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00:01Previously on The Rookie.
00:02You're back.
00:03Another crazy story.
00:04How could I stay away?
00:05It's gonna take long because, uh, we got work to do.
00:08I heard you were happy with how the last documentary came out.
00:10Oh, my God.
00:11It was so good.
00:12And, and, and I got so many compliments.
00:16Oh, that's great.
00:17How about you?
00:19Didn't see it.
00:21We found four kilos of black tar heroin inside.
00:24What?
00:26Yo, that's crazy.
00:27Um, that is disturbing.
00:30What are you doing?
00:36God, what is taking so long?
00:40Do I look okay?
00:41You look hot.
00:42Right?
00:42God, I mean, this lip balm, it's fire.
00:46So what are we doing here?
00:47Girl, you know what we're doing.
00:49I know.
00:50We're like prosperity.
00:52I think it's posterity.
00:54Mm-mm.
00:55That don't sound right, girl.
00:57Okay, so.
00:57I'm waiting for Jake to get out of prison.
01:01Mm-hmm.
01:02He just did six months on a drug charge, and I found out today he's getting released early.
01:05Ooh, for good behavior.
01:07Girl, overcrowding.
01:09Oh, my God!
01:11Oh, my God!
01:14Mm.
01:15Mm.
01:15Baby.
01:16Oh, I missed you.
01:17Yeah, I missed you, too.
01:18Yo, Elisa!
01:20Yeah!
01:20What's up?
01:22How are you doing?
01:23I'm good.
01:24How are you?
01:24Good.
01:24All right, all right.
01:25What do you want to do first?
01:26You know what I want to do first.
01:28No, after that.
01:29You know, you said you've been thinking in prison.
01:31Are we going straight, or what?
01:33Nah, screw that.
01:34Let's be bad.
01:36Yes.
01:38You ready?
01:40Ah!
01:40Oh, my God, stop!
01:43Whoa, whoa, whoa!
01:44Stop the car!
01:44Whoa!
01:45Whoa!
01:45Whoa!
01:45Whoa!
01:45Whoa!
01:46Whoa!
01:46Whoa!
01:46Whoa!
01:47Whoa!
01:48Get off me!
01:49Get off me!
01:50This was an assassination.
01:52Baby, baby, look out!
01:53Look out!
01:54Look out!
02:08Sergeant.
02:09Hey, good morning.
02:11Good morning.
02:12How you been?
02:13Fine.
02:14I'm busy.
02:15Yeah?
02:15Yeah.
02:16Um, come.
02:18I'm sorry.
02:19I'm still a little unclear what your documentary is about this time.
02:22I mean, what are the odds that two cops would end up arresting two criminals who look just
02:25like them?
02:26Small.
02:27Infinitesimal.
02:28And this is going to be like a whole movie?
02:30I hope so.
02:31All I can do is start filming and see where it takes me.
02:34There she is.
02:34Hi.
02:35Hi.
02:35I'm a little nervous.
02:35I know, but you know, the other documentaries, they weren't about me.
02:47You're not interviewing me with Tim this time?
02:49No, I thought it would be valuable to hear from you separately.
02:53Okay.
02:54So, how did you first meet Jake Butler?
02:57A case.
02:58My roommate Tamara bought a car at a police auction only to find drugs hidden inside.
03:03So, we traced that back to Jake and arrested him.
03:05Which brings us to the elephant in the room.
03:09Yeah, the whole look-alike thing.
03:13He really didn't look that much like me.
03:16How can you say that?
03:17You look almost identical.
03:20Says you.
03:21Says me.
03:22They could have been twins.
03:24Why do you think they called him Dim?
03:26Wait, what?
03:27Oh, yeah.
03:30We nicknamed Tim's doppelganger Dim.
03:32That's funny, but also a little prejudicial, don't you think?
03:36In what way?
03:37I mean, the fact that you were denigrating his intelligence comes to mind.
03:41I mean, if the shoe fits.
03:43Look, when you have been doing this job as long as I have, it becomes very clear that most criminals are, well, dim.
03:51No comment.
03:51Well, just because you're too nice, I would say a good 70% of the people we arrest couldn't explain how a revolving door works.
04:03Okay, maybe 30%.
04:04Yeah, anyway, the job is super stressful and cops have a dark sense of humor, so a nickname was born.
04:11Wait, if you called Jake Dim, what did you call Sava?
04:15Hello?
04:16Juicy.
04:17Juicy.
04:18Juicy.
04:18Juicy.
04:18They called her Juicy.
04:25They?
04:27We did.
04:28We, I, I really tried not to, but it was a losing battle.
04:32And then you and Sergeant Bradford went undercover as your doppelgangers, Dim and Juicy.
04:37Yes, so Tim first, and then I joined him on a UC operation in Las Vegas where we put some very bad people behind bars.
04:44And was it around this time that you and Tim became intimate?
04:48No, no, no.
04:51We, we had to pretend at intimacy while we were undercover, but Tim and I were both in relationships at the time.
04:58We didn't start dating until after, you know, when, when we were both single again.
05:03I want to dial in on that.
05:04Do we have to?
05:05I, I, the odds of you and Tim coming face to face with Dim and Juicy are already astronomical, but for both couples to hook up.
05:12Uh, interview's over.
05:14I need Chet.
05:15Hey.
05:15Oh, what's wrong?
05:17Not here.
05:19Excuse me.
05:20Yeah.
05:20I need to respond to it and see a person's call.
05:31Who's Sava?
05:32Jake's missing.
05:33What?
05:33Oh, my boyfriend, Jake, he's missing.
05:42I, I, I can't find him.
05:45Hello, hello.
05:45Yeah, no, okay.
05:46Yeah, uh, just slow down.
05:48Start at the beginning.
05:50Tell us what happened.
05:50Okay.
05:50Uh, we were in the study, he was getting a beer, grabbing me my lobster salad, and, um, he just disappeared.
05:57I, I don't know where he went.
05:58Back up.
05:58What were Dim and Juicy doing at a Beverly Hills mansion?
06:01Have you seen the movie Parasite?
06:04After Dim got out of prison, he and Juicy started targeting rich people and celebrities, getting hired to work at their homes.
06:11Handymen, chefs, nannies.
06:13When you say celebrities, let's pass.
06:16I hired those two to take care of my house.
06:19Well, Jake first.
06:20Hey, guys.
06:22Uh, but then my sensualist quit, and, uh, Jake recommended Sava.
06:26I'm sorry, what's a sensualist?
06:28They optimize the pleasurability of your surroundings?
06:31Every element from the tactile to the olfactory.
06:34I have an incredibly stressful job, so I want every aspect of my home experience to be euphoric.
06:44More colorful.
06:46An alien would never dance like that.
06:48Uh, the mac and cheese.
06:53Sorry about that.
06:54No problem.
06:54No problem.
06:55So what happened after you hired them?
06:56I fired them.
06:57Why?
06:58During the three days they worked for me, they had sex on every surface of my house.
07:03By every, you mean every even vaguely flat surface.
07:07Floors, beds, couches, dressers, counters, the diving board, even inside the dog crate.
07:14It was only after Dim and Juicy were gone that he discovered they'd also stolen several expensive watches and some jewelry.
07:22Were they arrested?
07:23No.
07:23By the time police questioned them, the stolen property was gone.
07:28Likely pawned, so there wasn't enough evidence to press charges.
07:31What we didn't know at that point was that Dim and Juicy were already casing out their next target.
07:38The Baudelaire's.
07:39Oh, baby, this place is perfect.
07:41Oh, no, it's on us.
07:43Oh, right there.
07:44That's our end.
07:45You go back to that house, I'll shoot you in the face.
07:49Got it?
07:55Sent the guy packing, took his job.
07:57Well, they caught a break when Jake showed up to work on day one and discovered that the Baudelaire family had recently lost their nanny.
08:03So Juicy slid right in.
08:08What?
08:09That's just a really descriptive way to put that.
08:11How long did they work there before Dim went missing?
08:15Three weeks.
08:16And what can you tell me about the Baudelaire's?
08:19They were made of money.
08:21And then he just disappeared.
08:22I don't know what happened to him.
08:24Karen, why is there a police car outside?
08:27Karen?
08:28I'm sorry, Mr. Baudelaire, but Skip is missing.
08:32Sorry, and by Skip, you mean Jake?
08:36Yes, yes.
08:38Skip and I, you know, we got pet names for each other.
08:40He calls me Saba, I call him Jake.
08:42It's not...
08:42That's not that even...
08:44Okay, so hang on a second.
08:45I just can't...
08:46First of all, your name is Charles Baudelaire.
08:49And this is your house?
08:50Yes.
08:52I know, right?
08:53Oh, Meredith, you have to try this cleanse.
08:55Like, I have dropped an entire size.
08:57Yeah, and I have to get all my clothes tailored now.
08:58But oh, my God, the cops are here.
09:00Look at this.
09:01And this is my wife, Camille.
09:04Karen says that Skip is missing.
09:06How awful.
09:08God, did you hear that?
09:09Apparently, no, our handyman is missing.
09:11Okay, I need to unpack all of this.
09:14I think the fastest way to do it would be to get a statement from you first.
09:19Officer Juarez, will you please take the Baudelaire's into the living room?
09:22Sure.
09:23Sir, ma'am, do you mind?
09:24I'm super confused, but okay.
09:26Okay, Meredith, I have to go.
09:27But girl, you have to try this cleanse.
09:29I'm serious.
09:29Yeah, this is why it took so long to call you guys.
09:32Because you're doing something illegal.
09:33No, no.
09:35Jake and I, we have gone straight.
09:37I am working here as a nanny.
09:40And he is a handyman.
09:41Like I said, a lot to unpack.
09:43Let's stay on track.
09:44You said Jake disappeared.
09:46Mm-hmm.
09:46Hey.
09:47Hey.
09:48Hey.
09:49Hey, what time?
09:50What time they're back?
09:52Like, three?
09:53Three.
09:54All right, remind me to clear that security footage, right?
09:56We don't want another mishap like that last Halloween situation.
09:59Yeah, that's true.
10:02I'm going to get me another beer.
10:04You want anything?
10:05Yeah.
10:06Can you see if they got that lobster salad?
10:09Lobster salad?
10:10Yeah.
10:10Yeah, I'll get you lobster salad.
10:12Lobster salad.
10:13All day.
10:14Lobster salad, like.
10:16You love it?
10:17Lobster salad.
10:18Okay, so Dim walked into the hallway at 2.03 p.m.
10:21But there are no cameras in that hallway.
10:23Right, so he walked out of this shot at 2.03.
10:25And never emerged from the hallway.
10:29We have hours more footage of those two rooms,
10:31but Dim never reappears.
10:33That's unusual, to say the least.
10:35Do you have a theory on what happened?
10:37No, but Juicy sure did.
10:39Okay.
10:40Alien abduction.
10:42Oh, yeah, later she added, uh,
10:44portal to another dimension.
10:46But she didn't appreciate your suggestion.
10:49Spontaneous combustion.
10:51Oh, like the Dromerson's spinal tap.
10:53Thank you for getting the reference.
10:54So we opened up an investigation.
10:57Most likely the explanation is just
10:59that there was a glitch in the security system.
11:01Right, but why wouldn't he tell Juicy
11:02where he was going?
11:04The relationships are complicated.
11:06Every couple has their secrets, you know,
11:08no matter how strong their moral compasses may be.
11:11Mm.
11:12Which is something Jake and Sala
11:14clearly didn't have.
11:16Do Tim and I keep secrets from each other?
11:18I mean, nothing big.
11:20I-I feel that honesty is the most important thing
11:23in a relationship.
11:24I'm literally sitting in this office
11:26because of a secret she kept.
11:28Despite everything,
11:30it really did seem like
11:31Dim and Juicy loved each other.
11:33Which made what happened next so tragic.
11:357-Lincoln-7, code 6 at 9-1-1 call location.
11:40Any clarity on the smell they reported?
11:42That's a negative, 7-Lincoln-7.
11:46I mean, it's an alley in L.A.
11:49They all smell.
11:50It'd be a miracle if it didn't.
11:517-Lincoln-7, center R-8 at my location.
12:18And alert, Sergeant Gray.
12:19I just found a body, Sergeant Tim Bradford.
12:23No, it's not.
12:26I'm at the station.
12:28It-it was Dim, obviously,
12:30but, you know, in the moment,
12:31I-I thought it was Tim.
12:33And, um,
12:34you know, anybody could have made that mistake.
12:36He's not wrong.
12:37They looked so much alike.
12:39My mind broke a little when I saw Dim's body.
12:42Why are we there?
12:43We responded to Aaron's call for an ambulance,
12:46but there was nothing we could do.
12:47Tim was way dead.
12:49Yeah, rigor mortis had come and gone.
12:51Blo-fi eggs had been laid,
12:52but Harris-Livich hasn't started yet,
12:54which placed the time of death
12:55approximately 30 hours before Aaron found the body.
12:58So around 6 p.m.,
13:00the day of Jake's disappearance.
13:02Did it bother you seeing his body?
13:04What do you mean?
13:05To see a version of yourself dead in a dumpster,
13:07no matter how much you protest,
13:09that you don't see the resemblance?
13:10I mean, it had to be a little disconcerting.
13:14Yeah, a little, I guess.
13:16I have nightmares.
13:18Do you think Tim does?
13:20No.
13:21You know, he's been doing the job a lot longer than I have,
13:24so his walls are pretty high.
13:26But, you know, they have to be.
13:28Otherwise, the constant violence would just consume you.
13:31Sounds like a part of you who's envious,
13:32that he can divorce himself from feeling a lot more easily.
13:36No, I...
13:38Listen, empathy can be painful,
13:41but the alternative, at least for me, is unthinkable.
13:46I do this job to help people.
13:48You know, I have to feel for them.
13:49Do the walls make it hard to be in a relationship with Tim?
13:52No, but that's because I know behind those walls
13:57he's just a big softie.
13:59Do I look like a big softie?
14:03No, sir.
14:04Officer Thorson found the body.
14:06Tim disappeared from the mansion at 2 or 3 p.m.
14:08and was killed four hours later.
14:10So we had new mysteries to solve.
14:12How did Tim get out of the house?
14:14Where was he for those missing four hours?
14:17And how did he end up shot dead in a dumpster?
14:19Unfortunately, there were no security cameras around the alley,
14:23so they had no idea who dumped the body.
14:25It was at this point that Detective Lopez and I
14:28were assigned to the investigation.
14:29Yes, we will thank you for coming in.
14:32Yes, sure.
14:33What's with all the cameras?
14:35They're filming a documentary.
14:36I would love to interview you at some point.
14:39Don't worry about them.
14:39Let's go talk.
14:41You want water, coffee, anything?
14:44No, thank you.
14:45Okay, this way.
14:47Go, go, get ahead of me.
14:48Did you guys find anything?
14:56Uh, we're following up on a couple leads,
15:00but we need your help to get some clarity on some things.
15:03Do you mind if we report this?
15:05No, I don't know.
15:06What do you mean?
15:09How are you holding up?
15:13Yeah, I'm not going to lie.
15:15You know, I'm struggling.
15:17I still can't believe he's dead.
15:19Look, we know you, Mr. Butler,
15:21were engaged in a host of illegal activities,
15:23but we're not focused on that right now.
15:26Yeah, all we care about is catching the person who killed him.
15:29So if you are holding back
15:30because you're afraid that you're going to get in trouble,
15:33stop.
15:34You need to come clean.
15:35Hey, sorry to intrude.
15:39Uh, you got a second?
15:40Uh, yeah, excuse us.
15:48What's up?
15:49They found another body.
15:54In the days following Dem's disappearance,
15:57officers were searching the property looking for him.
15:59In the confusion after finding Dem's body,
16:01the call to stop the search wasn't made.
16:04Whose body did they find?
16:12Holy
16:12It's about Alir's nanny, Holland Poe.
16:17What?
16:17I thought she was out of the picture
16:19before Sava and Jake showed up.
16:21Maybe they popped her before Dem beat up the handyman.
16:25Well, the nanny's been dead over a month.
16:27The handyman got beat up three weeks ago.
16:29Why kill her and then wait to strong arm him?
16:32Let's go ask her.
16:34Tell me about Holland Poe.
16:42Who's that?
16:43The Baudelaire's nanny.
16:44Before you.
16:45Oh, I mean, I never met her.
16:48She was gone before we even knew about the Baudelaire's.
16:51Can you prove that?
16:53Turns out she could.
16:54Yeah, Dim and Juicy were actually on vacation in the Caribbean at the time of the nanny's murder.
16:58Paid for by the sell of the property they stole from Lance Bass.
17:01Which turned our attention to the most obvious suspects.
17:05The Baudelaire's.
17:08Sorry.
17:08No, you can say it.
17:10I had some momentum.
17:10I was building up.
17:11I kind of jumped in there.
17:12That's all right.
17:13Sorry.
17:18It's uncanny.
17:19It's freaky is what it is.
17:21You look like twins.
17:23Okay, let's get back on track here.
17:25You say that Holland did not show up for work that Tuesday.
17:28And you never heard from her?
17:29That's right.
17:30No call, no text, no email, no Snapchat, no Clip Talk.
17:34We get it.
17:35And you were never aware that she went missing?
17:37No, we were paying her under the table, so I guess no one knew to contact us.
17:41Should we have our lawyer here?
17:42That's up to you.
17:43But then it becomes a whole thing.
17:44Yeah, right now we are just trying to get some clarity.
17:46It can't be a coincidence that two people that work for you showed up murdered.
17:51You're looking at the wrong people.
17:52I mean, we were scammed by Karen and Skip, Jake and Sava.
17:56Whatever their real names are, we are the real victims here.
17:58Of course, but without another suspect, you can see why we are talking to you.
18:03Jesse.
18:05Who's Jesse?
18:06So, Mr. Long, you worked for the Baudeliers as a contractor for three years.
18:12That's right.
18:13What exactly did you do for them?
18:16I'm sorry, I can't say.
18:18I signed an NDA.
18:20I don't want to get sued.
18:21Getting sued is the least of your problems right now.
18:24Let's just say that I handled everything from repairs to new construction.
18:29What can you tell me about Holland Poe?
18:32What do you want to know?
18:35I mean, she works as a nanny while I did some repairs on the house.
18:40Nice girl.
18:40Did you two get along?
18:43Yeah.
18:44I mean, I didn't see her much.
18:46You stopped working for the Baudeliers less than a week after she disappeared.
18:51Got a better gig.
18:52We found Holland's body hidden in the greenhouse yesterday.
18:57That's horrible.
18:58Before that, we found the handyman.
19:00Murder.
19:02Leah?
19:03No, Jake.
19:04Um, Skip.
19:06I don't know who that is.
19:09Look, I'm going to put our cards on the table.
19:12We got a warrant for Holland's cell phone records.
19:15We have dozens of texts from you harassing her, threatening her.
19:20And the Emmy found your DNA under her fingernails.
19:25We are going to arrest you for murder.
19:33I'm so sorry.
19:35I didn't, I didn't, uh, I didn't mean to kill her.
19:45It just, it all got out of hand.
19:47I understand.
19:50But the best way to honor her memory is to come clean.
19:54Tell us everything that happened.
19:57Okay.
19:59Including what you did to Jake.
20:00I told you, I don't know that guy.
20:02Well, I swear, you said he was murdered?
20:07Yes, after he vanished into thin air at the Baudelaire's mansion.
20:11Did you check the...
20:13Check the what?
20:19Hey, guys.
20:20Wait, hold up.
20:21Let's check it out.
20:38Be careful.
20:44Hey, stay back.
20:45Weird tunnel.
20:59Whoa.
21:00What is this?
21:03It's dusty.
21:08What is it?
21:12No way.
21:13Great.
21:14Oh.
21:17What is it?
21:23You gotta be kidding me.
21:26Oh, my God.
21:27It looks just like you.
21:29It's called The Lost Emperor.
21:35Ferdinand had it for a while, but it went missing after World War I.
21:40Rumor has it that Hitler had it for a short stint, but it got looted from the Führerbunker.
21:46We believe it depicts the Haitian Revolution's Battle of the Vertières, when the Haitian rebels defeated the French in November 1803.
21:56The painting is one of the generals.
21:59Gabard, Capoy, possibly even the great liberator, Jean-Jacques Desseline.
22:06I think George Washington.
22:07They say certain traits are genetic.
22:12Leadership, strength, the ability to inspire people.
22:17I'm not aware of any connection between Dessalines and my family, but I wouldn't be surprised.
22:26Why are you smiling?
22:28No reason.
22:28I just, your reaction to the painting has been pretty priceless.
22:31Go back to work.
22:52Harlequin's head by Picasso.
22:57Stalin's Bible.
22:58Charles Manson's jockstrap.
22:59What is all this stuff?
23:01Stolen art, uh, antiques, and cursed curiosities.
23:06All bought on the black market by Charles and Camille.
23:10Yeah, they were all worth a fortune.
23:11Which would explain why they didn't tell us about the hidden vault.
23:14But the most valuable thing we found in that moment.
23:16I got something.
23:19Was the hatch.
23:20And that's how Dim got out of the house.
23:31The ladder led up to a hidden grate in the bushes.
23:34And from there was a clear path with no cameras to get off the property.
23:37But one question remained.
23:40Where did Dim go?
23:41And who killed him?
23:43Look alive, guys.
23:44Here she comes.
23:49Thanks for meeting me.
23:50Of course.
23:51And you're okay with the cameras?
23:56Oh, God.
23:58I guess.
24:00Um, I'm a little confused as to why you're coming to me and not the police.
24:05I don't trust them.
24:07If I showed them this, they would find some way to use it against me.
24:11Um, I'm not so sure about that, but I'm happy to take a look.
24:14What exactly are you going to show me?
24:17It's a video.
24:19Two days before Jacob went missing.
24:21Um, somebody tried to kill us.
24:25Okay.
24:26I love you, boy.
24:28I love you, baby.
24:29No, but baby, you've got to say it to the camera.
24:31I'm driving, baby.
24:32Baby.
24:32All right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
24:34I love you, baby.
24:35Oh, my God.
24:38Hey, what the hell was that?
24:40Oh, baby, baby, watch out.
24:42What?
24:43Oh, my God.
24:44Oh, my God.
24:45Oh, my God.
24:49Oh, my God.
24:53Baby.
24:54Yeah.
24:54We got us to go.
24:55Okay.
24:55Baby, we got to go now.
24:57Okay, okay.
24:57Oh.
25:02They didn't report it.
25:03They just abandoned it.
25:04Well, we tracked down the abandoned car, but the paint scrapings that we took from the impact
25:09point showed the most common brand of automotive paint, which means we had added another mystery
25:15to the case.
25:16Who was the driver?
25:18But that question took a back seat.
25:20Oh, because the text came.
25:22You have to show this to the police.
25:24Oh, my God.
25:35Jeez.
25:36Stay with her.
25:39Fuck.
25:40A text was sent from an unknown number to Dim and Juicy, demanding the item that had
25:46been promised.
25:46And the text went on to threaten violence if Juicy didn't turn the item over.
25:50It seemed likely that whomever sent that text killed Dim, so it was time for me to go undercover.
25:56You had no idea what you were walking into.
26:05That's working undercover.
26:06Doesn't that scare you, walking in by yourself?
26:08But I wasn't by myself.
26:15You see us in play.
26:16Okay.
26:16Okay.
26:16Okay.
26:26Heads up, this could be our guy.
26:56Do you have it?
27:09Nope.
27:12What do you mean, no?
27:15Whatever you were into with Jake, he didn't share it with me.
27:18I got no idea who you are or what you want.
27:21And now that Jake is dead,
27:23that's all my problem.
27:28I need what he promised.
27:31Are you going to learn what battery acid tastes like?
27:35Is that what you said to Jake before you killed him?
27:39Enough.
27:41You're coming with me.
27:41Go ahead, move in.
27:45Don't move.
27:45Copy that, move it in.
27:46Get on the ground.
27:47Drop the gun.
27:48Get on the ground right now.
27:49Police, don't move.
27:50Stay where you are.
27:51I got him on this side.
27:53I got him on the ground right now.
27:54Hey, hey, sir.
27:55Stay where you are.
27:57Everybody freeze weapons.
27:58Drop your weapon.
27:59Target.
28:00Drop the gun.
28:01Whoa, whoa, whoa.
28:02LAPD.
28:03Who the hell are you guys?
28:04CIA.
28:09Thanks for taking the time to speak with me.
28:12My pleasure.
28:13The agency is committed to transparency wherever possible.
28:16Great.
28:16So what can you tell me about Amir Sadiq?
28:18Nothing.
28:18Come on.
28:21It's common knowledge that Mr. Sadiq is a Turkish national who works for Meyer Balik, an infamous
28:26international arms dealer.
28:26I'm not prepared to speak on that.
28:28Okay.
28:29Can you explain the connection to Jake Butler?
28:31I'm not prepared to speak on that.
28:34How about the mystery item that Amir was so intent on getting from Mr. Butler and Ms. Wu?
28:38I'm not prepared to speak on that.
28:40Then why did you agree to the interview?
28:42The agency is committed to transparency wherever possible.
28:48It turns out, Dem and that arms dealer.
28:52Meyer Balik?
28:54Yeah.
28:54That's the guy.
28:56Dem and Meyer were distant cousins.
28:58I found out through a backchannel source at the DOD that the agency had been surveilling
29:04Amir for months now while he and Meyer were working on a massive arms deal for the Iranians.
29:10But during the dealmaking process, Amir went from Barbados.
29:14Where he met with Dem.
29:15But not Juicy.
29:17That's what she says.
29:20How are you holding up?
29:23I'm heartbroken.
29:24I thought I knew him.
29:27I thought he loved me.
29:29To find out he had this whole other life, I mean, I've been drunk the whole week.
29:35So you had no idea that the Baudelaire's weren't just a random target?
29:40Jake just said they were crazy rich and that we'd be able to potty for a year off of what
29:46we'd get out of the house.
29:48Well, what we now know is that Amir pointed Jake at the Baudelaire's.
29:51But it wasn't connected to the Iranian arms deal that the CIA was so keen to stop.
29:56It turns out among the stolen antiquities in the Baudelaire's vault was a very special
30:00rifle.
30:01The Mikulet, one of the earliest and most sturdy flintlocks ever made.
30:07And the most famous Mikulet belonged to the Turkish Sultan Osman II or Osman the Young.
30:14I like to read.
30:15You sure do.
30:16But history lesson aside, as a proud Turk and a professional weapon aficionado, Meir
30:23Balak had been hunting for the Sultan's rifle for decades.
30:26And somehow he discovered that the Baudelaire's had it.
30:30So he called up Cousin Jake and set up a meeting with Amir in Barbados.
30:34I was probably getting a massage at the time, or a facial, or a seaweed wrap, or a body scrub.
30:50I spent most of that trip just getting pampered, you know?
30:58Yeah, once we learned about the rifle's existence, we quickly found the crate it had been stored
31:02in.
31:14But the rifle was gone, which meant that Dim had taken it before he had snuck out of the
31:18Baudelaire's house.
31:20But he hadn't delivered it to Amir.
31:23No, Amir hadn't even landed in the U.S. by the time Dim was killed.
31:26Which means Dim took it somewhere else.
31:29Yeah, the question was, where?
31:30To whom?
31:32Whom?
31:32Yeah, and what happened to it?
31:34You were about to find all that out, though, weren't you?
31:36Yes.
31:36In the most terrifying way.
31:40Drop the gun!
31:43Baby, baby, look out, look out!
31:48With Amir out of the picture as a suspect, we went back to the car crash.
31:52Somebody tried to run Jake and Saba off the road two days before Jake was killed.
31:57If it wasn't Amir, who was it?
32:00Well, we had previously gotten warrants for Jake's phone records, but Saba told us that
32:05Jake always carried a burner phone with him, and we didn't have that number.
32:09Until the incident with Amir.
32:11Exactly.
32:12Even though the CIA kept us from interrogating Amir, they did search Amir's cell phone records
32:16and came up with an anonymous number that we ultimately tracked back to Dim.
32:22Let's just say that there were several text messages sent to and from that phone that were
32:27very revealing.
32:30What do you mean?
32:31Jake was clearly cheating on Saba, and he was the Shakespeare of sexting.
32:37Would you read some of those texts for me?
32:48Yeah, you, uh, no, I can't, I'm sorry.
32:50I can't say any of this on camera.
32:51My Nana's gonna watch this.
32:52You could, yeah, I'm sorry.
32:54Couldn't you read some of these texts to me?
32:56Are you kidding me?
32:57Put that away.
32:58Oh, you couldn't get Lucy to read them?
32:59What makes you think I'm gonna read them?
33:01I'm serious.
33:02Okay.
33:03Would you mind reading some of these texts out loud?
33:11Um, I can't say that.
33:14I'm not saying that.
33:16I have no idea what that even means.
33:18Let me just find some PG content for you.
33:20Oh, here we go.
33:22Stop calling.
33:23I told you it's over.
33:25The breakup texts.
33:27It was the, uh, proverbial smoke and gun.
33:30The texts that would determine Dim's fate.
33:33And just for clarity, who was Dim sending these texts to?
33:36Who was he having an affair with?
33:39Lisa Miller?
33:41Lisa Miller?
33:42That's Juicy's BFF.
33:43So what are we doing here?
33:45Girl, you know what we're doing.
33:46I know.
33:47We're like, prosperity.
33:49I think it's posterity.
33:52Mm-mm.
33:52That don't sound right, girl.
33:54Okay, so.
33:57I'm waiting for Jake to get out of prison.
33:58Mm-hmm.
33:59He just did six months on a drug charge,
34:01and I found out today he's getting released early.
34:03Oop, a good behavior.
34:04Girl, overcrowding.
34:08Oh, baby!
34:10Mm.
34:12Mm.
34:13Mm.
34:14Baby.
34:15Oh, I missed you.
34:16Yeah, I missed you, too.
34:17Yo, Lisa!
34:19What's up?
34:20At that point, it all started coming together.
34:24Lisa couldn't handle the fact that Jake was breaking up with her,
34:27so she tried to run them off the road.
34:30And when that failed, she called up Jake,
34:32begged for his forgiveness, and asked him to meet her.
34:35Yeah, when he showed up, she shot him with a .22 caliber pistol,
34:39then dumped his body in the dumpster.
34:41So we went to arrest her.
34:44I think that's her.
34:45What?
35:04Police!
35:05Show me your hands!
35:07Move in on her! Move in!
35:08Whoa, whoa, dropped the gun!
35:09Yeah!
35:10Drop the gun!
35:11Drop the gun!
35:12Whoa, whoa, dropped the gun!
35:13Oh, John!
35:14Get in there.
35:15Officer Towne, we need an R.A. Flower and Lincoln.
35:20John!
35:24Oh, my goodness.
35:26Roll me back, roll me back.
35:31Catch my breath.
35:33I'm good.
35:38The thing about old guns is that they're very imprecise weapons, and the muzzle velocity was significantly less than even the most modern, smallest handgun.
35:46Translation.
35:47There is no way that the McLea bullet could have punched a hole in no one's bulletproof vest.
35:51He's just lucky she didn't shoot him in the face.
35:53Uh, not getting shot in the face, that's a daily goal.
35:56Yeah, that's true.
35:57The first thing he taught me was, don't get shot in the face.
36:00All things considered, though, I got very lucky.
36:02Yeah, it could have been so much worse.
36:04Yeah, like it was for Sergeant Gray.
36:07He's probably not gonna love what you said.
36:11This painting captures a moment in world history where freedom won out over oppression.
36:17Which is why its recovery is so important.
36:19It is my honor to present The Lost Emperor.
36:24Home.
36:25He screamed.
36:26No.
36:27Ha, ha, ha, ha.
36:28No.
36:29No.
36:30No!
36:31No!
36:32No!
36:33No!
36:34No!
36:35No!
36:36No!
36:37No.
36:38No, no.
36:39No!
36:40No!
36:41That's so or not.
36:42You son of a !
36:44Shame on you!
36:45No!
36:46No!
36:47No!
36:48No!
36:49No!
36:50No, no!
36:51I'm sorry, I need a minute.
36:53I just...
36:56At least I still have this.
37:06Sorry, Sergeant, you're needed in the bullpen?
37:11What the hell is this about?
37:21What do we have here?
37:23Well, we all know how much you love that painting.
37:25Well, unfortunately, it was completely destroyed.
37:28So we had another painting made.
37:37It reflects the way that we see you.
37:40With my shirt off.
37:42As a dragon slayer.
37:45Um...
37:49I love it. I love it.
37:56Well, uh, so Lisa was going to prison
37:58for the murder of Jake
37:59and the attempted murder of Nolan,
38:01but we were left with the question
38:02of what to do with Juicy.
38:04At the end of the day,
38:05it didn't make sense to charge her.
38:07We could prove Dim's involvement,
38:09but all we really hit on Juicy was conspiracy.
38:12DA's office debated for a while,
38:14but ultimately we decided to cut her loose.
38:16How did you feel about that?
38:18On the whole, good.
38:23Whatever her faults, Juicy...
38:25Sava had suffered a great tragedy.
38:29Betrayal. Murder.
38:33I'm hopeful that she'll take this opportunity
38:36to learn from the experience.
38:37You know? To change.
38:39Of course she said that.
38:42Listen, people never change.
38:44Okay? Sava is going to end up in cuffs
38:46one way or another.
38:55You make good money doing documentaries?
38:57I do okay.
38:58You do better than okay.
39:00I looked you up.
39:02You're not the only curious one around here.
39:05Award-winning filmmaker.
39:08Vacation home on the Almaty coast.
39:11I mean...
39:13Karen!
39:14What?
39:15You gotta go.
39:17You're parasiting again?
39:19The girl's gotta eat.
39:20Give him my number.
39:21Give him my number.
39:22You call me, okay?
39:23Coming, Mrs. Hutchkins!
39:26Does it shake you at all?
39:27The fact that your doppelganger's relationship
39:29was so dysfunctional?
39:31That's an unfair characterization.
39:34It wasn't dysfunctional.
39:36I mean, Jake cheated with Sava's best friend
39:38after trying to cut her out of a big money deal.
39:41Fair enough, but that doesn't change the question.
39:44Good.
39:45What are you implying?
39:46That we might suffer the same fate
39:48because of a couple of people
39:49who looked a tiny bit like us?
39:51They were misfits?
39:53I think it's a reasonable question.
39:55You're working too hard.
39:57Okay.
39:58I get it.
40:00You're invested in a certain answer
40:01because it makes for a better documentary,
40:03but we are not Jake and Sava.
40:07Okay?
40:08I mean, they're criminals
40:09whose lives were based on deceit.
40:12Of course that duplicity infected their relationship,
40:15but we are in a very different place.
40:18Mm-hmm.
40:19And what place is that?
40:21If you don't know,
40:23then you haven't been paying attention.
40:25I mean...
40:27Okay.
40:28So a place of honesty, respect, love.
40:31Yeah, I mean, those are good words.
40:33But do those qualities guarantee
40:35that your relationship will succeed
40:36where theirs failed?
40:37Oh, well, you know...
40:39Of course not.
40:40But at this moment, I mean,
40:42Tim and I are in a really beautiful place.
40:46And that's all that matters.
40:48Yeah.
40:49Look, the thing you learn early on
40:51as police officers
40:52is that your future is never certain.
40:55Yeah, anything can happen to anyone
40:57at any time.
40:58Especially if they overstay their welcome.
41:01Uh-oh.
41:02Oh, does that mean...
41:06Yeah, we're done.
41:07Sorry.
41:08That's right.
41:09Sorry, guys.
41:11Do you wanna get sushi?
41:13It's perfect.
41:14Okay.
41:15Listen, we're gonna be back in an hour.
41:16Place better be spotless.
41:18Oh, God.
41:19Yes, sir.
41:21Yeah, thank you.
41:22Okay, let's pack it up.
41:25You don't think he's really mad at me, do you?
41:28I hope that may do.
41:29That may do.
41:32That may do.
41:38that may do.
41:39That may do.
41:5130 evidence.
41:53Damn it.
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