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Previously on life
Yeah, i have the interview
with the dean from the business school.
It's for a teaching position.
You asked my husband
permission to have sex with me?
He punched me, then you slapped me.
Maybe we're even?
It's just that she won't speak.
It's not physical she
could speak if she wanted to.
There was six.
There is five.
There are five officers
in this photo, ted.
- There could just as easily be four.
- Be four.
That's a threat, charlie.
Against jack reese.
Who are you afraid of, jack?
There was six.
There is five.
There could just as easily be four.
There was six.
There is five.
There could just as easily be four.
James frances dunn.
Went through the academy
with jack reese.
Committed suicide 1988.
That's what the newspaper said.
- You don't believe them?
- Newspaper said i was guilty.
Yeah said i was guilty too.
Ted, you were guilty.
I know, but it still hurt
to see it there like that in print.
Where you gonna start?
With the woman.
Thanks for seeing me, mrs.
Dunn.
Of course.
You said you were looking
into jimmy's death?
The police report said his gun
discharged when he was cleaning it?
Well, that was because
of the pension.
If it had said the other,
There would have been no pension.
I understand.
But everybody knew what it meant.
At the funeral
all the cops knew.
The force went over this years ago.
Why come around and ask this now?
Do you remember these men?
No, i don't.
I'm afraid i don't remember
much about that day.
Maybe i can help you.
That man there,
his name is jack reese.
No.
- That wedding ring you wear
- It's the one jimmy gave me.
Oh, it's not real.
It's wax.
It's not real.
Lots of feeling here.
All these cars were once brand new.
A lot of these cars were
someone's very first car.
Remember your first car?
Yeah, it cost $300
and smelled of cat ***.
- Did you have a cat?
- No.
I remember my first car.
God, i loved that car.
Maybe a little too much.
That's a really flat car.
What do we got?
Is that a
Yeah.
- What about that stuff up there?
- I think that's him too.
- And that stuff up there?
- Him too.
Gonna open it up now.
If he was lucky, he was dead
when he went in there.
Yeah, if he was lucky.
- You knew the victim? Mike?
- Mike brody.
He's, uh, one of our drivers.
College kid.
He lucked into a union card.
What was he doing in there?
- We're curious about that ourselves.
- Hey, i stopped the crusher
As soon as i saw
what was in there.
I called the cops.
Look, i just take the cars
off the line and i crush 'em up.
- Who puts the cars in the line?
- I do.
- And you are?
- I'm rob dow.
I'm the dispatcher here.
I put that car in line.
- You check if the cars are empty?
- Yeah, when they come in.
All right, we're gonna need
statements from all of you.
And i'm gonna need an address
for mike brody.
- Can you get me that?
- Sure.
I think he just moved in
with his girlfriend, rosa.
Yes?
Ma'am, do you know a mike brody?
- Why, has something happened?
- May we come in?
- Ma'am.
- I don't wanna hear it.
I don't wanna hear
what you have to say.
Ma'am, this is happening.
It's happening whether you
close this door on us or not.
You had just moved in together?
A few months ago.
Mike and i were engaged.
Was he having trouble with anyone?
- You think someone murdered mike?
- We're looking into everything.
- What about the people at work?
- No.
Everyone liked him.
Rosa?
What is it?
Probably nothing.
Probably nothing, but,
well, tell us anyway.
Just to be sure.
In this last month, at night,
When mike thought i was asleep,
He'd go to the garage,
lock the door.
Almost every night.
Did you ever ask him about this?
No.
I thought he was nervous.
Because the wedding
I thought men need their space.
I never asked.
I thought men need their space.
Who is that?
Who the hell is that?!
Mike brody.
The squashed guy.
Crushed.
Crushed guy.
Been in the car for about a day, dead,
before the crusher got him.
We got a positive i.
D.
Off dental records.
So crushed guy,
weeks before his wedding,
Decides to go into the garage
and do a little online thing with
According to these i.
M.
S he saved,
a girl who calls herself bethany.
They met in a chat room.
"Strangers seeking strangers.
What's with the nudie pics?
They were playing a game.
She sent him a piece of herself
Each time he did something for her.
Something? Like what something?
Why in heaven's name
would you want to do this by yourself?
I'm not saying you
would want to do this at all,
But if you were to do this,
Why would you do it
by yourself, am i right?
He didn't think he was by himself.
He thought he was with her.
Well, let me tell you something,
there is no her.
And there is no bethany, okay?
There is a 13-Year-Old member
of the marching band
With an online account
and a social disorder.
- You played the
- Trombone.
And i was good.
Let's look for a suspect
in the real world, shall we?
What about the girl?
Did she know what mikey was up to?
- Didn't look like it.
- Engaged for about a month.
She was spending the night
at her sister's.
"Why would you want to be
with that fat cowboy?"
Fat cowboy?
"If that's what he told you
he looks like, it's not true.
"He's not slim.
He's not athletic.
"He doesn't have blue eyes
or blond hair.
He's lying to you, bethany.
"
I think we need to go back
to the wrecking yard.
You wanna know
what he really looks like?
He must weigh 300 pounds.
Mud-Brown eyes.
He's balding under that hat.
He's not tall, and he's ugly.
Why would you want to be
with that, bethany?
Why would you want to be
with someone like
Rob.
Why don't you stand away
from the desk for us?
Hey, rob,
If that's bethany,
tell her i say hello, okay?
He's on me.
- Reese?
- Crews, get him off.
Get him off of me! He's on me!
How 'bout you get off my partner?
Okay, uh, first day
No problem.
Nobody shows up, i'll deal with it.
Every rejection is a step forward.
Just get to "yes.
"
This is quite the turnout.
This is the right classroom?
"A practical introduction to
effective business practices"?
Yes? Great.
Uh, good morning.
My name is ted earley.
As in the early bird, but
With an "e"
Between
The
"L" and the
The "y.
"
Okay, we've got a long way to go,
So let's start
with a simple question.
What is business?
Uh, yes, miss.
Is this class gonna be graded
or pass/fail?
So, what is
What is business?
The answer is everything.
Everything is business.
Every historical event, every war.
Every decision made
by every government.
Any book stocked or sold.
From the moment that eve
first decided
To accept delivery of that apple
From that snake,
We have been engaged in
Business.
- I don't like getting sat on, rob.
- She doesn't.
You know, you did a good job
trashing your computer.
But we got guys in the basement,
All they do is
pull stuff off computers.
Pulled some pretty good stuff
off of yours.
You know, you'd probably like
a job like that.
Down there in the dark,
just you and a computer.
Wanna talk about bethany?
- Please don't say her name.
- Why not? It's a pretty name.
It's not for you to speak it.
What about mike? Could he speak it?
We got mike's computer.
Mike and bethany were going
at it pretty hard.
- Stuff that made my partner blush.
- Stuff i've never even heard of.
You and bethany, though,
from what we read,
Didn't really get into that.
Seems like you and bethany
were just friends, though.
Right, rob?
I've got guys in my life like that.
Just friends kinda guys.
It's a little sad.
She sent you stuff like,
"If you saw me, would you know me?
I look for you wherever i go.
"
It's nice, i guess.
Not like the stuff she sent mike.
Bethany never sent you
anything like this, did she?
It's okay, rob.
You can look.
Hey, rob
I know you've got a secret.
Won't you share it with me?
The secret you and bethany
were i.
M.
Ing when we walked in?
I'll read your part, rob.
"You don't have to worry
about what happened.
"
- What happened, rob?
- "It's your secret, bethany.
Now it's mine.
- No one else will know.
"
- Are you covering for bethany?
Because that's what we call
being an accomplice to ***.
"Just tell me one thing.
Tell me that you love me.
"
My partner will read this part.
- I
- You shut up.
You do not say those words.
That is not for you to say.
Bethany was sending mike
pictures like this, and not you?
Never you, and still
you're gonna defend her?
Strangers seeking strangers.
You met her there first.
Then what?
You brag to mike,
mike goes online, then takes her away?
Mike brody got up in her head.
He confused her.
He could do that,
but she figured it out.
She figured him out completely.
What happened that night, rob?
I can't tell you.
It's a secret.
You find who was
on the other end of these i.
M.
S,
You find this bethany.
Then
you go through the looking glass
And you bring 'em back here.
We already talked
to the geeks in sex crimes.
They said it would take
a few days, low priority.
Well, hold him
until you get that trace.
On what charge?
On the charge
of freakin' me the hell out.
We have everything we need
to find bethany right here.
If we need to figure out
where bethany is,
We need to figure out who bethany is.
And who bethany is is in here.
Well, bethany is not gonna be that.
No, maybe not.
But bethany is in there.
We just gotta find her.
- What are we looking for?
- Anything that seems real.
Anything that's mentioned
more than once.
Tennis.
- Got it.
- Got it.
Ocean breezes.
Got it.
Wait, wait
Uh, no, no.
Ocean breezes.
- Junior in college?
- Yep.
You got this?
No, i'm pretty sure i don't.
Is it funny every time?
I think it might be.
"Went to school in l.
A.
"
"Wanted to stay close to home.
"
"Was on campus,
but living at home now.
"
"Played two years for my school.
"
"Played two years
until i had to stop.
"
"Living at home now.
"
"Played two years
until i had to stop.
"
- "Until i had to stop.
"
- "Until i had to stop.
"
She's from l.
A.
Went to schools in l.
A.
Check the tennis squads
of all the local colleges.
- Go back a few years.
- Got a listing for a bethany.
Got a home address.
Hi.
Can i help you?
We're looking for bethany.
You found her.
Through the looking glass.
Enjoying your job?
I am just a humble public servant.
Oh, you're the police.
We need to ask you some questions.
Mom, the police are here.
You want some lemonade?
Mom!
The police are here!
She'll be right down.
I told 'em about all the coke
and hookers in the pool house.
I'm so sorry about that.
Hi, i'm detective crews.
This is detective reese.
Are you here
Is this about my daughter?
- Yes, we'd like to talk to you about
- I'm sorry.
Here.
My husband.
He handles these things.
Put the phone anywhere
when you're done.
What just happened?
I was just about to ask you
the same thing.
I hearmusic.
It's a new cd
we have coming out next week.
It's nice, isn't it?
So now, detective, maybe you can
tell me why you were at my house.
Mr.
Gray, we have reason to believe
Your daughter bethany might have
been involved in a ***.
Involved?
Involved exactly how?
There was an online relationship.
- Two online relationships, in fact.
- Online?
So you don't know
who it is, do you?
We know it ended up like this.
Not exactly the kind of picture
you're used to, mr.
Gray.
You have no idea
what i'm used to, detective.
There's another man involved:
rob dow.
Both were tow truck drivers.
They're tow truck drivers?
My bethany would never be involved
with tow truck drivers.
Mr.
Gray, when we showed up
at your house,
Your wife wanted to know
if it might be about your daughter.
Has bethany been in trouble before?
She's not in trouble now.
My bethany is a good girl.
She lives at home.
Sounds to me like
you're looking for a bad girl.
You know, i know bad girls.
In my business
Oh, i know a lot of bad girls.
My bethany isn't one of 'em.
"I know bad girls.
"
Yeah, i'll bet he knows bad girls.
Do men have to be
disgusting? I mean
Isn't there, like, an operation
you guys can get?
I think they're working on a pill.
What did those transcripts say
about where bethany lived?
Uh, "was on campus,
living at home now.
"
What about the tennis?
"Played two years,
and then i had to leave.
"
Let's go see
why bethany left school.
Maybe she's not such a good girl.
Bethany's name is listed on the
lease here, but she lives at home?
We split the rent here before
her dad pulled her out of school.
Do you know her dad knows bono?
Why did her dad
pull her out of school?
Because of what happened
with her professor.
His wife kinda walked in,
and they were kinda on his desk?
Stop.
She's got problems.
- What kind of problems?
- Her dad.
He's always telling her
stuff he shouldn't.
- What kind of stuff?
- Like what a tough guy he is.
The groupies he used to ***.
And what happened to the professor?
Oh
He walks with a cane now.
Nathan gray
born nathan gratowitz.
A few possessions, convictions,
some assault beefs.
Now he runs gray scale music.
Now he's all clean.
His daughter bethany has got
a little jacket too.
Duis, driver's license
suspended, probation.
And then last year she goes off
And has an affair
with her humanities professor.
- What kind of an affair?
- Online and in bed.
When nathan reads the emails between
his daughter and her teacher,
He takes bethany's computer away,
- He takes a bat to the teacher's knees.
- Paid him to drop the charges.
If bethany's back online
and her father finds out
Wow, there really is a bethany.
I've gotta rethink a lot of things.
Press nathan.
Excuse me.
Excuse me!
Oh oh, detective.
You know, i thought
you might come back.
What, you took a look at my jacket
And thought you'd like
another poke at nathan?
Well, if you want to talk
to me, you go through them.
Bodyguards?
Lawyers.
He does that.
Studying for your orals?
- When was this taken?
- Last year.
She was so messed up.
An athlete blasted all the time.
It was all over the web.
Her dad based a cd cover on it.
Yeah.
Messed up.
Even if he does know bono.
You could have just sent the key.
- Not everything in there is yours.
- Why, you don't trust me?
I didn't know
what to do with it, so i just kept it.
Hard to believe everything we had
fit into this tiny space.
Well, not everything.
Hey, there's my drunken clown.
There they are.
I've been looking for these.
I got a new case today.
Some record producer guy.
Got me thinking
about my old albums.
Got me thinking
about a lot of things.
Yeah, i remember that.
- What?
- You used to talk to me about the job
- When you came home.
- Sorry.
It's okay.
And not all of these albums
are yours.
This one was mine.
And this one.
And that one was yours.
That was not mine.
I would never listen to that.
Not only did you listen to it,
But you listened to it
over and over again.
That's our bed.
Yesit is.
But, uh
We're not gonna think about that.
No?
We're not gonna think about that.
We're not gonna think
about me kissing you.
No we're not gonna think
about you kissing me.
We're not gonna think about me
- Touching you.
- No.
We're not gonna think about you
Touching me.
I'm not thinking about it.
Neither am i.
Lock up when you're done.
Yeah.
Yeah, i know.
- One, that's inappropriate.
- Why?
Because you're my boss.
And two
If you read my file, you'd see
that i was in the program.
- Why would i read your file?
- Because you're my boss.
I don't like files.
Too wordy.
Come on.
So we'll get a fake beer.
And maybe we'll get fake drunk
And end up having
fake drunk sex, what do you say?
I'd say that idea's repulsive.
Those are the very first words
each of my three wives spoke to me.
And they all changed their minds.
It's twisted.
He gets some model to play
his daughter on an album cover.
It'll make me buy it, but it's
well and truly twisted.
We've been looking for someone
obsessive and violent.
You want to go see nathan.
Nathan's all lawyered up.
Then let's go see nathan's girls.
Okay, so, maya, why are you
in this class?
I'm taking every class.
You're taking every class
in the business school?
By the time i graduate,
i'll have done exactly that.
Yes, sir.
Wow.
O okay.
What about you
- Vairam?
- I have a top secret business plan.
Are are you gonna be
working on it in the class?
- Yes.
- Great, well, why don't we discuss
I will not discuss my business.
It is a secret business.
Move on.
Uh, well, that just leaves you, ed.
I'd like to learn
how to do that thing
Where if somebody tells you
it's in the constitution
That you don't have to pay taxes,
then you don't have to pay taxes.
That's not in the constitution.
Wesley snipes did it.
Yeah.
Hey.
- I'm on my way out.
- Nice car.
Bethany, you ever see what happens
when a car goes through the crusher?
Ever see what happens when
a man goes through the crusher?
It kind of looks like
strawberry jelly or lasagna.
Or strawberry jelly and lasagna.
Is that supposed to shock me?
I've seen it before.
- Plenty of times.
- It's not you, but it's you.
- Like i said, i'm on my way out.
- I'll go with you.
Yeah, okay.
Whatever.
Come on.
Good.
All right.
You used to be a singer?
Looked you up.
You know, you had
that one album out, and then nothing.
It's how you and your husband
met, though, right?
In the recording studio?
Hey, how come you stopped singing
after you got married?
Nathan didn't like it?
I stopped singing
because i wanted to.
To raise my daughter.
Ah, bethany, yeah.
Lovely girl.
Strong swing.
Bethany, did you go online
to get away from your father?
I wasn't online.
It wasn't me.
I stopped drinking.
I stopped doing that.
- I'm in the real world now.
- If it wasn't you online,
Then the person
we're looking for is not you.
Any idea who's not you, bethany?
That could be anyone.
Well, the things
they knew about you, i
I think it's closer to home.
Maybe you want to ease up a little.
You spend a lot of time
with these kids?
Yes.
They need me.
Nothing wrong
with being needed, is there?
What about computers, lynn?
Can you think of anybody
who would need one of those?
You're saying someone out
there is pretending to be me?
Someone i know.
And because of that
Someone is dead.
You know, i tried to be good.
I came home.
I left that world.
I'm in the real world now.
- I am.
I am.
- You are?
Okay, yes, you are!
You know your husband
is prone to violence.
And his relationship
with your daughter?
I mean, if he thought bethany
was online again
Nathan was with me.
Our club dance.
I really have to get back to work.
You miss it?
Singing?
I never even think about it.
Someone close to me.
Someone who knows me,
Out there pretending to be me.
Someone like
Bethany, slow down.
Maybe you can drive now.
Reese, how'd it go?
My guess, both of nathan's girls
Are gonna take a hard look
at daddy.
Why do you need a ride?
Did you lose another car?
Crews.
Detective crews? She's speaking.
Excuse me?
Rachel.
She is speaking.
Hello, jack.
How come every time you come around
- Somebody ends up getting hurt?
- What are you doing here, jack?
He came to say good-Bye.
So now you're the one not talking?
You take care of yourself, kid.
Jack!
You know where she is,
but you didn't tell 'em?
How come you didn't tell 'em
where she is, jack?
You've been protecting her
from them?
I've always been protecting her.
You've gotten in too deep,
haven't you, jack?
Maybe i can help you get out.
Not for nothing, jack.
"It was six.
"It is five.
But it could just as easily
be four.
"
Who set me up, jack?
Yeah, okay.
I'm a lot of things,
detective crews, but i'm no rat.
Who are they, jack?
I do want to thank you for finding the
man that killed that girl's family.
For putting him away.
But ever since you
got out of jail, crews,
All i've been doing
is cleaning up your mess.
But it's your mess.
So you can clean it up.
Reese.
Crews.
Bethany.
Since you talked to my mother,
she hasn't stopped crying.
Why is she crying, bethany?
Because there were two hours
at that party
Where my mother
couldn't find my father.
She's so scared.
Nathan has no alibi.
Let's go pick him up.
Did my father kill that man?
I just googled you.
You were in jail.
You looted pension funds.
I wouldn't put it like that.
How would you put it?
Yeah
I did things i'm not proud of.
And i did my time.
But before all of that,
i was a good businessman,
And i made a lot of money
for a lot of people.
So you're saying
what you did was okay?
No.
No.
What i'm saying is
that business is a system,
And i know how it works.
And if any of you would like
to learn how it works,
Then you will pick up
your pencils right now
Or get the hell
out of my classroom.
We have computers, not pencils.
There was no mention of pencils.
Will we be needing pencils?
Gimme a minute?
Mrs.
Dunn, you want to see me?
He wasn't cleaning his gun,
detective crews.
But it wasn't the other, was it?
Jimmy swore
he would never leave me.
I don't see how it could have been.
His name is mickey raybourn.
I don't know these other men, but
This one mickey raybourn.
- You got a temper, nate.
- Yeah.
Yeah, i do
Makes me real good at my job.
Real good in other places too.
Don't talk to me like i'm one of
the groupies you used to ***.
Used to.
Not anymore.
You're a family man now,
right, nate?
Got a wife and a daughter.
Are you out there online
pretending you're something
You're not, nathan? Is that how
you get off now, nathan?
- No, i don't need to do that.
- You don't?
No.
If i need that thing,
I need to taste it,
i need to touch it.
You know, i need to feel
the skin, the flesh.
I don't need to pretend
to be somebody, sweetheart.
When you're with nathan,
you're with nathan.
May i see my lawyers now, please?
Where's your partner?
She said something about going to
take a shower to wash nathan off.
He's got no alibi, but we got no
witness, no weapon, no confession.
Rob dow still has a secret.
And
now it's time for him to tell us.
Yeah? How you gonna do that?
Freakshow actually seems
to enjoy lockup.
He does seem to enjoy it,
doesn't he?
The question is why?
Look at him, he looks like
he's gonna be rewarded
For keeping that secret.
Rob dow isn't sharing
his secret with us,
But he's waiting
for someone to share it with.
If we want rob dow
to share the secret
Are you thinking
about what i'm thinking about?
About reese in the shower? No.
How come no one out here
treats me like a commanding officer?
We do.
And as my commanding officer,
i'm thinking i need you to let me
Sign someone out of lockup.
This is it, rob.
She's here.
Here in the same room as you.
Breathing the same air as you.
It's real.
Anything you want to say,
now's your chance.
You said you wanted to talk to me?
I don't want you to worry.
- I'm gonna take care of everything, okay?
- Stop talking.
Bethany,
Is there anything that you want to say
to me now?
What would i want to say to you?
What you wrote to me
all those times.
I don't know you.
But i saw you.
That wasn't me.
I was here tuesday night.
Mike's phone rang.
I heard him say
your name, bethany.
He went outside,
and then i saw you.
I stood at the window.
I couldn't even breathe.
I saw you hit him with the racket.
You hit him so hard that it broke.
I tried to clean it all up
out there in the dark.
I will help you with this.
All you have to do is just say
that you love me,
And i will take it all back.
If you saw me,
Would you know me?
I look for you wherever i go.
Bethany,
When we go back to your house,
Will we find
a broken tennis racket?
That was in the emails
off rob's computer.
Bethany sent it to rob.
Bethany?
Bethany wasn't born
when this picture was taken.
You looked a lot
like your daughter back then.
Probably still do
in the right light.
The party at your club
You and nathan took separate cars.
He was coming from work.
Mrs.
Gray, is that
a new tennis racket?
There are uniforms
searching your house right now.
They're gonna find
your old racket, aren't they?
The one you hit mike brody with.
When we brought bethany
back from school,
After all her troubles,
I was the one to close
her computer accounts.
I took one look.
I wanted to see
what she'd been doing.
I just took one look.
- What did you see?
- I saw a whole world in there.
There's a whole world out here.
Not for me.
See, i used to be bethany.
But i'm not bethany anymore.
But in there
I was bethany again.
Mike loved me.
Online, on the phone.
I went to see him
dressed just like this.
I thought that's what he wanted.
But when he saw me
He just laughed.
I didn't mean to kill him.
It's just that he laughed.
He said i wasn't bethany.
Don't ever grow old.
You're not old.
I am.
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