1 00:00:01,523 --> 00:00:02,480 [Jesus Jones singing "Right Here Right Now"] 2 00:00:02,567 --> 00:00:04,134 ♪ Right here right now ♪ 3 00:00:04,221 --> 00:00:08,704 ♪ Watching the world wake up from history ♪ 4 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:15,798 ♪ I saw the decade ♪ 5 00:00:15,885 --> 00:00:18,409 ♪ It seemed the world could change ♪ 6 00:00:19,628 --> 00:00:21,499 Dad. 7 00:00:21,586 --> 00:00:22,805 It's too much. 8 00:00:22,892 --> 00:00:24,459 Well, it's yours, baby. 9 00:00:27,897 --> 00:00:29,246 They have public transportation 10 00:00:29,333 --> 00:00:30,639 in Philadelphia, you know. 11 00:00:30,726 --> 00:00:31,944 Now you won't have to use it. 12 00:00:32,032 --> 00:00:33,294 Dad, you've got to stop worrying about me. 13 00:00:33,381 --> 00:00:34,686 I'm gonna be fine. 14 00:00:34,773 --> 00:00:36,427 Your degree, your brains 15 00:00:36,514 --> 00:00:38,429 you could do anything you want. 16 00:00:38,516 --> 00:00:40,779 Law school, politics, Wall Street-- 17 00:00:40,866 --> 00:00:42,912 But, Dad.. 18 00:00:42,999 --> 00:00:44,609 ...this is what I want. 19 00:00:48,048 --> 00:00:50,311 [bell ringing] 20 00:00:50,398 --> 00:00:52,182 [indistinct chatter] 21 00:00:59,450 --> 00:01:01,148 Laura McKinney? 22 00:01:01,235 --> 00:01:02,671 I'm Margaret Trudlow. You're late. 23 00:01:02,758 --> 00:01:04,934 Sorry. Got a little lost. 24 00:01:05,021 --> 00:01:07,110 We had an unexpected change in faculty. 25 00:01:07,197 --> 00:01:09,982 One of our US History teachers, Mr. Hack, had an incident. 26 00:01:10,070 --> 00:01:11,114 "Incident"? 27 00:01:11,201 --> 00:01:12,333 Run-in with some seniors last year. 28 00:01:12,420 --> 00:01:13,595 Nothing for you to worry about 29 00:01:13,682 --> 00:01:15,075 but you'll cover his class this year. 30 00:01:15,162 --> 00:01:16,163 I-I'm supposed to teach English. 31 00:01:17,729 --> 00:01:19,862 I'm not familiar with US History. 32 00:01:19,949 --> 00:01:21,081 Neither are the students. 33 00:01:22,734 --> 00:01:25,476 No problem. Ready for the challenge. 34 00:01:25,563 --> 00:01:27,217 Now, that's the Ivy League spirit. 35 00:01:27,304 --> 00:01:28,262 This is yours. 36 00:01:32,092 --> 00:01:34,442 [hip-hop music playing] 37 00:01:36,792 --> 00:01:39,447 [indistinct chatter] 38 00:01:39,534 --> 00:01:41,710 My classroom's next door if you have any issues 39 00:01:41,797 --> 00:01:43,625 but I'm sure you won't. 40 00:01:43,712 --> 00:01:45,540 Any advice? 41 00:01:45,627 --> 00:01:46,976 Show no fear. 42 00:01:52,024 --> 00:01:54,853 [Laura] 'Hi, class.' 43 00:01:54,940 --> 00:01:57,378 My name is Miss McKinney. 44 00:01:57,465 --> 00:01:58,944 [Laura] 'Can you turn that down, please?' 45 00:01:59,031 --> 00:02:01,251 Excuse me. Settle down, guys. 46 00:02:01,338 --> 00:02:02,687 Can-can you please take your seat? 47 00:02:02,774 --> 00:02:04,211 Hey. 48 00:02:04,298 --> 00:02:08,128 Girls. Girls. Stop it. 49 00:02:08,215 --> 00:02:10,173 Stop it. Stop it, stop it. 50 00:02:27,538 --> 00:02:30,193 [instrumental music] 51 00:02:50,866 --> 00:02:52,955 [indistinct chatter] 52 00:02:55,523 --> 00:02:56,872 Someone helping you? 53 00:02:56,959 --> 00:02:59,483 They told me to wait for one of those detectives. 54 00:02:59,570 --> 00:03:00,658 One sec. 55 00:03:03,183 --> 00:03:05,141 [snoring] 56 00:03:11,843 --> 00:03:13,889 Uh.. 57 00:03:13,976 --> 00:03:15,456 ...they look pretty busy. 58 00:03:15,543 --> 00:03:16,544 Why don't you talk to me? 59 00:03:16,631 --> 00:03:18,241 Darnell Brent. 60 00:03:18,328 --> 00:03:20,156 I'm Detective Rush. 61 00:03:20,243 --> 00:03:22,985 Think I have evidence on Laura McKinney's murder. 62 00:03:23,072 --> 00:03:24,334 She was my teacher at Reeves High 63 00:03:24,421 --> 00:03:27,207 got shot outside the school in 1991. 64 00:03:29,426 --> 00:03:31,950 They said it was a carjacking gone wrong. 65 00:03:32,037 --> 00:03:33,430 You know different? 66 00:03:33,517 --> 00:03:34,736 Just got my teaching credential. 67 00:03:34,823 --> 00:03:36,433 Started at Reeves last week. 68 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,130 Coincidence? 69 00:03:38,218 --> 00:03:39,784 She's the reason I'm doing it. 70 00:03:39,871 --> 00:03:41,090 Always challenged us to make a difference. 71 00:03:41,177 --> 00:03:42,874 Figured it was about time I tried. 72 00:03:42,961 --> 00:03:44,615 Well, what'd you find, Darnell? 73 00:03:44,702 --> 00:03:46,835 So I'm there this weekend, getting my classroom ready. 74 00:03:46,922 --> 00:03:49,098 Found this old, sturdy desk in storage 75 00:03:49,185 --> 00:03:50,752 they used to have when I was a student. 76 00:03:50,839 --> 00:03:54,538 I was going through the drawers, and I find these. 77 00:03:54,625 --> 00:03:57,411 They're her keys, including her car keys. 78 00:03:57,498 --> 00:03:59,239 Miss McKinney wouldn't have left the classroom without them 79 00:03:59,326 --> 00:04:00,631 never mind the building. 80 00:04:00,718 --> 00:04:02,416 Ah, people forget their keys all the time. 81 00:04:02,503 --> 00:04:04,200 I've worked at the school two days. 82 00:04:04,287 --> 00:04:06,289 First thing you learn don't go anywhere without your keys. 83 00:04:06,376 --> 00:04:07,986 - The school's locked down? - Especially at night. 84 00:04:08,073 --> 00:04:09,727 Can't get from one door to the other without them. 85 00:04:09,814 --> 00:04:11,599 Miss McKinney would've known that. 86 00:04:11,686 --> 00:04:13,253 She wasn't going to her car. 87 00:04:13,340 --> 00:04:15,994 So if she wasn't headed to her car, where was she going? 88 00:04:16,081 --> 00:04:17,257 I don't know. 89 00:04:18,736 --> 00:04:20,521 I've got to say, Darnell.. 90 00:04:20,608 --> 00:04:21,565 ...not a lot to go on. 91 00:04:21,652 --> 00:04:24,089 Look, uh, I know you're busy. 92 00:04:24,176 --> 00:04:26,222 But I can't let this sit. 93 00:04:26,309 --> 00:04:27,919 After everything Miss McKinney did for me.. 94 00:04:31,619 --> 00:04:33,360 Sounds like she was a special teacher. 95 00:04:33,447 --> 00:04:36,276 Yeah...the best. 96 00:04:37,973 --> 00:04:39,496 I owe her. 97 00:04:42,717 --> 00:04:45,589 [theme music] 98 00:05:13,138 --> 00:05:14,096 [instrumental music] 99 00:05:14,183 --> 00:05:16,185 It was Valens, right? 100 00:05:16,272 --> 00:05:19,101 He still hot over that pudding pop thing last month? 101 00:05:19,188 --> 00:05:20,711 I'm no snitch. 102 00:05:20,798 --> 00:05:22,887 You're either with me or you're against me. 103 00:05:24,454 --> 00:05:26,630 Consider me warned. 104 00:05:31,505 --> 00:05:33,071 Laura McKinney 105 00:05:33,158 --> 00:05:35,770 22, just out of college. 106 00:05:35,857 --> 00:05:37,424 Killed in front of the school, 10:00 at night. 107 00:05:37,511 --> 00:05:39,556 Last to see was Margaret Trudlow 108 00:05:39,643 --> 00:05:41,253 another teacher, hours earlier. 109 00:05:41,341 --> 00:05:43,604 - She was in Teach for America. - A cousin of mine did that. 110 00:05:43,691 --> 00:05:45,257 It's like the Peace Corps. 111 00:05:45,345 --> 00:05:47,521 Grads spend a couple of years in the worst public schools. 112 00:05:47,608 --> 00:05:50,132 - Uh, it takes guts doing that. - Or a loose screw. 113 00:05:50,219 --> 00:05:52,395 Well, sometimes those are the best teachers. 114 00:05:52,482 --> 00:05:55,137 Always that one you remember, right? 115 00:05:56,704 --> 00:05:59,010 Shot once in the back with a 0.22. 116 00:05:59,097 --> 00:06:00,838 Doer left the shell casing. 117 00:06:00,925 --> 00:06:02,536 Not to mention the car. 118 00:06:02,623 --> 00:06:06,278 She's found just steps from her vehicle, but no keys. 119 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:08,280 - Witnesses? - We got a Mrs. Harris. 120 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:10,021 Lived across from the school. 121 00:06:10,108 --> 00:06:11,980 Sees a black man fleeing the scene. 122 00:06:14,417 --> 00:06:16,680 Reeves High School security guard was closer. 123 00:06:16,767 --> 00:06:18,378 Carlton Rawls eyeballs the doer 124 00:06:18,465 --> 00:06:20,336 standing over Laura's body and chases him off. 125 00:06:20,423 --> 00:06:22,164 Our hero, almost. 126 00:06:22,251 --> 00:06:24,122 But neither witness saw the doer pull the trigger. 127 00:06:24,209 --> 00:06:25,950 Let alone the gun. 128 00:06:35,656 --> 00:06:36,874 [Stillman] 'Victim's father coming in?' 129 00:06:36,961 --> 00:06:38,702 Yeah, taking the train from New York. 130 00:06:38,789 --> 00:06:40,835 He still blames himself for getting her the car. 131 00:06:40,922 --> 00:06:42,445 If I'd had a kid go teach at that school 132 00:06:42,532 --> 00:06:44,012 I'd give him a 0.38. 133 00:06:44,099 --> 00:06:46,580 Hmm, '91 was a record year for homicides. 134 00:06:46,667 --> 00:06:48,495 Five hundred and one. 135 00:06:48,582 --> 00:06:50,453 Original detectives were overworked. 136 00:06:50,540 --> 00:06:53,021 Witness testimony, placement of the body 137 00:06:53,108 --> 00:06:54,414 they focused on the robbery angle. 138 00:06:54,501 --> 00:06:55,893 Leaving out the personal. 139 00:06:55,980 --> 00:06:57,373 Maybe connected to the school. 140 00:06:57,460 --> 00:06:58,766 [Jeffries] 'Great, thank you.' 141 00:06:58,853 --> 00:07:01,159 Second eyewitness, old Mrs. Harris. 142 00:07:01,246 --> 00:07:03,814 Says she'd love to meet, talk about what she saw. 143 00:07:03,901 --> 00:07:06,164 Only not today, her dog's getting groomed. 144 00:07:06,251 --> 00:07:07,644 And tomorrow's book club. 145 00:07:07,731 --> 00:07:09,951 - Ah, playing hard to get. - 'Yeah.' 146 00:07:10,038 --> 00:07:11,387 Lives in Camden. 147 00:07:11,474 --> 00:07:13,476 Figured I'd swing by, pay her a visit. 148 00:07:13,563 --> 00:07:15,696 Anybody up for a drive? 149 00:07:17,175 --> 00:07:20,048 Taking that as a "no." 150 00:07:20,135 --> 00:07:22,920 Heading down to Ballistics about the murder weapon. 151 00:07:23,007 --> 00:07:24,879 IBIS database didn't exist in '91. 152 00:07:24,966 --> 00:07:25,967 'Could be useful now.' 153 00:07:26,054 --> 00:07:28,056 Gun's out there 17 years, Nick. 154 00:07:28,143 --> 00:07:30,754 Any luck, it was used in another crime. 155 00:07:30,841 --> 00:07:31,886 "Luck"? 156 00:07:31,973 --> 00:07:33,975 You know what I mean. 157 00:07:34,062 --> 00:07:35,193 Nick. 158 00:07:37,239 --> 00:07:39,546 They got ties, three for ten bucks on the corner over there. 159 00:07:39,633 --> 00:07:41,591 You might want to take a look. 160 00:07:54,648 --> 00:07:56,214 I wouldn't let her take the subway. 161 00:07:56,301 --> 00:07:57,738 "It's too dangerous," I said. 162 00:07:57,825 --> 00:07:59,522 Well, we're looking at the possibility 163 00:07:59,609 --> 00:08:01,437 this wasn't about Laura's car. 164 00:08:01,524 --> 00:08:03,613 She ever mention any personal problems? 165 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:07,704 I talked to her on the phone at least twice a week. 166 00:08:07,791 --> 00:08:10,228 Far as I could tell, her life was work and home. 167 00:08:10,315 --> 00:08:12,927 - No guys in the picture? - No, not that I knew of. 168 00:08:13,014 --> 00:08:14,842 I mean that job completely consumed her. 169 00:08:14,929 --> 00:08:17,540 - She stay late, after school? - All the time. 170 00:08:17,627 --> 00:08:19,673 - She believed in the program. - You didn't? 171 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,805 Well, they sent her out full of big ideas. 172 00:08:21,892 --> 00:08:23,372 'How she'd make her mark.' 173 00:08:23,459 --> 00:08:25,722 Didn't tell her that no one else was on board. 174 00:08:25,809 --> 00:08:27,681 [The Sundays' singing "Here's Where the Story Ends"] 175 00:08:28,856 --> 00:08:30,945 This place is a disaster area. 176 00:08:31,032 --> 00:08:33,556 Dad. 177 00:08:33,643 --> 00:08:35,253 We've got reservations in half an hour. 178 00:08:35,340 --> 00:08:37,995 Did you forget? 179 00:08:39,475 --> 00:08:41,825 I know it's bad here. 180 00:08:41,912 --> 00:08:43,697 I'm going to paint my classroom next. 181 00:08:43,784 --> 00:08:45,046 Plant some flowers in the spring. 182 00:08:45,133 --> 00:08:46,830 Give it a sense of hope. 183 00:08:50,921 --> 00:08:52,096 You okay, baby? 184 00:08:52,183 --> 00:08:54,272 ♪ People I see ♪ 185 00:08:54,359 --> 00:08:56,753 ♪ Weary of me ♪ 186 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,887 These kids, they can barely read 187 00:08:59,974 --> 00:09:01,758 let alone write. 188 00:09:01,845 --> 00:09:04,500 I can't control them. 189 00:09:04,587 --> 00:09:05,545 They won't even listen to me. 190 00:09:07,938 --> 00:09:10,071 - You're doing your best. - Look at me. 191 00:09:10,158 --> 00:09:11,899 No matter how much extra effort I put in 192 00:09:11,986 --> 00:09:13,204 I still can't get through. 193 00:09:15,859 --> 00:09:17,382 Hey, listen 194 00:09:17,469 --> 00:09:20,342 when I started out, working legal aid in Newark 195 00:09:20,429 --> 00:09:21,865 I stunk at my job. 196 00:09:21,952 --> 00:09:24,215 I couldn't win a case. 197 00:09:24,302 --> 00:09:26,653 One day an older lawyer pulled me aside. 198 00:09:26,740 --> 00:09:28,568 Told me, "Forget about the facts. 199 00:09:28,655 --> 00:09:31,875 Just tell the jury a story." 200 00:09:31,962 --> 00:09:33,485 "A story." 201 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:35,575 Isn't that what history's all about? 202 00:09:38,142 --> 00:09:40,318 Come on, look. Don't kill yourself. 203 00:09:40,405 --> 00:09:42,712 A job shouldn't do this to you. 204 00:09:45,019 --> 00:09:46,586 This is more than a job to me, Dad. 205 00:09:48,370 --> 00:09:50,720 I made a commitment. 206 00:09:50,807 --> 00:09:52,156 I'm gonna see it through. 207 00:09:52,243 --> 00:09:54,332 ♪ It's the memories of your shed ♪ 208 00:09:54,419 --> 00:09:56,421 ♪ That make me turn red ♪ 209 00:09:56,508 --> 00:09:58,075 That was Laura. 210 00:09:58,162 --> 00:09:59,207 Determined to make a difference. 211 00:10:00,687 --> 00:10:02,732 I don't know if she even got the chance. 212 00:10:02,819 --> 00:10:04,865 I think she did, Mr. McKinney. 213 00:10:04,952 --> 00:10:07,824 It was one of her students who brought these in. 214 00:10:07,911 --> 00:10:09,783 Remembered her all this time. 215 00:10:12,307 --> 00:10:15,179 The teachers she worked with.. 216 00:10:15,266 --> 00:10:16,964 ...she ever mention any of them? 217 00:10:17,051 --> 00:10:20,358 I-I don't think they-they went out of their way to welcome her. 218 00:10:20,445 --> 00:10:22,230 Why's that? 219 00:10:22,317 --> 00:10:24,624 Laura did the same job for less money. 220 00:10:24,711 --> 00:10:27,104 Guess they perceived the program as a threat. 221 00:10:27,191 --> 00:10:30,325 Any teachers give Laura a particularly hard time? 222 00:10:30,412 --> 00:10:33,371 A woman with a class next door, Margaret. 223 00:10:33,458 --> 00:10:34,895 Supposed to be her mentor. 224 00:10:34,982 --> 00:10:36,331 Sounded more like a menace. 225 00:10:41,945 --> 00:10:43,468 How you doing, Carla? 226 00:10:43,555 --> 00:10:47,298 I got a cold one needs running through IBIS ASAP. 227 00:10:47,385 --> 00:10:49,344 - Two weeks. - It's kind of important. 228 00:10:49,431 --> 00:10:50,954 - Aren't they all? - Yeah, I hear you. 229 00:10:51,041 --> 00:10:52,260 [chuckling] 230 00:10:52,347 --> 00:10:54,131 I'm talking special circumstances. 231 00:10:54,218 --> 00:10:56,438 The victim was a teacher, you know what I mean? 232 00:10:56,525 --> 00:10:58,570 Remember your favorite teacher? Imagine if she got killed. 233 00:10:58,658 --> 00:11:01,617 I hated my teachers. 234 00:11:01,704 --> 00:11:03,010 Look, we need to expedite this. 235 00:11:03,097 --> 00:11:05,795 Any other forms to fill out? 236 00:11:05,882 --> 00:11:08,755 No other forms, no exceptions. Fresh jobs get priority. 237 00:11:08,842 --> 00:11:10,234 Take a number. Come back in two weeks. 238 00:11:10,321 --> 00:11:12,672 Okay? Okay. 239 00:11:26,686 --> 00:11:28,905 Only thing I remember from that night 240 00:11:28,992 --> 00:11:31,125 is I left at 5:00 p.m. sharp 241 00:11:31,212 --> 00:11:35,085 and Laura was still in her classroom as usual. 242 00:11:35,172 --> 00:11:36,304 Here's your list of students. 243 00:11:36,391 --> 00:11:38,872 I highlighted the troubled ones. 244 00:11:38,959 --> 00:11:39,960 A lot of names. 245 00:11:40,047 --> 00:11:41,744 Only the best and brightest. 246 00:11:41,831 --> 00:11:43,528 Perk of the public school system. 247 00:11:43,615 --> 00:11:46,488 Well, uh, how'd you get along with Laura? 248 00:11:46,575 --> 00:11:49,012 Miss McKinney was nice enough. 249 00:11:49,099 --> 00:11:50,361 Here every night till 10:00 250 00:11:50,448 --> 00:11:52,712 grading papers, doing lesson plans. 251 00:11:52,799 --> 00:11:54,801 - That's a good teacher. - I didn't say that. 252 00:11:57,673 --> 00:12:01,198 Try sitting up straight. 253 00:12:01,285 --> 00:12:03,853 Oh, way we heard it, you had it in for Laura from day one. 254 00:12:03,940 --> 00:12:06,247 How would you like it if some kid straight out of school 255 00:12:06,334 --> 00:12:07,727 came in to the police department 256 00:12:07,814 --> 00:12:09,424 thinking they had all the answers? 257 00:12:09,511 --> 00:12:11,513 She thought this was some kind of mission. 258 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:12,993 But she didn't have the training. 259 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,082 - Or the requisite skills.. - Such as? 260 00:12:15,169 --> 00:12:16,910 She couldn't even control her classroom. 261 00:12:16,997 --> 00:12:19,216 It's sink or swim, and Laura was drowning. 262 00:12:19,303 --> 00:12:20,696 [ Pixies singing "Where Is My Mind"] 263 00:12:20,783 --> 00:12:22,698 Sounded like World War III. 264 00:12:22,785 --> 00:12:25,048 I come in, everybody's up out of their seats 265 00:12:25,135 --> 00:12:26,702 and she's just standing there, helpless. 266 00:12:26,789 --> 00:12:29,183 Oh, come on, Margaret. She's not that bad. 267 00:12:29,270 --> 00:12:31,707 She won't make it till Christmas. 268 00:12:31,794 --> 00:12:35,450 [sighing] 269 00:12:35,537 --> 00:12:38,409 I was hoping to talk to you about these textbooks. 270 00:12:38,496 --> 00:12:41,021 - What about them? - There aren't enough of them. 271 00:12:41,108 --> 00:12:42,587 I went to the principal, he said I couldn't 272 00:12:42,674 --> 00:12:45,242 order new materials until Christmas break. 273 00:12:45,329 --> 00:12:48,028 [laughing] 274 00:12:52,293 --> 00:12:53,598 What's the joke? 275 00:12:54,643 --> 00:12:56,993 If you last that long 276 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,343 you can ask Santa for the extra books. 277 00:12:59,430 --> 00:13:00,867 [laughing] 278 00:13:00,954 --> 00:13:03,565 ♪ I was swimming in the Caribbean ♪ 279 00:13:07,003 --> 00:13:11,094 ♪ Animals were hiding behind the rocks ♪ 280 00:13:11,181 --> 00:13:13,444 Teaching's about more than a winning smile. 281 00:13:13,531 --> 00:13:14,924 She wasn't cut out for it. 282 00:13:15,011 --> 00:13:16,273 A guy who stuck up for Laura. 283 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,145 - He liked her? - Kenny Yates. 284 00:13:18,232 --> 00:13:19,886 He didn't have to share a wall with her. 285 00:13:19,973 --> 00:13:22,758 - He still teach here? - Left for greener pastures. 286 00:13:22,845 --> 00:13:26,414 Parochial school. Less money, more respect. 287 00:13:26,501 --> 00:13:29,373 This is a dangerous place, huh? Pepper spray? 288 00:13:29,460 --> 00:13:30,592 Need some kind of protection 289 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:32,333 if you're gonna last as long as I have. 290 00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:35,118 Laura didn't have her keys the night she was killed. 291 00:13:35,205 --> 00:13:36,903 - Figures. - What happens? 292 00:13:36,990 --> 00:13:40,602 Situation like that, late at night, no one else around. 293 00:13:40,689 --> 00:13:42,343 You go to the security guard. 294 00:13:42,430 --> 00:13:44,301 Always on post at the front entrance. 295 00:13:44,388 --> 00:13:48,305 Yeah, back in '91, it's a Carlton Rawls? 296 00:13:48,392 --> 00:13:50,438 He was our last line of defense. 297 00:13:54,355 --> 00:13:56,357 [Rush] 'Now, thanks for meeting us, Carlton.' 298 00:13:56,444 --> 00:13:58,228 No sweat. 299 00:13:58,315 --> 00:14:00,622 Working security across town. 300 00:14:00,709 --> 00:14:01,884 They're cool with me being here 301 00:14:01,971 --> 00:14:04,104 being first responder and all. 302 00:14:04,191 --> 00:14:05,845 Walk us through what you remember. 303 00:14:05,932 --> 00:14:08,717 I was at my post, just inside here. 304 00:14:08,804 --> 00:14:12,286 Shot rang out, I'm through the door. 305 00:14:18,683 --> 00:14:19,902 She was right here on the street. 306 00:14:19,989 --> 00:14:21,686 Number one male standing over her. 307 00:14:21,773 --> 00:14:23,427 'He figured he was taking her car.' 308 00:14:23,514 --> 00:14:25,342 He thought different when he saw me rushing him. 309 00:14:25,429 --> 00:14:27,692 He busted ass the other way. 310 00:14:27,779 --> 00:14:29,651 A compelling story, Carlton. 311 00:14:31,305 --> 00:14:33,481 What? That's what happened. 312 00:14:33,568 --> 00:14:35,352 See, Carlton, we got the other witness 313 00:14:35,439 --> 00:14:39,052 saw the suspect running past her apartment window that way. 314 00:14:39,139 --> 00:14:40,836 That means the suspect would've been running 315 00:14:40,923 --> 00:14:43,534 towards you, not away. Right? 316 00:14:43,621 --> 00:14:47,234 You weren't at your post. Where were you? 317 00:14:47,321 --> 00:14:49,279 - I'm telling you, I-- - No, see, you're lying. 318 00:14:49,366 --> 00:14:50,977 You keep it up, we're gonna start thinking bad things. 319 00:14:55,285 --> 00:14:57,374 I was in the parking lot. 320 00:14:57,461 --> 00:14:59,768 - My car. - Sleeping one off? 321 00:14:59,855 --> 00:15:01,901 I smell the whiskey on your breath. 322 00:15:01,988 --> 00:15:03,598 You see the gun, Carlton? 323 00:15:03,685 --> 00:15:04,947 Suspect's face? 324 00:15:05,034 --> 00:15:06,470 Hey, you see anything? 325 00:15:06,557 --> 00:15:08,908 Guy running away down the block. 326 00:15:08,995 --> 00:15:11,693 Look, I had my eye out, even from the car. 327 00:15:11,780 --> 00:15:13,651 Every door in the school was padlocked 328 00:15:13,738 --> 00:15:15,175 from the inside except for two. 329 00:15:15,262 --> 00:15:16,959 Which ones? 330 00:15:17,046 --> 00:15:18,830 The one to the parking lot, which is where I was 331 00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:21,703 and where Laura should've come if she was going to her car. 332 00:15:21,790 --> 00:15:23,487 [Rush] 'She didn't have her keys, Carlton.' 333 00:15:23,574 --> 00:15:25,794 Say she wasn't going to her car. 334 00:15:28,275 --> 00:15:31,365 She still would've come out through the parking lot. 335 00:15:31,452 --> 00:15:33,410 - And I'd have been there. - Why? 336 00:15:33,497 --> 00:15:34,846 What's this other door? 337 00:15:34,934 --> 00:15:37,414 Back alley where the garbage goes. 338 00:15:37,501 --> 00:15:40,330 Told her time and time again not to use this door. 339 00:15:40,417 --> 00:15:41,897 Locks automatically when you go out. 340 00:15:41,984 --> 00:15:45,074 Figure she was in trouble inside. 341 00:15:45,161 --> 00:15:47,207 You weren't at your post. 342 00:15:47,294 --> 00:15:49,861 Probably she was looking for you. 343 00:15:49,949 --> 00:15:51,863 Don't know why she didn't listen. 344 00:15:51,951 --> 00:15:53,953 Knew it was bad out here. 345 00:15:56,564 --> 00:15:59,045 Maybe something inside was worse. 346 00:16:07,531 --> 00:16:10,230 Oh, understand you looked out for Laura. 347 00:16:10,317 --> 00:16:12,493 She was a kid out of her element. 348 00:16:12,580 --> 00:16:14,538 Came to me for advice. 349 00:16:14,625 --> 00:16:17,019 You two close? 350 00:16:17,106 --> 00:16:19,587 Work buddies. 351 00:16:19,674 --> 00:16:21,545 Sorry. Nasty habit. 352 00:16:21,632 --> 00:16:23,156 Can't think straight without it. 353 00:16:23,243 --> 00:16:24,331 Quit recent? 354 00:16:24,418 --> 00:16:26,768 Yeah, five years ago. 355 00:16:26,855 --> 00:16:29,292 Off again, on again kind of thing. 356 00:16:29,379 --> 00:16:30,815 You know, Margaret Trudlow said 357 00:16:30,902 --> 00:16:34,776 that Laura was having difficulty with her students. 358 00:16:34,863 --> 00:16:37,561 Left her to fend for herself. Laura did the best she could. 359 00:16:37,648 --> 00:16:39,520 How'd the students feel about Laura's best? 360 00:16:39,607 --> 00:16:42,740 This school was a glorified detention facility. 361 00:16:42,827 --> 00:16:44,525 It was endearing how naive 362 00:16:44,612 --> 00:16:47,615 she was about the kids' potential. 363 00:16:47,702 --> 00:16:49,095 Textbook's outdated. 364 00:16:49,182 --> 00:16:50,574 We don't have enough of them. 365 00:16:50,661 --> 00:16:52,794 The copies that we do have are falling apart. 366 00:16:52,881 --> 00:16:54,100 No wonder the kids don't care. 367 00:16:54,187 --> 00:16:56,145 Welcome to Reeves. 368 00:16:56,232 --> 00:16:59,061 Look, at least now you have control of your students. 369 00:16:59,148 --> 00:17:02,064 Getting them to sit down and be quiet isn't teaching. 370 00:17:02,151 --> 00:17:04,240 You've taught here ten years. How do you do it? 371 00:17:04,327 --> 00:17:07,243 Simple. Concentrate on the students who do care 372 00:17:07,330 --> 00:17:08,462 if you could find one. 373 00:17:08,549 --> 00:17:11,247 Just forget the rest. 374 00:17:11,334 --> 00:17:12,770 Forget them? 375 00:17:12,857 --> 00:17:15,034 -[N.W. - A singing "Quiet On That Set"] 376 00:17:15,121 --> 00:17:16,209 ♪ Why I'm invincible ♪ 377 00:17:16,296 --> 00:17:18,907 ♪ But when you hear my rhyme ♪ 378 00:17:18,994 --> 00:17:20,213 What? 379 00:17:21,910 --> 00:17:24,347 ♪ The ground that makes you all ♪ 380 00:17:24,434 --> 00:17:25,392 Oh, what are you doing? 381 00:17:25,479 --> 00:17:27,437 [bell ringing] 382 00:17:31,441 --> 00:17:32,573 Take your seats. 383 00:17:32,660 --> 00:17:36,098 Textbooks out. 384 00:17:36,185 --> 00:17:40,363 Now toss them on the floor. 385 00:17:40,450 --> 00:17:41,930 Come on, We don't have all day. 386 00:17:42,974 --> 00:17:45,586 [indistinct] 387 00:17:48,241 --> 00:17:50,373 Great. Darnell, will you pass these out for me? 388 00:17:50,460 --> 00:17:52,506 One to each student. 389 00:17:52,593 --> 00:17:56,249 History is not just something from the past. 390 00:17:56,336 --> 00:17:59,469 It's a story, happening every day. 391 00:17:59,556 --> 00:18:02,037 Each of you will pick a story out of the paper. 392 00:18:02,124 --> 00:18:04,866 We'll read it and discuss what it means to us 393 00:18:04,953 --> 00:18:06,085 and to the rest of the world. 394 00:18:07,608 --> 00:18:09,349 Do we get to keep these? 395 00:18:09,436 --> 00:18:11,960 Yes. 396 00:18:12,047 --> 00:18:14,354 ♪ Write my lyric with this hyped information ♪ 397 00:18:14,441 --> 00:18:17,270 [paper crackling] 398 00:18:17,357 --> 00:18:18,967 What's the problem? 399 00:18:20,838 --> 00:18:23,406 Bitch thinks she can buy us for 35 cents. 400 00:18:23,493 --> 00:18:25,408 [laughing] 401 00:18:29,499 --> 00:18:32,546 Out, Renaldo. 402 00:18:32,633 --> 00:18:34,069 Now. 403 00:18:34,156 --> 00:18:37,333 [students giggling] 404 00:18:37,420 --> 00:18:39,814 ♪ Lights camera action ♪ 405 00:18:39,901 --> 00:18:41,163 ♪ N.W.A. take three ♪ 406 00:18:41,250 --> 00:18:43,513 ♪ I can be loud as hell think I will? ♪ 407 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:44,949 ♪ Never shh quiet on the set ♪ 408 00:18:45,036 --> 00:18:46,255 ♪ Yeah I like that better ♪ 409 00:18:46,342 --> 00:18:50,912 ♪ As what I can do.. ♪ 410 00:18:50,999 --> 00:18:53,132 No matter how hard you try 411 00:18:53,219 --> 00:18:54,698 there's gonna be the bad apples. 412 00:18:54,785 --> 00:18:55,917 Got any names? 413 00:18:56,004 --> 00:18:57,875 Too many to remember. 414 00:18:57,962 --> 00:18:59,181 Reason I got out. 415 00:18:59,268 --> 00:19:00,356 Bad for the health. 416 00:19:00,443 --> 00:19:03,533 Nothing changes if nothing changes. 417 00:19:03,620 --> 00:19:05,056 [beeping] 418 00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:07,972 Been chasing our witness Mrs. Harris all over Camden. 419 00:19:08,059 --> 00:19:10,018 Neighbor says she plays bingo, but won't say where 420 00:19:10,105 --> 00:19:13,413 without a faxed request on police letterhead. 421 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:18,331 Damn. 422 00:19:18,418 --> 00:19:19,810 When you do get her, have her look through 423 00:19:19,897 --> 00:19:21,290 old Reeves High yearbooks. 424 00:19:21,377 --> 00:19:23,292 - You got a suspect? - Yeah, finally. 425 00:19:23,379 --> 00:19:25,903 Kid in Laura's class named Renaldo Ramos. 426 00:19:25,990 --> 00:19:27,601 Got expelled a few weeks after her murder 427 00:19:27,688 --> 00:19:29,080 for stealing from the teachers' lounge. 428 00:19:29,168 --> 00:19:30,256 Rap sheet's an inch thick. 429 00:19:30,343 --> 00:19:32,258 - You locate him? - Not yet. 430 00:19:32,345 --> 00:19:35,652 Brought in the mother to fill in the blanks. 431 00:19:35,739 --> 00:19:37,263 Of Course it'd help if we had some information 432 00:19:37,350 --> 00:19:39,656 on the murder weapon. 433 00:19:39,743 --> 00:19:42,311 Not my fault. Lab rat Carla's gumming up the works. 434 00:19:42,398 --> 00:19:44,270 Thinking maybe the boss can call in. 435 00:19:44,357 --> 00:19:46,185 Chain of command's fine for other cops 436 00:19:46,272 --> 00:19:48,187 but civilians don't respect rank. 437 00:19:48,274 --> 00:19:49,492 You got a better idea? 438 00:19:49,579 --> 00:19:52,452 Two words. "Baked goods". 439 00:19:52,539 --> 00:19:55,324 I'm sayin' Renaldo ain't been around. 440 00:19:55,411 --> 00:19:57,413 You told me. No address, no phone. 441 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,198 He's a grown man. He don't share nothin' with me. 442 00:19:59,285 --> 00:20:00,721 Yeah, well, we got some questions for him. 443 00:20:00,808 --> 00:20:02,723 About that teacher, this one already told me. 444 00:20:02,810 --> 00:20:04,028 Uh, school says you filed 445 00:20:04,115 --> 00:20:06,117 a discrimination complaint against her. 446 00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:08,642 Woman had it out for my boy. 447 00:20:08,729 --> 00:20:11,079 Keepin' him after school for detention. 448 00:20:11,166 --> 00:20:13,647 Had the nerve to bring me in, tell me Renaldo's got problems. 449 00:20:13,734 --> 00:20:15,126 Like with attitude? 450 00:20:17,781 --> 00:20:20,088 Some kind of learning disability. 451 00:20:20,175 --> 00:20:22,612 Wanted him to take all this testing. 452 00:20:22,699 --> 00:20:23,961 Where's the discrimination? 453 00:20:24,048 --> 00:20:25,615 Ten years in the school system 454 00:20:25,702 --> 00:20:27,530 no one ever say boo about my kid. 455 00:20:27,617 --> 00:20:29,880 All of a sudden, there's disabilities. 456 00:20:29,967 --> 00:20:31,273 'Cause Laura was trying to help. 457 00:20:33,536 --> 00:20:35,146 Look, I'm not heartless, you know. 458 00:20:35,234 --> 00:20:37,453 Woman didn't deserve to die. 459 00:20:37,540 --> 00:20:39,977 Just should've minded her own business. 460 00:20:40,064 --> 00:20:42,284 Mind lettin' Renaldo know we'd like to talk to him? 461 00:20:42,371 --> 00:20:43,894 I told you he ain't been around. 462 00:20:43,981 --> 00:20:46,941 Several times...just in case. 463 00:20:55,558 --> 00:20:59,475 You buyin' this? Renaldo not being around? 464 00:20:59,562 --> 00:21:01,172 Me neither. 465 00:21:04,175 --> 00:21:07,178 Fresh scones. Assorted flavors. 466 00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:08,963 A little thank you for all your hard work. 467 00:21:09,050 --> 00:21:10,834 Lookin' to kill me? 468 00:21:10,921 --> 00:21:13,141 I have celiac disease. 469 00:21:13,228 --> 00:21:14,838 I'm allergic to wheat. 470 00:21:16,623 --> 00:21:20,061 Uh, Carla, I'm tryin' to play ball here. 471 00:21:20,148 --> 00:21:22,629 I need that ballistics report. I'm beggin' you. 472 00:21:22,716 --> 00:21:24,370 What's it gonna take? 473 00:21:26,328 --> 00:21:28,287 I like musicals. 474 00:21:34,641 --> 00:21:37,034 Thanks for coming back in, Darnell. 475 00:21:37,121 --> 00:21:39,515 Wondering if you remember a kid from school. 476 00:21:39,602 --> 00:21:42,213 - A Renaldo Ramos? - Renaldo Ramos. 477 00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:44,433 Haven't heard that name in a while. 478 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,567 - He's in jail, right? - In and out. 479 00:21:47,654 --> 00:21:50,221 You ever hear about him bringin' a gun to school? 480 00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:52,223 You think he killed Miss McKinney? 481 00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:55,575 We know he had problems with her. 482 00:21:55,662 --> 00:21:57,533 The other teachers had given up on him. 483 00:21:57,620 --> 00:21:59,143 Miss McKinney tried to take him on 484 00:21:59,230 --> 00:22:00,841 as a sort of project, but he made it hard. 485 00:22:00,928 --> 00:22:02,625 You ever hear him threaten her? 486 00:22:02,712 --> 00:22:04,845 No, but it wouldn't surprise me. 487 00:22:04,932 --> 00:22:06,803 He was already half a thug, even then. 488 00:22:13,157 --> 00:22:16,378 You're late, Renaldo. 489 00:22:16,465 --> 00:22:18,206 Go inside. Take out your workbook. I'll be in there soon. 490 00:22:18,293 --> 00:22:20,077 - Forgot it. - Again? 491 00:22:20,164 --> 00:22:24,212 How is that possible? No workbook, no pen, no paper. 492 00:22:24,299 --> 00:22:25,692 I mean, what do you even keep in here? 493 00:22:25,779 --> 00:22:29,565 I am trying to work with you, but I can't. 494 00:22:29,652 --> 00:22:31,524 What is this? Drugs? 495 00:22:31,611 --> 00:22:33,264 Those aren't mine. 496 00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:36,050 [Kenny] 'What's up?' 497 00:22:36,137 --> 00:22:38,531 Renaldo givin' you a hard time? 498 00:22:38,618 --> 00:22:40,707 It's fine. I got it covered. 499 00:22:51,108 --> 00:22:53,372 - When did this happen? - I don't know. 500 00:22:53,459 --> 00:22:55,374 A few weeks before Miss McKinney died. 501 00:22:55,461 --> 00:22:57,201 Never thought to mention it? 502 00:22:57,288 --> 00:23:00,161 At Reeves, stuff like that was the rule, not the exception. 503 00:23:00,248 --> 00:23:02,424 Miss McKinney said she had it under control. 504 00:23:09,039 --> 00:23:11,128 Renaldo must have loved growin' up here. 505 00:23:11,215 --> 00:23:12,652 Hmm. 506 00:23:20,355 --> 00:23:21,661 That from Saccardo? 507 00:23:21,748 --> 00:23:23,314 Yeah. 508 00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:26,056 What's up with those boots of his? 509 00:23:26,143 --> 00:23:27,754 What do you mean? 510 00:23:27,841 --> 00:23:29,146 Sayin'. 511 00:23:29,233 --> 00:23:31,105 He's in Narcotics. It's their thing. 512 00:23:31,192 --> 00:23:32,759 I was in Narcotics. 513 00:23:32,846 --> 00:23:34,369 Never wore Timberlands. 514 00:23:37,938 --> 00:23:40,810 Pay dirt, five o'clock. 515 00:23:52,866 --> 00:23:54,041 Renaldo Ramos? 516 00:23:55,651 --> 00:23:56,913 [grunts] 517 00:23:58,480 --> 00:23:59,916 What happened? What you do to him? 518 00:24:00,003 --> 00:24:01,265 What did you do to my boy? 519 00:24:01,352 --> 00:24:03,659 - Hey, look. - He's fine, Ma. 520 00:24:03,746 --> 00:24:05,444 Thanks for all your help. 521 00:24:10,797 --> 00:24:11,928 [Stillman] 'Hell of a sheet, Renaldo.' 522 00:24:12,015 --> 00:24:13,190 Assault, robbery, auto theft. 523 00:24:13,277 --> 00:24:14,540 Even back at Reeves High. 524 00:24:14,627 --> 00:24:16,019 Stealin' from the teachers' lounge. 525 00:24:16,106 --> 00:24:17,281 [Renaldo] 'That wasn't me.' 526 00:24:17,368 --> 00:24:20,633 Prison, parole, prison again. 527 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,025 Maybe crime isn't your thing. 528 00:24:22,112 --> 00:24:23,810 Yeah, like those drugs, Renaldo. 529 00:24:23,897 --> 00:24:25,638 [Valens] 'The ones Laura McKinney found in your backpack.' 530 00:24:25,725 --> 00:24:27,074 [Stillman] 'You and Miss McKinney didn't get along.' 531 00:24:27,161 --> 00:24:28,292 Always singlin' you out. 532 00:24:28,379 --> 00:24:29,729 [Valens] 'Oh, I get it.' 533 00:24:29,816 --> 00:24:32,775 Had this one teacher, Sister Beatrice. 534 00:24:32,862 --> 00:24:36,039 Chew gum in class. Thwap! Instant retribution. 535 00:24:36,126 --> 00:24:39,173 That how Miss McKinney was? Tough on you, Renaldo? 536 00:24:39,260 --> 00:24:41,001 She was cool. 537 00:24:41,088 --> 00:24:42,437 How's that? 538 00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:43,917 Could have narc'd me out. 539 00:24:44,004 --> 00:24:46,485 Just kicked me back to the rejects class. 540 00:24:46,572 --> 00:24:48,095 That's because you threatened her? 541 00:24:48,182 --> 00:24:49,879 Let her know what would happen if you turned her in? 542 00:24:49,966 --> 00:24:51,838 I was dyin' to get out of school. 543 00:24:51,925 --> 00:24:53,970 But that lady just wouldn't let go. 544 00:24:54,057 --> 00:24:56,190 Gettin' on your case, bringing your moms down on you. 545 00:24:56,277 --> 00:24:58,409 Nah man. She was different from other teachers. 546 00:24:58,497 --> 00:25:00,020 'Like, she expected something.' 547 00:25:00,107 --> 00:25:03,676 In a good way. Kind of made school okay. 548 00:25:03,763 --> 00:25:06,156 ♪ Only child know ♪ 549 00:25:14,164 --> 00:25:17,298 ♪ A man decides after 70 years ♪ 550 00:25:17,385 --> 00:25:20,083 ♪ That what he goes there for ♪ 551 00:25:20,170 --> 00:25:23,478 ♪ Is to unlock the door ♪ 552 00:25:23,565 --> 00:25:25,045 ♪ While those around him.. ♪ 553 00:25:25,132 --> 00:25:26,568 What is it? 554 00:25:26,655 --> 00:25:29,179 - What do you think it is? - Stupid. 555 00:25:29,266 --> 00:25:32,531 You can go back to the bus Renaldo. Is that what you want? 556 00:25:32,618 --> 00:25:34,837 It's just an empty lot, Miss. 557 00:25:34,924 --> 00:25:37,753 That's what it is now. But not always. 558 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,409 200 years ago, they brought slaves here. 559 00:25:41,496 --> 00:25:44,020 Auctioned on this very spot, only a mile 560 00:25:44,107 --> 00:25:47,110 from where the Declaration of Independence was signed. 561 00:25:49,373 --> 00:25:51,462 [McKinney] 'Hey, wake up!' 562 00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:53,334 Okay, this is important. 563 00:25:53,421 --> 00:25:54,770 'We're not talkin' books.' 564 00:25:54,857 --> 00:25:58,557 We're talking living, breathing history. 565 00:25:58,644 --> 00:26:01,429 Something that matters. 566 00:26:01,516 --> 00:26:06,129 We live in one of the most historic cities in the country. 567 00:26:06,216 --> 00:26:09,568 [McKinney] Everywhere you go, the past lives. 568 00:26:09,655 --> 00:26:11,265 You just gotta find it. 569 00:26:13,441 --> 00:26:14,964 'This is your assignment.' 570 00:26:15,051 --> 00:26:16,662 'I want you to go back to your neighborhood' 571 00:26:16,749 --> 00:26:19,752 and find something of historical significance. 572 00:26:19,839 --> 00:26:22,189 'No matter how small, and write about it.' 573 00:26:22,276 --> 00:26:24,365 'Get to know where you're from.' 574 00:26:24,452 --> 00:26:26,541 And then you can decide where you're going. 575 00:26:26,628 --> 00:26:29,936 ♪ Get it get it get it ♪ 576 00:26:30,023 --> 00:26:31,677 ♪ No no ♪ 577 00:26:31,764 --> 00:26:34,593 ♪ If all were there when we first took the pill ♪ 578 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,900 ♪ Then maybe then maybe ♪ 579 00:26:37,987 --> 00:26:40,424 Now that's a touchin' story. I'm sure it made you 580 00:26:40,511 --> 00:26:42,165 turn over a new leaf. 581 00:26:42,252 --> 00:26:44,690 - Graduate with honors. - Don't think I could have? 582 00:26:44,777 --> 00:26:46,474 Where were you the night Laura was killed? 583 00:26:46,561 --> 00:26:48,084 At work, flippin' burgers. 584 00:26:48,171 --> 00:26:50,478 Answered pretty quick. Gonna hold up when we check? 585 00:26:50,565 --> 00:26:52,306 What's it matter? Huh? 586 00:26:52,393 --> 00:26:54,395 You already made up your mind about me. 587 00:26:54,482 --> 00:26:57,441 Set us straight. 588 00:26:57,528 --> 00:26:59,661 You should be looking at the teacher's pet. 589 00:26:59,748 --> 00:27:01,141 That Darnell Brent. 590 00:27:01,228 --> 00:27:02,751 For real. You should have seen the way 591 00:27:02,838 --> 00:27:04,013 that kid was looking at her. 592 00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:05,841 Left her little stuffed animals. 593 00:27:05,928 --> 00:27:10,193 Gifts, right. Put 'em there anonymous. Real romantic. 594 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:11,934 We're supposed to believe you 595 00:27:12,021 --> 00:27:14,415 'cause couldn't even graduate high school. 596 00:27:14,502 --> 00:27:15,895 Now I don't give a damn. 597 00:27:18,462 --> 00:27:19,681 Can I go? 598 00:27:24,294 --> 00:27:25,469 We'll get you a toothbrush. 599 00:27:25,556 --> 00:27:26,819 You're gonna be here a while. 600 00:27:29,299 --> 00:27:31,171 [Miller] 'Little confused here, Darnell.' 601 00:27:31,258 --> 00:27:33,564 You're the one who brought this case in. 602 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:34,914 Figured you wanted it closed. 603 00:27:35,001 --> 00:27:36,176 Of course I do. 604 00:27:36,263 --> 00:27:39,396 You and Miss McKinney... pretty tight? 605 00:27:39,483 --> 00:27:42,051 But it was more than teacher student. 606 00:27:42,138 --> 00:27:43,531 What do you mean? 607 00:27:43,618 --> 00:27:45,446 You had feelings for her, right? 608 00:27:45,533 --> 00:27:47,753 Leavin' all those stuffed animals for her on the sly. 609 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,843 Staying after school, just you and her. 610 00:27:52,409 --> 00:27:56,544 Maybe...messages get mixed. 611 00:27:56,631 --> 00:27:59,112 Wasn't that much older. 612 00:27:59,199 --> 00:28:00,635 Happens to the best of us. 613 00:28:03,551 --> 00:28:06,685 I was 15. Thought I was in love. 614 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,559 [McKinney] That's terrific, Darnell. 615 00:28:11,646 --> 00:28:13,430 Now this is a thesis statement. 616 00:28:13,517 --> 00:28:14,780 Do you see the difference? 617 00:28:16,651 --> 00:28:17,957 Darnell, what are you doing? 618 00:28:23,049 --> 00:28:27,096 She told me not to worry about it, but.. 619 00:28:27,183 --> 00:28:29,969 ...she made sure we were never alone in the same room again. 620 00:28:30,056 --> 00:28:32,667 - Must have been humiliating. - Yeah. 621 00:28:32,754 --> 00:28:34,974 But I'm a teacher now. 622 00:28:35,061 --> 00:28:37,803 And I understand her dilemma. 623 00:28:37,890 --> 00:28:39,935 You wanna get close to your students. 624 00:28:40,022 --> 00:28:42,372 - But not too close. - Yeah. 625 00:28:42,459 --> 00:28:43,896 This is kidnappin', you know. 626 00:28:43,983 --> 00:28:45,245 Sorry you see it that way, ma'am. 627 00:28:45,332 --> 00:28:47,900 Lurin' me out of my own church on bingo day? 628 00:28:47,987 --> 00:28:50,729 - Should be ashamed, young man. - Yes, ma'am. 629 00:28:50,816 --> 00:28:52,426 [Jeffries] 'Why don't you step into the kitchen?' 630 00:28:52,513 --> 00:28:56,735 I'll be with you in a moment, show you some pictures. 631 00:28:57,692 --> 00:28:59,476 The old rope-a-dope? 632 00:28:59,563 --> 00:29:01,870 Told her I saw someone hit her car in the church parking lot. 633 00:29:01,957 --> 00:29:03,263 She comes out.. 634 00:29:03,350 --> 00:29:04,960 You persuade her to take a ride. 635 00:29:05,047 --> 00:29:07,658 [Mrs. Harris] 'Detective Jeffries?' 636 00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:09,835 Would it kill you to offer me some refreshment? 637 00:29:15,536 --> 00:29:18,147 Ballistics report on the 0.22 that killed Laura McKinney. 638 00:29:18,234 --> 00:29:19,409 Aah! 639 00:29:19,496 --> 00:29:20,846 This cost me big. 640 00:29:20,933 --> 00:29:23,849 Two tickets toWicked, and dinner. 641 00:29:23,936 --> 00:29:25,894 I need you to appreciate that. 642 00:29:25,981 --> 00:29:28,114 You're my hero. 643 00:29:28,201 --> 00:29:30,420 Murder weapon has a sordid history. 644 00:29:30,507 --> 00:29:31,682 Recovered by police seven years ago. 645 00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:33,554 Liquor store robbery. 646 00:29:33,641 --> 00:29:35,948 Well, suspect in possession said he found the gun. 647 00:29:36,035 --> 00:29:37,210 Alibi'd out for the murder. 648 00:29:37,297 --> 00:29:38,689 I traced the serial number. 649 00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:41,649 The original owner was a cab driver. Nigerian guy. 650 00:29:41,736 --> 00:29:43,433 Kid happened to go to, Reeves High. 651 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,348 In '91. 652 00:29:45,435 --> 00:29:47,698 Kid gets bullied. Takes Pop's gun to school. 653 00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:49,918 Confiscated by a security guard. 654 00:29:50,005 --> 00:29:51,311 'Guess who.' 655 00:29:53,530 --> 00:29:55,184 [Valens] 'I've met some low IQ jackasses' 656 00:29:55,271 --> 00:29:57,708 in my career, but you take the prize. 657 00:29:57,796 --> 00:29:59,362 How stupid you got to be. 658 00:29:59,449 --> 00:30:01,843 'Take a gun off a kid, not turn it in?' 659 00:30:01,930 --> 00:30:04,715 Or...was there a reason? 660 00:30:07,762 --> 00:30:09,285 [sighing] 661 00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:16,902 Between you and me, I heard Laura was a knockout. 662 00:30:16,989 --> 00:30:19,600 - You have a thing for her? - It wasn't like that-- 663 00:30:19,687 --> 00:30:22,298 Even some students wanted a piece, but you think 664 00:30:22,385 --> 00:30:26,085 hey, an authority figure like myself 665 00:30:26,172 --> 00:30:27,956 I got a shot. 666 00:30:28,043 --> 00:30:30,219 And after some liquid courage, you make a move. 667 00:30:30,306 --> 00:30:31,655 - She turns you down. - No way. 668 00:30:31,742 --> 00:30:32,874 We got you at the crime scene, Carlton. 669 00:30:32,961 --> 00:30:35,268 We got you with the gun. You're done. 670 00:30:35,355 --> 00:30:36,530 Already typed up my report. 671 00:30:36,617 --> 00:30:38,837 I liked those teachers. 672 00:30:38,924 --> 00:30:40,273 Looked after 'em the best I could. 673 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,449 That's why I kept the gun. 674 00:30:42,536 --> 00:30:44,451 Someone needed it. 675 00:30:56,158 --> 00:30:57,420 Why'd she need it, Carlton? 676 00:31:00,206 --> 00:31:01,511 I didn't ask. 677 00:31:03,078 --> 00:31:05,298 She was a good woman. 678 00:31:05,385 --> 00:31:08,605 If she said she needed the gun, she needed it. 679 00:31:08,692 --> 00:31:10,912 I was just trying to help. 680 00:31:10,999 --> 00:31:13,306 That's my job. 681 00:31:13,393 --> 00:31:16,309 It's time to find a different line of work. 682 00:31:19,878 --> 00:31:21,357 [Rush] 'Now don't bother standing.' 683 00:31:22,881 --> 00:31:24,186 What are you doing? 684 00:31:24,273 --> 00:31:25,579 Well, seein' if you're packin'. 685 00:31:25,666 --> 00:31:26,841 Or are the new security guards 686 00:31:26,928 --> 00:31:28,147 more accommodating than Carlton? 687 00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:31,759 You have some kind of grudge against Laura? 688 00:31:31,846 --> 00:31:34,240 Younger, prettier, better at her job. 689 00:31:34,327 --> 00:31:35,850 That gun had nothing to do with Laura. 690 00:31:35,937 --> 00:31:37,243 Then what was it for, Margaret? 691 00:31:37,330 --> 00:31:38,679 Protection. 692 00:31:38,766 --> 00:31:42,726 After 20 years in this war zone, I got attacked. 693 00:31:42,813 --> 00:31:44,554 Former students. 694 00:31:44,641 --> 00:31:46,687 I could never feel safe again. 695 00:31:46,774 --> 00:31:47,906 So you went to Carlton? 696 00:31:50,038 --> 00:31:51,692 I never felt comfortable havin' that gun. 697 00:31:51,779 --> 00:31:53,302 'Then one day' 698 00:31:53,389 --> 00:31:55,652 my purse was stolen from the teachers' lounge. 699 00:31:55,739 --> 00:31:57,219 And this happened before Laura was killed? 700 00:31:58,829 --> 00:32:00,440 So, why didn't you report it? 701 00:32:00,527 --> 00:32:02,442 Didn't want to get Carlton into trouble. 702 00:32:02,529 --> 00:32:03,704 He's a good man. 703 00:32:03,791 --> 00:32:07,142 A close friend...at the time. 704 00:32:08,709 --> 00:32:10,363 You meet Will's girlfriend yet? 705 00:32:10,450 --> 00:32:12,408 No, but I heard her all the way down the hall. 706 00:32:12,495 --> 00:32:14,845 - Delightful woman. - He get anything from her? 707 00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:18,153 Hope so, or he's about to pitch an old lady out the window. 708 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,502 Back in '91, you said 709 00:32:19,589 --> 00:32:21,461 you saw a black man running from the scene. 710 00:32:21,548 --> 00:32:23,854 This isn't a black man. 711 00:32:23,942 --> 00:32:26,118 Son, you don't think I know the difference? 712 00:32:26,205 --> 00:32:29,164 I said a dark skinned man came running past my window. 713 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,341 This is the one I saw. 714 00:32:35,475 --> 00:32:36,606 [Jeffries] 'Renaldo Ramos.' 715 00:32:43,004 --> 00:32:45,441 Hey, look at you, Renaldo. 716 00:32:45,528 --> 00:32:48,575 32, still livin' at home, no kind of job. 717 00:32:48,662 --> 00:32:49,968 Acting like you got it figured out. 718 00:32:50,055 --> 00:32:52,448 You say so. 719 00:32:52,535 --> 00:32:55,234 You were there, the night Miss McKinney was killed. 720 00:32:55,321 --> 00:32:56,975 You were fed up with the way she treated you. 721 00:32:57,062 --> 00:32:58,802 You stole Margaret's bag with the gun in it 722 00:32:58,889 --> 00:33:00,239 waited for her, then pop! 723 00:33:00,326 --> 00:33:01,849 - I was at my job. - There was no job. 724 00:33:01,936 --> 00:33:03,416 I didn't do nothing. 725 00:33:03,503 --> 00:33:06,158 We got the old lady clocking you from her window. 726 00:33:06,245 --> 00:33:08,595 Got 30 witnesses sayin' you bragged on all the things 727 00:33:08,682 --> 00:33:10,510 you stole from the teachers' lounge. 728 00:33:10,597 --> 00:33:11,990 It's over. 729 00:33:13,469 --> 00:33:15,384 Just too dull to know it. 730 00:33:19,171 --> 00:33:22,609 I couldn't have her mad. 731 00:33:22,696 --> 00:33:24,567 So, you went at her. 732 00:33:24,654 --> 00:33:26,656 No. 733 00:33:26,743 --> 00:33:27,962 She came to me. 734 00:33:37,798 --> 00:33:39,104 Yeah. 735 00:33:39,191 --> 00:33:40,583 What you doing here, miss? 736 00:33:40,670 --> 00:33:42,368 This ain't a good neighborhood, you know. 737 00:33:42,455 --> 00:33:44,022 I wanted to see where the fire was. 738 00:33:47,286 --> 00:33:48,983 What you mean? 739 00:33:49,070 --> 00:33:51,203 Well, it says six tenants lost their homes to a fire 740 00:33:51,290 --> 00:33:53,422 right here in this building, ten years ago. 741 00:33:54,510 --> 00:33:55,816 Long time. 742 00:33:55,903 --> 00:33:58,471 One man made sure they were all relocated. 743 00:33:58,558 --> 00:34:00,168 Took care of them. 744 00:34:00,255 --> 00:34:02,562 Roberto Jimenez. 745 00:34:02,649 --> 00:34:03,867 It's pretty amazing. 746 00:34:06,653 --> 00:34:08,002 I know your handwriting, Renaldo. 747 00:34:10,483 --> 00:34:12,311 It's the assignment I gave on the field trip. 748 00:34:13,964 --> 00:34:15,357 He was my grandfather. 749 00:34:17,011 --> 00:34:19,535 It's good... Renaldo. 750 00:34:22,103 --> 00:34:26,847 Like you said, history's happening everywhere. 751 00:34:26,934 --> 00:34:30,459 Like you comin' to Reeves, makin' a difference. 752 00:34:35,986 --> 00:34:37,205 You want back in my class? 753 00:34:39,642 --> 00:34:40,904 You need to use your voice. If you want in 754 00:34:40,991 --> 00:34:42,210 I have to hear you say it. 755 00:34:45,039 --> 00:34:46,693 Yeah. 756 00:34:46,780 --> 00:34:48,390 That's what I want. 757 00:34:51,567 --> 00:34:53,613 Okay. 758 00:34:53,700 --> 00:34:55,310 But I need you to come clean about the drugs. 759 00:34:55,397 --> 00:34:57,443 But, miss, those weren't my drugs. 760 00:34:57,530 --> 00:34:59,401 - Renaldo.. - I swear to you. 761 00:35:03,231 --> 00:35:05,581 They said I steal. I don't. 762 00:35:05,668 --> 00:35:08,106 They say I deal drugs. I don't. 763 00:35:08,193 --> 00:35:10,325 Everyone's always sayin' I'm bad. 764 00:35:10,412 --> 00:35:11,631 I stopped tryin' to prove 'em wrong. 765 00:35:11,718 --> 00:35:12,893 There's always someone else to blame 766 00:35:12,980 --> 00:35:15,287 for your crap life, your dumb mistakes. 767 00:35:15,374 --> 00:35:16,810 You said tell the truth. I told you. 768 00:35:16,897 --> 00:35:18,203 Drugs didn't belong to me. 769 00:35:18,290 --> 00:35:20,857 Then, who, Renaldo, another student? 770 00:35:22,946 --> 00:35:24,165 A teacher. 771 00:35:29,518 --> 00:35:31,390 [Rush] 'It's gotta be hard leavin' that school like you did.' 772 00:35:34,175 --> 00:35:35,611 Fatigue, right? 773 00:35:35,698 --> 00:35:37,396 Well, the place was impossible. 774 00:35:37,483 --> 00:35:38,875 I had to get out. 775 00:35:38,962 --> 00:35:42,140 But you and I both know it wasn't fatigue. 776 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,145 Nothing changes if nothing changes. 777 00:35:47,232 --> 00:35:51,105 I can spot another addict a mile away. 778 00:35:51,192 --> 00:35:53,020 [Rush] 'Yeah, I, uh, I had a problem.' 779 00:35:53,107 --> 00:35:54,848 Almost lost my job over it. 780 00:35:55,936 --> 00:35:57,111 It can be rough. 781 00:35:57,198 --> 00:35:59,635 Yeah, still is. 782 00:35:59,722 --> 00:36:01,028 Day at a time, right? 783 00:36:03,117 --> 00:36:07,382 How bad a habit? A gram? Uh, two? 784 00:36:07,469 --> 00:36:10,037 It gets expensive on a teacher's salary. 785 00:36:10,124 --> 00:36:11,734 I kept it together. 786 00:36:11,821 --> 00:36:12,953 - Yeah? - Yeah. 787 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,215 Yeah, me, too. 788 00:36:15,869 --> 00:36:17,305 Until one day I-I woke up 789 00:36:17,392 --> 00:36:19,786 and...saw the mess I made. 790 00:36:22,049 --> 00:36:23,485 The thing is, then we get better 791 00:36:23,572 --> 00:36:25,226 and we gotta take responsibility. 792 00:36:27,272 --> 00:36:28,403 Hey, we're, uh.. 793 00:36:30,492 --> 00:36:33,843 We're only as sick as our secrets. 794 00:36:33,930 --> 00:36:36,759 Like taking Margaret's bag from the faculty lounge. 795 00:36:36,846 --> 00:36:40,415 You did that, but the worst part, Kenny 796 00:36:40,502 --> 00:36:42,243 and I know you feel this.. 797 00:36:42,330 --> 00:36:45,203 ...the worst part, is using Renaldo to score for you. 798 00:36:46,987 --> 00:36:48,945 [Valens] 'You told Laura all about it' 799 00:36:49,032 --> 00:36:50,599 Kenny makin' you score for him? 800 00:36:50,686 --> 00:36:53,733 Should have never got her involved. 801 00:36:53,820 --> 00:36:55,343 And all these years, why didn't you say somethin'? 802 00:36:55,430 --> 00:36:58,085 You kiddin'? Take a look. 803 00:36:58,172 --> 00:36:59,347 Who's gonna believe a thug like me? 804 00:36:59,434 --> 00:37:00,870 I wanna believe you, Renaldo. 805 00:37:00,957 --> 00:37:02,568 Wanna be like Laura, see something different 806 00:37:02,655 --> 00:37:03,786 than just a thug, but you gotta be straight with me. 807 00:37:03,873 --> 00:37:05,440 I told you everything. 808 00:37:05,527 --> 00:37:08,051 Still haven't told me why you were at the crime scene. 809 00:37:08,138 --> 00:37:10,140 It's my fault she's dead. 810 00:37:10,228 --> 00:37:11,925 Why? 'Cause somethin' happened? 811 00:37:15,885 --> 00:37:17,670 She went back to the school. 812 00:37:17,757 --> 00:37:19,367 To confront Kenny? 813 00:37:21,848 --> 00:37:24,459 I followed. 814 00:37:24,546 --> 00:37:28,333 Waited outside. 815 00:37:28,420 --> 00:37:30,248 Just wanted to make sure she was okay. 816 00:37:33,338 --> 00:37:35,992 Laura knew about you and Renaldo. 817 00:37:36,079 --> 00:37:37,820 Everything was on the line. If she turned you in 818 00:37:37,907 --> 00:37:39,213 your life would be ruined. 819 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:42,129 She just didn't get it. This is a disease. 820 00:37:45,045 --> 00:37:47,874 I just wanted her to listen. 821 00:37:49,354 --> 00:37:51,356 You were there that night. 822 00:37:51,443 --> 00:37:53,488 I.. 823 00:37:53,575 --> 00:37:55,577 I needed some time to get my thoughts together 824 00:37:55,664 --> 00:37:58,188 but she wouldn't let up. 825 00:38:01,453 --> 00:38:02,845 [snorting] 826 00:38:07,023 --> 00:38:08,329 [coughing] 827 00:38:09,722 --> 00:38:11,027 You need to resign. 828 00:38:13,465 --> 00:38:14,770 You can do it with dignity. 829 00:38:14,857 --> 00:38:16,685 I-I won't say a word. 830 00:38:16,772 --> 00:38:17,991 But it has to be done 831 00:38:18,078 --> 00:38:19,209 or I'll turn you in. 832 00:38:20,776 --> 00:38:22,735 [sniffing] 833 00:38:22,822 --> 00:38:24,040 How long were you sitting in your classroom 834 00:38:24,127 --> 00:38:25,346 comin' up with that speech? 835 00:38:30,699 --> 00:38:33,615 Laura... I know this is bad. 836 00:38:35,313 --> 00:38:38,838 It's a problem. But I'm addressing it. 837 00:38:38,925 --> 00:38:40,970 Address it someplace else, not around these kids. 838 00:38:41,057 --> 00:38:42,581 See, I'm ahead of you on that. 839 00:38:42,668 --> 00:38:43,973 I already have my eye on a treatment facility. 840 00:38:44,060 --> 00:38:47,412 This, this is done...tonight. I promise. 841 00:38:47,499 --> 00:38:49,805 Renaldo is trying so hard to do things right. 842 00:38:49,892 --> 00:38:52,852 - You are killing him. - Damn it. Just let me speak. 843 00:38:52,939 --> 00:38:56,029 Will you wipe that smug look off your face? 844 00:39:00,294 --> 00:39:03,602 I used to be like you. I used to feel so good about teachin'. 845 00:39:03,689 --> 00:39:05,212 I believed in the students. 846 00:39:05,299 --> 00:39:07,519 This place beats the hell out of you. 847 00:39:07,606 --> 00:39:10,217 You'll see. In five years, you'll be me. 848 00:39:13,525 --> 00:39:16,310 Laura, stop! Get back here. 849 00:39:16,397 --> 00:39:18,486 I worked there for ten years 850 00:39:18,573 --> 00:39:22,621 and this kid.. Who did she think she was? 851 00:39:22,708 --> 00:39:26,102 - I was a good teacher. - So was Laura. 852 00:39:28,757 --> 00:39:30,585 Ah, she was special. 853 00:39:33,109 --> 00:39:35,590 [chuckling] Made me wanna graduate. 854 00:39:37,462 --> 00:39:40,378 Would have been the first... in my family. 855 00:39:47,167 --> 00:39:49,865 She went there to defend me, and I let her down. 856 00:39:51,171 --> 00:39:52,477 I couldn't help. 857 00:39:55,262 --> 00:39:57,003 You can now. 858 00:39:59,179 --> 00:40:00,310 Tell me what you saw. 859 00:40:02,138 --> 00:40:03,879 Hey, do it for her. 860 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:12,932 Miss? 861 00:40:14,063 --> 00:40:15,238 Miss? 862 00:40:16,370 --> 00:40:17,502 [gunshot] 863 00:40:46,705 --> 00:40:48,446 [sirens blaring in distance] 864 00:41:11,207 --> 00:41:14,863 ♪ This could be the saddest dusk ♪ 865 00:41:14,950 --> 00:41:17,736 ♪ I've ever seen ♪ 866 00:41:17,823 --> 00:41:21,696 ♪ Turn to a miracle ♪ 867 00:41:21,783 --> 00:41:24,482 ♪ High alive ♪ 868 00:41:24,569 --> 00:41:29,399 ♪ My mind is racing ♪ 869 00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:31,576 ♪ As it always will ♪ 870 00:41:31,663 --> 00:41:35,318 ♪ My hand's tired my heart aches ♪ 871 00:41:35,405 --> 00:41:39,018 ♪ I'm half a world away here ♪ 872 00:41:39,105 --> 00:41:42,804 ♪ My head sworn to go it alone ♪ 873 00:41:42,891 --> 00:41:46,286 ♪ And hold it along haul it along ♪ 874 00:41:46,373 --> 00:41:48,636 ♪ And hold it ♪ 875 00:41:48,723 --> 00:41:50,595 ♪ Go it alone ♪ 876 00:41:50,682 --> 00:41:55,382 ♪ Hold it along and hold ♪ 877 00:41:55,469 --> 00:41:59,604 ♪ Oh a lonely deep sit hollow ♪ 878 00:41:59,691 --> 00:42:05,392 ♪ I'm half a world half a world away ♪ 879 00:42:05,479 --> 00:42:11,050 ♪ My shoes are gone my life spent ♪ 880 00:42:11,137 --> 00:42:14,923 ♪ I had too much to drink ♪ 881 00:42:15,010 --> 00:42:20,450 ♪ I didn't think I didn't think of you ♪ 882 00:42:20,538 --> 00:42:24,324 ♪ I guess that's all I needed ♪ 883 00:42:24,411 --> 00:42:28,458 ♪ To go it alone and hold it along ♪ 884 00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:32,288 ♪ Haul it along and hold it ♪ 885 00:42:32,375 --> 00:42:34,813 ♪ Blackbirds backwards forwards ♪ 886 00:42:34,900 --> 00:42:38,904 ♪ And fall and hold ♪ 887 00:42:38,991 --> 00:42:43,648 ♪ Oh this lonely world is wasted ♪ 888 00:42:43,735 --> 00:42:49,175 ♪ Pathetic eyes high alive ♪ 889 00:42:49,262 --> 00:42:54,615 ♪ Blind to the tide that's turned the sea ♪ 890 00:42:54,702 --> 00:42:58,445 ♪ This storm it came up strong ♪ 891 00:42:58,532 --> 00:43:03,929 ♪ It shook the trees and blew away our fear ♪ 892 00:43:04,016 --> 00:43:07,933 ♪ I couldn't even hear ♪ 893 00:43:08,020 --> 00:43:11,980 ♪ To go it alone and hold it along ♪ 894 00:43:12,067 --> 00:43:15,767 ♪ Haul it along and hold it ♪ 895 00:43:15,854 --> 00:43:19,292 ♪ Go it alone and hold it along ♪ 896 00:43:19,379 --> 00:43:23,949 ♪ And hold ♪ 897 00:43:24,036 --> 00:43:26,081 [Rush] Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode. 898 00:43:27,648 --> 00:43:29,868 [theme music]