Big Sky

Previously on "Big Sky"...

Hands!

Freeze!

- One... - Drop the gun.

- ... two... - I'm not kidding!

... three... four...

You're a sexual pervert, aren't you, Ronald?

Ohh!

_

You don't learn!

- Watch out! Coming through! - Rick. Rick!

Easy there, ma'am. I got to get him through.

I'm his wife. What happened?

Your husband's been shot. We're taking him to surgery.

Can you hear me?

Rick, can you hear me?

Blink if you understand.

His eyes are open.

I beg your pardon?

Let me get a doctor.

Are you in there?

Rick?

Who?

What did you say?

Who?

Rick?

Who... shot me?

You don't learn!

Aah!

Hello?

He's awake.

What?

Legarski.

He's awake.

Rick, I'm Dr. Wang.

Can you hear me?

Are you sure?

100% sure.

He looked right at me and asked me, "Who shot me?"

Rick, we're gonna help you, but we need you to help you.

Okay?

Try to look at me, Rick.

Okay, I want you to squeeze my fingers

if you understand me, Rick.

Wakefulness and awareness are two different things.

His eyes are open, but his brain looks to be shut.

He spoke.

We'll order up another EEG to determine what's going on. Yeah?

He's squeezing.

Oh, my God. He's squeezing.

Rick, good job.

Okay, not so hard. Just a little less hard, Rick.

Rick. Rick.

No, not so hard.

Rick!

We need a bigger boat.

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Looks like the word got out.

Always does.

Circus time.

This would be you two standing down, per my direct order.

He's conscious?

Yeah, they're doing some tests. But supposedly he's talking.

Have you arrested him?

I just got here.

Haven't even had access yet.

You two aren't getting access at all,

- so you shouldn't even be here. - Look, I think we ne...

No, you look, Jenny.

You two are not cops.

Okay, now, if you'd like to be cops,

maybe we can have a conversation.

We're gonna see this case through, Tubb.

Better you just accept that fact.

Grace Sullivan is gonna help us

locate the body of the fisherman.

She asked if you could be there.

Appears she bonded with you some.

And I agreed, she could use the support.

I'll be there.

As of now, no official statement from the hospital,

but multiple sources are confirming

that Trooper Legarski is both conscious and communicative.

Standing by with us now is neurologist Roberta Hillridge.

Doctor, is this some kind of medical miracle?

Without knowing where the bullet entered

and which part of the brain was affected,

it's difficult for me to know the extent of the injury

and the possibility of recovery.

The plasticity of the brain is both enormous and mysterious.

So, while doctors are working around the clock,

it's fair to say Mr. Legarski isn't out of the woods yet.

Not by a long shot.

Uh, but he's certainly headed in the right direction.

Ronald.

What have you done to yourself?

I needed to change my appearance.

Well...

mission accomplished on that.

I'm eating my cereal. And I don't want judgment.

It's not a good day, is it?

Ronald. How did we get to this day?

He valued me, Mom.

He saw me as an asset.

And I fell for it.

Hmm.

After all those years of being told I was "off"...

... by you.

So now it's my fault?

I'd like to eat my cereal, please.

His only leverage will be to give you up.

I need to eat my cereal!

I did what?

You and an accomplice kidnapped three women... girls.

And held them underground in what appears to be...

a torture dungeon

connected to a sex trafficking ring.

That's not funny.

I am not being funny.

When a man tried to save one of them, you killed him.

There's a pile of police out in the corridor

waiting to arrest you for all of this.

I... k-kidnapped a-a young woman?

Three of them.

And there have been others.

I killed a person?

It appears to be the case.

I'm a Montana State Trooper.

The woman who shot you was rescuing the girls.

You had them locked in some underground...

You don't remember any of this?

It never happened.

It did happen!

I'm a Montana State Trooper.

Good morning, everyone.

Uh, regarding patient Richard Legarski.

An emergency CT scan revealed bone, soft tissue,

and parenchymal injury

consistent with a gunshot to the frontal lobes,

including multiple bullet fragments from the single bullet.

Intracranial hemorrhages included an irregularly shaped hematoma

across both frontal lobes,

marking the bullet's trajectory,

plus subdural hematoma...

What is he blathering on about?

- ... over the left temporal lobe... - Legarski appears to be improving.

- ... into the left middle cranial fossa... - Okay,

we need a list of local chop shops,

scrap yards, used truck dealerships.

There's way too much heat on this

for the trucker to hold onto his rig.

We find the truck, maybe we can trace it back.

The patient underwent a very successful bifrontal craniectomy.

Active bleeding from the right distal middle cerebral artery

was identified and hemostasis achieved.

The hematoma associated with the bullet's tract

in the right frontal lobe was drained.

The falx cerebri was crossed,

and the hematoma from the left frontal lobe...

Um, here's your list

of your used truck dealers within a 40-mile radius.

... provide updates as I have them.

Uh, in the meantime, in an effort

to preserve the privacy of our other patients,

we ask that the media refrain from congregating.

Can I talk to you?

And this was left at your door?

Yeah.

So he clearly knows where I live.

He figures you're cooperating and he's trying to intimidate you.

It's working.

- And I don't want to go to the police. - I understand,

but they might be able to assign some protection.

It's good that you came here.

Is there another place you could stay?

M-Maybe my friend Melissa's.

In the meantime, I'll talk with Tubb.

The other girls didn't see his truck in the daylight

or get up close like I did.

Okay, I'm the bigger problem.

I can send a patrol car by periodically.

It needs to be more.

Well, the FBI's coming in on the hunt.

That should free us up some, but for now, I don't got more.

The FBI? They're taking over?

I asked them to. I'm undermanned.

The FBI hates these cases.

They'd rather be catching bank robbers.

Look, Jenny, right now I gotta get back to the hospital,

then coordinate the search.

I'm a bit under the gun.

But I will look into some protection for Jerrie.

Look.

I was serious, what I said before.

If you do decide you want to be a cop again,

I'm happy to talk about it.

One patrol car every hour.

We owe her that.

Merrilee Legarski?

Penelope Denesuk.