Clarice

Previously on "Clarice"...

Angela Bird, Tess Laughty,

and Sandra Bishop are interviewed

by Rebecca Clark-Sherman.

DNA says you were right.

Hudlin was the man you saw at Woodhaven

the night Marilyn Felker killed herself.

Karolina Savich was here on a student visa

sponsored by Global Health Horizons.

Hudlin led us to Karolina,

who was sponsored here in the States by Tyson Conway,

whose dad owns Alastor Pharmaceuticals.

Tyson is our way to Nils.

Special Agent Clarice Starling.

Mr. Hagen. Do you like art?

It's inspired by Alastor himself.

Son of Cronos.

Clarice, are you sure that this story you've been

telling yourself is the whole story?

Your daddy's a thief.

What happens if you find out you've been

building yourself on a lie?

Oh, sorry about that.

You do not want to mess with the parking cops

in this part of the town.

Thank you for being willing to switch days.

Patients have professional conflicts all the time.

I hope that whatever you have tomorrow goes well.

We're just seizing some financial documents.

That sounds routine.

Is there anything about this case that would make you...

There are pieces of a memory floating around.

Alright. But I can't put them together.

I can't...

I feel stupid and helpless, and it is stickin' in my craw.

You don't do well with helpless. No, ma'am.

Why don't you tell me what you can remember?

It won't make any sense. It doesn't need to.

You don't have to have the whole picture.

You're allowed to have blind spots.

What?

I don't have time for this. I'm busy.

Why can't you say that you're angry?

Unprocessed trauma often manifests itself into anger.

I can help you if you talk to me.

Mm-hmm.

You know, I'd say I'm angry if I was angry,

but I am busy.

I am busy trying to do my job, and I don't need any more

of these SOS calls from my subconscious.

I thought you were gonna help me wrap all this up,

and instead, you're just planting

these little angry seeds in my brain

when I'm not angry.Okay.

You're not angry.

Catherine: Everyone actually really cares about their jobs here.

I'm learning stuff.

Good.

What? Cat, parties I'm investigating

are trying to get at me through you,

through the... incident with Lila Gumb.

I'm so sorry, Mom... No. Stop.

This subject is politically connected,

and he has deep pockets.

He has everything to lose.

We should expect the worst.

So?

They're not the only ones who can play games, Mom.

That's true.

I can take the hit.

But you need to hit back harder.

I just hate that you're in the line of fire.

I'm here. I'll own it.

Fry their asses, Mom.

Really make it hurt.

I need to take a leak.

- Really? Come on, man. - Hey, hey.

Just hold it. We're about to get the signal.

AG's gonna green-light the raid any second.

Yeah, I can't.

I can't hold it.

Try this.

Uh, anybody got a bigger bottle?

Oh, relax. Starling can handle it.

Where's your manners, man?

Okay, we got the green light to go in.

We've got Alastor on fraud,

but we need to dig deep to catch the guys at the top.

Find the thing that connects Nils to it all.

- Let's go. - Let's go.

Nils Hagen. I'm Agent Paul Krendler.

And this is a warrant

granting me permission to search the premises.

So this is it?

Yeah. Nils really liked showing it to me.

This painting goes deep with him.

Interesting.

He ascribes special meaning to objects.

There's some sort of magical thinking going on.

It's... weird.

"Weird"? Is that a clinical term?

It's an Eva Gallows, but it's weird.

Her style is unmistakable, and yet this is unlike

any of her other paintings that I've ever seen.

It's out of character. Well, means something to him.

Let's take the damn thing and figure out why.

On three.

I love Raid Day.

He's hoping Santa will bring him a pony.

Oh, don't laugh. Murray confiscated

a miniature Shetland once while working narcotics.

I'll settle for a couple of forged checks

and a ledger for an offshore bank account.

AG wants us to put cuffs on Hagen.

In an evidentiary raid? Mm-hmm.

He must have really pissed her off.

It's a bold move.

Let the cameras catch him doing the perp walk.

Reminds the world he's mortal.

Looks like he beat us to the cameras.

It's painful to hear

these accusations against Alastor.

I founded this company

when I was only 34 years old.

I wanted to make the world

a little kinder.

Ease some suffering.

And it has been my privilege to do so

for the past

50 years.

But I love this company.

They are eatin' this up, boy.

"I'm a weak old man."

You know what would help that wheezing

is a nice tap to the solar plexus.

I've let myself go blind to some bad actors.

But I promise you, my eyes are open now.

I intend to cooperate fully with law enforcement.

Krendler: Mr. Hagen.

Hey... No need.

Agent...

Krendler.

Agent, may I?

This is outrageous.

He's doing his job.

And I will do whatever I can

to find out

how my company has gone astray,

and we will

heal the harm that has been done.

My eyes are open.

My eyes are open now.

Thank you. No further statement.

W-What am I looking at?

I had a cousin who painted like this

between story time and nap time.

Nils said this was Cronos...

A God in Greek mythology who emasculated his father

and believed that his own children would overthrow him,

so he swallowed them.

Nice. Geez.

"Li-berry," will you put us out of our misery, please?

This is an original Eva Gallows.

Nils commissioned it when she was an up-and-coming artist.

It is extraordinary. But it is unlike

any Eva Gallows I've ever seen before.

She doesn't usually use these color blocks,

and she doesn't work in this encaustic style

of thick build-ups of paint.

If Nils commissioned it, he gave her instructions, right?

A commissioned painting is, uh, usually a mirror of its patron.

Well, then she probably has an in on his psychology

that no one else does. I believe that.

Well, let's grill Hagen about it.

U.S. Attorney asked us to cut him loose an hour ago.

Son of a bitch.

Oh. Mm. He and the AG are probably at each other's throats

over that little melodrama in front of the cameras.

Mm. You and Starling go see this artist.

See if she's got anything to say.

You two, get into the evidence we seized today.

If we don't tie this guy directly,

he is flying off to a private island somewhere.

You've been building this house for a long time.

When you first started, you and Sophia were still married.

That's right. The girls were, ah,

tiny. Not so much anymore.

I'm... sorry for today.

I've got calls into my cont...

Once the ink is dry on this merger,

you will be a rich man,

and they will be back.

I've been on the phone all morning.

Everyone is still very eager to move ahead.

This will all get taken care of with a fine.

You will handle it beautifully.

Thank you.

Thank you, Joseph.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

Time passes quickly here.