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Previously on Sheriff Country.

Deputy Director Eva Santos.

Your father confessed to running a criminal cartel all while living under

your roof. Unsolved homicide.

I solved Zoe's case, and we're good. Maybe I can give other families that

same kind of healing. Thirty-some years ago, Punch and Andy, their mom was

brutally murdered. Andy was there, and he was never charged.

To this day, Punch wants nothing to do with his brother. If you're looking for

someone to help you strong-arm your way into the weed business, you could not do

better than a dirty DEA agent.

I love you, Mickey.

I'm not going to let you stand there and lie to me. I think I'm in love with you.

You're my family. That's all it's ever going to be.

God!

You know this town better than anyone. Would you be open to a joint

investigation? What do you have in mind? Bring in our new confidential informant.

Maria? I thought you were dead.

Who is this?

Mickey, this is your mother.

Dr. Galloway.

Is he still being an idiot? I tried telling him, but he won't listen.

Lieutenant Boone, I strongly advise against this.

Am I doing this right? What am I doing here?

Boone, you got shot less than 72 hours ago.

Do me a favor.

Tell Dr. Henshaw.

He owes me 50 bucks.

Are you sure you're okay?

Drive.

Lieutenant Boone.

Deputy Campbell.

Sheriff Jim Wade.

Welcome to Drake County.

Why don't y'all come on back?

There's an old side entrance barely used. That's how I brought her in.

Didn't want anyone to see her this way.

She's lucky.

Bartender's a retired deputy.

When your boss passed out, he searched her pockets looking for an ID and found

her badge. He's the one that called me.

Mickey,

wake up.

Cassidy?

Cassidy?

Have you met Sheriff Wade?

We go way back.

Although, he thinks he's a better shot than me.

Because I am a better shot than you.

Okay. Maybe just right now.

Good? Sure.

Come on, Mickey.

Let's get you home. Okay.

Bye. Bye.

Thank you for your discretion.

I've known Sheriff Fox a long time. Isn't that right, Mickey?

You've had my back a time or two?

Yeah.

I believe that makes us even.

Not even close.

Lieutenant Boone?

Sheriff Wade.

Good luck.

Undependable too. Yeti was worried sick.

Sky called Cassidy.

You get out of my house, Wes.

Grandpa's just trying to help. Out of my damn house! I can't!

Mickey, come on. Let's get you upstairs.

I want you out of my house.

Come on.

She didn't mean it.

I'm just glad she's safe.

Easy.

Okay.

You told me how you felt.

I made the wrong choice, Nate.

Maybe... This

never

happened.

What never happened?

Good morning, sunshine.

Come on. Wakey, wakey. I come bearing gifts.

My dad's patent and hangover cure.

Yeah.

He's still here.

I was worried about you, Mick. We heard you stormed out of Santos' office.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry that I put you guys through that.

Yeah, it's okay. I was, uh... A little upset you didn't invite me. I mean, I

find out my sister's a drug kingpin. You find out your mom's back from the dead.

I could have used a bender, too.

Uh, listen, I know the last thing you want to talk about is your dad's case.

Ah, you're right.

But Santos is still offering Wes a deal.

There is a path to freedom for him if you play ball and help her take on the

Bulgarian cartel. So you want me to work with the woman that abandoned me when I

was six years old to help the man that has lied to me?

over and over again i'm gonna pass nikki what does santos say you thought this

woman died in the edgewater county jail and then 40 years later she shows up and

she's a deputy director of the dea come on there's got to be a story there there

is a story i am just not a part of it

You're going to work?

It's Friday.

Friday's a work day.

Coffee? I already had.

You know, I just thought, given the bum that was dropped on you, you might want

to take a mental health day.

I'm here to talk about Alec. I don't want to talk about Alec.

I don't want to talk about Alec ever again.

What's she like?

Why don't you ask your grandpa?

He knew her, too.

I'm asking you.

Um, can you please get me the half and half?

Okay. So, yesterday we thought your mom, my grandmother, who I've never met, was

dead. And today we know that she's not, and we're not even gonna talk about it?

Let me see my daughter. I want to see her.

Let me see my daughter.

Donna! Let me see my daughter. Let me see her. I want to see her.

Donna!

It's Donna. It's Donna up there.

Okay, listen. I'm going to go, but you've got to wait. Dale, listen to me.

All right? You've got to wait here.

It's okay, Donna. I swear I will jump. Donna, it's okay. You're okay.

Listen, whatever it is you're going through, you don't have to do this. Yes,

I do.

I do have to do this, Mickey. It's so messed up. You wouldn't understand.

Give me a chance to understand.

Donna, we all have bad days. I just had a whole string of them.

Let's not make this one permanent.

Donna, your dad, he cares. He loves you so much. Tommy, your brother, he loves

you. This whole town cares about you. I care about you, Donna.

Come down. Come on. We'll figure this out. We'll talk.

Let me go, Mickey. Let me go.

Donna!

All right, I got you.

I got you, Donna.

What are you doing?

I promise, I'm gonna get her some help, Dale.

Hey. Checking in on Mickey. Have you heard anything?

She hasn't come in yet.

I'll keep an eye out.

Wait, are you at the office?

She needs her people around her right now.

I know, but you also gotta take care of yourself.

Hank's coming. Gotta go.

Was that Boone?

What were you guys talking about?

I was just updating him on the Elliot case.

Remind me to play poker with you, Campbell, because you're a terrible

liar. I know exactly what you two were talking about.

You're planning a surprise for my birthday tomorrow.

Tomorrow's your birthday?

Right.

Like you didn't know.

You see, I originally had the day off, but then Gina put me back on the

schedule, so obviously you guys are doing something at the office.

I see the clues.

By the way, for the cake, I'm a red velvet guy.

Mmm.

Good to know.

Sit tight, Andy. We'll be right back.

Right here.

This is where they found Punch and Andy's mom 28 years ago. Mary Elliot, 44

years old, cause of death, blunt force trauma to the head. According to the

autopsy, she was struck several times with a heavy object crushing her skull.

Murder weapon was never found.

Andy was the one who called 911.

He said someone attacked his mom but couldn't give a description.

When the deputies arrived, they found him kneeling over her body, covered in

her blood, crying.

If it's me working the case, he's my prime suspect.

And he was.

There's no signs of forced entry.

Nothing was missing from the house.

The sheriff wanted to charge Andy, but without a murder weapon, the DA didn't

like his chances of getting a conviction.

Punch seems to think he did it.

Sometimes Andy would hallucinate, sometimes get paranoid.

Look, I know you don't want to think Andy did it.

Let's buy Andy a burger and see what he can tell us about that night.

Thank you.

You have a lovely home.

How's Donna?

Is she okay?

I had to have her 5150'd. The hospital's holding her for 72 hours of mental

health eval.

Dale's beside himself.

Poor guy.

How are you holding up? I heard about your mom. I'm fine.

And what about Wes? I mean, he was so in love with her. He must have been in

absolute shock.

Speaking about Wes.

The day I arrested him, I saw the two of you talking outside the XO. Did you know

he was dealing again?

Mickey, your mother is alive.

Doesn't that overshadow anything your dad's done? I'm not forgiving Wes just

because an even worse parent dive-bombed her way back into my life.

You haven't answered my question.

I'm gonna get you some aspirin.

Hi.

I heard about Donna.

Yeah.

She's a great kid.

For being Deadwater Dale's daughter, she really got it together.

She's gonna be the first in the family to go to college.

I saw her now two weeks ago. I didn't sense that anything was wrong.

Cut yourself some slack. You've got a lot going on.

Yeah, you too.

Surprised to see you here.

Didn't think I had a choice.

You got shot, Boone.

Take as much time as you need.

I'm talking about you, Mickey.

We scraped you off the floor last night.

Look, I get it. You got a bomb dropped on you, but I don't know if you're up to

the job right now. I'm sorry.

I didn't realize I was being judged.

In case you didn't realize, I kind of got a lot going on right now. Exactly.

So if you need to take the time, then go take it. But you're the sheriff. You

don't get to be anything less than 100%. You don't get to tell me how to do my

job.

I'm sorry, Boone.

Thank you.

For last night.

I'm sorry you had to see me like that.

I, uh... I hope I didn't say anything too embarrassing.

Actually, you did.

You said... that the 49ers were gonna win the Super Bowl.

Dale, it's Mickey Fox.

Give me a call if you want to talk about how a psychiatric hold works.

Bye now.

We didn't get to finish our chat yesterday. I don't think I managed to

impress upon you just how dangerous the Stoyanov's really are.

I'd love to run you through it, especially since the last time we got a

little distracted.

Yeah, it was a little distracting finding out your dead mother isn't dead,

but I'm just not interested in having a daughter.

You heard my story, Mickey. You know it's a bit more complicated than that.

I don't have anything to say to you.

I'm not going to join your little task force.

Don't even bother threatening me by exposing my relationship with Alucaine.

I was never going to use that against you.

I've hurt you too much already.

My father hurt me, Deputy Director Santos.

You couldn't hurt me if you tried.

Mickey, something urgent has come up. Yeah.

What's up?

Nothing. I just thought you might need a note.

You're out of the hospital.

This is probably the best efforts of your boy, Alec.

That's why I'm here.

Look, I don't need to tell you how dangerous it is when a bad element is

allowed to run amok. And I know you're familiar with the Stoyanov's from your

time in Oakland.

I need your help, Deputy Boone. I need you to convince Mickey to work with me.

I don't know what's funnier, the idea that I go against her wishes or that you

think I can convince Mickey Fox of anything.

Look, just take a look. After seeing more of the Stoyanov's handiwork, you

don't agree with me about the importance of this task force, fine.

I won't bother you again.

I spoke to Mom.

Well, I tried to.

Grandpa, will you tell me what Eva said?

I don't know an Eva.

I know Maria.

Maria used to bounce her mother on her knee.

Maria would...

Go with me on long walks down Moonstone Beach.

Maria taught me how to do this.

Whole damn thing was a lie.

You want to know about Maria?

I got all sorts of stories, but... Eva?

Don't know her.

Great. That's really helpful.

Oh, my God, this family. No one talks. No one says how they're feeling.

Will someone please tell me what my grandmother said? She is not your

grandmother.

Like, blood, maybe, but not because she loves you.

Not in any way that matters.

Look. Look, Skye, I know you're curious.

Skye!

Walk us through it, Andy. In the file, it mentioned that you were asleep and

then you heard something.

Downstairs.

There were people fighting.

People? Yeah. My mom.

Someone else.

Man?

Woman?

I don't know, because they had me on a new dose of my medicine, so I was

really, like, thumped out. I could, like, barely move.

Okay. Then what happened? I heard my mom scream.

And then, like, it got really, really quiet.

And then I heard my mom just outside my room call 911, call 911.

What do you think you're doing?

We're talking to Andy about your mom's case.

Hi, Punchy.

Does Mickey know about this?

Please don't get mad, Punch.

You're gonna tell me not to get mad?

I-I-I gotta go.

Andy, wait, please.

You don't have to leave.

I was just getting him talking, Punch. I know you think he killed your mom. Yeah,

with good reason.

You see this scar?

Andy gave it to me.

Not two weeks before the murder, I came home and he was hitting my mom. When I

tried to pull him off, he broke my wrist.

If you don't believe me, ask Sylvia.

Who's Sylvia? My mom's best friend.

She drove me to the hospital while my parents tried to talk Andy down.

Look, I love my brother.

When we were kids, before he got sick, I idolized him.

then you may think you're doing it kindness.

But trust me, all you're doing is opening old wounds.

Your preliminary tox screen showed a synthetic opioid called cyclorafine in

your system.

Donna, that stuff is extremely dangerous.

It's more lethal than fentanyl. Oh, my God.

It's that boyfriend.

I bet he gave her that garbage.

So tell me about your boyfriend, Donna.

We broke up, okay?

Michael. His name is Michael.

What's Michael's last name?

Smith. He's a punk.

You know what?

I should go find that little bastard. No, Dad, please. I told you we broke up.

So who gave you the drugs?

A friend.

Which friend?

I don't remember.

It kills me to say this, but I'm glad her mother isn't alive to see this.

I know how hard it is to love an addict.

I lived it with Skye.

She lied to me, Mickey.

The disease did.

She needs you, Dale. No mom, no friends.

Her dad is all she's got in the world right now.

Just be there for her.

Hello, Skye.

My name is Eva.

I'm your grandmother.

Whenever I asked my mom about you, she would show me this photo.

Tell me what happened, Eva.

What happened that day?

Keep stirring, Mickey.

I want to pull the vanilla. I want it. Oh, hold your horses, Mickey Fox.

I'll let you pour it.

Oh, nice.

Perfect. Hey, babe.

Daddy! Mickey!

You making pancakes?

Come on.

How's the crop coming? Great. Sam says we got the sweetest leaf on the

mountain.

But you did have something to do with it, didn't you?

I didn't call the troops that day.

But yes, I did have something to do with it.

Six years.

Six years you were gone.

We thought you were dead.

I am. You'll wish you were dead when the U.S. Attorney is done with you.

I sent you to Oakland to find the Green Giant, and what do you do?

You fall in love with the son of a bitch and have his baby?

You better lawyer up, Maria.

Because you're never getting out of jail.

If you're done with your little speech, I'll tell you how this is going to go.

You are going to charge Wesley Fox with simple...

Cultivation. I have a trafficking case. He'll serve 24 months in the nearest

minimum security correctional facility where he'll be allowed weekly visits

with our daughter.

In exchange, first, I'll give you the name of the grower's main buyer in

Oakland.

Not one person you arrested today will give you that information.

Somebody will roll on their neighbor. Not in a hundred years.

Second, I'll be on the next flight to Bogota. Is Bill Menendez still the agent

in charge down there?

He's a fan.

I bet he'd love to have me on his interdiction team for the next five

years.

Ten years before you come back stateside are no deal. That's no good.

Ten years is a lifetime. Ten years is a one-time offer that I am only extending

because you're the best I ever trained.

And it's an offer that's coming off this table in three, two, and... Ten years.

DC will want to cover a story. A way to turn the page in a very embarrassing

chapter. And knowing you, I suspect you'll feel the same.

What did you have in mind?

We said you were dead.

So maybe you should be.

It's easy to question my choice.

I've done that every day for almost 40 years.

But it was either that or your mother would have two parents serving long

sentences. This way I got Wes out early.

I knew that the community would be there for him.

For both of them.

Why now?

Whatever I think about your choices, and believe me, I have thoughts.

Why come back now?

I have a job to do, and I need your mom and your grandpa's help to take down a

very dangerous criminal organization.

Whenever my mom would show me this picture, she would say, that's your

grandmother, Skye.

That's the woman I named you after.

Skye Maria Fraley.

Now I know that Maria never existed.

And as far as I'm concerned, neither do you.

Yes, I remember that day. I had to drop something off at Mary's house, and Punch

came out holding his wrist.

He said Andy did it, and Mary asked if I could take him to the hospital.

They were trying to calm Andy down.

Was Andy often violent?

No, but he had his bad days. I wish I could be more help, but I didn't know

the family too well. Really? Punch said you and Mary were best friends.

We...

I wouldn't say we were best friends.

No.

We met each other at church.

Miss Beckins, do you think Andy was capable of killing his mother?

No. Andy was ill, no question, but he was a kind soul, and he loved his mother

deeply. No.

Andy would never hurt Mary.

Hey, Ma.

Ready to go?

Owen, these deputies were just asking about an old case. This is my son, Owen.

The deputies were just leaving.

Actually, Ms. Beckins, we have a few more questions. I'm sorry. I need to be

at the doctor's office.

I'm afraid I have to cut this short.

Thanks for talking to us, Sylvia.

We'll leave you to your day.

Something happened to us, all right?

Somehow you managed to skate again.

I wouldn't say my client is skating, exactly.

No? What would you say? I'd say the U.S. attorney was correct in dropping the

charges. I'd say it's pretty hard to win a conviction when the investigating

agent, one Mr. Alec Kane, is both A, a criminal, and B, dead.

And I'd say you should be more careful who you hire.

Maybe try ZipRecruiter.

Travis Fraley, Wes's lawyer.

Father of your grandchild.

Alec Kane's criminality may have tanked the case against Wes and the co-op, but

it didn't stop the case against your family business.

As far as the DEA is concerned, Fraley Horizons is still a criminal

organization. Well, I guess we'll see in court then.

Just maybe not the next family reunion.

Wes? Counselor.

I do have one question.

Just one?

Did you sell us out?

It was my community too, Wes. Did you sell us out? No!

Me and you... Was that real?

Always.

I'm a grown man.

A full adult, I can take it.

Slings and arrows, you know.

But, uh, Mickey, she was a kid.

And you broke her heart.

Yes, I did.

Once.

How many times did you do that, Wes?

Hey. Hey.

What are you doing here?

Oh, I was checking in on Donna. You?

Medical examiner asked me to come in.

Emmy? The Emmy?

Come on. Get it? Emmy? The Emmy?

It's fun.

Never mind.

Prisoner in Edgewater County Jail. OD'd last night. Some kind of synthetic new

opioid. It's called cyclorphine.

I'm coming with you.

Boo. What are you doing here?

Gina gave me your message.

You told her, didn't you tell her that... Send a deputy, as in one who

wasn't in the ICU yesterday.

You really shouldn't be on your feet.

I am cleared for light duty.

I just spoke to the doc.

Do you want to talk to him yourself?

Maybe. Well, I certainly dedicated to his job and his sheriff.

This inmate died of an overdose, and here's the drug that did it.

Cyclorphine. It's a synthetic opioid several times more lethal than fentanyl.

The people making this drug distill it down into a liquid, then they coat the

pages of a book, a magazine, a letter from home.

When the paper is burned, the smoke is highly intoxicating and deadly.

Santa's had me read her file on the Stoyanov's. They've been moving this

stuff down in SoCal for weeks under the street name of Cyclone.

Cyclorphine was found in Donna's talk screen.

Let's go talk to her.

Thanks, Emmy. No problem. Hey, um... Sorry I got after you.

I'm a little under-caffeinated.

No, it's okay.

Thanks for looking out for me.

My pleasure.

Sheriff Fox.

Emmy?

Where's Donna Hawkins?

We had to transfer her off the secure floor. She was complaining about stomach

pains.

That's so weird.

She was here a minute ago. Did you bring her things down from the secure ward?

All her personal items. Just not her phone. On 5150s, we hold on to those.

Her clothes aren't here.

That doesn't make sense.

Why would she leave?

Somebody sent her these?

They were delivered an hour ago.

I brought them down after she got transferred. I thought she'd like to

have them.

Ben.

Dale.

I think we know why Donna left.

They took her. They sent her that photo to flush her out into the open.

She faked stomach pains to get off the secure floor.

They knew she would come running.

The Stoyanovs.

She must have gotten mixed up with them somehow.

Dale said her boyfriend was trouble. Maybe he just didn't know how much. Now

they have Donna and her dad.

No plates on the car. They could have taken her anywhere.

My phone!

Call the cops!

My phone!

I mean, what is this world coming to when you try and do somebody a favor and

they just stab you in the... Can we help you?

That was fast.

The blonde in that room, she has to borrow my phone. I turn around for one

second and she is gone.

You gotta find her.

Did you hear what I said?

We're working on it, sir. But whoever texted me is sharing their live

location.

Sir, is this your phone number?

Yeah, it is.

Donna had her phone under lock she stole his we can track her

That's

Dale we can't wait for SWAT

You're only cleared for light duty.

I'm from Oakland.

This is light duty.

I got some flowers to get your attention.

You better tell me what I want.

I'm going to go old school on your dad here.

So, what did you tell the sheriff about us? I swear, I didn't tell Mickey

anything. Mickey, huh?

You two on a first name basis?

Please, you guys, just let us go.

We won't say anything. I'll do what you want. I'll do it. I can ask Michael.

Michael's not going to save you now, bitch. That fool can't even save

himself. Enough.

Let's torture the place.

And get out of here.

No! I'll get the gas can. No!

No! No!

No! No!

No! No!

No! No! No!

No!

Sheriff's office! Don't move!

Boone, I'm Code 4. Suspect down.

10-15, warning cutscene. Sheriff 1, Adam 1, requesting code 3 medical. We need an

ambulance now.

Tell me about your boyfriend, Donna. What's his name?

Ivanov.

His name's Michael Ivanov.

He works at Little Sophia.

The bakery?

At first, he was a good guy. He was sweet.

But he ran with these guys. They were into drugs, but they didn't take them.

These guys didn't even drink.

They gave you the drugs?

It was paper, Mickey.

Paper.

First time I tried it, it was almost like a game.

A couple more times and I knew I was in trouble.

I ran up a debt.

When I told Michael I couldn't, he said there was one thing I could do to pay

him back.

There's a grow house up in Deadwater.

They got a bunch of girls up there.

To service the Tremors. They took me up there one time. Saw some of these girls.

They're not allowed to leave.

They literally keep them locked up.

This house, you know where it is? Could you take us there? I don't think so. We

drove for hours. It was way up on the mountain. There wasn't even a road. I

begged Michael not to make me work there.

He said there was one other thing I could do to pay off my debt.

Bring him a couple of my friends instead.

I didn't know what to do.

Michael said they'd kill my dad if I talked to you.

Here, have some water.

There have always been sex workers up on the mountain.

But these girls that Donna is talking about, they're not prostitutes.

They are slaves.

And this bakery that Michael works at has a front for this land house.

They're behind all this.

kidnapping, synthetic opioids, sex trafficking.

This is... Edgewater's never faced a threat like this.

Yeah, that's not bad.

Hey, guys.

Andy and I were just talking about Edgewater in the old days, by which I

mean the 90s. Did you know that... Pearl Jam did an acoustic set at the META

before they were really big. I was a huge fan of theirs. And by the end of

the night, they were a huge fan of mine, too, if you know what I mean. Kind of

wish I did.

Andy, we wanted to ask you about Sylvia Beckins.

Do you remember her?

Punch said that she and your mom were, like, best friends.

Oh, yeah.

She and my mom, they were like sisters. They used to get together, and they used

to work on the church bulletin every Tuesday night.

Tuesday night? Mary's murder happened on a Tuesday night, yes.

Hank, you saw how cagey Sylvia was being. Now we found out she was supposed

to meet her the night she died?

Wait.

Sylvia, you think that she had something to do with it? Not necessarily.

Andy, we're just talking. You said she was being cagey. Do you think that

Sylvia hurt my mom? Andy, relax. Sit down. No, no. She was nice. She was my

mom's friend.

She never asked me about my mom getting killed.

She never did any of this.

Andy? I'll go, I'll go.

Andy?

You always want to believe in our better angels, Cassidy.

I mean, it's your superpower.

But these unsolved cases can get messy.

Speaking of messy.

You know my brother's a deputy over in Drake County. Well, he was working third

watch last night. He said the sheriff over there brought Mickey in.

late and she was smashed wow

you knew that's what you and

boone were talking about this morning there's no surprise party sorry hank

there is no surprise party and you can't tell us so i'm not gonna say jack

and it's not about the surprise party that's not the point okay you don't

trust me

After all we've been through, you don't trust me.

Hank, don't be like that. No, no, no. You, Mickey, Boone, you got your little

club. That's fine.

But for the record, as soon as I heard, I told you.

Because I trust you. Kind of essential for a working relationship.

And you know what? Yeah.

It's a little bit about the surprise party.

I've asked you both here tonight because I remembered something. Through all the

drama and all the BS you two have put me through, I've had one constant in my

life. This town.

You two came and went, but not the people of Edgewater. They stood by me.

They protected me. They kept me safe.

For as long as I've been in this office, I have been trying to return the favor.

And tonight, that job just got a lot more difficult.

I'm in.

I will help you take down the Stoyanov's. Not for you, but for

Edgewater. I'm glad to hear it.

Unfortunately, with the case against your father falling apart, I have no

leverage to make him cooperate. Screw your leverage.

You can count me in.

Really? Yes.

You'd risk your reputation as a career criminal to work with the government?

Unlike you.

There are some things more important to me than my reputation.

So we're doing this then? We're doing this.

This is gonna be a trip, man.