[Woman Screaming]
No! No! No! No!
[Screaming]
You killed my baby! You killed my baby!
I'm gonna put you in my car, get you out of here as soon as I can, all right?
[Helicopter Whirring Overhead]
[Panting]
Please. Wake up.
Oh, wake up, please!
[Panting]
[No Audible Dialogue]
Hanadarko...
this is what you smoke, right?
[Shivers]
[Helicopter Whirring Overhead]
## [Acoustic Guitar]
[Man] #So pretty and, oh, so bold #
# Got a heart full of gold on a Ionely road #
- # She said, "I don't even think that God can save me"# - # Save me #
# Am I gaining ground Am I losing face #
# Have I lost and found my saving grace #
# Thankful for the gift my angels gave me ##
## ["Ode To Joy"]
## [Ends]
## [Resumes]
## [Ends]
Denny Dolben had eight daughters.
Oldest was 16 when his wife, Lurleen...
asked him to pick up some milk on the way home from work.
Denny forgot.
Lurleen got mad...
put on her coat, left Denny with the girls...
and drove out into the cold winter night to pick up some milk.
- The store was closing, so she was rushed. - [Knocking]
She slipped and fell and hit her head.
Cracked her skull.
Lurleen died in the dairy section.
Denny messed up.
- Well, you don't know the whole story. - [Knocking Continues]
## [Resumes]
## [Stops]
Look what I found running down the street.
- [Toy Squeaking] - ## [Jingle: "Yankee Doodle Dandy"]
Like the hair.
- Where's Rhetta? - Work.
Clay wants to come by after school.
- Not yet. - Did you get any sleep?
Yeah. A little bit.
## [Toy Continues]
Chocolate doughnuts with sprinkles.
I'm going for a run. You feel like getting out?
Fresh air. It'll be good for you.
- ## [Continues, Stops] - [Growls]
How about we take Gus?
If I killed your child, would you want me to come over and apologize?
I don't know what to do.
I go back and forth.
Grace, it was an accident. She ran in front of your car.
I feel like I gotta do something, but...
"I'm sorry"? "I'm sorry I killed your daughter"?
I mean, that's not gonna... So what I'm sorry? She's dead, you know?
Esperanza's funeral is tomorrow.
I mean, should I go, send flowers, take them a casserole?
- No. l... - Uh...
You don't want to...
No.
Yeah. No. No.
Come running with me. I'm training for the Memorial Marathon.
It's the 15-year anniversary.
Fifteen years.
- Shit. - I know.
So what do you think? Wanna get out for a while?
No. But thanks for checking in.
And... And for the doughnuts.
[Door Opens]
- I'll call you later. - Don't worry about us. It's girls' day out.
Go. I've got the whole day planned.
[Door Closes]
I know I drive you crazy, but I love you.
And what happened was not your fault.
Why it happened, I don't know.
But I do know that without the storms we have no rainbows.
Today is about manicures, pedicures and a little shopping.
- Hey. - Hey.
- You took a shower. - Paige wanted to get manicures.
Oh.
## ["Ode To Joy"]
## [Stops]
Did you stop by and see Neely in rehab?
- Yeah. She seems good. - She's got three more weeks.
- I hope it takes. - Yeah, me too.
## [Resumes]
## [Stops]
Did you know it's been 15 years since the bombing?
Yeah. Can't believe it.
- I keep hearing this song. - What song?
The song that was playing in my car.
- What can I do to help? - Well, I think I need to come back to work.
- What do you think? - It's too soon.
- But I need to work. - Are you still seeing Esperanza?
Not as much.
Worried she's gonna kill herself.
I can't see Grace doing something like that.
The kinda pain she's in... it ain't a stretch.
She knows what it'd do to her family, Clay, us.
I'm worried she's gonna go off the deep end. How do you live with something like this?
You get help. I can't see Grace going to a shrink.
Her name is Esperanza. It means "hope."
Family's not gonna sue. That's a good thing.
Sue for what? Grace wasn't drunk.
Okay? She wasn't speeding. It was a kid chasing after a soccer ball.
- How's she doing? - Rhetta stayed with her last night.
Finally got her to eat something.
She still isn't sleeping much.
[Butch] She closes her eyes, sees it all over again.
Towing company called. They want to know what to do with the Porsche.
Ah, she won't talk about it.
We have a beheading on South Reno.
- How's she doing? - She's trying to deal.
[Chattering]
[Grace's Voice] #Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony #
# Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni #
# Yankee Doodle ##
Hey.
- Hey, you. - Been thinkin' about you.
That spread you guys sent over? Thanks, man.
- I'm not gonna have to cook for a week. - [Butch] Ah.
As long as you keep this guy away from it. [Laughs]
Anything you need, Grace. You know that.
I heard we got a body on South Reno. I gotta talk to Perry.
- Hey, will you wait for me, give me a ride? - Yeah, sure, sure.
- So we'll see you out there? - Yeah. See you out there.
It's only been two days. You sure about this?
No, but... I think I need to work.
- First body back is a beheading. - Perfect.
I.A. closed their investigation into your accident.
They found a witness.
A witness who saw me hit Esperanza?
Is that the report?
Thanks.
How you doing with this, Grace?
## ["Ode To Joy"]
- ## [Stops] - What about seeing a therapist?
Yeah, I probably will.
Hey, you got a visitor. Says his name is Hut Flanders.
He's a writer.
When'd you get back in town?
Two days ago.
I saw the picture of you taken in 1927.
You look exactly the same.
That was the year my father was born.
I need you to stay away from me.
Why?
You come around, bad shit happens.
I started my book in Oklahoma City.
I have to finish it in Oklahoma City.
- Your book about darkness? - That's right.
So I'm gonna be around for a while.
I'll try to stay out of your way.
How long have you been working on your book?
Fifteen years.
- [Siren Wailing] - [Police Radio Chatter]
- [Wailing Stops] - # Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony #
- # Stuck a feather in his hat and called it ## - Grace? Grace?
Patrol spotted the BMW, then realized...
they had those two guys going at it in that truck.
Long story short, patrol found the body 49 minutes ago.
- What's this? - Uh, it's a gay bar.
Opened eight days ago. Closed two days ago 'cause they had an invalid liquor license.
Killer didn't want his jewelry or the car.
It's registered to Craig Hoffstodt.
But he's not this guy.
No wallet, no I.D., nothing in his pockets but the keys to the BMW.
- Rhetta, you see this? - Yeah, it's either mucus or semen.
- How long's he been dead? - Eight to 12 hours.
[Ham] All this blood and no struggle. There's no blood on the car.
[Rhetta] No blood on the bottom of his slippers.
[Butch] M.E. said he was probably unconscious laying down...
when the killer started cutting him.
Grace, be careful.
## ["Ode To Joy," Stops]
[Butch] Looks like a serrated blade. We'll know more after the post.
- You know how many times I've done that? - I already took pictures.
I documented the scene. It's okay.
Why? Because it was an accident? Doesn't make it okay.
This was a mistake. l-I gotta go home.
- I'll take you. - I'll take you.
No. No. Please. Okay?
Don't make this a big scene.
- I just... I just want to go home. - You're not going home alone.
Shit, Ham. Don't do this. Don't.
You think I'm gonna eat my gun? I'm not gonna eat my gun.
I just want to go home.
I'm gonna get a ride, and both of you are gonna stay here and work.
Look, one of us has gotta take her.
Did you not hear what she just said?
[Growls]
- ## ["Ode To Joy"] - [Whines]
- ## [Continues] - # Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony #
# Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni #
Come on. Sing with me, Gus.
- # Yankee Doodle, keep it up Yankee Doodle Dandy # - [Growls]
- ## [Stops] - Nobody knows these next lyrics, Gussy.
# Mind the music and the step and with the girls be handy #
# Father and I went down to camp along with Captain Gooding #
# There they saw the men and boys #
# As thick as hasty pudding #
# Yankee Doodle, keep it up Yankee Doodle #
# Mind the music and the steps and with the girls be ##
- How well did you know Ron? - We've been dating for three months.
He's a pharmacist at Milton's drugstore on Western.
He has family in Italy... Milan, I think.
Here you go, Craig.
- What happened last night? - It was our movie night.
Ron was gonna stay over. He got a phone call. I don't know who it was.
- What time was this? - Uh, a-around 9:30.
I went into the kitchen. Ron came in.
Asked to borrow my car. A friend was in trouble. I gave him the keys.
- Ron doesn't have a car? - I picked him up. It was movie night.
You talk to Ron after he left?
No, I fell asleep.
This morning when I woke up, to be honest, I thought he was with his old boyfriend.
- Why? - Because he had lunch with him last week.
- [Door Opens] - It takes a beheading to get you guys involved?
What the hell are you doing, man?
Do you know how many friends of mine have had their asses kicked...
- because you guys don't give a shit? - Is there a problem?
This is my brother Nick. This is Captain Perry.
Five assaults in the last month, now a murder.
Someone's coming after the gay community. We want to know what you're doing about it.
Any connection between these cases?
Two of the assaults were straight-up robberies by the same guy. He's in jail.
Another one was a carjacking. He's in jail. And we're running down the other two.
- Do you know Ron Carter? - No, but I heard his head was sliced off.
And a friend of mine just had a knife pulled on him outside my gallery last week.
Max Solomon. We're talking to him. Butch is with him right now.
And that, Nick, is what we're doing.
I apologize.
I was really just... yelling at him.
Well, that I understand.
Is this the same Max you've been seeing for a while?
[Kettle Whistling]
[Whistling Stops]
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry, Esperanza.
[Exhales]
You're so pretty.
I looked down to turn up the radio.
I didn't see you. I never saw you.
Please look at me.
What are you coloring?
You shouldn't have chased that soccer ball.
Why did you chase it?
No. No.
I shouldn't have turned up the radio.
If I just hadn't turned up the radio, you'd be alive.
You'd be alive...
and you could eat chocolate doughnuts with sprinkles.
[Lawn Mower Whirring In Distance]
[Man On TV] Big seller of the day. Wanna describe it for the folks?
Denny found out the store where Lurleen died...
was the second store she went to that night.
First store was out of milk.
Mary Sue was their oldest daughter.
Earlier that day, she was fixing cereal...
and spilled a whole jug of milk right on the floor.
- [Knocking] - She was making a bowl for little Hannah...
who was supposed to be eating an apple.
But she lied. Said apples made her tummy hurt.
[Betty] Honey? Honey, it's Mom and Johnny.
- [Woman On TV] Don't you just love it? - [TV Off]
- You know what I'm trying to tell you? - It was little Hannah's fault.
No, it was nobody's fault. It was an accident.
- [Knocking] - [Johnny] Grace, we know you're here...
- and I know where you keep your keys. - Do you know Hut Flanders?
- [Betty] Grace, honey... - No.
- please open the door. - Is this part of God's plan?
God would never use an innocent child as a part of some plan...
- or to make a point. - [Betty Continues, Indistinct]
Remember, Grace, you don't know the whole story.
- Do you? - No.
[Betty] Just so we know you're okay.
[Grunts]
How long's it been since you moved that key?
- A while. - [Betty] Gus?
- Come open the door! - [Chuckles]
- You want to open the door? - It's unlocked.
[Knocking]
- [Knocking Continues] - We wanted to make sure you're okay. Is that so terrible?
Why can't you just let us in for a few minutes?
- Because it won't be a few minutes. - [Knocking Continues]
Well, I'm sorry. You know, we love you.
Hi, Mom.
We are not letting you go through this alone.
Right now I want to be alone.
Honey, I know you're devastated. It was a terrible, terrible tragedy, but chin up.
You have to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Chin up?
I kill a child, and your advice is about chins and feet!
Get out of here! Go!
Mom, I want you to go!
All I meant is that life goes on.
Have you tried prayer? Prayer is the only thing that can help you through this, Grace.
And I have butter beans, ham and potato salad. That should help too.
[Beeping]
- Why don't you just call her? - Look, Grace wants to be alone. I get that.
I wanted the same thing when my brother died.
Autopsy showed a deep bruise on Ron's left temple.
I'm sorry. What?
Killer knocked Ron unconscious, probably with a rock, then...
cut him with something like this.
And I haven't located any of Ron's next of kin.
Friends, people that he worked with say he never talked about his family.
"He's got a brother in Italy" is the best I got.
The call he got right before he left his boyfriend's house...
came from a pay phone outside a gas station.
- I'm gonna go see what else is around there. - I'll take another look...
through Ron's house, car.
- Dude has a nice car. - That was Ron's ex-boyfriend.
Says he hasn't seen or talked to him since they broke up three months ago.
Craig said they had lunch last week.
- Ex says he hasn't seen or talked to him in three months. - So who's lying?
- Ron could have been lying. - Any luck finding Ron's family?
- Mm-mmm. - Ex said Ron was disowned by his dad in college.
He assumes it was because he was gay, but he never talked about it.
That happens a lot in families.
You killed my baby!
Set me up, Louie.
Detective Hanadarko? I'm Ben.
Hey, Ben.
Thanks for meeting me.
Yeah.
Are you sure about this?
Yeah. If you're okay with it.
So, um, I had just dropped my girlfriend off.
And I was walking to the car.
She was, uh...
playing in the front lawn, just kicking a soccer ball...
and it rolled into the street.
She ran after it.
There was no way you could have seen her.
She never saw you either.
She didn't go flying or nothing. She just sort of... fell down.
Her name's Esperanza.
My girlfriend... she lives next door.
She said she's a sweet little kid.
Her funeral is tomorrow morning.
10:00.
Are you going?
I have to go to work.
My girlfriend's gonna go.
Esperanza is the second person whose death I'm responsible for.
The other one's my sister.
There's a third too, but he murdered three women...
and was trying to kill me, so I don't count him.
[Sighs] What happened to your sister?
She died in the bombing of the Murrah Building.
You know, ma'am, I don't... I don't know you, but...
the person responsible for that was Timothy McVeigh.
You don't know the whole story.
- Want another drink? - Yeah.
Is your girlfriend busy tonight?
Who you writing?
My parents. I know they're dead.
One of my therapists said it might help.
You already fill up those?
It's not one big, long letter.
I've been writing about everything.
This is about that night in Cambridge.
The night your parents died?
I had that on my lap. Daddy had brought it from home.
Someone pulled me out of the car, saved my life. Was it you?
Nope.
He tried to save my parents too, but the car exploded.
I can't remember what he looks like.
I don't know his name.
But my therapist says I should write him anyway.
What would you say?
I don't like to think about that night.
It was so dark, and it takes me over, and I can't stop it.
You stop it by moving through it... to the other side.
What's inside?
Something my dad got me. We were in Mexico.
- It was my 10th birthday. - Can I see it?
My dad told me his name was Chester.
[Chuckles]
[Knocking]
I thought we were supposed to leave her alone.
It's nice to know you listen to me, and I didn't mean forever.
Who are they?
[Rhetta] I don't know. They were asleep when I got here.
- [Phone Ringing] - I think maybe they had a couple drinks.
Yeah?
What?
Ah, so that's why we couldn't find a dad.
All right... Shit. All right. Later.
[Water Running]
Ron Carter's real name is Sayeed Alnami.
Sayeed Alnami is not Italian.
No, it's Iranian. Look, I'm gonna put her to bed. You go home.
I can stay.
Rhetta, in a couple hours, I'm gonna wake these people up and send them packing.
All right? Go home.
[Sighs]
Make sure you put her on her side.
I don't want her drowning in her own vomit.
Happens.
[Kisses]
## ["Ode To Joy"]
## [Stops]
Hey. Good morning.
Want some coffee?
- How you feeling? - Okay.
I met Ben and his girlfriend last night.
Nice folks.
- Are they still here? - No. They went home.
Esperanza wanted to go to OSU and be a veterinarian.
[Exhales]
She's a Cowboy.
[Exhales]
Ben told me he gave you these sleeping pills last night.
Yeah.
They worked great.
You gotta be careful with stuff, you know? Mixing pills with booze.
That's why I only had five drinks.
[Chuckles]
Why don't we get out of town, go someplace?
A buddy of mine has a cabin on the Blue River outside of Tishomingo.
- You have to work. - No, I don't.
Well, l-I don't want... I don't want to... I don't want to go anywhere.
I want to sleep some more, okay?
You go to work. I'll call you later.
- Grace... - Please.
Yeah. Okay.
[Knocking]
- Thank you. - That's Paige.
She went to get you coffee and doughnuts.
- Oh, my God. - I'll get rid of her.
Okay? You call me when you wake up.
[Door Opens, Closes]
Rhetta said it wasn't semen that was on Ron-slash-Sayeed's cheek.
It was mucus.
- Doubt if it's 'cause he had a head cold. - [Chuckles]
It's a male donor. Ex is coming in to give a sample for Rhetta to compare.
Guess who was too distraught to come in.
Craig? [Sighs] You tell him we'll come to him.
All he has to do is spit in a cup.
Mr. "Ala-ami"?
I'm Detective Stillwater. This is Detective Ada.
We're sorry for your loss, sir.
It is Alnami. And why am I here?
I have nothing to say about Sayeed.
Just a few questions, sir. We could talk in here.
I told you, I have nothing to say. I haven't spoken to Sayeed in years.
Why is that?
At the university, Sayeed rebelled. I had no choice but to disown him.
You know Sayeed changed his name to Ron Carter when he graduated?
Stupid. Yes. A friend, they told me.
Mr. Alnami, when did you first learn your son was gay?
[Spits]
There is no homosexuality in our culture.
I have no care for whoever did this to Sayeed! Blasphemy!
[Bobby] I'll call Rhetta.
- Hey. What's up? - I'm worried about my Aunt Grace.
- I told him we were too. - She'll see you guys. She won't see me.
She doesn't want to worry you, Clay. She's not herself.
We're all checking in on her. She's not going through this alone.
Where is she? I just went by there. She didn't answer the door.
- She's asleep. - Are you sure?
I'm supposed to be in school. Meemaw and all my aunts and uncles are busy this morning.
- So who's with her now? - Paige is with her.
- She has yoga. - She changed it.
Aunt Paige and Aunt Grace is not gonna last long.
[Chuckles] Leo is coming over when he gets off work.
- And I'll go over at lunch. - Okay?
I'll go after school. Stay all night. My dad's out of town.
I bet Grace would love that. She's gonna be okay, Clay.
It's gonna take a while, but she'll be okay.
- She's never gonna be the same. - But she will be okay.
[Sighs]
Scale of one to 10, how worried are you about Grace?
Today, 11. Why?
'Cause Paige isn't there. Grace wanted to sleep.
Ham, today is Esperanza's funeral.
- I know. - In less than an hour.
- She's not gonna go. - She's been talking about going.
[Knocking]
[Knocking Continues]
Grace?
I know you're there.
Sometimes talking about the darkness helps.
Let me help you.
[Water Running]
I don't understand. [Sniffles]
Ron is Italian. His family's from Milan.
No, his family is from Iran.
He changed his name when he was 21 from Sayeed Alnami to Ron Carter.
Ron is Christian. He got baptized last week.
Last week?
Do you mind if we get a swab of your D.N. A?
[Crying, Sniffles]
- Why? - To help us find out who killed Ron.
You want my tears?
No, sir. Um, a swab would be good.
Um, like you're brushing your teeth. Thank you.
That's it.
I knew... I knew Ron had secrets.
He didn't like to talk about things, but... but, shit!
Ron ever talk about his father? He had a pretty strong reaction when we told him Ron was gay.
I thought his father was in Italy. Okay?
A Catholic in Italy that couldn't handle his son being gay.
So imagine what he'll think when he finds that Ron switched from Allah to Jesus.
- [Knocking] - [Hut] Can I come in?
- It's visitors' day, right? - Yeah, but who are you?
I met you one night in Cambridge last year that we didn't actually meet.
You were in shock.
I'm sorry I couldn't save your parents too.
I want you to know I tried.
But the car was in flames.
Did Earl send you?
No. Who's Earl?
Why are you here? How did you find me?
Heard you wanted to find me.
If I'm wrong, I'll leave.
What do you want me to do with these?
I don't know how you found me that night in Cambridge or today, but thank you.
How've you been?
- [Water Running] - I'm trying to get better.
What you went through that night, it's gonna take a while.
Getting all those images...
sounds out of your head.
Don't be too hard on yourself.
Anything you want to ask me about that night?
- No. - I understand.
Mint?
I guess you're writing letters. Any of it make you feel better?
- Sometimes. - Problem is...
those other times.
- I was gonna write you a letter. - I look forward to reading it.
For the other times.
I should go, Neely. I'll see you in New Orleans.
[Heavy Breathing]
I should have brought flowers.
You've been running a marathon for 14 years, Grace.
Never telling anybody, never registering.
Just run to remember Mary Frances.
You'll find out what's right for Esperanza.
[Grace] I don't know, Earl.
[Earl] I do.
I think tomorrow...
I should meet her parents...
tell them how sorry I am.
I already told you, I know nothing.
You know your son was gay. You know he was seeing someone.
- "Seeing someone"? I don't know what this is. - Bullshit.
You live your whole life in denial?
What about cell phones? Cell phones okay in Islam?
He's got a cell phone.
Seems strange he used a pay phone outside a gas station.
One next door to the Mirage Hookah Lounge.
Place you meet your buddies, smoke, shoot the shit.
Your one friend... What's his name? Mustapha?
His son and your son are friends.
Yeah. Friends.
Mustapha's Muslim. His son is gay.
Mustapha still loves his son. What's your problem?
The Hadith says, "When a man mounts another man, the throne of God shakes."
[Bobby] Mm-mmm. It also says...
"Kill that man, and also kill the one it's being done to."
Mustapha's son knew Sayeed had been baptized a Christian.
Mustapha told you. It was the straw that broke your camel's back.
And the Koran says if a Muslim converts to Christianity...
it makes being gay look like gardening.
That's not exactly what it says, but it's what this idiot twisted it up to mean.
- I follow the teachings of the Koran. - Right, with a serrated knife.
[Butch] See, you're not in Turkey.
You're in the good old U.S. of A...
and we don't plug loogers on the floor in the police station.
But since you did, we found out it matched...
the looger we found on your dead son's face...
what we in forensic science like to call a "bingo-bingo match."
- How's it going with Dad? - He did it.
He, uh, sliced his son's head off...
because he turned his back on Allah for Jesus.
- Religion can make you crazy. - Captain?
What are you... Are you engaged?
Yes. I'm engaged.
Congratulations. Is... Harris?
- Harris. - [Laughs]
Hey, man. Thanks for coming back in.
That could have been Max who had his head sliced off.
- No. Max was not robbed by the guy we arrested. - Well, what about the others?
None of the crimes are connected and none of them are about being gay...
except the homicide, and that was just about...
a crazy father using the Koran to justify his homophobia.
Like Dad used the Bible?
So I overreacted.
Come on, man. You really think that we wouldn't give a shit just because someone's gay?
When you found out I was gay, I know it was hard.
Your big brother's a fag.
That's what you used to call me without even really knowing it.
- Nick, man, I was a kid. - Listen.
As soon as you realized I wasn't gonna be marching down the middle of the street...
in parades, dressed like a mermaid wearing a coconut bra...
you did a 360.
I'll never forget that.
Even when Dad would rather see me dead.
How's Dad doing?
Same.
- Think he's ever gonna change? - No.
[Laughs]
[Dog Barking In Distance]
I'm Grace Hanadarko.
I want to tell you how... I'm sorry.
I'm the one...
No.
Don't.
It's my fault.
I was cooking supper, and she was bothering me...
"Mommy" this and "Mommy" that.
I burned my hand on the stove.
I got angry. I took it out on her.
"Go outside and play," I yelled.
She did!
It's not your fault.
It's my fault.
[Sobbing] It's my fault.
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