Law & Order

In the criminal justice system,

the people are represented

by two separate, yet equally important groups:

the police, who investigate crime,

and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

I just sold the green lobster,

and some hedge funder named Kemper

or something or other is interested in the eel.

My God, that is amazing.

I'm gonna ask 50 grand for it.

- Are you serious? - Yes.

- I still can't believe that people pay money

for the things that I make. - You deserve every penny.

- Thank you. - Excuse me.

Love that.

- How much? - 6,000.

- Do you think it's worth $6,000?

- I can't say what something is worth,

but that's what I'm charging. - I'll take it.

- Great choice. - Thank you.

My God.

- 6,000. - 6,000.

Both: $6,000. - We are killing it!

- Come on, I just live in the next building.

- I'm sorry, but you gotta go around.

Hey, get your hands off him!

- Hey, hey, hey, hey! - Move, move, move, hey!

- Officer, take it easy. I got it. I got it.

Take it easy.

- Hey, sorry, pal, but this is an active crime scene.

Look, we let you walk through there,

you'll compromise the integrity of the crime scene.

Do you understand?

I know it's a pain in the ass,

but we're investigating a murder.

I appreciate your cooperation, all right?

Defund the police.

All: Yeah! That's right!

- Better yet, abolish the police!

That's right!

- It's so nice to feel loved and admired in this city.

- Workers came in this morning, saw some things

were turned over, blood on the floor,

and the gallery owner, Madison Platt,

was supposed to be here,

but apparently, she's gone missing.

- When's the last time anybody had eyes on her?

- There was a big party here last night,

about 80 people.

- We're gonna need to see that guest list.

- Is that art or evidence? - Hard to tell.

- Detectives, this is definitely blood,

probably from these.

Found three spent shell casings.

Got some kind of residue on them.

Get 'em to Ballistics.

- Let me ask you a question. Why was Homicide called in?

How are you so sure

this wasn't a sexual assault or a kidnapping?

There's that.

That ain't art.

That is a piece of someone's brain.

Good enough for me.

- The spent shell casings are all 9-millimeter.

No DNA, no prints, but here's what's strange.

Take a look.

No etchings.

- Just a faint impression on the primer cup

from the firing pin.

- So you're saying the shooter used a ghost gun.

- Homemade, unserialized, untraceable.

Something like this. - Wow.

I've never actually seen one.

- They're becoming the new normal.

- So the residue on the casing is from a ghost gun?

- The gun was made out of a lightweight polymer,

came out of a 3-D printer.

- Who has access to these kinds of printers?

- Companies mostly. Pay a lot of money for them.

Price tag can range anywhere from 10 grand to $1/2 million.

- My kids sent it over. Want a slice?

- I'm good. Happy birthday, Frank.

The big 5-0.

Yeah, it doesn't feel great,

but it's better than the alternative.

- I hope you planned something fun.

When I turned 50, I went to Vegas.

I saw Motley Crue, and I won my plane fare

at the Texas Hold'em table, so good times.

That's cool.

So we are looking for a tech savvy shooter, right?

- Yeah, probably someone with deep pockets,

'cause those 3-D printers, they cost more than my house.

- Do we know if he or she was at the gallery event?

- We're still interviewing guests,

but so far, no one has reported anything suspicious.

- And everybody who saw her said that Madison was alive

and well when they left.

- And no one has seen or heard from her since.

There's no credit card activities

or cell phone activity.

- Anything suspicious on the security cameras

at the gallery?

One small detail to note,

the cameras stopped working at 10:07 p.m.

- What do you mean? - Means they went dead.

But we do have this.

Last known photograph of Madison.

- Is she carrying a purse or a radio?

- So what happened with the security surveillance?

They were jammed.

It appears that somebody was able to hack the system.

- So obviously, this was planned.

- Looking that way. - Any unusual texts, emails?

Actually, yeah.

A few hours before the party, she got a message

from someone named Brett Greyson.

"I've been patient, but it's time to pay.

Otherwise, it isn't going to end well."

The email address is from Futuristic Creations.

- Any chance those guys make 3-D printers?

They do virtual reality.

- We need to find this Brett Greyson,

give him a little piece of our reality.

Madison is missing,

and you think I had something to do with it?

- We read the email you sent to her.

Came off like a threat.

- She owes me 500 grand. - Yeah? For what?

She sold me a phony NFT.

NF... what's that?

Non-fungible token?

It's a digital collectible. - Of course.

I'm glad we cleared that up.

- It's like a one of a kind baseball card,

except it has to be real.

- I'm in the wrong line of business.

You paid $1/2 million for that?

- Damn right. That's the future right there.

But it has to be real.

- So I get it, so Madison sold you

some counterfeit "art," and you're pissed off.

You want your money back. She told you to go to hell.

No, she said fine.

She had no idea it wasn't legit.

Promised me she'd pay me back every penny.

I waited a couple of days, but she never wired the money.

- So you went over to the gallery to shake her down?

- I didn't buy it because I'm rich.

I was trying to trade it, sell it to someone else.

- All right, so you're at the gallery.

Did you talk? - Yeah.

We spoke for a couple minutes.

I even recorded the conversation, you know?

In case I had to sue her, I wanted proof.

- I understand. I feel terrible.

I'm so sorry.

I will get you the money this week, I promise.

I just... I just need to sell a few things

to raise the cash, but you need to leave, okay?

Right now. This is an important night.

Timestamp is 9:49 p.m.

- There were at least 50 people still there when I left.

Okay.

Greyson's alibi checks out.

Security video from down the street

shows that he left the neighborhood at 9:51,

but look at this. Do you see that SUV?

It shows up at 10:02 p.m., which is right before

the gallery security camera stopped recording.

The guy waits in the car for a couple of hours,

and then at 12:24 a.m., he gets out

and heads into the gallery. - Any hits off of facial rec?

I tried, but his hat and scarf

are covering his face. - License plate?

- It's covered in some kind of plastic.

- Okay, so what time did our boy leave the gallery?

Seven minutes later.

That's efficient.

And resourceful.

He goes inside, takes care of business,

and then wheels her out in a crate.

- Check all the surveillance cameras in the area

and see if we can't track down that SUV.

On it.

- Who needs a lanai in Boca when you got views like this.

Hey, Frank.

I think I got something over here.

It's that purse thingy that Madison had

at the event, right? - Looks it.

Okay, come on.

Yep, it's her ID.

Credit card still there. - She's gotta be here.

Hey. Hold onto this.

- Hey, guys, check it out. - Bag this.

What do you got?

Yeah, open that up.

- That's definitely not Madison Platt.

- So what do you know? - DOA is Sarah Baker.