The Rookie Feds Season 1 Episode 12
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00:00Oh, careful.
00:07You was almost about to have to buy me dinner.
00:11There we go.
00:13Um, how long have you been with the FBI?
00:15Three whole months.
00:16In case y'all didn't notice, I'm black.
00:18So all this harsh light y'all got me under, it's gonna be a problem.
00:23Y'all got a diffuser or something you could put on this?
00:25If not, you can dial down the key light and bring it a little closer.
00:29Because it's either that or I'm gonna have to wipe some Vaseline on the lens.
00:33Wow, you really know your stuff.
00:34I used to be a high school guidance counselor,
00:36so I had my share of substitute teaching the media arts department.
00:41How about I just help y'all out?
00:43Uh, actually, that's not kosher with the union.
00:46So you're a rookie?
00:48Probationary agent.
00:49But even though I'm relatively new to it, I've seen some crazy things.
00:53Like the Laughlin investigation?
00:57Yeah.
00:59That one shook me.
01:13Good morning.
01:14Good to see you again.
01:14Thanks for doing this.
01:16You ready to just jump right in?
01:18Let's do it.
01:18Tell me about the day you found the body in the hills.
01:20It was the morning I started filming my reality show.
01:23Wait, you have a reality show?
01:25Oh, when you got a moneymaker like this and a life like mine, it demands documentation.
01:30I'm shooting the pilot episode myself.
01:33Wow.
01:33And what's it called?
01:34There was a heavy rain last night.
01:48So, like, almost an inch.
01:51When water falls from the sky here, the city of angels becomes a city of demons.
01:58Friends, but not today.
02:02Not on Smitty streets.
02:05Holy s**t.
02:06The name of the victim was Dante Smith.
02:20He was a missing person.
02:21Disappeared about eight months before his body was filed.
02:25But the mystery was, I mean, he'd only been dead for less than 24 hours.
02:29We didn't know where he'd been for all that time.
02:31What did you know about him?
02:32The poor boy came to L.A. with a dollar and a dream, hoping to become an actor, but let's
02:39just say he wasn't very realistic about his talents.
02:42Whoa, whoa, whoa.
02:42Hey, hey.
02:42What?
02:43That's mean.
02:43You don't have to say that.
02:45What?
02:45You know he wasn't that good.
02:48Simone, he's dead.
02:49Listen, I am sorry that the boy is dead, but he had no business trying to act.
02:55That's the bottom line.
02:56Dante Smith, reading for the role of bartender.
02:59Hey, here's your rum and coke.
03:01You always order dad drinks.
03:04The bartender instantly regrets saying that.
03:06Hope she didn't hear him.
03:08Yo, yo, make some noise to repeat after me.
03:11To be or not to be, my G.
03:13That's the question.
03:1752% of men suffer from some form of erectile dysfunction.
03:23If he had two puncture wounds on his neck, he died from a, um, I can't say that word.
03:32Exanguination.
03:34It means the victim died of blood loss.
03:35And how did you determine that?
03:37Well, blood coagulates after death, you see, and you usually see liver mortis within a few
03:42hours.
03:42It presents itself like bruising, mostly in the lower extremities.
03:46But in this case, there was none, which means whoever killed him drained the body of blood.
03:51That's right.
03:53The murderer was a vampire.
03:56I knew I had to bring the feds in.
03:58They have an agent who's an expert in the field.
04:01Before I joined the FBI, I played, uh, vampire detective Stoker Ramsey for six years on Vampire Cop.
04:13Oh, damn, Stoker.
04:14You look better than our victim.
04:17Don't mind me.
04:19What do we got?
04:21His name's Lars Cross.
04:23He's a coder for a tech startup.
04:25Rideshare app that went public last week.
04:27Looks like their IPO wasn't the only thing making a killing.
04:31I got coffins bigger than this.
04:33What's a successful coder doing living in a place like this?
04:37Let's see if your blood memory will help us find out.
04:39Ready?
04:50Ready?
04:50Here we go.
04:52Stoker.
04:56Oh.
04:57What did you see?
05:13Killer came for his phone.
05:17Let's get a warrant for his cell records.
05:21But that doesn't make me an expert.
05:24What did I tell you about them in your shine?
05:27Stop it.
05:28Okay, let me just say this.
05:30My boy here was a method actor, so he learned everything there is to know about bloodsuckers.
05:35Read every book.
05:37Went to Transylvania.
05:38Tell them, B.
05:39He even got nominated for two People's Choice Awards.
05:42And remember when you won an MTV award for Best Kiss?
05:45Yeah, I do.
05:47So, yeah, I know a lot about vampiric lore.
05:51Happy?
05:52Okay.
05:53So, when Officer Smitty called me, I took it straight to our boss.
05:57Tell me about the special investigative unit.
06:00It's a pilot program of my design.
06:03I handpicked this squad in order to create a fast-moving, problem-solving unit.
06:06And one of the perks is I choose my own cases.
06:09And this one was right up our alley.
06:10And why was that?
06:11Well, the body was found in a section of the canyon that is federal land, and that's our jurisdiction.
06:17Plus, it was also not your run-of-the-mill homicide, so it needed serious outside-the-box thinkers in order to solve it.
06:23Are your cell phones off, just in case?
06:25Yeah, we're good.
06:27Okay, great.
06:28Then let's go.
06:29What were your first impressions of the victim?
06:31Well, the victim had old bruises, collapsed veins, and track marks all over his arms.
06:36Telltale signs of intravenous drug use.
06:38I'm a profiler by training, and I built a preliminary theory that Dante had developed a serious drug habit and lived on the streets, which, of course, would explain his eight-month disappearance.
06:48But we had to throw that theory out once the report came back from Dante's talk screen.
06:53Yeah, he had no signs of any drugs in the system.
06:55In fact, at the time of his death, Dante was in perfect health.
06:59Were you able to build a profile of who the killer might have been?
07:02Um, no.
07:04Not at that time.
07:06You investigated Dante's death, and your unit never gave credence to the possibility of a supernatural suspect?
07:12Supernatural?
07:13You mean, like, vampires or something, right?
07:16You said you built a team of outside-the-box thinkers.
07:18Did you at least consider it?
07:19Okay, let's, uh, let's play your game.
07:25In any vampiric folklore, when has a bloodsucker ever kidnapped someone for eight months and then, only then, drank their blood?
07:34So that's a no.
07:36You never considered it.
07:37No, I didn't.
07:38Perhaps you should have.
07:41Tell me, Brendan, why didn't you disclose you had a conflict of interest in the case?
07:47A conflict of interest?
07:48Uh, no, I-I don't.
07:50W-what are you talking about?
07:52Brendan knew the murder victim.
07:54We have a photo.
07:55What?
07:56Let me see that.
07:58This was taken at a nightclub about a year ago.
08:00There's you, and there's Dante Smith, the victim.
08:03Huh.
08:03That is him, B.
08:05Yeah, it's weird.
08:05I-I've never met him.
08:07You sure about that?
08:09Uh, yeah.
08:10I mean, if he said he-he doesn't know him, he doesn't know him.
08:13Right, that's a picture of a drunken me at a nightclub and another guy, so, you know, it's a good old-fashioned coincidence.
08:20That was no coincidence.
08:22Brendan Akers isn't who he claims to be.
08:24Then who is he?
08:25A corpse, with the blood of human victims coursing through his body.
08:30Have you seen Vampire Cop?
08:32No way an actor could be that convincing.
08:34This ends tonight, Albus.
08:48If you were a smart man, you'd get out of the way.
08:50Too bad I'm not a smart man.
08:51What are you?
09:11Justice.
09:12Yes.
09:22Had to learn the hard way.
09:30Crime sucks.
09:31No way that's an act.
09:33Brendan is the real thing.
09:35Is my son a real vampire?
09:37Well, I'll tell you one thing.
09:38His mom was a complete horror show who drained me financially.
09:41So there's nothing that supports the accusations that Brendan is, in fact, a vampire.
09:45Well, since I knew you'd be asking, I brought his baby teeth.
09:49Look at those canines right there.
09:51That little ragamuffin could tear through a stake at age two.
09:54Okay, okay.
09:55What are you doing?
09:56Tell the truth.
09:57That's enough.
09:57That's enough.
09:58Please.
09:59That's a wrap.
10:00That's a wrap.
10:01Let's go.
10:01Oh, keep going.
10:02What are you doing?
10:03Okay, I'm bleeding into...
10:04You can't just make that stuff up.
10:04People are going to believe it.
10:06People are going to believe it.
10:06Well, listen.
10:07It's great TV, man.
10:08Well, we'll put you back in the zeitgeist.
10:10I don't want to be in the zeitgeist.
10:11I don't want to be in the zeitgeist.
10:12Yeah, okay.
10:13And where did you get those teeth?
10:14I know a guy.
10:15What?
10:16You want some?
10:16Ew.
10:17How do you respond to allegations that Brendan Akers is a vampire?
10:22Well, as Brendan's training agent and as a rational human being, I can confirm he's not a vampire.
10:29My ex-wife grew up in New Orleans and I've worked there for years, so I've heard all of the vampire lore.
10:34And these are just stories.
10:36Zero evidence it's even possible.
10:38Hmm.
10:40Hmm.
10:41Did you say hmm?
10:41Yeah.
10:42It's interesting hearing such skepticism from someone who believes in, um, Bigfoot.
10:47Well, that's different.
10:50Bigfoot's real.
10:51Uh-uh.
10:52Whatever you do, don't get Carter started talking about Skookum.
10:56Well, the thing about Bigfoot is...
10:57You know, I really think that we should just stay on topic.
11:00You know, about the murder.
11:03Okay, but let's pick this up later.
11:05Uh, yeah.
11:06Okay, anyway, statistically speaking, murderers usually bury and dump bodies in places they know, live, or frequent.
11:16So we began the investigation where Dante's body was found.
11:19And after canvassing the neighborhood, we, uh, spoke to several residents who all pointed to one man.
11:24Andrews Huxley.
11:25Uh, he had an extensive rap sheet, assault, battery, public intoxication.
11:31Word was, Mr. Huxley only went out at night, which is an opportune time to bury a body.
11:37So we paid him a visit.
11:38Though, in retrospect, we probably should have waited until daylight.
11:42Hmm.
11:43Yes.
11:52Hi.
11:55Is that blood?
11:57Yeah, that's blood.
11:59Door's ajar.
12:01Does the blood give us PC to go inside?
12:03Someone may be in imminent danger, so yeah, it does.
12:08FBI!
12:10Anyone in there?
12:16Mr. Huxley?
12:18Anyone here?
12:20Carter.
12:21More blood.
12:23Let's go up.
12:25Get him.
12:35Is he breathing?
12:46Is he dead?
12:47I don't know.
12:49Mr. Huxley?
12:51Oh, my God!
12:53Carter!
12:53Oh, my God!
12:58FBI!
12:59Hands where we can see them!
13:00I mean, none of us really believed Andrews was actually a vampire.
13:05Pearl skin, sharp teeth, red eyes.
13:07He did have some attributes that might lead one to assume he was a creature of the night.
13:12Am I being swatted?
13:14I read about this.
13:15People make a fake 911 call as a prank to get the cops to raid a house.
13:20It's not a prank.
13:22Why are you here?
13:22I just wanted to ask a few questions about a murder victim we found near here.
13:26Let me guess.
13:28All the neighbors said it was me.
13:31Just because I'm different, it doesn't mean that I'm a killer.
13:33I have porphyria.
13:37It's been called vampire disease.
13:39It's like a blood disorder that affects the skin, but you know more about it.
13:43Tell them.
13:43Yeah, yeah.
13:44So porphyria, the people with this condition have a severe aversion to sunlight.
13:48Also, it can lead to gum recession, so that the teeth show more.
13:52They look like, you know, like fangs.
13:54And then tell them about Count Dracula.
13:56Yeah, the Romanian prince Vlad the Impaler, a.k.a. Vlad Dracula, Count Dracula.
14:01He apparently had porphyria.
14:03Left untreated, it causes massive paranoia, hallucinations.
14:08Vlad apparently thought everyone was, like, after him, so he would just kill them first.
14:14And is that why you thought Anders Huxley killed Dante Smith?
14:18I didn't kill anyone.
14:20And an unfounded allegation does not give you the right to charge into my home.
14:24Well, we saw a trail of blood.
14:26That's why we came in.
14:27What happened to your hand?
14:29I caught it in an Uber door this morning.
14:32Blood everywhere.
14:32So why didn't you clean up the blood?
14:34I was just so damn jet-lagged.
14:36Turns out Huxley had an alibi.
14:38Where were you last night?
14:40On a plane, flying back from a work trip.
14:43My condition means I try to avoid being awake when the sun is up.
14:48You wouldn't believe what our alleged vampire did for a living.
14:54I'm a children's book author and illustrator.
14:57Wait.
14:57You're the author of Alistair the Ai-Ai?
15:00Yes.
15:00And I used to read his books to my son, Isaiah, when he was a kid.
15:04Alistair was always teased because he was different from all the other animals.
15:07But then he'd teach them that differences were what made each of them special.
15:12Anders turned his own experience of being ostracized for his condition into a hit children's book series.
15:19So we apologized to Mr. Huxley for the intrusion.
15:22And he was really kind and forgiving about the whole mix-up.
15:25Just like Alistair the Ai-Ai is.
15:27Love that part.
15:28He even gave us signed copies.
15:30Yeah, that was nice.
15:30Are federal employees allowed to receive gifts?
15:38So Mr. Huxley wasn't a vampire or the killer after all?
15:41That is correct, which is why we could officially put this ridiculous vampire theory to rest.
15:45Once the medical examiner finished her report.
15:48Is that when you realized you might have a serial killer on your hands?
15:51A body completely drained of blood buried in the hills above Nichols Canyon.
15:55It did.
15:55It had commonality with the M.O. of the canyon killer.
15:58Great. I mean, not great. It was a serial killer involved.
16:02But great that you had a lead.
16:03Oh, no, no, no. There's just... There's a problem here, you see.
16:06The canyon killer couldn't have done it because he's in prison.
16:09Put there by one of your own agents, isn't that right?
16:12Yeah, that's right.
16:14I caught the canyon killer.
16:17We caught the canyon killer.
16:19Ah, yes.
16:20And you are?
16:20Special Agent Mark Atlas, FBI, Behavioral Science Unit.
16:24We led the investigation together.
16:26Which was built on my profile.
16:26She gave some of the clues.
16:28Okay, you give the important ones.
16:31And what were the clues?
16:33Well, the canyon killer's first victims were found in the Hollywood Hills in the summer of 2018.
16:38All the victims had evidence of being bound by the wrist, and they were drained of blood before they were buried.
16:43So while Agent Atlas was focused on the killer's M.O., I gathered details on the victims and retraced their steps before their time of death.
16:50You both seem very pleased with yourselves. Do your colleagues find that annoying?
16:54Uh, I can be very passionate about what I do.
16:59I take a lot of pride in profiling.
17:01Um, and some people may feel like that steps on their toes, but that's not my problem.
17:07Shoot a little more.
17:08The canyon killer made national headlines.
17:12I followed the story in D.C. I was calling my dad every night to check in because Los Angeles was, it was on edge.
17:19I mean, you were here at that time, B. Were you scared?
17:21Oh, my God, yeah. Me and my friends, we stopped clubbing for weeks.
17:25I mean, we fit the victim's profile perfectly, you know, like young, super hot guys with, uh, hairless...
17:32That sounded pretentious. Can, uh...
17:35Who cares?
17:36No, it's...
17:37Tell your truth. If you're cute, you're cute.
17:39If you're hot, you're hot, and if you're not, you're not.
17:42Right, so we're gonna cut that?
17:43Leave it in.
17:44Oh, yeah, thank you.
17:44Leave it in.
17:45I really like that target on your wall.
17:47Did you actually fire the bullets that went through that, or did you just stab it with a pen and hang it up?
17:52I, uh...
17:54I won it in a raffle.
17:57So, um, did you work the canyon killer investigation?
18:00I consulted with Laura and Mark Atlas on the canyon killer task force.
18:04It's where I first saw Laura in action on a case, and she was brilliant.
18:07No stone left unturned, which is why I eventually asked her to join my squad.
18:12It's a complex profile.
18:14Made it look easy.
18:15Oh, you delivered great evidence.
18:19At first, the canyon killer was meticulous, but then, after the sixth body, got sloppy.
18:25They all do.
18:30You are good.
18:31No, you go.
18:32Well, you should start.
18:34Okay, um, where should we start? The victimology?
18:37The victimology, yes, so...
18:38Dan, you gotta go.
18:39All right, well, we, um, we realized that he was gregarious and probably attractive himself.
18:44It's why he felt he could approach his victims with such ease.
18:47He ran in the same circle as they did.
18:49And we figured he worked in the service industry, like many of his victims, all aspiring actors or models.
18:55And then on top of that, all of his victims lived or worked near the Franklin Corridor.
19:00See, just there?
19:02And then on the seventh murder, we caught a break.
19:06Forensics discovered primo trace evidence of that crime scene.
19:08Mm-hmm.
19:09Purple wig hair.
19:10Yes, but not just any purple wig.
19:12This was a custom job with real human hair that had been professionally dyed.
19:17It was a signature headpiece.
19:18That's what I thought.
19:19Hollywood bullseye, baby.
19:20Bam.
19:21Is that a term?
19:22Is that a thing?
19:23A real thing?
19:23You just make that up?
19:24Well, you know what I'm saying.
19:24It's like a...
19:25Like nailed it.
19:26Yeah, nailed it.
19:27That's what I'm trying to say.
19:29Now, we have pulled over here because you do not want to miss what is on your right.
19:34Across the street from the famed Bronson Gate is the apartment building where Bela Lugosi,
19:38the world's most famous Dracula, died of a heart attack in 1956.
19:42Now, Lugosi was found in his bed, naked, clutching a script to the final curtain,
19:48a movie he was said to star in for schlock film maestro, Ed Wood.
19:53Gulliver Ferris, we need to talk.
20:00Okay, FBI, put the phones down, please.
20:06Get you on the road soon enough.
20:08That was a good day.
20:10Yeah, it's probably one of our best.
20:11We gave the victims' families closure, let the people of Los Angeles rest their fears,
20:17and put a monster behind bars.
20:19I'm an innocent man.
20:21Of this current murder, perhaps.
20:23But it's interesting how Dante Smith died in the exact same way as you killed your victims.
20:28Do you think you have a copycat?
20:30No, because I've never killed anyone, ever.
20:34What exactly are you saying?
20:36That I'm not the Canyon Killer.
20:37I've only been saying that since my arrest.
20:40Special Agent Laura Stinson framed me.
20:43I'm at the center of the biggest FBI cover-up since Bigfoot.
20:47And how's this for your little, uh, TV program?
20:51I have proof.
20:53That's ridiculous.
20:54Yes, of course he says he's innocent.
20:56They all do.
21:00I did not frame Mr. Ferris.
21:03So you've said, but I've seen the evidence, and it's quite damning.
21:06Which means the real killer could still be out there.
21:09And if he is, then the blood of this newest victim, well, that's on your hands.
21:17Are you suggesting that Special Agents Stinson and Atlas framed a serial killer?
21:22I'm just looking for the truth.
21:24No.
21:24No, you're not.
21:25You're fishing for provocative sound bites that you can edit out of context.
21:29Hmm?
21:29Anything to make this little documentary of yours, uh, I don't know, a bit more salacious?
21:34This isn't some news mag with gotcha questions.
21:37I'm an award-winning documentarian.
21:39Film is my medium.
21:40Ideal and truth.
21:41Yeah, right.
21:42Look, I don't appreciate what you're insinuating, especially when we have the proof.
21:45No, you don't.
21:46We do.
21:48Overwhelming evidence that proves that Mr. Ferris was the one and only Canyon Killer.
21:52And how dare you, huh?
21:53How dare you disparage Laura Stinson's good name?
21:55She is one of the finest FBI agents to ever carry the badge.
22:00She's a train wreck.
22:01My lawyer found evidence that she was, uh, mentally unstable around the time she arrested me.
22:07Wait, you've been screwing my best friend behind my back for months, and somehow that's my fault.
22:12No, I never want to see your face again.
22:13Do you hear me?
22:14Never!
22:15You're such a...
22:17Get your stuff out of my condo right now!
22:22Do you hear me, you...
22:23Let me just relax a second, okay?
22:28Oh, you can't relax!
22:32What, Crystal?
22:34Do you really trust this woman to catch a serial murderer?
22:37And she couldn't even tell her own fiancé was stepping out on her?
22:40Agent Stinson was too busy spiraling to solve the case.
22:44I'm the real victim here.
22:45Okay, yes, fine.
22:47At the time of Mr. Ferris' arrest, my personal life was...
22:51Challenged, but that in no way affected my performance at work.
22:55Not at all.
22:57Of course it did.
22:58She got fired from the BSU right after her meltdown.
23:00But to keep her from losing her job, they conspired and, uh, falsified evidence against me.
23:07Wait.
23:08Who are you saying conspired with her?
23:10Special Agent Mark Atlas.
23:14That's a wild accusation.
23:15Why would Agent Atlas do that?
23:17If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, those two FBI agents are having sex.
23:23Agent Atlas, did you conspire with Agent Stinson because of a secret romantic relationship?
23:29Nothing could be further from the truth.
23:31So you didn't cover for Agent Stinson?
23:32No, of course not.
23:33And are you having a secret romance?
23:35Okay.
23:36Enough with this tabloid BS.
23:38Excuse me?
23:40All of these questions about our personal life, it's utterly shameful.
23:44So you're denying your affair.
23:45Can we just stop the cameras from rolling right now?
23:47I just need a minute.
23:48Okay.
23:49Yeah.
23:50Brian, can you just come with me, please?
23:51Uh, I'm gonna...
23:53We can take a break.
23:53Yeah, thank you.
23:55Just, yeah.
23:57Keep rolling.
23:58Can you believe this?
24:00But just because a man and a woman work closely together, people think that we're, what, having sex is offensive.
24:07But we are having sex.
24:09Could be having more sex.
24:10Yes, but we were not having sex then.
24:12And we were working together with our partners in the Kenyon Killer case.
24:16You know, strictly business.
24:17Stop that.
24:18No, I'm not ready to help people about us.
24:24Okay.
24:25Well...
24:26Do you still have your mic on?
24:28I do.
24:31What?
24:32I do.
24:33I want to throw.
24:35Uh-oh.
24:38Excuse me, what?
24:39My Atlas and...
24:40And...
24:41Uh, Laura.
24:43I definitely didn't know that.
24:45No.
24:45Why didn't he tell me?
24:46Wait, did you know?
24:49Yeah.
24:50What?
24:51I mean, I knew, yes.
24:52And I am 100% on Team Laura.
24:55I mean, she finally getting some...
24:57When you say romantically, you mean like...
24:59Somebody is jealous.
25:02And then the case of the Mudslide Marauder took a...
25:06Wait a second.
25:06Mudslide Marauder?
25:07No one calls it that.
25:08On Smitty Streets they do.
25:10Your claims of patsies and copycat killers, you know, it may help boost ratings, but it's
25:17irresponsible to cast aspersions on my people and the FBI.
25:21Dante Smith's murderer wasn't the Canyon Killer, and you know that.
25:25So stop creating a narrative that never existed.
25:27It's lazy storytelling, and you're better than that.
25:31Fine.
25:31You were saying?
25:33The case of the Mudslide Marauder took a turn.
25:379-1-1, what's your emergency?
25:38This is Dr. Candace Sadler from the medical examiner's office.
25:42I need to report a burglary.
25:44Okay, tell me what was stolen.
25:45A dead body.
25:47So the ME came in to work that morning to do the autopsy on Dante Smith's body, and...
25:53It was gone.
25:54Body gone.
25:54And last I checked, dead bodies do not move themselves.
25:58The undead do.
26:01Officer Smitty, what are you saying?
26:03What everybody's thinking.
26:04Dante, the victim, took a turn, became a vampire, and escaped.
26:10Seriously, you're still on the vampire thing?
26:14That's not at all what happened.
26:15Earlier that morning, someone broke into the morgue and stole his body.
26:22I suppose I could speculate as to why someone would steal a dead body from a morgue before
26:27it had even been autopsied and processed for forensic evidence, but...
26:32But the odds were whoever took him out, took him out.
26:37So your suspect got away with Dante's body.
26:39How did he pull that off?
26:40Our subject was able to walk out of the medical examiner's office with Dante's body by impersonating
26:45a morgue attendant.
26:46He was smart enough to cover his face from all the surveillance cameras, but not smart enough
26:50to cover the license plate on his car, which was registered to our body snatcher, Jake Alpert.
26:56So my team went to go pay him a visit.
27:03Jake Alpert, show us your hands.
27:05Jake!
27:06Come off at the back.
27:11Jake!
27:12Jake!
27:12Where's Dante's body?
27:26I have no idea what you're talking about.
27:31Carter, check the freezer.
27:38So who's Jake Alpert?
27:39Jake moved to L.A. from Montana five years ago.
27:43Spent a year trying to make it until a modeling scout saw him working in the Jamba Juice and
27:49plucked him from obscurity.
27:51After that, he was on a hot street.
27:54Emphasis on the hot.
27:57Are you seriously trying to deflect from your relationship with Alice like that?
28:00What?
28:00No.
28:01Who told you we were in a relationship?
28:05Really?
28:06Jake was a, you know, model on the rise, worked with all the big fashion houses.
28:10At the height of his career, he even dated Layla Laughlin.
28:14The cosmetics maven.
28:15Founder of Untold Cosmetics and the inventor of De Leon Miracle Cream.
28:20The woman's an icon.
28:21De Leon Miracle Cream.
28:44Ageless.
28:45Timeless.
28:47Beautiful.
28:47By me, Layla Laughlin.
28:53Layla was a single mother working as a waitress when she had a dream to start her own beauty
28:59company.
28:59I mean, she used to mix all her products in her own kitchen and then sold them to local
29:04moms out of the back of her minivan.
29:06You admire her.
29:07What's not to admire?
29:08I mean, she took a risk.
29:10She bet on herself.
29:11Built a fortune 500 company all while raising her son.
29:15Plus, have you seen her?
29:17The girl had looks, poise, and always had a young hot boy on her side.
29:23She was living her best life for sure.
29:26And that life included Jake.
29:28Until it didn't.
29:30Jake was riding high until the harsh realities of the business brought his dreams crashing
29:35down.
29:36He hit 30 and his modeling contracts dried up.
29:40Layla left him.
29:41For Dante.
29:42That's right.
29:44Dante was dating Layla Laughlin at the time of his disappearance.
29:48Hey, uh, you're not gonna wait until like 40 minutes into this thing to tell the audience
29:52this part, are you?
29:53I hate when docs do that.
29:54Hold back information that the investigators knew on day one.
29:57The worst.
29:58Don't screw with the audience.
29:59I would never.
30:00Oh.
30:01911, what is your emergency?
30:03My name's Layla Laughlin.
30:04I need to report a missing person.
30:06My boyfriend, he hasn't called or texted me back in days.
30:09I'm worried something's happened to him.
30:11Okay, what's his name?
30:12Dante Smith.
30:14Please help.
30:15I was never at the morgue.
30:17Mm, but we saw you in security footage.
30:19I have an evil twin.
30:21Swear to God, we barely even talk.
30:22We have surveillance footage of your vehicle.
30:24It's not even my car.
30:25It's registered to you.
30:26Someone stole it.
30:27We found the body in your freezer.
30:28I have an evil twin.
30:29You tried that one already.
30:32Oh, damn it.
30:34Those improv classes would totally waste some money.
30:39Why are you so confident about Jake Alpert?
30:42Jake Alpert had clear motive to kill Dante Smith.
30:45Jealousy because he was now dating Layla Laughlin, who dumped him.
30:48Yeah, and stealing the body shows consciousness of guilt.
30:50But for a slam dunk, we needed to tie him to the murder with physical evidence.
30:55And we were most definitely able to do that.
30:57So once we processed him, we found traces of Dante's DNA.
31:01Isn't that to be expected since he moved the body?
31:03Oh, DNA, yes.
31:04Yes, but he actually had Dante's blood on him.
31:07But Dante had been completely drained of blood before he was buried.
31:10Exactly.
31:10So here's the thing.
31:12We didn't just find Dante's blood under his fingernails, which is where most murderers get caught.
31:18We found traces of his blood all over his hands and his arms and his face and his chest.
31:25What, did he bathe in it?
31:26No, it's even weirder, actually.
31:31Dante's blood had been infused in his anti-aging cosmetic cream.
31:37Jake!
31:40Layla Laughlin's number one selling anti-aging cosmetic cream, De Leon, was made of human blood.
31:48Our victim's blood.
31:50I admire the woman and all, but damn, it's just...
31:55Gross.
31:56Nasty.
31:59In all your years at the Bureau, have you ever seen anything like this?
32:02Well, let me think.
32:03I don't know.
32:04Have I ever worked a case where someone completely drained the victim of their blood,
32:08only to use it as an ingredient in an anti-aging cosmetic cream?
32:15What do you think?
32:17Well, Elizabeth Bathory, she was the first female serial killer in history.
32:21The phrase, bathed in blood, originated with her.
32:23Mm-hmm.
32:24Because supposedly, she would drain her victims and then wash herself in their blood.
32:29Wow.
32:30Now, Elizabeth Bathory, she had nothing on Layla Laughlin.
32:34And Layla got rich while doing a De Leon miracle cream, grossed over $200 million last year alone.
32:40It's the signature product in Untold Cosmetics.
32:44Did you have any theories at the time as to why Layla targeted her own boyfriend?
32:47Uh, yes.
32:48It's because Dante had an exceptionally rare blood type, R.H. Null.
32:53And what's that?
32:54R.H. Null's known as, uh, golden blood.
32:57You know, it's the rarest blood type.
32:58Only 40 people on the entire planet have it.
33:01Well, make it 39 now.
33:03Right.
33:04Yeah.
33:04So, anyway, most people have eight common blood types.
33:07You know, O positive, O negative, A positive, et cetera.
33:10But what most people don't know is that there's actually, you know, millions of blood types
33:14determined by the presence or absence of certain antigens.
33:17But there's also a protein called R.H. factor, which determines if your blood is positive or negative.
33:22Most people have some R.H. factor.
33:24But if you lack it entirely, you're R.H. Null.
33:28You're golden.
33:31Damn.
33:32How did you know all that?
33:34Vampire Cops season four.
33:35Our big bad was, was Golden Boy.
33:37The vampire only fed on R.H. Null blood.
33:39He became invincible, killed my character in the cliffhanger.
33:43I regenerated and came back the next season.
33:45But you said you watched every episode.
33:47That's a whole, that's a whole storyline.
33:50Yeah, I did.
33:52You.
33:52You were so good on that show.
33:56Wasn't it, have you ever seen it?
33:58So we brought Ms. Laughlin in for questioning.
34:01We found that your daily on Miracle Cream was infused with Dante's blood.
34:07That's insane.
34:09We agree.
34:10But Dante was never really missing.
34:13You held him captive for eight months, all for his rare blood.
34:17What happened?
34:18Went too far one day, took too much blood?
34:19Did Dante go into shock or just die of blood loss?
34:23And then you buried him in the shallow grave, thinking nobody would ever find him.
34:28But what you didn't count on was the mudslide that caused Dante's body to resurface.
34:32You think that I killed Dante for his blood?
34:40We tracked the $50,000 payment from your company to Jake Albert.
34:44Sounds to us that you hired him to steal the body back so the evidence against you would never be discovered.
34:49I had nothing to do with Dante's murder or any of this.
34:54Ms. Laughlin, I really looked up to you.
34:58Single mom like myself, getting her second act at life.
35:03You taught me the key to success was helping others.
35:07What happened to that woman?
35:10You're staring her in the face right now, and she is hoping that you're good enough at your job to find Dante's real killer.
35:19Now that's it for me.
35:21I want my lawyer.
35:23Now.
35:24We obtained a search warrant and raided the lab at Layla's company looking for proof of Dante's demise.
35:29However, it was squeaky clean.
35:32Layla's smart. Doing any sort of experimental blood work in her place of business would raise too many red flags and create potential witnesses.
35:40So we got a warrant for a residence.
35:49Ma'am, we have a warrant to search the premises. It's Ms. Laughlin here.
35:53They're fighting.
35:54Who is?
35:55Ms. Laughlin and Chance.
35:57Who is Chance?
35:58Chance was Layla's son.
35:59The boy genius.
36:00More of a comment, if you ask me.
36:02Talked his mother into giving up control of her own company so he could run it.
36:08Let us in.
36:13So Layla's son was the one putting Dante's blood in the cosmetic cream.
36:16That's right.
36:17And after Carter and I interviewed her, Layla figured it out.
36:20But instead of telling us that her son was the real-life vampire, stealing that poor boy's blood, she confronted him on her own.
36:28Which was a bad idea.
36:29Yes, it was.
36:30And by the time we got there, it was already too late.
36:38Stay right there.
36:41FBI, drop it!
36:42Do it now!
36:43Mom.
36:45Chance.
36:47Put the gun down now.
36:49I didn't mean for any of this to happen.
36:56She's going to be okay, right?
36:59Right?
37:07Shockwaves rippled around the world as cosmetics mogul Layla Laughlin was shot and killed in her Bel Air home earlier today.
37:14The alleged shooter, her son, Chance Laughlin, was arrested by FBI agents at the scene.
37:19In related news, Laughlin's new miracle cream, De Leon, is being recalled after it was determined that the secret ingredient that promised the fountain of youth was, in fact, human blood.
37:30Where did this blood-infused cream idea come from?
37:32After we arrested Chance, we learned that once he took the reins from his mother, he became the company's head scientist in charge of research and development.
37:41And in an effort to boost sales, he created the De Leon cream using Dante's golden blood.
37:47And at that point, well, Layla was just a figurehead.
37:50She had no knowledge of her son's misdeeds.
37:53Chance had sunk, you know, millions into R&D, trying to isolate the anti-aging antigens from normal human blood.
38:00And then when Dante walked into his life with his golden blood...
38:05Like a gift from above.
38:07Who was banging his mom?
38:08So you had no ill will towards Dante?
38:14No, no, not.
38:16When I found out, he has golden blood.
38:18He was one of six people with R.H. Null blood in the whole country.
38:23Hospitals all around the world would call on him to donate.
38:26Chance knew Dante would never agree to donate for cosmetics, so...
38:30He abducted him and held him prisoner.
38:32Chance fed him nourishing food and kept him well-rested...
38:35In order to keep Dante, and most importantly, his blood healthy.
38:38But Dante's blood was basically a renewable resource.
38:41Why kill him?
38:42I'd have kept him locked away indefinitely.
38:46What'd you know?
38:49Let's move on.
38:50Mm-hmm.
38:51So what went wrong?
38:52Why did Chance kill him?
38:53It was an accident.
38:54The demand for the de Leon cream skyrocketed.
38:56And one day, Chance took too much blood, and Dante had a heart attack and died.
39:01So you drained him of every last drop.
39:03I even had to punch holes in his neck to suck out that precious blood from his carotid.
39:10That was annoying.
39:10Yeah, I bet it was.
39:12Then you buried him in a shallow grave like an animal.
39:16I know, I know, my bad.
39:18Okay, but do you know how hard it is to dig a six-foot grave in the rain?
39:23I just don't have that kind of upper body strength.
39:26The guy was an unrepentant megalomaniac.
39:29And it made me realize that if Dante died,
39:32Chance would need a new victim with the golden blood to keep making product.
39:36So we searched his house.
39:38FBI!
39:38You're gonna be okay.
39:46I need a medic in here now.
39:48Mr. Laughlin contacted Kumiko through an RH Null support group website.
39:53Helping folks with golden blood navigate the medical system.
39:56Chance lured her to Los Angeles last week with the promise of a high-paying job,
40:00then kidnapped her.
40:01She was lucky, though the trauma of her abduction and torture will live with her forever.
40:08You seem proud of your team.
40:10I am.
40:12I am.
40:14We solved a homicide, saved a life,
40:17and ended a global cosmetic conspiracy.
40:20I mean, it doesn't get any better than that, right?
40:24You know what?
40:25I think this interview is over.
40:27But I still have a few more questions.
40:28Well, I know, but I don't care.
40:30I got work to do.
40:32Can I reschedule with your...
40:33Okay, thanks.
40:35Okay, yeah, I think I...
40:38Yeah, I remember.
40:40You have a plane to catch.
40:41You do, but I'm not ready to leave yet.
40:43Okay.
40:44You know, the only reason I came here to do this dumb documentary
40:46was so I could spend more time with you.
40:47You know that, right?
40:48Well, it's just sex.
40:49We don't need an excuse.
40:50We can do it anytime.
40:51What if I want more than that?
40:54No.
40:55Okay.
40:57Oh, my God.
40:59Why?
41:00Your mic is still on?
41:01Get a life.
41:08Douchebags.
41:09You're stupid.
41:10I'm sorry.
41:11I didn't...
41:11I don't know how I didn't see it.
41:12Given you were a fan of Layla's,
41:14how do you feel about the news that her company had gone bankrupt?
41:17I admire how Layla refused to let people count her out.
41:20I mean, just because she was a woman of a certain age.
41:23Uh-huh.
41:24But what about her company?
41:26Her company?
41:27I put it to you like this.
41:30After working this case,
41:31I realized all she was really doing
41:33was making folks feel bad about growing old.
41:36So you're not using any more of her products?
41:38Hell no.
41:39Who knows what other bodily fluids
41:41that crazy son of hers might have put in it?
41:44Yeah.
41:44I mean, who the hell wants Layla Loughlin products now?
41:47Not me.
41:48Not me either.
41:52I bought out every store I could before the recall.
41:55That's just being smart.
41:57I don't care what's in it.
41:59This stuff works.