Alert: Missing Persons Unit

You frightened my horse!

What are you doing here?

Okay, if you don't have the tools

to get through whatever it is you're going through,

then your sister kemi will provide, yes?

You really making me do this?

I am not sending you into a state of holy matrimony

without some communication techniques.

We communicate all day.

About work. That's easy!

You have to learn how to do the hard stuff, okay?

Look, I do not perform weddings

unless I am damn sure there's not gonna be divorce.

Okay, that's a little bit dramatic, don't you think?

Like you storming out last night

and not coming home for two hours?

Jay kicked me out of my own office

to have a private conversation.

Here we go...

Okay, okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Let's, let's try moving closer together,

knees touching.

Come on! Knees touching! Let's go!

All right, no need to wait for the wedding night.

That's what people do on their wedding night?

Okay, you're being funny.

Now hold hands.

Now... look at each other,

and I want you to say what you're most afraid of

in this relationship.

We're doing this? All right, fine.

Look, me and Jay have gotten close. All right?

I like him, he's my partner, but this you-and-Jay thing

there is no "me and Jay" thing.

I'm just trying to keep you out of the inspector braun mess.

Don't you think that should be my choice?

It's Helen.

It's urgent. I gotta go.

It's your day off!

There you go.

And he's gone.

You wanna talk about what just happened there?

About Mike walking out again?

About why.

I let Jason chase a theory, and kept it from Mike.

What was the theory?

It's about Logan barlowe.

The man who confessed to the car bomb?

Jay thinks that he took the fall for someone.

- Will you do me a favor? - Yeah.

Will you look into barlowe's financials for me, discreetly?

Sure, but Nikki

Mike was just telling you how he felt.

You and Jason... it is a thing,

and I'm not saying it's a bad thing,

I'm just saying that maybe you need to own it,

because it keeps getting in the way.

Right.

- Hey. - Hey!

I am so sorry to interrupt your day.

I'm sure you were doing something fun.

Not that much. What do you got?

The thing is, c and I were at rehearsal, and

rehearsal?

For our forensic a capella group, clues traveler.

Clues traveler?

Yeah. Yeah, it's a play on, never mind.

Anyway, he wanted you to see this,

but he had to take Rachel to the airport,

and there was this problem with her suitcase, and

yeah, I gotcha, I gotcha.

What, what'd you need me to see?

Right!

Murder victim.

Apparently the cranial morphology

means he's white.

Partial closure of the skull sutures

says he was in his early 20s at time of death,

about seven years ago.

Did c get that from the bones?

No. There was some garbage under the remains,

a receipt from 2017.

Trace evidence strikes again!

Early 20s.

That's a little young to start losing your teeth?

Exactly.

Between that and mineral deposits in his bones,

c thinks well-water consumption,

which means he's amish.

A lot of them wear dentures from a young age.

A young amish kid from seven years ago?

Yeah.

Is that Jedidiah lapp?

That's why it's so urgent.

They need DNA to confirm, but your name was on the file,

so c wanted you to know right away.

Yeah... It's my first case with mp...

His wife, Lucy, thought that he came to Philadelphia.

I mean, I did what I could,

but her community stonewalled me.

Couple days later, my boss,

he gives the case to Lancaster pd.

He didn't want to mess up our closure rate.

It's been bothering me ever since.

I'm sorry.

Where were the remains found?

Construction site at center city,

near the Delaware.

All right. I'll contact Lucy.

I owe her that.

Okay.

It's like the beginning of every bad horror movie.

Fiancé takes ex-husband out into the woods...

Two go in, one come out.

Will you calm down?

Okay, it just confuses me,

'cause last time I checked,

when a missing person ends up dead,

homicide takes over,

and then we go about our business... other business.

- Really? - Yeah.

'Cause last I checked,

that's the exact opposite of what you're doing

with that car bomb case.

Right. That's different.

Because I know that braun delivered a patsy

to get me to stop digging, okay?

And I... well, I know that

because last night, I called the prison

and I set up an interview with Logan barlowe.

An interview about what?

Who cares? I made something up.

What difference does it make?

The point is, that was last night.

This morning, I get an official reprimand.

Wait. Braun dinged your jacket?

Some crap about insubordination.

It just lets me know that I'm onto something.

You wanna know what it lets me know?

Is that braun is setting up a case to fire you.

Reprimand is strike one, then it'll be a suspension,

and when you hit strike three,

and we both know you will do something

to hit strike three... You're out.

I think it's very sweet

that you're concerned about losing your partner.

That touches me. Thank you.

I'm concerned

that you keep putting Nikki in the middle of it.

Anyway, tell me about the case, please, before I kill myself.

That's penn poultry farms.

It's a factory chicken operation.

So we're talking fowl play here.

Are you done?

He's an amish guy. His name's Jedidiah lapp.

Came into a ton of land when his parents died,

but then he disappeared.

Buggy was abandoned.

Horse was miles away, but no jed.

Okay, so how does penn poultry farms fit in?

His wife told me they were interested in buying the land.

Said they were aggressive about it.

Big agriculture's not really your usual murder suspect.

Well, it's a theory.

There's no time to prove it.

Couldn't even prove foul play.

Don't say it.

Shut up.

Don't. Don't.

Daed.

These are officers

from the Philadelphia police department.

Do you remember Michael?

He tried to help us when Jedidiah went missing.

I don't care who they are. They don't belong.

O-Okay, Mr. Miller... "Deacon."

Deacon... W-We're just here

to offer you and your family some closure.

Closure?

Did you find Jedidiah?

Remains were found last week

at a center city construction site.

We think it may be Jedidiah.

I'm sorry, Lucy.

I know it's a tough ask,

but we're gonna need a DNA sample to confirm.

D-Do you have anything that he owned?

I mean, hair brush, or a piece of clothing?

Something like that?

How have you been, Michael?

I'm good, thanks.

He's really good.

H-He's about to get married.

- To my ex-wife. - Unimportant.

I braided this for jed.

It's a summer hat he loved.

No one has worn it since.

That's perfect, Lucy. Thanks.

You have what you need.

Leave.