The Darkness

- Hi. -Hi.

- Welcome. -Thank you. Oh.

- These are for you. - Thank you.

So, yeah, the car.

You're so pretty.

Even prettier than your pictures.

What's this place?

Home.

So, uh...

Here we have the bathroom.

Here we have the bedroom.

And, uh, kitchen.

Sorry about the mess.

Why you go through my bag?

You take my phone.

Passport.

I just put them away in a safe place.

Your phone won't work out here anyway.

Water no work. In bathroom.

Hey.

Are you okay?

Do you want to go to bed?

This place not what we agree.

This not city.

I no feel safe here.

No. You say, "I do not feel safe here."

Ah!

I'm sorry it doesn't meet up with your expectations.

I no leave home for here. Where I work?

How I make friend?

You don't need to work. I'm working.

I'll look after you.

What you doing?

- What you doing? - It's freezing.

Why should I have to sleep out there?

No. No.

No, stop.

I no want this.

I don't know. I--

Please, take, take me to airport. Please.

No. Wait.

Just... calm down.

Calm down?

You, you're just... you lie.

Lie. You-you promise new life.

This is not life.

We will make a life.

We will make a home.

Together.

Just the two of us.

Home?

I not stay here with you.

I not even like you. You lie.

This place is prison!

Shut up.

This is joke. You are joke.

You say that? After all I've done for you?

I'm not a fucking joke!

Selfish.

Ungrateful bitch!

You're not going anywhere!

Take it.

You're mine.

Forever.

Do you feel any pain here?

- Nothing? - No. No.

Okay. And your neck. It's okay?

Yeah.

Okay. I'm gonna check your spine.

Thank you. How is this?

- It's okay? - It's okay. Yeah.

I haven't found much.

Thanks. I'm okay.

You could've just interrupted a break-in.

I told you.

This has to do with my case.

Did you check the blood in the hallway?

We did. We'll send it to the lab.

Do you want us to dust?

No. He was wearing gloves.

So, um...

I was thinking about what you said.

And if I'm Peter Pan, does that make you Tinker Bell?

Here's me thinking

you were actually gonna say something serious.

No, I, um, actually, um...

I need your advice, as a friend.

Platonic advice.

So...

there's this kid. Rudi.

And, um...

He w-- His mum, well...

He-he lost his mum and it means he's on his own here.

They want to send him back to Russia,

where he's from, as early as next week.

And... I don't know, I was thinking of, I...

You were thinking...

I was thinking that maybe I could help him.

- Foster him. - Okay.

Or something. I don't know.

Just to keep him here, do you know what I mean?

- Mm-hmm. - Um...

And I wanted to talk to you because...

uh, well, because you're a good person and, um...

And you're right.

I need to stop doing

whatever it is I'm doing.

Running away. I know that.

And I...

I know you don't think I'm very good at this.

Well, not very good at this yet.

Right.

But let's see what happens.

Fuckers.

Stolen car.

Magnus said to give it to you.

- Has the owner been interviewed? - Not yet.

You, uh...

- you speak to Hulda? - Uh-uh.

You might want to, uh, check on her.

Hey.

How are you?

I'm fine.

Really? Because...

Leifer just gave me a report that says...

"Unknown male assailant entered the building without permission

"and attacked her with a knife.

Interrupted burglary."

Un-fucking-believable.

I don't even work there and they're still gaslighting me.

This wasn't a burglary.

Naomi, Katja, Elena.

They are connected. I know they are.

The man who was here knows it, too.

So why didn't you call me?

Hulda?

Yesterday, with-with Rudi,

I was such a shithead.

I'm sorry.

I don't care about that. I care about the fact

that somebody broke into your house.

Look, I need your help.

Sure, yeah, anything.

My work server.

They...

deactivated my password.

Okay, um...

Yeah, meet me at mine.

And Albert?

What about him?

Well, do you have any theories there?

I don't know.

A distraction? A setup?

Mm.

Maybe he was involved.

What is all this?

It's just a-a late night

dive into fostering laws.

Why are you reading group chats

from gay parenting websites?

Well, it's actually about Rudi, um...

I was looking into fostering him.

Okay.

That's, um...

Not what anyone was expecting? Yeah.

It's also very unlikely to happen.

I'm just saying...

it's, uh...

It's an amazing thing, being a parent.

But it's hard.

It's just really hard.

- What, you think I don't know that? - No.

You don't.

Cool, well, uh...

thanks for the pep talk.

I know you care, I can see that.

But...

Rudi, this whole situation, it's...

it's not your problem to fix.

What, so don't try?

I'm not saying that. It's just...

Is this what you really want?

'Cause you have to want it.

It's not something you can give back.

Look, I don't know everything.

I know, I get that, okay?

But, um, you know,

I figure things out, you know?

Or...

I would have, I don't know.

That's...

that's all being a parent is.

Lukas, I think...

any kid would be...

lucky to have you as their dad.

Well, thank you.

I'm going to hug you now, okay?

So just keep your quills tucked in.

You need to go and say goodbye.

'Cause you'll regret it if you don't.