9-1-1: Lone Star

I'm right here with you, ma'am. We're gonna get some help to you.

Can you tell me the address of where you're at?

660 Monte Vista.

Hurry. He's gone crazy.

I'm sending police to you now. What's your name, ma'am?

It's Susie. I've got my baby here too.

Okay. Susie. Listen, my name is Grace.

Do me a favor. Take a deep breath.

Tell me what's going on. Who's trying to hurt you?

My boyfriend. His name's Mark.

Mark Poling. He's tweaked out of his mind.

You're saying he's on methamphetamines?

Yes. He, he deals it.

-Is he armed? I don't know. Probably.

He has this bunch of guns in the house.

He just started smashing and throwing things.

He said that he's gonna kill us!

I know you're scared,

but I need you to try and stay calm for me.

Are you two somewhere safe right now?

We're hiding in a closet.

Well, let's try to keep your voice down, ma'am.

Susie, I need to know where in the house the closet is

so that my team can find you.

We're in the back bedroom

at the end of the hallway to the left. I--

I think I hear him. Hush, honey, please.

Please hush.

I smell gas. I think he's pouring gasoline.

Oh, God. He meant it.

He said he would burn us both alive!

He's gonna set the house on fire!

Hey!

Hey! Susie?

Susie, can you hear me?

Go, go, go, go!

I want every street within four blocks of here locked down.

Officers, take the south side of the residence, keep the neighbors inside.

Last thing we need is a looky-loo getting caught in a crossfire.

Yes, sir.

-Officer Reyes. Captain Strand.

We believe we have an armed suspect inside

with two possible hostages,

one of them an infant.

Do we know their status?

No. Suspect's radio silent.

Won't answer his phone

or any calls from my negotiators.

I need your teams to set up behind the truck

until SWAT goes in and secures the scene.

Fire should go in with you.

No way.

Dispatch said the suspect is a heavily armed meth-head.

They also said that the place is filled with gasoline.

One stray round, that thing goes up,

you guys are trapped in an inferno.

Alright. Just stay behind us. You travel light as you can.

Sergeant, kit these boys up with vests and helmets.

Yes, sir. -Alright. Halligans and fire extinguishers only.

Get an inch-and-three-quarter line as backup.

If that thing goes up, we're in there fast.

Let's go. Move, move, move!

Suspect is a white male.

Keep your eyes open.

Move, move, move.

This is APD. Come out if you're here.

Eyes peeled. Eyes peeled!

-Bedroom's clear. -Bathroom clear!

Three-six-three-H-20.

I have eyes on a male in a hoodie,

who appears to have just exited

the rear of the house on Plainview.

Suspect's heading east.

In pursuit.

Copy, three-six-three-H-20.

I'm sending a ride your way now.

Carlos, be careful.

Check the windows.

Anyone here?

Man, this is just creepy.

Hey, Cap, dispatch said

that they heard a baby crying on the call.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't hear no baby crying.

No.

Police! Freeze!

-What's going on, man? Mark Poling?

Where's your girlfriend, Mark?

What?

Amber?

She's... she's gone.

What do you mean gone? Gone where?

I don't know, man.

Did you hurt her, Mark?

When?

I didn't do anything.

Whoa. I don't reckon nobody's hiding in there.

Dispatch, I think we've been had.

Excuse me?

There was never anybody in this closet

and there's no sign of babies in this house.

Oh, no.

Officer Reyes, do you copy?

Mark, look at me. I need you to put the knife down.

Officer Reyes, this is dispatch.

Please come through.

Mark, I need you to put the knife down.

This is so messed up.

Officer Reyes-- Did she call you guys?

Hey, I need you to put that knife down!

I didn't do nothing. I don't know what's going on.

Drop your weapon!

-I'm not doing anything. Put the knife down!

Put your weapon down, Mark.

-I didn't do nothin', okay? -Put the weapon down!

Right now! Put the knife down!

I didn't do nothing. I didn't--

Taser. Taser. Taser. Taser.

Dispatch, suspect was armed with a knife.

I deployed my Taser.

Taking him to custody now.

Yo. Let's go, turn around.

Mark, come on. Let's go.

Dispatch, code three. I need EMS assistance right now.

Major knife injury. There's a lot of blood.

Officer Reyes, are you hurt?

Not me. Suspect fell on his own knife.

Copy you, Officer Reyes.

RAs are already on the scene.

They're on their way.

Stay with me. Alright?

Carlos, Carlos?

Carlos, we got it.

He fell on his knife.

-He wouldn't drop it. -It's okay.

-Tommy, he wouldn't drop it. -Alright. Hey.

-I didn't mean... I didn't mean to. -It's okay.

Please save him.

-It's alright. It's alright. -Please save him.

Losing his pulse. He's not breathing, Cap.

Starting compressions now.

What happened?

He fell on his own knife.

Tell me you guys found the girlfriend and the baby.

-What? -There were no victims.

-What do you mean? -He was alone in that house.

It looks like the whole thing was a prank.

A prank?

Dispatch, call the medical examiner.

He's gone.

Bop.

Hey.

Hey, family.

How'd it go with the brass?

It was decided I should probably take a little time off.

Man, come on. They're gonna try to lay this at your feet?

No, it was nothing like that.

Um...

It turns out the guy who died, he...

he was a known dealer.

So APD thinks a rival made the call.

They do that to each other sometimes.

Sic the cops on each other, trying to settle scores.

It's called swatting.

So they know who did it?

Mm-mmm. The call was routed through a fake IP address.

No, I guess what I'm saying is

that everybody is in agreement that it ain't your fault?

Yeah. No.

Nobody's blaming me.

I was cleared of all responsibility.

So why are you suspended?

I wasn't suspended.

I took a leave of absence.

So it ain't that...

nobody's blaming you,

it's that you're blaming yourself.

I said I can't trust myself right now.

Because there were signs there.

And I missed all of 'em.

Sweetie, what do you mean signs?

What are you talkin' about?

The caller said that the guy was smashing stuff...

that he was gonna kill her.

Right.

I didn't ask how she got away from him

after that to hide in that closet without him knowing.

I heard her baby cry.

And every suspicion I had just went out the window.

Grace, it ain't your job to be suspicious.

It's a job to help people.

I didn't help anybody.

I got a man killed.

I think that it's perfectly natural,

you know, for you to get the yips

after somethin' like this.

But I also want you to know you're the best dispatcher

in the state of Texas.

And we can't abide you being mad at yourself.

I just don't know who else to be mad at.