Secrets and Lies

Previously on "Secrets and Lies"...

I had to travel when you kids were young.

Do you have any idea what it was like for us

while you were away?

Where were you this past week?

Out of town on business.

I'm here about Dad. I think he may have cancer.

He's got a second phone,

and a cancer center called him on it.

S.E.G. owns a whorehouse?

Melanie Warner, you're under arrest.

- Cornell: You're under arrest. - You put me here.

Your actions did that.

Eric: I received this... Blackmail.

Kate paid the money without even telling me.

What makes you think it was Patrick?

Who else would've done this?

The transponder Kate planted on the money is on the move.

Danny: This could be your guy.

What the hell?

You think your father's extorting you?

No. That's ridiculous.

Somebody blackmailed you, Kate paid them,

put a transponder in with the money,

and we followed the tracking device,

175 miles from where you live, here.

In the middle of the night... I get it.

But my father has no reason to blackmail me. He doesn't need the money.

All right. Did you tell him about the extortion?

Not until this morning.

Well, then, he's involved somehow.

And if the blackmailer killed Kate, then...

Please stop talking.

That money's still in that building.

Whoa, whoa. What are you doing?

Getting what I came for. I want answers.

Well, there's no one in there to give them to you, man. Use your head.

Says the guy who punches first and asks questions later.

Hey, hey, hey! Those are security contacts, right there.

System's state of the art, okay?

You got to think, all right?

We'll come back tomorrow morning when they're open.

- No. - Look!

I'm looking for my daughter, and I am not gonna go down

because you turned into the Hulk.

The cops show up, I'm gonna bail.

- I'm not leaving. - Fine.

But I'm driving.

I'm out of here, man.

Danny: Look, you want to calm down and ask me if I have a plan?

All right, the best way to get answers is to ask the right person.

My father's already lied to me about a second phone and cancer.

What makes you think he's gonna tell me the truth about this?

I didn't mean him, okay?

The blackmailer knows who you are,

so tomorrow morning, when R.B. Trucking opens,

I'm gonna go in, do some recon, collect some intel.

I don't... I don't get you.

When you want answers, you just... you just beat the crap

- out of whoever's in your path. - That's not true.

Okay? I watched you and Kate for days

before I decided she was my best hope,

because she was the one shopping for baby clothes.

Turns out I was right.

I did the same thing with Liam and Neil.

I can't.

I can't just sit around here till morning and do nothing.

You got no choice.

Okay, between Cornell

and the investigation into your company,

you got enough trouble.

Do you want answers...

or the cell next to Patrick?

Bryant: Your package from the private lab arrived.

Care to explain this?

Kate Warner had a charge from the private lab on her credit card.

We got a warrant for the materials she had tested and the results.

Well, the lead panned out.

Eric Warner was being blackmailed for 100 grand.

Well, then, whoever extorted Eric could've killed Kate.

Begs the question why Eric didn't hand this letter over right away.

Maybe he wasn't aware right away.

I think the reason Eric was unaware

that his wife took 100K from his savings

is because she paid the blackmailer without telling him.

Why wouldn't she tell him?

Either he didn't take it seriously or he refused to be intimidated.

Kate had to know paying the money

wasn't gonna make the blackmailer go away.

That's why she had her ex Shane Campbell

install the tracking software on her iPad.

The GPS with the cash pings the software when it moves.

Kate was trying to follow the money to the blackmailer.

What the hell did she think she was gonna do when she found him?

Well, if she did find him, he could've killed her.

So, how do we find this guy?

This letter is threatening to expose

Eric Warner's juvenile record.

So the blackmailer had to be in possession of it.

Amanda Warner said her father had the only copy.

And he has yet to turn it over.

So either he's hiding it

or he's hiding the fact that it's missing.

I don't care who John Warner's friends are.

Go shake his tree.

The DNA results in there might help, too.

DNA results?

Ah. What you got?

Oh, magazine cutouts... How very 1973.

Hmm. No fingerprints found on the blackmail letter?

Right. But whoever licked the envelope left their DNA.

Oh, my god.

I know this guy.

This is random S.T.R.

What the hell am I supposed to do with that?

I want you to run it through the system, compare it to all this.

I think Eric Warner's blackmailer is a member of his family.

- I wish I was hiring,

but last few months, I had to let people go.

Yeah, economy's for crap, man.

Yeah, I even got rid of the secretary.

- -

I got to take this.

Sure, man all right, thank you.

- Thanks anyway. - Yeah, you got it.

It's good meeting you.

This is R.B.

What'd you find out?

You got any relatives here in Georgia?

No.

I just met the owner, R.B.,

and he's giving out pink slips, having money problems,

and I'm pretty sure he got the juvie file to blackmail you

from your father.

How you figure?

Well, 'cause his full name is Robert Brian Warner.

He had this.

- Turk: This is a blanket warrant. - Sanchez: Mm.

- You understand? - Mm-hmm.

- So do not waste it. - You know I won't.

- Ken, thank you. - What's up, Cornell?

I'm looking for John Warner.

Too late. Patrick Warner just got bail.

He's probably posting bond right now.

Hey.

I just wanted to thank you.

For Melanie's necklace.

Ever since that footage started to make its rounds,

every single person's been bending over backwards

- to help me with my case. - Of course they are.

Too many high-powered men on tape.

Judges don't want to look like they're protecting anyone.

Right now, it doesn't look like S.E.G. owns any other brothels,

but, thanks to Turk, I got a blanket warrant just to make sure

the rest of the Warners are keeping it clean.

Thanks.

How we doing with the Kate Warner homicide?

The investigation is ongoing.

Well, it's been three weeks, so you must have something.

I'm not talking to you

until I have solid evidence and a confession.

You're just a cog in the wheel, Cornell.

I'll get my update from your boss.

Have you heard from Eric?

No.

He's not answering any of my calls.

- Well, I mean... - Mr. Warner.

What do you want?

Can't this wait?

I've waited long enough.

Where's Eric's juvenile file?

I don't know, but I'll keep looking.

Any idea the last time you saw it?

Maybe in your office or your home?

Why is this so important?

Maybe your car? Perhaps it was stolen.

Amanda: It probably got filed incorrectly

with the paperwork at S.E.G. What is your issue?

It's odd that such a sensitive document

would be handled so carelessly.

Surely you wouldn't want it to fall into the wrong hands.

Any idea why your best friend would use a private DNA lab?

I don't know. Maybe it has to do

with the son that she put up for adoption.

It's funny... your brother Eric said the same thing.

Look, if his name's Warner,

he's got to be some kind of relative.

- That I never met? - I don't know.

A distant, screwed-up cousin or something?

Doesn't make sense how he got ahold of my juvie file.

My dad wouldn't just give it to him. The guy must've stolen it.

Yeah, you know what? Why... Why'd your dad even have it?

I mean, you decked a guy 20 years ago,

- so wouldn't it be shredded by now? - It should have been.

I didn't even know it existed until seven months ago.

How's that?

The lawyer that defended me died.

His firm sent all client paperwork back to the address on file.

What, your dad's house?

Yeah. My father brought it into the office