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Previously, on allegiance... Lincoln Michaels

found in his bathtub this morning.

There's a convicted killer

living in the roof of a man who was murdered.

Get a confession. Make it happen.

"I... murdered... Lincoln Michaels."

You're not a big fan of assistant commissioner Campbell.

Complaints about racial profiling,

failing to investigate leads, because he'd already decided

who was guilty.

We bring enough of these forward,

the cfpc will have to clean house.

My husband is dead!

You want to tell me what happened?

When Wes was diagnosed,

Dr. Luo assured us it didn't have to be a death sentence.

She recommended malazadine.

Six days later, Wes was dead.

Hundreds of patients were taking malazadine

and not getting the meds they needed.

Dr. Luo, I am so sorry.

I want to make sure this never happens to anyone else.

Looks like a jumper.

That's Carolyn mcdermott.

There's no way she jumped.

It doesn't make sense.

That she would jump?

Her husband died, she was grieving.

She didn't strike me as suicidal.

She had hope.

She was facing charges.

But probably not jail time,

and she had reconciled with Dr. Luo.

I was in the room with this woman.

She didn't seem like someone who was gonna harm herself.

So how'd she end up here?

Hey.

Nothing unusual on the bridge?

No one matching her description in the last 24 hours.

Run the cams on king George and Columbia too.

She drives a blue camry, license plate...

Three-delta-two, X-ray-two-six.

What's this?

Carolyn mcdermott.

The theory is that she may have jumped from the pattullo,

but we're not seeing any footage.

Well, the current could've carried her from the port mann.

I'll check that too.

Meantime, your priority is with zak...

interrogation of the loewen gang.

I'll head right down.

- Thanks, Gill. - Yeah.

By the way...

your probation review has been scheduled for tomorrow.

Hey. You got a sec?

Yeah. What's up?

Look, I just wanted to give you a bit of a heads up.

Judge Ryan is planning on bringing a civil suit

against you and the cfpc.

Judge Ryan?

The father of the spree killer.

I know who that is. A civil suit?

Cfpc will cover all your costs.

I was cleared by the c.I.U.

Sometimes, the family doesn't want to believe

there was no alternative to lethal force.

I didn't want to use my weapon. It was either him or zak.

I'll talk to you later, okay?

- Hey. - Hey.

Listen. Carolyn mcdermott's injuries

are consistent with drowning,

but not with a jump or fall from a bridge.

Well, how can you tell?

The impact trauma, from that kind of height?

You'd be seeing bone fractures

or, at the very least, internal organ damage.

There were no signs of impact on the body.

Okay, so, not suicide?

She could have walked into the river.

The pockets of her pants and jacket were distended,

and looked like they'd been weighted with stones.

Really?

And if it wasn't suicide, where's the motive?

I'm still waiting on tox reports,

maybe we'll have more answers then.

Just to cover our bases,

maybe we could check out Carolyn's house

for evidence of suicide versus foul play?

I know where she keeps the key.

It shouldn't take long.

All right.

I'll start in interrogation without you,

but you need to be back a.S.A.P.

It's just... I keep thinking about her state of mind.

I mean, you were with her

after she reconciled with Dr. Luo.

I drove her home.

So how did she seem?

We drove by one of those escape rooms.

She said it felt like she had just busted out of another one.

Her husband loved them.

And she was gonna go to one with friends last night.

Right? Positive memories, forward thinking.

I hear you...

But no forced entry, no signs of struggle.

Anti-depressants. It's almost empty.

Overdose?

I mean, it's possible.

It's not likely, not with this medication.

So why take the pills, fill the tub,

and then go to the river,

and fill your pockets with stones?

After taking the trouble

to put on makeup and do your hair?

Sabrina.

That's Carolyn and her husband.

Vince, remember that case I mentioned a couple months ago?

Graeme Benton...

he was squatting in Lincoln Michaels' mansion,

he confessed to the murder?

Yeah, I remember.

We found Michaels in the bathtub.

A nearly-empty pill bottle

and a photo of a loved one nearby...

it looked like a suicide at first, too.

But Carolyn was found in the river.

Leaving her phone behind?

"I'm here. Didn't we say 8:30?

I'll meet you there."

Does any of this sound like someone who wants to die?

If it wasn't suicide,

someone's gone to a lot of trouble.

She's reaching out to friends,

family who came to her husband's funeral.

She's getting ready for an evening out,

and suddenly, she drowns herself?

Something's off. Just like with Lincoln Michaels.

We'll get a car, secure the house, preserve the scene,

and get you back to detachment. Come on.

Yeah, there's someone I have to talk to.

Can you drop me somewhere first?

Graeme, thanks so much for coming in.

Yeah. I-I didn't think anybody would take it seriously.

Take what seriously?

Okay.

Okay, great. Great.

This is typical.

This is typical bullshit!

I mean, why would I even think you'd do anything?

Do anything about what?

I didn't kill that man.

You made me confess.

All I said was that your fingerprints and DNA evidence

were found on Michaels' body.

Of course they were.

I checked his pulse when I found him dead.

Graeme, I didn't force you to confess.

I knew how it looked... me living up there, my record.

I was tired...

you know, tired of looking over my shoulder,

not knowing when I'd eat,

so, yeah, the first time, I said I did it.

And then you had a follow-up interview.

Yeah, and that's when that guy... what guy?

Graeme, what happened at the follow-up interview?

It's all in my letter.

What letter?

That, and what I heard that night.

What did you hear that night?

Graeme, Lincoln's killer might be connected to...

no. No way.

I want a lawyer this time.

Okay? This legal aid bullshit...

I am still waiting on a lawyer that never comes.

You get me a lawyer... Then maybe we can talk.

He knew how guilty he looked.

He was tired of living in the dark, barely existing.

The assistant commissioner's been briefed.

The Michaels investigation is closed.

We have a confession.

- Yeah, he wants to withdraw it. - Of course he does.

They all do.

Are you thinking about

the family who lost their father,

and what they'll go through

if you open a pointless investigation?

Graeme is willing to talk.

He has new information about that night,

if we reopen the case.

Eli, I have other appointments today.

Sir, maybe this is nothing,

but if these two deaths are related,

there could be more.

We could be dealing with a serial killer.

I think we should look into this.

Sir?

Carolyn mcdermott was emotionally unhinged.

She was grieving her husband.

She was facing criminal charges.

She filled her pockets with rocks

and walked into the river.

I see no connection between these two cases. Do you, Eli?

Of course, Benton wants to recant his confession!

Prisons are full of innocent people.

Sir!

Are you saying

that when a prisoner insists that they're innocent,

it's proof that they're lying?

Could we consider that, sometimes,

we may have locked up the wrong people?

I'm going to get back to work now,

and give you an opportunity to do the same,

and to consider if you really intend

to disparage the integrity

of all the hard-working men and women of the cfpc

with that kind of question.

Sohal.

What's going on here?

One day from your probation hearing?

She was going to see friends last night.

They had plans to meet,

but before they could, something happened.

Let's wait for the tox report, see if that changes things.

Yeah, we wait two days? Two weeks?

Maybe we wait for someone else to die?

Hang on. It's downstairs calling.

We've got suspect interviews stacked up.

Yeah, it's kalaini.

I know, just keep them down there.

Use the second room if you have to.

Yeah, we'll be right down.

Where'd she go?

She headed for the stairs.

What's going on?

Vince.

Sohal? Talk to me.

I'm following up on Carolyn mcdermott's case.

I heard the assistant commissioner

ordered you to stand down.

Yes, and I'm balancing that order

with my own moral and professional judgment.

Sabrina... I am prioritizing public safety.

You have a probation hearing tomorrow.

Don't... don't give Campbell a reason!

He is the reason I have to do this.

Carolyn mcdermott is dead.

She would still be alive-

if I had pushed back on him when I had a chance.

Okay, at least tell me where you're heading.

Sabrina?

Sabrina...

No! No, no...

no. I told you I wasn't gonna talk without a lawyer.

I did what I could, graeme,

but my boss... he doesn't believe you,

so if you want a lawyer, you're gonna have to wait

for your legal aid application to come through.

Yeah. Okay.

Thanks for coming by with the good news.

I believe you, graeme.

I don't think that you're a killer.

I think the system's treated you like shit since day one,

and I don't think you've ever had a chance

at the life that you deserve.

I think that the person who killed Lincoln Michaels

is still out there...

And I think that others are in danger.

We can help them, graeme, and then I can help you.

I was in the crawlspace...

and I woke up because I heard him crying, again,

then I heard him say, "what are you doing here?"

Then I heard a noise... And then a voice.

Did you recognize the voice?

He said, "it hurt me to see you suffer so much today."

Those were the exact words?

"It hurt me to see you suffer so much today"?

It was a male voice?

- How old? - Not young, not old.

Did you see, or hear,

anything that might help us identify him?

Just that Michaels knew him.

And that he saw him earlier that day?

Okay. It's a start.

Thanks, graeme.

You're not gonna forget me, right?

No. I won't.

You put all these details in your letter?

Everything I have is in that letter.

Who did you send it to at the cfpc?

I didn't send it to the cops.

- Yo. - Ish?

I need to know about a civilian complaint,

filed by an inmate at surrey corrections.

He confessed to a murder he didn't commit

'cause Campbell pressured us to get it.

Sab.

He wrote the details in a letter to c.I.U.

Sab, we agreed.

I'm not asking for access to privileged documents.

I'm just pointing you in a direction.

What's in that letter could help us

find the real killer before he kills again.

What's the inmate's name?

Campbell's pissed.

Sabrina showed up

to re-interview Lincoln Michaels' daughter,

asking about the funeral guests who came to his house that day.

She wants to know why her father's case

has been re-opened.

Campbell's talking consequences. Where the hell is she?

You've reached Sabrina sohal.

Leave a message after the beep.

Hey. Call me back. I mean it.

We're not just talking probation...

this could be your job.

Hello?

Detective sohal, cfpc.

We've met, haven't we?

After the service for the Michaels family.

Stephen rechy.

Nice to see you again, detective.

I hope everything's all right?

I'm actually just following up on the Michaels case.

I'm looking for someone

who may have been at the funerals

for both Tabitha Michaels,

and Wesley mcdermott, more recently.

Yes. That was a... difficult service.

Difficult?

For the family.

Cancer, but I understand the loss was quite sudden.

Do you remember anyone who may have been at both?

Male, maybe... Someone who didn't belong?

He may have come on his own, maybe he didn't know the family?

There are people who may be lonely and isolated,

participating in the meaningful moments of others...

I'm sorry, if you'll just excuse me for one moment?

Yeah, of course.

Joan. How are you holding up?

It's the first time I've seen it without him...

since the day he put it on.

I'm so sorry, Joan.

Would you like me to come by and check in with you later?

Maybe I could bring you some of these flowers.

You don't have to do that.

It hurts me to see you in such pain.

Thank you, Stephen.

Do you always check in personally with your clients,

after services?

Some of them.

It's just you today?

Just me.

Stephen, thank you so much for your time.

I'm needed back at detachment,

but I'll come back and follow up soon.

Gillian! I need your help.

Sabrina's gone solo on an unsanctioned investigation.

I've been trying to cover for her, but...

that's not like her.

Sabrina, where are you at?

Sabrina. Talk to me.

Okay. I can't GPS her phone...

but I can try and get a ping off her vehicle.

- Text me the location. - Okay. Yeah.

Gillian, you're sure this is right?

Yeah, last-known location was right there.

How accurate is the tracking?

Within 20 metres, but it's not transmitting now.

Do those trackers survive water?

Not for long.

Why?

Zak?

Detective sohal's cell phone is currently unresponsive!

We lost contact with her vehicle's GPS system

approximately 40 minutes ago.

The last ping placed it within 20 metres of the Fraser.

The tread pattern matches her SUV's make and model.

The marine unit's deployed a dive team to verify.

Why was she sent out

without her partner, without backup?

She wasn't sent anywhere on her own.

She disobeyed a direct order to stand down.

Whose order?

Mine.

What was she doing? What was this investigation about?

She was looking for a connection

between the murders of Lincoln Michaels

and Carolyn mcdermott.

And both deaths had a similar stagings...

the victims were grieving, they were found drowned,

with presence of medication or alcohol,

and a photo of a loved one.

So I need each of you

to review all of your files for apparent deaths by suicide

which involve any of these elements.

Sohal may have been tracking a serial killer.

It's the dive team.

They've confirmed the vehicle is hers.

Detective sohal was not in it.

All right. Thanks. Yeah.

That's great.

They're redirecting the search

to the shores and waters downstream.

We need to mobilize the search-and-rescue chopper.

Of course, minister sohal.

Remind me... Oliver.

Why she was alone?

She'd be safely in that interrogation room right now

if she wasn't out chasing some unsubstantiated theory.

Okay! We will order an air search

and we will follow her line of investigation.

Sir!

Absolutely.

Any means to return her safely.

Carry on, Eli.

Okay! The rest of you, let's move!

Come on! Let's go!

What do we know about the suspect she was following?

Not much. We need to retrace her steps.

Gillian! Were you able to find

any connection between the two deaths?

Yeah.

Both victims attended services at willowridge funeral home.

- We'll head there. - I'm with you!

Vince!

Hey.

Zak! A second!

Hi.

Our office received a letter from the man who was convicted

of killing Lincoln Michaels, weeks ago.

He said that he had information

that could point to the real killer.

That should have re-opened the case,

but my boss, when she went to investigate,

assistant commissioner Campbell threw up the blue wall,

and shut it down.

I know the love Sabrina has for you

and I know she trusts you,

and that carries a lot of weight with me...

This isn't the first time with Campbell, is it?

My sister is out there today

because Campbell made sure our investigation went nowhere.

I'll find your sister,

and I'll find a way to make this right.

We've found three deaths ruled suicides,

with similar staging.

Each one involved a drowning, a bathtub,

and a photo of a loved one who'd recently passed.

What about the funeral homes?

Willowridge. All three.

Vince?

Yeah. We're just leaving.

Sabrina's not here.

And there's no cctv.

But the assistant funeral director is unaccounted for...

Stephen rechy.

His boss says he should be here.

His car's gone, and he's not responding to calls.

I'll send you the number.

Track his cell and find out what he drives.

We'll put out a b.O.L.O.

We're heading to his house

right now, we're gonna need backup...

8831 dominion road.

All cars... priority call 8831 dominion road.

I could live stream.

Do it.

Ram, up front!

You're with us. You two, secure the rear.

Let's go!

Ready? Set?

I'm here!

Police! Cfpc!

Police!

Clear!

You need to be quiet.

House is clear!

She's not here.

Sergeant?

Yeah?

I found this in the bathroom.

Okay, new deal.

Call off the backup to dominion road.

Let's keep eyes out for Stephen rechy's vehicle.

Command!

Rechy left a stash of formaldehyde

and disposable gloves and paper booties.

If you don't want to leave DNA behind...

Traces of formaldehyde.

Gcms tests found them on Lincoln Michaels,

Carolyn mcdermott,

and all three older cases linked to willowridge,

previously assumed to be suicides.

Why weren't formaldehyde traces flagged before?

They were... but in very small quantities.

The chemical is used in the embalming process.

We would have presumed

they had touched their loved ones at a funeral,

but given what you're telling me... not a coincidence.

There's a... a lot of love in that photo.

Are those your parents?

They're not my parents.

Greg loved thea a lot.

Loved?

A car accident...

Two days before they were going to celebrate number 44.

44 years?

Six years before they were golden, he said.

You should have seen him.

They were all golden.

You know that grief, don't you?

I don't think you understand.

I think I might.

I lost my mom.

When I was 13.

What about you?

Is your mom still with you?

What happened to Greg after thea passed?

I helped him.

Like you helped Lincoln and Carolyn?

I can't imagine seeing the things that you see,

every day... that grief.

It's not every day, it's just sometimes,

and those times, it just... Cracks my heart...

Knowing it won't heal...

knowing what they're gonna go through.

They say it takes time, but time doesn't always help!

So you help them.

I do.

If he wanted her dead, he could've left her in her SUV.

Maybe this is not who he is... killing cops.

Not all serial killers are psychopaths.

Yeah, they can be motivated by

intense emotional experience... delusions.

He's taken the lives of deeply grieving people,

and it looks like he's tried to do it painlessly.

Maybe he sees what he's doing as some kind of mercy killing.

Sabrina doesn't fit his victim profile,

but he could be desperate now,

making impulsive decisions.

Has he taken her someplace, to buy some time?

I've been searching for other properties

under his family's name...

anything close to where the SUV was dumped, but I...

wait. These mercy-kill suicides,

he staged them in the victims' own homes.

Yes.

Stephen rechy had access.

They'd have let him in.

Any of these victims' houses could still be empty right now.

Send units to Carolyn mcdermott's home,

the Michaels' estate, and the other three.

Sir! Greg ramm lived four blocks

from where Sabrina's SUV was dumped.

His house is in probate!

1453 pergola road.

"1453 pergola road."

Right with you.

Send units to 6112114a street

and 705 fraserglen Crescent.

It's not like that.

It's because... I understand, you know,

what they're going through.

Your mom?

How old were you?

14.

How did she pass?

Stephen rechy's mother, Annette, died by suicide.

It was Stephen who found her... In the bath.

My father... Died the year before, suddenly.

My mother, she just loved him so much.

And she wouldn't get out of bed for weeks and months...

A year.

It sounds like a very powerful love that they had.

Without him, she just...

didn't want to be there anymore.

He was an only child.

Case workers' notes describe him

as "deeply traumatized".

He lived in group care for four years,

out on his own at 18.

He grew up isolated.

No significant relationships.

I was very close with my mother.

I still miss her, every day.

And it's been so long.

Since she passed, there's so many things that...

so much that she'll never got to see...

That I wanted her to be proud of...

I used to head home every day after school,

or a party, or anything, just to tell her about it.

Do you ever think

"it doesn't feel real" until she knew about it?

Yes.

Without her, it doesn't... It doesn't count,

it doesn't matter.

It's like it doesn't...

Even feel like it happened, because she wasn't there.

Nothing matters.

I just wish that I could... Just see her,

just one more time, and just..

Just tell her everything.

If you could just be there with her.

Now that she's gone, it just...

I just don't see the point of going on.

It hurts me to see that you suffered so much.

I'm so sorry, Stephen.

I... I wasn't straight with you. I...

my grief was real... like Lincoln's

and Carolyn's and Greg's, but I had time to heal.

I said what I said 'cause I wanted to escape,

'cause I wanted to live.

You don't seem like the kind of man

who would shoot someone in cold blood.

You wouldn't do that to my brother... My father.

You wouldn't do that to the people I love.

And I can't just leave them behind.

Because that is what suicide does, Stephen.

It's not helping.

It just leaves a longer and longer trail of grief,

and I don't think

that you're someone who wants to do that.

We're at the house on pergola.

I want next-shift officers brought in now.

It's overtime. It's cleared.

Minister.

That's mud from the river.

Rechy's here.

6103...

We need backup at the ramm house.

We need everyone.

I need all available officers to provide backup immediately.

Can you put the gun down?

Okay.

I'm just gonna walk... Out of here, okay?

6103. Subject is down.

Requesting EMT.

Sohal is secured. Repeat... sohal is secure.

Ishaan.

She's okay.

I had talked him down, he was gonna let me go.

It-it was direct threat.

It was suicide by cop!

He pointed the gun so you would pull the trigger.

He killed multiple times.

He wasn't gonna fire.

How could I know that?

How could I know?

You couldn't.

I thought I was keeping you safe.

I didn't see... How to... I thought...

It's okay, pappa.

I thought there was a longer game to play.

I'm so sorry.

It's okay.

But this time... We don't let it go.

Hey.

Isn't today your review? Shouldn't you be at detachment?

I needed to see you first.

I wanted to say I'm sorry.

For what?

You keep trying to... To be with me,

to be there for me, and... I keep pushing you away,

and I don't want to do that anymore...

But if we're gonna go there... We need to talk.

Graeme Benton.

That wasn't the first time the cfpc put someone in jail

who shouldn't be there.

The crown is dependent on

the information the cfpc provides my boss with.

Like the sealed evidence you were given

to prosecute my father?

I've been trying to keep you safe.

There's something you need to know.

All good?

Yeah.

You know, good as it can be.

I had no idea.

I wanted you to know... Before I went in there.

You know what?

Do it.

Do whatever it takes.

Afternoon, detective.

Afternoon, sir. Inspector.

This is chief hr officer gene schelling.

Sabrina, we appreciate that you chose

not to postpone this probation review.

With all due respect,

I'm here to talk about what happens next

to assistant commissioner Campbell.

Well, there is a time and a place

for that conversation, detective.

He refused to even consider

that graeme might have been innocent.

He ensured that graeme Benton would be convicted.

He ignored new potential evidence

and shut down a c.I.U. Investigation

that could've stopped Stephen rechy...

and saved Carolyn mcdermott's life.

Yeah. We're aware.

The c.I.U. Has brought graeme Benton's letter

to our attention.

We understand it's far from the only evidence

they've compiled.

They have identified an ongoing pattern

of abuse of power, and in light of yesterday's events,

one of our own is coming forward to corroborate...

These complaints.

I assure you, we're taking this very seriously.

You should... you should sit down.

Respectfully... Will this be enough

to terminate him as head of this detachment?

W... he has survived over 30 years.

How long will this investigation take?

It's due process.

You know, may take a while.

And he has allies.

There are people who admire his leadership, so.

Then there's something you need to know.

Assistant commissioner Oliver Campbell

conspired to frame my father for treason a year ago.

I know this because I stole the sealed evidence

the crown based their case on,

and I can prove that that evidence

was fabricated and that it was planted.

I understand that I will lose my job

and that I may be charged for theft

and for breach of trust,

but I cannot continue to work for a man

that continues to abuse his position.

Oof.

Bolton filled me in... in confidence... about your dad,

about what you did...

but why the hell wouldn't you tell me?

The last thing I wanted to do was get you in trouble.

I went to the academy with the assistant commissioner.

Did you know that?

Yeah, it was just the three of us...

me, him, and Bolton,

and Oliver Campbell... he was the star.

He built his numbers, he shook the right hands,

and I saw things that I just did not like.

But, you know... I had a family.

But what you told them in there...

that's gonna change the game.

Is it?

They taught me to shoot.

I didn't think I'd have to do it.

And I thought that...

I could change things from the inside.

I don't know, Vince.

I don't know that this is the right place for me.

I was supposed to retire six months ago.

I went down to Arizona to see if I made the right choice,

and I came back because this is where I belong.

But not just being a cop...

but being a cop by your side.

What you did... I should have done a long time ago.

But, you know...

Never too late to figure out who you are,

and what you're for.

And like I told you... good notes...

make good arrests.

Campbell's not the only one here

who things like he does...

but I've got your back.

And Gillian.

Degas. Zak.

Bolton.

We got... your back.

This isn't gonna be easy, is it?

Who said it ever is?