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You check out these two addresses.
You get this one.
And let me know what you find out.
Go! Go!
- Chat these people up.
- Thank you.
Folks. Look, I'm going to ask
for some patience here, all right?
We'll have people come out
and speak to you.
Her name is Ruby Williams.
She's eight years old.
Her teacher said
she went home for lunch around noon.
When she didn't show up, her mom called
the school, called all of Ruby's friends.
Nobody had seen her.
So at 12:29, she called 911.
That was nearly 90 minutes ago.
Responding officers checked the house,
started retracing Ruby's route
from school.
No sign of her, so at 1:00,
they called for additional units.
Have we started a grid search
of the neighborhood?
Yes, ma'am. Stopping every car,
knocking on every door.
We got uniforms and detectives
that have rolled out from Hollywood,
Wilshire and Northeast Division
to lend a hand, and the FBI is here, too.
Afternoon.
All these different divisions,
there's no time for a turf war, Sergeant.
No, ma'am, everybody knows
a child goes missing,
- Priority Homicide runs the show.
- All right then, thank you. Gentlemen?
All right, it's just after 2:00 p.m.,
which means that Ruby Williams
has been missing for two hours.
We'll start with the family
and we'll work our way out.
The FBI is here to give us
whatever support we need.
We've got guys from the Behavioral Unit
working up profiles on possible suspects.
Look, if Ruby was snatched, what are the
chances she's still alive come sundown?
We could get a call any minute saying
someone found this little girl
with a friend playing hooky
or just plain lost.
Under no circumstances do we use the
word "homicide" in front of this family.
Okay? Let's just keep our heads.
Do the Williams have a computer?
Did we get permission to take it?
Yeah. I did a background check on mom,
dad, uncles. No criminal record.
That's Ruby's older brother, Carlton.
He was supposed to walk her home,
but he forgot.
- Says he was playing video games.
- We may be talking to him again later.
Thank you.
Mr. And Mrs. Williams,
I'm Deputy Chief Johnson.
I think you've already met
Sergeant Gabriel.
We need to ask you a few questions
about Ruby.
We've already talked
to four different people.
And I hope we're the last. I really do.
Mrs. Williams, I know
you're going through an ordeal,
but I need you to help me.
Will you please help me?
Mr. Williams,
is Ruby allowed on the Internet?
I don't let either of my kids go online
unless it's a school project,
and then I supervise.
Her teachers love her.
She makes As and Bs.
Only reason she's doing summer school
is so that she can play the violin.
She's got a solo in the fall concert.
There she is in the backyard,
getting ready for the Easter pageant.
- Thank you, Grandma. We love the dress.
- Look at her.
She's a...
- She's a beautiful little girl.
- Ode to Joy.
Has she had any problems with
the other children in the neighborhood?
Does she have a relationship
with any of her grandparents?
My parents passed away
before Ruby was born.
Randall's mother lives in...
In Texas with my sister.
Ruby sees her at Christmas time.
Has Ruby been having any trouble
with her older brother?
No.
How about you and your wife?
You two getting on?
Ruby's got a good home here.
She's a happy little girl.
And we always tell her,
"If a stranger talks to you funny, you run."
Run, run, run!
Run, run, run!
We're gonna bring your little girl home.
I promise you that.
- So, look like a family thing?
- My gut tells me no.
All right. Whatever resources you need,
you got it.
Look, Will, I just don't think the mother's
in any shape to come in front
- of the cameras right now.
- Listen, Brenda.
Assuming the worst, this can only help.
You know most child abductors
don't see their victims as real people.
Let's let this guy see
what kind of pain he's causing.
All right.
This is my baby girl.
Her name is Ruby Williams.
If anyone out there knows anything,
if anyone saw her...
My baby. Oh my... I want my baby.
Please. I want my baby. Ruby.
The LAPD is seeking information
regarding the disappearance
of eight-year-old Ruby Williams.
She was last seen walking home
from school nearly three hours ago.
Have we gotten anything useful
from the neighborhood canvass?
I'm entering data from every
field interview into the system
as fast as I can get it.
Let's see, we have three different people
who saw a green truck
by the school around noon.
I also have a blue van, a suspicious brown
delivery vehicle, and an ice-cream truck.
Green truck. I've got one of those.
Yeah, we found the green truck and
the Mexican gardeners that went with it.
And they didn't see anything.
And we interviewed the ice-cream man,
and he was gone by 11:00 a.m.
Hey, Mike, you can cross off
the brown delivery truck, too.
Driver was uploading downtown
between 12:00 and 1:30.
Supervisor backs him up.
- What about the blue van?
- Blue van.
A neighbor saw it parked on the street
three days ago.
When she tried to get a better look,
the driver took off.
- She see his face?
- White guy, kind of average-looking.
Okay, so white guy, kind of
average-looking. Blue van.
- That doesn't give us much to go on.
- Hang on. Hang on, Chief.
I have a blue van.
Guy here saw it twice this morning
on this street.
Hey, Chief. Does silver count?
I got a white male in a silver blue van
around 11:30 this morning.
What's the fastest way
out of this neighborhood?
If this is the route from Ruby's school
to her house, then I got two exits.
I can either go this way,
I'm on the 101 in 10 minutes, or...
He heads north right into Griffith Park.
Then I can be at the 134
or 135 freeways in 10 minutes.
Okay, these streets are businesses.
Maybe some of them
have security cameras.
I can have my guys pull the footage.
Let's take a look at every vehicle
entering and exiting the neighborhood
from 9:00 a.m. To 2:00 p.m. Today.
Lieutenant Provenza,
please contact the city
about whoever runs the traffic cameras.
Maybe our blue van ran a red light.
Lieutenant Flynn...
Chief! Detective Sanchez
is with the K-9 Unit.
The dogs found something.
Buzz, would you document this, please?
- This is bad. This is very bad.
- Hang on. Hang on.
Detective Sanchez, didn't the search team
cover this area already?
No, ma'am.
They checked the road from the girl's
school, but this alley's a dead end.
The dogs led us here.
Okay. Run, run, run.
Ruby was doing exactly
what her parents told her to do.
The driver must've come up on her
as she was walking home from school.
Maybe tried to talk her into the car.
Maybe it was a blitz attack.
Either way, she ran,
and this is where she was grabbed.
See how her sleeves are inside out?
She was pulled right out of her jacket.
I got your blue van!
At 10:32 a.m., the van heads north
on Hillhurst passing this liquor store.
Now, this film is from the same camera,
but 32 minutes later,
he's going the other way.
Here he comes again at 11:39,
going back the other way.
- He was trolling.
- Right.
Now, we don't pick him up
on this camera again.
Instead, he shows up on the other side
of the neighborhood here,
six blocks from where you guys
found the jacket.
This mini-mall camera picks him up
at 12:21:23 seconds,
21 minutes after Ruby left school.
Next clean shot we get of him is here,
12:21 and 46 seconds.
- He is leaving the neighborhood.
- I can't see the driver.
And here he is approaching
this intersection at 12:22:02.
Chief? I think I got a plate number.
12:22:08, our blue van cuts through
the gas station at the red light.
- He was in a hurry.
- I'll make this bigger.
Okay, "4DLX401."
- Give me three seconds.
- Print it out.
I got a VIN number and a name.
Roger A. Stimple.
- Studio City address.
- Does Mr. Stimple have a rap sheet?
It's almost 4:00.
Guys, Roger Stimple is on parole
for *** battery.
Okay. Have a parole officer
meet us at his address.
Got one on speed dial.
Commander Taylor, please take over
the command post.
Detective Daniels, every single bit
of information comes through you.
Thank you. Everyone else...
- Van looks empty, Chief.
- Doesn't mean she wasn't in there.
Go ahead.
Detective Sanchez,
maybe he didn't hear us.
Would you mind giving it a try?
Get out!
- Are you Roger Stimple?
- Yeah.
- Are you home alone, sir?
- Ruby!
- Hey! You guys can't go in there!
- I'm afraid we can, sir.
As a condition of your parole,
you signed a consent form
allowing searches of your person,
property and residence without a warrant.
- Kitchen's clear!
- Find her.
- Is that your blue van over there?
- Yeah.
- Lieutenant!
- Why can't you just leave me alone?
Get away!
- Okay. Have you been home all day?
- I was taking a nap.
- Can anyone verify that?
- No.
Did anyone borrow your blue van
- while you were sleeping?
- No. This ain't fair.
- Answer the question!
- No! You guys keep picking on me!
Mr. Stimple!
Why can't you leave me alone?
I was minding my own business.
- Get in there. Find her.
- Hey, you don't have the right!
Find her.
Did we get anything
from the suspect's van?
Nothing yet.
Mr. Stimple, your rights were read
to you in the car...
What about the other car?
The one under the tarp. Is that his, too?
1977 Mercury Cougar,
in less than mint condition.
There's no way he's keeping
a clunker like that under canvas,
unless he's hiding something.
Chief Johnson is having them
tear it apart right now.
This is terrible.
Well, I'm gonna do my best to get you
through this as quickly as possible.
But first is there anyone
you'd like us to call?
Your wife or your girlfriend?
I don't have a girlfriend.
What about your boss?
- I was laid off three weeks ago.
- That's too bad. What were you doing?
I was landscaping.
Mostly mow and blow.
And what do you do now?
For work, I mean.
It's not that easy to get a job
as a registered sex offender, is it?
You're referring to your conviction
for *** battery?
Some girl says I groped her,
and I get two and a half years.
Now I've got to move again.
After you guys dragged me
out of my house in handcuffs,
- all because a dog barked at my van.
- That must be very frustrating.
Especially after you've already
served your time in prison.
And no matter what I do,
nobody trusts me.
My mother's gonna think this is my fault.
Why is that?
When I got fired, she said
she didn't want me to come home,
and not to bother her anymore.
She didn't even wanna hear
my side of the story!
Blame Roger first. Yeah, that's her mantro.
- Or motto, or whatever.
- It's terrible.
That is so unfair.
When the rest of the world lets you down,
you should always be able
to count on your mother.
She's supposed to love you,
no matter what.
But right now there's another little girl
that I'm sure would like
to talk to her mother and can't.
You might have heard about her
on the news.
A little girl who went missing today.
I'm sure her mother is just desperate
to hear her voice.
And I feel strongly that
you can help us with this
because you were driving around in the
neighborhood when she went missing.
So if you know anything,
or you saw anything,
I'd really like to know.
Roger.
You know where I might find
this little girl?
What little girl?
Her name is Ruby Williams.
She's eight years old.
She likes to play the violin.
And this afternoon on her way home
from school, she was abducted.
She was in your van!
If something happened,
I want to help you figure this out.
This is your chance to explain yourself.
I want a lawyer.
Interview over.
I'll be right back.
Fritz, are we any closer to finding the girl?
Hang on, Will.
Did you get anything from the van
or the apartment?
No. No. He's lawyered up.
And I need something that
ties him to Ruby Williams
other than the testimony
of a German shepherd.
Don't look at me like that.
And how would you like me
to look at you?
Don't judge me.
I know that look.
Well, you know, I know
a little something about looks, too.
Looking at you, you know something
about this little girl.
She's not that little.
Oh, really?
You see, everyone pretends
kids don't want sex,
but they do.
You remember when you were a kid?
It's all you thought about.
There's nothing wrong with it.
It's biology.
And besides,
black girls are different.
Is that right?
I mean, look at her.
Black girls are way more sexually mature
than white girls.
That's why they have kids so young.
You probably grew up
swimming in black ***.
It's the way they walk.
Shake. Shake. Shaking their thing.
Kill the feed, Buzz.
- But the Chief said never...
- I said kill it!
Do not leave this room!
Why not?
Because Sergeant Gabriel is about
to make a break in the case.
No, Detective Daniels,
don't say anything to the family yet.
It could be a hoax.
No. No, he wouldn't tell me.
He told Sergeant Gabriel.
Yes, it is amazing.
It doesn't matter who he told. We know.
Send four black and whites
to the Vermont Canyon entrance
by the pay phones at the rest area.
And send the K-9s. Thank you.
Sergeant Gabriel, just to be clear,
Roger said that he left Ruby at the park.
He didn't say that she was dead.
Is that right?
Where are the phones?
Where are the phones?
Ruby!
Ruby!
Damn it!
No!
She's eight years old!
No!
No!
No!
No!
In my office.
What did you do?
We found her, didn't we?
It doesn't matter what I did.
Nothing matters more.
Roger Stimple didn't look like that
when I left the interview room.
So I need to know, Sergeant,
- did you beat the suspect?
- He deserved it!
That is not something that
you get to decide on your own
in an interview room with your fists!
Are you seriously taking his side?
He killed her! I got a confession!
You got an admission!
Roger told you where to find her.
Not that he took her.
Not that he killed her.
And since you beat that admission
out of him,
the jury won't be able to hear it anyway!
I promised that mother
I was going to bring her daughter home.
And that's exactly what I was trying to do.
You committed a criminal act!
When Roger gets a lawyer
and tells him what you did,
and IA hears his complaint,
what about your future?
What do you...
What do you want me to do now?
Just go home.
Wait till you hear from me.
You probably grew up
swimming in black ***.
It's the way they walk.
Shake. Shake. Shaking their thing.
Buzz, why'd you stop the taping?
I thought when you left the room,
the interview was over.
I have made myself perfectly clear.
Unless I stop that tape myself, it stays on
as long as the suspect is in the room.
Chief,
- I killed the feed.
- Why?
Because I thought it was a good idea.
Lieutenant, I want you to take charge
of the prisoner.
Make sure he's fed and gets
medical attention if he needs it.
We don't have to book him or
let him see his lawyer until he's arraigned.
Which means we have less than 43 hours
to tie him to Ruby's ***
some other way.
I want the squad working,
but no one sees this tape,
or knows about
what Sergeant Gabriel has done.
- Have I made myself very clear?
- Yes, ma'am.
Thanks.
Hey, listen, your instincts about
Roger's second car were right on.
We found a report on
a '77 Mercury Cougar just like Roger's,
same blue paint on the bumper, tied
to two separate abductions five years ago,
before our guy went to jail
on that *** battery charge.
Two girls, African American,
ages nine and 11.
- They were never found.
- So Ruby wasn't his first victim?
Well, last few years on parole
must've been a cooling off period,
but he just lost his job,
and you said his family cut him off?
Yeah, he's got
some kind of a mother thing.
Yeah. Just the kind of stressor events
to set him off.
I should've never left Gabriel alone
in that room.
I saw how mad he was.
I knew he was upset.
You told Pope about it yet?
No.
I'm still looking for a way out.
Well, you tie Roger Stimple
to these other missing girls.
It's okay. It's okay.
Detective. You're working late.
Yes. We found out that the landscaping
firm where Roger Stimple used to work
had a contract at the park
where Ruby was found.
Couldn't you have called
with this information, Detective?
May I come in?
I'm not sure what David told you,
- but he knows what he did was wrong.
- Well, that's a start.
Please do not let this be the last thing
he does as a police officer.
That may not be up to me.
As soon as the suspect shows up
in court with his lawyer,
David's actions are gonna be
front and center,
and the only way out of this
is gonna be for me to lie.
Is that what you want me to do?
You know, I wonder.
Would you be here pleading David's case
if y'all weren't dating?
- But we are dating.
- No, I... Look, I don't wanna...
I don't wanna talk about that.
Okay, look, I don't wanna discuss it.
Chief, I know that you and Commander
Taylor have a complicated relationship,
but he cares a lot about David,
and sometimes, he has solutions
to these kinds of things.
Chief?
We checked Stimple's home computer,
no sign of ***, child or other.
Thirty-year-old single man lives alone,
no ***. Now, that's suspicious.
Chief, one of the keys on Roger's keychain
matches the padlock
on the fence at the park.
Boots from Roger's apartment match the
prints we found in the park's bathroom.
That's probably where he *** her.
Roger's DNA's on file from previous busts.
It'll take a few days to get a match.
Okay, what about
the two other missing girls?
I'm checking their case files
against Roger's Mercury
and his whereabouts five years ago.
If our scumbag killed those girls,
he probably buried them in the park.
- He knows the place inside and out.
- Then why didn't he bury Ruby?
He probably panicked when he heard
our helicopters, left her in the ditch.
I'm telling you, Chief.
Those girls are out there.
Griffith Park is over 4,000 acres.
We'd never find them
without Roger's help.
- So we get him to tell us.
- It's not that simple.
It worked with Ruby.
Why not with these previous two girls?
- Get Gabriel, have him talk to him...
- It's not that simple.
Well, then what am I missing?
Excuse me, everyone.
I wanted to thank all of you personally
for your hard work and dedication.
I know it's...
It's just awful when an investigation ends
the way this one did.
PHD handled it quickly, professionally,
and you got a predator off the street.
Thank you, Chief Pope.
Do we have a booking photo
of the suspect?
- I'd like to release it to the press.
- There's been a slight complication.
What's that?
Well, there's some question
as to whether Roger's confession
came after he invoked his right to counsel.
I don't understand that.
If he invoked, he invoked.
- Lf he confessed, he revoked. Right?
- It fell somewhere in between.
And unfortunately,
we didn't get it on tape.
It doesn't hurt us too bad,
but the thing is, Chief,
we think this guy, Roger, is responsible
for at least two other child abductions.
We don't wanna taint other witnesses
by releasing Roger's photo.
So we're going to keep his identity
under wraps
until we're done with the investigation.
Okay. All right, but I want this sorted out
by the time he's arraigned,
so I can smear his face all over the news.
Commander Taylor and I
are pooling our resources.
Okay, good. Thank you, Commander.
Chief Johnson, you wanted to talk?
Gabriel let his emotions get
the better of him.
It's happened to all of us.
- What Gabriel did was... It was immature.
- It wasn't just immature.
He acted in such a way
that I now can't see how to close my case
without permanently damaging his career.
And make no mistake, Commander,
I will close my case.
Let's not forget,
Gabriel's not the bad guy here.
- There's a child killer in the mix.
- Whose admission I can't use.
Too bad you can't get Roger
to confess again.
Believe me.
I've been trying to figure out
how to do that all night.
- You haven't booked the suspect yet?
- No. He's still in isolation.
You know what, Chief?
You have a lot to do still,
what with having
to look after these other two missing girls.
Why don't I take Roger off your hands?
Have Robbery /Homicide book him.
I don't see how that's gonna help me.
Oh, it will.
It will.
- You wanted to see me, Chief?
- Yes.
Lieutenant, what have we got
on Roger's second car?
Well, so far, nada.
SID took some fibers, and they're looking
for blood, hair, anything
that'll match one of the girls
from five years ago.
It'll take weeks if it works at all.
Thank you.
Chief,
I did a bad thing once.
I'm talking about the first time.
It was many years ago.
I was very young, like Gabriel.
And my heart, back when I had a heart,
was in the right place.
But I was stubborn, I was stupid,
and I did something that I'm not proud of.
But people grow, people change,
and, well, look at me now.
Excuse me, Chief.
We just got a call from lockup.
- Roger wants to talk to you.
- To me?
Yes, Commander Taylor
is bringing him up right now.
I'm here to protect and serve.
- You're not protecting me!
- I didn't leave you in there.
I brought you out of there
so you'd be safe.
What's the problem?
- What happened?
- He did this to me!
He put me in the cell with other prisoners!
You know, sometimes you forget how
other prisoners treat people like Roger.
How did they find out who he was?
I don't know. Maybe some guard must've
said something. You know how it is.
Isn't there a rule against putting
child molesters in general population?
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Wait a minute.
Is that what you are, Roger?
Are you a child molester?
- I didn't...
- 'Cause before you said you wasn't.
- He can't say that!
- You denied everything!
- You're the one who put me in there!
- What's it gonna be?
- He told them about me!
- Are you a child molester or not?
What are you, Roger?
Do you like little girls, huh?
What are you, Roger?
Are you a child molester?
You're the one who put me in there!
- Well, are you?
- He told them about me!
- What are you?
- All right, all right!
- Talk to me!
- Mr. Stimple...
- Talk to me!
...do not answer that question!
- Talk to me!
- Commander, that is enough.
Sorry. Sorry, Chief.
- Please help me.
- I can't do anything for you!
I can't even talk to you
because you've asked for a lawyer!
I wanna talk.
Okay. Fine.
Let's get a doctor to take a look at you.
And then we'll talk.
No, not him.
Can't we just keep this white?
Let's go.
Thank you, Doctor.
Roger, just to be perfectly clear,
you are now saying
that you wanna talk to me.
In fact, you asked to talk.
I heard he had a little scuffle
in the general population.
Honestly, Chief, there was no safe place
to put this guy.
And you don't have to talk to me
without your attorney present.
You understand that, too?
Okay. Again, just for the record,
you were just treated by a doctor
for wounds you say you received from
your fellow prisoners in your holding cell.
They attacked and beat you.
- Listen, they're gonna kill me!
- Roger...
They're gonna kill me!
I can't go back down there!
It's okay. It's okay.
Roger, I won't send you back. I swear!
You're safe with me.
And I promise you, I will look into
whoever did this to you. Okay?
Okay?
Roger, let's you and I talk about Ruby.
Because we looked for her by
the pay phones, but she wasn't there.
I wanna help y'all find her.
Look, I made a mistake.
I was wrong not to talk to y'all before.
All right, all I know is I was driving
through the park, and there she was.
- Just walking along, by herself.
- In the park?
Yeah. And I used to work
in that park, all right?
It's not safe for a kid
to walk around alone like that.
So I offered her a lift.
That's why your dogs smelled her
in my van.
She wanted to call her folks,
so I took a service road that I know.
And I dropped her off by the phones
and I gave her some change to call home.
And then I took off.
I'm telling you that's what happened.
Do you remember,
was she wearing her pink jacket?
Yeah!
Yeah, that sounds right.
She had her hands in her pockets.
And about what time was this?
I think... I think it was
maybe around 12:00.
- And you never got out of your van?
- No.
This explains a lot.
How she got in your van, why
she was in that remote part of the park.
Yeah! Yeah, I was just trying to help.
And you're helping now!
You're helping a lot!
Because, Roger, you're probably
the last person to see Ruby alive.
You see, we didn't find her
by the pay phones, but we did find her.
She was dead, Roger.
Oh, man.
I can't believe it.
Did you see anything suspicious
in the park?
A car that didn't belong?
Or someone walking around?
Yeah!
Yeah, well, you know,
this could be nothing,
but there was this one dude I saw
as we were heading to the phones.
He was a young guy.
Maybe 20, 25.
He was black or Hispanic.
You know, kind of Cuban black.
You know what I mean? He was a big guy.
Oh, man.
There are bad people out there.
Roger, you say you saw Ruby in the park
around noon?
That's when her teacher saw her
leaving school.
- Well, it could've been a little later.
- The same time we got pictures
- of your van driving in her neighborhood.
- I drive all around.
- You say you didn't get out of your van.
- I drive all around.
But we've got your footprints
all over the park.
That doesn't mean anything!
And you say you saw Ruby
in her pink jacket
which we found in the alleyway
where she was abducted!
Now, it is high time that
you tell me the truth.
The whole truth, Roger.
Please.
Let's you and I help each other.
Otherwise, there's nothing left
to talk about.
All right. I'm gonna go find
Commander Taylor.
- No! Don't send me back there!
- What choice do I have?
It's so hard.
Look, Roger, you agreed to talk to me.
That's an important first step.
Now, let me help you make the next one.
Because I know...
I know what you're going through.
Because girls that age,
they are so beautiful.
Other guys, they pretend that
they don't feel the same way, but they do.
And the girls want it, too.
They just can't admit it.
'Cause their mothers
would pass judgment.
But I'm not passing judgment, Roger.
I just wanna know what happened.
I was driving around.
And I seen this girl I've seen before.
You couldn't help but notice her.
And I don't go for girls who don't want me.
Now, I've been on the other end
of that thing when I was a kid.
No, she was into it.
- All you were doing was giving her a ride.
- Exactly.
We were just driving around.
It was all just fun, you know?
I wasn't gonna do anything.
But she wanted it, so...
She was flirting with you.
You two fool around?
Then right in the middle of it, she changed.
She got all mad at me.
Said she was gonna tell the cops
what we'd done,
which is so perfect.
Just lead me on and just flip like that?
Then I got mad.
Roger, if something happened,
if there was an accident,
you need to tell me.
'Cause the DNA,
that's gonna link you to Ruby.
And the DA is gonna make you out
to be a monster in a very public trial.
Is that how you want your mother
to see you?
Is that how you want the world
to see you?
I know that there's an explanation
that only you have.
And I want to hear your side of the story.
But if I'm gonna help you,
I need to hear it from you.
She just started screaming.
She was making so much noise.
I was just trying to keep her quiet.
I didn't wanna hurt her.
But her neck, it just snapped.
So easy.
And then she got quiet.
I know how that sounds, but...
It was an accident.
- You didn't mean it.
- No.
Well, at least now we know.
Thank you, Roger.
I know that that was hard.
There's two more things
I wanna talk to you about.
Yeah.
Chief Johnson's just about done
with Roger Stimple.
She played him perfectly, Chief.
Got confessions on both Ruby
and the two other girls.
That's excellent. Thank you.
And let's not release
his booking photo to the press.
Use the DMV shot instead.
I don't want people to see a fat lip
and feel sorry for this guy.
Yes, sir.
I'm hungry.
They'll be serving first meal
in a couple of hours.
- You can eat in your cell.
- Wait. What's gonna happen to me?
You'll be kept in isolation here
until morning.
Then you'll be handed over to County,
which is under the supervision
of the Sheriff's Department.
And after that, I have no idea.
You don't understand.
If they put me back in general population,
they'll beat me.
- They'll beat me.
- No, Roger, I do understand.
What I'm trying to tell you is
I don't care.
- Yes, Detective, what is it?
- I just wanted to say thank you.
- There's nothing to thank me for.
- You got the confession.
I did?
Because this will most certainly
be a capital case,
Roger's lawyer will insist on a trial
and David will have to testify
about what he did.
I have to advise Chief Pope
of all this in the morning
before Roger's lawyer
breaks it to reporters.
And what will this mean for David?
Well, we'll see, won't we?
I'm sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
- Hello?
- Sorry to wake you, Chief.
- I've got good news and better news.
- Okay, what's the good news?
It only took a couple of hours
for the search team
to find the remains of the two other girls
right where Roger said they'd be.
- Yeah, and what's the better news?
- No trial.
You can take away
their shoelaces and their belt,
but they still find a way
to hang themselves.
The idea of life in prison
must have been just too horrible.
- Wrote a suicide note on his hand.
- Well, it's more of an apology, actually,
to his mother.
- Hey, you wanted to see me, Chief?
- Yes. Come in.
As you know, Roger Stimple hanged
himself in his cell this morning.
There will be no trial,
so you're off the hook on that.
I just wanna say I'm really sorry
for causing so much trouble.
"I'm sorry" won't cut it, Sergeant.
I want you to know that I'm really mad
about this situation.
I'm really mad at you for having caused it.
And I'm really mad that
I have to be the one
to enter it in your permanent record.
But I can't sweep this under the rug
just because you're my favorite.
In accordance with
departmental regulations,
I have asked that Commander Taylor
investigate your conduct
with Roger Stimple.
And he has written you up
for excessive force.
You're writing me up. Okay.
We have both spoken to Chief Pope,
and he has decided that
a 10-day suspension without pay
is the necessary and appropriate response.
Now, you can sign that report,
acknowledging that you agree
with Commander Taylor's findings,
and hand over your gun and your badge,
or you can hire a lawyer and roll the dice
with Internal Affairs. It's your choice.
I need to know, Sergeant.
If I put you in a room
with another Roger Stimple,
is this gonna happen again?
I don't know.
Don't come back until you do.