BINKLEY CARL CHANCE CHUCK CONTINUED COUNTER_CLERK DI GILYARD HYNES JASON JOSEFA KIRSTEN LAMBERT LORENA LUCY MCCLENDON NICOLE OSCAR PATROLMAN PEPPER RONNY RUTHERFORD WINTER CHANCE Previously on Chance. NICOLE So, it sounds pretty fun. Friday night. JASON I don't know if it's gonna work. PEPPER People have been talking. Something they heard about that happened at your old school? HYNES You ever have one of those cases that keep you awake at night? This one's mine. Ryan Winter. DI Fucking Hynes is obsessed. Whole timeline on his wall about murder and where this Winter was when. CHANCE You broke into his place? HYNES I'm gonna need you to get into Ryan Winter's head for me. CHANCE I have some pictures that I'd like to show you. Tell me what you see. CHANCE Josefa, how's it going? JOSEFA He caught me wearing makeup. My husband, Ronny. CHANCE I'm looking for Josefa Pefaur. I'm her psychiatrist. We had an appointment. She didn't show. Is she inside? Is she all right? PATROLMAN I need you to go back downstairs, sir. Right now. CHANCE Hey. Hey. Are you Ronny? RONNY Stay the fuck away from me, man. CHANCE I'm trying to help you. RONNY You. What you want? CHANCE I'm Dr. Chance. RONNY I don't know who the fuck that is, okay? CHANCE I look- I'm Josefa's therapist. At the Victims of Violent Crime Unit. You know what that is? Don't run. Ronny, don't run. They'll think you're guilty. Just stay where you are. Just. RONNY I didn't do this, man. I didn't do this, okay? I. She was my wife. I loved her. I I did stuff, okay, I did stuff, but I ain't no fucking murderer, man. CHANCE Okay. I know. I know. I know you didn't do it, Ronny. But you got to let me help you. Where were you? Were you in the building? RONNY Fuck. I'm so fucked, man. BINKLEY Hey, don't move. CHANCE Tell me quick. We don't have a lot of time. Tell me where you were. RONNY I'm so fucked. I'm so fucked. BINKLEY Hey. Put your hands up. You the husband? RONNY I. Yeah. CHANCE We're just talking, officer. RUTHERFORD Who are you? CHANCE I'm Josefa Pefaur's therapist. RUTHERFORD Detectives need to speak to you, Ronny. Come on, now, let's go. RONNY What, I-I'm under arrest? BINKLEY That's up to you. RUTHERFORD You're being detained. RONNY What? Hey. W. I didn't do anything. What? RUTHERFORD Detectives gonna want to speak to you, too. MCCLENDON Did Mrs. Pefaur ever tell you that her husband had threatened to kill her? CHANCE No. MCCLENDON No, not in those words, or? CHANCE Just no. She. In no words, no. MCCLENDON Did she ever say she was worried her husband might kill her? CHANCE Does Ronny Pefaur have an alibi? MCCLENDON Is that a no? Plenty more where this came from. CHANCE I-I know what Josefa went through. MCCLENDON And I know "addressing the welfare of the patient" means protecting confidentiality in perpetuity, but right now, a lady who everybody's saying was kind of an angel is dead with her head almost cut off. So here we are. Ronny Pefaur's alibi is he says he was playing cards with some friends at a chop shop in Bayview. CHANCE You don't believe him. MCCLENDON You know what, doc? I really don't. But how about you tell me why you seem to. CHANCE I have another patient. He was in group therapy with Mrs. Pefaur. Recently I gave him a projective psychological test involving interpreting images. When I saw Josefa's body, it was posed. It was posed exactly like one of the images. I can get you a copy. MCCLENDON This patient. If I run him, am I gonna find any violent priors? Assault? Rape? Abuse? CHANCE No. MCCLENDON Okay. Has he ever said he was going to kill Mrs. Pefaur? CHANCE No. MCCLENDON Has he ever said he was going to kill a woman? Kill anybody? CHANCE No. I. No. MCCLENDON Okay. What we're left with, then, is a feeling in your gut that something kind of looks like something else. Put up against a guy on probation for battery with a history of beating his wife whose neighbors called 911 on him for her 26 times in three years. You've got your gut, doc, and I've got mine. And here, mine's the one that matters. HYNES The truth is the job won't let me take the sick, murdering fuck down the aboveboard way, so I'm doing what needs to be done. WINTER I envy you. At least you know who to be scared of. JOSEFA You must get tired. WINTER You need my trust. JOSEFA Talking about this so much. WINTER And I want to give it to you. JOSEFA Nothing changes. HYNES You don't know what you're doing. DI What if it was this Ronny? Why is that so crazy? The guy's a shit stain. CHANCE No, this was Winter, D. I've seen the way he zeroed in on Josefa. Not because he was commiserating or sharing out of empathy. DI Hard-ons aren't a gateway drug for murder. We know Winter's a sick piece of shit. CARL Does Ronny really have an alibi? CHANCE Yes, actually, he does. HYNES You ever have one of those moments where suddenly everything makes sense? HYNES Fuck me. You know what would be interesting is if we were to compare this shit with the coroner's report on Blackstone. Depth of cuts, nature of wounds- as in, what caused them. Single blade, double blade, serrated edge, curved versus straight. Hell, I'd say you pretty much have them all covered here. And here I thought I'd found a pal. CARL I saw a soul in distress. You had my sympathies. And you still do. HYNES Save it, pops. You know, I remember what was bugging me at the bar now. You're that natty older gentleman who crashed his car into some Romanians out at the beach. Manny, Moe and Jack. DI So what's that make you? A dirty, blackmailing cop. CHANCE Josefa Pefaur. HYNES What the hell does that mean? CHANCE She was a patient of mine from the clinic. She was murdered in her apartment. I was at the crime scene. I got a glimpse of the body. It was posed to mimic a drawing that I'd shown Winter. He reacted to something in her story, and then the drawing provoked something he couldn't articulate. CARL So, what now? DI How about now Winter goes away? HYNES Meaning what, exactly? DI Meaning somebody stabs him in the fucking eye. HYNES He goes away when I say he goes away. In a court of law, where I can see it. Now, if you got a problem with that, say so right now. CHANCE He doesn't. Neither do I. HYNES Well, fantastic. So, where do we start? CHANCE Well, the first thing is I have to keep Winter out of the clinic. Your problem is that the cops have decided to hang this on Josefa's husband, Ronny. He has an alibi, but no one seems that inclined to believe it. HYNES He tell you what it was? CHANCE I believe it. HYNES Well, I have a legal aid lawyer who actually owes me a favor, and he'll actually be jazzed to have a client who didn't do it. I'll call him tomorrow, because tonight we're gonna go corroborate the husband's alibi. And if you're riding along, big fella, know this you ever break into my apartment again, I'll stab you in the fucking eye. PEPPER Hey, Nicole. Nicole. Hey. Didn't you hear me calling you? NICOLE Guess not. PEPPER I feel really bad about what happened with Jason. NICOLE It's not about him. PEPPER Well, still, whatever. He didn't have to be such a dick about it. My advice? Just move on. Forget about it. Seriously. Just like it never even happened. NICOLE How can I? It followed me here. And it's all over the Internet. I can't believe I have to live with this forever. And you know what pisses me off more than anything is that all anyone cares about is John's side of the story. Nobody even asks me for mine. I'm not a psycho. PEPPER Look, I get it. We have all done dumb shit over guys before. So your shit just got a little bit dumber. Who cares? Trust me, in two days, everybody will be on to somebody else's dumb shit. Okay? NICOLE Okay. PEPPER Hey. NICOLE Oh. PEPPER Let's go get some pizza. Come on. NICOLE Okay. HYNES What is this shit? CHANCE What? HYNES What is this shit? CHANCE It's his music. DI The fuck are you doing? HYNES Look, I'm not gonna sit here and listen to The Best of Cries from Hell. What the fuck. Look, doc, I don't know if you need Sitting Bull here to tag along, but I don't. DI Keep talking, asshole. You're about five seconds away from the most humiliating moment of your life. HYNES Listen to me, you big fuck, I got no problem pulling the car over right now and putting a bullet in your fucking head. DI Fantastic. There's a dump site a quarter of a mile up on the right. We can do it there. That way I can bury your body after I snap your neck. CHANCE Jesus Christ. DI Get the fuck out of this car. HYNES Let's go. Guns on the hood. CHANCE Will you two just fucking knock it off? Listen, I'm here because you need me. He's here because I need him. Now, let's all just take a deep fucking breath and then go do what we came to do. HYNES This ain't over. I mean, how the fuck you're not doing life without parole is beyond me. Let's go. DI How do you lead this fuck-nut to my place? CHANCE I know. I'm sorry. DI Put it all in jeopardy. Everything we've done. Just remember that when shit goes south. HYNES Yes, Oscar? OSCAR HYNES Look, nobody's going to get in trouble. Alls I need you to say is that you were here two nights ago with Ronny. That's all. OSCAR HYNES Let's just say he's gonna be gone quite a while. Hey, stay right fucking there. Fuck. Don't move. Don't move. Fuck. HYNES You know, you move good for a big guy. Fast, actually. Thanks. CHANCE Oh, now, what is this? OSCAR I'm Oscar. Ronny's my boy. Plus, he owes me 1,200 bucks. That fucker goes to jail, I won't get my money. So yeah, I'll help him. What do you need me to do? WINTER Is it me, or is this place a little more... somber today than usual? CHANCE One of our patients was murdered night before last. We're all just, you know, processing the news. WINTER Who was it? Was it someone I've met? CHANCE Josefa Pefaur. WINTER Josefa Pefaur. Oh, the Brillo pad woman? CHANCE Uh-huh. WINTER I am so sorry to hear that. She seemed nice. CHANCE If I recall, you two talked quite extensively. WINTER Yeah. Misery loves company. CHANCE Well, that's an interesting way to sum up a life. WINTER Well, I-I wasn't trying to be glib. CHANCE You seem more relaxed than when we last spoke. WINTER Must be the massage I got last night. CHANCE In any case, group is canceled today in light of Josefa's death. You want to take a walk, you and me? WINTER You. Uh, did you say group is canceled? CHANCE Uh-huh. WINTER Okay. Nobody mentioned anything about that. CHANCE Well, I'm mentioning it now. WINTER Okay, sure. CHANCE Do you want to wait for me in the lobby? I'm just gonna make a quick call. WINTER Yes, take your time. DI Yeah? CHANCE Winter is here in my office, cool as a fucking cucumber. DI No shit. Why wouldn't he be, he's the psycho you say? CHANCE But there's something I noticed. Change rattles him. It's pretty common in obsessive-compulsives, but it might be something we can use. Some way of disrupting his routine, getting under his skin. DI Gaslight the fucker. CHANCE If I keep him here, can you get into his house? DI Already out the door, doc. CHANCE When you were first admitted to the hospital, I ordered a PET scan of your brain. It allows us to look at the glucose uptake or metabolism in different areas. See that area there? That's the cingulate gyrus. It's part of the limbic system. WINTER What about it? CHANCE Well, it's pretty interesting. Hypermetabolism in the front part of the cingulate correlates to obsessional thinking. Hypometabolism, or low glucose uptake, it suggests a lack of empathy. We're basically talking about the way that ideas and emotions link up. WINTER And this is related to decision making. CHANCE That and impulse control. WINTER Impulse control. Okay. So, what does this show, exactly? CHANCE Well, it suggests maybe a certain lack of empathy combined with a need to take control. An ability to take risks, do dangerous things while remaining emotionally detached. You know, sangfroid with attention to detail. WINTER And this is a result of my attack? CHANCE No, this is the brain you were born with. WINTER Hold on. It sounds like you're describing a psychopath. CHANCE All this does is it just shows a proclivity for certain kinds of behavior. It's just science. All the events and experiences we have, they also shape who and what we become. It's not just nature. You also need some destructive nurturing to become a psychopath. WINTER So it's not my fault. I mean, it's not my fault if I was born this way. CHANCE What's not your fault? WINTER My glibness. CHANCE I'd say that's possible. Can I ask you something? WINTER Um, I'm an open book, apparently. CHANCE Are there things you've done, things things that you don't understand? Things that make you go, "Why? Where did that come from?" WINTER Bad things, you mean? CHANCE Not necessarily. But our moral decisions are essentially emotional decisions, rooted in our ability to know what another person is feeling. That part of your brain is compromised. WINTER Listen, I I'm not pulling the wings off of flies, if that's what you're asking. CHANCE Of course not. KIRSTEN He should be here any minute. Oh, here he is. Eldon Chance, this is. LAMBERT Hi, Frank Lambert. Assistant District Attorney. This is Barry Gilyard. He's our chief investigator. KIRSTEN I've been telling them about the outstanding progress you were making with Josefa. CHANCE Yeah. Yeah, it's, uh it's very sad. She was really starting to take control of her life. LAMBERT Well, I'm sorry that we can't be meeting under better circumstances, but the good news is we just charged Ronaldo Pefaur with the murder of his wife. So, I'll be prosecuting that case personally, and I promise you, we'll pull out all the stops. CHANCE So Ronny's alibi didn't check out? LAMBERT They rarely do. The reason that we wanted to talk to you was to see if you could give us any information about Josefa's relationship from a doctor-patient perspective. Obviously we know he was a serial abuser, so. CHANCE Ronny Pefaur had a history of assault. He's got multiple arrests. Some prison time. But Josefa never said he used a weapon against her. So why would he suddenly attack her with a knife? LAMBERT Well, sometimes a perpetrator, when they feel they're not making enough of an impression, they take it to the next level. A foot-and-fist guy goes and gets a knife. A knife guy might go and get a gun. We call it conflict escalation. CHANCE So do we. GILYARD This happens all the time. Just like the accused trying to finger somebody else. But this guy is hitting on all the dirtbag landmarks. LAMBERT Yeah. CHANCE Ronny's trying to put this on someone else? Who? GILYARD He's floating a story about being on a bus and seeing his wife walking with some white guy. But by the time he got off the bus, they were gone. Of course. CHANCE You don't believe him? GILYARD No, sure I do. Also, Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered by Colombian drug dealers. LAMBERT Okay. Look, I just want to say, I know you don't hear this from City Hall enough, but you guys here are one of the few absolute goods in this world. So, I know it's tough, but keep on doing what you're doing. KIRSTEN That's kind of you to say. LAMBERT We should go. Thank you for your time. Thank you. PEPPER Oh, my God, I am starving. Dude, what did you order? NICOLE Just plain pizza, I swear. PEPPER I seriously think they forgot about us. NICOLE I know. PEPPER Oh, my God. NICOLE So, you're still friends with him? PEPPER No. But, I mean, I've known him since, like, second grade, Nic. You know, it'd be super weird if I just randomly act like I didn't know them, you know? NICOLE No, I get it. Sorry, that was stupid. PEPPER No. COUNTER CLERK Ninety-seven. PEPPER Oh, that's us. Finally. Jesus. Here you go. What's up? NICOLE You got a text. PEPPER Oh. Sorry about that. NICOLE You never mentioned you knew Jamie Stahl. PEPPER Oh, yeah. Why? Do you know her? NICOLE From Havenwood. My old school. PEPPER Yeah. Uh, my cousin and her do, like, aerial gymnastics together or something. I don't know. It's weird. But I met her, like, one time, and then. You know how it is. All of a sudden they want to be best friends, go on social media and all that bullshit. NICOLE You did it. PEPPER Did what? NICOLE You spread that shit around about me and John. PEPPER Dude, what are you talking about? NICOLE You know what I'm talking about. Why would you do that to me? PEPPER Okay, Nicole, can you chill? NICOLE Why would you tell everybody? PEPPER Nicole, chill out. NICOLE And then just sit here, acting like my friend? PEPPER Dude, chill out. You're making a scene. NICOLE You are not my friend. You are an asshole. PEPPER Okay, whatever, stalker freak. RONNY I already told the cops. They didn't care. CHANCE That's 'cause you're an easy close. A drug addict with a history of domestic abuse. RONNY How many fucking times do I have to say it? I did not kill her. CHANCE Well, they think you did. RONNY Yeah. CHANCE We got to change that line of thinking. I'm gonna show you a photograph. I want you to tell me if this is the guy you saw walking with Josefa. But you got to be absolutely sure. RONNY Show me the fucking picture, man. That's him. CHANCE Are you positive? RONNY Fuck, yeah, I'm positive. Because what's a motherfucker like that doing in my neighborhood? Walking with my wife. He's lucky I couldn't get off that bus. If not, I'd be here wearing the orange for the real deal. Hey, hey, wait. Wait. What now? You gonna tell the cops about this fucker? You gonna get me out of here or what? CHANCE As we speak, a competent legal aid attorney is trying to get you bail. RONNY I might have to thank you after all, doc. CHANCE I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing this for Josefa. RONNY I did love her, you know. CHANCE Listen to me, Ronny. What you did was unforgivable. As far as I'm concerned, you deserve to be in here. Maybe not for killing her, but for everything else. That was not love. CHANCE Yeah? WINTER It's Ryan Winter. I need to see you right away. CHANCE You okay? You sound upset. WINTER I am fucking upset! CHANCE All right. Are you at home? I'm in Pacific Heights at the moment. I can come to you. WINTER I can't come to your office? Why not? I feel like you don't want me there anymore. CHANCE I told you, I'm not at the hospital. It's just easier if I come to you. WINTER Fine. WINTER I'm being fucked with. CHANCE What do you mean, fucked with? WINTER Someone's broken in my house and taken things. Moved things. CHANCE Did you call the police? WINTER No. It's-it's not a police matter. CHANCE Well, it is if they stole something. You should call. WINTER No. What they stole has no value other than to me. CHANCE I'm sorry, Ryan. I-I don't really understand. WINTER They moved things. Belongings, possessions. They were here. Now they are here. And before you say it, it wasn't the housekeeper or me forgetting where I put things. I think it's him. CHANCE Who? Ryan, if you got a name, you should go to the police. WINTER He is the police. It's Detective Kevin Hynes. He used to be SFPD, but he was transferred to the southeast suburbs. And I bet you he's the one that attacked me, too. CHANCE Ryan, I don't mean to dismiss what you're saying, but I am concerned that this might be an extension of your head trauma. WINTER It's not. It's not. It's not. I'm telling you, this Hynes guy, he's like he's like a burr. He is stuck to me. He's made it his mission in life to hound me to my grave. I hate this. I hate feeling weak. I hate feeling fucking scared. I hate feeling like a victim. I don't like it. I don't like it. CHANCE It's okay. It's okay. It's all right. It's okay, Ryan. We're gonna work through this together. You once told me I have your trust. Is that still true? Do I? WINTER When I was eight, I was standing on a train platform in Emeryville with my mother. And not that far from us, there was this little boy just running in a circle. Round and round the platform. After a while, we could hear the train coming. And I remember the boy still circling, you know, as it got closer. And then... everyone was screaming. And he was gone. This woman had come out of the crowd and grabbed him tossed him in front of the train. It was hard. CONTINUED It was really hard. But I figured it out. I found a way to calm myself. To cope. CHANCE We should talk about that. WINTER Some other day. Today I think I'm done. RONNY You're a fucking lawyer? CHUCK I'm your lawyer. Chuck Haden. RONNY Look, I can't pay you, man. CHUCK It's okay. I'm legal aid. I'm replacing your public defender on this. RONNY All right. You can prove I'm innocent? CHUCK Well, we got plenty to fight them on, and Judge Salandrigas and I, we surf together, so that'll count for something. RONNY I'm. Am I getting out of here? CHUCK Yeah, your mom posted your bail. But the condition will be that you stay at her place. But the important thing is you're gonna get released. Okay? Good. You got to be smart, though. No drugs, no more incidents. RONNY So you're asking me to lay low? CHUCK Mm-hmm. RONNY I know how to do that. CHUCK Good. Sign there. DI Hey. I didn't hear you come in. You looking for the doc? Not here. NICOLE Figured. I tried the office. He's not there, either. I don't know why people carry cell phones if they're not gonna answer them. DI I wouldn't do that. There's no crying in here. NICOLE That would hurt. DI That would be the idea. NICOLE You ever hit a person like that? DI I have. NICOLE They still alive? DI Some of them. NICOLE So, where do I get one of those? What is that, a nightstick? DI Depends. Why would you want one? NICOLE There's this asshole at school who's done some shitty stuff. Bullied me or whatever. DI Great opportunity for a life lesson. Any time somebody bullies you? You should thank them every day. NICOLE You're joking, right? DI Right now, this bully is the only person in your life who's giving you an actual challenge. Everybody else is anesthetizing you. Hugging the power out of you, making you weak. You think the struggle of living in the world gets easier? People stop giving you a hard time? Learn to stand up for yourself now and give it right back to them. Otherwise, shut the fuck up. This is a baton. For your purposes, it's probably not ideal. People will identify it as a weapon right away. That can be a problem down the road. Your best offense? Look around. That doorstop, straight to the temple. Base of that lamp, a shot to the kidneys. This drawer pull over here? Great for a jab to the eye. Anything can be a weapon. HYNES Get lucky and Ronny's alibi holds up, Lambert can put Winter at the scene. It's only a matter of time before that shit heel is behind bars. Which is good. What's the matter with you? CHANCE I don't know. I'm just starting to wonder if that's where Winter ought to be. I mean, he is yeah, he's a monster. But he's also a deeply disturbed man. HYNES Aren't we all? CHANCE Locking up the mentally ill goes against my professional principles. HYNES Well, having him committed goes against mine. DI Don't get excited, but the waitress described the wing sauce as "mischievous." CHANCE Hey, what did you take? Winter said. Winter said you took something important. DI A rock. CHANCE You took a rock. That's what you took. A rock? HYNES What kind of rock? DI You tell me. HYNES Why did you take this? DI It was prominently displayed. CHANCE By the way, he thinks you're the one who broke in. HYNES Bury the lead, why don't you. He mentioned me by name? CHANCE Yep. He also thinks you're the one who choked him out. DI Get ready for the fallout. What's one step down from Fremont PD? Mall cop? HYNES Did he happen to say anything else? CHANCE Yeah, he told me a story. When he was a kid, he was on a railway platform. He saw a woman saw a woman throw a young boy onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train. DI You think that's real? The train story? CHANCE I don't know. He cried on my shoulder. HYNES Oh, Jesus Christ. CHANCE Said it happened in Emeryville. DI Got to be more than one of those. CHANCE But how many of them have train stations? HYNES If it'd make you happy, I can look into it. And if the woman was arrested, there'll be records of that. RONNY They ain't got dick, man. They had to let me walk. No, stayed at my mom's place. But yeah. Social services is coming tomorrow to check on the kids. Yeah. Yeah, um, as long as I get to see them, dude. Um, hold on, man. No, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna call you back. Yeah, I'm gonna call you back. CHANCE What are you talking about? This was the middle of the day. There were no witnesses? HYNES None. That's why it's easy for them to call it a suicide. One thing for sure is SFPD's gonna say that Josefa's case is now open but solved. CHANCE "Solved." That is fucking bullshit. What they mean is they have a guy. They don't need to waste any more tax dollars looking. And Winter is off the hook again. HYNES Welcome to my fucking world. LORENA It really freaked him out, what you did. I talked him down. He couldn't explain why all of a sudden I was moving all of his shit around. Can you? Look, I don't give a shit. But I can't lose this job. I'm the only one that's gonna be around to take care of this kid. Just don't do it again. In case you get hungry. Hope you like mustard. DI Hey. Why didn't you scream? When you saw me in the house. LORENA 'Cause you're not scary. KIRSTEN Apparently her husband committed suicide today. Though it might sound like justice, it's simply more violence. CHANCE What's going on? LUCY Maybe read a memo once in a while. You could have had cake. CHANCE For what? LUCY Ryan Winter just donated a million dollars to the unit. In Josefa's name. CHANCE Jesus. KIRSTEN To lose Josefa, especially in this way, is traumatic for us all. Here we try to find safety in each other as a first step in finding safety in the world. LUCY Hey, take a bow. Your good work made this happen. KIRSTEN Luckily, there are people out there like Mr. Winter who make it possible for us to heal those in need through their generosity. I know this is a time for grief. But on behalf of Josefa, I'd like to thank you. NICOLE Thank you.