robbery doesn't really appear to be a motive. but a close-range shot to the face -- well, that suggests a personal attack, right? any, uh, witnesses? yes. building resident in the stairwell heard two gunshots and then, about 10 seconds later, saw a woman run past her. got a real good look at her face, too. second witness saw a black bmw stopped behind the building. something dropped out of the driver's-side window, and a patrolman recovered... this gun. now, initially, you know, i thought that this shooting might be related to that unsolved one we had last tuesday at ninth and grand, yeah, but the calibers don't match. i, uh, marked the casings where they landed, and this is the victim's cellphone. [ yawning ] sorry. i was just driving home from an, uh, all-nighter, you know, and i heard the sirens, and i figured i'd probably be the first detective on the scene, so... no apology necessary, detective. hey, you know, if you want, i'd be happy to log all that stuff in for you. oh, uh, okay.

thanks. oh, my pleasure. we all work for the same woman, after all, don't we? chief johnson? uh, no, no, no, no. i mean, you know, the -- the lady with the blindfold and the scales in her hands, you know what i mean. 'cause we all have one specialization, right? justice. "divisions won't divide us." that's our new mission statement, isn't it, chief? that's it exactly, detective. that's right. oh, hey, you know what? in case i get held up, you mind if i grab your cards? sure. [ sighs ] thanks. thanks. [ car door closes ] [ engine turns over ] kiss-ass. yeah. big-time. now, that guy is an example of the kind of police force i'm trying to build here, you know? he didn't drive by the crime scene and say, "it's not my job." he was proactive. aaaaaaaah! for a second, i thought that was coming from me.

aaaaah! yes, yes, he's dead! aah! whoa, whoa, whoa! chief, chief! oh! oh! was he a friend of yours? [ whimpers ] aaaaaaaaah! [ breathing heavily, sobbing ] all right. let's try this again. when you last saw the victim -- aaaaaah! [ gasps ] oh, no! buzz. spent an hour in the parking garage with this woman today. i cannot take any more of this. sergeant, why didn't your squad ever show ? uh, sorry, chief. no one from roll-out let us know. huh. it was phoned in. and, uh, you don't have to call me "chief" today. i'm just one of the guys. [ speaking indistinctly ] i think she started making words. oh, my god. i just realized i never had sex with a...dead person before. well, presumably, he wasn't dead when you had sex with him. was he? uh, what was the name of the vic--

uh, the man that you slept with? i-intrigue. uh...wait... did you say his name was "intrigue"? his real name was mark bernstein. oh, my god. if my boss finds out that he died in my parking garage, i'm gonna be in so much trouble! who else knew that intrigue -- uh, mr. bernstein -- spent the night with you? nobody. i-i didn't tell anyone. why? because if mark bernstein doesn't live in your building and you were the only one who knew where he was, i have to wonder if you followed him downstairs to the parking garage and shot him yourself... or called someone to kill him for you. oh, my god. you're accusing me of m-murder? nooooo! oh, my god! oh, my god! ohh. sergeant. [ breathing heavily ] do you have the witness statements yet or the victim's cellphone? or the detectives' notes

or anything that actually might lead us somewhere? nothing's been logged in evidence yet. i'll get on the line to central and see what the holdup is. uh, someone needs to stay here with our witness. marie: oh, my god! no! dear god. oh, my god! so, why is this even a major crime? i mean, the only thing we know about this guy is that his name was mark bernstein and he called himself "intrigue." s-someone killed intrigue? you know who this man was, detective? i mean, he's kind of famous, chief. for what? the intrigue technique. i-it's a system for... picking up women. what do you mean there's no detective by that name working at central? well, that's a mistake, because we all just met him. check again. yes, i'll tell you who's asking -- assistant chief william pope. let the record show that he was one of the guys for less than two hours. look, i-i-i spoke with him this morning.

yes, detective richard tracy, yes. okay, let me speak with your immediate supervisor. now. uh, excuse me. chief, um... am i to understand that you and, uh, lieutenant flynn and lieutenant provenza handed over all the evidence from the crime scene, including the gun, to a detective dick tracy? yes, cindy, uh... never mind. okay. now... this...is... definitely... a major crime.

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no, i didn't. then how could you have been so certain that he was an actual l.a.p.d. detective? he knew my mission statement. that should have been proof that he didn't work here. how did we miss that? chief, chief, uh, t-this -- this tracy guy -- i mean, he seemed authentic. i mean, he had an l.a.p.d. notebook, h-he had the forms, he -- he knew things, like -- like, uh... right, like -- like the caliber of the bullets used in that shooting a-at ninth and grand on tuesday, right? yeah, yeah, that. so...we have a tainted crime scene, a murder weapon and casings out of the chain of custody. w-we heard that there were witnesses from someone who could quite possibly be the killer and, if not, a pathological liar. [ sighs ] i say we just check with robbery homicide and see if they're tracking any police impersonators. it'll take two seconds. flynn: no, no, no, no. that -- that's a bad idea. bad idea. [ sighs ] chief, i found mark bernstein's, a.k.a. intrigue's, bio on wikipedia. i'm printing it out now, along with his dmv info.

this -- this is the hookup king? his method must really work. it does. is that our victim, lieutenant? um... yeah. that's him. okay, uh, lieutenant provenza, a search warrant for intrigue's residence and the apartment of our lady of the screams, marie morgan's, as well. thank you. good morning. i'm deputy chief brenda leigh johnson of the l.a.p.d., and i have a warrant to search the residence of mark bernstein, a.k.a. intrigue. again? excuse me? the l.a.p.d. was here an hour ago and cleared his place out. who was here, exactly? let's see. his name was... lieutenant provenza of the major crimes unit.

brenda: besides the laptop computer, did you see what else he took? dvds, books, bills. i helped him carry out three boxes of stuff. you did? mm-hmm. what a gentleman. well, lieutenant provenza was a very pleasant guy. can you tell me about any women coming or going recently? from here? none. ever. that was one of intrigue's rules. your home, your sanctuary. your sanctuary. did intrigue mention if anyone had threatened him? t-these questions are almost word-for-word what lieutenant provenza asked. really? yeah. um, everybody loved intrigue. you may find this hard to believe, but i'm not naturally so lucky with the lady folk. but after his web course, that all changed. and not just once -- twice. well, thank you, mr. o'keefe. uh, could you just give us one second? oh. thank you. gabriel: hey, chief. chief. i don't know if this is anything, but it's marked "'tapped' pilot rough cut," um, but the, uh, dvd is gone.

pope: wonderful -- we have no witnesses, and whatever evidence this guy's got is gonna be inadmissible in court because it was wrongfully obtained. no, it's only wrongfully obtained if it was collected by a police officer, which it was not. [ sighs ] as soon as we locate this so-called detective tracy, we can use whatever he's collected, and he'll go to jail for burglary, obstruction of justice, and possibly murder. murder? really? if tracy killed this guy, why would he come here and bring a warrant? yeah, easy. he murders intrigue to get his keys, the warrant gets him in without suspicion, and he just takes away everything that connects him to the victim. uh, detective sanchez, sergeant gabriel, would you please go back to the crime scene and canvass the neighbors? see if you can locate our original witnesses. thank you. i don't know -- the guy may be a killer, but he's acting more like a wannabe detective. makes me wonder where he might go next. oh, no. oh, no. what? the notification.

mr. bernstein? i'm brenda leigh johnson from -- l.a.p.d. crisis response team. chief pope told us to expect you. uh, who told you... what? uh, l.a.p.d., uh, assistant chief william pope. he gave us the news about my brother's murder an hour ago, and he said you people from crisis response would be here to help us. come on in. yes, wonderful. thank you. well, you served the warrant, pope did the notification. i wonder what the hell i'm doing right now. uh, this is jill pappas, the network executive who decided to put mine and my brother's show on the air. ms. pappas, i'm brenda leigh johnson, and this is, um... detective [mumbles] i'm so sorry about your loss. so, you and your brother had a show? it was supposed to premiere on slag tv next week. slag tv? it's a cable channel. oh. uh, please have a seat. oh, thank you so much. pappas: ken and i were just sitting down to discuss all the upcoming episodes when chief pope... stopped by.

one of the first things we like to do in, um, crisis response is make certain that the family notification was done properly, so perhaps you can tell us what chief pope discussed with you. uh, he seemed... really focused on knowing who mark went home with last night. what did you tell him? we had no idea. knowing my brother, it was probably a girl he'd just met. chief pope asked about the women who've appeared on our show, as well. did you provide him with names? i told him that he could gethem from jill's assistant. unfortunately, marie is not responding to our messages. has she texted you yet? [ doorbell rings ] i just can't wrap my head around the idea that mark is...gone. i'll be back in a minute. yes. um... ms. pappas, um... the brothers, uh, ken and -- and mark, did they get along? do you have brothers? three. ll, then you know how it is.

i think ken had a little crush on my assistant, but she liked intrigue. was ken aware of this? i think so, but i would never have brought it up, because, well, the brothers did so much better when they got along. of course. i found intrigue, i developed the show, and the pilot was testing off the charts. it's just such a huge loss on so many levels. [ woman crying ] would you excuse me? absolutely. we find this tracy guy, i'm gonna kill him. get in line. get in line. here's what i don't get -- i haven't made any kind of public statement yet, so who gave him all this "no divisions" stuff? tao: you did. our public transparency project with the new l.a.p.d. website went online last month. [ laughing ] okay, i had nothing to do with...this. they asked me for a few photos and a -- and a couple of old speeches. oh, my god. what else is on there? case details updated hourly, crime stats by the neighborhood -- that's probably how he found out about the other shooting.

tracy is monitoring the website, quite possibly as we speak. okay, um, what else have you found out about our victim, lieutenant? intriguing endeavors, the company formed by ken and mark bernstein, was a cash cow. pulled in over $12 million last year alone. there were some questions about some unpaid taxes and an offshore company pulling in proceeds, but the, uh, fbi's investigating that. no, no, no, no. fritz and i have discussed this, and we have a deal. we no longer share information with each other. yeah, well, i don't have that deal, and if there's one time that "no divisions" should mean something, it's when the fbi and local law enforcement can work together to solve a murder. chief, either tracy is the murderer and he's running around collecting all the evidence and he's contaminating every single witness -- or he's not the killer, and we have to stop him before he makes an arrest. until now, he's been one step ahead of us. but we know something that he doesn't -- where the victim spent the night and with whom. lieutenant tao. i'm updating the online case file as we speak, chief.

woman: who is it? l.a.p.d., ms. morgan. i'm sorry to bother you. who did you say it was? oh, lieutenant andrew flynn of major crimes. i just want to ask you a few questions. oh. just a second. [ door unlocks ] oh! ow! what are you doing?! lieutenant flynn, i believe you've met lieutenant flynn. who the hell are you, huh?! m a serious homicide detective doing serious investigative work! you are also seriously under arrest, you freak! i'm not under arrest. you're under arrest. put your hands up against the wall! i'm arresting you and you! you're all under arrest for assault and battery of a police officer! help! police! i am the police. you have the right to remain silent.

do not read me my rights. don't you tell me what to do. [ indistinct shouting ] help me! buzz: [ sighs ] okay. okay. look -- i-i'll show you one more time. you click here, and you're displaying the interview-room cameras. but i still can't hear anhing! because you have to click this to hear interview 1. anything -- anything could happen as i free-associate about the case. i could crack it wide open just sitting here in this room. [ scoffs ] and then click this to hear interview 2. oh, my god! oh, for heaven's sakes. we're running an asylum in here. pope: thank you, buzz. [ loudly ] in between the crying and screaming, she said, yes, she is this pappas woman's assistant, and, yes, she worked on the guy's show. [ normal voice ] oh. and she also drives a company bmw, black. oh! [ candy paper rustles ] afternoon, people. well, special agent howard. so, uh... what can you tell us about our victim?

uh... three years ago, the fbi began investigating mark bernstein's company, intriguing endeavors, because of questionable release forms he and his brother obtained from the women featured in his web videos. two of the girls were underage, several were too drunk to know what they were doing. part of intrigue's deal in making this new television show was stopping all of that. so they went legit. as far as we can tell. but -- with mark bernstein gone -- all cash coming in goes to the surviving brother, yes. chief, the victim's computer -- i think it could tell us a lot, but someone added a boot password blocking access to intrigue's files. i'd guess detective tracy -- he's not a detective, lieutenant. but who is he? sergeant gabriel, do we know yet? fingerprints say his real name is jonathan baird. he's age 36, he's got no criminal record, no financial connection to the bernsteins. he's worked for a variety of security companies over the past 10 years, fired each time for doing his job a little too well.

he took the l.a.p.d. academy entrance exam twice, scored extremely high, but was never admitted due to psychological issues. there's a shock. now...about his witness statements. the good news is his handwriting is impeccable. the bad news is everything's written in this bizarre code i think only he can decipher. oh. [ scoffs ] thank you. lieutenant. [ door opens ] oh, finally. you know, i feel incredibly underappreciated right now. do you, mr. baird? that is your name, isn't it? [ sighs ] are we really gonna sit here and debate my identity, or are we going to arrest a killer? you know, if we don't catch him in the first 48 hours, our chances of success go down dramatically! we are losing time, people! we're not losing any tim you have all the time in the world. give me one good reason why i shouldn't arrest you for murder. uh, okay. uh, how about this? i didn't do it! and, by the way, while i'm on duty, could you please refer to me as "detective"? you know, if you spent a little more time investigating

and just a little less time arresting fellow officers, you would know by now that the killer drives a black bmw, whereas we all drive crown vics. why were you at the crime scene in the first place? uh, well, i-i guess i saw some black-and-whites there, and i thought, "why don't i show a little bit of initiative?" you know, i got to tell you, chief pope was a lot more impressed with me than you are. i need the names of the witnesses. they're on page 17 of my official report. you're not writing an official report! no, i'm not, am i?! that's because i'm handcuffed to this chair! i am not gonna let the two of you blow this investigation! i am way farther along on this than you are. you want to know why? because i move like lightning. i turn on a dime. i fly like the wind. did you see how fast i served that search warrant? whup-pssh! that's because we actually have to get a judge to sign them! and tell me this. the woman that our victim was seen with last night -- does she or does she not drive a black bmw, just like our killer? yes or no? hey, you don't get to ask questions around here -- we do! all right, lieutenant flynn.

yes? yes? [ sighs ] [ groans ] look, look -- just -- mm. okay. [ chuckles ] detective. mm-hmm. you turn on a dime. you move like lightning. you fly like the wind. do you actually have a theory about this crime? chief! look, lieutenant, this man has been places we have not and done things we cannot do, including interviewing the witnesses. maybe you could bring us up to speed. how about it... dick? a parking garage -- cold, dank, unforgiving, as mundane as evil itself, and yet -- detective, just the fact pattern, please. i have to set the right tone!

gabriel: do you hear this guy? [ sighs ] we may never know exactly what mark bernstein, a.k.a. intrigue, was thinking as he walked from the structure's single stairwell to his bmw, parked in this unassigned guest spot on parking level 2 of 3. do all the parking levels have unassigned guest spaces? that's a very astute question, my latino friend. the answer is sí, absolutamente. which is "yes, absolutely," okay? clearly, our killer recognized our victim's car. bernstein walked here. and our shooter, standing here, judging by where the casings landed here and here, likely called his name. might have sounded like, "hey, intrigue! is that you?!" so the victim turned. the shooter fid -- bam! bam! one hit, one hot slug of lead

squarely penetrating... the victim's forehead. gabriel: i'm here. go on. excuse me. uh, who was the first eyewitness? a miss sue jamison of apartment 515 was gingerly descending the stairwell when she heard those two gunshots -- blam! blam! seconds later, a thin woman of about average height fled past her, ostensibly on her way up to the street. no, make sure you give me this right... am i boring you, officer?! uh, chief, ballistics confirms the gun found at the crime scene matches bullets and casings. thank you, sergeant. detective, would you please continue, quickly? three minutes later, a glenn ramsdale spies a late-model black bmw stopping behind the building. something falls out of the driver's-side window. [ gasps ] it's a gun. and we've st confirmed the murder weapon. thank you so much, detective.

so, clearly, our -- our killer knew both the building's layout and that our victim was, uh, sleepi with ms. morgan. and next, if you look at the tv show that our victim was working on, i think you'll be exactly halfway to understanding the killer's motive. you know, even if a computer won't boot up, you should probably still empty the "d" drive. you never know what you might find, lieutenant. [ music plays ] uh, buzz, could you fast-forward to the actual content? yes, ma'am. intrigue: we've all seen how an inexperienced p.u.a. approaches an s.h.b. and how quickly things will go wrong. p.u.a. -- pick-up artist. s.h.b. -- smokin' hot babe, chief.