"Hey, Carrie." "So, what up?" "Girl, you're looking fly." "If you're going to walk with me, you can't talk like that." "Fine." " Hey, did you call me last night?" " No." "Okay, uh, 'cause I was out watching Terminator 2." " I thought maybe..." " T2?" "Again?" "I've only seen it twice." "Seven times." "We saw it at the Syracuse Seven two Fridays ago, when you kept trying to kiss me, and you saw it by yourself at the Regency in..." "Stop, okay?" "You're my most annoying friend." "I'm your only friend." "Looky, looky, looky." " Oh, great." " Hey, Joey." "You're looking so hot today." "Yo, and Mr. Potato Head called." "He wants his complexion back." "Aren't you late for class, guys?" "Oh, hey, it's Scary Carrie." "Yeah, we're not too worried." "You should be, Danielle." "You have six tardies in physics, four of them absences, and Jason, if you're gonna cut English again like you did period three last Tuesday, you probably shouldn't go brag about it in the cafeteria 37 minutes later." "How does it feel to be a freak?" "I don't know." "How does it feel to be too dumb to remember you asked me that last month?" "I got a question." "You guys scared of the dark?" " Wait." "No." " Hey, man." " Wait." "Wait." " Come on, guys, no!" "Wait, guys..." "I'm not coming out." "Carrie, it was 20 years ago." "You're gonna be fine." "These are mean people, Al." "They locked me in a closet with Joey Falks." "You've disarmed terrorists, faced down assassins." "This is high school, and no terrorist or assassin ever voted me" ""most likely to be single forever."" "Really?" "That's what you got?" " Yeah." " Look," "I won't let 'em pick on you." " Promise?" " I promise." "Come on, it'll be an adventure." "Now, let's go." " I don't feel so..." " Just breathe, and you're gonna be fine." "I know, I am gonna be fine." " And you're gonna stay with me..." " I'm right here." "Oh, my God." "That's Hank Bronski." "Hank who?" "Yeah, Hank Bronski, prom king, quarterback." " Are you blushing?" " Now he's coming over." "Let go." "Let go." "Uh..." "I had to come over and say hello." "Hello." "Al Burns?" "Hank Bronski." "You partnered with my uncle in the Syracuse PD." "Dave Corwin?" "Dave Corwin." "Son of a bitch." "How's he doing?" "Great." "He used to tell the story about the time that you climbed..." "Hank Bronski." "It's very nice to meet you, Mrs. Burns." "No, I'm..." "You actually went to school with me." "Carrie Wells." "Carrie Wells." "Wait." "Scary Carrie?" " Scary Carrie?" " Oh." "No... no one calls me that anymore." "You were my number one will-be." "Not sure I like the sound of that." "It means "will be hot."" " Aw." " I guess I was dead-on." "Well, thank you, Hank." "That... thats..." "So, Carrie mentioned you played quarterback." "What kind of team you have?" "Oh, pretty good." "We went to state finals against Troy." "Yeah, he threw for 387 yards and three touchdowns." "I'm honored that you..." "Easy there, Namath." "She remembers everything." " Who are the screamers?" " Ah." "Bella Krebs." "She's the one on the left." "She was my girlfriend sophomore year." "The other is Melanie Latham." "They were kind of best friends/rivals." "You've screwed every guy at this school." "More rivals than friends." "Well, Melanie was also my..." "Your girlfriend sophomore year, yeah." "Sounds like a good year." "Who didn't you go out with?" "Hey, hey, it's Hank." "Hankster." "Hey." "Nice chatting with you, Hank." "How'd you let him get away?" "Do I detect a note of jealousy?" "Hardly, but for the record," "I threw four touchdowns and 457 yards in the state finals." "Ah, that's impressive." "What's up with them?" "Oh, you know that band Locked and Upright?" "Gets a little fuzzy for me after Springsteen." "The lead singer, Lance Burke... he was in our class." " Ah." "So, you and, uh...?" " No." "Ew." " No, no, no, no, no." " Yes." "He was a stoner, and he never bathed." "No!" "Okay, so we got the, uh, stoners, the jocks, the queen bees." "Where'd you fit in?" "News flash." "I didn't." " So, what is that, a single malt?" " Yep." " Let me see the bottle." " You bet." "Two whiskeys." " Coming up." " Melanie, right?" "Scary Carrie." "No one calls me that anymore." "Oh." "I'm Melanie Lambert." "I'm sure you weren't in our class." "No, I went to Central." "Al Burns." "You better be careful, Al." " Melanie likes quarterbacks a lot." " Wait." "Not THE Al Burns." "Undefeated All-State Champs, Al Burns?" "Whose reunion is this?" "As a matter of fact..." "Well, my brother went to Central." "He is going to flip when I tell him I saw you here." "So, Melanie, wh... what... what do you do?" "What have you been up to?" "Venture capital." "The Claymont Group here in the city." "That's impressive." "I do Far East for them." "Last weekend was Jakarta." "I have to be in Beijing on Monday." " What about you guys?" " We're cops." "Giving back to the community." "Good for you." "You have a card?" "I've been getting a lot of creepy hang-ups lately." "We don't do that." "We... we work in major..." "No problem." "It was great to see you, Carrie." "Al." "Hmm." "Why didn't you just get a room?" "Do I detect some jealousy?" "Carrie!" "Joey!" " I was hoping you'd be here." " Yeah." "Joey was my only friend in school." "This is Al." "I heard you were a cop." " Yes." " It was on the alumni Web site." "Actually, I run the site." "Well, Joey was, um, president of the A/V club." "And the Carrie Wells fan club." "You know, Al's my... my partner." "I was just telling him about you, actually." "Not the closet story?" "The closet story?" "There he is!" "Oh." "Good news." "I'm giving out noogies at half..." " Half price." " That's right." "Always original, Tommy." "Scary Carrie!" "No one calls me..." "Never mind." "Hey, you know those kind of people that show you pictures of everything going on in their lives?" " Here we go." " Bad news." "I am that guy." "Check this out." "It's my fishing boat." "Oh." "The Nauti Girl." "You get it? "Nauti," as in Nautical?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah." " I get that." " Wait, wait." "Here's my family." "Uh, wait." "They're in here somewhere." " That's amazing." " Yeah." "Oh." "I'll be right back." "I've got to feed the meter." "Wait." "Don't worry." "I'm just gonna show Joey my pictures." "Oh." "Ah." "Did you know the fine art of bacon wrapping was first introduced to these shores in 1654 by the Dutch?" "You know, I think we have put in more than enough face time here." "Let's blow this Popsicle stand." "Really?" "The night is still young." "Thank you for coming with me." "Hmm." "Someone help!" "Please help!" "Tommy?" "Well, cause of death isn't a mystery." "Crushed parietal bone and avulsion of the cranium." "Somebody bashed his head in." "Any of your classmates arrive with a lead pipe?" "Maybe my history teacher, Professor Plum." "Candlestick might also work." "Okay, I got his belongings, 30 bucks still there, keys." " Couple of lotto tickets." " Where's his phone?" "He probably left it inside." "No, he was pretty attached to that phone." "I mean, he kept showing everyone pictures that were on it." "I want to lock down the hotel." "We need to cover every inch of this place, including everyone at the reunion." "Nobody leaves." "You think they'll mind?" "You think I care?" "I got this." "Class of '93?" "Remember how we used to do detention in Mr. Seeger's office?" "It's gonna be kind of like that, guys." "Isn't she incredible?" "Step back and take a seat." "Wow." "Is that Carrie in high school?" "Where'd you get that?" "Carrie hooked us into the reunion Web site." "I got a list of all the folks who showed up." "Maybe someone pops." "Carrie with the one-strap Fresh Prince overalls." "Nice." "I have an older sister." "You know, she... the..." "Uh-huh." "Hey, you get anything on our victim Tommy Garland?" "Nothing in our indexes," " but I'm still waiting on Syracuse PD." " Okay." " Any luck on his phone?" " Nothing yet." "I'm hoping his GPS is enabled, and that the phone's still on." "Otherwise, we got to hope he's backed up to the cloud." "You can break into someone's cloud?" "Oh, yeah." "Any teenager with a Null Scan can." "Why?" "What do you got on your cloud?" "Well, after tonight, not much." "Hey, I'm just wondering, you ever loop Eliot in to us helping Carrie?" "Oh, I thought you did." "Really?" "'Cause I thought you did." "Hmm." "That's cool." "Carrie Wells, Bella Krebs." " How are you, Bella?" " Oh, I'd be a lot better if I knew how long this was going to take." "We have Phantom tickets" " tomorrow night." " Wow." "If everyone cooperates, you should make the overture." "So, Bella, did you stay in touch with Tommy after high school?" "Oh, hardly." "I ran into his ex, Tina something, at the new mall in Hampshire a while back." "She was complaining he was a deadbeat." " That's it." " A deadbeat how?" "Ah, guess he owed her back alimony, bounced a couple of checks." " Didn't sound pretty." " Did she mention anyone else he may have owed money to?" "Sorry." "So sad." "Yeah." "This is how we'll remember our 20th reunion." "No one seems too upset about this guy." "I think Tommy was mostly friends with Hank, and Hank's friends just kind of tolerated Tommy." "What the hell is it again, Tommy?" "40 left, 18 right, 22 left." "I was behind you at orientation." "Is that just slightly creepy?" "No, it's not." "Hey, I'm having a party at my place" "Saturday night." "You should come." "Maybe." "Thanks." "Dude, are you, like, insane?" "Must be to hang out with you idiots." "He was a poseur, and..." "Bad news." "I'm that guy." "Check this out." "It's my fishing boat, the Nauti Girl." "Those photos Tommy showed us." "I got to make a phone call." " Where-where-where you going?" " No..." "We got about 50 people to interview." "All right, you... you just take the next one." "I'll be back." "They're not going anywhere." "We ran everything we could find on Tommy, then and now." "You're right." "Sounds like he was in a lot of trouble." "Money, mostly after his wife left him." "Foreclosures, tax liens." "You know, he showed us a picture of a boat that he said was his." "A very big, expensive boat." "I'm sure the banks are enjoying it, but it gets worse." "Last month, Tommy got into a bar fight in Syracuse." "No arrests, but we're tracking down witnesses," " see what that was all about." " Hey, Carrie." "We got some information coming in off of Tommy's cloud." "Looks like he had his phone backed up." "Well, what do you got?" "You said Tommy's body was discovered at 10:47, right?" "We got activity on his phone at 10:54." "GPS puts it in the hotel after he was dead." "What kind of activity?" "Working on it." "But you locked down the room at 10:50." "That means whoever killed Tommy is still in the room" " right now." " Okay." "That fight Tommy got into was with a guy named Hank Bronski." "Hank..." "Bronski?" "I still can't believe this." "I mean, he was just here." "You and Tommy have any problems lately, Hank?" "Problems?" "Like what?" "The kind you might fight about in a bar two months ago in Syracuse?" "At the Queen's Bridge." "I was with clients, and suddenly," "Tommy came up to the table, totally wasted, and started bringing up school stuff." "What kind of school stuff?" "Usual." "How did I get all the girls?" "Why was my life so great?" "You know?" "Whatever." "You're not thinking I had anything to do with this?" "We don't really know what to think at this point, Hank." "I mean, it does sounds like Tommy was jealous of you." "Mm." "How did you get all the girls?" "Did he mention anything else?" "Was that it?" "Actually, he talked about tonight, the reunion." "I don't know." "It was weird." "He kept talking about Vicky Lannister, the girl who died in tenth grade." " You remember her?" " Yeah, yeah, I do." " Whoa." " Oh, I'm sorry." "It's fine." "What was he saying about her?" "I don't remember, honestly." "It was all part of a rant." "He said something would happen tonight that would turn his life around." "Probably not what he meant." "So, how did all this turn into punches being thrown?" "I, uh, had to get him out of there, so I guess I pushed him, and he took a swing at me." "He gave me no choice." " Ask the people at the bar." " Oh, we will." "That's it for now, Hank." "Thanks." "All right, they fought a month ago." "Maybe they get into a fight tonight." "I mean, Hank is a big guy." "Oh, yeah, he's built." "Yeah, he obviously works out." "Stop it." "You stop it." "So who's this Vicky Lannister?" "Well, she was... an outsider." "Kind of like me." "So, you were friends?" "No, not really." " Whoa!" " Oh, I'm sorry." "It's fine." "You're Carrie Wells, right?" " I'm, um..." " Vicky Lannister." "I read your poem in the school paper." "It was..." "Super lame." "Watch out!" "Dork fest, first floor, science building." "Get out of here, Didi." "Or what?" "You're gonna, like, remember me to death" " or something?" " Yeah, maybe I will." "You can do that?" "Let's go." "Can't you see these two are in love with each other?" " Two girls in love." " Two girls in love." "How did she die?" "Hit-and-run." "After Hank's tenth grade graduation party, actually." "She was walking along a curvy stretch of road and..." "She was alone?" "Yeah." "We had a vigil for her." "I remember that at school." "Everybody cried." "And then life went on." "You were 16." "Still..." "Hmm." "Ah, it's Jay for you." "Thank you." "Hey, Jay." "Hey, Carrie, we were able to put together Tommy's cloud storage." "Contacts, e-mails, photos." "I'm sending them to your cell phones right now." "And looking over your yearbook." "Congrats on being VP of the Spanish club." "Uh, "mucho impressivo."" "Muey thank you." "Okay, so far, nothing in Tommy's e-mail or messages." "Lot of back and forth with his loan officer." "He was definitely cash-strapped." "He has, like, four trillion photos." " Wait a second." " What?" "There's a picture missing." "And look." "Here's my family." "Ah..." "Wait." "They're in here somewhere." "A jacket." "Okay, so the guy had a picture of a jacket." "I've seen the jacket before." "Vicky was wearing the jacket the night she died." "The same kind of jacket?" "The exact jacket." "Tonight, a picture of that jacket is deleted from Tommy's phone." "What if there was more to Vicky's death than just a hit-and-run, Tommy knew about it, and it got him killed?" "Told you tonight would be an adventure." "Okay, so we're looking for any connection between the murder of Tommy Garland and the death of Vicky Lannister." "We got nothing yet." "But I'm talking to a guy at Syracuse PD." "Now, they didn't start digitizing police files until 1995, so they're putting together everything they can on the Lannister case, scanning it..." "Problems with the monitor, Jay?" "Eliot, it's the murder at the St. Dimas." " Carrie knew all those people." " Al, please." "We're called Major Crimes for a reason." "It's major to you guys, it's major to me." " That's nice." " Of course, we host 1,200 reunions a year, which brings in millions of dollars worth of revenue." "Okay, a little less nice." "And it's hard enough to face down your tortured adolescence without getting your brains bashed in." "Ooh, and bashed they were." "I've confirmed the murder weapon to be a standard issue claw hammer." "Lacerations to the middle meningeal artery and perforating injury to the brain." "Not the most efficient way to kill somebody." "Do you realize that more people were killed with hammers last year than with rifles?" "Not to mention all those smashed thumbs." "So we're thinking blackmail." "Maybe." "Guy knows something about the girl's death, he comes to the reunion to squeeze whoever's responsible." "What?" "I'm surprised." "You came up with a theory." "And not a bad one, actually." "Explains the hammer." "Weapon of convenience." "We also found steel shavings under the cranium, so you find me the hammer, and we can trace it to the body." "I'll check with the hotel, see if any employees have lighter tool kits than usual." "See?" "Here we go." "We're getting stuff in from Syracuse." "That's the Vicky Lannister crime scene from 20 years ago." "Wait a second." "Where's the jacket?" "She was wearing that jacket when she left the party," " I'm sure of it." " Well, that's all they've got." "There's definitely no jacket." "Well, someone must've taken it after they hit her." "And 22 years later," "Tommy Garland shows up at the reunion with a picture of it on his phone." "I think he was involved in Vicky's death, or he knew who was." "Hey, guys." "Hotel security footage just came in." "This is the back staircase, exits on 51st Street." "Someone who needed to get away from where the killing took place would use these." "Like this guy." "That's one minute after Tommy's body was found." "Fast-forward ten minutes later." "He's sneaking back in." "That's Carl Benson, our tenth grade English teacher." "He was Mr. Hip." "Always recruiting kids to be part of his posse, especially the cool girls." "And maybe the not-so-cool girls." "I saw Vicky's yearbook." ""While I am I and you are you, so long as the world" ""contains us both." "Always yours, C. B."" "I'm an English teacher, and that is a quote from Robert Browning." "That is a very romantic quote from Robert Browning." "And I want to know why you wrote it in the yearbook of a 16-year-old girl." "If you are suggesting that anything happened between me and Vicky Lannister..." "And that you murdered her 22 years ago?" "Yeah, that is exactly what I'm suggesting." "I don't understand." "What... what does this have to do with Tommy Garland?" "22 years is a long time, and you probably thought you'd gotten away with it." "And then Tommy, what, confronts you?" "Tries to blackmail you?" "Stop." "Look, as far as Vicky is concerned, nothing ever happened, I swear it." "Just like nothing ever happened with you and Susie Jacobs, the young girl who got you fired from the Bancroft Academy." "I've made mistakes." "And yeah, I had feelings for Vicky, but I never acted on them." "We mainly just talked about poetry." "She would read things outside of class that no one else would." "You know, the romantics and Arthurian legends." "Wow." "You are a regular Lancelot, Carl." "I swear that's it." "I..." "I encouraged her to start the poetry club, and offered to advise it." "I..." "I..." "The night that Vicky died, I was devastated." "I was also in Montreal... with a former student." "Of course you were." "All right." "Why did you try to sneak out of the hotel tonight?" "I was meeting a few faculty members." " We... smoked some weed." " Oh." "And there was a maître d' outside of the restaurant, and he had to chase us down the street, so I'm sure you can find him." "All right, you say you and Vicky were close?" "Yeah." "Well, she must have confided in you, told you personal things." "Did she ever mention anything about her home life?" "Anyone who might want to hurt her?" "Any trouble she was having?" "Yeah, it was a long time ago, but I remember, she mentioned a guy was bugging her." "A student was following her around." "Um, I remember because I was going to report..." "Did she... did she ever mention his name?" "No, she never mentioned who." "Uh, she didn't want to get anybody in trouble." "I thought everything was all right." "You thought wrong." "So, where are we with Carl Benson?" "Carl Benson... it looks like he has alibis for both murders." "He did mention that there was some guy bothering Vicky back in high school." "He didn't know who." " Jay's trying to find him." " Good." "Al, I remember every minute of high school like it happened yesterday." "You know, every loaded word, every sideways glance, but... but I don't think I really understood it." "I bet you understood enough." "I was such an outsider that I think I spent a lot of my time imagining what other people's lives were like." "You were never on the outside in high school." "I got cut from varsity in ninth grade." "That counts." "Okay, be honest with me." " Sure." " Do you think if you and I had gone to high school together, you would have... you would have gone out with me?" "Yeah." "You're lying." "You wouldn't have even noticed me, would you?" "I'd have noticed you." "But I was..." "I was a dork, and... and you were a football star." "I have a hard time believing you were a dork." "Well, I am glad we did not meet in high school." "I think you would have broken my heart." "Instead, we met as adults, and you broke mine." "Hey." "Okay, so Vicky's high school life is proving a little tough to reassemble." "She didn't leave much of a footprint." "But I followed up on that poetry thing." "The school has all their yearbooks online." "Turns out, she started a Victorian poetry club, but it only had three other members." "That's a shocker." "You get a list of the members?" "You know I did." "Meet Eleanor Yellen, 4.5 GPA." "Went on to be an English major at Vassar." "And we got Christine Ellis, cellist in the orchestra." "But then there's..." "Greg Zoller." "Definitely not a poetry club type." "His school record reads like a rap sheet." "Detentions, suspensions, mostly for fighting." "Only class he got higher than a "C" in was auto shop." "Yeah, this could be our guy." "You got a real rap sheet?" " Still waiting on it." " Got it." "Figured in for a penny, in for a pound, am I right?" "Behold." "An expedited rap sheet on Greg Zoller... a couple of DUIs, burglary." "Then, last year, he steps it up." "Convicted for assault with a deadly weapon." "What kind of deadly weapon?" "Working at a Fast N' Lube outside Albany." "Some guy gets on his nerves." "Zoller goes after him with the first thing he can find... a claw hammer." "Hey, Greg." "Police." "You got a minute?" "Remember me?" "Carrie Wells." "We were in algebra together till you flunked out." "Scary Carrie." "No one calls her that anymore." "I'm telling you, I didn't do anything." "That's right, Greg. 'Cause innocent people, they always run when the police show up." "I'm on probation." "I'm not supposed to go anywhere without telling my probation officer." "He always says no, so I just went." "You stay in touch with Tommy Garland?" "Hadn't seen him since high school." "What about Vicky Lannister?" "You remember" "Vicky Lannister?" "Yeah." "I remember Vicky." "You remember Hank's party the night she died?" "I remember there was a party." "I wasn't invited." "Hey, Greg." "Here's the problem with lying to me:" "basically, I remember everything." "I was at the party." "So were you." "Let's start over." "Fine, I was there." "I knew Vicky was going." "Which pissed me off a little." "Why?" "We were the outsiders." "That was our thing." "And now the quarterback invites her to a party, she's just gonna go?" "I mean, come on." "The quarterback?" "You were in love with her." "I was 16." "Maybe." "Well, of course I was." "A..." "Anyway, I crashed the stupid party." "Did you see her there?" "I got there." "I told her we should go, that it was a joke." "She didn't want to hear that." "She told me to leave." "So I went outside and I chugged a beer." "And when I came back in..." "I saw her walk into a room." "The lights were off." "But what I heard... she was with a guy." "I don't know who it was." "Wh..." "Which room was it?" "Downstairs." "You know, one of those, uh, off-limits rooms." "Cheers, bro." "The office." "Hey, Lance, you planning on sharing those?" " Uh, not a chance." " Really?" "Lance Burke." "Hey, Lance." "Hey, Carrie." "So, what can I do for you?" "Do you always travel with an entourage," "Lance?" "Kind of a cliché, isn't it?" "I'm nothing if not predictable." "And all these people say I shouldn't talk to you." "But what the hell." "Sit." " Can I get you something?" " Lance, you don't have to say anything..." "This is high school stuff, dude." "We went to school together." "It doesn't involve you." "In fact, everyone out." "Except you two." "Wow." "Thanks, Lance." "That was not predictable, that's for sure." "So, what do you want to know?" "Sophomore year." "Graduation party." "At Hank Bronski's." "You remember it?" "Uh, kind of." "Honestly, I barely remember sophomore year." "Back then, I was either doing drugs or playing music, usually both at the same time." "So, the graduation party." "Do you remember making out with Vicky Lannister in the downstairs office?" "Whoa." "This is the Vicky Lannister we're talking about?" "The one who got hit by the car?" "Yeah." "No way." "Absolutely not." " No." " So... what were you doing in the office that night?" "You're joking." "She look like she's joking?" "Wait, was it the room with the wood paneling and stuff?" "Yeah." "Okay, I do remember." "It was the first time I was gonna do blow." "My uncle had scored me some." "I did a recon mission on the house on where I could lay out the rails." "You know, the lines of coke." " Yeah, we're aware." " Found the perfect spot, totally private." "No one's gonna mess with Daddy's office, right?" "So, I had, like, three lines going and then I felt this big hand on my shoulder, and there's the man himself screaming," ""Get out of here." "My folks are gonna kill me." "I'm gonna call the cops." "Blah, blah."" "So I booked." ""The man himself"?" "H..." "Hank Bronski?" "Yeah." "The quarterback." "I saw him at the reunion." "Still a jerk." "See?" "All right, yeah, I hooked up" " with Vicky that night." " Seems like something you should've mentioned to the police 22 years ago, Hank." "Unless you had a reason not to." "And it sure looks like you did." "A couple months ago, you had a fight with Tommy about Vicky." "And now Tommy's dead, too." "Getting close and personal with you is got a funny way of making people dead, Hank." "I didn't do anything wrong." "At least, not to Tommy." "Is there something you need to get off your chest?" "That night..." "I, uh..." "I was with Bella back then," " and she got in this huge fight." " With you?" "Melanie, seriously, give me back" " the jacket." " It's mine." "I can't even believe you would have the nerve to show up" " wearing it." " It's not yours." "He bought it for me." "No." "With Melanie." "Yeah." "That's right." "I'd just broken up with her, and she didn't take it real well." "So I let them have their drama." "I went into my dad's office." "Maybe Lance was there." " I don't remember." " But that's where you ran into Vicky." "I guess she followed me in." "Honestly, I didn't even know who she was, but she was nice." "Different." "Kind of... direct." "Direct, how?" "She told me she liked me, that she'd never been with a guy." "The way that she looked at me, she was... so genuine, you know?" "Yeah, I know." "Things... heated up pretty quick." "It's not like you think." "I realized, "I can't do this."" "So I left." "I told her that she could hang out, but she said she was fine." "And when I found out the next day that she was dead..." "I never told anyone about us." "We got it." "You recognize this?" "Yeah, it's... it's mine." "Where did you get this?" "Syracuse PD found it buried under Tommy Garland's back porch." "A little worse for wear." "Tell me about the jacket, Hank." "Uh..." "I bought it with Melanie." "I let her wear it around." "When we broke up, I took it back." "Bella was into it, too." "Melanie saw her with it that night, and then it was on." " He bought it for me." " What are you talking about?" "Stop being" " so dramatic." "It's not that big of a deal." " I'm not..." "Neither of you get the jacket!" "I was so sick of it." "I grabbed it." "There were a lot of people at that party that night." "I figured someone took off with it later." "You figured right." "Vicky did." "The only problem with your story, Hank, is that you... you said you didn't know who Vicky was before she followed you into your father's office, right?" "But I saw her wearing this jacket earlier that night before the fight." "There's no way." "Bella." "You're right." "Remember what I said about seeing but not understanding?" "Yeah." "I was sure" "I saw Vicky in the kitchen wearing this jacket." "But it was Bella." "What if somebody else made the same mistake?" "Then who wanted to kill Bella?" "Someone who was deadly jealous of her... and that." "Melanie, seriously, give me back the jacket." "You're just gonna stand there looking like an idiot?" "Melanie Lambert." "It's great to see you, Carrie." "Al." "Okay, here's the theory." "By the time Melanie leaves the party, she's drunk, half out of her mind with jealousy." "She's driving home, and she sees." ""Bella" wearing the jacket, her jacket." "She's alone, side of the road, and bang." "Only it's not Bella." "It's Vicky." "But I don't think Melanie was going home." "Hank lived here." "Melanie lived to the north here." "If she's on 273 South," " she's not going home." " Hmm." "You know where she might be going?" "Old town reservoir." "Rumor has it, popular high school make-out spot." "Rumor has it, popular cop make-out spot." "Oh, that's not a rumor." "Okay, so it explains why she was in the car with Tommy." "She didn't plan to kill Bella." "She just wanted to get back at Hank." "So, she's on her way to the make-out spot with Hank's friend Tommy." "It's dark." "They're both drunk." "They probably didn't realize that Bella wasn't Bella until they got up close to Vicky's body." "But at that point, why does she still take the jacket?" " Like a trophy?" " Maybe." "Maybe." "No, but then... but then she gives it to Tommy and tells him to get rid of it," " which he doesn't." " See, I'm thinking Tommy panics, decides to keep the jacket close, where it won't be found." "It won't be traced back to him." "It's only later, when his life has turned to crap, that he decides to get his payout at the reunion." "I'm buying it, except for two things." "I can't put Tommy and Melanie together at that reunion, and I can't put them together at that party 22 years ago." "Okay." "So, the police reports had something about blue paint transfer from the car to Vicky's clothing, right?" "Yeah, we checked with DMV." "Neither Tommy nor Melanie had a blue car." "But Melanie's Aunt Laura did." "A blue '85 Cutlass." "It seems Aunt Laura's on a cruise." "We're trying to get a hold of her." "But the morning after Vicky died, an insurance claim was filed for that Cutlass for front end damage." " Joey." " Carrie." "Sorry, is this a bad time?" "N..." "Well..." "What are you doing here?" "I wanted to see if you were going to the memorial for Tommy." "Oh." "Word is..." "Lance is doing an acoustic mini-set." "I'd love to..." "We're..." "we're sort of in the... thick of it, you know what I mean?" "We're right..." " I thought you might say that." " Yeah." "I brought you a little memento from back in the day." " Wow." " You were just looking out the window, thinking of something." "Huh." "Joey, do you remember Hank's tenth grade graduation party?" "Kind of, I guess." "You were taking photos, remember?" "Yeah, sure." "Do you still have any of those photos?" "I have every photo I took in high school." "I was in charge of the montage for the reunion," " but then when Tommy died..." " That's..." "Joey, Joey, Joey?" "Can I get a look at those photos?" "Can I get them?" "Sure." "Yeah." "Does this mean I'm helping you?" "I..." "I'll see you at the memorial!" "I'm on it." "I'll save you a seat." "Tommy and I met in eighth grade English class." "It was not his best subject." "I remember he asked me why there were no Hobbits in Lord of the Flies." "But, uh..." "Tommy became a great friend to me, and, uh, like all of you," "I..." "I really can't believe he's gone." "But, uh, we played together for three years on the South Prep football team..." "You know, I'm glad you stuck around." "Wow, this... reminds me of that memorial we had for Vicky Lannister in high school." "Remember that?" "Mmm." "God, that's right." "So sad." "I feel terrible." "I've got to run in a minute." "I have a plane waiting for me at Teterboro." "Were you in love with Hank during high school?" "What, does Joey have you writing an article for his Web site?" "No." "I just remember that jean jacket you guys bought together." "It was... it was so romantic." "The one with the... pattern, the patch on the back." "You remember that?" "Carrie, unlike you, I've thankfully forgotten most of high school." "Not me." "Not by a long shot." "You know, I..." "I especially remember how mad you were when Bella wore that jacket at Hank's party sophomore year." "What are you talking about?" "I'm talking about Vicky Lannister." "I'm talking about Tommy Garland." "I'm talking about the fact that you tried to make Hank jealous, which is why Tommy was in your Aunt Laura's car that night." "I was never, ever with Tommy Garland." "Yes, you were." "You just hated Bella so much." "You saw her walking along the side of the road alone." "What, y... you tried to scare her, swerve into her." "Either way... you killed the wrong girl." "That's a good story." "If only Tommy had got rid of that jean jacket" " like you told him to." " Oh." "So now I've killed Tommy and Vicky." "Anything else you want to pin on me?" "JFK?" "Kurt Cobain?" "Oh, no." "We... we know you didn't kill Tommy." "But we want your help to nail who did." "Your old boyfriend." "He loved his years there." " Hank Bronski." " And he said, uh, that they were the happiest of his life." "And I know that's true for... a lot of us." "So you think Hank and Tommy were working together" " to blackmail me?" " We know they were." "Tommy was too chicken to go it alone, so he reached out to his old football buddy." "Hank's real estate business hasn't recovered from '08." "He's into the banks, IRS." "He's desperate." "And the, uh, Vicky Lannister thing?" "Deal is that... goes away?" "Yeah, that goes away." "It was 22 years ago." "We want to catch Tommy Garland's killer now." "So how does this work?" "Meet Hank in his room, offer to pay the blackmail, get him to show you the jacket." "That's it." "And hopefully find the murder weapon there, too." "Fine." "Let's do it." "Hank." "We have some business to conclude." "When?" "Give me your room key." "15 minutes." "Hi." "We were wondering where that was." "You're under arrest for the murders of Tommy Garland and Vicky Lannister." " What about my immunity?" " It's funny." "I don't remember any immunity." "Your pal Hank really came through." "Here's a song for Tommy." "And for all of us." "Thank you."