\h\h\h\hCome on, Dad. You have to find it.
Orion should be right there.
The belt stars burn blue-white \h\h\h\h\h\hat 30,000 degrees.
\h\h\h\h\hBetelgeuse is Orion's shoulder.
Red. 3,500 degrees.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[chuckles] I'm trying my best here, Nolan.
They all look the same to me.
Dad! It's where the UFOs are.
It's not just UFOs, son.
I rented an RV for this.
\h\hI know how much you love vehicles.
Tonight's gonna be fun!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou said that we would see a UFO.
Uh, I-I said we'd try.
[rumbling in distance]
Aliens!
I wanna go see.
Nolan, stop!
No. Don't touch me!
How do you always get away from me?
The weakest part of your grip \h\his where the fingers meet
and the thinnest part \h\h\h\h\hof my wrist
is at the thumb side.
I can escape easily,
with a wrist rotation \h\h\h\hand a pivot.
\h\h\h\h\h\hCome on, Dad! Can we go see the lights?
Please!
[♪]
[Dad] Okay.
Just stay behind me. \h\h\h\h\hAll right?
I don't know what it is, let's keep our distance.
Come on.
Stay close to me, Nolan.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Nolan] I knew we'd see aliens tonight!
[Dad] Shh, shh!
Whatever is out there...
we don't want to scare it.
\h\h\hI wanna see. I wanna see aliens.
[♪]
Ow! Don't.
[♪]
Run.
Nolan! Run!
[♪]
[chuckles]
-I cannot believe that. \h\h\h\h\h-I'm serious.
Hi, Ronnie.
You're right. He does look like \h\h\hthe Old Spice commercial.
\h\h\h\h-Thanks. -The body spray.
\h\h\h\h\hNot the stuff you put on the loofah.
I told ya so.
How can I help you, Ronnie?
\h\h\h\hI'm shocked you're still here.
Y-You're shocked \hI'm still here?
I'm shocked you're here. What are you doing here?
You're obviously not cleaning. \h\h\h\hWhat is she doing here?
I'm not. I'm gone.
[chuckles] Bye.
\h\h\hAlways great to see you, Ronnie.
Look, I think you've upset her.
-I upset her? \h\h-Mm-hmm!
And I would be careful \h\h\h\hif I were you.
\h\h\h\h\hShe is rooting for the pool boy to win me over.
Oh, is that, uh, \hSix-Pack Jack?
He's flirting with you again? \h\h\h\h\h\h\hI'll kill 'im.
\h\h\hUh, it's "Jacques," and he has an eight-pack.
Here. It's done.
I see you're changing \h\h\h\hthe subject.
We'll get back to Jack later.
Um, how does this work?
\h\h\hIt's a R.A.T.-- remote-access trojan.
You upload the file,
and I will get a C2 channel
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat hides under maintenance diagnostics.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hFantastic. You wanna try that in English?
Put that into Braun's computer
\h\h\h\h\hand I will get to see everything he's trying to hide.
Fantastic.
\h\h\h\h\h\hNow, you sure that you want to do this?
I mean, spying on your boss--
\h\h\hyou could get into some pretty big trouble.
Right. Well, technically,
you're gonna be the one \h\hspying on my boss,
so I'm not too worried about it.
You know what I mean.
\h\hLook, he is coming at us very aggressively. All right?
Um, he's hiding something.
\h\hYou tellin' me this little thing's
gonna tell us what that is?
Yeah.
Good.
Yeah, I know.
\h\h\hAll right. All you gotta do is get this in Braun's computer.
All "I" have to do?
It's gotta be you.
\h\hHey, in case you forgot-- I'm getting married tomorrow.
I understand,
but if we figure out what Braun is hiding,
then we got him. \hYou understand?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAll right. What happens if I get caught?
He already banished me \h\h\h\h\hto Homicide.
That's why it's gotta be you.
Because he banished me \h\h\h\h\hto Homicide,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhis office is on Homicide's floor...
nobody's gonna question \h\h\h\hwhy I'm there.
All right, yeah. It's gotta be me.
All right. How you gonna \h\hget into his office?
\hI mean, getting in, that's not a problem.
\h\h\hIt's keeping Braun out-- that's what I'm worried about.
Leave that to me.
Captain Batista.
\h\h\hThere's a woman here who needs to file a report.
Troopers brought her in.
Thank you.
\hAll right. I'm gonna need your help on this.
I got you.
We're all in this \htogether, okay?
Yeah, we better be,
because once we do this, \hthere is no going back.
\h\h\h\h\hAre you sure you're okay with this?
[Kemi] Let's give them \h\h\h\ha moment alone.
Look. Braun took the gloves off \hwhen he transferred me, okay?
He's going down.
\h\h\h\h\hJust be a lot better if tomorrow wasn't, you know--
...The most important day \h\h\h\h\h\hof our lives?
I know.
But we got this.
Yeah, we do.
\h\h\h\h\hPaul and Nolan went camping last night.
They saw something in the woods,
and Paul went to investigate,
and Nolan said that he...
he had to run for his life.
Run from what?
He didn't see, just--
just a green light.
Paul sent Nolan back to the RV,
and when he didn't come back \h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the morning,
\h\h\h\hNolan said that he had to drive himself to find help.
Nolan can drive?
\h\h\h\h[Sarah] He likes cars,
so Paul's been teaching him \h\h\h\h\h\hhow to drive--
just-just GoKarts and ATVs. \h\h\h\h\h[chuckles softly]
When he's interested \h\h\h\hin something,
Nolan picks it up \hreally quickly.
\h\h\h\h\h\hEventually, he veered off the road,
and a state trooper \h\h\h\hfound him.
Mm. You're very brave.
[♪]
He has autism,
so he has trouble \hcommunicating.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPaul's been trying everything he can
to try and bond with him--
driving lessons and car shows.
Camping trips.
They were stargazing.
No! We were hunting aliens.
Did you say aliens?
Nolan, what did we talk about?
You like that light, huh?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Sarah] He's fascinated by light.
He could tell you
\hIt's pretty much all he talks about.
Cars...
light...
and aliens.
That one is 2,500 degrees
instead of 2,700.
Nolan, you can see that?
It's going to burn out.
The woods glowed green.
It was scary.
They took my dad.
[crackle-pop]
Get Jason
and check out that RV.
[♪]
[Jason] I'm tellin' you-- \h\h\h\h\h\hI saw a UFO.
This guy next to me is honking his horn
like a walrus in heat,
and then Bellisario's screaming "look up."
I look up, okay?
\h\hI see something... zig-zag across the sky.
I don't know what it is-- \hI checked flight plans,
off-book sources.
\hNothing! No record!
Unidentified!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI saw... an Unidentified Flying Object.
\h\h\h\h\h-I saw a UFO! -All right, slow down.
Slow down. So you don't believe \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin past lives,
\hbut you do believe in little green men?
Green men? No.
I believe in sexy pink ladies \h\h\h\h\h\hwith pointy ears.
Anyway, you think Paul Miller got overwhelmed with his kid
and took off?
Hmm, maybe.
Okay, so this kid was here alone \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hlast night.
He drove this boat \h\h\hinto a ditch,
and then we don't know \h\h\hwhere he started.
\h\h\h\h\h\hRight. And we have no idea
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwhere our missing person disappeared.
That's 30,000 acres of forest. That's too much for a manhunt.
\h\hOkay, so let's just narrow the search down.
Okay, what do we got? \h\h\h\h\h\hWe got--
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWe got a kid who is obsessed with aliens.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yes. -Like, heavy. We have...
\han RV rental agreement that was dated yesterday.
Yep. Oh!
\hAnd there goes our theory that Paul ditched his boy.
Come look at this.
Ahem.
Paul's wallet?
\h\h-Yep. -With...
some green weirdness.
\h\h\h\h\h\hYou're telling me you don't believe in aliens?
[♪]
Where am I?
[♪]
Where's Nolan?
[roars] Where's my son?
No, no, no!
-[knocks] Nik? \h\h\h\h\h-Hey.
Did you get anything \h\h\h\h\hat the RV?
Okay, so Paul's wallet \h\h\hwas left behind,
so we don't think that he ran.
\h\h\hBut there was a strange substance
\h\h\h\hon the wallet-- Helen is analyzing it.
That's not enough.
\hWe need to find out where Paul and Nolan were camping
before we can even \hstart the search.
And since Nolan moved the RV \h\h\h\h\hfrom the campsite,
it-it's gonna be challenging.
Maybe we need to work it from the other direction.
There was a rental agreement \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the RV
\h\h\hthat puts Paul in Philly yesterday.
If I can retrace his steps,
maybe it'll lead us \hto the campsite,
where he disappeared.
Whatever happened,
this man's family \hneeds him back.
-Issue the Alert. \h\h\h\h\h-Yeah.
[missing alert begins blaring]
[♪]
[alert blaring]
[Kemi] Hey, Helen.
Hey.
\h\hThe slimy substance you found on the wallet
was tetraborate-decahydrate \h\h\h\hpolyvinyl acetate.
Okay. That sounds like it's from outer space.
Outer space? I wish! Heh!
\h\h\hIt's just basic slime, like kids make in preschool.
\h\hPlease tell me you didn't just say
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"I wish it was from outer space"?
\h\h\h\hYou're not one of those E.T. fanatics, too?
I wouldn't say "fanatic,"
but I definitely leave room
\hfor the possibility of life beyond Earth.
But you're a scientist.
How can you believe in aliens, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith no evidence?
The ingredients of life
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hare common throughout the universe--
hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon.
And Earth can't be \hcompletely unique
among the 100 billion stars
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin each of the 100 billion galaxies.
With that many variants,
life must have formed elsewhere, \h\h\h\hjust like it formed here.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[whispers] Aliens must be out there.
Science almost guarantees it.
[Helen chuckles]
Well, I'm frightened. \h\h\h\h\hThank you.
What's not to like \h\h\habout aliens?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Jason] Nik, just stay off my case.
Please! Just stay off my case!
[♪]
\h\hSorry, man. My bad, my bad.
[♪]
You got a lot of nerve, asking me back up here.
\h\h\h\h\h\hYou said it was an emergency?
[♪]
[shuts door softly]
Look.
I know that things got heated the last time that we spoke,
but you are still my boss,
and I have a problem.
What is it?
[♪]
[security panel beeps]
[♪]
\h\h\h\h\hThe father of a neurodivergent child
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwent missing in 30 square miles of forest,
\h\h\h\hand I just don't have the manpower for the search,
especially since you transferred \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hSergeant Sherman.
[♪]
I warned you.
You should've listened.
Just hear me out, Hollis. Okay?
\h\hYou don't like what I have to say,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou have my word I will never say it again. Okay?
[♪]
[shutter snapping]
[snapping]
This is a question \h\h\hof resources.
We need to find this man,
\hand my people are doing the best they can, but--
That's where you're wrong, \h\h\h\hright there, Nikki.
They're not your people. \h\h\hThey're my people.
Excuse me?
[♪]
[Braun] I'm in charge
\h\h\h\h\hand I have documented your inability to accept that--
breach after breach \h\h\hafter breach.
So, let me say it plainly--
\h\h\h\hI am done with Jason Grant
and I am done with you.
Is that clear enough for you?
Crystal.
It'll be by the book,
\h\h\hbut I'm gonna do everything in my power
to end your tenure \h\h\h\hat the MPU,
and Grant's at Philly PD.
You're done.
Braun--
Braun? Inspector!
Hey!
[♪]
[phone buzzes]
Yeah?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Nikki] Braun is on his way down.
\h\h\h\h\hPlease tell me that you're outta there.
Almost.
Stall him.
I'll send Jason.
[elevator bell dings]
[door rumbling]
[♪]
[door closes]
[♪]
[snapping]
[♪]
\h\h\h\h\h\h-[clicks switch on] -[elevator thumps and lurches]
Actually, something
\h\h\hI've been meaning to talk to you about--
Yeah, what?
Um... tch.
\hI know you have everybody fooled,
thinking that you are \h\h\h\h\ha good guy,
but you're not a good guy, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hare you?
\h\h\h\hYou really don't like your job, do you, Detective?
Yeah, you know,
you're hiding something,
and I'm gonna find out \h\h\h\h\h\hwhat it is,
because that's what I do.
You understand?
Usually, I find people, \h\h\h\h\hbut for you,
I'm gonna make an exception.
-Uh-huh? \h-Yeah.
[Mike] Come on.
-See, the thing is, Jason-- \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Mm-hmm?
\h\h\h\h\hSee, I've got the ear of the Commissioner, the Mayor,
and they are both very clear
that your entire department \h\h\h\h\h\his on thin ice.
\h\hOh, don't make it about the department.
It's not about the department.
It's not about MPU.
It's about you and me-- you had a beef with me
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe second I walked through that door.
Problem is, I'm curious-- \h\h\h\h\h\hwhy is that?
Are you afraid of me?
You're afraid of me, \h\h\h\h\haren't you?
\hWhen this thing comes to a head--
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Mm-hmm? -Oh, man, and it will--
\h\h\h-Mm-hmm. -I want you...
to remember something.
Yeah? Tell me.
[clicks switch back]
You started this.
I know.
Now get out of my way.
Hey, Inspector.
Everything good?
You get your buddy \hoff of my floor.
Yes, sir.
[♪]
That was fun.
My man.
[♪]
[beep]
Copy that.
Kemi?
Yeah?
Mike did it.
\hWayne has access to Braun's system.
Geez.
And not a moment too soon.
I just got a credible hit \h\h\h\hoff of the alert.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPaul Miller got into a fight yesterday,
\hand you're never gonna guess where.
[♪]
\h\h\h\h\hYou haven't seen this guy at all?
No? Great. Thanks.
Thank you.
Okay.
Any luck?
No, uh, but I'm pretty sure \h\h\h\h\hyou can find one
of your sexy pink alien ladies \h\h\h\hwith pointy ears here.
\hYou think Wayne would be into an extra-terrestrial thrupple?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-That's funny. -I had to say it! I'm sorry.
That's good.
So one of these whackjobs here saw Paul and his kid yesterday?
Yeah, they didn't give a name,
but, yes, they reported
\h\h\h\h\hthat there was some sort of altercation.
All right, let's keep going.
All right.
[man] Authentic alien ooze!
Limited supply!
Direct from another galaxy!
\h\h\hDoes that ooze look familiar to you?
\hYeah. Helen said that it was slime,
\h\h\hlike kids make in elementary school.
[♪]
Uh-oh.
Don't let the government \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hdupe you!
They've been hiding \han alien presence
here on Earth for years!
\h-[thud] -[crash]
[♪]
[Jason] Hey, Philly PD! \hMove out of the way!
Out of the way! Make room!
[man] I won't be silenced!
[woman yelps]
[♪]
\h\h\h\h\h\h[Jason, yelling] Outta the way! Outta the way!
[♪]
Now what?
[♪]
Okay. That's enough.
[Kemi] Freeze!.
\h\h\h\h\h\h-[pop] -[Taser crackling]
[Jason] Okay, folks. \h\h\h\h\hMove along.
Philadelphia PD, everybody. \h\h\h\hEverything's fine.
[onlookers murmuring]
[Jason] Come on, you, get up.
\h\h\h\h\hWho are you and why did you run?
\h\h\hI j-- you guys don't know who I am?
\h\h\h\h\h\hI'm Terrance. Hashtag "TerranceTruth"?
Uh, whatever. Okay.
Have you ever seen this guy, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hright here?
W-W-Wait.
This isn't about my website-- \h\h\h\h"Truth by Terrance"?
No, this is about a missing person.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hSo, we understand that you got into an altercation
with Paul Miller yesterday.
That guy?
Okay, fine. Look.
\h\h\h\h\hHis kid opened up a container of ooze. Right?
Once you open it up, \h\h\h\h\hit's yours.
\h\h\h\hThat's it, but the daddy got pissed off about the price--
I'm just curious-- \hwhat is the price
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hof something that you made for 13 cents?
It's 39.99.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Uh-huh. -Oh, I don't like you.
Okay, great. Anyway.
Uh, he got it all over his hands \h\hand he started freaking out.
And I get it, okay?
I got a neurodivergent nephew.
I see what my sister \hhas to go through,
\h\hso I felt sorry for the guy and I gave him his money back.
That's it.
Even gave him
a primo campsite for UFO hunting.
\h\h\hOh, that's good. Where is this campsite?
Okay. Don't spread it around, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hplease?
\h\hThere is an Area 51 right outside the city.
"Philly 51."
\h\hOkay? So much UFO traffic, it's like, uh, an E.T. airport.
The military has been trying \h\hto cover it up for years.
\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah, Philly 51? -Yeah. Look at these burns.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI got them from the UFO-radiated creek water.
Where... is... the campsite?
Okay.
It's out by Ridley Creek.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThank you. Stay right there, don't move.
\h\h\h[Terrance] Can I at least--
You can do nothing! \hJust stay there.
All right, Ridley Creek.
That's gotta be where Paul \h\h\hwent into the woods.
Look at those burns.
\h\h\h\h\h\hYou gotta take Helen to get some creek-water samples,
but I'd set some ground rules \h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith her first.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNo, no. You guys are gonna bond.
\h\h\hIt's gonna be a great experience.
-It's gonna be fantastic. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Jason!
No-no-no. It's gonna be great! \h\hYou're gonna have a blast.
[Kemi] I hate you.
\h\h\h\hWhat are you hiding behind all these firewalls?
[♪]
Hello. What's this?
[dialing rapidly]
[line ringing]
Come on, Jay. \h\hPick up.
[hangs up, dials again]
-[elevator bell dings] \h\h\h\h-[phone buzzes]
One second. Hold on.
[♪]
Hey, Wayne. What's up? \h\h\hEverything okay?
\h\h\h\hYeah, um, I just couldn't get ahold of Jay
\h\h\hand he told me to reach out to you.
\h\h\h\h\hI think I found what Braun's been hiding.
All right, yeah, what do you got?
The guy that's in jail
for Maritz's murder, \h\h\hLogan Barlowe--
\h\h\hyou guys think he's a patsy, right?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI think I found the real bomber.
[Kemi] Terrance said
\h\h\h\h\hthis is where he sent Paul and Nolan.
Thanks for bringing me \h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith you.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Sure. -I'm usually a lab rat,
but today I get to be \h\h\ha field mouse!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hOkay, no. What was rule number two?
No singing?
That was rule number one.
Oh... no puns.
Bingo.
\h\h\h[sings softly] ♪ ...Was his name-o
Okay. I heard that.
\h\h\h\h-Okay. -Wait a minute.
We got tire tracks.
Back there.
And a tripod!
Yeah, this must be the place.
Um...
They might've gone this way. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLet's try it.
Okay.
So I searched property records,
\h\h\h\h\h\hbased on what Truther-Terrance told us,
and there is no "Area 51" \h\h\hnear Ridley Creek,
\h\hbut there is a paper mill half a mile north from here.
Uh, Rasp Pulp and Paper.
Why would Terrance think a paper mill is Area 51?
\hMaybe because they wanted to do everything they could
to stay off the grid.
About 20 years ago,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthere was an environmental protest
at the mill,
and it got out of hand
\h\h\h\h\h\hand one of the mill workers died.
And then after that,
\h\hthe mill disappears from public databases--
scrubbed from internet searches.
I mean, the property records \h\h\h\hrequire access codes.
They basically just disappeared \h\h\h\h\h\h\hfrom public view.
\h\h\h\hSo that's why the UFO crowd thinks
this is another Area 51.
I mean--
Oh.
The-- The alien guy said
\h\h\h\h\hthe creek water burned his hands, right?
Yeah. You need some help?
No, I am good.
I am fully prepared.
Ah, okay.
Ooh, look at those.
Bonkers.
[Helen chuckles]
Honk, honk. Honk, honk!
Oh, oh! Okay, yeah.
Yeah, you just stand back \h\hand watch the expert.
-All right, standing back. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Okay...
\h[Kemi] Have you done this before?
-[Helen] Yes, I've done this. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Uh-huh?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Helen] Many, many, many, many...
\h\h\h\h\h\hJust kidding. I've done it once before.
Oh! Oh... just once?
-Yeah. -Uno...
Ah. There you go.
I have to get this to the lab
\h\h\hto figure out exactly what it is,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hbut there are non-polar molecules in here,
forming an emulsion.
Uh, so there's chemicals \h\h\h\h\h\hin the water?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou... Kemi called it right.
\h\h-No. -Get it?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-No. -"Chemical." Kemi--
\h\h\h-No. -...Called?
\hWait a minute, I got something.
All right, let's see.
Paul's telescope. \h\hIt's smashed.
\h\hMaybe he used it against his attacker.
[♪]
"Rasp Pulp and Paper."
Okay.
So chemicals in the water...
and Paul's telescope.
Yeah, we gotta get a search team \h\h\h\h\h\h\hto that paper mill.
Captain Batista?
Sarah, did something happen?
Has there been any more information about Paul?
No, there's nothing \h\h\hto share yet,
\h\h\h\h\hbut as soon as I have something I will--
Okay, because, um, sometimes, \h\h\h\hNolan draws pictures
when he's upset.
[Nolan] It's last night.
The aliens.
Uh, so, I think, um,
that the baseball one \h\h\his about regret
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hbecause, uh, Paul loves baseball and...
and Nolan's never interested \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand...
Paul's favorite player's \h\h\h\h\h\h\hNolan Ryan
\h\h\h\h\h\hand he insisted that we name our son Nolan.
You got a new bulb.
Are there any more going out?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Sarah] If you look and the pictures...
This is the green glow, right?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThat-- That Nolan told you about.
But then, there's also \h\h\hthis purple light
\hthat he never mentioned, and, I don't know, I-I-I--
\h\hI thought that... that that might help.
Hey, Nolan...
can you remember \hanything else?
Anything at all?
Okay, well, thank you so much \h\h\hfor bringing these in.
\h\h'Kay, now... I'll be in touch.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[crying out] I'm running out of air in here!
Please!
Help me!
[grunts]
Nolan!
Help!
Thanks for coming in, \h\h\h\h\h\hMr. Rasp.
Um...
so, we searched the paper mill,
and, uh, looked in every broom closet,
every chemical vat.
No-- No Paul Miller. Where's Paul Miller?
Sorry, Detective. \h\hI don't know.
I mean, I came in of my own accord.
You have my full cooperation.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnything we can do to help with your investigation,
we'll do.
-[claps] \h-Great!
Uh, we found, um, a rag
from your mill
down at the crime scene.
\h\hWell, you have my employee records
and security footage,
but, I mean, we've been \ha family-run business
since my grandpa founded us,
so I'd be shocked if an employee \h\hhad anything to do with this.
\h\h\hThat rag could've gotten downstream any number of ways.
It could've.
\h\h\h\h\hWe're actually currently running samples
\h\h\hon the creek water, uh, where Paul Miller was taken.
I don't understand.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hOkay, um, well, here's what I think happened.
I think that Paul saw something that he wasn't supposed to see.
What are you implying?
\hI think you know what I'm implying.
That water's not right,
it burns,
and I'm gonna find out why.
\h\hWe use an EPA-certified wastewater treatment system
for our sludge disposal.
My mill is clean.
It better be.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt better be, or you're in big trouble. Okay?
-You can go for now-- \h\h-[phone buzzing]
\h\h\h\h\h\h...till I find something more actionable.
\h\h-[phone buzzing] -[footsteps receding]
What's up?
[Mike] Yo, I've been trying to reach you!
Wayne called me.
What's going on? \h\hIs she okay?
Yeah, she's fine.
Look, she found something.
Braun might not be \h\h\hthe only cop
\h\h\h\hwho's involved in that Maritz bombing.
More cops?
Yeah, well, just one. Maybe.
But there's a witness report
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwho was there before the explosion happened.
What, you're saying \ha bomb squad cop
\h\h\hwas on the scene before the car blew up?
\h\h\h\h\h\hYes. His name is Sergeant Jordan Wells.
\h\h\hHe used to work directly under Braun.
He might be the guy \hwe gotta talk to.
W-Why "might" be?
\hWell, he could be the actual bomber,
\h\h\h\hor he's just a cop who had business at lock-up
\h\h\hand was on the scene when it happened because--
\hBecause, what-- he's a good cop,
and he just wanted \h\hto be helpful?
Come on, what do you think?
\h\h\h\hI think I gotta talk to Sergeant Wells,
figure out what he knows.
Okay, go do that. Be safe.
Don't do anything \hI wouldn't do.
\h\h\hIs there something you actually wouldn't do?
\h\h\hI realized that when I said it. Okay?
Just-- Just be careful. Please.
[laughs] Yeah.
\h\h\h\h\hI got results from the creek water we collected.
Okay.
It's contaminated,
but not by UFO radiation.
By what?
Oh. Xylan hemicellulose--
a hazardous chemical byproduct \h\h\h\h\hof paper production.
\h\h\hConfirmation the mill is dumping waste illegally.
Yeah, Paul must've come across someone
dumping the chemicals.
They came at him.
\h\hHe tried to fight them off with a telescope, but couldn't.
But that still doesn't explain
the lights and sounds \h\h\hthat Nolan saw.
He's convinced it was aliens.
That's what's so exciting!
One of the properties \hof hemicellulose...
What do you mean?
...is that it reacts \h\h\h\hto UV light.
Mm.
\h-[click] -It glows!
You know, Nolan described \h\h\hevery light he saw
by color temperature.
He knew the precise numbers \h\hof each star in the sky
and light bulbs in this office.
But he said that he saw \h\h\h\ha "green glow"
\h\hand a "purple light" in the woods last night--
no color temperatures.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hUltraviolet light isn't measured by temperature.
\hIt's measured in wavelengths.
Maybe Nolan saw UV \h\h\hin the woods.
Special lamps are often used to spot dangerous chemicals.
For instance,
\h\hwhen you're dumping them illegally in the dark woods.
\h\h\hWe need to get the owner of the paper mill back in here.
Great job, Helen!
[Nikki] Okay, talk to me.
Yep?
Okay, so, the DNA that Helen pulled
off of the telescope
belongs to...
Steven Moore.
He did time at Allenwood \h\h\h\hfor manslaughter.
\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd now he has a Class-C trucker's license
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand works for Rasp Pulp and Paper.
Pull up the employee records
that Jason sent over from the paper mill.
\h\h\h-Got you... -[keys clacking]
All right, so it looks \h\h\h\h\h\hlike Moore
\h\h\h\his assigned to tanker truck 16.
\h\h\hIt was clocked out end of the day yesterday,
\hbut it doesn't look like there was a return logged.
Give me one second...
\h\h\h\h\h\hTanker truck 16 never returned to the mill.
Can you track it?
Yes, I can.
\hI have the mill's fleet-tracking GPS
from yesterday.
[Nikki] Okay, okay.
\h\h[Kemi] Looks like someone stopped here
and disabled the GPS.
\h\hTanker truck 16 went into the woods
and never came out.
\hAnd, uh, we know that Paul hit Moore
with the telescope \h\h\hby the creek.
So if we can find the truck--
...Then Moore and Paul Miller \h\h\hcould still be with it.
Yeah, but we didn't see \hany sign of a tanker.
I mean, if they drove deep into the woods,
that's 30 square miles of forest that we're gonna have to search.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIn the dark, and under a canopy of trees.
What a mess.
[♪]
I have an idea.
[line ringing]
Hey, Jay? Yeah.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWe think that Paul's still in the woods.
Would you meet us at Ridley Creek?
But we're gonna need \h\h\h\hyour friend--
\h\h\h\h\hyou know, the eye in the sky?
Okay. So have him meet us there \h\h\h\h\hwith his full fleet,
and-and bring as many UV lights as he can.
-Let's go, let's go. \h\h\h\h\h\h-Got you.
[♪]
Our missing person's \h\hstill out there.
\h\hSo, we're gonna blanket the forest
with UV lights from 20 drones.
Captain Batista!
Okay, let's go.
What--
what are you guys doing here?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWe've been driving around the forest.
I didn't know what else to do, \h\h\h\hand-and Nolan insisted.
My dad's out there somewhere.
Nolan saw the lights \hfrom the car, so...
I mean, what's happening?
\h\h\h\hWe think we know how to find your husband.
Just in drive.
Okay.
Cody, I missed you, buddy. \h\h\h\h\h\h\hHow you been?
\hSo what exactly am I looking for,
\h\h\h\h\h\hand where exactly is the 2,000 you promised me?
Oh, you're cash-up-front now?
\hI thought you do the thing and then I pay ya afterwards.
Right? Right?
Thank you. Okay, um...
there's chemicals on and around the truck
\h\h\h\hthat glow green when UV light hits 'em.
All right.
That's hopefully where our guy is.
Kemi and I are gonna jump on the bikes and head out there.
You can ride a bike, yes?
Try keepin' up, baby.
Okay.
\h\h\h\h\h\hShe's got nuggets. We could've used her in Kabul.
Yeah.
All right, I'm gonna \hgo watch 'em go up.
[Kemi] Yeah.
Initiating take-off now.
Step back.
Here we go.
Just watch, okay?
[♪]
We're going to find your dad.
[♪]
Wow!
[♪]
-We good? \h-Yeah.
All right.
So the UV lights
should be able to spot
the chemical signature \h\h\h\h\hon the truck.
\h\h[Kemi] Hopefully, that's where Paul is.
[Steve] Where are you?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Rasp] There's cops everywhere,
you've gotta get out of there.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[Steve] I see lights in the sky.
They're gonna find me.
You said I was just gonna \h\h\h\hkeep him out here
till you figured out \h\h\h\h\hwhat to do.
You were just supposed \h\hto dump the sludge,
not kidnap somebody!
\h\h\hIf the police find you, the whole company goes under!
Guy saw me dumping,
hit me with something, \h\h\h\hI hit him back.
He's almost dead already.
\h\hCan't I just leave him in the truck to suffocate?
Can you help it along?
Get it done faster?
But not in the truck.
That will tie him back to the mill.
Kill him?
In the creek.
\h\h\h\h\h\hMake it look like he fell in and hit his head.
What about the truck?
Leave it. I'll...
I'll report it stolen tomorrow.
I can pay you.
Triple what I paid to dump the sludge.
\h\hIt's gonna cost way more than that.
Whatever it takes.
[coughing]
[lock beeps]
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou need to get ahold of yourself.
\h\h\h\h\h\hYou're not thinking this through.
Relax.
Whatever Grant learned \h\h\h\h\hfrom Barlowe,
it's a dead-end.
We're fine.
Hold on.
[tapping keys]
They've been in my computer.
Yes, it's a problem.
[exhales tensely]
No. No-no-no-no-no-no.
[thumps desk]
[♪]
[phone buzzing]
Wayne, I gotta call you back.
Mike! I...
I can't get ahold of Jay, but something's happened.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hListen, I'm at Jordan Wells' house--
the bomb squad cop.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHe might be the actual Maritz bomber.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHe's been building bombs at home.
I'll call you back.
[fumes]
[♪]
[Cody] Not seeing anything.
[Jason] It's there. \h\h\h\hKeep going.
[clanking]
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hCome on. You're getting outta here.
Come on.
Come on...
[♪]
\h\h\h\h\hThat looks like the outline of the creek.
What's that next to it?
Right there, right there.
Hold on. Right there.
That looks like it! \h\h\h\hThat's it.
-Okay. Coordinates, coordinates. \h\h\h\h-Sent it to your phones.
All right, let's ride. \h\h\h\h\h\hLet's ride.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Beautiful. -Tell Nikki we're on our way.
[Cody] Copy that.
[♪]
[groaning]
[♪]
[groaning]
Steve Moore!
The longer you drag this out,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe worse it's going to get for you.
[Kemi] Paul!
Paul, we're here to take you home.
Call out if you can hear me.
[struggling]
[Paul] Help!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Help! -[Jason] Down, down, down!
[Kemi] Stay down. Stay down.
You're okay.
[♪]
Hey, hey, hey. \hRelax, relax.
You're under arrest
for the kidnapping \h\hof Paul Miller.
Jason. You good?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYeah. You got some handcuffs?
Hey.
Hi.
I kept asking to see you.
They rushed you away \h\h\h\h\hso quickly.
\h\h\hCaptain Batista had us meet you here.
-Are you hurt? \h\h-I'm fine.
Nolan, guess what?
\hWhen I was out there and the bad man had me,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI remembered your wrist trick to escape.
You saved my life.
[♪]
\h\hIt is moments like this that make me love this job.
According to Helen,
\h\hit's more probable than not that there's aliens out there.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hSomething about "the basic elements of life."
I don't know, maybe she's right.
\h\hSpace is infinite, infinite possibilities.
\h\h\h\hWell, in a universe of infinite possibilities,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthis was the best possible outcome.
We'll leave you guys a moment.
-Thank you. -Of course.
-Thank you... \h-Of course.
So you're a driver now?
[laughs] \hHe is!
-So sweet. \h-Coffee?
Yes, please.
-Hey, Nik. \h\h\h-Hey.
How you doing?
You think MPU could reimburse me \h\h\h\hfor a new phone or what?
\h\h\h\h\h\hOn top of the $2,000 for your very strange drone guy?
Uh-uh.
All right, I might be \hable to salvage it.
-Let me take a look, yeah. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Thank you.
[Kemi] Mm-hmm.
So, the hazardous waste team
\h\h\h\hsaid that the water will dilute back to normal
\h\h\h\h\has long as we stop the dumping.
All right, well,
\hI'm going to go put some jewelry on Rasp.
The trucker ratted him out.
Uh, Rasp was paying him
\h\h\hto dump waste from the paper mill
\hand then he freaked out when Paul saw him dumping
and then Rasp gave \h\hthe kill order
when we were closing in.
EPA fines are one thing,
but conspiracy to murder--
that will put him away \h\h\h\h\hfor a while.
-Great work. \h\h\h\h-Yep.
-You sure you don't want any? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-No, I can't.
Uh, you hear from Mike?
Not yet. Why?
[♪]
Where's that photo that Wayne sent me?
\h\hIt's the same trigger from the Maritz bombing.
Who the hell are you?
Jordan Wells.
I'm Sgt. Mike Sherman, \h\h\h\h\h\hPhilly PD.
\h\h\hDo me a favor. Put that weapon down.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWhat're you doing in my work shed, Sgt. Sherman?
I know you're the one
\h\h\hthat made that bomb that killed John Maritz.
Who put you up to it? \h\h\h\hWas it Braun?
Say his name,
\hwe might be able to get you a deal.
\h\h\h\h\h\hCops live short, miserable lives behind bars.
\h\h\h\h\hI get busted, my family gets nothing.
No insurance. No pension. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNothing.
When he told me
people were digging into \h\h\h\h\hLogan Barlowe,
I figured this day would come.
When who told you? \h\h\h\h\h\hBraun?
This is the only way to protect my family.
I'm no good to them \h\h\hbehind bars.
What are you doing?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIf I die in an accidental explosion,
my ex gets taken care of.
My kids have a life.
\h\h\h\h-[beeping] -Nothing personal,
but I can't leave you behind
to say this was anything other than an accident--
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Don't do it. -I'd do anything for my family.
Don't do it.
\h\hJust like Braun. Family is everything.
[beeping]
[explosion]
[♪]
[dialing]
\h\h\h\h-[line ringing] -Oh, pick up, pick up.
Jason, I need you.
He knows.
[typing rapidly]
[struggling]