- With Rosie's body now identified, Det. Sarah Linden and Det. Stephen Holder begin the painstaking task of recreating her movements, learning about her circle of friends and tracing her movements after she left the Halloween dance at her high school on Friday night. They question Councilman Darren Richmond who says he has no knowledge as to why Rosie would have been in the trunk of a car registered to his mayoralty campaign. He refuses to play politics with the situation. Linden interviews Jasper Ames whose father interrupts the questioning. At Rosie's school, Holder learns about the cage, a place in the school basement where the kids go for privacy. It may also be the crime scene. The Larsons tell their two boys that their sister is dead.—garykmcd
- The investigation into Rosie's killer begins as Sarah and Holder question the missing girl's parents, Stan and Mitch, as well as Rosie's friends and City Councilman Richmond. Rosie's school becomes a potential murder site when Sarah and Holder uncover shocking evidence on campus. Heartbroken and grief-stricken, Mitch and Stan face the aftermath of losing their daughter.—AMC Publicity
- Open with detective Sarah Linden out for a jog on a rainy morning. Cutting between her run we see flashes of a young brunette being chased by someone with a flashlight through the woods. She seems terrified. Linden arrives on a beach and finds a dead seal. She gets a call.
Linden arrives at the call and tells the officer it's her last day. But it turns out to be Linden's co-workers giving her a surprise party for her last day.
Linden goes home and spends a few minutes with fiancé Rick. We learn they are moving to California and she and son Jack will fly out that night to meet Rick, who is taking an earlier flight. We learn teenager Jack doesn't love the idea of the move.
At the office the guy who is going to replace Linden, Stephen Holder, shows up earlier than expected. She tells him she's moving to the San Francisco area. Lieutenant Oakes shows up and gives her a call to check out.
Linden takes Holder along to the call. On the way he tells Linden he's coming to homicide from working undercover narcotics with the county.
Holder says the scene is a park known to be frequented by drug addicts. They are shown a bloody, dry-cleaned pink sweater and an ATM card with the name Stanley Larsen on it. With no body, Linden wants to hand it off to the sex crimes unit. Holder wants them to look into it.
We cut to Stan Holder (a mover) at a job. His wife Mitch calls him home with a plumbing emergency. Before he heads back out for work Mitch tells him 17-year old daughter Rosie has finally said she'll apply for colleges, provided they are out-of-state.
We see city councilman and mayoral candidate Darren Richmond by himself at a cemetery. He's called away by Jamie, his campaign manager. At headquarters he is greeted by Jamie and Gwen Eaton, his top advisor. It sounds like Richmond and Gwen are lovers. During a campaign meeting Richmond tells his staff that he's been told he's getting an endorsement from Ruth Yitanes an influential councilwoman. We're less than a month from the election and the sense is that Richmond has a good chance to win.
Linden and Holder show up at the Larsen's looking for Stan. Mitch tells them her husband was home all weekend. On the way out Linden notices a pink bike and asks if they have a daughter. Mitch said Rosie was at a friend's house all weekend but hasn't spoken with her since Friday.
At school Rosie's friend Sterling is panicking trying to find out of if anyone knows where Rosie is. In the hall the principal and Bennett, her teacher, ask her about Rosie. She says Rose was with her but Bennett immediately knows she is lying.
Mitch tells Holder Rosie may have been wearing a pink sweater. Mitch gets a call with confirmation that Rosie did not stay at Sterling's house like she told her parents. Linden glances into Rosie's room and sees a huge butterfly collage on the wall. No one has seen Rosie since a Halloween dance Friday night.
Just before going on stage for a debate at Rosie's school with the mayor, Richmond asks Gwen to move in with him. She won't, using the single female vote as part of the reason. She adds that she knows where he was that morning and "I wish you'd talk to me about her."
When Richmond and the mayor find out about the police investigation they decide to cancel a scheduled assembly. The mayor takes Richmond aside and mentions Yitanes' endorsement which Richmond had told his staff to keep hush-hush.
Bennett tells Linden and Holder that Rosie was dressed as a witch for the dance. Linden gets a call from Jack's school.
Sterling asks a kid about someone named Jasper. She asks if Rosie was with him. The friend says Jasper's parents were out of town and thinks she might have been over there.
We cut to a shirtless kid on the couch of a nice house playing video games and ignoring his phone. He looks back and we see a girl with dark hair tossing and turning up in the bedroom.
Jack was caught smoking cigarettes. She drops him off with friend before getting a call from Holder. Jack's doesn't want to move and hasn't fully accepted Rick.
Mitch's sister Terry and the Larsen's two young sons come home from school. Mitch finally tracks down Stan to tell him about Rosie.
Mitch tells Stan she though Rosie was no longer dating Jasper.
The K-9 unit found a scent in the wooded area from the opening chase scene but nothing has been found. Holder thinks the area is a dead-end but Linden isn't so sure.
Richmond tells Jamie and Gwen about the endorsement information getting out. Jamie want them to take advantage of missing girl was He gets a call from an old girlfriend and staffer who says a reporter is asking about "trips" he took that nobody besides she, Gwen and Jamie know about. And she hasn't told anyone.
Stan tracks down Sterling, who tells him she thinks Rosie is at Jasper's house. Stan calls Mitch to say he's on his way to pick her up. She's relieved.
Linden gets a call from Oakes about Rosie apparently being with an old boyfriend. He wants to shut down the investigation. The still aren't finding anything near where the scent was located.
Stan bursts into Jasper's home (the video game kid) looking for Rosie. He barges upstairs and sees the girl Jasper has in his bed is not Rosie.
Rick gives Linden a call to talk about that night. While she listens she seems to notice something on the map. She then spots kids headed somewhere with fishing poles. There is a nearby lake. We cut to the police pulling a car out of the lake.
Stan calls Mitch with news about Rosie not being at Jasper's. He's headed to the place they found Rosie's sweater and happens upon a police road block. With Mitch still listening on his phone he runs up the check point and is stopped by officers. Up the road an officer tells Linden the car was registered to the Richmond campaign. The trunk of the car is popped and Linden looks down at a girl's body. She tells Stan only that he can't be there, but he (and Mitch via the phone) clearly knows what has happened.
Stan and Mitch identify Rosie's body at the morgue. Afterwards they are questioned by Linden and Holder. Stan says Rosie was a quite girl who liked spending time with her brothers and was usually home on the weekends. Rosie has no political connections they were aware of.
Oakes tells the detectives there is no cause of death and asks Linden if she will stick around another day because of the delicacy of the political component. Linden tells Rick she have to miss her flight and he's good-natured about the change.
Linden and Holder ask the Larsen's not tell anyone about Rosie's death for at least another day or so. Stan asks if they will find who killed Rosie. Much to Linden's dismay Holder promises "yes."
Richmond and Gwen are called to his office to meet with Linden and Holder. They learn about the car and about Rosie, who after a check has no connection with Richmond whatsoever. Richmond agrees to help the investigation by not announcing anything related until the next night. Once the police leave Jamie and Gwen want Richmond to ignore his promise, in part because they don't want Yitanes to hear the news from someone else. He agrees to a press conference the next day at noon just after a short meeting with the councilwoman. When the room has cleared Richmond tells Gwen a reporter told him he was tipped off about the Yitanes endorsement. Someone sent an email from the office but the reporter wouldn't say whom.
It turn out the campaign vehicle had been reported stolen on Saturday morning. The workers were known to leave the keys inside the cars.
Mitch and Stan have a sleepless night. They tell Terry (who doesn't yet know Rosie is dead) they will try and keep the boys away from the police investigation as much as possible.
Jasper grabs Sterling outside the school, pissed that she told Stan Rosie was with him. Bennett tells them the police are at school to question some of the kids.
Sterling tells Holder she doesn't have any idea where Rosie went and Jasper did not go the dance. Jasper tells Linden he picked up an older woman at a bar on Friday night. During questioning Jasper's important-looking father shows up and shuts down the process. After clearing the room he slaps Jasper violently across the face, asking "what did you do this time?"
Linden and Holder watch video the school took of the dance. Rosie was dressed as a witch, having lied to her parents about the costume which featured $2,000 shoes. Rosie was a good girl "with no secrets" and Linden can't figure out why she was with Jasper. Jasper's only criminal background is a stolen car/joy ride, but because his father is incredibly wealthy no charges were pressed. Oakes says the Richmond campaign is about to issue a press release.
While the leaks have turned up empty, Jamie has learned the campaing car was stolen. Councilwoman Yitanes arrives, but before Richmond call tell her about Rosie's murder Gwen pulls him out into the hall to speak with Linden. She convinced him that if he issues the release he'll be "the candidate who obstructed a child's murder investigation." He agrees to wait until midnight. After Linden leaves Richmond suggests they tell a reporter about him helping the investigation with the condition being the story doesn't come out until after midnight. He tells Yitanes a bogus story.
Holder finds Rosie's wig in a dumpster outside the school. Inside the detectives get no help from the students, none of whom say they even saw Rosie at the dance.
Mitch and Stan tell their sons that Rosie has died.
Richmond meets privately with the investigator who looked at the campaign e-mail accounts. The investigator initially never checked Jamie or Gwen's account and Richmond instructs him to do so.
Holder tells Linden he's going to stay at the school and do some more digging. It's technically now his case. Linden leaves to pick-up Jack, essentially resigned from the case.
The Larsen's arrive home to Terry cleaning up after the cops. When they're alone Terry asks Mitch "Why didn't you call her? All weekend?"
Holder lingers after the girls team's soccer practice, smoking what appears to be weed off the side. Two girls approach him and he offers them a few hits. He starts talking about wanting to find a play to "party." The second they mention something "in the basement, the cage," he walks away.
We see Holder walking through the basement with a flashlight. He comes to a chain link fence and starts straight ahead.
Linden and Jack sit in her office while she watches footage of Rosie. After Jack leaves Oakes walks in and tells Linden Rosie was still alive when the car was run into the lake, and that the drowning girl ripped off her fingernails trying to get out of the trunk. Linden repeats that she's not going to stay, but then is intrigued after walking into the hallway and seeing the crime scene unit head out.
At work Stan stares at a picture Rosie made for him as a child. When he returns home Mitch is nowhere to be found and the boys haven't been fed.
On the way to a political appearance Richmond gets a call from a reporter asking him to confirm that Rosie's body was found in one of his campaign cars. He says "No comment" and hangs up.
Linden shows up in the school basement and asks Holder what is going on: "This is where the real Halloween party went down," he says, pointing to a corner. She looks over and sees a filthy mattress lying on the floor. Next to it appears to be Rosie's witch hat.
Stan opens Rosie's door and finds Mitch curled up in the bed starting straight ahead at the wall.
Linden looks closely at the wall next to the mattress and sees a bloody handprint.
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