Clarice (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 13 - Family Is Freedom - full transcript

KRENDLER: Previously on Clarice:

CLARICE: Three women are dead.

They're in a clinical
trial for Reprisol.

All three had children
with birth defects.

- I can't do my job.
- Take a minute. Do not quit.

If I stay, it'll kill me.

Everything glowing
up there is biological.

The sample from the painting, fetal
tissue. From five separate fetuses.

They all had different mothers,
but they all had the same father:

- Nils Hagen.
- Conway's been trafficking women

- for his father.
- Hello?



Can I come up? I need to
talk to you. My father. He knew.

I can't live with this.
Please. I need to help you.

- Come on up.
- [Intercom buzzes]

[Door rattles]

[Sighs]

Are you okay?

I'm not often in
women's apartments.

Ah.

TY: Are you not
an agent anymore?

I don't know what I am.

Oh. You went right
for it, didn't you?

- I have to tell you something.
- Is it about your dad?

Yeah.

KRENDLER: Give me the
background on Ty Conway.



We think he's trafficking women
for his father. What points to that?

Ah, he's not a typical rich kid.

- I hate rich kids. Why not?
- Because he's clean.

Shoplifting 13 to 15
right after his mom died.

Then Nils takes him
in. Nothing after that.

The bean counters have been
all over Global Health Horizons.

You can eat off the financials.

And he's got no domestics, no
assaults, none around solicitation.

He's not even in Hagen's will.

And Julia says he
doesn't even stand to profit

- off the sale of Alastor.
- KRENDLER: Then why?

Because Clarice said
Tyson's whole self,

actions, non-actions,
are built around his father.

She could see the devotion
engulfing him, swallowing him.

And they connected.
She wanted to help him.

Let's get eyes on Starling now.

[Beads clinking]

- Ty, why are you here?
- Because we saw each other.

[Pager vibrating, beeping]

Maybe it's 'cause I saw
you were still holding on

to some things
about your father.

I remembered some
things about my father.

- The truth about him.
- Can you tell me?

I thought he hung the moon.

He was the best man I ever knew.

But he wasn't.
He was a criminal.

And a coward.

And he betrayed us.

- I'm sorry.
- [Inhales shakily]

I built my life on him.

Now I think I have to choose
who I'm gonna be for myself.

[Beads clinking]

TY: The chain is broken, but...

[Pager vibrating, beeping]

Um, I have to choose too.
My father has very deep beliefs.

- [Beeping, vibrating continues]
- He has a code.

I've internalized
it to some extent.

I want you to know
whatever happens next...

I saw you.

[Grunting]

[Beads clatter]

[Clarice grunting]

WOMAN: No! No! No!

[Screaming]

- Clarice?
- Maybe she went to go visit family.

She doesn't have
any family. Clarice?

This is Rebecca
Clark-Sherman's phone number.

- The reporter?
- Were they in touch?

- Hey.
- What is it?

[Necklace clinks]

She wouldn't leave these,
not like this. These are a signal.

[Blade clicks]

Ty. I heard a woman
screaming. What's going on?

[Door rattles]

[Door slams]

[Rustling]

[Rustling]

CLARICE: Hello? Was
that you screaming?

- [Rustling]
- Are you okay?

Hello?

♪ There's power in the blood ♪

♪ In the precious
blood of the Lamb ♪

Hey. Can you hear me?

Tell me your name.

- Hey, answer me.
- WOMAN: Raisa.

Raisa, okay. Raisa,
I'm an FBI agent.

I'm gonna get you out of
here, okay, but I need your help.

What happens here?

Hey, you answer me, or I
will leave you here. I will.

The old man gets us
pregnant. He tries to.

And he gives you drugs.

There are babies? What
happens to the babies?

None of the babies have
lived. Miscarried or stillbirths.

At first, you don't want
them. Then you do.

And then they die.

- Is it from the drugs?
- No.

We think he has
a genetic disorder.

Tala thought maybe
gonadal mosaicism.

He had one miracle
son. He wants another.

- Raisa, you talk like a doctor.
- We are all med students.

Oh, my God. Global
Health Horizons. Tyson.

- Tyson brought you here.
- Demon.

We are here to get pregnant.

And afterward, the machine.

[Hose spraying in distance]

[Breathes deeply]

- [Oxygen hisses]
- [Exhales deeply]

Dad!

Dad, where's Tala?

- [Exhales, coughs]
- You rendered her?

- I thought we were moving the girls.
- No, no. Disposal.

I have a cleaning crew
coming. Bleach and steam.

- Why not burn?
- We are in the middle of a sale.

Steam will do it.

DNA breaks down at 400 degrees.

I've had to start over before.

We'll be fine.

- Did you...
- She's here.

I wouldn't have brought her
if I knew we were cleaning.

I know, son. Bring
her to the den.

Stop worrying!

- Any word? Where's Esquivel?
- Oh, he said he had a lead.

- What lead?
- Guy he served with.

He said he was going
alone and that I can back off

and continue my march
towards obsolescence.

KRENDLER: Tripathi's trying to
run down Rebecca Clark-Sherman.

- You okay?
- Herman wants me at my desk.

And if I continue working with
ViCAP, I'll be written up to the SAC

with recommendation
for termination.

Maybe you should
be at your desk.

Maybe Herman should
blow it out his ass. Sir.

What's our next move?

REGGIE: I knew one
day I'd get you in here.

You look good,
Esquivel. Even in that suit.

I'm not looking to be in some
millionaire's private army, Reggie.

I'm just trying to track
down a couple buddies.

How about you
show me a subpoena?

Look, man, I'm not here as a cop.
Why don't you help a brother out?

We're all Special Forces here.

And you're the only one
not making any money off it.

You know, I could have
you clearing six figures.

- What's stopping you?
- The Constitution.

[Laughs] Oh. Okay.

Well, uh, discretion's part
of the deal here... brother.

Sharpshooter.

Pow!

- 15K.
- Knock it off.

- Pow! 25K.
- Keep pointing that at me

and I'm gonna think you're
threatening a federal agent.

Pow. 35K. Aah! Aah.

- Aah!
- [Clip thuds]

- Karl Wellig. And this guy. Locations.
- [Scoffs]

They work for Nils
Hagen. I want a location.

Man has more
than one place! Aah!

- And you are a dead man.
- I'll die smarter. Locations.

Aaah!

[Exhales sharply]

[Metal screeches]

- I can open my door.
- RAISA: I know. We all can.

Annika tried. They put her in
machine. You don't understand.

I do.

[Sheep bleating]

Rancher leaves the pens open

'cause what's inside
is too scared to run.

They knew if they were in
the pen, they were still alive.

[Sheep bleating]

But they all ended
up dead anyway.

What if they got angry?

What if they all ran at once?

RAISA: Some would be caught.

And some would get
away. Some would get away.

Raisa, I'm gonna
make a chance for you.

You'll know it when it
comes. And when it comes,

you will be one of the
ones who gets away.

- Okay?
- [Click]

[Door clicks, screeches]

Let's go.

[Door screeches, slams]

[Click]

Rebecca Clark-Sherman had done
a pretty deep dive on Nils Hagen.

Here's what she found.
Emigrated from Norway.

His father, Fredrik
Hagen, was a chemist

who worked for the Germans
at the start of World War I,

developing
weaponized chlorine gas.

I'm gonna shoot
the whole family.

Nils' brother August died of
a respiratory infection in 1914.

That boy is not alive.

KRENDLER: A family
portrait with a dead child?

Yeah, Death Portraits
were all the rage for a while.

Memento Mori.
Everybody's got their rituals.

How does any of this get
to where Hagen is now?

I might have that. It's
an address in Ivy City.

An animal research facility.

[Machine whirring]

It's a rendering machine.

Ty, is this where I'm going?

He'll be here any minute.

- You've devoted yourself to this?
- Shh. Okay?

NILS: Ah.

Hello again, Agent.

You have [Clears
throat, coughs] caused...

[Inhales deeply]

[Exhales sharply]...trouble.

CLARICE: I'd say
that's on you, sir.

You ordered the
murders of three women

to hide a fraudulent
clinical trial.

No, no. That was business.

Reprisol is good for
business. Those women...

They were bad for Reprisol.

Then why the pretend serial
killers? The fake suicides?

People believe stories.
They buy into myths.

- But I caught you.
- Sorry?

[Laughs]

[Inhales deeply, coughs]

Who is caught?

Well, you got me there.

Tyson. I love you.

But I have never had cause
to worry about you until this.

You opened a door for her.

And it is hard for me to
tell if you did it by accident.

- I never would... I... No, I wouldn't.
- Shhhh.

Families. [Chuckles]

Love can blind you.
The Greeks really got it.

This girl is here
for you to kill

so you can prove...

that you are here...

for me.

- You said I wouldn't have to choose.
- I said you didn't have to.

Now I am saying you do.

- I've always chosen you.
- No, son. I chose you.

I found you. You were
alone, motherless.

About to disappear
in this world.

In that moment, I
became a father.

And I am so grateful. I
am so grateful for that.

It's all I ever wanted.

Show me it is
family that you want.

The decision should
not take so long!

Not like yours.

So what was your hard
choice? I bet he doesn't know.

I bet that's why
he's hesitating.

You should know.

Yes, please. I want to.

KRENDLER: It's been closed
since '89. Animal testing facility,

but Alastor still owns it.

And we think Agent
Starling's in there why?

We obtained the address
from the security firm

that Wellig and Diaz worked for.

We clocked an Alastor security
guard here about an hour ago.

Infrared shows
six people inside.

- May even be more.
- You have a warrant?

We have exigent circumstances.
My agent might be in there.

- What's the AG say?
- Let's find out.

I'm calling for an independent
investigation, a special prosecutor.

Can you give it
a rest, Llewellyn?

You tend to spit across the
desk when you pontificate.

You should not be in
this office. Just step down.

Focus on your girl.

I know she's gone off the rails,

and that's stressful,
and I sympathize.

But let's face facts.
The toll is too much.

[Sighs] Llewellyn.

How much campaign
PAC money have you taken

that can be traced
back to Nils Hagen?

That is a can of worms
you don't want to open.

Oh, but I do.

Sorry. Paul Krendler.
Says it's urgent.

- [Beep]
- Paul.

KRENDLER: Ruth, I've got
a SWAT team ready to roll

on the building where
we think Starling is...

I have Llewellyn Gant here. He's
almost peeing himself with joy,

telling me that one of our agents
hospitalized a private businessman

to compel information
that you're moving on.

That's, uh, unconfirmed, ma'am.

Well, I don't want to
lose the Alastor case

because of an illegal entry
or an out-of-control agent.

Wait for the warrant.

Starling's in there, ma'am.

What did you wait for when
you wanted your daughter back?

And who went and
got her? Every time?

[Sighs]

- Do you have probable cause?
- We do.

Hit it.

- We go.
- My team, with me.

Tripathi, Clarke,
cover the side exits.

Make sure they don't escape with
Starling. Esquivel, what the hell?

- I didn't have any other play.
- You have to find one.

Or if this is who you're gonna be,
you can go find yourself another team.

NILS: My father... pickled.

His hobby. Pears. Vegetables.

Beautiful glass jars
in the basement.

When I was a boy, I
found him weeping there.

His foreman had ordered all the
workers with more than one child

to bring one to
work the next day.

They were testing
children's gas masks.

MAN: [On radio] Watch
out for friendlies inside.

Wait for the command.

Time to lock and load.

[Rifle cocks]

He, of course,
knew it could be fatal.

My little brother,
August, was born

with what we now call
a genetic malformation.

Back then, he was a "cripple."

Withered legs.

August was sweet.

Funny.

My father loved him.

He could not choose.

He made you do it.

I became myself then.

I was conceived in that moment.

I was wondering why the
Cronos myth felt almost perfect.

You want to be the
father who devoured,

but you are the frightened child
waiting for his turn to be eaten.

- [Gun cocks]
- I'll choose

I'll choose.

Why is it always one
more step? One more test?

CLARICE: 'Cause he
will always be the child, Ty.

He wants to rewrite what's already
been written. That's how this works.

- I'll never be enough.
- No, never.

- Tyson, stop this.
- You want me to choose?

Here's my choice.

You can keep Clarice.

Like you said, she's
smart. She's strong.

Maybe she can give
you another child.

Hmm.

Breacher up.

Hit it!

- Fire in the hole!
- TY: Someone's coming.

- We got to get out.
- The children.

Clear!

- Front room clear!
- Who are the children, Ty?

- Where are they?
- MAN: Sir, they've entered

the east side of the building.

SWAT's in.

We got movement out front.

Agent out front, watch your
crossfire, watch your crossfire.

- Cleanup's over. This is a bug-out.
- What about the children?

- Dad, forget the children.
- MAN: We don't have time!

My guys have cleared
a path out the west door.

They'll create a
distraction. Cars will...

- [Gunshot]
- I will decide

- when the game changes.
- Dad.

We are not leaving the children.

- [Grunts]
- [Groans]

[Door closes]

AGENT: [In distance] Clear!

[Door opens]

- CLARICE: Tyson, what are these?
- NILS: Meet my children.

Oh. It must've
killed you to learn

that every time you try to
have a child, it just goes wrong.

Tyson, give me the gun.

Withered, like your
brother, August.

Hunting you on his
little shriveled legs.

Was it just that you wanted
two sons that could live?

Pit them against each
other like you were?

And this is why you created
an empire of chemicals

to control birth and death, to give
these women a cocktail of drugs

to fix your genetic failures?

She's a lying whore,
like your mother.

Your mother? Your mother
was one of these girls, Ty.

- She escaped, like Karolina.
- She deceived me and stole you.

And I found you, Tyson.

Cronos' wife
brought Cronos down.

Oh, no wonder he needs you
to show your loyalty so badly.

She deserves no loyalty.
She abandoned you.

How did he know to find you?

Right after your mother died
of a "sudden lung infection."

Kill her or give me the gun!

Nils found you long
before your mother died.

Nils the chemist.

Nils the killer.

He killed your mother, Ty.

[Door opens, closes in distance]

Aaah!

- ARDELIA: FBI!
- Aaaah!

- FBI! Stop!
- Shh, shh, shh, shh.

- It's okay. You're okay.
- They're the police!

You're okay. You're
okay. You're gonna get out.

- I'll go.
- [Raisa whimpers]

ARDELIA: You're
okay. You're okay.

- KRENDLER: Freeze! FBI!
- [Gunshot]

Step back. Step back
for me, okay? We clear?

- Krendler!
- [Gunshots]

[Women scream]

[Women crying]

[Krendler groans]

Agent Krendler.

- Your mother lied just like she does.
- She protected you.

- She stole you from me!
- She raised you!

She loved you until he came
and he killed her and took you.

- Kill her, Tyson.
- He groomed you, bent you.

Do it now, son. Stop this.

See? He's got you
in a little jar, too, Ty.

Poisoned, twisted.
You're practically his twin.

[Krendler groans]

- It went under your vest.
- [Groans]

[Weakly] Get them out of here.

Your lung's ruptured. I
need to hold pressure, okay?

Get the women out.

Find Starling.

Call.

- ARDELIA: We have a man down.
- Who's down?

- Any sign of Starling?
- Ler's shot. He's down.

- Repeat.
- Say again?

Repeat, Krendler is
down. Send medics.

MAN: We don't have an
all-clear there. It's still hot.

TRIPATHI: Send a medic
in! Krendler needs a medic.

ARDELIA: I'm sending
three hostages out.

Negative, Mapp. Exit is not
clear. I repeat, exit is not clear.

ARDELIA: Copy.

Clarke, Tripathi, you have a
hostile heading right for you. Sit tight.

- [Shotgun cocks]
- [Rifle fires]

Go. You're all clear.

[Shouting in distance]

[Glass shatters]

[Gunfire in distance]

- I still have two bullets.
- I know.

Is there a chance? For me?

Ty, you didn't come
into the world like this.

But everyone's handed a burden,
and you couldn't put yours down.

Abduction. Serial rape.

- Serial murder.
- [Wood cracks in distance]

And that's yours
to carry. Always.

Can you live with that?

But you saw me, right?

No.

You were in my blind spot.

But I see you now.

[Gun cocks, gunshot]

[Footsteps approach]

ARDELIA: Clarice.

♪ There is power, power ♪

♪ Wonder-working power ♪

[Siren wails in
distance, radio chatter]

♪ In the blood ♪

♪ Of the lamb ♪

♪ There is power, power... ♪

PARAMEDIC: Gunshot wound
through the diaphragm into the lung.

Call ahead to the E.R. Have a trauma
team on standby and an O.R. ready.

♪ In the precious
blood of the lamb. ♪

[Breathes deeply]

[Monitor beeping,
respirator hissing]

The damage was extensive.

We repaired what we could,
but he's in critical condition.

The next 12 hours
will be crucial.

ANCHOR: [on TV]
This week on Newsline,

a stunning revelation
in Washington, D. C.,

brings a shocking conclusion
to the brutal River Murders case.

The FBI has definitive proof

that the CEO of Alastor
Pharmaceuticals, Nils Hagen,

hired a contract killer to
assassinate three women

who experienced
devastating side effects

when they participated
in a clinical trial

for the Alastor
migraine drug Reprisol.

These women
planned to come forward

and speak out when their
lives were tragically cut short.

Here to tell us her story
is award-winning journalist

Rebecca Clark-Sherman.

If Angela Bird, Tess
Laughty, and Sandra Bishop

hadn't come forward, Reprisol
would still be being prescribed.

And millions of women would
be going through the heartache

and the devastation of
pregnancy complications,

from miscarriages
to birth defects.

Angela, Tess, and Sandra deserve
to be remembered as heroes.

RUTH: I ran on a
message of fighting a war

against the monsters among us.

I will never again forget to
support the survivors among us.

My office was able
to stop Nils Hagen

and Alastor Pharmaceutical
from committing heinous crimes

and destroying
more innocent lives.

But there are more
accomplices in this case.

Lawmakers who took
campaign money from Alastor

have actively conspired to delay
and obstruct this investigation.

[Reporters clamoring]

Today, I'm appointing
a special prosecutor

to investigate any
such congresspeople,

- beginning with Llewellyn Gant.
- [Reporters shouting]

- And myself.
- [Shouting continues]

Thank you.

Catherine?

CATHERINE: I didn't
think you'd come.

I didn't think you'd want me to.

I was in here before,
after Buffalo Bill.

No one visited me.

Not your mother?

One of the counselors
told me I wouldn't allow it.

I have no memory of that.

Bill really screwed
with my head.

CLARICE'S MOTHER: Get out!

[Echoing] Get out!

I realized she
was protecting me.

It's too dangerous.
For you, for us.

[Echoing] You have to get out.

CATHERINE: Are you okay?

I haven't seen my
mother since I was ten.

- How come?
- She sent me away from home.

First to live with relatives.

Then into an orphanage.

I have been mad
at her for so long.

[Sniffles, cries]

She was just trying to
protect me. [Sniffling]

HERMAN: I'm placing
you on administrative leave.

It's a damn shame, Mapp. I
wish you could just follow orders.

Your Coalition's
complaint is under review.

It's really gaining momentum.

But you people,

you don't do yourselves
any favor with stuff like this.

At the Academy, they
tell us "an institution is..."

BOTH: "the lengthened
shadow of a single man."

Yes, sir. And you would certainly
make Director Hoover proud.

- Well, Mapp, I...
- You work so hard

to protect his institution.

I wonder if that's what
bothers you most about me.

That I'm more interested
in protecting the people.

Or is it just because I'm Black?

- [Knock on door]
- What?

Uh, I can't call you "Boss."

I don't... I don't care if
you're acting whatever.

Don't. I hate this crap.
I'm up to my briefs in briefs.

- What do you want?
- I coerced a witness to get

- the information on Starling.
- [Sighs]

The AG is not gonna
hang you on this.

You found Starling.
She's alive because of you.

The SAC is never
gonna hear about this.

He already has. I
filed a full report.

Kid, what are...
what are you doing?

I made a choice, alright?

I made a choice,
and I'm living with it.

[Groans]

You been here the whole time?

We took shifts. Mostly Clarke.

We got 'em.

We got 'em.

[Chuckles]

That's the short version.

I can tell you everything,
but I think you should rest.

You quit the team.

I quit myself.

But I'd like to come
back, if you'll have me.

No.

I'm sitting you down.

Two weeks, minimum, mandatory.

- And if you...
- [Chuckles] That sounds good.

That sounds good. I'd like that.

[Chuckles] Thank you, Sir.

I should get shot more.

- [Laughs]
- [Laughs weakly]

[Engine starts]

Why are you denying me
this chance to own the radio

in that fancy car?

Well, alone is good.

- You're so you.
- [Zipper closes]

- [Duffel bag thuds]
- What's this?

ARDELIA: I had it fixed.

I know. But it saved
your life, Clarice.

If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't
have known to find you.

So I added a bead for that.

Our bead. [Chuckles]

It's your old necklace.

But it's also new.

♪ Almost heaven ♪

♪ West Virginia ♪

♪ Blue Ridge Mountains ♪

♪ Shenandoah River ♪

ARDELIA: So you
can wear it. Or not.

But I think you
should hang on to it.

♪ Younger than the mountains ♪

ARDELIA: We can't pretend
the bad things that happened to us

didn't happen.

♪ Country roads, take me home ♪

♪ To the place where I belong ♪

♪ West Virginia ♪

♪ Mountain mama, take me home ♪

ARDELIA: We can just try to
turn them into something beautiful.

♪ Take me home, country roads ♪

[Door creaks]

Hi, Mama.