep this up,

we'll be caught.

I have no doubt.

Is he any good?

She is, yeah.

And for a second there,

I thought you were making
a plea from the heart

but you're just afraid
of getting caught,

just like everybody else.

Take the money.

Never come back.

Hey kiddo.

What? You're here-

you're here now?

Well I don't understand.

I thought you were...

what about class?

Well sure, sure.

I'll-I'll-I'll come pick you up.

I'll be right there.

Hey.

You should have told me you were coming.

I'd have got you a flight.

You would have said not to come.

That's okay.

Anyway, I like the bus.

Well it's just uh,

it's not a great time, Kel.

I know.

I saw the news.

I thought you can use some company.

Hey, what's a Form 1?

Why do you ask?

'Cause that's what mom is.

According to the nurse who
wouldn't let me speak to her,

she's a Form 1.

It's just, uh,

it's just the way they-they keep track.

Dad,

I came all the way here.

Form 1

means that she's a,

a danger to herself and
possibly to other people.

So she's in the hospital involuntarily.

So is it as bad as it's ever been?

That's not what you said.

I want to see her.

Cardinal.

White male, forties,

dumped sometime last night
or early this morning.

Well that's way too
old to be Keith London.

So who is this?

No ID yet,

but I'm guessing it's
connected to the burnt out truck

my boys found off Mukwa Road.

Any sign of torture?

It's hard to say yet.

He's wrapped up pretty good

but it does look like he was tortured.

IDENT found it nearby.

Our corpse has all ten of his
so they're running the print.

Tell me you're up for
this right now, John.

What's on your mind, Jer?

If more had been done to stop this guy

back when it was just an Indian girl,

none of this would be happening.

I defended you more times than you know.

Even when it cost me.

Said you were one of the good ones.

Clean.

Maybe I'm a fool.

Your partner's here.

Cardinal?

It's our B&E suspect.

It's Woody Baldwin.

Dammit.

Edie, what's going on?

I-I dropped my earring.

Jesus.

There it is.

What happened to you?

Oh it's, uh, it's stupid, I

tripped on the steps at my house.

I, um,

hit my head on the railing.

You need to see a doctor.

I did.

He said I'm fine.

You should go home.

Rest.

I'll get someone to cover for you.

Okay.

Hello.

Here you go.

I have some good news.

Your daughter called.

She's coming by.

Kelly's here?

And the doctor thinks

it'll be

nice for you to spend
some time together.

She sounds so grown up.

How old is she now?

Um, sixteen?

Catherine.

Uh, she's seventeen.

Well,

it'll be nice to see her.

Yeah, thanks.

The finger belongs to Keith London.

Make this make sense to me.

Woody was on the job.

He hit the wrong house.

He paid with his life.

This is a quick kill,

hasty disposal.

I think the killer was surprised

and he's off plan.

He'll make a mistake.

Talk to Woody Baldwin's wife.

I'm so sorry about last night.

I don't know what Josh was thinking

coming to your place.

He told me he, um,

he shared some stuff.

It's none of my business.

You must think I am an asshole.

Whatever else is going on in your life,

park it.

Mrs. Baldwin, I'm Detective Cardinal

and this is Detective Delorme.

When he didn't come home, I uh,

we had had a disagreement

and I just thought that
he was blowing off steam.

Do you have any idea
where he went last night?

No, no.

Mrs. Baldwin,

we think your husband
was working last night,

that he was robbing houses.

I don't know, I just-

Mrs. Baldwin.

We need to find who did this.

I begged him to stop. I-I did, I just-

We think it's possible

that your husband broke
into that person's house.

He checked things online.

He researched them to
see what they were worth.

Okay, here we are.

Yesterday's history.

A whole bunch of searches for Ovation,

Keith's guitar.

Okay, so he spots Keith with the guitar

or spots the killer himself

who's taken the guitar from Keith.

Follows him home.

We know Woody found
his targets at the mall.

Why does the killer take
the guitar to the mall?

Try to resell it?

Get it appraised?

There's a music store
at the South Ridge Mall.

Catherine?

You have a special visitor.

Catherine?

Maybe she's in the common room?

No, I was just there.

Catherine, are you in there?

What? What is it?

Her coat and boots are gone.

- Hi. Can I help you?
- Hi.

I'm Detective Delorme.
Detective Cardinal.

We need to know if a customer brought in

an Ovation guitar last night,

maybe to sell or repair.

No. Well, not a customer.

Well you've seen one?

Yeah. One of my staff just bought one,

brought it in to restring it.

Why? What's up?

An employee? What's his name?

Eric.

Fraser.

Ah, the guitar's hot, isn't it?

Is, uh, Eric here?

No. Not till tomorrow.

Look, I'm gonna need you to call him

and tell him he has to come in to,

to fill in for someone.

I can't.

He doesn't believe in cell phones.

Some kinda, I don't know,

philosophical objection.

We'll need his address.

Yeah. Sure. Give me a sec.

Look, I'm gonna post someone here.

If Eric happens to come
before the officer arrives,

I want you not to tell him we were here.

Do you understand?

You just step away and call me.

All right.

I'll get a patrol here.

Call Flower,

see what CPIC has on Fraser.

What?

Katie Pine was here.

We got him.

Good afternoon.

We begin this hour with breaking news.

Algonquin Bay Police

are investigating a suspicious death

following the discovery of a man's body

this morning.

The man was found in the
woods near Hartley Road

around 9 am

and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The victim's identity is being withheld

but an ABPD spokesman described him as

known to police.

How could this happen?

Don't worry, okay?

We're gonna find her.

Hey. I checked around the building.

She's not on the grounds.

Your mom's been doing really well.

She'll be okay.

Yeah, well, she couldn't have gone far

but I'll drive around,
take a look around.

I'm coming with you.

Eric Fraser,

two charges of mischief,

one in Sault Ste. Marie,

and one in Markham

and two years ago a theft charge,

Markham again.

It got him ninety days in Algoma.

Family?

None listed.

You've done this before?

Lots of times.

At the range.

Yeah, saw him come in earlier.

Why? Is he in, uh,

is he in some kind of trouble?

He's right up there.

Number four.

- The doorbell doesn't work.
- Okay.

Mr. Fraser?

Mr. Fraser!

No?

No.

It's too small.

There's not enough space.

No, and too public.

Up and down those
stairs with his victims.

No. He must have another space.

Get a BOLO out.

Yeah.

Hello?

Is the basement clean?

Yeah.

You flushed the drains?
You did everything I said?

Yeah. I did.

Listen to me.

What's wrong?

You need to get Keith out of your house.

What?

They found the thief's body.

How?

I don't know.

But it could lead the
police to your place.

Edie.

Edie.

It doesn't matter because
they won't find anything

because you're gonna
get him out of there.

I can't.

I can't lift him.

I'm twenty minutes away from your place.

This has to happen now.

You can do it.

I believe in you.

You can't blame yourself for this.

I stress her out.

Hey, everyone stresses out their mom.

I know I do.

Does your mom run off into the snow?

Sorry. It's just...

everyone thinks that they have advice.

Fraser drives a red van.

BOLO's gone out with the tags.

Do you want an IDENT team here?

Yeah.

Why don't we park the
whole circus out front

so he can see us from blocks away?

Any other bright ideas?

Hey. I'm just as frustrated as you are.

Somehow I doubt it.

Is there something on your mind?

Yeah. That kid out there

who's probably already dead

and I'm gonna carry that
around for the rest of my days.

Are you?

Or are you moving on?

What is this, a pain contest?

Because I concede.

You are an asshole,

to answer your question.

You don't back into this job, Delorme.

You don't half ass it

until something better comes along.

Maybe that worked in Financial.

Maybe it works at home.

But not here.

Because your focus is
one hundred percent.

Whatever you think you're looking for,

there's nothing to find.

Where are you going?

To call Eric Fraser's Parole Officer.

All right, you got it.

What's this?

One batch labelled "October".

That's Katie Pine.

One labelled "January".

Todd Curry.

Nothing for this month.

No Keith.

He hasn't finished with him yet.

And they're all close-ups.

Could be taken anywhere.

Yeah, but where does he process them?

He needs space, power, water.

Not some hole in the ground.

What?

Parole Officer said he
worked at the music store

for the last eight
months and before that

as a night guard at Holder Security.

That's the same company
as Maureen LaBelle.

That's where he spotted Billy LaBelle.

And he'd have access to properties,

empty buildings, warehouses.

So we need a vacant space

that was under contract
to Holder Security

while Eric was working for them.

There can't be that many.

Please make it stop.

Please. I'm scared.

There. Stop. That's her.

Mom?

Honey?

What are you doing here?

Mom, you scared me.

I just...

I wanted to clear my head.

I couldn't talk myself into going back.

Your hands must be freezing.

Restraints.

From when they brought me in.

You shouldn't have to see me like this.

How's the ice this year?

It was late.

Fishing huts didn't go out
till the end of January.

It looks solid now.

He's here.

Dispatch, this is DC Delorme.

We need all available units

to the Brandell School
on Kildare Avenue.

Armed subject,

possible hostage.

We need full ERT.

Please make it stop.

Please.

Please, I'm scared.

Please stop.

Please.

Please, I'm scared.

Please stop.

Ah!

Ah, it's in the vest!

Go! Go!

Ugh!

Ugh!

Eric.

Where's Keith?

Where's Keith?

John!

We checked every inch of the school.

There's no sign of Keith London.

We're looking for a body, aren't we?

You should go to the hospital,

get that looked at.

You okay?

Yeah. Nothing broken.

He's gonna need a change of clothes.

Yeah. I'll get it.

Chateau Guay Motel.

What happened?

They got Eric.

You don't have to do this.

I could tell them that he hurt you.

You can let me go.

Please. Okay?

You can let me go.

Please.

No.

I can't.

Ugh.