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I just want to know if you're going to be home for dinner.

I had a late lunch at work.

I'll be home when I'm home, Mom.

Please. Okay, Ms. Cryptic. I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to push.

I just had a rough day at work. I need to decompress a little.

Start without me.

But you're coming, right?

Sure, Mom. I'll be home in half an hour or so.

Oh, that's my girl. I love you. Drive safe.

Love you, too.

Selma, what's up? Morning, Coulter. Did I wake you?

No. Well, I got a job a couple hours from you. Willow Creek, Michigan.

Riley Adams, 26 years old, was driving home from work last night and vanished.

Police? Yes, but less than 24 hours and no signs of foul play.

Who posted the reward?

Her brother, Susanna, is offering $15 ,000.

All right.

Give me the details.

You said you spoke to your daughter on her way home from work. When was that?

Uh, about seven, I think. She said she was a half an hour away.

Any chance that she just changed her plans? Maybe stopped off at a bar, met

with some friends?

No. I called, and I called, and it went straight to voicemail. I even called her

friend Cheryl. They work together, and she hasn't heard from her either.

She doesn't do this. I'm telling you, something is wrong.

Anything, uh, out of the ordinary, unusual behavior from her recently?

Yes, but I can tell she doesn't want to talk about it. She says that I help her,

so I've been trying to give her space.

Okay, how so?

Well, she's been sort of readjusting ever since she moved back home a few

ago. She moved back from New York?

Yes.

Yeah, she moved there right after high school, and she signed with a big

modeling agency.

She was even in Cosmo twice.

Yeah, she could have really gone somewhere as a model.

So why'd she move back?

I wish I knew.

It shouldn't have been so hard on her when she came back, and I should have

my disappointment.

Now she keeps everything from me, and that's on me.

If she's walking away from something, it could be a bad relationship.

Maybe. I got the sense that something bad happened in New York.

I hope that doesn't have anything to do with why she's missing.

I'm going to find out. You said you contacted the police, right? Of course.

I called them right away, but we don't even have our own police force anymore.

It's... It's a tourist town. You know, we're filled in the summer. We're dead

the winter. And then COVID hit and businesses shuttered and people moved

The population declined. And now we're under the jurisdiction of the county

sheriff's department. And they are spread so thin. And I just need to know

my daughter is. I understand.

Situations like this, there's no sign of foul play. There's no sign of her car.

A lot of times these people just come back on their own after a couple of

I understand that, but I have to tell you that is not what happened here.

I know my daughter.

Girls like that, they think they don't turn back up.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm going to help you.

We need to stay positive right now.

We start jumping to conclusions that doesn't help your daughter. You

Do you know the name of the road she was on last time you spoke to her?

Old Highway 17. It's the same road she goes home from work on every single

night, and I already drove up it.

I haven't seen it.

Okay. I'm going to head there now, take a look, and see if we can find anything,

okay?

Thanks.

Colter? Yeah?

Please find my daughter.

Bradley's all I have.

I'll do everything I can.

Morning.

Colter Shaw, right?

That's me.

As described.

Riley's mom called.

She's a wreck.

I've been searching the area.

Detective Katie Douglas.

Nice to meet you.

I grew up a few blocks from the Adams.

My little sister was in Riley's girl crew.

So I understand that Susanna had Riley and Paginson modeling early on. Is that

true? Yep.

Right out of the crib.

Since the parenting and all that, I guess.

My dad was a cop, so it was this or the Navy for me, and I pretty much hate the

water. Yeah, everyone's scared of something.

And for me, it was always chickens.

That's fandom.

First time hearing that, but okay.

I've canvassed this area. What are you looking for?

I'm trying to find the exact spot she went missing.

Figured I'd work backwards from there.

Well, I checked the surveillance cams at the gas station down the road. She

didn't pass by there.

You run a phone trade? Yeah, but her phone's been offline since last night.

location ping. Well, we can assume that something happened between here and her

work then, right?

What's this?

Oh, here we go.

What do we got?

It unmatches her car.

Does it?

Okay.

Maybe she got in an accident.

Where the hell's the car?

Maybe she, uh, got the car towed to a body shop and caught a ride.

I don't think her phone would be off if that's what happened.

I agree with that.

Check this out. There's only one set of brake marks, right?

If there was an accident, there'd be two sets, right? Two cars?

I think maybe someone ran her off the road on purpose.

Why would they do that? Maybe she was targeted.

They forced her to stop. They took her.

I'll put out an APB on a possible kidnapping.

Set up a search grid. I'll talk to people at her work, see if they know

anything.

Hey, keep me posted. Yeah, will do.

Excuse me.

Hi. Cheryl, right?

My name's Colter. I'm here about a co -worker of yours, Riley Adams.

Please tell me you found her.

Her mom called me last night looking for her. I haven't been able to get a hold

of her either.

Unfortunately, no.

Susanna mentioned that you and Riley were friends? Best friends. Since the

second grade. We grew up together.

It's been nice having her back.

What do you think could have happened to her?

I think someone might have taken her.

What do you want to tell me?

It's just, Riley's so pretty.

I've seen the way men look at her.

Got it. Did she mention anything strange happen yesterday? Anything at all? I

wasn't working last night.

Okay.

Do you have a workstation here? Just work lockers. Do you mind if I take a

Yeah, totally.

Thank you.

Here it is. Yeah?

Okay.

What's that?

A letter.

Don't hate me, Riley. You exist inside me. In my bones, I watch you when you

sleep.

When you work, anywhere you are, my heart burns there, too.

Oh, that's creepy as hell.

Riley ever mention anything to you about a stalker?

Nothing specific, but she did still have a lot of weird fans from her modeling

days. I think she kind of got used to it.

Who was working yesterday?

Todd was.

Look, I don't want to cause any problems.

He had some drama with Riley the other day. About what?

She wouldn't talk about it.

Is Todd here?

Yeah, this way.

All right.

Todd.

How you doing? Colter Shaw.

Looking for Riley Adams. I understand you two might have had a beef recently.

Sure I'll tell you that.

It was nothing.

Well, I found this with her stuff.

It looks like she had a stalker, doesn't it?

You think that was me?

I've never seen that before.

Okay. Do you mind telling me what you two are into it about?

Okay, actually, I was looking out for her. How were you looking out for her?

There's a guy here a few days ago. We talked to Riley.

She looked pretty freaked out, so I snapped at him. But Riley gets pissed at

She know the guy?

Sure seemed that way.

You got a description?

Tall, brown hair, stubble. That's pretty much it.

Good. Did she tell you what that was about?

Yeah, but all she said was it was a customer.

You're not buying that, though, are you?

No. No, not the vibe I got. But, you know, probably gets a lot of attention

guys, so better go.

What about his car? You see what kind of car he was driving?

Yeah, yeah, some pull -up.

Black Jaguar, New York plates.

Guy was a real douche.

Tossed his coffee cup in the weeding bucket like an animal.

I mean, who does that?

And you pick it up? Coffee cup? Yeah, threw it in the recycling like a normal

human. Why?

Good man.

Well, I was just wondering if it's still here.

Should be. Pickup hasn't come yet this week.

It's the one?

Chalet 25, huh?

What is that? Is that a coffee shop?

It's a fancy boutique hotel just outside of town.

Exactly the kind of place a letterbug would stay.

Hey, Bobby.

Uh, try again.

Randy, look who's back from Reno.

Bro, what are you doing at my desk?

I'm just... You got a desk right here.

It's Coulter.

Excuse me.

Hold on, man. I'm putting you on speaker.

Me?

Sorry about that, Z.

Business has been booming, so you got a tag team.

Yeah, we're still working out the kinks.

But it's all good. We got you.

All right, I love it. Listen, I need you to run a plate for me. It's New York

DTT.

P549. I got you.

Just give me a sec.

Black Jag, right?

That's the one.

That belongs to Vincent Rourke.

Got anything on him?

One sec.

Okay. Former bouncer, former boxer.

And now apparently he owns the new hottest club in New York City.

And he connected with Riley? So what, you think he went all unhinged and

crushing on her? I don't think anything's possible.

I'm checking his call logs and...

He was all over her. I'm talking dozens of calls a day, all week. She didn't

answer a single one.

Bradley's mom said she might have run into some trouble in New York. Maybe

guy's connected to it.

Says he's married with two kids, but not like that ever stopped any dude ever in

the history of ever.

The way he just shows up to Michigan?

That's us already.

What you know how to dig up? Thank you.

Excuse me, can I help you?

Yeah, I think so. I got a call about an insurance claim.

Okay. I'm not sure what you're talking about.

What's up? One of your guests.

Vincent Rourke.

Someone damaged his vehicle.

Man, don't even. I got nothing to do with that. That wasn't me.

No, I believe that. It's just I got to fill out all this necessary paperwork,

and someone's name has to go on it.

Why don't we get your manager?

Yeah? We'll get the hotel manager. We'll put his name on it. Yeah. Do that.

Okay. Can you take me to him?

Sure. He's in his office.

Yeah. Yeah. Follow me.

Oh, yeah. You know what? I got to...

I'm going to take photos of this cart, so why don't you go get them and I'll

meet you in there, okay? Yeah, okay. All right, thank you. I appreciate all your

help on the matter.

Excuse

me,

sir. I understand you're having an issue with a guest vehicle.

You know what? There was.

I'm going to make a quick phone call, and I'll be right back, okay?

What'd you do with Riley?

The hell are you talking about? She's been gone since yesterday. Where is she?

Nah, man.

I would never hurt Riley.

I'm a father of a baby.

What baby?

Riley's five months pregnant.

Riley could be in real danger. If you know where she is, you should let me

I didn't do anything to her.

I didn't even know she was pregnant until last week.

Keep talking.

Riley was a regular at my club.

She'd post on her socials and help promote.

That's how we met.

And I know how it looks, but I'm trying to look out for her.

I'm guessing your wife doesn't know about any of this.

Now, I know Riley wasn't answering any of your phone calls. Maybe you decided

take matters into your own hands, handle this problem on your own. Absolutely

not. I cared about Riley.

She was struggling, going back and forth on whether to keep it.

I said she didn't want anything from me, but she wanted me to know.

And that's why you came here.

I wanted her to know I was here for her.

Financially, at least.

I set her up with a bank account for the child.

Told her I'd cover all her expenses.

Tell me about your car.

The damage, it doesn't look like something that happened from a

It happened while I was parked out front.

Two nights ago.

Security said some lunatic in a ski mask took a crowbar to it. And you didn't

call the police because you didn't want your family to know you were here. Is

that right?

Yeah.

And when you broke in my room, I thought you were the guy who busted up my car.

Sorry.

When you and Riley were talking, did she mention anything to you, anything at

all about a stalker?

No. You think someone was stalking her? I think maybe.

I found a letter. It's pretty intense.

Someone's obviously obsessed with her.

I'm thinking if someone was following her and they see you, they'd feel

threatened and maybe that's the person who messed up your car.

I don't care about the car.

I just care that she gets home safe.

Yeah.

Is there a problem here, Mr. Boro? It's okay.

He's with me. I thought he was with the insurance company. I'm actually looking

for a missing woman. I would love to look at the security footage from your

parking lot. Well, I'm sorry, but we have the privacy of our guests to worry

about. And I understand that, but the person who damaged his car could be in

connection with this missing woman, so please.

Well, that sounds like a job for the police.

So unless you have a badge to show me or a warrant, we're done here.

I'll have time for this. Thank you very much.

Did you know Riley was pregnant?

I had no idea.

For how long is she? Five months.

Which explains why she moved back home from New York.

Oh, man, I was so hard on her for coming back. That's why she kept this a secret

from me. She was under a lot of pressure. The baby's dad came to town.

to do the right thing.

Or he's the one who has something to do with why she went missing.

We don't think so.

We believe she's being targeted by a stalker.

He smashed up the father's car, which makes us think he knew about the

pregnancy. Who is this? We're working on that.

And where is Riley?

We're still looking.

Any strange cars in the neighborhood? Any weird phone calls you can think of?

Strange men in the neighborhood?

No, nothing.

Okay.

Let us know if you think of anything at all.

Even if it's small, it could help. And we'll let you know the minute we find

anything.

Okay.

Thanks. Katie, of course.

Okay.

It breaks my heart.

I've known Susanna since I was a little girl.

Why would someone do this to Riley?

A lot of bad people in the world, you know that?

I know.

Never makes it any easier to get used to, though.

It's from my hotel.

My guys just sent it over.

That's weird.

You thinking what I'm thinking?

Yeah, that's not a man.

Look at that.

Look at the nail polish.

That's Cheryl.

You think the stalker is Cheryl?

Maybe she got jealous.

Maybe dad comes to town.

Maybe she thought he was going to lure her back to New York. Said they were

friends.

They were best friends.

Cheryl was a tag -along.

She was clingy.

She... Wore the same hairstyle, dressed the same as her, all of it.

I mean, back then we just thought it was cool girl worship stuff, but now I

don't know.

This is Detective Douglas. Is Cheryl Davies still there?

When?

Thanks.

Yeah, she left work, said she was sick, and went home after she talked to you.

I know where she lives.

Let's go.

We need to wait for backup.

Sharon knows we're on to her.

She could be getting desperate.

What is it?

That's Riley's car.

What the hell?

You okay?

It's just so strange.

I knew Cheryl admired Riley, but I never suspected anything like this.

You can look at that.

Love letters of Riley.

One after the other. Stuff in here about the pregnancy. There's stuff in here

about the baby's father.

So she knew about it.

Yeah.

The handwriting matches the letter that we found in Riley's work locker.

She wanted Riley all to herself.

She couldn't handle the father being back in Riley's life. Maybe she felt

closing in on her.

Panicked. What the hell did she do with Riley?

Is this a murder -suicide?

Huh.

What is it?

The eyes. They were written on the wall. Look at that.

There's no handles on them. Top, bottom.

Okay, so?

So, writing in a letter.

It's uniform.

It's consistent.

Look at that.

The handwriting doesn't match.

Nope.

Someone wanted us to think that Cheryl kidnapped Riley and took her own life.

A car in the garage was planted, this whole scene, this setup.

They knew Cheryl had an obsession with Riley.

So Cheryl must have known them somehow.

No forced entry, right? Maybe they were waiting for her, she let him in, they

killed her, made it look like a suicide.

But why go through all that effort?

Give themselves more time to do whatever they're going to do with Riley.

Well, something isn't lining up.

She wasn't killed here.

The blood under the wounds is not consistent with the injuries, right?

See that?

Plus, if she wrote all of that while she was bleeding out, there'd be blood all

over the walls, there'd be blood on the carpet, there's nothing.

Yeah, you're right.

We need to find out where she went after work.

I've got the guys down at county working on her cell phone. Hopefully they can

have something for us by end of day. Yeah, we probably don't have time for

Hey guys, I need you to run a GPS tracer on a phone.

I got you.

What's the name? The name is Cheryl... Cheryl Davies. All right, just give me a

beat. She left work a few hours ago.

You know where she went after that?

Well, her phone is pinged at a residential address, but it's not hers.

Tyler and Monica Harper?

You know them? Yeah.

Tyler's in construction.

He's a handyman. She's a nurse. Really good people.

Okay. Any connection to Cheryl could be a hospital, a doctor.

I'm already on it.

There's no connection to the wife.

The husband?

Yeah, I'm checking out bank statements now.

Okay. Get warmer real fast.

I see some checks payable to Harper Renovation Solutions.

Two of them. Looks like he was doing some work on the house. Okay, when was

that? Two months ago.

That's right after she moved back to town. Yeah, I know where they live.

Well, I think it could still be there.

Oh, I have waited so long to meet you, little one.

I heard Cheryl's voice.

She was letting us know you were missing. Wasn't that sweet of her?

What did you do to her?

It wasn't easy.

She was our angel.

Introduced you to us.

Answered our prayers. But she was the only one who knew about our connections.

You're crazy.

You killed her.

We just need the police looking somewhere else for a while.

Until you're ready.

Being a mother means doing what's best for your child.

What does that mean?

Answer me!

What did you do?

Oh, my goodness.

She's beautiful.

She... She deserves

better than you.

What are you talking about?

I'm her mother. No!

You are a pretty little ungrateful bitch.

You are... Worried this baby would ruin your life. You wanted to get rid of her.

I was confused.

I didn't know what I wanted.

But I do.

Mommy loves you, baby girl.

Get off me.

Let me go. Get off me.

You took care of everything.

Yes. Well, we don't have much time.

This is Detective Douglas from the Sheriff's Department.

Sheriff's Department, open up.

Open her up, Deputy.

Bedroom clear.

Bathroom clear.

All clear.

No sign of Riley.

Yeah, well, got an APP out on the harbor's car, and I'll leave you in it

just in case they come back to the house.

We're going to head over to the roadblock.

Yeah, go for it.

Is it possible Cheryl didn't come back here, or she came here for something

else? You know, what if they don't have Riley?

Something doesn't make sense.

We're running out of time.

Wait a minute.

What is this?

Grades for the children.

They both died the same year they were born.

Since they were born at all.

This isn't about Riley. It's about a baby.

Hey. Rini, got anything?

Yeah, I reached out to my contact at their medical insurance company that

me a favor, and they pulled the Harper's file.

And?

Turns out they have a pretty tragic history with trying to have a child.

Their IVF records show that they were trying to get pregnant for almost a

decade, spent their entire life savings, and have nothing to show for it besides

two miscarriages.

Yeah, I found two grave sites out back.

I think maybe they're after Riley for her unborn child.

I mean, it makes sense.

There's no chance in hell they'd be able to adopt. Tyler has a record.

How bad is it?

Well, he did five years for involuntary manslaughter before they were married,

and he's been clean ever since. But there's no agency in the world that

give custody of a child to him.

Yeah. What about Monica? So that's the thing. Monica wasn't always Monica in

Michigan. Her real name is Lisa.

At least it was four years ago when she was accused of impersonating a nurse in

the NICU.

She was remanded for outpatient psych evaluation.

There's no telling what these people are willing to do to get a baby.

Okay, thanks, Rainey. I've got to get with local law enforcement.

Hey, we just got hit on the Harper's car moving down Highway 27.

Okay, let's go.

Over here.

Here we go.

Hey.

Take a look.

What do we got? We've got gunshots to the abdomen.

You fresh run it?

Hey, you did a good job. It's going to be okay. I don't think you hit anything

vital. Just keep pressure on it, okay? You understand?

Back up all the way. Which way does it go?

It's through there.

Follow me.

This way. Come on.

Look.

Look at this.

What? What is it?

I don't see one set of prints.

Five to three. Go, go.

Get down.

All right.

I got him.

He's behind that boulder.

I need to get closer.

Okay. We'll cover you. All right.

Hey, we trust you.

Be careful.

On three.

One.

If he came alone, Monica still has Riley somewhere.

Where is she?

I'll never tell.

We know what you've done. You kidnapped Riley for her baby. You killed Cheryl to

keep us off your trail. You on the run as a diversion.

I gotta tell you, your little plan hasn't been working out too well so far.

So what's next?

You hold Riley until she gives birth and then you run away for good.

You know that won't work out.

Help this make sense to me.

I'll never understand.

Unless you walk a mile in our shoes.

We have people looking for your wife.

They'll shoot her on sight if they think Riley's in danger.

I'll never find her.

You know how much I want to smash that guy's head in?

If you can't do that, that's exactly what he wants.

He thinks he's protecting his family.

I know.

But Riley's out there in God knows what condition, and this bastard's the only

one who knows where.

I might take a shot at it.

You got an angle?

Might.

A lot of people would have a problem with that. It's not exactly protocol.

But I trust you.

See what you can do.

I saw the grave markers.

I know how tragedy can warp a family, change it forever.

I've lived it.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

I know it changed Monica.

Or should I say Lisa?

Monica never existed.

You knew that.

You knew she wasn't well, and that's why she went to the psychiatric hospital

years ago, right?

Nothing you can say can make me betray my family.

Yeah.

Not being able to have a child can be devastating.

What are you supposed to happen when she finally gets what she wants?

You don't know.

Devastating. I know one person's already dead.

You did some work on Cheryl's house.

I saw the invoices. You replaced a water heater.

Is that where you met Riley?

You heard them talking about the baby. I just figured...

All the pieces fit.

What pieces?

When your wife finally gets the baby that she wants, you're just going to be

the way.

She's going to need to get rid of Riley, and she's going to need somebody

dependent on her. Somebody is you. Shut up.

No. Monica would never do that.

She wants her family to be whole. That's what she's always wanted.

What about what you want?

After Tyler Jr.

They don't tell you how someone you never met could break your heart.

You're trying to protect your wife, I get it.

Snowball.

My dad, uh...

Always on the run.

He, um... Thought someone was after us. He was trying to protect us. He brought

us with him.

There's no life for a baby.

I just want her to be happy.

Be whole.

Be a family.

This is not the way, and you know that.

Does your wife know that?

I just want to make sure that Riley and the baby are safe. They are safe. I

never would have left them there.

But tomorrow, where'd you leave them?

I'm not talking to you anymore.

You're still at the house?

I'll drive.

Yeah.

Nothing. Sorry, Katie.

We'll find him.

What now?

We're missing something.

The house is clean. They're not here. I say we keep pressing Harper. Get him to

crack.

What is it?

That space above the garage. I didn't notice that when we were in the house.

you?

No Tyler's in construction. He could conceal his own build if he wanted to

Faith is right behind this wall.

The... Free! Hands in the air!

No.

I'll kill her.

No, you won't.

She's having a baby.

You know how much that means to people.

No, just stop right there.

Why should she get to have this baby? She doesn't even want it. She does.

She does.

That's why you brought her here.

You care about that baby even if you don't care about her.

It's over, Monica.

No, it can't be.

What's in a syringe?

Would you give her a sedative?

And they'd keep her from talking?

You're throwing her heart down. What do you think you're doing to the baby?

No.

No, I didn't mean to. I would never.

I know. I know.

I believe you.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, my goodness. Oh, sweetheart.

I was so scared.

I'm so sorry to tell you about the baby.

I was afraid you'd think I was throwing my life away. No, never, okay? I love

you so much. I'm just so glad that you're okay.

Hold on, okay?

Hold on.

Thank you so much for bringing her back to me.

It's my pleasure. Thank you.

All right.

Be good.

We will.

Sweetheart.

They good?

Yeah, all right. They got a lot to talk about, but they'll be okay.

Officer Briggs is going to be okay.

He took a bullet to the ribcage but missed any arteries.

That's good news.

Harpers are in custody?

Yeah.

Hey, thanks.

I learned a lot from you.

And hey, if you ever decide to teach a night class on how to be a human

bloodhound, I'll be the first to sign up.

Well, I'm sure you'll be a star student.

If not, there's always the Navy.

Always the Navy.

Keep in touch?

Yeah, you got my number if you need me.