Frequency (2016–2017): Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot - full transcript
Detective Raimy Sullivan makes contact with her deceased father via a ham radio.
- Some things I've
never told you.
About my father.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
he left us when I
was six years old.
[muffled gunshots]
♪ ♪
he was a bad man.
♪ ♪
he was deep undercover
for the nypd.
♪ ♪
he got in too deep.
Forgot which side he
was fighting for.
Then one night, in 1996,
he didn't check in.
♪ ♪
they found his body
in the east river
two days after my
eighth birthday.
Some said his death
was a tragedy.
Others said he got exactly
what he deserved.
♪ ♪
and all my life, I
hated him for it.
For leaving us, for
going bad, and...
All my life, I was trying
to cover up this stain.
♪ ♪
now I don't know what to think.
♪ ♪
- what happened?
- I spoke to him.
♪ ♪
- your father?
[thunder rumbles]
when?
- Last night.
♪ ♪
- in a dream?
- It wasn't a dream.
♪ ♪
- then what was it?
♪ ♪
[radio static]
♪ ♪
[bahamas' "lost in
the light" playing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I'm lost in the light ♪
- happy birthday.
[chuckles]
- ♪ Take me, to take me ♪
[cell phone ringing]
- I'm seriously thinking
about calling myself
"the kissing bandit."
thoughts? - Sure.
- Detective sullivan.
Yeah.
Okay.
What... what's the location?
Uh, yeah, how many deceased?
♪ ♪
holy crap.
Yeah... no, sorry.
Um, yeah, I'll be
there in 30 minutes.
- ♪ Let me hold your hand
till I had my thrill ♪
- so?
- What?
- "the kissing bandit."
- ♪ even countin' sheep ♪
- I love it.
- Mm-hmm. Yeah?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- what're you
thinking, detective?
Natural causes?
- Yeah, 'cause everybody dies
naturally dumped in a swamp.
Push out the canvass
another mile...
Dog-walkers, bird-watchers.
There's got to be someone old
as these bones still around.
- You got it, detective.
- All right, go see
sullivan and johnson.
- Everything all
right, lieutenant?
- Oh, yeah.
Knee-deep in the marsh,
what's not to love?
[chuckles]
Happy birthday, kid.
- Thanks, satch.
- So how's pretty boy?
- Daniel? He's fine.
- Mm.
- I'm meeting his
parents in a few days.
- First meeting with
the parents, huh?
That is big, right?
You might not want
to hear this, but...
I think your pops would really
actually like this guy.
- You're right, I don't
want to hear it.
- It's been 20 years, raim.
- No, that how long it's been?
- At some point, you're gonna
have to catch the man a break.
Make peace.
- I'll do that.
[dramatic music]
- re-anticipate this
massive electrical storm,
which we've been reporting
about over the past few days.
- Mom, you don't
live here anymore.
You don't need to cook.
And you're working graveyard?
- Oh, stop.
Come here, birthday girl.
Happy birthday.
- Look at you,
nurse of the year.
Where's daniel? - No clue.
I sent him and gordo
out to the garage
for beer an hour ago.
Hey, hey, hey.
You want to finally
tell me why you were
blowing up my phone all day?
- You can't freak.
- You're pregnant.
- What'd I just say?
- All right, you don't want
to tell me, don't tell me.
- I found a ring.
In his dopp kit.
- [laughs]
Holy crap.
- That's what I said.
- Yeah. Come here.
- Who left the watt cables?
- You realize that thing hasn't
worked in 20 years, right?
- Don't give up on me, gordo.
- What're you doing?
- Yep, she's pissed. Hey, raim.
Hey, you know what
I was thinkin'?
Labor day, 1999, eddie
o'neal asked if you were
a boy or a girl.
You kicked his ass. - Seriously?
You're playing that card?
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you really think
I'd be okay with this?
- Do you really think
this was my idea?
I tried to tell him.
- Hey.
Did you know that there was
a ham radio in the garage?
- I did.
- Oh, I used to
love these things
when I was a kid, you know?
Before the internet
or cell phones.
I mean, you could talk
to anyone in the world
with one of these things.
I'm gonna get this
thing working,
and then you and gordo...
- daniel stop.
The ham's in the garage because
I want it in the garage.
It was my father's.
- Gordo, you understand?
- I understand there's
cake and I like cake
and I really would like
to like that cake...
- Gordo.
- Yeah.
Gonna go.
- Okay, no ham radio.
Guess we've got cake.
[all] ♪ happy birthday to you ♪
♪ happy birthday dear raimy ♪
- There we go with...
[all] ♪ happy birthday ♪
♪ To you ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- my dad loved that ham.
We used to spend
hours in the garage
trying to bounce
signals off the moon.
Find the space
shuttle "discovery."
he used to say if
you did it right,
you could talk to astronauts
on the space shuttle.
♪ ♪
he was my hero.
♪ ♪
my friend.
[young raimy giggling]
And then he went undercover
to save the world.
He and my mom broke up, and...
Please, daddy, don't go.
And then he died.
♪ ♪
and I realized he was
something else entirely.
[thunder rumbling]
- That's the most you've ever
told me about your father.
- That's not true.
- Yeah it is.
[thunder crashing]
[wind howling, thunder crashing]
[electricity crackling]
♪ ♪
[radio static]
♪ ♪
[thunder rumbling]
♪ ♪
- cq?
Cq... calling cq, this is wq2yv.
Is this frequency clear?
This is wq, cq.
♪ ♪
calling cq, this is wq2yv.
Is this, uh, is this
frequency clear?
[radio static]
This is wq2yv.
Uh, whiskey, quebec... - hello?
[radio static]
- Hello? Hey!
Hey, what's, uh,
what's your call?
- I'm sorry, I didn't even
know this thing was working.
- Ah, it's no problem.
Where you from?
- Queens, new york.
- Get out! Bayside,
born and bred.
Right here. [chuckles]
you a mets fan?
- Was.
I don't follow
baseball much anymore.
- Yeah, but still, you
got to love watching
the yanks get slapped
around, right?
- The yankees? Who doesn't?
- Yeah, I mean, maddux was...
Was incredible tonight.
[radio static]
- Okay?
Greg maddux?
As in, atlanta
braves, greg maddux?
- Uh, as in game two.
Come on, queens, you're
breaking my heart here.
- Naw, naw, I get it.
Yanks/braves, world series.
In 1996.
- There you go.
- As in game three,
bernie williams jacks a
two-run shot in the
bottom of the eighth.
Yanks take the series in six.
- [laughs]
But you don't follow baseball.
Okay, yeah, no. Let's do it.
I'm good for 20 on that.
- It's not a prediction.
- Queens, you seem nice, you do,
but my eight-year-old daughter
has a better chance of talking
to shuttle astronauts
than the yanks do at
taking the series.
- Your daughter...
What was that part
about your daughter?
[radio static]
- Oh, she, um...
She turned eight today.
So I guess she's on
my mind, you know?
- What's your name?
[thunder rumbles]
- Frank.
- Frank from queens.
- Yup, finally we agree
on something, huh?
- Who the hell is this?
- Sorry, what?
[radio static crackling]
- Hello?
[radio crackling]
Hello!
- Hello?
Queens, you out there?
Eh.
Or not.
[radio static]
[oasis' "wonderwall" playing]
- to introduce to you, the
leader of the free world,
the president of the
united states of america,
mr. William jefferson clinton!
♪ ♪
- ♪ today is gonna be the day ♪
♪ that they're gonna
throw it back to you ♪
♪ and by now you
should've somehow ♪
♪ realized what you got to do ♪
♪ I don't believe that anybody ♪
- the yankees are down two
games to none with game three
of the world series moving
to atlanta this evening.
In other news, a recent
rash of homicides
targeting new york
city area nurses
has been tagged "the
nightingale murders."
more on all of this la...
- morning, mrs. Sullivan.
- Morning, gordo.
Raimy, come on, gordo's here!
Move it. - Be right down!
- ♪ I don't believe
that anybody ♪
♪ feels the way I do ♪
♪ about you now ♪
♪ ♪
♪ and all the roads ♪
♪ we have to walk are winding ♪
♪ and all the lights ♪
♪ that lead us there
are blinding ♪
- peanut, it's time for school!
Get a move on!
- ♪ there are many
things that I ♪
♪ would like to say to you ♪
♪ but I don't know how ♪
♪ ♪
♪ 'cause maybe ♪
- hey, gordo!
- Hey, raims.
- Hey, where's your bag?
- My pony.
- Oh.
- ♪ The one that saves me ♪
♪ and after all ♪
- okay, no bodega,
no candy, all right?
Gordo, her life
is in your hands.
- ♪ Wonderwall ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I said maybe ♪
- so what do you think about
these nightingale murders?
- It's a... it's a
bitch, I know that.
Brass starting to freak out.
Press calling it the
next son of sam.
- He's the one targeting nurses?
- Yeah, for now.
But jules is gonna be just fine.
She's smart.
- How was the party?
- Aw, come on, you know
how jules does it.
Raimy was smiling
from ear to ear.
It was a nice party, you know.
Look, man.
Word is, you've been
swinging by the house.
I don't know the details,
but jules asked me
to ask you to stop.
- Yeah, no, I get it. I get it.
- I think raimy's
starting to ask questions
that she just can't answer.
You've been under for
two years, frank.
Two years.
I wouldn't be the only one happy
to see you back in the world.
- I'm working on it.
- You coming out?
When?
You can't tell me when.
I get it, but that's good, man.
Real good.
You stay safe, man.
All right.
- Jeter on with an infield hit.
- You got him, man!
- And bernie williams gets a
hold of one in the right field!
Bernie williams
gets a two run shot
in the bottom of the eighth!
- This is wq2yv calling
an unidentified operator
out of queens, new york.
- Hey, it's me.
- Queens, hey.
How the hell did you
call that homer?
- It happened 20
years ago in 1996.
- Earth to queens, it is 1996.
- Game four, yanks
come back from 6-0,
wade boggs pinch walks
the winning run
in the top of the tenth.
They run the table from there.
Are you screwing with me?
- Me? [chuckles]
- Frank from queens.
Daughter who tries to
talk to astronauts,
and you're not trolling me?
- I'm so... I'm
not what-ing you?
- Frank what... What
is your last name?
- Sullivan.
Not that it's any
of your business.
Okay, you know what, queens?
You're weirding
me out right now.
- Wait, wait, what...
What's your call sign?
- I told you my call
sign, it's wq2yv.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- what's your daughter's name?
- I... [laughs].
You know what? I'm out.
♪ ♪
- my name is raimy
elizabeth sullivan.
My father's name was
francis Joseph sullivan.
I live at 810 browning
in bayside, queens,
where I have lived
my whole life,
which is the same house
where my father, frank,
after he left my
mother, julie...
- come on, who the hell is this?
Right now.
- Used to leave me
birthday presents...
In a coffee can.
♪ ♪
you burnt the box.
- What?
- You burnt the box!
Tell me you did not
just burn the box.
♪ ♪
frank!
Frank!
- I want you to listen
to me right now.
If you come on this
frequency again,
if you contact me again,
and so help me god,
if you go near my family,
I will hunt you down
and I will kill you!
Do you copy that? - Frank!
♪ ♪
dad?
[banners' "start
a riot" playing]
- my name is raimy sullivan.
And I'm looking...
To talk to space
shuttle "discovery."
[both chuckling]
- Hey!
- Hi!
- What is this?
- ♪ I will March down
an empty street ♪
- I want you to stick this
flag where only I can see it.
It's gonna be our
little super-secret
communication system, okay?
- When are you coming back?
Please don't go! Daddy!
Daddy, daddy!
- Come on, come on.
- Okay, your body.
It's a female.
Most likely late 20s, early 30s.
Probably dumped in the marsh
about 20, 25 years ago.
But that's not what sent
the tingle up my leg.
- You still get tingles
up your leg, marco?
- I do, yes.
But only if it's an
attractive set of remains.
Got two sets of rosaries here.
One bound around the wrist,
the other bound
around the ankles.
- A ritual killing?
- I worked a serial murderer who
was active for a hot minute
back in the '90s
called him the
"nightingale killer."
- sure. Targeted nurses.
He used rosaries?
- Well, it wasn't made
public, but, yes.
All three victims the same.
- Maybe there were four.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- hey, ricky.
- So?
Don't hold out on me, bro.
Is the deal going down or not?
- We're on, man.
- Love it, man.
Come on.
What's up, jay?
This is the guy.
This hookup's good to go.
- Holy crap, you
got to little jay?
Did he take the bait?
- He wants a case.
Tomorrow night.
- 12 keys?
We can do that.
Yeah, okay.
We can do that. [exhales]
I got you!
[sighs] I got to
make some calls.
- Hey, stan.
You, um...
You believe in that
"twilight zone" stuff?
- I don't know what
that means, frank.
- Eh, you know, like, uh...
Time travel, communicating
with the future.
You think that stuff's possible?
- Bro, you take down little jay,
that's the head of the snake.
We get to go home and I
really want to go home,
so please tell me
you're squared away.
- No, I'm good, man. I'm good.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- raimy!
♪ ♪
raimy.
♪ ♪
- [grunting]
- What're you doing?
- It's him, daniel!
♪ ♪
- raimy, what're
you talking about?
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- what happened?
- The ham radio.
The other night...
A voice came on.
- But the ham radio
doesn't work...
- it works. It works for me.
I... I don't have
answers, I really don't.
But we talked a couple of times.
He said his name was frank.
- He said his name was frank?
- No, there were other things, I...
trust me,
neither one of us believed
it at first, either.
He's smart.
He's leaving clues
only I would know.
♪ ♪
- this is your father?
- Look at the date
on the newspaper.
It's October 22.
- This says 1996.
- Yes!
♪ ♪
20 years ago today.
Because time is moving parallel.
It's the same day,
but he's in '96,
and I'm now... it proves
he's the one on the ham.
Daniel this is what I do...
- I know.
I know, which is why...
♪ ♪
it just sounds a little...
- crazy?
Thank you, yes. I'm
aware of that.
- Raimy, raimy, you're
not crazy, okay?
And, look, there definitely...
I mean, sure, yeah, there
are theories, okay?
- What theories?
- I don't know.
I'm not a scientist, I'm
an architect, I can't...
- I'm a cop bear-hugging a
coffee can, you're good.
- Okay, uh... okay.
Well, you're talking about
communicating across time.
I mean, there's elements of
quantum mechanics that...
That explain this...
A string theory.
There's einstein... "spooky
action at a distance."
they just proved
that to be right.
Look, the point is...
Raim.
You're not the first
person to believe this.
- [sobs]
♪ ♪
[radio crackling]
- Cq?
Cq?
[radio static]
Cq, this is wq2yv.
[radio static]
- Yeah, um, uh...
I'm here.
- Don't take this the
wrong way or anything,
but this might be the worst
picture you've ever taken.
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- dad?
- Yeah, I'm... I'm here.
It's me.
- I don't know where
to start with this.
♪ ♪
- when are you?
- 2016.
- Whoa.
- I know.
♪ ♪
- so you're 28.
Your birthday was yesterday.
- I am.
- You're older than me.
- I am.
And I'm a cop. - No way!
You're a cop? Get out of here.
So you're telling me
that in 20 years,
I'm gonna be on the
job with my daughter?
♪ ♪
hello?
- No.
- No, what?
I'm retired?
♪ ♪
- you're dead.
♪ ♪
you die tomorrow.
♪ ♪
[engine revving]
[tires squealing]
- October 23, 1996, game
four of the series.
You were killed at 9:12 p.M.
- Tomorrow night...
Tomorrow night where?
- United shipyard.
- In queens?
- There was a chase. [gunshots]
You were shot first
outside of berth 34.
The kill shot at 9:12
was on the access road.
- This doesn't make
any sense, I mean,
how can you possible
even know...
- forensics, frank.
There was a crime scene,
shell casings, a body.
They pulled you out
of the east river,
you and another guy.
♪ ♪
- who?
- Ricky corrado.
♪ ♪
- who does it?
- You tell me.
- Like I'm the one
in the future?
What the hell does
that even mean?
- I'm not eight
years old, frank.
You don't have to pretend.
You crossed the line,
it got you killed.
- But I... what... whoa!
Hold on a second.
Tell me how you
really feel here.
I...
I'm dirty and now I'm dead?
- You know what?
Good luck tomorrow.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Hold on, who the hell do you
think you are right now?
- You're seriously asking that?
Maybe if you hadn't
abandoned us, you'd know.
♪ ♪
- I'm not dirty.
And wherever you heard
that, that's a lie, okay?
- Then what're you
doing tomorrow night?
- The job.
The job... and every cop
in the sting can vouch...
- I read the file,
no one ever said
there was a sting that night.
- Oh, yeah, I wonder why, huh?
Because we're undercover.
Because it's a secret.
♪ ♪
raimy...
I know what kind of
father I've been, okay?
♪ ♪
and I know what I've lost.
I lost your mother...
And I lost you.
I know what I've lost, okay?
I do, I...
And I know what I got
to do to get it back.
♪ ♪
- dad, please don't go.
♪ ♪
- raimy, I know you mean well.
I do.
But you, I mean...
This... this version
of you, you're...
You're a long ways
from here, kiddo.
I can't go walking
up to my front door
and knocking on it
with nothing to show
but a bunch of pain
that I've caused.
I can't walk away from this.
I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
- me's got a match
on those remains.
It's a nurse who went
missing back in '96.
Susie cairone.
- Cairone?
- What?
- My mom worked with her;
I remember when
she went missing.
We calling this a
nightingale kill?
- Not that there's anything
we can do about it.
- Can I ask you a question?
- Shoot.
- You remember any
talk back in the day
about my dad arranging a sting
the night he got killed?
- Naw, that's news to me.
- I was thinking about running
down some of the guys
from his old operation. - Why?
- This was your idea.
Just looking for a little
closure of my own.
- And you want from me...
You want names.
- First thing's first.
Frank, this is chester,
he's your hookup.
This is rainman, he'll have
eyes on you in the apartment.
Chester's gonna be holding
the product here.
It's your basic auto car garage
bushwack... one
entrance, one exit.
Frank brings little
jay and pals,
makes sure little jay trades the
cash for chester's fine product,
and then you duck, 'cause we're
coming in hot and nasty.
Questions so far?
- I'm set.
- No.
- Frank?
- I'm good.
♪ ♪
- runners will go
with a 3-2 pitch.
♪ ♪
jones scores, and it's
6 to nothing, atlanta.
♪ ♪
- chester lee?
Raimy sullivan, detective, 21st.
- You're a ways from
the nest, aren't you?
- Oh, I'm not here officially.
My father was frank sullivan.
I was hoping you could help me
better understand what happened
the night he was killed.
- You want drama? You
have the bases loaded...
- [shushing]
- 2 outs. Top of
the tenth inning,
and a 3-2 count on boggs.
- What's it say in the write-up?
- Write-up doesn't say anything.
- 'Cause everything
I had to say...
It's in the write-up.
- He walked 'em! He walked 'em!
- That's what I'm
talkin' about, right?
- The yankees lead 7-6.
- You left the force in 2002.
- Yes, I did.
- You'd racked up
enough misconducts
to be let go for cause, but
they let you leave quiet.
Keep your pension.
Someone gave you the easy way
out, and I'm just curious why.
- Maybe it's 'cause I'm blessed.
- I agree.
Attempted rape,
perversion of a minor,
all just swept away.
Tell me, how do your kids feel
about daddy's time on the job?
- Don't do this, detective.
- Because I had to read in
every paper in new york
what a bad guy my father was.
Starting the day
after he was shot.
♪ ♪
- yo, we picking up
little jay here?
- Yup.
- Look, I am just trying
to find out the truth.
Was my father dirty?
- Not a clue.
- Was there a sting arranged
the night he was killed? - No.
- Well, why did somebody
tell me there was a sting
that night if there wasn't?
- I'm just not going there.
- Who are you protecting?
Stan moraino? Deputy
chief moraino.
I mean, he's the one who
ran the operation, right?
He's the one who protected you.
He provided you with
this cush job for what?
For your silence?
- Man, you do not want to be
messing with these people.
- Why would someone assume
there was a sting
if there wasn't?
- Maybe because that's
what someone was told.
- Told?
♪ ♪
you mean led to believe.
♪ ♪
my father was told
there was a sting.
- I never said anything
about your father.
- There wasn't a sting.
Was there?
- Sullivan... hey, hey, hey.
Ah! Come on, man!
- It was a setup.
- Take it easy, all right?
Somebody want to tell me
what's going on here?
- I'll tell you what's up.
You're a cop.
♪ ♪
- raimy, we're meeting
my parents in an hour.
- Go to the radio, tell
my dad it's a setup.
[phone ringing]
- "Don't trust chester lee, don't
trust stan moraino," okay?
[phone ringing]
Can you do that? Can you
tell him that, daniel?
Daniel?
[phone ringing] daniel!
♪ ♪
- rainman, talk to me.
- He's at the shipyard.
- All right. Get
your ass over here.
♪ ♪
- this is messed up, bro.
♪ ♪
[tires screeching]
- Hey, raim.
Raim?
♪ ♪
- wq2yv.
Wq2yv, come in!
Dad, are you there?
- I'm a cop?
If I'm a cop, what does
that make you, huh?
Are you really that dumb?
- Shut up!
- Okay, okay, look,
if I was a cop,
if I was, you think it's
gonna end like this
with you just shooting
me right here?
You don't think that little
jay's gonna come at you?
Huh? You don't think other cops
are gonna come at you, ricky?
- Other cops?
Like the ones working
for little jay?
Or the ones that sold you out?
- Dad, come in!
Dad, are you there?
- I let you into my house, man!
My daughter's christening. Ugh!
♪ ♪
trust me, man.
This... this is good for you.
- You were shot first
outside berth 34.
- This is the easy way out.
♪ ♪
- run with me.
Come on, ricky, it doesn't
need to end like this.
♪ ♪
- what?
- Run with me.
[gunshot, screaming]
[gunshots]
♪ ♪
[muffled gunshot]
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
[engine revving]
♪ ♪
[tires screeching]
♪ ♪
[gunshots]
[tires squealing]
♪ ♪
[gasps]
[radio static]
♪ ♪
[panting]
♪ ♪
[applause]
There she is!
There she is.
[clapping]
♪ ♪
can you believe my
little girl's a cop?
Huh?
♪ ♪
- hey, are you okay?
Hey, whoa, whoa.
Raim, slow down.
- Can you feel it?
Everything's different.
My father wasn't murdered.
- Okay, uh...
Wait, what?
- You don't remember?
- I remember the accident.
Uh...
Your dad died in a car
accident five years ago.
Just after his 43rd birthday.
♪ ♪
tell me you remember
that, kiddo.
- I... I remember.
♪ ♪
I remember it both ways.
Life when he was
murdered, and life...
Life when he wasn't.
♪ ♪
everything's changed, gordo.
♪ ♪
[train clacking]
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- you're one lucky guy, frank.
Needless to say,
you're blown, pal.
And they're rolling up
the whole operation.
What happened out there?
- It's hard to say.
♪ ♪
- hey.
- Hey.
♪ ♪
come here.
♪ ♪
give your dad a hug.
I love you.
♪ ♪
you did good, kiddo.
♪ ♪
[elevator dings]
- Can you hold the
elevator, please?
- Oh, cairone, where's the fire?
- Oh, I'm slammed.
I'm just orienting a new
rn with her head up her...
Whatever. [chuckles]
And I heard about frank.
- Yeah. He... he's good.
You know, a little out
of it, but, you know?
He'll live, right? Yeah.
Here, let me take those.
- Oh, no, no.
- Yes, stop, we're going
to three anyway, come on.
[shimmering tone]
[tense music]
- totally owe you codeine.
I'm joking.
[mouthing] not joking.
♪ ♪
- daddy was happy to see you.
- Mm-hmm.
[shimmering tone]
♪ ♪
[shimmering tone]
♪ ♪
- nurse's station.
♪ ♪
- it's great, you know,
we've got a good place.
And, um...
- I am so, so sorry
I'm late.
Hi, I'm raimy.
I'm truly so excited to
be meeting both of you.
[easy listening music]
- um, can we talk this way?
♪ ♪
- yeah.
- Yeah.
- Are you angry with me?
Because, you know, all
that other stuff...
There's an explanation, it's...
I'm sorry if I scared you...
- um, miss, miss.
Um, I think there's been
a misunderstanding.
- Miss?
- Yeah, look, I think
you may be mistaken.
Or confused. You and I
don't know each other.
- Okay?
♪ ♪
stop! Daniel.
Your name is daniel
lawrence, we live together
in bayside, queens.
Say you know who I am.
- How do you know my name?
- I'm your girlfriend!
♪ ♪
my mother is julie sullivan.
She was your nurse when you
got into a car accident
two years ago...
She introduce us.
Your arm went
through the window.
Tell me your arm went
through the window
in a car crash a
couple years ago!
- I don't know
your mother, okay?
I've never been to queens
and I don't know you.
I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
- daniel.
♪ ♪
- the person you've
dialed is unavailable.
Please leave your
message after the tone.
[beeps] - mom?
Why is your voice-mail
all messed up?
You have to call me right now.
I'm coming over.
[cell phone ringing]
Detective sullivan.
Did he say what it's about?
No, fine, I...
Just give me 20 minutes.
- ♪ Under water ♪
- go over this, okay? I'll...
♪ ♪
all right, I'll
talk to you later.
♪ ♪
[sighs]
Okay, look, uh...
There's no easy way to say this.
We've id'd the remains
from the marsh.
- Susie cairone.
The nurse missing from
'96, we talked about this.
- No, I needed to talk to
you in person about this.
- We spoke this afternoon.
- Forensics came
back an hour ago.
I'm sorry, raimy, it's your mom.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- what?
- Look, I know it's cold
comfort after 20 years.
But at least we found her.
♪ ♪
go home.
Okay?
- How?
- Go home.
You understand me?
That's an order.
Nightingale can
wait till tomorrow.
- The nightingale hasn't
killed in 20 years.
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
I'm gonna get you some water.
♪ ♪
- well, have you looked there?
No, I... no, I know you're
doing everything you can.
I just... if you get any
leads, if you hear anything,
satch, just call me, okay?
That's all I'm asking you.
- Daddy!
- Hey, I got to call you back.
Come here.
Come here, baby. Hey...
Don't cry.
Don't cry, come here.
Come here, let me see you.
Hey, hey.
♪ ♪
don't... don't cry.
Okay? We're gonna find her.
- Just eleven weeks after
undercover nypd detective
frank sullivan survived
an assassination attempt,
authorities are reporting
that his ex-wife and nurse,
julie sullivan, has disappeared.
Unofficially,
sources in the nypd
are telling me that
all signs point to
the nightingale killer,
though no final determination
has been made.
Obviously, kyle, as more
details come to light,
we will keep you and
our viewers posted
on all the latest.
♪ ♪
- Wq2yv, come in.
Frank!
Frank, I need you
to get on the ham.
I need you to get on
the ham right now.
- Wq2yv.
I'm trying to reach the
space shuttle "columbia."
- this is wq2yv.
This is the same.
♪ ♪
who is this?
- My name is raimy sullivan.
♪ ♪
are you an astronaut?
Hello?
- I'm... I'm here.
No, I'm...
I'm a friend of your dad's.
I'm a friend of frank's.
- He's in the hospital.
- I know.
Hey...
I need you to do
something for me.
I need you to tell your dad
that his friend on the
radio needs him now.
- ♪ I've gone on too long ♪
- can you tell him that?
♪ ♪
- ♪ who will save my soul ♪
♪ ♪
♪ after all the things that ♪
♪ I've done wrong ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I don't belong ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I don't belong ♪
♪ ♪
♪ save my soul ♪
♪ ♪
♪ who will save my soul? ♪
never told you.
About my father.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
he left us when I
was six years old.
[muffled gunshots]
♪ ♪
he was a bad man.
♪ ♪
he was deep undercover
for the nypd.
♪ ♪
he got in too deep.
Forgot which side he
was fighting for.
Then one night, in 1996,
he didn't check in.
♪ ♪
they found his body
in the east river
two days after my
eighth birthday.
Some said his death
was a tragedy.
Others said he got exactly
what he deserved.
♪ ♪
and all my life, I
hated him for it.
For leaving us, for
going bad, and...
All my life, I was trying
to cover up this stain.
♪ ♪
now I don't know what to think.
♪ ♪
- what happened?
- I spoke to him.
♪ ♪
- your father?
[thunder rumbles]
when?
- Last night.
♪ ♪
- in a dream?
- It wasn't a dream.
♪ ♪
- then what was it?
♪ ♪
[radio static]
♪ ♪
[bahamas' "lost in
the light" playing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I'm lost in the light ♪
- happy birthday.
[chuckles]
- ♪ Take me, to take me ♪
[cell phone ringing]
- I'm seriously thinking
about calling myself
"the kissing bandit."
thoughts? - Sure.
- Detective sullivan.
Yeah.
Okay.
What... what's the location?
Uh, yeah, how many deceased?
♪ ♪
holy crap.
Yeah... no, sorry.
Um, yeah, I'll be
there in 30 minutes.
- ♪ Let me hold your hand
till I had my thrill ♪
- so?
- What?
- "the kissing bandit."
- ♪ even countin' sheep ♪
- I love it.
- Mm-hmm. Yeah?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- what're you
thinking, detective?
Natural causes?
- Yeah, 'cause everybody dies
naturally dumped in a swamp.
Push out the canvass
another mile...
Dog-walkers, bird-watchers.
There's got to be someone old
as these bones still around.
- You got it, detective.
- All right, go see
sullivan and johnson.
- Everything all
right, lieutenant?
- Oh, yeah.
Knee-deep in the marsh,
what's not to love?
[chuckles]
Happy birthday, kid.
- Thanks, satch.
- So how's pretty boy?
- Daniel? He's fine.
- Mm.
- I'm meeting his
parents in a few days.
- First meeting with
the parents, huh?
That is big, right?
You might not want
to hear this, but...
I think your pops would really
actually like this guy.
- You're right, I don't
want to hear it.
- It's been 20 years, raim.
- No, that how long it's been?
- At some point, you're gonna
have to catch the man a break.
Make peace.
- I'll do that.
[dramatic music]
- re-anticipate this
massive electrical storm,
which we've been reporting
about over the past few days.
- Mom, you don't
live here anymore.
You don't need to cook.
And you're working graveyard?
- Oh, stop.
Come here, birthday girl.
Happy birthday.
- Look at you,
nurse of the year.
Where's daniel? - No clue.
I sent him and gordo
out to the garage
for beer an hour ago.
Hey, hey, hey.
You want to finally
tell me why you were
blowing up my phone all day?
- You can't freak.
- You're pregnant.
- What'd I just say?
- All right, you don't want
to tell me, don't tell me.
- I found a ring.
In his dopp kit.
- [laughs]
Holy crap.
- That's what I said.
- Yeah. Come here.
- Who left the watt cables?
- You realize that thing hasn't
worked in 20 years, right?
- Don't give up on me, gordo.
- What're you doing?
- Yep, she's pissed. Hey, raim.
Hey, you know what
I was thinkin'?
Labor day, 1999, eddie
o'neal asked if you were
a boy or a girl.
You kicked his ass. - Seriously?
You're playing that card?
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you really think
I'd be okay with this?
- Do you really think
this was my idea?
I tried to tell him.
- Hey.
Did you know that there was
a ham radio in the garage?
- I did.
- Oh, I used to
love these things
when I was a kid, you know?
Before the internet
or cell phones.
I mean, you could talk
to anyone in the world
with one of these things.
I'm gonna get this
thing working,
and then you and gordo...
- daniel stop.
The ham's in the garage because
I want it in the garage.
It was my father's.
- Gordo, you understand?
- I understand there's
cake and I like cake
and I really would like
to like that cake...
- Gordo.
- Yeah.
Gonna go.
- Okay, no ham radio.
Guess we've got cake.
[all] ♪ happy birthday to you ♪
♪ happy birthday dear raimy ♪
- There we go with...
[all] ♪ happy birthday ♪
♪ To you ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- my dad loved that ham.
We used to spend
hours in the garage
trying to bounce
signals off the moon.
Find the space
shuttle "discovery."
he used to say if
you did it right,
you could talk to astronauts
on the space shuttle.
♪ ♪
he was my hero.
♪ ♪
my friend.
[young raimy giggling]
And then he went undercover
to save the world.
He and my mom broke up, and...
Please, daddy, don't go.
And then he died.
♪ ♪
and I realized he was
something else entirely.
[thunder rumbling]
- That's the most you've ever
told me about your father.
- That's not true.
- Yeah it is.
[thunder crashing]
[wind howling, thunder crashing]
[electricity crackling]
♪ ♪
[radio static]
♪ ♪
[thunder rumbling]
♪ ♪
- cq?
Cq... calling cq, this is wq2yv.
Is this frequency clear?
This is wq, cq.
♪ ♪
calling cq, this is wq2yv.
Is this, uh, is this
frequency clear?
[radio static]
This is wq2yv.
Uh, whiskey, quebec... - hello?
[radio static]
- Hello? Hey!
Hey, what's, uh,
what's your call?
- I'm sorry, I didn't even
know this thing was working.
- Ah, it's no problem.
Where you from?
- Queens, new york.
- Get out! Bayside,
born and bred.
Right here. [chuckles]
you a mets fan?
- Was.
I don't follow
baseball much anymore.
- Yeah, but still, you
got to love watching
the yanks get slapped
around, right?
- The yankees? Who doesn't?
- Yeah, I mean, maddux was...
Was incredible tonight.
[radio static]
- Okay?
Greg maddux?
As in, atlanta
braves, greg maddux?
- Uh, as in game two.
Come on, queens, you're
breaking my heart here.
- Naw, naw, I get it.
Yanks/braves, world series.
In 1996.
- There you go.
- As in game three,
bernie williams jacks a
two-run shot in the
bottom of the eighth.
Yanks take the series in six.
- [laughs]
But you don't follow baseball.
Okay, yeah, no. Let's do it.
I'm good for 20 on that.
- It's not a prediction.
- Queens, you seem nice, you do,
but my eight-year-old daughter
has a better chance of talking
to shuttle astronauts
than the yanks do at
taking the series.
- Your daughter...
What was that part
about your daughter?
[radio static]
- Oh, she, um...
She turned eight today.
So I guess she's on
my mind, you know?
- What's your name?
[thunder rumbles]
- Frank.
- Frank from queens.
- Yup, finally we agree
on something, huh?
- Who the hell is this?
- Sorry, what?
[radio static crackling]
- Hello?
[radio crackling]
Hello!
- Hello?
Queens, you out there?
Eh.
Or not.
[radio static]
[oasis' "wonderwall" playing]
- to introduce to you, the
leader of the free world,
the president of the
united states of america,
mr. William jefferson clinton!
♪ ♪
- ♪ today is gonna be the day ♪
♪ that they're gonna
throw it back to you ♪
♪ and by now you
should've somehow ♪
♪ realized what you got to do ♪
♪ I don't believe that anybody ♪
- the yankees are down two
games to none with game three
of the world series moving
to atlanta this evening.
In other news, a recent
rash of homicides
targeting new york
city area nurses
has been tagged "the
nightingale murders."
more on all of this la...
- morning, mrs. Sullivan.
- Morning, gordo.
Raimy, come on, gordo's here!
Move it. - Be right down!
- ♪ I don't believe
that anybody ♪
♪ feels the way I do ♪
♪ about you now ♪
♪ ♪
♪ and all the roads ♪
♪ we have to walk are winding ♪
♪ and all the lights ♪
♪ that lead us there
are blinding ♪
- peanut, it's time for school!
Get a move on!
- ♪ there are many
things that I ♪
♪ would like to say to you ♪
♪ but I don't know how ♪
♪ ♪
♪ 'cause maybe ♪
- hey, gordo!
- Hey, raims.
- Hey, where's your bag?
- My pony.
- Oh.
- ♪ The one that saves me ♪
♪ and after all ♪
- okay, no bodega,
no candy, all right?
Gordo, her life
is in your hands.
- ♪ Wonderwall ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I said maybe ♪
- so what do you think about
these nightingale murders?
- It's a... it's a
bitch, I know that.
Brass starting to freak out.
Press calling it the
next son of sam.
- He's the one targeting nurses?
- Yeah, for now.
But jules is gonna be just fine.
She's smart.
- How was the party?
- Aw, come on, you know
how jules does it.
Raimy was smiling
from ear to ear.
It was a nice party, you know.
Look, man.
Word is, you've been
swinging by the house.
I don't know the details,
but jules asked me
to ask you to stop.
- Yeah, no, I get it. I get it.
- I think raimy's
starting to ask questions
that she just can't answer.
You've been under for
two years, frank.
Two years.
I wouldn't be the only one happy
to see you back in the world.
- I'm working on it.
- You coming out?
When?
You can't tell me when.
I get it, but that's good, man.
Real good.
You stay safe, man.
All right.
- Jeter on with an infield hit.
- You got him, man!
- And bernie williams gets a
hold of one in the right field!
Bernie williams
gets a two run shot
in the bottom of the eighth!
- This is wq2yv calling
an unidentified operator
out of queens, new york.
- Hey, it's me.
- Queens, hey.
How the hell did you
call that homer?
- It happened 20
years ago in 1996.
- Earth to queens, it is 1996.
- Game four, yanks
come back from 6-0,
wade boggs pinch walks
the winning run
in the top of the tenth.
They run the table from there.
Are you screwing with me?
- Me? [chuckles]
- Frank from queens.
Daughter who tries to
talk to astronauts,
and you're not trolling me?
- I'm so... I'm
not what-ing you?
- Frank what... What
is your last name?
- Sullivan.
Not that it's any
of your business.
Okay, you know what, queens?
You're weirding
me out right now.
- Wait, wait, what...
What's your call sign?
- I told you my call
sign, it's wq2yv.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- what's your daughter's name?
- I... [laughs].
You know what? I'm out.
♪ ♪
- my name is raimy
elizabeth sullivan.
My father's name was
francis Joseph sullivan.
I live at 810 browning
in bayside, queens,
where I have lived
my whole life,
which is the same house
where my father, frank,
after he left my
mother, julie...
- come on, who the hell is this?
Right now.
- Used to leave me
birthday presents...
In a coffee can.
♪ ♪
you burnt the box.
- What?
- You burnt the box!
Tell me you did not
just burn the box.
♪ ♪
frank!
Frank!
- I want you to listen
to me right now.
If you come on this
frequency again,
if you contact me again,
and so help me god,
if you go near my family,
I will hunt you down
and I will kill you!
Do you copy that? - Frank!
♪ ♪
dad?
[banners' "start
a riot" playing]
- my name is raimy sullivan.
And I'm looking...
To talk to space
shuttle "discovery."
[both chuckling]
- Hey!
- Hi!
- What is this?
- ♪ I will March down
an empty street ♪
- I want you to stick this
flag where only I can see it.
It's gonna be our
little super-secret
communication system, okay?
- When are you coming back?
Please don't go! Daddy!
Daddy, daddy!
- Come on, come on.
- Okay, your body.
It's a female.
Most likely late 20s, early 30s.
Probably dumped in the marsh
about 20, 25 years ago.
But that's not what sent
the tingle up my leg.
- You still get tingles
up your leg, marco?
- I do, yes.
But only if it's an
attractive set of remains.
Got two sets of rosaries here.
One bound around the wrist,
the other bound
around the ankles.
- A ritual killing?
- I worked a serial murderer who
was active for a hot minute
back in the '90s
called him the
"nightingale killer."
- sure. Targeted nurses.
He used rosaries?
- Well, it wasn't made
public, but, yes.
All three victims the same.
- Maybe there were four.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- hey, ricky.
- So?
Don't hold out on me, bro.
Is the deal going down or not?
- We're on, man.
- Love it, man.
Come on.
What's up, jay?
This is the guy.
This hookup's good to go.
- Holy crap, you
got to little jay?
Did he take the bait?
- He wants a case.
Tomorrow night.
- 12 keys?
We can do that.
Yeah, okay.
We can do that. [exhales]
I got you!
[sighs] I got to
make some calls.
- Hey, stan.
You, um...
You believe in that
"twilight zone" stuff?
- I don't know what
that means, frank.
- Eh, you know, like, uh...
Time travel, communicating
with the future.
You think that stuff's possible?
- Bro, you take down little jay,
that's the head of the snake.
We get to go home and I
really want to go home,
so please tell me
you're squared away.
- No, I'm good, man. I'm good.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- raimy!
♪ ♪
raimy.
♪ ♪
- [grunting]
- What're you doing?
- It's him, daniel!
♪ ♪
- raimy, what're
you talking about?
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- what happened?
- The ham radio.
The other night...
A voice came on.
- But the ham radio
doesn't work...
- it works. It works for me.
I... I don't have
answers, I really don't.
But we talked a couple of times.
He said his name was frank.
- He said his name was frank?
- No, there were other things, I...
trust me,
neither one of us believed
it at first, either.
He's smart.
He's leaving clues
only I would know.
♪ ♪
- this is your father?
- Look at the date
on the newspaper.
It's October 22.
- This says 1996.
- Yes!
♪ ♪
20 years ago today.
Because time is moving parallel.
It's the same day,
but he's in '96,
and I'm now... it proves
he's the one on the ham.
Daniel this is what I do...
- I know.
I know, which is why...
♪ ♪
it just sounds a little...
- crazy?
Thank you, yes. I'm
aware of that.
- Raimy, raimy, you're
not crazy, okay?
And, look, there definitely...
I mean, sure, yeah, there
are theories, okay?
- What theories?
- I don't know.
I'm not a scientist, I'm
an architect, I can't...
- I'm a cop bear-hugging a
coffee can, you're good.
- Okay, uh... okay.
Well, you're talking about
communicating across time.
I mean, there's elements of
quantum mechanics that...
That explain this...
A string theory.
There's einstein... "spooky
action at a distance."
they just proved
that to be right.
Look, the point is...
Raim.
You're not the first
person to believe this.
- [sobs]
♪ ♪
[radio crackling]
- Cq?
Cq?
[radio static]
Cq, this is wq2yv.
[radio static]
- Yeah, um, uh...
I'm here.
- Don't take this the
wrong way or anything,
but this might be the worst
picture you've ever taken.
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- dad?
- Yeah, I'm... I'm here.
It's me.
- I don't know where
to start with this.
♪ ♪
- when are you?
- 2016.
- Whoa.
- I know.
♪ ♪
- so you're 28.
Your birthday was yesterday.
- I am.
- You're older than me.
- I am.
And I'm a cop. - No way!
You're a cop? Get out of here.
So you're telling me
that in 20 years,
I'm gonna be on the
job with my daughter?
♪ ♪
hello?
- No.
- No, what?
I'm retired?
♪ ♪
- you're dead.
♪ ♪
you die tomorrow.
♪ ♪
[engine revving]
[tires squealing]
- October 23, 1996, game
four of the series.
You were killed at 9:12 p.M.
- Tomorrow night...
Tomorrow night where?
- United shipyard.
- In queens?
- There was a chase. [gunshots]
You were shot first
outside of berth 34.
The kill shot at 9:12
was on the access road.
- This doesn't make
any sense, I mean,
how can you possible
even know...
- forensics, frank.
There was a crime scene,
shell casings, a body.
They pulled you out
of the east river,
you and another guy.
♪ ♪
- who?
- Ricky corrado.
♪ ♪
- who does it?
- You tell me.
- Like I'm the one
in the future?
What the hell does
that even mean?
- I'm not eight
years old, frank.
You don't have to pretend.
You crossed the line,
it got you killed.
- But I... what... whoa!
Hold on a second.
Tell me how you
really feel here.
I...
I'm dirty and now I'm dead?
- You know what?
Good luck tomorrow.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Hold on, who the hell do you
think you are right now?
- You're seriously asking that?
Maybe if you hadn't
abandoned us, you'd know.
♪ ♪
- I'm not dirty.
And wherever you heard
that, that's a lie, okay?
- Then what're you
doing tomorrow night?
- The job.
The job... and every cop
in the sting can vouch...
- I read the file,
no one ever said
there was a sting that night.
- Oh, yeah, I wonder why, huh?
Because we're undercover.
Because it's a secret.
♪ ♪
raimy...
I know what kind of
father I've been, okay?
♪ ♪
and I know what I've lost.
I lost your mother...
And I lost you.
I know what I've lost, okay?
I do, I...
And I know what I got
to do to get it back.
♪ ♪
- dad, please don't go.
♪ ♪
- raimy, I know you mean well.
I do.
But you, I mean...
This... this version
of you, you're...
You're a long ways
from here, kiddo.
I can't go walking
up to my front door
and knocking on it
with nothing to show
but a bunch of pain
that I've caused.
I can't walk away from this.
I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
- me's got a match
on those remains.
It's a nurse who went
missing back in '96.
Susie cairone.
- Cairone?
- What?
- My mom worked with her;
I remember when
she went missing.
We calling this a
nightingale kill?
- Not that there's anything
we can do about it.
- Can I ask you a question?
- Shoot.
- You remember any
talk back in the day
about my dad arranging a sting
the night he got killed?
- Naw, that's news to me.
- I was thinking about running
down some of the guys
from his old operation. - Why?
- This was your idea.
Just looking for a little
closure of my own.
- And you want from me...
You want names.
- First thing's first.
Frank, this is chester,
he's your hookup.
This is rainman, he'll have
eyes on you in the apartment.
Chester's gonna be holding
the product here.
It's your basic auto car garage
bushwack... one
entrance, one exit.
Frank brings little
jay and pals,
makes sure little jay trades the
cash for chester's fine product,
and then you duck, 'cause we're
coming in hot and nasty.
Questions so far?
- I'm set.
- No.
- Frank?
- I'm good.
♪ ♪
- runners will go
with a 3-2 pitch.
♪ ♪
jones scores, and it's
6 to nothing, atlanta.
♪ ♪
- chester lee?
Raimy sullivan, detective, 21st.
- You're a ways from
the nest, aren't you?
- Oh, I'm not here officially.
My father was frank sullivan.
I was hoping you could help me
better understand what happened
the night he was killed.
- You want drama? You
have the bases loaded...
- [shushing]
- 2 outs. Top of
the tenth inning,
and a 3-2 count on boggs.
- What's it say in the write-up?
- Write-up doesn't say anything.
- 'Cause everything
I had to say...
It's in the write-up.
- He walked 'em! He walked 'em!
- That's what I'm
talkin' about, right?
- The yankees lead 7-6.
- You left the force in 2002.
- Yes, I did.
- You'd racked up
enough misconducts
to be let go for cause, but
they let you leave quiet.
Keep your pension.
Someone gave you the easy way
out, and I'm just curious why.
- Maybe it's 'cause I'm blessed.
- I agree.
Attempted rape,
perversion of a minor,
all just swept away.
Tell me, how do your kids feel
about daddy's time on the job?
- Don't do this, detective.
- Because I had to read in
every paper in new york
what a bad guy my father was.
Starting the day
after he was shot.
♪ ♪
- yo, we picking up
little jay here?
- Yup.
- Look, I am just trying
to find out the truth.
Was my father dirty?
- Not a clue.
- Was there a sting arranged
the night he was killed? - No.
- Well, why did somebody
tell me there was a sting
that night if there wasn't?
- I'm just not going there.
- Who are you protecting?
Stan moraino? Deputy
chief moraino.
I mean, he's the one who
ran the operation, right?
He's the one who protected you.
He provided you with
this cush job for what?
For your silence?
- Man, you do not want to be
messing with these people.
- Why would someone assume
there was a sting
if there wasn't?
- Maybe because that's
what someone was told.
- Told?
♪ ♪
you mean led to believe.
♪ ♪
my father was told
there was a sting.
- I never said anything
about your father.
- There wasn't a sting.
Was there?
- Sullivan... hey, hey, hey.
Ah! Come on, man!
- It was a setup.
- Take it easy, all right?
Somebody want to tell me
what's going on here?
- I'll tell you what's up.
You're a cop.
♪ ♪
- raimy, we're meeting
my parents in an hour.
- Go to the radio, tell
my dad it's a setup.
[phone ringing]
- "Don't trust chester lee, don't
trust stan moraino," okay?
[phone ringing]
Can you do that? Can you
tell him that, daniel?
Daniel?
[phone ringing] daniel!
♪ ♪
- rainman, talk to me.
- He's at the shipyard.
- All right. Get
your ass over here.
♪ ♪
- this is messed up, bro.
♪ ♪
[tires screeching]
- Hey, raim.
Raim?
♪ ♪
- wq2yv.
Wq2yv, come in!
Dad, are you there?
- I'm a cop?
If I'm a cop, what does
that make you, huh?
Are you really that dumb?
- Shut up!
- Okay, okay, look,
if I was a cop,
if I was, you think it's
gonna end like this
with you just shooting
me right here?
You don't think that little
jay's gonna come at you?
Huh? You don't think other cops
are gonna come at you, ricky?
- Other cops?
Like the ones working
for little jay?
Or the ones that sold you out?
- Dad, come in!
Dad, are you there?
- I let you into my house, man!
My daughter's christening. Ugh!
♪ ♪
trust me, man.
This... this is good for you.
- You were shot first
outside berth 34.
- This is the easy way out.
♪ ♪
- run with me.
Come on, ricky, it doesn't
need to end like this.
♪ ♪
- what?
- Run with me.
[gunshot, screaming]
[gunshots]
♪ ♪
[muffled gunshot]
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
[engine revving]
♪ ♪
[tires screeching]
♪ ♪
[gunshots]
[tires squealing]
♪ ♪
[gasps]
[radio static]
♪ ♪
[panting]
♪ ♪
[applause]
There she is!
There she is.
[clapping]
♪ ♪
can you believe my
little girl's a cop?
Huh?
♪ ♪
- hey, are you okay?
Hey, whoa, whoa.
Raim, slow down.
- Can you feel it?
Everything's different.
My father wasn't murdered.
- Okay, uh...
Wait, what?
- You don't remember?
- I remember the accident.
Uh...
Your dad died in a car
accident five years ago.
Just after his 43rd birthday.
♪ ♪
tell me you remember
that, kiddo.
- I... I remember.
♪ ♪
I remember it both ways.
Life when he was
murdered, and life...
Life when he wasn't.
♪ ♪
everything's changed, gordo.
♪ ♪
[train clacking]
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- you're one lucky guy, frank.
Needless to say,
you're blown, pal.
And they're rolling up
the whole operation.
What happened out there?
- It's hard to say.
♪ ♪
- hey.
- Hey.
♪ ♪
come here.
♪ ♪
give your dad a hug.
I love you.
♪ ♪
you did good, kiddo.
♪ ♪
[elevator dings]
- Can you hold the
elevator, please?
- Oh, cairone, where's the fire?
- Oh, I'm slammed.
I'm just orienting a new
rn with her head up her...
Whatever. [chuckles]
And I heard about frank.
- Yeah. He... he's good.
You know, a little out
of it, but, you know?
He'll live, right? Yeah.
Here, let me take those.
- Oh, no, no.
- Yes, stop, we're going
to three anyway, come on.
[shimmering tone]
[tense music]
- totally owe you codeine.
I'm joking.
[mouthing] not joking.
♪ ♪
- daddy was happy to see you.
- Mm-hmm.
[shimmering tone]
♪ ♪
[shimmering tone]
♪ ♪
- nurse's station.
♪ ♪
- it's great, you know,
we've got a good place.
And, um...
- I am so, so sorry
I'm late.
Hi, I'm raimy.
I'm truly so excited to
be meeting both of you.
[easy listening music]
- um, can we talk this way?
♪ ♪
- yeah.
- Yeah.
- Are you angry with me?
Because, you know, all
that other stuff...
There's an explanation, it's...
I'm sorry if I scared you...
- um, miss, miss.
Um, I think there's been
a misunderstanding.
- Miss?
- Yeah, look, I think
you may be mistaken.
Or confused. You and I
don't know each other.
- Okay?
♪ ♪
stop! Daniel.
Your name is daniel
lawrence, we live together
in bayside, queens.
Say you know who I am.
- How do you know my name?
- I'm your girlfriend!
♪ ♪
my mother is julie sullivan.
She was your nurse when you
got into a car accident
two years ago...
She introduce us.
Your arm went
through the window.
Tell me your arm went
through the window
in a car crash a
couple years ago!
- I don't know
your mother, okay?
I've never been to queens
and I don't know you.
I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
- daniel.
♪ ♪
- the person you've
dialed is unavailable.
Please leave your
message after the tone.
[beeps] - mom?
Why is your voice-mail
all messed up?
You have to call me right now.
I'm coming over.
[cell phone ringing]
Detective sullivan.
Did he say what it's about?
No, fine, I...
Just give me 20 minutes.
- ♪ Under water ♪
- go over this, okay? I'll...
♪ ♪
all right, I'll
talk to you later.
♪ ♪
[sighs]
Okay, look, uh...
There's no easy way to say this.
We've id'd the remains
from the marsh.
- Susie cairone.
The nurse missing from
'96, we talked about this.
- No, I needed to talk to
you in person about this.
- We spoke this afternoon.
- Forensics came
back an hour ago.
I'm sorry, raimy, it's your mom.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- what?
- Look, I know it's cold
comfort after 20 years.
But at least we found her.
♪ ♪
go home.
Okay?
- How?
- Go home.
You understand me?
That's an order.
Nightingale can
wait till tomorrow.
- The nightingale hasn't
killed in 20 years.
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
I'm gonna get you some water.
♪ ♪
- well, have you looked there?
No, I... no, I know you're
doing everything you can.
I just... if you get any
leads, if you hear anything,
satch, just call me, okay?
That's all I'm asking you.
- Daddy!
- Hey, I got to call you back.
Come here.
Come here, baby. Hey...
Don't cry.
Don't cry, come here.
Come here, let me see you.
Hey, hey.
♪ ♪
don't... don't cry.
Okay? We're gonna find her.
- Just eleven weeks after
undercover nypd detective
frank sullivan survived
an assassination attempt,
authorities are reporting
that his ex-wife and nurse,
julie sullivan, has disappeared.
Unofficially,
sources in the nypd
are telling me that
all signs point to
the nightingale killer,
though no final determination
has been made.
Obviously, kyle, as more
details come to light,
we will keep you and
our viewers posted
on all the latest.
♪ ♪
- Wq2yv, come in.
Frank!
Frank, I need you
to get on the ham.
I need you to get on
the ham right now.
- Wq2yv.
I'm trying to reach the
space shuttle "columbia."
- this is wq2yv.
This is the same.
♪ ♪
who is this?
- My name is raimy sullivan.
♪ ♪
are you an astronaut?
Hello?
- I'm... I'm here.
No, I'm...
I'm a friend of your dad's.
I'm a friend of frank's.
- He's in the hospital.
- I know.
Hey...
I need you to do
something for me.
I need you to tell your dad
that his friend on the
radio needs him now.
- ♪ I've gone on too long ♪
- can you tell him that?
♪ ♪
- ♪ who will save my soul ♪
♪ ♪
♪ after all the things that ♪
♪ I've done wrong ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I don't belong ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I don't belong ♪
♪ ♪
♪ save my soul ♪
♪ ♪
♪ who will save my soul? ♪