Tea? Never would've pegged you for a tea guy.
Never would've pegged you for a detective, but here we are.
Nothing wrong with tea.
Just these days, with the baby, gotta have something stronger.
Three, four hours of sleep can stretch a man to his breaking point.
Morning.
- Morning.
I like your hair. Looks good like that.
Thank you. What a gentleman.
Body of a teenage girl found at Oakland Park Academy.
Where?
Oakland Park.
What's up?
Lieutenant's daughter goes to that school.
All right. We'll call you as soon as we know what we got.
Meeting with the chief went longer than expected.
Where you two headed?
A call just came in.
What's the call?
Uh, a homicide.
Girl was found dead at Oakland Park Academy.
Teachers, get your students back in the classroom.
Kids, all kids in the school now. Come on.
Answer, Simone...
Come on, now. I know you're upset, but just get back in the classroom.
Come on, kids, back into class.
Let's go. I know you're upset.
Bear with us. As soon as we know anything, you'll know.
Let the police do their job.
I was so worried about you. You didn't answer your phone.
I'm okay, Mom. I'm okay.
Kandace Monroe, age 15.
Superintendant found the body about 20 minutes after late bell.
Blunt force trauma to the left temporal lobe.
Most likely from this.
It's a rebar.
Won't hold any prints. Surface won't hold any ridge detail.
We'll send it to serology in case there's DNA.
Looks like claw marks on her neck.
Maybe she got a piece of the perp under her nails.
I'll have her hands bagged.
So, guy grabs her, tries to have his way.
She fights back, he panics,
and he hits her to keep her quiet.
Sexual assault?
We'll know after the autopsy.
Go on over.
I'm fine.
Well, maybe she isn't.
We got it.
Did you know her?
Not really.
Let's go. You're coming back to the station.
You need to do your job. It's fine.
I am doing my job.
Where are the toilets?
How much longer do I have to listen to that?
Eight and a half months.
Would you like a glass of wine?
You're really funny. You think you're gonna retire to Tuscany
and dazzle them with your sparkling sense of humor?
I'm gonna try.
Two to the chest.
Guy delivering produce next door, he saw the back wide open.
Came to check it out, found him laid out like this.
Rigor mortis.
He's been here a few hours at least.
Wallet's missing. We searched around for it.
So, no sign of forced entry.
Is there any report of an alarm going off?
No. No.
So he didn't break in. Probably an employee.
Closing up after work, back door is unlocked.
Shooter slips in to rob the joint, pow! Grabs his wallet and runs.
.40 caliber.
What is going on here?
Please, please. This is my restaurant.
Excuse me.
You the owner? Yes.
Oh, my God.
How did this happen?
You know this young man?
No.
You sure?
Yes.
Make sure he stays close.
So we don't know who he is, how he got here
or who killed him.
It's a hat trick.
Text your sister.
Tell her you're okay. You know how fast rumors start.
Can't I just go home?
No, I don't want you to be there by yourself, and I have work to do.
What happened at school today, I know you're upset.
I'm not.
Even if you don't want to talk about it.
I told you. Kandace and I weren't friends.
Still, it's a traumatic thing.
I hardly knew her.
Simone,
you don't have to know someone to feel bad about it.
It's called empathy.
So, how long do you think school's gonna be out?
Not long enough for you not to do homework.
Interview room. Go study.
And don't think I didn't notice that makeup on your face.
We'll discuss that later.
One of Kandace's BFFs over there said that she saw her
talking to a construction worker across the street this morning.
We should go see if she can ID him. All right.
Excuse me.
Homicide. Detective Washington. Can we talk?
Whoa, whoa!
Hey!
Stay down.
You're under arrest.
So, Milbank Security's the only company patrolling in and around Greektown?
Correct. I drove my usual route.
It was pretty quiet all night. Nothing unusual happened.
Except for the unidentified dead man in the restaurant.
Except for that. Right, yes, sorry. I meant from my point of view.
Okay. Thanks for your help, Mr. Remus.
Okay, now, according to the Milbank Security guard,
the alarm never went off.
No, they are mistaken.
Every night, that alarm is set, either by me or my daughter.
Every night.
Excuse me.
These belong to either of you?
Pillows, blanket, condom and a Bible.
Then it looks like you had an overnight guest.
May explain why the alarm wasn't on.
Do your employees know the code?
A few that we trust.
You have a gun?
Yes, we keep a gun here.
Three robberies on this block in two months.
Believe me, we know what you mean.
What's wrong?
The gun.
It's gone.
.40 caliber.
What do you got?
Gun missing from the restaurant is a .40 cal,
same as one used to kill our victim.
If that's the murder weapon, whoever used it probably knew the restaurant,
knew where it was kept.
Disgruntled employee looking for payback?
Probably went in to rob the place and went sideways somehow.
Doesn't explain who our vic was, though.
Prints aren't in the database.
So, we ran the plates of the vehicles within a two-block radius.
Just got the results in.
Percy Edmondson.
There's our John Doe.
Any relation to the defense attorney Leon Edmondson?
His son.
His father's a bit of a blowhard, right?
With a very high acquittal rate.
Yeah, we bust them, he gets them off.
That attitude, it's not gonna get in the way now, will it?
Man just lost a son,
I think I can table my feelings for a death notification.
All right.
Let's get to it.
What God wills,
I will.
Honestly, honestly, 24/7.
I swear to God, 24/7.
Stone's got the construction worker in the box.
Peter Afton, registered sex offender.
Looks like Kandace might have been hanging out with the wrong guy.
If he was going to hurt her, he saw her at the site.
Why wait to go after her near campus?
Too many witnesses where he was?
So, you think one of those guys across the street killed Kandace?
We don't know.
Like, he raped her and then hit her in the head?
Where did you come up with all that?
I read it in a tweet.
Eyewitness says you were talking to Kandace Monroe this morning before school?
She comes around sometimes,
kind of a flirt.
Likes to show off to her friends how she can work older guys.
She okay?
So I take it she didn't know about you were a registered sex offender?
Did she say I did something?
'Cause if she did, that's a lie.
Statutory rape in 2007, huh?
The girl and I were dating.
I was a senior, she was a freshman. It was consensual.
Consensual?
Law says different.
She was the one who came after me.
Just like Kandace, right?
No, not just like Kandace. All we ever did was talk.
Well, she's not talking anymore.
Do you know why?
Because she was murdered this morning.
Were you at work all morning?
Wait, you...
You got scratches all over your neck.
I got these at the site,
which is where I was until you guys picked me up.
But you should be looking for that guy
I used to see her making out with behind the dumpsters.
Dude was all over her.
You seem to know a lot about her extracurricular activities.
Kind of hard not to notice.
She wasn't shy about parading it around.
She was slutty.
But I don't want to talk trash about a dead girl.
Of course not.
You all are concerned more about the crime than about justice.
That's all I'm seeking for my client.
My job is to make sure that he gets his day in court
with the best possible representation.
After that, it's up to the jury.
Can't help it if most times they see it my way, right?
How could this have happened?
We think he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
We're not exactly sure yet what happened,
or why Percy was at the Athens Taverna restaurant.
Does that mean something to you?
This girl he was dating used to work there.
I thought it was over between them. Zoe...
Zoe something.
I only met her a couple times.
Yeah, I have it here. Zoe Fremont.
Laid off three months ago.
Supposedly, she moved out of town.
They don't call me the Prince of Prints for nothing. Bam!
Left-hand corner, First Corinthians, chapter 13.
Print belongs to one Zoe Fremont,
and the real miracle is she has a record.
May be our girl.
You never got back to me on that double-date thing I suggested.
Yeah, I did.
I told you you had to find someone to go out with you first.
Whoever owned this Bible was studying it very seriously.
Last known address was near Wayne State,
but that was over a year ago.
No point in going there first.
Let's take a visit to the Holy Trinity Redeemer Church.
Why? You wanna pray for a better lead?
My prayer's been answered.
So, what can I do for you, gentlemen?
May we speak to the man in charge?
That would be me.
Unless you mean God, in which case, he's unavailable.
My name's Reverend James Boone. How are you?
How're you doing?
So, Zoe Fremont, is she a parishioner of this church?
Zoe's a good girl. I'm sure this is all a misunderstanding.
"All" what?
What are they doing here?
I told you not to call the cops.
They just showed up.
We just want to ask you a couple questions
about your boyfriend, Percy Edmondson.
Zoe!
What are you doing? Put that gun down.
Zoe, Zoe,
take your finger off the trigger, Zoe.
I'm not talking to any cops!
Zoe, I need you to put down your weapon.
We just want to ask you a couple of questions.
Go ahead.
I'm afraid we're gonna have to do that down at the station.
But if you didn't do anything, it won't take long.
I didn't shoot Percy!
Then we can talk about who did.
What are you doing?
"Doth not behave itself unseemly,
"seeketh not her own..."
Please leave me alone.
"...thinketh no evil."
Say it with me, Zoe.
Say it with me.
"Rejoiceth not in iniquity,
"but rejoiceth in the truth." In the truth!
Yes.
"Rejoiceth in the truth."
Corinthians 1.
Chapter 13.
It's okay.
It's okay, Zoe.
It's okay.
Afton's alibi checks out.
He was on the worksite the entire time.
Let's still have Ward check the tissue under Kandace's fingernails
against Afton's DNA.
Okay.
And what about this boyfriend that he mentioned?
Girls at school claim Kandace didn't even have a serious boyfriend, so...
Yeah, teachers, parents, they all say the same.
She was really into her studies.
Which definitely tells me she was secretly seeing someone.
Someone her parents didn't approve of.
Why hide it at school?
Maybe her friends wouldn't approve either.
Makes it more dangerous.
You could ask Simone.
Maybe she heard rumors.
Look, she didn't really know her, and I don't want to push.
You have results for us?
Your vic wasn't raped, but she was pregnant.
Pregnant? Four months.
Well, get to work finding the baby's daddy.
The boys in ballistics still have a few tricks up their sleeve.
While your gun was the same caliber as the one used to kill Percy,
it's not the same gun.
I told you I didn't shoot him.
Then what's with all this drama?
We can't help you if you don't help us.
Okay?
Were you there last night?
I've been sleeping there sometimes,
just until I can find a place to stay.
My key still works,
and the alarm code's still the same.
I sneak in after hours.
Why didn't you just stay with Percy?
I was too embarrassed to tell him I had nowhere to go,
so I pretended I still worked there.
He came to pick me up,
and I talked him into hanging out
so we could spend some time alone.
We fell asleep,
and about 3:00 a.m., we heard a noise up front.
I knew the Petroses kept a gun under the counter,
so I grabbed it.
And then the...
It's okay, Zoe. You're safe here.
We saw him.
He was just standing there.
He started shooting, and I froze.
I saw Percy go down, and I ran. I thought he'd come after me.
You saw the intruder?
Not his face, but how he was dressed.
His uniform.
So, Zoe, you're saying that the shooter was wearing a uniform?
Yeah, he was a cop.
We dumped Kandace's cell phone.
She contacted a woman's health clinic a week ago.
Stone and Washington are checking her computer
to see if there's any names.
Go to the clinic. Maybe Kandace didn't go there alone.
Thanks.
It's weird how Simone was asking so many questions earlier.
A 13-year-old's morbid curiosity,
a cop's daughter's pointed questioning.
It's more than that. We should clock it.
Did you...
Did you do something to your hair?
I changed it a bit.
Yeah, I can see that.
All right. Who's driving?
Do you remember seeing this young lady in here a few days ago?
Looks a little familiar. We get lots like that.
Well, we're only interested in this one.
Her name is Kandace Monroe.
She and her boyfriend came in,
both scared out of their minds.
We told them there was a 24-hour consent law,
meaning they had to review all the materials
for a day before an appointment could be made.
Didn't go over so well.
What happened?
They got into a big fight.
We had to ask them to leave.
Do you remember the boyfriend's name?
I definitely can't give you that.
Look, we have a dead, pregnant 15-year-old,
and the baby's father is a definite person of interest.
Anything you can do to help would really be appreciated.
I'm not allowed to give out that kind of information.
It could cost me my job.
We have a very strict confidentiality policy here.
Have a good day.
Thank you.
Lance Brown. 15 years old.
Zoe Fremont is the last person to see my son alive, and she's not a suspect?
We think she was actually a witness.
She says that it might have been a cop who shot Percy.
A cop?
Do you know of any who may have had a vendetta against you?
I know I'm not a favorite of the police department, but...
That's probably an understatement.
Look, I do my job, Detective.
I defend my clients to the utmost of my ability,
and I don't make excuses for that.
It's never personal.
Okay. Well, look,
that's good to know. Okay?
There was this drug bust case that I had last month.
I accused a cop of lying under oath.
He ended up getting demoted.
I got some threatening emails from him.
Did you report this?
I had this strange idea I might not get much support from DPD.
Were these emails threatening enough to go after your family?
You be the judge.
"You will pay for what you did to me and my family.
"What goes around, comes around."
It might not have been personal for you, counselor,
but it sure sounds personal to him.
I don't deny it. I hate that son of a bitch.
He ruined my life.
Did you send those emails?
Ten years on the job
and this assbag concocts some crap about me falsifying a report.
And like that,
I'm back patrolling the streets and overseeing community programs.
So, where were you at approximately 3:00 this morning?
Uh... I was...
Answering a home invasion outside of Greektown.
I got a partner, a report, and the guy in holding to back me up.
All right.
If we got any more questions, you mind coming down to the station?
I have no problem with that, nothing to hide.
But if you call, I'll be there with a union rep.
Thanks, man.
Give Johnny Cochran a message for me.
Tell him if I was going to kill anybody,
I'd go after him, not his son.
Hmm.
I believe him.
Kandace Monroe was not the perfect girl her teachers made her out to be.
Oh, yeah? Her Facebook page, chat rooms,
they're all vicious.
Looks like anybody she didn't like was a target.
"I can ruin your life. No one likes you, loser."
She really had it out for this "Loser Girl."
That the baby daddy?
He and Kandace got in a fight a couple days ago at the clinic.
Why is Lance here?
We have to ask him a few questions.
Lance?
He couldn't kill anybody.
He couldn't kill anybody!
Simone, you should get back to your algebra before your mom gets back.
Holland checks out.
There was a home invasion on the 1500 block of Warren Ave.
An arrest was made.
Yeah, the CAD also lists another home invasion on Jefferson,
near the Renaissance Center.
Alarm went off. DPD and Milbank Security answered the call.
And?
And, you know that Milbank security guard I talked to this morning, Remus?
Yeah.
He said nothing unusual happened last night.
He patrolled the same area.
Zoe said it was a cop.
Security guard, cop. At night,
it could all look the same.
Yeah, I think we should have another chat with Mr. Remus.
So, you're telling me you didn't know Kandace Monroe?
I've seen her at school a couple of times. That's about it.
That's about it, hmm?
I was under the impression you knew her a little better than that.
No, you got me mixed up with somebody else.
My son told you he doesn't know this girl.
Now, can we go already?
So, that wasn't you arguing with her at the clinic the other day?
That wasn't you?
Somebody got their memory back.
MR. BROWN: What's he talking about, Lance?
Here's that file you wanted.
Thank you.
We need to call a lawyer, Dad.
Well, you do that, you only make it harder on yourself.
Look, I only found out a couple of days ago that she was pregnant
and that she says she wants an abortion.
MR. BROWN: You got a girl pregnant, and you didn't come to me?
You should get back to studying. Wait. Wait.
Wait, wait. I was trying to do the right thing.
How? By crushing her skull?
No! I wasn't even at school this morning.
I was out looking for a job.
How about a lifetime position at the license plate factory?
Her being pregnant got you looking at a double homicide, Lance.
Hey, he said he didn't kill anybody.
Simone, you shouldn't be watching this.
But Lance didn't kill Kandace.
He couldn't hurt anybody.
She wouldn't even text me back after we left the clinic.
Did that make you mad?
What do you think?
That's what we call motive.
No, stop twisting my words around, all right? MR. BROWN: Stop talking.
She wanted the abortion, not me. Stop talking, Lance.
I think you wanted the abortion, she wouldn't do it,
you got mad, you got into a fight, and she stormed off,
and then you confronted her at school.
No! That's not what happened. No?
This conversation's over.
Now, we want a lawyer, and we want a lawyer now!
That's fine. Whatever you like, Mr. Brown.
Lance didn't do it. I swear.
You got something to tell us?
No, no. Forget it. Forget I said anything, all right?
Your daughter's impeding an investigation.
I've already talked to her.
Talk to her again.
She said she doesn't know anything.
She's lying.
She knows a lot more than she's saying.
With all due respect, we've got to look into every lead.
My daughter is not a lead.
Lance Brown's not our perp.
He was looking for a job at the time of the murder.
You confirmed this?
The only thing he's guilty of is knocking up our victim.
What do you think she knows?
Nothing. I already told you, okay? Simone.
What? Just because I don't think Lance killed Kandace
means I know who did?
You have any idea who it could be?
Are you asking as a lieutenant or my mom?
Both.
You know what kids call me at school?
Nark.
Or "Here comes the Snitch Bitch."
No one wants me at their parties
because they think if they pull out a beer or something,
I'm gonna run home and tell Mommy.
I know it doesn't mean much now,
but in the long run, none of this is gonna matter.
Most of these kids you won't see after high school.
But you know what's gonna stick with you?
What you did when you had the chance to do the right thing.
It's okay if it's not me you tell me,
but tell somebody.
I didn't raise you to be afraid.
This morning, you told me nothing unusual happened on your shift last night.
That's correct.
Yeah.
See, that's strange,
because we know that a Milbank security guard,
along with DPD, responded to a home invasion
at 1023 Traylor Street.
Now, Traylor happens to be on your patrol. But for some reason,
the responding officer tells us that the security guard was not you.
In fact, none of your stops remember seeing you at all.
Now, you tell me if I'm wrong,
'cause English is my second language,
but doesn't that seem unusual to you?
So, if you weren't on your patrol, where were you?
Perhaps breaking into the Athens Taverna restaurant?
No. You had access to the alarm codes.
No, that wasn't me.
You had plenty of time to shoot and kill that 21-year-old kid.
No.
I didn't work last night, okay?
I traded with another guy.
Oh, that's pretty darn convenient.
It's not a lie.
He paid me 100 bucks.
Why didn't you just tell us that this morning?
I was scared I'd get fired. We're not supposed to switch shifts.
But lying to the police, they're cool with that?
Who'd you switch with?
Dennis Lyons, police! Open up!
Get him out!
Careful. Door's hot. Door's hot.
Got him?
Help!
Have you seen Simone?
Not since earlier.
She's not answering her phone.
Where the hell is your partner?
Can anybody tell me anything?
Positive LOC.
First and second degree burns.
Pulse is weak and thready. Bed three.
That man's a suspect in a homicide.
You know why the car went up like that?
He had about 10 gas cans in the trunk.
Arson?
Yeah.
I'm Amara Petros.
I got a call they were bringing my boyfriend in.
They told me to come here.
Amara.
Simone's still not answering.
I tried a couple of friends' numbers you gave me but no one's heard from her.
Try them again.
What about Fitch?
Still not picking up.
Next message, tell him he doesn't answer his phone,
he'll be working midnights in Central District.
"Loser Girl," "Talk a Lot." I checked the IP addresses.
They're all fake handle names.
Kandace used them to spread rumors about other girls she didn't like.
Of course, so no one could trace it back to her.
Hey, partner.
Yeah. Is that Fitch?
Let me talk to him.
I don't understand any of this.
They said he was running from the police,
and then the car burst into flames?
He was actually running from us, Ms. Petros.
Did he do something wrong?
We got a warrant.
Had detectives search your house.
We found the gun that killed Percy.
The ballistics matched.
That's not possible.
I told you, I never saw that boy before.
We don't think he was part of the plan.
Plan? What plan?
The plan you and Dennis had.
Burn down the restaurant, collect the insurance money.
That's ridiculous. Amara,
Dennis had gas cans in his car.
That's why it went up in flames.
Did Dennis have a key to the restaurant on his key ring?
I know how hard times can affect people,
but a young man is dead.
I never planned to burn down my father's restaurant.
Somebody did.
We checked with Milbank Security,
and there's no record of you setting your alarm last night.
Of course I set it.
Not according to open-and-close login,
which you signed up for a few years back.
It's possible I forgot.
I don't know. I must have.
There was a lot going on.
Or could be you didn't set it on purpose.
Mr. Petros would never do that.
He knows there's been a rash of burglaries in his area.
He'd make sure to protect his restaurant,
his daughter.
Of course. What was I thinking?
I'm very protective of my daughters, too, Mr. Petros.
They live miles away, but I still call them every once in a while.
Worry about them like they were still seven.
Make sure they're taken care of.
It's natural.
With insurance money,
you would have gone a long way towards taking care of yours.
Two things you didn't count on.
Zoe and Percy.
You might be able to lie to us,
but there's one person I don't think you can lie to.
Papa?
Papa.
Papa. Papa.
Papa.
Where is she?
Inside.
Inside where?
This is the home of Laila Stevens.
Fifteen-year-old honor student, math tutor.
Doesn't sound like a killer.
No, but she is someone who's been viciously bullied.
So, you're saying Kandace was killed in retaliation?
Kandace confronted Laila in the parking lot.
Tired of being Kandace's punching bag,
Laila picked up the rebar and hit her.
Terrible.
This is all because Kandace thought something was going on
between Lance and Laila.
Turns out Laila was only tutoring him.
Okay, just follow me.
So, when'd you figure it out?
I got a freaked-out text from Laila while I was doing my homework.
Why didn't you say something?
Laila asked me to walk to school with her this morning
and I blew her off.
I just got tired of being a target, too.
I guess I felt guilty.
Like I caused it or something.
It's not your fault.
You had no idea this was going to happen.
I feel so bad.
I just feel so bad, Mommy.
It's okay. It's okay. I'm here.
It's okay.
Mmm.
What, you got a hot date tonight?
No, I'm going home, and I'm gonna be thankful I'm single with no kids.
You won't always feel like that.
Someday, you'll have a couple and be proud.
See you tomorrow.
Yeah. Good night.
Hey, pumpkin.
Yeah, I was thinking about you. Figure I'd give you a call.
How's my little girl?
Still thinking about next summer in Tuscany?
Can I get you to sign these?
She's a good girl, you know.
And she's proud of you,
even if that's hard to see sometimes.
How old's yours now?
Five weeks.
It's a balancing act.
It goes by fast.
Make sure you don't miss it.
You and I need to go over some ground rules.
You're in charge. I'm not.
But you know what they say, Lieutenant.
"By any means necessary."
Oh, is that what they say?
I overstepped my bounds. It'll never happen again.
Yes, it will.
Just make sure next time does not involve my daughter
or anybody else I'm related to.
Nice work today, folks. See you in the morning.
Sanchez.
Your hair.
Your hair, how you changed it.
Yeah?
It looks great.
Really, really looks great.
Thanks.
Nice job today, Detective.