Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011): Season 9, Episode 10 - Disciple - full transcript

In new york
city's war on crime,

the worst criminal offenders

are pursued by the detectives
of the major case squad.

These are their stories.

- Amen.
[gate buzzes]

- I asked
for double pepperoni.

- Next time.

- Get a paper plate
for the padre here.

- [quietly]
thank you.

- Today, when I say "jump,"

They say "how high?"



For nine years,
it was the other way around.

- Everything's a cycle, elvis.
- Oh, yeah.

Rot and rejuvenation.

[footsteps approach]

- Hey, hey, marcus.

- Aah. Look at you.

And how's your little girl?

- She's no longer so little.

- Yeah, I'm sure she's not.

And the move to new york--
everything's fine?

- Doing pretty well.
- Partner?

You'll never have another one
like me.

- Well, he's good.
Maybe even special.

- [exhales]
I'm glad you came...



For them.

Courtney would've been
about your age.

They feel a connection.
- Serena.

Thank you for coming.

- Hello, may.
It's okay.

- Reverend?
- Right here, elvis.

- Everything's in order?

I've got something to say.

Y'all came here to see me die
for the murder

Of courtney gunderson.

Well, I'm gonna have
to disappoint you.

I've done my share
of life taking

And I've enjoyed it.

And I do not regret it.

But I did not kill courtney.

This so-called act of justice

Is without purpose

Because he's still out there.

And he'll keep doing

What he likes to do.

So...

I just wanted to share that
with you all.

Any time, warden.

- It's not true.
He's evil.

He seized on a last chance
to cause pain.

Evil.

- [exhales]

[monitor beeps rapidly]

[monitor flatlines]

[cell phone rings]

- Hello? Oh, hi, honey.

No, I'm just leaving work
right now.

Uh-huh. Yeah, his ear
should be better by now.

Well, take him
to the emergency room.

I'll meet you there.

Episode: Disciple

Sub by Adriano_CSI

I got here at 6:15 to open
the side office and saw the car.

Knew it wasn't any
of our people.

- The gate was locked?

- Yeah,
but that don't mean much.

- How many people
have the keys?

- Subcontractors coming
and going for over nine months.

People hitting on them
for a copy of the key.

- The key
for a construction site?

What's the appeal?

- People got reasons to park
someplace that's private.

What beats this?

- Single large caliber shot
to his left temple.

- Very large entry.
- Yeah.

Bullet probably deformed
on its way through the glass.

- A hero. No receipt.

But there's a paycheck stub
made out to diego caldez

From the agora diner
in queens.

- He works there,
he eats for free.

- Well, I'm guessing
since he's got zero body temp,

Time of death
is before 2:00 am.

Check out his pants.

- Oh. His pants
and his underwear

Are down around his ankles.

He was in the middle
of a, uh, major distraction.

- I'm guessing she was female.

So it's a cheating housewife
followed by a jealous husband

Or a prostitute teamed
with her pimp to rob him.

- Not robbed.

Mr. Caldez was carrying
over $1,000 in ready cash

Along with, uh, betting slips
from an o.T.B.

- So whoever it was,
where'd she go?

- We better get a dog.

Let's cordon off
this whole area, grant, please.

All the way from there
back to the car. Thank you.

- He's losing the scent
right here.

I don't know, maybe they got
in a car or something.

- Or maybe she didn't
want to get in

And they struggled.

- That was broken off the shoe.
Thank you, joe.

- He was good.
Fast on the grill.

Very fast. It's terrible.

- Yeah. Did you happen
to see him last night, pete?

- Around 10:00, 10:30.

Picked up a sandwich
on the way home.

- He pick up anything
besides the hero?

- What?

[distant chatter, laughter]

- That's the wrong way
to think.

Even though his wife
was in florida,

Diego was very married.

- Well, we happen to know

That he wasn't very married
last night.

Thank you, pete.

- Doesn't even let me
out of the car.

My nails in the air--

[overlapping chatter
and giggling]

- Yeah, that's right, ladies.
We're cops.

But the good news:
Not vice.

That's diego caldez.
He worked here.

No? He bet the horses.
Also liked having a good time.

Which is why, uh,
we're asking.

Thank you. Did, uh, anybody
see him last night?

- Come on.
Don't force us to turn cop.

- Around 11:00,
he stopped me on the street

For a quick and easy,
but I was booked for a stand.

- So he moved on.
You see who he picked?

- Tough times.
Got a lot of choices out there.

- All right.
Well, uh, stay safe.

Thank you.

- You know the first place
I go in cases like this.

- Oh, yeah, I know
where you go.

The home.
- Mm-hmm.

- You think the wife
was sick of the hookers

And the gambling,
but the wife's in florida.

[footsteps approach]

- Prints found on the heel
from the crime scene

Are from two women,
maricela fernandez

And gabriella belteno.

- In the system?
Let me guess: Prostitutes?

- Yeah. Maricela's thumbprint
matches a latent

Found on the door
of the victim's car.

- Hmm. And look,
they share an address

In washington heights.

[baby cries]

- Maricela fernandez?
- Uh, she no here.

- We're detectives
with the major case squad.

- Como?
- Somos detectivos.

- You haven't seen her
since yesterday?

What time?
- We eat and she leave.

When she finish,
she always come home,

Never leave her baby.

- You didn't work with her
on the street?

- When she go,
I stay with the baby.

I go, she stay
with the baby.

- All right. Is there a man
you worked with? A pimp?

- No. Ningun. No men.

Just she and I.

We together. Entiendes?

Que crees?

Crees que esta muerta?

- No se. Lo siento.

We don't know.

- You must've tried
to call her.

- Yes, but she no answer.

- Okay, tower one is here.

It's reading her.

- There's a second tower.
Where's that?

Is that the pelham park area?
- Yeah.

There's a line crossing
from the third tower.

Puts the phone here.
- That's hunter island.

- Yeah. It's the kazimiroff
nature trail.

- Are we close?

- We should be right on top
of the phone.

[phone ringing, dog whining]

Here. Here.

Uh-huh.

Ah. Oh, boy.

[dogs barking]

They found her.

- Jeans are lumpy
at her thighs.

Panties probably down.
- So raped.

But then
he dressed her again.

- Modest. The righteous
are always the worst.

- Body is well
into rigor mortis.

There's discoloration
at her neck.

Probably strangled.

- Strangles the female.
Goes son of sam on the male.

- Well, now there's a--

There's an odd little bit
of synchronicity.

- What?

- "hello, from the gutters
of new york city."

Son of sam.

He's up for parole
next month.

- Come on.
You're not thinking copycat.

- Killer uses a .44.

Comes upon a couple
about to have sex in a car.

Anything's possible.
Right?

Ischemia. blood
flow is restricted.

The brain dies.

These burst capillaries,
tramline bruising.

A device was used
to strangle her.

Maybe a steel rod.
Piece of wood.

- .
- Yeah, possibly.

- That's a hell of an odor.

- Sort of like
the greatest hits

Of every bad smell
there is, huh?

- Thanks for the warning.

- Well, murder weapon
was probably filthy.

We found a dna stew
on the skin of her neck.

Human, animal, plant.

- Well, he chose
a dumping area.

Maybe he picked up something
at random.

- She raped?

- Well, she had sex
before she died

With someone who used
a spermicidal condom.

- Maybe some trick
who picked her up.

- No, I'm pretty sure
it wasn't.

We found microscopic fibers.

She was probably tied
with rawhide.

Also the evidence indicates
that during intercourse,

She had her back
to the killer.

- Wow. Forensic pathology,
it's come a long way.

You're able to determine
sexual position?

- The chemical compound
found on her neck

Was also present on the back
of her exposed thighs.

- Hmm. These scratches...
- She was a junkie.

Opiates make you itch.

Those were self-inflicted.
But this wasn't.

Ecchymoses-type contusion.

A love bite.

- It's just below
her left hip.

I know it.

You were right
that it's a copycat.

But he's not copying
son of sam.

- So elvis howell killed women
in illinois and indiana.

- Seven women
were known victims.

He used a police baton
to strangle prostitutes.

And used a condom.
- Safe sex.

- Yeah. And always a hickey
near the victim's left hip.

Howell once told a reporter
the mark was his salaam

"to the female womb,
where the cycle of life

Starts with a seed."

This is a copycat.

Everything about this case
matches howell's last victim.

Her name
was courtney gunderson.

- This a case you worked on?

- My fjrst homicide conviction.

We wanted to make cases
on the other victims.

But the best evidence
tied him to courtney.

- Yeah. This guy made some kind
of death house statement

Saying that her killer
was still out there.

- Yeah. The last ditch ploy
of a condemned man.

- Right. But, you know,
I think a, uh, check

Of this guy's visitors
is worth the time.

- The jury had a verdict
before their chairs were warm.

Our case held through nine years
of appeals.

I think we can avoid
the grassy knoll, zack.

- I'm just thinking
about what this guy said.

- I know what he said.
I was there.

- Okay. Time out. Time out.
Let's stick to what we know.

Huh? Howell was a twisted
son of a bitch

And maybe somebody's copying
his work.

- Okay. I'm good with that.

- Okay. So I'm going to get
a warrant for courtney

And maricela's autopsy photos.

And we will compare this homage
to the female womb

With what we have.

- We should also see
the autopsy photos

Of the other women
howell is suspected of killing.

- Chop. Chop. Chop. Chop. Chop.
- Hey. You put that down, son.

Before you hurt yourself.

Hey, ernie, you ready
to put in that new mulch pile

Behind the greenhouse?

- Six feet wide,
12 feet long, 24 inches deep.

- Magic numbers.
- Multiples, elvy.

Start with one. Presto.
Zygote becomes two. Doubled.

Six becomes 12 becomes 24.
- Ern. Chicken parts.

Ern.

- Look at me. How can I measure
without that?

Bad. Bad. Bad. Damn.
- Ernie.

- Exact 6 and 12 then 24.
How can I miss it?

It's hanging right there.
- Ernie, it's all right now.

Nothing bad's gonna happen,
okay?

[growls]

[grunts]

- I like ernie.
- Yeah, he's a good man.

- But I want to be like you.

- Yeah?

- Cook county m.E.'s office

Can't find courtney gunderson's
autopsy photos.

- No. They're lost?
- More likely stolen.

Ted bundy's been dead
for two decades.

Half his victims' autopsy photos
are for sale on the internet.

But luckily, courtney gunderson
wasn't cremated.

- So now we get a court order
and, uh, exhume the body?

- Is that necessary?

Any marks on courtney
were made by elvis howell.

- Unless he didn't work alone.

Bruno and bianchi.
Norris and bittiker.

It happens.
- I'll call a judge.

- What's your name?
- Rayanne.

- Rayanne.
It's a pretty name.

- I don't do rough stuff.

And I don't do nothing
without protection.

- That sounds good.

Why don't you
make me right again?

- Swing by jackson and arch,
baby.

I got to score some jivvie.

- Might be able
to save you a trip.

- [clears throat]

- Marcus.
- Hello, serena.

Oh, uh, zack nichols,
this is marcus feingold, my--

- Mentor
from chicago homicide.

Very good to meet you,
mr. Feingold.

- Oh, pleasure
to meet you, sir.

- What are you doing
in new york?

- Hello.
It's marcus, sweetheart.

Remember? Now you want
to tell me what the hell

Is going on?

- We have a prostitute.

Raped. Strangled. Love bite.
The works.

- Oh, okay.

So all this mess is because
that hillbilly snapper

Wasted two minutes
of everybody's time

Announcing that he didn't kill
courtney gunderson.

[scoffs] don't tell me
you believed him.

- No. No. It's just
about being sure that--

- You know, her folks
have spent the last nine years

Learning to walk past
an empty bedroom.

- I know that
as well as you, marcus.

- The cook county coroner's

About to pull
their daughter's body

Out of the ground.

And it's because
you want to be sure?

Don't do this, serena.

- It was my idea to disinter
the body, mr. Feingold.

- The autopsy photos
are missing.

We want to compare courtney--
- that's right.

Because no pervert's
going to find those photos

On the internet.

- I see.

Who'd you grease

To sit on courtney gunderson's
photos, marcus?

- What did you say?
- I think you heard me.

You want to help
the gunderson family,

Spend a buck and light a candle
at st. Patrick's

For those autopsy photos
to miraculously turn up

Or she's coming out
of the ground.

- In...The...Ditch.

Got you.

I'm jonesing hard.

Take me down, little suzie.

Just give me a sec.

Baby, can you just give me
a sec?

Undo your pants.

- Somebody lit that candle
at st. Patrick's.

- Two suction bruises.

One from courtney gunderson.

The other
from maricela fernandez.

- Remarkably similar.

And unless elvis howell
puckered up from the grave,

He did not put that hickey
on maricela fernandez.

- Let's hear dr. Sunday's
expert opinion.

- The so-called hickey
is a suction bruise.

The lips create
an air-tight seal.

Suction creates a cluster
of petechial bruises.

On these--credited with being
howell's earlier victims--

The bruising is less defined.

See, his thinner lips
created less of a seal.

But these two differ
from those.

The bruises made on these women
were made by someone

With full lips.

- And you know that because...?

- It was harder for howell
to form a seal

So he used his teeth.

These impressions match
his dental arch.

You don't have that
on these other victims.

- If it's not howell's mark
on courtney gunderson,

Are we thinking howell
was innocent?

- Even if courtney's mark
wasn't made by howell,

He still could've killed her.

- Or somebody he worked with.

A disciple?

We should find out
who howell knew.

- Case is closed in chicago.

- Yes.
I'm--I'm aware of that.

But he might've had a friend

Or soue name in the visitors'
logs of the prison.

- I'll coordinate
with chicago pd.

Get somebody to check it.

- They already tried to get cute
with the autopsy photos.

Let me go to chicago.
- Keep your head down.

- Hey, would you like me
to, uh, come with you?

I could use
the frequent flyer miles.

- Are you saying
I can't be trusted?

- No, serena.
Certainly not.

But I know that you have a--

You know,
you have a personal investment

In this whole thing.

- And I don't think elvis howell
was innocent.

And we haven't proven
otherwise.

When and if we do,
I'll accept it.

Good enough?
- Sure.

- You didn't need to come
all this way, detective.

I reviewed all the logs.

Other than his lawyer
and a few curious reporters,

Howell spent nine years
without a visitor.

- Did he make any friends
here inside?

- Condemned men are isolated
from the general population.

The c.O.S in that unit
barely put up with him.

Howell had a funky sense
of humor.

Only one you might call
his friend was our chaplain,

Reverend redding.

- You have a garden
in new york, detective?

- No. No. Just an ant farm
lovingly tended by my daughter.

- My wife loved
heirloom tomatoes.

- Sorry for your loss.
- She's not dead, just gone.

Couldn't deal with it.

I've attended 73 executions.

Carol called it quits
somewhere around the 60th.

- The warden said you were close
to elvis howell.

- He taught me
how to grow vegetables.

And I taught him how to die.

- So there was trust
between you?

- Maybe. But, uh,
it wouldn't be right

For me to share it.

- Even if it could stop someone
from raping and murdering women

Exactly the way he did?

- I'm sorry to hear
about that.

- Before he died,

Elvis asked you if everything
was in order.

- In order?
- He did. I heard him.

You tapped your shirt pocket.
- I can't...

- What was in your shirt pocket?
- Look, I'm not responsible.

- Yes, you are, reverend.

Unless you tell me,
you are responsible.

- He just wanted me
to mail a letter.

- Did he say
what was in the letter?

- Just a good-bye to a friend.
- Name on the letter?

- Dale. Just dale.
No last name.

- Do you know the address?

- Hey, I got a good idea.

From here on in, let's just,
uh, shelve conclusions,

Follow the evidence,
catch this guy.

You know, let's keep
an open mind.

- Both of us.

- Yeah. I said let's.
That's plural. "let us."

- Right.
- Great.

- I meant turn right.

- Unfortunately, uh, we don't
have a, uh, a last name.

All we've got is dale.
- Dale.

- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.

Well, there was one dale.

Uh, it was dale,
uh, grisco.

- Mm-hmm. Dale grisco.
Is he here?

- No. Thank god.

He would be in his mid-20s
by now.

He ran off
when he was about 15.

- Uh-huh. He gave you
a hard time?

- Uh, yeah.
He was a pain in the butt.

Weird. Would you like a seat,
officer?

I would've, uh, flipped him back
out to county

If it hadn't been
for his life coach.

- His life coach?
- Yeah. Guidance program.

Volunteer comes in
three days a week.

Took dale to a baseball game,
bowling.

They really bonded.
He cared.

And, uh, huh, that made a hell
of a difference.

- About five months ago,
a letter was sent here

Addressed to dale.

- Well, if it was sent
in the last six months,

Uh, I've got it here
somewhere.

- Remember, keep checking
the depth.

- 24 inches.

- Brought you a slurry.

- "dale-y dale, I know
you were dying to visit me

"over the nine-plus years
I've been in here.

"I don't blame you one bit
for my incarceration.

"I told you to run.
You were a good listener.

"so be it.

"although I got credit
for your fine cleansing,

"the last one chosen
was all you.

"I will make it right
and give you your due.

"but give them no name.
Keep uthe good work.

"I want you to know
how proud I am of you.

"embrace the death
that surrounds you.

"and what rots
is sure to rise.

"your teacher and friend,
professor howell.

Elvis has left the building."

- Is it possible
for someone to be that insane?

- It's nice to be loved.
- Yeah.

- Somewhere out there,
elvis howell left a star pupil.

- If he really taught
dale grisco

How to rape and murder,
wasn't it already in him?

Can that be learned?

- Nature or nurture?

We may never know.
- Okay, thanks.

Uh, addicts' hostel
in prospect heights

Filed an m.P. On a 20-year-old
rayanne farmer.

Missing for three days.

Last seen in hunter's point.

There's three teams working
the hunter's point area.

If she's dead,
they haven't found her yet.

- Hmm. Well, he could have
other ideas about dispososing

Of his victims.

Serial killers don't always
limit themselves.

Dmv and irs
have a lot of dale griscos,

But none that match the d.O.B.
That we got from child welfare.

- Maybe he changed his day,
month, or year of birth

To confuse the records.

- Or he gave himself
a new birthday.

Maybe he didn't like himself.

Maybe he isn't a happy
serial killer.

You know, he dressed
maricela fernandez

After he raped
and strangled her, right?

He's still human.

- No way he got any humanity
from his mentor.

But he might have stolen
his name.

- Mm. Mm. Okay.

Dale howell

Or dale elvis.

- It's a big list.
I've got a thought.

Elvis howell taught grisco
how to kill.

What's grisco doing
when he's not killing?

- It's not a bad thought.

Serial killers
don't hibernate.

Manson's followers
had a family.

They played music.
Maybe grisco learned a trade.

- Howell taught reverend redding
how to grow things.

The cycle of life.

Maybe elvis passed this on
to grisco too.

- All right, planting
or gardening--landscaping.

- Landscaping.
Landscaping.

That means he might've gotten
to a construction site.

Here's the list
of all the subcontractors

Who had keys to the gate
where diego caldez was murdered.

Here. Elvis' nursery
and landscaping.

- Yeah.

And it's in jackson heights

Near the dumping ground.

- I'm happier
than I even dreamed, janine.

The work I do.

Having a family.

What is it, hon?

Come on. Come on.

There's something.

- I was in your sock drawer
to sort them.

- And I know what you found.
- I know it's drugs, dale.

- It's heroin.

No, wait.
I took it from ernie.

- Ernie?

- Those day worker guys
are trying to get him to try it.

And he told me,
and I took it.

- Maybe you should let him go.
- Fire ernie?

He deserves a chance.

If one person hadn't come along,
decided I was worth a chance,

I wouldn't have nothing.

I wouldn't have you.
I wouldn't have anything.

All right?
- Dad. Mom.

- Hey.
[grunts]

- Dad, mom, can we get
some popcorn?

- Yes.

- If smell is any indication,

I'd hate to think
what's in here.

- Uh-huh.
We should get a team in here.

- Well, there's fertilizer
everywhere.

We need more than a bad smell
for probable cause.

- Mr. Grisco!

- Hey, hold on. Hold on.
Hey, hold on. We're the police!

- Down on the ground!
Down on the ground.

You won't get hurt.
- I'm--I'm just ernie.

I work with dale.
I don't do drugs.

Dale makes sure of it.
- Drugs? What drugs?

- Heroin's bad.
I know it is.

- Heroin is bad.

- State identification
certificate

But no driver's license?

- I don't drive.
I have problems.

- Problems?

- I was always special ed.
I'm good with numbers.

- Good with numbers?

Ernie, do you happen to know
the combination

To this lock
on the freezer there?

- No.
Only dale knows that.

I only do as dale tells me.

He'll be mad
'cause you took it.

- Took what?
- The stick.

24 inches. Magic numbers
for everything we do.

- You mean this?
24 inches long?

- You stick it in the mulch,
it's just the right depth.

24 inches. 6, 12, 24.
The magic numbers.

- 6, 12, 24.

It's empty.

- Everything in there
has been mulched.

- Oh, my god.
Is this about ernie? The drugs?

- I'll deal with this.
I love you.

- Daddy,
where are you going?

- Turn around.

Hands against the car.

- It's him. Dale grisco.

- They discovered fragments
of human remains.

I think we found
rayanne farmer.

They're probably going
to find others.

So that's it.

- Not for me.
Courtney gunderson.

- It's a closed case,
serena.

- I have to know.

Was it really this guy

Who killed courtney?

- If we reopen
that other case,

We're gonna be challenging
everybody.

We're gonna be challenging
your own police work.

We're gonna be challenging
the prosecution.

Challenging
the highest authority

In the state of illinois.

- And at some point,
I'm gonna have to answer

To a much higher authority.

I have to know.

- None of it fits, man.

- None of what fits?

- These things
that you've done.

It doesn't fit who you are.

- What, my family?
- Yeah.

- Btk had a family.
See, he was an usher in church.

- No, no, there's--
there's something--

Something different
about you, dale.

- You have evidence, so you know
all you need to know.

- Yeah. It works for us.

But, uh,
do you want your boy

Labeled the son
of the monster?

- I've cleansed the world
of whores and whoremongers.

- Courtney gunderson
taught kindergarten.

- Hmm. Mistakes are made.
[laughs]

I mean, you killed elvis.

[gasps]

- Here. Look at these pictures
of courtney gunderson, dale.

You couldn't
have mistakenly thought

That courtney gunderson
was a prostitute.

- Why didn't you come forward,
admit to courtney?

- He wanted me free.

Cleansing
as he would've cleansed.

Turn them into plant life.
Something clean.

- Mulching
helped make them disappear.

You were 15 when courtney
was murdered.

You were just a kid.

Is that why you picked
the wrong victim?

- [laughs]
what does it matter?

- Because something
about what you've told us

Doesn't jibe.

There was no cleansing
with courtney.

Courtney was clean.
A clean girl.

Walking from school
in a summer dress.

Now, she gets pulled
into a van.

Howell's van.
We know that from a fiber match.

Where were you?
- Hmm.

Obviously I was there.

- And howell was there.

You were 15.
Too young to drive.

He drove.

- Elvis drove.
- Okay. Okay.

So he must've prepped you.
Told you what to look for.

But that would've en
prostitutes,

Not courtney.

She's so different
from his other victims.

Unless she was your choice.

Did he pick her for you?

They found these photos
of courtney

In howell's house.

Part of the training,
right?


- training?
- Come on. You guys talked sex.

He showed you these pictures
of courtney.

He got you excited.
Didn't he offer her to you?

- What do you mean "offered"?

- Offered you fantasies
of sex and violence.

Some boys in their early teens
make them up.

Elvis knew
that you wanted courtney

And so he used her
to excite you.

- Why the hell
would he do that, huh?

- So that he could gain power
over you.

- No.

No, he wanted me
to be my--my own man.

- Yeah, but the problem is
the man that he wanted

Is not the man that you are.

Here.
Look at these people.

See these people?
You care for these people.

You care
about ernie's problems.

And you care about your son's
ear infections.

Elvis howell
never had the capacity

To feel like that.

Dale, he made a bad choice
in you.

And now with what you've done,
feeling and caring,

That's gonna be
a real burden.

- I'm guilty.
Why are you doing this?

- So that you know
who you really are.

- Maybe I don't want
to know that.

- He tempted you.
He aroused you.

Said you could have her.

That he'd show you how.

- He showed me on a whore

Who cursed
and screamed filth.

The kind that I--I'd heard
from my mother

And the whoremongers
that she brought around.

Filth that I hated.

But the rake handle,
that made that whore silent.

- Did courtney scream filth?
Did courtney scream?

- Yes. She begged.

And pleaded.

But--but when she asked god
to forgive me...

When she said that...

- You couldn't do it.

- Understand...

Elvis alone cared for me,

And I failed.

But I only failed him once.

- Elvis killed courtney.

- What happened next, dale?

- I told him I was sorry.

I showed him.
I put my lips on her stomach.

And I left our mark there.

I swore
I'd never fail him again.

And I haven't.

I haven't.

Until now.

- Detective.

Marcus.

- Before I head back,
I need to know.

- We're okay.

I'll call the gundersons.

- He help us out?
- Yeah, he did.

- I don't know the man,
but thank him for me.

- Things are okay?

- Things are fine.

Thanks.

That's from marcus.

And me.

- I'm just very happy
to have been wrong.