Rizzoli & Isles (2010–2016): Season 4, Episode 13 - Tears of a Clown - full transcript

[BELL TOLLING,
PERSON WHISTLING]

[WHISTLING CONTINUES]

[WHIMPERING]

[WHIMPERING GROWS LOUDER]

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

You went without me.

You wouldn't get up.

- Because it was night time.
- It was 04:30.

Yeah, in Boston we call that
night time.

Good morning.

- How far did you go?
- I went to the BU bridge.



You went 12 miles?
Are you supposed to do that?

Sure, why not? Me and my braces
have made peace.

Can you leave them on?
They are so hot.

Don't. I'm sweaty.

I love you.

Wow.

Well,
I say it to you in my head,

I guess it was time
to say it out loud.

Sounds so bizarre
when we say it.

[GIGGLING]

So, which one of us
is gonna say uncle?

[SIGHS]

There doesn't seem to be
a way around it, does there?

One of us has to be
a house spouse.



Why is this so complicated?

Don't stress.
They've extended my leave.

We have two more weeks
to think about it.

Really?

[DOOR OPENS]
MAURA: Morning.

[BOTH GROAN]

Everybody decent in there?

No, it's perfect timing.
We were hoping to have an orgy.

And then we realized we were
one person short.

Ah.

- Hey, Maura.
- Hi.

You still wanna run
to Boston Joe's?

Go. I know you hate
my army coffee.

I'm sorry.

Get out of here.

I'll see you later.
Wait.

Okay. Bye.

[###]

[VIDEO GAME BEEPS]

Come on. Get him. Get him.
Yes!

[BUS BRAKES HISS]

Oh, shoot! Hey, wait!

No!

MAN: Hey, there.
You miss your bus?

Uh- huh.

Hey. My name is Brent.

I work at
the Three Ring Car Wash.

I know, it's a silly outfit,
right? Well, uh, come on.

I am going right past
Laura Mills Elementary School.

- Is that where you're headed?
- Yeah.

Well, l- - I can drop you.

- That's ok?
- No, come on. Here.

BOY: Hey, that's mine. Don't- -

Hey, what the hell
are you doing?

- BOY: No. No.
- MAN: Let go of him.

- MAN: Let go of him.
- CLOWN: Back off.

Hey!

Why don't you mind your own
business?

I want to know what the hell
you think you're doing?

- Get off of me.
- I'm calling the police.

Unh!

[TIRES SQUEAL]

What do I do?

Indecisiveness is associated
with a range of

problematic psychological
outcomes,

including anxiety
and depression.

Well, if he has to leave the
army or I have to quit my job,

I can assure you

both of us are going to be
very anxious and depressed.

Okay. Why can't we be like them?

Look, so sweet and simple.

- Oh, good morning.
- MAURA: Are you helping Nada?

Orjust flirting?

Flirting.
You're gonna get me in trouble.

Two low- fat flat
lattes coming up.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

Thanks for being so nice to her.

She worries every time
she sees you.

Why, because she called me
a bitch first time she met me?

I've already forgotten it.
Come on.

In fairness to Nada,
she did think that you threw

- your hot coffee on a stranger.
- See?

- Your mom is so great, Jane.
- How do you know my mom?

Don't tell me she is cheating on
her espresso machine

and buying her coffee here.

No, I met her at
the Division One Caf?.

Angela's letting Nada use it as
a model for her master's thesis.

- Oh, what's your thesis?
- It's a business plan

to turn Angela's drinks
and healthy homemade food

into a chain.

Maybe Mom will make it rich
after all.

[CHUCKLES]
Well, it's all theoretical.

FROST: No, it isn't.

You've been helping her
integrate

more vegan recipes
into her menu.

What? No, don't do that.

[PHONES VIBRATING]

Coffee party's over.

Frost would you give us
a ride back to my place

- so we can change.
- Sure thing.

- Thanks, Nada.
- Thank you.

See you later.

Okay, this is a weird one.

Let's start with introductions.
Who is that?

Abraham Reynolds.
Lived right over there.

He died being a good Samaritan.

JANE: What happened?

Ten-year-old boy named Zack
says a man tried to grab him and

force him into a car.
Reynolds saw it,

jumped in to try
to rescue the kid.

He appears to have suffered
a subdural hematoma.

Did the boy describe
the kidnapper?

He said it was a clown.

What is it?

In 1988 a ten- year- old boy was
abducted by a clown

on his way home from school.

Nick Hamilton.
I'll never forget it. I was 12.

Ma wouldn't let us go anywhere
for months.

We called it the Summer of the
Clown. I was still in uniform.

It was a bad time.

- What happened to Nick?
- Never found him or the clown.

A random clown kidnapped a kid.

No. There were three attempted
kidnappings on young boys

before the clown grabbed Nick.

- Never liked clowns.
- Coulrophobia.

Fear of clowns.
Recent studies confirmed

that clowns are disliked
by most children.

What do we know about
this clown?

Said his name was Brent

and he was headed for his job
at a clown car wash.

As far as I know, there are
no clown car washes in Boston.

- Frost, can you do a search?
- Yeah, sure.

Oh, he's holding something.

Satin polyester trim.

Yellow, shiny. Looks like
something a clown would wear.

No clown motifs
on any businesses near here,

including car washes.

KORSAK: Hey, found something.

Yeah, looks like a petal maybe.

Yeah, it's a piece
of a plastic flower.

Might have a footprint here.

Yep.

Clown shoe. Big one.

All right, let's have CSRU get
here and make a cast impression.

I'm not liking this.

Me either.

[KORSAK SIGHS]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

Tell me our poor, dead Samaritan
managed to scratch the clown.

Not sure I have
any skin cells yet.

But there is a beige,
powdery substance

under his index finger.

We need the killer's skin,
Maura.

He had a pre- existing condition.

Wait, no don't stop.

We could get lucky
and get the killer's DNA.

Hold your horses.
Homer said that to Antilochus

to get him to stop driving
his chariot like a maniac.

Ah- ha. I'd always wondered.

See this? It's an aneurism.

What, that burst when his skull
struck the curb?

Yes.

Anything on the plastic flower?

Uh, we did a headspace analysis.

I'd like a headspace analysis.
It would help me figure out

if I am going to marry
the love of my life

or stay here and solve murders
and become an old cat lady.

You'll never be a cat lady.
You'll be a dog lady.

- Phew!
- Having lunch with Casey?

Only if you talk faster
about the plastic flower.

It has volatile organic
chemical levels

close to 1,000 parts
per million.

Even faster.

The FDA hasn't allowed levels
over 500 since 1990.

[CHUCKLES]

Wait, since 1990?
That means the flower

was probably manufactured
in the '80s.

- Don't cancel your lunch.
- L- - I'm not. I'm...

ordering files
from the archives.

If the costume our killer is
wearing was from the '80s,

maybe there's a connection
to that '88 kidnapping.

Jane asked me to bring up
all the incident reports.

Put them over there.

Okay, but you're going to need
a bigger squad room.

There are hundreds of boxes
down there.

Do you really want to go through
all the incident reports from

from June, July,
and August of '88?

No, we really want you to go
through them all.

Look for any reports
that mention a clown.

Why would the clown be back?

If you find it boring
going through old files

maybe Martinez has something
exciting to do.

Yeah. Somebody's got to count
all those seized Xanax pills.

Hey, Frank,
did you ever notice how

Frost can talk and work
at the same time?

Bats in the attic.
Lost car keys.

My neighbor flashed his butt
at me.

- These aren't sorted.
- That's why you're here.

Did you find the three files
on the attempted kidnappings?

Yeah, they're right there.

I also found
the missing persons' files.

I remember that kid.

His face was everywhere.
Even on milk cartons.

Yeah. The only witness
to Nick's kidnapping

was a housewife who saw it
from her kitchen window.

A housewife?

Are you gonna tell me
the ladies like to be called

domestic engineers?

- The ladies?
- Stop busting my balls!

We gotta set up a separate
tip line.

- I'll say one up in brick.
- Brace yourself.

We had thousands of
clown sightings in '88.

Teenagers playing pranks,
parents flipping out.

Didn't help us find this boy.

[COMPUTER BEEPS]

Oh, the forensic artist's just
finished with Zack.

He was the only witness
to the clown.

Release it.
Although I doubt the bad guy

is still wandering around
in his clown get up.

This is beautiful.

I never have a real lunch.

Last time I was on a picnic,
I was with my family

at Franklin Park Zoo.

And my father insisted on fixing
the water fountain

and snapped the pipe.

I hope it was
the marine section.

No, it was the elephant section.

Oh, what did the elephants do?

They shot water at us.

I know you hate to be away when
you're in the middle of a case.

Makes me mad
that some poor guy trying

to save a kid got murdered.

Let's not talk work.

It's okay. I wanna support you.
I support what you do.

I wanna do the same for you.

Casey,
I don't want to be responsible

for ruining your career.

They want you to be a general.

Do you know how few people
get that opportunity?

I feel the same way about asking
you to be an army wife.

Your work's important.
You're so good at it.

So what do we do?

So may be it's time
I resign my commission.

If anyone was born to be
a leader, you are.

I Googled you, you know.

So you know about
the sex change.

Shut up.

No, I know that you have
a Purple Heart.

I know that you have a
Distinguished Service Cross.

And I know how you got
those medals.

Here. Put this on your finger.
I want to see what size you are.

Okay. All right.

Well, let's hope you're a seven.

- How did you know?
- I pay attention.

I always thought
I'd know what to say,

when the man I love
proposed to me.

I'm making you wait.
It's not fair.

Sure it is. We haven't
figured it out yet. Just...

Just don't say anything.
Just wear it.

See how it feels.

I think my customers are gonna
be able to tell

the meatballs aren't meat.
You can taste the chickpeas.

Maybe you can give them
an upbeat name, like,

Chaotalia meatballs.

- You think that'll fool Jane?
- Uh, no.

[ANGELA CHUCKLES]

[SIGHS]

Is everything all right?

No.
You ever get what you wanted

and you're not sure
you want it anymore?

Uh, yes, positive psychology
research suggests

we should not only be careful
what we wish for

but why we wish for it.

Heh. I just got offered
the job of a lifetime.

That's wonderful.

- In Beijing.
- Oh, that's far.

What does detective Frost say?

I haven't told him yet.

- What do you wanna do?
- Take the job...

and stay in Boston with Barry.

Those are mutually exclusive.

I just wish I could have it all.

No one has it all.

Do you regret your choices?

I mean you are a respected
professional. You made it.

Fulfilling your dreams
require lots of hard choices.

Pain over a break up will fade,

but you need to ask whether
putting him before yourself

is something that you'll regret.

Did you find anyone who
wears a size 25 clown shoe?

No, but I did find skin cells
under the victim's fingernails.

Looks like enough to give us
a DNA profile of his attacker.

Hmm. What about
the beige powdery stuff?

We ran it through the gas
spectrometer. It's paint.

Paint?
What, like clown face paint?

Uh, no,
like flexible latex paint.

It's a mixture of rubber cement,
pigment, and naphtha.

What's naphtha?

Highly volatile mixture of
hydrocarbons.

Can I mention that diamond
you're wearing

or do I ignore it?

You don't watch many
romantic comedies, do you?

I do not.

Well, I'm supposed to get all

giggly and girly and
you're supposed to squeal.

Why would I squeal
over a colorless

crystalline form of pure carbon?

You have to admit it's pretty.

I just wanted to wear it
for a couple of minutes.

I don't want to think about
what it means. I just- -

Talk to me about the paint.

It was used on a slush-molded
latex mask.

Okay, so our good Samaritan
must have grabbed the killer

by his rubber clown mask.

Can you trace the manufacturer?

Lab techs are already working
on it.

So? You're leaving.

What? No. No.

I didn't say yes.

Can you see yourself
as a general's wife?

What if I leave behind
my life here

and we don't work out
as a couple?

Or he leaves his?

One of us has to ruin a career
for us to be together. It's...

It's just not fair.

If life were fair
all seven billion of us

would have had one shoe and a
piece of cardboard to call home.

How're you gonna survive
with one shoe?

How will I survive
without my best friend?

Maura.

Wait, what're you doing?

I have a foreign body
on my cornea.

- Wait, Maura.
- No, I'm fine.

[DOOR OPENS]

Dr. Isles.

Why would you do that?

I'm sorry, Detective. Do what?

Encourage my girlfriend
to move to China.

I wasn't encouraging her. I was
simply being a sounding board.

Really?

"The pain over a breakup
will fade."

"The regret that you put him
before yourself won't."

God...

I'm so sorry.
But that is out of context.

- I didn't- -
- She's leaving on Friday,

thanks to you.

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS] This isn't too bad.

No, shouldn't take us more than
a couple of years.

What is this pile?

213 clown sightings.
We've got hobo clowns,

fast- food clowns, mimes,
evil clowns, Bozo the Clown.

I must have taken
a few hundred of those myself.

I can't believe all we have

to go on are 25- year- old
incident reports

- What's the matter?
- Nothing.

Doesn't look like nothing.

[PHONE VIBRATES]

Sergeant Korsak.
Yeah? Where?

Okay.

A kid was abducted by a clown
fitting our description.

Grab Jane. Let's go.

[POLICE SIREN WAILS]

- Did you see what happened?
- No.

No. No, I was making a delivery
and I pulled over

as soon as I saw this backpack
in the middle of the street.

- Let me take that.
- The boy must have dropped it.

Please tell us everything
you saw.

It happened so fast.
All I saw was the clown

driving away with a little boy.

- Can you describe the car?
- Gr- - Grey, maybe or silver?

- Sedan? Compact? Station wagon?
- Sedan, I think.

- Did you get a look at the boy?
- Not really.

- He looked so frightened.
- I'm looking for my son.

He should be home.
His bus stop's right here.

[WOMAN GASPS]

That's my son's. That's Kevin's.

Okay. Okay, um...

Do you have any pictures
of your son?

- They... They're in my house.
- Okay. Why don't- -

Why don't we go to your house
and get them, okay?

Okay. I just... l... I've to call
my husband first.

[PHONE BEEPS]

- We failed that kid.
- No, we didn't.

Yes, we did.
We didn't catch the clown.

- And now he has her little boy.
- Jane.

What? I'm on a picnic
with my boyfriend

while the killer's out
looking for his next victim.

MAURA: I have something.

We've identified the
manufacturer of the mask

through the paint formula.

It was made by Every Mask, Inc.

And they went out of business
in 1989.

I'll start making calls.

See if I can track down someone
who might have records.

Something just came in
on the tip line.

What do you have?

Text with a video link
came in on the tip line.

- Texted by phone?
- FROST: Yeah.

- Did you track the phone?
- No go.

It was sent from a burn phone.

Bet you didn't think
you'd see me again, did you?

- My God!
- KORSAK: That's a taunt.

Say hello to Kevin.

Tell me that he's breathing.

Maura,
tell me that child is alive.

L... I can't tell, Jane.

We've gotta find that boy.

Frost, let's go through
every piece of video

that he sent us frame-by-frame.

Play it from the beginning.

Jane, sorry...
Can I talk to you?

L... I can't right now.
It'll have to wait. I'm sorry.

It can't.

Okay, uh, just give me
two seconds.

I'll meet you downstairs.

Okay, start with the section,
where he moves the camera.

Jane, we can go through this.

We'll call if there's anything.

KORSAK: Go.

Hi.

Hey, I'm sorry.
I know you're busy.

No, l... I'm sorry too.

I just...
I don't have a lot of time.

My leave's been cancelled.

What?

Got emergency orders to return.
I'm catching a plane. Now.

- You have to?
- Yeah.

Okay, uh...

Well, l... I wish
I could take you to the airport.

- But we have a missing kid...
- No, it's okay. I mean it.

No, it's not.

What do...

- What do we do?
- I don't know. Do you?

Still on hold with City Hall.

Do they know
it's an emergency?

KORSAK:
That's why they haven't hung up.

They're going through about
a decade's worth

of business records.
Yeah, yeah. Still here.

Detective Frost,
could you continue playing

the video in slow motion?

KORSAK: Uh-huh, great. Thanks!

A guy named Buzz Wallace
owned Every Mask, Inc.

Let's hope Buzz is still alive
and he kept good records.

[TYPING]

Hey, freeze it there!

KORSAK: Is that a window?

FROST: I can enhance the image.

Do it.

That's a window.

KORSAK: Are those houses
across the street?

Yes. There's a weather vane.

KORSAK: Let's see which way
the arrow on it is pointing.

I'll check the wind direction
for this morning.

North by north- east.

So the arrow is pointing
northish...

MAURA: Which means you're
looking for a house

on the east side of the street
that runs north to south.

Thank you, Magellan.

[COMPUTER BEEPS]

Okay.

[TYPING]

Good news. Bad news.
He did manufacture those masks

But he sold thousands of them.

Sergeant, didn't the boy Zack
say the clown was headed to

a clown car wash?

Perhaps there was a car wash
in that time

that had some kind of
a sales stunt.

I'll see if Buzz sold
any clown masks

to a car wash in the 1980s.

We got something.

Afire alarm box
on the telephone pole

across the street
from the basement.

First number is worn off.

That would identify
the district.

There are 1,200 of those
all over the city.

[COMPUTER BEEPS]

Oh! Good thing Buzz's retired.
The guy is always online.

Yeah, he says he shipped
a dozen clown masks

to Three Ring Car Wash in 1988.

Searching for
a Three Ring Car Wash.

Three Ring Car Wash was owned by
William Miller, closed in 2007.

- Got a home address?
- 2141 Lincoln Avenue.

Looks like William Miller
died six months ago.

The house is in probate.

Miller left the house
to his son, Brent.

The clown told Zack
his name was Brent.

I'll retire from the army.
I'll come back to Boston.

FROST: Jane!

Then you'll hate it.
Then you'll hate me. And...

- And I have to go.
- Me too.

Bye.

We got a possible address
on the house.

We have units on the way.

Okay. Let's pray
the boy's still alive.

No.

No. No. No. No, Kevin.

Unh... mommy.

Sweetie, listen to me.
Okay, you're safe.

I'm a police officer, and I'm
gonna take you home, okay?

Okay, get him out of here.

[GROANING]

Contact wound.

Put the gun right to his
own head.

Saved us a whole lot of trouble.

[POLICE SIREN WAILS]

KORSAK: Looks like he was doing
construction.

Probably planned to sell
the family home

once it cleared probate.

There's an area of tattooing

and scorched skin around
the perimeter of the wound.

He's got blowback
on the right-hand glove.

It's likely a suicide.

Got a box of clown costumes
here.

Let's get 'em in for processing.

KORSAK: Brent Miller
was in Boston in '88.

He and his father were
pretty good suspects

in disappearance of that boy,
Nick Hamilton.

[SIGHS] All right,
let's get the cadaver dogs

and the ground
penetrating radar here.

Search the property
for his body.

There's no telling how many
crimes this guy committed.

[LOCK TURNS]

"It'll all be okay."

[SIGHS] It sure will.

[KNOCKING AT DOOR]

- Jane.
- Hi.

- Hey.
- Hey.

- I'm terrible company.
- So am I.

I didn't come by to talk.

- Where's your ring?
- Uh, it's...

Safety deposit box.
Maura, this is talking.

I'll stop and Yan Gong won't
talk either.

Oh, good. You brought Yan Gong.

Who is Yan Gong?

[SPEAKING THAl]

I thought you could use
a Thai massage.

Oh, you are so weird
and wonderful.

- Oh, hi.
- Hi.

And if we move
your coffee table,

Le Won could give me one too.

JANE: God, no wonder
Frost is mad at you.

[SIGHS]

I'm sorry.

JANE: Tell him, not me.

I'm apologizing to you too.

For what, Maura?

This isn't very relaxing
by the way.

I think I was really
talking to you

when I told Nada to follow
her own path.

So you think Casey should be
the one to give up everything?

Mmm.
I like the idea of that

better than the idea of you
on an army base

serving mint juleps
to Casey's officers.

[SCOFFS]

- Don't worry.
- Really?

Yeah, I'm sure
they all drink beer.

Ow! Yan Gong hit her.

[LAUGHING]

It's yours.

- WOMAN: What do you say?
- Thank you.

You're welcome.
How's your arm feeling?

Okay.

I kind of wish you guys
had better Band-Aids.

Really? Okay.

I'll look into that.
What? Like Spiderman?

You ever seen the
bacon-shaped ones?

Bacon? Okay.

That sounds cool. Okay.

Kevin, can you tell me
what happened yesterday?

It's okay. Honey,
you're not in trouble.

You should tell Detective Rizzoli
everything, okay?

The clown said he had a puppy.

He said if I guessed how big
his feet were,

he'd give me the puppy.

Is that why you got in the car?

- Yeah.
- My God.

But you threw your backpack out
the window though, didn't you?

- Yeah.
- JANE: Yeah.

When I knew something bad
was going to happen.

That was really, really smart.

- Excuse me.
- I'll be right back.

I ran a tox screen
looking for sedatives.

Kevin tested positive
for valium.

Okay, thanks.

Um...

Did the clown give you anything
to eat or drink?

KEVIN: Yeah.

He gave me some milk
and some cookies.

Is that why he doesn't
remember anything?

Was there something in the milk?

There was valium.

Hey.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for finding me.

- It's okay if I get a hug?
- Yeah.

Okay. Good, come here.

You did great.

Okay. Pack up then, thanks.
Damn it!

Ground penetrating radar team
didn't find remains?

Searched every inch of
Brent Miller's place. Nothing.

I've been digging into
his background.

He worked at his father's
car wash

while he got
his teaching credential.

Left Boston in August of '88

to take a teaching job in
Philadelphia.

That would have been after
Nick Hamilton's disappearance.

Any missing kids or clown
sightings in Philly?

Nope. Miller didn't even have
parking tickets.

Where did he go for 25 years?

Flea hopping
from school to school,

up and down the East Coast.

They chased him out.

I made calls
to the schools where he worked.

Nobody would talk.

Once he was a teacher
he didn't need a clown costume.

He had access to all the boys
he wanted.

[SCOFFS]
They put him on indefinite paid leave

at his last job.

Molestation is hard to prove.
Most boys don't want to testify.

I'm not sure I would.

What's going on between you
and Dr. Isles?

Nothing.

You're a bad liar, Frost.

[SNIFFLES]

The crime lab compared
the footprint we found

at the first kidnapping scene
yesterday

to the clown shoe that
Brent was wearing.

- They match.
- JANE: Makes sense.

Brent tried to grab Zack
and then

killed Reynolds when he tried
to stop him.

I don't think
it was Brent Miller.

What?

Miller weighed 225 pounds.

And whoever made this impression
weighed less than a 175 pounds.

So two different men wore
the shoes. We got two clowns?

It's the only explanation.

So who killed Reynolds?

Got a toxicology report back.

And Miller had valium
in his system.

You found valium in Miller
and the boy.

That's odd.

And both had enough
to render them unconscious.

Then how did Brent kill himself?

I don't think he could have.

Did you see anything on his body

to indicate
he might have been tied up?

No. No ligature marks.

The only thing I noticed...

...is this.

- What's that from?
- Contact dermatitis.

Wait. Wait, that could be from- -

What? What're you looking for?

This.

He could have been bound to
the chair that we found him in

with Ace bandages.

That would explain
the patch of dermatitis.

It's a pretty effective
restraint.

It wouldn't have left any traces

if it hadn't touched the skin
where he was perspiring.

JANE:
So this is Miller with Kevin?

But we know it wasn't Miller
who tried to grab Zack

because of the footprint
evidence.

Seems like someone wants us
to think the clown is back.

Somebody framing Brent Miller?

It makes sense to frame him
for a current kidnapping.

He got away with Nick Hamilton's
kidnapping in '88.

Wait a minute.

What if Miller molested
other boys 25 years ago?

He left Boston, comes back.

What if a grownup victim saw him
and decided it was payback time?

Frankie, can you grab
the incident reports, uh,

the ones of the kids that claim
they saw that clown in '88?

They're aren't that many.

It's, uh, three attempted
kidnappings victims...

Nick Hamilton and uh...

Oh! This one.

Derrick Johnson, eight.
There's a note here.

"See additional information."

Well the detective's notes
are in the archives.

There's also a VHS tape
with an interview of the kid.

- I can get them.
- Carol Lewis is a detective.

She retired about ten years ago.

Grab everything you can find.
See what the boy has to say.

Yeah.

Derrick says a clown dressed
like an American flag

grabbed him at Turtle Pond
and molested him

behind the big rocks.

So why didn't Detective Lewis go
forward with the case?

There must have been
something wrong with the case.

She was a good cop.
Really competent.

- I got it up.
- Play it.

LEWIS: Now, Derrick

why did you wait two weeks
to tell your mom and dad

that the clown bothered you?

I don't know.

LEWIS: Were you afraid you might
get in trouble?

I was scared.
He didn't want me to tell.

LEWIS: He? Who? The clown?

No, I mean, I didn't want to.

He's lying. Who's he?

- LEWIS: What did the clown do?
- He saw us fishing.

"Us." Did you hear that?
He was with someone.

The clown was in the woods?

Why is the clown in the woods
at Turtle Pond?

- Shh.
- What? You're talking.

LEWIS:
Why were you in the woods?

And we...

Wha... He said it again. "We."

There's no way that kid was
out there by himself.

And then it got dark.

And I saw a face.

And I got scared.

And the face saw me.

And it was the clown.

There is no way
I'm gonna sleep tonight.

Me either.

Derrick Johnson will be 33 now.
Frost, find out where he is.

When did they pave over
the trails at Turtle Pond?

Oh, so I can talk now?

1988.

I only remember because
I wanted to ride my bike

on the new paths,
and Ma wouldn't let me

because there
was a crazed clown in Boston.

1988. We're on to something.

What if Brent Miller left
his job at the car wash...

...and on his way home
put the clown mask on...

- to dump Nick Hamilton's body?
- KORSAK: Yeah.

You can drive a car
right up to where Derrick said

they were fishing.

You could bury a body
under the dirt paths,

knowing it was gonna be
paved over.

Okay, let's do a search
at Turtle Pond

with the ground
penetrating radar.

- Derrick Johnson lives in town.
- Look at his weight.

One-hundred-and-sixty-nine pounds.

Right in line
with the clown shoe impressions.

He had his license revoked
for DUIs.

KORSAK: Pretty good rap sheet.

Tried to commit suicide
in custody.

Being molested as a kid would
sure give him a motive now.

Lives in a men's shelter.

Let's go pick him up.

Derrick, do you know this man?

No.

What about him?

Don't show me that.
I hate clowns.

You hate clowns because of what
this man did to you, don't you?

[SIGHS]

I was eight years old and...

...I just wanted to have
an adventure.

You know, to see what it was
like to fish at night for trout

at Turtle Pond.

KORSAK: What happened?

He said...

"Hey, slugger, catch anything?"

Then he...

Then he caught me.

Must have made you very angry.

I hated him.
Hated what he did.

I hate what happened to me
because of him.

I still do.

Did you hate him enough
to kill him?

Yeah.

Wouldn't you?

[KNOCKING AT DOOR,
DOOR OPENS]

Excuse me. It's important.

I compared Derrick's
DNA in CODIS to the DNA

in the skin cells found
in the scrapings

from under Reynolds'
fingernails.

It's not Derrick's DNA.

- But?
- I did find common markers.

So our killer is someone
related to Derrick?

Closely related.

[DOOR OPENS]

They found a body
at Turtle Pond.

- Is it a boy?
- Yeah.

Then after that you just push
the drawer in like that.

- It's that easy.
- Mm-hmm.

It's all you have to do, buddy.

All right.

[DOOR CHIMES]

Hi.

Eli, call mom and tell her
to come pick you up, okay?

- Yeah, okay.
- All right, buddy.

- Hi.
- Hi.

Oh, it's great news about that,
uh, boy. Kevin?

- Yeah.
- I'm relieved.

So? You need my statement?

No.

This is you and your little
brother Derrick

at Turtle Pond, isn't it?

Yeah. Yeah, why?

You tried to kidnap a boy
yesterday.

You ended up killing
an innocent man.

A good Samaritan
tried to stop you.

I don't know what
you're talking about.

I brought you guys the boy's
backpack, you remember?

You were driving Brent's car,
weren't you?

When Kevin threw the backpack
out the window,

you knew you had to come back

because your fingerprints
were on it.

- No.
- You first tried to grab Zack.

But that went south
when you killed a man.

But you had no choice, did you?
'Cause you already had

Brent Miller tied up
in his basement

so you had to go through with
your plan and grab another boy.

- I don't know a Brent Miller.
- No?

Okay. Well,
then you wouldn't mind

giving us a sample of your DNA?

If you'll just
chew on your cheek,

we can do a swab, and be done.

Show us your hands.

I know you want us to think
you got a gun under there.

Don't let it end like this.

No.

End it.

Shoot me.

No.

Show us your hands.

Think about your son, Greg.
Don't do this to him.

Come on.

There you go.

Okay.

You wanted the world to know

what he did to your little
brother, didn't you?

You saw Derrick.

How many lives
did that man ruin, huh?

You, animal!

You perverted piece of crap!

Did he molest you too?

Is that why you put the gun
to his head

and pulled the trigger?

KORSAK:
We have credit card receipts.

Brent came into your store
and bought supplies.

You recognized his voice,
didn't you?

He called my son "slugger."

Why would you do it like this,
Greg?

You traumatized two little boys.

I didn't mean to.
It just got out of control.

But I owed Derrick that much.

Because I wanted that pedophile
to admit it.

You know, to expose him
for who he was.

You wanted to do more than
expose him.

Yeah, I wanted him dead.

You're under arrest, Greg.

Can I say goodbye to my boy?

Yeah.

Is Yan Gong booked?

I can call her.

No, don't. I want to wallow.

What an aawul case.

And he's still mad at me.

- Did you apologize?
- Yes, repeatedly.

He'll get over it.

I'm still mad.

I'm still sorry.

I'm still wallowing.

This sucks.

We know two nice Thai masseuses.

Excuse me?

Certified massage therapists,
Detective Frost,

from the prestigious
Lotus Palm School.

And who hasn't heard of
the Lotus Palm School.

Okay. Well, in that case- -

I get Yan Gong.

Well, you can't call dibs.
You had her last time.

Frost, give me just a second.
I can too call dibs.

You can't have Yan Gong
every single time.

I can get her every single time.
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