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So Darius...

May tells me that you're not going to college next fall.

No, Ms., uh, Ms. Grant.

Mrs. Nash.

Um, I'm taking a gap year

and then hopefully Stanford.

Stanford is a great school.

What do you plan on studying?

Well, both of my parents are doctors...

What does one do in a gap year?

Bounce around Europe with backpack and a rail pass?

Mom, be nice.

I'm not being nice?

No, you're being Grandma Bea.

So what kind of doctor do you plan on being?

You know, just working with, um...

Darius, I didn't even go to college.

Wait, that's an option?

- (ATHENA) No. - (MICHAEL) No.

I'll get it.

Oh. Um, we should get going.

We don't want to miss the movie.

Come on, Darius.

Wait, May, I thought the movie started at 9:00.

Well, you know, traffic and parking and

we need time

for the bathroom and ticket booth and all that, so

we're probably already late.

Dinner was great. Pleasure meeting you all.

Yes, I'll see you soon

at 11:30 when you drop May off at the door.

At the door.

Okay, all right.

Have fun.

Elaine, hey. What are you doing here?

I'm sorry to bother you at home.

Didn't mean to interrupt your dinner.

Oh, no, we just finished.

You want something? Come on in.

No, no, um...

I had some unexpected news today, and... (SIGHS)

I didn't want you to hear it from anyone else.

Okay.

We found the gun that killed Emmett.

Athena?

Are...

Are you sure?

Yeah, I had them check and double-check

before I came here.

Who's Emmett?

I have no earthly idea.

Who's Emmett?

Uh, Emmett Washington.

He was my fiancé.

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Found it during a traffic stop.

Tomas Alma. 19.

Too young to be Emmett's killer

and currently not speaking to us.

Gun has probably gone through a lot of hands since '91.

I'm putting a lot of guys on this one.

You don't have to worry.

Look, I may have to take a few days off.

I'm sorry if I stepped in it the other night.

I didn't know that you...

That I haven't talked about Emmett in 20 years.

There's no way you could've known.

Yeah.

If I hear anything, I'll call next time.

Thanks.

Waste of time.

It's not a waste of time, Athena.

We're opening ourselves up to the world

of possibilities on offer.

Please. What kind of person upends their whole life

because someone handed them a flyer?

Cheryl.

Ladies, can I interest you

in an exciting career opportunity?

LAPD's looking for the best and the brightest

to join our ranks,

and you three seem like prime candidates.

Appreciate the sales pitch,

but we're already on our career paths.

Lawyers and police are all part of the same system.

We just get to the bad guys first.

You seem cool, but the only people folks

hate more than lawyers are cops.

- Okay? - At least we're paid better.

- That's right. - True.

People only hate police until they need us.

No, sometimes they hate you after.

Let's go.

Wait.

I'm Emmett.

In case you decide to give us another look.

Wouldn't mind giving him another look.

- Wow. - Hmm.

"Where's that soap you put in the dishwasher?"

"Which dry cleaners has my blue suit?"

I swear that phone never stopped ringing.

Aww, Daddy's lost without you.

I can't believe he let you come out here by yourself.

Well, he knew better than to try to stop me.

It's been hard, you so far away from home.

I am half a mind

to make your father move out here

so we can see you more often.

You couldn't get Daddy here for five days.

How you gonna get him here for the rest of his life?

That's where you come in.

Grandbabies.

Mama.

We've talked about this.

I have to finish law school and get a good job,

then I will find a good man,

and I will give you grandbabies.

You do not get to shuffle the order

because you're bored in Florida.

Oh, Athena. I didn't tell you.

Your daddy said Mrs. Kingston passed away last night.

What?

She's you age. What happened?

They're saying cancer,

but I think it's more like heartbreak.

She never got over losing that girl.

Did they ever find out what happened to Tanya?

Who took her?

Not sure how hard they looked.

You know, Mrs. Kingston went to that police station

every month begging for help,

searching for answers.

Maybe she has them now.

Well, the department's goal is 20% female officers.

We're about halfway there.

10%? Wait, wait, wait.

I'll be outnumbered nine to one?

What? That's... Talk about sticking out in a crowd.

I imagine you'd stick out in any crowd,

regardless of the demographic makeup.

Well, now I'm starting to wonder exactly

what you're trying to recruit me for.

All right, all right, look.

I can spout off facts and figures all night.

It'll be boring, not to mention a terrible way for you

to decide what to do with your life.

Yeah, well, how did you figure it out?

Hang up the classifieds, throw a dart?

Sixth grade.

Two narcotics detectives came to my class.

They had a slide presentation for us.

Reasons to join the LAPD?

Nope. Crime scene photos.

Pictures of people who died because of drugs.

The way those guys talked about our world, our community,

how broken it was, it opened my eyes.

That's when I knew I had to do something to make it better.

Quit law school six weeks later.

Wow.

I had no idea. I never even suspected it.

Athena, you are good at these secrets.

Don't be mad.

You know, you once told me

that it's the not knowing that haunts us.

You were talking about yourself.

Well, I've seen what comes from living with ghosts,

the toll it takes.

I mean, the man who fired that bullet

had already taken so much from me.

I wasn't gonna let him have the rest.

I just put all my grief, my pain,

locked it in a box.

That's the only way I knew how to move forward.

So how does it feel now?

Now that Pandora's cracked open that box.

Feels more like I'm the one who's cracked open.

I mean, I know they have a million questions.

I'm just not ready to answer them.

So that's why you're here with me?

You're hiding.

I... I don't know how to talk about...

him without talking about what happened after him.

I mean, I threw myself into my job.