The Outsider

Heath Hofstadter worked with Terry's father.

Maitland's wife and daughter

said some guy scratched him.

I'm starting to think that there's a connection

between the two men.

Which one is Peter Maitland?

He is.

Maybe he caught something from the first guy.

Can't catch murder.

You've been staring at that thing since I got here.

You all right?

Yeah, I'm all right.

I need to take a look at the footage

of Terry Maitland from the day of the murder.

Hofstadter was all over the bodies.

You wouldn't believe the fallout in those two families.

A kid just walked in and says he needs to talk to you.

I lied last time we talked.

I was scared of him.

Can you try to draw him?

I found another child-killer

who crossed paths with Heath Hofstadter.

What he does can never be undone.

When you were a child,

who were you told would come for you?

It takes what it wants.

S-7 dispatch on scene.

- Be advised... - Shut it down

in both directions. Nobody comes in.

Tracy, put the gun

on the ground right now and everyone gets to go home.

Come take a look at this.

Jesus Christ. What the hell did that?

You're kidding me!

What, you didn't like the lamp?

It's a perfectly good lamp!

So what, it didn't go with your color scheme?

You're allergic to plastic?

Just tell me. I... I... I really want to know,

because I... I don't ever want to make you mad again.

So what?

What?

What is happening to me, you cocksucker?

I... Just tell me!

Or strike me dead, because I'm... I'm ready!

I'm fucking ready!

So, come on!

Come on, you motherfucker!

Anjanue?

Okay, so, she's done in New York?

She is.

She find anything out?

Well, she managed to talk to the Maria Caneles woman

in Riker's.

And?

Apparently, her story is pretty much the same

as Hofstadter and Maitland's.

So, she's uncovered a national ring

of falsely accused child murderers?

- Anything else? - No, I...

I've just told you the sum total of what she told me.

Where is she now?

Headed back to Dayton.

Headed back to Dayton. Why?

You know the drill, Howie.

You start out in city A. That leads you to city B.

What you learn there takes you back to A,

but with educated eyes.

I think she knows more than she's saying.

Yeah.

Maybe she's waiting for everything to gel.

You're the one who said to have faith in her, Howard,

so why don't we just do that, see where she takes us next?

- Yeah? - Yeah. Okay. Fine.

So how was your week?

It was okay.

Yeah?

Listen, honey, you're doing everything

you're supposed to.

Working on your GED, going to all your meetings.

Dropping clean urines...

You keep that up, you stay clean,

in two months, we go back to court,

I'm guessing judge is gonna downgrade your charge

to a misdemeanor, time served.

Did you go to your parenting workshop this week?

Not this week, 'cause the baby had got sick.

Did you notify your instructor?

I texted her, but she didn't get back to me

to say she got it.

I'll look into that.

Eric Stander?

Sorry... Excuse me, right this way.

Any word yet on that grey gunk

they found in the barn?

Not as of yet, but hopefully soon.

Excuse me... I just want to remind everyone

that if you're gonna wear a hoodie in here,

it needs to be back down off your face.

Thank you.

Sir, in the green.

Sir.

Sir.

Sir.

Tough day?

More like weird.

Weird how?

There was a guy...

Just weird.

Do you mind if we order takeout tonight?

The thought of cooking right now...

I'm gonna go lie down for a bit.

Just call me when the food is here, okay?

Food's here.

Get up, babe. Baby, get up.

Come on, Jeannie, get up.

Please...

- Jeannie, come on. - Please leave me alone.

- Sweetheart. No, no, no. - Leave me alone, Ralph.

- Enough's enough. - I'm... Please.

- Ralph... - Come on. You gotta start

- pulling yourself together. - I don't want this.

- Pull yourself together. - No. Pull myself together?

- Pull yourself... - Pull myself together?

Oh, my god, pull myself together?

- Yeah, Jeannie... - oh, my god.

You gotta pull yourself together, okay?

You have got to get on

- with your life. - Like you?

W... At least I'm trying.

- You're trying? - Yeah, I'm trying.

Oh, my god, Ralph.

It's 2:00 in the afternoon. You're shitfaced.

Trying? Oh, my god, please go.

Jeannie, he's gone.

- He's gone, he's not coming... - I know he's gone!

Okay. He's gone.

- He was mine. - Yeah...

- and he's gone. - I was here.

I... You're gone. It's... It's me and him.

- You weren't here. - What?

You weren't here.

Please go.

Please... Please go.

Who was the boogeyman?

Sorry?

When you were little, who was the boogeyman?

Baboulas.

My old Greek granny used to say if I didn't behave

- he'd come and take me away. - Grief-eater.

- What? - I say grief-eater, you say...

First thing that comes to mind.

- Ulcer. - Too literal.

- Stress giver. - More poetic.

- Skye? - Hold on.

Thanks.

- Tear-drinker. - Better.

Where we going with this?

So, you're the tear-drinker, your words,

and you're thirsty, where would you go?

- Poetic or literal? - Literal.

How thirsty am I?

Very, and you're not in a rush to leave.

How about a funeral home?

That's got to be like a non-stop Niagara Falls.

Too impersonal.

It likes to be the cause of the tears.

The grief.

Well, according to my parents, that would be any time

I come home for a holiday.

It likes to linger. Likes to savor.

It's an "it" now?

What about a haunted house? Does it believe in ghosts?

Maybe if it made the ghosts ghosts to begin with, then...

Or a cemetery.

Its victims are already there.

The family comes to mourn over and over.

Hey, there you go.

And it wouldn't be disturbed.

Can I just ask... What do you do?

I'm a private investigator.

Investigating what, paranormal activity?

Not at all.

So... all this we're talking about,

we're just goofing around, right?

Do you know the city well?

Does Tarzan know the jungle?

I can give you 200 dollars to drive me around tomorrow.

Ralph?

Ralph?

Sit.

Tell him to stop.

Stop?

Or he'll die.

I don't understand.

You'll both die.

Jeannie... Hey, Jeannie.

Jesus.

You stepped on some glass in the dining room.

I did?