Absentia

Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick...

Hey, man, what happened?

Go, go get her! What?

Who? Emily. Emily, she...

Where?

There. There! Go!

What is she doing?

Over here! Over here!

Move it!

Move!

Move!

Move!

Fuck!

Suspect possibly southbound on the Red Line

between Davis and Porter.

Flynn!

Flynn! No.

Flynn!

Help!

Help!

Please...

Listen to me.

Don't hurt Flynn, please, I'll do anything.

Don't you touch him, you lunatic!

You hear me?

You leave him alone!

You want to hurt someone, you hurt me!

Ladies and gentlemen.

Unfortunately, we will be making an emergency stop

at the next station.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi, you're going to want to hold on, okay?

You okay?

You got her?

No.

Thanks. Use that.

She shot me.

I know.

Lucky you.

It's not luck.

It's mandatory for the field.

Emily know that?

She... She knows we're on to her.

She's trying to slow us down,

to keep us from finding Alice and Flynn.

You being dead would have slowed us down a lot more.

No, you stopped... You stopped to help.

Dead men don't need first aid.

She's always two steps ahead.

Don't worry. I've got it covered.

I'm going to talk to Charles Avallone

to see why Emily came all the way out here, all right?

No, no, no, I'm coming, I'm coming.

What are you doing? I'm coming with you.

We never wanted...

We never wanted...

No, no, no!

Mr. Avallone is in no condition to answer any questions.

We need to speak to Mr. Avallone.

Yeah, because it's clear that you sedated him.

He was extremely agitated.

That woman attacked him,

and he was far from stable to begin with.

This, royal "we" stuff.

Is he completely delusional or...

Tsk. Charles has an adaptive fantasy,

an imaginary friend.

Yeah, well, we're not so sure.

You know, Charles' friend might be real after all.

Look, look, the woman who attacked Charles

is named Emily Byrne.

She's wanted for multiple homicide,

and she's kidnapped my wife and my son.

He may know something that can help us find them.

He and Emily grew up together in state care,

at Barrett House.

But Charles has been here at Edgewater

for more than 10 years. I don't know how...

I'm sorry. I don't have time for this.

Why else... Why else would Emily come all this way?

Hey, hey,

relax, man.

Let me handle this.

Okay?

Sorry, he's...

This guy...

Dr. Shen, MIT scientist.

He was experimenting on kids at Barrett House.

We've listened to his tapes, interviews with the subjects.

Charles was one of them,

and there was at least one other kid.

And you think that child is Charles' imaginary friend?

Yes, subject B.

Charles

was subject A.

Okay. He needs time to recover.

How much time? Well...

Come back tomorrow.

We don't... We don't have a day.

We may not even have hours.

Shen ended up in a grave with five other bodies.

Eyelids cut off.

That's the signature of Conrad Harlow,

a known serial killer.

Now, I've looked at who pays the bills for Charles here at Edgewater...

That's a family trust.

It's been that way since the beginning.

Are you aware that this trust is, linked with Conrad Harlow?

Your subject B.

You think it's Emily Byrne,

and you need Charles to confirm that, right?

Yes. I just...

I just want to find my family.

Housekeeping.

Housekeeping.

Hey! Get out of the way! Get out of the way!

Hey! Stop that woman!

Grab her! Stop her!

Hey! Stop! Ma'am!

She's locked the door!

Shit!

There she is!

Hey, stop!

Stop!

Don't move! Don't move.

Get up.

Open the door, now! Come here.

Get over there!

Come on, let's go.

Go, go, go!

Hurry up.

In, now! Now, move, move!

You too, in.

God damn it, get over here.

Don't move. Don't move.

Em, talk to me. Hey.

I found a company called Tri-King.

They make tanks and aquariums. I need you to track them down.

What do they have to do with whoever has Flynn?

I think they made the tank that held me.

I need to find out who ordered it and where it was sent.

Okay, Tri-King. I'm on it.

Okay.

We have to go.

Mom! No!

Mom!

Mom!

Maybe we should call it a night?

You saw Captain Spaceman over there?

I don't think we're gonna get anything out of him.

It's Crown. Yeah.

Yeah? We got results on the bodies.

Two are names you know:

Belson and Drummond, two of Harlow's first victims.

The others are in advanced decomp. Whitman says 15 years.

Wait, wait, wait. Where was Harlow back then?

That's the problem.

Conrad Harlow was in Zürich from 2000 to 2005,

at least according to his passport.

We need to see if he had any known associates back then.

Way ahead of you.

Ericson tracked down an old girlfriend of Harlow's from grad school.

She filed a sexual assault charge with campus police.

It mentions two attackers.

Any names?

The file was buried by the DA.