CARMELA CHANCE CHRISTINA CLERK DI FATHER FEDERALE GALINDEZ HOTEL_CLERK KALI_GUY_1 LAMBERT LORENA MAN MANS_VOICE MOTHER NICOLE PRUITT


CHANCE
These are more than scratches. Put
a number on the pain. One to ten? D would wave this off. But he’s having a hard time lifting
his hand. Chance’s concern deepens. He takes D’s hand You feel my hand there?
DI
Of course I feel it-
CHANCE
Squeeze.
I said squeeze.
How about any numbness or tingling
around your mouth or tongue, your
scalp, your fingers or toes -
LORENA
The blade was poisoned.
CHANCE
That’s a thing?
DI
It can be done-
LORENA
And Hector did it.
He’d milk rattlesnakes for their
venom. Thought they were - his
spirit animal or whatever.
CHANCE
But Wouldn’t it wear off, lose
potency -
DI
Drill little holes in the blade,
pack ‘em with sawdust. Holds the
poison.
CHANCE
Jesus. Is there any fucked up
thing you don’t know about -
DI
This thing’s stupid. Pointless. You
want to kill a person, you’ve got a
blade? Cut a throat. End of story.
LORENA
You need to stop talking.
GALINDEZ
How is our patient?
DI
Good 
LORENA
Terrible.
CHANCE
Weakness in all four limbs, motor
and sensory neuropathy, edema in
the right arm, pulse at one-eighty
per minute, breathing irregular.
GALINDEZ
I take it you’re a doctor?
CHANCE
Eldon Chance. I’m a
neuropsychiatrist. And at this
moment, out of my depth.
Also the only one here who’s never
heard of a poisoned blade.
GALINDEZ
Anti-venom is most effective given
within four hours. Unless the
patient is allergic to the
solution.
Seldom a day goes by I am not made
to feel over-matched.
LORENA
And if he is allergic?
GALINDEZ
Reaction could be severe.
Anaphylaxis. Cardiac arrest.
We administer the solution slowly,
one vial at a time, over several
hours. At the first sign of any
adverse reaction, we stop.
LORENA
And if you stop? Then what.
GALINDEZ
Poisons can be tricky things.
Danger if we proceed. But in my
estimation, more danger if we do
not, given severity and progression
of symptoms, the number of wounds.
It would be good to know the
overall condition of the patient -
DI
I’m good, Doc. You can talk to me.
CHANCE
No, actually he can’t talk to you.
His condition is horrible. I found
him once in a diabetic coma. His
diet is horrible. He covers
everything in salt - And even
though I’m a doctor - His doctor -
He pays no attention to anything I
say.
He harbors a vendetta against
people in authority- Against
authority itself.
GALINDEZ
And yet you are here. A long way
from home, for such a patient.
DI
Do what you need to do, Doc.
GALINDEZ
Doctor?
LAMBERT
What about her.
PRUITT
You sure she’s a her?
LAMBERT
Look at her. Does that matter?
PRUITT
Abso-fucking-lutely it does. Women
are made for it.
PRUITT
Need to get me some better threads.
Get my mojo back in gear.
That’s more the kind of thing.
LAMBERT
Yeah? You’re into gingers?
PRUITT
I don’t give a fuck about the hair.
Looks like my ex. Bony. Jumpy.
LAMBERT
Where’d she end up.
PRUITT
Minnie? She was in El Segundo last
I heard but I don’t know now.
She moved around too much - I got
tired of keeping track.
LAMBERT
Can you blame her?
PRUITT
Can I blame her for what.
LAMBERT
It was only attempted murder
because the shock trauma docs
brought her back on the table. Not
because you didn’t put in the
effort.
She keeps moving because she
assumes you want to finish the job.
PRUITT
Yeah, well. She doesn’t know I know
you now. And all the things you
know.
Like how much harder it is to nail
a guy when he takes down bitches he
doesn’t know at all - instead of
bitches he’s living with.
LAMBERT
Husband, boyfriend, pimp. The-firstplace-
you-look trifecta.
PRUITT
Yeah. So a guy’s gotta be smart.
Gotta be a what?
LAMBERT
Unknown Subject Of An
Investigation.
PRUITT
That shit. That’s what I’m gonna be
from now on.
That’s what we’ll be, Friday night -
Motherfucking UNSUBs.
PRUITT
Just wish I’d met you eight years
ago instead of two months. I
wouldn’t have had to go to
Corcoran, wouldn’t have been jacked
by those Nuestra Familia pieces of -
LAMBERT
You would have had a lot more fun.
PRUITT
Amen to that, Atticus Finch.
LAMBERT
I do care what color their hair is.
PRUITT
Yeah?
LAMBERT
Yeah I don’t like blondes.
PRUITT
So then just don’t bring us a
blonde, Counselor. I don’t give a
shit. Find us a brunette. Or - a
fucking ginger if you want. I’m
good with whatever. I’m good with
anything.
And you’re the boss.
NICOLE
Hi. I don’t even know what to say
right now. Except that I’m sure
this is probably a terrible idea.
And that I’m going to do it anyway.
NICOLE
And that you’re a good person and a
good friend.
NICOLE
He asked you to keep me safe and
you tried to. You were awesome. But
I don’t want to be safe. I want
to be with my dad.
So please don’t be mad. And this
isn’t your fault. And thank you so
much, Lucy. For everything.
CHANCE
Pregbalin. For nerve pain. May let
you do more in the way of rehab.
DI
Best way to build your grip, bucket
of fucking sand.
CHANCE
How about your right.
DI
Fuck my right. Galindez says time -
CHANCE
That’s not a given, D. Anti-venom
may have saved your life, but nerve
damage from the poison can last for
months. Just take the meds. Please?
CHANCE
How are your tactile sensations?
Feelings in your hands and feet -
DI
Broke a glass in the bathroom last
night trying to piss. Stepped on a
piece of it this morning. Felt that

CHANCE
How about strength 
DI
You did help.
At the warehouse. You said you
tried to help but you didn’t.
That’s bullshit. Predators are off
the street because of you.
How many more women would Matty
Willis have raped? How about Wade
Pardo -
CHANCE
Sure. And Josefa Pefaur would still
be alive -
DI
To act is to risk.
And Josefa is not on you. That was
Winter -
CHANCE
Because of what I did -
DI
Okay. You say all this shit, but
you still want to go back for
Lambert. You’re the head expert -
How is that not schizophrenic?
CHANCE
I don’t know, D. Maybe it is.
What I don’t get is why you aren’t
on board with this with both feet,
like you were with Blackstone -
DI
Then’s not now, Doc. Then you were
jammed up, needed help. Now you’re
home free. Livin large in TJ. We
both are.
CHANCE
Hynes trusted Lambert. Called him a
friend. You don’t believe Lambert
had a hand in killing him? Think
about it -
DI
You think I haven’t?
Aloe vera. Lorena made it herself.
From plants.
CHANCE
Palatable?
DI
If you like Plumber’s Paste.
I used to see myself as... three
hundred fifty pounds of
invincibility. Past what happened
when I was little, I never had a
health issue before this diabetes
shit.
All those things kids get, I never
did. Not even a cold. Left home,
lived on the street, started to
fight - If there was anybody I was
scared of, I went right at them. I
was all about facing fear. And
after a while it was kind of like
I’d immunized myself against it. I
wasn’t afraid any more at all,
ever.
Until now.
I’m afraid she’ll need me and I
won’t be here. Or I won’t be ready.
I’m afraid of what might happen to
her, or the baby. Or what I might
do if something did.
I know you know what I’m talking
about. You’ve always had people who
needed you. And you want to risk
all that - for Lambert?
CHANCE
Lambert won’t be expecting us. He
thinks I’m in the wind. And he
doesn’t even know about you -
DI
You can’t fix every fucked-up thing
you see. I’ve said that before.
But you should know it if anyone
does.
CHANCE
Galindez isn’t here. I should go
see if I can help.
CHANCE
Is there something I can do?
LORENA
The mother’s saying the girl is
possessed - The father thinks she’s
dying.
CHANCE
Can we talk? Can you translate?
CHANCE
Como se llama?
FATHER
Catalina.
CHANCE
Catalina. Me llamo Dr. Chance.
Ask them about her symptoms.
LORENA
What symptoms has she had?
FATHER
She fell, like her legs couldn’t
hold her. She was shaking, couldn’t
hear us when we talked to her -
Then after, she cried. Said she can
see things that aren’t there.
LORENA
She fell down and was shaking. She
couldn’t hear them, didn’t respond.
When she came to she told them she
saw things that weren’t there -
CHANCE
Was this the first time?
LORENA
Has it happened before?
MOTHER
Once before.
LORENA
This was the second time.
CHANCE
And when the spells go away - She’s
tired, but otherwise normal?
LORENA
And after? Is she tired, but her
normal self?
Yes.
CHANCE
Has Catalina ever been injured? Hit
her head, lost consciousness?
LORENA
Has she ever hit her head? Or been
injured so that she passed out?
FATHER
No - But her mother had a hard
delivery with her. Catalina had the
cord, around her neck. Could that
have something to do with it?
LORENA
He says no injury but when she was
born the umbilical cord was wrapped
around her neck.
CHANCE
Tell them their daughter is not
dying. And she’s not possessed.
A part of her brain was damaged
when it was deprived of oxygen at
birth. Tell them this can be
treated. It might even be something
she outgrows, or not, but there are
definitely interventions. Do they
have insurance?
LORENA
He says she is not possessed or
crazy. The cord around her neck at
birth deprived her of oxygen and
damaged her brain. But there is
treatment. She can get better.
There is public health care in
Mexico. Lots of paperwork involved -
GALINDEZ
I can help with that. What do you
need?
CHANCE
Temporal lobe epilepsy would be my
guess. You’ll need an MRI, an EEG
to verify. Until then, I think it
would be safe to start her on a
modest dose of carbamazebine,
somewhere between six hundred and a
thousand milligrams to prevent
further attacks.
GALINDEZ
This man is a brain doctor. A
neuropsychiatrist. His diagnosis is
temporal lobe epilepsy. Your
daughter will need an MRI and an
eeg to confirm. Until then, we can
put her on medication, to keep the
seizures under control.
DI
Lorena can get us out. Through the
river valley. It’s what she did.
Before.
We’re doing this, we need to fly
under the radar... What.
CHANCE
What? You said you weren’t going.
Now you’re saying we need to fly
under the radar?
DI
I said I didn’t want to go. I
didn’t say I wouldn’t.
Besides - You’re fucking crazy
enough to go alone, for one. For
two, you probably don’t even know
where the fucker lives -
CHANCE
I know where he works.
DI
Yeah - The Hall Of Justice. Where
you ditched your sentencing, where
you’re a wanted man - What were you
going to do, go hang out there and
see who spots who first?
Also? You hadn’t drug me into your
own private flea circus, I wouldn’t
have met Lorena in the first place.
So there’s that -
CHANCE
Wait a minute. I ‘drug’ you?
DI
Carl and I had a good thing going -
CHANCE
“Shit like this makes my day.” You,
to me. Remember that?
Also remember - You were stabbed.
By a rattlesnake. You need more
rest, another day or two at least -
DI
We’re doing this for Hynes and then
we’re done. Another day or two, I
might change my mind.
And here’s the deal - Comes to
strategy, I’m the doctor. You do
everything I say. You pull any
headless chicken routines this time
I may not be able to bail you out.
I mean, really, physically, I might
not be able to.
In which case I wave good-bye and
catch the first bus for TJ. You
down with that?
CHANCE
I’m down with it.
DI
Lambert not knowing about me’s one
tactical advantage, at least.
So how do you plan on fucking that
up?
DI
Blurred vision, dry mouth and
constipation, huh? Awesome.
LORENA
Change clothes in the America’s
Plaza on the other side. Ditch the
stuff you’re wearing. Use the
bathroom at Everest Burgers.
LORENA
The owner’s expecting you.
CHANCE
I thought you were getting us
across -
LORENA
It’s never just me.
LORENA
There’ll be a distraction closer to
the water. Four guys willing to be
caught and sent back. To draw off
the scoot jocks.
CHANCE
Scoot jocks?
LORENA
Border Patrol ATV crew. They’re the
ones you need to watch for.
LORENA
I agreed to move them too. Price I
had to pay for using this place -
DI
We’re taking a bus?
LORENA
Connects to an old storm drain that
empties into the river valley.
Almost no one knows about it, Cesar
included. Find a seat. Get
comfortable.
LORENA
It’s okay. These are my friends.
LORENA
Spotters will give us a go when the
fog is right, distraction in play.
Trick is to walk into the America’s
Plaza with the morning rush.
There’ll be a Blue Car cab across
the street from Everest’s. Fare’s
been taken care of. Driver will
drop you in San Diego - I’ll take
the trolley back into Mexico.
DI
And my guys will meet us in S.D.
LORENA
Primeramente Dios.
LORENA
It’s time.
CHANCE
You okay? How’s your -
DI
I’m good.
LORENA
DI
How do you say “give me a pound,
Big Dog’, in Spanish?
LORENA
Ignore the smell. Follow me. Stay
close.
DI
Give me a pound, Big Dog.
DI
No way am I not eating an Everest
Burger -
LORENA
I will see you back in TJ.
I will.
DI
Don’t.
CHANCE
Okay, but -
DI
Nope. Not one word.
CHANCE
11565 Richland Avenue, Bernal
Heights. Okay, I’ll bite -
DI
Where Lambert lives.
Asked the guys to put eyes on him,
follow him from work, start lining
out a map.
CHANCE
You - When did you do that?
DI
While you were dicking around at
the clinic. Soon as you feel up to
it, we’ll see what else they got.
CHANCE
While I was - Soon as I feel up to
it?
KALI GUY 1
Saw Lambert with him in the Loin
three times.
KALI GUY 1
Once in a car and twice at that
coffee shop on Hyde Street with the
orange sign.
Definitely an ex-con. Checked out
his tatts standing behind him at
the counter.
Plus he ate his food arm around the
plate like.
CHANCE
You get a name?
KALI GUY 1
Not yet. But he washes dishes every
day at a Vietnamese place on Ellis.
DI
You can’t fix every fucked-up thing
you see. But if you know that and
you want to try anyway - It’s good
to have a plan.
CLERK
How can I help you?
NICOLE
Can you tell me. Do you know
Doctor Eldon Chance?
Does he ever come in here? Does he
get - mail here? Doctor Chance?
CLERK
So many people. Mucho. Mucho.
NICOLE
What about a big - bald - I don’t
know how to say bald. A big bald
white guy - Big. White. Americano?
NICOLE
Bald.
MANS VOICE
Eh, tu! Senorita.
NICOLE
Me?
NICOLE
What do you want?
MAN
Lo se, lo se.
MAN
I know him. The big bald.
MAN
See? She is here. No worries.
LORENA
Okay. Now mind your business.
I’m Lorena. D’s friend.
It’s a small town, what can I say.
And you are -
NICOLE
Sorry. Nicole. Doctor Chance’s -
LORENA
Daughter. You look like him.
NICOLE
Do you know where he is?
LORENA
He and D.. They went to San
Francisco.
NICOLE
What?
I don’t. I came all this way, to
find him - How can he not be here?
LORENA
I’ll tell you what happened. But
not here, okay? Come on.
I’m not going to beg.
PRUITT
The fuck is this.
CHANCE
You need to come with me.
PRUITT
You the Health Department?
Something’s not clean it’s the
machine’s fault.
CHANCE
Good to know.
PRUITT
You cops? I haven’t done shit - And
I’m not in violation, you can call
my P.O.
CHANCE
We’re not cops.
PRUITT
So what’s this about then.
CHANCE
You and Frank Lambert.
PRUITT
Frank?
You investigating him? Like some
Internal Affairs thing, or -
CHANCE
No.
PRUITT
Okay... But you do know he’s the
law, right?
You better, because he is. And he
can fucking work it, too. He can
fix your life with a piece of
paper, or a phone call - Or he can
blow it all to shit.
CHANCE
Is that what he did for you? Fix
your life?
PRUITT
Who the fuck are you guys?
CHANCE
Tell me about you and Lambert or
I’m going to leave you in here with
my friend.
PRUITT
Okay, so say I do - Then what
happens.
CHANCE
We leave.
PRUITT
We meaning you guys? Or we
meaning me too?
PRUITT
I had a charge voided, couple
months ago. An arrest for - hurting
a woman. It wasn’t looking good for
me I thought, but then suddenly
they let me go because of some
technical shit. Which I don’t know
what it was and I wasn’t gonna
stick around and ask.
Anyway, the next night I’m working
here and he shows up out of the
blue. Frank. I’m hinked at first,
don’t know if the fix is in or what
but we go out for a couple beers,
start talking. Turns out he got me
sprung. Because it turns out we got
some stuff in common.
DI
Like what.
PRUITT
Like I like to - play rough, with
girls.
DI
How rough.
PRUITT
Really rough.
CHANCE
And he likes to watch people do
that. Frank.
PRUITT
Yeah -
CHANCE
And have you? Done it so he can
watch?
PRUITT
Not yet -
CHANCE
But you’re going to.
And you’re going to tell us where
and when. Right now.
LORENA
Warms the troubled heart, as Reina
would say. My grandmother. This was
her house. My cousin’s now.
NICOLE
It’s good, thanks.
LORENA
So. You went to the warehouse to
look for D.
NICOLE
And Carl was there. He said D and
my dad went to Mexico. But he
didn’t know where exactly. Just
Tijuana.
LORENA
You got guts. I give you that.
NICOLE
Or I’m pretty stupid.
LORENA
Or you really want to be with your
dad.
NICOLE
Carl said D left this. Gave it to
me to give to him.
LORENA
So what now?
NICOLE
I’m not going back to Clearview.
And I can’t deal with my mom, after
what she did. And if I can’t be
here... I guess I don’t know.
LORENA
Why’d she do it, you think.
NICOLE
My dad - we’re alike. He
understands me more. My mom just
thinks I’m broken. So she sent me
someplace to get fixed.
LORENA
No one tries to fix something they
don’t care about.
NICOLE
They do if it embarrasses them. If
they think it reflects on them or
whatever.
LORENA
I would have been grateful if
the worst thing my mother did was
not understand me.
This baby. This boy I will do
everything - everything in my power
just to give him that kind of life.
The kind of life you’ve had.
DI
Where the fuck are these scumbags.
CHANCE
Maybe Pruitt got cold feet. Or
maybe he lied.
DI
He didn’t lie. Can’t say about his
feet though.
CHANCE
You ever heard of the Karni Mata
temple? Rajasthan, in India?
They worship rats. Think they’re
the holy descendants of the warrior
goddess Durga. The temple is home
to thousands of rats. They feed
them milk and candy. If you step on
one, you have to replace it with
one made of solid gold.
DI
You’re babbling, Doc.
CHANCE
I’m trying not to think about how
many more rats there might be where
that one came from.
Sometimes they refer to Durga as
Durgatinashini. “The one who
eliminates sufferings.” I always
liked that idea.
DI
I’d like some fucking candy.
LAMBERT
This okay?
CARMELA
I guess, yeah. It’s fine.
How come nobody can ever just be up
front about their shit?
LAMBERT
Sorry. He’s my friend.
CARMELA
It’s not like I wasn’t gonna find
out about him, right? But the buddy
system’s gonna cost you more.
LAMBERT
Absolutely. You will get paid.
CARMELA
Great. Where we doing it?
Lambert extends an arm towards the stairwell.
CHANCE
How you feeling? Are you gonna be
able to mix it up?
DI
Find out soon enough.
LAMBERT
This way. There’s a room that
actually has a half-decent
mattress.
LAMBERT
You dumb fuck. What did you do.
HOTEL CLERK
All right, so, that’s two keys and
here’s your ID and your credit card
and you’re all set for the week,
Mr. Dove.
LAMBERT
Wi-fi password?
HOTEL CLERK
On a card next to the bedside table
phone.
LAMBERT
Dennis? Yeah buddy, it’s Frank. Can
you get Chang to handle the
corroborating affidavit? Yeah, I
don’t know, I feel like shit.
Should’ve gotten the fucking flu
shot. Yeah.
Anyway, I’m gonna stay out of the
office the next couple days to be
safe. Don’t want to take anyone
down with me.
Give em my cell. And - Transfer me
to Investigation Bureau?
It’s Frank. Gilyard around?
Barry, hey, it’s Frank. Guess who I
saw in the Mission last night.
Dr. Eldon Chance. Yeah. Guess he
didn’t blow town after all. Or he
did and then realized he was out of
his element, I don’t know.
Blue buttondown, leather jacket,
hasn’t done anything to change his
appearance. Couldn’t tell if he’s
squatting in the area or what was
up. Yeah, so you got any guys
free to put on rounding him up?
Shouldn’t be too hard a grab.
Thanks, Bare.
CHRISTINA
Yes?
LAMBERT
Mrs. Chance? I’m sorry to bother
you at home, I’m Frank Lambert from
the San Francisco District
Attorney’s office -
CHRISTINA
Oh my God.
I - Okay, I know she’s back in the
Bay Area, I don’t know where yet -
But I’m tracking her down.
LAMBERT
I’m sorry, I don’t -
CHRISTINA
I told Clearview I would report it
to the probation officer, but then
I didn’t - Because I was hoping I’d
find out where she was first and
make her go back.
LAMBERT
This is your daughter we’re talking
about?
Okay, well, I’m not actually here
for that, although given her -
probationary situation, I would
really encourage you to make that
report? For your daughter’s own
good, and your peace of mind.
CHRISTINA
I know. I know.
LAMBERT
But I came to ask if you’ve heard
from your ex-husband recently.
CHRISTINA
Heard from him about what.
LAMBERT
Well - He was spotted in the city
last night.
CHRISTINA
So?
LAMBERT
When was the last time you did
speak to him?
CHRISTINA
Well - He showed up here after I
refused to pay bail for him. Why?
LAMBERT
He could have gotten two years but
the judge will go the max now,
which is four. Plus skipping will
add another year, plus fines, plus
his bond will be forfeit. So I
guess it’s good you didn’t post it.
Anyway. That’s where we’re at.
CHRISTINA
What is he thinking.
LAMBERT
We were hoping you could tell us.
CHRISTINA
Me? I have no clue.
LAMBERT
Do you think he might try to get in
touch with you?
CHRISTINA
If Nicole was here he definitely
would.
LAMBERT
But you don’t know where she is.
CHRISTINA
Don’t know where my daughter is,
don’t know where her father is - I
don’t know too much, do I.
Sorry. Pretty pathetic, huh.
LAMBERT
What is.
CHRISTINA
How I can’t answer even, like, the
simplest questions about the people
who are supposed to be the closest
to me in my life.
I mean, if I can’t do that.
LAMBERT
Then what.
CHRISTINA
I don’t know. I’m a failure? I
don’t know.
LAMBERT
Why. Because relationships only
mean something when they’re
perfect? They’re only successful if
they last forever? I don’t agree
with that.
A relationship ending doesn’t make
you a failure. What was good about
it stays with you, no matter how it
ends. And the only way you really
fail - is if you stop trying. So.
Sorry. I’m gonna shut up.
CHRISTINA
No, don’t. Seriously. Reframe my
life for me more.
CHRISTINA
Are you all right?
LAMBERT
Yeah - yeah. Just a little sore.
So, it’s just your daughter and you
living here, then?
CHRISTINA
Hold on - Let me just -
Hello. Hey.
CHRISTINA
No, I didn’t go. The only thing
on the list was tonic water and
that didn’t feel like an emergency.
CHRISTINA
No, I’m busy. Talking to someone.
Who is here, yes. Someone from
the DA’s office. Frank. Lambert.
No About Eldon. They’re saying
he’s on the run and they wanted to
know if I’d heard from him. He
jumped bail. I know, Mom. I know.
CHRISTINA
What? I’m not asking him that.
Because no one cares if he’s
related to your phlebotomist - Yes.
Yes. Yes. Bye.
CHRISTINA
That was my mother, she is on her
way back from pool yoga - So I
recommend you flee. Otherwise we
will have to peel her off you.
LAMBERT
Okay. But she sounds delightful.
CHRISTINA
Maybe someday scientists in a lab
will reinvent shame, so a doctor
can prescribe her some? But until
then? This is for your own safety.
LAMBERT
If you do hear from Dr. Chance -
CHRISTINA
I promise, I will call immediately.
LAMBERT
Thank you. That’s for his own
safety.
Christina takes the card. Looks at it, then back at him -
CHRISTINA
Would you happen to be related
to a phlebotomist named Jordana?
LAMBERT
Would it help you if I was?
CHRISTINA
Not at all.
LAMBERT
Just keep looking, Barry. I’m sure
you’ll find him someplace. He
doesn’t have unlimited resources.
He’s not even a doctor any more.
Oh, I sound like shit? You sound
like shit. Also I feel like shit.
I might go AWOL tomorrow and just
sleep. Whaddya think of that.
LAMBERT
Yeah.
MANS VOICE
Mr. Dove? It’s the front desk, I’m
sorry to disturb - We thought you’d
be returning later in the day -
LAMBERT
What is it.
MANS VOICE
Our maintenance schedule - we
replace the batteries in the smoke
alarms every six months - Would you
mind if someone came in very
quickly and replaced yours?
LAMBERT
Only if they do it now, I don’t
want to be sitting waiting here.
MANS VOICE
Someone will be right there, sir.
CHANCE
We followed you back here from my
ex-wife’s house. I knew you’d dig
into my family.
We had eyes on your condo, but we
lost you this morning when you took
off. So we just went and waited for
you somewhere we knew you would go.
Took a hit last night, huh.
LAMBERT
Yeah and it hurts like fuck. Want
to take a look at it? I don’t care
if you’re not a doctor any more.
CHANCE
Maybe later.
LAMBERT
After what.
DI
Up to you.
LAMBERT
Is whether I’m gonna leave here or
not up to me? Or does it not matter
what I do.
CHANCE
It matters.
LAMBERT
Well, that’s good to hear. So
what do you want.
CHANCE
You to come clean.
LAMBERT
Makes sense, I guess.
So what’s the plan?
CHANCE
You do it on video.
LAMBERT
All right.
This okay?
Hope your phone’s got enough juice -
CHANCE
You’re using your own phone. You’ll
film yourself. And you won’t say
anything about us being here with
you.
DI
What’s your code.
LAMBERT
052390.
CHANCE
The day you killed Stevie Benjamin.
LAMBERT
The day I watched Matthew Debbs
kill Stevie Benjamin.
You want the truth, right? That’s
the truth.
CHANCE
Ready?
LAMBERT
My name is Francis Xavier Lambert.
I am an Assistant District Attorney
in San Francisco. I am haunted, by
the things I’ve done. And I want
to confess.
In Mendota, California, in 1990, I
held a friend of mine named Stevie
Benjamin down while a kid I didn’t
know that well named Matthew Debbs
crammed rocks in Stevie’s mouth
until he choked to death.
In 2006 I reconnected with Debbs,
who had renamed himself Ryan
Winter, in the Bay Area. Later that
year, I helped Winter bury the body
of a woman named Annie Michaels in
the Niles Canyon ravine. In 2007 I
brought a woman named Ramona
Marquez to Winter’s house. I
watched him kill her, and then I
dumped her on a hillside in Castro
Valley. In 2008 I watched Winter
murder a woman named Dominique
Bradley. Afterwards I drove her
body to Sacramento, and left it
there in the trunk of her own car.
In 2009 I helped Winter bury the
body of Noelle Campbell near Fish
Head State Beach. Su Yee Lin.
Bienvenida Lopez. Monica
Featherton. Leigh Ann Lukasian.
Ivy Maitland.
I’m sure there are things I’m
forgetting. But - I am of sound
mind today. And I admit to all of
this of my own free will.
DI
It’s all on here.
LAMBERT
Not gonna tell you what to do but -
I’ve got Sid Velerio’s email in
there. In my address book. You
could shoot that over to him right
now. Blow his fucking mind.
LAMBERT
What.
CHANCE
You didn’t confess.
LAMBERT
Uh, where were you?
CHANCE
Not to murder. You confessed to
watching. To being an accessory
after the fact. And common sense
would tell any experienced
professional looking at your body
language that you weren’t alone.
Leaving the whole thing vulnerable
to accusations of duress, coercion,
fear of violence or the actual
infliction of harm.
LAMBERT
You sound like me now.
LAMBERT
Look That was all way more than
enough to get the ball rolling 
CHANCE
Enough until you say you were
joking. That it was a prank, that
you were drunk, or high. Enough
until it turns out some of those
women were someone else’s victims.
Or they’re not even dead. Enough
until you game your way out. Again.
LAMBERT
I don’t fucking know what you’re
talking about -
CHANCE
I wanted to do this right. At the
bar of justice, where people could
see it. Not like you would. I
wanted to believe I didn’t have to
do this your way. But that’s the
only way it’s going to end.
LAMBERT
Just Give me the phone again,
okay? I’ll talk about Travis Weber,
this time I’ll talk about Hynes!
I’ll say what I did to him, I’ll
tell what happened, I’ll do it
right, I want to, I will 
DI
Four to five seconds puts him out
for twenty seconds. Choke’s
twenty seconds, he’s out for forty.
Hold it for forty, he’s dead.
NICOLE
This place could actually be cool
if you let me help you fix it up.
Which you’re going to.
CHANCE
I told you, you can do whatever you
want when you’re off probation -
NICOLE
and have my GED, blah blah blah.
That’s a year from now, tops. And
then I am packing like three
changes of clothes and my laptop
and a surfboard and I am getting
right back on the bus. So be ready.
CHANCE
Yeah, no, you should definitely
bring a surfboard all the way down
from San Francisco on the bus
instead of just buying one here.
I’ll get a futon.
NICOLE
You like it here, don’t you.
CHANCE
I think so.
NICOLE
And D likes it here.
CHANCE
He does.
NICOLE
And the place he and Lorena got has
three bedrooms.
CHANCE
Where are you going with this.
As Nicole laughs - a car HORN HONKS briefly, interrupting
them. Chance pulls back the curtain, looks out the window to
confirm who it is, then turns to Nicole -
CHANCE
You ready?
NICOLE
The reason you have to stay here -
that guy you beat up. You were
standing up for someone, when you
did it. Right?
CHANCE
That’s where it started, yeah.
NICOLE
And I was standing up for myself.
With Pepper. She made me the joke
of my new school, just like I was
at my old school - And then I broke
her face.
CHANCE
Yes you did.
NICOLE
She hurt me. For no reason. And
then I hurt her worse. And because
I did that. Now she doesn’t ever
have to think about what she did to
me and why it was wrong.
CHANCE
And how does that make you feel.
NICOLE
I don’t know. I kind of wanted you
to tell me.
CHANCE
When I figure it out, I will.
CHANCE
I love you. I’ll see you soon.
NICOLE
Text me gifs of the baby.
CHANCE
If I can figure out how to do that,
I will.
CHANCE
Thank you.
CHRISTINA
For what? I came here for Percodan
at a sixty percent discount.
CHRISTINA
I was so angry. I still am.
CHANCE
I know.
CHRISTINA
But if I’m gonna be honest - It’s
not at you.
CHANCE
You don’t have to say that.
CHRISTINA
It’s not all at you.
A lot of it’s about where I thought
I’d be, by now. Who I thought I’d
be. How I might have to let all
that go..Being scared to do that.
CHANCE
Me too.
CHRISTINA
I know you didn’t hurt me on
purpose, Eldon. And that should
matter. It should - And it does.
CHRISTINA
Remember that weekend we went to
Carmel when I was pregnant?
And you got so drunk at the hotel
bar, and there was that guy from
Michigan, the philosophy professor -
CHANCE
An adjunct. In ethics. From Ohio.
But I was very drunk -
CHRISTINA
and he picked a fight with you
about the ‘religious hypothesis’
and finally you started shouting -
CHANCE
What you call shouting I call
speaking with conviction -
CHRISTINA
right, and you shouted “What
proof is there that dupery through
hope is so much worse than dupery
through fear?”
I’ve just always remembered that.
Probably because ‘dupery’ is such a
ridiculous word.
CHANCE
And a direct quote from William
James.
CHRISTINA
Whatever’s going on with you, I
want you to figure it out. I want
you to be okay. I want us all to be
okay. And I’m just gonna choose
to believe we can be. Faith or
fear.
CHANCE
Faith.
CHRISTINA
Anyway - Okay. Good luck,
Eldon. Try not to get extradited.
CHANCE
It’s good to have goals.
LORENA
You want to sweep, or mop.
DI
Both. You sit down.
LORENA
What.
DI
What.
LORENA
What? Nothing.
DI
What is.
LORENA
Forget it.
DI
Doesn’t look like nothing -
LORENA
You do this to Carl? Bug him when
he don’t wanna talk?
DI
More like he would do it to me. But
it worked.
Want me to guess?
LORENA
I mean, if you think you can, go
ahead and 
DI
Money.
LORENA
Well, everyone’s worried about
money, that’s like guessing
someone’s worried about -
DI
Also I heard you yelling at that
guy Nando before, over the rent.
You really took it there.
LORENA
Thought you don’t know Spanish.
DI
Pretty much everybody knows at
least a couple of those words.
LORENA
I know his family - He was being a
piece of shit. Thinking cause I was
in America I can pay twice as much -
What is that.
DI
Money.
That my mother left me. In a trust.
I never drew on it, so. It’s all
just been sitting there. Minus
the money I’m gonna use to pay off
all Carl’s debts, it’s ours.
LORENA
Ni madres.
DI
Enough so that nobody needs to do
anything they used to do. So they
can think about what’s next. About
things they’ve never done before.
And what that might be like.
LORENA
What will it be like.
DI
Scary, probably.
LORENA
Ah, so what. Everything is scary.
DI
Especially if you run away.
LORENA
What is that.
DI
It’s a crib. Got it from that kind
of thrift store down the street.
Figured I’d sand it down and -
LORENA
Uch. Old furniture smells.
I like things to be new, you know?
Shiny. Like the only dust that’s
ever been on it is mine.
DI
Got it.
LORENA
I was thinking - The baby’s gonna
call you D, too.
But because D for “Daddy”.
DI
Awesome.
CHANCE
¡Buenos días.
CHANCE
I’m sorry, my Spanish is still
quite limited. Espanol es pobre -
FEDERALE
You work here? A doctor here?
CHANCE
Yes 
FEDERALE
Identification.
FEDERALE
Your medical license.
CHANCE
I have a board-issued
certificate, but I’m afraid I 
don’t have it with me, at the
moment 
FEDERALE
A problem, then. But it might be
taken care of here. If you like.
CHANCE
D, it’s okay -
DI
It is okay, Doc. Put your money
away. He can call this number.
FEDERALE
My mistake Sir, I hope I have
not kept you from your work
DI
Guy named Cesar. It’s a good town
to have a friend in a high place.
CHANCE
It’s fine. Really, it is -
DI
Looks like maybe that epilepsy
family might’ve told some friends
about the magic brain doctor.
Or maybe the cosmic word got out
you’re looking to do some penance.
Either way - Gear up, Doc.
I’ll get you some water. You’re
gonna need it.
CHANCE
Angel is a geriatric Latino male
who worked for 30 years spraying
pesticides. He presents with a
resting tremor in both hands, trace
bilateral cogwheel rigidity and
decreased facial animation. Gait is
short-stepped, the classical marche
à petits pas.
The patient is a 22-year-old, righthanded
female with a family history
of “sick headaches” on her mother’s
side. Ptosis and dilation of her
right pupil are visible. Likely
ophthalmoplegic migraine but will
perform a Tensilon test to rule out
myasthenia.
The patient is an eight year old 
girl born with occipital 
encephalocele, a neural tube 
defect characterized by a lack of 
bone fusion in the skull, leaving a 
gap through which a portion of the 
brain protrudes. There are 
understandable concerns about her 
cognitive development.
But after extensive evaluation I 
am very optimistic.