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Episode 3x06 - Longshot
- Hundred on Buckey's Folly to win.
- Hundred?
Seems like you're
on some streak, huh, Danny?
- Sorry?
- Just keep picking winners.
Yeah.
Just, uh,
tweaked my system a little.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
the horses are on the track.
The flag is up.
They are all in line.
And away they go.
At the wire,
it's Buckey's Folly by a nose!
- Why are you doing that right now?
- Did you know that primitive societies
believed in using percussion as a means
of communicating with the dead?
Are you drumming for someone
in particular?
Yes.
I'm drumming for the corpse
of my inspiration.
And banging bongos worked
for Richard Feynman, so
Well, Feynman delighted
in making music.
I never percuss for pleasure.
Actually, I may have before me
a problem that cannot be drummed away.
Larry, why don't you take
a relaxing soak in the Jacuzzi?
No.
When it comes to matters
of the heart,
even Archimedes
preferred a cold shower.
Megan?
She's
She's exciting,
and she's beautiful.
And this thing
that is between us,
it's beginning
to affect my work.
What is going
on between you two?
I
have not
the slightest idea.
Well, you never work well
with emotional uncertainty.
Do you think that's it?
Do you think that emotional uncertainty
lies at the heart of all this?
Really, I'm not as familiar
with that side of you.
No, nor it seems, am I.
No real witnesses.
Broad daylight here, no one saw a thing?
Excuse us, folks.
Excuse me.
- Hey, Chuck.
How you doing, buddy?
- Hey, Don.
Well, apparently, the long shot
was winning in a photo finish,
- and everybody was focused on the race.
- Uh-huh.
- Come on, folks.
- Found this on the body.
- Something for Charlie, I guess.
- Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Looks like a pretty complicated
betting scheme,
there's race references
in the margins.
- Why'd they call us?
- Call came from inside.
There's an agent from O-C already had
an investigation underway.
- Right.
- Apparently, the track ownership had
ties to an organized
crime group.
Hey, Agent Eppes.
- Hey, nice to see you.
- Yeah.
What, uh?
- Liz.
- Yeah.
Liz Warner, right?
You guys know each other, huh?
Don was my Tactical Training
Instructor up at Quantico.
What, now, you're heading
your own O-C unit? Whoa.
See what a good teacher
I am, Colby.
Agent in charge took
a leave of absence, so
I was asked to keep the
investigation up and running.
All right, Agent-In-Charge, come here.
What have you got?
Owner of the racetrack,
Maurice Connors, likes to gamble.
- Uh-huh.
- Isn't very good at it.
So, Ivan Tabakian
bought up his markers.
- Oh, yeah? Ivan Tabakian?
- Mm-hmm.
He's a major player.
His crew's
into credit card scams,
- insurance fraud, and extortion.
- Right.
No.
I know who he is.
- What-What have they got going on here?
- Well, it's a gambling scam,
but we haven't put
our finger on it yet.
What, you think
this kid's connected?
We found that notebook
with the body.
From the looks of it, seems like this kid,
Danny Roberts, may be helping Tabakian.
I don't know.
Sounds a little thin to me.
We also found some betting slips
on the body.
Past ten days, 90 races.
This kid
Danny Roberts made more than 30 bets.
- Yeah.
So?
- And won every single time.
Explain to me why the drum has to
be in my office.
Because I had
to clear my floor.
They're steaming the carpets
in the Physics Department.
- Hey.
- Perfect.
Hey.
You-You guys hungry?
Let's go grab so dinner.
I can't get any dinner, but I need you
to look at this for me.
Would you?
- Just take a second.
- Okay, sure.
- Speaking of dinner
- I know.
I-I'm sorry.
I-I just I've been
so bogged down with
Work?
Lawrence?
Come take a gander at this.
It's a category-based
approach to
I don't know what, but it's
a forecasting system, right?
It's very sophisticated.
Oh, no, no, no.
This is more than sophisticated.
You know what this reminds me of?
A topos approach to Bach's music.
- I said, "very sophisticated.
"
- Yes, you did.
- Where did this come from?
- It's from a-a guy who was
- murdered at a racetrack.
- A racetrack?
Yeah, and we think he was using it
to pick horses.
Yeah, but if so, this whole approach
is counterintuitive.
- Well, how so?
- Well, if you're trying to
forecast a horse race, you're usually
trying to pick the winner, but, uh?
What?
But these equations
aren't designed that way.
How are they
designed?
They're designed
to ignore the winner.
Because he wasn't
picking the winner.
He was picking
the second place horse.
Hey, why design a system
to pick second place?
How does that system let you pick
Doesn't make sense.
You know, if you're gonna fix
horse races on a regular basis,
you have to pick horses
that are at least contenders.
Right, because if the long shot
wins too many times, then,
- I mean, it's gonna look strange.
- Right.
So,
- you have to pick a horse that could win.
- Second.
And then Tabakian would have to
make sure that horse had help.
Looks like somebody beat us
to Danny Roberts' apartment.
Landlord just called LAPD
with a break-in.
I'll go.
I heard about what happened,
so I let myself in.
- When's the last time you were here?
- I dropped off the mail yesterday.
Can you tell
if anything's missing?
I don't think so, but
I can't tell really.
- And you live downstairs?
- Mm-hmm.
Any chance you might have
heard something last night?
I took an Ambien
before I went to bed.
I'm not much
help, am I?
- You have any idea who this is?
- Oh, Danny's girlfriend.
She did something
with computers, I think.
- Danny was crazy about her.
- Any idea where we might find her?
Well, they spent most of their time
at her place down in San Pedro.
- You had any lunch yet?
- Hmm?
- Is that a yes or a hmm?
- I'm sorry.
What?
I said, do you want lunch?
- What are you looking at?
- It's a forecasting system.
It's extremely complex.
I just can't seem to crack
the logic of this enabling argument.
- All right, so take a break.
- I'll just I'll make myself
- a nice turkey sandwich later.
- You sure?
- Mm-hmm.
- These raspberries look delicious.
I bought two baskets of them.
Ever since
that big thing on the news about
antioxidants,
you can't find a blueberry,
these raspberries--
they're so cheap.
- What did you say?
- I said the raspberries are so cheap.
- 'Cause everyone wants blueberries?
- And I thought you weren't interested.
Um
I got to check on something.
I got to go find Don,
so I'm gonna be home later for dinner.
Okay.
But I'm going out for dinner.
So I, uh, did a tour
in Washington.
- Good for the resume.
- Oh, yeah? What?
You miss kicking ***?
Oh, you only think that
because you taught me how.
Hey, you were a wild girl.
I mean, if I recall, you had a
a bit of an issue
with adrenaline, right?
I like to think it's more
of a hobby than an issue.
Uh-huh.
Now, how'd you
stumble onto this case?
Well, we were running
a surveillance on a midlevel
supplier linked
to a Salvadorian drug cartel.
He liked coming to the track,
so we came with him.
What? That's where
you found Tabakian?
Yeah, we're thinking the drugs
and him can't be a coincidence, but
so far, we've never seen
any product at the track.
Now, just tell me if this owner guy
is he cooperating?
- Maurice Connors? No.
- Oh?
Track's a cash cow,
so, long as it is,
he figures Tabakian's just
gonna keep him around.
- Hey.
- Howdy.
You know, we could shake things
up for him with Tabakian.
You know?
Risky game
you like to play.
I like to think of
it more as a hobby.
So that's him.
How you wanna play this?
Uh, well, you lead.
I'll shake.
Mr.
Connors, FBI.
We'd like to talk
to you about what happened yesterday.
I don't know anything about it.
You don't know anything about
a *** at your racetrack?
Well, I'm aware of what happened,
but I didn't know the kid.
Really? 'Cause according to some
of your tellers, he was a regular.
We have a lot of regulars.
Yeah, how many of them
are stabbed during the races?
You're suggesting his death had
something to do with my racetrack?
I don't know, maybe with
the track's new management?
- New management?
- Yeah, Ivan Tabakian.
- You know anything about him?
- I don't think I should answer
- any more questions.
- You haven't answered any yet.
Eppes.
Yeah, all right,we're on our way.
Hey, Liz, we gotta go.
You know, doesn't really matter
if you answer our questions.
'Cause all Tabakian's gonna hear
is that you were talking to the FBI.
Thanks for all your help, Mr.
Connors.
We'll be seeing you.
Got the dump
on Danny Roberts's phone.
- Anything good?
- Yeah,
past month, he's only
called two numbers regularly;
one is a San Pedro exchange,
probably his girlfriend.
- Yeah? Did you get her name?
- And an address.
Plug that in to your fancy little nav
system in your Acura.
Oh, don't play
- What about the other one?
- It's an off-track betting place.
Palomar OTB.
That sounds good.
What'd they say?
I didn't call them.
Didn't really seem important.
That was almost
funny, Granger.
- Come on, what did they say?
- Transferred me over to legal affairs.
They said they're happy to cooperate.
Soon as I produce a subpoena.
Let's go see the girlfriend.
So I think I know why Danny Roberts was
focused on picking second place finishers.
He designed a system that identifies
arbitrage opportunities.
- What does that mean?
- It means he was looking for bargains.
Bargains?
- Racetrack use pari-mutuel
betting systems where market forces
determine the odds.
It was actually invented by a French
perfume maker, uh, in the 1800s
- All right, Charlie, just
- Okay.
In pari-mutuel betting,
the odds fluctuate
according to how much
is wagered on a horse.
So it's like kind of
like an auction
where the more people there are
that want to buy something,
- the more expensive it becomes.
- And sold!
In horse-racing, more expensive
translates to lower odds.
So, the lower the odds,
the smaller the return on the bet.
So the favorite is just a horse
with the most amount of money bet?
That's exactly it.
And so many people are focused
on picking the winner, there's an
active exchange of information
- going on about the favorite.
- But we're dealing with a horse here
that no one's really
pang attention to, so
And it can also be
a highly inefficient market.
That inefficiency
creates a situation
where the potential for reward
outweighs the risk.
And those are the opportunities
that Roberts was betting on.
But that still doesn't explain how
Roberts won 30 straight bets, right?
No, you're right, it doesn't.
I mean, something
must've changed, you know,
whether it was in his system,
or at the track.
- Right, enough to get him killed.
- And in order to determine that,
I need data on those races so I can compare
his system to the most recent results.
- How recent?
- Just, like, you know,
the races in the past
year.
Yeah, welcome
to my world.
I write software
for an IT company.
It's freelance,
so I mostly work out of home.
Danny always used to stop by
after the races, and
when he didn't show up
Can you think of anybody who
might've wanted to hurt him?
N o.
I'm sorry.
How about if I give the whole
"just us girls" thing a try?
All right.
I'll call the office,
check on the status
of the subpoena for the OTB.
Good luck.
Thanks.
- Had you guys set a date yet?
- Next spring.
We were kind of
an odd pair.
Danny was outgoing,
and I was more the geek.
Hmm.
I got something similar
going on myself.
I just don't understand
how this could have happened.
Do you know if Danny had
an argument with someone at the track?
He didn't even talk
to anybody at the track.
He was too focused
on working his system.
Do you think he could have been
involved in fixing horse races?
Agent Reeves, most months
I had to pay Danny's rent.
If he was cheating,
wouldn't he be winning?
He was winning.
So maybe this Danny Roberts kid was
keeping the girlfriend in the dark.
She was totally surprised
about the winnings.
I don't know.
Wouldn't be the first time
a guy tried to hide money from his girl.
I'm with you, but the way
the landlady spoke about them,
young couple in love,
it's not really adding up.
This thing isn't adding up
in a big way.
Turns out he was hiding more
than just 30 bets from her.
That's the results of the subpoena from
Danny Roberts's account at Palomar OTB.
He set up the account a couple
weeks ago and he placed one bet.
- What, Pick-Six?
- Yeah.
What is a Pick-Six?
You have to pick the winner
in six straight races.
It's basically like winning the lottery,
and he just did it five days ago.
- Yeah, what did he get?
- Half a mil.
Oh, well, there's a lot
of motive for someone.
Or not.
I just talked to them.
They told
me that he never cashed the ticket.
So you know Don
pretty well, huh?
You know what
Quantico's like.
Yeah, I bet he was a pretty
tough instructor, huh?
He was just
back from the field.
- Fugitive hunting?
- Yeah.
And still getting used
to being back in civilization.
Any reason you're asking?
I just screwed
something up a while back.
Well, I can tell you this much.
Fact
you're still here, means something.
But I wouldn't count
on being forgiven twice.
So, Danny Roberts
picks six winners for half a million
dollars, but doesn't cash the ticket?
Just doesn't make any sense.
Girlfriend
said he was borrowing rent money.
Sounds like he was hiding
the winnings from someone.
- Yeah, bet, too, maybe.
- What do you mean?
Roberts is down at the track
every day, right?
So why place a bet through an online
OTB when you could do it in person?
- Because he couldn't.
- The tellers all knew him.
So maybe he wasn't
working for Tabakian?
Which might explain why
he's dead right now.
- Six winners.
- Six consecutive winners.
- A streak of 30 wins.
- All from a system designed to
- pick a second place horse?
- Does it make sense?
No.
In theory, it should
never have happened.
Hey, you guys.
What are you two up to now?
We have been dealt a paradox
of theory versus praxis.
Is that bad?
Well, we're attempting
to decipher a betting system
that's achieved something that
it just wasn't designed to do.
And currently,
we stand at the abyss,
having reached the limits of
our knowledge of the sport of Kings.
- Oh, racetrack.
Huh?
- Do you know about horse racing?
Well, before I met your mother, I used
to hang out at the track, uh, a lot.
Really? I would never have
pegged you for a railbird.
Yeah, well, I
I got hooked when I was a kid.
I-I knew nothing about this.
Well, like I said, it was before
I met your mother.
I take it Margaret was not
a fan of the horses.
Uh, no, she was a big
fan of college funds.
Hmm.
Hey, by the way, uh
if we leave right now,
we can make it to the track
for, uh, morning workouts.
- Yeah, great.
Larry?
- No.
Count me out.
Now horses going
around a track,
it all puts me in mind of
an acute childhood trauma.
- Really? What happened?
- I was nine.
I was with my parents at a county fair,
and I saw a man get crushed.
Wow.
By a horse?
Horses, actually.
Yeah, it was a merry-go-round.
- Let's go, Dad.
- Yeah, coming.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Want some coffee?
Yeah, sure.
So, we may be right about Danny Roberts
not working for Tabakian,
but so far, I got nothing.
Roberts bounced a check
here and there,
but there's no reason for him
to hide money from a creditor.
Yeah, well, let's see what Charlie
comes up with.
Back at Quantico, you never really
talked about your brother.
No?
As I recall, you never really talked
about yourself with anyone.
- Thanks.
- Well
I wasn't in a really good way
back then.
Well, I hear you may
be mellowing with age.
Well, let's
hope so, right?
I've just heard some things about you
and a certain federal prosecutor.
Oh, yeah, did you?
Don Eppes with the same woman
for more than a week.
I don't know,
some might call it progress.
Yeah, I mean, I guess it depends
who you ask, right?
So, the kid, Danny Roberts,
he's got no debt,
he's not working for Tabakian
why does he get whacked?
You know,
we had a witness,
a trainer.
He'd been doping horses.
Injecting an antidiuretic
- so a horse would retain water,
- Uh-huh.
carry excess weight.
He was all
set to testify for the grand jury.
But what,
Tabakian found out?
He had the guy's hands nailed to a stall,
brought a horse in and had
the guy kicked to death.
Pff.
Nice.
So Danny Roberts's system was designed
to pick the second place horse.
Why?
Because there's a bias in the
betting on second place.
I mean, if you know what you're doing,
you can exploit that.
- Now how do you know?
- Railbird, remember?
It took me half a day to work
that out mathematically.
Well, you should've
come to me sooner.
Yeah.
So, handicapping.
We're trying to predict how a horse will
run at the distance of the current race.
Exactly.
But you have
to consider past performances,
type of horse, track conditions,
experience of the jockey.
See, I'd even take it
a few steps further.
I would.
I'd factor an average
race speed, interval pace, wind speed,
- time of day, assigned weights,
- Oh, Charlie.
- gate slot, sun position
- Charlie
- Charlie, you can't account for everything.
- You can,
- if you can think of everything.
- Ah.
But this is what's
confusing here.
Look.
It's a probability adjustment describing
a dynamic system with hidden states.
Charlie.
Railbird.
Railbird.
It's just something that's not
readily apparent to other bettors.
Look, in my experience, handicappers
know practically everything.
That is, unless you want to take
cheating into consideration.
- Well, that's just it, isn't it?
- What?
Cheating is the behavior that
Roberts designed his algorithm for.
- Who are you calling?
- Your brother.
Next thing you'll know, you're going
to tell me you gotta call Don.
Thanks.
- Oh, hey, Megan.
- May I come in?
Uh, yeah, yeah,
uh um
Just, um
- It's a little unexpected.
- I know.
I'm sorry.
I really should
have, um, called.
I just wasn't really sure I was
coming here until I was already, um
- here.
- I-It's-- Yeah, that's fine.
And Don said that Charlie and Alan
went to the track.
You didn't go with?
No, no, no, no.
Gambling on animals.
That's a messy business.
No, no, I much
prefer cards.
In there you have an appreciable
structure, you know,
played out in a graded
tensor product space, so
Sounds like structure
is pretty important to you.
I'm sensing a-a more
than casual inquiry.
Well, I think what's been going on
between us is pretty unstructured.
Yeah.
Look, we make
baryogenesis look tidy.
- I don't know what that means.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
I-It's an asymmetry between
matter and anti-matter,
which emerged shortly
after the Big ***.
It's--
Yeah, it's baryogenesis.
I think I'm finding that, that things
between us are maybe just,
I don't know, um
just kind of a trifle free-form.
I'm guessing that's why
you haven't called in a while.
Well, you see, Megan, I-I'm just finding
this whole journey from I to us--
it's just a little more
distracting
than I
originally anticipated.
And I would have guessed
that a guy that lives in his car
wouldn't need that
much structure.
There's few things better
organized than a 1931 Ford.
Listen, I'm not, um,
making any demands.
No, and I'm not suggesting
that you are.
But if you need a little more structure,
I'm not necessarily opposed to that.
- You're not?
- Uh-uh,
and if you can
get past the distraction,
there's a Truffaut
retrospective this weekend.
Okay.
Yeah, let me just
check my planner.
I'll see you
this weekend.
Yeah, it looks--
it looks clear.
So originally, Roberts designed his
system to pick second place finishers,
- and then something changed.
- Yeah, cheating.
It was my idea.
- Mm-hmm.
- Right, a-and suddenly,
the horses that should be
winning stopped winning,
and that screws up his ability
to pick the runner-up.
So then he makes an adjustment
because, well, he realizes
that the outcomes are
consistently falling
outside the range of
realistic probabilities.
It's like a weather report.
For
the forecast calls for a heat wave,
than instead
there's a freak snowstorm.
You know, once or twice,
that's anomalous.
You can't predict anything perfectly,
but if that pattern is persistent,
you've got to assume that there
are unknown factors to consider.
- Unknown factors like cheating.
- See, Roberts retooled his system
to account for those fixed races,
and presto.
30 straight winners.
- So it proves it was a scam.
- Yeah.
Maybe it was the cheating
that got the guy killed.
Yeah, he may be right.
I loaded all
the race data onto my laptop,
so I was able to run
every Pick-Six winner
for the past six months
through Roberts' algorithm.
- And?
- A snowstorm in July.
Right, at least
for the past few months.
I mean, five winners.
Each of them won
the Pick-Six when the races were fixed.
That's just not
a coincidence.
Granger.
Hey, we got something from Charlie.
I tried to give you a call.
Yeah, I got your message.
I was at Cal Sci.
Ah, Larry.
- You're dying to ask, aren't you?
- No.
- I think it's the unpredictability.
- I didn't ask.
All right,
you didn't ask.
I do think, uh, you're a little
bit of an odd pair, but
Exactly.
What do you see?
Celia Martinez'
bank account.
She's one of the Pick-Six winners
Charlie linked to the cheating.
- Yeah.
- The last transaction
is to an Estate Trust.
I think Celia Martinez
is dead.
- What are you doing?
- Just checking something.
Social Security numbers
of the other Pick-Six winners.
Yeah.
Wharton is dead?
Look at this.
They're all dead.
So, you got two overdoses,
a fatal hit-and-run
And the other two deaths were
caused by drowning and a fall.
So all five deaths were accidental?
What are the odds of that?
About the same as all
five winning the Pick-Six.
All right, so let's look
at 'em as homicides.
Right?
All right, I'll get into it
with the Medical Examiner.
Tabakian's got
to be behind this.
Well, then, we just connect him
to the money.
Or we just go
pick him up.
Last time we were this close,
he killed my witness.
Are we tip our hand early,
we only add to the body count.
Thanks again for the use
of the tub, Alan.
I'd say anytime, but
you might think I meant it.
No, no, I promise I
won't make it a habit.
I was kidding, Larry.
You know you're always welcome.
Anytime.
Thanks.
By the way, if you get tired of
that nomadic lifestyle of yours,
I, um, I do happen to have some,
uh, brochures of a condo development.
They're really great properties.
While
back, I was thinking of taking one myself.
It's so funny you're even
mentioning this.
All right.
How so?
Because lately,
I have been rethinking
some of my earlier assumptions
with regards to,
- you know, pure intellectual endeavor.
- Ah.
Oh, you figured out that
grown women
won't make out in
the backseats of cars, huh?
I don't know, I just think
I may have lost touch
with certain important aspects
of life in the real world.
- Hmm.
- Plus
my car.
No backseat.
Let me get you
one of those brochures.
All five victims cleared out
their accounts with a cashier's check.
The checks were cashed at banks
overseas in Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Ugh, so I'm guessing the
accounts went nowhere?
Ah, the money
is a dead end.
We have five victims from
five different neighborhoods
and five different ethnicities.
There's no common denominator.
Except Tabakian.
He found them;
we just got to figure out how.
Maybe it's an employment thing,
a work connection.
Raymond Wharton didn't
even have a job.
Neither did Celia Martinez.
That's it, the unemployment office.
It's two blocks away.
It's quicker to walk.
Hey, so Don asked me if I could
connect the Pick-Six winners
to Tabakian, but so far,
we don't have enough data,
and any data-mining
algorithm
may require way more information
than we already have, so it's like
- Larry.
- Yeah.
How much did you hear
of what I just said?
You don't have enough data to
connect the people to your mob boss.
- Exactly.
- Yeah.
So concentrate on the data you
do have
and maybe there's a way to connect
them through their bets.
Larry, that's
brilliant.
What is it with me and structure?
Do you find me overly structured?
I don't kn--
Why are you asking me?
Just humor me here,
just answer this question.
Well, on the one hand,
you don't have a home;
and on the other,
you eat monochromatically.
Look, do you remember when I was
an undergraduate in your
quantum physics class?
Yes, how could
I ever forget?
That class was the first place
that I learned
about the paradoxes between quantum
mechanics and general relativity.
Yeah, and we're still
in search of a theory
to unify the two in a single
explanation of gravity.
But w-where were you
headed with this?
There's no unifying theory
for Larry Fleinhardt.
And I think Megan
could very well be
your own
private gravity.
I have records for all five of them, but
they all went to different job centers.
Can you access
that information from here?
Sure.
Everything's linked.
I can pull up a list of companies
that each of them interviewed with.
Wait, can you scroll
back up for a second?
- Do you see something?
- Yeah.
Take a look at this.
They all interviewed
at the racetrack?
- Can you see who they talked to there?
- Uh,
that sort of thing would
only be in the original files.
So, let's look
at the original files.
It takes five business days
to process a request.
- Hey, all right, so
- Where you been?
Wait, wait.
Hold on, hold on,
we got here as fast as we could.
- Just relax.
What's going on?
- Look, there wasn't enough data.
Larry said, "Try to use other data.
"
I said, "Use other data?"
- I-I reworked the algorithm, you know.
- Shh.
Just slow down, just slow down.
I made improvements
to Roberts' algorithm.
I took a look at all the racing results
for the past two years,
and you know, not just the Pick-Six.
I looked at all the betting.
- And?
- They were fixing races
way before they fixed
the Pick-Six.
- What do you mean?
- They started by fixing races,
like, once a month.
Then twice a month,
then more frequently.
Look, there is a regular
progression to this pattern.
Charlie, we already know
they were fixing races.
Right, but now, now we know
when they were doing it.
I mean, Don, don't you see?
If, if they killed
those five Pick-Six winners
right after they got their money,
then what's to stop them
from killing
all the other winners
of all the other fixed races?
- That would be
- 18 other murders.
Charlie, that's a lot of bodies.
I mean, look,
we'd know if these guys killed
that many people.
Well, not if they staged
the deaths as accidents.
So look at this.
Here's another one.
Not deceased.
I'm starting to think we're
not looking at more bodies.
- All right, so what is it?
- I mean, first of all,
we're not looking at 18 different people.
We're looking at six guys
who won a lot of bets over the course
of the 18 dates that Charlie gave us.
Six guys.
And they all have to be
connected to Tabakian.
All right, look, why don't you just
start checking into their backgrounds?
All right.
- Give up on the water cure?
- Yeah, it wasn't really working.
- Plus, I ran out of hot water.
- Oh.
Here I am, once again monopolizing
your bathtub.
I apologize.
- You take as much time as you need.
- Thank you.
- You all right?
- Yeah, it's just
the efforts I've made to simplify
my life have started to complicate it.
You know, not long ago,
I was, um,
I was worried about Charlie, you know.
About him having a normal life.
That's a bit of a challenge,
given the circumstances of his genius.
Yeah, that's what I realized.
So I thought maybe, uh,
normal for him
was not on target.
And perhaps for you,
simple is off the mark.
- I've never known life to be simple.
- Larry?
- Yeah, in here.
- Hey, I need you to look at something.
- Why are you both in here?
- Okay, what is it I'm looking at?
That's my question.
Look closely.
If you didn't know that this was
evidence in an FBI investigation,
- what would you say that it was?
- I'm sorry, what is it you're asking?
Ignore the context
of the ***,
you know what, and imagine the page
a little bigger, what does it look like?
Uh it looks like a blue book that one
of my teaching assistants has graded.
- That's exactly what I thought.
- Oh, yeah,
one of those things you guys give
your students to do exams in, right?
I think someone was
helping Danny Roberts.
I think someone was
checking and improving his work.
- So he had an accomplice.
- Who was talented at math.
So, according to Charlie, Roberts
was getting help on his system.
Yeah, now, if Danny Roberts
had an accomplice,
that means somebody else knows
about the cheating at the track.
Which means we still have
a witness out there.
No, his girlfriend told Megan
that he worked at the track alone.
So maybe whoever helped
him wasn't at the track.
The girlfriend was into computers,
she writes software.
- Maurice, just calm down, all right?
- Well, how long is it gonna take?
About 45 minutes.
We got the full records
from Unemployment.
Maurice Connors' name is
all over their interview cards.
Wait, what happened
to the five business days?
I let her hold my gun.
That's a subpoena.
Every single
one of the Pick-Six victims,
they went into the track
looking for work,
Connors must have directed them
straight to Tabakian.
- Wow, that's accessory to ***.
- Yeah, to say the least.
All right, good.
Hey, did you get anything on the guys
who won the bets on fixed races?
Yeah, three of them had sheets,
mostly drug related.
Ooh.
Mind if I have a look?
Yeah, I'll show you the files.
They're
on the desk.
I'll get to run,
- but you can take a look.
- Thanks.
I want it noted for the record
that my client is here voluntarily.
Yeah, well, if it means I didn't have
to go out and drag him in here,
- consider it noted.
- You have no cause to arrest my client.
You know these
people, right?
- Go ahead, take a good look now.
- Don't answer that.
- You interviewed them for jobs.
- I interview a lot of people.
How many get murdered
after winning the Pick Six?
Maurice, I'm ordering you
not to respond.
You're ordering him?
Who's the client here?
Look, I got your name signed
on the interview cards.
All right? That's one,
two, three, four, five.
- I had nothing to do with this.
- Mr.
Connors,
it's gonna take a jury about
ten minutes to decide otherwise.
- Maurice, you need to keep quiet.
- No, you need to keep quiet.
Let's go.
We're done here.
Hey, you walk out that door,
I'm telling you they're gonna kill you.
They will kill you.
You have no right to interfere
with the representation of my client.
Your client.
Who's paying
your bills, counselor?
Go ahead, ask him
who's paying his bills?
Boyd?
Maurice, don't make a mistake.
I didn't kill anybody.
I'm afraid
I can no longer represent you.
One guess who
his first call's gonna be.
Tabakian told me to keep an eye out
for single people, no families.
People who could work the
late shift at his club.
- Why?
- He told me he was expanding his
business into drug trafficking.
He
figured out a way to clean their money.
All right.
Mr.
Connors, you just
hang tight for two minutes.
You remember I told you I followed
a drug supplier to the track?
- Yeah, the Salvadorians.
- Yeah.
Turns out the supplier's name
was on Colby's list of people
who won money
on the fixed races.
Looks like Tabakian
was paying for drugs
by fixing races and laundering
the money at the same time.
Hey, what, they bet with the
dirty money, then he washes it.
They even paid their taxes.
Danny Roberts must have
just stumbled into this.
Yeah, along with the girlfriend.
Megan and Colby are on their way to
San Pedro and bringing her in right now.
All right, good.
Sharrlyn?
It's Agent Reeves.
It's clear.
Granger.
Look at this.
That's blood spatter.
Looks like Tabakian
got here before us.
So the locals are running a neighborhood
canvas, but so far, nothing.
What? They carried a girl's body
out of here in broad daylight.
Yeah, we're trying to track down
deliveries or mailmen,
anybody who might
have seen something.
Sharrlyn Smith has a master's degree
in Math from Stanford University.
So she was definitely
Danny Roberts' accomplice.
Great.
Which means
I just lost another witness.
Yeah?
All right.
We got to go.
The techs monitoring
Danny Roberts' account at the OTB,
they just got a hit.
A hit?
- That half-million dollar ticket,
it just got cashed.
Someone transferred all the money
to an off-shore account.
Our techs traced it to
an IP address inside this hotel.
Tabakian's crew probably found
the log-in IDs
when they tossed
the girlfriend's apartment.
So they killed our only witness,
and they cashed the ticket.
Why leave a half mil on the table
if you don't have to?
Let me get those keys.
Thank you.
- FBI!
- FBI!
You're supposed to be dead.
Danny asked if I'd look
at his system.
It just
it wasn't working anymore.
And that's how you realized
they were fixing the races?
The only way to explain
the results was cheating.
So I wrote an algorithm
that included a proviso for it.
That's how Danny
picked 30 winners in a row.
- I didn't know that he was doing that.
- You had the Pick-Six ticket.
We were afraid the tellers would
notice if he was winning all the time.
But the Pick-Six ticket
it would be enough for us
to start a life together.
If I'd never worked on his system,
Danny wouldn't be dead.
Why did you fake your death?
They came to my house.
I hid in my car.
I waited all day for them
to leave.
And when I saw what they did,
I panicked.
I figured if everybody
thought I was dead
Sharrlyn
your algorithm gives us a wedge into
a major narcotics ring.
But Tabakian and his guys are not gonna
stop looking for you until they
know you're not
a threat to them.
- So what am I supposed to do?
- You help us, and we protect you.
Agent Reeves, they killed Danny in broad
daylight, in front of a crowd of people.
I know.
And I'm not gonna
let that happen to you.
But you have to help me.
Back at Quantico, it was all about
the rush for me.
But now
What? You're mellowing
with age?
Don't get me wrong,
I still like kicking down doors.
Yeah, I know,
it can wear thin, right?
Ivan Tabakian, FBI.
I've got a warrant for your arrest.
Let's go, get up.
Let's go! Get up.
I'm eating my fish.
A nice sea bass.
Perhaps this can wait?
Hey!
Was I talking to you?! Huh?!
Wasn't talking
to you, either.
Get up!
- All right.
I know the drill.
- Uh-huh.
This time, we got a witness
you can't touch.
Let's go.
Maybe it's just my
own history speaking,
but I'd like to think that
Antoine grows up to be a cop.
What? A cop? Did you and I just
see the same movie?
Well, you never know
how things turn out.
Well, I guess for some people, that's,
you know, that's part of the fun.
- And for you?
- Clearly, I'm not some people.
So go over the schedule
with me one more time.
Okay, dinner and a movie
every other Friday,
lunch on Thursdays.
No, Wednesdays.
- And I get a wild card once a month.
- That's it, that's it.
To use at your own discretion.
And what do we call this?
Oh how about
structured complexity.
You know, I'm thinking
of using my wildcard.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
Maybe for breakfast tomorrow.
Okay.