- ♪ Survival of the fittest - ♪ Survival of the fittest
- Colby! Colby!
You did it! That was your fastest time yet.
- Oh, faster than Maui? - Yeah.
- How much did I beat Sergio by?
- At least a second. - Oh!
Sponsors are gonna be over the moon!
- I'm so proud of you, sweetie.
Oh, there's my girl!
Oh, you killed it. - So did you.
- You killed it.
- Hey, sorry.
Drinks went a little later than I thought.
Wish you would have joined us.
- I made sushi.
The uni's fresh from Hokkaido.
- Oh, yum city.
Well, I'll be home soon.
- No way. I got you next time.
- Colby, is there somebody in the car with you?
- Uh, I'm just gonna drop Roger off at his place.
It's all good. See you soon.
Hey, hey.
- Sorry I can't come over.
- It's okay.
- Last night, Sparrow May was found dead
in her apartment in South Philly.
- The front door was ajar, there was no forced entry.
The neighbor called it in.
- 27 years old and a rising star
in the alt-triathlon world.
- Ah, she was an Ironman woman? - To the extreme...
Open water swimming, cross-country running,
obstacle courses. It's a whole vibe.
- The race she ran yesterday is called the Polar Xpress.
It's described as 75% race, 25% party.
- She was stabbed 20 times, cut so deep they chipped bone.
- It sounds like she knew her killer.
- First person of interest is Colby Dysart,
current leader in the men's division.
Comes from Atlanta Buckhead money.
Last seen leaving a local bar with Sparrow.
- And the second person?
- Colby's live-in girlfriend, Mavis.
Mavis is a wellness fanatic...
An ethos that extends to every corner of her macrobiotic life.
Mavis was spotted on the Jersey turnpike earlier this morning,
driving her 2022 Polestar,
crossing state lines, making this case ours.
- What about Colby?
- Philly PD has him in for questioning
but hasn't gotten far.
- If Mavis found out that Sparrow
was with Colby last night, maybe jealousy is the motive?
- Or maybe Sparrow and Colby were hooking up,
Colby kills Sparrow to keep their affair secret.
- Love, man, I tell you.
- Makes people lose their minds.
God, I miss it.
- Says the man who's been divorced twice?
- Call me crazy, but I still believe in love.
- Well, Sparrow was an athlete, right?
She would have been strong enough to fight back.
Did Colby have any defensive wounds?
- Nope... no bloody clothes, no murder weapon recovered yet.
ERT has the scene.
- Mavis' phone is off. We do have a BOLO out.
Now I'm gonna get in touch with Polestar
and see if they'll cooperate,
but they're gonna want a warrant.
- We don't have enough yet for a warrant on Mavis.
Philly PD wants us to track her down for questioning.
- Why New Jersey? She have family there?
- Queens, Breezy Point.
- The Irish Riviera.
- I don't know that area.
- That's where a lot of law enforcement
and first responders live.
- Mavis comes from a family of firefighters.
Kristen, you and I will head over there now.
Barnes, Ray, take a run at Colby,
see what he remembers about that night.
A lot of eyes on this one, little homeys.
Let's roll.
- I mean, look at them... Puppies, sunsets, van life.
This is what Instagram was made for.
This story has everything... Sushi, interracial sex,
a middle-aged woman out for blood.
A perfect case for "Wanted: America."
- How middle-aged?
- Mavis just turned 40, but she's got incredible skin.
I mean, look at her.
Don't you wanna be her?
- What I want is to be 20 pounds lighter
and on the other end of my divorce.
What do we do about that fire in Hoboken?
- Dead kids have nothing on dead pretty people.
- We spent two weeks on six dead kids.
This murder was in the "Enquirer" this morning.
- It'll be national any second now.
I bet my regional Emmy on it.
- But no warrants out?
- Not yet.
It's gonna be a challenge to cast these reenactments,
to find people who look that good?
- I call dibs on cameraman Joe.
- Em!
Until a warrant comes down, tread lightly.
- Tread lightly.
For sure, of course.
- That's not what you're known for!
- There's no way my baby girl
had anything to do with that murder.
- Maybe we should come in and talk about it.
- Colby's the one you should be looking at.
He's an abusive, no good...
- Abusive how, Captain?
- Always putting himself first.
Throwing his family name around.
Dysart this, Dysart that.
Running all over the world.
He's never worked an honest day in his life.
- Captain, we know you've already lost one child.
A son, right? In Tower Two.
And all we wanna do is talk to your daughter.
We can protect her. From Colby, even.
- I appreciate that.
- When's the last time you spoke with Mavis?
- Sunday at noon, just like always.
- You mind if we look at your phone?
- Yeah, I mind.
- You're retired FD, your brother's on the force,
your nephew's an EMT.
You know how this goes.
- Yeah. It's called confirmation bias.
You see it on the news all the time.
You people make up your mind about a case,
and then you find every little thing you can to back it up.
Keeps you from seeing the truth.
- And what is the truth, Captain?
- There's a killer out there.
And until I know for sure my daughter's safe,
I'm not talking to nobody.
- Mavis and I would...
After a while, things were just different, you know?
- Enlighten me.
- Things just weren't as fresh.
So we started seeing other people,
mix things up a little bit.
And it wasn't for long.
Sparrow and I only connected for about two weeks.
- You know, you were the last person
to see Sparrow May alive.
- Did... did I connect with her the day that she died?
Yes, just like I told the other detective before.
After I dropped Sparrow off, I went home.
Mavis wasn't there, I passed out.
The next day, I woke up, she was gone, had packed a bag.
- And she was cool with y'all seeing other people, right?
- She had this temper, you know?
Short fuse, runs in the family.
There was this one time
where Sparrow and I were at Vitelli's.
We ran into Mavis there.
She was not pleased to see us.
- Defined not pleased.
- Well, she said to Sparrow,
"Stay away from my boyfriend or I'll kill you."
- And that amuses you, Colby, the fact that
you got caught out?
- What happened is horrible...
Horrible.
I mean, I...
I lost two of my sponsors.
My phone keeps blowing up...
- Unlock your damn phone.
Unlock it.
All of these messages are from women who wanna comfort him.
Let me ask you something.
Things ever get heated between you and Mavis?
I mean, you did say she had a temper.
You ever have to defend yourself?
- If you're asking if I ever hit Mavis,
the answer is a resounding no.
I was raised to cherish women.
- Plenty of them at once, it seems.
- Hey.
I didn't make them fall in love with me.
- Hey. Can you help me with this?
- Oh. Oh, my gosh. You're bleeding.
Come here. Sit down.
Let me see.
I will be gentle.
Promise.
Come here.
Do you wanna tell me about it, Mave?
You wanna... what happened?
- I mean, you know how Colby gets, um,
when he wins, that high he has.
- I know. I've seen it.
- You combine that with a couple tequila shots
and he thinks he can do anything.
- He did this to you?
- He came home after the bar, and I...
Um, he, uh, he came after me, and I...
I... I tried to fight him off and...
- You were lucky to get out of there alive.
But I have to ask, why don't you just talk to the cops?
- No, I...
- Tell them about Colby being so mean to you.
Just clear everything up.
- No, I'm afraid.
- Of Colby?
- I'm afraid of Colby, I'm afraid of the cops,
I'm afraid of everybody.
And it feels like a witch hunt.
- I gotcha.
Just one second.
Yeah?
Okay.
I'll be right there.
That was work.
I have to go deal with something.
You just sit tight here.
- No, I can't... I can't just sit here.
- Just give me two seconds. I'll be right back, okay?
I haven't seen her.
- It's funny, your father said the same thing.
So you don't mind if we check out your apartment
then, right? You live nearby?
- Sure, when you show me a warrant.
In the meantime, I'm having a sale on wet suits.
- I mean, winter is the best time for surfing.
- You surf?
- I'm no Laird Hamilton, but dude, broski,
there's some rad barrels out there today.
Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
- No way.
- Why aren't you in Santa Clarita?
- Why are you in Vegas?
- Em McAdoo, segment producer for "Wanted: America."
- Right. And how do you know each other?
- Take it outside, all of you.
No way am I talking to you or the press.
This is a witch hunt.
You know, my sister is innocent.
- I'm shocked you still have your job.
- Please.
- All right, what'd she do?
- It's a long story.
- Remy.
I think we should work together again on this one.
You know how helpful our show can be in finding a fugitive.
- Your show that sensationalizes tragedy.
- It's not a Lifetime show, but I hear you.
I know I need to reestablish trust between us.
Listen, the owner of Queen's Beach Surf Shop
saw Delilah's van leaving her shop early this morning
and returning about an hour ago.
It may be nothing, but she may have gone
to see her sister somewhere.
- Mavis probably ditched her Polestar.
- Such a recognizable car?
I would.
- How'd you get him to talk?
- My roommate from film school has a cousin
who waitresses here in the summer.
- Hot white chick at large,
people are gonna be all over this one.
And I'm the devil you know.
- Yeah, look, I've been burned by the press before.
- Same. Me too. By you.
- I know.
I can't change what happened.
But it's up to you how you want this one to play out.
- Your number still the same? - Remy?
- She's a tool we can use to find Mavis.
You'll share everything with us?
You won't hold anything back for yourself like last time?
- For sure. Of course.
As long as you don't call me a tool again.
- I'll be in touch.
Don't look at me like that.
- Mavis?
I thought that was you.
- Hey.
- Your picture's everywhere, girl.
Something about a murder in Philly?
- Yeah.
Look, you didn't see me, okay?
- You're, uh, standing right in front of me.
- We can keep it our secret.
- 911, what is your emergency?
- Yeah. My name's Rodney.
I'm here at Rockaway Beach, and I'm with that girl that...
- The surfer's official cause of death is drowning.
- The surfer's cause of death is Mavis.
- I agree, but we have no proof of that.
No eyewitnesses to his 911 call.
- Just an overwhelming possibility that Mavis
was in the vicinity of his death.
Three blocks from her sister's surf shop?
- Possibility is not enough for a warrant.
- But what is she doing surfing when she's on the run?
- Right? I'd call it delusional.
- And psychotic.
Let's say Colby traded in Mavis for Sparrow.
Mavis is no longer the bright, shining star she once was.
It's infuriating to be replaced.
- So where does that leave us?
- We still need a warrant.
Without the murder weapon, we need something definitive
linking Mavis to Sparrow's homicide.
- How do I look?
- Different. But that's good.
- Uncle Arnie.
Did anybody see you?
- No. - Are you sure?
- Just relax.
Nobody's gonna connect us to this place.
I gave Declan some money to close early.
He's a good guy, he owes me one.
So what'd you find out down at the station?
- It's all the guys are talking about.
Colby let them search your place,
but they didn't find anything.
- 'Cause there's nothing to find.
Nobody talks to the cops or the Feds
until we straighten all this out.
Everybody understand?
- Yeah.
- All right, I've been thinking.
You still have connections from when you were teaching
mindfulness down in Bali?
- Mm-hmm.
- We need to get you to Bali.
- How?
My passport won't be any good.
- What can you do here?
Surely you can do something.
- Me?
Come on.
- Who do you know?
- Jimmy, I'm this close to making detective, I...
- This is my daughter we're talking about here!
Your niece! Your family!
- Okay, okay!
I think I know a guy who can get her a passport.
- How long will that take?
- Three days.
- Get on it.
- But what are we supposed to do for three days?
- We're going to Buffalo.
- We don't know anybody in Buffalo.
- Exactly.
Cut.
Shay, can we cut the water?
What's going on?
- Knife keeps slipping out of my hand.
- That's the second time that happened.
Is your hand okay?
- Yeah, because this blade's rubber.
- Hey, Em. Em.
A good tip just came in.
You're gonna wanna head to Philly.
Uh, gather round, everybody.
Uh, that's it for the day. Thank you very much.
Em, can we talk, please?
- Hey, Em. You're on speaker.
- Two things.
One, in our reenactment,
Sparrow's killer could have cut her hand.
- Blood and water makes for a very slippery situation.
What's the other thing?
- Some guy from Philly called in with footage
from his Ring camera.
Says he can place Mavis' Polestar
eight blocks from Sparrow's apartment the night she died.
- Why didn't he call us?
- He wanted to try and sell it and make a buck?
- And what'd you do? - Bought it, of course.
I'll text you the address. I'm headed there now.
- Do not touch or do anything.
- I know, Remy, I know. Crime scene rules.
I'll see you there.
- The friend proves useful after all.
- I wouldn't say Em and I are friends.
- So the Polestar stops at the dumpster,
which is right at the end of the alley, which is there.
- Can we get a walk and talk
with all of you leading up to that?
Come on, I kept my end of the deal.
Our audience needs some context.
- I just give and give and give.
We're about eight blocks from Sparrow May's apartment.
Neighbors camera picked up a Polestar
coming down this alley at 10:34 p.m.
License plate's not visible,
so we can't say for sure it's Mavis' car.
- But the time is significant because we believe
Sparrow May died around 10:00 p.m.
- Polestar stopped in front of the dumpster,
the driver seemingly threw something in it.
- Was the murder weapon ever recovered?
- Not yet, but this is where I need you to stay back.
We can't have you contaminating a potential crime scene.
- For sure, of course.
- This matches the towels in Sparrow May's bathroom.
If Mavis cut her hand and that's her blood
on Sparrow's towel,
that's our warrant, and that's our case.
- Delilah, what's going on?
- They are in my place, Daddy.
The police, the FBI, they're searching everywhere.
- Why'd you let them in?
- They have a warrant.
It-it says they're looking for a knife.
- Kristin.
- There you go.
- They found something. They're coming.
Daddy?
- You wanna tell us why this knife roll
was in the toilet tank?
- I-I don't know. I've never seen that before.
- It has your sister's name on it.
Was she here?
- Who were you just talking to?
- Nobody.
- Listen, Delilah, we found your sister's car
with blood in it.
If you're helping her, it's called accessory to murder.
Do you understand that? - Lawyer.
I-I want to talk to a lawyer.
- That's what I thought. Okay, you're under arrest.
- Thank you. - Uh-huh.
- Dad, Dad, whatever they found, it wasn't mine...
- Just stop!
- Daddy, please.
I'm sorry.
I need you to believe me.
- You're my daughter, Mavis.
Doesn't matter what I believe.
But I'm gonna protect you no matter what.
Sometimes you just make some bad choices, is all.
Like dating Colby?
And who was that woman you were with?
What was her name, Leah?
- Yeah, Leah. - Oh yeah, oh.
You just let your emotions get the best of you.
And I know, I do it too.
We just gotta weather the storm is all, okay?
We're gonna make it through.
- Okay.
- But I don't think going to Buffalo
is a good idea anymore.
We need somewhere off the beaten path.
- I know where we can go.
- You sure you don't want me to drive you there?
The weather's changing.
- Dad, there's no road. It's okay. I'll be fine.
- All right.
This is a burner. It's all ready.
You need anything, you call me.
- Okay.
- You sure that cabin's up there?
- Yeah. It's a hostel, Dad.
I stay there when I hike the trail,
and it's closed for the season.
It's okay. - All right.
I'll pick you up in Gorham in two days.
- Okay.
Om namah shivaya.
- Is that Bali-speak?
- It's a prayer for peace.
Thank you for everything.
Love you.
- Okay, so we've got her on a no-fly list,
so she can't leave the country.
We're up on her credit cards, we've got her family covered.
So where does she go?
- Some place she knows, she's familiar with.
- Well, she's got survival skills.
She's in great shape, right?
- Maybe she's hiding out till everything dies down.
- Mavis hiked the Appalachian Trail,
some kind of "Eat, Pray, Love" thing.
- Come on, guys... The Appalachian trail's
over 2000 miles.
That's a lot of real estate.
- Well, she focused on the greatest hits.
Mount Moosilauke and Mount Killington.
She made it to the end of the trail in Maine.
- That only narrows it down to 500 miles.
Hi.
I need your help.
- All right, thank you.
James Kennedy's Ford went through the Everett Turnpike
in New Hampshire an hour ago.
- The Appalachian Trail approaches I-93
about 70 minutes from where the Ford was spotted.
Beaver Brook Trailhead.
- Call the locals and get them there.
Let's hit the tarmac.
- There's a big storm about to hit New Hampshire.
- I don't know if we'll be able to land.
- So we better hurry. It's all we got.
- You came.
- You're all over the news.
- How do I look?
- You haven't changed.
Come on. Let's get you out of here.
- Captain Wyatt.
- BOLO went out for James Kennedy right after we spoke.
- Good.
We got Patrol in Connecticut and Massachusetts on I-91.
- This is where we are.
This juncture has four possible paths that can be taken,
one in each direction.
If Mavis stayed along the AT,
she went either south toward Mount Moosilauke
or north toward River Mountain.
- She's got a five-hour lead on us?
- Let's say she's traveling five miles an hour.
That gives us a search radius of...
- 25 miles.
- She'll likely seek shelter.
We've marked the possible cabins and hostels
where she could be.
My choppers can't take off in this visibility.
- So the only way to get there is on foot?
- We don't have much light left, either.
- Gear up and fan out.
- What are you doing here?
- My camera stopped working because of the cold.
- Where's Em? - She's up ahead a little bit.
I was heading back to the command post,
but I might be a little lost.
Do I take a left or a right up the fork?
- I'm good here.
Get Barry Jenkins out of here.
Em?
- You're here.
I could almost hug you.
- You okay? You scared the hell out of me.
- I think so.
I can't feel my feet, but otherwise good.
- What happened to giving me a heads-up?
- I found this on a subreddit. I knew it was a long shot.
I didn't wanna wild goose you.
- Remy!
- Yeah, I'm here with McAdoo.
- This is bad.
The temperature's just dropped 20 degrees
in the last half hour.
- Any evidence of Mavis?
- Nothing so far.
- Right.
How about you and Hana?
- The storm's getting worse.
- Yeah, it's coming in fast.
- It's getting dark too.
- Remy, look. There's huts.
- We're gonna check out these huts.
I'm calling the search off.
Meet back at the command post.
- Okay. Okay, let's go. Move out.
- This is the last hut.
- She's not here.
- Go in and get warm.
- Are you okay out there?
- Storm's right over us.
Have to wait till it passes and take cover.
- You sure?
- We're three miles in.
We'll never make it back.
It's our only option.
Hey.
- Nurse Leah at your service.
- Lucky me.
- I'm the lucky one.
When you called, it was like God answering my prayers.
- Ow! Ah!
- Oh.
Here.
Let me give you this for pain.
There.
Good.
Okay.
- Ah!
Hey, um, look, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for the way that things ended between us.
Things ended?
That, my dear, is abdicating responsibility.
You ended our relationship.
- You ended our marriage.
Broke my heart.
Ow! Ah!
What's going on?
- I'm never letting you go again.
- Impressive.
I never would have taken you for a Boy Scout.
- Don't tell anyone, but I still have my uniform.
Anything to eat in there?
- Got an energy bar, the kind that sponsored Colby,
and some butter rum Life Savers.
Mm-hmm? Mmm-mmm.
- Oh. Dinner. - Mm-hmm.
No nicotine gum, but it'll do.
- Look at this.
- Nice.
- Remy, Em?
- Go for Remy.
- Just checking you're still alive.
- Yeah.
Everything's good here. Right?
- Look, before Colby, and I mean long before,
Mavis was in a pretty serious relationship with a woman.
In fact, they were married.
She must've deleted that from her social media.
- Her name is Leah Wilson.
She's a nurse in Maine now.
It looks like they were trying to open
a wellness center together.
- This case just gets better and better.
- Do we have a location on Leah?
- Well, she's not at her home, but the police say
it looks like she left in a hurry.
I've got a BOLO out and I'm trying to track her phone now.
- Find out if Leah has any connection
to the Appalachian Trail.
- Will do.
Stay warm, you two.
- Almost eight hours till dawn.
- I'm sure we can think of something to do.
- You're someone who's always trying to take what they can.
Like when you're at the grocery store doing self-checkout,
you always slip a few things into your bag gratis.
- I don't do that. - I've seen you...
I've seen you do it.
And when you met Colby,
suddenly you're into men?
Into triathlons?
How cool.
You saw an opportunity for a new life and a new brand
with Colby, and you took it.
Thought you were trading up.
- I'm sorry, Leah.
- But when Colby traded up for that young, pretty thing,
you couldn't stand it.
I don't blame you.
I know exactly how it feels.
Colby did to you exactly what you did to me.
But now we have a golden opportunity
to right the wrongs of the past.
Tell me, did you call me because you needed help
or because you wanted to make things right between us?
- Leah.
I... ah! Ah!
Yes! Yes! I did. I'm sorry.
I wanna make things right. I do. I really do.
- You do? - Yes.
I do.
- Good.
- You know, we're not so different, you and me.
Murder's our business. - No, my business.
Yours is reenactments. A little different.
- We're both after the same thing.
I mean, here we are.
- Yeah, Ritz-Carlton of the Appalachian Trail.
Beautiful.
- We live for this.
Nothing beats that feeling when the phone rings with a case
and that thrill of what's next.
- Why'd you burn me on Vegas?
When the tip came out on Woolard?
You went to his house without me.
Why?
- I never thought he'd take off the way he did.
- And kill someone else.
You put yourself first, Em.
- I made a mistake.
I apologized to the family, I asked for forgiveness.
What else can I do, Remy?
We can't keep going back.
- To be fair, the way he got away with the drainpipe...
No one, not you, not me, knew the entrance was there.
Same thing probably would have happened
if we got in there first.
- Thank you for saying that.
- And we would've never gotten that warrant without you.
- I know.
See, you do need me after all.
- I do.
Your hands are freezing, here.
Let's try this.
- It's one way to warm up.
There it is.
- What?
- That feeling.
What's next, what's next, what's next?
- Glad to see you survived the night.
- So not an outdoors person. - I was worried about you.
- What's the latest and greatest?
- Mavis' ex, Leah, her Subaru was found
at the Glencliff Trailhead parking lot.
- That's the other side of the mountain.
- On this trail, like six miles away.
- Both Kristin and Hana are there now,
making their way toward us.
- And Leah and Mavis are somewhere in between.
- You good? - I need you two to stay back.
- What? - Too dangerous.
Leah could be armed. I don't want you getting hurt.
- I'm okay with getting hurt as long as we get great footage.
- Sorry, no. Let's go.
Let's go!
- You two, stay here.
- All right, open wide.
- Mmm, mmm.
Can I have some coffee?
- Sure.
Ooh! It's hot.
Let me blow on it for you a little.
- Come on.
Yeah.
- We're coming up on a cluster of cabins.
I count three. - Any sign of Mavis or Leah?
- Not that we know of so far.
- I've got something.
I think it's Mavis. She's gone off the trail.
- Fan out. - Spread out!
- What direction?
- North by northeast.
- Don't lose her.
Over there!
- It's Leah. She's got a rifle.
Help!
Oh!
- Drop your weapon, Leah.
Drop it!
Leah's down.
- Hands up! - Hands up!
- Hands where I can see them.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- Hands behind your back, thumbs up.
Let's go.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to.
- We can't have you contaminating
a potential crime scene.
- So this, uh, Remy guy.
It's good TV. - He knows it too.
You've got a good thing with him now.
Don't do anything stupid and mess it up.
We need an open line of communication.
Remember that whole "tread lightly" thing?
Em?
Em, you hear me on this?
- Yeah, of course. Tread lightly.
I gotta go.
Hey.
How do you feel about pizza?
- How is it you only been here a few weeks
and you already know Carlo?
I've never gotten into Roberta's that fast.
- Cameraman Joe knows him.
- That dude.
- That's my place.
- Bet it has a nice view.
- I'd invite you up...
- And I'd probably say yes.
- I have an early call time tomorrow.
- Mm.
What are you afraid of?
- Um, everything?
Making a mistake.
- Me too.
- You know, there's a real upside to being who we are.
- Compartmentalized and cut off from our feelings?
- No attachments, no kids, make our own rules,
do whatever we want.
- I like the sound of that. - Mm-hmm.
Maybe this is the beginning of a beautiful,
sexy,
hot friendship.
- I'm good with that.