04x02 - Part II

[bunniefuu]

That's Clark Harbor.
Lobster rolls await.

You... you can hear the waves.
That'll help with your insomnia.

She and her husband, Mike Lam,

they start their own fishing operation.

Now, some locals are grumbling
about a Chinese takeover.

I work for my family, so we're
up in that big red building,

Muldoon Fish Company.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

Leave me alone.

Hey!

There's a man walking around
in the middle of the night

following my granddaughter.

We found her car around the
corner on Sullivan Road.

Nothing but c*ons and osprey out here.

I think she was hiding
something from me.

- _
- It's weird stuff.

Very particular, how they were arranged.

Someone's there.

She's scared.

Look, I know this whole thing is creepy,

but you look so energized and alive.

Find me.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

[WAVES CRASHING]

[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[AIR HISSES]

If anything, I need more
boots on the ground.

- [DOG BARKING]
- Boss... what?

At this point, I'm not even sure
there is a person in the water.

Look, I'm gonna have to call you back.

How you holding up?

I barely slept last night.
My stomach's doing somersaults.

I keep thinking about that CCTV tape.

Maybe search and rescue

isn't the best use of
your resources right now.

Well, I don't even know where to
start. Those objects you found

only have Percy's prints on them.

So if she's alive,
she could be anywhere.

I guess I'd start to figure out

who that person was in the footage

and then all her relationships.

Everybody who knew her.

It's a small island,

- but that is a long list.
- Yeah.

- Lou?
- Yeah?

Can I speak to you?

Oh, it's all right.

Detective Ambrose is working with us.

Right?

- Yeah.
- Forensics found a match

on prints from Percy Muldoon's car.

- All right, I'll go.
- All right.

So CJ Lam?

He works the boats.

Helps run his parents'
restaurant on the wharf.

I know that place.

He drives a loud car.
Never fixes his muffler.

- Drives me nuts.
- The guy's off.

Like, he has an anger
problem or something.

Says he's arrested for
aggravated as*ault.

And charges were pressed
and dropped by...

by Colin Muldoon.
What's the story there?

Well, CJ came at him out of nowhere.

I'm telling you, this guy's
got a screw loose.

Josh.

The Lams used to work for the Muldoons.

Mike Lam was lucky enough
to get a fishing permit.

So naturally,
they became the competition.

Been a little tense ever since.

Is there any chance we can get a warrant

to search CJ's phone?

Oh, Judge Simpson loves me.

Yeah, I'll get on it.

So CJ Lam.

Where do you think that
he might be right now?

[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]

Hey, Mike, how's it going?

Good chowder today.

Grab a table and Stephanie will
be right with you and your friend.

We're actually here to talk to CJ.

What for?

Just a couple of questions
about Percy Muldoon.

[MUFFLED TECHNO MUSIC]

♪

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

- CJ.
- What?

[TECHNO MUSIC]

They want to talk to you
about Percy Muldoon.

- [MUSIC STOPS]
- Hey.

What's going on?

Ah... go ahead.

We're just trying to talk
to everyone Percy knew

or anybody that she had contact with.

Well, I don't know if I'm
the best person to talk to.

I barely know her.

Last Saturday night, did you see her?

No.

Did you see her at all recently?

No?

Okay.

We found her car yesterday, abandoned,

with keys in the ignition.

- Where?
- Out by Marblehead.

Your fingerprints turned
up inside the vehicle.

[TENSE AMBIENT MUSIC]

Can you explain that?

I don't know.

I think...

maybe she gave me a ride
home from the ferry once.

Like, a couple of months ago.

Car was in the shop.

The car's no good.

And during the ride home,

anything happen between the two of you?

No.

I mean, I barely remember.

I commute back and forth
to business classes

in Bangor, and I was half awake.

This Saturday night,
when she disappeared,

where were you?

I was with him.

We closed the restaurant together.

We work the boats early Saturday.

I was asleep by : .

Look, CJ,

we don't want to have to come back here.

Any other interaction with Percy

that we should know about?

No.

I told you, I barely know her.

I mean, I've seen her
on the docks for years.

But that's it.

♪

Okay.

Well, if you come across any information

about her whereabouts,
give me a call at the station.

Okay.

Whatever we can do to help.

Okay.

- Everything okay?
- Yeah.

Thanks for your cooperation.

♪

Didn't you get a report

that shows where the prints
were found in the car?

Yeah, there should have
been a diagram in the file.

Where the hell is it?

Ah.

I found it.

All the circles are
where the prints were.

- Just on the windshield?
- And the dash.

You don't see that unless
there's a struggle.

You think he...

- This car, is this CJ's car?
- Yeah.

The red dirt, I've seen that before.

Yeah, that's clay.

The only deposits like that are
on the south side of the island

at Marblehead Point.

That's over by where we
found Percy's car, right?

South side?

Uh, yeah, that's right.

♪

Come on, Tranquil. Doing good, girl.

Come on. There you go.

Hello?

Man, I already told you
everything I know.

You know this guy?

Probably seen him around.

You seen him out here?

My memory's not that good.

[COUGHS]

Sorry.

Look, look, I just got to say,

I can kind of guess
what's going on in here.

But what you do or sell
is not important to me.

This is important to me.

I don't know what you're talking about.

I think he was here.

On Saturday night. You saw him.

We're done here.

Okay. Hey, look, like I said,

it's not important to me
what you do or sell.

But it could be important
to some other people

like Chief Raskin, so
I'm just gonna park down

at the end of the road and
stick around for a little while.

I hope you weren't planning
on entertaining anybody

- for a little while.
- Hey!

He was here, all right?

Around : .

- For how long?
- I don't know, a couple hours?

Didn't say where he was going.

Did he say anything about Percy Muldoon?

No.

Was he looking to get
something from you?

He was looking for a fight.

[UPBEAT TECHNO MUSIC]

♪

[SNORTS]

[MUSIC FADES OUT]

All right, here we go.

- Hey, you.
- Oh, God.

[LAUGHING] Hi.

- You want a hand?
- No.

- Are you sure?
- Yes.

You want to link up later?

- Yeah.
- Mm-'kay.

- 'Kay. I'll see you then.
- Yeah.

[AMBIENT MUSIC]

♪

All right, let's bring it in.

What are you doing here?

I'm just k*lling time.

If I take the : ferry, I only miss
the first minutes of class.

What? I know it all anyhow.

Hey, can you hand me
that set of hooks there?

♪

Thanks.

How is it out there?

What do you mean?

It's freedom.

You should try it sometime.

[SPEAKING CANTONESE]

_

All right.

[UPBEAT TECHNO MUSIC]

♪

[SNORTS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Mike Lam said he was with
CJ all Saturday night.

He said that.

But if CJ's story is phony,

that means that Mike's covering for him,

and the question is...

Is "Why?"

Brandon.

Hey, you remember Harry Ambrose
from Meg's place yesterday?

Hey.

We just have a few questions
to ask you about that fight

between Colin and CJ
Lam a few years back.

Why?

You think he has something
to do with Percy?

Looking into it. Yeah.

You're Percy's ex, right?

Yeah. I mean, it's been a while.

I'm married now, got a kid.

Sure.

Uh, this fight, you saw it?

Yeah, sure did. CJ lost his mind.

Like, level ten. Flipped a switch.

- Hey, CJ, come over here.
- I'm seriously gonna k*ll you.

- Percy wants to arm-wrestle you.
- I do not. That's...

- What's your f*cking problem?
- Oh, he's getting fired up.

But don't worry, my
money is still on you.

bucks says she can take you.

- You know he's just joking.
- How 'bout we do it tournament style?

If you win, then you take
on, uh, his brother,

his dad... hell, I bet
you could take out

- half of China.
- [GRUNTS]

- Hey, hey!
- Hey!

Stop, stop! Hey!

- Colin, chill out, man!
- Stop it. He's a good boy!

Yeah, try that again, huh?

- Try that again.
- Dammit, Muldoon!

Get the f*ck off me!

- Get the f*ck off me!
- Stop, stop!

I mean me and Colin, the other guys,

we give each other sh*t all the time.

But these new guys, they don't get it.

Between them and the Canadians,
they got everyone fighting over turf

'cause, I mean, there's
only so much to go around.

Can I ask you...

why did you and Percy break up?

I don't know, man. Something happened.

And I still don't get it.

What do you mean?

Couple years ago, around Labor Day,

we were gonna head out for the weekend.

She shows up, sh*t-faced,

and breaks the whole thing off.

I don't know.

Never gave me a reason.

What do you think? Uh...

Maybe there was somebody else?

Come on, man.

- I don't f*cking know.
- But...

All right.

Thanks, Brandon.

Thanks.

Well, they've got search teams

covering all of Marblehead
now, with dogs.

No kidding. So they think she is alive?

These are Jasper's specialty.

- Oh.
- They have a kick.

Okay.

Well, Paula told me she saw Meg Muldoon

casing the forest with the police.

So I guess so.

Poor woman.

[GRUNTS]

[TWIG SNAPS]

[EERIE AMBIENT MUSIC]

♪

[LAUGHTER]

- Excuse me.
- Mm.

I know you, right?

No, I don't think so.

You were swimming the other night.

Swimming?

- Yeah.
- [LAUGHING]

- No?
- Swimming.

No.

Ah, right.

I'm sorry. It's my mistake.

Mm.

- [SHOUTING IN CANTONESE]
- It doesn't matter, okay?

You can't just come to my room

when I'm not there and
go through my sh*t!

_

- _
- I'm not even hiding anything.

_

_

We all make mistakes.

Uh, sorry.

- Uh, kitchen closes in five minutes.
- No, we're not here to eat.

You're gonna come down
to the station right now.

What? Why?

'Cause you lied to us
about Saturday night.

And your father did too.

Why do you think that?

Come on.

- Will someone explain to me...
- Are you arresting me?

I will if I have to.

What for? I didn't do anything.

You didn't close the
restaurant on Saturday.

You were at David Rolland's place.

That guy they call "Diez", right?

_

We got access, and your phone's GPS

has you behind Knot's Pub.

: p.m., same time Percy was there.

She went outside to see you and...

came back in with a gash on her head.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Come on.

There you go.

♪

[AMBIENT MUSIC]

♪

[POUNDING ON DOOR]

Hey.

Hi. What's up?

That was kind of loud.

Was it?

- Yeah.
- sh*t, I'm sorry. I...

What are you doing here?

Um, I need to talk to you.

Hmm.

So this is what CJ Lam does
up in his tower late at night.

It's, uh... it's for my economics class.

- I have an exam tomorrow.
- Fancy.

I guess you're planning on
leaving us all in the dust, huh?

[CHUCKLES] Yeah, right.

Oh, watch... sorry, watch out.

Sorry.

[SNIFFLING]

Uh...

What's, um...

What's going on?

I have to tell you something.

I need to tell you...

♪

You're gonna hate me.

Okay, um...

I, um...

sh*t.

I can't.

I...

I'm a horrible person.

- No, you're not.
- Yes, I am.

You can tell me.

I won't judge you.

♪

Oh, uh, wow.

Um...

I'm sorry.

That wasn't cool.

No, it wasn't.

♪

What do you think she
wanted to tell you?

She never said.

And you never asked her again?

What does it matter?

She was always high on something.

How do you mean that?

She'd show up. Out of nowhere.

[POUNDING ON DOOR]

Alexa, play "On and On" by Omicron.

- [CHUCKLES]
- Okay.

He's setting the mood.

[LAUGHS]

No, it's cute.

♪ She can't hear me ♪

[UPBEAT POP MUSIC]

♪ You're chasing after believers ♪

What's going on with you?

♪ There's no comfort here for you ♪

Are you all right?

Tell me what you like.

Don't change the subject.

♪ And on and on and on ♪

♪

How long did this go on?

She disappeared. Stopped
responding to my texts

and calls.

And then I heard that
she left the island,

was living in Portland somewhere.

When was this?

Like, nine months ago.

And then it was, like, six
months ago she came back.

Did you try to see her?

No?

But you did see her.

The night she disappeared.

What happened behind the bar?

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

She reached out to me.

I didn't want anything to do with her.

You met up with her.

You don't understand.

She... she made me do things.

What kind of things?

♪

CJ?

CJ!

_

My son doesn't have to
answer any questions.

This is in his best interest.

Is he under arrest?

- No.
- You have no proof of anything.

_

♪

Mr. Lam, hang on.

Give me a second, will you?

Not telling his side of the story,

it's gonna draw more
attention to your family.

I'll be the one to decide
how to protect my family.

[SIGHS]

I don't get it. Why aren't
you arresting him?

We don't have a case.
It's a matter of evidence.

His prints were all over her car.
What else do you need?

How does he know that?

We got a right to know what's going on.

Colin, I realize that you're
feeling the pressure.

We're all feeling that,

but we just don't have
enough to convict.

We could charge him,

but it'll get thrown out
by a judge in two days.

But it might make him talk.

Percy's out there, and he knows.

You got to make him talk.

Well, his father just hired a lawyer.

So he's going to talk
even less than he was.

But why aren't they cooperating?

We've been good to the Lams.

We hired them when nobody else would.

Yeah, I'll go talk to them myself.

You will not.

It doesn't make any sense.

Why was Percy showing up at CJ's place?

He's lying. He was after her.

What are you gonna do now?

Well, what do you think?

Dig into his story, and if he did it,

- he might eventually confess.
- My granddaughter's out there

God knows where.

Well, we've got this rule of law,

- right?
- The kid att*cked me.

- That's the way it works.
- His prints were all over her car.

He's your guy. And you know it.

We realize that you've taken
your personal time to help us.

We really appreciate it.

And thank you, Lou.

Good night, gentlemen.

[MICROWAVE KEYPAD BEEPS]

[TENSE AMBIENT MUSIC]

♪

[MICROWAVE BEEPING]

[GLASS SHATTERS]

♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

"The ancient Lunar Goddess

"danced the world into existence

"and then danced it through its cycles

"of destruction and death.

"Her creative process is represented

"by the Ouroboros,

the snake swallowing its own tail."

Percy underlined all of that.

You know, when I met
her down at the wharf,

she was grounded and seemed wise.

She did not seem like somebody

who was thinking about
taking herself out,

if that's what she did.

Have you ever thought
about... ending it?

Why are you asking me that?

[SOFT MUSIC]

♪

Well, I think Camus said,

"The only real philosophical question

is su1c1de."

You either accept the absurdity of life

or you opt out.

I feel like we all have moments
when we're fighting ourselves.

When our selves just...
just become unbearable.

I... I certainly did.

About ten years ago, I...

it was in the aftermath of
one of my misguided flings,

and I... I couldn't paint.

And I just felt weighed down.

I was just trapped with
all of this self-disgust.

And I thought about it.

The possibility was there in my mind.

Then something changed?

My sister got sick.

And... and she needed
me, and I felt useful.

Human.

♪

I was back up there.

Uh-huh.

[EERIE AMBIENT MUSIC]

♪

Do you really wanna bring her
down into the dark with you?

I don't want to lose her.

What did he do to you? CJ?

You know I can't answer that.

I'm just a voice inside your head.

[PHONE VIBRATING]

Hey.

They wanted to know where she is.

What'd you say?

Nothing. 'Cause I don't know.

One was definitely Colin Muldoon.

I saw him run away.

You saw him?

I sleep here sometimes.

There's a bed downstairs.

Look, I don't know how
long it's gonna take Lou

to find something on them, but
these people, whoever they are,

they think you're responsible.

And they're gonna come back.

He will not tell you.

You know, you're only making
this harder on yourselves.

We have no choice.

This island, this country,

we came here for the chance
to make a better life.

We thought we could
work hard and do well.

But we have different problems
here than at home.

If we do well, the people here hate us.

If we talk,

they will only hate us more.

_

_

_

- Stop it.
- [BOTH SHOUTING IN CANTONESE]

Stop it. Stop it!

[SHOUTING IN CANTONESE]

Look, I understand you're targets.

But this will get worse.

You want to live with that?

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Fine.

Fine, I'll tell you.

- CJ.
- It's my life.

♪

But I'm only telling you.

You have to understand.

She wanted me to hurt her.

[GRAVEL CRUNCHING]

[TENSE AMBIENT MUSIC]

♪

This will only take a few minutes.

- Who's place is this?
- A friend's.

- Come on.
- No, Percy.

Seriously, this is weird.

I want to show you.

It's something I want to
do with you. Come on.

[RELAXED ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]

Okay.

[SNORTS]

[INHALES]

[GASPS]

[SNIFFS]

Just like that. [SNIFFS]

Here you go.

- Yeah?
- Mm-hmm.

[LAUGHING] It's fine.

Hey.

- [SNORTS]
- Careful, careful.

- Oh.
- [LAUGHS]

[SNIFFS]

[GROANS]

Hey, look at me.

♪

[GROANS]

What are you doing?

[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]

- [GRUNTS]
- What the f*ck?

[BOTH GRUNTING]

Hit me.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

Hit me.

Everyone will think I'm the bad guy,

but she's the one that started it all.

She wanted me to hurt her.

Why do you think she came to you?

I don't know.

The night she disappeared,
what happened?

I'm guessing, but...

you probably heard that
she was back on the island,

and then what?

She finally reach out to you?

Yeah.

- [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
- [PHONE CHIMES]

♪

I'm going to the bathroom.

Why do we always meet in places
where no one can see us?

I thought we'd want the privacy.

I'm surprised you even got in touch.

- It's been months now.
- I'm sorry.

It's not that I haven't
been thinking about you.

Is that it?

[SCOFFS]

Look, I never meant for things
to get this complicated.

Well, it's a little late for that.

I was trying to help.

And then things got out of control.

I realize now that wasn't fair to you.

Wait, you were trying to help me?

- What, like, out of pity?
- That's not what I mean.

What, I'm some kinda
charity case for you?

No, God.

I really did like you too. I...

[SIGHS]

Let's...

let's go somewhere.

Come on.

Let's go to Diez's.

I don't... I don't do that anymore.

Yeah, right.

No, I... I don't.

- God, I hate you.
- Please don't say that.

- You f*cked me up.
- That's not fair.

You did!

I keep thinking about what we did.

It's stuck in my head.

Over and over...

I've learned a lot since then.

You know, the way things
are in this place,

it's completely f*cked up.

That's all? That's all you
got to say for yourself?

- What else can I say?
- You used me.

CJ, I'm dealing with
so much sh*t right now

that's so much bigger than...

God, it's always about you!

Every time!

You show up when you want.

You leave when you want.

I'm a f*cking person
too. You realize that?

- Hey, I'm f*cking talking to you.
- Let go of me.

[GROANS]

Oh, my God.

- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
- Oh, God, I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry. Are you okay?

- I'm so sorry.
- I'm going to go.

I'm so sorry. I just
don't understand you.

I would tell you.

And it would explain everything.

But I can't.

They won't let me.

Who's "they"?

♪

Did you see her later that night

after you were at the bar?

I went to Diez's.

And then I went home.

When we heard the news about Percy,

my dad got so scared
the way it would look.

Did you really go home?

Or did you go down to the docks,

and then follow her out onto the bluff?

No, I swear.

Look, anybody, me...

you get angry, right?

You get hurt. It leads you to do things.

Things you probably regret,
but you do them.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

It just happens.

♪

Did you?

Look,

a part of me did want to hurt her.

But when I saw her fall

and the cut on her head,

it was so bad.

No.

No, I could never do that.
I could never hurt her.

♪

[SIGHS]

This was yours, wasn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Where'd you find that?

It has to be evidence now, but...

she had it with her out on the bluff.

Where do you think you'll go
when you leave the island?

I don't know if I can anymore.

What do you mean?

Well, now there's nobody else

to help my parents run the restaurant,

handle the boats.

I mean, you could still go.

I don't know.

Every time I imagine
myself off this island,

I just... you know, I feel guilty.

[SOFT MUSIC]

I know what you mean.

I'm...

I'm thinking about leaving too.

- Really?
- Yeah.

This island,

I'm not sure I can do it anymore.

Why not?

♪

- What's that?
- Hmm?

- What, that?
- Mm-hmm.

I don't know. It's so stupid.

My dad bought 'em in China.

There's one for each
member of my family.

Me, my mom, my brother
back in Hong Kong.

It's cool that you keep it.

Well, my dad thinks it helps us remember

where we came from.

Never really liked it.

I think it's beautiful.

You should take it.

No, it belongs to your family.

I'd rather give it to you.

Thank you.

Why me?

After all these years,
you never looked at me.

Why now?

I... I couldn't see you before.

And now I can.

♪

He doesn't know where
your granddaughter is.

But that's just not true.

He wasn't in the car the
night she went missing.

How do you know that?

He's telling the truth.

And b*ating him up, you're not gonna get

the confession that you want.

I had nothing to do with that att*ck.

But we will find out who it was.

I don't control what
people do on this island.

You never told me that she
left the island last year.

- I didn't think it was important.
- She just up and left?

Something happened.

Percy wanted to experience
life on the mainland.

Kids who grow up here have
that urge at some point.

She tried it and she
realized it wasn't for her.

You know where she could have gone?

Why aren't we talking about CJ Lam?

His fingerprints are in her car.

He att*cked my son. He hurt Percy.

That cut on her head,
I saw it with my own eyes.

He's lying to you.

Meg, we are gonna get
to the bottom of this.

I promise you.

[SCOFFS]

- Uh...
- [TENSE AMBIENT MUSIC]

♪

Did you tell her about
the cut on Percy's head?

No.

Why would I?

Meg said that the last she
saw Percy was : p.m.,

end of her shift.

How would she know about a cut

two hours later at the bar?

I didn't tell anybody about that.

Okay.

So she saw Percy again that night?

Yeah.

She's lying.