[intense music]
[music continues]
[glass shattering]
[Rihanna singing "SOS"]
♪ I can't take it see it don't feel right ♪
♪ SOS please
♪ Someone help me
♪ It's not healthy
♪ For me to feel this
♪ Y-O-U are making this hard
♪ You got me tossing and turning can't sleep at night ♪
♪ This time please someone come and rescue me ♪
♪ 'Cause you on my mind has got me losing it ♪
♪ I'm lost you got me looking for the rest of me ♪
♪ Love is testing me but still I'm losing it ♪
♪ This time.. ♪
What the hell is going on?
It's past curfew on a Wednesday night.
Andy, you're in trouble.
[crowd laughing]
That is very funny.
Andy, please, you guys all have to go to bed now, seriously.
[no audio]
One more song then lights out.
♪ SOS please
♪ Someone help me
♪ It's not healthy for me to feel this ♪
♪ Y-O-U are making this hard ♪ Y-O-U are
♪ You got me tossing and turning can't sleep at night ♪
♪ This time please someone come and rescue me ♪
♪ 'Cause you on my mind.. ♪
[indistinct police radio chatter]
[instrumental music]
Feels like we landed in a foreign country.
One of Philly's few high schools for the deaf.
'Founded in 1872.'
Shoved them out in the boondocks.
All that gesturing
seems like they're fighting all the time.
That kid talking about us?
Yeah, he's pointing at the donut on your chin.
This place gives me the creeps.
[indistinct police radio chatter]
Good morning, boss.
Lil, Nick.
What's up?
December 18th, '06.
Deaf student Andy Rierdan went missing from home.
School was closed for Christmas break?
Yeah. Initial theory was a runaway.
So what are we doing here?
Teacher was cleaning things out
found blood traces on the piano keys.
Lab just confirmed the ID.
Matches Andy's.
You saying Andy was killed here?
Could have had a nosebleed playing piano.
Deaf kid playing the piano, Nick?
Spot of blood ain't conclusive, boss.
James.
[intense music]
- Conclusive enough for you? - That ain't a nosebleed.
Looks like our runaway didn't stray far from home.
Killed in a place where no one can hear you scream.
[theme music]
[instrumental music]
I still can't believe this.
I mean, you haven't found--
We're searching the campus for Andy's body.
Many students stay on campus over the Christmas break?
Andy wasn't even staying here.
It doesn't make sense.
Yeah, but there were other students around?
You don't think another student--
We'll need the names of everyone who was on campus that week.
Of course.
Are the parents here?
Yeah, they're waiting in my office.
I understand they're both, uh..
Deaf.
It's okay to use that word.
I'm happy to interpret for you.
- If you need me. - Oh, yeah, we'll need you.
Now, how's it work?
Most of these kids' parents deaf, too?
No, Andy's are the exception.
They're both deaf and both deeply caring.
And the other parents?
Most of the hearing parents
of the students at our school don't even bother
to learn American sign language.
The school's a dump site for them.
You been working here long?
Twelve years.
That's a long time.
Every time I wanna quit I think
about the parents who already have.
They're talking about you again.
What's that pointing sign?
I keep seeing it around here.
It means murder.
'They're saying that you two are homicide detectives.'
The finger stands for a knife.
[Vivian] 'I have no idea who would wanna hurt our son.'
'We never thought Andy ran away.'
'The cops didn't believe us.'
'They thought that we were deaf and dumb.'
Sorry to hear that.
We'll do our best to find out what happened.
And Andy ever get into any trouble?
No, he was a popular kid who everyone liked.
Andy was a proud..
'He wants you to know Andy was a proud member'
'of the deaf community.'
He was as good as any hearing child.
Well, wow long was Andy enrolled here?
'He lost his hearing when he was seven'
'after he became sick with..'
'...spinal meningitis.'
'But he never complained.'
'He took to our world wonderfully.'
Our world?
Over the years, the deaf community has developed
their own separate culture.
[Vera] 'You'd think they wouldn't wanna be separate.'
Well, if you have your own language
you feel comfortable with your own.
Well, that's just moving hands.
ASL is a beautiful emotive language.
You should try learnin' it.
Uh, about Andy, you know how parents are.
'Was he really such a saint?'
A saint? No, no.
He was mischievous.
He was kind of wild, but he..
...he was a great kid at heart.
He was a straight A student.
They can read your lips, by the way.
Uh, sorry. Had to ask.
Any idea what Andy was doing back on campus?
Who had access to that room?
Well, that room hadn't been used in years--
Yeah, but someone must have had a key.
I did.
And a month before Andy disappeared
I gave the key to someone.
[Coldplay singing "Talk"]
Did you finish your college essay yet?
No, I'm at that school.
I started today, remember?
...and party less.
Yeah, kind of Dickens orphan depressing.
'Dickens was a writer, daddy.'
- Gotta go. - Mornin', Emma.
[chuckles]
Emma will be volunteering here for a month.
Have you been playing long?
I wouldn't call it playing.
I just know some basics from when I took lessons.
Well, the kids will love it.
'This is Andy and Carlos.'
Hi. It's nice to meet you.
This is such a nice place.
I took a class for two years for extra credit.
Well, I thought some could, you know
feel the vibration.
[slams piano]
Andy! What is wrong?
She wants to help!
- Andy! - You don't know me.
And you're the big shot at a school
where most of the kids graduate with a fifth-grade education.
- Emma! - You're not disabled.
You're pathetic.
Sorry. Maybe this isn't gonna work out.
♪ ...puzzle you can find.. ♪
This Emma, the only one with a key to the room?
Yes, I gave her the key, yeah.
Some fireworks, but it seems like Emma quit
long before Andy died.
No, she couldn't quit.
And why's that?
Well, she wasn't here out of the kindness of her heart.
It was a court-ordered community service.
- What did she do? - Uh, DUI.
Emma was a very complicated girl.
But she stayed and she actually became a great teacher.
- The kids liked her. - But not Andy.
No.
Did you know Emma?
'No. We never met.'
'Andy, he only really liked his own people.'
[instrumental music]
You and Andy didn't get along.
The security logs over the Christmas break
show you were at the school the day Andy disappeared.
You there to see him?
I went to grab my laptop, okay?
I didn't see Andy.
Things get worse between you two?
Better, actually.
Much as it hurt, he had me down cold.
Meaning you didn't give a rat's ass about those kids.
All I cared about was clearing my record
and getting accepted at an Ivy League school.
- And you succeeded? - On both counts.
I'm sure you checked.
So he was right about you.
And I was wrong about him.
I thought he was just a party boy.
Something change between you two?
Yeah.
Two days after we met, he came to me.
[John Mayer singing "Gravity"]
Not done criticizing me?
It's okay.
You were kinda funny, too.
And I was mean.
You know why I'm really here, right?
♪ Gravity
♪ Is working against me
[laughs]
♪ And gravity
I had a huge fight with my dad.
I was all sad and weirded out.
I thought that drinking a half bottle of vodka would help.
♪ Oh I'll never know
I only got a B-plus on an English paper.
♪ With all the love that his heart can stand ♪
♪ Dream of ways
My dad's a third generation steelworker.
He wants his daughter to do better.
A lot better.
♪ Is working against me
The quiet is so peaceful.
♪ And gravity
♪ Wants to bring me down
Help me understand.
♪ Oh twice as much
You hear with your eyes?
♪ And can't sustain
♪ Like one half could
♪ It's wanting more
♪ It's gonna send me to my knees ♪
[laughs]
You wanna know what my voice sounds like?
I don't know.
It sounds like..
...me.
[dramatic music]
This Leah was Andy's girlfriend?
That's what she thought, anyway.
- She ever threaten Andy again? - No.
But she'd always be around.
- It was kinda weird. - "Fatal Attraction" weird?
Andy told me sometimes he'd see her standing
out in the quad just staring up at his room for hours.
What about you and Andy?
You two hook up?
For like two seconds, but I broke it off.
Why?
We were too..
...different.
[instrumental music]
Everything okay, Lil?
Sure.
Why not?
Good.
'Dean Harden finally faxed over the list'
of kids on campus during Christmas break.
Leah O'Rafferty on it?
Yup. And take a look at her school records.
Huh.
Suspended last year for stalking her ex-boyfriend.
Threw a rock through his dorm window?
While he was asleep. Almost took out an eye.
A dangerous girl to break up with.
Yeah. Well, thanks.
Still no luck finding Andy's body near the campus.
We got the dogs out?
- The works. - I've got something for you.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
You're real popular this morning. It's a Jarrod Jones?
Everything alright?
Couldn't be better.
You don't wanna know.
Figure that might help us understand
who we're talking to a little better.
- Yeah. Learning any? - Yeah. Um..
- What does that mean? - You're buying lunch.
Really?
Well, how do you sign
You still owe me 50 bucks from poker?
Oh. Uh..
It's, uh..
I always thought that meant something else.
Leah, I heard you were jealous
when Andy started spending time with Emma.
I can hear you. I have a cochlear.
A cochlear?
A cochlear implant.
Show her, Leah.
It's an outpatient surgery that helps restore hearing.
- It's a cure? - Not exactly.
Works different for every candidate.
I can hear a twig snap now.
Leah, were you upset when he broke it off with you?
I wath.. I wath..
[Vivian] 'I was mad at first, but..'
...I could never stay mad at Andy.
Well, that's not what I heard.
Don't lie to me, Leah.
I'm not lying.
'I wasn't mad. I loved him.'
But he tossed you aside.
He used you.
And you followed him. Couldn't let it go.
'I wasn't the only one mad at Andy.'
[siren wailing]
[horn blaring]
[tires screeching]
[male #1] 'Hey, kid! Get outta the way!'
'Hard to hear?'
'Just came into the street, you know..'
'He was so interested in the hearing world'
I couldn't compete, so..
...I gave up.
'It hurt.'
Was Carlos still mad at Andy before he died?
'I think so.'
'I mean, they weren't hanging out much.'
Do you think Carlos might have hurt him?
'He does have a bad temper.'
And he's acted so strange.
He won't go near Andy's old room.
[instrumental music]
[Vera] 'Hi. Carlos.'
I'm Detective Vera.
This is Detective
J-E-F-F-E..
...R-I-E-S.
Uh, we want to talk with you.
"Your signing sucks.
'I read lips good."'
So you understand me?
You have two assault charges on your juvie record, Carlos.
And we know you and Andy got into a fight.
You were on campus the night he died.
[Jefferies] '"I never saw him."'
Yeah, right.
Did Leah say I got into a fight?
It doesn't matter who said it, Carlos.
"Leah's a freak with an implant."
Admit it, Carlos, you can't stand
the fact that your best friend wanted the hearing chick.
"Wrong about Emma."
[instrumental music]
[instrumental "Nocturne In C Minor"]
[music continues]
Why didn't you tell me you could play?
That was amazing.
Where?
Small concert halls?
Wow.
So you were a prodigy?
Do you still..
Well, Beethoven composed when he was deaf.
What are you playing?
What do you mean by visual?
[piano music]
[off key]
No, it's beautiful.
What chord do you hear when you see me, Andy?
Isn't there a way for you to hear again?
Have you thought about getting a cochlear, Andy?
[instrumental music]
- What the hell is going on? - Dad.
- Get away from her! - 'You're hurting me, daddy!'
Stay away from my daughter!
You people need to stay with your own!
And I ever see you near my daughter again
I'll break every finger you got.
'Let's get out of here.'
Her dad sounds like a real nice guy.
What was he doing there?
"Emma lost license. He drove her to school."
Did Emma keep seeing Andy?
Thank you for your time.
Car...los.
- "Your signing still sucks." - Whatever.
[chuckles]
It's beautiful how you're bonding with the students.
Deaf or not, that kid's still a punk.
Same thing Emma's dad thought about Andy.
Yeah. The question is, was he willing to kill over it?
[instrumental music]
Didn't like your daughter dating a freak did you, Al?
[Miller] 'But Andy wasn't the kind of guy who would back off.'
You saw it yourself.
So I killed a teenage boy to keep him away? Come on.
You did threaten him.
Look, I'm sorry this little crippled boy
got killed, but he had no business with my kid.
- Because he was deaf. - Hell, yeah.
Emma has a bright future.
If she stayed with that boy
she'd have been a nurse for life.
But she saw him again, Al.
Question is, did you?
I was inspecting a site halfway across the state that weekend.
- 'Got records to back that up?' - Sure do.
Good.
Anyway, I went to the dean to tell her
to keep that boy away from my daughter.
I'll bet you did.
Yeah, but she took his side.
Told me Emma wasn't welcome in the school.
Are you saying Vivian fired Emma?
Bawled her out, more like.
Said Emma had no right being with Andy.
Ask me, that dean..
She had a thing for him.
When was this?
I don't know. Two days before the Christmas break.
So Emma didn't just leave, you fired her.
Well, that that type of behavior was completely inappropriate.
Andy was a good-looking, charming young man.
Any of the teachers have a crush on him?
Anything...inappropriate?
Of course not.
He was a 17-year-old boy.
What about you?
That's absurd.
I don't like being lied to, Vivian.
I'm not.
The warrant on your computer turned up an interesting e-mail.
[Rush] '"Andy, we have to meet.'
I think your parents know. V."
Andy must have deleted his back in the day.
You saved yours.
Now, what were you saying about not having a crush on Andy?
I swear--
You and Andy had a little tryst.
Something go wrong?
This wasn't about me and Andy.
No?
It was about Emma and Andy.
He was making a big mistake.
He was trying to be a part of her world.
And I went to his parents to discuss it..
We all wanna understand what's going on.
♪ 'Cause all that's left is gone away ♪
♪ And there's nothing left
♪ For you to prove
♪ Oh look what you've done
♪ You've made a fool of everyone ♪
♪ Oh well it seems like such fun ♪
♪ Until you lose
♪ What you have won
♪ I can hardly hear you say
♪ What should I do
♪ Well you choose
♪ Oh look what you've done
♪ You've made a fool of everyone ♪
♪ Oh well it seems like such fun ♪
♪ Until you lose
♪ What you have won
♪ Oh look what you've done
♪ You've made a fool of everyone ♪
♪ A fool of everyone
♪ A fool of everyone.. ♪
Andy realized that trying to fit into her world
would be a mistake.
He knew he belonged with his own.
[instrumental music]
From your boy Jones again.
This whole you're-out-sick thing is getting kind of old.
Say I died, then.
You know, it's none of my business
but maybe you should let this guy meet his own daughter.
You're right.
It's none of your business.
I've been spending a lot of time with Toni's son.
'Kid's taking to me.'
Good for you.
It's never gonna be the same
as having his real father, though.
Not even close.
So you're a parent for five minutes
now you're schooling me how to do it?
- That's not what I'm doing. - You don't get it.
I start telling her about him, I got to tell her about me.
Who I was back then.
So who were you back then?
Someone I'm not now.
Someone who would spend one...reckless night
with a Jarrod Jones.
She finds out who I really was..
...it'll break her heart.
No way that's gonna happen.
[instrumental music]
[Valens] 'You were willing to defy your dad'
but Andy obeyed his.
Come on, Emma, you really just let it go?
I left school, put the piano back in storage
and didn't hear from him.
Then you were home sick with mono for a month.
I was heartbroken because Andy was gone.
Or you were feeling bad 'cause you killed the guy
'who broke your heart.'
I would never hurt him.
'Andy dumped you for the deaf world.'
'You admitted you..'
'...you drink when you get sad.'
Lot of booze.
You went back after having a few and..
...things got out of control, right?
[sighs]
Did you?
[sighs] But it wasn't what you think.
Why don't you enlighten me then?
'I didn't want to tell you before'
because even now, if his parents knew the truth..
...it would break their hearts.
[instrumental music]
Hey, you didn't text me back.
Yeah.
Last day of school.
How'd your tests go?
♪ And you try..
That's stupid and you know it.
You're not gonna get the implant?
♪ ...when she cries
You used to hear.
♪ You can't sleep..
It's not about anyone but you, and you know it.
♪ And there was rain at your door ♪
You're scared.
You're scared to hear yourself play, aren't you?
'Cause what if you're not good anymore?
Don't you want to hear the snow again?
Andy?
Don't you?
♪ ...love that you doubt
♪ And there was rain at your door ♪
Don't you wanna hear me?
♪ In the pain she cries more ♪
You gave him the storage room key.
Thinking he got the implant?
I don't know if he ever found the courage to.
If he did, sure would have pissed off dad.
[door opens]
We just found the body.
[sirens wailing]
[indistinct police radio chatter]
[Rush] Anything off the body?
[Jefferies] 'Yeah, literally.'
CSU found this near the skull.
[Valens] 'It's a cochlear implant?'
You got it.
Looks like our boy Andy found his courage.
Decided not to let his parents keep him down any longer.
Andy turns his back on his own people.
It's the ultimate act of betrayal.
[instrumental music]
[Valens] 'Traced the serial number of the cochlear'
to a clinic in Manhattan.
There's dad's signatures on the release form.
Well, it's got to be a forgery.
Had the outpatient surgery
for the implant December 18.
Day he went missing.
Goes back to school to hide from his parents.
Unless they found out.
Maybe dad was waiting for him.
You must have been upset when you found Andy got an implant.
He betrayed you.
[Vera] 'Did you track him down at school?'
We think this is a forgery.
"It has to be."
When did you find out, Ed?
Come on, Ed.
[Vera] 'I know this is hard.'
[instrumental music]
[sighs]
I signed it.
[instrumental music]
[music continues]
So you let him go.
[Miller] '"I had to let my child go.'
Even if it meant losing him."
So you knew he had an implant all along.
You thought he'd wait till after Christmas break to get it?
[instrumental music]
Thanks for your time.
Are you talking about Carlos
Andy's best friend?
What about Carlos?
[Vera] '"Carlos talked him into it?"'
Are you saying Carlos wanted Andy to get the implant?
That doesn't make sense.
[Miller] '"Carlos went with him"'
So Leah was a freak for getting an implant?
The same for Andy, right?
[Vivian] 'I told him he shouldn't do it.'
Really? That's not what I heard.
You went with him.
Yeah, I did some digging, Carlos.
You got tested, too, didn't you?
W-w-wait, there must be a mistake.
Carlos is a well-adjusted deaf young man.
'When will you people learn?'
People like Carlos don't need to do anything to fit in..
[grunts]
You wanna say something, Carlos?
"She doesn't know what it's like
to live in a world where you're a freak."
Carlos, no one thinks that.
So you wanted an implant, too.
[dramatic music]
But you weren't a good candidate because you were..
...born deaf.
'It must have hurt to know Andy'
was gonna leave you behind in the..
'for the hearing world.'
Did you see him at the school?
[dramatic music]
- What's he saying? - Please don't do this to him.
- Please. - No, come on, Carlos.
Andy was all you had.
You were afraid of-of being alone..
No more best buds.
Hey! Look at me.
'Look at me.'
I know you can read my lips, Carlos.
[Carlos sobbing]
You found him, didn't you?
'You saw him playing piano.'
Right? Saw him hearing.
How'd that make you feel?
'Where'd that leave you, Carlos?'
[instrumental music]
[no audio]
[instrumental "Nocturne In C Minor"]
[dramatic music]
[clock ticking]
Emma.
[The Fray singing "Look After You"]
♪ If I don't say this now
♪ I will surely break
♪ As I'm leaving the one I want to take ♪
♪ Forgive the urgency
♪ But hurry up and wait
♪ My heart has started to separate ♪
♪ Oh oh-oh oh oh-oh
♪ Be my baby
♪ Oh oh-oh oh
♪ Oh oh-oh oh oh-oh
♪ Be my baby
♪ I'll look after you
♪ There now steady love
♪ So few come and don't go
♪ Will you won't you
♪ Be the one I'll always know
♪ When I'm losing my control
♪ The city spins around
♪ You're the only one who knows ♪
♪ You slow it down
♪ Oh oh-oh oh oh-oh
♪ Be my baby
♪ Oh oh-oh oh
♪ Oh oh-oh oh oh-oh
♪ Be my baby
♪ I'll look after you
♪ And I'll look after you
♪ Oh oh-oh oh oh-oh
♪ Be my baby
♪ Oh oh-oh oh oh-oh ♪
[theme music]