Case 39 Page #2

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- I'm sorry, Emily. I can't.

Please, Mike, I'm really desperate here.

Emily.

Now, you know how dear to my heart

the work you do is,

but the department doesn't pay me

to stake out potential child abusers.

Last time almost cost me my job.

This little girl heard her parents say

they're going to send her to hell.

Sickening as that is,

you're a part of the system that

deals with those situations, I'm not.

But sometimes the system doesn't work.

Well, maybe you should just let it.

Wow. Feel like

I'm talking to Wayne here.

All right. You don't want to get involved,

that's fine,

but don't bullshit me, Mike,

I'm running out of people I respect.

Okay. No bullshit. Bring me evidence

of a crime, I'm all over it. Till then...

Let's go, hurry up!

Lily! Lily!

Hi. I came to tell you

I hadn't forgotten about you.

I'm doing everything I can.

If I disappear will you come look for me?

- You're not going to disappear.

- If I do?

I have to go. They get mad at me

when I miss the bus.

Lily, wait. Wait.

Here. It's my home number.

If you get scared,

I want you to call me, okay?

I'm gonna get you out of there,

I promise.

Okay.

Hey, this is Doug, here it comes.

Hey, it's me,

thought you might be awake.

Just calling 'cause...

Well, I don't really know why I'm calling.

Call me if you get this, okay?

...proposal in Morton Township

has some residents...

Here we go golfers and shoppers...

Let's look at the crepe batter.

In order to make the crepe batter...

- Too late, I met someone else.

- Emily.

Lily? Are you okay?

- I'm scared.

- Why, honey? Why are you scared?

They're waiting to get me,

I can hear them.

- I'm sorry.

- Why are you sorry?

- I'm falling asleep.

- Okay, listen.

Go over and open the window.

Can you do that?

- I'm sorry.

- Lily? Lily?

- Yeah, Barron.

- Mike, it's Emily.

That girl that I told you about,

I think she's in a lot of trouble.

- Emily, you're going...

- No, I know what you said.

Mike, you're not listening! Help me!

- What are we doing here, Emily?

- Saving her life!

- They're asleep like we should be.

- They're not asleep.

- Did you hear that?

- I didn't hear anything.

Leave her alone!

No!

Let me out!

- Did you hear that?

- Police, open up!

Stop!

Break, break it down. Break it down!

Help me. Help me.

- Police!

- Lily!

Lily!

God! Oh, my God!

No! Help me!

Please, help me.

I got you, I got you, I got...

Okay. I got you.

What the hell's the matter

with you people?

I got you.

It's okay, honey. I got you.

It's okay. I got you.

The egregiousness of the crime makes

the competency question

all the more relevant.

I hereby order the defendants to

undergo psychiatric evaluation

to determine their fitness for trial.

Steal a pizza, San Quentin.

Try to kill your kid,

Freudian dream analysis.

You're gonna hate me for saying this

but my money's on crazy.

What kind of people

put their kid in an oven?

Bad people. Remember that

when people were just bad?

Before everything had a diagnosis

and a justification?

It's human nature.

What's the most important thing

that we talked about

that you have to remember?

It's not my fault what happened.

That's right. You know what? It's not.

Good. I'll see you soon.

- Hey.

- Hi.

That is some seriously proactive

social work happening there.

- You all right?

- Yeah, I'm fine.

- How's she doing?

- Typical reaction.

But she blames herself. We'll get there.

I'm gonna put her in a group setting,

see if I can get her to open up.

Group therapy for kids,

when am I going to get used to that?

- See you later. Okay.

- See you.

Hi.

Good news. They say you can

get out of here tomorrow.

Doug said I might have to go

to a state home.

Yeah, but it's only temporary,

till we find you a nice family.

Why can't I live with you?

Sweetheart, that would

never be allowed.

Why?

Well, it's complicated, I mean,

there's this whole process,

and I'm not even a foster parent. So...

It'll be fine.

- Hi, Barb.

- Hi, Em. Right this way, little lady.

I'll check in, in a couple of days, okay?

I don't want to stay here,

I want to live with you.

Please. I'll be good.

Lily, it's impossible, I told you.

Will you try?

Honey, listen, even if they said yes,

it would never work.

I work all day and

I'm hardly ever home and...

I'm sorry, I'm just not mom material.

How do you know if you've never tried?

So, it's just until we can find

the right family for her,

just until we can place her

in a really good home.

You know you'd have to give up

the case, conflict of interests and all.

Yeah.

Can I ask you a question?

Why are you doing this?

What Lily needs right now is

a safe, supportive environment

with someone she trusts.

The system can't provide that for her,

I think that I can.

Better than anyone, given my training.

We spend so much of our time

negotiating red tape,

I think if we look at this situation,

this one situation,

this one child,

it's clear what's best for her.

How long till Foster Services can

place her in a permanent home?

Three weeks, three months,

it's hard to predict.

No more visits.

- What?

- They said yes.

It's your new beginning.

Okay. It's what I like to think of as

a glass-half-full situation.

Bathroom. Kitchen. Fish.

And this is your room.

Be okay?

- You live alone?

- Just me.

Just us.

- What's this?

- It's chamomile.

Helps me sleep.

You know none of this

should ever have happened.

If I could make it go away, I would.

You did.

Here. Climb in.

Night night.

- Okay. All right.

- Here we go.

- Just got to grab some of her things.

- Okay.

- So, here's the key.

- You're not coming?

I got 15 other places I got to be.

So make sure you lock it on the way out.

Okay? Bye.

The kids at school are

saying all this stuff like saying

my mother is a puta

and I mean, I know

we can't go back home

but I miss it.

Sometimes when our parents

aren't getting along,

it's better if they spend some time apart.

That's what a restraining order does.

She's starting to come out of her shell.

It's good,

but you got to expect some hiccups.

And you can't undo

School? Too soon?

No, I don't have a problem

with her going back,

just as long as she's comfortable with it.

I went by the house.

I think her mom and dad were

barricading themselves

in their room at night.

How sick is that?

Well, fear and hatred are

part of the same pathology.

- See you. Bye, Diego.

- You too, Lily.

- But I forgot.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- You don't think they're crazy.

Well, I'm coming around.

- I love you.

- Love you, too.

- Wayne's looking for you.

- Okay.

- Wayne wants to see you.

- Yeah, I got it.

What's up with Diego?

Oh, hey.

Look, why don't we go talk in my office.

No, tell me what's going on.

Well, we don't... We don't know why yet

but he killed both his parents last night.

- Excuse me... Go ahead.

- Officer, let her through.

What happened?

Gets a tyre iron from the garage,

comes back inside,

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