The Rookie - Season 3 Episode 7
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00:00Check, check. Is that good?
00:02Okay. Thanks.
00:04I don't want to knock the light.
00:06Is your ear good?
00:08That's great.
00:10Alright.
00:12When my son Henry was born, he had a heart condition.
00:14Tetralogy of Fallot.
00:16It's actually a combination
00:18of four heart defects
00:20that are fatal without surgery.
00:22Multiple surgeries.
00:24And to watch your child
00:26go through that,
00:28it was
00:30a tough time.
00:32But one thing that always
00:34cheered my family up
00:36was the show Paul's Place.
00:44Mmm. Tastes good.
00:48The star of the show, the boy who played Paul,
00:50was Corey Harris.
00:52He was so funny.
00:54Henry would do the milkshake thing, you know,
00:56mmm, tastes so good.
00:58And he would make such a mess, but
01:00how could you be mad?
01:02I always said to myself,
01:04if I ever met him, I would thank him.
01:06You know, just shake his hand.
01:10That was before I found out what he'd become.
01:12I am the prophet Jedediah.
01:14And tomorrow, the third of June,
01:16is the day that we, the worthy,
01:18shall ascend.
01:20Time for questions and answers.
01:22Get the hell out of my classroom.
01:25I just couldn't believe
01:27what happened to that sweet kid
01:29that my son looked up to, you know?
01:31I couldn't believe that I was there for all of it.
01:45Sorry.
01:47I'm just a little nervous.
01:49I'm assuming that's normal, yeah?
01:51Oh, totally. But there's no pressure. We're just talking.
01:54Where should I start? Tell me about June 3rd.
01:56Yeah, it started off like
01:58any other day, a few mundane calls,
02:00and then
02:02the world went crazy.
02:04Los Angeles was thrown into chaos today
02:06when the emergency alert system
02:08inadvertently sent out a text message
02:10stating a nuclear missile
02:12was headed for the city.
02:14Felt like the end of the world.
02:16We helped as many people as we could,
02:18and then headed for shelter.
02:20That's when we saw them, standing on the ledge,
02:2220 stories up, waiting for their...
02:25How do I put it?
02:27Their ride from the aliens.
02:29Turned out there was this dude
02:31named the Prophet Jedidiah
02:33who told them
02:35that on June 3rd,
02:37E.T. was coming
02:39to embrace his followers
02:41during their ascension.
02:43All hail, children of the stars.
02:45For the first time in history, a cult leader actually guessed
02:47the right date for the apocalypse.
02:49Turns out this prophet had been predicting for years
02:51that June 3rd, 2019 would be the date
02:53for their ascension, and it was just dumb luck
02:55that the missile alert happened that day.
02:57I mean, these people were so brainwashed
02:59that they were gonna jump to their death.
03:01Thank God that Officer Lopez was there.
03:03I mean, she saved all of their lives.
03:05You gotta understand, we had no idea
03:07who this Prophet Jedidiah was,
03:09and in the crazy days
03:11that followed, he kind of fell through the cracks.
03:13Not that it would've made
03:15any difference if...
03:17Well, at least I don't think it would've.
03:19Seven out of 15. Possible 207.
03:219901 Violet Drive.
03:23RV is on scene.
03:25Look, my daughter's out here!
03:27Oh, my God.
03:29Debbie!
03:31Look, my daughter is inside this house.
03:33He's keeping her.
03:35He won't let her leave. He's brainwashing her.
03:37Good morning, officers. I'm so sorry
03:39I had to be bothered with this. I know you.
03:41You're Corey Harris. You're from that, uh...
03:43Paul's place. Yeah. That was a lifetime ago,
03:45but it's always nice to meet a fan.
03:47Do you want an autograph? It's Rumi.
03:49Uh, the thing about
03:51celebrities is...
03:53I think they get locked in time in your head.
03:55You know, whatever that show is
03:57you love them from, that's the way you
03:59always expect them to be.
04:01Corey Harris had done some other shows since Paul's place,
04:03but nothing that stuck. You know, people called him a child star
04:05as if that was some kind of failing.
04:07But even so, I, um...
04:09I was definitely a little starstruck.
04:11I mean, it didn't really matter to me that he was famous.
04:13I mean, this is L.A.
04:15Every other house is owned by a superstar
04:17or a model
04:19or a cult leader.
04:21Will you arrest him?
04:23He's keeping my daughter against her will.
04:25He's a cult leader.
04:27It's not a cult. It's a religious movement
04:29awaiting tax-exempt status.
04:31Aurora is over 18 and here...
04:33Her name is Debbie.
04:35Aurora has shed her birth name like a moth
04:37becoming a butterfly.
04:39Can't go there. Moths don't become butterflies.
04:41Uh, can we speak to Debbie, please?
04:43Of course.
04:45Aurora!
04:47Yes, Prophet?
04:49Can you tell these nice officers
04:51that you're here of your own free will?
04:53I am here of my own free will.
04:55Well, that was convincing.
04:57Debbie, please, this is crazy. You gotta come home.
04:59I am home.
05:01You gotta stop her.
05:03She's an adult.
05:05Only if that's what Aurora wants.
05:07I have nothing else to say. I'm happy here with my real family.
05:09Debbie, your mother's cancer. It's back.
05:11She's dying.
05:13She's only got a couple weeks to live.
05:15She needs you.
05:19Aurora?
05:29It was like a switch flipped.
05:31Aurora, um, not Aurora.
05:33Debbie went back inside
05:35and she packed all of her stuff
05:37and then she left with her dad.
05:39She just needed a cold, hard dose of reality
05:41to bring her back.
05:43You said earlier you wanted to thank Corey
05:45for helping you and your son shake his hand.
05:47Did you?
05:49No, no. It felt, um, super inappropriate at the time.
05:51So we just headed out
05:53and I thought that was the end of it.
05:55911. What's your emergency?
05:57Come quick. Something terrible's happened. Send the police.
06:05You the one who called?
06:07Yes. I guard for Mr. Harris.
06:09I found blood by the door.
06:11Did you go in the home? No.
06:13Okay. Go wait over by your truck. We'll check it out.
06:15Come back and get your statement. Thank you.
06:21Police! Mr. Harris, are you home?
06:23Control, 7 out of 19.
06:25We've got blood at 9901 Violet Drive.
06:27We're gonna clear the house.
06:29Notify supervisor. Request additional units.
06:31Blood.
06:35Blood.
06:47Tim.
06:53We have major blood loss at our location.
06:55Send detectives and TID.
06:57What's gonna take long?
06:59Because, uh, we got work to do.
07:01Um, what can you tell me
07:03about the crime scene?
07:05Well, I mean, that amount of blood,
07:07if it came from one person, then that's fatal.
07:09Without Corey's body,
07:11we had to treat it as a missing persons case
07:13while the lab ran the blood against Corey's DNA.
07:15But no one was home.
07:17We didn't know that yet. We hadn't cleared the house.
07:19Corey's disciples were at a drum circle downtown.
07:21They did it once a week
07:23to recruit new followers.
07:25We lost the security camera.
07:27Captured them all leaving right before...
07:29Oh, yeah, we have a video of them
07:31downtown across from City Hall.
07:33I'm sorry. I cut you off. Sorry.
07:35I was just gonna say that the security system
07:37was shut off right after they all left.
07:39It took three hours to reboot.
07:41So there's no video of the crime.
07:43This is fun.
07:45What is this about?
07:47I need to be at the hospital.
07:49My wife doesn't have much time left.
07:51We understand, sir. Uh, you can take a seat, please.
07:53Were you
07:55at the hospital yesterday?
07:57All day and night.
07:59Was your daughter there with you?
08:01What do you think?
08:03She hasn't seen her dying mother in years
08:05because of that man.
08:07Do you understand the whiplash
08:09that Debbie's experienced in the last two days
08:11alone?
08:13Seeing her mother again has
08:15opened her eyes to everything
08:17that she has been missing in the world.
08:19All the love, all the joy that Corey has withheld
08:21from her all of this time.
08:23Corey went missing
08:25yesterday.
08:27There were signs of violence at his house.
08:29Good.
08:33He destroyed
08:35our family. Destroyed
08:37Debbie's life.
08:43It was just supposed to be
08:45an acting class. You think the most
08:47important quality of a great actor is talent?
08:49Wrong.
08:51It's the ability to be mercenary.
08:53To do whatever it takes to get a part.
08:55And to use that role to get the next one.
08:57Trust me, I'm living
08:59proof of what happens when you don't.
09:01So when the acting jobs dried up, Corey
09:03started an acting school. And he basically
09:05just used it to air
09:07his grievances about Hollywood.
09:09After Paul's place, I just assumed
09:11that the starring roles would keep coming, but they didn't.
09:13And to convince these kids that,
09:15you know, he was the only one that could help
09:17navigate this evil world.
09:19I'm not here to teach you methods.
09:21I'm here to teach you that unless you're willing to
09:23cross every line and throw
09:25every inhibition you have out the window, then you
09:27should get the hell out of my class right now.
09:31But, if you stay,
09:33I will help you.
09:35I will nurture
09:37you. I will give you a
09:39safe place to become a star. And these
09:4120-somethings, they fell for it.
09:43And they paid thousands of dollars
09:45for these classes that slowly
09:47just turned into pseudo-religious
09:49character-building seminars.
09:51He made them feel special. You know, in a
09:53business that makes people feel like garbage
09:55on a regular basis. It wasn't long
09:57before Debbie and the others started
09:59treating him like a guru.
10:01He literally told
10:03them how to act, and
10:05in their eyes, he became infallible.
10:07He could do no wrong.
10:09He could commit acts of unspeakable evil,
10:11yet still be their savior from above.
10:13I can't speak to Officer
10:15Nolan's comments, but what we discovered
10:17at Corey's house that day was
10:19pretty disturbing.
10:21Tim.
10:23Police!
10:25Come out from under the bed!
10:27Do it now! Come out with your
10:29hands up!
10:31Hmm.
10:41Holy crap.
10:43What is it? It's, it's a...
10:45A what? A mummy.
10:47In a suit.
10:49What?
10:51Is that...?
10:53It can't be.
10:55It looks like, uh...
10:57It was Charlie Chaplin.
10:59Charlie Chaplin's mummy. That was...
11:01That was Corey's greatest treasure.
11:03Where exactly did Corey
11:05obtain this mummified body, Debbie?
11:09He stole it.
11:11He stole it.
11:13From who?
11:15From me. Yeah.
11:17No, I bought Charlie's mummified body
11:19from me. Yeah.
11:21No, I bought Charlie at a secret auction
11:23I found out about from Nick Cage.
11:25I owe my entire
11:27career to Charlie. He is
11:29my total inspiration.
11:31I mean, that...
11:33That tramp. Oh, my God.
11:35I wouldn't be who I am today without him.
11:37You know? So when I found out
11:39I could
11:41own him, I could... Rainn,
11:43you wanna, you wanna own Charlie?
11:45How could I say no?
11:47So when I found out that I was
11:49robbed, I was like, I don't care
11:51about my vintage cowboy hat collection.
11:53You know what I mean?
11:55I don't care about my solid gold retainer, or
11:57Catherine the Great's
11:59speculum, my SAG awards,
12:01any of that stuff. No.
12:03I care about
12:05losing my
12:07best friend.
12:09Charlie. No, of course it wasn't
12:11Chaplin's body. So apparently
12:13in the 70s, there was
12:15someone who actually did steal
12:17his body, and they held it for ransom,
12:19but eventually it was returned.
12:21However, there are conspiracy theories
12:23that the real body
12:25was sold on the black
12:27market. So the mummy that we
12:29found is just one of dozens
12:31of fake Chaplins floating around.
12:35Celebrities are nuts.
12:37How did you feel when you learned that Corey Harris was behind
12:39the theft?
12:41Listen, I choose to live in a realm
12:43of total positivity. I have
12:45nothing bad to say about anyone.
12:47Even a vain, talentless
12:49skidmark like Corey. I've heard that he targeted
12:51celebrities he felt had wronged him in
12:53some way. Yeah, he thought the role of Backstrom
12:55should have gone to him.
12:57Anyway, so he sicked his whole cult of acting
12:59students on me.
13:01And do you own any other celebrity mummies?
13:03No comment.
13:05But before they became a full-blown
13:07cult, Corey turned his acting school into
13:09a burglary ring that targeted celebrities.
13:13I caught
13:15a bunch of calls back in 2018.
13:17That was before I was on the job.
13:19We arrested a few people, but no one would flip on
13:21Corey, so he got away with it.
13:23Corey promised his students everything.
13:25Money, fame. But all he did was insert himself
13:27farther and farther into their lives. He made them
13:29think he could control their destinies.
13:31Maybe it's because
13:33he didn't have any control over his own.
13:35What's that saying? Those who can't do,
13:37teach?
13:39You were literally my teacher
13:41You were literally my teacher.
13:43What are you saying?
13:45My love,
13:47when I thrust you with this knife,
13:49why didn't you cry?
13:51I've never seen a man cry. No, no, no, no, no, no,
13:53enough. Stop, stop. Get up, right now.
13:55What is this?
13:57It's not your knife. No.
13:59This is a vehicle for the
14:01actor's soul. It must convey all of your
14:03anger, all of your emotion.
14:05You just used this knife to take a man's life,
14:07not chop onions in the back of a fast food restaurant.
14:09You know what I see when I look at you?
14:11I see an amateur, a nobody,
14:13going nowhere. Charlotte, Charlotte,
14:15thank you.
14:19Aurora.
14:23What Charlotte means to say is anyone can simply
14:25memorize and recite lines on stage,
14:27but only a few dare to push themselves
14:29where their minds won't allow them to go.
14:31That's what makes a true actor.
14:33I can help you get there.
14:35What do you say?
14:37What do you say?
14:39Hey! Turn it off!
14:41What did I tell you about
14:43filming in my son's school?
14:45Cory was such a special
14:47boy, everyone's best friend.
14:49Well, he didn't have
14:51too many friends come to think of it, but
14:53that's because he was so
14:55dedicated to his craft.
14:57He was a natural leading man,
14:59even as a boy, and I knew
15:01he could succeed at whatever
15:03he chose in life. And he and Charlotte together,
15:05you couldn't ask for a better
15:07duo. A better duo to brainwash
15:09people. Cory always made Charlotte
15:11play the bad cop, no pun intended.
15:13So Cory could swoop in and be the savior.
15:15Together they would brainwash a student
15:17to the point where they would do anything to please him.
15:19And that's when he would induct them into his bling ring,
15:21telling them that the only way to get into the mind
15:23of a criminal was to become one. He ruined
15:25people's lives. Including someone you know.
15:27What?
15:29It's up here on the right.
15:31Uh, can I help you?
15:33Sterling Freeman. Is it true that you're once
15:35a student of Notorious Acting teacher turned
15:37cult leader Cory Harris?
15:39What? No. Okay, you can leave now.
15:41In fact, your real name isn't Sterling Freeman, is it?
15:43It's Skipper Young.
15:45And you participated in a ring of celebrity burglaries
15:47in 2017 at the direction of
15:49Harris. Okay, what the hell is he talking about?
15:51Your name is Skipper?
15:55How the bloody hell did you find me?
15:57Whoa, why are you talking all British?
15:59So I have a
16:01bit of a confession to make, Jackson.
16:05I'm not really from Tampa.
16:09Get out.
16:13Well, you have to understand that when I first
16:15arrived in L.A. six years ago, I was a nobody.
16:17Just a weird kid from Melbourne.
16:19I had never even been
16:21to the States before.
16:23But all I knew was
16:25I wanted to be a star.
16:27And tell us how you first met Cory.
16:29I knew who he was, of course.
16:31Paul's place was big in Australia.
16:33Cory was a real actor, and so I just thought,
16:35why not? And I went to one class,
16:37and he hooked me.
16:39He believed nothing in this business is given to you.
16:41Whatever you want in life, you have to take it.
16:43He said the burglaries would help us internalize
16:45that mindset. Cory wanted to help us
16:47learn to conquer our fears.
16:49Push our boundaries.
16:51And do you still believe in Cory's teachings?
16:53No. No. Not at all.
16:55No. Not at all.
16:57Alright?
16:59Well, we fell out right before
17:01my arrest, and that's when things were getting
17:03really weird. You know, every time you could tell it was getting
17:05delusional. Talking about
17:07spirits, calling us his
17:09students the worthy, calling himself
17:11a prophet.
17:13I got to a point where
17:15I told myself, one last run
17:17with the crew and then I'd leave.
17:19But then I got caught.
17:21No.
17:23I was not aware
17:25that my boyfriend...
17:27Sterling
17:29Skipper
17:31was a felon. Or Australian.
17:33Yes. Yes. I am aware
17:35that cops are not permitted to fraternize
17:37with felons. This is an
17:39actual act of matter, and I have no
17:41further comment at this time. Officer West.
17:43I said I have no further comment. Thank you.
17:45Officer West, come on back.
17:47How could you not tell me?
17:49I am still Sterling.
17:51No, you're not Sterling. You're just
17:53Skipper Young, or whatever the hell that is.
17:55After I was caught, I served
17:57four months probation, and I changed my name.
17:59I'm different now.
18:03Please.
18:07A part of my life
18:09is behind me.
18:13Do you believe me?
18:15I don't know.
18:17Jackson.
18:23Obviously,
18:25we knew that Sterling Skipper
18:27had nothing to do with it.
18:29He was in Prague
18:31shooting a movie when it happened.
18:33So we still had a mystery on our hands.
18:35A missing cult leader and a bloody crime scene.
18:37That was when we became aware
18:39of Corey's connection to someone
18:41who was a lot more involved
18:43and his connection to someone who was a lot
18:45more dangerous than a bunch of wannabe actors.
18:49Southland Stalker was a serial
18:51killer that terrorized L.A. County
18:53starting in the fall of 2010.
18:55He had no type. He would hit
18:57single people, couples,
18:59even had a rampage in a hotel once.
19:01Murdered three people that night.
19:03But the stalker got sloppy
19:05and one of his victims escaped, went to a
19:07neighbor's home, and Dan Mercy
19:09was caught in the surrounding area.
19:11There were rumors that the stalker
19:13didn't work alone, that he had an accomplice,
19:15but Mercy maintained
19:17in court that he did it all by himself.
19:19Performance that we later
19:21learned he had a little help with.
19:25I met Corey
19:27in 2017
19:29at one of his acting
19:31classes. I was
19:33looking for ways to up
19:35my game, gain people's
19:37trust. And why was that?
19:39It would be easier to get my victims to come with me
19:41willingly.
19:43You see,
19:45for people like me,
19:47psychopaths, there's a short
19:49circuit in the part of the brain that feels empathy.
19:51At least that's what the prison shrink tells me.
19:53Without that part, it makes it difficult
19:55to relate to
19:57people, to convince them
19:59to trust you.
20:01I got tired of bashing people over the head, dragging them
20:03to the car, so I thought it would be much easier
20:05if I could just charm them in myself.
20:07So I asked Corey to help me.
20:09And did he teach you how to fake empathy?
20:11Oh, yeah.
20:15It opened up a whole new realm of possibilities
20:17for me.
20:19Victim-wise.
20:21There's a rumor that Corey also helped you prepare for your trial
20:23to better connect with the jury?
20:25Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
20:27Mr. Marcy, is that you
20:29in the surveillance video picking Pamela Byrd
20:31up in your truck? I just gave her
20:33a ride. I swear.
20:35She didn't have enough money for the bus.
20:37She reminded me of my little
20:39sister. I didn't hurt her.
20:41I could never put any woman
20:43in a position like that.
20:45It goes against my whole character.
20:51I had the jury
20:53eating out of the palm of my hand.
20:55But they still
20:57convicted you of first-degree murder.
20:59Yeah, well, once I saw the photos of her head in my fridge, it was kind of over
21:01for me. Dan Marcy was convicted
21:03of murder months before Corey
21:05went missing, but even though he wasn't a suspect
21:07in the disappearance, his association
21:09with Corey definitely made
21:11us take a closer look at who else was taking
21:13those acting classes. And in the end,
21:15it wasn't a student that gave us
21:17a break in the case that we needed. It was
21:19Corey's old co-star and fellow teacher,
21:21Charlotte Luster.
21:25Well, no one had heard from her since the day Corey
21:27went missing, and we were about to find out
21:29why.
21:33Oh.
21:37Been parked here a week.
21:39And there's a really bad smell coming
21:41from the trunk. Okay, would you mind stepping away from the vehicle?
21:43It belongs to a suspect in a violent crime.
21:45Corey Harris and Charlotte Luster.
21:47You played childhood
21:49sweethearts for eight seasons
21:51on Paul's Place, and now
21:53I hear you've become partners
21:55in real life. You know, Robin,
21:57when you grow up with someone on TV,
21:59it just...
22:01it bonds you.
22:03It's like a family.
22:05It's like a family.
22:07It's like a family.
22:09It's like a family.
22:11It's like a family.
22:13It's like a family.
22:15It's like a family.
22:17It's like a family.
22:19And when she and Corey started dating,
22:21I couldn't have been happier.
22:23I treated her like my own
22:25daughter. And
22:27if I'm being frank,
22:29she was the luckiest girl in the world
22:31to be able to date my son.
22:33Corey,
22:35it's no secret that you struggled
22:37after the show ended. Drugs,
22:39alcohol, even an arrest for
22:41At an Emmy party.
22:42Well, that was all a misunderstanding,
22:44but what is true is that when Paul's Place was canceled,
22:46I was a mess, adrift.
22:50It was Charlotte who brought me back.
22:52She saved me.
22:56Breaking news, Charlotte Luster, the former child star
22:59known for the 90s sitcom Paul's Place,
23:01has been missing since Sunday.
23:03She is the prime suspect in the bloody disappearance
23:06of Corey Harris.
23:07Even though we found Charlotte's car at the airport,
23:09we couldn't find any recent records of her
23:11boarding a flight at LAX.
23:12Detective Harper and I were dispatched to Charlotte's
23:14apartment to begin a search, try to find some indication
23:17of where she might have gone.
23:18And did you?
23:19No, but we did find something that shed some light.
23:21What was that?
23:22A screenplay.
23:24For a movie.
23:25It's LA.
23:26It's not the first time I found a script at a crime scene.
23:28I've only been on the job for a year,
23:29and I've already found three.
23:31Have either of you ever written one?
23:33God, no.
23:37It was for a class.
23:38It was the title that caught everyone's eye.
23:40The Worthy.
23:41The Worthy!
23:42The Worthy.
23:43The Worthy.
23:44Same as Corey's cult.
23:45This script is 500 pages long,
23:47so we assigned three of our rookie officers
23:50the task of reading it.
23:52What did you think of it?
23:53Look, I'm no screenwriting expert,
23:56but I thought it was, um, dense.
24:00Convoluted.
24:01The worst thing I've ever read.
24:02Exterior rooftop day.
24:04Aurora, 19.
24:06Beautiful, but doesn't know it.
24:08Speaks the prophecy aloud.
24:10Yeed ye the noon star harvesters,
24:12for they shall descend from the heavens
24:14so the Worthy can ascend.
24:17So saith the prophet Jedediah.
24:19All hail, children of the stars.
24:21All hail, children of the stars!
24:24Yep, he based his freaking cult
24:26off a bad sci-fi script.
24:28That Charlotte wrote with him.
24:29I've been a film producer for, like, 25 years, okay?
24:32This is the strangest thing I've ever seen.
24:34Well, second strangest.
24:36Anyway, it was like five years ago,
24:38and I heard about this script making the rounds.
24:40And listen, it's not uncommon for actors
24:42to, you know, try their hand at writing
24:44when the roles dry up, right?
24:45And P.S., everyone thinks they got the next Rocky.
24:48But a 500-page space opera
24:50written by two former child stars
24:52raised a few eyebrows.
24:53I took the meeting.
24:54I mean, out of morbid curiosity
24:56more than anything, right?
24:58It was...uncomfortable.
25:02And Charlotte, she seemed totally willing
25:04to receive feedback.
25:06You know, Corey, he just flatly refused
25:08to make any cuts to the script.
25:10I told them as politely as I could,
25:13it's a pass.
25:15And then what happened?
25:16Well, then I forgot about it for a long time.
25:18And then things got weird.
25:20Today, police rescued five people
25:22from a mid-Wilshire rooftop.
25:24The group identified themselves
25:26as members of the Worthy
25:27and were preparing to commit ritual suicide
25:29based on the teachings of their leader,
25:31known simply as the Prophet Jedediah.
25:33You want to know why Corey wasn't on that rooftop
25:35ready to jump with the rest of his followers?
25:37Because he was filming it.
25:39The day after the missile alert,
25:41I get an email from Corey.
25:42The subject line?
25:43Proof of concept.
25:45I...I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
25:48Five people almost died
25:50because some washed-up narcissist
25:52thought that the world he dreamed up
25:54in his screenplay had become real.
25:55Along with the video,
25:56Corey also sent Sheila a revised version.
25:58Was Charlotte Lester's name removed?
26:00He was trying to cut her out
26:02from the script, the cult, and the money.
26:04♪♪♪♪
26:13You're a sociopath, you know that?
26:15I have proof, emails.
26:16Charlotte, calm down.
26:17I have no idea what you're talking about.
26:18We wrote that script together.
26:19It was supposed to be our project.
26:21I'm afraid I don't see it that way.
26:22And now you're passing it off as some kind of religion
26:24so you can, what, bang 19-year-olds?
26:26I see what you're doing with them.
26:27You are turning them against me,
26:28making me the bad guy
26:29so they worship you even more.
26:30You're disgusting.
26:31If you continue to use destructive language with me,
26:33I'll be forced to end this conversation.
26:35If I don't get my cut of the money,
26:36I am getting a lawyer.
26:37The whole world will know
26:38what a little insecure nobody you are.
26:40I am coming to get what's owed to me, Corey.
26:42You taught me that.
26:44Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, right?
26:47Cool.
26:48What a trivialized female anger.
26:51Hey, I'm not trivializing.
26:53All sorts of crimes are motivated
26:54by jealous ex-partners.
26:55And how many of those ex-partners are men?
26:59Most.
27:01I heard it was Officer Chen
27:02who broke the case wide open.
27:04I don't know if I'd describe it quite that way.
27:07How would you describe it, then?
27:10Her addiction to social media finally paid off.
27:14That is hurtful.
27:16I...
27:17Can you tell us what happened?
27:19I was on my phone doing...
27:22research
27:23when I got a notification.
27:25And...
27:26You know what?
27:27I still have the video on my phone.
27:28Just let me...
27:29Look at that.
27:33That's, uh...
27:34That's...
27:35That's not what...
27:36No.
27:37You are never gonna believe
27:39the celeb sighting I just made
27:40during my Malibu silent retreat.
27:43That's Corey Harris.
27:45He was alive.
27:48You have the right to remain silent.
27:50Anything you say can be used against you
27:52in the court of law.
27:53You have the right to an attorney.
27:55If you cannot afford one,
27:56one will be provided for you.
27:59Do you understand?
28:03Do you understand, sir?
28:08Corey.
28:09Uh, he took the right to remain silent part
28:11real seriously.
28:12Very seriously.
28:15♪♪♪♪
28:25How long do you stay quiet?
28:27Five and a half hours.
28:29How long do you stay quiet?
28:36Five and a half hours.
28:40Wow.
28:42That was invigorating.
28:4672 hours of silence.
28:50You guys should try it.
28:54Now, what did you want to ask me?
28:58So, Corey, while you were playing your little quiet game,
29:02we were getting the forensics report back from the lab.
29:06Do you care to guess what it said?
29:08That I'm innocent?
29:09No, that the blood that we found at your house and in Charlotte's car belonged to the same person.
29:14Who?
29:15Charlotte?
29:17Oh, my God.
29:20That's horrible. My poor girl.
29:24Oh, you're right. He is a good actor.
29:27So what happened to Charlotte?
29:29I have no idea. I haven't seen her in weeks.
29:32And I've been at the silent retreat since last Monday. I'm sure they have a record.
29:36Yeah, an employee recalls checking you in at 10 a.m. Sunday morning.
29:39Unfortunately, no one else remembers seeing you until the welcome bonfire that evening.
29:43That leaves an eight-hour window that is unaccounted for.
29:46Plenty of time for you to leave the retreat, go back home, and kill Charlotte.
29:52Do you have any proof of that?
29:54Of course not. Because I didn't do it.
29:58I can never hurt another person.
30:00What about your followers? The ones you almost persuaded to jump off a roof for you?
30:05For me? They were doing it for themselves. For their own enlightenment.
30:10So they could ascend into a higher state of being.
30:13I wouldn't expect someone as limited as you to understand.
30:17Is that what you call the people who concede through your little act? Was Charlotte limited?
30:23In some ways, yes.
30:25Is that why you killed her?
30:27I think I need a lawyer.
30:29Because she saw the real you. Because she had the power.
30:33I sent you to House of Cards, Toplin.
30:36Lawyer.
30:38I can't talk about clients. I told you that when you called yesterday.
30:41You've been given what happened?
30:43Yeah.
30:44Corey built his whole empire on a script he stole from Charlotte, and she was going to expose him.
30:48That sounds like motive for murder to me.
30:50Speculate all you like. There was never any evidence.
30:52There was video.
30:53Which did not show my client. Now leave me alone.
30:56Mom.
31:20Enter the Momager.
31:23Mom and Manager. That's all.
31:26A hybrid. I thought that was clever.
31:29Anyway, once we saw the footage of her tampering with the evidence,
31:32it was clear to us that Laurie Harris played at least some small or,
31:36shall we say, behind-the-scenes role in a crime?
31:40I don't get it.
31:41I'm not going to make any more jokes.
31:43So Mrs. Harris, what happened to Charlotte?
31:45Last I heard, she was flying to Cabo, so...
31:48Soaking up the sun? Sipping on margaritas?
31:51Charlotte is not in Cabo, Mrs. Harris.
31:54Was it Kenko?
31:56You drove her car to the airport and then you left it there to make it look like she had left town.
32:01That? She asked me to leave her car there.
32:05Really, that's weird, because we found her blood at your son's house,
32:09and then also in the trunk of her car.
32:12And we also just found what remains of her body dumped heartlessly 20 miles up Interstate 5.
32:21My God, that's...
32:24awful!
32:27Poor Charlotte.
32:30Clearly, Cory did not get his acting talents from his mother.
32:34Seriously, that wasn't even believable.
32:36But you have bigger problems than your lack of acting chops.
32:40Charlotte's car had GPS tracking.
32:42You should have disabled it before you dumped her body.
32:45You can't prove I was anywhere but the airport.
32:48Did you kill her, Mrs. Harris, or were you just cleaning up another one of your son's messes?
32:53I have no idea what you're talking about.
32:55I think Cory checked in at the retreat and then he left to go meet Charlotte.
32:59He killed her and called you to clean it up.
33:02Then he went back to his silent meditation
33:05while you dumped the body of a woman you'd known since she was a child like so much trash.
33:12Cory had nothing to do with it.
33:17Are you sure?
33:20Yeah.
33:22I kept her all by myself.
33:31Can you blame her for trying to protect her son?
33:34Uh, yeah, she killed somebody.
33:37Sure, but if your son had done something that would destroy his life,
33:40wouldn't you try and protect him, throw yourself on the grenade?
33:46Your job as a parent is to protect your children as much as you can.
33:52But that also means teaching them right from wrong.
33:56And there has to be consequences.
34:00Doesn't mean you love them any less, it just means...
34:05Parenting is hard.
34:07His mom confessed and Cory Harris passed the polygraph, so we had to release him.
34:12Doesn't sound like you believe he's innocent.
34:14My belief, for lack thereof, is irrelevant.
34:17The decision to charge lies solely with the DA's office
34:20and they didn't think it was a case they could win.
34:24Does that make you angry?
34:26No, I mean a high profile case like this and a guilty plea ready to go,
34:31I wouldn't have charged him either.
34:33That didn't mean I think he should have gotten away with it.
34:36Well, but he didn't actually get away with it, did he?
34:38Well...
34:42Good evening, worthy ones.
34:44Welcome to my evening sermon, streamed across all my social platforms.
34:54You know, we are so blessed.
34:57So blessed to shine in the light of our saviors above.
35:01You don't know the comfort I've drawn knowing that one day soon,
35:04they will come to lift us all up.
35:10Hello?
35:15How am I supposed to be here?
35:19Where was I?
35:21Right, our saviors, they spoke to me last night.
35:25The stars seemed to part as I was out in the night sky
35:28and I could hear their voices just as clear as you hear mine.
35:33And they said...
35:36What the hell?
35:37The electric bill's on auto-pay.
35:42Hello?
35:45Operator number two, is that you?
35:47This isn't funny.
35:49Come on.
35:53Be right back.
35:59Fuck.
36:18Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
36:28Oh, this is so heavy!
36:38Oh, my God. Oh, no, no, no.
36:43Siri, Siri, 911, please.
36:46Pick up, pick up, pick up.
36:50911, what's your emergency?
36:52Help. Someone's in my house. I'm in danger.
36:55The Savior, the prophet, Jehovah, I can't die.
37:01Sir, are you still there?
37:05Oh, my God.
37:07I'm scared. I don't want to die.
37:21Police! Don't move. Drop your weapon.
37:24Hands on your head and release your fingers. Now.
37:26You got him? Yeah.
37:28Let's move.
37:32Come here, then.
37:36Ronald Sanchez.
37:37Where's Cory Harris?
37:39Most of him's inside.
37:41Except his eyes.
37:43He just found those.
37:45Proper.
37:46You gotta bag them as evidence and we gotta clear the house.
37:50What happened here, Ronald?
37:52My coming-out party.
37:55Yeah, it turned out the Southland stalker had an accomplice after all.
37:59And he was pissed that Cory convinced Dan to take all the credit during his trial.
38:04I'm sorry, can I say pissed?
38:06Look, I know it's crazy, but, I mean, this dude's a friggin' serial killer who puts pies in his pocket.
38:11He's not exactly firing on all cylinders.
38:14Patrol, we got one in custody. Going back inside to look for the homeowner.
38:29Ready? Uh-huh.
38:44Come on.
38:49Oh, no.
38:52Control, we got a 187. Mobilize detectives, supervisor, and TID.
38:57I think, I think this thing is still on.
39:00It was. By the time Harper and Nolan secured the scene, Cory's livestream had 400,000 viewers.
39:05Okay, look, the case was definitely weird, but, I mean, come on, all this?
39:09This feels so exploitational. The low-hanging fruit of celebrity scandal and murder.
39:13You should be making serious documentaries about things that really matter.
39:16My last film was about climate injustice in Puerto Rico. It won a BAFTA.
39:22Oh. Oh. All right, then.
39:25I just want to say, this has been so fascinating. I love true crime.
39:29And to be in a documentary, it's just, it's a dream come true. Thank you. Thank you.
39:33Thank you so much for doing this.
39:35Yeah.
39:37You got, you got something in your ear.
39:39What? Has it been there the whole time?
39:41Yeah, it's pretty big. Let's get out of here.
39:43I would tell you if you had broccoli in your teeth, man. What the heck?
39:45Were you surprised that Ronald killed Cory?
39:48No, no, not at all. Guy's out of his mind.
39:51He was always super jealous of my fame, too, so I guess he needed to get some for himself.
39:58The eyes thing was a nice touch, though, I will say.
40:01Do you have a takeaway from this experience?
40:03Um, I'm honestly still processing everything that happened.
40:08And have you talked to Skipper?
40:09Who?
40:12Oh, um, no. No, we, um, we've gone our separate ways.
40:21Was this your craziest case?
40:23Oh, yes. This was definitely the craziest case I have ever worked.
40:27It was nowhere near the craziest.
40:29Really? Can you tell me more?
40:31No. Uh, we're done here. I'm gonna go.
40:34Actually, I have a few more questions if you have an extra minute or two.
40:37Detective Harper? D-D-Detective Harper?
40:40Harper?
41:00Mmm, tastes good.
41:03You know what I want to be when I grow up?
41:05An ice cream sundae.
41:07Silly, you can't be an ice cream sundae when you grow up.
41:10Then I never want to grow up.
41:16Still funny.
41:20Remember her?