Richard?
Is that you? Did you bring the pom-poms?
I brought something to help you sleep.
What the fuck?!
My physics test. I got a B +. You are a genius.
Don't.
I have something for you.
- What is this? - You're quite the slut.
What?
What?!
How long has he been here?
Nurse on the night shift said he came in about 4.
How are you feeling?
I'm okay.
I'm a little sore, but... .
What are you doing here?
I figured you'd want an immediate report.
Yeah, I do.
So?
- We got everything. - Excellent.
- The boots? - That's an affirmative.
And a pair of tin snips, and a Phillips-head, traces of blood.
And a finger, right?
Was it in a jar behind a stack of magazines...
...or in the freezer under the turkey thigh?
Behind the vanilla fudge ice cream.
Good work. All you need now is a confession.
There won't be one.
Feathers committed suicide last night.
- Suicide? - Yeah.
It was a gun to the head. Powder burns, GSR on his right hand.
Ever heard of a ritual mutilator, an impulsive serial-type killer...
...committing suicide?
Don't do that.
I can't think of one. Psychos want to get caught.
Lie down.
I'm actually feeling a lot better, thank you.
These kids did this.
They're not even hiding it. They want us to know.
So let's get to know them a little better.
Turn around.
We got Ray on this. Why did he run if he didn't do it?
- There's a reason. - Are you jealous because I got him...
...or are you so obsessed with Richard you're not thinking?
I'm sorry...
You've been angling for this for a while, taking over the case!
They made me take it because they think you're losing it!
Who thinks I'm losing it? Who?
Rod?
I don't care if I'm losing it. I'm right.
How did you come by this?
It was the weirdest thing. I was driving by the house...
...the trash can got knocked over, and the stuff fell out.
What a break.
Some of this will be the mom's, some will be the boy's.
- What is this? - Don't ask, don't tell.
We won't know until we get the report if it matches the puke's DNA.
Lucky he gave us some blood with his dinner.
Be sure to get a signed purchase order.
- When will we know? - Depends on the lab.
- Want me to call him? - No! Last time I had to calm him down.
- Just make it fast. - I'll take care of it. See you.
What's this?
- A purchase order for the DNA... - I know what it is.
This case is closed. Closed!
Now, if you can't understand that, then maybe we...
- You need some time off? - Nope, I'm fine.
You're not fine.
You're brilliant sometimes, but never really fine.
You want to see Doc Sluzer again?
- No. - Then no more on this case.
Not another minute, not another penny. I've about had it with you.
You hear me?
Hi, it's Cass. I'll need another day or two on that purchase order.
No, just bookkeeping, changing the software, things like that.
So you'll run an analysis on that puke?
Thanks, honey.
- I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done it. - Come on!
- You threw up? Why didn't you tell me? - I don't remember doing it.
He doesn't remember.
What if they I.D. you? With the DNA, can they do that?
I doubt it. The stomach acids usually eat away...
- You doubt it? - I doubt it.
- It could put us in the electric chair! - Gas chamber.
- What? - California uses a gas chamber.
- That's very informative. - It doesn't matter.
No, thank you.
You told her you tutor me too? What are you thinking?
If she found out on her own...
...and I hadn't mentioned it, it would look even worse!
They have nothing.
They have nothing on me.
Don't worry, I'm not a backstabber like you, Richard.
How am I a back...?
I'm not the one talking, giving away all the information...
...trying to get us caught because I'm a bitch!
- Don't talk to me like that. - I'll talk to you how I want to.
I trust you with forensic stuff, and you have no idea what you're talking about!
- You're supposed to be smart! - Stop.
- No, you're not smart, you're dumb! - Stop!
I'm sorry.
Come here.
That's a good boy.
You're not still mad about that girl, are you?
Let's just stick together and stay calm until this is over, okay?
And then what?
Justin? Where are you going?
We can't be seen together.
Do you think this is some kind of game?
Come on, come on.
This is Sam Kennedy. I'm not here to take your call...
What are you doing here?
Do you want something?
Like what?
I don't know.
Everybody wants something, don't they?
Do they?
They just don't know how to ask for it.
What do you want?
Richard, get out of the way.
- You think I'm too young? - There was a killer at your school.
The whole time, somebody you were close to.
- What do you mean? - Raymond Feathers.
- You guys were friends, right? - With that degenerate?
No. He didn't really have many friends.
He just... .
I don't know.
You know, even his old lady left him.
So you're friends with his old lady too?
You're a tease. You lead guys on and then push them away.
But I think...
...you like to fight.
You want it, but you need to fight about it.
No.
You don't have to do anything. You have no choice.
You can't handle it, so you're leaving?
This is part of it!
Damn it!
Thank you, detective.
I bet you did this with every guy you ever dated.
Tell me I'm wrong.
- Lf I can link Richard to Feathers... - You can't stop.
I'm sorry about what I said.
I'm just a little messed up right now, but hear me out, as a friend.
Just as a friend, okay?
Thank you. I saw Richard and Justin tonight.
- They lied, they know each other. - Really?
They barely have parents. They're like orphans with credit cards.
School's too easy. They don't have jobs or chores.
Nothing's expected of them. Nothing they do matters.
So they figured, "Why not kill somebody?"
Maybe I'm wrong, but tell Rod you want to keep the case open.
What happened between you and Richard tonight?
Did you hit him? In the face?
No.
No, it wasn't like that, it was...
It was an acci...
- Rod knows? - He got a call from Richard's father.
He'll make you see the department shrink about this.
No. No shrink. It's not gonna work.
I know what I am. I'm just not...
Okay.
So nobody wants to work with me? That's okay.
But I'm a good cop.
And if what I say is right, and we let these kids go, and they do it again... .
So please just talk to Rod, you're the only one he'll listen to.
- I'll call him in the morning. - Call him now, he's still up.
Back off!
If Rod says yes...
...maybe you could even hang around the school and make them nervous.
We have papers due tomorrow, no excuses.
Support your conclusions, having a thesis isn't enough.
I want real arguments with quotations and sources.
- Sam Kennedy, San Benito Police. - Nice to meet you.
Lisa!
Sam Kennedy, from San Benito Police.
Start time.
Let's see... .
It's me. I know how they did it.
Now we need to know why.
I can help with that. I got someone here you ought to talk to.
Rod, look at the DNA. The vomit is a perfect match with Justin.
Who paid for this?
Cassie, out of her own pocket.
You'd need a jury of 12 forensic experts.
That's why we need a confession from one of them.
They'll talk without an attorney?
They want to prove they're smarter than we are.
Okay.
So where's the other one?
Who?
The hot one.
Not here.
- You get to work with her everyday? - Yeah.
I should become a cop.
So, what's up with Ray?
I hear he's like a serial killer or something.
Well, actually, we have a theory on that. It involves you and Justin.
It's just a theory. Can I lay it out for you?
Yeah.
"Therefore...
...every truly free act is a crime, for crime sets one apart...
...from the machinery of mass society.
It can't be a crime of profit or passion, but gratuitous and random.
Crime as philosophy, as freedom. "
Interesting.
Do you believe it?
It's a school paper. You have to write something.
I enjoy taking indefensible positions and creating an argument for them.
But do you believe it?
So then the question is, how did you pick the victim?
Was it random?
I mean, that's the way I'd do it.
That one right there, with the flowers. She's perfect.
No, she's too skinny.
You understand what random means? We don't choose.
- Don't talk to me like I'm a moron. - We have to follow the plan...
- This one! What about this one? - Don't get impatient.
Wait a second.
Pull up, where the girl is loading the groceries.
Okay.
But you lose the point of a philosophical crime if you feel guilty.
How do you mean?
If you kill somebody to prove you're free, and then throw up...
I didn't.
- What are you talking about? - Richard didn't feel guilty.
He's free, Justin. You're not.
Relax. Let them wonder what we're up to.
Now go in.
Your coffee.
- You can't smoke in here. - Come on.
Are we almost done?
Take a seat.
So Ray was an inspired choice.
But the great thing...
...was how subtly you planted the fibers and hairs and stuff.
I got your product.
You did Ray, right? Wasn't he your friend?
You told him to hide in his trailer, didn't you?
What are you talking about?
You went home, you said hello to your mother.
It took you 10 minutes to walk home from the restaurant.
Mother, I'm home.
You said you had to do schoolwork so she wouldn 't look in.
And she didn 't. She never did, did she?
I was with six friends all night. You know that. You talked to them.
The night, sure, but not the day.
That's the secret. You weren't there at night.
The thing that always confused me was the muddy footprints in the house.
You know?
The planting bed was dry, so where did they come from?
It was you at the house. Justin would not have walked through the wet beds.
That was exactly 3:30.
How long did you wait for her to come home?
You didn 't kill her there.
I gotta say, that was a stroke of genius.
Did you think it up, or was it Justin?
I don't know what you're saying.
That helped us figure out the real timetable.
That gave you time to get home for the study group.
I'll go get some cash for the pizza.
You told them you were going to the A TM to get cash. And you did.
And I did.
Then you hurried back.
- That took five minutes. - It took five minutes.
- Now we're talking. - But you were gone 15.
What are you looking at?
Richard killed her. Didn't he, Justin?
I think it was Justin.
Let me tell you something.
It'll be the most important thing you ever hear.
More important than the instructions on the SATs and APs.
The person who actually killed Olivia Lake is gonna be executed.
Or, at best, go to jail for life. In your case that'd be about 60 years.
But the other one, who didn't actually kill her, if he cooperates...
...will have a chance at a real life.
Richard was back in the study group by 9:25.
So you must have dumped the body.
The planning was easy...
...but now you had to actually do it.
And that's why the postmortem wounds were so tentative.
You were trying to be like Richard, but you couldn't.
You weren't that free. Thank God.
Go to hell.
- My guy won't roll. - I figured he'd be the one.
No. Let's talk about Lisa. She went out with Richard?
Briefly. Then she got interested in Justin.
Let's use that.
Interesting theory, but I can't admit to something I didn't do.
Looks like you won't have to.
Because Justin is talking in there.
Justin's here?
He told us about you.
About you and Lisa.
Which Lisa?
So you really need to tell me what happened.
Just think of it as a game.
Whoever talks first is the winner.
Justin says you betrayed him.
He told us about Lisa and the tape you made.
Justin's talking.
He's gonna win this thing, unless you have something to tell me.
Okay, I'm gonna go see.
Wait, wait.
Come on, sit down.
I have to advise you of certain rights.
- The interview is over. - Richard's father's lawyer.
Charge them or let them go.
Another five minutes, we would have had both those kids.
If I ever find out who leaked to the parents, I swear... .
No, that's all right. Yeah, I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Justin won't talk, because he needs to prove he's as tough as his buddy.
- He's tougher. - Yeah, maybe.
That Richard, I can't wait till we nail him.
One of them is the doer, and he's going down, but there's something deeper...
A narcissistic prick like Richard doesn't care about anyone but himself.
He uses Justin to feed his ego. Push him around, make him feel like a man.
In five years, no one will care he was homecoming king...
...or pole-vaulting champ. I pity anyone who gets in his way.
Is Richard a pole-vaulter?
I don't know.
I was using it as an example of, you know... .
Look... .
I know about Carl Hudson.
Where did you get that?
This is none of your God... This is my matter!
Mine!
I knew this girl in high school...
...smart enough...
...but she didn't really come from anything.
And to everyone's amazement, the most popular boy liked her.
State pole-vaulting champ.
You'd watch him go over that bar in the sunlight...
...that golden body, it was like...
...life just couldn't get any more beautiful than that.
And it didn't.
She was 16 when she married him.
Seventeen when he knocked out her upper bicuspid.
Eighteen when she decided to leave.
He put her in the hospital with a serious concussion.
A week later, when she got out...
...she started packing, and he was drunk.
He pointed his finger at her. He said, "You try that again, I'll kill you. "
He took another drink...
...and she headed for the door.
Why didn't she wait till he was out? Left for work?
She couldn't, she had to go right then.
- Why then? - I don't know.
It was because... .
Because she... .
It wasn't about getting away from him, it was about standing up to him.
Even if it killed her.
I guess so.
So he stabbed her 17 times with a kitchen knife...
...and dumped her body on a country road.
Yeah, ruined my favorite dress.
Carl Hudson.
Cutest boy I ever saw...
...until Richard Haywood.
And you're supposed to testify at Carl's parole hearing.
What are you gonna say?
Nothing. I'm not going.
I'm not.
- You gotta go up there, you have to. - No. I don't have to.
The girl was Jessica Marie Hudson. I have nothing to say about her.
- You just inherited her scars. - Look, I made a deal.
The deal was that she died there.
She's in the ground, and I can go on with my life.
Except you can't. All you think about is Carl Hudson.
He's every case. He's every guy you date.
Your whole world is Carl Hudson. Is that the life you're going on with?
- Did you ever get help for any of this? - Yeah.
I became a cop.
You can't just pretend it didn't happen. It's not that simple, Cass.
It has to be.
Because if it gets any more complicated, I can't make it.
Richard Haywood is on line one.
Swanson.
So you want to talk to me about this Covington woman?
Yes, I know all about it. What can I do for you?
I just thought you'd want to know what really happened.
I thought it was a game.
How do you pick a victim? How do you get away with it?
We were bored.
I never took it seriously until I walk in the room, and she's laying there... .
Did you make a deal with him?
- He says he wasn't there... - Did you make a deal?
I don't make deals over the phone, but if it checks out...
...and we can get a conviction, I will. - Fine. Let's get warrants now.
Where are you going?
You're not supposed to leave without telling us.
Will you be back for dinner?
Justin's not here. His mother doesn't even know when he left.
Similar story here. What about Goldilocks?
Get over there and see what she knows.
- You should take a look downstairs. - I gotta go. Bye.
I didn't know where else to go.
Tell me what's going on.
The cops are asking about you and Richard. I don't know what to say.
We killed a woman.
No, you didn't.
Yes, we did.
He made you do it.
It wasn't just Richard.
But he drove it.
It was his idea.
You would have never done anything like this by yourself.
He seduced you...
...just like he seduced me.
You know what you have to do.
- You have to tell them everything. - I will.
I don't have any feelings left.
Except for you.
- That's him. - Don't answer it.
Where are you?
Are you with her?
No.
Yes, you are.
And you told her about us, didn 't you? Did you tell her everything?
Where are you?
I left home.
All right? I'm gone. I'm never going back. It's over.
I know. We have to turn ourselves in.
And go to prison?
And be punks? And eat shit for the rest of our lives?!
Do you remember what we talked about?
Yes.
Meet me at the bluff in an hour. Okay?
Okay.
I have to meet him.
To do what?
I just have to.
I wish I met you first.
Cassie Mayweather.
Have a seat.
So this is what we talked about.
Glory or nothing.
Should we say the words for the last time?
One cannot live fully without embracing suicide and crime.
Say it.
A pact made with relentless fire that requires that while some live...
...others die.
On three.
One.
Two.
Three.
- What are you doing? - I have the bullets, right?
What about you?
Open your chamber.
Open it!
You were gonna watch me kill myself?
- They're here at the old Wintu Lodge. - Roger. That's up off Highland Road?
So since I have the bullets and the guts to use them...
...I'll shoot you, and then I'll shoot myself, okay?
- No. - No?
Why? Would you rather go to prison and be a punk?
Or do you think you'll beat prison?
Because you made a deal.
You talked. You talked!
Why don't you shoot me?
Shoot me in the head, in the heart. Whatever you want.
Do it. Doesn't matter anymore. Pull the fucking trigger. Pull it!
Come on!
Justin, don't.
- We have to pay for what we did. - Not like that.
Put the gun down.
Put it down.
Please don't.
Justin, listen to me. For me.
- Come over here, next to me. - Don't listen to her.
Don't!
Hands off!
Stay put. People are on the way.
Hey, Richard?
You think you're so smart, huh?
Justin's smarter than you, remember that.
I got one left.
To hell with it.
...every night, the same fucking thing? Listen!
Listen to me! You are not going out that door, Jess!
You are not going out that door!
Justin, please!
Justin, please.
Don't! Justin!
Justin, don't!
No, no! Don't!
Grab it.
I got it.
Thank you, thank you.
I'm okay, thank you.
What's gonna happen to me?
Since you weren't the actual killer, and what you did down there for me... .
Don't worry about it, I'll take care of you.
You all right?
- Whisper something into my ear. - What?
Just anything.
Remember what I said about looking for new partners?
Are you serious?
Where was it?
I want to take that back.
- Did they find the videotape? - Yes.
- How's he doing? - He looks okay.
But we're gonna transport him for treatment.
Why did you let Richard videotape the killing?
That was really stupid, like you guys wanted to get caught.
- What are you talking about? - Oh, you don't know?
They found a hidden camera in Richard's basement.
That's how he filmed himself with Lisa. He filmed the killing too.
The D.A. is looking at it now.
Look, whatever is on that tape... .
Whatever's on that tape what?
Is there really a tape?
- Maybe I should talk to a lawyer. - Absolutely.
No, wait a second. Wait!
I thought Richard manipulated you, but it was the other way around.
These marks are from Richard's ring when he tried to strangle me.
There are none of these marks on Olivia's neck.
Richard could have taken off that ring to make it look like Ray did it.
The ring has nothing to do with it. Tell me what happened...
...and I'll do my best to get you tried as a juvenile.
You have to believe me. When I went over there, I had no idea.
I never thought I'd...
Oh, God.
Are you gonna do it or what?
I can't.
Fuck...!
So, what, I have to do it?
You don't do anything. You just have ideas.
And you're so full of shit too.
You're always telling me:
"Crime is not an idea, it's an act.
Anybody can think it. Only free men can do it. "
I'm free.
Give me the gloves.
Give them to me.
Thank you.
I had to show him.
I could have let you die up there, but I didn't.
Thank you.
Wait! I just want a chance.
I wanna start over. I wanna...
It doesn't work that way.
You get one life.
And whatever you do with it, whatever's done to you...
...you gotta face that.
You can't pretend it didn't happen.
Jessica Marie Hudson?
Jessica Marie Hudson.
For the Carl Hudson parole hearing?
Jessica Marie Hudson?
That's me.