10x09 - Proof of Burden

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[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]

I'm investigating Sean

for sex trafficking.

This is my child! How dare you!

There are girls out there

who are being hurt right now,

and we're running out of time.

According to every report I've read,

you have nothing

because there's nothing there.

He did rehab in Waunakee?

He spent his summers up there

with his dad, up at the cabin.

Maybe this is where it all started?

♪

Oh, my God.

♪

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

♪

[SIGHS]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[GEAR CRANKS, ENGINE TURNS OFF]

[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

♪

This way.

♪

We don't have an ID yet.

M.E. thinks the body's a decade old.

Whoever buried her used chemicals.

Lye, bleach, hydroxide.

Knew how to destroy evidence.

Learned that somewhere.

Patty, your son led us to her.

Sean is involved in this.

You can't protect him.

And you can't save him from this.

Help me bring in Sean now.

[SCOFFS]

He's my son. You're not bringing him in.

♪

[ENGINE ROARS]

[LINE RINGING]

[PHONE BUZZING]

Boss.

All right, tell me where we're at.

We got an ID.

Body's that of Jodie Brown.

Listen, I'm going to put you on speaker.

All right, so Jodie was 12 years old

when she was reported missing

15 years ago out of Waunakee.

Family IDed her

off her shoes and bracelet.

We're waiting on dental to confirm.

Jodie lived about a mile

from that cabin.

She have contact with Sean?

Her parents don't remember the O'Neals,

but they said that

before she went missing,

she was hanging with a new crowd.

Yeah. New crowd, older kids.

The mom thought they were teenagers.

Sean was around 17 then, Sarge.

Jodie disappeared August 15.

Now Chief O'Neal was in Houston

at a police conference,

but we haven't confirmed

Sean's whereabouts as of yet.

M.E. couldn't rule sexual as*ault,

couldn't rule time of death,

but could rule cause of death.

It was a cracked hyoid.

Sean strangled her.

All right, keep moving.

Call ahead to ASA Chapman.

Let her know I'm coming.

All right, I'm on it.

If we want to get the

charges for the m*rder,

then we need to connect

Sean directly to that cabin

and directly to Jodie.

Real, physical evidence,

above and beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Okay, Sean used lye and bleach.

DNA's all gone now.

We've got no cams, no GPS, no tolls.

Cabin was in the middle of nowhere.

It was 15 years ago.

So right now, we got no witnesses,

no way to tie Sean to the location.

OK, what about the sex trafficking?

- The other women?

- Girls.

Guys, I got another

connection out in Waunakee.

Her name is Isla Avers.

She's 20 years old now,

but when she was 17,

she went to the same detox

that Sean did back in Waunakee.

Same exact dates.

And then three weeks later,

she was in Chicago

getting therapy at Safe Place.

She followed Sean to Chicago?

And I thought she'd just be

another missing because

she became real hard to track after like

two months at Safe Place.

But on her 18th birthday,

Isla changed her name

the moment the office opened.

And she's been moving every six

months, exactly six to the T.

She's running.

Something happened to her, Sarge.

- You got an LKA?

- Fuller Park.

Go with her.

[KNOCKING]

Yeah?

Isla Avers?

No, sorry.

[DOOR THUDS]

- It's OK.

- Why do you know my real name?

- We're police.

- No.

No, I don't need police.

I didn't call anybody.

- I don't want any help.

- We know about Sean O'Neal.

That's why we're here.

We just want to talk to you about him.

I don't no, I don't know

anybody by that name.

I've got nothing to tell you.

I don't. OK?

I don't have to talk to you, do I?

We need you to come in with us.

Please. Please, I don't want to talk.

I don't have anything to say.

I'm sorry, Isla, but we need

you to come in with us now.

I know you met Sean at detox,

and then you went to Safe Place.

He invited you?

You change your name,

you keep moving,

keep changing your hair color.

It's like you're desperately

trying not to be found.

Why? What happened?

Nothing happened to me.

- I don't believe you.

- I don't care.

I don't care if you believe me,

and I don't care what happened to me.

- I just want to go home.

- Why?

So you can pack up and run again?

It's got nothing to do with you.

It does.

It has a lot to do with me and you.

And all the other girls that

have gone through Safe Place.

You know, Sean's still

out there right now.

He's still running Safe Place

Don't do that.

Don't put that on me.

You're right.

You're right. I'm sorry.

♪

[SIGHS]

You know, you're the third

girl I've sat across from like this.

I sat across from Sean, too.

And I saw it,

how he looks like

he can see right through you,

like he understands.

And I trusted him.

I'm police. It's my job to read people.

And I trusted him.

But you didn't.

You got away. You're here.

You're unbroken,

and I'm so glad.

I can't tell you anything.

You can. I know you can.

I can't.

Isla

he doesn't have to know

you talked to me.

Do it for you.

♪

He used to have sessions with me.

Like, therapy.

I told him everything about me.

Everything.

He would listen. He cared.

But then one day, it was like

he just made a decision about me.

He took me to the woods. He

He r*ped me.

And then, um, I

I was just nothing anymore.

[SNIFFLES]

He put something over my mouth, and

when I woke up, Sean was gone.

I was in a room with a lock on the door.

It was a prison.

There were girls there.

They told me what was going to happen,

that I was going to be sold.

I don't know how long

I was in that room, but

men took me out.

They washed me.

They put me in a van, and

as soon as the doors opened, I ran.

I just ran. I ran, and

And I didn't stop running.

♪

I think we got him.

This is a firsthand account of r*pe,

of being held, of being trafficked.

- We got him.

- It's still not enough.

It's he said, she said.

There's no documented

evidence of trauma.

She never reported it.

She's got priors. She uses.

She's a bad victim. She's unreliable.

That girl

that girl is not unreliable.

Look, you asked me here

to tell you when you have it.

You don't have it.

Not to mention, you just

practically promised her

you'd never make her testify,

and I could argue coercion in my sleep.

Coercion?

You implied she had

no choice but to talk.

We're going ahead

with the arrest anyway.

I don't care. It's the best we got.

I want Sean O'Neal off the streets now.

We're going to bring him in,

we use the 48 in the box,

and just hope to hell

we get enough to charge.

Let's go.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

Chicago PD.

Hands up.

On your knees.

Get on your knees.

[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]

Jodie, she was your first?

You r*ped her,

and then you strangled her?

[TENSE MUSIC]

How long you been attracted

to children, Sean?

Is that why you started using

all those years ago?

Oh, now you don't want to talk to me?

Sit down.

♪

How do you pick them?

Which ones to bring in

the woods with you,

to r*pe and then sell?

Hmm?

Is that why you sell them?

So they can't report you?

So you don't have to k*ll them

like you did Jodie?

We have you. Do you understand?

We own you now.

Unless you talk, unless you tell us

what happened to all these girls,

you're going to spend

the rest of your life in prison

being beaten and r*ped.

You should talk to my kids

at Safe Place.

I helped them when CPD won't.

- I save them.

- Not all of them.

What about the ones you don't save?

Where are they?

What do you think

this is going to do for you,

Hailey, finding these kids?

Do you think this is going to save you?

Do you think this might stop the pain?

Is that why you try

to save some of them?

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

All right, we are done.

He's done talking.

He has no more answers to give you.

You can leave.

I'll have a moment alone with my client.

Don't do this. Talk to me.

I know you want to talk to me.

Unless you want to lose your job,

I suggest you leave

this room very swiftly.

OK.

We knew we were going to need more.

We got 40 hours left.

Now what do we got?

We ain't got nothing

from the search warrants.

Sean b*rned the documents.

Chief told him to destroy evidence.

All right, Sean's phone?

The burner we IDed?

Not there. No tech.

And GPS has been wiped.

OK. What about Isla?

Anything there?

All she remembers about

the place she was held,

it has locked doors, barred windows.

She remembers the men, the girls,

but no concrete descriptions.

Girl was small, big eyes, scared.

Nothing more than that.

Nothing actionable yet.

You know, we do know now

that Sean is a pedophile.

He's been attracted

to young girls for years.

But when he started trafficking,

he already had Helms and

Kenning at the ready, right?

- He knew them.

- Yeah.

If he knew them, he might

have been a customer.

- There might be evidence.

- Mm-hmm.

Sean was incredibly careful.

Even years ago, he was barely

using his personal phone.

Yeah, last time

he really used it was in 2013.

Nothing on his email,

unless it's all coded.

OK, OK. I got another number.

[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

OK, 2013, Sean O'Neal

called this number twice

from his personal.

And it also pops on

Victor Helms' cell phone.

- Who the hell is it?

- I'll tell you in two seconds.

The number is registered to

Joseph Collins, 28 years old.

He's got two priors, one for

transportation of minors,

the other one for solicitation.

And he's got a sprinter van

registered in his name.

This is the guy transporting the girls.

Yeah, but it's not enough for a warrant.

We're going to find a way

to bring him in.

All right, slow and steady.

Just get Joseph outside.

If he runs, we'll take him.

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[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Joseph Collins, Chicago PD!

Come on. Joseph Collins, Chicago PD.

Look, Joseph, I can see you.

Come on out. We only want to talk.

Sergeant, looks like

he's disposing of evidence.

What are you doing? Joe, no, stop. Stop.

Sarge, we got a female inside.

Do you see her? Is she underage?

I don't know. Couldn't see.

I think she's underage, Sarge.

I think she's a minor.

- Ow, stop.

- Come on.

Chicago PD!

- [GASPS]

- On the ground!

[BOTH GRUNT]

Hands. Let me see your hands.

- Behind your back.

- It's OK.

It's OK. Are you OK?

What are you doing here?

I'm his girlfriend.

What the hell are you doing here?

You've got no right kicking in our door.

You've got no right.

I'm telling you, I don't know.

And I don't believe you.

Now, what do you know about Sean O'Neal?

Nothing. I don't know no Sean O'Neal.

All right, tell me what you do know.

You talking crazy.

You see where you are right now?

You are on the ground in cuffs.

Your van right there,

it's about to be towed to the district.

I guarantee you,

I'm going to find evidence

of girls that are missing,

r*ped, and dead.

So in about eight hours,

you're going to be charged

with sex trafficking, conspiracy

Wait, what?

Transportation of minors,

sexual as*ault,

and felony m*rder.

What?

Yeah, your little girlfriend over there,

she's going to have the same

charges dropped on her name.

No, no. She didn't do anything.

Then protect her. Protect yourself.

I don't know what you want from me.

Yes, you do.

Now what is the van for, Joe?

What is the van for?

I give rides, that's it.

- To who?

- Girls.

Girls, OK? I give them rides.

I get a text. I pick them up.

I give them rides. That's all, man.

Where? Where do you pick

the girls up from?

♪

We're set in the back.

Breaching.

- [GRUNTS]

- Chicago PD!

Clear.

Let's go.

Clear.

Clear.

Clear.

[SIGHS]

They were just here.

He moved them. He just moved them.

- Your 48 hours are up.

- It's not.

- He's got

- Yeah, 20 minutes.

- Yeah, I heard.

- We have enough to charge.

- No. No, you don't.

- You don't have enough.

No, Joseph Collins'

statements aren't admissible.

You don't have enough.

You're releasing my kid.

Sarge, you know Chapman's

in your office?

Look, anything that you

recover from Joseph Collins,

anything that you recover

from questioning him,

you cannot use!

Fruit of the poisonous tree.

Are you kidding me?

It's illegal entry.

It's an illegal arrest.

No. I moved on good faith.

A suspect wanted for sex trafficking,

a sexual offender was

refusing to open the door

and was manhandling a girl in there.

She was not a girl. She was an adult.

And she was his girlfriend.

There was no way to know that.

She was shouting.

Any cop would have moved in.

[SCOFFS] Look,

you have been hearing shouts

and seeing shadows ever since

What are you doing?

[TENSE MUSIC]

Patty, what the hell are you doing?

You think we're finding

this evidence by magic?

Your son led us there,

to a 12-year-old girl,

strangled, left to rot.

To a r*pe.

Patty, to a house where girls

were being held and abused.

They're out there right now.

For all we know,

your son had them k*lled.

No, my son is not that!

He is not this!

He's not. No, you're wrong.

Patty, either way, it's not your call.

Come on. Why you being so quiet?

I can't use it.

What?

It's an illegal entry,

an illegal arrest.

A coerced statement.

No ASA would touch this.

All right, get me Sergeant Platt.

I want him released right now.

Patty.

Patty!

OK, thanks.

Chief and Sean just got to Safe Place.

Looks like the chief

is dropping him off.

UCs will stay outside, keep eyes.

Sean would be a fool

to do something now.

Well, let's hope he's a fool then.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

You dropped Sean off?

[SCOFFS] Yeah.

I think you know the answer

to that since I clocked

your undercovers following us.

You know, there's no need

for you to be here.

It's done.

I need you to look it in the eye.

I read your report.

Patty, if you really read them

I mean, saw the pictures

I mean, read what a little girl

said about your son,

about a r*pe?

I don't think you'd be sitting

here drinking your scotch.

You shouldn't be here.

Door was open.

Do you want to arrest me for this?

See how long I stay in this time?

No. Go ahead.

[CHUCKLES]

You wearing a wire?

No.

You want to search me?

No, I trust you.

But I don't

I don't have anything for you, Hailey.

Yeah, you do.

And I think there's still

a decent part of you in there.

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

Why?

Because of this place.

Because you did save

some of the kids here.

I think you wanted to save all of them.

Do you know how many programs I've done?

Joined six religions, too.

Did you find that out?

No.

Six.

I read all these books.

- [BOOK SLAMS]

- [CHUCKLES]

I did every kind of therapy.

Poisoned myself.

Talked to my dad, once.

Don't worry, he didn't, uh

he didn't understand

what I was trying to tell him.

His brain wouldn't let him.

He loved me too much.

But I did try.

I

I didn't want to be like this.

Then tell me where

the other girls are, Sean.

Did you move them?

But it didn't work.

Sean.

I couldn't fix myself.

Where are the girls?

The urges,

they don't go away,

because they can't.

You see, bad things do happen, Hailey.

Bad things happen,

but you can control how they happen.

You can control who they happen to.

And that that is what I learned.

You can sacrifice the ones

that are already broken

to save the rest.

Who deems them broken?

I do.

I do.

I brought Sean into this world.

I raised him, just him and me.

You understand?

Yeah.

You understand.

I know you do.

And I loved him

through all of it.

All the time that he was using,

I just loved him.

I tried my best for him.

You're not responsible for this.

Yes, I am.

We are responsible

for the people we love.

Of course we are.

♪

Not for this.

[PHONE BUZZING]

What?

What is it?

Look, it's all there.

I'm sorry.

You need to look it in the eye.

I was born broken.

I was made like this.

Something's gone.

Right? And you were broken when

you were young, weren't you?

And it's not 'cause your husband left.

No, you've always been broken,

just like me.

And when you're already doomed

Sean, are all the girls dead?

Just tell me.

Sean.

[PHONE BUZZING]

UCs clocked you going inside.

Look, anything he would have given you,

we couldn't have used.

I would have found a way to use it.

[SIRENS WAILING]

So you want to do that now?

Make cases any way you can?

He's in your head.

I know.

So let's go back to work.

You, me, and the team.

That's how we're going to get him.

That's how we're going to save them.

I think they're all dead.

Come on. Hey.

Let's go work.

Let's go work. Come on.

Copy that.

OK, forensics sped through

the DNA on the bedding.

Never hit for Sean, and

we're still waiting on more.

There's no way he'd go there for sex.

So where we at on the vehicles?

Still sorting.

There's no cameras

in the row house street,

so we got hundreds coming

and going down the block.

About half of them are clear.

What about rentals?

House rental, car, van?

If he was closing up shop,

moving the girls,

he would have wanted

to move them real fast.

Tower pings are clear.

There's no suspicious hits

in the area on Sean's phone.

- Did Vice check in yet?

- Yeah.

They haven't seen an influx

of kids yet online.

They doubt that the girls

could have been sold so quickly

without hearing some sort of chatter.

Would have taken time.

Voight.

This box truck was clocked

by three different cameras

near the row houses two days ago.

Came and went.

- What's that intersection?

- 39th and State.

The plate is registered

to a Chevy Malibu.

- It's in Lakeview.

- It's hot.

This truck would be big

enough to transport the girls.

You could transport all of them.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

This is where we lost it, Sarge.

Traffic cam shows the box truck

entering this block

two days ago and never left.

All right, we split up,

hit every building with access

on this block.

You got it.

♪

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

All right, I'll take the next level.

All right.

Sarge, this floor's a bust.

I'm going to go downstairs.

♪

Sarge, I got the truck.

I got eyes.

It's down on the lower level.

[TOOL CLATTERS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

I need backup down here.

Can anyone hear me?

[RADIO STATIC BUZZES, SCREECHES]

[TOOL CLATTERS]

[GRUNTS]

Chicago Police!

Call out if you're in there!

[TOOL CLATTERS]

- Hailey!

- Sarge.

Wait, hold it.

Wait. Move. Move.

Wait a second. Move.

[GRUNTS]

- Can you get through?

- I can get through.

- Get get through it.

- [BOTH GRUNTING]

OK. OK.

Ready? [GRUNTS]

You smell that?

There's people in there.

Hold on. Watch out. Watch out.

- Ready?

- Yeah.

- One, two.

- [BOTH GRUNT]

Oh, my God.

This one's breathing. She's alive.

I got a pulse, too.

- No.

- It's OK. It's OK.

You're safe. We're the police. It's OK.

50-21 emergency. I need ambos rolled.

I need paramedics. 2260 Alcott.

Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

[RADIO BUZZES]

- OK.

- I'm going to call it in.

OK.

Are we going back to him?

What?

Victor, the men, Sean?

No, you're not going back.

You're not going back

to them ever again, OK?

Safe Place Oasis is clear.

UCs lost him. Sean's apartment's clear.

He's not here.

There's Sean's truck.

[TIRES SCREECH]

Sean is at Chief O'Neal's.

We're moving in to arrest now.

- Copy 50-21.

- All right, nice and calm.

By the book.

[g*nshots]

Patty?

Patty?

Oh, my God.

The chief sh*t him.

50-21, roll the crime lab

[GAGGING]

50-21, come back.

50-21, repeat.

Don't.

Don't call it in.

50-21.

50-21 emergency.

I need ambos rolled

to 1400 South Wallace.

I got one male still responsive.

GSW to neck and head.

Got one DOA.

Hailey, get me something for pressure.

Help me save him. Hailey!

- Copy, 50-21. Ambos en route.

- Sean, stay with me.

Stay with me.

Sean, stay here with me.

[SOFTLY] You can't fix me.

Stay with me.

Sean.

[GAGS]

Sean?

Help me, Hailey.

Help me.

Hailey!

What have we got?

32-year-old male,

GSW to the back of the neck,

monitor showed V-tach,

one sh*t delivered.

We got his pulse back.

Let's get him to Baghdad.

What's his name?

- You got a name?

- Sean.

All right, Sean.

Moving 1, 2, 3.

Hang a dirty epi drip.

Got it.

One of epi going in.

- [MONITOR FLATLINES]

- I've lost his pulse.

His heart's in V-tach.

Let's charge it to 200.

- Charging.

- [MACHINE WHIRS]

- Everybody clear.

- Shocking.

Charge 250.

Charging. Clear.

Shocking.

Looks like he's in sinus rhythm.

Check for pulse.

I've got a good pulse.

All right. We're back.

Get neuro down here now.

Page O.R. 1 to be ready.

Heartbeat's strong.

He's lucky as hell.

You both did good.

Saved his life.

[MONITOR BEEPING]

♪

[SIGHS]

[WOLF HOWLS]