Hey.
Double-shot nonfat macchiato.
Newest copy of Shredsled.
Thank you.
Hey, Bobby. How's your night going?
Got nothing to complain about, Sam. How about you?
Beautiful night. Business is good. What's not to like?
I hear you, man.
Yo, don't play, man.
We need some help!
Somebody call a paramedic!
Somebody call an ambulance!
- Hey, is that your stuff? - Yeah. Quantico sent it all back.
Minus some files and my datebook, but...
Well, I'd really like it if someone cleaned off my desk.
Yeah, right. Thank you.
Hey, man.
Hey.
Sinclair.
I guess they didn't return all my personal stuff.
What are you talking about?
I'm missing a paperweight and a fishing lure.
- A Woolly Bugger. - A what?
- My dad made it for me. It's... - Woolly Bugger, huh?
L.A.P.D. just called us in on a car accident.
They want us to take the lead. Car crashed into a crowded coffeehouse.
What's that got to do with us?
VIN numbers on the car's parts don't match. They're off stolen cars
from different states. Got one dead and eight injured.
Alrighty. Let's do it.
- Miracle more people weren't killed. - Well, who was the driver?
Seventeen-year-old Kyle Clippard. Critical condition with head injuries.
Still unconscious.
What is this, like a street racer or something, huh?
Yeah, tyres are wide. Low profile. That's the type they use.
Where do you get a car like this?
I don't know. No registered ownership.
Car's a mix of stolen parts. Driver has a provisional licence.
Not even supposed to be driving at night.
L.A.P.D. is still questioning witnesses.
The car came out of nowhere. I didn't see it till the last minute.
I don't know about this guy, if he was racing or just driving crazy.
Man, it's like he drove right at us.
I was just making my delivery. It all happened so fast.
The car was on the sidewalk and, well, knocking people over.
- Hey. Careful there. - Hey. Yeah.
Just drove right into the place.
Well, the L.A.P.D. accident analysis will tell you how that happened, right?
Thing is, I gotta find out why.
That's tricky, finding motives in skid marks and trajectories, you know?
Well, that's what we got you for, right?
I don't know how Kyle got that car, or why he was driving it.
- So you've never seen the car before? - No.
Does your son have any reason to be depressed?
Was he upset about anything?
You mean, did he do this on purpose? No, that's not Kyle.
He's a happy kid.
- He's got friends, a job... - Nothing new.
We'll know more after a few hours. Excuse us.
I need to have a few words with the agents.
Thank you.
Pharmacy, please call page. Pharmacy, call page operator.
- Is the kid gonna wake up? - Too soon to say.
Maybe not.
But here's the thing, you're looking at two sets of injuries.
Two?
One from the accident: broken clavicle, crushed ribs.
Then there's this:
He sustained heavy blows to the left side of his face and skull.
- Is that a shoe print? - Somebody kicked him in the head.
- Before or after the accident? - It had to be after.
I can't imagine him driving with that type of head injury.
Somebody from the accident scene?
Somebody with a lot of rage who couldn't help but express it.
If the driver was attacked after the accident,
how come no witness mentioned it?
Because they identify with the assailant.
They think the driver had it coming.
Like that case in Texas
where the mob killed that man that was in a car that injured a child.
Yeah, except, by all accounts, Kyle Clippard's a good kid.
He's friendly, he's hard-working.
Oh, yeah? Doesn't make sense mowing down all those people.
Well, maybe even good kids need to race.
Well, no one saw a second car.
Maybe because they were too focused on the car about to hit them.
Oh, by the way, what is our Colby Granger up to now?
Well, actually, he just got offered a great job opportunity
down at the D.C. office.
- Really? - Yeah.
- He's sort of a hero now, right? - Not sort of.
He was awarded the FBI Medal of Meritorious Conduct, right?
Yeah, though he's not sure he wants to leave L.A.
Well, is there a place for him here?
It's a little awkward, you know? I mean, basically,
he's been reporting on all of us for two years now, so...
Well, you file reports on everything you do anyway, don't you?
I mean, it's all aboveboard, right?
What do you got there, pal?
That article I wrote, "A Mathematical Analysis of Friendship Dynamics."
- Yeah, yeah. - McCadden Books wants to publish it.
But not as a textbook. As a self-help book.
What do you mean, for regular people?
For regular people. They say, "lt'd be a strong seller.
Something like the science of popularity."
You better simplify the math, then, huh?
I could reach a lot of people
who would never be caught dead reading a math book.
L.A.P.D. says street racing's big
in the neighbourhoods around that shop.
Mostly young male drivers and customised imports.
So the other racers might know who our guy is,
maybe even where he got his car?
- Yeah. - If you guys want,
I could help you run some of that stuff down.
Yeah, that'd be great.
Still can't believe it.
Sam was a real good guy.
Seems like everyone knows each other pretty well on this street.
Well, we see each other every day.
Making deliveries in this neighbourhood,
you get to know people.
Yeah, well, I'd like to ask you a few questions
about what happened right after the accident.
Sure. Anything I can do to help.
The wise old man comes down from the mountain.
Now, listen, firstly, I come down not from the mountains,
but from the foothills.
Secondly, I am not old, certainly not by today's standards.
And thirdly, being wiser than present company
does not signify the breach of a noteworthy threshold.
I see that you're reading Dr. Preskill's paper
on "anomalies and fermion masses in D dimensions."
You thinking of a change of focus?
I'm thinking of a lot of things.
That is, when I'm not trying to think of nothing.
Well, I have this problem for the FBI, advanced accident analysis.
I could use your insight,
- if you're done soul-searching. - I am all booked
during meditation, pond maintenance and garden duty.
I will, however, give you a name. Raymond Galuski.
- Galuski. That's engineering, right? - Mechanical engineering.
Most engineers love to make things,
and they hate it when something doesn't work.
But figuring out why something crashed, broke or blew up,
for me, is when the fun starts.
Last accident I analysed
was when the Mars Rover fell into a shallow crater
during a Martian sandstorm.
Well, this occurred a little closer to home,
although possibly more complicated.
Mechanical engineering:
the poetry of matter and energy, of metal and power.
More complicated it is, the more beautiful it becomes.
Well, listen, we need to know
if a certain vehicle's trajectory was accidental or intended.
My own computer modelling software analyses anything with an engine.
Hey, David.
I've been working on a list of known and suspected street racers.
- Right. - Check it out, I found this.
Six cases of vandalism in five months on the same speed camera.
Just two blocks from the accident site.
Yeah. Someone out there doesn't wanna be caught going fast.
You're looking at an all-night stakeout, man.
Yeah. You up for it?
Actually, you know what, why don't I take it?
Why don't you take the night off? All right?
So you know what I just learned? The first speed-trap camera
was actually invented by a race driver to improve his time.
Come on, you better have some conversation tonight.
We're gonna be here a while, you know?
- Nothing you wanna talk about? - I don't know.
I guess the right thing to do is to take that D.C. job.
- Well, it depends what you want. - Yeah.
Well, what I want is to go back and start over.
Have a regular job with the bureau. No lying, no pretending. You know?
Well, then the question is,
can you be happy with a regular job with the bureau?
I mean, that's what I set out to do.
If I wanted to be a spy, I would've applied somewhere else.
Look, most of us have to do undercover at some point.
Yeah, but not in your own office.
What do you think are the chances
of me coming back to work for the team?
Check it out.
Let's go, buddy.
- Whoa, whoa, wait, wait. - Put your hands behind your back.
- What's your name? - Ernie.
Ernest Fuller? You got a race tonight, Ernie?
I don't know what you're talking about.
You don't know what I'm talking about?
I have a feeling those guys know what we're talking about.
- Is this the dude from that big crash? - Yep. You know him?
I've seen him around.
Night of the crash, what did you see? Who was out racing?
I don't know. I was home. I was working on my car.
Right. Maybe you were out there with Kyle Clippard when he crashed.
No, because I wrecked my car two weeks ago.
- You can ask around. - Who was racing Kyle?
I don't know. Maybe if you describe the car.
- Does Kyle Clippard own that car? - You know what? That's hard to say.
Hey, you gotta understand, the guys, they trade cars all the time.
They win them in races.
Maybe he borrowed it, or, you know, he could've stole it.
You're gonna give me the names of the people that race.
Why the hell should I?
The man that died had a lot to live for.
He gave up his life protecting a little girl
from somebody just like you.
Fifty out of a thousand street racers, just like yourself,
they die in crashes every year. The only problem I have with that
is every now and again, they hurt somebody else.
So listen here, you smarten up,
and you give me some names right now.
Okay. But the cops, they know most of them already.
- Well, that was craptastic. - That's one way of putting it, yeah.
This model should re-create the events of the accident, but it's not working.
Hey, Charlie, where's the oil pan? I have to change the oil in my car.
- Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. - Doing it yourself. Good for you.
Few things in life more satisfying
than performing basic auto maintenance.
Yeah. Also, it's cheaper.
I make sure that it gets done right, if you know what I mean.
You, sir, are a man of deep and profound common sense.
Well, thank you.
Dad, this is Dr. Ray Galuski. He's helping me perform
a mathematical analysis of this crash here.
Well, where's the math? I just see a couple of lines on a road.
- It's embedded in the model. - A computer simulation
is just a mathematical representation of the real world.
Sir Isaac Newton, he observed a real world event, gravity.
He then created a mathematical model to represent that phenomenon,
which he could then extrapolate to predict the orbits of planets,
the general structure and movements of galaxies.
The problem is, our model doesn't match reality.
Car's not crashing.
It's not the friction-circle expressions. I mean, they seem dead-on.
Friction circle theory.
Yeah, planners use it to analyse soil slope stability.
- You know, for building foundations. - One and the same, my friend.
Friction keeps a car on the road during a turn.
The car in this case broke the friction, so it had to have been going faster
or been heavier than reported.
About 260 pounds heavier.
So where did this 260 pounds go?
Why haven't they returned all of Colby's stuff?
I don't know.
Maybe somebody thought it wasn't important.
I guess his dad can make him another fishing lure.
Colby's dad died when he was 15.
So we've come upon the slightest conundrum.
- This is Dr. Raymond Galuski. - Ray. Some call me Ray-Ray.
- Okay. - Ray-Ray is a mechanical engineer.
He's helping me with the accident analysis.
I just make it look cool on a computer.
We think that the car from the crash
was 260 pounds heavier during the accident than it is now.
- What would account for the weight? - No idea. We just know it was there.
Are you sure that there wasn't a second person in that car?
Well, 260 pounds is a really big person,
but I guess it's possible.
And if there was a second person,
maybe he could tell us who attacked the driver.
Or maybe it was the driver, and the injured kid was the passenger.
Maybe there was a dead body in the trunk.
A dead body that got up and walked away after the crash?
I'm just an engineer.
Forgive me.
- I know, she's letting me win. - Now, Larry, that is not true.
- Amita, you're coddling me. - No, she's strangling you.
Sorry, Larry. It's a trap.
Your problem is you keep thinking of other things when you play.
That's not true. Other things keep thinking me.
- Now, wait a sec. What if I move...? - No, you're a goner.
- Are you looking for Charlie? - No, I was looking for you.
I found this, and I thought you might need it.
- Thank you. - Yeah.
I've been looking for... Where did you find this?
On the hallway floor.
Sorry. I'll try not to leave my stuff lying around.
No, no, no. Big deal. We're all adults.
When I was your age, I was married, and I already had a kid.
Larry, how are things with you and Megan?
Oh, going beautifully, I think.
I mean, we're spending all of our time apart,
so it's a little difficult to assess.
Does that address your question?
David?
Look, these weld points,
they mean that the original front grill was replaced with this one.
- So this used to be on a different car? - Exactly.
And when I looked a little closer,
I found, ta-da, traces of hair and blood in the crevices.
But not from this recent crash. DNA matches two victims
of an unsolved hit-and-run that happened three years ago.
Mr. Daniel and Caren Kaufman.
Nothing was found at the crime scene. This is the first evidence in the case.
Well, I don't think Kyle Clippard did that.
He would've been 14 years old at the time.
Three years ago, this grill was on a car involved in a fatality.
All right, now it's on a second car also in a fatal accident?
That's some kind of coincidence.
Not if street racing was involved in both cases.
There's one thing about street racing, those dudes crash.
- Oh, Dr. Galuski. - I'm sure you could make your point
without getting grease stains all over the FBI's nice office here.
- Do you know what this is? - It's a differential.
It's a...
Okay. So you know that when a car makes a turn,
the wheels don't all turn at the same speed.
Because of a phenomenon related to centripetal force.
You know, when a car turns, it's on a circular path.
So the farther from the centre of the circle,
the greater the distance travelled.
It's like on a carousel,
where a horse on the outside travels further than one on the inside,
so it's gotta go faster. Same with the drive wheels on a car.
The outside wheels travel further.
To keep up with the inside tyres, they have to spin faster.
If a car didn't have a differential, the outside tyres couldn't keep up.
They'd be dragged across the pavement.
Is there something unique about this one?
LSD. Limited slip differential.
Two-way clutch type used by drifters.
Drifters are street racers who take high-speed turns,
and then they let the rear wheel slide out on purpose.
And this one's an O-X Gekko Ultra Lock.
Only a few places you can get one.
And I'm guessing, Ray-Ray, that you know a few of those places.
Looking for a Dominator fuel-injection system.
That's illegal on California streets.
How about an Ultra Lock two-way?
Strike two. Ultra Lock's not distributed in the States.
Guess we came to the wrong place.
Hey, hold up. That's not to say that the Ultra Lock can't be bought.
Can we take one home today?
- Just stay right there. - Well, actually,
how about you stay right there?
FBI.
Hey, get back here! Get... Hey! Hey! Get...
- Get down! Get off of there! - Man!
Idiot.
The guy's with the FBI. Where are you gonna go?
I just work here. They tell me to sell the stuff.
Is that what your boss is gonna say?
Okay, I make a little on the side. But you don't want me.
Oh, we don't, huh?
I'm a nobody. I'll give you the guy who sells to me.
- He sells to like half a dozen shops. - Tell me this:
Did you sell an Ultra Lock to this kid?
- Okay, yeah. Yeah, three weeks ago. - Oh, that's awesome.
Come on.
Did you know your son liked to go to street-racing meets?
That he bought auto parts designed for racing?
No. He told me he was out with friends.
That they went to movies, other kids' houses.
I trusted my son.
What if you're wrong about Kyle?
You don't know why that car crashed, or why Kyle was in it.
Somebody tried to kill my son.
We don't know his side of it.
He can't tell us what happened.
Hey, Megan. I got something.
So street racers are into posting their videos and their races online.
If our crash had anything to do with that,
it might be worth checking a few websites.
And I found this video, posted a couple hours ago.
Oh, my God.
Someone filmed the accident?
Yeah. And they couldn't have been more than 25 feet north of the site.
This is all that was posted online, but I'm thinking there might be more.
Check this out. That car's about to lose it.
Oh, my God.
- Hey, Nitrogurl. - That's you, isn't it?
- What are you girls looking at? - Oh, sweet. That's nice camerawork.
- Oh, man. - The coffee-shop crash.
- You recorded it. - There's a lot of races around there.
- I just got lucky, that's all. - Would you call it luck
when one man laid dying and another seven were injured,
and instead of calling 911, you filmed it?
Oh, my God.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, where you going?
That's Kyle Clippard.
He was in the trunk.
Charlie's right about there being a second person in that car.
But that kid is no 260 pounds.
And that our driver wasn't a real driver.
All right, so who's this guy?
Do you really believe no one saw the real driver?
He took off at the height of the chaos, and everybody was in a state of shock.
How're you doing, Matt?
Almost there. It's a good thing
I keep Amita's image-enhancement algorithms on hand.
So I figured out why Clippard was in the trunk.
It's a street-racing hazing ritual called trunking,
where they make the new guy ride in the trunk before he can sit up front.
Now, why would they do that?
Guess it's tougher to clean the vomit off the front seat.
Tasty. All right, here we go. It's a pretty good look at the guy.
So this is the real driver.
Now we have to hope that somebody recognises him.
I do. It's Frank Fisher.
The guy that sold the Ultra Lock to Kyle Clippard.
- And we still have him in custody? - Released him this morning.
This is really starting to frost my shorts.
The Scandinavian Flick didn't work.
Ray, I take it that's a racing term and not what it sounds like?
Yeah. It's another name for the Inertia Drift manoeuvre.
Driver comes into a curve, turns out of it, then he whips back in
using the centripetal force on the back half of his car
to slide it out and drift.
We know there was another person in that car. Frank Fisher.
But he weighs 140, not 260, and our math model is telling us
that there's 120 pounds unaccounted for here.
I know, and that's significant.
Hundred and twenty pounds I can't account for.
Maybe it wasn't dead weight.
If this was a race, and there was a second car...
You're talking about a collision.
The extra force came not from weight in the car...
But from the briefest contact between two vehicles.
- Hi, Charlie. - Hey.
- Ray. - Hi.
So how's the analysis going?
It's going good. We got racing, we got drifting.
Maybe some demolition derby.
Mind if I watch? I'm fascinated with this stuff.
It is fascinating.
Been a long time since I took engineering in college,
and I think I lost a lot.
Thousands of years ago,
we started with rocks, sticks and bones.
Now we got computer chips, spacecraft, nuclear fusion.
It's not just human nature to understand the world,
but also to interact with it.
That's why we build machines, because that's the way we interact.
I mean, that's our... That's the way we play.
I'm starting a seminar next week
on current challenges in mechanical engineering.
You should come sit in.
No, no. I think I'm a little old for college.
I was a mechanic before I started. I started when I was 30.
But, hey, where wouldn't you be older than most other people?
A rest home?
Ray-Ray, hey, so let's just get back to...
- Back to the model. - Wait a minute. Wait.
Fisher is gone,
along with the new street car he doesn't own.
Damn it. He knew we were coming back.
I'll put it out to the police.
Thanks.
Kyle Clippard woke up.
I just wanted to ride along, see what it's like.
- But, Kyle, why? - Looked like fun.
- Frank said to get in the trunk. - It was a race?
Yeah, with some guy Frank knew.
- I think he called him Ernie. - Ernie Fuller, right.
- And what caused the accident? - No idea.
Last thing I remember was being in the trunk,
wishing I wasn't.
Kyle, someone hurt you after the accident.
- Do you have any idea who? - What?
Isn't this from the crash?
Somebody tried to kill you.
Why?
I wasn't even driving.
Looking into the hit-and-run?
Yeah, the Kaufmans, the couple that died,
they have no living relatives.
Yeah. Nobody to push the case once it went cold.
Yeah.
You know, David, when I was out on that freighter,
I kept thinking, "If I die out here, a lot of questions go unanswered.
My story never gets told."
I'd just really like to find these people an answer.
What about Frank Fisher?
Maybe that grill came off a car he used to own.
Yeah. I mean, he's got an alibi.
When they were killed,
Fisher was out in Pomona winning an NHRA-approved race.
We gotta find out where that grill came from.
Yeah, there's something else too. At the cemetery where they're buried,
somebody puts flowers on their grave on the anniversary of the accident.
That's somebody with a guilty conscience.
And another thing. Shortly after they died,
somebody made an anonymous donation to their church
in the amount of $7,000 cash.
You know, you can't drift without gas, Ernie.
- Yeah, I know, but I want some... - You just gotta do this, huh?
Fisher is over on the right, talking with Ernie Fuller.
Okay. Bring it on, guys.
- We're going in. We're going in. - Get in my car! Damn, man.
- Listen... - Listen to me.
- FBI! - FBI!
I got the driver! I got the driver!
So the second car hits the crash car and causes it to lose control.
- It's called a pit manoeuvre. - I know. I've seen it on TV.
Police cars do it to fleeing vehicles during high-speed chases.
- You watch police chases on TV? - Hell, yeah. You don't?
Download them off the Net.
All variables accounted for,
the end result matches the sample.
And that is geek speak for "bingo."
Ernie, everybody we talk to says you and Frank race all the time.
You were racing him the night of the crash, weren't you?
- You don't know that. - No?
Frank didn't tell you. Nobody else saw me there.
Nice one, Ernie.
Want you to look at something.
What is that? I mean, how'd you get that?
Who filmed that? Is that film?
Doesn't matter. That's what happened.
Frank's car killed the man, but you caused it.
Look, it was an accident. I wasn't trying to hit Frank.
He's my friend. I helped him build that car.
- Where is Frank now? - I have no idea.
Hey, Larry. A little time off from the monastery?
Actually, I'm letting the monks take a little break from me.
How are your meditations coming along?
It's hard to say, you know? Work keeps getting in the way.
You know, actually, my own state of quiescence
has been disturbed by this rather indelible image.
- A boot print, to be more precise. - The Clippard beating.
Yeah. Charlie told me about the case.
These would be the photos of the tread marks on the man's face.
Only have a partial. It's kind of hard to get a good match from that boot print.
Well, enter Fleinhardt.
Have you, by any chance, heard of a study
from the University of Sheffield in England?
Now, they were using mathematical techniques to extrapolate full boot
and shoe prints from partial samples.
Larry, that'd be great.
- Sinclair. - There'll always be an England.
Okay, thanks.
They just found Frank Fisher.
Hey. You have a minute to take a look at something?
Secret spy stuff?
- I'm kidding. What is it? - Well, I'm trying to track down
the grill on the car from the cold-case hit-and-run.
The same grill was on the car that Frank Fisher was driving
- when it hit the coffee shop. - That's more than a coincidence.
Well, yeah. I mean, you know, it's possible
that Fisher could've found the grill at a junkyard,
but, yeah, I'm hoping that there's more to it.
Although, I know you don't really put much stock in hope, do you?
Colby, there have been math problems I've worked on
that have gone unsolved for hundreds of years,
so believe me, man, I'm all about hope.
All right, well, good, because I keep thinking
there are things the cold case could tell us about the recent crash.
The recent crash might help us solve the cold case.
So like a unifying theory. I think that's worth testing.
Here's what I have so far:
a list of cars that were on the road three years ago with that grill,
- and a list of known street racers. - You're checking for a match.
Right. Basic cop stuff. But what I was wondering
is if there might be some other kind of search you might recommend.
Yeah, just a bigger one. Just throw in more data.
You never know where you're gonna find connectivity.
Think of anything you can. Not just the cars and their owners,
but people from both incidents who don't seem involved.
Then friends and family and witnesses.
Fisher was found by a maintenance man.
Kicked in the head, same as Kyle Clippard.
Yeah, it happened fairly recently.
Even looks like the same boot print.
See, Fisher didn't have any defensive wounds,
so it's gotta be someone he knew, right?
I'll spring the news on Ernie,
see if he has any idea where Fisher might've been.
Hey, David. What do you got?
Larry's getting an image of the boot print.
I'm questioning those crash witnesses, using what we learned from the video.
How about you, Col?
Running links between the cold case and the Fisher crash.
All right, good.
This could all be a random coincidence, but...
No, it has to be related somehow.
Hold it lightly, like a bird, then just let it fly straight to the nest.
You see? Unfortunately,
my bird keeps attempting to nest in the hallway.
Fleinhardt, I hear you got a sweet little ride.
- Yeah, 1931 Ford Roadster. - Nice. Gotta bring it around.
- Yeah, well, maybe in time. - Only three runs in the computer lab,
and we got a sufficient aggregated score.
It's a lot easier to extrapolate on these partial boot prints
now that we've got a second sample.
Too bad a second person had to die for us to get it.
Gentlemen, we have the results.
Diet?
Oh, come... That's...
You know, Frank knew a lot of people. I got no idea where he's hanging out.
Yeah, how about his car?
He had a custom grill. Know where he got it?
No. His grill... He could've picked that up anywhere. l...
You have to ask him. And if you can't find him,
- it's not my problem. - Oh, we found him.
Frank's dead.
- What? He crashed? - Somebody beat him to death.
Special Agent David Sinclair, FBI.
Wanna ask you a few more questions.
You know, Ernie, the guy that killed Frank
also beat a teenager at the crash site.
Did Frank know somebody at that coffee shop?
Maybe, yeah. But it was his idea to race.
And he always liked to just race by people he knew.
- Like who? - Mostly hot chicks.
And this dude he knows. Like an old friend of his.
We have a video of the incident
that shows you 30 seconds after the crash walking toward the car.
What happened when you got there?
I went over to look at the driver, but I didn't touch him.
Yeah, well, somebody did. Tell me who it was.
Okay, if I adjust the translational and rotational invariance...
It'll generate an edge-direction histogram.
- And that, my young friends, is a boot. - It measures out to a size 12.
That's one big dude.
The dude used to race a lot. Yeah, but then he quit.
And he said Frank should stop too.
But for some reason, it really pissed Frank off.
Frank would just...
He would just, like, go blowing by him and yell stuff.
Sam was dead.
We were all angry.
- It could've been any of us. - But it was one guy.
You give me a name,
or I will arrest you right here for obstruction.
This is so weird.
- Hey, Megan. - Yeah?
The grill from the cold case, it was for a 1994 Honda Civic.
And check this out. I just found a known street racer
who owned that identical car,
who was present at the coffee-shop crash,
but he wasn't one of the drivers.
Ernie just gave me a name.
How much you wanna bet it's the same guy?
Megan, I know. Right here.
Hey.
The guy who usually works this route, where is he?
Apparently he comes here every day.
Robert Lowell, do you know why we're here?
Yes, I know.
Three years ago, I was racing around the Silver Lake Reservoir.
I hit two people, and I killed them.
Every night I go to sleep, I see their faces,
how they looked at me right before the car hit them.
- I took my car apart. I sold the pieces. - Right. The grill to Fisher.
The money I got from the parts,
I sent it all to the church those people belonged to.
You put the flowers on their graves.
Why don't you tell us what happened at the coffeehouse?
People were running everywhere.
It was terrible.
I was just looking to see who was hurt.
I saw the kid near the car.
I was sure that he was the driver.
That he had done this.
And I just exploded.
But the kid wasn't the driver.
Frank was. He told me yesterday.
I realised I'd nearly killed the wrong guy.
And then Frank tells me
he was racing around the corner because of me.
Well, I felt like I was in a daze.
And I hit him, and he went down.
And I just kept kicking him.
This has got to stop.
I'll request a suicide watch.
- Hey, Don. - Hey, buddy.
- Want some coffee? - Yeah, that'd be great. Thanks.
Just wanted to let you know that I turned down the D.C. job.
Oh, yeah?
That's what you wanted, huh?
I mean, what I want is to stay here and work with you guys,
people I know.
But I know that decision's not entirely up to me, so...
All right.
I'll check into it.
I mean, my advice to you
has always been never to concentrate on coincidences.
But for once, at least in this case, everything was connected.
Yeah. But the root cause was meaningless, huh?
- Yeah. Reckless driving? - It's crazy.
- So, what, are you writing that book? - Yeah.
The work is pretty much almost done. I just have to write the preface
and simplify some of the math passages.
- Is that Dad? - Yeah.
- Did you invite him down here? - Hello, boys.
- Hey. - Boys, meet CalSci's newest student.
What do you mean? What, you're taking a class?
No, it's just auditing.
Alan just got through his first day of Elements of Mechanical Engineering.
- Yeah. - Wait a second.
You're telling me that I've spent years
trying to get you interested in advanced mathematics,
and now, suddenly, you're taking a class?
- Well, it depends on who teaches it. - Oh, psych. Oh, that's harsh.
It's got nothing to do with me. What would most people rather do?
Solve the Riemann Hypothesis, or build lasers and robots?
- Lasers and robots. - Of course.
Algebraic geometry, Ergodic Theory,
Automorphic Forms. The list goes on and on.
You have no idea what you're missing out on.
We'd like to keep it that way.
So, what, are you getting a degree or something?
Well, actually, I'm just having fun.