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[Goo Goo Dolls
singing "Better Days"]

[siren blaring]

[explosion]

[indistinct radio transmission]

[explosion]

♪ So take these words ♪

♪ And sing out loud ♪

♪ 'Cause everyone
is forgiven now ♪

Max! Max!

Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am,
stay back.

Go on the other side
of the street.

My baby's in there.
My son.

- Where is he?
- My son. Oh, my God!

- He's just a little baby.
- What floor?

Hey, we got a kid in there.
Radio McElroy.

- Ma'am, what floor?
- The fourth floor.

- 4F, 4-4F, 4F.
- McElroy!

McElroy, fourth floor..

♪ And it's someplace simple
where we could live ♪

♪ Something only you can give ♪

♪ And that's faith and trust ♪

♪ And peace while we're alive ♪

[crying]
No, no.

♪ And the one poor child
who saved this world ♪

♪ And there's ten million more
who probably could.. ♪

[crying]
Oh, my baby!

'No!'

♪ And said a prayer for them ♪♪

[crying]
'Oh, my God, my baby.'

'My baby, Max.'

[instrumental music]

[Miller]
Central detectives picked
this lady up a few hours ago.

Said she went nuts
in Rittenhouse Square.

Scared the pants off
some dudes feeding the birds.

Ex-junkie.
She still using?

I don't know.
Sure acts in that way.

Screaming she knows something
about a job from '05.

Oh, boy, this should be
a waste of time.

Lot of people you give
the benefit of the doubt

but not addicts, huh?

I was raised by one.

Got no illusions left.

[Miller]
'Heads up.
Trouble's coming.'

[Saccardo]
'Hey, ladies.'

Tombs are the place
to be today, huh?

I got a stimulating conversation
to look forward to.

- Few cells down.
- Priscilla Chapin.

Oh, smackhead zombie.
I know her.

You know all the screw-ups,
Saccardo.

Hey, they make me feel
good about myself.

I got her hauled in for a
disorderly conduct this morning.

- Says she's got a tip.
- Yeah, waste your time.

Well, that's what I said.

[Priscilla]
'You're making a mistake.'

'I need to get out of here.'

'This is..'

[Miller]
'Morning, Priscilla.'

Detectives Miller and Rush.

I gotta get outta here.

You gotta help me.
You gotta get me out of here.

Yeah? 'Cause, uh,
we heard you had information

on a homicide but
if you got an appointment--

It's about myson.

Oh, says here
that the apartment

you were living in 2005
burned to the ground

'with your eight-month-old
son in it.'

Ruled accidental death.
Not a murder.

I saw him this morning
in the park.

You saw your son?

Yeah.

Max was on the playground.

I know it was him.

I-I ran over to him

but then, he was gone
in the crowd.

You using again, Priscilla?

No.

No. I-I'm clean.

When I got pregnant,
I did 90 meetings in 90 days.

'I haven't used since.'

So, how does it make sense

'your son being
in the park today?'

It's not what
they thought it was.

- That fire..
- Well, they blamed it on you.

Left the gas stove on
in your apartment.

It was cold.
The heat didn't work.

Sometimes I put the stove on.

You left your baby alone
that night to..

"...grab some cigarettes
at the bodega."

Came back.
Fire had taken everything.

Just some cigarettes, huh?

They should have
prosecuted you

for negligent homicide,
Priscilla.

I didn't turn the gas on.

Not that night.

- So who did?
- I don't know.

Somebody else.

When you figure it out,
holler at us.

I'm out.

[Priscilla]
'Please, you gotta believe me.'

I saw my son.

His name is Max.

He has sandy hair

and he has a birthmark
on his right arm.

It was him in the park.

We'll take a look.

Any truth
to what you're saying..

...we'll find it.

[theme music]

[Stillman]
'What do you got
from Rittenhouse Square'

that points to
Priscilla Chapin's son?

[Rush]
I tracked down only two kids
there this morning.

Eight and ten.
Too old.

Coroner's report
tells it all though.

"Blast threw Max Chapin
out of his crib.

"Fractured his bones.

Blaze got everything
but the skeleton."

[Stillman]
Gas fire?

[Rush]
On February 12, 2005.

Time PFD got it under control

252 Baker Street
burned to the ground.

All the tenants got out
except the baby.

[Rush]
Well, mom told the police she
left him alone for ten minutes.

Her neighbor had
the baby monitor.

[Vera]
That's her babysitting
solution?

This Priscilla
has possession charges.

'01, '02 and '04.
A teenage runaway.

- Avoided juvie by doing rehab.
- Baby's father in the picture?

Mom said he was AWOL,
never even met the kid.

'No one listed
on the birth certificate.'

Louie! You didn't have to
dress up for us.

Well, if not for you,
then who, Rush?

Me, clearly.

What's your take on
the Baker Street fire, Louie?

Well, right here's the source
of the, uh, gas leak.

[Stillman]
'The kitchen.'

All neighbors said
Priscilla Chapin had a habit

of leaving the gas stove on.

H-hinky thing?

I'm seeing alligator patterns
in that room right over here.

- The baby's room?
- Yup.

What do you mean alligator?

Well, on the walls,
if fire burns really hot

or burns it for a long time,
it does it, but..

But if the fire started
in the kitchen

that's where
you should see them.

Right.

So the fire marshal
had it wrong in '05.

Wasn't an accident?

Look, the gas
came from the stove.

That caused the blast,
you know?

'But there was a fire burning'

in that kid's room
before the explosion.

So how's that happen,
an eight-month-old

doesn't play with matches.

Have a talk with the firefighter
who found the baby.

See what he remembers
from that bedroom.

[McElroy]
'You're saying the fire started
in the baby's room?'

[Jeffries]
'That's one theory.'

Hey, you remember a-a candle,
an incense?

Anything might have sparked
the fire in that room?

If anything incendiary
wasn't eaten up by then

I-I would've reported it,
but, uh..

Right.

I'm sorry, guys.

[Jeffries]
'It's a tough memory to shake'

seeing a kid die like that.

Hell, my daughter
had just been born, so, uh..

Alright. Know you did
the best you could.

Heading in there, I, I..

...I didn't know
what I'd find.

[glass shattering]

[indistinct radio transmission]

[dramatic music]

Yeah, I've seen places.

Junkies let their kids
sleep on the floor.

There's trash everywhere.

'Not this kid.'

'This one was loved.'

I believe there was glass
on the floor?

Uh, from the window.

'It was broken.'

If it got broke in the blast

it should have blown out..

...right on to the fire escape.

Well, it was inside
the apartment for sure.

I mean, I almost cut myself
getting that kid out.

The window wasn't broken
in the blast.

Someone busted into that room,
started that fire.

And this just became a homicide.

Owner of 252 Baker got $925,000

in insurance money
when the place burned down.

That neighborhood?

Couldn't have gotten
that on the market

if he wallpapered in gold.

Victor Martinez.

He's got two condos
in Mt. Airy

and a high-rise downtown.

So, 252 Baker's the eyesore.
Makes motive.

Licenses and Inspections sent
these over a couple minutes ago.

Code violations filed
against the landlord

by the tenant in 4F.

- That Priscilla?
- Yep.

Said the heat wasn't working
in the dead of winter.

Unsanitary conditions.

- That can bring a hefty fine.
- Or worse.

Guy gets sued by the city.
Loses those condos.

That fire could have killed
two birds

with one stone for you,
Victor.

Get some cash
from that rat trap.

[Rush]
'And finished off
your pain-in-the-ass tenant.'

- 'Priscilla Chapin.'
- Excuse me?

What about me being a member
of the Chamber of Commerce

'and a Catholic make you think'

that I would take
the life of a child?

That part was, uh..

[clears throat]

...unfortunate.

[Rush]
'But you're a businessman,
Victor.'

And that neighborhood,
wasn't getting any better.

For your information,
I had an interested buyer

and I would have made
more than the insurance.

That's real concrete.

You want the truth?

Yeah, Priscilla Chapin's
the reason

my property got burnt
to a crisp.

By leaving the stove on?

I'm talking about
her lifestyle, man.

She tried to go clean
for the baby.

[scoffs]
Once that bed is made,
you know.

And tough to leave
the addict life behind.

- So she started using again?
- She was white-knuckling it.

Trying to turn her life around.

But some people didn't wanna
get left behind.

[The Good Life
singing "I Am an Island"]

[Max crying]

[Priscilla]
Come on, Max.
Please stop crying.

It's time to go
to sleep now, baby.

[crying continues]

[dryer whirs]

There, that's better?

'You love the dryer,
don't you?'

[crying continues]

Please, please, please,
I'm so tired.

Honey, shh.

[crying continues]

People said you were dead,
Priscilla.

♪ 'Cause the night's
tragic rambling ♪

But I knew you was laying low.

♪ So if you can sit tight
'till the sun hits the blinds ♪

Oh, look, man.

[crying continues]

[sighs]
I, uh, I had a baby, Franklin.

So?

You know,
I-I'm gonna get a job.

A part-time job,
and I will pay you back.

Yeah, don't pay me back
like that, girl.

♪ I just can't trust
my instincts ♪

I'm-I'm clean.

♪ ...beats with passion ♪

I'm a mom now.

Then I need cash.
Three days.

And if you fail to uphold
our business agreement, then..

...I might have to get creative.

♪ 'Till the mood swings
are gone ♪

♪ Then we might just
have a chance oh no ♪♪

- He's cute.
- 'It's okay.'

'It's okay, Max.'

[whispering]
It's going to be okay.

[crying continues]

It's nice of you
to intervene there, Vic.

Are you nuts?

You know who that guy is?

Franklin Palmer.

A big-time crack
and heroin dealer.

He's a real humanitarian.

You didn't hear this
all from me, alright?

Oh, relax.
He's in prison now.

Yeah, for torching the house
of one of his enemies.

[cell door buzzing]

[Jeffries]
You threatened Priscilla Chapin

to give you your money
back or else..

A week later,
her apartment building

goes up in flames.

You realize her kid died
in that fire?

I do.

Sometimes God plucks
the most beautiful flowers.

You wouldn't
be gettin' sarcastic

about a kid dyin',
would you?

No, man.

Look..

...I don't take severe measures
with that kinda repeat customer.

Priscilla was clean.
She wasn't coming back to you.

So maybe you took away
the thing she loved.

Smack is what she loved, dawg.

H is a pleasure like you
can't find in this world.

Give that up
for a crying baby

and a fast food job?

[scoffs]
No contest.

Saying Priscilla fell
off the wagon?

I'm sayin' the whole point
of usin'

is to escape reality.

And that girl's reality
was...bleak.

[chuckling]

[Wolf Parade
singing "Modern World"]

♪ I'm not in love
with the modern world ♪

[breathing heavily]

♪ I was a torch driving
the savages back to the trees ♪

Come on, girl.

♪ ...has more ways
and I don't mention it ♪

[female #1]
'Hey, have you seen Ellis?'

What are you doing here,
Chantelle? I'm working.

He ain't been around.
I don't know.

I think maybe he left me.

He's no good, Chantelle.

He can't stay with anyone
longer than two weeks anyway.

Look, I gotta get back
to work.

I'm thinkin' maybe
it's 'cause of you.

'Cause I know you been
calling about that baby.

You better stay away from him.

He needs to own up
to his responsibilities.

He don't want you,
or your kid.

Probably he ain't even the
father. He don't owe you squat.

He is the father,
and he will help us.

You know what?
You see him around?

You tell him I'm going to
the cops if he doesn't own up.

Stay away from him!
I'll kill you, bitch!

Hey! Get out! Get out!

- I'll break..
- 'Out of this store.'

♪ 'Cause modern world
build things high ♪♪

[chuckles]

Priscilla, that's it.

- No.
- You, too.

Please. Please.

Matt, I-I need this job.

It was only a matter of time
before she came callin'.

Except I got locked up
a few days later.

- Who was the crackhead?
- Man, I don't know, man.

You know all them fiends
be the same.

- Got me.
- And the baby's daddy? Ellis?

Do I look like 411, dawg?

I don't know.

Skinny white boy.

Be surprised
if he's still kickin' it.

Short shelf life,
these types.

Especially with Franklin here
pushing 'em off.

Why haven't you found Max?
I don't understand.

We need to talk
about Max's father, Ellis.

Ellis? Why?

'Cause back in the day,
you told his girl

you were gonna rat him out.

Get his ass tossed in jail

if he didn't pay up.

Ellis was broke, okay?

We were in love with dope,
not each other.

He never even met Max.

You need to find my son.
He's out there.

There was no four-year-old boy
at that park.

Yes, there was.

Is there a reason
you're protecting Ellis?

'Maybe he came back,
hurt your kid?'

[sighs]

That first night
in the hospital..

...when Max was born..

...they, uh, they put him in

this little plastic thing
next to me.

'And he started to cry
in the middle of the night.'

'He was all swaddled up.'

And I took it all off of him.

All those layers.

And I put him right here
on my heart.

S-skin to skin.

And I felt him start to..

...breathe like me.

It's the first time I ever felt

like I had something to give.

I would neverallow anyone
to hurt him.

'Ever.'

You called?

Uh, Ellis Smith.

Know him?

Of him, yeah.

Guy'd sell his mama
for a fix.

Oh, where can I find him?

I think he's a user nomad.

I hear his sister pays
for him to go

into the Maloney Smith Center

every once in a while,
make a half-assed attempt

to get clean.

Real winners you hang with,
Saccardo.

Hey, you know, you find Ellis,
keep him for me.

I got a Mexican
trafficking thing I wanna

conversate with him
about, alright?

Alright.

- What?
- Why you work in this job?

That how I make the big bucks.

You got a thing for kid jobs?

Or addicts?
Or is it the combo platter?

Kids with addict moms?

Just doing my job, Saccardo.

That's it.

[chuckles]

I saw Ellis here at the clinic
around Thanksgiving maybe.

Not since then, no.

Well, he ever mention anything
about his son?

The one who died?

Ellis is an addict.

He doesn't have a lot
of lucid moments

especially of,
let's say, accountability.

What about the baby's mother?

Oh, she came by here once..

...to visit him with the baby.

- Priscilla was here?
- Mmm.

On hands and knees.
Like Ellis was any kind of help.

She make any threats
about going to the cops?

Not that I know of.

You know Ellis pretty well,
I mean..

...rehab gets intimate.

Mmm, yes, it can,
when they're honest.

Did he seem like the type
who'd hurt his kid?

Hurt him?

You mean set that fire?

I know that for addicts,
serving their addiction

is more important than anything.

More than their own life..

...or the life of their child.

[Max crying]

♪ ...ran with you down ♪

♪ The rainy roads
of our old town ♪

Max is really sick, Ellis.

I swiped him baby aspirin,
'cause I lost my job.

But it's not working.
I need to take him to a doctor.

Why do you wanna lay it
all on me, Priscilla?

'Look at where I'm at.'

You think this is easy for me?

I'm trying everything I can
to stay clean.

Everything!

You're the only one
I can ask for help.

I never said I wanted a kid.

♪ And on your own ♪

Well, here he is.

'Look at him.'

He's the most amazing thing
in the whole world.

♪ You'll knock on my door
and up will go ♪

He's got snot all over his face.

Ellis.

Visiting hour's over, okay?

♪ But what do I know? ♪

♪ What do I know? ♪

♪ I know ♪

Call you.

♪ I know you think
I'm holding you down ♪

♪ But I do ♪

♪ You follow me back
with the sun in your.. ♪

I can't.
It's stuck.

♪ And on your own ♪

[female #2]
'It's a cute onesie.'

'Made it yourself?'

Yeah.

'Keeps me busy at night.'

'Making stuff for him.'

He likes flowers.

♪ And up will go ♪

♪ In white light ♪

Tough times.
The nights.

They don't tell you
how hard it's gonna be.

You know?

I just, I just wish
someone had told me.

♪ I know ♪♪

[Max cooing]

She was in a bad way.

Poor girl.

Not a lot of resources
for someone trying

to stay sober
while raising an infant.

No money, no babysitter,
nothin'.

I've got a four-year-old

and the limits of your sanity
are pushed

but I've got a great husband,
and a job.

Priscilla was all alone.

Single mother at the end
of her rope

and no one left to turn to.

So why did she lie
about going to Ellis

if she wasn't protecting him?

'Cause maybe it wasn't him
she was protecting.

Had the coroner
take a second look

at the autopsy photos of Max.

Anything new?

[Vera]
'Uh, bone fractures
from the blast.'

'Uh, baby got tossed around.'

Some of 'em
are showing calcification.

- Healing.
- Hmm.

Meaning those fractures are old.

We'd know more
if we had a body, but..

Looks like Max was being abused.

Seems like Priscilla
couldn't make a go of it.

[sighs]
Abusing the kid

and it goes too far one night

and sets the fire
to cover it up.

We should have held her
from day one.

[Valens]
'Work says it's been two days.'

Well, she's probably
under a bridge somewhere.

- 'Back with Ellis.'
- More like guilt creeping up.

[Rush chuckles]

Well, she just bought this.

This doesn't add up.
All this.

The abuse.

And it seems like
she loved that kid.

Loves her drugs more.

Kids always lose out.

But we know Priscilla
wasn't usin' anymore.

Not back then at least.

Well, she left him
that night though.

All alone.

They think you're too young
to notice, to care.

You won't remember.

You do.

The postmark's from last week.

'Who does Priscilla know
on the Main Line?'

Hmm.

Look at that.

'That's the same address.'

And whoever that is..

...they've been sendin'
her checks she don't cash.

[Mr. Chapin]
I wish we could tell you
where our daughter is

but we've been out of contact
with her for almost four years.

Because of her drug problem?

We sent her
to an excellent detox program

when she was a senior
in high school.

She relapsed.

We tried again.

She ran away.

I have to ask you
a delicate question

Mr. and Mrs. Chapin.

Do you think Priscilla was
capable of hurting her child?

Max?

- You wanna say no, but--
- No!

I'm sorry we couldn't
be more helpful.

I can show you out.

Thanks for your time.

You send her money, Julie.
I know.

No way any mom can shut out
her child completely.

We need to find Priscilla.

She never cashes those checks.

Sometimes, she takes my calls.

- Sometimes.
- Do you know where she is?

I wouldn't know.
She doesn't trust me.

And I don't blame her.

We turned her away, you see.

Right before the fire.

[Dave Matthews
singing "Stay Or Leave"]

[Julie]
'Aww!'

I'd...like to borrow
some money

'to, uh, take him
to a good doctor'

'to help us move into a clean,
safe apartment'

and, uh, I understand you
probably feel weird about that.

♪ Kissing whisky by the fire ♪

And I-I wouldn't ask
if it was just for me.

[clears throat]
There is no realistic
long term plan

for you and this child.

♪ Swim at midnight
shiver cold ♪

But Max is..

...the only reason
why I'm not using.

He saved my life.

There are people who can give
this child what he needs.

We can help you find them.

[Priscilla sighs]

What?

No.

♪ It was good as good.. ♪

I love him.

♪ ...goes ♪♪

[sobbing]
He-he loves me, you know.

Maybe that's not good enough.

His parents are drug addicts.

'He may not be..'

'...what you want in a son.'

'Have you ever thought of that?'

But Max is perfect.

He is gonna be better
than all of us.

I'm not giving up my son.

- What about the money?
- You can keep it.

She protected her child
like I never did mine.

What do you know
about the baby's father?

Could she be with him now?

When she was a teenager,
I used to see him with her.

Those times, I'd drive around
all the places where she..

...used drugs.

If you could tell us
where those places were.

The 17th Street underpass
was the main one.

If you find Priscilla

please tell her
she can come home.

No strings attached this time.

[indistinct chattering]

[dog barking]

[Valens]
Happy huntin'.

Home sweet home.

Hey, how you doing, buddy?
Seen this guy?

Ellis Smith?

- No? You seen this dude?
- No?

No?

[Valens]
'No? You seen this guy?'

'He's over there?'

Thanks, man.

Rush.

All you gotta do
is answer my question.

[grunts]

Quit denting my car, Ellis.

- Hey, Saccardo.
- I don't know where she is.

[Rush]
'We need him conscious.'

[grunts]

Hey, you missed a spot.

- Talk about Priscilla.
- I told him.

I don't know where she is.

I haven't seen her in years.

She was gonna rat you out,
Ellis.

So you torched her place
to shut her up.

That's crazy.

Where were you,
the night of the fire?

I was with Priscilla.

The night your kid burned up

you two were hanging out
together?

I didn't know
she left the kid by itself.

Would you have really cared?

That what you two lovebirds
were doing that night?

Getting high?

I found her.

She was in a bad way,
you know, jonesin' hard.

I'm not the guy that's gonna
help you make the right choice.

[car engine revving]

[Ellis]
'Hey.'

Hi.

'Now, why you wanna walk'

when you can jump
into a warm car?

'Come on, Pris,
it's freezing out there.'

Are you high?

'Oh, I love this stuff.'

Well, the moment I tried it..

...I knew nothing else..

...could compete.

Maybe my parents are right.

Maybe Max would be better off
with somebody else.

Somebody better than me.

It's just so hard to hold on.

Then let go.

'Hey.'

I can fix you up.

Right now.

'Just like old times.'

'Priscilla?'

[dramatic music]

No.

[instrumental music]

Priscilla was strong, you know?
She just walked away.

So, that's five minutes
you're alibied.

My sister had me picked up
for jackin' her ride.

- Spent a night in jail.
- Yeah, we'll check that.

[cellphone ringing]

Any idea where Priscilla
might be hiding out?

The flower mart, maybe.

'Near the port.'

Hey, she didn't hurt him.

She loved that kid.

Left it all behind for him.

- Tough choice.
- Toughest there is.

You just wouldn't know.

Done with this piece of crap?

Let's go.

That was Nick.

Coroner took a look
at the exhumed body.

Yeah?

Says something ain't right.

Max Chapin
was eight months old.

He would have had teeth.

Teeth survive fire same as bone.

But there are none
on the jawbone.

Some kids get theirs late.

Yeah, but there's this.

The anterior fontanelle.

- Okay.
- Soft spot, top of the head.

Closes up from the time
they're born till they're two.

This skull here, the fontanel's
three by two centimeters.

'That's too big for
an eight month old like Max.'

Well, what's it
normal sized for?

A four month old.

So this is not Max Chapin.

Uh, it was another kid
who died in that fire.

Well, if this kid ain't Max,
then who is he?

And where's Priscilla's son?

You're not getting Ellis Smith.
We're not done with him.

- Did I say anything?
- The fire was just a diversion.

Whoever set it wanted Max.

And had access to an infant.
One who wouldn't be missed.

So who knew Priscilla would be
out of the apartment that night?

The ex, Ellis,
but he was in lock-up, right?

Pretty elaborate plan,
kidnapping a baby.

Had to know mom would be gone.

Think I might have
our baby John Doe.

Dropped off at St. Paul's ER,
February 11th, '05.

Severe contusions
and internal bleeding.

There's your abuse.

Died the next day.

And this baby went missing
from the hospital?

Brought down to the morgue.

Then vanished
the day of Priscilla's fire.

[Stillman]
'Who had access to the morgue?'

[Jeffries]
'About 250 people.'

All the employees.

County hospital, crap security.

Will, you and Kat
go to St. Paul's

find out who admitted
baby John Doe

who was on the shift in NICU,
and the morgue.

'Lil, track down Priscilla.
Try the flower mart.'

There's a crack den
few doors down from 252 Baker.

Desperate souls
if you're lookin' at

who might have taken a kid.

You two talk
to Priscilla together.

[indistinct chattering]

[dramatic music]

I thought about not
leaving him that night.

It was so cold.

I closed the window
really tight..

...and I said

"I'll be right back."

'I should have gone home.'

[sniffles]

He probably cried for me.

Why didn't I hear him?

Because you left.

Why?

You were right.

- They should have put me away.
- Why did you leave him?

- What does it even matter?
- Oh, it matters.

'Cause I gotta know..

...why a mother would leave
a child all alone like that.

You wouldn't understand.

It's like when you're a kid,
right?

'And yeah, you run out'

'in front of your parents
into the street.'

That's what it's like
when you first start using.

Free.

You're flying, man.
You..

And-and you hear' em
calling out for you

but you don't care, do you?

No.

Next thing you know, you..

You don't know
how to get home no more.

You were finding your way home.

All by yourself.

'Cause you stayed clean
that night.

Didn't you?

Yes.

- I did.
- For your son.

And I know..

'...it's terrible.'

'I left him.'

But, uh, I just thought..

...if I could make it
through the night..

...then Max and I would have
another day together.

Why here, Priscilla?

[sobbing]
It was right after
he was born..

...when the heat
first went out..

[sighs]

...this was the first place
I felt hope.

We're gonna find
some place warm.

[Max crying]

It's okay, Max. It's okay.

Hi.

Please.

♪ The itsy bitsy spider
climbed up the water spout ♪

♪ Down came the rain ♪♪

[sobbing]
I just, I can't do this.

♪ All my lovely life
I've been waiting ♪

♪ Hot heels anticipating ♪

♪ Another love I found ♪

♪ Not to let it down ♪

♪ Down ♪

[indistinct chattering]

Here we are.

[sobbing]

We're okay, okay?

♪ Down ♪♪

I promise.

I'll always keep you warm, Max.

And happy and loved.

And I promise
I'll never leave you, baby.

I promise.

I promised him.

Why did I break
so many promises?

Priscilla..

...we think your son
might be alive.

Who knew that you came here
to the mart that night?

[sobbing]
Ellis. Ellis knew.

- Who else?
- I don't know, I..

I told that rehab counselor.

The one at Maloney Smith Center?

Lois Rabinski?

I told her it was the only way
I stayed clean.

She seemed like she understood.

What about my son?

- What about my baby?
- We'll find him.

[siren wailing]

[dramatic music]

Where is he, Lois?

- Where's Max?
- Who's Max?

You can't just come
in here and..

[child laughing]

Max Chapin is the child
you two kidnapped in 2005.

I'm calling our lawyer.

You took that little baby's body
from St. Paul's Hospital

where you work, doc.

You set that fire
to cover your tracks.

This is crazy.
Those are outrageous lies.

What? This is our son.

Ourson. His name is Isaac.

No, his mother named him Max.

And she wants him back.

[Valens]
'Oh, yeah.'

Priscilla's alive.

You thought she OD'd.

She went so deep down
the rabbit hole

that she wouldn't care
about Max.

- 'But she does.'
- 'Now, she's clean.'

Been clean,
four and a half years.

She misses him so much.

Her little boy.

Who are you talking about?
My wife is Isaac's mother.

- Tom.
- Please, Lois.

We can do this here,
or we can let the DNA test

do the talking.

She was just like
so many others I'd seen..

...who don't care.

Who can't do it.

Sweetheart,
why are you doing this?

The day I met that woman..

Priscilla.

...I had just found out
I had to have another D & C.

Another miscarriage.

I wanted a baby so badly.

[sobbing]
It wasn't fair.

'We had so much to give.'

So much love.

[dramatic music]

That woman couldn't
take care of him.

Just like that other one
abandoned at the hospital

beaten to death,
probably by crackhead parents.

'That would have been Max.'

We were saving his life.

That's what
you tell yourself, huh?

But you knew the truth.

You saw his room.

It was like walking into a room

filled with a rainbow,
wasn't it?

[chiming]

No, that room was tiny.

It was dirty.

[Lois]
'And then he came home to us.'

Ourbaby.

[instrumental music]

[Lois whispering]
'Let's see what we have here.'

Oh!

He wasn't yours.

He never was.

And you must have known that.

'How did you live
with yourself?'

I told myself to forget.

I had to.

Small, so prec..

[music continues]

[Nickelback singing "Far Away"]

♪ This time this place ♪

♪ Misused mistakes ♪

♪ Too long too late ♪

♪ Who was I to make you wait ♪

♪ Just one chance
just one breath ♪

♪ Just in case
there's just one left ♪

♪ 'Cause you know you know ♪

♪ You know ♪

♪ I love you ♪

♪ I loved you all along ♪

♪ And I miss you ♪

♪ Been far away
for far too long ♪

♪ I keep dreaming ♪

♪ You'll be with me
and you'll never go ♪

♪ Stop breathing ♪

♪ If I don't see you anymore ♪

♪ I love you ♪

♪ I loved you all along ♪

♪ And I miss you ♪

♪ Been far away
for far too long ♪

♪ I keep dreaming ♪

♪ You'll be with me
and you'll never go ♪

♪ Stop breathing ♪

♪ If I don't see you anymore ♪

♪ So far away ♪

♪ So far away♪

♪ Far away for far too long ♪

♪ So far away ♪

♪ So far away♪

♪ Far away for far too long ♪

♪ But you know you know ♪

♪ You know ♪

♪ I wanted ♪

♪ I wanted you to stay ♪

♪ 'Cause I needed ♪

♪ I need to hear you say ♪

♪ That I love you ♪

♪ I love you♪

♪ I've loved you all along ♪

♪ And I forgive you ♪

♪ I forgive you♪

♪ For being away
for far too long ♪

♪ So keep breathing ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm not
leaving you anymore ♪

♪ Believe it ♪

♪ Hold on to me
and never let me go ♪

♪ Keep breathing ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm not
leaving you anymore ♪

♪ Believe it ♪

♪ Hold on to me
and never let me go ♪

♪ Keep breathing♪

♪ Hold on to me
and never let me go ♪

♪ Keep breathing♪

♪ Hold on to me
and never let me go ♪♪

[Rush]
Stay tuned for scenes
from our next episode.

[theme music]