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Good morning, boss!

Oh!

Jesse, hi.

What's with all the old files in the briefing room?

Oh, uh-it's a pilot project.

We're putting someone on the Major Crimes cold cases.

See if we can shake anything loose.

Oh that's cool!

Who are you putting on the cases?

Good morning!

Hey, you're back already!

That's great!

Well, not to full capacity.

But I was just tired of being home watching television so-

Yeah!

Wait, you're on the cold cases?

Yeah!

Yeah.

I had a hard time

convincing people to open up a cold case division.

So I figured-

you know, what better way to prove the merit of my ideas-

than to open up some old files myself.

Dust them off.

I tried to convince him to keep his office.

But he won't hear me.

Ah, come on.

This office belongs to the head of Major Crimes.

Which is Sarah-

for now.

A change is

as good as a rest, as they say, so-

Sarah's the boss.

And in the meantime-

just think of me as one of the guys.

Oh.

One of the guys.

Yeah.

Good luck, boss.

The track we are on right now

is the last existing stretch of track on the island.

Track construction began in 1880.

And by 1883-

the train to Avondale was complete.

The railway operated for a little over a century-

until all trains stopped in 1988.

The crossing we are approaching is where-

What's that?

Oh no!

What's that?

What's going on?

Over there!

The railway museum is closed for renovations.

But I still give the tours.

I had a tour about 5 PM last night.

And that body was not there.

Okay.

Well, thank you for your time.

I appreciate it.

You got this.

Hey Jesse.

Hey.

We got an ID?

Yeah, victim's name is Chester Hiltz.

Sixties.

Retired sheet-metal worker.

Lives on Mason's Road.

Best guess-

he's been dead less than 24 hours, Charlie.

Cause of death?

Stab wound to the chest.

No weapon yet.

No cameras out here, I guess.

No, we're canvassing for witnesses.

But this place gets pretty quiet over night.

It's unlikely anybody saw or heard anything.

That's a weird shape.

Not a-

slit like a knife.

Yeah.

I mean, maybe he was walking home-

and got jumped.

Yeah, maybe.

Not a lot of blood around though.

Could have been killed elsewhere and got dumped.

- Mmm. - Rex.

Track.

He'll help you over there.

Thanks.

Whoever's dog this is, leash it right now!

Morning, Constable.

O'Neill?

Rex is a police dog.

He's my partner.

Apologies, Detective.

I was attacked as a child.

I get antsy.

Well, we don't need to worry about Rex.

He's probably the best trained dog on the island.

I respect that.

Even the best trained dog in the world can be unpredictable.

Rex, track.

Also, Detective.

He should be careful of ticks.

Ticks aren't a problem on the island, Constable.

They do find their way onto the island, sir.

And ticks carry Lyme disease-

which is bad for humans.

Uh, you know-

maybe you should talk to Detective Mills.

He might-

need some help with something.

What is it, pal?

You find something?

Yeah, I see it.

Looks like blood.

Good job, partner.

Hey Jesse.

Hey.

Oh-O'Neill.

I need you to go back and

get forensics down here.

Yes sir.

Okay, so-

this is the railway museum.

Yeah.

Tour guide said it would be locked for renovation.

St. John's Major Crime case number 52478-4.

Evidentiary audio evidence.

911-what is your emergency?

Police, ambulance, or fire?

Police!

Police!

I need the police!

911-what is the address of your emergency?

All units 1033 at the pharmacy at 118 Casey Street.

Are you in any danger?

I have to be quiet.

I'm hiding in the back.

There's a man in a mask.

He's got a gun.

Oh God!

Shots fired at Oldtown Pharmacy on Casey Street.

We have a victim in her thirties.

Gunshot wound to the chest.

Let me walk you through it.

Okay.

Five years ago.

Armed robbery.

It's a pharmacy on Casey Street.

Thousands of dollars in cash taken.

Even more in opiates.

The cashier is shot.

Dies later in hospital.

No arrests?

None.

I'm trying to reconstruct the timeline.

Dispatch logs.

Radio chatter.

Is it possible it was someone needing a fix

who got carried away?

No, it seems more sophisticated than that.

Planned.

Oh, I've got to prep

my first executive management budget meeting.

Any tips?

Pretend you're trying to cut back on overtime.

They love a penny pincher.

All right!

Okay.

Good.

They think it used to be an old telegraph station.

Apparently, the only reason why the track still exists

is because when they were ripping up the railway

some local women came down with chairs.

Plunked themselves down on the tracks in protest.

You just Googled that.

Hi.

I like trains.

Oh boy.

I'm Dolly Traynor from the Avondale Railway Heritage board.

And this is Gavin Pike-

our treasurer.

We were told this was urgent.

Let's talk about this inside.

We had an online auction to raise funds for the museum.

But yesterday we had a mixer.

Some drinks and snacks.

What's going on?

Yeah, I smell it too buddy.

Do you guys know Chester Hiltz?

Of course!

Chester is one of our longest serving board members.

Why?

Mr. Hiltz was murdered yesterday.

His body was found this morning.

Rex followed his scent-

which led us-

here.

Mmmm.

Okay, that smell is intense.

Yeah, I understand why Rex didn't want to come in.

Do you normally clean this place with pure ammonia?

Um, I'm not sure.

The cleaners do, I guess.

It was a mess yesterday.

The auction was for the museum.

For a fundraiser.

We're doing renovations.

Some upgrades.

We've been struggling here lately.

Yeah, yesterday was the final day

for the online auction.

So we hosted the mixer.

Everything was going well, until um-

Until what?

That rare locomotive sold

for fifteen thousand.

But was later discovered to be a 3D-printed fake.

Yeah.

Then all hell broke loose.

Hobbyists are-

passionate people.

Yeah, the whole auction fell apart.

Once one thing is a fake-

everyone assumes the whole thing is a scam.

Well, it still doesn't explain

why the whole place was scrubbed down with ammonia.

You'll have to ask the custodians.

But a scuffle did break out.

Yeah, people were angry with Chester.

Why Chester?

That was his locomotive.

Okay.

I'm going to need to see your guest list.

I also need to verify your whereabouts yesterday evening.

Gavin and I left after the auction.

We went to Basho

to vent over a glass of wine.

Yeah, I walked her home after that.

Okay.

Any security cameras in the building?

No.

But you might want to reach out

to the man who was filming the documentary.

Cade Nolan.

He and his crew.

They practically have the whole thing on camera.

Cade Nolan.

Okay.

Here's the forensics report on Chester Hiltz.

The blood found on the trail

matched the victim.

But so far, nothing at the museum.

They aren't even finding fingerprints.

Someone did quite the cleaning job.

Yeah, but the cleaning staff didn't clean last night.

They weren't scheduled until this morning.

We do know the victim was stabbed

with a sharp, squared object.

They also found traces of creosote.

Creosote.

Well, that's used to slow decay.

There would be traces on every railway spike used on a railway.

You know, there's a bunch of them on display at the museum.

Charlie brought them back for testing.

Oh, nothing except for ammonia on this one.

Well, that's your murder weapon right there.

What do we know about Chester?

Well, he retired from a sheet-metal plant

five years ago.

No criminal record.

He does have a bit of an online presence.

Mostly stuff to do with his model train collection.

But he does collect some pretty rare items.

Here.

Do we really think this murder has to do with toy trains?

I mean, hobbyists can be pretty passionate.

And some of these items-

they are worth a lot of money.

Neil Young's model trains-

They went for 300K.

And that was ten years ago.

People find comfort in such strange things.

Right?

Yeah, model trains.

Baseball cards.

Strands of celebrity hair.

Does he have family?

Close friends?

He has a daughter.

Maura.

She lives in Bermuda.

She was really heartbroken.

She did give permission to check his house though.

So Charlie and Rex are on their way there now.

Okay.

I'm going to have to leave you to it.

Got to prep another meeting.

Okay, and I have a meeting with the guy that filmed the auction.

So wish me luck.

I'm going to say something.

This is crazy!

Get your bids in.

You don't want to miss out on this.

Two chambers.

That's an original.

Check this out.

This is fake!

This train is fake!

Fifteen thousand dollars

for a fake train!

My specialist

just told me

that the wheels here-

the third one down

is way too small.

There's some interesting stuff from earlier.

Hang on.

Let me find it.

I thought I could trust you!

You're blowing this

completely out of proportion!

You never took me seriously!

Because you're being totally ridiculous!

You're a traitor!

Hang on, freeze there.

Chester!

That's Gus Masters.

That old guy?

Yeah, he must have told me five times

he's a retired forensic cop.

You didn't catch what they were fighting about?

No.

Let's go, pal.

Wow, Chester really loved trains.

Rex!

Yeah, I'd stop running if I were you.

It's you!

Thank God!

Hey Gus.

I thought you were the killer!

Gus was a mentor before he retired.

I never took him for a killer.

Yeah, the museum.

It was scrubbed clean, Sarah.

Like-

professionally.

Okay.

Okay, we keep our minds open.

Just because we knew him years ago-

that does not rule him out.

Hey.

Yeah?

Do you mind if I talk to him?

Not at all, no.

He's in the interrogation room.

Okay.

Oh!

Sarah!

Thank God.

Tell me what's going on!

Do you have any leads?

Gus, you know we can't discuss the case.

Come on, Sarah.

It's me!

Why were you in the victim's house?

Uh, Chester's daughter Maura

called me to tell me what happened.

And I said that I wanted to make sure

everything was okay for her arrival.

Did anything seem out of place?

Nothing that I could see.

And how did you know Chester exactly?

Well-

we both worked at the Newfoundland Railway together.

Just out of high school.

And then we both got involved with the museum.

As volunteers.

So, if you were such good friends-

what were you two fighting about?

It's on video Gus.

Well, I told him that I was quitting the board.

And he was really pissed off with me.

He called me a traitor.

He was a hothead.

But his heart was in the right place.

You know he was donating all the funds

from his train set back to the museum-

so we could start a major renovation.

We wanted to get people

excited about trains again.

Except his locomotive was a fake.

Look.

I'll tell you one thing.

I don't know when it got switched out.

But up until the auction that morning-

Chester's real locomotive was in that display.

Hey.

Hey!

Gus uh-

confirmed that Chester donated the real locomotive.

It was there the morning of the auction.

Which means somebody switched it out at the museum.

Yeah, he says we can

check his ring cam

to confirm what time he went home.

It was around 11:30 last night.

Okay, I'll check it out.

Gus also suggested we look into Ethan Ditchfield.

The successful bidder of Chester's locomotive.

He seems to think he's a bit of a sociopath.

Thanks Sarah.

Hey Jesse.

Yeah.

You got anything on this Ethan Ditchfield?

Yes I do.

Ethan Ditchfield.

24 years old.

His parents were professors.

Fairly eccentric people.

They died and he inherited their money-

which he spends on collecting.

Not just trains.

Hockey cards.

Comics.

Spoons, you name it.

Also, a conviction for assault a couple of years back.

That's interesting.

Rex.

Let's go introduce ourselves.

See you, Rex.

How's it going?

You weren't lying.

They really do like a penny pincher.

I didn't realize how much math was involved.

Yeah.

It's the least fun part of the job.

But uh-

you know, you get used to it.

So!

I love what you've done with the place.

It's uh-it's cozy!

Nice!

I'm going to-

try and make it mine.

So I can stop feeling like I'm stealing your chair.

Oh, come on, stop it.

The chair is yours and you know it.

For now.

I know.

Change is as good as rest.

Like you said.

How's that cold case coming?

I reconstructed the night of the pharmacy hold up.

You know, dispatch logs.

Radio chatter.

Other 911 calls.

But one stood out in particular.

Someone called in an intruder at a factory across town.

Now that call pulled the unit on Casey Street off route-

which created a gap in coverage.

But if you knew the patrol schedule-

you could predict that that would happen.

So the question is-

did someone time that call-

in order to leave the pharmacy vulnerable?

I'm thinking yes.

So, you think someone placed that call

to distract the cops from Casey Street-

so they could hit the place up.

Look at you.

Breaking open the cold cases.

Day one.

All right.

So here's the plan.

I'm going to distract Ethan.

You're going to look for anything in plain sight.

So if you hear anything-

or you smell anything-

you let me know.

Give me your paw.

Game on.

Let's hope Ethan's home.

Ethan Ditchfield?

We need to talk.

Um, I need to go.

Yeah, come in.

Rex.

Yeah, sorry to hear about that old guy.

By the way-

um-I didn't hold a grudge-

even though he did try and rip me off.

I'm just going to check something-

real quick.

Mm-hmm.

I understand you're a collector.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, I'm eyeing an auction in Texas right now.

There's an old railway hotel from the thirties

I'm looking at.

Huh.

I heard you were prepared to pay a pretty penny

for the locomotive at the auction.

Yeah.

That Newfie Bullet locomotive would have been sweet.

You know, I have a few of the cars.

But I don't have

the actual engine itself.

Huh.

Hmmm.

Uh, you must have been

pretty angry-

when you found out it was a fake.

Yeah.

Yeah, I was pretty angry.

But I would have been more angry if I had paid for it.

There's a lot of scammers in the world of collectors, you know?

That's how it goes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Where did you get that?

World War II stuff.

And some weird, like, folk art.

Um-

But um-

Woah!

Hey hey hey!

That's not a toy, guy!

Well-

This sure looks a lot like the Newfie Bullet engine.

I'm guessing Rex picked up Chester's scent on it.

And I think this manufacturing number on the bottom

is going to confirm that.

I want to call my dad's lawyer.

I think you stole this train

before the auction began.

But you know what I don't get?

It's why you then bid full price for the fake.

You know you could have called this out as a phony.

And kept your money.

So what?

You were just-

hoping to get attention?

Drive up the price before you sold the real train?

That's not what happened.

I didn't steal it.

But after the whole scene at the auction-

I knew that someone had.

So I went looking.

On obscure forums-

like collector's corners of the web.

Then they found me.

And they offered it to me for less than I bid for it.

Who was the seller?

I don't know.

Really?

No, I paid in crypto.

It was an anonymous drop off.

I can prove to you that this happened.

Look.

That's my chat with the seller.

Drop off happened last night at Fort Amherst.

It's all there.

I'm going to look into this.

Sit tight.

Oh.

You lawyer finally showed up.

Typical.

So I went out on a limb.

And I pulled the employee records at the factory.

I wanted to see if there was a connection

between that broken window at the factory

and the robbery-

which led me to this guy.

Jamie Fulford.

He has a criminal record.

And check this out.

Three weeks prior he was fired from his job as a cashier-

at the pharmacy that was robbed.

So he got a job at the factory.

He breaks the window at the end of a shift.

Calls the police about it

right before the robbery-

to keep them away from the pharmacy area.

And gets his accomplice to pull off the job.

Right.

Now Fulford is currently in prison on an unrelated charge.

But his accomplice-

the one who actually did the robbery-

may still be out there.

Okay.

You're here to close cold cases.

So get on it.

Just-

keep the receipts.

Well, now you know exactly what I was dealing with, huh?

The messages between Ethan Ditchfield and the seller-

They're legit.

And Ethan was home from the auction by 11.

So if we find the seller, that'll tell us something.

Yeah, but the thing is

the seller is hidden behind encryption.

It'll take multiple warrants to get past it.

That's going to slow us down.

Yeah.

You know what we could do-

is set up another buy.

I've already been messaging the seller-

posing as Ethan.

Why don't I offer to buy that 1957

limited edition Lionel pink train car

that he's been selling?

Good.

Good, yeah, set it up for early tomorrow.

Yes.

Set-set what up?

Oh, it's a sting operation in Chester Hiltz's case.

We're meeting with a party

who sold stolen goods from the victim.

You've been working a long day.

You can't be on the clock

at dawn tomorrow.

I just sent the message.

Look, I'm trying to prove myself here.

So, still a no.

I mean I-

I don't get overtime.

I'll do it.

I'll do it with Rex.

Well just-why don't you take me with you?

No, I-

I'll bring Joe.

He's technically still management.

Yeah.

You go home and get rest.

Jesse set the drop for seven.

So we have a few minutes.

Rex, get in position.

You set up a visit at the prison?

Even better.

I arranged an outing for Jamie Fulford.

They're bringing him in to meet me later this afternoon.

Smart.

Shake up the scenery a bit.

Mmmm.

Exactly.

So.

How are you doing?

You enjoying being in charge?

I mean, I've got to admit, I'm having a great time.

But if you'd rather get back to your old job-

just let me know.

No.

No, I like it.

I like seeing the big picture.

Helping investigators get the resources they need, and-

You know, I don't hate

the fact that the regulations put up a bit of a boundary-

with myself and Charlie.

My theory is that's the main reason you're doing this.

Letting me pretend I'm the boss, to-

give me some space to process.

Well, I have to admit it did cross my mind.

But there's no pretending here.

I think this change is-

is good.

It's good for me.

It's good for you.

Also, I think you're made for this.

For what?

Leadership.

No Joe Donovan.

No.

And I'm no Sarah Truong.

SJPD!

Hands where we can see them.

Hey.

I'm on your side.

Ask Jesse.

I'm Cade.

I talked to him yesterday.

You're the guy who was shooting the documentary.

You stole the train

from Chester Hiltz.

Did you kill him too, Cade?

You got it wrong.

I was hired to swap out the train with the fake.

Tell us who paid you to do that.

Whoever it was

could be the person who killed Chester.

I doubt that.

The guy who hired me was Chester.

Chester got the engine certified

by the auction authenticator.

Then I had to slip in and swap it with a replica.

An easy 500 bucks.

Nobody questioned me because I was shooting for the doc.

Why would Chester do that?

He said he wanted to ruin the auction.

I don't know.

He was donating his money to the auction

because proceeds were going back into the museum.

Look, I didn't buy it either.

But that's what he told me.

Maybe it was seller's remorse.

What was Chester hoping to do with the locomotive?

He said

he would be in touch.

But you decided to sell it anonymously after Chester died-

rather than turn it over to us.

He hadn't paid me.

And I needed money.

Have you ever heard of a wealthy documentarian?

Ken Burns.

All right, fine.

There's one.

Okay, so when did Chester first reach out to you

about stealing the locomotive?

The day before the auction.

He was all riled up about something.

I thought it was kind of funny.

Funny?

Funny how?

Old guy with his shorts in a twist about toy trains?

I don't know.

Hey man, I'm here for it.

The drama.

Makes for a good plot twist.

Hey, Jamie.

Beautiful day isn't it?

So, what do you think?

I orchestrated some sort of distraction?

Is that it?

I don't know.

You tell me.

Why would I tell you anything?

Because I think that after twenty years

of being in and out of prison-

you're sick of it.

Whatever, man.

It's my life.

Too old to change now.

Come on, Jamie.

Look at me.

I am way older than you.

And I am changing every single day.

Look at this day out.

I think this is the highlight of your week.

Hell!

It's probably the highlight of your month.

And that's sad.

I've got to believe you want something more.

Something better.

Okay.

So, say I confirm or deny this theory of yours?

What's in it for me?

A clearer conscience?

Atonement.

How about a letter of support at your next parole hearing?

The guy who hit that joint still owes me my cut.

I'll give you his name.

Let's start at the beginning, shall we?

Okay.

Again, I'm so sorry for your loss, Maura.

Yeah.

Dad loved trains.

It was just-

me and him most of my life.

My mom died when I was nine.

Every time

we went on holiday-

it was somehow about the trains.

A trestle bridge.

An antique locomotive still running.

Miniatures.

Funiculars.

That sounds really nice, actually.

I still train spot when I travel-

just so I can tell him about it.

We talked every other day.

Maura.

What can you tell me about Gus Masters?

Uncle Gus?

I understand that

him and your father were friends.

Best friends.

Why?

Well, the two of them were seen having a fight-

the night that your father was killed.

I wouldn't read into that.

They were like brothers.

Always in a racket about something.

Your father was planning on donating

all the proceeds from his engine sale

to the museum renovation.

But he gave them a fake locomotive.

Why would he do that?

He was worried about that renovation.

And the new treasurer was being vague.

That's why he was upset Gus left.

He was the only one Dad trusted.

Well, how many people are on this board?

Maybe five or six, I don't know.

Gus would know more about it.

Is there any chance you might have access

to any of your father's old files

on the museum board?

Minutes?

Budgets?

Anything like that.

I'll see what I can find.

Mills speaking.

Hey, Jesse.

Maura's going to send you copies

of everything that Chester saved

from the Railway Heritage Board.

You think you could take a look at it?

Yeah, sure.

Also-

look at the backgrounds of all the board members.

On it.

I take it the interview with your prisoner went well?

Oh, he spilled all the beans.

He was aiding his buddy, Frankie Bannister.

Ah.

You going to make the arrest?

Well Frankie is already doing a twenty piece in New Brunswick.

So, basically all I have to do

is give this to the prosecution-

and it is case closed.

Boom.

Yo.

Either of you well-versed in analyzing renovation budgets?

Show us what you got.

Okay.

I have been looking into the renovation estimates.

And the property valuations for the museum.

Woah!

That as-is value is huge!

But where are the renovations?

Right?

It's basically just a demolition.

The minutes from a board meeting in the spring had a proposal

that the museum be dismantled and the land sold.

It was narrowly outvoted.

Woah, who tabled it?

Board Treasurer, Gavin Pike.

Well, do you think they're working on a

side deal with the developer?

And Chester Hiltz knew about it?

Okay, so-

I mean, this is motive for someone on the board-

who doesn't want him to talk.

Yeah.

And if Chester had any knowledge

that the money from the auction

was going towards demolishing the building-

why wouldn't he sabotage the whole thing?

It sounds like you need to find out more about the board.

Luckily we have an in with an ex-board member.

So, Gus.

What can you tell us about these museum board members?

Well, it used to be six old schoolers.

But a few of us died off.

Or moved away.

Dolly joined about a year ago.

And she found Gavin.

And he recruited all the rest of them.

And Chester didn't like that?

Well-

they were talking about modernizing.

Like, like what did we know about online booking?

Or virtual reality?

You know, the kind of things

that museums need to compete these days.

But Dolly-

Dolly, she had big dreams.

After my wife died-

Dolly was really nice to me.

And-

Well-

Chester always felt that she was playing me.

You know?

And he would get very mad whenever I took her side.

And-

Well, I really, really hated

being stuck in the middle like that.

And so, Dolly convinced me to

protect my own peace-

and resign from the board-

which I eventually did.

That's interesting.

Why do you say that?

We've been going through minutes.

Gavin Pike may have been behind a plan to close the museum.

Sell the land to a developer.

What?

Oh my God!

Oh.

You know what Chester would have said if he'd heard that?

Over my dead body.

If Gavin is the treasurer-

he could cook the books.

Make it look like the museum was losing money.

Well, if they killed the museum-

and tore down the building-

they could sell the land to a developer.

That land is worth four or five million.

You divide that into ten, twenty houses?

They'd make a fortune.

What about Betty?

Gavin's co-worker.

She didn't really have much to say in the board minutes.

Yeah, she's a bit of a rubber stamper.

What about Dolly?

Dolly-

recruited Gavin to the board.

Interesting that Dolly is a real estate agent.

The commission on a four-million-dollar property

would be about a quarter of a million dollars.

Not to mention developer kickbacks.

How do we flush them out?

Well, somebody thinks they've gotten away with this.

What if we turn up the heat?

See who slips up?

There's a board schedule

in Chester's files.

Their next meeting is-

happening today.

Well maybe then with Rex's help we can sniff them out.

What do you think, pal?

Want to put on a play?

I motion to reinstate Gus.

Gus is our ally.

And as we begin to make difficult decisions

about the museum-

it's important to have longstanding members on side.

All right.

I second the motion.

Well-

Thank you all.

Thank you, Dolly.

All right.

Now in um-

in light of recent tragedies-

on top of all the struggles we've had-

It's-

It's time to make the difficult decision

to close the museum down.

We will keep the contents-

of course.

And set up a modest display in Chester's honour.

I motion to disband the museum.

I second the motion.

All those in favour.

Detective.

Um-

We're in a board meeting.

Can you come back later?

Don't mind us.

We're returning these spikes.

Minus the murder weapon.

A railway spike killed Chester?

Well-

whoever it was

that cleaned this entire place with ammonia-

they also cleaned one of these spikes.

So, we just need to prove that our suspect

was in contact with it.

And how are you going to do that?

With my partner Rex, here.

I thought the ammonia

stopped the dog from being able to smell properly?

Well-

the strong scent of ammonia

actually dissipates over time.

Creosote-

not so much.

A human might not

notice it.

But Rex has been trained to.

So, if he alerts to the presence

of creosote on any of you

we'll probably have to do a swab sample.

Of course, any of you can refuse.

Huh.

No problem here, Detective.

You know, I've been going through

the board minutes.

It sounds like there was some-

interesting plans

in the works.

Do you know that Chester-

he discovered that the auction-

it wasn't to save the museum.

It was to-

demolish the building.

That was-

That was not the plan.

Yes.

It was, Dolly.

Yeah-no.

No developer is going to want to be the one

to tear down a historical building.

If they were going to buy the land

the building would already have to be demolished.

Rex, find it.

What have you got, partner?

I don't want him to drool on me.

This feels highly intrusive.

Could you hold out your hands, please?

Dolly.

When was the last time that you came in contact

with creosote?

I don't know.

I might have dusted those spikes before the auction.

Always be staging.

ABS.

That's my motto.

You never lifted a finger, Dolly!

Anyway, I have an alibi.

Gavin?

You were with me.

Tell them.

I lied.

I left before Dolly.

No, no.

We went for wine.

No.

You can ask my wife.

I went straight home.

Gavin.

Don't you dare try to pin this on me.

This was all your idea.

I joined the board

because a developer

offered me half a million dollars

to deliver this land.

Dolly and I were going to split it.

I knew Chester was on to us.

So I left the auction

before he could confront me.

But Dolly-

you were the last person here.

I think that Chester confronted you with those notes.

And he threatened to expose you.

So you stabbed him.

Let him wander out into the night-

so he could die.

But what you didn't know, Dolly-

was that he copied those minutes

to expose you.

Chester-

He came at me in a rage.

And-

he attacked me!

I thought he was going to kill me!

So I just grabbed what I could

to defend myself.

Stand back!

All of you!

Oh no, please-

Don't move!

Don't move.

Easy, partner.

Dolly, stop!

Get back!

Are you okay?

Dolly Traynor.

This is the end of the line.

Come on.

Easy.

Good job, partner.

Let's go.

I wasn't scared back there.

I was more surprised.

You did good, Constable.

Did the dog really smell the creosote on her hands?

Maybe.

More likely he was smelling her raised cortisol levels.

But-

the point is that he made her believe

he could smell the creosote.

So she admitted to it.

He's pretty amazing, isn't he?

Wow.

Just what the world needs.

A liar with fangs.

Did you hear that?

He growled.

Evening, Constable.

Hey.

Thanks for your help, Gus.

Thank you.

I'm going to call Maura.

Tell her that I'm back on the board.

And the first item on the agenda-

is to rename this train-

The Chester Hiltz Express.

Let's go, pal.

Hey, you're in a good mood.

Yeah, I just closed my first cold case in a decade!

Hey!

All right!

So, uh-do we want to celebrate?

Boilup at Middle Cove maybe?

Hey!

I wouldn't mind that.

Oh, hey Sarah.

Join us for a boil up?

I-

Still have numbers to crunch.

But you guys go.

Go have fun.

I'll join the next one.

Rex, what do you think?

Go for a swim?

Maybe wash off

those bad vibes from the constable?

Yeah.

What constable?

Taylor O'Neill.

She's a rookie.

Wasn't a big fan of Rex.

But we're going to avoid her, right pal?

Well, shall we?

Yeah.

Knock knock.

Uh, Chief Sullivan.

Hi!

Ah come on-call me Al.

Fry?

No.

Thank you.

Low blood pressure.

Needs a bit of salt late in the day

to keep me legs from wobbling.

What uh-

What brings you by?

Oh, just-

making sure things are going all right-

with Joe back.

And Charlie.

I want you to succeed.

Things are-

going great.

Good!

I'm going to keep my eye on it.

Woman to woman.

We've got to stick together.

I appreciate that.

Speaking of woman to woman-

My daughter-

She's new on the force.

I'm hoping-

you'll take her under your wing a bit.

Oh!

Uh-yes!

I would be very happy-

uh, to have her come in and-

shadow, or whatever you need.

Great!

I'll send her your way!

Yeah?

Oh, what's her name?

Her name is Constable Taylor O'Neill.

Yeah?

Great.