Medium (2005–2011): Season 4, Episode 8 - Burn, Baby, Burn: Part 2 - full transcript

Previously on Medium.

Why'd I dream that dream?

I was at school,

and Owen?s mother was standing
just past the fence, waving to him.

She poured gasoline
all over herserlf and lit a match.

This Stacey case. This thing where
this

man sets his wife on fire.

And are you aware that
our old friend Manuel Devalos is

representing the number
one suspect in this case?

Yeah, I knew that, why?

Because I'm not about to let the man
I replaced



get the best of me in this matter.

What would you say if I told you
that we obtained a warrant

to retrieve the clothing that you sent
down to the hotel laundry that night?

On what grounds?

What if I told you that we found
traces of an accelerant one that matched

the kind that was
used to start the fire?

I'd say I believe that.
Like I said, we were in the garage,

it got heated, she started
throwing things at me.

There was a glass jar, it smashed.
I thought it was turpentine.

I was wondering wheter you could
have a look at these.

You see this missing girl?
I think I just had a dream about her.

She was working as a prostitute.

A dentist picked her up,
took her to his office.

You're telling me this man
you keep dreaming about,



drugged her, and then, when she was
unconscious,

performed dental work on her?

You know you're welcome
to visit us anytime you want.

This week?

Sure.

What?

She's bringing the money
that I asked to borrow.

Can I take you into my confidence?

Joe can't know what
I'm about to tell you.

I'm pretty sick, Allison.

It's not hopeless, there's treatment,
an operation.

I'm flying to Minneapolis when
I leave here, to the Mayo Clinic.

My odds are 60%.

When I heard that number
I thought of you.

If I go into the hospital knowing,

that I might not come out, then,

obviously I'd do
some things differently.

I wish so badly
I had something to tell you.

Not a word to Joe.

Not a word to Joe.

So?

So what?

How'd it go?

It was a regular love fest.

A love fest?

I like that.

I love you.

Love you.

Took a lot of work,

to get you up to speed, young lady.

Plaque,

tartar,

gingivitis.

You really,

put me through my paces.

Good news is,

now your mouth
is ready for anything.

You starting to feel something?

My apologies.

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He punched her?

Right in the face, in the mouth,

the very same mouth he spent
the whole night slaving over.

That makes no sense.

Thank you.

You're welcome. For what?

For not biting my head off.

It's so much nicer hearing
that my dreams make no sense

from you than from Cynthia Keener.

You should have heard her,
jumped out my throat yesterday morning.

- I don't like that woman.
- I'm not crazy about her either.

But I kind of understand.

You'd think after 3 dreams
I'd have one genuine clue,

that would make her job easier.

Or the name of the dentist,

the location of his office, something.

Thank god I'm still working for Devalos.

There she is.

I slept like a lamb

How did you sleep, dear?

Anything to tell me?
Any interesting dreams last night?

Not the one I wanted,

not the one I was hoping for.

I'm sorry.

Maybe tonight.

Is it what I think it is?

What the hell took so long?

What can I tell you?
We're a little backed up.

There was a bug going around,
lot of people out.

But I guess you didn't hear anything
about that, right?

Detective.

Dammit.

Cynthia, listen to me,
he was doing things to her.

Some kind of dentistry.

He punched her in the face.

I still have men in field, gathering
information on all the male dentists

located downtown Phoenix.

The second that data is complete,

- I'll call you. We can sit down...
- Fine, I have to go.

How strange is this?

Very strange.

I feel like a guest in my own home?

Have you seen our guy?

Not yet.

Graham.

- Any idea why we've been summoned here?
- Not ????

Look at that.

All my favourite people in one place.

You're looking...

well-rested.

Shall we adjourn
to the conference room?

You may not believe this,
but I've actually found myself drawn

in a very,

personal way, to this case.

We appreciate that.

I know it gets my client
an enormous comfort to know that

District Attorney's
office is as consumed with

finding the perpetrator
of this horrible crime as we are.

Mr. Stacey, are you all right?

Why is that here?

The picture of Mary. Why is there
a picture of my dead wife in here?

Why?

I think it's important for us
to stay focused.

Your wife is what's brougth us
to this room today.

Her heinous murder.

The extraordinarily cruel circumstances
under which she lost her life.

And until the person who is
responsible for that is behind bars,

I want that picture there,

to keep me honest,

to keep me focused.

I'm not sure you understand,
Just what is it we're all doing here?

Isn't it obvious, Manuel?

We're here to arrest your client
for the murder of his wife, Mary Stacey.

- What?
- What grounds?

What grounds would you like?

We have your client at the scene,

we have traces of the accelerant
used in the fire on his clothing

and now we have motive.

What motive?

Send him in, please.

Detective Scanlon, would you be so kind
as to share with our guests

the discovery you made this morning?

Less than a year ago Mr.
Stacey took out a

seven million dollar life
insurance policy on Mrs Stacey.

Is this true, Graham?

The life insurance policy
was my wife's idea.

She wanted me to buy it,
I was just trying to make her happy.

- Why don't you read him his rights.
- Wait a second.

I don't even want the money.
I never wanted it.

The charity can have it all
for all I care.

What charity?

My wife's charity, she's got this thing,
the Dearbrook foundation.

They do medical care
for poor people.

Let's give it to them, they would have
got it all anyway.

- If we had died together...
- But you didn't die together,

because I believed you killed her.

Read him his rights.

You have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be used
against you...

You can't let them,
there's gotta be a way to stop this.

I understand how you feel, but if you could
just hold down until the bail hearing

I think I can convince the
judge that you're not a flight risk.

You think?

You were the District Attorney,
that's the whole reason I hired you.

Hope you're not serious about
this bail hearing bussiness.

Trust me, as acting District Attorney,
that man is not gonna say daylight.

I don't care how much bail you pledge.

Take your hand off my shoulder.

Just trying to spare you
the humilliation.

Although,

I do think it would be
awfully entertaining.

It's my locker.

I know. Need to get in it?

Not really.

You're Owen, right?

I'm really sorry about your mother.

You got my things.

You touched my things.

The principal asked me to.

I know about your mother.

I've heard stories about you.

Did you see anyting?

What do you mean?

When you touched my things.

There was a postcard
in there from her.

I was just hoping that maybe...

I just heard that

when people like you
touch things from

people who have...

I didn't see anything.

Actually, it never happened
to me before.

I love my dad,

but he's a very serious guy.

He and my mom divorced when I was three.

But my mom...

she was crazy.

It was like,

a really cool kind of crazy.

Playing practical jokes and,

throwing parties and going on trips.

When I'd get to be with her,
which wasn't very often,

we always talked about running away.

Maybe moving to Europe.

Barcelona?

Yeah, Barcelona.

It's her favourite place in the world.

She always said that's where
she wanted to be buried.

I don't think that's gonna happen now.

Think I should get to class.

Me too.

Come on.

You work with somebody for years...

What did he say?

I'll tell you what he said.

He said that I probably ought
to wrap my head around the possibility

- that my client is actually guilty.
- But he can't know that.

He sure acts like he knows it.

- Did you mention the suicide thing again?
- I certainly did.

And he thought the medical examiner
is gonna have a tough time with that.

What do you mean, medical examiner?

It turns out that the medical
examiner just completed his examination

on Mrs. Stacey's remains.

Her skull revealed a variety of
bump forced trauma to the face and head.

Could she have maybe fallen,
disoriented herself?

She was struck, multiple times.

And in my experience,
people don't normally strike themselves

prior to commiting suicide.

I've spent the better part of my adult
life sending guilty people to prison.

I know what guilty man look like,
and this guy...

I just don't believe it.

Let's get out of here.

February 9th, 1964.

- I'm lying in the hospital...
- Not this again.

- waiting for this guy to finally arrive.
- She knows that's not my birthday.

And on the television,

The Beatles are making their
1st appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.

This is all a lie.

And they walk out on stage,
the 4 moptops, they called them.

She knows when
my birthday is, she's my wife.

She knows what year I was born.

And all the girls in
the audience start screaming.

And at the same exact moment,
amazingly,

this one arrives.

And so, of course I start
screaming then too.

I don't even think
they had TV back then.

I'm convinced that
something magical happened.

because ever since then, we can't
get this boy to get a proper haircut.

- Moptop.
- Mom, please...

What are we gonna do with you?

Okay, that's it.

That's enough.

I'm not gonna be manhandled
and libeled by my mother.

Not unless there's another check in it.

Gimme a kiss.

I got kids to take
to school in the morning.

I'm just saying...

Bye mom.
Don't keep her up too late.

I heard you, Ringo

I have to tell him.

I have never kept a secret from him,
not ever.

Really?

So you can keep a secret
from me for 15 years,

but you can't keep a secret
from your husband for a week and a half.

I find that hard to believe.

It's time for bed.

Who knows?

Maybe you'll dream me
some good news.

It almost never works
with people I'm close to.

And I've never been able
to make it work on demand.

You know what the doctors tell me?

60% of this battle is being positive,

thinking positively.

So think good thoughts.

Dream good dreams.

I don't understand!

What is there to understand?
I don't want to see you.

I want you out of here,
I want you off my property.

This is still our property.

If you don't want me here
what was that call about?

I don't know, Graham.

I had some wine at dinner,
maybe I drunk too much.

Just...

leave, loser.

I don't get this!

That's the entire reason
this marriage no longer works,

because you don't get anything.
You certainly don't get me.

Which is why, for the rest of all time
you don't get me.

- Get me?!
- Would you keep your voice down?

He don't get it, and now
he ain't never gonna get it!

And even when he could get it,
he didn't know how to give it!

What the hell are you doing?

Are you crazy? That's turpentine!

Get out.

You get him?

Smelled like a paint locker
when he left here.

Coffee. You shouldn't have gone into
all that trouble, what do I owe you?

What are you doin' here?
How'd you get in?

You know how I got in here.

Breaking and entering?
That's illegal.

You're right, when we're done here,

I'll arrest myself.

Get off from beyond my desk.

Absolutely. Listen, Manny,
I don't mean to upset you.

It's this Graham Stacey thing.

I'd like it to work for everyone,
and I think maybe I can make it happen.

Really?

If you wanted to make

some kind of a deal I would be willing
to take it to the District Attorney and,

use every bit of influence that I have.

Really, you? Influence?

And as far as deals are,
no deal is coming, I told you.

- I believe Graham Stacey is innocent.
- Wake up and smell the coffee.

You wake up and smell the coffee. The man
you work for, you want me to make a deal

with my old friend Tom Van Dyke?
He can't be trusted.

- He's a ruthless, arrogant, dangerous man.
- Exactly, that's why I'm here.

He wants to squash you with this case.
it's not enough that he has your job,

he wants to discredit you,
embarrass you.

and he's got at me gathering evidence
to do it, and I'll tell you,

his case against Graham Stacey
isn't getting weaker.

Make the deal, Manny.

Do it now,

and let me out.

You didn't mention that Lee
was gonna be joining us.

I'm not psychic.

You may wanna hear this too.

I had a dream last night.

It was about the night that
Graham Stacey's wife was killed.

I saw them argueing in the garage.

Everything happened the way
that Graham said it did.

Except, after the fight was over
after Graham left,

I saw someone else in the house.

Another man.

A dentist.

I've been dreaming about him lately,
he's a bad man.

I think he may have killed Mary Stacey

Did you say dentist?

Wouldn't be this guy, would he?

As soon as you said dentist,

jogged my memory.

Do you remember when you asked Graham
about the insurance policy on his wife?

That he didn't care about the money,

it could go to his wife's charity,
for all he cared.

- The Dearbrook Foundation.
- This man, this dentist?

Leo Krane.

He's chairman at that foundation.

Oh, my god, I didn't realize
there would be 3 of you.

I'm detective Lee Scanlon.

This is my colleague Allison Dubois

- Manuel Devalos
- Doctor.

He's an attorney,

from one of the principals involved
in the case that we're investigating.

This must be important?

We're investigating the death
of a woman named Mary Stacey.

It's our understanding
that you were acquainted with her.

My god, yes.

Lovely lady.

Lots of fun.

She did work for the Dearbrook Foundation.
That's a charity I'm involved with.

We provide dental and medical care for
marginalized members of the community.

It's horrible what happened to her.

Just horrible.

I heard on the news
you arrested her husband?

They certainly didn't.

I'm actually
representing Mr. Stacey in this matter.

I only met him once, but,
I'd be lying to you if I told you I saw

any incline he was capable
of this sort of thing.

Were you aware there was a $7 million
life insurance policy on Mary Stacey?

No.

I worked with her, but we were
hardly what you would call close

You wouldn't be to share any light on
who the beneficiary might be?

I've no idea.

Her husband, maybe?

But I would think that information
would be pretty easy to get.

- You thinking that's why he killed her?
- Actually, Dr. Krane,

the police are already well aware that
my client is the primary beneficiary.

But the second beneficiary, should,

Mr. Stacey be unable to collect, either

because he perished at
the same time as Mrs. Stacey,

or say because,

he was accused of murder
and faced a life or incarceration,

would be the Dearbrook Foundation.

I swear to you I had no idea.

I sensed Mary got a certain satisfaction
from the work she did with us.

Why would a person do such a thing?

I suppose if they didn't have kids,
and no one to pass the money on to.

Actually, she did have a child.

A son from a previous marriage,
she didn't see him much.

It was an ugly custody situation,
but still...

Did you know,
as chairman of the Foundation,

that you would have sole discretion,
in deciding

how to spend any moneys
that found their way into Dearbrook?

Dr. Krane,

it would really help us if you could
tell us where you were 3 nights ago.

Around 9:30 p.m.

- Should I be calling an attorney?
- I don't know.

Should you be?

I've done a lot of charity work
for this city.

9:30 p.m., Dr. Krane, 3 nights ago.

I'm divorced, 6 years now.

Are you all familiar
with Van Buren street?

I got through my last patient
at around...

8 o'clock.

I closed up the office,
I went up to my car...

I drove by Van Buren.

It's not the 1st time.

There was this girl...

Dark hair,

pretty mouth...

21 or 22. This isn't exactly
something I'm proud of.

You're saying she's your alibi?

Were you with her all night?

Did you bring her back to a motel,
place where somebody could have seen her?

I brought her to my office.

Did you get a name?

What for?

But she's always there.

I've seen her there since,
through my windshield out of Van Buren

I'll be right back,
I've got patients backed up

Let me just let them know,

I will be running late.

Interesting alibi. Hooker with no name.
I know I'm convinced.

Actually for the most part,

I think he's telling the truth.

Great. So now, you're
this doctor's alibi?

Kind of, I suppose,
but he doesn't know that.

It's hard to believe a man of his
standing in the community

would admit to the kind of things
he's admitted to if they weren't true.

If he wasn't trying everything
in his power to prove us

he has nothing to do
with Mary Stacey's murder.

Did he mention anything
about drugging her?

Doing all that dental work?
Hitting her?

No, neither did I.

I've been wrong
about so many things.

Devalos is so devastated.

He really wants to believe
that his client's innocent.

And Cynthia Keener is thrilled

now that Scanlon has every cop
on the street looking for Sally.

She was more than happy to call
Sally's parents to take all the credit.

Psychic's my kick, nothing
ever turns out the way I suspect.

You think I'd know by now.

Obviously is not the moment,
to ask my instinct about something?

Don't be silly, I'm a glutton
for punishment.

Do you think maybe my mom
is keeping something from me?

Like what?

I don't know, I'm starting to think that
this whole thing is really,

kind of strange.

Her flying out of here
to spread the moment,

give a check that she
could quite easily have mailed.

That "do it" look she gets in her eyes
whenever she so much as glances,

at you, me, the kids.

Next day, she's taking
a nap and the phone rang.

It was the airline,
confirming a flight
back

and saying that they were upgrade her business.

So?

So they were confirming
a flight back to Minneapolis.

She lives in Crosspoint, Michigan,
not Minneapolis.

I don't know what to say,
maybe you should ask her.

I did, when she woke up.
And she said that she was,

visiting a friend but I never heard her
mention anyone in Minneapolis before.

I don't know what to tell you, maybe
it's a man, maybe she's embarrassed.

I hadn't thought about that.

Did she say something to you?

About a man? No.

Actually, that would kind of make sense.

I kind of almost believe that.

Explains the "do it" looks too.

Maybe you're not
on the fritz after all.

From your lips.

Wait.

Now you're saying
Leo Krane did kill Mary Stacey?

I know, I sound like
I'm contradicting myself, but,

I just saw it, I just dreamt it, there's
nothing vague or uncertain about it.

Leo Krane, the dentist that
we visited this afternoon,

douse that house with something
and burnt that woman alive.

If you say so.

What is that supposed to mean?

That means
it's barely 4 o'clock in the morning.

And frankly, I don't know
what you expect me to do about it.

You say Leo's innocent,
the evidence says otherwise.

What evidence?

For one thing,
his alibi checks out.

You're kidding me.

We recanvassed the Van Buren area,
one of the working girls

actually does remember seeing
Sally Greer getting into a car

matching Leo Krane's that night.

I know, I saw that too.

I want Manny to be right just as much
as you do, but it's hard to understand

why Krane would go to
all the trouble of picking up a hooker

on Van Buren Street
just that he could race across town,

and set Mary Stacey
and her house on fire.

I'm sorry but all the evidence
still points to Manny's client,

being guilty as hell. I know he'll
sweat at that bail hearing tomorrow.

I really wish I had something for him.

You got about 30 hours left,
anything can happen.

Yeah, anything can happen.

You're okay?

What are you doing up?
It's barely 4 in the morning.

I had that dream again.

Heard you walking down the hall.

You're sure you're ok?

Tell me about your dream.

There's really nothing to tell,
it's the same thing,

the woman pours gasoline
all over herself,

and then lights herself in fire.

Except for this time
she did it in Barcelona.

Barcelona?

I don't know how.

I just know it was there.

Owen told me it was one
of her favourite places.

She actually wanted
to be buried there.

But what I don't understand
is why I keep seing it.

And you told me
that's not how it happened.

She didn't kill herself, then why do
I keep seeing it that way in my dreams?

I don't know, sweetie, I keep seeing
things I can't make sense of, either.

If she were alive, I'd understand

that we've something to do
some place to go, something to stop.

Wait a second.

Say that again.

- What?
- What you just said.

If she were alive, there'd
be something to do, some place to go,

something to stop.

You just said it.

Honey, do me a favour,
when daddy wakes up tell him

I need him to take you guys to school.

- Where are you going?
- I'm going to see Cynthia Keener.

But it's really early in the morning.

She loves it when I do that.

I hope you have something
more meaningful to tell me this time.

I don't.

Excuse me?

I have nothing to
offer you as an employee.

I would like to hire you, though.

You have a passport?

I simply didn't do it.

Order, please.

If you interrupt the
District Attorney one more time...

Will you remind your client
to refrain from speaking until such time

as he's asked a question?

Or I will have him return to his cell
and,

this hearing will go on without him.

Begging the Court's forgiveness,
Your Honor. It won't happen again.

District Attorney Van Dyke,

if you will,

please proceed.

Your honor, Graham Stacey is
the very definition of a flight risk.

He was caught with the murder weapon,
he as a $7 million motive,

and he was placed, by his own admission
at the scene of the crime.

With all this against him,

bail would send the wrong message
to the people of this community.

That all a criminal needs to do
to gain the favour of the Court

is to hire the former
District Attorney.

Duly noted.

Do you have a retort
before I reach a ruling?

My apologies, Your Honor.

Begging the Court's indulgence, I would
like to recall detective Lee Scanlon.

I'll allow it.

Detective,

to the best of your knowledge,

was the identity of the victim,
was the identity of Mary Stacey

ever confirmed through DNA?

No, it was not,
the body was too thoroughly burned,

there was nothing to test.

The id was made through dental records
and personal effects left on the body.

Then, based on your
professional experience, and,

mind you, this is purely hypothetical,
do you think it's possible

that a dentist, a specialist,

could alter another woman's teeth,

to make her a match for
Mary Stacey's dental records.

I don't know, he'd have to find
someone with the same build,

similar teeth, similar jaw line...

Objection, Your Honor.

This is fascinating, but
where are we going with all this?

This is a hearing about setting bail,
about

this man being a flight risk.
Not about,

the merits of dental records
for the purpose of identification.

You'll have your chance to respond,
Mr. District Attorney.

Proceed.

I'm sorry. You were saying...

And once you found the right person,

a dentist would have to place
the right kind of fillings and crowns.

Seems like a lot of work, I don't know
why anyone would do that.

What if I told you that,
with Graham Stacey in prison,

Mary Stacey $7 million
life insurance policy,

would go to a charity called
the Dearbrook Foundation.

The what?!

Your Honor,
counsel is turning this hearing into...

A foundation that happened
to be headed up by a local dentist

by the name of Dr. Leo Krane.

Who we believe colluded with Mary Stacey
to fake her own death, frame my client,

so that she could cash in
her own life insurance policy.

Your Honor, this is...

We believe that the woman who died in
that house was not Mary Stacey at all,

but a young runaway named Sally Greer,
who acted as a double, having her teeth

teeth altered so she could provide
a false positive dental match.

That's absurd.

You can't prove that.

So Mr. Devalos,
can you prove any of this?

I may not be able to
prove who the burnt body is,

but I believe,
with the help of a friend,

who's working with
a private investigator,

that I can prove beyond the shadow
of a doubt who the burnt body isn't.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I give you direct from Barcelona, Spain,

Mary Stacey,

and her accomplish
in crime Dr. Leo Krane.

I move for immediate dismissal
of all charges against my client,

who clearly did not kill his wife,
as anyone could plainly see,

She is still very much alive.

I'll see you both in my chambers.

Right now.

Hope you have an explanation
for this, Mr. District Attorney.

Detective,

when you finish here, you should report
your captain for reassignment.

Nothing will please me more,

Mr. District Attorney.

You're okay?

Did you dream, was it about Marjorie?

What are you doing here?

I asked you a question,
now my poor widow wife

is getting ready to fly back to Michigan
and she's waiting for you to tell her

whether she's gonna be alright.
What seems to be the hold up?

What's the hold up?

Hold up is that I
haven't dreamt about her.

You're dead, so you tell me.

You're supposed to be able to see all,
know all... So tell me,

is she gonna pull through?

I don't know.

It doesn't work that way,

not with people you love.

What do you mean by that?
You tell me you can see everything,

but not nothing that had really to do
with the people you love?

I know. Sounds crazy, doesn't it?

I asked about it at the orientation.
You know what they told me?

They said if you could see

everything that there's to
see about the people that you love,

if you could know everything

about the people you care about,

there'd be no reason for you
to watch over them.

And the whole damn system
would go to hell.

Sorry.

I don't get it.

What do you want from me?

You should let me call a cab.

Don't be silly,
I like driving you, mom.

You know what, this is just wrong.

Let me wake Allison and the kids.

No, it's barely 6 o'clock,
we said our goodbyes last night.

But she never does, she never sleeps in,
because she usually has these dreams...

I'm so glad I didn't miss you.

You didn't have to pull
yourself out of bed.

Don't be silly. I wanted to. The only
reason I wasn't up earlier is that...

I was having a dream

about you...

About me? Why on earth
would you dream about me?

What was this dream?

We were in your living room.

It was Ariel, Bridgette, Marie...

Bridgette had just graduated
from college.

And then,

we came in your living room,

and Joe had his hands over your eyes.

And then it was like... Surprise!

And there was this big birthday cake,

and you were the
picture of health and...

This was a lovely dream!

You're right, that's a lovely dream.

It's a nice dream, isn't the
best dream I've ever heard, but...

I think you have something to
tell someone on the way to the airport?

Yes I do.

I have no idea
what is going on here.

Don't worry about it.
We have a plane to catch.

I'll see you soon.

I'll see you soon.

I'll see you soon.

Get out of here!

You know what doctors say...

60% of the battle is thinking positive.

So I've heard.

You did a good thing.

I don't even know why I lied.

Don't worry about it.

I know some people.

Know some people
who know some people.

It was a good thing.

But the next time I tell you
to get out of town...

I'm gone.