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[female narrator] Previously on "Cold Case.."

Daddy, I know you don't want me to do this.

I just want you to know, I'm not gonna let you down.

[John] Kate Butler. Parents reported her missing three years ago.

[Lilly] Pennsylvania Military Institute.

- I knew the cadets hate her. - Rhianna?

[James] That's what they called Ryan after Kate smoked him.

Look, it wasn't, it wasn't the students

that Kate Butler had to worry about.

[Murillo] 'Cadet Gardner here will show you to Moe.'

He's my operations officer.

Look, I'd be lying to you to say that there

wasn't resentment among some of the cadets.

- 'Lawrence.' - 'Yes, major.'

Come on, Scotty. Pick up.

[thuds]

[tires screeching]

[Pearl Jam singing "Once"]

[coughing]

[gunshot]

♪ I admit it ♪

♪ What's to say ♪

♪ I'll relive it ♪

♪ Without pain ♪

♪ Backstreet lover on the side of the road ♪

♪ I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode ♪

♪ I got a 16 gauge buried under my clothes ♪

♪ I play ♪

♪ Once upon a time ♪

♪ I could control myself ♪

♪ Oh once upon a time ♪

♪ I could lose myself ♪

♪ Oh try and mimic ♪

♪ What's insane ♪

♪ I am.. ♪♪

[theme music]

- Dr. Kaufman, telephone-- - 'And what day is it?'

- 'Dr. Kaufman..' - Saturday.

Any blurred vision, nausea?

No.

No signs of hypothermia

but you took a pretty good shot to the head.

Might have a concussion.

Gonna need to run a couple of tests, CT scan, for one.

- We'll follow that up with-- - How long is that gonna take?

The tech will be down in a couple of minutes

to bring you upstairs..

...if they're not too backed up.

Either way, you're gonna need

to take it easy for a while, detective, and..

[John] 'Hey, where you going, Lil?'

The doc released you already?

Oh, uh, did all the tests and came back fine.

They haven't even dredged your squad car out

of the Neshaminy Creek yet.

Did CSU find anything at the scene?

Skid marks from the vehicle that ran you off the road.

Will, Nick and Kat are searching PMI's campus

for a car with body damage. Lil!

It was Cadet Lawrence Gardner, boss.

He-he wrote that sword hate mail

attacked Kate Butler in the shower.

He wanted her gone.

- Slow down, Lil. - I'm fine.

I'm telling you.

We know where Lawrence is now?

'Scotty went to PMI this morning to pick him up.'

He wasn't in his room, anywhere on campus.

We have broadcasts all over the region lookin' for him now.

Got to be the same guy that ran me off the road.

Now, come on, let me drive you home.

At least get a change of clothes.

Got everything I need in my locker.

[Lilly] 'Hey, guys.'

- Lil. Hey, how you doin'? - I'm fine.

You'd do anything to get outta that bucket of bolts.

- Wouldn't you? - What do you got?

Picked up Lawrence's files when I was up there.

The reason he's still a senior, he took six months off

'two weeks after Kate disappeared.'

Mom said he had mono.

[Lilly] 'The oldest excuse in the book.'

What about Keith Henderson

a black cadet who said he was on tours?

Yeah, checked the tours and confinements lists.

Kid was on it. The swipe card says he never left campus.

[Nick] 'Doesn't add up.'

Barracks sign out log says he left the dorm

same time Kate did.

That's 'cause the log was copied.

Found it last night in the diner.

In November 15, '05, the night Kate disappeared.

Now check this one out. November 1.

Names, signatures, times. Everything's the same.

The same damn sign out log. Only the date's been changed.

Made it look like Kate didn't come back.

The truth is, she never even left.

So, who doctored these logs?

[male #1] 'Lilly.'

Look, today's not the day.

Only place I know where to find you.

You get the letter I sent?

You can't fix everything with a damn letter, dad.

You at least read it?

Lilly?

Your turn, pook.

'I know.'

Lilly..

...I have to go do some things.

It means that I..

...I may have to be gone a while.

Where are you going?

Don't know yet.

With Mommy?

No, no, I don't, I don't think so.

Probably not.

Who's gonna sleep by her?

Well, sometimes mommies and daddies

they don't, they don't sleep by each other.

Which way can I move my knight?

Uh..

L move, two and one.

But if you take my pawn, I'll take your knight with my rook.

Or you could do that.

You really are a smart kid.

[male #1] 'Lilly.'

'What's the matter?'

- 'Are you okay?' - I gotta get back.

Celeste.

My wife's name.

Been married 22 years.

We have a daughter Maggie and a son Finn.

'They wanna meet you.'

[John] 'Lil.'

John Stillman.

Paul Cooper.

I, uh, didn't mean to interrupt.

You're not.

I got to go.

We found the car that ran you off the road.

[John] It's on the PMI campus.

Passenger side mirror is busted.

Dent, front right side.

Paint transfer from another car.

CSU tech took a sample.

Looks like yours.

Said the treads looked good

'for the skid marks at the scene.'

Is it the car that hit you?

All I saw were the headlights.

Hey. Glad you're okay.

Thanks.

PMI staffer said it's a campus car.

- Tow squad's on its way. - Belongs to the school?

We just got to find out who had access and where the keys are.

Time to shut this campus down.

Trap a rat in his hole.

[Moe] 'DEFCON ONE in effect, detectives.'

Front gate is closed.

Every door with a handle or hinge, locked down.

Who are the campus cars for?

We make them available to administrators

when they need them.

What about students?

Only senior aides.

[Lilly] 'Lawrence Gardner.'

He a senior aide?

Assaulting and killing Kate Butler.

[Moe] 'Running a cop off the road.'

'Those are some serious accusations--'

A Suburban with the damage.

[Scotty] 'Was Lawrence usin' it?'

He was picking up a football recruit

at the airport yesterday. Still has the keys.

Did Lawrence have access to the barracks sign out logs in '05?

Lawrence always done his best to serve the school.

Just answer the question.

He was Echo Company clerk.

Why did Lawrence take a six month

leave of absence, December '05?

Wasn't mono, was it, Moe?

- Fatigue. - 'Fatigue.'

You saying the kid had some kind of breakdown?

Looking back...a few days before she disappeared

all starts to make sense.

[Pearl Jam singing "Alive"]

Fight till you drop.

You go down, you die.

Someone will take care of your girl. Understood?

[all] Sir, yes, sir!

Now, which one of you chuckleheads

'thinks he can take Cadet Lawrence.'

[Moe] 'Best pugil stick in Echo Company?'

♪ At age 13 ♪

No one wants to man up?

I'd like a shot, sir.

Cadet Butler, you a man?

No, sir. But I'd like a shot, sir.

'Think you're special, Butler?'

Is that how you see yourself?

Special as a snowflake?

Sir, I'm no snowflake, sir.

♪ ...I'm still alive.. ♪

Step up, maxipad. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Lawrence, take no prisoners.

Yes, sir.

♪ ...alive ♪

♪ Hey I oh I'm still alive ♪

[whistles]

[male #2] 'Hit him, Kate!'

- Come on! - Come on, Lawrence.

[male #3] 'Don't let a girl kick your ass.'

'Come on, Lawrence, don't let her get you.'

[male #4] 'Knock that bitch down!'

[men cheering]

[male #5] 'Get up, Kate. Come on!'

[cheering]

[male #6] 'Take her down, Lawrence.'

♪Anything to this very day ♪

Don't you ever come near me again.

♪ Now I can't see ♪

♪ I just stare ♪

♪ I'm still alive.. ♪♪

[Moe] 'Girl was tougher than I thought.'

You're saying she was out for revenge?

Didn't know about the assault at the time.

Well, Lawrence didn't walk out the front gate.

And he's gotta be holed up somewhere on campus.

There's only one room in the barracks with a lock.

Where's the key to Kate's room?

Police, open up.

Scotty.

Get him down.

Forget it, he's gone.

Key to the room.

And keys to the Suburban.

Son of a bitch.

- Look at the rope. - Standard slipknot.

[Scotty] 'It's on the right side.'

How did he tie it himself?

Lawrence was left-handed.

[Lilly] 'Knot should be on the other side.'

Rope's up under the chin. Like he was lifted up.

Did it himself, it would've dug into his Adam's apple.

Marks on the back of the neck.

This kid didn't kill himself.

Someone did it for him.

[siren wailing]

[male #7] 'Face front.'

[male #8] 'Lilly?'

You alright?

Number three.

You sure?

Yes.

It was him.

[door opens]

Number three, John.

[door closes]

You're a brave girl, Lilly Rush.

Who are you?

John Stillman.

Detective Stillman's the one who caught the man that hurt you.

My mother said it was too late.

[John] 'Long as you ask the right questions..'

...never too late.

[Will] 'Lil?'

- Sure you're okay? - I'm tired, that's all.

I asked around. Lawrence spent his share of time in the chapel.

'Religious type.'

Explains all that biblical hate mail.

Hiding her nakedness from the sight of God.

'Gonna talk to his chaplain.'

See if he confided in him about anything.

[Scotty] 'Campus lockdown came a little too late.'

Coroner thinks Lawrence might've been killed

some time last night.

Get back to your duties.

All hail the commandant.

Detective Rush. I've just informed Cadet Gardner's family.

Second homicide in four years.

You got a PR disaster on your hands.

I was told this was a suicide.

Lawrence was dead before he was hung.

Someone must've found out we were lookin' at him.

- This happened last night? - That mean something to you?

Hank Butler came to see me.

He had been drinking.

[Pearl Jam singing "Man of Honor"]

You son of a bitch.

My daughter's gone. Kate is gone.

- Hank, sit down. - You were in charge, Lou.

I tried talking to her

but she was her father's daughter.

She kept her own counsel.

Talk to her about what?

A racking. That may have gone too far.

Why didn't you call me?

You said no special treatment.

♪ And the doors are open now ♪

What happened?

♪ ...are ringing out ♪

♪ Cause the man of.. ♪

Couple of weeks before she disappeared

I think she may have been assaulted.

♪ ...his final bow goodbye for now ♪♪

I want the name of every cadre in Echo Company.

Now.

Hank and I were knobs together. We graduated the same year.

And you gave him those names?

He would've found out anyway.

Lawrence Gardner on that list?

What time did he leave your office?

[Murillo] 'Little after midnight.'

I assumed he went straight home but...now..

[Scotty] 'Forgot this the last time you were here.'

I heard about a guy who lost his PMI ring at boot camp.

Ten year anniversary

his wife had a replacement made to the exact specs.

Cadet number inside, and whole nine.

Charlotte told you about that?

You used to love that school.

- It's hard to remember. - How about last night?

- Remember that, Hank? - Yeah, I do.

Had a date with a bottle.

Was a terrible date.

Just what I wanted.

That date go down at PMI?

Sallyport guard saw your car leaving campus at 3:00 a.m.

About the time Cadet Lawrence Gardner was killed.

[clanging]

- 'Eye for an eye, Hank?' - I didn't hurt anyone.

[Scotty] 'You find that son of a bitch before we did?'

I know what I said... but I saw the chapel.

- The chapel, Hank? - 'Yeah.'

And I asked God's forgiveness

for what happened last time I was there.

[Pearl Jam singing "Nothingman"]

[James] 'Attention to orders.'

'As first sergeant, Echo Company'

'I'd like to present the PMI Distinction Medal'

'to a fourth class cadet who has shown outstanding merit.'

'Cadet Butler.'

Front and center.

Sir.

Cadet Butler, you have displayed outstanding qualities

in both academics and physical training.

Thank you, sir.

Do you have anything to say?

Yes, I do, sir.

Stand at ease.

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value."

I didn't understand why

First Sergeant Addison was quoting Thomas Paine

our first day here..

...but I do now.

We might not be fighting the American Revolution

like he was, but we're still fighting.

Fighting for the strength to keep at it.

Fighting for the respect of our company.

And for the pride of our families.

♪ Nothingman.. ♪♪

I hope to earn them all someday.

[all clapping]

Echo Company, atten-hut!

I remember the first day she was born.

Those tiny little hands, they had such a tight grip.

Like she'd never let go.

Three hours is long time to spend on your chapel.

[Lilly] 'Sure you didn't go anywhere else that night, Hank?'

I didn't go lookin' for those cadets.

I left the list that Murillo gave me

on his secretary's desk.

Gonna be checking with her on that.

It was the last chance I had to tell her how proud I was.

And I walked away.

Got the Bucks County Coroner's report

on Cadet Lawrence Gardner.

Cause of death, manual strangulation.

And no scrapings under his nails, no bruises or cuts.

Kid didn't put up a fight.

Or it happened so fast, he didn't have time to wake up.

Chaplain said Lawrence helped out with the services.

He was runnin' a spiritual retreat

the night Kate was killed.

Off campus the whole weekend.

So, he couldn't have killed her.

Well, find out who else had access to that Suburban.

If Lawrence wasn't drivin' it, I wanna know who was.

CSU found something in Kate's quarters

where Lawrence's body was found.

A letter to Kate.

'Found it rolled up inside the metal bar in her closet.'

"Three good reasons we should be together.

"One, They'll never find out.

"Two, No one could love you as much as I do.

"Three, I can't live without you.

J.F.A."

J.F.A. James Addison?

James Frederick Addison.

Commandant asked him to keep an eye on Kate.

Gives a whole new meaning to shine detail.

Kate decides to call it off.

But he won't let her go.

Puts her in a footlocker instead.

Hey. Got Romeo in the box. You ready?

Be right there.

[sighs]

[elevator bell dings]

Son, congratulations.

Hey, Lil, you comin' or what?

You see my dad come by here a few minutes ago?

No. No. Is everything alright?

Yeah. Yeah.

Just tryin' to tie up some loose ends, lieutenant.

What you told us about Kate being attacked in the showers.

- I told you everything I know. - Right, on shine detail.

She ever mention being romantically involved

with another cadet?

No. She wasn't.

Well, you seem pretty sure about that.

She wouldn't risk violating the non-fraternization policy.

Would you?

I don't know what you mean.

Found this love letter in her room.

It's your handwriting, Don Juan.

'You didn't just watch out for Cadet Butler.'

You took advantage of her.

A senior cadet is a position of power.

She couldn't get rid of you if she wanted to.

She wasn't getting rid of me.

You knew about the assault, that Lawrence was unstable.

Told us about the barracks sign out log.

The list of guards with sabers.

[Scotty] 'You knew Lawrence would look good for her murder.'

You string him up, case closed, right, we all go home.

[clanging]

It's a beautiful job.

You just...put the knot

'on the wrong damn side.'

I don't get it. I thought Lawrence killed himself.

Lawrence didn't kill himself, James.

Just like Kate didn't run away.

Give us three good reasons

we shouldn't lock your lying ass up.

[clanging]

Alright, so I liked her.

And when she didn't like you back..

...what did you do then, James?

I wrote her that letter.

She doesn't give you the answer you're looking for.

Try and convince her otherwise, she says no.

No! She felt the same way. I know she did.

[Pearl Jam singing "Given To Fly"]

Cadet Butler.

♪ He could've tuned in tuned in ♪

♪ But he tuned out ♪

♪ A bad time ♪

♪ Nothing could save him ♪

There's a million good reasons we should be together, James.

But I can't.

Not until after Recognition Day.

What's gonna change then?

Won't be a knob anymore.

They won't treat you any different, Kate.

- Trust me. - The hell with them.

I'm not doing this for them.

You're doing it 'cause of your old man.

♪ Had a smoke in a tree ♪

♪ The wind rose up.. ♪♪

Growin' up, my dad talked about this place

like the Earth revolved around it.

But now, I'm doin' it for me.

And the harder they push, the harder I fight back.

If that's the way you want to go about it

it's gonna be a long four years.

I won that medal legit.

'Lots of guys won medals, Kate.'

Just 'cause you can hack it doesn't mean they'll accept you.

I can't make them like me.

They think you're some tight ass grinder, a barracks rat.

You never go out, you never even let them get to know you.

You don't think I want that?

I've never been invited.

I'm inviting you now.

You said it yourself. They hate me.

Well, then, let them see the other side of you.

The side that I see.

Don't just prove to them that you can hack it

prove to them that you belong.

I thought she was gonna come out that night and meet me.

That maybe things could change for Kate at the school.

But she never showed up? I didn't blame her.

[James] 'I mean, the guys were tough.'

But no barracks rat ever makes it through PMI.

Barracks rat?

They're guys who hole up in the dorms all weekend.

Too stressful a place. You... you gotta blow off some steam.

[James] 'There's no way you can make it'

through that school without friends.

Excuse me.

You alright?

Freezing.

Who turned off the heat?

Cutbacks. Dropped the thermostat.

Do me a favor.

Check the sign out logs for all of Kate's knob year.

Find the barracks rats.

Cadets who never left on the weekends.

[coughing]

Ma'am?

You wanted to see me, lieutenant?

I see you made the pinch on that carjacking, Rush.

Yes, lieutenant. Had a lucky day.

You create your luck by hard work.

Well, if I was paying more attention

I might have caught the guy before he got

out onto the highway.

You did well on the detective's test, too.

Looks like you'll make it next week.

Thank you, sir. Figure I'll probably end up in east.

I have a few guys set to retire here

in the next couple of years.

I could use somebody

with your instincts and determination.

- Homicide? - You interested?

Of course, sir.

Well, learn your job at east, do it right.

I'll keep an eye out, and we'll talk when the time comes.

I'll be ready, sir.

Good, because you'll be

the first female homicide detective

in the Philly Police Department.

You're gonna need a thick skin.

I can handle myself.

I knew that a long time ago.

There was a letter sitting on my desk. You see it?

Nope. But I did check out the barracks sign out log from '05.

- All of 'em? - Hup two.

There's only one cadet who never left the barracks

on a weekend his entire knob year.

Ryan Stewart.

Never even went home for the holidays.

You should check out his transcript.

[Lilly] 'With those marks, it's a wonder they let him'

stay at the school at all.

'Rhianna had a lot of issues.'

You know, being soft, dull and friendless

is no way to go through college.

Cadet Ryan Stewart, Philly PD.

[Ryan] 'Go away!'

There's something blocking it.

Open the door, you little pissant.

- Just leave me alone! - 'Relax, Ryan.'

- We just want to talk. - No.

There's nothing to talk about.

I can't take this anymore.

[Lilly] 'Take what anymore?'

'What you did to Kate?'

Look, I'm sick of lying.

We can help.

[Lilly] 'Come on, Ryan. We can help you.'

[Ryan] 'Nobody's gonna help me.'

'Look, I c-can't go to jail. Nobody's gonna bail me out.'

Bad shape. Bad shape.

Gun!

You come any closer

I swear to God I'm gonna shoot.

You don't have to worry about that.

I'm gonna blow your brains out for you.

[Lilly] 'Hey!'

[tires screeching]

[Vera] 'Get your ass on the ground!'

It was me.

I did it.

I'm sorry.

Alright, you ready?

Talk about that night.

Alright, it was just me in the barracks.

[Lilly] 'That Saturday night?'

November 15, 2005?

Every Saturday night.

You know, it was just me.

[keys clacking]

Kate was there, too?

The only other cadet around.

And even with all the crap that she took, she was a girl.

And they still liked her better than me.

[knock on door]

[Pearl Jam singing "Release"]

Ryan? What are you doing here?

Oh, it's...it's calculus.

This new chapter is killing me.

I heard you were a great tutor, so I..

I haven't even looked at it yet.

Oh, I just figured you'd probably be

holed up studying too, so..

You're not goin' out?

No. What's new?

I guess we have that in common, huh?

Why don't you take my notes?

Oh. Okay, cool.

'Um..'

So, what are you... what's up? Are you just..

- 'Are you just goin' to bed?' - Look, Ryan, I gotta get ready.

♪ Feel the chill ♪

Where you going?

Meetin' some of the guys.

You're kidding.

Who?

Echo Company?

♪ Windowsill ♪

They-they invited you out?

♪ I see the words ♪

- You should come, too. - No.

[chuckles]

I get it. They'd, uh..

They'd rather hang out with a chick than me.

- Come on, Ryan. - 'Oh, no, no.'

Oh, you mean, Rihanna, right?

- A worthless tub of goo? - Don't say that.

You got to show them you can hang with them.

You probably just think that I'll wash out anyway, right?

Is that what, that's what you think, right?

- No. I didn't say that. - 'No.'

You-you think that. Right?

They all think it.

You-you know that the guys above us

they all say that they're the last true class

of PMI because of you.

Not 'cause of me.

You have ruined everything!

You know, graduating from here used to mean something.

- Ryan, just take the notes. - No, I don't want the notes.

Damn it, Ryan.

[skull cracks]

♪ Oh dear dad ♪

♪ Can you see me now.. ♪♪

And I just kept waiting for her

to stand up..

[typewriter keys clacking]

...but she didn't.

How did you get rid of the body?

What?

You were a freshman. You didn't have a car.

So how did you get rid of the body?

[door closes]

Somebody helped him.

Lawrence?

Kid doesn't have it in him

to pull off a premeditated murder.

And why confess to one murder, but not two?

[door opens]

[Kat] 'The Suburban from PMI that hit you'

was ticketed five times in the past four years.

95 South, 76 West and Ridge Avenue.

On the way to Roxborough.

Same driver used the car every time.

[Scotty] Army. Rangers, right?

Got to be a tough son of a bitch to wear that beret.

Then came back to PMI in '87 as a PT instructor.

You're an institution.

Part of the long blue line.

A fourth generation..

...sir.

Been looking over Ryan Stewart's transcript.

Uh, academic probation twice.

Poor to failing marks in..

[clanging]

...PT.

Ma'am?

[clanging]

The kid was a-a non-hacker.

Hardly PMI material.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

Yeah, but you promoted that chucklehead.

Got your signature on his evaluations.

"Cadet Stewart shows promise."

You saying I gave him a pass, detective?

That what it sounds like to you?

Took another look at those campus car records.

Every Sunday morning

it was you who checked out one of those cars.

I take my mother to mass on Sundays.

[Lilly] 'A diligent son.'

Well, it turns out you're a creature of habit.

You got three speeding tickets

Two on the 76, and another on Ridge Avenue.

- 'Same car.' - I like to be on time.

See, Ridge Ave off 76 goes right through Roxborough.

And the cemetery where Kate Butler's body was buried.

Now you're saying I had something to do

with Cadet Butler's murder?

Told you, Lawrence drove that car.

Lawrence was just the clerk who knew too much.

Knew about the doctored sign out logs from the barracks.

Lawrence Gardner was unstable.

What you wanted us to think when you stuffed

the car keys in his pocket.

[Scotty] 'They teach you that in hand-to-hand combat training'

how to kill a man in his sleep, string him up?

[scoffs]

Pretty fanciful.

Yeah.

Same way you panicked when my partner got too close.

Ran her off the road in that same car.

[thud]

[tires screeching]

[crashes]

What happened between Cadets Stewart and Butler

was tragic and shameful

but if you're looking to spread the blame

I suggest you start with the courts.

The courts..

...killed Kate Butler?

[Moe] 'Do you know how many congressmen'

'have graduated from PMI?'

Twelve.

Six senators, eight four-star generals.

Those courts ordered us

to change the way we do things here.

Now here we are.

Stuck installing women's latrines and tampon dispensers.

There are over 60 women's colleges in this country

do you see any men banging down the doors trying to get in?

The value of a separate education

is that it is separate!

Sound bitter, Moe.

Because of this catastrophic experiment

an army of lawyers and press stand ready

to shut down the institution I love.

The one thing I share with my father

and his before him.

Excuse me if I forgot to shed a tear

for Hank Butler's daughter.

[Scotty] 'That why you buried her?'

Think I'll take one of those lawyers now.

[door opens]

[door closes]

Long night?

Can't piece it together.

The story?

What you always told me.

Ask the right questions till the story makes sense.

So what's the right question?

You remember the honor code, Ryan?

"A cadet shall not lie, cheat, or steal

nor tolerate those who do."

"He."

What?

"Nor shall hetolerate those who do."

That's right. By and for men.

The way it's always been. The way Moe wants it to stay.

Now see, Moe believed in me.

Still worried he'll think less of you?

That you're not a man if you don't take the rap?

Not PMI material?

The school has a tradition.

It has a code.

That's what he'd have you believe.

But if the honor code is the backbone of PMI..

...why did he ask you to lie?

Lawrence Gardner didn't kill himself, did he?

No, he didn't, Ryan.

I went to tell him what I did wrong.

I didn't know what else to do.

[Pearl Jam singing "Immortality"]

You'd better have a hell of a good reason

for bothering me on a Saturday night, boy.

I hurt her, sir.

Get in here.

Get a hold of yourself, cadet.

- Who did you hurt? - Cadet Butler, sir.

I hit her and she didn't get up.

- Where is she? - In her room.

She's not breathing, sir.

What do you mean she's not breathing?

I didn't mean it, sir.

♪ Artificial tear ♪

Who else knows?

Came straight to you, sir.

♪ Next up volunteers ♪

♪ Vulnerable wisdom can't adhere ♪

You want to graduate from this institution, don't you, son?

More than anything, sir.

Be a PMI man just like your father?

- Sir, yes, sir. - Good.

♪ ...trapdoor in the sun ♪

Go get a footlocker out of storage.

♪ Immortality ♪

This did not happen.

Not on this campus. Do you understand me, son?

Loud and clear, sir.

As you were.

Sir, yes, sir.

♪ Victims in demand.. ♪♪

[Lilly] 'Got you, Moe.'

That so?

You sent Ryan for that footlocker.

Made Cadet Butler's body disappear

and you framed Lawrence for the job.

What, now you're gonna tell me that kid is really dead?

I just..

I just know he didn't do it.

That's all that matters.

Stories.

You're just telling yourself stories.

Even tried to take out a cop.

You?

Busier than a one-legged man

in an ass-kicking competition, Moe.

You can only keep the flood back for so long, detective.

The flood?

Pretty soon it's going to pull you down..

...for good.

You put that girl in a box!

I put you there, too, sweetheart.

[water gurgling]

No.

No, I got out.

I got you!

[whispering] Not from where I'm sitting.

[clanging]

[rumbling]

[glass shattering]

[loud clanging]

What the hell is going on?

[glass shattering]

[John] Long as you ask the right questions..

...never too late.

[glass shattering]

[water gushing]

[dramatic music]

[gasping]

[indistinct radio chatter]

It's okay, Lil. Now it's going to be okay.

We're gonna get this guy. Alright, we'll get him.

EMT said she kept going on about the barracks sign out log.

Just located the car that ran her off the road.

On campus.

[Cooper] Dear Lilly.

There are two sides to every story.

Neither of which I think you'll find satisfactory.

[Pearl Jam singing "Black"]

Suffice it to say there is no way

I could have stayed with your mother and survived.

In that sense, you're already stronger than me.

♪ Hey ♪

I was a lousy father.

When I got sober enough to figure out how much I missed

it was too late to undo the damage.

♪ Sheets of empty canvas ♪

♪ Untouched sheets ♪

Much to my regret

I'll always be the dad who bought you a bike

but never taught you how to ride it.

♪ ...spread out before me ♪

♪ As her body once did ♪

There were a few moments

I tried to reconnect

along the way.

But you were on your own path by then.

Your own woman.

And you turned out great, kid.

♪ Now the air I tasted and breathed ♪

♪ Has taken a turn ♪

♪ Oh and all I taught her was ♪

♪ Everything ♪

I've missed so much of your life.

For that, I am sorry.

Not only to you, but for depriving myself

for all those times you needed a father.

Somebody to protect you.

♪ And now my bitter hands ♪

♪ Shake beneath the clouds ♪

When you showed up that day at the park

after all these years later

my heart about jumped out of my chest.

I thought maybe you came to judge me till I realized

I'm the only parent you've got left.

Like it or not..

...you only get one father.

♪ ...gone bad ♪

♪ Turned my world to black ♪

♪ Tattooed all I see ♪

♪ All that I am ♪

♪ All I'll be ♪

♪ Ye-a-a-ah.. ♪

Just know, if there's ever another moment in your life

when you need me..

...I will be there.

♪ I know someday you'll have a beautiful life ♪

♪ I know you'll be a sun ♪

♪ In somebody else's sky ♪

♪ But why why ♪

♪ Why can't it be ♪

♪ Can't it be mine.. ♪♪

[theme music]