FBI: Most Wanted (2020–…): Season 2, Episode 7 - Episode #2.7 - full transcript
[mellow piano music]
- This place
looks incredible, Logan.
- Okay, don't hate me, but...
But I need to reschedule
our trip this weekend.
- I already took off work
on Friday.
- I'm sorry.
I just got invited
to speak at an immigrant rights
rally on Saturday.
- Next weekend,
we have dinner at the Rubins.
We can't cancel that.
- Well, I know we shouldn't,
but what if we did?
Cancelling's all the rage
these days.
- Oh, love in the time
of cancel culture?
- I'm just saying that anything
or anyone can be cancelled.
[glass shatters]
- [gasps]
- Stay there.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
It's a brick.
You okay?
- We can't live like this.
- Call 911.
- Wait, where are you going?
- I'm just gonna talk to them.
♪ ♪
- Logan, don't!
- [grunts]
- [gasps, screams]
[sobbing]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Yeah, tonight's
a little gallery actually.
- Thanks a lot.
- Can I help you, sir?
- Tiff, you want
anything to eat?
Sandwich, chips?
- No, the soda's fine, thanks.
[soft music playing]
♪ ♪
- Tiffany Wallace?
- Jemila.
[chuckles]
It's been a long time.
It's good to see your face.
- I thought you moved away.
- I did, but I'm back.
- You still a cop?
- FBI.
This is actually
my partner Stuart.
- Hey.
- Stuart, this is Jemila.
We grew up together
in Bed-Stuy.
- We used to be friends...
till she put my brother away
for ten years.
- He was dealing
to high school kids.
I was doing my job.
- Hm, that's the problem
right there.
You got the wrong job.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- You good?
- Yeah,
comes with the territory.
[cell phone rings]
- We gotta go.
- 15 minutes ago,
Congressman Logan Reed
was shot and killed
at his home in Scarsdale.
Now, as most of you know,
Logan Reed
was a rising star
in the Democratic Party,
a former prosecutor.
He rose to national prominence
last summer
during all of
the racial unrest.
Love him or hate him,
he was one of the most
talked about politicians
in the country.
- The story just broke online,
so the entire country's
about to start asking if this
was politically motivated.
We need answers and fast.
- Let's get some, people.
Go to work.
Now, Reed's
biggest campaign issues
were racial justice
and police reform.
He had a lot
of impassioned enemies,
which means these days
a nonstop supply
of death threats and hate mail,
so let's scour
through all of it.
Let's flag
everything high risk
and ID any suspects
within a striking distance
of the city, yep?
- Anything from
the crime scene yet?
- Maggie and OA just got there.
Scola and Tiffany
are minutes away.
- All right,
regular updates on all fronts.
This story
is going to move and fast.
We have to stay
one step ahead of it.
- Yes, ma'am.
- [sighs]
- I'll have to arrange you
at about 60 feet.
[police radio chatter]
[person shouting indistinctly]
- What do we know so far?
- Not enough.
All these neighbors,
not one eyewitness.
- And no security cameras
in the suburbs,
so we're flying blind out here.
- In a neighborhood like this,
there's gotta be
doorbell cameras
in every house.
- True,
but the Reeds' is broken,
and there's no hits
on the neighbors' yet.
Scarsdale PD's
still canvassing.
- Reed was having dinner
with his wife
when someone threw
a garden brick
through the side window.
He was shot the second
he opened the front door.
- We're gonna go speak
with his wife now.
- We'll take a look
at the window.
- Meet back here in ten.
♪ ♪
- Yep, close it up.
- Out of camera range,
trees and bushes
providing cover.
- Yeah, the killer was smart.
Could have waited hours
for the perfect moment.
- Yeah, copy that.
- Canvass just turned up
a witness one block over.
Lady getting her mail
saw a stranger
come out of a backyard
wearing a black hoodie.
- Where was that?
- Six houses that way.
- She give a description?
- Just the hoodie.
- Got it, thanks.
So the shooter
disguised his identity
and avoided cameras
by moving
through backyards.
- We got lots
of death threats,
but I never thought
it would actually happen.
It was just background noise.
- Any of those threats
stick out?
Anything seem like
an escalation?
- It's okay.
I know this must be hard.
You can take your time.
- It's not that.
It's just...
One thing does stand out,
but I don't...
I don't want to give
the wrong impression.
- You can't say
the wrong thing here.
- There was a protest
at our house last week
that got loud and scary.
They broke our doorbell camera,
and then someone threw
a brick through the window
just like tonight.
- Did you see
who threw the brick
or get any pictures
of the protestors?
- No, Logan wouldn't
let me outside.
It was just...
A little surprising.
- Surprising how?
- As you know, Logan...
was a champion
for racial equality.
But this crowd
was mostly Black.
I know.
I sound terrible
even saying it.
- Did you call the police?
- I wanted to, but he said
it would only
inflame the situation.
♪ ♪
- All right, folks,
here's the question--
how did a progressive ally
like Logan Reed
end up in the crosshairs
of a minority protest group?
- Well, the protest
at Reed's house
was organized by Damian Thomas,
a community activist
who lives in Reed's district,
but he despises him.
Called him
"the worst kind of racist,
"a white liberal hypocrite
"who co-opted
the Civil Rights Movement
for his personal gain."
- That's pretty harsh.
Next question is
why did Thomas feel this way?
- Well, before he ran
for Congress,
Reed was a prosecutor
known for being tough on crime.
- Right, so Thomas thought
he was a hypocrite.
One minute, he's putting
young Black men in prison,
the next,
he's out on the streets
protesting
with Black activists.
- And he was preaching
all his newfound wokeness
from his big-ass pad
in the suburbs.
- And that.
But would Thomas Reed
really kill over all this?
- According
to Thomas himself, yes.
- Logan Reed is a hypocrite
and a predator
who needs to disappear.
- Hey.
Punch into
his waistband there.
- You can't play
both sides, Reed!
[people chanting]
Reed must go!
Reed must go!
Reed must go!
- Looks like a .38.
- Same caliber
used to kill Reed.
I want to locate this guy now.
- Okay, he's got
an apartment in Bushwick
and a nonprofit office
in Crown Heights.
- Okay, coordinate
with Maggie and OA.
I want a team
in both locations.
- Actually, Jubal...
- Yeah?
- Social media says
Thomas is hosting a rally
this morning
outside City Hall Park.
He should be there for
at least another half an hour.
- Okay, do that.
- Jubal.
Guys, quick thought.
- Homeland Security
have something?
- Unofficially, yes.
We've got Thomas
on a watchlist.
You want his email, text,
and call history,
it's yours
provided your data source
stays off of any reports.
- What did he do to get himself
on an unofficial watchlist?
- He was arrested
three times last summer
during the police reform
demonstrations.
- Violent offenses?
- Curfew violations.
- Curfew violations?
So he stayed out
past his bedtime
and ended up
on a damn watchlist,
is that it?
- Uh, this type of surveillance
is standard procedure.
- Yeah,
that's part of the problem.
- Yeah, look,
if there's any question
about the legality
of the intel,
we'll just build our case
another way.
This investigation's
just too important.
- Yeah, agreed,
let's not take any chances.
Let's bring him in, yeah?
♪ ♪
- You know...
It's one thing to wonder
if the government
is spying on minority groups
they think are threatening.
It's another thing
to know that they do.
And then to work
with the people that do it,
it makes me feel like
a damn hypocrite,
like I'm fighting
the wrong fight.
- Yeah.
Hard to thread the needle
between where you work
and who you really are...
Especially these days.
♪ ♪
- Yeah, that's why
I stopped trying.
[people chanting]
Police reform now!
- That's him.
- All right.
Let's get into place.
We'll grab him when he's done.
- Black men
in this city make up
a quarter of the population
and half of all arrests.
That's not okay!
Not if we're serious
about equality.
That's why we're here today!
That's why we're marching
on Saturday!
[people chanting]
Police reform now!
- I want to thank you all
for coming out.
I'll see you on Saturday--
Bryant Park at noon!
[cheers and applause]
- Damian Thomas.
- This is a peaceful gathering.
We have every right to be here.
- FBI, we're gonna need you
to come with us.
- Regarding what?
- The murder of Logan Reed.
- That's ridiculous.
- Turn around, put your hands
behind your back.
- Maybe slapping on the cuffs
isn't the play right now.
- Riding behind me,
he's wearing cuffs.
- Let's just get him
to the car.
- No, no,
get your hands off me!
- That's it.
Put your hands
behind your back.
- Laila, bring the camera!
- Dad, what the hell
is going on?
- You need to back up, ma'am.
- Why are you arresting him?
- We're not.
We're just detaining him
for questioning.
- Why are you arresting
my father?
- Stand back now.
- Why are you arresting
my father?
- FBI, back up!
- You kidding me?
You won't even
look me in the eye?
- I'm looking right at you,
and I'm telling you
to back down.
- I hope it feels good, Sister,
selling out your people.
- He didn't do nothing!
- You don't know me.
- Y'all crazy!
- Bullies!
[people shouting indistinctly]
♪ ♪
- You think
I killed Logan Reed?
- You stood outside his house
last week with a gun
yelling that he needed
to disappear,
so yeah.
- I admit I got carried away
with that,
but I didn't mean what I said.
I don't even own a gun.
- All right,
let's try this again.
Maybe this time
don't treat us like idiots.
- [chuckles]
Come on, man.
I took that gun
off a kid at the rally.
He was a hothead.
I don't stand for violence.
- Except for when
you're making death threats.
- Or someone throws a brick
through the congressman's
window.
- The hothead did that.
It's a good thing
I took away his gun.
- You give it back to him?
- I got rid of it
at a gun buyback.
I got the receipt, if it helps.
- Where were you at 7:00 p.m.
last night?
- I know y'all got a job to do,
but this story gets old.
Rich white guy gets shot.
Cops go nuts, start rounding up
innocent Black men.
The FBI gets involved.
- Okay.
A United States congressman
was murdered.
This country
is at a tipping point.
- And yet five miles away
in his own district,
the murders of young, Black men
barely register,
so forgive me if
I'm not shedding any tears
for this two-faced politician.
♪ ♪
- Where were you at 7:00 p.m.?
- Making sure my people are
fairly treated by the police.
I was speaking
at a community action dinner.
That's what I do.
In fact, when you arrested me,
I was on my way
to visit the mother
of a young, Black man
who had been murdered
for no damned reason.
This kid's
minding his own business.
A brick gets thrown
through his window.
He rushes outside,
gets shot twice.
- When was that exactly?
- Last night.
- Do you know
the victim's name?
- Of course I do--
Marcus Ervin.
- Thomas' alibi checks out.
Security footage
from the restaurant
confirms that he was having
dinner when Reed was shot.
- NYPD says Marcus Ervin
was shot last night
in Brooklyn around 10:00 p.m.
while he was standing
in the doorway
of his ground floor apartment
after a rock came crashing
through his window.
- Same MO as Reed.
- They run the ballistics yet?
- It's the same gun.
- All right, that's two murders
within three hours.
- That we know of.
We could be looking
at a killing spree.
All right, go to Brooklyn now.
[dramatic music]
- [sighs]
- Game faces, people!
We now have two victims
of the same gunman
who might not be done
shooting yet.
Three hours after killing
Congressman Reed
in the suburbs,
our shooter resurfaced
in Brooklyn
and killed this man,
Marcus Ervin.
He's 20 years old.
He's a retail clerk.
Lived with his mother,
was taking IT classes at night.
The question is why--
either there's a connection
between these two murders,
or we have a madman
on the loose
throwing rocks
through random windows
and shooting whoever walks out.
- If these two men
were targeted,
they were not killed
for their differences.
They were killed
for their similarities.
What do these two men
have in common?
- There's no luck
on the political front.
I just talked
to Reed's chief of staff.
She doesn't know Marcus,
but she put his name
in the volunteer database,
and there's no record
that he ever worked there.
- Same goes for Reed's wife.
I mean, as far as she knows,
Reed never spent
any time
in that part of Bushwick.
- Okay, thanks, guys.
Hey, Kelly, have your team
start scrubbing
through videos from the area
surrounding both crime scenes
and flag anything
that appears in both.
- On it.
- Ian, you guys run financials
on both victims.
Look for any common patterns--
expenses, accounts.
Let's get creative, folks!
Our shooter might have plans
to strike again.
Travel history,
online hangouts,
common acquaintances.
I don't know.
Surprise me.
- You got anything
from Tiffany and Scola yet?
- They're talking
to Marcus' mother as we speak.
Maybe she knows something
we haven't seen from here.
[soft dramatic music]
- You're telling me
the same guy
who killed a congressman
killed my son?
- That's our working theory
at the moment.
- So that's why y'all suddenly
give a damn--
'cause a white congressman
is involved.
- Ma'am, we're just trying
to find the man
who shot your son.
Can you think of anything
that might connect Marcus
to Logan Reed?
- No.
Marcus wasn't involved
in politics.
- Have there been
recent threats,
or did he have any enemies?
- Yeah.
You're not gonna like it.
He was a good kid.
Kept his head down.
Did his work,
and I can tell you right now
he wanted nothing
to do with the gangs.
Only people who hated my son
were the local cops.
- Excuse me?
- Marcus didn't like
the way the police
treated people around here,
so if they crossed the line,
he'd let 'em hear it,
and they crossed
plenty of lines.
My opinion?
Cops killed my son.
- And do you have any evidence
to back that up?
♪ ♪
- Two days ago,
some off-duty cop
jumped out
of an unmarked cop car
and beat him senseless.
♪ ♪
- And did Marcus
go to the hospital?
- He was too afraid.
Cops said to keep
his mouth shut.
- Did you take photos
of the injuries?
♪ ♪
If you can tell us
where the attack took place,
we'll talk to the NYPD
and get you some answers.
- [scoffs]
I won't hold my breath.
♪ ♪
- We're gonna find the person
responsible for Marcus' death,
so please,
can you tell us exactly
where Marcus was attacked?
♪ ♪
- The intersection of Irving
and Dekalb in Bushwick.
We have video of the attack.
- Oh, great.
- Happened
at 4:17 p.m. Tuesday.
- All right, eyes up, people!
Let's check it out.
- That is Marcus Ervin
stepping off the curb,
and I presume that is the cop
his mother was talking about.
- He could have killed him
right here.
Why wait a few days?
- Mm.
Are we gonna be able
to identify the attacker?
- No, it's too grainy
for an ID,
but we can read
the license plate.
- Yep, got it.
Car is owned by a Cody McCowan.
He lives in Flatbush.
- He with the NYPD?
- No, definitely not.
- But Marcus' mom
said a cop beat him up.
- Well, his mother was wrong.
McCowan has got three priors,
all for assault,
no convictions.
He's got an outstanding warrant
for aggravated battery.
- Hate Crimes has
a pretty big file on this guy.
He used to own
a sporting goods shop.
Went out of business,
channeled his anger
into politics,
started a local group
called the Brooklyn Blockade--
BKB--
fighting neighborhood change
with intimidation and violence.
- Neighborhood change,
meaning he wants
to keep his neighborhood white.
But why attack Marcus?
Why'd he hate him so much?
- I'm not sure yet.
- There's gotta be a reason.
Let's find it.
- Hey.
I just found a connection.
Looks like Cody hated
Congressman Reed too.
- What?
What are you talking about?
- He made a bunch of
online threats against him
over the past few months.
He blamed politicians like Reed
for ruining his community.
- Hey, McCowan's got six guns
registered to his name.
- One of 'em a .38?
- Smith & Wesson 640.
- All right, folks, we got
a new leader in the clubhouse!
Cody McCowan,
he assaulted Marcus Ervin,
he threatened Congressman Reed,
and he has a gun
that matches the murder weapon.
Let's get an address
and bring him in.
♪ ♪
- Cody McCowan on any
of your unofficial watchlists?
- No.
- Come on.
What's a white boy gotta do
to get some love from the DHS?
- [sighs]
Look, I don't make the lists.
- That is a weak excuse.
- Just telling you
the way it is.
- Yeah, well,
the way it is sucks.
- You got a problem
with the rules,
take it up
the chain of command.
- Y'all have been hiding
behind that line for 100 years.
- I don't appreciate
your attitude.
- My attitude?
What does that mean?
- What the hell
are you trying--
- Okay, enough, enough.
We got work to do.
♪ ♪
- I got an address.
- Yeah?
- Hate Crimes says
McCowan and the BKB
hang out at a place
called Irish Haven in Brooklyn.
Bar's owned
by Cody's mother Janine.
- Okay, great,
call Maggie and OA.
Get 'em over there now.
♪ ♪
Tiffany.
So I get it.
You disagree
with what DHS is doing,
but you were
out of line back there.
- Excuse me?
- Look, this place, the JOC,
it only works if we're a team,
you know?
If we play together in harmony.
End of the day,
we got a job to do.
It's simple as that.
Thanks.
- Can I get another one,
please?
And this time, try to make sure
this one's not so bubbly.
- Can I help you?
- Cody McCowan, you know him?
- Sorry, man.
Cool vest, though.
Those thing come with a helmet?
- [chuckles]
- I'ma need you
to think really hard
before you
open your mouth again.
Cody McCowan,
where can I find him?
- Keep in mind, you lie to us,
you're gonna go to prison.
- What do you want
with Cody McCowan?
- Who are you?
- Janine McCowan.
Cody's my son.
What'd he do,
run his mouth again?
- Yes, he did, and we'd love
to talk to him about it.
- Only reason he talks that way
is 'cause the cops
are afraid to do
their damn job around here.
Somebody's gotta step up.
- The FBI is stepping up,
which is why we need to speak
with him right now.
[door opens]
- Dude, get out of here.
- Cody McCowan!
[dramatic music]
- FBI, stop!
- Hey, it's a peaceful protest.
- Get out of my way.
- [grunts]
- Don't leave this bar, okay?
♪ ♪
- He's gone.
- Cody McCowan's
still at large.
Last seen fleeing
the Irish Haven.
- Street cam
is drawing a blank.
He might've ducked
into a store front
and out into a back alley.
- Yeah, I'm scrubbing footage
from area security cameras.
So far, nothing.
- Did we get anything
from the BKB?
- No, the guys we arrested
lawyered up right away.
- And no one else
from the bar is talking.
- I found something.
The reason Cody McCowan
might have killed Marcus Ervin
and Congressman Reed.
This photo was taken
at a protest march last summer.
The guy with the bat
is Cody McCowan's
half brother Jack Powell.
The guy he's assaulting,
that's Marcus Ervin.
Marcus Ervin
testified against Powell
who was convicted of ag assault
with a hate crime kicker.
Got sentenced
to five years in prison.
- Right, so Cody
was looking for payback.
That makes sense,
but what does this photo
have to do
with Congressman Reed?
- Reed used it
in his campaign video.
He kept showing it,
saying it was the sort
of racism and violence
that he wanted to abolish.
- Huh.
- Pulling it up now.
- So Marcus Ervin's testimony
put Jack Powell,
Cody's half brother,
behind bars,
and Congressman Reed's campaign
made him the face
of angry, white racism.
That sounds like motive to me.
- Is Jack Powell
still in prison?
- Yes, at Rikers, but he's
currently in the hospital wing.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- When did this happen?
- Tuesday in the yard.
He was known
for being a racist.
He got beat down
by a Black gang.
The guards stopped it
in under a minute,
but the damage is already done.
- How bad is it?
- Bad.
Severe TBI,
might not ever wake up,
and even if he does,
he's not gonna recover.
[scoffs]
- Jack's got an older brother,
Cody McCowan.
- Yeah, guy's a piece of work.
He's called me a dozen times
since the attack,
threatening to sue.
- Do you have his phone number?
- In our records.
Why?
- Cody's a suspect
in two recent homicides.
- Both happened last night.
There's a good chance
Jack's beat down
was the catalyst.
[monitor beeping]
- Based on the Rikers
telephone record,
Cody McCowan learned
of Jack's prison yard beating
10:04 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
Then six hours later, in what
seems like a direct response,
beats Marcus in the street.
Then, last night, both Marcus
and Congressman Reed
are shot and killed.
- Any luck tracking
Cody's phone?
- Yeah, I just got up
on the new number.
No location data,
but for the past two hours,
it's been pinging off
the same three towers
in Brooklyn putting him
somewhere within
these ten square blocks.
- Okay, okay.
We are looking
for an address in Flatbush.
Does Cody have
any relatives there?
Any friends from the BKB?
Any references
on social media posts?
Let's go.
I want to be kicking in a door
in 20 minutes,
and I need someone in here
to tell me exactly which one.
- There's nothing useful
on his social media pages.
It's all trolling
and hate speech.
- Yeah, the BKB guys
we have addresses for
all live closer to the bar.
- Got something, Jubal.
- An address in Flatbush,
I hope.
- McCowan's ex-wife
lists her permanent home
in New Jersey
but still owns an apartment
at 1565 Lynwood Place,
Flatbush.
♪ ♪
- That is right in the middle
of the three cell towers.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Billy Joel,
you'll be home later.
- Cody McCowan, FBI!
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- [grunts]
- He's at 21st and Newkirk.
He's on the roof heading south.
♪ ♪
[tires screech]
- FBI, stop!
Put your hands up.
Higher!
Turn away from me.
♪ ♪
- All these criminals
running in the streets,
and what do you do?
You arrest an innocent man.
- If you're so innocent,
then why'd you run?
- I got outstanding warrants,
and I didn't feel like
surrendering just yet--
more work to do,
since the cops don't have the
guts to do their jobs anymore.
- This your idea
of police work?
- That's called payback.
- For what?
- Race riots last summer.
- Oh, you're referring
to the protests.
- Looked more like riots to me.
This punk Marcus
threw a brick
through the window
of my mom's bar.
Looters stormed inside,
started destroying the place
like animals.
Cops didn't do a damn thing
to stop it.
- So that gives
your brother Jack
the right to take
a bat to his head?
- To save our mom's bar!
It's called self-defense.
And the internet runs with it.
All of a sudden,
we're evil racists.
They started it, not us.
We were minding
our own business,
and then they started
protesting and looting.
But my brother's the one
who got sent to prison,
and now he's hooked up
to a feeding tube,
so hell yeah,
I kicked that kid's ass.
- Yean, but that wasn't enough.
That's why you went
after Marcus again, right?
But this time, you killed him.
- Right after you killed
Congressman Reed?
- What the hell
are you talking about?
- Come on, Cody,
you said it yourself.
Your brother got screwed.
You wanted revenge.
- Yeah,
but I didn't kill anybody.
[door buzzes, opens]
- Hey, we need to talk.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- So Tiffany and Scola
just called.
Damian Thomas,
the community activist
who told us about
Marcus' murder,
he was just killed
30 minutes ago.
He was shot in the chest
after somebody
threw a brick
through his office window.
- Are we sure this is related?
- ERT pulled a second slug
from the wall.
Preliminary ballistics
are a match
to the other two murders,
which means--
- Cody McCowan isn't our killer
because he was here
in our custody
when Thomas was shot.
- Right.
And our spree shooter
is still out there
and still killing people.
[dramatic music]
- I was at my desk when
I heard the glass shatter.
I jumped up right away,
but he got shot twice
before I even knew
what happened.
- So you didn't see anything?
- I just looked down
and held him.
Everything happened so fast.
- Do you have any idea
who might be responsible?
Any enemies or recent threats
on your father's life?
- Not besides being detained
by you people.
I mean, he had his detractors,
but not like this.
All he ever wanted to do
was help people.
- That mean anything to you?
- That was from a protest march
last summer.
That guy, Jack Powell,
he cracked
Marcus Ervin's skull,
knocked him out for two hours.
Marcus was shot to death
last night.
You think this is related?
- Did your father
have anything to do
with this Powell kid?
- Yeah.
Marcus was poor.
No one was speaking up for him,
so my dad and I,
we lead the campaign
to make sure the DA
prosecuted him
for a hate crime,
but Powell is in prison,
so what are you trying--
- It's possible that one of his
accomplices is doing this,
getting payback
for what happened.
- Are you familiar with a group
called the Brooklyn Blockade?
- No.
- Listen, Laila.
If you and your dad both pushed
for this hate crime charge,
there is a chance
you could be targeted too,
so you really should lay low
until we have this
under control.
- So now
the sell-out's concerned
about me and my family?
[soft dramatic music]
Ain't that sweet.
- I'm sorry.
That's just out of line.
We were there this morning
for a good reason.
Your father threatened
Congressman Reed
while carrying a gun.
- Scola, don't.
- No, this is important.
All we did was
follow the evidence.
You don't have to like it,
but that doesn't make
anyone here a sell-out.
- Stuart.
♪ ♪
Please give us a call
if you think of anything
that might be helpful.
♪ ♪
Listen, I know you're trying
to have my back,
but don't speak for me again.
I don't walk in your shoes.
You don't walk in mine.
- Yeah, I'm sorry.
I didn't realize.
- I know you didn't.
But now you do.
♪ ♪
- Just talked to a witness.
Saw an unmarked Crown Vic
flee the scene--
New York plate.
- Crown Vic.
It's the same car
Cody McCowan drives.
[door buzzes]
- Looks like one of your
friends just borrowed your car.
- And he used it
to kill Damian Thomas.
- We're activists, not killers.
- Right.
- Yeah,
that's right, activists.
You know, white folks
can call theirselves that too.
- Okay, well, your car
was spotted at the crime scene.
We pulled this
from a security camera
one block away.
That's your car, Cody.
So why don't you tell us
who's driving it?
- I don't know.
I can't see his face.
Anybody could have taken
the damn thing.
I keep the keys at the bar.
For all I know,
someone stole it.
- What about your .38?
The murder weapon was a .38.
Who else has access
to your gun?
- Nobody, my guns are locked up
in a safe in my apartment.
♪ ♪
What?
- ERT searched McCowan's safe
after he was arrested.
.38 wasn't in it.
- But McCowan didn't know that.
- Which means someone took it
without his knowledge.
- Hey, the only other prints
on Cody's gun safe
just came back
to Janine McCowan.
- Jack and Cody's mother.
We talked to her at the bar.
- What do we know
about Janine?
- 55 years old.
Sole proprietor of Irish Haven
since 2006.
Pays her taxes, pays her rent.
- She got a criminal history?
- Nothing in the system.
Only reason
she was fingerprinted
was to get her liquor license.
Seems like a regular,
law-abiding citizen.
- Oh, yeah, until her baby boy
goes to prison
and gets his head kicked in.
- Bring her in now.
♪ ♪
- FBI, nobody move!
Show me your hands.
- Federal agents.
Don't move!
- Keep your hands up.
- Where's Janine McCowan?
- I haven't seen her.
- Where's your boss?
- I don't know.
- When's the last time
you saw her?
- I don't know, half hour ago?
- Did she say anything?
- No, not a word--
went straight to the back,
worked on her laptop for a bit,
and then took off in a hurry.
[dramatic music]
[FBI agents chattering]
♪ ♪
- Go ahead of thunder.
Upstairs clear.
[keyboard clacking]
- Access denied.
- It's locked.
- Maggie, look at this.
Dated today, "Dear Cody,
I regret you were born
into a world so full of hate."
- This a suicide note?
- "The most hateful of all
are the hypocrite do-gooders
"who destroyed our family.
"They turned Jack
into a monster
"for sport and for politics,
and he's braindead now.
"Those responsible will pay.
I won't ever stop.
"Forgive me for my sins,
but I didn't have a choice.
I love you very much, Mom."
- She's not done killing yet.
- No.
♪ ♪
- Clock's ticking, guys.
Come on, we need
to find Janine McCowan now
before she kills again.
- Ian, got her computer.
She was on it
before she left the bar.
- All right.
- All right, all right.
Let's get it done.
Find a way in.
Everybody else, keep at it.
Let's find that Crown Vic.
We tracking Janine's phone,
pulling PODs,
surveillance cameras?
Let's go.
- Any clue who
her next victim might be?
- Nothing in
her good-bye letter,
but I'm guessing it's connected
to her son's arrest
or prosecution.
- Yeah, we're putting
together a list--
the DA who convicted Jack,
key witnesses.
But what we really need
right now, Ian,
is access to that laptop.
- Two more seconds.
[computer beeps]
Okay, I'm in.
The last website Janine visited
was a social media page
advertising a vigil
for Damian Thomas.
- Where and when?
- City Hall Park.
It starts in 20 minutes.
- Now, guys,
this is a big event.
NYPD's preparing for hundreds
of people to attend.
- Which means hundreds
of potential targets.
- Yeah.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Rest in power, Damian.
- She could be anywhere
in this crowd.
- Peace, Damian Thomas.
- All right,
we should split up.
Let's stay connected
on the comms.
- Hold on.
- No justice, no peace!
- We should get rid
of these jackets and vests.
♪ ♪
- Three people
have already been killed.
- I get it, but these people
think that we're the enemy.
We can get them all riled up
and cause
an unnecessary commotion.
- Makes sense to me.
- Okay,
let's take off the vests.
♪ ♪
Hey, Jubal,
we've landed at the location.
We don't have eyes
on our suspect.
We'll keep you updated.
♪ ♪
- All right, we got boots
on the ground in Brooklyn,
but still no eyes
on Janine McCowan.
- I'm trying
to get street cam footage.
Should have something
for you soon.
- Got a hit on the BOLO.
- Yeah, where is it?
- Cody McCowan's
Crown Vic is parked
on the 100 block
at Church Street.
NYPD says it's empty.
- That's five blocks
from City Hall Park.
- Yeah, what do we got, Ian?
- There are street cameras
on both ends
of that block.
- Great.
♪ ♪
- There by
the courtyard entrance.
- Yeah, scrubbing back
to her leaving the car.
♪ ♪
- When was this?
- 11 minutes ago.
- Guys, she exited the car
11 minutes ago
on Church Street.
We gotta assume she's heading
to City Hall Park
from the west
on Chambers Street.
She's wearing blue jeans,
a dark hoodie
zipped to the neck,
and her gun is
in a brown, leather handbag.
- Jubal, can't find Janine
on any street cams in the area.
- Just got word.
We have a surveillance team
on site
with eyes on the crowd.
- Beautiful.
♪ ♪
- Van at the corner
of Murray and Broadway.
Got it.
So DHS has a team on site
surveilling the vigil.
They might have intel that can
help us find Janine McCowan.
- You already know
how I feel about this.
- And I get that,
but Janine McCowan came here
to kill people, okay?
Innocent people.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
Okay, let's go.
- Black time.
- FBI, open up.
[knocks]
FBI, open up now.
Special Agent Tiffany Wallace,
FBI.
We're looking
for an active shooter.
- This is
an off-the-books operation.
- We know.
We just need you
to link up your feed
to the Joint Operation Command.
- Okay, but I need
to make a few calls first.
- We don't have time
for phone calls.
- Well, we can't share intel.
- You can spy on Black people,
but you can't help
save their lives?
You really want
to stake your career on that?
- Okay, we'll get the feed
to the JOC.
♪ ♪
- We're all synced up
with the DHS feed.
That is live spy cam footage
of the Damian Thomas vigil.
- Janine McCowan
is in here somewhere.
The question is where.
- The abandoned Crown Vic,
is that visible on this screen?
- Right, 100 Church.
Okay, where is it?
There.
Okay, Ian, we need
to roll back this footage
to the exact moment
Janine left her car.
- Okay, there.
Can we track her movements
from there?
- Oh, yeah,
adding a tracer now.
- Good, good, good.
Okay, here we go.
Where's she going?
Where's she going?
Okay, okay.
♪ ♪
She ducked
into that storefront.
What then?
- This is real time.
She's still in there.
- Get me an address!
- Address is 275 Broadway.
It's a hardware store
that closed at 5:00 p.m.
- Okay, I'm pulling up
live street cam view
of that address.
- Yeah, yeah, guys,
she's hiding in the entryway
of 275 Broadway,
west edge of the park.
- We're moving in now.
♪ ♪
Jubal, she's not here.
- Wait, how long
is the delay on this?
- Can't be more than
ten seconds.
- Guys, you just missed her.
She's heading east
toward the park.
♪ ♪
- There she is
in the tan jacket.
- Copy that,
we've got eyes on her.
- All right,
you go around left.
I'll stay with Janine.
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Thank you all
for coming out tonight
to celebrate my father's life.
Damian Thomas was never a man
who sat back
and just accepted
the way things were.
He believed that change
was possible without violence!
From an early age,
my father decided
that as long as he had
a point of view and a voice,
both his point of view
and his voice
were going to be heard.
Tonight, we honor his legacy
by gathering together
peacefully.
The cycle of violence
stops now!
Tonight!
It ends with us!
[cheers and applause]
- FBI, drop your weapon!
- [grunts]
[crowd clamoring]
- It's over, Janine.
You're under arrest for murder.
♪ ♪
- Thank you.
♪ ♪
- We got the shooter,
saved a life maybe two.
- Yeah.
I know.
I'm supposed to feel good.
What DHS was doing was wrong...
in my book at least, and...
I still went over there,
and I used their information.
- We still ran over there
and used the information.
- Yeah.
We didn't have a choice.
But that is such crap...
[soft dramatic music]
'Cause we do...have a choice.
♪ ♪
And today we chose to do
what was convenient.
I guess what I mean is that...
You don't get to pick
and choose
when to have integrity...
when to stand up
for what's right, you know?
♪ ♪
When to be the kind
of Black woman you want to be.
- Look, I get it.
I do.
And the truth is that sometimes
there's a cost to victory...
♪ ♪
But that doesn't mean
that it's not a victory.
- This place
looks incredible, Logan.
- Okay, don't hate me, but...
But I need to reschedule
our trip this weekend.
- I already took off work
on Friday.
- I'm sorry.
I just got invited
to speak at an immigrant rights
rally on Saturday.
- Next weekend,
we have dinner at the Rubins.
We can't cancel that.
- Well, I know we shouldn't,
but what if we did?
Cancelling's all the rage
these days.
- Oh, love in the time
of cancel culture?
- I'm just saying that anything
or anyone can be cancelled.
[glass shatters]
- [gasps]
- Stay there.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
It's a brick.
You okay?
- We can't live like this.
- Call 911.
- Wait, where are you going?
- I'm just gonna talk to them.
♪ ♪
- Logan, don't!
- [grunts]
- [gasps, screams]
[sobbing]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Yeah, tonight's
a little gallery actually.
- Thanks a lot.
- Can I help you, sir?
- Tiff, you want
anything to eat?
Sandwich, chips?
- No, the soda's fine, thanks.
[soft music playing]
♪ ♪
- Tiffany Wallace?
- Jemila.
[chuckles]
It's been a long time.
It's good to see your face.
- I thought you moved away.
- I did, but I'm back.
- You still a cop?
- FBI.
This is actually
my partner Stuart.
- Hey.
- Stuart, this is Jemila.
We grew up together
in Bed-Stuy.
- We used to be friends...
till she put my brother away
for ten years.
- He was dealing
to high school kids.
I was doing my job.
- Hm, that's the problem
right there.
You got the wrong job.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- You good?
- Yeah,
comes with the territory.
[cell phone rings]
- We gotta go.
- 15 minutes ago,
Congressman Logan Reed
was shot and killed
at his home in Scarsdale.
Now, as most of you know,
Logan Reed
was a rising star
in the Democratic Party,
a former prosecutor.
He rose to national prominence
last summer
during all of
the racial unrest.
Love him or hate him,
he was one of the most
talked about politicians
in the country.
- The story just broke online,
so the entire country's
about to start asking if this
was politically motivated.
We need answers and fast.
- Let's get some, people.
Go to work.
Now, Reed's
biggest campaign issues
were racial justice
and police reform.
He had a lot
of impassioned enemies,
which means these days
a nonstop supply
of death threats and hate mail,
so let's scour
through all of it.
Let's flag
everything high risk
and ID any suspects
within a striking distance
of the city, yep?
- Anything from
the crime scene yet?
- Maggie and OA just got there.
Scola and Tiffany
are minutes away.
- All right,
regular updates on all fronts.
This story
is going to move and fast.
We have to stay
one step ahead of it.
- Yes, ma'am.
- [sighs]
- I'll have to arrange you
at about 60 feet.
[police radio chatter]
[person shouting indistinctly]
- What do we know so far?
- Not enough.
All these neighbors,
not one eyewitness.
- And no security cameras
in the suburbs,
so we're flying blind out here.
- In a neighborhood like this,
there's gotta be
doorbell cameras
in every house.
- True,
but the Reeds' is broken,
and there's no hits
on the neighbors' yet.
Scarsdale PD's
still canvassing.
- Reed was having dinner
with his wife
when someone threw
a garden brick
through the side window.
He was shot the second
he opened the front door.
- We're gonna go speak
with his wife now.
- We'll take a look
at the window.
- Meet back here in ten.
♪ ♪
- Yep, close it up.
- Out of camera range,
trees and bushes
providing cover.
- Yeah, the killer was smart.
Could have waited hours
for the perfect moment.
- Yeah, copy that.
- Canvass just turned up
a witness one block over.
Lady getting her mail
saw a stranger
come out of a backyard
wearing a black hoodie.
- Where was that?
- Six houses that way.
- She give a description?
- Just the hoodie.
- Got it, thanks.
So the shooter
disguised his identity
and avoided cameras
by moving
through backyards.
- We got lots
of death threats,
but I never thought
it would actually happen.
It was just background noise.
- Any of those threats
stick out?
Anything seem like
an escalation?
- It's okay.
I know this must be hard.
You can take your time.
- It's not that.
It's just...
One thing does stand out,
but I don't...
I don't want to give
the wrong impression.
- You can't say
the wrong thing here.
- There was a protest
at our house last week
that got loud and scary.
They broke our doorbell camera,
and then someone threw
a brick through the window
just like tonight.
- Did you see
who threw the brick
or get any pictures
of the protestors?
- No, Logan wouldn't
let me outside.
It was just...
A little surprising.
- Surprising how?
- As you know, Logan...
was a champion
for racial equality.
But this crowd
was mostly Black.
I know.
I sound terrible
even saying it.
- Did you call the police?
- I wanted to, but he said
it would only
inflame the situation.
♪ ♪
- All right, folks,
here's the question--
how did a progressive ally
like Logan Reed
end up in the crosshairs
of a minority protest group?
- Well, the protest
at Reed's house
was organized by Damian Thomas,
a community activist
who lives in Reed's district,
but he despises him.
Called him
"the worst kind of racist,
"a white liberal hypocrite
"who co-opted
the Civil Rights Movement
for his personal gain."
- That's pretty harsh.
Next question is
why did Thomas feel this way?
- Well, before he ran
for Congress,
Reed was a prosecutor
known for being tough on crime.
- Right, so Thomas thought
he was a hypocrite.
One minute, he's putting
young Black men in prison,
the next,
he's out on the streets
protesting
with Black activists.
- And he was preaching
all his newfound wokeness
from his big-ass pad
in the suburbs.
- And that.
But would Thomas Reed
really kill over all this?
- According
to Thomas himself, yes.
- Logan Reed is a hypocrite
and a predator
who needs to disappear.
- Hey.
Punch into
his waistband there.
- You can't play
both sides, Reed!
[people chanting]
Reed must go!
Reed must go!
Reed must go!
- Looks like a .38.
- Same caliber
used to kill Reed.
I want to locate this guy now.
- Okay, he's got
an apartment in Bushwick
and a nonprofit office
in Crown Heights.
- Okay, coordinate
with Maggie and OA.
I want a team
in both locations.
- Actually, Jubal...
- Yeah?
- Social media says
Thomas is hosting a rally
this morning
outside City Hall Park.
He should be there for
at least another half an hour.
- Okay, do that.
- Jubal.
Guys, quick thought.
- Homeland Security
have something?
- Unofficially, yes.
We've got Thomas
on a watchlist.
You want his email, text,
and call history,
it's yours
provided your data source
stays off of any reports.
- What did he do to get himself
on an unofficial watchlist?
- He was arrested
three times last summer
during the police reform
demonstrations.
- Violent offenses?
- Curfew violations.
- Curfew violations?
So he stayed out
past his bedtime
and ended up
on a damn watchlist,
is that it?
- Uh, this type of surveillance
is standard procedure.
- Yeah,
that's part of the problem.
- Yeah, look,
if there's any question
about the legality
of the intel,
we'll just build our case
another way.
This investigation's
just too important.
- Yeah, agreed,
let's not take any chances.
Let's bring him in, yeah?
♪ ♪
- You know...
It's one thing to wonder
if the government
is spying on minority groups
they think are threatening.
It's another thing
to know that they do.
And then to work
with the people that do it,
it makes me feel like
a damn hypocrite,
like I'm fighting
the wrong fight.
- Yeah.
Hard to thread the needle
between where you work
and who you really are...
Especially these days.
♪ ♪
- Yeah, that's why
I stopped trying.
[people chanting]
Police reform now!
- That's him.
- All right.
Let's get into place.
We'll grab him when he's done.
- Black men
in this city make up
a quarter of the population
and half of all arrests.
That's not okay!
Not if we're serious
about equality.
That's why we're here today!
That's why we're marching
on Saturday!
[people chanting]
Police reform now!
- I want to thank you all
for coming out.
I'll see you on Saturday--
Bryant Park at noon!
[cheers and applause]
- Damian Thomas.
- This is a peaceful gathering.
We have every right to be here.
- FBI, we're gonna need you
to come with us.
- Regarding what?
- The murder of Logan Reed.
- That's ridiculous.
- Turn around, put your hands
behind your back.
- Maybe slapping on the cuffs
isn't the play right now.
- Riding behind me,
he's wearing cuffs.
- Let's just get him
to the car.
- No, no,
get your hands off me!
- That's it.
Put your hands
behind your back.
- Laila, bring the camera!
- Dad, what the hell
is going on?
- You need to back up, ma'am.
- Why are you arresting him?
- We're not.
We're just detaining him
for questioning.
- Why are you arresting
my father?
- Stand back now.
- Why are you arresting
my father?
- FBI, back up!
- You kidding me?
You won't even
look me in the eye?
- I'm looking right at you,
and I'm telling you
to back down.
- I hope it feels good, Sister,
selling out your people.
- He didn't do nothing!
- You don't know me.
- Y'all crazy!
- Bullies!
[people shouting indistinctly]
♪ ♪
- You think
I killed Logan Reed?
- You stood outside his house
last week with a gun
yelling that he needed
to disappear,
so yeah.
- I admit I got carried away
with that,
but I didn't mean what I said.
I don't even own a gun.
- All right,
let's try this again.
Maybe this time
don't treat us like idiots.
- [chuckles]
Come on, man.
I took that gun
off a kid at the rally.
He was a hothead.
I don't stand for violence.
- Except for when
you're making death threats.
- Or someone throws a brick
through the congressman's
window.
- The hothead did that.
It's a good thing
I took away his gun.
- You give it back to him?
- I got rid of it
at a gun buyback.
I got the receipt, if it helps.
- Where were you at 7:00 p.m.
last night?
- I know y'all got a job to do,
but this story gets old.
Rich white guy gets shot.
Cops go nuts, start rounding up
innocent Black men.
The FBI gets involved.
- Okay.
A United States congressman
was murdered.
This country
is at a tipping point.
- And yet five miles away
in his own district,
the murders of young, Black men
barely register,
so forgive me if
I'm not shedding any tears
for this two-faced politician.
♪ ♪
- Where were you at 7:00 p.m.?
- Making sure my people are
fairly treated by the police.
I was speaking
at a community action dinner.
That's what I do.
In fact, when you arrested me,
I was on my way
to visit the mother
of a young, Black man
who had been murdered
for no damned reason.
This kid's
minding his own business.
A brick gets thrown
through his window.
He rushes outside,
gets shot twice.
- When was that exactly?
- Last night.
- Do you know
the victim's name?
- Of course I do--
Marcus Ervin.
- Thomas' alibi checks out.
Security footage
from the restaurant
confirms that he was having
dinner when Reed was shot.
- NYPD says Marcus Ervin
was shot last night
in Brooklyn around 10:00 p.m.
while he was standing
in the doorway
of his ground floor apartment
after a rock came crashing
through his window.
- Same MO as Reed.
- They run the ballistics yet?
- It's the same gun.
- All right, that's two murders
within three hours.
- That we know of.
We could be looking
at a killing spree.
All right, go to Brooklyn now.
[dramatic music]
- [sighs]
- Game faces, people!
We now have two victims
of the same gunman
who might not be done
shooting yet.
Three hours after killing
Congressman Reed
in the suburbs,
our shooter resurfaced
in Brooklyn
and killed this man,
Marcus Ervin.
He's 20 years old.
He's a retail clerk.
Lived with his mother,
was taking IT classes at night.
The question is why--
either there's a connection
between these two murders,
or we have a madman
on the loose
throwing rocks
through random windows
and shooting whoever walks out.
- If these two men
were targeted,
they were not killed
for their differences.
They were killed
for their similarities.
What do these two men
have in common?
- There's no luck
on the political front.
I just talked
to Reed's chief of staff.
She doesn't know Marcus,
but she put his name
in the volunteer database,
and there's no record
that he ever worked there.
- Same goes for Reed's wife.
I mean, as far as she knows,
Reed never spent
any time
in that part of Bushwick.
- Okay, thanks, guys.
Hey, Kelly, have your team
start scrubbing
through videos from the area
surrounding both crime scenes
and flag anything
that appears in both.
- On it.
- Ian, you guys run financials
on both victims.
Look for any common patterns--
expenses, accounts.
Let's get creative, folks!
Our shooter might have plans
to strike again.
Travel history,
online hangouts,
common acquaintances.
I don't know.
Surprise me.
- You got anything
from Tiffany and Scola yet?
- They're talking
to Marcus' mother as we speak.
Maybe she knows something
we haven't seen from here.
[soft dramatic music]
- You're telling me
the same guy
who killed a congressman
killed my son?
- That's our working theory
at the moment.
- So that's why y'all suddenly
give a damn--
'cause a white congressman
is involved.
- Ma'am, we're just trying
to find the man
who shot your son.
Can you think of anything
that might connect Marcus
to Logan Reed?
- No.
Marcus wasn't involved
in politics.
- Have there been
recent threats,
or did he have any enemies?
- Yeah.
You're not gonna like it.
He was a good kid.
Kept his head down.
Did his work,
and I can tell you right now
he wanted nothing
to do with the gangs.
Only people who hated my son
were the local cops.
- Excuse me?
- Marcus didn't like
the way the police
treated people around here,
so if they crossed the line,
he'd let 'em hear it,
and they crossed
plenty of lines.
My opinion?
Cops killed my son.
- And do you have any evidence
to back that up?
♪ ♪
- Two days ago,
some off-duty cop
jumped out
of an unmarked cop car
and beat him senseless.
♪ ♪
- And did Marcus
go to the hospital?
- He was too afraid.
Cops said to keep
his mouth shut.
- Did you take photos
of the injuries?
♪ ♪
If you can tell us
where the attack took place,
we'll talk to the NYPD
and get you some answers.
- [scoffs]
I won't hold my breath.
♪ ♪
- We're gonna find the person
responsible for Marcus' death,
so please,
can you tell us exactly
where Marcus was attacked?
♪ ♪
- The intersection of Irving
and Dekalb in Bushwick.
We have video of the attack.
- Oh, great.
- Happened
at 4:17 p.m. Tuesday.
- All right, eyes up, people!
Let's check it out.
- That is Marcus Ervin
stepping off the curb,
and I presume that is the cop
his mother was talking about.
- He could have killed him
right here.
Why wait a few days?
- Mm.
Are we gonna be able
to identify the attacker?
- No, it's too grainy
for an ID,
but we can read
the license plate.
- Yep, got it.
Car is owned by a Cody McCowan.
He lives in Flatbush.
- He with the NYPD?
- No, definitely not.
- But Marcus' mom
said a cop beat him up.
- Well, his mother was wrong.
McCowan has got three priors,
all for assault,
no convictions.
He's got an outstanding warrant
for aggravated battery.
- Hate Crimes has
a pretty big file on this guy.
He used to own
a sporting goods shop.
Went out of business,
channeled his anger
into politics,
started a local group
called the Brooklyn Blockade--
BKB--
fighting neighborhood change
with intimidation and violence.
- Neighborhood change,
meaning he wants
to keep his neighborhood white.
But why attack Marcus?
Why'd he hate him so much?
- I'm not sure yet.
- There's gotta be a reason.
Let's find it.
- Hey.
I just found a connection.
Looks like Cody hated
Congressman Reed too.
- What?
What are you talking about?
- He made a bunch of
online threats against him
over the past few months.
He blamed politicians like Reed
for ruining his community.
- Hey, McCowan's got six guns
registered to his name.
- One of 'em a .38?
- Smith & Wesson 640.
- All right, folks, we got
a new leader in the clubhouse!
Cody McCowan,
he assaulted Marcus Ervin,
he threatened Congressman Reed,
and he has a gun
that matches the murder weapon.
Let's get an address
and bring him in.
♪ ♪
- Cody McCowan on any
of your unofficial watchlists?
- No.
- Come on.
What's a white boy gotta do
to get some love from the DHS?
- [sighs]
Look, I don't make the lists.
- That is a weak excuse.
- Just telling you
the way it is.
- Yeah, well,
the way it is sucks.
- You got a problem
with the rules,
take it up
the chain of command.
- Y'all have been hiding
behind that line for 100 years.
- I don't appreciate
your attitude.
- My attitude?
What does that mean?
- What the hell
are you trying--
- Okay, enough, enough.
We got work to do.
♪ ♪
- I got an address.
- Yeah?
- Hate Crimes says
McCowan and the BKB
hang out at a place
called Irish Haven in Brooklyn.
Bar's owned
by Cody's mother Janine.
- Okay, great,
call Maggie and OA.
Get 'em over there now.
♪ ♪
Tiffany.
So I get it.
You disagree
with what DHS is doing,
but you were
out of line back there.
- Excuse me?
- Look, this place, the JOC,
it only works if we're a team,
you know?
If we play together in harmony.
End of the day,
we got a job to do.
It's simple as that.
Thanks.
- Can I get another one,
please?
And this time, try to make sure
this one's not so bubbly.
- Can I help you?
- Cody McCowan, you know him?
- Sorry, man.
Cool vest, though.
Those thing come with a helmet?
- [chuckles]
- I'ma need you
to think really hard
before you
open your mouth again.
Cody McCowan,
where can I find him?
- Keep in mind, you lie to us,
you're gonna go to prison.
- What do you want
with Cody McCowan?
- Who are you?
- Janine McCowan.
Cody's my son.
What'd he do,
run his mouth again?
- Yes, he did, and we'd love
to talk to him about it.
- Only reason he talks that way
is 'cause the cops
are afraid to do
their damn job around here.
Somebody's gotta step up.
- The FBI is stepping up,
which is why we need to speak
with him right now.
[door opens]
- Dude, get out of here.
- Cody McCowan!
[dramatic music]
- FBI, stop!
- Hey, it's a peaceful protest.
- Get out of my way.
- [grunts]
- Don't leave this bar, okay?
♪ ♪
- He's gone.
- Cody McCowan's
still at large.
Last seen fleeing
the Irish Haven.
- Street cam
is drawing a blank.
He might've ducked
into a store front
and out into a back alley.
- Yeah, I'm scrubbing footage
from area security cameras.
So far, nothing.
- Did we get anything
from the BKB?
- No, the guys we arrested
lawyered up right away.
- And no one else
from the bar is talking.
- I found something.
The reason Cody McCowan
might have killed Marcus Ervin
and Congressman Reed.
This photo was taken
at a protest march last summer.
The guy with the bat
is Cody McCowan's
half brother Jack Powell.
The guy he's assaulting,
that's Marcus Ervin.
Marcus Ervin
testified against Powell
who was convicted of ag assault
with a hate crime kicker.
Got sentenced
to five years in prison.
- Right, so Cody
was looking for payback.
That makes sense,
but what does this photo
have to do
with Congressman Reed?
- Reed used it
in his campaign video.
He kept showing it,
saying it was the sort
of racism and violence
that he wanted to abolish.
- Huh.
- Pulling it up now.
- So Marcus Ervin's testimony
put Jack Powell,
Cody's half brother,
behind bars,
and Congressman Reed's campaign
made him the face
of angry, white racism.
That sounds like motive to me.
- Is Jack Powell
still in prison?
- Yes, at Rikers, but he's
currently in the hospital wing.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- When did this happen?
- Tuesday in the yard.
He was known
for being a racist.
He got beat down
by a Black gang.
The guards stopped it
in under a minute,
but the damage is already done.
- How bad is it?
- Bad.
Severe TBI,
might not ever wake up,
and even if he does,
he's not gonna recover.
[scoffs]
- Jack's got an older brother,
Cody McCowan.
- Yeah, guy's a piece of work.
He's called me a dozen times
since the attack,
threatening to sue.
- Do you have his phone number?
- In our records.
Why?
- Cody's a suspect
in two recent homicides.
- Both happened last night.
There's a good chance
Jack's beat down
was the catalyst.
[monitor beeping]
- Based on the Rikers
telephone record,
Cody McCowan learned
of Jack's prison yard beating
10:04 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
Then six hours later, in what
seems like a direct response,
beats Marcus in the street.
Then, last night, both Marcus
and Congressman Reed
are shot and killed.
- Any luck tracking
Cody's phone?
- Yeah, I just got up
on the new number.
No location data,
but for the past two hours,
it's been pinging off
the same three towers
in Brooklyn putting him
somewhere within
these ten square blocks.
- Okay, okay.
We are looking
for an address in Flatbush.
Does Cody have
any relatives there?
Any friends from the BKB?
Any references
on social media posts?
Let's go.
I want to be kicking in a door
in 20 minutes,
and I need someone in here
to tell me exactly which one.
- There's nothing useful
on his social media pages.
It's all trolling
and hate speech.
- Yeah, the BKB guys
we have addresses for
all live closer to the bar.
- Got something, Jubal.
- An address in Flatbush,
I hope.
- McCowan's ex-wife
lists her permanent home
in New Jersey
but still owns an apartment
at 1565 Lynwood Place,
Flatbush.
♪ ♪
- That is right in the middle
of the three cell towers.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Billy Joel,
you'll be home later.
- Cody McCowan, FBI!
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- [grunts]
- He's at 21st and Newkirk.
He's on the roof heading south.
♪ ♪
[tires screech]
- FBI, stop!
Put your hands up.
Higher!
Turn away from me.
♪ ♪
- All these criminals
running in the streets,
and what do you do?
You arrest an innocent man.
- If you're so innocent,
then why'd you run?
- I got outstanding warrants,
and I didn't feel like
surrendering just yet--
more work to do,
since the cops don't have the
guts to do their jobs anymore.
- This your idea
of police work?
- That's called payback.
- For what?
- Race riots last summer.
- Oh, you're referring
to the protests.
- Looked more like riots to me.
This punk Marcus
threw a brick
through the window
of my mom's bar.
Looters stormed inside,
started destroying the place
like animals.
Cops didn't do a damn thing
to stop it.
- So that gives
your brother Jack
the right to take
a bat to his head?
- To save our mom's bar!
It's called self-defense.
And the internet runs with it.
All of a sudden,
we're evil racists.
They started it, not us.
We were minding
our own business,
and then they started
protesting and looting.
But my brother's the one
who got sent to prison,
and now he's hooked up
to a feeding tube,
so hell yeah,
I kicked that kid's ass.
- Yean, but that wasn't enough.
That's why you went
after Marcus again, right?
But this time, you killed him.
- Right after you killed
Congressman Reed?
- What the hell
are you talking about?
- Come on, Cody,
you said it yourself.
Your brother got screwed.
You wanted revenge.
- Yeah,
but I didn't kill anybody.
[door buzzes, opens]
- Hey, we need to talk.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- So Tiffany and Scola
just called.
Damian Thomas,
the community activist
who told us about
Marcus' murder,
he was just killed
30 minutes ago.
He was shot in the chest
after somebody
threw a brick
through his office window.
- Are we sure this is related?
- ERT pulled a second slug
from the wall.
Preliminary ballistics
are a match
to the other two murders,
which means--
- Cody McCowan isn't our killer
because he was here
in our custody
when Thomas was shot.
- Right.
And our spree shooter
is still out there
and still killing people.
[dramatic music]
- I was at my desk when
I heard the glass shatter.
I jumped up right away,
but he got shot twice
before I even knew
what happened.
- So you didn't see anything?
- I just looked down
and held him.
Everything happened so fast.
- Do you have any idea
who might be responsible?
Any enemies or recent threats
on your father's life?
- Not besides being detained
by you people.
I mean, he had his detractors,
but not like this.
All he ever wanted to do
was help people.
- That mean anything to you?
- That was from a protest march
last summer.
That guy, Jack Powell,
he cracked
Marcus Ervin's skull,
knocked him out for two hours.
Marcus was shot to death
last night.
You think this is related?
- Did your father
have anything to do
with this Powell kid?
- Yeah.
Marcus was poor.
No one was speaking up for him,
so my dad and I,
we lead the campaign
to make sure the DA
prosecuted him
for a hate crime,
but Powell is in prison,
so what are you trying--
- It's possible that one of his
accomplices is doing this,
getting payback
for what happened.
- Are you familiar with a group
called the Brooklyn Blockade?
- No.
- Listen, Laila.
If you and your dad both pushed
for this hate crime charge,
there is a chance
you could be targeted too,
so you really should lay low
until we have this
under control.
- So now
the sell-out's concerned
about me and my family?
[soft dramatic music]
Ain't that sweet.
- I'm sorry.
That's just out of line.
We were there this morning
for a good reason.
Your father threatened
Congressman Reed
while carrying a gun.
- Scola, don't.
- No, this is important.
All we did was
follow the evidence.
You don't have to like it,
but that doesn't make
anyone here a sell-out.
- Stuart.
♪ ♪
Please give us a call
if you think of anything
that might be helpful.
♪ ♪
Listen, I know you're trying
to have my back,
but don't speak for me again.
I don't walk in your shoes.
You don't walk in mine.
- Yeah, I'm sorry.
I didn't realize.
- I know you didn't.
But now you do.
♪ ♪
- Just talked to a witness.
Saw an unmarked Crown Vic
flee the scene--
New York plate.
- Crown Vic.
It's the same car
Cody McCowan drives.
[door buzzes]
- Looks like one of your
friends just borrowed your car.
- And he used it
to kill Damian Thomas.
- We're activists, not killers.
- Right.
- Yeah,
that's right, activists.
You know, white folks
can call theirselves that too.
- Okay, well, your car
was spotted at the crime scene.
We pulled this
from a security camera
one block away.
That's your car, Cody.
So why don't you tell us
who's driving it?
- I don't know.
I can't see his face.
Anybody could have taken
the damn thing.
I keep the keys at the bar.
For all I know,
someone stole it.
- What about your .38?
The murder weapon was a .38.
Who else has access
to your gun?
- Nobody, my guns are locked up
in a safe in my apartment.
♪ ♪
What?
- ERT searched McCowan's safe
after he was arrested.
.38 wasn't in it.
- But McCowan didn't know that.
- Which means someone took it
without his knowledge.
- Hey, the only other prints
on Cody's gun safe
just came back
to Janine McCowan.
- Jack and Cody's mother.
We talked to her at the bar.
- What do we know
about Janine?
- 55 years old.
Sole proprietor of Irish Haven
since 2006.
Pays her taxes, pays her rent.
- She got a criminal history?
- Nothing in the system.
Only reason
she was fingerprinted
was to get her liquor license.
Seems like a regular,
law-abiding citizen.
- Oh, yeah, until her baby boy
goes to prison
and gets his head kicked in.
- Bring her in now.
♪ ♪
- FBI, nobody move!
Show me your hands.
- Federal agents.
Don't move!
- Keep your hands up.
- Where's Janine McCowan?
- I haven't seen her.
- Where's your boss?
- I don't know.
- When's the last time
you saw her?
- I don't know, half hour ago?
- Did she say anything?
- No, not a word--
went straight to the back,
worked on her laptop for a bit,
and then took off in a hurry.
[dramatic music]
[FBI agents chattering]
♪ ♪
- Go ahead of thunder.
Upstairs clear.
[keyboard clacking]
- Access denied.
- It's locked.
- Maggie, look at this.
Dated today, "Dear Cody,
I regret you were born
into a world so full of hate."
- This a suicide note?
- "The most hateful of all
are the hypocrite do-gooders
"who destroyed our family.
"They turned Jack
into a monster
"for sport and for politics,
and he's braindead now.
"Those responsible will pay.
I won't ever stop.
"Forgive me for my sins,
but I didn't have a choice.
I love you very much, Mom."
- She's not done killing yet.
- No.
♪ ♪
- Clock's ticking, guys.
Come on, we need
to find Janine McCowan now
before she kills again.
- Ian, got her computer.
She was on it
before she left the bar.
- All right.
- All right, all right.
Let's get it done.
Find a way in.
Everybody else, keep at it.
Let's find that Crown Vic.
We tracking Janine's phone,
pulling PODs,
surveillance cameras?
Let's go.
- Any clue who
her next victim might be?
- Nothing in
her good-bye letter,
but I'm guessing it's connected
to her son's arrest
or prosecution.
- Yeah, we're putting
together a list--
the DA who convicted Jack,
key witnesses.
But what we really need
right now, Ian,
is access to that laptop.
- Two more seconds.
[computer beeps]
Okay, I'm in.
The last website Janine visited
was a social media page
advertising a vigil
for Damian Thomas.
- Where and when?
- City Hall Park.
It starts in 20 minutes.
- Now, guys,
this is a big event.
NYPD's preparing for hundreds
of people to attend.
- Which means hundreds
of potential targets.
- Yeah.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Rest in power, Damian.
- She could be anywhere
in this crowd.
- Peace, Damian Thomas.
- All right,
we should split up.
Let's stay connected
on the comms.
- Hold on.
- No justice, no peace!
- We should get rid
of these jackets and vests.
♪ ♪
- Three people
have already been killed.
- I get it, but these people
think that we're the enemy.
We can get them all riled up
and cause
an unnecessary commotion.
- Makes sense to me.
- Okay,
let's take off the vests.
♪ ♪
Hey, Jubal,
we've landed at the location.
We don't have eyes
on our suspect.
We'll keep you updated.
♪ ♪
- All right, we got boots
on the ground in Brooklyn,
but still no eyes
on Janine McCowan.
- I'm trying
to get street cam footage.
Should have something
for you soon.
- Got a hit on the BOLO.
- Yeah, where is it?
- Cody McCowan's
Crown Vic is parked
on the 100 block
at Church Street.
NYPD says it's empty.
- That's five blocks
from City Hall Park.
- Yeah, what do we got, Ian?
- There are street cameras
on both ends
of that block.
- Great.
♪ ♪
- There by
the courtyard entrance.
- Yeah, scrubbing back
to her leaving the car.
♪ ♪
- When was this?
- 11 minutes ago.
- Guys, she exited the car
11 minutes ago
on Church Street.
We gotta assume she's heading
to City Hall Park
from the west
on Chambers Street.
She's wearing blue jeans,
a dark hoodie
zipped to the neck,
and her gun is
in a brown, leather handbag.
- Jubal, can't find Janine
on any street cams in the area.
- Just got word.
We have a surveillance team
on site
with eyes on the crowd.
- Beautiful.
♪ ♪
- Van at the corner
of Murray and Broadway.
Got it.
So DHS has a team on site
surveilling the vigil.
They might have intel that can
help us find Janine McCowan.
- You already know
how I feel about this.
- And I get that,
but Janine McCowan came here
to kill people, okay?
Innocent people.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
Okay, let's go.
- Black time.
- FBI, open up.
[knocks]
FBI, open up now.
Special Agent Tiffany Wallace,
FBI.
We're looking
for an active shooter.
- This is
an off-the-books operation.
- We know.
We just need you
to link up your feed
to the Joint Operation Command.
- Okay, but I need
to make a few calls first.
- We don't have time
for phone calls.
- Well, we can't share intel.
- You can spy on Black people,
but you can't help
save their lives?
You really want
to stake your career on that?
- Okay, we'll get the feed
to the JOC.
♪ ♪
- We're all synced up
with the DHS feed.
That is live spy cam footage
of the Damian Thomas vigil.
- Janine McCowan
is in here somewhere.
The question is where.
- The abandoned Crown Vic,
is that visible on this screen?
- Right, 100 Church.
Okay, where is it?
There.
Okay, Ian, we need
to roll back this footage
to the exact moment
Janine left her car.
- Okay, there.
Can we track her movements
from there?
- Oh, yeah,
adding a tracer now.
- Good, good, good.
Okay, here we go.
Where's she going?
Where's she going?
Okay, okay.
♪ ♪
She ducked
into that storefront.
What then?
- This is real time.
She's still in there.
- Get me an address!
- Address is 275 Broadway.
It's a hardware store
that closed at 5:00 p.m.
- Okay, I'm pulling up
live street cam view
of that address.
- Yeah, yeah, guys,
she's hiding in the entryway
of 275 Broadway,
west edge of the park.
- We're moving in now.
♪ ♪
Jubal, she's not here.
- Wait, how long
is the delay on this?
- Can't be more than
ten seconds.
- Guys, you just missed her.
She's heading east
toward the park.
♪ ♪
- There she is
in the tan jacket.
- Copy that,
we've got eyes on her.
- All right,
you go around left.
I'll stay with Janine.
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Thank you all
for coming out tonight
to celebrate my father's life.
Damian Thomas was never a man
who sat back
and just accepted
the way things were.
He believed that change
was possible without violence!
From an early age,
my father decided
that as long as he had
a point of view and a voice,
both his point of view
and his voice
were going to be heard.
Tonight, we honor his legacy
by gathering together
peacefully.
The cycle of violence
stops now!
Tonight!
It ends with us!
[cheers and applause]
- FBI, drop your weapon!
- [grunts]
[crowd clamoring]
- It's over, Janine.
You're under arrest for murder.
♪ ♪
- Thank you.
♪ ♪
- We got the shooter,
saved a life maybe two.
- Yeah.
I know.
I'm supposed to feel good.
What DHS was doing was wrong...
in my book at least, and...
I still went over there,
and I used their information.
- We still ran over there
and used the information.
- Yeah.
We didn't have a choice.
But that is such crap...
[soft dramatic music]
'Cause we do...have a choice.
♪ ♪
And today we chose to do
what was convenient.
I guess what I mean is that...
You don't get to pick
and choose
when to have integrity...
when to stand up
for what's right, you know?
♪ ♪
When to be the kind
of Black woman you want to be.
- Look, I get it.
I do.
And the truth is that sometimes
there's a cost to victory...
♪ ♪
But that doesn't mean
that it's not a victory.