BLACKSTONE CARL CHRISTINA DI DR_CHANCE FRANK HINES HOSPITAL_ADMINISTRATOR HOSPITAL_SECURITY HOSPTIAL_ADMINISTRATOR JACLYN MAN MCGINLEY OPERATOR_911 SANFORD SANFORDS_SON WOMAN WOODY DR CHANCE Previously on Chance. HINES Dr. Chance, Detective Hines, Freemont PD. How'd you know Dr. Cohen again? DR CHANCE We were colleagues. HINES You sleep with her? DR CHANCE No. HINES Just surprising that somebody was inquiring about Myra is all. You never know where a lead could come from or when. DI Hey, Frank. Put your hands on the bumper there. BLACKSTONE Stay away from my wife! That's the last piece of friendly advice you're ever going to get. DR CHANCE Just tell me what happened. DI Blackstone. Pops right out the door like the guy had signaled him. That's when I put one in his chest. DR CHANCE So you killed him? DI Well, I took a kill shot for sure. MAN Just drive. DI If you still want it. It's all just police reports, just cases I guess. DR CHANCE So a guy died tonight for basically nothing. DI I would've killed my father if I could've. I would've scalped the fucker. MAN DR CHANCE Dean! OPERATOR 911 Is he breathing? DR CHANCE He's diaphoretic, tachycardia, thready pulse, breath rate at about six per minute. No signs of trauma, but I can't be sure about heart attack or stroke. Darius Pringle. Fuck. Sorry. Patient's medicating for Type II diabetes and sleep apnea. OPERATOR 911 Are you a doctor? DR CHANCE Yes. OPERATOR 911 We have an ambulance en route to 6600 Post Street. Are you the patient's doctor? DR CHANCE No, just his friend. CHRISTINA Hi this is Christina. Leave a message at the beep and I'll call you back when I can. Thanks. DR CHANCE Christina, it's me. I have to talk to you right now. I mean it. I don't care where you are or what you're doing. You call me as soon as you get this, all right. Call me. MCGINLEY Eldon Chance. My God, what's it been? Only forever. DR CHANCE McGinley. My God, you're still here. MCGINLEY Where else am I going to be? You look terrible. DR CHANCE Thanks. MCGINLEY How's your patient? DR CHANCE No, he's not my patient. He's just a friend I was visiting. Found him like this. MCGINLEY I'm sorry, Eldon. I just assumed he was yours. Pulled his file if you're interested. DR CHANCE Yes. Yes, I am. He's not my patient now, but I intend that he will be. MCGINLEY Er doctor was asking for everything we could find, and Mr. Pringle here was in our database along with records from Fort Miley and Napa State. DR CHANCE He's a vet. I get Fort Miley, but Napa State? MCGINLEY The story's in the history on this one. DR CHANCE Can I maybe get a look at that? MCGINLEY I'll print you out a copy. You just didn't get it from me. DR CHANCE Of course. MCGINLEY That's a young man could use someone good on his side. DR CHANCE Thanks, Ginley. DR CHANCE Darius Pringle is a 36-year-old, right-handed white male born the younger of two children having a brother three years his senior. His father is a Phd theoretical physicist. His mother was a classical violinist who toured and recorded extensively in Europe and the United States. At the age of nine, Darius along with his mother and 12-year-old brother was struck by a drunk driver while on a crosswalk in residential San Francisco. His mother and brother died instantly. Darius spent four weeks at San Francisco General Hospital. C.T scans reported a right frontal subdural hematoma. DR CHANCE Yeah. CHRISTINA I was in the shower. I didn't sleep all night. I just laid there thinking about Nicky. DR CHANCE Is Neal there? CHRISTINA I told you he had the biking trip, three nights camping at Half Moon Bay. DR CHANCE Okay, lock the doors. I'll be right there. CHRISTINA What? DR CHANCE I'll call you from outside the house. CHRISTINA You're scaring me. DR CHANCE I don't know how else to make you take this seriously. CHRISTINA Okay, so then maybe I should go wake up Nicky. DR CHANCE You can wake her up in a minute. Just listen to me now, okay. You have to pack enough to last you both a while, then just get on the road. Don't tell people where you're going, all right, not even Neal. Go somewhere. Stay there until you hear from me. CHRISTINA You can't come in here and just tell me to do this and not let me ask any questions. Is this something to do with a patient? Is it someone that's fixating? Is it someone that's violent? DR CHANCE It's connected to a patient, yes. CHRISTINA Then let's go talk to the police. DR CHANCE We can't go to the police. The police won't do anything. We have to protect ourselves, okay. Please, Christina. Please, just trust me. CHRISTINA Okay. I don't- Where do I go? My mother's? DR CHANCE What about Liz? You're always talking about going to visit her. CHRISTINA Liz is in Tahoe. Why can't I just go to my mother? Okay. Okay. What are you going to do? What happens to you? DR CHANCE Is my bag of stuff still upstairs? CHRISTINA Yeah. DR CHANCE Okay, well I'm going to go get it. DR CHANCE Hey Helen, it's Dr. Chance. Listen, I've got a personal emergency, a family emergency, and I'm going to have to close the office. So, sorry about the short notice, but I'm going to call the agency and tell them you did a great job. But there it is. Thanks for everything. Bye. Jaclyn, it's Eldon. Listen, things- Things got really bad, I mean really bad. I need you to call me, please, as soon as you can. DR CHANCE Darius sustained a coma lasting 12 days along with a compound fracture of his right femur. C.T scans reported a right frontal subdural hematoma. Upon release from the hospital, nine-year-old Darius was sent to live with his paternal grandmother Ruth Morrison. The reason for this had to do with the devastating effect the loss of his wife and elder son had on Sanford Pringle, Darius's father, who felt himself unable or unwilling to see his surviving son. Ruth Morrison at that time was married to one James Morrison, her third husband. Ruth stated that from the time of Darius's release from the hospital it was if they had to "raise him from infancy." Darius was unable to feed himself. The poor balance made it necessary to wear protective head gear. After several months, he began very slowly to recover a good deal of his memory and language function. It was around this time that James Morrison brought his son from a former marriage to live with the family in Oakland. Darius stated that his grandmother knew of the sexual abuse but told him never to speak of it and would punish him for doing so. This continued for a period of roughly five years at which point Sanford Pringle returned in the company of his new wife Norma, 20 years his junior. Darius reports that his father was kind to him during the rare times they were together but was preoccupied with both his skyrocketing career and his new family. On the single occasion when Darius tried to talk to his father about what had happened it was "as if his father was looking through him and could not hear what was being said." Afterward, his father continued to leave Darius at the home of his grandmother whenever he was out of town to allow his new wife to concentrate on their toddler son. By the age of 15, Darius had become preoccupied with books on warfare, the study of martial arts and in particular a book called "Unlocking Your Hidden Powers." He'd also begun to exhibit periods of what appeared to be mood disturbance with intermittent psychotic behavior. This behavior culminated with the beatings of James Morrison and his son Paul. Darius was taken into custody by the Oakland Police and later transferred to the state mental hospital in Napa where he remained for a period of three months. HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR So you're seeing him now as a patient? DR CHANCE Yes. I will be. HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR And you've already been to Napa State you said. DR CHANCE I have. He was in-patient there twice. First time for three months when he was 15. Second time was just a couple of days. And the second time he was transferred there directly from here. HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR Yes. Not directly, but yet. DR CHANCE What do you mean? HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR Well, we turned him over to the police first. After they took custody, they contacted the family. DR CHANCE Police? I'm confused. HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR I can see that and I'm sorry to hear it. That would suggest Darius didn't get the help he needs. After Napa State, he was released to his father's custody. There had been a follow up, but before there could be he ran away, lived on the streets, first in Oakland. DR CHANCE How old was he? Sixteen. HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR Made some money with his muscle being a street enforcer. Someone always needs something done on the streets, a debt collected or enemy taken care of. After a few years of that, he moved to Palo Alto. Lots of returning military personnel there, guys from Afghanistan and Iraq. Made a lot of friends. DI Buddy of mine keeps going back to Afghanistan. This is what he likes. DR CHANCE Is that where you were? HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR Some of those vets were still active duty. Some were homeless. A lot were connected to the VA hospital in Palo Alto. A number of those men were addicted to street drugs that Darius could get for them because of his connections with the Oakland dealers. But then Darius started using the same drugs himself to the point that they, in his words, became a problem. That's when he showed up here with his fake military ID card that one of the guys had gotten him. DR CHANCE Fake? DI The operator I worked with in Kandahar. I came back from my last tour. I was in the teams. We used to run these drills, sneak and peek. DR CHANCE He had a fake I.D? HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR Yes, very well executed. Totally legitimate looking. At first glance, even at second glance it was. DR CHANCE You're saying he was never in the military? HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR I'm saying he was not. DI First thing that happens in combat, shit starts to fly and so does your plan. After that you improvise. HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR He was admitted through emergency services. He was treated for chronic substance abuse and psychotic ideation. He had managed to detox and was just starting to work with me when the ruse was discovered. HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR Fake I.D. That's when the police were called. HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR Yeah. HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR They took him back to Napa. His family transferred him to a private facility in Marin. I tried to reach out, but they said that he ran away again. That's the last I heard of him until now. You're going to help him you said? DR CHANCE I-- Yes. HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR I'm glad. I actually argued for him to stay here but was overruled. I always wondered what happened to him, but now here you are. The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. DR CHANCE Yates? HOSPTIAL ADMINISTRATOR Darius turned me onto that one. An unusual guy. DR CHANCE One of my very own. CARL So has any of the family even come by? I mean it's like- Like the Kennedys. They had that poor girl lobotomized. DR CHANCE That's not going to happen. It's much more difficult to pull of these days. CARL You haven't met the family. They'll try to pull something. They'll have him put away and we'll never see him again. DR CHANCE They can't. He's an adult. CARL What if they give him some drugs? Hmm? And get him to sign something. DR CHANCE Well then he'll argue that he was drugged. It's almost impossible in this day and age to gain that kind of conservatorship over someone against their will. Disinheriting someone is one thing. Having them put away is another. CARL You don't know the father. DR CHANCE Do you? CARL I don't need to. I've seen what he hath wrought. DR CHANCE Well I don't know the family, but I've read the medical history. Honestly, it seems like D's father is keen to be rid of him. Why would he care about putting him away? CARL I don't know, but he's been looking for him for years. So, whatever the reason, he cares. He's a wealthy and powerful man with friends in high places and he hates that boy. He hates him for what he did to him. DR CHANCE Or hates himself for having allowed it. CARL Whatever. He's going to take it out on D either way. "You're not a superman, D," I tell him. He thinks he is, you know. What he's got to think I suppose given everything. DR CHANCE Which you knew. All of it. You couldn't have just taken me aside and given me a heads up. I'm hiring him for Christ's sake. And not just to redo my furniture. You know what for. CARL He eats too many donuts. He is not criminally insane. DR CHANCE He's not a veteran either. CARL Well not of any war on foreign soil, no. DR CHANCE You still could've said something. CARL Not my something to say. It's his. DR CHANCE You know Carl, I need a favor. CARL What is it? DR CHANCE I don't know how much he told you about what happened the other night. CARL Enough. DR CHANCE Okay, well since then my apartment, you know, I can't go home. I'm scared for my family. I had to send them away. I don't have cash. I'm afraid to use my cards. I'd ask D what to do, but I can't. So, this is the only place I have left. CARL Stay as long as you like. DR CHANCE Fuck. Hello. HINES Hey, doc. Detective Hines. I wake you? DR CHANCE No. Yeah, you did. HINES Went by your office yesterday since that worked better the first time, but it was closed. Cardiologist down the hall said he heard you're having a family emergency. DR CHANCE Yeah, I am. HINES Well, I don't want to intrude on that, but I do have a couple more questions about Dr. Cohen. Following up on some of the things you said that maybe aren't making the most sense. Hello? DR CHANCE Yeah, I'm here. HINES Not trying to be patronizing, doc, and I probably don't need to remind you, but I am trying to solve a crime here, a horrible crime done on an innocent person. DI He's smart then. Guy like that can be a problem. DR CHANCE Homicidal homicide detective, yeah. I would say. He knows how to game the system. Di He is the system. DR CHANCE I'll answer your questions. All your questions. HINES So, you didn't know these guys who were maybe speaking Romanian? DR CHANCE No. HINES But they were definitely in your apartment. DR CHANCE Yes. HINES Okay, I just want to make sure I'm understanding everything. So, Stanford referred Jaclyn Blackstone to you, who she told you she was seeing a therapist that died. That was Dr. Cohen. Then you gave Mrs. Blackstone a referral to your friend who she's seen maybe six times and then Detective Blackstone beat her up to make her stop. Is that when you wanted to see Dr. Cohen's records and is that how you found out what happened to her? DR CHANCE Yeah. Not all of it. HINES Right. You found out the rest from the file at the DA's office 'cause you were there going through the proper channels for Mrs. Blackstone who you put back into therapy with your friend. Then when Detective Blackstone found out about that, he went and slashed your friend's tires about the same time that he stopped by and gave you a beat down. How am I doing so far? DR CHANCE Yeah, that's pretty much it. HINES Are you with this Mrs. Blackstone? I mean are you with her with her? DR CHANCE No. HINES But what if I told you I don't give a shit if you are because I'm not the doctor/patient police or the adultery police? DR CHANCE We just- HINES Right. Got you. DR CHANCE Thank you. HINES So, Detective Blackstone beat his wife for going to therapy. He hit your daughter. He stalked and harassed you and your friend, then he beat you up. Oh, and he might be a part owner in a brothel, according to his wife. And that might be connected to why he got stabbed the other night. I don't want to forget that. Am I leaving anything out? DR CHANCE No. HINES Are you leaving anything out? DR CHANCE No. HINES You told anybody else about this? DR CHANCE No. HINES You know, I used to have this partner Augie Fret. Nine, ten years ago when Augie was still in uniform he got a call from Freemont to an armed situation in Oakland. Suspect shot him. Oakland cop gave him first aid until the Emts could get there. Got a medal of merit for saving Augie's life. Now guess who that Oakland cop was. I know you know that police don't like to go after other police. That's why they call the internal affairs the rat squad. Good thing is the only thing I hate more than a cop going after another cop is a bad cop. DR CHANCE So does that mean you're going to help me? HINES Well yeah, I mean maybe I'm going to look into it, see what I find out. But let me tell you, it's not going to be easy. I mean this guy has a good reputation. I mean fuck. DR CHANCE I know that, you know, my choices have not been- I've been culpable and I'm sorry. HINES Don't be sorry, okay. You're not the piece of shit here. He is. But this is going to get rough, I mean enough to maybe I'm crazy for saying I'll look into it. I mean you're the neuropsychiatrist. Am I crazy? DR CHANCE No. HINES Okay. Are you? HOSPITAL SECURITY Sir, there's no visitors right now. SANFORD No. End of the hall right? No, it's all right. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. SANFORDS SON Down here at the end of the hall, Mike. SANFORD My God, it really is him. Didn't think I'd even recognize him. What can you tell us? Have there been any changes? You're? DR CHANCE Eldon Chance neuropsychiatry. SANFORD Oh, all right. So, we're looking at trauma to the brain, structural damage. DR CHANCE There's no evidence of that according to the MRI. We're still waiting on Eeg for signs of swelling. But the good news is that he didn't have a seizure. There's not cardiac arrest, no cerebral anoxia. SANFORD Was his brain ever without any oxygen? DR CHANCE No. We expect him to make a full recovery. I would hope that your son would be more consistent in his monitoring of his blood sugar levels. This is all very foolish and avoidable. SANFORD Would you be willing to say that again under oath? DR CHANCE I'm sorry? SANFORD What you just said, would you be willing to say that again on the stand? DR CHANCE I don't quite follow you. SANFORD It's just that for years I've been saying the exact same thing you just said. My son cannot take care of himself. Can he be transported in his current state? DR CHANCE I would say that is not advisable. SANFORD Good. So, let's say that we were to set things up where we were to care for him at home. Are you able to make that call Dr sorry? DR CHANCE Chance. No, I can't. That's something for his team to discuss. SANFORD When can that happen? DR CHANCE I can't say. Sorry. Soon. SANFORD Look. I'm not trying to be difficult here, doctor, or overly dramatic. And I don't know if you know about my son's history, but I do want to be clear. My son is dangerous, yes to himself as you said, but also and even more to the point to others. So maybe knowing that you can understand my urgency, my wanting him to receive the appropriate care and treatment. DR CHANCE I can understand, but I can't speak for the team. Now if you'll excuse me, I have other patients to see. FRANK We need to talk mother fucker. Making me chase you, you're just making things worse. Christ! Goddamn it! Fuck! DR CHANCE I have to take this. Jaclyn? JACLYN I'm sorry about this place. I had to think of somewhere that no one would see us. DR CHANCE That's okay. JACLYN I don't even know where to start. DR CHANCE He sent men to my apartment. They were waiting for me when I got home. JACLYN Did you-? DR CHANCE I didn't go in obviously or I wouldn't be here. Probably had someone watching while we were. JACLYN No, he hasn't said anything. DR CHANCE You said he likes keeping people in suspense. JACLYN Or maybe he thought about it and decided he went too easy on you the first time. Or maybe he just wants to make sure I have nothing to come back to. DR CHANCE What do you mean come back to? JACLYN We're leaving. Tomorrow, the next day, soon. DR CHANCE What about the pension vesting? Eight months? JACLYN That was before. Now he thinks they're after him. DR CHANCE Who's they? JACLYN Well his partners, whoever he competes with in this sex business of his that I'm not supposed to know anything about, whoever tried to kill him. He forgets that sometimes people are around when he's talking on the phone. DR CHANCE Do you even know where you're going? JACLYN He would never tell me. DR CHANCE You've got to stall. You have to stall. JACLYN I can't. How would I? DR CHANCE You've got to push back. You have to buy some time. We could make this work. I just need time to think. JACLYN There's no time left. DR CHANCE What about your daughter? You can't leave her. He knows that. JACLYN It’s better this way for her. If he goes and I go with him, then he's gone, out of her life, out of yours too. It was such a beautiful couple of days imagining what could be. You're such a good man. DR CHANCE No. JACLYN No, it's true. Take it from someone who knows the difference. You must want things, but you just want them. You don't take them. You let me breathe. DR CHANCE Jacklyn, please. JACLYN And now I have to go. He's getting out of the hospital today. I have to go pick him up. DI I don't know, brother. It's all just police reports. DR CHANCE The officer first on the scene reported that at approximately 1130pm Michael Ashville and his brother Duane Evel were standing in front of their apartment complex on Bancroft Avenue in East Oakland when they were shot. When Detective Liam and I interviewed Miss Aubrey, she informed us she hikes daily in Huckleberry Regional Preserve and usually arrives around 2pm. She was on her usual trail about a mile from the parking lot when she discovered Mr. Shore. He appeared to have been stabbed and was not breathing. First theory, my killers went to the home sometime after midnight to either deliver or collect various types and amounts of narcotics. Then an argument ensued either over the money or the possibility of bad drugs. And the suspect or suspects armed with a knife and gun proceeded. Courtney, Glaser, Jones DR CHANCE Mexico. DI That piece was old that you were looking at. Black like that is onyx. The good ones are hand cut in Mexico. That was a good one. DR CHANCE On November 10, 2012, the victim Galen Parks was found bludgeoned to death in an Oakland high rise building overlooking the harbor. BLACKSTONE Parks was naked, handcuffed to his bed with puncture wounds in his arms. I along with homicide team two responded to investigate. There was no sign of forced entry or struggle. A syringe in the bedside table was later found to contain heroin. Parks had extreme blunt force trauma to the head. The weapon used was a glass dildo found nearby. It was discovered the dead man had a cell phone believed to be missing or taken during his murder. I obtained a warrant for Parks's cell phone records and discovered the phone was still being used. On the day following the murder, several calls were placed on Parks's phone to a Mt. Claire cell phone number. The number was registered to a woman named Laurie Hammond, 35-year-old single mother currently employed as a travel agent. When I interviewed Laurie Hammond, she told me the Mt. Claire cell number was part of her cell phone's friends and family plan. She had gotten it for her brother Woody, a Gulf War veteran who had been living with her and her son. She stated that Woody incurred serious body burns during his service, that he had battled PTSD along with substance abuse but is now clean and sober and has gone back to school in San Diego to become a drug counsellor. I contacted Mr. Hammond who drove up voluntarily to Oakland Police headquarters to speak in person with me in person. He told me had no problem with taking a polygraph exam and that I could search his vehicle if I wanted. WOODY Mexico and Tijuana. BLACKSTONE So what, man. Prostitution's legal down there, right? WOODY Yeah. BLACKSTONE Yeah. How often do you go? WOODY Once a week. Sometimes more. BLACKSTONE I've been down there a couple times. I like that racetrack Agua Caliente. You know that place? WOODY Yeah, with the off-track betting. BLACKSTONE Yeah. WOODY I just usually go to the Zona Norte. BLACKSTONE The red-light district. WOODY There's this club there called The Alley. It's pretty clean and it's not that expensive. They got girls there from all over Mexico, America, Ukraine. BLACKSTONE So is that your place, The Alley? WOODY Yeah. There's this one there. I met her about six months ago. I hadn't seen her there before that. Nice girl. BLACKSTONE That's the best kind. WOODY She was strung out, but she was trying to get clean, save her money. She had a daughter who lived with her mom in Ensenada. BLACKSTONE Is it a pretty girl? What's she look like? WOODY Light hair, light eyes, not short but not too tall, great figure. BLACKSTONE She sounds like a keeper. WOODY Yeah, no she's beautiful, but she's also just- Some of the others, they don't like to get with me so much 'cause of my scars, but she didn't care about that at all. Last time I saw her, she called me to see if we could meet. BLACKSTONE And did you? WOODY At the sports bar on the boulevard. She was acting weird, really paranoid. She started telling me this kind of wild story. I didn't know how much to believe. BLACKSTONE What was the story? WOODY About this guy, this doctor she knew from Oakland. He'd told her he was going to help her get clean, but he took her back to the Bay Area and then when he got there he just wanted her for some kind of sex slave. BLACKSTONE So what happened? What did he do? WOODY He wanted to tie her up, but she talked him into letting her tie him up instead. And then she busted him in the head and got away. That's all she said. I guess it was his phone she called me on. She thought that I could help her run because my sister's a travel agent, but I told her I couldn't have Laurie involved in something like that. I told her she should turn herself in, that people would understand if she just explained what happened. BLACKSTONE And what did she say? WOODY Nothing. She left. BLACKSTONE You were right, Woody. That was the right thing. WOODY I don't feel right. DR CHANCE A woman, the blonde who just came in. WOMAN First door on the left. WOODY She was just, you know, kind. She's so patient. She used to be a teacher. Sometimes I'd pay her a little extra to help me with my homework afterwards. I'm having this problem with this breadth requirement, this class I had to pass. And I ended up getting an A plus 'cause of her. I would've failed without her. She helped me with the math. I'll do whatever you guys need me to do. I'll tell you anything I know. I just want to help you find Jackie.