i wasn't wild about kids. and that wasn't the case? wow. no. calculus? did it. history? didn't bring it. i'll be quiet. i know this is gonna sound bad. i know how bad it sounds. i didn't mind moving in with tina, but i didn't want to get married again. and women her age, they, like, to start pushing for a ring on the second date. so i thought i'd just head her off at the pass by saying... ...i didn't want to be a parent. i'm sure glen told you how hard he fought for primary custody after tina and i started seeing each other, saying that eric was growing up in an amoral environment, right? but i was more of a father to that kid than glen ever knew how to be! when i asked you to help us find eric this morning, you said you wanted to keep out of it. did you not see what happened when the three of us were together? besides, there are some family things

and tina is not... she's not my wife. and does she pressure you to marry her like you thought she would? no. as it turns out, she wasn't interested in that. what makes you so sure? because i proposed to her. and she refused? [ scoffs ] so what if she did? look, i don't know how you found this stuff in eric's stomach. but i didn't give it to him. i swear it. i didn't give it to him. excuse us for a moment. kevin? hi, mom. what's he doing in here? there was no way i could swing by the house when we found the body -- mom, i wanted to help out. kevin's not old enough to be in the middle of a murder investigation, especially of somebody that he knows.

this is really better than letting him get his driver's license? [ door slams ] since mr. lynch was so unhappy with his divorce settlement, i wonder if he'd let us read it before i question his ex-wife again. i'm on it, chief. thank you. tao: right now, his head has to be in his studies. mrs. tao: he works hard, mike. i know he does. who cares if he goes to stanford? i don't care if he goes to stanford. he's 16, mike, and a good boy. he deserves a little freedom. let him have his license. he's supposed to be preparing for his s.a.t.s. i thought we agreed. once we give him his driver's license, he'll be able to -- to what?! you think i'll drive off and never come back? that you'll let me get my license, and i'll disappear like eric did on his bike? i'm 16 years old, dad, and you still treat me like i'm a little kid. it's not about my grades or the s.a.t.s. it's like you're trying to protect me from...

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[ sighs ] have you been here all night? um... i need to make an arrest in the murder of a 9-year-old boy, i have search warrants out, so i'm waiting. search warrants. what are you looking for?

i thought dr. morales identified those drugs for you... he did. ...and that you tied the prescriptions to the mother's boyfriend. we have. listen, is this something that we need to discuss right now, or can it wait till i'm done? have you given any more thought to the idea of hiring an attorney? oh, for heaven's sakes. [ sighs ] i'll tell you again. i asked turell baylor where he wanted to go. he said, "home." i took him there, and i left. the end. so your position boils down to this -- the suspect was only your responsibility while in custody. the second you drove away, mr. baylor was on his own. is that right? provenza: damndest thing i ever saw, i can tell you that for sure. yeah. [ chuckles ] now, i know my way around a divorce. there's bad, there's ugly, and then there's this. flynn: okay, tina lynch not only took her husband for everything he had -- the house, the cars, the condo in mammoth. she's also taking him for close to 2/3 of everything he will have over the next nine years.

was gaining primary custody of his son. in the three years since his divorce, he's filed six motions to get eric back from his ex-wife. yeah, he claims that she's "an unfit mother "with promiscuous tendencies and a lack of financial responsibility." tao: this is the hard copy of mr. lynch fueling up at the gas station this morning. it's the same thing they e-mailed us. so you want to watch it again? no. thank you, lieutenant. just have buzz cue it up for me in electronics while i talk to the mother. lieutenant flynn, would you please escort mrs. lynch to interview room 1? i need to get this over with. and, uh, detective sanchez, under the circumstances, i think mr. lynch deserves to listen to this interview. chief, in here? better in electronics. thank you. we'll have to talk later, chief. i'm sure we will. first, i want to see my little boy. [ door opens ] when can i see --

soon. just have to clarify a few things. in investigating your son's death, we've been examining your divorce decree. where did you get that? well, your husband gave it to us. i'm not so much interested in the end of your marriage as i am about the custody fight over eric. [ door opens ] tina: i don't understand what that... chief, mr. lynch is here observing. flynn: well, in the past few years, your ex-husband has filed six motions for primary custody of eric. these motions all have a common theme. in each one, your ex-husband claims for one reason after another -- promiscuity, lack of supervision, living with your boyfriend -- that you're an unfit mother. you could have ended all this by marrying mr. winslow. i would like to marry him, but i won't. [ chuckles ] i know exactly why she won't marry him. god! if i get remarried, glen no longer has to pay alimony, and for 12 years, i put up with his lying, his cheating, his emotional abuse,

and i hope that i get every cent. miserable. miserable. brenda: you have his house. you have his car. why not give him back his son? he doesn't care about his son. he cares about the check that he has to write every month to support him. i don't know about that. he did buy your son a bicycle. and eric wanted to ride that bike to summer camp. and what did that lead to, huh? how did that end up -- glen's little gift? excuse me. [ door closes ] it ended up with you not walking your son to camp. isn't that right, mrs. lynch? [ crying ] yes. [ door closes ]

it is my fault eric is dead, and i know that. looks like she's taking responsibility, sir. we just need to figure out one more thing. buzz, you all cued up? when you're ready. i should have walked him yesterday. and i am sick about it. sick. but he is a 9-year-old boy. she's trying to weasel out of this by crying. what am i supposed to do? i can't have complete control over him, no matter what glen thinks. what's this? oh, this? this is yesterday morning at 8:15, about a half-hour before your son went missing. tao: you went into the mini-mart to pay for your gas with a credit card... then you bought a chocolate bar and a purple sports drink with cash. i bought a candy and a drink. so what? so that's what we found in eric's stomach when we performed the autopsy. we also found a narcotic and a muscle relaxer, which you probably took from tina's boyfriend when no one was home.

anyway, there was enough medication in eric's body to put a grown man in a coma... or kill a 9-year-old boy. eric drowned. well, maybe that was the intention -- drug him enough so that when he was placed in the swimming pool, he wouldn't wake up. but eric was dead before he hit the water. speaking of pools... when i check with this bank where you work, am i going to find that they're repossessing the house where we found your son's body? so what if they are? well, when i consider that and i factor in the bicycle, this begins to look more and more like a premeditated murder. what does the bike have to do with it? tao: if your son had been abducted by a stranger... his bicycle would have been dropped to the ground. but in this case, eric's bike was parked. gabriel: which means he didn't feel he was in any danger... which means he got into his abductor's car willingly. he even used his kickstand to prop up his bike. you wouldn't have it any other way. you terrorized eric about using that bike responsibly. and you knew, didn't you, that once he had a bike

and that she would give in and let him ride it out of her sight... that for a few minutes every morning, eric would be free and unsupervised, and something terrible could happen to him. this is all tina's fault. she took everything. my house, where she lives... having sex with another man... my cars, most of my salary. the only thing left was my son. and then she took him, too. she poisoned eric against me. so you poisoned your own son? he wasn't my son anymore. he was her son. why should i pay to support some kid who hates me? tell me that, huh?! now never will a day go by

let her have 2/3 of what i make in prison. maybe she and her boyfriend can try living on that! so go ahead! arrest me! she's ruined! she loses everything, too! she's ruined! get him out of here. mr. lynch, you are under arrest for the murder of your son, eric. tell her i did this. tell her i did this. tell her. i want her to know it was me who took him away from her! tell her! she's ruined! tell her i did it! tell her! [ door closes ] lieutenant, y-you did get him.

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[ telephone rings, indistinct conversations ] chief johnson? i'm in the middle of processing mr. lynch's booking. i think lieutenant tao knew how to process booking before you got here, and he was the incident commander. fine. raydor: uh, not that way, please, chief. going for a little ride. where to? not far. let's go, please.

we're probably in some sort of trouble. eh, we're the police. we're always in some sort of trouble. here. hey, kev -- hold on a sec. you completed the booking already? yeah. filled it out yesterday. this says "marc winslow." yeah, i told you i filled it out yesterday. just change the name to glen lynch. and you're welcome. [ sighs, chuckles ] oh, hey, kevin. sorry about that. i was thinking... what if i made you an appointment for you to take a little test at the dmv? think you can manage -- kevin: yes! ha! awesome! dad, thank you! mom, call aunt susan and tell her not to sell that honda! [ chuckles ] dad, wait a minute. aunt susan is selling her honda. ooh, boy. what do you think? what do you think?! [ dog barking ] [ engine shuts off ]

[ sirens wailing ] [ hinges squeak ] turell baylor's house -- where you delivered him, unprotected, the day he died. it's where turell said he wanted to go. and that may get us out of criminal court, but it may not work in your favor in front of a jury of civilians. come with me, please. [ woman vocalizing ] come on. you can't just leave me here. what's up with my protection? you're supposed to be protecting me.

so, let's walk through it. after you dropped turell off, leaving him on his own, he ran into his house, locked the door, and tried escaping through his backyard here. but he didn't get very far. see? he broke free and tried to run, but he was caught over here. and they dragged him across this driveway... ...to this wall, where his head was smashed repeatedly until he was dead. you say that your responsibility ended the moment turell left your custody, and the warren rule frees you from criminal liability. but in a civil trial, the jury may very well decide that you behaved with a callous disregard to the suspect's life, and if the city attorney starts to think that he is losing this case...

and leave you to take the blame, and you will be entirely on your own. so, what should i do? for your own sake...

going to go anywhere? do you have personal feelings about that, by the way? >> medical marijuana, as long as it's a part of a regulated process and we know that the product is safe and there's a medical reason to do it, i have been supportive of that. but i'll tell you, hot button issues are what they are. each of us does our homework, knows our district and tries to come up with a decent iowa decision. there are others who kind of are around the edges, like to generate what i call manufactured drama. there's enough of that in flicks these days. i try to be a problem solver. >> ron: medical marijuana, a lot

they need more. i wonder if there's any way to push that through for the families that need help. >> i've been pretty open about my stance on it. i'm not in any way for recreational marijuana. i would like to see us go through the process, but appropriately, not too fast. we have to be careful. this is a drug that does serious damage to people, so let's make sure we do the process correctly and that a physician can actually prescribe the drug in a correct manner. >> ron: that's it. we're out of time again. it goes by so fast. senator jeff danielson of seed czar falls, representative walt rogers. have a great session. accomplish a lot for us.

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