Murder in the First

Swallow it.

Open.

I didn't like that.

Liar.

Molk, you are beautiful just the way you are...

Even if it's only on the inside,

where it really matters.

Love you back, T-Dog.

He's rockin' his best tie today.

Uh-oh. What's the occasion? Court?

Lunch date?

I got an interview coming in,

not that you need to know.

Female, though, right? Female?

She's a mom from Jasper's tee-ball team.

- She's coming for help. - Cool.

Not that you need to know.

Gibbs, hey. It's Hildy Mulligan again.

Please tell me you got those DNA results.

Psst!

What's the interview about?

He doesn't really know.

Look, she called,

and she didn't want to talk about it on the phone.

So... something's up.

No, you know what? It's actually not an acceptable answer.

We catch all this shit about clearance rates,

and then cases go stale waiting on the frickin' lab.

It's as if they work for the government or something.

I'd like to see Gibbs tell me face-to-face

why an innocent, pregnant victim can't get her full attention.

[Sigh

you ever been down to the lab?

- What, hunter's point? - Yeah.

Yeah, like a decade ago.

All right, let's go.

- Seriously? - Yep.

- Right now? - Right now.

- Do you even know how to get there? - Nope. You're driving.

Gibbs.

Hey. Hildy Mulligan. We spoke on the phone?

Oh. Come to apologize?

So, Burnside said it takes a day, maybe two,

to separate a clean strand

from the sample in the victim's mouth.

Dr. Burnside is a politician appointed by the mayor,

approved by the supervisors.

It's not a criticism.

It just means he knows how to be an... optimist.

Right.

Okay, well, in your opinion, what's... what's realistic?

A day? Month? Year?

We may never be able to separate the sperm

from the non-sperm DNA.

Never? You can't count on it to make your case.

Don't might Kapernick. He's on the job.

He's a working cat.

There's a rat problem... Again.

No allergies, I hope.

I'm not allergic. Actually, I love cats.

All right. Can we focus on the paternity test, please?

I just finished the comparisons this morning.

Oh, perfect timing.

Let me show you.

You're looking at the combined paternal index.

We tested 16 polymorphic loci on the genome.

See the code numbers?

Those are the markers.

Okay.

Each marker comes with two alleles,

one inherited from each...

What?

- Biological parent, right? - Right.

I know you took biology.

Please.

All right. So, mother on the left,

possible father on the right, baby in the middle.

- The fetus, yes. - Fetus. Right.

Now, I'm gonna highlight...

The alleles that match the male in this sample.

The probability that this sample

came from the biological father is 99.7%.

The suspense is killing me.

Erich Blunt.

Thank you.

Thank you, Maggie.

- Thank you for seeing me, sir. - Of course.

I thought you said you didn't need a lawyer.

He's seen the light and found Jesus.

I changed my mind.

I'm gonna let you two speak.

I'll be outside flirting with your secretary.

She's my niece, David.

Oh, well, that's perfect.

She and I can share some stories about Uncle Warren.

Why don't you stay?

Never hurts to have a witness.

So...

What happened?

I volunteered to talk with the police yesterday.

That was a dumb thing to do.

I was trying to be helpful.

Ah.

And how did that go?

They're coming after me regardless of the evidence.

David insists I need a doberman.

Will you be my doberman, Mr. Daniels?

I'm not cheap.

I require a million-dollar retainer

and a two-million-dollar advance when we go to trial.

I don't bill by the hour.

I've already instructed David to take care of it.

If I take your case, I have three ironclad rules...

One, do not tell me whether or not you killed this woman.

I didn't.

Sorry.

Rule number two, you speak to no one about this case but me

and no one speaks on your behalf but me.

What about David?

Is he not speaking clearly?

All right. I hear you.

Both of you.

Lastly...

I suspect you're a world-class liar,

a natural talent,

or you wouldn't be a master of the universe,

so to speak,

which brings me to rule number three.

Never... ever lie to me.

If you do, I'm out. Understood?

Downloaded.

This is your game, Mr. Daniels.

I'm happy to play by your rules.

Good.

Everyone on the same page?

Yeah.

Well, then...

You have yourself a doberman.

Hey! Hannah.

Hi, Dave.

You're in the right place.

Welcome to homicide.

Come on.

Sorry. This is the only free private room we have.

Are we being recorded?

No.

Because this is very personal,

and I want to keep it between just you and me.

Sure. Okay.

The woman that was killed last week,

the pretty flight attendant.

Cindy Strauss.

I think... Erich Blunt killed her.

I'm listening.

After my divorce,

I worked for Blunt at his first company, Wesne,

a couple years before he founded Applsn.

We created games for first-generation iPhones,

and I was in business development.

It was a great job.

Erich's brilliant.

We were the talk of the Valley, but...

For me, um, at least, things went South.

Look, you already started to tell me, Hannah.

You're here.

Five years ago, Erich Blunt raped me.

We went out for a drink after work,

and he drugged me,

he choked me, and he almost killed me.

Did you report it?

I filed the complaint, but I couldn't go through with it.

I just...

I didn't want anyone knowing what happened to me.

We settled out of court.

At the time, it seemed like the quickest way to move on.

But ever since then,

I felt so ashamed that I took that money.

I should have pressed charges.

And now I feel like this woman...

Is dead because of me, like it's my fault.

It took a lot of courage to come here and tell me this.

I mean, you... you're doing the right thing.

I signed an N.D.A. as part of the settlement,

but you should know

that this man is absolutely capable of murder,

and you're hearing it first-hand.

I have to be honest, Hannah.

I...I don't know that I can promise

that I can protect you as a source of this information.

You have to. This is my life.

I'm a single mother.

I-I depend on that money to put my kid through school,

to pay my bills.

I can't violate that agreement.

Yeah, but you already have violated it,

and you violated it to a cop.

I didn't violate it to a cop, Dave.

I-I came to you as a friend.

Well, given the circumstances, I'm sorry.

I just got to say, I mean, I...