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[ bird screeches ]

[ brakes hissing ]

[ indistinct radio chatter ]

[ siren wailing ]

[ vehicle door closes ]

[ gun cocks ]

[ vehicle doors close ]

Flynn: all right, come on.
Come on.

Keep coming.
Keep coming.

Come on.

Plenty of room.
Plenty of room.

Let's go. Come on.
Come on. Come on.

Come on. Come on.
Plenty of room.

Plenty of room.

Whoa, whoa! Whoa!

That's good.

[ vehicle door opens ]

Chief, are you sure
You've recovered enough

From your surgery
To be doing this?

[ grunts ]

I have a note from my doctor,
Sergeant.

You can read it
If you'd like.

Thank you.

[ sighs ]

[ indistinct radio chatter ]

Yoo-hoo.
Morning, everybody.

Where's our victim?

A traffic-chopper pilot
Spotted the car

At 6:00 this morning,
Dialed 911.

Fire and rescue repelled
Down the hill, found a body --

Female, early 40s,
Declared dead on the scene --

Called the patrol car.

Sanchez: most of our vic
Is over there.
Most of her?

Yeah, coyotes came by the body
During the night, chief.

Yuck.

So,
It's a traffic accident.

And we're here because?

The victim's I.D.
Was found in the car.

Her name
Is marguerite scott.

She worked with the
Department of homeland security.

Provenza: our fire-and-rescue
Guys brought this up.

The car was a rental.

The victim picked it up
Five days ago at lax.

Paid extra for a hybrid.

Our accident investigators
Saw no signs of a collision,

No skid marks.

It seems like she accelerated
Right off the cliff.

If she's from d.C.,

She might have been lost,
Didn't see the turn.

Flynn:
Or she did it on purpose.

Provenza: a woman so concerned
About the planet

That she rents a hybrid
To kill herself in?

Maybe she saw a tree down there
She wanted to hug.

Detective daniels,
Could you please get in touch

With someone
From homeland security?

Ask them what ms. Scott
Might have been doing here.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

Pardon me, sir.

I'm deputy chief brenda johnson
Of the lapd,

And, um, I need to examine
The scene of the accident,

But I'm just recovering
From abdominal surgery,

So I was wondering if you could,
Pretty please,

Give me a lift.

Let's go.

Um, chief, you are not
Physically ready for this.

We don't have training
On those harnesses.

We're not supposed to
Use them.

You're not doing it,
Sergeant.

Take the rest of the crew
And climb down,

And I'll meet you there.

Ready whenever you are.

Now, wait, wait, wait!
I have a duty!

Okay, wait!
Damn it, chief!

Flynn: let's go.

Watch your step, guys.

You're not coming?

I don't hike.

Hard to tell which injuries
Are from the crash

And which
Are from the coyotes.

Brenda: looks like
They didn't touch her face.

[ clears throat ]

Thank you.

Let's take a look
At the car.

We didn't find a handbag
Or cellphone.

Detective sanchez
Is still doing a search

Of the perimeter
Of the crash site.

Now, she was
From out of town, chief,

So she may have been
Using the gps system

That comes with the car.

Assuming the motherboard's
Still intact,

We can see what addresses
She was punching in.

[ groans ]

I see a valet ticket
Down there.

Uh,
Let's check her hotel room,

Drag her room phone,
And try and find her cell.

See who
She was talking to.

Lieutenant flynn,

If you could grab
That valet ticket, please.

Uh, lieutenant tao,

As soon as buzz
Has what he needs here,

Please have this car
Towed to the print shed.

And, sergeant gabriel,

See if you can take the body
To the morgue, please.

See if we can determine
The exact cause of death.

Detective sanchez,
You find anything?

I found a toe, chief.
I bagged it.

Hand it off
To sergeant gabriel.

Chief.
Chief, listen.

Yes, buzz, what is it?

You're standing
In poison oak.

[ groans ]

Oh.

[ elevator bell dings ]

Hey. Are you okay?

Perfect. Perfect.

I just need to, uh,
Take these painkillers

That the doctor gave me,
But I cannot seem to find them.

So, was maggie scott's death
An accident or what?

Oh, we don't know yet.

She is a department
Of homeland security employee,

And detective daniels says
That she was here on business,

But they won't tell us why
Or what she was doing.

She was an accountant,
And she was auditing us.

You called her "Maggie."

Yeah, she was a friend.

Listen, I'd appreciate it
If you, uh,

Kept me very closely advised
About what happened to her.

S-sure.

And no worries about overtime
On this one.

I'll, uh --
I'll cover it somehow.

Okay.

Thank you.

Sure.

Impossible.

Homeland security
Gave us a grant

For new
Communications equipment

So police and fire

Could communicate
During a crisis.

Maggie -- marguerite -- scott
Was sent by dhs

To keep tabs on how
We were spending their money.

Part of lapd's
Financial troubles --

For every dollar
The feds give us,

We spend two dollars trying to
Prove we're not wasting it.

Provenza: well,
There's your motive, chief.

Everybody
Hates an auditor.

Maggie's husband
Is on his way to l.A.,

But our friends at dhs
Were more eager

To talk about maggie's
Missing cellphone and laptop,

Both of which
Are encrypted

And contain
Classified information.

Which is why I can't get
A phone bill.

What have we found
In maggie's hotel room?

Flynn:
No sign of forced entry.

And although she never
Used the phone in her room,

We couldn't find
A cellphone anywhere.

We did, however,
Find a laptop charger.

We pulled the navigation system
Out of maggie's car, chief.

The screen is shot,

But we got the addresses
She typed into her gps.

The first one
Is from her hotel,

And the second
Is 150 north los angeles street.

She was in our building --
This week.

Most likely to see jim hanson
In fiscal operations.

Tao: then there's
The italian restaurant downtown.

We called. She dined there
Two nights ago -- alone.

The next address
Is a business

In north hollywood --
Civilaudio.

Taylor:
Which supplied the radios

We purchased
With the dhs grant money.

This last address
Is interesting --

Elysian park drive, precisely
Where maggie scott's car

Went off the cliff,

And it's only five blocks
From lapd's academy road.

Flynn: yeah, but why
Would she want to know

How to get
To that exact spot?

There wasn't
Even a house there.

Maybe she had a boyfriend
That no one knew about.

I mean, a lot of couples
Go up there to, you know...

...Check out the view.

Well, she was a little long
In the tooth

To be necking in her car.

Hey, look,
She's a federal employee

Working for homeland security,
And she's married.

Maybe she didn't want
Anybody at the hotel

To see who she was with.

That was gabriel,
Chief.

They're ready for you
At the morgue.

Brenda:
Wonderful.

Okay, uh, lieutenant tao,
I would like to talk to --

No, thank you --

This jim hanson from the
Fiscal operations department.

All right.

Thank you.

[ grunts ]

So, chief,
You really think

Maggie's death
Had anything to do with us?

I don't know, commander,

But whoever was meeting her
At lover's lane

Wasn't just interested
In maggie.

They wanted her computer,
Too.

Carry on, everybody.

[ cellphone ringing ]

Can it wait?
I'm sitting on a wiretap.

I have a dead employee

From the department
Of homeland security

By the name
Of marguerite scott,

And I need you to get a dump
On her encrypted cellphone.

Why don't you
Just download it?

It's missing...

Along with her laptop,
Also encrypted.

Um...I don't know if
I should check on this for you.

Oh, if I have to hear
One more time

About how your friends
Are making fun of you

For doing me favors...

I am recovering from surgery!
Please!

There are new rules in place.
If you get us involved --

And I can't
Have chocolate anymore.

Do you understand that?
Do you?

Please,
Just make the call.

[ cellphone beeps ]

Hi.

Okay, brenda.

Marguerite scott.

I'll make the call.

Great suit.

Did you get it
At fred segal?

Yeah. Yeah, I did.

I know this girl there.
She gets me a discount.

Love that place.

I live just around the corner
From there.

Brenda:
Sorry that took so long.

What --
What have you learned?

It's a little complicated.

Your vic survived the crash

And was well enough
To climb out of the car

And crawl her way up the hill.
Crawl?

Are you sure she wasn't
Thrown out of the car?

No.
These are seat-belt bruises,

Which means she was definitely
Strapped in at impact.

And then look...

At the dirt under her nails,

The abrasions on her knees
And elbows.

She crawled up that hill.

The question is
How she was able to climb

When she expired instantly
From massive trauma to the head.

But that didn't happen
During the crash?

No.

I found a splinter
In her head,

Indicating someone struck her
With a branch or a large stick.

And the final blow
Might have come from a rock

After she drove
Off the cliff.

Hmm.
Not her best day.

Two last things --

Notice anything unusual
About your vic's face?

Don't make me guess.

Coyotes always feed
On the body's soft tissue first.

My guess is

They left her face alone
Because of the seasoning.

[ sniffs ]

Excuse me?

Someone doused your vic
With pepper spray,

Which might explain

Why she drove off the cliff
In the first place.

Maggie scott is dead?

I'm afraid so, mr. Hanson.
I'm so sorry about that.

Oh, my god.

The lapd was put through this
Exhausting audit for nothing?

Sorry to see you're so broken up
Over maggie's death.

No, no --
Yeah, I'm sorry, all right?

But the woman
Was a time waster.

This section manages
A billion-dollar annual budget.

2% of that
Comes from the dhs,

Yet I spent 80% of my time
Justifying expenses to maggie.

The woman was in my office

Every other month
For almost two years.

You have no idea
How much extra work she created.

During maggie's
Last visit out here,

She also stopped at a place
Called civilaudio.

Do you have any idea
What she was looking for?

This month it was civilaudio.
I have no idea what it was.

Last month, it was --
I don't even remember.

The point is
It doesn't matter anymore.
Why is that?

It'll be ages before
They send anybody to pick up

Where she left off,
If they even bother.

Well, maybe we shouldn't wait
For the federal government.

Maybe you should let
My detective

Take a look at your books.

Fine. I'll, uh --

I'll make sure
You get everything you need.

Uh, mr. Hanson,

Do you know if maggie
Was seeing anyone romantically

While she was here?

Did she have a boyfriend?

Or maybe she was having
An affair of some kind.

She didn't discuss
Her personal life with me,

And I am not the type of guy
To spread rumors.

It's gonna take me a minute
To put your paperwork through.

You know what, though?
I will offer one opinion, ma'am.

Maybe you should let me
Spend more time

Helping you fight crime

And not
Fighting accountants.

That's just a thought.

Joe: watch your step.
You'll take nasty fall here.

I'm so sorry to bother you
On a saturday, mr. White,

But according to our files,

Your company
Provides the lapd

And fire department with
First-responder communications.

Civilaudio's not my company.
I'm just the cfo.

I've been there since 9/11.
Before that, I was on the job.

Lapd?

Yes, ma'am. 15 years.
Tactical technology unit.

So civilaudio's
A good fit --

Better pay,
And no one ever shoots at me.

Sorry about the mess.

Overbudget.
Stupid contractor.

Air-conditioner's out.
I had to cancel the pool.

Now I have two kids who
Are gonna be very disappointed

When they come back
From summer camp.

Oh.
That's just tragic.

Right this way.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Gabriel:
It is hot.

Mr. White, can you tell me
What maggie scott

Was doing in your office
Earlier this week?

[ sighs ]

Auditors
Are like police officers.

They don't tell you
What they're looking for

Until they find it.

She wanted all
Our billing records to lapd,

So I gave them to her.

Why? Is old maggie giving you
A hard time?

In a manner of speaking.

Her car
Went over a cliff last night,

And we found her
This morning, dead.

Whoa. Huh.

Susan:
Hey, I'm going for takeout.

Oh. Something wrong?

Well, yes and no.

Remember that crazy woman
I told you about,

The one
From homeland security?

The horrible
Accountant lady?

She died last night.

That's too bad.

Gosh.

Well...

Just get me whatever
You're having. Thanks.

Sorry to interrupt.

Gabriel:
I've got to tell you,

The outpouring of sadness
For this woman so far,

It's -- it's touching.

Obviously, I feel bad
About what happened.

I mean, it's terrible.

But just the idea

Of going through
Another audit with maggie --

She's brutal.
Just talk to your people.

Ask jim hanson.

Did you say another audit?

Starting monday morning.

Jim hanson
Didn't mention that.

Not that it was gonna be
Much different.

Maggie was investigating
The way the lapd

Paid us
For almost two years.

Poor jimmy.
And his wife just left him, too.

[ chuckles ]

Look...

I appreciated
Maggie's tenacity.

But I just hope
Whoever takes her place

Will be
A little less rabid.

Well, hanson said
There wouldn't be another audit.

Well,
That's wishful thinking.

Dhs might not get to it
Right away, but they'll be back.

Hey, if we're done, uh,

I got about three times
As many people here as usual.

I threaten to fire them,

And suddenly
They can't finish fast enough.

If there's anything I can do,
Just let me know, okay?

Thank you, sir.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

My pleasure.

How long before you start

Feeling the symptoms
Of poison oak?

Probably not until tonight
Sometime.

I told you
Not to go down there.

Oh, I know. I know.

Oh, come on.

Oh, chief,

No luck getting access to
Maggie scott's encrypted phone.

I'm sure we'll be hearing
From the fbi any minute now.

The victim's husband,
Uh, ken --

He just flew in
From washington.

He's in your office.

Maggie scott's
Rental-car company called.

Their accident investigators
Want to know

When they can get a look
At their hybrid.

What did you tell them?

What I always tell them --
"Sure. No problem."

Then I hung up.

The car's still
In the print shed.

We hang on
To maggie's car

Until we know
What happened to maggie.

And I want
That steering wheel

Tested for pepper spray.

Ooh.

How am I gonna tell that man
His wife was eaten by coyotes?

[ sighs ]

Poor woman.

What are all these about?

Financial records
From jim hanson.

Exactly what you would expect,
Chief.

Bury the two paragraphs
Of information you actually want

In a big load of bullpucky.

I'll start working on it,
Chief.

Oh, bless you.
Bless you.

Ken: nobody's told me
When I can see my wife's body,

And I've been here
Almost an hour.

Actually, sir,
I think you might want to wait

For a funeral home
Or mortuary

To take a look
At your wife.

Are you sure it's her?
Are you absolutely certain?

I'm sorry, sir.
Yes, I am.

Is there anything
I should know?

Did she die quickly?

I...Don't think
She saw it coming.

Oh, god, I don't know
How I'm gonna tell our daughter.

Sir, do you know anyone

Who might have wanted
To hurt your wife?

Did she ever talk to you
About a threat or...

No, no.

The only thing maggie ever
Complained about was the travel.

I think
She was happier lately

Not having to come back to l.A.
Every other week.

Every other week?

According to dhs,

Maggie was in los angeles
Every other month.

Do you know
If she had other business here,

Or did she have any relatives
Or friends?

No, it was work.

Why else would she come?

Chief johnson,

Special agents blackburn
And horlacher from the fbi.

It's about maggie scott.

[ exhales sharply ]

I'm --
I'm terribly sorry.

I am right slapdab
In the middle

Of interviewing
The victim's husband.

Good to see you again, too,
Chief johnson.

Sorry to interrupt.

But the fbi needs to speak
With mr. Scott right now.

I've been in touch
With special agent fritz howard.

Thank you for informing him
About the encrypted laptop

And cellphone
That have gone missing.

Which makes this investigation
A national-security issue.

I hardly think maggie scott
Was killed by terrorists,

Unless you think
The evildoers are trying to

Destroy the world
With pepper spray.

We're talking about the murder
Of a federal employee,

Plus the theft
Of classified materials.

So we would like all
The evidence you've collected.

We're gonna take the victim's
Husband with us right now, too.

If you have any further
Questions for mr. Scott,

Let us know.

Great to see you again,
Ma'am.

Oh, I bet.

Ma'am.

Lieutenants flynn
And provenza,

I'd like you to copy
Everything that we have

Before we hand it off
To these gentlemen.

And, detective daniels,

Please give the boxes for
Fiscal operations to the fbi.

And while they're looking
At our finances,

Let's take a look
At mr. Hanson's.

Thank you.

Lieutenant tao, please put
The car's computer in the desk.

And, uh,
Detective sanchez,

I'd like you
To move maggie's rental car

Out of the print shed.

To where?
Someplace
The fbi won't find it.

Listen, just because --

Just because the fbi
Is starting an investigation

Doesn't mean
You have to halt yours.

Let them look for the laptop.
You find the killer.

Well, I still have lots of
Questions for maggie's husband.

He's the only person
So far

Who seems at all upset
About her death.

But here's the thing,
Will.

Maggie was visiting los angeles
Every other week last year

For reasons
Other than dhs business.

She lied to her husband
About that,

And her car
Went over a hillside

At a place where people
Sometimes go to...You know.

So I'm guessing that she might
Have been having an affair.

I can promise you
Who she was seeing last year

Has nothing to do
With her death.

How can you say that?

Because the affair
She was having was with me.

When were you going to tell me
That you had been sleeping

With my murder victim?

Well, there wasn't
Really so much sleeping.

Do you want to
Hear about this,

Or do you just
Want to get all mad?

I'm investigating
Her murder, will.

Okay,
You want to get mad.

[ sighs ]

Look,
We met about a year ago,

And we started seeing each other
Whenever she was in town.

Every other week.

I flew her out sometimes

And put her up
At the cielo hotel.

And it ended
Six months ago.

I was never involved
In any of her audits,

So there's no conflict
Of interest,

And her husband
Never knew.

So you were seeing maggie

While you were still married
To estelle.

Technically, yes,

But after estelle
Filed for divorce.

Look, estelle was already
Seeing someone else.

I was pretty much alone,
As you well know.

What should I have done?

Should I have
Just stopped living?

She was married!

You couldn't have found
Someone single?

[ exhales sharply ]

Forget it.

Are there e-mails from you
On her computer?

Not on
The government account.

I mean, did she ever
Check personal mail

On her encrypted laptop?

I don't know.

What?

What?

There's
A female investigator

Working for
An intelligence agency,

Who was in a relationship,
Who you seduced

Into coming to los angeles
On a regular basis.

It all sounds so familiar,
And yet, um, I'm surprised.

Do you want to...
Talk about this?

In detail?

Drop it.

'cause we can.

Drop it, I said.

And tell me
What else you know

About the victim
That can help me.

Maggie was...Honest.

Except about me
With her husband,

She was an honest person.

She was
A relentless investigator.

She, uh,
Believed in what she was doing.

Her personal life
May have been a bit of a mess,

But she was
Extremely professional.

And she was stubborn
When she was right,

Which she
Almost always was.

Thanks.

Wait. Um...

[ sighs ]

I now how
This is going to sound,

But the outcome
Of this investigation,

The timing of it,

Could affect
My custody agreement.

My kids.

Right.

Well, I'll try to find out
What happened to maggie

Before
That becomes an issue.

Thank you.

Look...

I'm...Really sorry.

Again.

You're really sorry
Again.

[ inhales deeply ]

Oh.

Yes, gentlemen?

What more
Can I do for you today?

Maybe we weren't clear
When we said

We want everything you have
On the maggie scott case.

You have her husband.

We're handing over
The rest of our evidence.

What more do you need?

We need the car mrs. Scott
Was driving when she crashed.

It's got to be
Around here somewhere.

It was certainly in no condition
To go driving off.

The fbi issued
A national-security letter,

Which compels you
To turn over every aspect

Of your case to us.

And when investing
Matters of this import,

We shouldn't even be dealing
With you at all, really,

But rather
The homicide task force

In your own
Counterterrorism bureau.

Wait.
Okay. No problem.

What?

Just one moment, chief.

If we hook you guys up

With our counterterrorism
Bureau's homicide task force,

You guys will be cool
With a joint operation?

You would have
No more complaints?

None.

Great. Let's do it.

All right, then.
Follow me, gentlemen.

What the hell is this?

You guys said you wanted to work
With the homicide task force

Of lapd's
Counterterrorism bureau.

Flynn:
That would be us.

We even passed

Our weapons-of-mass-destruction
Training.

This is a bunch of crap.
This is not what we agreed to.

Oh, I'm so sorry,
Agent blackbird.

It's exactly
What we agreed to.

But it's also
Not my problem.

Lieutenants provenza
And I

Aren't part of
The ctb's homicide task force.

You'll have to address your
Concerns to lieutenant flynn.

We want the car.

We gave you the gps information
From the car's computer.

We still need the car.
What for?

Brenda:
Uh, yoo-hoo.

This really isn't my business,
But, detective sanchez,

Do you know where these men
Might find maggie's prius?

Uh, well, it was probably towed
To the central garage.

I could take you there.

Why don't you do that,
Huh?

Sirs, don't forget
Your evidence.

Hey, hey, hey, hey!

Just the boxes, boys.

The cart belongs to lapd.

[ grunts ]

Make sure you lift
With your legs.

Don't hurt yourself.

Payback's a bitch,
Boys.

[ laughter ]

Chief, I checked the prius's
Online service manual.

If you use a cellphone with
A bluetooth wireless connection,

You can make
Calls through the car.

Maggie's prius probably
Has a record of numbers

She dialed and received.

That's why the fbi
Wanted the car.

They can't get into maggie's
Encrypted cellphone yet, either.

Well, it is our patriotic duty
To help them out.

Let's go take a look.

The prius's bluetooth system
Isn't really designed

To display the information
Without the menu.

We tinkered around a little
And found the phone numbers.

Buzz:
And here they are in order.

And the last call
Maggie scott received

Came from joe white,
The cfo of civilaudio.

Right after that,
She punched in the address

Of where
We found her body.

While I'm looking
Into mr. Hanson's finances --

Please look
Into mr. White's.

Flynn: I knew joe white
When he was on the job.

There's no way he'd
Murder anyone. It's ridiculous.

Well, joe was a bit of a player
When he was around here.

Maybe he and maggie
Were doing the big nasty

And she was gonna
Tell his wife.

You think white
Would try to take somebody out

With a can
Of pepper spray?

[ brenda sighs ]

You can't keep doing this.

Doing what?

Being angry at me.

You insisted -- insisted --
I get the fbi involved.

[ grunts ]

[ groans ]

Oh!

I'm not angry.

So, what is this? So I recognize
The mood when I see it again.

It's disappointment.

You knew what would happen

When you called your buddies
At the fbi,

And you didn't tell me.

I'm a little let down,
Frankly.

I told you the request
Was a bad idea.

You demanded
I do it anyway.

Then you hung up on me
Before I could explain.

And you're saying
I let you down?

Well, just be aware,
Most of the time,

I'm never gonna ask
For your help again.

That is fine,
Because what happened here,

In reality,
Is you confided in me,

And I tried to do something
About your problem.

And apparently,
I just made it worse.

That's exactly
What happened.

You tried to help me,
And you only made it worse.

Let's see if I can't provide
That same kind of help

To the fbi.

Don't scratch!

[ whimpers ]

[ sighs ]

Daniels:
As cfo of civilaudio,

Joseph white pulls in
Nearly $500,000 a year.

That's a lot of radios,
Chief.

A ton more cash
Than he was making here.

But his new residence

Cost three times as much
As he got for his condo,

Which, for the record,
Is two blocks away

From the scene of the accident,
Right above academy road.

He knew the area well.

Joe white paid $1.5 million
For this house?

Oh, how are we ever gonna
Be able to afford a new house?

How?

And for the past two years,
Mr. White has been spending

More than double
His declared income

Without incurring
Any obvious debt.

It's like he's pulling money
From someplace off the books.

He did, however,

Cancel a charge
To his contractor four days ago.

He was complaining
About them going overbudget.

But there were construction
Workers in his backyard.

Saturday morning,
The charges were reauthorized,

Provided that
The contractor would guarantee

Everything would be finished
In three weeks.

Timeline --
Maggie scott drops by

Joe white's office
At civilaudio,

Tells joe that, uh,

His accounting
Doesn't quite add up.

That night,
Maggie flies off a cliff,

And joe
Continues his remodel.

Do-da, do-da.

Flynn: sing whatever song
You want.

I still don't believe
Joe white

Would have anything to do
With something like this.

He was building a pool.

He didn't want to
Disappoint the family.

And what about jim hanson,
Our fiscal operations director?

Daniels: his divorce left him
Strapped for cash.

Almost maxed out
On all of his credit cards.

But his personal investments
Seem solid.

Detective sanchez,
Where did you last see

Special agents blackburn
And horlacher?

They were checking
Our impound facilities,

But I had the car moved again
A few hours ago.

They'll never find it.

Excellent.
Uh, lieutenant flynn,

Please call our fbi friends
And tell them

What we've discovered
About joe white.

Chief, we share our information
With the fbi,

They're likely to take matters
Into their own hands

And make
Our situation worse.

That is the established pattern,
Lieutenant.

Let's hope it holds on
For another day.

Gentlemen, gentlemen!

Gentlemen,
I have to ask you to wait.

You cannot take white away
Like this.

We called you, remember?

Sergeant, we're questioning
Mr. White today.

It could be you'll
Have a crack at him later.

We agreed
To share our information.

All right,
Just for you.

Mr. White here seems to have
Faked civilaudio's invoices

To police and fire departments
All through the southwest,

Adding on a little surcharge
For every radio he sold

And keeping it
For himself.

And the victim
Knew all about it.

[ car door closes ]

[ engine turns over ]

Chief,
Where are you going?

Hopefully,
I'm gonna find out

Where maggie's encrypted
Cellphone and computer are.

[ doorbell rings ]

Susan: this is
All a terrible mistake.

Joe would never kill
Anyone,

Except
Maybe in self-defense.

He was
A police officer.

Our accident
Investigators agree.

They say maggie's car
Drove straight over that cliff.

Oh, you have to tell that
To the fbi, please.

Oh, I will. I will.

But what I was wondering is

Why you didn't
Just tell them that yourself.

Tell them what?

That you were there,
That you witnessed the accident.

But I wasn't there.

Mrs. White,
I'm not gonna lie to you.

Leaving the scene
Of an accident

Is punishable by 6 months
In prison or a $10,000 fine.

Before we talk about it,

I should inform you
Of your rights.

Gabriel: you have the right
To remain silent.

Anything you say can
And will be used against you.

You have the right
To an attorney.

If you cannot afford
An attorney,

One will be appointed to you
By the state.

Have you heard
And understood these rights?

Yes.

Now, if you really
Want to help your husband --

I do. Of course I do.

Then you're gonna have to
Fess up.

Because I know
That you were there

When maggie scott
Drove herself off that cliff.

Why do you think that?

The last call she received
Was from this house.

And immediately
Following the phone call,

She punched in an address
To the gps system on her prius,

An address only four blocks

From the condo
Where you and joe used to live.

She --

And she drove there

For a spur-of-the-moment meeting
Of some kind.

Now, I don't think
She would agree

To meet alone at night

In a deserted corner
Of the world

With anyone she was about to
Accuse of embezzlement.

Now, if I'm wrong,
Mrs. White, just tell me.

If it was your husband
She was meeting with, not you,

If our accident investigators
Made a mistake --

No. No.

Listen, let me --
Let me just explain.

What joe did
Was not embezzlement at all.

He borrowed
A little bit of money

Because we went so far
Overbudget with this remodel.

Our contractor lied to us about
What everything would cost.

And we have
This adjustable mortgage,

And the payments
Have skyrocketed.

We put everything we have
Into this house.

Joe was just trying to keep us
From losing our life savings.

And...I wanted
Mrs. Scott to know that.

That sounds reasonable.

So you wanted to explain that
To her.

So I called her,
And I told her where to meet me.

I said I had some information
She needed for her audit.

I was waiting for her.

When she drove up,
She, um --

She rolled down the window
Without turning off her engine.

I told her -- I said if
She would just give us a month,

Joe would make things right,
That he would flip the house

And put all the money
He borrowed back with interest.

She agreed?

No. She didn't.

She said joe
Would go to jail,

She was going to report him,

That she was
Just following orders.

I argued with her,
And she got really mad.

And she drove off
And missed the turn and --

And drove over the side
Of the cliff.

Oh. I was just so upset.

I got back into my car,
And I drove away.

You could have called someone
And waited for them to arrive.

I know I should have.
I know.

But it was dark,
And I was afraid.

And I'm sorry.
I'm so, so, so sorry.

So sorry that you got in touch
With your contractor

And told him
To have his workers

Finish up
The remodel of your house?

Listen!

I was just making the best
Of a terrible situation.

I thought if we could get
The house in shape to sell,

Joe had time
To repay the money,

Which is what I told
That woman we wanted to do.

But she wouldn't listen.

Well, that might have been
Because of the pepper spray

That you spewed
All over her face.

That's a report

From our scientific
Investigation division

And the l.A. County
Coroner's office

Documenting
That there was pepper spray

On the victim's face
And the steering wheel.

Which is another reason
I knew that it was you

And not your husband,

Because the attack
Was so inept --

There was no attack!

That woman --
She reached through the window,

Grabbed me by the arm, and
Tried to drag me along the road.

She must have given your arm
Quite a bruise.

Could I see that, please?

No?

That makes me wonder,
Mrs. White,

What else
Do you have up your sleeve?

It's been awfully hot
Here lately.

Your husband's in shorts
And a t-shirt.

Sergeant gabriel here
Took his jacket off

The moment we sat down.

And yet here you are,
All covered up, head to toe.

[ gasps ]

That is exactly
The type of rash

I'd expect
To see on someone

Who was begging for mercy
With a can of pepper spray.

You may notice that I've got
A similar rash on my legs.

Like you, I didn't
Get anything on my hands.

That's because
We were both wearing gloves

When we were standing
In the poison oak

Over maggie scott's body.

She didn't die in that crash,
Did she?

[ whimpering ]

[ voice breaking ]
No.

No, she pulled herself up
Out of that car

And, crying for help,

Crawled her way back up
To the road.

She had a husband
And a daughter.

She was trying
To see them again.

She was doing everything she
Could, but you wouldn't let her.

Stop. Please stop.
Please stop?!

Is that what maggie said

As you hiked down
The side of the hill

And beat her
With a tree branch?

Was she begging you to stop
Before you crushed her skull in

And then left her body
To be torn apart by coyotes?

"Please stop!"

It was far too late
For "Please stop."

I was only trying
To help my husband.

[ sobbing ]

Let's skip the part where
You try to explain yourself.

I just don't have
The stomach for it today.

[ exhales sharply ]

Because there's something else
I need to know, mrs. White --

The whereabouts of an encrypted
Cellphone and a computer.

And it is something
I really need to know.

Mm-mm-mmm.

That smells good.

Mmm.
For all your help.

Even without trying,
You always do.

Still, nobody knows
Who maggie was seeing

All this time
She came to l.A.

Yeah, well, some secrets
Are best taken to the grave.

Oh, uh,
Speaking of maggie...

Here are her computer
And cellphone.

I don't know
Which is which.

Maybe you
Could hand them over

To agent blackbird
With my regards.

Where did you find them?

Susan white
Smashed them to bits

And put them in a dumpster
Behind a nearby home depot

Along with the can
Of pepper spray.

Nice. Got another
Little baggie in there

With maggie's prius
In it?

I'm sure
It'll turn up by and by.

[ chuckles ]

Mmm.

The feds
Will take the residence.

And after we sue civilaudio,
Our money problems will go

From terminal
To merely bad.

Sir, if I might offer
A suggestion,

Being that
It was priority homicide --

Actually,
This is the first arrest

Of our new
Ctb homicide task force.

I was wondering
If some of the money

Could be applied
To priority homicide's budget.

The idea of losing personnel
At this phase is just, uh --

Oh, no.

Well,
That's not my car.

No, sir. It's not.

[ siren wails in distance ]

Sergeant,
Where is my car?

Sir, I think in an effort

To maintain access
To the vehicle

And other evidence
Pertaining to the murder,

Someone
Must have thought --

You're just
Making all this up

Off the top of your head,
Right?

I am, sir. I don't know
How this happened.

This is terrible.

Go find my car.

I'm finding it right now, sir.
Thank you.