Stray

Nori, just one more time, okay?

Mom, where are you going?

I'll just be gone for a bit.

Thanks, Nick.

I'll see you soon.

Excuse me.

I'm Detective Murphy.

Who's my first responder?

Over there. That's me.

Homeless guy called it in.

It's, uh... I've never seen anything like that before.

When did you get here?

A few minutes before midnight.

Has anyone else been inside?

Ju... just me and my partner here, uh, one of the EMTs,

and, uh, Lieutenant...

Welcome back, Detective.

Picked a hell of a night to come back to work.

Well, I hope you're not here to babysit me.

I'm not.

I was halfway home when I got the call.

I was getting a lot of chatter about this one.

Oh, yeah, why's that?

You should probably pop your head in and take a look.

Ah, good to see you.

You, too.

You ready for this?

It's all you.

Let me know if you need anything.

What is this?

She's completely charred, and there's no evidence of a fire.

I know, exactly.

The homeless guy, did he call in a body or a fire?

Nothing about a fire, just the body.

"Kyoko Oshiro," what happened to you?

Mrs. Oshiro?

Hi.

I'm Detective Stella Murphy.

Can I come in for a minute?

Okay, so she left the apartment last night at around 9:45?

And did she tell you where she was going?

Who killed her?

That's what I'm going to find out, Mrs. Oshiro.

Do you know anyone who would want

to hurt Kyoko, any friends, family, co-workers?

Ma'am, I know that this is very difficult,

but would you be willing to come down and identify Kyoko's body?

I cannot.

I understand.

Before I go, would you mind if I took a look around?

Thank you.

Yeah, hold on one sec.

Yeah?

Can you send IT over?

I need to change my password.

For what?

Because it's still Mara.

Yeah, I'll send someone over.

So we don't have any dental records to match to.

Logic obviously points to this being Ms. Oshiro.

Yeah, I figured as much.

Family is not going to come identify.

I don't blame them.

This body, I ran carbon-14 dating

on her a couple of times, even recalibrated

the machine to make sure something wasn't wrong.

Each reading put this body at more than 1,000 years old.

She wasn't burnt.

She's petrified.

I want to see Mom.

You cannot.

Why not?

We will hear from the police when they find something.

Don't you want to see her?

We will not speak about this anymore.

Yeah?

I need an APB sent out.

On who?

The homeless man who called in the body, Rudolfo Sanchez,

he has a prior for arson a few years back.

Call you back?

Thanks.

You got anything else?

Is this the level of supervision

I can expect from now on?

I was wondering.

Do you have any idea why a woman who was born 42 years ago

has been dead for 1,000 years?

Anyway, that's how the, uh, chain of command works.

Right.

Are you gonna have a problem with that?

No.

I left.

You stayed, got a promotion.

I'm proud of you.

Stella, Stella.

Sorry. I tried your first.

She wouldn't stop asking for you.

It's okay.

Thank you.

Nori, is everything okay?

I was wondering if I could see my mom.

Um.

I'd really like to see her.

Yeah, I understand.

Um, honey, I don't know if that's a good idea right now.

You... you don't want to see her like this.

I need to.

How old are you, again?

I'm 18.

Is your grandma here, Nori? No.

Let's go.

This is never easy.

Okay.

No.

So this is her.

No.

Can I come in?

Not right now.

No, ma'am, was there something you didn't tell me?

Your daughter's body was petrified, and the tests we ran

came back saying she'd been dead nearly 1,000 years.

I don't mean to overstep here.

But your granddaughter, something happened to Nori

when she saw her mother's body.

Now considering the two strangest things I have ever

seen in my life happened with your family,

I'm thinking you could tell me something.

You could not possibly understand.

What happened?

My Kaisho.

And the detective saw.

I didn't mean to.

Nori, these people cannot know.

There's no point in it. What?

You must not be seen.

You cannot...

How you doing?

It's a weird one, more questions

than answers at this point.

No, I mean, how are you?

Oh, I'm fine.

Just checking.

I can still do that, right?

Yeah, I wouldn't be here if I wasn't all right.

Have a good night.

Jake. Jake!

Stella, what are you doing?

I got to do my laundry. Excuse me.

You been drinking?

I don't like seeing you like this.

Jake, can you just please stop it with all this, like,

supervisor...

Are you kidding me right now?

My wife comes to our house that she hasn't

been to in months, drunk.

You think I don't have a right to be concerned?

Fine.

I'm not asking you to be fine.

I'm asking you to be careful.

Okay.

What the fuck is that?

Ow. Ow.

I don't know when you got into this rogue I can, like, suffer

through this on my own bullshit, but it

doesn't have to be that way.

You're not the only one in pain.

Oh, that's funny, because it didn't really seem

like it bothered you that much.

I'll let myself out.

Yeah, why don't you take a fucking cab?

I don't want tea.

Why didn't you or Mom ever explain

what was going to happen to me?

A Kaisho is something you must discover for yourself.

It is our sacred gift to bring back

what is beautiful in the world.

But you must not be seen until you can learn to control it.

Noriko, your mother did not want you to grow up living in fear.

So instead, we chose to stay hidden from the world?

I was so lost yesterday.

You should not have gone.

I needed to see her.

I just want things to be normal.

Do not complain about what is normal.

You are not normal.

Your Kaisho is more important than your happiness.

It is your responsibility.

Murphy. Murphy.

I don't think you're ready to be back.

Why, because of last night? I'm sorry.

What time is it?

Am I late for work, Jake?

I don't understand. What's the problem?

Oh, I don't know, drunk driving, maybe.

I'm going to recommend you go back out on leave.

Oh, okay, don't go on a power trip.

You need more time. No, I don't need more time.

What I need is to stay busy.

Okay.