Major Crimes (2012–2018): Season 1, Episode 7 - The Shame Game - full transcript

Ten years ago,
at a party near here,

a 14-year-old girl met a guy

that she thought
she could trust.

Instead, he raped
her, gave her drugs,

and sold her by the
hour out of a motel room.

Two months later, when she
tried to escape this same guy,

he strangled her to death.

Her name was Shannon.

And she was my little sister.

Human trafficking
makes forced prostitution

sound like a bus trip.



It's not.

It's slavery, women terrorized
into selling their bodies.

At Shannon house,

we rescue hundreds
of girls each year,

but we leave many more behind.

The anti-human-trafficking
bill puts millions of dollars

into programs that could
have saved Shannon's life.

Derek helps train
recruits for deployment.

If our soldiers use
prostitutes overseas,

they often continue that
practice when they return home.

To end sex trafficking,

you also have to
end the demand...

Well, that's the
victim on his website.

The army can't
look the other way



when soldiers pay
women to have sex.

And here he is again,
courtesy of Hollywood division.

I don't want to criticize
Hollywood division,

but why did they
leave the victim

to go to his upstairs bathroom?

Because a neighbor
saw a young girl

jump out of that
second-story window

and called it in to Hollywood,

which is how patrol came
to be there in the first place.

Okay.

Officers arrived, found
Derek Hansen murdered,

the bathroom door
locked, so they opened it.

Hollywood figured the girl
might have hurt herself in the fall,

so they tracked
her down to an E.R.

Treated and released to Sanchez,
who's bringing her here now.

So far, she's not cooperating,
but that's to be expected.

Because she's a suspect?

Because she's a hooker.

And this is her.

She goes by
"little Elena" online.

Girls this young are
usually controlled by a pimp.

Hollywood's treating it

like your basic "pimp
kills John" incident,

so they wrapped the crime scene.

That was
before they found out

the victim was a
politically connected activist

fighting to end sex
trafficking of minors,

and maybe... Working
with these young girls

just a little more closely
than he should have been.

Has the, uh, media
gotten wind of this?

No, but the politically
connected are already here,

breathing down our necks.

That's why I suggested we
keep working behind closed doors.

Is that the official
crime report?

Yeah. Uh, here's what you need.

The victim was found
sitting at his desk chair

punched in the
face, stabbed twice,

throat cut, and, uh...

Oh, yeah. Look at
these spatters, Mike.

Interesting, huh?

Hmm. This blood spurt
landed on top of the desk

after it was ransacked.

The pimp looked
for the money first.

Or, in addition to
being a child molester,

our victim was a big slob.

More than that, we do not know

because his computer
and cellphone are missing.

So a public figure
working with politicians

and an outspoken activist
against underage prostitution ...

I guess that would allow
him to contact minors

without drawing the wrong
kind of attention to himself,

but do we have
anything that suggests

that he could have been
trying to help the girl?

She locked herself
into the bathroom,

which is where she would
have gone to call her pimp

before rendering services.

Or text him for help.

This victim has
multiple stab wounds.

That's rather pimp-esque.

If the girl gives up
the guy who runs her,

maybe we can make him for the murder.
Good luck with that.

Most of these girls think
their pimp's their boyfriend.

Did Elena have a cellphone
when they picked her up?

No, no, no. At the
first sign of trouble,

the girls know to dump everything
leading back to their pimps.

Lieutenant.

Pain in the ass.

Captain raydor,
lieutenant provenza.

This is state senator Mac Austin

and his chief of staff,
John Jacob felton.

They worked with
our victim on a bill

that would add funds to
California police departments.

Derek wanted
millions of extra dollars

training
law-enforcement agencies

about human trafficking.

Millions?

Yes. Millions.

Difficult to get
committee approval

on Derek's entire wish
list, but by pairing up money

for police departments
with Shannon house,

I hope to keep his
foundation going.

Senator, the
details of this murder

have not yet even been
released to the press.

How did you know
about Derek's death?

There was no message,

but I'm afraid his last
call was to my cell.

The police didn't
know it was my number,

but when they checked it out,

procedure may not have
been followed exactly.

But, um, Derek and
I were very close.

Professionally. Not personally.

Excuse me, ma'am,

I've got the girl who
calls herself Elena

in interview room 1. All right.

Would that be the young lady
who jumped out of Derek's house?

She could be, but
we don't want anyone

to know she was
at the crime scene,

so keep that quiet.

We can't have
special treatment here,

so if you need to
release that information...

No, no, no, no.

We don't want the murderer
to know that we have a witness.

Julio, is there anything else?

Well, uh, Elena
only speaks Spanish.

So she might've heard a fight,

but she probably
didn't understand it.

And she insists she was locked
in the bathroom the whole time,

so she didn't see anything.

Did she mention her pimp?

No, ma'am, but Hollywood's
bringing him over right now.

So the pimp's
already under arrest,

and the girl is cooperating?

Oh, not a chance, sir,

but Elena's name
came up on three f.I.S.

F... f.I.S?

Uh, yeah.

When a patrol officer
talks to a suspicious type,

he fills out a field
interview card

like these... f.I.S.

Let's see.

Elena was stopped on
three separate occasions

by the l.A.P.D.

And always in the company
of her pimp, Charles Alvarez.

So Mr. Alvarez is
currently on probation,

but what's this little circle
with the dot in the center?

Does that mean he's a target?

Uh, no.

The circle with
the dot in the center

means that in the
professional opinion

of the officer
conducting the interview,

Mr. Alvarez was an asshole.

Well, too bad that's
not a crime, isn't it?

I'll be needing your
professional opinion

quite a lot over
the next few days

because if you
discover that Derek

had this girl in his house
for the wrong reasons,

well, the sooner I
know that, the better,

which is why I'd like
to leave John here

to monitor your progress.

Sir, you have a
speech at 1100 hours

that I think you should... I've made
speeches long before I met you, John.

This is more important.

If chief Taylor
has no objections...

No. No, John, of
course. Observe.

Thank you.

And it was great to meet the
l.A.P.D.'S best and brightest.

John.

Captain.

Which am I? The
best or the brightest?

I hate being monitored this way.

Since we don't
have his computer,

should I get a warrant
for the victim's e-mail?

Yes. Thank
you, lieutenant.

Detective Sanchez, prepare
the interview with Elena.

Lieutenant Flynn, let me know

the minute that the young
woman's pimp arrives.

And I'll need
buzz in electronics.

Excuse me.

Damn it!

Wow. Such language.

Shocking, I know.

It seems that the captain
has suddenly become

very frustrated with the system.

Well, boys, you're
about to hear something

that I thought would never
come out of my mouth.

Mike, call the d.A.'S office.

Get hobbs over here.

I think we might just
need a snake wrangler

to help us with all of
our new political friends.

You can take this desk.

The detective who
normally sits here

is still recuperating
from some injuries.

Oh, but are you gonna
talk to the girl now?

Chief Taylor said something
about my listening in.

Yes, Mr. Felton, we are
about to interview Elena.

And I'd like to remind you

of the confidential nature
of a murder investigation.

Of course, captain.

I only report to the senator,

and that's to keep him
from being blindsided.

Oh, John Jacob. Did
they find the girl yet?

The one from Derek's house?

Excuse me. Who are you?

Marisol pena. I
worked with Derek.

I've been worried
that whoever killed him

might have
murdered the girl, too.

I thought you only
reported to the senator.

I'm so sorry.

Uh, h-he felt
Marisol might be able

to help figure out
what happened.

She's the executive
director of Shannon house.

Oh, well, then perhaps you
can tell me if it was normal

for Derek to have an
underage prostitute

in his own home.

I know how it must look to you,
but Derek passed his card out

to any young girl he
thought was being trafficked.

I told him that one day,

one of these pimps
was gonna take him out.

I told him.

We already have the
pimp in our custody.

Well, he'll assume
that she turned him in.

The girl... She's not
gonna talk to you.

Look, let me help you.

I walked the
streets for 15 years.

There is a very narrow
window of opportunity

to gain this girl's trust.

Working with teenagers who
have been sexually abused ...

It's complicated, and
the slightest mistake

can drive them back
out onto the street,

where most of them die.

Derek was murdered
trying to save this girl's life.

Please. Let me help you.

P-Please don't
waste his sacrifice.

I will be mindful
of your concerns,

but first, you need
to be mindful of mine.

Elena.

"This man... he was a
friend of yours, wasn't he?"

"He was murdered yesterday.

"We know you
jumped out his window.

Maybe you killed him."

That's ridiculous. Shh!

"No, no, no. I didn't."

Ms. Pena, she needs to talk,

and you need to
keep quiet, please.

"C.a."?

Charles Alvarez.

"You make money for him, right?"

"He's your cousin."

Charles Alvarez has already
asked for a public defender?

Hey, pimps know the drill.

He's not gonna say anything,

his girl's not
gonna say anything,

and they'll both be
back on the street

by tomorrow morning.

Captain raydor.
Just who I was looking for.

Cynthia. Good news.

Sharon raydor,

this is Daniel
Dunn, rusty's father.

Captain, it's nice to meet you.

And you... Mr. Dunn.

Call me Daniel.

Rusty was very clear.

He did not want to
meet his biological father.

I mean, the kid's just
now settling down.

Foster care is, by
definition, temporary.

As it is, officially, rusty
has a placement issue

to which this man
could be the answer.

At the moment, he's
more of a question.

Yeah, like why'd he just
show up now after 16 years?

Because you people gave
us DNA results last week

and told us to go look for him.

And once we found Mr. Dunn,
we were legally obligated

to notify him of
rusty's existence.

And in all 50 states,
we would've had to try

to reunite him with a
parent or the nearest...

Hey. What's up?

Nothing.

Um, why aren't you in school?

Uh, faculty retreat.

They let us go right after mass.

Gotta love those
catholics, right?

Am I in trouble again?

Oh, no, no, no.
What do you need?

Uh, a soda?

Um, we have a
sensitive family thing

going on right now in
the break room, so...

I'll bring you a
soda in a minute.

Great. Okay.

Uh, bye, Cynthia. Bye, rusty.

Let me give you
the headline here.

Unless he proves unfit,
Mr. Dunn has parental rights.

If he turns out to
be rusty's father.

Lieutenant, Mr. Dunn's DNA has
already shown a connection... no, no, no.

Mr. Dunn's brother's DNA

has proven to be a
near-match for rusty.

Near-match.

I mean, what if there's
another brother out there?

You are a person we
shouldn't have to tell this to.

Families keep secrets.

Lieutenant, would you
meet and greet our pimp?

And please ask lieutenant
tao to bring me a kit.

Sure.

Anyway, uh, real estate
is maybe coming back,

which is good because I've got
a few properties in orange county

that, uh, hopefully
I can turn around

for a nice chunk of change.

So, you know,
good... good savings.

Good, uh, good prospects.

And how is your brother doing?

Well, he's in prison.

So, not great.

Have any other male siblings?

No, no. I have a
sister. Does she count?

And did you all grow
up near the Beck family?

Uh, well, um, rusty's mother,

uh, Sharon, you know,

she was only around
for the first half

of my junior year
of high school.

I forget what her dad did, but
they moved away that winter.

So is it even possible
you got her pregnant?

Oh, yeah.

It's, uh, it's very possible.

But I didn't know that.

So after she left town, you
never heard from her again...

A postcard or phone
call saying you had a son?

No. No, no.

This... it's not something
that I like to say,

but, you know, Sharon
was... Very social.

I doubt she knew
whose kid it was.

Look
why the third degree?

Is the kid in some
kind of trouble?

Or is he in jail?

No.

Rusty's staying
at a private home,

and he is a material
witness in a murder trial,

which makes him my
professional concern.

I see.

Does he know about me?

Yes.

And does he want to see me?

At the moment, no.

Oh. Okay. So how
do we handle that?

Uh, well, I could try to
persuade him to change his mind,

but while I'm doing that,

we should legally establish
your parental rights.

Hi.

I just need to take a quick
swab inside your cheek, okay?

Okay. Um, does it hurt?

Not usually. No.

Say "ahh."

Ahhh.

Just checking to
see if you're human.

How did Mr. Alvarez
violate his probation, exactly?

We found this folding
knife in his pocket

when we picked him up.

So, Charlie, tell me.

You know this guy?

Hey. Sit up straight
and talk to me.

I'm tired.

Yeah? Why's that?

I work nights.

So I heard.

You stayed up late last
night to murder Derek Hansen.

Murder?

When? What's he...

Mr. Alvarez, don't
talk. It's not that hard.

Lieutenant, you need probable
cause to hold him on a murder.

Oh, I've
got more than cause.

I've got one of Charlie's girls.

Girls?

What girls?

He's a funny guy, this one, huh?

Oh, yeah. I'm hilarious.

Turns out, this girl was at
Derek Hansen's house last night

when you beat him
up and killed him.

Mr. Alvarez, show
him your hands.

All right.

Hold there.

How's it going?

You know how to work that thing?

Oh, yeah. I know how to work it.

What'd you do
with rusty's father?

He's in the break room,

waiting for me to
tell rusty he's here.

Kid deserves to know.

It's not that simple.

Okay, so, Charlie,

we've got a witness,

an underage girl you've
been selling in Hollywood.

And she's been
telling us all about you.

How do we know
you have a witness?

Come on. Is this whole
thing a fabrication?

How do you think we found your
idiot client in the first place, Willis?

The girl told us where to look.

And listen to me...
You be careful

about who you
accuse of fabrication.

I don't make crap up... ever.

His public defender knows

you need the girl to
I.D. Alvarez as her pimp,

or you have nothing but
the probation violation

to hold him with.

Lieutenant Flynn,
I have an idea.

I was making progress with
her. What are you doing?

We just have a quick follow-up.

Well, then, I'm going with her.

That's not allowed, ma'am.

Oops! Sorry. Wrong room.

What is this?

Hey, that's my cousin.

What's up, cuz?

Don't be mad, chuckie.

Well, what do you know?
Somebody speaks English.

You're not telling the
truth, and you're a killer.

Okay, sweetheart, you
tell him what you told us.

Nothing! I told them nothing!

Sit down, asshole.

You heard what
he said. Sit down.

You saw
chuckie murder Derek.

No! I-I heard an
argument! That's all!

I-I never said you were
there, chuckie. Never.

It's all good, baby girl.

It's all good.

You're dead!

I will kill you! You are dead!

It's over! You're done!

Now, that's what I
call an identification.

Not to mention
witness intimidation.

We have him for a
year now... At least.

I'm coming for you, bitch!

Did the suspect
just break our door?

What you did to the door?

I think he did.

Hold it there.

Hollywood had to open
Derek's bathroom door

because it was locked
when they got there, correct?

Right.

And that's strange,

because if chuckie went
upstairs to get his girl back,

he would have
busted that door down.

Like he did in the
interview room.

And he would have been
even more furious last night

if he thought that
Elena was there

and was trying to
run away from him.

I think the door tells us
chuckie was never there.

Lieutenant provenza,
please tell Dr. Morales

I want to see Derek
Hansen's body.

I'll do that, captain.

But before we go, I think
you have a notification to do.

What?

You said it was up to me,

that meeting my
father was up to me.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let
me tell you what happened here.

And he's in the building right
now?! Just listen to me for a second.

Do you not see how
screwed up this is, Sharon?

Let me explain this to you.

Oh, my god!

Oh, my god!!

Let me explain.

When dcfs found out
about Daniel Dunn,

they became legally
obligated to tell him about you.

So... so that's why
Cynthia was here.

Did she bring this guy with her?

Is... is he in the break
room? He is, isn't he?

He is in the break room,
and that is why you guys

wouldn't let me
in to get my soda,

because I am the sensitive
family problem you have.

Cynthia thought she
was doing you a favor

by bringing Mr. Dunn here.

No! You stop it, Sharon!
She was doing a favor for you.

She was not doing
a favor for me!

Great! The rules win!

Now you can get rid of
me, and it's not your fault.

I am not trying to get... okay.
That's enough. That's enough!

Now, you know that I am
not friends with this woman,

but if she wanted
to get rid of you,

she could have dumped you
in a group home months ago.

It's all right, lieutenant.
No, it's not all right.

It's not all right.

So this guy shows up,

says he's your father,
wants to see you.

Well, none of us like it.

But instead of whining
about the situation,

let's look at our options.

You talked to him?

And what did you think?

Rusty...

I'm gonna tell you the truth.

Um, I can't say
that I liked him.

I don't know him.

And,
uh, I can't be objective.

He made an effort
to come and see you,

and I think just...
Think about that.

Sharon, I'm sorry. I know.

Sharon, I'm sorry.

I know. I know.

Hope you're proud of yourself.

Really classy,

accusing her of
wanting to get rid of you.

First stab goes
straight through the heart...

Right atrium, fatal.

The second stab
severed the renal artery.

Mm. Kidneys.

The blood supply to them, yes.

Then we have the throat stab.

Now, this blood spatter that
hit the papers on the desk?

Very long and thin,

suggesting it didn't
fall from a great height,

meaning Mr. Hansen was
likely stabbed in the heart

in position level with a desk,
which makes perfect sense.

How so?

Um, let... let me get
the right kind of chair.

I'm sorry... About
rusty, captain, um...

You've got a tough
situation there, I guess.

I do.

I can't tell him I
want him to stay,

because what if his father

turns out to be a
terrific human being?

And, on the other hand, I
can't push him to see Mr. Dunn.

It'd be like asking him
to leave, and if he goes...

Rusty comes with certain
challenges, and very frankly,

I would like to be sure
that this guy is up to the job.

And, also, why is Mr. Dunn
hanging around our break room

when I very clearly
explained to him

that rusty didn't
want to see him?

But I can't ask
him these things.

Oh, no.

But rusty is a material
witness in a murder trial.

I think I should make sure

that if he's going to be
outside of our jurisdiction,

he is available to testify.

That is our legal obligation.

Maybe Mr. Dunn
should just go away,

come back another day.

All right.

So the victim was seated
during the entire attack.

And, before any of
these wounds occurred,

his neck was broken.

And because it's
pretty important,

I'd like to demonstrate
how this happened.

Lieutenant?

For the record,
I'm uncomfortable.

The killer snaps the neck,
severing the spinal cord,

interrupting
signals to the brain.

Panic never sets in,

so no struggle while the
killer proceeds to stab,

very methodically,
here, then here,

then stabs the throat.

Very little blood produced,

since the heart is no
longer pumping properly.

Every wound fatal.

So this was a professional hit?

Well, that's for you to decide,

but whoever killed this man

avoided all the muss
of a frontal assault

and was thorough enough to
make sure the victim was dead

several times over.

Sound like hand-to-hand
combat to you, lieutenant?

Maybe we should ask a soldier.

If anyone in your
deployment uses prostitutes overseas,

if he sexually abuses
his fellow female soldiers,

then he could end up bringing
those bad habits back home.

As officers, it's up to you
to let your soldiers know

that, one, you will investigate

all incidents of
sexual misconduct

and report up the
chain of command.

And two, you will ensure

appropriate disciplinary
action be taken

by following up
on all complaints.

And that's it for
the day. Dismissed.

Excuse me. Lieutenant
angel Hayes?

Yes.

Lieutenants tao
and Flynn, l.A.P.D.

Is this an okay time to
ask you a few questions?

Absolutely. I hope
I have answers.

Do you know a man
named Derek Hansen?

Derek? Sure. He worked here.

We still use his material
for our seminars. Why?

Was he good at his job?

Uh, maybe a little too good.

What do you mean?

Derek wanted to try out

a whole new psych
protocol on recruits,

have us screen
for sexual abusers.

But that kind of test takes
years for the army to approve.

So when we told Derek
no, he went over our heads.

To whom?

Secretary of the army.

Ooh. Yeah.

Not a good move.

Look, I'm an m.P.

I know you guys don't
ask questions for fun.

What's going on?

When was the last time
you saw or spoke to Derek?

He called and asked me to
help him lobby a state senator

to fund Shannon house.

By doing what?

Contacting some retired officer.

Asked me to look up
the guy's service record

so I'd know what to say.

And this was when? Last week.

But Derek had some
information wrong,

so it took me a
minute to figure it out.

Did you give him the record?

No. That's strictly
confidential.

I just corrected
Derek's mistake.

Then he said never mind
the call and that he'd sort it out.

What kind of mistake
we talking about?

Derek said this man
retired as a captain,

but he actually received
an honorable discharge

as a lieutenant.

Um, here it is.

Uh, does the name
lieutenant John Jacob felton

ring a bell?

Yes, ma'am. It does.

Sorry to keep you
waiting, Mr. Dunn.

I'm lieutenant provenza.

We've, uh, got a lot going
on around here today.

And the kid still hasn't
made up his mind.

So, you sure you want to wait?

Yeah.

Yeah, if there's a chance

that he'd be willing to
sit with me for a minute,

yeah, I'll wait.

Is there a rush?

Excuse me?

I'm just saying that rusty is,

well, he's a little "if,
and, or" at the moment.

He's had a rough life.

His caseworker
told me some of that.

I know that he's had problems.

And you're still pushing
hard to meet with him.

I'm not sure what
the right thing to do is.

It's a pretty big shock to
find out that you have a kid.

I haven't told anybody.

To be honest, I'm engaged
to be married in a few months,

and if we've got to start
out with a bigger family

than we thought...

Wait. H-Hold on a
second. "A bigger family"?

Are you saying that your
wife-to-be already has children?

Two girls... 3 and 5.

I see.

Yeah.

So before I break
this news to her,

I'd like to find
out a little bit more

about what I should say.

Explains a lot.

Okay.

I'll see what I can do.

You would think a
state senator's chief of staff

would know better than to
lie about his military record,

but, my god, right
on his résumé...

"John Jacob felton,
retired captain, U.S. army."

That's what I call
self-promotion.

Veterans take a very
dim view of inflating rank,

but for politicians, it's
completely unacceptable,

and Derek...

Derek was prepared to
use this fraudulent résumé

to blackmail felton.

For what?

Here's the relevant
e-mail correspondence

between John Jacob
felton and Derek Hansen.

Felton writes to Derek,

"there's a limit to what
we can do this year.

The state budget deficit..."

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

"Under these circumstances,
you should consider

"getting half the usual
funding for Shannon house

a great victory."

"But the senator wants to know

"you won't embarrass
him over this compromise,

which is the best
we can do right now."

But Derek wasn't a compromiser.

He knew that felton was
ex-army, so he went to an officer

that he thought might
help him twist an arm.

Instead, she gave him
something even better.

A fraudulent résumé
that allowed Derek

to threaten a senator's
chief of staff with exposure

unless Derek got full funding
for everything he wanted.

And thanks to me, felton
knows we have no evidence.

It's not all bad, chief.

As far as he knows, we're
still pursuing the pimp.

He won't see us
coming. All right.

Let's talk about for a second

because arresting Austin's
chief of staff for murder

without being able to prove it

ruins the senator's career
and doesn't help us, either.

And we have no physical
evidence tying felton to this crime.

Well, actually, we
do. We have a witness.

We have Elena.

You mean the girl who
said she didn't see anything.

She also said she didn't
speak English, and then she did,

so who knows what else we
could get her to remember?

Tell me something, Elena.
And this is off the record.

When you were at our
victim Derek's house last night,

was he paying for your time?

No.

He handed out his
card to a bunch of us

at a diner one day,

said he could help.

We laughed, like,
"right. Help how?"

It couldn't change
what we had done.

And our parents
wouldn't want us back.

But I kept the card.

Uh, and I see these... these
girls in uniforms from a school,

laughing and
eating frozen yogurt.

And I thought,
"that used to be me."

So I snuck off, walked
to Derek's house.

He was, uh, very nice.

Oh! Buzz, what happened?

I'm not sure. Maybe
something got bumped.

Lieutenant, we're having
technical difficulties.

Hold the interview.

I'll be right back.

You're doing great, Elena.

We're almost done, Elena.

I don't ever have to
worry about chuckie again?

No. We've got him.

The only thing
that's left for us to do

is to go over the
rest of that little story

we asked you to tell.

And it... it doesn't matter

if I never saw anybody
else in Derek's house?

No.

The only thing that matters

is this guy believes
you when you lie.

Can you do that?

If I couldn't make men
believe me when I lied,

chuckie would've dumped
me a long time ago.

You know, John, since it seems

like Derek died
in the line of duty,

maybe the senator can
use what happened here

to good effect.

Rename the
legislation for Derek.

Hell, might even
make it easier to pass.

Well, to be honest, chief,

funding this bill has
been an uphill battle,

but I will say if you're able

to use existing law
to put away this pimp,

it just might prove

our present legal structure
is better than we assume.

All fixed now. Should
be coming back online.

Okay, so you were
looking out the window,

and you could see the street?

Yes.

I was...

I was so afraid chuckie
might come and get me.

So tell me, Elena,

did you see who came to
Derek's house last night?

Yes. And I saw him go
to his car after the fight.

And what kind of car was it?

Uh, a blue BMW.

Did you get a chance to
see what he looked like?

Um, kind of tall. Big, burly,
short hair... brownish-blond.

And he wore glasses.

And he and Derek fought?

Yes.

Did Derek say a name?

John. I heard him say John.

Or Jacob. Maybe...
maybe John Jacob?

You're not leaving,
are you, John?

Uh, i'm, uh, I'm getting a call.

If it's the senator, you
may want to tell him

I'm very close to
making an arrest.

There some kind of problem?

We were hoping you
could tell us, captain.

Or is it lieutenant?

Your résumé says one thing,

your military
record says another.

Hate to say it, John.

You're burly, you wear
glasses, your hair is short,

and you drove here
today in a big blue BMW.

What are you...

What is it you
think you're doing?

I believe we're arresting you
for the murder of Derek Hansen.

Before we go there, let
me read you your rights.

Oh, I waive. Okay, I waive!

This is ridiculous!

I didn't kill Derek, okay?
Are you... are you serious?

Excuse me, Mr. Felton.
Do you carry a knife?

On
me? Of course not!

Then you brought one with you last
night when you killed Derek Hansen.

Which means you planned
the murder out, lieutenant.

Congratulations, Mr. Felton,

you've just been
promoted to murder one.

You're gonna take the
word of a teenage hooker

against mine?

Come on, she probably
killed Derek for molesting her.

I don't think she had
the combat training

to stab him twice, slit his
throat, and break his neck.

But an ex-infantry officer
could do that very well.

What happened, John?

Did you lose it?

Did Derek's blackmail attempt
make you snap, go crazy?

Dda
hobbs, if you will...

I talked to my boss.

We'll call it murder two.

30 years. You will have a
date for a parole hearing.

Yeah?

And how many people
convicted of murder two

have been out in
the last 20 years?

Two, I think.

But that's just because of the
current political atmosphere.

Times change.

I can either arrest you now...

Murder one with
special circumstances

and you can explain
yourself in open court

while a jury decides

whether or not to put
a needle in your arm...

Or I can call a lawyer,

work with him on
your statement of facts,

and we can wrap this up today.

Bear in mind, we now
have an eyewitness.

You can't scare
me with murder one.

Nobody's being executed
in this state anymore.

That's true,

but as chief Taylor
says, times change.

Who knows what the
political atmosphere will be like

after your 10th
year on death row.

So...

You agree, in advance,

to a second-degree
murder conviction?

I do.

And can I give you
my written statement?

Or do you need to hear me say

how I killed the son
of a bitch out loud?

Just be thorough. I don't
want to miss a detail.

I'll give the
senator an update.

He'll be relieved to know

his activist friend was
completely innocent.

And I can thank
him for insisting

on leaving the killer
here with us this morning.

Saved us a little time.

One deal done.

And one to go.

I think it says
something good about Daniel

that he waited
around for 12 hours.

Yeah, well, I
waited for 16 years.

And that's tough...
But maybe not his fault.

Look.

What you do today
is still your decision.

But when the DNA comes back...

Oh, I know.

I've been looking it up all
day long on the Internet ...

That whole
parental-rights thing.

If he takes this to
court, we're screwed.

The law is on his side, so
don't say we have choices.

We don't have
choices... Either of us.

We can choose how we react.

Yeah, but he won't
like me, Sharon.

He'll find out everything
about me, and I just...

I can't.

It makes me feel like I
have to... to run away,

t-to be somewhere else.

You can't get to somewhere else

because the thing that
you want to run away from,

you take it with you.

Where you go, it goes.

So before you run away,

why don't you give him a
really good look in the eye?

I know I-I already said
that I was sorry for...

For saying that you
wanted to get rid of me.

That was... that was terrible.

And I don't... I don't
really think that.

I just... I feel like I don't
belong here sometimes,

which is weird

because you have been
nothing but good to me, Sharon.

And I know that.

I always know that.