Elementary (2012–…): Season 5, Episode 22 - Moving Targets - full transcript

WATSON:
Previously on Elementary...

I know you killed Jameel Clark.

WATSON: He's worked for months
to embed himself in SBK.

An endeavor I cared more about

before I knew he was
a cold-blooded killer.

SBK is a ruthless drug gang.

(grunts)

SHINWELL: You want to know
who killed Jameel?

SBK killed Jameel.

You're looking for someone
who killed one person.

SBK kills dozens
of people a year.

I'm gonna
take SBK down.

And anybody who
get in my way...

(groans)
...gonna get hurt.

HOLMES: It's of the highest importance
in the art of detection

to be able to recognize,
out of a number of facts,

which are incidental
and which are vital.

In this case, the key
to the whole matter

can be looked for
in the scrap of paper

in the dead
man's hand.

That little ?12?
in the corner

matches the numbers
in your checkbook.

You wrote that.

GREGSON:
More importantly,

you wrote this,

the rest of the letter
the victim was holding.

We found the shredded
pieces of your missive

in New York's Sunset Park
recycling facility.

My partner spent most of
last night reconstructing it.

I like puzzles.

GREGSON:
It's an offer to pay

William Kirwin for his silence.

And a pretty flirty one,

at that.

We figure Kirwin witnessed
you two breaking into the home

of your neighbor, Mr. Acton,

while he was doing
his security patrol.

And, instead of calling it in,

he asked
for a payout.

WATSON: So you lured
him to your home

and shot him.

And tried to make it
look like he was killed

interrupting another break-in.

Alex shot him.

Give me a deal and
I'll give you the gun.

June, what the hell?

(phone chimes)

That business
was a bad one.

Something amiss?

Oh, no, um, it's just my mom,

reminding me about,
uh, coffee tomorrow.

(beeps)

Test, test.

(sniffs)

Okay.

You got this.

(rustling)

(squeaking)

Got you.

? Elementary 5x22 ?
Moving Targets
Original Air Date on May 7, 2017

== sync, corrected by elderman ==
@elder_man

That is curious.

Marcus said the victim
had a paintball gun on her.

Which is odd in itself.

I was commenting on
the nature of the paint.

Paintball pellets

are filled with
water-soluble dyes.

They create bright stains,

but they're still easy
to wash off skin and clothes.

But none of this dye
came off on my finger.

This is Disperse Red 9.

That's the stuff in
dye packs that banks use

when they're being
robbed, right?

Mm-hmm.

This is the very opposite
of washable.

Anything hit by one
of these pellets

would be stained for days,
if not weeks.

Doesn't sound like something
you could buy commercially.

Maybe a custom order?

As I said, curious.

Hey.

Body's through here.
Ready to take a look?

Unis found her after
responding to a shots fired.

She took a shotgun
blast to the chest,

close range.

Buckshot?

Double-aught.
Shooter meant business.

No ID on the body,
probably taken

by the killer, so for
now, she's a Jane Doe.

WATSON:
So...

these are spent
paintball casings.

She fired a paintball
gun at someone.

Then her target returned fire
with a shotgun.

It's a pity the killer
also took her body camera

or we could've actually seen
what happened.

How do you know she was wearing
a body camera?

This indentation here,

it's the exact size and shape

of a popular body camera
clip-on mount.

Also, this is
the charger

for such a device.

BELL: Well, if you're right,
got to think the killer

didn't want to
leave behind video

of what he'd done.
HOLMES: There's more.

The victim's shirt has absorbed
the blood unevenly.

It's more soaked in areas
of excessive wear.

And the wear pattern
is distinctive.

Hmm. Sort of
like a vest.

HOLMES: I submit
the one which

once abraded the shirt was
of the bulletproof-variety.

It also appears she often
wore a shoulder holster,

and note her hairstyle--
it's off the neck,

and she's not
wearing any earrings.

BELL:
You know what?

Her fingernails were cut short
and painted a neutral color;

tactical boots;
she's law enforcement.

Active, too, or why keep up
the grooming standard?

The FBI's NGI database
has the fingerprints

of anyone who's ever applied
for a job in law enforcement,

so it shouldn't take long
to get a match.

I'll get
someone on it.

I should get going, too.

Let me know if you get
a positive ID.

Yeah, it's her.

It's Chief Vlasik.

Sorry for your loss.

Any idea what a small-town
New Jersey police chief

is doing running around New York

with a paintball gun?

None.

Choice of weaponry aside,

can you think of anyone
who would've wanted her dead?

No. Nanette was
good people.

Everyone liked her.

Any chance this was
about police business?

It's hard see how.

She's out of her jurisdiction,

no gun, no vest, no backup.

Cypress Grove is
a quiet town.

She spent most of her time
writing speeding tickets.

How did she seem
at the office yesterday?

I hadn't seen her
in a couple weeks.

As far as I knew, she was
on vacation with the kids,

visiting family in California.

Called her sister
on the way here,

the kids are safe in San Diego,
but her sister told me

they all thought the chief was
still in Cypress Grove, working.

So she sent her children away

and then she lied
to them and you

about what
she was up to.

Was she behaving erratically in
the days leading up to her...

supposed vacation?

Did you notice
any atypical behavior?

A few weeks ago, she, uh, spent
an afternoon with her lawyer,

going over some documents.

When I asked what it was about,
she dodged the question.

But she seemed...

I don't know... excited.

That's all I got.

(door opens, bell jingles)

You came.

Your text said
it was important.

About me and Sherlock...

If you brought me here to
apologize, you can save it.

I know who you are, now.
I know what you are.

I'm only here because

I'm a consultant for the police,

and you're an informant
inside a gang, that's it.

Then I'll get to it.

I'm hitting a roadblock.

I got a whole lot of evidence

against SBK's rank and file.

But nothing on
the leadership,

the big rollers,
'cause I have no access.

What do you mean?

They got me reporting
to a lieutenant,

G-Knot.

Real name, DaMarco Bridger.

He won't let his people

meet with leadership directly,

you got to report to him.

So I need him gone.

Not gone-gone,
but I need him put away.

If police move on
an SBK lieutenant,

they might start to worry
they've been compromised.

They would... if you take
him out on gang business.

Thing is, he got a side job.

Low-rent murder for hire.

I heard a guy had him
strangle his ex-wife,

and another guy

had him run over
his business partner,

and the police didn't
look at him in either case.

But you're hoping
I could tie him

to one or the other.

If you take Bridger
off the streets,

then I have a direct line
to the top dogs at SBK.

And I can take them
down for good.

We got these
from Nanette Vlasik's lawyer.

A contract between Chief Vlasik
and your production company

for her to participate
on a game show?

Uh, Moving Targets
isn't a game show,

it's a competition
reality series.

HOLMES: The term
?reality television"

is practically Orwellian,
isn't it?

I mean, you take
would-be actors,

you put them in
manufactured situations

and then you carefully
shape a narrative

from hundreds
of hours of footage,

all to create such
groundbreaking fare

as Lil' Catwalk,

Dog Lawyers,

and That's Nasty.

You're entitled to your opinion.

So, from the title of your show
and the custom paintballs

found at the crime scene,

I'm guessing it's some kind
of people-hunting-people,

Most Dangerous Game
kind of thing?

Yeah, it's basically
hide-and-seek.

We started with 30 contestants,

we give them each the name of
a rival and a paintball gun,

we told them to hunt down,
shoot their target,

while avoiding whoever
might be hunting them.

Yeah, the, uh, Disperse Red 9,
that was my idea.

Wanted to make sure
if someone got shot,

they couldn't just
wash away the evidence.

I recorded a segment about it,
if you guys want to see it.

Jake isn't just a producer on
the show, he's also the host.

So I'm guessing when someone
eliminates a competitor,

they take on that
person's target?

Yeah, and on
and on until

there's only one
contestant left.

Last one standing
gets $1 million.

Well, we're pretty sure Nanette
Vlasik was wearing a body camera

when she was shot,
but it's missing.

I don't suppose there was also a
film crew recording last night?

No, unlike your average
competition show,

we don't-we don't have
any film crews.

The competitors,

they shoot their own footage
using the body cameras.

?Reality unfettered,?
that's our catchphrase.

We give them
cell phones

for emergency contact,
but otherwise,

they're on their own.

So how was Vlasik
doing on the show?

Good.

Really good; with
her police training,

she'd already eliminated
three other contestants.

Now, she was, uh...
she was looking like

one of our favorites.

A million dollars is a pretty
strong motive for murder.

Are you suggesting that
Chief Vlasik's last target

is a likely person
to have killed her?

BELL: She tags him
with a paintball,

he murders her
to avoid elimination.

So who was
Chief Vlasik hunting?

JAKE: This is Nanette's
current target,

Dr. Charles Eriyo.

He's an ER resident
at Chandler Memorial.

DARIA: He's also a
vegetarian, a church-goer,

and he volunteers with the
homeless in his free time.

We call contestants
like him ?Dudleys,?

as in Dudley Do-Right.

Yeah, it's hard to imagine him
doing what you think he did.

We'll give you whatever
we have on him.

Hey.

How is Shinwell?

Excuse me?

Shinwell.

Shinwell Johnson.
Sleepy-eyed gang informant,

chess aficionado, murderer--
ring any bells?

You saw the text
I got last night.

I did not.

You and your mother
typically caffeinate

at a coffee shop
in Manhattan.

You and Shinwell,
on the other hand,

like to meet at a
coffee bar in Bergen Beach.

The shop's signature blend
has a high percentage

of Sumatran beans,
and that distinctive,

pervasive scent
wafted my way

as soon as you took off
your coat.

He said it was important.

I'm not a child.

You needn't keep
such appointments from me.

A street gang
needs dismantling,

and he is, for better or worse,
the best way to do that.

I've come to terms
with the situation.

So how's it going here?

Did the police find
that doctor you texted me about?

No. Dr. Eriyo is not
answering the phone

given to him by
the producers of the show

that he and Chief Vlasik
were participating in.

And as it turns out,
he's quite skilled

at hiding in
an open environment.

That is not surprising,

given what I uncovered
about him.

All this on Dr. Eriyo?

HOLMES: Turned out to be
a bit of a mystery

in his own right.

His official record
is laudable.

He grew up in a Ugandan
refugee camp.

He came to the U.S.
when he was 19,

thanks to a church group
sponsorship.

Summa cum laude
at university,

then went on to
medical school,

where he graduated
top of his class.

He now specializes
in emergency medicine

at one of New York's
top teaching hospitals.

I'm sensing a ?but.?

Well, it's all built
on a lie.

The producers of Moving
Targets provided us

with all of the footage
they had on Dr. Eriyo.

Not just gameplay,
but also video

from a meet and greet,

where the players
went over the rules,

got to meet one another.
There was also this.

Ms. Wyngold wanted
them all

to look their best,

so she gave them
makeovers--

haircuts, new clothes,
that kind of thing.

This is from Dr. Eriyo's

wardrobe fitting.

WATSON:
Those scars,

they look decorative.

Ritual scarification,
whilst on the wane,

is still practiced by some
rural African populations.

These scars identify Dr. Eriyo

as a member of the
Karamojong tribe.

But there are other scars
as well.

WATSON:
Old bullet wounds.

HOLMES: This long one
is from a panga.

It's an East African machete.

A curious collection
of damage, for sure.

The last time it was described

was 15 years ago,
on this wanted poster.

WATSON: ?Akello Akeny,
a.k.a. The Ghost of Gulu.?

Same facial features,

same list of scars.

He and Dr. Eriyo are
the same person.

We thought we were looking
for a sore loser on a game show.

It turns out our quarry
used to be a child soldier

in a rebel militia called
Heaven's Shining Army.

Whilst he was
almost certainly

an unwilling conscript,

he did lead a death squad
responsible for hundreds

of murders in and around
the Ugandan city of Gulu.

I mean, in all our
years together, Watson,

we may never have seen
a more accomplished killer.

A reality show managed
to cast a war criminal

as one of their contestants?

Well, it's more
complicated than that.

Akeny was a child soldier,

so, obviously there's a great
deal of coercion, et cetera,

involved in their actions.

Unlike the many
Nazis who came here

after the Second
World War,

he is no longer wanted
for the crimes

he committed in Uganda.

It turns out the
Ugandan government

recently signed a treaty

with Akello's militia
that included

an amnesty clause.

So as far as they're concerned,
he's free and clear,

and they don't want him back.

You issue a want card?

I also had TARU ping
the cell phone

the Moving Targets gave him,
but there was no signal.

The last time it connected to
a tower was near Chelsea Piers.

You think he threw it
in the Hudson River?

So...

anyone know how
to catch a ghost?

I have a notion.

MAN (loudly):
Three, two, one.

All right,
great job, guys.

Left to right,
split stretch.

Ten times, let's go.

Bo, same direction
as everyone else.

Detective Acosta...

Oh, you Wendell's mom?

Uh, I'm Joan Watson.

I work as a consultant for
Captain Gregson at the 11th.

I'm sorry to bother you
on your day off.

You caught the Veah Hayes
murder case, right?

That's right.

I may have a lead.

First guys on the scene thought
it was an attempted rape.

She fought back,
attacker strangled her.

My bosses pushed it
as a serial.

Tried to connect it to
that case in Kissena Park--

the jogger-- but
I wasn't so sure.

Looks like you talked
to the ex-husband a few times?

Yeah. Ezra Hayes.
Veah was suing him

for unpaid alimony.

But the night of the murder,

Ezra was working in one

of his bodegas
across town.

And he wasn't a match for
the trace DNA evidence

we found under
Veah's fingernails.

No match, no
witnesses, no prints,

case went cold.

So what's your lead?

I got an anonymous tip
that Ezra Hayes hired

an SBK lieutenant
named DaMarco Bridger

to kill his ex-wife.

If you check Bridges' DNA,
I'm pretty sure it'll match.

It's gonna take more
than a tip to get a warrant.

The M.E. who autopsied Veah

found traces of wood dust
in the wounds on her neck.

He thought it might transfers
from the work gloves

that the killer wore.
I looked into that.

The dust was from a high-end
hardwood called ?ipe?.

I checked with everyone
in the area that sells

or installs the stuff, but
didn't turn up any suspects.

You were on the right track.
You just needed Bridger's name.

So, yesterday I went
to his mother's house

in New Rochelle.

Take a look
at her front porch.

The wood.
It's ipe, isn't it?

I knocked on her door,

I told her I liked her deck.

When I said I might
be interested

in hiring her carpenter,
she said that

her son DaMarco
installed it himself.

He did the work two years ago,
right around the time

that Veah was murdered.

That should be enough
to get a warrant, right?

Me, too.

I'll see you later.

All is well with Chantal?

She started physical
therapy today.

I asked her to call me and
let me know how it went.

And?

She crushed it.

Any sign of our target?

As a matter of fact,
there is.

I thought it best
to wait for you.

So now that you're back...

Hello.

He's the police.

We know that you're a
contestant on Moving Targets,

but the game is over,

and I really must insist
you come with us.

WOMAN:
Okay...

so the selfie I took
outside this place

is spreading on social
media-- 200 shares already.

If that Dr. Eriyo--
Akello-- whoever,

is still trying to tag me,

this should get
his attention.

I've got to ask,
how did you find me?

The producers of
Moving Targets

provided us with your
body-camera footage.

Most of which could
only have been shot

through the semi-translucent
eye hole of an oversized mask.

I knew I couldn't count on winning
a million bucks on a game show,

so, you know, I
kept my day job.

HOLMES:
Hmm.

Well, I'd like
to thank you again

for cooperating
so readily.

WOMAN: Please. ?Costumed
Character Helps Catch Killer.?

I mean, that story's
practically guaranteed

to go viral.

I mean,
that's the reason why

I went on Moving Targets
in the first place,

to try and break
out as an actor.

It seems like your
would-be shooter has arrived.

(siren whoops)

Hold it right there.

(tires screeching)
Excuse me.

It's a, it's a toy.

Armed with a paintball gun
and wearing a body camera,

just like our victim.

Dr. Eriyo, we've
been expecting you.

Or do you prefer
?Akello??

AKELLO:
It's true, I have done

terrible things in my life.

HOLMES: So you can confirm
you were the Ghost of Gulu?

Much to my shame.

But you must
understand,

Heaven's Shining Army
kidnapped me when

I was just a boy.

I was told if I did not
follow orders,

my father would be killed,
and my mother and sister

suffer even worse fates.

The only way I was
able to escape was

to fake my own death.

I got away.

I made a new life.

I don't think that'd be
much comfort

to your victims' families.

Nothing I do will ever
make up for my crimes,

but that won't stop me
from trying.

It's the reason I went
into emergency medicine.

I'll spend the rest of my life
trying to help

more people than I harmed.

It's the only way
I can justify

all the blessings
I've received.

A man who deserves none.

In the interviews you did
for Moving Targets,

you said that if you won,
you were planning on

giving the million
dollars to charity?

I only signed up
for the show as a way

to help the people
of my homeland.

To bring attention
to those who are suffering.

Were I to win,
I'd hoped to open

a free clinic in Gulu.

Sounds very important to you.

Was it important enough
to kill another competitor

to guarantee your victory?

I know why you'd ask
such a thing,

but at this point in my life,
I could never bring myself

to kill another human being
under any circumstances.

Certainly not
over a game.

Check the footage
from my body camera.

It will show you
I had nothing to do

with Nanette's death.

Actually, we already checked.

At the time
of Nanette Vlasik's death,

your camera
was recording footage

of different costumed
characters around Times Square.

Exactly.

I was looking
for my next target in the game.

BELL:
Problem is,

whoever was wearing
that camera never spoke,

never turned it on themselves,

never filmed
any reflective surfaces.

Could've been anyone
carrying it around.

Did you talk to anyone

when the camera wasn't rolling
that night?

Anyone who might remember you?

These last few weeks,
I took up old habits.

Talk to no one,
avoid cameras.

I even threw away my phone
so I couldn't be tracked.

I used all of my tricks,

both during the game,
and before it started.

What do you mean?

They held a get-together for us,
a week before the game began.

Yes, we're aware.

They filmed
the gathering

to help build their narratives.

This person hates that person.

This man is attracted to
that woman, the usual nonsense,

but I used it as a way

to evaluate my
competition,

to identify
the best players in the game,

including Nanette Vlasik.

You realize you're admitting
you considered her a threat.

I'll admit to more than that.

I stalked her.

Over the next week, I
followed all the players

I thought were threats.

Filmed them.
Studied their habits.

The same way I would research
my targets back in Gulu.

I knew what people ate
for lunch, who they were dating.

With Nanette Vlasik, I saw
how much she loved her children,

how dedicated she was
to her job.

But I also saw something
I could not explain.

And now,

you tell me
she's dead.

What did you see?

One morning,
she went into a strip club.

She seemed nervous--
evasive, even.

She was inside for
only a few minutes,

then she came out
and quickly drove away.

It was odd.

I took pictures
of the entire incident

with a telephoto camera.

GREGSON:
So now you don't like Akello

for the murder?

While his body camera footage
is hardly an alibi,

it does suggest
his innocence.

And then, there are
these photos he took.

The Glitter House?

That's a place
in Paterson, New Jersey.

You know it?

By reputation.

All of it bad.

HOLMES: Note the envelope
in Chief Vlasik's hand

as she emerges.

It's about the length
and width of U.S. currency.

If those are hundreds, we're
talking at least a few grand.

The Glitter House
is a mob front.

If Nanette Vlasik
is walking out of there

with money in her hand...

It could mean
she was on the take.

It could mean
more than that.

Our suspect pool
isn't just a bunch of people

playing a game anymore.

It's the Jersey mob, too.

Doesn't look good, does it?

Chief Vlasik coming
out of your place

with an envelope like that?

Could be a stack
of napkins in there.

You don't know.

HOLMES:
We don't.

But say she was in your pocket,

and say the two of you
had a falling out.

She wouldn't be
the first of your associates

to come to a bad end
in a deserted location.

BELL: Al ?Nudgy? Mancuso
was bludgeoned to death

in an upstate fishing cabin,

Leo ?Tuna Town? Divino was shot
in a vacant Newark warehouse,

and your brother-in-law
Milo Spitz

was found dead in his car

at South Mountain
Reservation.

Milo committed suicide.

He was stabbed 16 times.

Hardest he ever worked
in his life.

You can see how,
from our perspective,

Nanette Vlasik's death
fits a certain pattern.

(laughs)

Well, you've obviously done
your homework on me,

so I'm figuring you know
why I need this cane.

You were shot.
Theoretically, by a rival,

and no one was ever arrested.

And since then,
I've kept my guard up.

I asked Chief Vlasik to put
patrol cars outside my house,

make sure my kids
get to school safe,

let me know if there's anyone
suspicious in town.

That kind of thing.

You co-opted
the Cypress Grove Police

and turned them into
your own private security force.

Okay, everyone: take five.

Let's go.

You too, guys.

Few months back,

Nanette went through
a rough time.

Death in the family, I think.

Instead of mourning, she throws
herself into her work.

Starts pulling late hours
at the office,

taking out-of-town meetings.

She even screened
my calls a few times.

When I told her
I didn't like that,

she said she was working
on a case.

?Something big,? she said.

Then, about a month ago,

she asked me for a favor.

She asked me to introduce her
to a friend of mine,

a guy who works
at a big national bank.

He handles
my more delicate transactions.

Your money launderer,
she wanted to meet him.

I can't give you
my friend's name.

But I can ask him what he
and Nanette talked about.

'Cause if she was
into something so big

she needed help
from a guy like him?

That's the kind of thing
that can get a person shot.

Courtesy
of Detective Acosta.

He stopped by while
you were in the shower.

Thanks.

He wanted you to know that

an SBK member
named DaMarco Bridger

had been arrested, so...

I take it that brings
to a conclusion

your recent business
with Shinwell?

Yeah.

It does.

Because Acosta
was not the only detective

who came bearing gifts.

So Marcus brought
these over.

He got them from
Phil Righetti,

who got them from
his money launderer,

who says they're
copies of everything

Nanette Vlasik asked him for.

Bank statements?

From dozens of accounts and from

to high-ranking police officers

all over the country.

Wait, Nanette Vlasik
asked Righetti's banker

to look into cops?

With good reason, apparently.

He claims that each
of these account holders,

most of them police chiefs
or county sheriffs,

received large wire transfers

from the same offshore
bank account.

They were taking bribes.

Not dissimilar
to what happened

between Vlasik and Righetti,

but on a massive scale.

Okay, so who would bribe

dozens of police chiefs
and sheriffs?

A drug gang?
A foreign government?

It's not clear.
What's also not clear

is what Vlasik did with
the information, if anything.

But it stands to reason she
made some powerful enemies.

I'm hoping that the answer lies
somewhere within.

So is there a particular stack
that takes your fancy?

Do you anticipate hearing
from him again in the future?

Who, Acosta?

Shinwell.

I don't know, maybe.

I thought you said you'd
?come to terms? with everything.

I did.

So what's the problem?

There are times that I fear
you still see him

as a surgical patient,

who, with your assistance,
can survive, and even thrive.

Yet, despite your ministrations,
he's not reformed one iota.

He still resorts
to violence and deception

as his first instincts.

Even his crusade to topple SBK
is motivated purely by revenge.

Isn't that all that matters?

Putting an end to SBK?

Not to me.

You are accustomed
to helping people

who want
to help themselves.

He's different.

Doesn't want to help himself,
he just wants to hurt others.

I've become
quite certain

that in the end,
he'll hurt you, as well.

You know, you make him sound
like a lost cause.

Some people might've said
you were a lost cause once.

Well, I may still be.
(chuckles)

One of the reasons

I work so hard
not to lose myself

is 'cause I fear
I would also lose you.

Do you think Shinwell is
putting forth a similar effort?

You know, if we're gonna stay up
all night,

I'm gonna need coffee.

(door opens)

You're sleeping.

Hmm?

You never sleep.

I rarely sleep.
There is a difference.

Are you okay?

I, uh...
(clears throat)

I realized late last night,

that while the members
of law enforcement

identified in these statements

had motive to kill
Nanette Vlasik,

very few of them
had the opportunity.

So I began to suspect that, uh,

the killer might be
at the other end

of the transactions
she uncovered.

So you think it's
whoever's behind the bribes.

Unfortunately, Righetti's banker
was unable to identify

the initiating party,

so I wondered if our
old hacker friend,

?Sucking Chest Wound,?
might fare any better.

He was able
to trace the payments

to Alpha Hawk Firearms,

which is a Connecticut company
which manufactures,

among other killing machines,

pistols for the military
and law enforcement.

Now, in what is unlikely
to be a coincidence,

all of the individuals

who received
Alpha Hawk's payments

went on to choose
that company's pistols

as their department's
sidearm of choice.

That would mean a small-town
police chief from New Jersey

was taking on a weapons company
that was bribing cops

to buy their products.

That would've been way above
her pay grade, wouldn't it?

I wondered the same thing.

Then I remembered
what Righetti said

about Vlasik's recent hardship.

What, the death in her family?

Not her family, precisely.

In February, one of her oldest
friends was shot to death

by her husband in a
murder/suicide in Iowa.

This says that her husband
had a history of mental illness.

Bipolar.

Mm-hmm. Now, according to
Vlasik's social media,

she became quite obsessed
with the recent federal law

which eased restrictions
on gun purchases

by the mentally ill.

She felt that it enabled,
or at the very least emboldened,

her friend's husband.

Let me guess, Alpha Hawk
lobbied for the bill.

Mm-hmm. Specifically,
their CEO,

Clint Washburn.

So you think he's the one who
bribed all those police chiefs

to buy his guns.

He found out that Vlasik
was looking into him

and then had someone kill her?

Mm. Hope to
know more shortly.

I'm due at the station
to speak with Mr. Washburn.

I'll get dressed.

No.

After you dozed off last night,

you received a text message
from Shinwell.

Apparently, your recent business
is not finished after all.

(knock at door)
Come in.

What's all this?

Moving day.

DaMarco Bridger got arrested.

SBK leadership

offered me
his territory.

That means I'm moving back
to the old neighborhood.

You could've told me
all this over the phone.

You're right,
I could've.

But I wanted to
give you something.

What is this?

My confession.

For killing Jameel.

That is everything
that happened that night

and everything that I did.

I don't understand,
why are you giving this to me?

Because his family deserves
to know the truth

about what happened.

And me,

I deserve what's coming.

And you think that
needs to happen soon,

you give that to the
people you work with,

and they know where to find me.

But I'm telling you,
Doc, I'm close.

Couple more months
and this'll all be over.

SBK and their top brass

will go away forever.

If I give this to the police,
you're going away, too.

I didn't do all this because

I wanted to get away
with what I did.

I did it because I was
trying to make up for it.

I'll be in touch.

WASHBURN:
I'm sorry,

I've never seen this woman
before in my life.

HOLMES:
Mr. Washburn,

you make your money
manufacturing a product

which kills tens of thousands
of Americans every year,

so you'll understand if we don't
readily take you at your word.

I'm not denying

the things you
say she found.

These bank transfers,
I authorized all of them.

But she never
approached me with them.

And, even if she had,
it wouldn't have mattered.

BELL: Chief Vlasik
uncovered evidence

that you and your
company had bribed

dozens of cops
across the country.

You really expect us

to believe you think
that's no big deal?

It isn't a big deal

because she wasn't the first one
to figure out what I was doing.

I've already agreed to plead
guilty to all of this.

I beg your pardon?

The U.S. Attorney's office
caught onto me,

like, three years ago,

and they found a lot more cases
than she did.

Okay?
We didn't find any prior arrests

when we ran your name
through the system.

Of course you didn't.

I have powerful friends.

The U.S. Attorney's office
did me the courtesy

of keeping this investigation
under the radar.

They presented me with
their findings months ago,

my attorney's been working on
a plea deal every since.

If you don't
believe me, call him.

The final details
are almost done,

I agreed to a...

$10 million fine, no jail time,

I step down as CEO of Alpha Hawk
and start my retirement.

Presumably with
a severance package

worth far more than the fine
you're being assessed.

(chuckles softly)

You think I had
this woman killed

to get away with something,

but that's crazy.

I already got away with it.

BELL:
I hate to say it,

but Washburn's plea deal
checks out.

The U.S. Attorney's office
agreed to a fine

with no jail time.

There anything interesting
in the case file?

Well, Washburn
was right,

they identified many
more cases of bribery

than Vlasik.
How many more?

Multiply by ten.

In the plea deal,

do you see any evidence
that the government

confronted
the policemen involved?

No, looks like they wanted to

secure Washburn's
cooperation first,

and kept everything under wraps.

Why, is that important?
Extremely.

In fact, you could say that
the secrecy around the case

led to Vlasik's murder.

Had the killer known

that the federal government
already knew his secrets,

he would've had no reason
to kill her.

Are you saying you know
who killed her?

I have a likely suspect.

Apart from his surprise
appearance in the case file,

we have not a shred of
evidence against him.

But I think I know
where we could find some.

DARIA: I don't understand,
you want us to help you arrest

Dr. Eriyo again?

When I called the other day
to see if you'd found him,

you said you'd
released him.

We didn't have enough
evidence to hold him.

HOLMES: Nor did we
have the right motive.

At the time of his questioning,

we thought he'd killed
Nanette Vlasik

because of Moving Targets'

million-dollar prize,

but he argued quite effectively
that that wasn't the case.

Well, if it wasn't
for the money,

then why did he kill Nanette?

To avoid being tried for
war crimes in Uganda.

HOLMES: Dr. Eriyo's
real name is Akello Akeny.

We believe that Nanette
had uncovered a crime

that he committed

that, if exposed,

would've triggered
his extradition

and possible execution.

Nanette Vlasik was
investigating a gun company

called ?Alpha Hawk.?

She was looking for evidence
that they'd been bribing cops.

She found it,
and a whole lot more.

Alpha Hawk has
also been engaging

in illegal
weapons sales.

One of their customers
was Heaven's Shining Army,

a rebel group in Uganda that
Akeny used to be a part of.

Now, he helped
arrange the sale.

And that's a violation
of a treaty the group signed

with the Ugandan government.

Chief Vlasik really had
it in for Alpha Hawk.

We think she entered
your competition

to get closer to Akeny

and gather more evidence
against him.

BELL: What she
didn't realize was

he was scouting
his opponents

before the game
even started.

We figured he found out
what she was up to,

lured her to that abandoned
building, and killed her.

GREGSON:
Problem is,

we got plenty of motive,
we got no proof.

What we really want
is the murder weapon.

I don't see how we can
help you with that.

BELL: Right now, Akeny
is back at his house.

We think he's got
the weapon there,

but if we show
up at his door,

things could
get ugly.

We'd prefer to avoid
a gun battle.

You want us to lure him here.

BELL: Well, we
thought you could call

and say that, because
the game's been called off,

you're gonna divide
the million dollars

among the top-ranking
contestants.

You just need him to come
fill out some paperwork.

GREGSON:
Once he's in custody,

we can search his place
for the shotgun

used to killed Chief Vlasik.

We find it, case closed.

Okay, but it's late.

I-It'll seem suspicious
if we ask him to come now.

First thing in the morning okay?

Works for us.

(sirens wailing)

BELL:
Police!

Put the gun down!

Put your hands up!

Turn around, put your
hands behind your head.

Jake Bozeman,
you're under arrest

for the murder
of Nanette Vlasik.

(handcuffs click)

You lied to me.

Dr. Eriyo, or Akeny,
whatever you want to call him,

he didn't broker a deal between
Alpha Hawk and some rebel group.

You're right, we lied;
we thought it might tempt you

to plant the gun you
used to kill Vlasik

somewhere that might
link back to him.

BELL:
But, hey, you know

the cops don't have to tell the
truth to suspects, don't you?

We didn't realize
when we first met you

that, prior to your
career in television,

you spent 15 years
as a Texas Ranger.

I assume it was that background
that helped you win the job

as host on Moving Targets.

WATSON: Before you put
in your papers in Texas,

one of your last assignments

was to serve on the panel
that chooses the gear

for all of
the state police, correct?

It's public record.

What's not public record, yet,

is that while
you were on that panel,

the CEO of Alpha Hawk
Industries, Clint Washburn,

paid you hundreds
of thousands of dollars

to convince you to buy pistols
from his company,

and his company alone.
BELL: You pocketed enough money

to quit the Rangers and roll
the dice at a TV career.

But you knew that if
the truth ever came out,

you'd be looking at some
serious prison time.

We're guessing you found out
about Vlasik's investigation

into Alpha Hawk when
you helped the producers

vet her for the show.

Are we right
about that,

or did you find out
some other way?

BELL:
The saddest thing is,

if you had known the U.S.
Attorney's office was onto you,

you might've let her live.

Since you didn't, you brought
a shotgun to a paintball fight.

I'd like a lawyer now.

Guy like that,

using the job to
line his own pockets,

I almost wish he hadn't
put down his gun tonight.

Might wish that
himself soon enough.

He's a former lawman
and a TV personality;

(phone chimes)

prison will not
be pleasant.

? ?

(singer vocalizing)

(knocks on door)
WATSON: Shinwell?

(light switch clicking)

Hello?

(lightbulb buzzes)

Shinwell!

? ?

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