"D'oh!" "When I worked vice, we called people like you habitual contributors." "Can't win if you don't play." "Three duckies..." "And we are paying off every damn credit card and snapping them all in half." "Yeah, baby." "One more." "Another home invasion." "Nichols Hills." "Number five." "This time they killed someone." "All robbery's got is two black men in ski masks" " One fat, one thin." " $10,000!" " My God!" "$10,000!" "Oh, my God!" "10,000!" "$10,000!" "$10,000!" "I got to go call Ronnie!" "Oh, my God!" " You didn't." " He did!" "I got it online for 10 bucks." "I put it in her pile." "You go tell her." "You go tell her right now." " No." "I'm gonna borrow some money." " You could-- but" "We could each borrow, like, a thousand bucks." "The fine print on the back says, "Redeemable through the tooth fairy."" " This is a joke?" "!" " I didn't have anything to do with it!" "Hamilton Dewey!" "Oh, God, put me" "Right now!" " Salud." " Roland Rosco Tupton." "The body's been here for a while." "You're smelling it, urine, and excrement." "Rhetta, can you clear the windows so we can open 'em?" "Yeah, we're on it." " We got a second victim?" " Linda Hall. 38." "Also bound and gagged, but nude." "Was transported to Baptist Hospital in serious condition." "I'm headed there now." "Bird." "You okay?" "Or should I have Animal Control come and remove the canary?" " You got canvas going?" " Yeah." "Yeah, the housekeeper found the body." "Casey Dillon, 19." "She's a sophomore at O.U." "She was pretty upset." "So I had patrol take her back to the office." "I've got blood." "See." "See." "Oh, sorry, my mistake." "I'm gonna talk to the housekeeper." "Ham's Ornithophobia is getting worse." "Look at the rope burns." "He was trying to free himself." "He rubbed his face raw trying to get off the duct tape." "He was fighting to live." "Hey, Matthew." "Earl." " What brings you to Oklahoma City?" " Roland Rosco Tupton." " Lost another one, huh?" " Yeah, man." " You?" " Just checking in on one of mine." "So that's Grace Hanadarko." "Make you feel any better, she'll catch the ones killed Roland." "Ro was just making a turn." "And God pulls his number." " I don't get it." " Going through a rough patch." "That's all." "4,000 years is more than a rough patch, man." "Come on." "You know how many souls I've surrendered?" "Roland makes a million..." "Even" " You know what that means." "It means I'm on the bench." "Well, for a while." " How many you surrender?" " Why you keeping score?" " This ain't about you and me." " 17." "You surrendered 17 souls." "You're a celestial legend, and I'm a joke." "Souls you been assigned ain't no joke." "I remember you tussling with Idi Amin." "Tomas de Torquemada." "Eichmann, Hitler, Ivan Vasilyevich." "And you get Moshe Dayan, Francis of Assisi." "You think Francis was easy?" "We had some knock-down, drag-out fights." "Mother Teresa?" "That woman was a lot feistier than she looked." "There were days her anger and heartache were so deep, I" "Well, she could get mean." "I'll leave it at that." "Yeah, but every one of them loved their version of God more than anything else, right?" " How do you do it?" " I just try not to block the view." "You take care, Matthew." "You'll be back in the game in no time." "Core body temperature indicates he's been dead around 24 hours." "Lividity suggests he wasn't moved after death." "He's beat up pretty bad." "I've seen guys walk away from worse." "I'll find out more once I get him on the table." "You know that vein in the chief's forehead?" "A few minutes ago, it looked like a pulsating leech." "Bobby just called." "Our other victim's diabetic." "She's semiconscious, but she'll recover." "Rape kit?" "Tested positive, but Bobby hasn't been able to talk to her yet." "Help me save the chief from popping a vein." "Sorry." "M.O. looks the same as the four other home invasions." "Strike in broad daylight, hog-tie homeowner, car keys on the kitchen counter makes it appear they came from the garage." " You think it was robbery?" " Yeah." "General description's all they got." "Public needs to be reminded the suspects came from the garage." "Yeah." "Press is my next stop." "Let me know if you need anything." " Is that Linda Hall?" " Yeah." "She was here over 24 hours in her own piss and shit." "Dead boyfriend tied to her back." "Put me in the psych ward." "Just give me my gun and the guys that did it." "Come look at this." "Something really heavy lived here." "Housekeeper can tell us." " It was a safe." " Do you know what was inside the safe?" "No, Sir, I just know it's next to the vacuum." " How long have you worked for Mr. Tupton?" " This is my second year." "You're doing great, Casey." "How often do you work?" " Do you always come in at the same time?" " Monday through Friday, I" " I come at noon." "But yesterday I had a test." "Walk me through what happened when you got to Mr. Tupton's house." " I opened the door." " You have your own key?" "Yes, Sir." "I knew something wasn't right." "It smelled awful." "Take your time, Casey." "Mr. Tupton and Linda were tied together on the floor." "Linda was naked." "I could tell she was breathing." "And Mr. Tupton..." "He wasn't." " He was cold." " Look, I know this is hard." "Do you want to talk about something else for a second?" "Let's talk about something else." "Uh... you're a sophomore at O.U.?" " What are you majoring in?" " Drama." "O.U.'s got a great drama department." "Where are you from?" "Where did you grow up?" " El Reno." " Any relation to Sunny Dillon?" "He's my dad." "I went to school with your dad." "Tell him Ham Dewey says hello." "Oh, my God." "Really?" "Daddy said you were a cop." "Wow." "Well, last time I saw you, man, you were in diapers." " What are you doing here?" " Humans mystify me." "Answer my question, Matthew." "I wanted to see what this Grace Hanadarko was all about, why you're so crazy about her." " Explain that." " Well" "She sticks one animal's head on the wall..." "And lets another animal sleep on the furniture." " Well, this is Gus." " And she names it." " What is that?" " Well, he's part of her family." "They name the strangest things" "Boats, animals, land" "Like it belongs to them." "Now they're naming the stars." "The stars-- Can you believe it?" "That's what makes people so wonderful." "You can't ever tell what they're gonna do next." "Free will" "It's highly overrated, man." " Sure you're not just jealous?" " Of this?" "Are you serious?" "Why does she live here?" "Why haven't you bribed her with a mansion?" "Can't see Grace in a mansion." "Humans like to earn their way." "Good grade on a test." "Medal for winning the race." " That kind of stuff means something to 'em." " Means more than God." "That's the problem." "Well, I figure God gives them the desire to achieve great things." "He wants them to achieve great things." "Well, I Miss the days when people turned to God... out of pure fear." "Come on." "I got to go to Malaysia." "You've got to get ready for your big review." "I'll walk you out." "You're, um..." "You're having trouble with this one, aren't you?" "Well, the great ones are always a challenge." "God damn it, we got nothing." "Robbery's got nothing." "We got a tall, skinny black guy as the rapist..." "That's all Linda could tell me-- That and both men had on ski masks." "They had to sedate her again when she remembered what happened." "You hear from Henry?" " Yeah, Roland died of a heart attack." " Same as putting a bullet in him." "Man, we door-knocked every house in the neighborhood" " No one saw anything." " Can't you get ahold of his son?" " Left three messages." "Goes straight to voicemail." "Casey says he's probably out of town." "Housekeeper." " Ham used to babysit her, take her fishing." " I didn't babysit, man." "Her dad and I... were just out of high school, and we'd just bring her along whatever we were doing, you know?" " Shoot, was that lightning?" " Maybe a transformer blew." "Hello." "May I, uh, buy you a drink?" " I'm here with my friends." " Excellent." "Sir, drinks for my friends." "Drinks for everyone!" "For everyone!" "Quick, man, hook me up." "What are you doing?" "Grace-- shit!" "It is gonna be Alfred Hitchcock out there by noon." "I was up all night on the Internet looking for birdseed recipes." "It's like catnip, only for birds." "Ham has a new screen saver." "How come you weren't at Louie's last night?" "Making birdseed?" "All I could think about was what I couldn't buy with the money I didn't win." "Ham can loan you some money." "He won a thousand bucks arm-wrestling." "Not funny." "Are you serious?" "Guy had a wad of cash, like, this thick." "He was buying everybody drinks." " $1,000." " A thousand bucks." "Too bad it won't cure his Ornithophobia." "Yeah, big crybaby." "Afraid of birds." "I'm looking for Detective Stillwater." "Linda." "I'm Detective Hanadarko." "I'm working your case with Detective Stillwater." "He's on his way to Baptist to talk to you." "I... had to get out of there." "Can you take my statement?" " Sure." " I just" " I want to get it over with." "They were black." "They had on ski masks." "The one who raped me smelled like beer." "Well, let's start at the beginning, yesterday morning." "Um, Roland and I walked the track at McGinnis." "What time?" "Um, 5:30." "We do that on the mornings I stay o... ver." "We got home at around 7:00." "Did you see a car parked on the street, anything unusual?" "No." "Did you pull into the driveway?" "Into the garage." " We went in through the kitchen." " And did you pull down the garage door?" "I... think so." "He always does." "Yeah, the button by the kitchen door." "Yeah." "And you went inside?" "I heard something behind us." "I turned." "I got hit in the face, fell down." "Roland started fighting and yelling." "One of them had a gun." "And they tied Roland up, taped his mouth, my mouth." "Did they have on gloves?" "Like doctors wear." "Roland was struggling and..." "He closed his eyes when the one on me, he pulled my pants down and raped me." "Then they dragged me over and tied me to Roland." "They took a safe." " Do you know what was in it?" " I didn't" " I didn't know Roland had a safe." " When they left, did you hear a car start up?" " No." "We were trying to get out of the ropes." "Roland tried so hard." "I" " I was waiting for the housekeeper." "I could see the clock, and-- And-- and she comes at noon." "But she didn't come." "I could hear the whole day go by, just people and cars." " You need to take a break." " After a while, Roland stopped breathing." "And he got r-really heavy." "He got so heavy." "And it got dark." "Why didn't Casey come?" " She always comes on time." " She came yesterday and found you." "How did you meet Roland?" "I'm a... checker at Sam's Market?" "Express lane, usually." "Roland would come in two or three times a day, always with 12 items or less." "Finally, I said," ""Sir, if you'd combine your purchases, you wouldn't have to come in so often."" ""Then I wouldn't get to see you", he said." "How long were you dating?" "Almost a year." "We were talking about getting married." "We need a fingerprint, something that puts these bastards at the scene." "No match in the system from the rape kit, and not getting any prints, and you can get this stuff at any hardware store." "But" "But you got something better." "9 inch piece of rope from Mr. Tupton's body... has a dark, greasy substance embedded in the manila fiber." "Substance is totally inconsistent with anything else at the scene." "So... it's highly possible that it was transferred from one of the suspects to the rope." "It's being analyzed." "You're welcome." "This type of rope used in the four previous home invasions... is 3/8-inch polyblend." "Rope used in the Tupton murder is 3/8-inch pure manila." "They could have run out of rope, bought some more." "Not just the type" "It's the knots." "First four robberies, suspects used square knots," " your basic boy scout." " Little boy scouts gone bad." "Tupton and Hall were tied with several simple half hitches, and a brownie would be embarrassed to tie someone up like that." "Shit." "We got different M.O.s" "Saying we got a copycat?" "Got some inconsistencies in the M.O. We don't know yet." " Yeah, the rope, the knot, and the rape." " Everything else matches." " Still no word from Tupton's son." " You know what was taken?" "Just the safe, Linda's, uh, purse, his wallet." "Linda said he probably had about $500 cash." "Was Tupton wealthy?" "He sold his plumbing-supply company a few years ago for just under a half a million dollars." "Still owed on his house." "Paid his mortgage every month in cash." "No bank account." "Shit." "That safe is full of cash." " Shit!" " What?" " Birds!" " Payback's a bitch, ain't it?" " I can't work with birds!" " What's your problem with birds?" "I hate them, man!" "Bobby, get them out of there!" "Now!" "I'm serious!" "Can the birds wait until we talk to Russle Tupton?" "He just called." "Dad wasn't gonna marry Linda." "He was just having fun." " Well, Linda said they were talking marriage." " Maybe they were." "I don't" " I don't know." "Your dad see anything unusual past couple of weeks" "Strange cars in his neighborhood, anything?" "My dad was a moose." "I know he fought back." "Whoever did this, they got some bruises." " Your dad put up a hell of a fight." " He didn't have a bad heart." "He must have just-- He just got so upset." "I can't believe they tied him up like that." "They left him" " They left him tied up." "A safe was stolen." "Do you know what was inside?" "Figure legal papers..." " Money." "I don't know." " He have a lot of money?" "I don't know." "Your dad doesn't have a bank account." "He got it all out last year when those banks went under." "I take you back to your dad's house, you think you can tell what's missing?" " Guess." "Yeah." " Do you know Casey Dillon?" " College girl cleans dad's house?" " She didn't show up yesterday." "Is that unusual?" "I don't know her schedule or anything." "She comes a couple times a week." " Were you out of town yesterday?" " I was sick." "This 24-hour bug." "I didn't get your messages till this morning." " Anything else missing?" " No, um, but Roland Tupton, his son," " is a couple hundred-thousand dollars in debt." " Shit, does he have a job?" "Yeah, he's got a great one, man." "He makes over 100 grand a year." "But he lives in an apartment." "No assets." "His car just got repossessed." "Bobby's talking to his neighbors." " Drugs?" " Gambling, porn, something." " We got to get Casey back in here." " I already called her." "You know what?" "Google "OKC home-invasion robberies"." "Got to be a blueprint for a copycat." "Shit!" "Shit!" "Shit!" "Shit!" "Oh, God!" "Oh, man!" "Get it off!" "Please!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "I'm here." "The hard-boiled eggs are here." "Grace is not here." " Why are you laughing?" " Hungry baby bird." "Ham ran out of here screaming like a little girl." " Listen, I got to bail on lunch." " Okay." "You want me to bring you something?" "No, I'm good." "I'll see you later." " Where were we?" " Two bulls's-eyes in a row." " Are you some kind of dart hustler?" " I have never played like this in my life." "Seriously." "I bet you can't hit another." "Yeah, I bet you're right." "What are we betting?" "A soda." "How about this?" "You lose, you buy me a soda." "You win," " I give you this lotto ticket." " All right, now you're talking." "Oh-ho-ho-ho!" "Pretty good!" "Come on, that's pretty good!" "Whoo-hoo-hoo!" "It's probably worthless, but you never know." "The Lord works in mysterious ways." "Amen." "A lottery ticket?" "$1,000?" "Ham Dewey." "He's strong as an ox." "I didn't know they sold condoms by the bulk." "You're trespassing, Matthew." "Poaching." "Time you moved along." "Looks like you could use a little help with Hanadarko." "The people around her need some intervention, too." "You think I don't know what you're doing?" "You want to change Grace to puff yourself up, pass your review." "Let me tell you something, Matthew." "God made her right just the way she is." "Oh." "She doesn't need you, hmm?" "She's perfect?" "Yes." "In her imperfection." "Just like every other human walked this earth." "And let me tell you something else." "Saving one Grace Hanadarko, ain't gonna erase a million lost souls." "Yeah, you're right, man." "But it'll bust me back in the game with a grand slam!" "4,000 years, you finally like sports." "Maybe I'm better for Grace than you are." "There ain't nothing you can do for Grace that I can't." "Sounds like you've got some pride issues, Earl." "It's not about your ego-- It's about her soul!" "You and me known each other since this world was a ball of hot mud." "So we both know who has the problem with pride." "Now get out!" "And stay away from Grace!" " Hey." " Hi." "Victim's son had a neighbor feed his cat Monday and Tuesday night." " Said he was going out of town." " Did he?" "He wasn't home sick." " Where did these come from?" " They just showed up." "No card." "Along with those." "No activity on either victim's credit card." "Why steal a credit card if you're not gonna use them?" "Yeah, I mean, you got to use them the first couple of hours when you know the victim's still tied up." "This thing's off, man." "I don't know what we got." "Have a seat, "C"." " So, you have class today?" " Tonight." "Casey, if you're gonna tell lies, don't pick something I can check out with a phone call." " I don't know what you mean." " You aren't in school this semester." "I'm auditing classes." "Okay, what class are you auditing Tuesday at noon?" " Post-renaissance art." " And who's your teacher?" "What's going on, Casey?" "How come you dropped out of school?" " You got no money for tuition?" " Daddy got sick, so I'm helping out." "How's he doing?" "Drinking." "Weighs less than I do soaking wet." "Daddy talks about you all the time." "Says you were best friends." "Yeah, we had a lot of fun in high school." "I've seen pictures." "You had a mullet." "Yeah." "Did you and my dad really get so drunk one night you left me in a bar?" "Yeah, we realized halfway home, went back and got you." "Drove home." "We could have killed you, all of us, someone else." "God was looking after us." "Look, talk to me, Casey." "This thing got out of control." "Okay, you need money." "You were desperate." "You read about the home invasions." "You got a couple friends." "You didn't mean for anyone to get hurt." "I want a lawyer." "Were you and her dad good friends?" "A long time ago." "Lug." "We called him "Lug"." "You know, he got this girl pregnant." "He was so happy." "She took off when, uh, Casey was a couple months old." "And Lug did the best he could, you know." "What's with these flowers?" "Nobody knows." "I haven't seen him in 17, 18 years." " Casey was a baby." " She's an adult now." " Yeah." " And she's lying." "Russle Tupton's lying." "I got a telephonic warrant for Russle's bank account." "On Tuesday, he had 16 bucks." "Yesterday, he made a $14,000 cash deposit." "Dumbass." "Casey made a $2,000 deposit yesterday." " Think they're hooked up?" " Both needed money, both knew about the safe." "Couldn't pull it off themselves." "Hired a couple guys to do it." "Copycat the home invasion M.O." " Guys went further than they wanted." " Where did they find the guys?" "Hanadarko." "Yeah." "Well, how you know that?" "Matters to me." "There's a rewar" "Guy says the home-invasion suspects are gonna hit 2531 Penbrook at 3:00 this afternoon." "How did they get your cell number?" "Shit." "That was right on top of us." " You want to follow that up?" " Grace, this came for you." "Thanks, man." "Uh..." "Let robbery take it." "We got to connect Russle and Casey." "Shit!" "Hey." "Did you send me flowers?" "Earl told me you liked irises." " You know Earl?" " For a long time." "A real long time." "We got the same boss." " What does that mean?" " You know what it means." "Prove it." " I already gave you a freebie." " The anonymous call." "That was you." "You're welcome." "So, I go to 2531 Penbrook, and I close my case." "Half your case." "Other half comes if you make the right choice." " What are my options?" " You can only have one angel." "Let me ask you something, Grace." "What do you want out of life?" "Anything." "Anything at all, man." "It can be yours, if you give yourself over to God." " What's the catch?" " No catch." "Anything you want." "100 million bucks for my friend." "Rhetta." "I gave her a lotto ticket a few hours ago." "Could be the big one, if you play your cards right." "The drawing's tomorrow." "Think about it." "Anonymous tip-- Right on the money." "We caught them following our decoy in through the garage." "Ski masks, rope." "This is too easy." "Items in their van." "Robbery says they match the... property stolen from the first four..." "Invasions." "What about number five?" "There's nothing in here from Roland or Linda." "Those two guys-- Do they have an alibi for Tuesday morning?" "It's bullshit." "Yeah." "But they both offered their DNA, said they didn't rape anybody." " What do you think?" " I think we solved our home invasions." "Still have an open rape-and-murder case." "Hey, man." "That, uh, anonymous tip-- You recognize the voice?" "Nah." "Nah, I figure, you know, someone I busted." "Gonna use it as a get-out-of-jail-free card one day." " You said, uh,you caught the guys." " Where were you Tuesday morning?" "Your neighbor Donna fed your cat, said that you weren't home sick." " I was in Las Vegas." " And why didn't you tell us that?" "I gamble, and I'm in debt, and the last place I should be is Vegas." " You go with Casey?" " What?" "!" "No!" " You guys got a thing going?" " Hey." "She cleans my dad's house." " What-- what's going on?" " How much money did you win in Vegas?" " I did okay." " 14 grand?" "Look, what's your game?" "What do you play?" "You're gonna" "You're gonna be on video." "So it's a perfect alibi." "I need an alibi?" "I didn't have anything to do with what happened to my dad and Linda, and I'm not telling you where the money came from." " It came from your dad's safe!" " No, it didn't." "You were upset your dad was gonna marry Linda, spend his money on her, when you needed it." " He wasn't gonna marry her." " You don't like Linda, do you?" "A half-his-age gold-digger grocery clerk?" "No." "I don't like her." "But I sure as hell didn't rape her and tie her up to my dad." "Why don't you ask her how much money he had?" "She was always getting him to open up that thing." "He said he felt like an ATM machine." "Linda didn't even know Roland had a safe." " Russle says she did." " The guy's lying through his teeth." " Yeah, he lawyered up, too." " He needs one." "Why won't he tell you where he got the 14 grand?" "Phone dump has all kinds of calls between Casey and Russle. 11 calls last week." " They all stop Monday night." " Well, the caper was Tuesday morning." "They had to be face-to-face for the final meeting." " We got to find the guys they hired." " Is Linda positive they were both black?" "Yeah." "First thing tomorrow, we bring Casey and Russle back in." "Hey." "You know an angel named Matthew?" "Yeah." " So, what's the deal?" " Well, I got some competition." "Jealous?" "It don't matter how you find God." "Me, Matthew" " It's all the same." "He said I could have anything I want." "You never said that." "Looks to me like you got all the stuff you need." "Yeah." "Come on." "Well, what do you want?" "Peace on earth." " Can he give me that?" " Got to ask him." " Right now I want a beer." "Will you get me a beer?" " Sure." "First thing I'd want is for Gus never to die." "And Clay." "And Rhetta." "Everyone I love." "Well, what happens to all them when you're dead?" "Chips, too, please." "And I" "I don't want them ever to get sick..." "Or get hurt." "What's the second thing?" "A lifetime sideline pass to O.U. Football games." "You wouldn't want to ask to win every game?" "Interesting." "Yes." "But I wouldn't want to know the score." " Matthew offer to solve all your cases?" " Yeah." " How come he can solve them and you can't?" " It's more like "I won't"." "Well, maybe I'll hang out with Matthew for a while." "Okay." ""Okay"?" "Just like that?" "Well, it's always been your decision, Grace." "Always will be." " Some guy give you a lotto ticket yesterday?" " No." "But I won a lotto ticket... from some guy yesterday." " Why?" " What did he look like?" "Can't remember." "Was it Earl?" " No." "He's another angel." " What?" "He's another angel." "He's trying to get me to dump Earl." " I don't understand." " I don't either." "You have two angels fighting over you." " You are not dumping Earl!" " Where's the lotto ticket?" "How much is the jackpot?" "$180 million." "I switch to Matthew, you got the winning ticket, and you have $180 million." " Not so easy now, is it, missy?" " He's bribing you." "Yeah, but I got to turn my life over to God first." " That's not right." " Shit," "God bribed Moses! "Part the Red Sea, whatever, I'll give you a shitload of descendants."" " Not exactly." " What about Solomon?" " God bribed him with something." " God came to Solomon in a dream, told him if he trusted in him, he could have anything he wants." "Solomon asked for wisdom." "Lucky for that baby." "You gonna turn your life over to God?" " Have you?" " Many times." "When my mom had the stroke." "When Todd was born, I lost all that blood." "I just remember thinking, "My baby's fine." "I'm in your hands."" " You think you could ever do that?" " What if I turn Buddhist, believed in that?" "Earl says he's fine with it." "What would you do?" "Okay." "First, I'd laugh." "At you." "Not Buddhism." "Then I'd go to temple with you." "What do you think I'd do?" " Freak out." " Yeah, maybe for a minute." " Then I'd get over it." " The crazy stuff on the rope" " What is it?" " Just got it back." " Theatrical makeup." "It is consistent with theatrical makeup." "Ham's old friend's a drama student at O.U." "Grace!" "I choose Earl." "Okay, Casey is a drama student." "We found theatrical makeup on the rope used to tie up Roland Tupton." " It's not mine." " You tell your attorney you lied to us?" "She told me everything, and there's a very simple explanation." "Well, not so simple, but truthful." " Let's hear it." " We'll tell you hypothetically." "It is not gonna be hypothetical when I arrest Casey for murder." "I didn't do this." "I promise." "Please let me explain." "Okay." "Hypothetically." "This girl, hypothetically, works this one job for 24 hours each month and makes more money, than she does at her regular job in eight weeks." "Hypothetically, is the work this girl does illegal?" "Her work?" "No." "She's a hypothetical waitress for a bunch of hypothetical politicians, judges, and Oklahoma City big shots, who get together once a month for 24 hours to play cards... in a confidential, hypothetical, high-stakes marathon poker tournament." "So one might assume this girl is afraid she'd lose this job, and break a promise she made not to tell anyone that these... hypothetical hypocrites get together to drink and gamble." "How did this young college student find out about this job?" "From the son of the man of whose house she used to clean." "And hypothetically, does that..." "son participate in this high-stakes poker game?" "Yes." "All right." "Let's get away from hypotheticals." "Casey, what do you think of Linda?" "Casey and Russle were at the poker tournament from Monday night... till Early Wednesday morning." " They still could have hired someone to do it." " Russle's take was 14 grand." " Casey earned $2,000 in tips." " Got to get Linda back in here." "Casey said Linda absolutely knew about the safe, and that Tupton paid Casey in cash every Friday." "She said that Linda was there when he opened up the safe." " She even asked for money sometimes." " The woman was raped." "Shit, that's what's been bugging me." "That's a woman's sweater, and those are women's shoes." "And she told me she didn't even know there was a safe there." "How do we know they're Linda's?" " We got to be real careful." " Yeah." "To believe she staged her own rape and sent herself into a diabetic coma?" " She thought Casey was gonna show up." " Linda was traumatized." "She wasn't faking it." "Maybe she was acting." "Theatrical makeup." "Hey!" "Shit, sorry." "I thought I should come back to work." "Mind if we talk to your friend?" "Their subtle way of giving us some privacy." "Thanks, man." "Oh, yeah." "You look good." "You look good." "It's really hard." "I called that number you gave me, the-- The Rape Crisis Center." "Thank you." "Who did you talk to?" "I" " I know all the volunteers." "Uh, I can't remember." " Well, did you get some good advice?" " Yeah." "It was her idea," "I should come back to work." "Did she give you any insight w- what might have caused him to rape you?" "Um, in the other home invasions, no one was raped." "I thought maybe she talked about what might have set him off." "Because I fought back." "She said that turns some guys on." " It sounds like you had a good talk." " Yeah." "It's good." "It's good." "You're getting on with your life, you know." "You're back at work." "Do you do community theater?" "Did I see you downtown in "Bye Bye Birdie"?" "Oh!" "Gosh!" " That was, like, five years ago." " You were great!" "I..." "I saw the news." "And I heard you caught 'em." "Um," " am I gonna have to testify?" " Is he one of them?" " What?" " You got some white guy to join in, had him put on blackface, thought Roland was gonna be alive to confirm your story?" "What are you" "You didn't talk to anyone at the Rape Crisis Center." "They never give advice." "They're volunteers." "They listen." "They refer you to a psychologist for advice." "And she sure as hell would never blame the victim." " Number-one rule." " I almost died." "Yeah." "You thought Casey would be there at noon." "Had your boyfriend rape you to make it really look good." "We take his DNA, match it to your rape kit, find your prints on the safe you didn't know was there, that's all we'd need." " I can't believe this." " Well, I can't either." "Linda confessed." "But then her boyfriend gave us their partner." "So, what do you think?" "The boyfriend gets a couple of less weeks in prison?" "Hey, Gracie." "You hear about the lotto drawing?" " Rhetta missed out." " What's going on?" "Earl never stops time for you?" "Does he ever take you anywhere?" "Yeah." "Grand Canyon and Greece." "I'll bet you'd love Madrid." "Let's go." "I'll take you anywhere you want to go." "Just give in to God, whatever that means to you." " Where's Earl?" " Malaysia." "I solved my case without you." "Let's go celebrate." "I'm gonna celebrate with my friends." "You want me to be waiting for you when you get home?"