High Potential

Four-King-82 in pursuit of a white sedan.

License 6, Frank, Charlie, Indigo, 9-4-0.

Heading south on Vine. Requesting air support and backup.

Suspect's name is Derek Price. He is armed and dangerous.

Please have good news.

I lost Derek.

What about the weapon?

- He took it with him. - Damn it.

We need you back here right now.

Why? What's going on? You got a lead on the Game Maker?

Uh, yeah, we sure do. He just walked in.

He did what?

He really just walked in here?

He says he heard his face was on the news last week, wants to know why.

Who is he?

"Matthew Clark."

-He got a record? -Squeaky-clean.

Lives downtown, has for a year, works cash jobs.

Cash jobs.

Makes it hard to track his money or his movements.

What about family?

His mom did time for grand theft, but she died when he was a kid.

So basically, you're saying there's not much to tie him

either to Maya Price or the others he abducted.

No, he wouldn't have walked in here

unless he knew he was gonna be able to walk out.

-Let me talk to him. -No, Adam will talk to him.

We all know he came here to talk to me.

And we can't give him what he wants, Morgan.

-I can handle it. -No coloring outside the lines.

We need more on this guy

other than the fact that he is an organ donor.

Still nothing from Daphne or Oz?

No, not yet.

Anything?

Front desk says a Roman Sinquerra checked in last week,

just like our friends here in Henderson told us.

Okay, so we're in the right place. Roman is here.

Or was.

Maybe he forgot to check out before he left.

I usually do.

Hey.

Thanks for coming in today, Matthew.

-You understand your rights. -I do.

And I've got nothing to hide, so why was my face on the news?

Spencer Wallace.

Sierra Shuman.

And Lev Ozdil.

All three were abducted last week...

Yeah. That's... That's terrible.

...by a man matching your description.

Really? Mmm.

Uh, they all look so sad.

-He's toying with us. -Let him try.

Well, they're all members of the same grief group,

meets once a month out in Echo Park.

You know the one. The one you attended.

Sounds like you think I did this, Detective.

I think when we bring these people in here, they'll identify you.

From a grief group.

I'm sorry, Detective, I think you lost me.

Come on. What is Karadec doing?

-Is this an interrogation or a first date? -Give him time.

Matthew Clark came in freely of his own free will.

We push too hard and he leaves,

we could lose the only chance we have to find out what really happened to...

Maya Price.

Is this woman saying I abducted her too?

Mm-mmm. We're still trying to locate her.

Maya disappeared two nights ago.

So it sounds like she's not saying much of anything.

-Hmm. -He's taunting us.

- Morgan, let Karadec do his job.

Where were you last night around 9:00 p.m?

I was at home reading a book. Why?

Because my colleague saw you at a party in the Bird Streets.

Did she?

"She." Did you hear that? He said, "she." Karadec didn't specify a gender.

We're gonna need more than a pronoun to press charges.

Detective, I do have one of those faces.

Tell me, how do you know David Roy Peck?

I wish I could be more helpful, Detective, but I don't know anyone by that name.

-Morgan, that's enough. -He's lying.

Is that your wife?

A little something on the side.

Is this fun for you?

Playing games with people's lives?

Whoever's texting, it must be very urgent.

Are you in a love triangle, Detective?

I understand that badge can be very persuasive.

-Wait here. -I'd love a snack.

Uh, cookie. Anything Pillsbury.

-Really, Morgan? -Yeah, Adam.

Knock it off. This guy has you both exactly where he wants you.

I'm sorry, uh, there's a mother missing,

and this bozo's in here asking for cookies.

He can ask for whatever he wants.

It doesn't mean we're gonna give it to him.

Hold on a second. He didn't ask for just cookies.

He asked specifically for Pillsbury.

What is that, some kind of clue?

The Pillsbury variation.

In chess, it's a variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined.

A move in which Black declines White's temporary pawn sacrifice

to establish a solid position.

It's basically an elaborate chess move to secure your defense.

What the hell does that mean?

It means we have to decline the temporary sacrifice.

We've got to release Jason Howard.

Whoa, whoa, Morgan, you do realize Derek is still out there.

I know, and Maya's still out there too,

and the only way to get her back is to play this game.

We don't have enough evidence to hold Jason Howard much longer anyway.

Adam and I will go talk to Jason while we keep Matthew on ice.

-Okay, I'll keep an eye on him. -From which side of the glass?

Oh, so you do know how to interrogate people.

So you no longer believe that my client killed Maya Price?

Not anymore, no.

But now you're saying that someone else wants to kill me

because they think that I killed Maya.

Yes, that's right. Her ex, Derek Price.

Right. Uh, so why?

Jason, do you recognize this man?

Matthew Clark.

- Nope. - We're questioning him now.

We suspect he fed Derek some false information

so that he'd believe you killed Maya and try to get revenge.

Revenge. Wow, this is insane.

Okay, well, where's this Derek who wants to kill me?

We don't know. We're searching for him now.

- Nice. - And Maya.

Until we find both, we need to offer you police protection.

-What are you proposing? -Three officers outside the home.

They can secure the perimeter

and make sure that Derek never comes near you,

or you're welcome to stay here.

No, no, no. I'll go home.

What about Maya? You think she's alive?

We hope so. We think she might just be a pawn.

A pawn. In what?

A game that ends in a murder he could never be charged for.

Oh, my murder. My murder. Right.

-Is everything okay? -Everyone here is doing great.

Hey, Mom.

And Elliot wants to say something to you, so I'm gonna hand him the phone now.

Hi, okay, so the school talent show is tomorrow, and I wasn't going to do it,

but a kid got pink eye, so a spot opened up, and I really want it,

but I know we're not really supposed to leave the house

just because that man Dad said is stalking us.

Buddy, you want to do a talent show, you're gonna do that talent show.

Why don't we just invite Officer Chester?

-Yeah? -Yeah.

So what are you gonna do?

Uh, that's a surprise. But it's super cool. And I know you're gonna love it.

- Can you put your dad on? -Yeah.

I can't tell you what Elliot's doing for the talent show. I'm sorry.

What do you mean you can't tell me?

Elliot swore me to secrecy.

Ludo, the kid gets bullied enough at school.

Now he wants to go up on stage in front of everyone

and do something that he considers cool?

"Beowulf" by Anonymous.

- Dork! - "Lo! the Spear-Danes"--

- You suck! - Mom!

He's gonna get eaten alive.

He's going to be fine. I'm going to help him.

You? No. Why would you help him? You're not...

You're not the one.

- Hey, are you doing okay? - Hello?

I'll call you back as soon as I can.

Hello?

Is anyone there?

I've never been in one of these rooms before.

I remember hearing about people

who would confess to things they didn't do.

I never understood why.

But now that I'm here, I get it.

These concrete walls.

The glass.

I only got in trouble once when I was a kid.

Some friends and I were playing chicken.

We were biking right toward each other.

Don't blink.

You swerve, you lose.

Hmm.

Morgan, you gotta go.

We heard about a bomb threat on a Metro bus.

-What about this guy? -We believe the threat was him.

Someone on the bus heard it ticking and called 9-1-1.

-Anyone see who left the bag? -No.

-And the cameras on the bus were broken. -Where's the bomb?

There wasn't one.

It's just a timer with a thumb drive taped to the back.

I recognized your woman.

She's singing "Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order.

That's why Matthew Clark mentioned a love triangle in his interrogation.

-When was this video recorded? -Wish I could tell you.

Whoever made the video wiped all the metadata.

Okay. That means even after we find Derek,

we can't use this video to prove to him that Maya's still alive.